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WNYW FOX 5 News At 5 March 14, 2016

Steve this is the march we have become accustomed to in recent years. Nick gregory is here with the forecast. It is amazing how quickly we get used to the mild weather. Nick today is a step to where march should be. Today is the anniversary of the superstorm that came up the east coast. It was a more violent day. Steve i got caught in montreal my senior year in high school. You can imagine how that went. Nick that storm made headlines east. That. Definitely the chill has been in the air. While we started with readings around 50, it has dropped. We are down to 40. 43 bridgeport to the jersey shore. Low 40s to the hudson valley. The rain that is starting to back down a little bit, weve had clusters come through and you see west of us in new jersey into pennsylvania, theres not much there. There will be spotty light rain and drizzle through the rest of the other issue is the wind gusty out of the northeast at 10 to 20plus miles an hour. We have the northeast wind tonight. Coastal flood advisory Tuesday Morning for western Long Island Sound into southern connecticut. The motion shows thats moving along the futurecast shows this will be winding down but still spotty light rain and drizzle through tomorrow morning. Dari thank you. Steve no sign of the third person who is presumed death after a tugboat crash on the hudson river. Dari Lidia Curanaj is live in tarrytown with more on the recovery effort. Hi. Reporter good evening. Right now authorities are scanning the surface of the hudson river. Originally they wanted to send in divers, but the visibility out there is so poor, that when the drivers went in, they could barely see six inches in front of their face. Authorities are continuing to scan the surface of the hudson river. On saturday around 5 00 a. M. , crane in the darkness crashed into a stationary barge at the Tappan Zee Bridge construction site. Two bodies were recovered over the weekend. Paul ammons and Timothy Conklin of westbury, long island. Autopsies revealed both men drowned. Harry hernandez, 56 of staten island, is missing and presumed dead. Westchester county rob astorino the water temperature was very cold. This part of the year, it was approximately 40 degrees. Reporter astorino said theres no timetable for when the sunken ship will be pulled out of the water. Approval from the coast guard is expected by the end of the week. The vessel is estimated to have had 5,000 gallons of fuel oil on board and Officials Say it may be leaking. An oil sheen can be seen at the scene of the accident down to yonkers. Thousands of feet of boom have spill. Its still unclear how quickly or not quickly the tugboats sank. Theres been conflicting eyewitness reports. Some people reported it sank as quickly as 15 minutes. Others say a half hour. As for the cause of the crash, that is still under investigation. Authorities wont know what happened until that tugboat is brought out of the water. Right now its still submerged. Back to you. Dari thank you. Authorities are investigating a deadly fire at a home in orange, new jersey. It killed a man and two young children. The blaze broke out early this morning. Family members say 10 people lived in the home and everybody made it out alive except for a man and two brothers. Eight. The boys mom was badly burned in the fire. Shes being treated at a nearby hospital. No word on what caused it. Steve morale at the nypd appears to be at an all time low. Many cops are complaining about their jobs. Reporter commissioner bratton is telling us Police Morale is always an issue, one the department is working to address. Hes dismissing a new report that says its at a low. The pba is the union for city police officers. A survey done by 6,000 of the members ranked morale at less than 3. The top cop is not surprised. Ill be quite frank. Im not surprised. It echos the survey we conducted that we shared with you back in 2014. Reporter he says as a result of the findings, his department is focused on improving training and equipment as well as reorganizing specialty units to provide more career opportunities. Everything weve been doing the last two years has been focused on responding to the us. The pba found 87 percent of members surveyed believe the two years of the de blasiobratton administration. But the Police Station commissioner says that perception is at odds with reality. Looking at the chief of departments reports, murders are down below the 2014 all time low level. Shootings are down below historic levels. Reporter commissioner bratton tells us hell have a full response on tuesday after hes had a chance to go through the report point by point. Im lisa evers, fox 5 news. Steve three brothers in Police Custody in the shooting death of officer olson. This happened yesterday. Authorities say the gunmen opened fire on the officer with the intent to die in a shootout with police. He is expected to survive. It is believed one of the brothers was with the gunman. A Third Brother was connected to the case. All three have been arrested. Dari an this town was retaken by iraqi forces from isis militants last year. The general says a man was carrying a large amount of cash, three cell phones and three forms of id, including a u. S. Drivers license. He didnt give any details of his hometown or state. Steve kim jongun warning of a Preemptive Nuclear strike if his country is invaded. Theyre conducting joint military exercises. Senator schumer says the u. S. Cannot afford to ignore the threat. This is a wakeup call. People say the man of north korea is unstable, eccentric. You cant take a threat like this lightly. You have to be serious. Steve u. S. Officials say a north Korean Submarine is missing. Dari with ohio and florida up for grabs tomorrow, president ial hopeful donald trump could knock out two rivals tomorrow night. Sharon crowley has the latest. Reporter its the second super tuesday as the stakes are high. All eyes will be on who wins ohio and florida. The results could propel or stall Donald Trumps momentum. Polls show it could be a very good day for Hillary Clinton tomorrow. Donald trump took his campaign to ohio ahead of tomorrows primary races where he remains in a tight race with john kasich. The billionaire real estate mogul is less concerned about florida where he has a strong lead. Earlier today trump held a rally in North Carolina where ted cruz has an advantage. Im going to make our military so strong, so powerful, that nobodys ever going to talk about messing with us. Reporter florida and ohio are winner take all, making the in marco rubio loses florida, it may end his campaign. Pressure is also intense for kasich to win at home in ohio. Im going to win ohio and its going to be a new ball game. Reporter political analysts say wins in florida and ohio could determine the fate of the campaigns. Tomorrow could be critical. The question is does donald trump pick up two of the biggest loads of votes of delegates, i should say, in route to the convention or is one or both of him. Bernie sanders and trump got into a war of words after fights broke out at some trump rallies. Trump accused sanders supporters of insta inciting violence. The democratic president ial candidates had a town hall meeting in ohio. An audience member asked hillary i think all americans should be concerned. Its clear that donald trump is running a very cynical campaign. Reporter even though trump leads rivals in delegates, he has a way to go before he can secure the party nomination. Tomorrows results could determine how long and tough a contest this will become. Dari thank you. An amtrak train derailed in kansas injuring dozens. The train, carrying 131, was making a 43hour journey from l. A. To chicago. Officials say it derailed moments after an engineer noticed a significant bend in a rail and applied the emergency brakes. The bnsf railway said the track is inspected twice a week and meets guidelines. 32 people were hurt in the derailment. Two critically. The ntsb is sending a team. Video surfaced showing a worker urinating on the assembly line. It happened two years ago in memphis, tennessee. They just learned of it this past friday. The fda is conducting a criminal investigation. The company says that the products that would have been affected are past their expiration dates. Yikes. Dari imagine how much that happens in so many places that we dont know anything about. There it is. Encouraging young people not to give up on their dreams. The biggest hurdle between me and my dreams, myself. Steve the Program Teaching young people to take control of their future. Dari and early signs of spring arent good news. The effect warmer weather can have on crops and allergy vo with thousands of qualityr preowned vehicles. Rand exceptional customervservice, head to your neighborhood enterprise car sales and let the people who buy more pflip your thinking about buying steve a bidding war over a hotel chain and food safety problems at chipotle have cost the brass big time bonuses. Dari Alison Morris is here with the business headlines. Reporter its cost them so money. Dont feel too bad. Theyre doing okay. Steve exactly. Half of reporter wait until you hear what half is. It has been a rough run for chipotle with the food scare. Now the coceos are feeling the pinch. Their pay is linked now to the it is trading just above 500. It would have to go over 700 and stay there for 30 days for the two to get bonuses. Last year they lost half their pay. They were not paid bonuses because of the food safety crisis. But dont feel bad. They still earned nearly 14 million each. Theyre doing all right. A Chinese Investment group has made a bid for the Starwood Hotel chain. This could break up a merger between starwood and marriott. They were offered a 14 billion buyout. This is putting them in the middle of a bidding war. They have 1300 Hotels Across 100 countries. We want to wish you a happy pi day. Its every march 14th, 3 14. The number is over a trillion digits past the decimal point. Its referred to as 3. 14. Heres where it gets fun. Pizza hut is rolling out a special challenge. The blog posted three math word problems with help from princeton math Professor John conway. Solve one and you could win free pizza for 3. 14 years. Heres one of them. If you want to mull this over. The question i am thinking of a 10digit integer whose digits are distinct. The number is divisible from one to 10. I will be buying my pizza. Steve if you think we know that brought back bad memories. Reporter there were three questions. I picked the easiest. The one i could read on air. Steve they wont make them easy if its three years of pizza. Interesting stuff. Well stick to the news. Dari theres the career in media. Steve nick, back to reality today. Nick it was. Boy, its chilly out there with the highs posted as 51. The low 40s. Our current temperature. It has been an ugly day. When its been raining, its been awful to be outside. Its going to be uncomfortable tonight into the first part of tomorrow. Going to get warmer tomorrow. We might see sun in the afternoon. The morning is looking gruesome. 49, 35 is average. Were back where we should be compared to last week. How nice over the weekend. 75 and 15 in the records. You notice our different sunset and sunrise times. Weve changed our clock. Hopefully youve changed with us. That sunset is after 7 00. 40 now. Wind is gusty out of the northeast. Rain continues to fall over the city. The pressure is 30. 03 and falling. The rain will continue for longer. The steadiest rain you see on fox 5 sky guardian is the city eastward coming down steadily on long island into southern connecticut and the jersey shore. To the west, doesnt look like much is happening. With the northeast wind and the storm center off to the south, well see spotty light rain overnight and drizzle when its not doing anything else. Some areas of fog as well. Look at the highs. Earlier in the day, we were around or above the 50 degree mark. Poughkeepsie down towards newark. 46 on the east end. Work. It is chilly. Its in the low 40s hudson 37 monticello. 43 belmar. Were looking at lower 40s across long island. Look at the temperature drop from 24 hours ago. 15 to 20 degrees in many locales. Northeast wind continues. That will be northeasterly overnight and northerly tomorrow. It will diminish in speed tonight and tomorrow. You can see the back edge of the drizzle over the city. Well see how much of this loops in. A lot of it may not survive. The main storm will be slow to move off to the north and east and give us the persistent northeast wind tomorrow. Thats why were calling for drizzle and clouds in the morning. Maybe brightening in the afternoon. When it happens, we should climb flew through through the lower 50s. The next system swings our way. We may have showers by wednesday afternoon. This system will be slow to move through. It will be mild conditions. Well see rain showers on thursday. Some drizzle, light rain tonight, with patchy fog. Well call it chilly. Temperature not moving too much. 30s to the lower 40s. Tomorrow well deal with some spotty light rain or drizzle and in the afternoon, 57. Wednesday, showers, 63. More showers thursday. Particularly in the afternoon. 58. Drying out for friday. Saturday, 51. Ive got rain saturday night into sunday. One computer model suggests it might be a colder solution to that. March. Steve march is all over the place. [indiscernible talking over one another] steve you can go above the mean and below it. Things are changing. Dari the good news, its looking like spring. Were talking about all the buds are out there. Steve the bad news, allergy sufferers need to be prepared for misery. Heres stacy. Reporter a Cherry Blossom in bloom is a rare sight in march, but its not the only thing coming to life ahead of schedule. Crocuses are breaking through and difficult the Early Arrival put them in a precarious situation explains the chief of horticulture at the Horticultural Society of new york. We get a cold freeze and we do drop below 35 again, its going to affect the spring when it does come in may with the production of flowers and fruits. We wouldnt have the normal amount . Absolutely. Not the normal amount thats there. Reporter local farmers like joe, share a similar concern. An early crop could become a weak crop in the event of a frost. Last week you could see the garlic jump three, four inches. All the tree fruit and stone fruit are starting to open up and getting more advanced than they should be. Reporter then the issue of allergies. I get affected by allergies heavily. When i wake up, its rough. Reporter its probably not pollen yet, but experts say you can blame the warm weather for mites, a side effect of warm weather in early march, the spring. The colder and longer the winter, the more eggs are killed off. Because weve had such a mild winter, its going to affect the amount of ticks we see. Reporter despite the potential consequences to a late winterspring, new yorkers are finding plenty to enjoy, like leaving the heavy coats at home. I like warm weather. Super happy. Dari no more getting impossible to read prescriptions from your doctor. Steve how theyre finally going high tech. In new york state, we believe tomorrow starts today. All across the state, the economy is growing, incentives, and the lowest taxes in decades, attracting the talent and companies of tomorrow. Like in buffalo, where the largest solar gigafactory in the western hemisphere will soon energize the world. And in syracuse, where imagination is in production. Let us help grow your companys tomorrow today at business. Ny. Gov i do everything on the internet. But its kind of slow. My friends said i should get fios because its the fastest. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. man were out of 2 . I wonder what else could be better around here . man i heard that. Now get our best offer ever. Super fast 100 meg internet, plus tv phone for just 69. 99 a month online with no annual contract. 100 meg speeds at a price this good . Fios can do that. Cable just cant. Switch to better. Steve breaking news. The family of d. J henry has been awarded 6 million dollars. He was shot and killed back in attending college. The officer was cleared of any wrongdoing, but a 6 million settlement for his family. Dari the former editorinchief of gawker is backing away from comments he made in court. Steve simone boyce here with the explanation. Hulk hogan is suing gawker for publishing a sex tape. Today in court, the founder of gawker and the former editorinchief presented their defense under the protection of the 1st amendment. If you remember, last week, like you said, the former editorinchief published the sex tape featuring hogan, who is using his legal name in court. Last week, he was heard making very callous flippant remarks about child pornography. Sarcastic. He was a bit less sarcastic on the stand when the legal team asked if gawker could have made the same commentary will celebrity sex tapes without showing him in the act . He admitted there was no news value in showing the more explicit stellar material. I was amused by it. Why were you amused . And knew him as this character for most of his life. And this was not a situation i ever expected to watch him in. Reporter the founder of gawker continue to defend their decision to post the sex tape by arguing its protected by free speech. It was viewed several million times. Its an interesting case. Especially as journalists. Now you can get all these videos and information from everywhere. You dont where the source is. Steve its right on the exact center of where do we have sort of a right to see whats going on and when is too much too much and when is there some expectation of privacy, like the whole issue of our times. Reporter exactly. Dari the case is rivoting. Whats voyeurism, whats newsworthy and whats in between. Steve tough to see the answer. And if youre involved its true. Crazy. On the night before a history making game, a basketball player from the bronx had other things i was hoping i could get a ride back to new york after the game. That was my objective. Dari how willie and four other players changed College Basketball. Imagine your body being buried while youre still in it. Imagine the horror. Youd struggle, but struggling only makes it worse. Imagine your whole life reduced to thinking about your next breath. Eventually youd welcome death, but an emphysema sufferer

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