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brothers in limbo. the waves of children illegally entering america, and the story of two boys facing a special fate on the border. food for thought. he's an influential chef. why is his restaurant about to close? he joins us live. >> we begin in washington to begin with a new warning. the use of drones could lead to a perpetual state of war. it comes from a study of military intelligence. lisa stark has more. >> the new reward says drone strikes such as this may be doing more harm than good. the report from the stim son center questions whether the drone strikes are reducing terrorism and making the u.s.

safer. the existence of this technology enables and creates a temptation to use the whack-them-up approach to terrorism, where you feel you can kill your way out of a complex problem, one bad guy at a time. >> reporter: rosa was the co-author of the report, saying the drones could be a successful tool for groups that want to attack the u.s. >> anyone that you kill. if they are a bad guys, they have friends, family members, neighbours. if you do kill civilians, all the more so. >> ner key concern, the secrecy surrounding the programme, making it difficult to judge whether the strikes are legal. the reports say the united states should not conduct a long-term killing programme

based on secret ragsals. >> we don't say how many strikes we carried out, who they have been against, their location. number recently the administration said we could neither confirm nor deny the existence of the programme. you have what amounts to a 13-year long secret war, which killed an estimated 3,000 to 4,000 people. the obama has been grappling with the issue, the president in a season last year and last month promised new guidelines and transparency in the programme. >> i believe we must be more transparent about the basis of our counterterrorism actions and the manner in which they are carried out. >> in a statement a white house spokesman said the administration would review the new report, and reported out the president emphasised the quote

extraordinary clair. saying:. >> the white house says it is confident it can be more open, and still retain the ability to continue the drone strikes. startling numbers, this year more than 50,000 children crossed the border into the united states alone. leaving behind families in mexico and central america. the question - why the exodus. for answers our series takes us to honduras where paul beban is. >> we are in the second largest city of honduras, the industrial country racked by drug-fuelled gang violence. that is the backstop at which the exodus was played out. thousands of unaccompanied

teenagers, children and families. it's where we are picking up the thread of a story of a young man we have been followed. his name is axil fernandes. >> reporter: in the stands of a soccer field alex fernandes told me how much he misses his little brother axel. >> translation: we were always together, him and me, it was like a connection between two brothers. i tried to take care of him. i didn't think he had it in him to leave. now i'm basically alone. >> reporter: this spring 15-year-old axel headed north. i met him in april when they travelled 2,000 miles. after a failed attempt to cross the desert he surrendered to the u.s. border patrol and was allowed to join his father in houston, where he's been living undocumented. axel's case is in u.s.

immigration court. at home, alex told me he studies hard and keeps his head down. the bad guys had his eye on his popular and outgoing younger brother. afraid of being forced to join a gang, he decided to leave. >> translation: alex was getting to the age where he'd have problems with delinquenis and gangs. they forced him to go to the u.s. >> st. pad roe is called the murder capital. the deadliest city on earth in a country not formally at war. we were told without a military escorted we'd be killed or kidnapped if we went near amex or axel's home. it's in the part of found in the grip of the gangs. >> this is a typical neighbourhood, a place where axel and his brothers and sisters grew up. we'll not take you there, because being here with police

attention would draw tanks. the people pay extortion, communities pay extortion. you are either in with the gangs or you are out. axel decided to get out. many who don't get out end up in a place like this - juvenile prison. most of these kids are gang members. this prison social worker says they face a grim future. >> what option do kids this age have? is it the gangs or head north? >> the sad reality is the day they age out and step out of the door of the facility, they'll find the same situation that put them here in the first place. >> they threw a grenade in here. >> inside is just assist dangerous. a few weeks ago five kids were killed in a gang clash. in a town square not far from her home, alex and axel's mother dora agreed to meet me. even here she was wary of being overheard talking about the gangs and her sons.

>> i have to be cautious to say what i'm about to say. there are some things you are not supposed to say here. you join or you are killed. boys as young as 12, 15, had to leave. leaving seems to be the only solution. >> axel is in the u.s. he may have to come home. he may be deported. what will happen to him if he has to come home? >> if he ended up back here and didn't go back to the states quickly, they'd kill him. that is what would happen. john, you can see the emotion in his mother and brother's voice. they are heart broken that he is born. if he is deported they did tell him to try to go back to the u.s., that he would not be safe here, back at home. >> can you talk about the role of drug cartels in the exodus of

these children. >> what we heard here is the drug cartels have taken up human travelling and the job of the coyotes. they move drugs northwards, and they may be propagating the rumour that we have heard so much about of permits given to parents travelling with children or children travelling alone. that may be fuelling the surge. this part of the world to the u.s. border. we'll look at the permits and the users. the next report from honduras. now, rising rivers are leaving officials on high alert. from minnesota, iowa. heavy rains caused flooding. residents in the area are bracing for more storms, tracking it all. this is a problem that will not go away.

we are talking about the rain seen in iowa, wisconsin, offer the last week. we have seen major flooding here. look at some video from st. paul, you can see in the city we are looking at river levels that have been very close to major river levels. we think the search, the major cresting happened this afternoon. unfortunately, we have more rain in the forecast. come back to the weather wall. you can see we are looking at the rain out here to the west. we'll watch that carefully. what will happen is we've had flood watches and warnings. these have been here for a week. more flood warnings there. over the next day, we have more rain coming in. where you see the red is thunder storms, and the green is heavily rain. this is friday, this is saturday. we are looking at more rain across the region, the ground is satturiated.

it has no pleas to go. it will be until mid july until most of the water reseeds and gives people a break across the region. >> thank you very much. the u.s. supreme court is dealt a blow. the justice obama made appointments without the senate consent consent. >> it's a tool in the constitution. now members come back and forth on a weekly basis, but still in the modern era, republicans and democrats. the supreme court restricted the president from using the power to get around partisan cid lock. >> the question is is this a senate session. >> once every three days when

most senators are out of town, the senate meets pro forma. they say they are working and block the president. this pro forma session lasted exactly 29 seconds. >> the senate is adjourned until nond, 24th, 2014. >> president obama ignored the sessions. with isn't at -- senate confirmation blocked. he made several appointments. when a decision by the board went against a soft drink company, the company went to court. disputing the ruling as invalid. because it was made by resource appointees. justice steven briar red his majority opinion from the bench. the senate was in session. the president made recess appointments before us, too short to count as recess.

for that reason the appointments are invalid. >> the republican leader welcomed the ruling. >> the supreme court rejected the president's unprecedented association of a unilateral appointment power. >> none of it matters say democrats, who last year changed the rules by a simple majority of 50, instead of a fila buster. more than iing it underscores the importance of reforms enacted last november. >> the recess appointment is written into the constitution. recess appointments can go forward if the senate is in recess. >> coming up later this hour, the other big decision from the supreme court, putting an end to protest buffer zones around abortion clinition. when a doctor travels across state lines - what they say about the ruling.

>> a security sweep at the rikers island gaol uncovered drugs and weapons, and led to the arrest of two correction officers, and more than 20 inmates. the investigation was part of a crackdown on wrong doing after the deaths of several prisoners and reports of corruption. joining us now is former new york city police commissioner bernard cary, and he spent two years in charge of rikers as the correction commissioner. later he served three years in prison and lying to white house officials. welcome. >> let me start with the investigation. how do you go about investigating rikers. >> the first thing that happened is you have some intelligence that comes to light about something that's going on there. in all probability, inmates turned in information to the inspector general's office, and the department of investigation, and the investigation begins

from there. >> you put someone in undercover, is that what happens. >> no, it's dangerous to put an undercover inside. you have plenty of inmates that are trying to get out, and will use an officer, something they do wrong. to help them get out if possible. the information will some. >> you've been critical of what has been going on at rikers. what will you do first to solve the problems. >> i think there's systematic problems over the last several years that had a lot to do with accountability and leadership, with holding the inmates accountable for their actions. in this case there's two arrests of staff, and the one thing i want to make clear, you can't broadbrush the department. the staff. there are 10,000 or more correctal officers.

two arrests. you can't broadbrush the department. this is a problem. yes. it's not a systematic problem. >> the violence by the inmates. and the thinks in the agency. they are systematic problems. >> what do you say to people who say prison is a tough place. you have inmates that hurt other people in the facility, what do you say to that. it's human nature, it will happen. at the end of the day if there's accountability of staff and inmates, you can address those things. i reduce inmate on inmate violence by 93%. first of all... you got tough. >> holding the inmates bility ability. historically, i remember one of my first major incidents. two men held another down on the floor, young men, and carved ls,

latin king in his back with a chicken bone. 100 or something stitches. they were not prosecuted. these men. those types of event weren't prosecuted. you can't let the inmate population run the asylum. they have to be accountable. >> you say there are a lot of great correction officers, and i know there are. >> this is - i'm not blowing smoke. the new york city has some. best. >> how do you keep the ones that are bad out. >> it's done through intelligence, by staff turning them in to the inspector-general. >> the fellow correction officers. >> that's a tough thing. the cops turning on each other. >> the problem is inside. those cos, if they are doing what is said to be done. they put every correction officer in danger. if they bring in weapons, if

they bring in contraband, they are putting their own colleagues in danger, as well as the other inmates. >> based on what you are reading and seeing, how dangerous is rikers? >> it's pretty bad. that's why i'm talking about it. the violence increased. almost doubled. with the period, the last six month, nine months. they had 10,000 less prisonersed to than i did. their violence is out of control. >> how is that possible? >> it's possible because people aren't doing their job. and i blame the leadership. now they have a new correction minister. hopefully he'll address it. >> how long does it take - how long did it take for you to turn things around? >> we first saw major shifts in violence reduction probably within 4-6 months. megasearches, searches on top of searches, addressing the emergency service capability.

holding inmates accountable for their actions, stopping weapons coming into the facilities, there's a lot of work to do and a lot of stuff i was going is no longer down. they have to come back into play. >> is this a first step, do you think? >> i would believe so. the reason i believe so is because those inmates, and those officers are going to talk. nobody is going to prison for somebody else. they are going to talk and tell what came in, how it came in. who gave it to them. so forth and so on. so i could see the investigation ongoing. >> we should learn more in the future. good to see you. now, former senator howard baker tennessee decide. the senate majority leader and chief of staff to ronald reagan was 88 years old. he cochaired the watergate committee and called it the greatest disillusionment.

he famously asked what did the president know and when did he know it. coming up, winning by losing. team u.s.a. advances in the one. america celebrates. plus, it's not easy being green. a look at tax dollars coming in from legalized marijuana in colorado.

. >> president barack obama is making his biggest move yet to deal with the syrian conflict, asking congress to deal with $500 million to equip opposition fighters. the money is to protect civilians, and stablilize areas under opposition control. some law-makers say the aid could fall into the wrong hands in the war torn country. the u.s. warned iran and syria to stay out of the fight in iraq. secretary of state john kerry said the answer is not outside intervention, but a more inclusive iraqi government. sunni fighters are not stopping. they made it to the edge of baghdad. people inside the city are nervous. we have this report.

>> reporter: around baghdad there's a looming threat. in the city it's almost an ordinary evening. there are fewer visitors at baghdad's biggest shruin, but the -- shrine, but the square is full of iraqis. here it's part religious fervor and part celebration. these days, a call to arms. sons of ali, they are shouting, a rallying call in shia islam. where is the i.s.i.l.? they are nothing. >> translation: the ruling from ayatollah ali al-sistani we will send 20,000, if 100 are killed, well send a million. >> reporter: this man thought they say family was safe, but

kurdish sources got drawn into the fight. >> we sacrifice everything for our country, even ourselves. now the man, the young people. they are seep in the villages. it depends on the families. >> a lot of the families here have nowhere to go. >> the borders, the oil refineries, the army bases, they are all of strategic importance. but the prize is baghdad. no more more so than here. this is the shrine. it's one of the holiest sites in the world for shiaest lamb. people are willing to fight and die for it. >> in baghdad tens of thousands of young men should join a new version of the mack di army. the group that fought the u.s. in 2004. >> we are passing through the current situation because of the betrayal of politicians and commanders. what is happening to our county,

especially in mosul made us realise we are capable of handling the responsibility. >> bus companies crowded with iraqis say it's more difficult to leave the country. >> translation: there are only a few people travelling to georgia, and no one is coming back. the traffic has almost stopped. >> there has been a flood of iraqis were baghdad sense 2003. this time with threats outside and inside the city, there are fewer and fewer places left to go. >> now to israel. the country identified two suspects in connection with three missing teens. they are said to be hamas operatives. israeli and palestinian officials say a manhunt is underway, following an intense search for the boys missing on

june 12th. the disappearance prompted israel to launch a massive sweep. at the world cup team u.s.a. is growing strong. that's despite losing to germany. the team vapsed. that had many celebrating, including president obama. [ chants ] . >> u.s.a. always brings it, i was sure they were going to, tonight was a great game. i was so positive on the outcome. >> i have to begin by congratulating our u.s. soccer team. team u.s.a. for advancing to the next round of the world cup. >> the president made the comments during a speech in minnesota. >> large crowds turned up to watch in bars. u.s. faces belgium next tuesday. also today a stiff penalty for one of the best soccer players.

luis suarez was suspended for nine games for biting a player on tuesday. luis suarez will miss the rest of the world cup, and is barred from soccer related activities for four months and fined $112,000. new revelations about the missing malaysia airlines flight, 239 passengers and crew most likely died from suf kags and went down into the o on autopilot. this is according to a newly released report by the australian transport safety board. investigators doxed the theory, comparing the flight to other disasters. it does not include new evidence, but narrows down where the plane may have gone down. australian officials are shifting the search further south into the indian o. o coming up the supreme court

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this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler. coming up, crash crop. not as much cash as expected. why marijuana tax dollars in colorado are just not adding up. back from the brink, the historic city of nashville making a big comeback. last supper, why a famous chef is forced to close his restaurant. the supreme court handed a victory to anti-abortion protests. the justices ruled that a massachusetts law setting a 35 foot buffer zone around abortion clinics violates rites.

providers condemn the decision arguing the buffer protected patients and employees. the law was passed after several acts of violence at a clinic in the state. dr willie parker is an o.b.g.y.n. who travels from chicago to mississippi to provide abortions. the only clinic that performs abortions. he joins us to tell us what the rule means to him and clinic across the country. good to have you on the programme. >> thanks for having me. >> what did you think of the supreme court ruling? >> i was disappointed to know na the first amendments rights of american citizens takes precedence over the safety of a private health decision of health care workers that provide that to them. what about the privacy rites of the people walking into your

clinic. do you feel that those are ignored. >> i do. the idea of wet aspects of privacy we are willing to compromise. it says to me in all the ways that matter, women - cost of the living relegated. >> you are afraid for your life. i don't wake um thinking this may be my last day. i'm energised by the fact that it would provide much-needed services. i choose to focus on the tremendous public service that i agreed to provide. >> will this change the way you do things, this lack of a buffer zone. and what is it like at your clinic? >> in the places that i work, specifically in mississippi, there is no buffer zone. so the only barier we have between what happens,

protesters. are the physical parameters around the property lines, i mow first hand what it feels like to have someone in your face yelling and with all due report to the plaintiff, in the supreme court case, who celebrates the fact that she can have a peaceful conversation in the public sphere, the conversation i have had with everything. so when you're threatened in some way, or screamed at on the street, when you go into the clinic, if that happiness, how do you deal with to do you try to get the police involved. >> we have a relationship with lawen forcement. you certainly are response i. they monitor planned activities by protestors. the anticipation of a large swell - they are present.

but buffer zones help to manage things like that. where you have people chaining themselves toot. and using the first amendment right.. >> so you are the only provider of these services right now. >> i'm one of two doctors. why is it that that has happened now. that you are only one of two doctors, and what is the future of abortion services for people in this country, do you believe. >> well, the steady and progressive gutting provisions grow by allowing laws to be enacted at the state level that make for all practical purposes abortion illegal. when it's unaccessible, it's a trend that represents a shift in strategy. it both ominously for abortion rights in general in this

country because today's setback notwithstanding, people who oppose abortion for ideological reasons are more and more empowered to carry out the vendetta. >> you brushed off the question of safety in some ways, and say you choose to think about it, and i get that entirely. what is your family saying, and i am sure you have to know terrible storeys of doctors that have been hurt or killed. how do you deal with that? >> i'm aware. it would be naive to say that what today's decision represents is on empowerment of people that feel to extremely about the health care, that they might choose to harm me. i tend to look at it. i'm not a dare devil or tlil seeker. i cues commonsense.

i'm in touch with law enforcement and choose too look at it like anyone that is worthwhile. if they thought about being seriously injured in the course of doing what they do. in that aim record, i think the work is honourable and needed and necessary. i choose to respond to real threats which have been none, versus participation ones. >> good to see you doctor. thank you for sharing your story. >> in chicago, a tough blow to the education system. close to 1200 teachers and staff members were laid off of the the cuts are because of declining enrol. and closing an is billion deficit. the move desproportionately hits minority areas. the school says the teachers can reapply for vacancies.

the growing problem of drug use, electronic dance music concerts is in the spot. 36 people tape to the hospital in boston, during a concert by vj the the witnesses say the crowd got out of control, the heavy use of the drug m.d.m. a or molly. boston police have yet to say m.d.m. a was the cause. and a report from the c.b.c. backs a warning about alcohol use in america. one in 10 deaths among adults is due to excessive drinking, mainly effects from long-term drinking, such as breast cancer, liver disease and heart disease, alcohol poisoning and car crashings. supporters of legalized marijuana promised big tax revenues. six months after the drug was legal the predictions may be goings up in smoke. jim huli has more. >> reporter: at the cabinets

business summit in -- cannabis business summit you'll find new ways to get high and make money. >> we licence the problem for a bear proof bag. whoo. >> that, ai can smell. >> people are here taking in the showcase for the budding marijuana industry. >> 50% of our sales... >> tim opened the stores to his shop on january the 1st. >> we had a 3-hour wait. >> 7 months later business slowed. and so has the tax revenue coming into the state. prior to approving pot in 2012, voters in colorado were sold they'd see plenty of green. the state estimated taxes would bring in 67 million this the first year. in march it was dropped to 54 million. now it's over 30 million, less

than half the oerl forecast. >> when people made the projections, they had to make a dozen assumptions as to what is the price of marijuana going to be, and the supply. medical marijuana is taxed below retail pot. 2.9% compared to 28%. 1,013 people have medical marijuana cards. >> diane col son is with a group that fought it. >> we were promised that it would be regulated. it would be a boom revenue wise and it would be get out of the hands of our kids. $40 million was to go to schools much opponents wonder if they'll hit that mark. advocates hold out colorado as a business model. >> there's probably about 800 people at this conference that would tell you they are coming to colorado, because they want

to be a part of history. >> reporter: a history that may change after state economists take a full assessment after a year's worth of numbers, and see how green the industry really is. when a tornado ripped through a nashville neighbourhood 16 years ago it changed the course of a community, suffered from an economic downturn already. they banned together to reclaim a dream. in the process an historic district on the edge of extinction has been revitalized. mary snow has the story. >> it's a tourist mecca, the moment to country music and a steamy prime time series bearing its name. >> nashville is booming. >> reporter: this year it ranks among the top 10 cities for jobs. while the big employers get the head lines, across the river a

small business boom is under way. >> i moved from atlanta. east-national was a good community to open up and be involved with. >> once a shaby district, today east nashville is the place to be for hip restaurants and night life. the turn around started in 1998 when an f3 tornado ripped through the neighbourhood, demolishing homes and businesses. >> a lot of investment came in, money through insurance, and city awareness. >> opened in 2001, brett and meg's art gallery was the first -- among the first businesses to draw business back. >> on the first night, about 1,000 came on the first night. >> they have launched a projected designed to help other small businesses. >> steps from their gallery is a collection of store fronts offering renewable leases.

at $525 a month. rents are a bargain. >> i've been able to give legitimacy to the brand and company. >> they have nurtured 15 businesses since they launched in 2011. those that left moved to bigger places. there's a line of mum and pops. that waiting list caught the eye of nashville property developers, mark and patty. after talking with brett. he had a waiting list. his or smaller units, said "let's go to the next size up." so they can go from brett's to ours and mo to the rest of the world. >> blocks from the hatchery, it was home to 20 microbusinesses. the sanders put their success rate at 20%. >> it was successful from a husband and wife shop. they had to do everything

themselves. it was exhausting, a lot of rewords. >> for the sanders and the mcfaddions, the rewards are clear. in the end. small businesses, the neighbourhood and people coming together is what makes a country work. >> singer phil collins has a large collection of alimo ard fact. he donated those back to the historic site. the british crammy leader said he fell in love whilst on a stour in 1973. the former lead singer of genesis wrote a back about the infamous battle. london bridges linked the city for 2,000 years. the new exhibition shows off art in spired by jessica bald win, has a look. >> tower bridge, westminster bridge, albert brim, waterloo bridge. the bridges are the heart of the city. artists have been inspired by

them for more than 300 years. beating the bridges, the drummer tests the reverberations from the leafy suburbs in the west, to the industrial east. it's just one of a number of works on show until november at the doclands museum. 19th sent oury photographers were experimenting with new technologies, just as the bridge builders were using new materials to create bigger spans. >> our dredges - they are sacred. artistically the prospects have moved on artists and poets. >> today bridges are not just a means of crossing the river. the newest bridge, a pedestrian bridge is an architectural statement. >> 900 years ago when the first

bridge was built. london bridge, it had to be blessed. it was considered an act of the god, changing the nature of things. >> it would take more than a bresing from the next bridge. organisers need to raise 200 million. once built and for walkers and cyclist, the latest link in 2,000 years of london bridges. coming up, our picture of the day, and the renown chef is here life talking food, business and why he is closing his favourite restaurant.

muslims around the world are preparing for ramadan, which is expected to begin on saturday. here in palestine they are decorating the streets and this gentlemen here is making treats for when you break the fast of the ramadan comes with problems, especially in parts of iraq. what we expect to see was a temperatures getting up to 118 degrees, and people will be fasting for over 14 hours. in syria, it is the drought situation, in an area going to civil war, and many people are in refugee camps. not as many people in this area, about 20 million.

severe drought is going to cause problems and they are fasting for over 14 hours. towards the u.k. we were going to look at less of a population. they are looking at fasting because of sunrise and sunset in the summer. over 16 hours. this will get longer as we go through parts of july. that is a look at your weather, news is up after this.

new orleans is known worldwide for great food, and nine years after hurricane katrina the restaurant industry is booming. the number of restaurants in the big easy doubled, and there aren't enough qualified workers. jonathan martin has that story. >> reporter: new orleans prides itself on many things, its distinctive cuisine is high on the list. we've had a melting pot of cuisine.

it defines to a great extent who we are. >> reporter: from fine dining, the restaurant industry hasn't just rebounded, it exploded. there were over 800 new orleans restaurants before the storm in 2005. today there are more than 1400. because of the younger generation coming in, and people going out and spending money in restaurants, it spurred on a lot of smaller restaurants to open up, which is great. >> with more food options, restaurant managers across the city say there's a shortage of qualified workers. chefs, managers and lion cooks with a certificate of degree. >> we are on the hunt for good people. >> hailey is director of operations for the group which owns five popular restaurants. with another location set, she'll need 150 workers to staff it. >> i wake up and lay for half an hour and worry about where to

find enough good people. what does the with respect need to do to attract good people. >> long-time critic says while the hos hitality workers have come back, other workers have not. >> you can't come in off the street and start cooking. the audience for the cooking is too sophisticated. >> it hasn't helped that local culinary and restaurant management schools are maxed out. the community college has 140 students enrolled. >> we can't produce enough. with a larger facility, more faculty, i'll be able to turn out more trained students and qualified staff. >> for tracy bryson, the shortage is a good thing. several job offers with six months in school. one restaurant was willing to offer higher wages. it paid for half of the classes

that are taken. it pushed me to take the job. a new cull jipary and hospitality institute and local restaurant associations could help with demand, keeping the stock of staff in a place with a growing appetite. my next guest knows his way around a kitchen. wiley is an influential chef. he ran a restauranted called wd 50, and is known for an inventive approach to food, an approach duplicated. now he's forced to close the restauranted. he joins us now. good to see you. why are you going to close. >> it's a classic new york city real estate situation. the landlord wants to build a big building, it's time to go. >> it's tough for people that want to run a restaurant in new york. it's about real estate, is that it?

>> it plays a big part in the success of a restaurant. we had a great run. >> you're famous for your food and you had great runs and you worked at amazing restaurants. talk to me about this one. what is unique about what you do there? >> well, we have two restaurants in the city. we try to take our own approach, we like to have a bit of fun while we cook. what is the story behind eggs benedict. >> you know, it's not the eggs benefit of your youth. our hope is when you close your eyes and take a bite it takes you back to those childhood memories. can you explain it? i mean, when you - when i look at eggs benedict, i look at eggs ben dit. when i look at this, it's different >> we wanted to have fun. there's four main components, that's the eggs, hollan days and the bacon and english muffin.

deep fry, bread it. cook the egg yokes and make chips out of the canadian bacon. have some fun with it. >> we have picture of the aerated foy. how do you come up with this stuff? >> we have a lot of fun in the kitchen. that's a great thing about our job, we get to play with our food. >> how often do you change it. >> it's based on success and failure. it took us three months to figure outline to deep fry hollandia, and aerating foy. there's a lot of talk about farm to table in restaurants. how do restaurants get the freshest foods, the freshest ingredient to create the beautiful dishes. >> i have been cooking in new york city for almost 22 years. we spent a long time developing relationships with farmers,

talking to them about products and ingredients. it's about establishing relationships with people who have their hands in the ground, raising the livestock. why did you get involved in this. what was it about food? >> if i had my way i would have been a professional athlete. i don't possess natural ability to that. the team sport of the kitchen mimics the team, the aspects. >> explain. there's so many of the aspects of the life lessons that can be found, can be found in a kiction. it's a group of people. there's failure but opportunity to make up for it along the way. >> a lot of people don't succeed. what do you attribute your success to. >> we've been lucky, we are down

on the low east side. we think our approach is unique. we are having fun, we are thinking about food a different way than maybe some others are. we are having a good time. >> is it about the experience. is it just about the food. it's about the experience. the diner. we want the diner to have a fantastic time. that's at the core of it. we really want to make sure that when you come, you have a wonderful experience. >> i think when we moved to new york, my wife found a fact. there were 16,000 restaurants in new york. >> over 20,000. >> yes. >> if you are a restaurant in new york, how do you find it. again, i think it's thinking about familiar things and delivering them in a way you don't expect. like eggs benedict. >> if you close the restaurant in november, is that right.

>> end of november, yes. >> what is next? you have another restaurant you'll open or not. >> i have several ideas in my head. i'm eager to explore. >> we are actively trying to find a pleas to go. we are looking for someone to take us in, really. >> you mean aing about, is that what it is. it's tough to find a space in new york. >> we are trying to find a suppose that works. we are enthusiastic. it's great to talk to you. it's fun to hear what goes on behind the scenes and where some of the beautiful food comes from. >> now just a look at the picture of the day. it was a star spangled event down in brazil. and americans there all dressed up, ready to cheer their team at the world cup. they lost today but are moving on to the next round. we'll be back tomorrow night. see you then.

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