that helps to keep people in the city of new york. t now it is -- you know, they are trying to figure out new ideas to be able do more luxury housing. the housing authority, continues to be wasteland and really -- city administration, housing authority, head, continues to allow thousands of apartments to sit on the side that are vacant. city of new york needs to help focus on creating housing. that helps to keep people -- >> what does this focus mean? how do you operationalize that? >> housing authority, proposal to put it on the grounds of housing authority land. instead of that, it is great opportunity to do middle income housing. create some income diversity within the housing authority. great opportunities if that's the focus. right now the focus doesn't exist in the city. >> housing has always been expensive. let's not kid ourselves in new york city. but over the last decade, housing has become that much more unaffordable for now 50% of the households living in new york city. the pace of housing construction, even though mayor blo

showers are moving into areas around new york city. ew york city, new york state, approaching areas of connecticut, a rainy morning commute. the heavier, steadier rains are down in virginia and north carolina. those will be moving into washington, d.c. so, many areas will pick up three quarters to an inch of rain a significant rain event that will last for the majority of the daylight hours. it will be mild. so whatever snow is left out there, there's a good chance it will be gone in the next 24 hours. minor flooding concerns for boston, where you got the heavy snow on friday. you'll lose a lot of that during the day today. otherwise cold and chilly in the northern plains. southern half of the country looking nice. >> i guess rain is better than snow. >> this time. >> thanks, bill. just ahead, justin timberlake lifts "snl" to new heights. plus ireland baldwin is strike out on her own. and with all the points i've been earning, i was able to get us a flight to our favorite climbing spot even on a holiday weekend. ♪ things are definitely

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and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built up

as far as new york city washington, d.c. hy situation at times could be coming up later on this afternoon. not a huge story across new york city or dc. coming up later on today we will be seeing and continue to pull out. by tuesday it will be long gone. they will be getting west virginia higher elevations right here. right off of the great lakes tuesday will be a quiter day. the wind will be a concern through out the day today in the northeast coupled with the cold temperatures it will be feeling a lot colder. right now 38 degrees in new york city only in the 20s in kansas city and minneapolis. as far as how warm it will get only in the 30s for minneapolis and kansas city. >> warm through out this part of the country. >> thanks a lot. >> new york city mayor michael bloomberg unleashing a new $12 million campaign to push lawmakers for stricter gun laws. congress is set to debate new legislation on gun control. doug luzader joining us live from washington with more. >> good morning, doug. >> heather, good morning. from the pres

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the homeless population in new york city, by the way, mr. if you just want a little diversion from the sodas, the salt, the smoking, gun control issues, the number of people in thety's homeless shelter -- the in the city's homeless shelter has risen 61%. 61% since the mayor took office. a record 50,000 people, 50,000 folks and an estimated 21,000 of them children. by the way did i mention the potholes'? i know i thought you were a pretty good guy, mr. mor. there's a lot of work to do here inew york city. i knew your board, and maybe a lot you have some time left in office you get the city working in the nine months you have left. something to think about. >> did not and son-in-law in court. should he be at guantanamo? the little fellow talks like he has said the wheat -- heavyweight justin bieber with a rugged with the proper r.o.t.c.. -- by proxy the do and gloom president cannot brag about good economic times douglas told the kid is here n lou: the president sequester would cut $67 million from the budget from those charged with defending

there's a lot of work to do here in new york city. board, and maybe a lot you have some time left in office you get the city working in the nine months you have left. something to think about. >> did not and son-in-law in court. should he be at guantanamo? the little fellow talks like he has said the wheat -- heavyweight justin bieber with a rugged with the proper r.o.t.c.. -- by proxy the do and gloom president cannot brag about good economic times douglas told the kid is here n lou: the president sequester would cut $67 million from the budget from those charged with defending the borders. 45,000 armed agents have to take two weeks of unpaid leave between this month and september. if you are an administrator administrator, you get the pay increase don't worry about the drug smugglers and illegal immigrants crossing the border, you will be rolling in money while the border patrol is not. the president's policy reducing illegal immigrants from jail as a consequence. the monitor records illegal immigrants crossing the rio grande river t

>> few weeks, we'll see the 60s in new york city. g up later in the morning. around lunchtime through the evening rush we could be picking up maybe an inch or two of snow. higher accumulations are possible as we west. pennsylvania, west virginia, northern parts of the state of virginia. that is where we are looking at a foot of snow. lower elevations possible, and winter warnings are in effect. here for us in new york city, temperatures have warmed up one degree in the past hour, 38 to 39 degrees. the breezes make it feel cooler, 5-10 degrees cooler. we could be looking at gusts up to 30 to 40 miles an hour producing delays. philadelphia the international airport have been reporting delays of over an hour. >> so check before you go someplace. >> brian: cbs ignited a storm when contestants on amazing race visited a b-52 memorial in hanoi glorifying the death of u.s. soldiers. >> gretchen: it infuriated veterans around the country and forced cbs to respond. >> we want to apologize to veterans particularly a those that served in vietnam

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. >> you could do ads for education as the executive of new york city, you are telling people what they can and cannot do. why is that government's job to do that? >> we're not telling them at all. we're telling them what science says is or isn't in their interest. we allow you to smoke. we just don't let you smoke where other people have to breathe the smoke that you -- that you're exhaling or comes from your cigarette. the same thing with obesity which incidentally is a public interest because we're going to spend $5 billion on treating people of 0 obesity in our hospitals in new york city alone this year. but regardless -- >> where is the line? where is it too far for government to go? >> i do not think we should ban most things. i do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom and that is, for example, if you're drinking we shouldn't let you drive because you'll kill somebody else.

but there are occasional recipes and occasional references to things going on in new york city. so i'll tell you a little bit about how randel came to be in new york. um, randel was born in albany, and he was born to a family, his father worked in bronze, was a jeweler, had worked, had fought in the revolutionary war. he had a lot of brothers and sisters. his brothers were carpenters, they were inventers, they were farmers. there seems to be a lot of innovation in the family and a very, very strong -- as is not surprising -- work ethic. and ranel appears -- randel appeared to be extremely good at mathematics, he refers to in one of his notebooks one of his teachers who he's helping try to find a place in a new city outside of albany, and he talks about this incredible teacher. and it's very clear, um, that he had an afellowshipty for the teach -- affinity for the teacher in math, and it showed through everything that he did throughout his life. and he at the very young age of about 12 seems to have ended up as a survey surveyor or in the office of simeon dewitt. and this is a map

really puts it into perspective the amount of distrust that exists between certain communities in new york city and the new york city police department i mean the relationship is reached an all time low now we should mention that agrees mother carol gregg for the first time spoke to the media a few hours ago she held a press conference she was just an all black she was wearing sunglasses she said on the record she does not believe that her son pointed a gun at police officers she described the sorrow and the pain that she felt when she had to pick out a casket for her sixteen year old son but she also says that she does not approve of the violence that's being displayed or shown in the streets she's asking for people to have restraint but she did say the mother of money gray that she will seek justice in the death of her son and i understand there are he was able to speak to some of these protesters residents over there in brooklyn what did they have to say that's right i spoke to a lot of them and most of those that i spoke with are extremely concerned for their families they everyone repeated

city. they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we first started, it was a rough job. everything was dynamite. now, they have these machines called "moles." it's like a big drill, and it just cuts right through the ground. so there's no more dynamite. and it's still a rough job, but it's gotten to a point where it's a lot safer. in the '70s, we lost a man a mile basically. here, maybe we've had two or three deaths in the last 20 years, which is too much anyway, but it's cut down a lot. hurwitz: city tunnel number 3 will be an

disembark from ferry street in new york city police department does not like that idea. they want to keep in place an older system. you can see there is a white tent and a location where passengers have been screened. in your city police department wants to keep the system in place and says it is best to screen trust and passengers before they get on the ferry, not after. we expect there will be some kind of a compromise or resolution, possibly as soon as next week. meanwhile, in addition to the tourists who would like to see liberty island reopened, there are also merchant here in new york city who depend on this landmark for their income and over the last two years. the island generated $173 million in revenue. the second 2000 jobs, just about

not yet in new york city, but the showers are approaching. as far as the forecast goes, timing it up, as we go through the peak of the day, through the noon hour, the heaviest rain right through washington, d.c. and philly by about noon. then by about 5:00, d.c. clears out. from new york city to hartford that's the target area for the evening ride home. again, you can't win today. d.c. area going to get the heavy rain this morning and philadelphia, later today new england for on the way home. >>> coming up, billionaire bloomberg's beverage ban blocked. plus stocks are in seventh heaven, and why those light clicks on facebook could be

this is new york city. isn't this soupy and disgusting. this is what it looks like in new york city. you have inclement weather out there. we'll say good morning to you. rainy, sloshy, snowy and icky. >> it's just gross out there. >>> now the news you have been waiting for. >> now to a galaxy far, far away. >> there is a disturbance in the force. han, leia and luke are all in talks to be part of the new "star wars" films to be announced after disney purchased the rights. it's out there now. they could be back for part of the t new films. >> i never would say that. you know i never say that to anybody. >> you're right. >> that's all for "early start." >> "starting point" starts now. >>> welcome, everybody. today, osama bin laden's son-in-law caught and brought to new york under a shroud of secrecy. what happens next? >>> and details on how a lion killed a young woman. that wild animal wasn't where it belonged. former president clinton urging the supreme court to overturn a law he signed when he was in the white house. >> holy dow! we are cou

martha: liz claman is live in new york city with her look at all of this. good morning, liz. what is the best part of this news this morning? >> well as the snow falls all over new york city the best part people at least are turning up the momentum, okay? so the best part of this news i really, truly believe is not only did we beat the estimate number which last check, remember this is a consensus of a bunch of economist was to see a build of a $165,000 nonfarm payroll jobs. we bested that, we crushed through that ceiling and did much better up 236,000. but the unemployment rate also came down to 7.7%. remember it had been at 7.9%. the white house is correct saying there is more work to be done. we really need something around the number of 50,000 on a stained basis month after month -- $250,000. before we bring the unemployment rate down more. this is pretty solid number and shows momentum and shows resilience since there were a couple of headwinds. martha: the market up a little bit, less than ten points at the moment. it just has that lingering question out there, we heard

that is what they call new york city if you don't know. victory for millions in new york city.ale announcer] surprise -- you're having triplets. [ babies crying ] surprise -- your house was built on an ancient burial ground. [ ghosts moaning ] surprise -- your car needs a new transmission. [ coyote howls ] how about no more surprises? now you can get all the online trading tools you need ♪ it's not rocket science. it's just common sense. from td ameritrade. ♪ ♪ >> bob: you are looking live at new york city. where sugar lovers like me are going to be dancing in the streets tonight after a judge invalidated michael bloomberg's ridiculous bans on large cigarry drinks scheduled to go in to -- sugary drinks scheduled to go in effect tomorrow. excuse me while i take a drink. what do you think? >> eric: three things. the judge should run for mayor. we can push back against bullies. can we get the judge or these judges to take down the gun law to call them arbitrary and capricious, too? >> bob: how did you get gun laws out of that. >> kimberly: milton tingling. >> greg: that sounds lik

workers who build the wal-mart are union are ner he' out of a job. >> i don't think that the new york win in new york city would impact wal-mart nation wides. i don't think it helps the it at all. the unions are afraid wal-mart of moving into new york city because the people in the city will realize how awful the flipping supermarkets are, once they shop at wal-mart. >> and i think they're here, and i think it's national. >> i think it's national, too, adam, i'm not sure what the situation is in san francisco, but they're a little bit more elitist sometimes than new york city. >> yeah, you know, i'm not sure of my facts here, i don't think we have a wal-mart in san francisco, and i don't think it's a -- it's a labor issue necessarily. this is very similar to our last conversation, i mean, every-- i agree this is not a national issue, people in new york are-- >> and making the choice. >> wal-mart, they're making to make it-- >> let adam finish and it then we'll pile up on him. go ahead, adam. >> i don't think, by the way, that this is particularly fair to wal-mart what is happening in new york city. having

collection at the historical society that there is notes from his work upstate with references to new york city. i will tell you how randel came to be in new york. he was born in albany as a jeweler had fought in the revolutionary war in had a lot of brothers and sisters there carpenters, inventors, farme rs, there seems to be a lot of innovation in the family and a strong work ethic. random appeared to be extremely good in mathematics. he refers to one of his teachers is trying to find a place and talks about this incredible teacher and it is clear he has an affinity for the teacher and math and it shows throughout his life. at 12 years old ended up as a surveyor general for new york state. this is a map of the albany at the time when randel was born and growing up. and initially he was in the office copying notes that had come in from the surveyors across the state and compile them into maps at the same time he was doing his own maps of property around albany. people are not as familiar with these maps. not just from the time he was surveying on the island but the range of the work for the su

new york city mayor michael bloomberg is committed to making a healthier new york. over ten years he has banned smoking in bars and restaurants, added calorie counts to fast food menus, told chefs the kind of oil they can fry. he's also cut the amount of salt in our bag of chips. i go to jersey to get mine. canceled our big gulp order. now he's turning down the volume on our ipods. yes, the city is developing a hearing loss prevention campaign aimed at young people. it will cost $250,000. it will warn that listening to music at a high volume for an extended period of time will increase hearing loss. researchers at john hopkins say one in five people older than 12 had hearing loss severe enough to hinder communication. >>> a first peek at the, quote, epic conclusion to the hangover movie series. the trailer for "the hangover: part 3" makes its debut online. the film hits theaters on memorial day. for now here are the takes. >> someone needs to burn this place to the ground. >> i like that. >> my name's allen, and i bought a giraffe! my life is great! >> i can see onl

their plaintiffs in this case, four young men who were stopped by the place here on the streets of new york citynts hundreds of thousands of new yorkers who have experienced t this in recent years, and it has been fascinating. we heard testimony from two nypd whistleblowers spoke in court confirming what ross tuttle was able to find himself, basically that there is a quota system within the nypd which incentivizes or puts pressure on officers to stop people and fill out forms when they stop a person on the street. >> cenk: so the cops and i'm sure the mayor would say, we have got crime down in new york city, we're doing a good job, so obviously it is working. so stop bothering us. how would you respond to that? >> when you actually look at the numbers they are more complicated that the mayor and the commissioner make them out to be. while murder rates have gone down in new york city, the actual number of shootings have remained relatively the same despite stop and fisks, actual shootings have only dropped by roughly 4% so to say this has had a mayor impact on murders isn't exactly telling the wh

statement saying it provides a sigh of relief to new yorkers and thousands of small businesses in new york city that would have been harmed by this arbitrary and unpopular ban. it's not the first time new york mayor michael bloomberg tried to enact laws to effect public health. bloomberg forced restaurants to post calorie information and ban artificial transfats in restaurant foods. in a city of more than 8 million, where the obesity epidemic is responsible for more than 5,000 deaths a year, the mayor says his fight to make new yorkers healthier will continue. >> overseas now, after more than 11 years of war, we're once again reminded that american lives are at stake in afghanistan every day. yesterday marked the deadliest day of the year for u.s. forces in the country. two separate events took the lives of seven american troops a helicopter crash in southern afghanistan killed five u.s. service members there was no report of enemy activity in the region at the time of the crash, but there is an official investigation underway. earlier in the day, two u.s. special operations personnel were kill

obesity is going to kill more people than smoking this year in new york city.ity, for the first time in the history of humanity, is -- the effects of overeating will till more people than starvation. and something like 60% of adults in some of our boroughs and 40% of the kids are overweight or obese across this country, across the world. obesity, unfortunately, partly because of american eating habits that have been exploited overseas, is really getting to be as bad as smoking. it isn't quite there yet, but it's heading in that direction. >> let's talk of gun control. you met with senator john mccain rece recently, and he after the meeting said you seemed to be focused more on pushing a nationwide background check system and not be so focused on the -- a ban on certain kinds of semiautomatic rifles. is that true? is that where you're going to focus your attention and your efforts? >> well, i don't know, just going to get me another nanny-gate, another -- me dressed as mary poppins? i was asked this morning about that, and i said i sort of take that as -- with a

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thousand and one following the september eleventh terrorist attacks program monitors muslims in new york city and beyond study of fifty seven american muslims in new york city found that the n.y.p.d. surveillance program was commonly perceived as suppressing religious freedom chilling freedom of speech creating strife within communities and harming trust of law enforcement officials so just how much damage has the n.y.p.d. done to new york city's muslim community and are similar surveillance programs being used across the country joining me now is a good dear of staff attorney with care and the council on. american urban as lawmakers relations thank you. tell me about the how it first of all how invasive was my pretties surveillance program as invasive as it gets the new york city police department set up a program to spy on all muslims throughout new york city and up and down the east coast they even went so far as to go on a camping trip of a muslim college students and that was the type of thing that the n.y.p.d. chose to do with taxpayer money and this was all. what's the word in secret n

that is what they call new york city if you don't know. victory for millions in new york city. u are looking live at new york city. where sugar lovers like me are going to be dancing in the streets tonight after a judge invalidated michael bloomberg's ridiculous bans on large cigarry drinks scheduled to go in to -- sugary drinks scheduled to go in effect tomorrow. excuse me while i take a drink. what do you think? >> eric: three things. the judge should run for mayor. we can push back against bullies. can we get the judge or these judges to take down the gun law to call them arbitrary and capricious, too? >> bob: how did you get gun laws out of that. >> kimberly: milton tingling. >> greg: that sounds like a disorder you get. >> kimberly: sounds like a disord they're chris matthews has. >> greg: this is a victory for the little guy, like the run that run the bodega and groceries in new york. a loss for the ninnies who think we are stupid. the sodas are part of the giant remaking of society. they think we are stupid. there is meat, vegetables, fruit, dessert, have a little of ever

s surveillance program as invasive as it gets new york city police department set up a program to spy on all muslims throughout new york city and up and down the east coast they even went so far as to go on a camping trip of muslim college students and that was the type of thing that the n.y.p.d. chose to do with taxpayer money and this was all. what's the word in secret nobody in other words people don't realize who the informants were who they weren't yes for years american muslims in new york city and beyond have suspected that law enforcement has been watching all along and what the revelations regarding the intelligence unit and my p.t. reveal is that they were in fact the right that and y.p. was watching them go to mosques watching them eat a whole lot restaurants watching them go to muslim bookstores watching the innocuous activities that comprise the communities life and not just watching them with binoculars the. we were actually infiltrated absolutely and the new york police department created a substantial network of informants where. well i'm just wondering what what does

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: new york city mayor michael bloomberg announced today he's giving $100 million to the global polio eradication initiative. he joins forces with michael -- and chairman bill gates who leads the world's largest fin thrawpic organization with his wife lynn de. to battle polio has been in the melinda and bill gates foundation. more than one and-a-half bill dollars on the cause. the on war a polio is at a critical juncture. in 1998 it affected countries affecting children each year. afghanistan, nigeria and act stan are currently the only three countries where the disease is endemic. the number of case fell to a new low of 233 last year. the goal is to wipe out the disease once and for all by 2018, five years from now. i'm pleased to have mayor bloomberg and bill gates back at this table. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: so what led you to him? there had been a history. >> right. starting actually with education, we've had a chance to work together on things. and that was a fantasti

joining me now is new york city council speaker mayoral candidate christine quinn. eaker quinn, great to see you today. >> nice to see you. >> if elected you would be the first openly gay female mayor of new york city. you represent the city, where we see that demonstration taking place back in 1971. when you look at what's taken place, this watershed week for the supreme court, what does that mean to you and your family? >> it's just remarkable. it's amazing how far we have come because of the hard work and activism of the people like the ones you just had up on the screen. in a short time, if you think about the course of history, we have an incredibly huge question that will make all families like mine equal in the united states before the supreme court. we have a moment where the supreme court can make a decision and send a message that the united states of america embraces all families equally under the law. that is a huge moment for our country to move forward to really become a more perfect union. >> edith windsor, 83-year-old edith windsor is the plaintiff at

it's nasty in new york city today. we are going to see the rain mixeded with snow. reports of delays at jfk. not a pretty morning in new york city and times square, but we have the opposite of that in washington, d.c. can it get any prettier? they didn't have any snow to clean up after this snowstorm moved into the northeast, but it is a nice morning out that way and this weekend's going to be even nicer with temperatures in the d.c. area topping out close to 60 degrees by sunday. we just have to lose what's left of this snowstorm. it is going to snow for the rest of the day, at least until 2:00, 3:00 this afternoon. we have a big snowstorm making its way into the southwest. heavy rain is falling into san diego, moving into parts of arizona, into southern nevada and this is going to turn into perhaps another blizzard for the upper plains. today into tomorrow, we are going to see an inch or more of rain, especially across southern california where some areas could pick up close to 2 inches of rain throughout today erstorms in san diego and snow today in flagstaff. one

new york amid fierce protests. consumers everywhere should protest they say. >> it's amazing to watch this, in a city like new yorks high cost of living. you have a company that single handedly has lowered costs for consumers and let's not build one. you won't have the workers or construction workers, potential for local suppliers. this is a big loss for consumers all the way around the city. it tells you, i have to use the word they are dummies not allowing this to occur. >>> i have to tell you. everywhere i have been to walmart, it creates jobs. only rich people had access to. >> walmart is great american institution and genuine benefit. everyone gets the benefits of lower prices if they had a substantial pay raise. this is union goons out there demonstrating that are being paid by some unions. it's a very, very upsetting phenomenon to see new yorkers deprived from the benefits of walmart. >> what is disgusting about it, i'm a union guy. >> where are you coming from. >> you are turning your back on the union people. >> i will tell you if it weren't for unions, more people would die of black lung disease in coal