bill: second day in a row, beautiful weather in new york/new jersey area, we're enjoying it, but today, you might need to break out winter coat and scarves this week. and are queen students at a local school in a danger. wait until you see the lines down around the school. >> about 50 feet from the school, more telephone cable. >> president trump meets with parents and kids and teachers who have been victims of gun violence. >> this is my daughter i'm not going to see again, she's not here. >> a week after the deadly and horrific shooting at a school in florida.

>> i know if you are a commuter across east river, you are dreading closing o of the l -train, but a pontoon bridge, i love it, i am bill spadea, this is "chasing news." >> how dangerous is this, utility line down around a local school, and other locations, are you are abouted about your kids? the question, who is responsible? nate with the story. reporter: behind me school 123 in queens, about 20 feet from school. appears to be an abandoned telephone cable still connected to the utility pole, 50 feet from the school, more telephone cable this time looped around, still connected to the pole. this is within arm's reach, the

issue of low hanging cables is widespread, and seen. it is what residents and utility workers call dangerous. >> my fear is that one of the kids pull it down, or you know you could just trip and fall. in the inclement weather. >> how long have you seen this. >> they have been here since i moved in about a year. reporter: within arm's reach. >> yes, i duck to get underneath them. reporter: yesterday we called city coi councilmember council e issue, they came and clipped some some if kids yanked on them. >> not a good thing. >> any line you see down, if you can tell your child, just it could be a wide wire. reporter: hugh does this happen? -- how does this happen? who is responsible. >> cable company, will put new

cable but they don't remove the old one, you have a lot of abandoned lines that have been there for years. a large truck will snag them. >> i think the city or city council or mayor office. reporter: city said it is almost never a quick fix, went on they are not fid they have to investigate who figure out who the service provider is, con ed will secure the lines but it is up to the service provider to resolve the situation. nate rogers for "chasing news." bill: we have a chasing alert for you, today, president trump gathered with victims of school shootings, parents, teachers and kids at white house to hear their stories and listen to their plea to make our schools safe, one father in particular. andrew, really changed the tone and course of the entire gathering when he gave an

empassioned plea for pole tigs politicians and country to come together, his daughter meadow was killed last week in parkland. reporter: president trump and vice president pence listened to students, parents and teachers wednesday in the wake of last week's school shooting in florida, pen said to share their stories because america is watching. and andrew pol pollack whose daughter meadow was among the victims, told the crowd his daughter was shot 9 times, we failed our children. >> 9/11 happened once, they fixed everything. how many schools, how many children have to get shot. reporter: he pleaded with everything to come together as a country and figure out how to protect schools, and asked this everyone work with the president to find a solution.

>> i am pissed, my daughter, i'm not going to see again, she is not here, she is not here. she is king david cemetery, that is where i go to see my kid now. reporter: fro president tweeteds support for stronger background checks and announced he ordered attorney general jeffin sessions to regulate bevices like bump stocks. bill: governor murphy over a month in offers, he is working hard -- office, signing his first bill into law increasing spending, ashley johnson. reporter: a huge victory in new jersey, governor murphy signed two bills at the war memorial on wednesday, adding more than 7 million more in funding to women's health centers, and allowing more women to get

family planning services under medicaid, democrats have been trying to acome plish thi -- accomplish this after chris christie put a stop to it in 2010. >> in years since planned parenthood was defunded here in new jersey, 6 women's health centers closed. and they lost access to quality affordable healthcare, rates of sexually transmitted diseased increased, and rays o of cervicl kafcancer and breast cancer increased. reporter: never mentioned word abortion. they believe that taxpayers will be funding. >> taxpayer dollars have been funding abortions for a long time. but now you have phil murphy, saying, i can get more campaign

donations, i can win votes. by giving them planned parenthood. reporter: state senator weinberg said it has not been about abortion but more access to birth control and prevents unwanteunwant pregnancy. >> thank you ashley. bill: i am joined by congressman john mccarther, and chief of staff with us, and serena. and lawyer and democratic strategist big caruso. what does this have to do with women's health? wouldn't you think there would be a proposal from planned parenthood to how they would spend the money. >> a blank check, there is no plan, no budget put forward, my colleagues in the assembly and

senate, asked every time he met with him, show me where have you a deficit, where people are not getting health care. and what we have actually found is that uptick in county those 6 clinics were closed, federal clinics had an uptick and more women were seen during that time. >> this money does not just go to planned parenthood, they're a recipient. this money was cut for political reasons, a lot of ways it is being restored for political reason, this should not be a political fight. >> my concern is that we're rewarding planned parenthood this is a political game here. i think new jersey got bigger fish to fry than rewarding political favors of governor murphy. bill: i would like to see at least some republicans voting no. >> new jersey transit continues to make headlines, and not in a good way,s i nhtsa said, a big

problem was -- engineers are being scapegoated pause we're hear about trains riddle are electrical problem, fire hazard and prea brake problem, mark wie story. reporter: nj transit, according to a press report of, has indicated there are wires, faulty brakes, and bathroom doors held closed by duct tape . and increase oversight, ng transit must act now. in a op-ed senator called for a reform indicated how new jersey transit was once one of the best in nation, new one of the worst. >> it is like what happens to your car or home, if you don't make repair, at some point

everything falls apart. unfortunately that is where we are, my hope that murphy administration will get us where we want to be. bill: but where was he on $165 million they allocated, how much fixed the safety problem that 95,000 give or take commuters that head to manhattan every day, they have known about these problems for years. >> senator is pointing to, 300,000 commuters, 100 thousand go to new york, gateway tunnel, a fundamental tunnel that must be put in place otherwise there will be increase transit problem never did get funded. bill: all right. thank you. >> bringing back the panel, almost 100,000 people every day, using the nj transit trains, to get in and out of manhattan, with all hazards, what do you do? >> we need new infrastructure.

i don't know if you can repair it at-this-point or if you have to start over, we lost a ton of train cars because of malfeesence of some replated to sandy effort, and we have -- >> you can blame governor christy that fine. >> it is is everyone's false, every citizen owns this commuters have known this our transit system is awful. bill: you are in the assembly now, what we heard is that plan is add more cars, if the brakes don't work and there are fire hazards. >> that is not the best idea, you would then put more people in jeopardy work have to stop spending money where we don't need to and understand what we need to pay for. the fact that we authorize $165 million in other infrastructure that did not go to nj transit is mind boggling to me.

bill: governor seems bent on fighting with donald trump instead of addressing the local issues. >> tom is type of person that wants to bring democrat and republicans to a room and talk about solutions. governor murphy still running the campaign, he does not top govern -- does not' to govern, he wants to keep lawsuit against president. bill: president of u.s. talk about a trillion in infrastructure spending, how do get a little bit done? >> do you privatize it. >> look at federal budget, state budget, they are an outline of your priority, find a way to fund it. there is waste in the budgets, they are fighting a good fight. bill: quick. it works in hong kong and tokyo. >> it is something we have to look 62. >> we should explore them, but you have to have everything to the table. bill: don't go, we have a lot more "chasing news" coming up, there is a solution being

proposed for closing the l -train for 14 months, yep, how about a pontoon bridge. >> and a lawsuit involving the decision for a local town for not allowing commuter to take a shortcut through their town. >> we have one more day of heat, but cold weather is coming stay with me.

bill: welcome back to "chasing news," i am bill spadea, we have more show, including's solution to the l -train closing for 15 months, how about this, a pontoon bridge. >> and a lawsuit to town of leona for stopping local commuters from getting to george washington bridge. but first, day two, this great spring weather. dan? tell us good news. >> oh, boy, changes in the air, we close out warmest stretch of weather that we've seen since early november. by tomorrow it will feel like february. cold front is right now pushing through the area, that will deliver cooler and dryer air, even by time you wake up thursday morning, with that, front will come clouds and showers. this is the slow process.

not a big time arctic blast that will knock you off your feet, we're just getting back to normal. overnight tonight fall in to the 40s, and temperatures tumbling thursday, end up close to 40 by dinnertime. that is chilly, we'll see mostly cloudy skies, scattered on and off rain showers as well. keep a shower in forecast, for friday, with mostly cloudy skies, i think the dryer day, and likely feeling like february with highs in low to mid 40s, but the final weekend of february, we have another warm up. we could hit 60 for saturday and sunday. i am meteorologist dan zarrow. bill: just whether commuting in and out of manhattan you thought could not get worse, the l-train is about to close for 15 months for repairs. we have the detail, john. reporter: maybe new yorker one

day will tell their bosses sorry i am late i got stuck to the pontoon, this idea borne out of nightmare come us for ltrain riders, the alternative bridge, it is being loaded to help the 200,000 people who commute between brooklyn and manhattan every day. here is what happening, shutting down tunnel that connects bury s in -- boroughs in april. they have exploring transit options like rerouting other subway lines, and adds buts and hovlanes. a kickstarter is trying to gather support for a pontoon, a bloafloating bring, a $1 toll wl cover the cost no word from the

mta or coast guard, one thing that is happening, affects on band c line, 3 subway stations, one in washington heights will close in coming weeks for repair. station are wouldn't 110, 86, >> and protection will take about 5 months. all part of the effort to get aging subway system to speed, new president of the transit has choice words at a board meeting evidence. >>est de to today is typical of this, performance is nowhere near good enough. >> delays are on the rise. no surprise. there is work to be done. bill: thank you, john. until this moment, i did not realize it was an option, i love it. bring in the panel breaking it

down. congressman tom mccartherty of of staff, frank luna. and new jersey assembly woman, serena demasso, and lawyer and democratic strategist bill caruso. >> i love it, it can be done cheaper and faster than building a new tunnel. bill: why are we not thinking about this for hudson river. >> we should celebrate great ideas, and great thinkers, this is good stuff, then chatters class that wants to poke holes that is good. what happens when it freezes? how will cars be able to navigate, will i get seasick driving to work, i like the fact that people are coming out with new ideas. >> perhaps hand out dramamine. >> absolutely, you know there are issues to work out, i like that idea, i think it is great, if it a way to solve the issue.

>> you -- you are here representing chief of staff of congressman mcalter why not talk about it at the level. >> as a south jersey guy myself, who zipped around the bay on plenty of pontoon, let's do it. bill: luny pontoony could be there on the side a vendor. >> like a rest stop. >> the might i pontoon bridge. >> than thank you,. bill: for a couple weeks we've been talking about commuters trying to get through leona, and now, saying not so fast. we don't care what the app on your phone says, you are not taking a shortcut through our

town to get to george washington bridge. it was on our show we discusses a lawsuit could be coming this is here. jackson lynn rosa a -- jacquelin rosa, a commuter and a lawyer suing town, you believe you have a right to drive on any public road, i, agree, but town said they will change signage from do not enter, to, some times on it. is that convince you to drop the suit? >> no, it is still discriminates between residents and nonresidents. >> how long have you been doing this commute? did it start with waze? >> no, someone who lives locally around edge water, i live a few towns, probably a mile and a half from leona, i have been

using leonia to get home for probably two years, and before that another neighbors town. bill: how did this start? you got a ticket for driving in morning. >> no, i was just driving my regular route, the sign was up, i could not go through, i had to backtrack to traffic. to the bridge. get off. >> this is not civil disobeyed yen, you followed rules, but you still' them changed. >> right. bill: got it. all right good luck jook lynn. . bill: thank you. bill: coming up after the break, more chasing news, woo your headlines, this one, get ripped off getting towed? law enforcement takes down an illegal towing monopoly. stay

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