Random slashings in our city. Tonight two separate incidents in brooklyn. Subway passengers and an emt worker hurt. None knew their attacker. Good evening im kristine johnson. And im maurice debois. We will begin with the story breaking in Brooke Brooklyn and the suspect is still out there. The offduty worker was slashed in the back at 8 30 tonight. Police say he was not wearing his uniform at the time. The victim was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. Just hours earlier, two strap hangers were slashed on the manhattanbound c. Train by a man with a box cutter. Dave carlin is live in the where the two men are hospitalized. Dave . Reporter kristine, the police are calling it a random. The men did not know the man in the denim jacket who slashed them for no apparent reason. It could have been anybody. Reporter hospitalized oneal mendez and matthew ruff. The strangers are now nursing similar wounds after they were on the c. Train when a man in his 30s wearing jeans an
Each other, do you feel like there election is never going to end . If so, i have some good news for you, were actually past the halfway mark. We did the math, it was 152 days ago when the first votes were cast in the iowa caw kwuccaucus. And voters will head to the polls in 127 days. Just 127 days. So we need to ask, which candidate is more difficult to cover . I thought this week was revealing with trump taking some steps to change his tone. He hired a top ted cruz aid as his communications director. And hes using a teleprompter more often and hes even posting some rather boring and Campaign Style tweets. You can see in some ways his organization is changing, but Hillary Clinton still has hundreds of staffers versus his who doesnt. The gop released its final constitutional report about benghazi. Meanwhile what an issue this was, clinton campaigning with senator Elizabeth Warren in ohio fueling vp speculation. Which candidate is harder for the press to cover and why . Lets go behind t
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strikes an outlaw in california and there were a few people who said we should get rid of it and i said i don t know, maybe we should. this is a perfect example of why three strikes and you re out was actually instituted in the first place because you had repeat offenders who eventually cause so much harm. they re calling the driver the victim. i actually think the wife and the child are just as much victims in this. i don t know what sort of harm they will have psychologically for a long time. but they were victims of this, too. these guys have been driving up and down the west side highway for years, this gang. and there is one very simple thing to do. you take a spike belt and run it across the west side highway. and that will take care of it. what about the other drivers? this one guy was selling drugs outside of a high school in brooke brooklyn. they found guns and drugs in his apartment and he still worked. i m a liberal on a lot of things, but not that.
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