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And he needs to look at his own behavior several years ago when he joined with antonio pagosa to kick 200 homeless people off of the front lawn of city hall. you remember, taking it over and mr. garcetti joined to kick them out. and so hes being quite hypocritical to say that residents and business owners dont have a right to do a similar kind of action to protect their homes and to protect their businesses. there are literally thousands of miles of sidewalks in los angeles. and in instances whe...

Polo, its hod in new yot in ne. >> 85 degrees a little while ago. yesterday i was in queens having dinner with my wife and in the middle of dinner the lights basically went out. obviously, as you point out, theres no way of telling if thats directly related to this incident, but i can tell you for sure in queens there was a very similar incident that took place, and it got extremely hot in that restaurant, extremely quickly. i can only imagine what its like for many of the people who are here in...

Hes there on 6th avenue. kendis, it looks very dark out there. >> reporter: indeed. im going to take that as another slight as how i look, morgan, but it is very fairly out here in new york city. i walked outside the building, and i will have to admit, it was absolutely surreal. you have walked outside this building many, many times. youve walked 6th avenue, walked many of these streets. this is an iconic area, radio city, music hall. these sidewalks usually very much lit up. of course, rockefel...

Theres also concern, right? there are people that are wondering how theyre going to be able to make it home. i live in brooklyn, thats a big question. either with the traffic or the subway lines, how will some of the people actually move? there are some subway lines that we hear that are operating. some of the bus service discontinued. some of them are completely packed with people. in the meantime, a lot of the recommendations people are getting, soak this in in, take this in, stay in a safe pl...

Still 85 degrees. it was a very hot and muggy day in the city, not a lot of breeze. there is a lot of residual heat baked into the asphalt, sidewalks and buildings of manhattan. we are told, at least according to the fire department deputy commissioners office that there have been numerous calls from people stuck in the citys subway lines. 40th to 60th street in mid-town manhattan includes the broadway theaters and the curtain should be rising in those theaters right now as we reach the 8:00 hou...

The worst part of this blackout area. todd star of foxnation made his way over. todd, can you hear me? reporter: i can. im slowly making my way over to that area. its slow going. the reason why, its pitch black out here. people are having a hard time walking around. they are using their smart phones, the flashlight on their mart phones to try to see as they walk through the darkness on this side of town. i have to tell you, people here are in good spirits. there are thousands of people literally...

Devastating car fire. nine women giving birth to 12 boys and girls including three sets of twins. ainsley: three sets of twins? half of them are twins. thats great. thank you, steve. turning now to the growing homeless crisis in los angeles. the number of people living on the city streets surging 16% from last year to more than 36,000 people. well now fed up homeowners and business owners are taking matters into their own hands. they are building barriers to deter the homeless from setting up ca...

So it seems like we are seconds away from the finale of this heroes welcome that they have gotten where they will get the keys to the city. i can just see outside of camera range the sidewalks are lined with new yorkers, with people who have made the pilgrimage here to watch this really historic moment. its probably a dozen people deep on the sidewalk, everybody cheering. its really an electric moment, kate. >> its an awesome day for everybody to watch something like this, to celebrate something...

Would comply. so with the new regulations we now have to wait for that behavior to reach the level of where its hazardous or dangerous or if there are blocking that -- >> martha: is an example from another person who put a question to the police online. people are sleeping on the sidewalk in front of my residence. this is concerning for my family, cant you all do anything about that and the answer was no, the new obstruction camping ordinances allow camping on the sidewalks, alleyways, and other...

They are actually scaling up the solutions and doing it in other cities around texas. >> the ordinance does not allow people to camp in city parks, but it does give them to go ahead to sleep and placed tents on sidewalks, outside private homes or businesses for instance if they are not unreasonably blocking anyone. if mayor adler, by the way, is this week visiting seattle and los angeles to learn how those cities deal with the problem of homelessness. austin has around 2500 homeless people by a ...