Can you imagine getting this . How did hoboken allow the sky to be councilman . Now that was hoboken city councilman reading a tweet he received last week. And this was his response. I am born and raised in america. You clearly do not understand what it means to be an american, ignorant. Been elected twice, the fifthlargest religion in the world and he wears a turban on his head and is not cut his hair as a symbol of his faith, but it is in no way related to the muslim community. Born and raised in jersey, but there has been an outpouring of support from on social media including tweets by hoboken mayor and senator bonnie watts coleman. There have been hate going back and forth between supporters and knees. Knees. But he invited this twitter troll to lunch. And this is why. It is easy to dehumanize people on social media, and the best way to let somebody no i am is to have actual interaction with the individual. Find out why he hates me and also let them know about the community and wh
Disappearance, julius had a traumatic few months. She was inside this car at the end of november when police say a man wearing a mask walked up and fired several shots into the front seat, striking julius eight times and grazing her 15 yearold daughter. No word yet if that shooting is connected to her murder. We are expected to hear from the Monmouth County Prosecutors Office in a matter of moments, and we will keep you updated on any information that we get out of that press conference. Now, the argn two people charged is expected around 1 30 today. Were live in long branch, meg baker, cbs 2 news. Meg, thank you. Now to breaking news. More than 500 passengers were evacuated from a burning ship off the coast of puerto rico this morning. According to the coast guard, the fire broke out in the engine room of the caribbean fantasy ferry and then spread. Rescuers used slides to get passengers off the ship and into rafts. Several dozen people were carry into san juan harbor on stretchers. T
Line and it apparently kept going. Rain service was suspended in and out of hoboken. Hoboken is about 7 miles out of new york city. The train was coming from Spring Valley new york. Passengers often transfer from new Jersey Transit to hoboken in order to get into manhattan. Still a lot of activity at the scene. Our sister station just talked to a passenger on the train. Reporter im here with jam any who is obviously very shaken up. Tell us where you were and what you saw. I was in the very first car coming from woodridge in new jersey. I was standing at the door between the first and second car. Everything was typical. It was a little crowded. There wasnt enough space for everyone to get into the first car so fortunately i was stuck isnt the middle. Myself and about six other people were between the cars. We approached the station and train just felt like it never stopped. It didnt slow down. It never braked. I dont know if it didnt brake or what was happening. The train just kept goin
Schumer taking aim at the white house, slamming the president s proposal to cut funding for counterterrorism for new york and other cities, gutting the current 600 million budget. Its been slashed nearly in half to 330 330 million and this couldnt come at a worse time. As terror threats are increasing, as the danger from isis increases, as we hear about loan wolves from one end of the country to the other. Reporter schumer will be joined by the mayor and police and fire commissioners later this morning, calling on the white house to reconsider the proposal for 2017. They say the urban Area Initiative helps with training attacks for police and firefighters. It also helps fund extra patrols. They say the money is neithered to ensure the same needed to ensure the same level of security is maintained. The president in general and were here to tell the bher bureaucrats in washington this will not stand. Go back to the drawing board. Reporter the meeting with city leaders and senator schumer
Mary, within the last hour or so, we learned that a second attacker may also be on the run and that is according to belgian and french media, who are reporting he was seen on cctv cameras carrying a large bag at the scene of the subway attack. Authorities are looking for him and the unidentified man seen in the airport Surveillance Video. As the hunt for the mystery man in the white jacket continues, belgian prosecutors are learning more about the suspected isis terrorists connected to tuesdays terror attacks in brussels. Authorities believe that the terror cells bombmaker, Najim Laachroui in the left, and brahemel about, akraoui, were there. And they found dna belonging to one of the suspects in belgium on a suicide vest used in the paris attacks last november. Brussels and the events in paris are renewing concerns about fighting isis in europe. Its easier to get into europe than to get into the United States, for example, because of geography. Most european muslims are not radicalize