I guess thats good news. Better or worse. I dont know. Good morning, im dick brennan in for chris. Traffic and weather on the 2s in a moment. Lets get to breaking news, it happened about an hour ago. We are being told one person is being treated for injuries. No word on any possible suspects. We have a crew headed to the scene. We will have much more at the top of the hour. First top cops waking up on desk duty this morning after being implicated in an nypd corruption scandal. Many more may soon be implicated from this is not a particularly good day for the department. A department tainted by an evergrowing crowd of corruption. Violations of nypd rules and policies. The city conflicts of interest rules and federal criminal laws. The fbi probe prompting Police Commissioner william guns and badges of deputy chief michael harrington, executive officer of citywide housing and Deputy Inspector james grant Commanding Officer of the 19th precincts reassigning them to desk duty. Eric rodriguez, executive officer of the brooklyn south command and deputy chief david colon are also out of active command. Its something we must do. The investigation also names former chief of Department Phillip Banks and his ties to businessmen jeremy wrightburg and jonah reknige. Wiretaps on the businessmens phones revealed possible influence peddling involving as many as 20 cops. Sources say the officers are accused of receiving gifts, super bowl tickets, trips to las vegas and in at least one case a top ranking cop reportedly sold Police Captains union cards to help were going to go wherever the investigation and the facts and evidence take us. The public has an expectation of a high degree of trust and integrity in its police department. Traffic and weather on the 2s. John elliott is here with your forecast. Always great to have you join the fun. Lets talk about your friday. Got my mets colors on. Game looks okay today. Maybe a passing shower this morning in the city. 48 some clouds, wind out of the south now shifting. More of a west wind. Where there is precipitation its sufficiently cold for a flake or 2 in Sullivan County. That front weakens. High pressure gives way to another low thats going to ride out of the ohio valley tomorrow. Hour by hour youre at a nifty 50 by lunchtime. Thats it, were going to be in the low 50s today with that mix of sun and clouds. Then we get ready for another colder air for your saturday. Come on, its april. Doesnt feel like it. It doesnt feel like a saturday yet. Its friday with kyla. It is friday, lets get you through it. We have some trouble spots out there. Well start in the bronx. An accident with a fuel spill has two lanes blocked on the northbound new england thruway at pellam parkway. The northbound Henry Hudson Parkway that is for retaining wall repairs. A few subway issues this morning, due to the Police Investigation, the 4 and 6 trains are biopsying bleaker street in both directions. Thank you. To campaign 2016 and the last schedule change for president ial candidate donald trump. Trump will skip a trip to california to campaign in new york today. Yesterday four out of the five president ial candidates held events here in the city. Ted cruz sneered at our new york values. A new campaign ad from john kasich targets ted cruz for dissing the empire state. After a prepassover visit and a round table discussion with africanamerican Business Leaders cruz defended the comment and took a swipe at the republican front runner. Donald trump has been funding those failed liberal policies and those failed liberal politicians for 40 years. It never changes. Hey, new york is called new york. After a huge rally on long island wednesday night trump had a rare quiet evening but still got a boost when former mayor Rudy Giuliani said hes voting for the hometown billionaire. Kasich had an italian feast. Hell have to spend the first 100 days trying to figure out where the bathrooms are. Fresh off his big win in wisconsin Bernie Sanders arrived at the cbs blast center for an interview with charlie rose. Clinton is unqualified to be president . Well, does secretary clinton believe that i am unqualified to be president . Why cant you simply say yes . All im saying is the people are going to attack us if theyre going to distort our record as has been the case time and time again, were going to respond. I love new york. Clinton took five swipes of her metro card to get through a subway turnstile in the bronx on thursday but chose not to question sanders qualifications to be president. I dont know why hes saying that, but i will take Bernie Sanders over donald trump or ted cruz anytime. The latest cbs poll shows clinton with a 10 point lead here in her adopted home state. Sanders thinks he can pull off an upset. As for trump he has a 30 point lead here in new york but cruz is targeting smaller new york congressional districts where he can pick up delegates without having to pick up a lot of votes. Convention in cleveland this summer. Reporting from the newsroom, Brian Conybeare. A queens student is facing charges after he threatened a classmate with an unusual knife. A 6yearold boy was arrested after he brought a dagger to Newtown High School in elmhurst. The boy placed the knife against a girls throat and threatened to slash her. The boys charged with criminal possession of a weapon, harassment and menacing. A long island babysitter is charged with stalking the child she used to care for. Im scott from cbs2 news. Charges casey . 29yearold casey evans of ronkonkoma slammed the door on nights. She was all smiles in her mug shot. Last month evans tried to sign a 4yearold boy out of school permission. Shes accused of illegally entering the familys home to leave a gift for the boy. Rail workers on basic safety rules. That order from federal Railroad Officials following last weekends deadly crash near philadelphia. A train slammed into a backhoe on the tracks killing two investigators say the workers may not have known the track had been reopened to trains. To the attacks in belgium, prosecutors released new video as they search for information on the man in the hat. He was seen in the brussels attacks. Investigators hope he can reveal important details about isis cells in europe. The attacks killed 32 people. The suspect is seen leaving the airport and later in a nearby town. The first Delta Airlines flight from new york to the newly reopened Brussels Airport has arrived in the belgium capital. Passengers boarded flight 42 at Kennedy Airport for an 8 33 departure last night. It arrived about 90 minutes ago. Along with the travelers, the origami heights that will be delivered to a public memorial. Funding to help immigrants and others in new york city learn english, they want mayor de blasio to set aside 16 million in the upcoming budget for Adult Literacy classes. New york mets pitcher jacob degrom could miss todays home opener. He has a really good excuse. Degroms wife is in florida expecting their first child, a boy. Degrom will stay with the team until she goes into labor. Even if it happens during the game he will leave immediately. Whenever hes born. Were looking forward to getting back here and playing in front of our home fans and im expecting a baby boy so time. Now if the baby can wait, today will be degroms second opener. Pretty exciting news there. The baby to wait, but on the other hand whats another day. Its now 4 39. Still to come, lady gaga and Vice President biden with a heartfelt message to college students. Also this morning, done deal. Well tell you what the measure passed by the city council means for the costume characters in time square. It looks like hes starting to play some game where hes trying to throw things alt people. Weve seen a lot of car chases but this one takes the cake. Wait until you see how it ended. Whoa, no comment. All right, my weather comment to you. Its going to be cooler. Should be fine for the mets today. Just a little gray and cool and then to the weekend. Well talk about it. Coming up. Nothing seems to work your hair is still thinning. You may have inactive follicles. Reactivate them with womens rogaine foam the only once a day product, proven to regrow new hairs up to 48 thicker revive your va va voom [ music ] exciting. Were hoping to hear all the music this morning. 4 42 in the morning, a live look outside. Cbs2 news continues. Traffic and weather on the 2s. Cheep trick fan, not easy to say. Not this early. No. And mike on camera, too. Some really wicked air guitar. I mean that was exciting to watch. Its not even 5 00 in the morning, and were ready to go. Hey, i tell you what, weve got some Cool Temperatures, 40s, 40s, 40s, and the low 40s. Mid40s too. Happy birthday dana. 26 looking good. Now north shore 46, 47 through this is what we need today, some hot cocoa for the mets. I think the game will be fine. We could see a little spritz this morning, and then things daniel reminding us that today is zoo lovers day. A little cold for that today. Daniel also sending in a great rainbow shot from yesterday. I sure appreciate that and i love the silhouette shot here from charlie. Remember, when you take pictures silhouettes and foreground can really help tell the picture in the background as well. In the city right now we are looking at clouds overhead. We are going to see some clouds today more than we saw mid week, not as many as we saw yesterday. That give and take continues. Wind out of the west 8 to 17, a shifting wind ushers in cooler air. 41 in sparta, 34 in monticello. Turn that around, you have 43 in the hamptons. Itst cooler than it was this time yesterday, a little more pronounced for the jersey shore. In the city 50 at lunchtime, 51 your high. Back below normal again. Thats the trend right through the weekend. 48 tonight. Right now a flurry or two into parts of Sullivan County, basically were dry today, a and then clouds this afternoon. Lets work on the futurecast into the game time. Thats when we see clouds in the area, and numbers in the upper 40s. Low 50s for highs, and then tell you what, its saturday afternoon. It starts as a cold rain, and then watch this line try to pivot through. We are going to see maybe a coating to an inch. The Hudson Valley and a good part of connecticut is spared. This system seems to be pulling to the south, which is good news. Behind it, though very cold air saturday night into sunday. 51 your high today, slight chance of a shower. West wind predominantly a drier wind so lower dew points and then that messy saturday gives way to a cold sunday closer to normal and above normal first part of next week. Lets get you on your way. Kylas in for alex. We do have a few things to get you around this morning. We start in the bronx. We have an accident with a fuel spill. Its got two lanes blocked on the northbound new england your best bet is to stick with the hutch as your alternate. Two lanes remain blocked on the northbound Henry Hudson Parkway at 125th street because of those retaining wall repairs. A few subway issues this morning. Due to a Police Investigation, 4 and 6 trains are bypassing bleaker street in both directions. Alternate side parking is in effect today city wide. Kyla, if youre just waking up heres a quick look at some stories making news. The new York City Council has approved a measure to prevent costume characters and painted ladies from roaming time square. The d. O. T. Plans to restrict the characters and ladies to plazas in specific areas. Elected officials and local leaders will gather at a luxury Apartment Building in brooklyn where a man was killed in an elevator accident in october. Theyll call on albany law makers to pass the elevator safety act. Lights are on at penn nights power failure. Commuters near the 1, 2, and 3 subway lines were left in the dark. Officials blamed it on an internal building issue. On money watch, futures are higher after a significant slide on wall street thursday. The dow posted its biggest lost in a month and a half as banks and Technology Companies tumbled. The Dow Jones Industrial average lost 174 points. The nasdaq composite dropped by 72. Preorders are revving up for the new all electric vehicle from tesla. About 325,000 people have already provided the down payment for the tesla model 3. The company unveiled the mass market vehicle a week ago. Tesla says no other Consumer Products ever racked up bigger projected sales in its first week. The Sticker Price starts at 35,000. Major drama in hollywood but its not on the set of a movie. Two men and a bizarre car chase. By the time they were caught they were tinseltowns newest celebrities. Heres cbs2s kristine johnson. Top down on the convertible thats kind of nuts. What this guy is doing ising are taking whoa right there. Theres the first connection with another car. What started as an ordinary l. A. Police chase suddenly took a crazy turn. I dont know if this guy is show boating or what hes trying to do right there. After having his fill of doughnuts along hollywood boulevard the driver hit the road again. Well let chopper reporter stu mundell do the play by mri. Got some spike strips, this guy being courteous giving other drivers thumbs up for getting out of his way. These two making casual conversation. Tmz, look at the tour truck, the tour bus is actually trying the way. They threw something at one of trying to block him in. It looks like hes starting to play some game where hes trying to throw things at people for whatever reason. That guy saying thank you to people for getting out of his way. You should use a wireless hand set, especially when driving high speeds with flat tire in pursuit. Hes talking to that officer. I wish we could hear it, almost becoming a parade, very bizarre. There we go, drivers out of the car on the phone just kind of Walking Around. This is where its coming to an end. It wasnt over yet as the two suspects waited to be arrested people came outside to shake their hands, even snap pictures. Theres some selfies being taken there. You cant miss that opportunity. When deputies showed up, the men simply surrendered and the neighborhood watched. They willingly went into custody. Now police intentionally kept their distance during the chase because the roads were slick. They also had concerns that the men might be armed. No, i guess they wanted their 15 minutes of fame and they got it. 4 49. Still to come, a masters meltdown for the ages. And the thrill of a lifetime for some students in newark. The special visit from the first lady. And well get another check on your traffic and weather on this is cbs2 this morning. Lady gaga sings her oscar nominated song about Sexual Assault in an event in las vegas that featured Vice President joe biden, both trying to raise awareness about Sexual Assault in college campuses. The two appeared in las vegas as part of the white houses its on us campaign. Lady gaga has talked openly about being sexually assaulted when she was 19. And the time now is 4 52. Hi everybody. Cooler conditions settling in starting today, and then really bottoming out into the weekend. Cooler breeze today, mets homeowner is a go. Turning dicey as tomorrows rain and snow push in. I think its fireworks night. Saturday night is going to be wet and cold. Kicking off sunday with a chill, i do want to remind you National Weather service has posted a freeze watch saturday night into sunday morning. Thats likely the coldest period, and remember, late saturday thats when we see a little bit of snow mixing in as well. Its time to get you there on time with kyla. At least i dont have snow in my report. Lets talk about whats happening on the roads. In the bronx we have an accident with a fuel spill that has two lanes blocked. Its on the northbound new england thruway at pellum parkway. Also two lanes blocked on the northbound Henry Hudson Parkway for retaining wall repairs. A subway issue this morning due weve been reporting 4 and 6 trains are bypassing bleaker street in both directions. Alternate side parking is in effect city wide. A thrilling day for some Young Students in newark after a first visit from the first lady. She stopped by the Phillips AcademyCharter School on Central Avenue to tour the schools rooftop garden and students. The kids served her a spread of smoothies, quinoa bars and fresh vegetables. I was really surprised because i didnt think somebody come here and actually like food. My favorite part about going to school here is that our school like really cares about what we put into our bodies and they really care about how our students are after we leave the school. Pretty impressive right. Students not only grow the goodies they learn to prepare as well. By the way, you get to meet the first lady too. In our next half hour, why a group of parents are suing new york city schools. Also this morning using new technology to crack down on distracted driving. Does a new law go too far. And next, oh, boy, a former u. S. Open champ does his best tin cup impression at the masters. Its awful, the very rough ernie ells. Round one of the masters underway, Jordan Spieth knocking it on 18, he finishes at 6 under par. Englishman justin rose is right in the mix at 3 under. Oh, man. That one. Wow, five players at 3 under. And then theres ernie els. You may want to look away. This is very hard to watch. His first hole of the day he keeps missing. What . Missing. Now watch this one. Thats his best one. Mini golf. Hes origina