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Transcripts For WNYW FOX 5 News At 5 20160302

The trains and platforms to calm fears after a recent rash of slashings. New yorkers say they have been questioning subway safety lately. Police are not on the ball. In the last year or so, the slashing and just generally feeling unsafe has risen dramatically. Ive noticed a lot more, like, imbalance personalities on the train than maybe five years ago. It is a little disarming. Reporter in brooklyn, we spotted three transit officers patrolling the area. The chief of nypd transit says new yorkers will see this every day. As the train stops, an officer goes in a separate car, looks at everybody, makes sure everything is okay, sees whats in there and comes back out. We increased those. Were doing a number of those every day every tour. I did two of them there. I rarely see them when i come here. Reporter there are 6 million reported every day. According to the nypd latest crime stats, transit crime is up compared to this time last year. But straphangers say its about how they feel. If you feel safe, you are safe. If you dont feel safe, it doesnt matter what the numbers are. Reporter the nypd also announced today that theyre refitting their radios with the new frequency, so officers can communicate underground. Before that was not a possibility for all officers out on the streets. Thats already been rolled out in manhattan as well as the bronx and will go out to the other boroughs this spring adding an extra layer of security for not only the officers but the people underground. Live from downtown brooklyn, back to you. Steve the driver charged in that deadly hitandrun accident that killed an officer in new jersey was in court. The 35yearold pleaded not guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident. Hitting Vincent Harrison sunday morning. Prosecutors say he fled. Officer harrison was a two year veteran of the nypd working out of the 100th precinct in queens. Dari meantime, a Texas Police Officer killed in the line of duty once worked for the nypd. 29yearold officer david hofer died in a gunfight with an armed suspect in a park near a dallas area school. The known drug addict was killed and he had just gotten out of jail that day. Steve the manhattan d. A. Says he will no longer prosecute quality of life offenses, things like public urination, drinking in public or taking up two seats on the subway. Offenders will be given a summons rather than being arrested. It could divert 10,000 cases a year from manhattan criminal court. Critics say it will lead to an increase in dangerous crimes. Dari super tuesday was super. At least the night for donald trump and Hillary Clinton. The president ial hopefuls inched nominations while their rivals may be running out of time. Joe is joining us with a look at last nights winners and losers. Reporter it was the biggest voting day so far of the 2016 election. Now that its come and gone, one thing we know for sure. It will be a tough fight for those who want to stop donald trump or Hillary Clinton. It was a good night for two of the campaigns most recognizable figures. Sweeping wins by clinton and trump point to a hillary v. Donald battle royal of a general election. Were going to make America Great. America never stopped being great. Reporter donald trump came out on top in seven states last night. Cruz won three. Rubio just won, minnesota. While the trump train keeps rolling, hes collected more delegates than cruz and rubio combined. His rivals are refusing to acknowledge the inevitable. I will campaign as long as it takes to insure that i am the next president of the United States. Has beaten donald trump once, twice, three times. Alex burns is a Political Correspondent at the new york times. Trump is the favorite to be nominated. Whats unclear is whether hell get the majority of the delegates to the Republican Convention and lock down the nomination or whether hell have to go into cleveland with a strong plurality and fight for it on the floor. While the republicans seem to be falling apart, the democrats are falling in line behind their frontrunner. Clinton won 7, six by a 30 percent margin. She has more than half the delegates needed. The South Carolina primary was where she reasserted command of the democratic race. She was looking to michigan, florida, ohio, if sanders doesnt put up some significant going to start seeing people treat it as a formality. Reporter at defiant sanders is vowing to fight on. Our message is resonating and the people where we stand together will be victorious. Reporter if all thats not enough to make your head spin, ben carson told supporters theres no path forward for him effectively dropping out. Mitt romney will make a big speech tomorrow, making the case against donald trump as the nominee. Steve, dari, a wild 48 hours. He has a lot more to say of late. Chris christie making headlines, not for the right reasons. Well tell you why major newspapers are calling for him to resign. Dari u. S. Special forces have captured a suspected isis operative in iraq. He is being interrogated and will be turned over to the iraqis. Questioning could take weeks or months. The white house is insisting the prisoner will not be sent to the military prison in guantanamo bay. President obama has already announced plans to close that facility in the near future. Steve the Supreme Court sharply divided over a texas abortion case. Its the first one taken up by the High Court Since the death of scalia last month. Liberal and conservatives signalled theres Little Common ground after hearing arguments for nearly an hour and a half. Texas says the law protects Womens Health by requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at local hospitals. Opponents say the real purpose is to cut down access to abortion. Justice kennedy holds the key on whether the court splits 44. Dari the u. N. Security Council Voting unanimously to pass some of the toughest sanctions against north korea. The deal was negotiated with china in response to north koreas latest nuclear and rocket tests. It includes mandatory cargo inspections in and out of the country and a ban on all small steve another clue to the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. Debris that washed up over the weekend has tentatively been identified as coming from the same type of aircraft. The plane disappeared two years ago. Despite a search, the only confirmed trace of flight 370 has been a wing part that washed ashore on a French Island off the east coast of africa. Dari one of the most powerful druglords could stand trial in new york city. Steve thats right. A look at how el chapo ran the massive Mexican Drug Cartel that made him a billionaire. Dari after a year in space, what astronaut scott kelly had to say after returning to solid ground. Steve and what youll need to know to get started often the was a lot faster. A hassle to switch. Turns out it wasnt. They set up wifi on my laptop and my tablet and stuff. Im here to mow the lawn. Its february, curtis. Maybe i should change some other things around here. Switching is easy with our switchers guarantee. Well arrive when promised and set up your devices to your new wifi. Switch now and get 100 meg speeds, plus tv and phone for just 69. 99 a month online. Switch to better. Switch to fios. vo want to be happy with your next vehicle purchase . At enterprise, we guarantee it. P head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales p and let the people who buy more vehicles than anyone. P change your thinking about dari one of the most powerful druglords in the World Running a massive mexican cartel. Steve he may go to trial in new york. Alison morris here with a look at the big business behind el chapo. Reporter its totally fascinating. Hes a major drug leader. We know that. One of the most interesting things is how did he move money and drugs into the u. S. . Jeffrey robinson is the premier expert on financial crimes. He explained to me how it goes down and how el chapo might go down if hes brought to new york. Players in what may very well be one of the Worlds Largest businesses. Reporter with the possibility he may be extradited to brooklyn, we sat down with a leading expert on International Money laundering, jeffrey robinson. Robinson doesnt talk to the media often but talked to us about dirty money and el chapos big business in the United States. You are talking hundreds of millions of dollars taken off the streets. Hundreds of millions of dollars that this man has been responsible for. Reporter how does el chapo get all that dirty money in and out of america . Theyve been using value added cards. Along that u. S. Mexican border from california through texas, youve got a huge percentage of the worlds gun stores. I mean, its all over the place. What you do is you use the cash cards to buy weapons and take the weapons across or take the foot soldiers and everybody else. Reporter his drug empire is one part of the enormous illegal drug industry around the world. The United Nations decided that illicit drugs was the Worlds Largest cash crop, and that this was staggering more money was spent globally on drugs than on food. Thats how big this business is. Reporter over the last few days, el chapo has said hell come to the u. S. , only if hes put in a minimum security prison. Not a likely scenario given his history of breaking out of jail. If he is extradited, hell be flown straight to new york. Theyre set up for him at the eastern district, brooklyn. He will be brought in to kennedy or laguardia. He will be immediately charged and held without bail in the metropolitan Detention Center in brooklyn. Reporter thats where hell sit until trial. He will try to use his money and influence in mexico. The last thing any of these clowns want is to be extradited to the United States where they cant bribe the judges, where they cant threaten the judges or bribe law enforcement, where they cant escape from prison. Reporter robinson thinks el chapo has no incentive to come here and expects he will do all he can to stay put. He said dont rule out the possibility mexico will get so sick of dealing with him, theyll send him to us anyway. It is amazing that you actually have to agree to extradition. You would think at this point dari he shouldnt have a choice. Steve yeah. Reporter to say id like a medium security prison, whos going for that . Steve lets hope he doesnt disappear from this prison. Thank you. Dari thank you. The Sporting Goods Retailer Sports Authority has filed chapter 11. It plans to sell or clothe se 140 stores. No word on how many are in our particular area. Laid off nationwide. The company made that decision after missing a 20 million debt payment in january. Scott kelly, well, may never get to mars, but what he did aboard the International Space station may help future astronauts get there. Steve he and a russian cosmonaut landed in kazakhstan last night after spending 340 days in space. Thats a record. He says part of him is going to miss orbiting earth. Leaving the space station was bittersweet, you know. Ive been there a long time, so i looked forward to leaving, but at the same time, you know, its a magnificent place and im going to miss it. So, you know, mixed emotions, i guess. Steve kelly will be studied by doctors for the effects of longterm space flight. Information that may help one day future astronauts on Long Distance missions to mars. Today was cold out. Dari it was cold. But the light that is striking me, its so deceiving. Nick i know. Sun angles are getting higher. Steve you can wear the wrong thing out. Dari it was so much warmer. The light is gorgeous. Nick youll want to dress warmly. Its going to get colder. Were talking snow in the forecast for late tomorrow night and after midnight lasting until early friday afternoon is what i think. And a potential for maybe an inch or two or a little more south of the city. Well see. 55, 39 today. The 55 was deceptive. That was right after midnight. Weve been downhill ever since. The 39 the current temperature. We should average 45, 32 in the next few days. Well be below that. The wind is strong and gusty. It continues to be that way right now. 39 again. The air drying out. The northwest wind 18 and gusty. Pressure 29. 83 rising. Generally a clear sky. Were heading into the 20s near new york city and into the teens, some of the colder spots north and west. Were done with any rain. Take a look at the temps. These are the highs, mid 50s around the city, low 50s long island. That doesnt count. Most of the day its been tumbling down through the 40s. Now 39 in the city. 35 poughkeepsie. 25 monticello. 40s at newark. 38 on the east end. 41 down to the jersey shore. Were down 6 to 15 degrees across the area from just 24 hours ago. Theres the story, the wind northwest. Its at 15 to 25, occasionally seeing gusts up to 30, 35 miles an hour. Here are the latest wind gusts, gusting to 32 at newark. 31 at islip. 22 in the city. Gusting to 25 at poughkeepsie. The sky will stay clear tonight as you see on the satellite photograph. Cold front basically well offshore. So the wind behind that has been the factor today. Strong and gusty out of the northwest. Next storm center is here and will dip to the south and back to the north. Thats going to be for late tomorrow night into friday. No problems most of tomorrow. Sunshine and a cold start. 20s in the city. Lunchtime, 32. But clouds will be increasing at that point. Youll see here on the futurecast as those clouds increase, heres the swath of snow that will get to us on, again, 1 00, 2 00 in the morning at the earliest friday morning, probably ending 1 00 in the afternoon on friday with, again, a potential for an inch or two across the area. Then a chilly weekend. Clear, breezy, colder. 25 in the city. 15 to 20 north and west. Sun will give way to clouds. Still a bit breezy tomorrow with the wind out of the west at maybe about 15 to 25 miles an hour. A little better than today, but well have a distinct chill in the air. Snow for friday. Mostly morning to early afternoon. 35. Saturday, 42. Then saturday night, sunday morning, another round of snow showers. As we get back to 42 on sunday. Wow, look at that recovery. I talked yesterday about it being mid 50s by tuesday. How do you feel about 63 on wednesday . Steve real good. I realize a couple of days ago, im ready for spring. Nick this could be the last of i think the pattern stays mild next week. Thank you. Spring is right around the corner. Many of us will start cleaning out our closets. Dari Audrey Puente gives us tips on getting rid of all those unwanted items. Reporter one look through instagram and youll see its the season to spring clean your messy closet. Here are suggestions for your unwanted items. The Consignment Shop encore on the Upper East Side will help your clothes turn to cash says the manager. Especially if you look at your closet, you think youre not going to wear a skirt in good condition, the item you can bring in. Reporter you will earn 50 percent of the sale price of your item. Bring your best stuff in. Make sure its clean. They will look at the item. If good condition, they will sell faster. Reporter if your item is unsold after three months, you can pick it up or have it donated to charity. Can be done with apps you can download to your smartphone. Close 5 is a free and easy option for selling items locally. Buyers are within five miles, making the transaction very convenient. Descriptions are not required, so you can sell your items with a title and photos. Download the posh mark app and join the many people making thousands of dollars selling clothes, jewelry and accessories. It is a retail social network and hosts sharing parties through the app. Tax time is around the corner. You can donate to the Salvation Army which helps veterans and homeless. Theres housing works, which will help folks suffering from aids. Your donation can bring sunshine into someone elses spring. Audrey puente, fox 5 news. Steve i put that off for like ill think about it and wont do it for a couple of months. Thats an easy one to put off. A true story of a local girl making good. Dari well introduce you to a ballerina who is making quite a name for herself at the dance thank you so much. Did you say honey . Hey, try some . Mmm that is tasty. Is it real . Of course. Are you . Nope animated you know im always looking for real honey for honey nut cheerios place. Great, mind if i have another taste . Not at all mmm youre all right bud . Never better i dont know if he likes that. Yeah dari she was born in brazil. Now she was living out her dream as a ballerina at the Dance Theatre of harlem. Reporter this is a story about the impact that one person can have on the lives of so many young people. Allison was born in brazil and adopted when she was four. She fell in love with dance in new york and her studies led her into the same hallways Misty Copeland roams today. They share a bond thats inspiring a new generation. My name is allison. Im a professional ballerina with the Dance Theatre of harlem. It is a company full of such history. It was one of the First Companies for black dancers and dancers of color. Reporter how much time do you spend in a space like this . We work usually monday through friday. Sometimes six days a week. Were always on the road and it takes a lot of dedication and a lot of sacrifice to earn that title of a principal balance ballerina. It would be my dream. A powerful image of a black woman. Its a positive example for the next generation. Reporter when did you meet misty . I started dancing at the Jacqueline Kennedy onassis school. Ive gone to her with moments of doubting myself and lack of confidence. Thats something i had to deal with growing up as a ballerina. I was always comparing myself

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