lori? lori: right. that was kind of interesting, right? she didn't sound optimistic about new hampshire. if it does go hillary's way, where does the strategy go from here? >> reporter: super pac supporting hillary announced major push in terms of african-american media, priorities usa announced it is hiring an ad agency specializing in african-american media for the obama campaign during the 2008 and 2012 cycles. the african-american vote is a key constituency for mrs. clinton. clinton did go to flint, michigan for the water crisis there. known for having a large african-american community. on the campaign calendar moves south and west, there will be a more diverse population, but there's also another democratic debate thursday night. if it's a tough night for her tonight, that debate may be more critical than ever. lori? lori: getting started with both parties. mike emanuel, thank you for joining us. appreciate it. >> reporter: thanks so much. lori: in the republican race, donald trump is likely to want to polls but the jury's out who wil

lori: yeah. lemonis: it's time to sit down with the family and discuss the idea of michael having equity in the company. maybe not give him the whole thing, but give him an opportunity to sort of feel like he's getting a seat at the table. i wanted to get all of us together to really talk about michael's progress. not as a son, but as a manager in the business. what i'm proposing is that you're given 5% of the business and that you vest 1% a year based on your performance and, you know, everybody sort of agreeing that things are going the right way. your dad was not in favor of this equity plan. and i wore him down over time only because i do believe that you have worked and have earned something. how do you feel about this proposal? richard: i think it's fair. did he earn it? yes, i think so. lemonis: you want to shake his hand? michael: yeah, absolutely. i own a multi-million-dollar company. lemonis: congratulations, buddy. michael: thank you. lemonis: congratulations. you've earned it. this is

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what's wrong with lori? [ laughter ] >> i was offended because i don't look like that. >> you kind of do. we wanted to try another picture of hoda. >> you know what? first of all, what's with the mohawk? oh, it's also funny. you know what? [ laughter ] >> all right. i'm a poodle. >> a very cute poodle. and here i am. i'm not a highland white terrier. >> that's not fair. let's look at matt lauer, matt lauer would be a german shepherd. >> okay. >> kind of. >> we tried regis and he's a brittany. >> that doesn't look like rej. >> no, no, it doesn't. >> it's fun to look at him again. >> this is an app? >> what was it? >> you want us to do you? >> it will be like the perfect dog. like we want to see that. >> why does my poodle get braided hair? why didn't you just get a regular poodle? >> wouldn't have been as funny. now, they're changing the s.a.t. remember that thing? >> i dreaded the s.a.t.s. >> have you heard about the new version? it starts next month. >> there is no vocabulary that's the big headline. it's d

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try new rhinocort >>> we are back with lori game. lori? >> let it be a good one! >> same as you! >> i suddenly like my breed. >> there you go. >> you ladies ready? >> what are we doing? >> just answer the question. >> get ready! >> tv family trii can't. >> what tv family was based on the cowgills, a family band that gained popularity in the 1960s. >> the partridge family. >> what? [ bell ringing ] >> it's an audio question. name the family comedy that featured the following song as the theme song. love and marriage love and marriage >> yeah. ooh, al bundy, "married with children." >> yes. >> name the show that featured the family with the following three children -- d.j., becky and darlene. >> oh! >> "roseanne"! >> yeah. >> i like it better when i play on tv. >> what you talking about, willis? >> you hit the buzzer. >> name gary coleman's character. his name is willis. the other one. >> hey, willis. arnold! >> oh, you got one. if you can't answer it. >> i didn't know you yelled out a line. it made no sense. >> based in springfield, what is the family featured in the longest sit-c

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-come on, lori! -lori: we're doing it. lemonis: holy... [ laughs ] lori: you want to taste it? i mean, it is just beyond beyond, right? lemonis: so much smoother. this is mine. lori: you got it. lemonis: since i did this deal, mr. green tea has more than doubled their revenue, and they're gonna do about $5 million in sales. but with this factory, it has the capacity to do between $25 million and $30 million worth of sales. i've already given them a huge account to make ice cream for crumbs, and they've added new flavors to the mr. green tea line. and over the next six months, mr. green tea ice cream will be in over 6,000 grocery stores nationwide. what do you guys see as next? richard: we're working with another company. they have food service. business was probably $13 million. and they're very interested in us taking that over. michael: when they contacted us a few weeks ago, her opening line was, "we're done fighting mr. green tea's distribution in new york." and that -- i think that shows, you know, the -- the real -- the real actual labor and work we've put in the distribu

i'm ken rosato >> and i'm lori liar. thanks for starting -- and i'm lori stokes. thanks for starting your it is wednesday, february 24th. you are never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic and meteorologist bill evans. >> well, the temperatures are around 38 and they're chilly and they're going to be building into the afternoon. that's kind of what we were talking about. it's the wind out there for later on today. that's why there's a wind advisory in effect for today right now through the day until 4:00 a.m. tomorrow morning for wind gusts of about 35, 45 miles per hour. winter weather advisory to the north because through sullivan, dutchess, around orange, sullivan counties, sussex county, new jersey, there's some school delays there. and that's for some ice that has still been falling there. and you see on the radar those pink shades, still a little of that, so there's some delays at schools in that area as you see up there above i-84 and along the thruway. big old heavy toad-strangling rain is to our south and west. that comes in this evening

lori and ken, over to you. >> 5:24. still ahead, if diamonds are for ever, there's a big chunk of eternity right there. this giant rock is as big as a credit card. >> wow. remember, you can get the forecast any time right at your fingertips. down load our free accutrack >>> on the money this morning, asian stocks are on the rise. >> finished the trading day higher. hong kong closed up 1% on wall street markets are back open after the president's day holiday. right now, futures are pointing to a higher open. >> a massive diamond recently found is among the largest ever discovered. >> and there's good economic news out of cuba. abc's rena and candace have >> topping america's money. u.s. companies expanding into cuba. >> a green light for the first u.s. factory in cuba. an alabama company will assemble small tractors there. >> and today, we may learn when regular flights will resume between the two countries. the u.s. markets reopen after president's day this morning and optimism. overseas markets were up for a third day.

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i'm lori stokes. >> i'm ken rosato. it's monday, february 29th, the one time in four years that it happens. bill evans with the forecast. >> we will look at a nice start to the day. showers are coming. grab your umbrella. we will have a few showers by lunchtime. temperature 50. a mild morning and mild day. 43 around great neck. 46 belmar. a chilly start to the day. we will look at temperatures warming up. look about 10:00 there is showers through lunchtime then the sun breaks out again this afternoon. the temperature approaches 60 degrees. we will talk about a rainy wednesday in your accuweather forecast coming up. heather o'rourke says the don't go on the parkway local lanes at exit 117. you don't want to go there. you can't because we have an accident being cleared from the spot. new jersey transit, long island railroad, metro north on or close to schedule. three trains track work at 50th street completed. expect residual delays. minor delays george washington bridge, lincoln and holland construction there. on to rout

>> reporter: lori, good morning. when you get on a bus, you expect the driver to be the one to take you from point a to point b safely, but what if the driver is the one who's in danger? then a lot of other people could be at risk. drivers say the attacks need to spark a larger conversation. >> and he just started punching me, punching me, punching me. >> reporter: that violent attack played out on surveillance video earlier this week. take a close look at the video. police are trying to identify this suspect. you can see him attacking mta was on the job in the bronx tuesday. the man boards the about us in the belmont section, has an exchange with the 69-year-old driver then punches him. he gets off then steps inside again to attack him a second time. >> he caught me in my eye and punched me all over. two hands at the same time. i could not move and couldn't fight back. >> reporter: dunwell was alone on his bus during the attack that comes just weeks after another driver was attacked behind the wheel. that attack was

. >>> good morning, i'm lori stokesp. >> i'm ken rosato. today is february 18th. you are never more than seven minutes away. we kick it off with bill evans and the accuweather forecast. >> looking at the 6:00 a.m. temperature, it is 29 degrees. we love it when weather cooperates with the forecast. these numbers are right at our overnight low in the five boroughs. a little chilly today. we're looking at a northwest wind and looking at skies that are partly cloudy to clear. we'll be looking at sunshine today, a lot of it. beautiful sunrise is headed your way just before 7:00. 33 at noontime, 37 later on this afternoon. look at that wind right about 7 to 14 miles per hour. a chilly day tomorrow and we'll weather and traffic together every seven minutes. heather's looking into that commute and got your hands full already. >> mass traffic it is running on or close to schedule including your subway. we have that accident at the sheridan, that crash there. then going to the ed koch to 59th street bridge. on the l.i.e. heading westbound at springfield boulevard, two lanes

ken, lori, over to you. >>> up next, a grisly discovery in a queens park. possible human remains stuffed inside of a bag not far from where children play. >> plus, brig joy i'm neil patrick harris and new york is my home. no place has more world class culture. come winter, i can't wait to visit our must-see collections of art and superb photography and film. new york has beautifully restored theaters, that are now important centers for the performing arts. and museums that preserve the glories of the past. winter in new york state means more great things to do than ever. plan your trip at iloveny.com >>> it's 5:12. in queens, in a small park workers discovered what may have been human bones, including a skull. detectives are focusing on peters field. the park sits at liberty avenue and 183rd place in hollis. neighbors say they heard workers screaming after finding the items next to a tree. medical examiners office says they under the initial stages of determining exactly what was recovered. >> we've got a lo

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lori, over to you. >>> it's 5:02. in the last 10 minutes, police released new information as they close in on the suspect in the slashing attack inside of a popular greenwich village restaurant. it left a bus boy with 120 stitches to his face. 25-year-old is recovering at dray clark is live in greenwich village with the new pictures that police want to you see. dray? >> reporter: bobby barbeau is the waiter that was attacked here on wednesday night. he does have a very extensive injury that required more than 100 stitches. meanwhile this image just in to the newsroom showing a group of teenagers, two girls and one boy, that police believe, were along with that 15-year-old suspect they are looking for. coincidentally, police say this particular group here was aggressive with another individual in the minutes before the slashing happened on wednesday night. so police are looking for these individuals featured here in hopes of finding the 15-year- the face. meanwhile, bobby is so disfigured, he does not want to show his

>>reporter: good morning, lori. this is one of the areas mayor de blasio visited earlier this morning, west 31st street near sixth avenue, a known homeless hot spot. right now behind me about a dozen people sleeping on the sidewalk. they were among those who were counted as part of the initiative overnight. here is a picture of mayor de blasio talking to one of the homeless individuals he encountered here on west 31st street. the mayor was among some 3,500 individuals who spread out across the city overnight, counting the number of unsheltered homeless people living in the city. last year the count was 3,182, be higher this year. >> it's very sad, and it's painful to see people's lives have broken down, and, you know, there but for the grace of god go i. i think we all have to feel that way, that these are people who at some point in their life, maybe not that long ago, had a home, had a more normal situation, and something went wrong. >> it is a sad reality, and we need to be looking at this in a humane way. we hav

ken, lori, back to you. >> rob, thank you. news chopper 7 has just arrived over the rescue scene. >> john? >> reporter: ken, it looks like this is the last crew member being plucked off of the carolina queen. this is beached only 50 yards off shore. you can see the coast guard crew member placing it into a stokes basket. we've seen this where the raised all the way up into the coast guard helicopter overing above. they've been able to make a quick evacuation because instead of bringing it into the helicopter, you can see the helicopter swinging about 50 yards to the beach into the waiting arms of local coast guard and fire department. they'll make one more trip and again the coast guard member safe. john del giorno, channel 7 "eyewitness news." >> thank you so much. >>> let's talk about mass transit. >> we've had a couple of issues this morning. long island railroad was anticipating delays and cancellations. i did not see anything major but something to think about. new jersey transit is closed metro-north. a train, 2 train, b

lori knows. lori knows. >>> it is 4:55 and you're never more than seven minutes away from weather and traffic. it's an accuweather alert day. bill evans will tell you all about it. >> we've got showers that are working their way up from southwest jersey, around trenton, through the philly area, right here through sussex county. you see in some spots the little pink shades. that's areas where we're seeing, you know, a little bit of ice, a little bit of freezing rain here along 84 here and up the thruway. so that's something to keep in mind here. the bigger rain, the heavier rain is coming later today from the southwest. weather and traffic together every seven minutes. what's going on, heather? >>reporter: well, a couple of minutes ago, literally a couple of minutes ago there was a truck sitting right here with its flashers on. it looks like they've cleared that construction on the fdr drive, it was the wunlds down to the 90s this. 70s down into the 60s. that's some good news for us. then we can t