This is a tragic case. There is no happiness for us. Reporter obriens attorneys say steve romeos blood alcohol level was. 66 below the legal level. Still extremely devastated on the loss of their daughter and they are just looking for justice in this case. Reporter lawyers and relatives are surprised at the developments but pleased both men are charged. Since the crash a traffic light has been installed at that intersection. Were live tonight at the court this is central islip, jennifer mclogan, cbs 2 news. We have a developing story now in queens where a student is accused of bringing a loaded gun to school. Chopper 2 was over ps 0 on union hall vote to in jamaica this afternoon. Police say an 11yearold boy brought a. 38caliber pistol to the school yesterday morning. The fifth grader told police that man, 54yearold kenneth miley, is charged with weapon. A violent robbery at an Upper West Side hotel and still on the loose. Cbs 2s Magdalena Doris live at the scene with the details. Magdalena. Reporter maurice, the Hotel Employees here say these armed suspects were able to avoid being caught on camera by sneaking into this unlocked cellar door and now the nypd says those suspects are still out there. Employees were escorted out of the rodeway inn on west 71st street near Central Park West this morning into waiting emergency vehicles. Police s they were pistol whipped during an Armed Robbery inside. Neighbors witnessing the scene are disturbed by the string of events surrounding this hotel. Until recent another named inn. There was a Sexual Assault a few months ago and other incidents. Was taking my son to school. So very, very concerned. Reporter a hotel worker tells us the suspects wearing ski masks entered this unlocked door leading into the basement turned off the electric panel cutting power to lights and security cameras inside. Thats very scary. They shouldnt have this door and where are the cameras . They should have cameras on the building, too,. Three Hotel Employees walked down into the breaker room to check the outage. Police say they were confronted by two armed suspects. After striking the workers with the gun, the robbers grabbed their cell phones, wallets and watches. Its unclear if the robbers got into the safe. They then ran down west 71st street towards central park an escape neighbors say makes their block an easy target. Quick access to the subway. Reporter the employees who were robbed and injured are expected to be okay. The nypd still searching for those two suspects. Live on the Upper West Side, Magdalena Doris, cbs 2 news. Police tonight searching for two people after a wild fight and an illegal club in washington heights. Police say two people were stabbed and three others slashed at this underground bar on amsterdam avenue near west 171st street this morning. Investigators believe the fight was over an unpaid gambling debt. Residents say the unmarked club is a known gaming hot spot surrounded by suspicious activity. Activities, weird activities there. I just keep my eyes away from that. What kind of weird activities. People loitering, going out, a lot of people. Late at night. Previous complaints against the Unlicensed Club include illegal gambling. All five victims went to the a 10,000 reward is offered for information to help locate a missing woman from linden, new jersey. This woman disappeared four months after she survived a shooting. She was last seen on march 8 at the long branch train station. President obama today introduced his Supreme Court nominee to replace the late justice antonin scalia. This move sets up a likely showdown with Republican Leaders who vow to block any action until after the novembe election. Cbs 2s alice gainer reports. Reporter an emotional chief judge Merrick Garland appeared with the president. This is the greatest honor of my life. [ sniffling ] other than my wife agreeing to marry me. For me there could be no Higher Public Service than serving as a member of the United StatesSupreme Court. Reporter born in chicago, 63yearold Merrick Garland has served for 19 years on the court of appeals in washington, d. C. He held privately including prosecutor in the u. S. Department of justices criminal division. Garland clerked for the late Supreme CourtJustice William j. Brennan, jr. And he received his bachelors and law degrees from harvard university. President obama described him as one of americas sharpest legal minds with the spirit of decency. These qualities and his long commitment to Public Service have earned him the respect and admiration of leaders from both sides of the aisle. Reporter new york senator Charles Schumer there for the announcement agree. If Merrick Garland cant get support, then nobody can. Reporter but since the death last month of conservative Supreme Court justice antonin scalia, republicans have pledged to leave the seat empty until after the president ial election and say they wont even hold hearings on garlands confirmation. The senate will appropriately revisit the matter when it considers the qualifications of the nominee the next president nominates. Garland regarded as a moderate would tip the balancing of court to liberal. He or she must put aside his personal views or preferences and follow the law. Not make it. Reporter Senate Minority leader harry reid urged Senate Republicans to do their job. I do hope they will do their constitutional duty and give president obamas nominee a meeting, hearing and vote. Reporter republican front runner donald trump says he thinks the next president should make the pick. Hillary clinton says garland is a brilliant legal mind and its up to the senate to do their job. Garland is going ahead with customary visits to meet with senators tomorrow and the white house says garland has more federal judicial experience than any other Supreme Court nominee in history. In the newsroom, alice gainer, cbs 2 news. Donald trump is making more headlines for pulling out of the next gop debate. That and more. Reporter much more. A day after his big wins last forward but dropped out of a debate next week in salt lake and the two other candidates followed suit. Own twitter trump said, im making a big speech the night of the of the fox news debate but i wish everybody well. Trump has not yet sealed the republican nomination raising the specter of a brokered convention. But trump says he will have the delegate count. Were way ahead of everybody. I dont think you can say that we dont get it automatically. I think it would be i think you would have riots i think would you have riots im representing many, many millions of people. Reporter trump has just half the delegates needed for nomination trailed by ted cruz and john kasich. But his campaign is already taking aim at Hillary Clinton with this new commercial. [ music ] [ dog barking ] [ laughter ] reporter but clinton also our commanderinchief has to be able to defend our country, not embarrass it. Reporter clinton claimed victory in four of the five states that voted including florida. But Bernie Sanders is determined to stay in the race. You dont have to accept the stratus quo. Reporter clinton and trumps are the odds on favorites. Were coming on something that i cant remember the first time in long, long, long time that a majority of the American People dont like either candidate. Thats why anything could still happen. Reporter so no debate next week. Fox has canceled it. Clinton wont ask sanders to drop out of the race reflecting the fact that she hung in against barack obama in 2008 and up next republicans and democrats arizona and utah on tuesday, the democrats in idaho will attend caucuses then. Thank you. Thats it. Trying to catch our breath here. A lot of stuff. Big night last night. Dick, thank you. Over a dangerous scene in queens after live power lines collapse on a street and sidewalks, as well. It happened this afternoon in glendale across several blocks 78th street near 67th road. Others hit cars. Nobody was hurt. Lost power. No word on what caused the lines to go down. Still ahead, he vanished more than 25 years ago. Today, a new jersey boys mother goes on trial for his murder. Why it took so long and the witnesses both sides say could win their case. It is showing up a lot more in products on store shelves. What hyaluranic acid can really do to your skin. Its revealed sensitive photos, everyone from jennifer lawrence, to kim kardashian. The man arrested for an a list hacking. A method to march madness. Secrets to filling out a [ music ] march madness is here. The field is set, now all you have to do is pick that perfect bracket. Oh, okay. Well, you dont have to agonize over every pick. You just need a little strategy to win the office pool. Here to help us is Steve Overmyer. Maurice and kristine, nothing is more rewarding than picking the winning bracket in your office. Conservative, take chances . I entrusted my bracket to random new yorkers we met on the street. Do you have some rules that you live by . Root for the team you went to school. Whatever team sounds good. Reporter okay. There are some hard and fast rules to which you must adhere. First and foremost, never pick a 16 to upset a 1. Lets say, hampton here because im not a huge fan of virginia. Reporter no 16 has ever beaten a 1 seed in history this is going to be the year for that . Yup. Reporter if you like upsets, most years a 12seed yale right here. Reporter because of the experience . They are older . I like them because they crushed the ivy league this year. Reporter how far do you take your upsets . Its nice to pick an upset in the first two rounds. How far do you take it . Sweet sixteen and elite eight. Pressure gets to them in the final four. Reporter arizona or Wichita State . Wildcats are tough to beat. You know the rule about wildcats they usually win on st. Patricks day. Thats a good rule. I like wisconsin. I see what you did there. So apparently w teams always ha yeah, thats a good way to look at it. Reporter do you know who south dakota states nickname is . No. Reporter the jack rabbits were the terps. Reporter so who is going to win that race . You need six wins to take the title so look for teams who come in confident. East. Reporter the new yorkers final four is maryland, oklahoma, kentucky and michigan state. When you get to the point of heavily on successful coaches but go with your gut. Champions are made in the final round and you came through in the final round. Proud of you mariel [ pause ] thrilled to get some bracketology. Did people have opinion and strategy they believed in . Very strong in their opinions and mostly went to their allegiance to schools. A number of people thought maryland would go all the way. President obama would agree with you regarding the strong coaching. That makes sense. You want to go with coaches. Thats one thing thats tried and trusseau there are some Good Strategies but by the way that team that we saw that bracket we saw is going to be the bracket that im using in the cbs bracket challenge. You can go on our website to find out a little bit more of that. And if you want to hear more actual bracketology, we are going to start a Facebook Live segment here right now as soon brackets so bring your brackets with you. Go online. If anybody wants to fill out mine, go ahead. My school isnt even in it so we can just ixnay that right now. [ laughter ] too much logic. [ laughter ] steve, that looks fun. See you on facebook. You can watch all the madness starting tomorrow right here on cbs 2. Later on in this broadcast, its a program thats churning out many college competitors. Cbs 2s Otis Livingston takes us inside a new jersey rec league that has several graduates in the tournament this year. A 107yearold woman who danced with the obamas at the white house is still dancing. This time, though, with the harlem globetrotters. Two players visited the Charter School in washington, dc where virginia mclawrence still volunteers to this day. They taught her basketball tricks, gave her a number 107 jersey, and also donated 107 game tickets to the school. Wow. It all. [ laughter ] i love her smile. I love her moves shes working it. All right. Weather picture here. Irish luck . Is that going to happen tomorrow for the weather picture lonnie . What do you have . I think tomorrow youre going to do okay. Especially for the start of the parade. Possibly rain at the end of the parade. Right now, we have a line of storms actually set up right here over the western fringes of new jersey and if we could get there, guys, youre dealing with right now a partly cloudy sky, i think we have the wrong source up here to be honest with you because see that picture there . That can we switch that source . Its 59 degrees outside partly cloudy sky. We are watching the storms thats what were looking your to. Thank you thank you, thank you. Thats what were looking for. They are moving off to the east. I can time these out but i a lot of thunderstorms out there now around places like middletown, new york, they are going to lose strength as they encounter our seabreeze further east. But whatever remains, 5 25 into hamilton, paterson around 5 50. New york city you can see some wet weather around 6 00, well say 6 10 or so. So that storm threat is out there right through 11 p. M. And then it will dissipate. A nice start to your parade tomorrow. Could see another storm late in the parade and then friday looks to be colder and then all eyes are on sunday night. Sunday night a possible snow chance we have to talk about. Back to you. Thank you. Now to a war of words in Nassau County over police protection. Residents say a merger of precincts has increased crime. The acting commissioner says crime has gone down and they have saved money. Cbs 2s ilana gold has more. Four years ago when these precincts were going to be merged i said this is a spectacularly bad idea. Its still the same four years later. Cuss costs the merger of the 6th and 3rd precincts. We were told it was going to be a money saving move and we have yet to see that proven. Reporter four years later Law Enforcement, resident and leaders are fed up and at a rally today outside the former sixth precinct they said they want the union dissolved. Burglaries are on the rise. You have heroinrelated crimes that are also on the rise. Reporter the town of north hempstead supervisor Judi Bosworth says the merger is spreading the already taxed officers too thin citing increased in crime including burglaries. The people of both precincts deserve to be protected and a quality of life enhanced by feeling safe in your own home. Reporter but the acting Police Commissioner disagreed. This departments models are beyond reproach. Crime has been reduced since anybody who says theres been any impact on this is either misinformed or disingenuous. Reporter at a press conference scheduled at the same time of the rally, he says theres been no reduction in staffing with the mergers and crime in the county is down. They are taking a snapshot of 60 days. Last year major crime was down 5 . Reporter he says the year before major crime was down 10 . Ilana gold, cbs 2 news. There have been other precinct mergers in the county which the acting commissioner said will stay that way because the budget cannot support reopening them. Still ahead, some commuters may soon have a new option. Forget traveling by land. The Ferry Service expansion that could soon get more people to their destinations a little faster. And missy eliot, Kelly Clarkson and Michelle Obama, together some big names. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state, the economy is growing, with creative new business incentives, the lowest taxes in decades, and new infrastructure for a new generation attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in rochester, with worldclass botox. And in buffalo, where medicine meets the future. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow it took Joel Silverman years to become a master dog trainer. But only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. Technology designed for you. Coming up at 6 00 busted again. A teenager waiting to be sentenced for a crash that left five tense dead arrested overnight. The new crime he is accused of. The homeless womans caravan took up a city block before sanitation workers took it away. But no she is back with more and what will the city do now . Big difference in the lives of sick children. We tag along with this therapy horse bringing smiles to young and old. First Lady Michelle obama teams up with some top Music Artists to help educate girls around the world and they took their show on the road. Jill nicolini reports. [ music ] reporter this is an anthem which Michelle Obama released to help empower women. It was written by diane warren and sung by a collaboration of talent that includes Kelly Clarkson and missy eliot and others. Today there are 62 million young girls who are not in school around the world. Girls arent getting an education because they are cultural norms that keep them down. Reporter the first lady spoke out today on a panel hosted by queen latifah, at the south by southwest festival in austin, texas along with see tia bush and missy eliot. Its a good id