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Department mourning the death ofs two of its own. hundreds expected to attend a public funeral service for 22-year-old jason rivera today. rivera and his partner, 27-year-old wilber mora, both were shot while responding to a domestic disturbance call in manhattan last week. the suspect in that case also was shot by a third officer and later died from his injuries. joining us now out site st. patrick's cathedral in new york city where today's funeral will be held, nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. what is it looking like today? >> reporter: willie, for those who know manhattan here, sever...

I mean now is the time for merrick garland to step up and to look at what is going on in the southern district of new york. these are not prosecutors. these are people who only care about conviction rates and they do not care about law, they don't care about justice, and it is why as the judge wrote in 2014, why innocent people plead guilty. >> you know, michael, there are people who are familiar with the matter who are telling the "wall street journal" now manhattan prosecutors, they are moving to advance their criminal investigation into donald trump's business affairs and they add that the ...

Polo, it's 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, there's no way of telling if that's 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 it's like for many of the people who are here in manhattan today, having to experience, having to put up with the heat. of course we all know ma...

Avignon. >> rather than being in a landscape where the pope could actually act as an independent power and make alliances with anyone that he chose, he was now firmly entrenched in one country, clearly under the control of one king. that was what warped the papacy. it is a little bit as though wash d.c. suddenly upped and said, well, now manhattan is going to be the capital of the entire united states. >> for the first time since the invention of the conclave, the one with true power over the church is not the one chosen by god -- but a power-hungry monarch instead. >> it is the dream of all o...

But this is what law enforcement is hearing. and what struck me was when this source told me where the vehicle, where this pickup truck appeared to have gone on to the bike path and how far down it went. that is quite a stretch for anyone who knows new york city. to go from houston street almost to chambers street. >> for those who don't know manhattan, it is in the southern part of manhattan. it runs roughly east to west. and you're saying it went all the way on the bike path all the way to chambers. >> that's what witnesses are telling police. along that path, there were various injured peop...