i actually started working with dialysis patients in the bronx new york. most of the patients seemed to struggle with similar psycho social issues, stress, poverty, under achieving education, under employment and at that time i thought perhaps the issues can be explained because of the environment of north bronx, new york. then i continued with my work with dialysis patients and started to see the same thing from all economic backgrounds. there were family and brothers and sisters on dialysis. i think and dr. wiel started to say about this that is what is unique is the average person with this disease doesn't necessarily look sick. some of their catheters are covered with clothing. it's wonderful to have these technologies with dialysis. but those modality will be replaced at 10-15 percent of kidney function. you are not getting 100 percent. even though they are getting these wonderful technology with great treatment, at best their bodies are functioning at 15 percent with the general population. as the doctor mentioned, the biggest is fatigue and -- and d

mientras que muchos no quieren acercarse al mar decenas de nadadoress se juntaron en la playa en el bronx new yorkr lo que escuche es 28 grados ahora a calentarme. >> pero ¿cuÁl es el beneficio de meterse al agua con este frÍo que estÁ haciendo aquÍ en new york? >> te ayuda para no en fero martes a circular seno gre fresca en el cuerpo. >> el sam bullido se produce mientras que muchos se preparan * para el otro sistema que podrÍa dejar entre dos a 5 pulgada de nieve en la gran manzana. >> en new york muchos residentes estÁn que pegan el grito al cielo por el fin del invierno. >> la gente estÁ harta de la nieve cayeron 51 pulgadas este aÑo una de las mÁs altass en diez. >> segÚn el servicio nacional de las condiciones del tiempo el fenÓmeno que nos azota tras el paso de una tormenta que deja un saldo de al menos 25 muertos 14 mil cancelaciones de vuelos y mÁs de 25 mil millones de dÓlares en pÉrdida viene acompaÑado de lluvia y fuertes vientos para new york, nueva jersey y connecticut. >> el servicio nacional de las condiciones del tiempo pronÓstico que este temporal podrÍa fortalecerse en nueva in

inner city latino, originally from south bronx in new york, born and raised and now living in l.a.'m still back in new york a lot but part of the california community. and i can tell you that it's something that's extremely vital and extremely important for us to have young latino students, especially at the rate that we have in terms of what the dropout rate for latinos. it touches my heart personally. when he spoke to me about it it was no brainer, somebody could get involved and try to help in any way i can. i'm proud to be trying to help them along. >> the numbers are troubling, the achievement gap we haven't closed it in a long time. that's where you come in and try to close that gap? >> absolutely. what we're trying to do is apply the sense of urgency of a silicon valley technology startup and attract capital to the specific challenge that faces this country, the challenge of the century, because if we're not able to make a dent in this trajectory, the united states is not going to be able to compete. so we think there's a way to expand the counselor's role, elevate that prof

bronx, new york, where alex is on our line for republicans. caller: good morning, everyone. 3 ort to say that we have 4 presidents -- [indiscernible] people are suffering and they garbagesr food in the and they come and say only slogans. what is being -- what is important here is our people. most of people, citizens, are in redline. host: alex, who is your favorite president? caller: my first president was abraham lincoln, because he find the needs of the people and you try to fix it. after that i couldn't find -- bush andidents obama and clinton made worse situations than before. host: tony in fayetteville, north carolina on our line for republicans. caller: good morning. host: good one, tony, how are you? caller: pretty good. i am a black republican and my favorite president was ronald reagan. ronald reagan recognize that if you get out of the american people's way, they will do amazing things. more black businesses were created under reagan than any other time in history. more black ceo's were nominated than in any other time in history. th

. >> and a live look at the bronx, new york city, where the snow is falling and it is 30 degrees. >> thousands of drivers in north carolina were stranded for hours because of super slick roads. good morning, welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm stephanie sy. >> one of those motorists shares his nightmare in a minute. first a look at what temperatures we'll see across the nation. meteorologist nicole mitchell is back. >> we have a couple of places where temperatures are critical because of the recent snow system. as this has gone through the south and moving up to the mid-atlantic, in its wake textures through the south, around the freezing mark. it is important because we need to get above freezing as we head up the coastline, temperatures below freezing. most of it is snow. temperatures get slightly above over the course of the day. that's when that could mix in with a little sleet and revert to snow as temperatures drop a little. a bit of critical forecast. it is in the 40s for places like atlanta with a lair of ice. some -- layer of ice, some melting down today. watch for refre

we've also seen some implementations and results from new york city in the bronx on ford up road there was a traffic time improvements. in that can i they were able to look at the retail sales embarrassed to borough wide we've seen other cities improvements in the economic outcome. and so what we did was take a look at the imperial information on gary corridor of the existing conditions. we have business diode on gary that are located in front of a bus stop and we have businesses that don't aren't located their away from bus stops we compared the sales outcomes for those two types of businesses to see if there's any correlation so we took the sales data to group together with businesses that with parking vs. the businesses that don't have parking. we can't find a correlation between parking and sales. this slide shows a medium sales per square feet in the green and in the businesses that have parking and the purple are businesses that don't have parking. you see there isn't a clear distinction, difference in the sales performance of the two. this is

the exciters, who came from the bronx in new york. jackie dushannon, the katy perry of her time.y wanted to hear them and the girls and boys would yell, we want the beatles, we want the beatles. and i was fascinated every night, and i told this story at the beatles fest in new york last night, where i'm at for the rest of the weekend, every night they would walk up to the front of the plane, if you could imagine this in our business, the television business, or anywhere, and they said to those artists, how are you? are you okay? they knew the artists were being drowned out. they knew they were sublimating them just by their stardom, and they had the sense and sympathy and compassion to go and talk to these people and do this. and i was just amazed at that level of maturity. and you know, yeah, look, they were boys and you know, it was when they were boys, and that's the name of the book, but they were wonderful to me. i'll give you one final example. my -- i was in the service in 1966, and i got on the tour for a few visits. and john lennon and i got into this heated argument. he

manhattan is so expensive when people think of new york people outside of new york think of new york they are really thinking of manhattan. brooklyn, queens, the bronxave gotten tremendous upside potential and our company is getting more engage in portland because we see upside. philadelphia i consider the greatest lost city in america because of it is lost between n.y. city and washington d.c. financial capital and political capital of the world's. philadelphia is one of the most important cities and it has tremendous architecture, tremendous cultural activity, sports teams, entertainment, growing job base and it gets overlooked. i see that as a great opportunity and values are real low relative to what they cost to produce and what the two of this city's that book them do. liz: if memory serves you had some projects in new jersey a few years ago. what about the garden state? >> we have actually looked at the gaming opportunities in new jersey. new jersey is not driven as much by multi families, single-family environment and the environment where you get the option of doing both you have multi family and single-family homes. philadelphia is strong

department of health and human services, but now, students in the bronx borough of new york are doing more than just watching at the country's first film high school. >> take two. >> these budding film makers are learning the tools of the trade. >> how does it look on the big camera? >> for two weeks, they put on their director's hat. this is the cinema school, a selective public high school that specializes in film training alongside a traditional liberal arts education. >> besides all the camera work, angles and rules, i've learned motor importantly like how to break them correctly, how to be able to break the rules so that your film can be more you. i've learned that films need a lot of patience. >> a virtue many pick up the hard way their freshman year during their mandatory animation course. screen writing, music video, story telling are all parts of the curriculum. by graduation, they've completed 200 original media projects, a privilege they earn maintaining an 85g.p.a. technical skills are part of the equation. >> short term goals are getting into college, getting a degree. >>

bronx. his articles have been featured in "the new york times," time out new york magazine in the u.k.guardian. tell us about the article you wrote which is entitled remarks were free from, socialism and the struggle. [applause] >> first of all, good evening brothers and sisters, good to be with you. you look so beautiful out there. it's like woodstock out here. i am so happy to be here in this particular space and time. thank you, michael and francis for letting us into your dream. the title of my small contribution was called for those of you who grew up in the 90s though that's where i'm from. it starts off with this idea that, you know, that socialism and the black liberation has always been very together. there's this whole thing where we look at someone like obama and we both want to take away his citizenship and then call him a socialist. and it is a strategic framing that's always been around in terms of framing the civil rights struggle. though often times when people come or black folks rose up, it is always the communist agitators from the out side. it's always funny that we

new york area. they begin a stakeout of a bronx apartment. because he's considered armed and dangerous, law enforcement offers a $10,000 reward for information leading to his capture. eight months after the first robbery, audio surveillance on martin pedro's phone finally gives police the break they need. they discover he's at the bronx apartment of a female friend. on april 9th, 2003, members of the federal fugitive task force surround the building and move in. when officers attempt to break down the door, pedro jumps out a window and scampers up the fire escape outside. he quickly climbs to the roof. unfortunately for the leaping bandit, task force officers are well aware of his athletic ability. they are on the roof waiting for him. when he's arrested, police find he's carrying a handgun. once in custody, pedro has a simple request. >> he wanted to see his girlfriend one last time, so we arranged that. once had he saw her, and gave her a kiss good-bye, he was very, very cooperative and polite. >> when questioned by police, pedro has no pro

new york. >> more excited like queens? [ new york accents ] is queens up here? and brooklyn's over here. >> jimmy: brooklyn's over here. [ talking over each other ] >> bronx is backf worried. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: he's unbelievable. [ cheers and applause ] now you have "late night." you have "portlandia." how are you going to do all this stuff? >> i'm going to -- i've been asked to curate the band for "late night." and then when i've got to go off and do "portlandia," i'll go do that, in like, may. april or may. >> jimmy: and then you did an episode of "modern family," too, you did that? >> yes. i did an episode of that. >> jimmy: that is a great show. >> really great. we shot in las vegas. right? i'm terrified of heights. i'm very, very afraid of heights. >> jimmy: for real? >> this is a real thing. >> jimmy: i didn't know that. >> yeah. [ laughter ] i checked into this hotel. i'm really excited to do "modern family." they hand me the key and it says 60223. does this mean the 60th floor? i've never been up that high. 6-0. 60th floor. i've never been up that high. i was like, this is really embarrassing. would you mind terribly moving me down? i'm j

i grew up in new york so i went to the bronx zoo. >> grew up on a lake with horses.e'd swim the horses. >> i grew up around the ocean. >> i came from the middle of the country in flat land kansas. >> from virginia traveled down, did the theme park thing in orlando when i was 17. and saw the night show at shamu stadium. very emotional, you know, popular music. and i was driven to want to do that. >> and i saw what the trainers did. and i said, that's what i want to do. >> one of the trainers there, he goes, what are you doing out there? you should be a trainer. i said, i don't know how to train animals. i've never trained animals in my life. >> how do you prepare yourself with an encounter with an 8,000 pound orca. >> i thought you needed a masters degree in marine biology to be a trainer. >> it takes years of study and experience to meet the strict requirements necessary to interact in the water with shamu. >> come to find out, it really is more about your personality and how good you can swim. >> i went and tried out and got the job right away. i was, like, yeah. i

new york city born and bred. >> exactly. >> one from the bronx. jane, you point out karan from queens.hese were not to the manor born kind of folks. >> no. not at all. lauren's parents were from belarus, modest working class folks. he really turned something -- >> and donna karan came from anne klein, another trailblazer for women in fashion. she was also from new york. that's where the fashion business was. what i thought karan did was took that sort of new york style and made it accessible for people like me on the west coast, especially in the '80s when women in large droves were entering the work force. >> my fashion icon is johnny weir. that's who i'm voting for. if you would like to make your vote known, make sure to vote your pick online. head to cnbc.com/25 to cast your vote about the icons who made a big difference over the past 25 years in business. kate? >>> since the financial crisis, wall street has been losing its luster for some newly minted college grads and mbas. kayla tausche is following this trend. what's the story? >> all the banks are making big changes when it co

. >> reporter: last week, a victory for the dea and the new york special prosecutor, dismantling a heroin mill in the bronx seizing more than $8 million worth of drugs. this is one of 13 kilos of heroin. each packed in chili powder to avoid detection from drug-sniffing dogs. one brick holds about 30,000 doses. >> what i have seen is if there's a big supply, they are going to use them. we have seen it with heroin and prescription pills. >> reporter: in america, nearly 24 million people are addicted to alcohol or drugs. yet only one in ten will choose treatment. what could she have done to get you into recovery? >> at that point there was nothing she could do. >> reporter: nothing. >> i wanted to use. i was 19. i wanted to get high. that's what i wanted to do. >> let's dig in with our experts. rich is here with the vermont governor and seth, a journalist who's battled heroin addiction and written powerfully about it. i want to start with you, seth. we look at the images of rich down on the railroad tracks, with syringes. it's not the image i would get of you. you had a perfectly wonderful upbringing, you wen

new york city police officers in 2006. he was teaching second grade in the bronx and was stopped. >> my story is no different. >> clarkson was the target of stop and frisk, a tactic where police stop and question people on the street and search them. clarkson said the officers claimed he was coming from a known drug area, and wanted to know if he was carrying anything illegal. stopped. >> i've been stopped since i was 13. it's a normalized part of your life. you expect it to happen. >> in 2008 clarkson was one of federal plaintiffs who filed a lawsuit against the city of new york for discriminatory stop and frisk. by law an officer can stop someone if there's a reasonable suspicion that person has engaged in or will engage in a crime. police can frisk anyone they believe is armed and dangerous. according to the center for constitutional rights the new york city police department conducted 523 stop and frisk in 2012. with blacks and latinos - they made up 84% of them. the lead attorney for the lawsuit against the city said stop and frisk practices has a lasting effect on individuals and communities. >> it can be stig mattizin

people moving to the outer parts of brooklyn, brownsville, east new york, people moving from harlem or washington heights into parts of the bronx who are moving, retiring, moving down south or to the caribbean, or some people even moving to new jersey, other places where housing is more affordable. >> let's take the devil's advocate position, i think some mayor bloomberg was here, is as these neighborhoods rice, it's good for everyone, because of the things you mentioned. did you talk with some of the gentry fillers? >> that's i spoke to people you could call gentryfiers. they saw themselves even if they weren't born there, as part of the indigenous or the original residents, so no one wanted to identify with being a gentryfier. some people felt they came into the neighborhood, they made friends, they themselves moved to the neighborhood, because they liked the sort of -- the character of the neighborhood before it started so gentry fy. there are many people who seek out thinks neighborhoods, because they're looking for an authentic neighborhood. did you feel there's more people who feel like spike? >> i think it's a mix, i thi

joining me are marcus mabry, "the new york times" editor of "the new york times" lead blog, seema eyre, a former prosecutor for the bronxlsky, managing editor of thinkprogress.org. seema, i have to come to you, and ask, the dunn jailhouse letters, the one that i just read in the setup, let me read a little bit from another one in which dunn talks about thug culture. he says, i'm really not prejudiced against race, but i have no use for certain cultures. this gangster rap ghetto-talking thug culture that certain segments of society flock to is intolerable. now, the prosecutor, john guy, referenced this notion of thugs and said, hey, look at these other three boys, the three surviving boys that got on the stand, they're not thugs, he got that far, so why not introduce the letters? >> i have no idea, joy. in every one of my trials as a defense attorney, the prosecutor hands me a stack of cds and says, listen to these, i will argue that they are relevant, if evidence is relevant, it comes into the trial. in this particular case, the words that mr. dunn wrote and the words that he uttered on those recordings are relevant. wh

in new york, the weight of the snow took its toll on homes, like the roof of this house in the bronx, crushed in. >> heavy snow load, heavy type of roof construction. >> new yorkers didn't fare better, doing a delicate dance on roads. trains and subways stalled, stranding commuters. >> this is worse than i've ever seen! >> plows in indiana trying to clear roads, while this chain reaction spinout in michigan shut down i-94. in new jersey, an elderly couple had to be rescued when their car stalled in three feet of water. at the nation's busiest airports, nearly 3,000 canceled flights left many stranded. >> supposed to go to miami, but right now not going anywhere. >> it was wisconsin and illinois that got some good news as 50,000 tons of salt came in on two ships. a welcome sight as another possible blast, the week's third storm, is expected to hit this weekend. >> i've had enough. please, no more snow. >> two of the people that stayed here at this shelter last night are sharon and barnier. when did you realize we better head to a shelter last night? >> the temperature i knew was going

know i have a story here from the new york times they call themselves the paper of record i finally finally call them the toilet paper of record or to use my old bronx dialect to terrilyn paper of record the middle class is steadily eroding just ask the business world front page story asks the business world hey how about asking the one you know what's going on in everybody's life at the extremely cold which. cision am i going to eat am i going to heat my home look at the numbers that have the real numbers of the of people that are out of work at a full and out of the out of the employment data scheme so they don't count them as unemployed anymore when we lose three hundred forty seven thousand people and now they bring the employment rate down it is all over your unemployment soleus six point seven percent i mean this is this is this is unheard of so in the real world when you look at median household income it's below one thousand nine hundred ninety nine levels there is no recovery the fed the tapering is going to make a bad situation worse there is panic on the streets they're rolling out every shill that they can to say things are fine this is

there is a lot of this in new york city, and you see that brooklyn is brewing, hopefully the queens and bronxfollow suit. -- brooklyn is booming. google anda that others should actually pay more money to the city of san francisco for the luxury of being able to use public infrastructure for this kind of thing? or to the state, because they're going all the way down? >> they're using bustout, bustling, maybe to pay their using b e -- maybebus lanes, they should pay their fair share. withu not seeing this connectivity to the city? a 1-1-1 rule. pretty robustve a employee matching program, but you have these buses that have become a symbol of why there is this income disparity. --ber one commit is the rod number one, it is the broad ecosystem. rich,et lucky, and get and then you're still making the same amount of money. technology is the changing so quickly, that people who develop the skills over their lives, these skills are not relevant. people love to realize that have to realize that it is not just about the buses, it is oftesters around the houses google engineers. they're not just singlin

new york. it's changed. and why does it take an influx of white new yorkers in the south bronx, in harlem, and bed sty and crownghts for the facility to get better? the garbage wasn't picked up every [ bleep ] when i was living in 165 washington park. p.s. 20 was not good. rothschild 294. the police weren't around. when you see white mothers push their babies in strollers 3:00 in the morning down 125th street that must tell you something. and then comes the mother [ bleep ] christopher columbus syndrome. you can't discover this. we've been here. you just can't come and bogart. [ applause ] there were brothers in the street with mother [ mute ] african drums in mount more park for 40 years and now they can't do it anymore. because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud. my father was a great jazz musician. >> because his father was playing bass. he said there has to be respect for cultures generations old. spike lee joins us now. good to have you on the program you talked about the trash getting picked up, facilities getting better, police being more active. all those improvements after a community starts t

of times square and the new york city skyline was one of america's darkest secrets potter's field on hard island is a small patch of land in the eastern most parts of the bronx for years it was used as a mass grave of sorts. for exhaust war from the largest taxpayer funded cemetery in the world. a place kept from the public eye. you've likely never heard of it despite its long history and size one of the largest cemeteries in the united states with nearly a million burials almost one million people buried here since the eighteen hundreds the poor homeless stillborn children and bodies not claimed by anyone on just over one hundred acres heart island a piece of land just off of manhattan this is as close as we can get to the island with a news camera this is a dog where ferries transporting bodies inmates and occasional visitors depart from after a variety of uses from a prison to a psychiatric ward to a hospital the place has been ran by the prison system making the cemetery more reminiscent of a jail where inmates bury up to fifteen hundred bodies a year burrows for those the city takes care of take place in mass graves here inmates dig ten feet deep trench

a school in the bronx next poorest congressional district in the country, the children scored number three in new york state in math and one in two were in gifted and talents schools. so it's possible. there's a lot of things to do. mine is education. i think that will help. we need a great safety net. but we need to -- as glen said, bring has many people into the system as we can so they can flourish. thank you very much. applause place. >> your holiness. mr. lobe covered at a lot of territory but the talked about for the free enterprise system to -- we require government regimes that protect the property lights with individuals. i know you travel all over the world. you talk to people in opressed countries in free countries. what do you think our nations can do more to protect the property rights of individuals so that our system can bring more poor people out of poverty? >> comprehensive. wonderful. i think basically things are interconnected. so, is something independent, then we only concern about that, usually you call expert. but the other thing, everything is interconnected. so, the property -

a school in the bronx in the poorest congressional district in the country where our children just scored number three in new york state state out of 3528 schools in math and one or two in gifted and talented schools. it is possible. we need to work hard on educating kids. we need to do different things. mine is education. i think that while. we need a great safety net. as glenn said, we need to bring as many people as possible into the system so they can all floors along with us. thank you very much. [applause] your holiness, mr. leob has covered a lot of territory, but one of the things he talked about is that for the free enterprise system to create things for the most people, we were car government -- we were car government regimes that respect property rights. you travel all over the world. you talk to people in oppressed countries and in free countries. what you think that our nations can do more to protect the property rights of individuals so that our systems can bring more poor people out of poverty? presentation, the same thing that you mentioned, more holistic, comprehensive, wonderful. things areicall

. >> reporter: not so happy, new york city high school students who rely on mass transit. these girls waited for the second of three bronx buses to make it to class on time. >> take one bus to another bus to another bus. so the 15 to the 9 to the 3. >> reporter: you take three mta buses to get to school, to get to high school. >> yeah. >> reporter: but it all could have been worse. in fact it has been worse this winter during other storms. warmer temperatures meant less icing. and on metro north, commuters had a pretty realistic perspective. >> they have always been consistent through these storms. it's the random stoppages when the weather is fine that kills you. >> if the trains are running, you might as well just brave it and go in, so that's why i'm going in. >> school buses were out this morning in new york city because public schools remained open. despite a warning from the mayor for everyone else to stay inside, that left a lot of people scratching their heads. today the mayor defended his decision. >> are schools open and running, yes, they are. is the mta running largely on schedule? yes, it is. things are work

new york drug bust netted 8 million of heroin. and stamped with brands like nfl and government shutdown were also seized. that raid happened at a heroin processing plant in the bronx. they arrested two suspects in connection with the ring. prosecutors describe it sophisticated. 33 pounds of heroin was recovered. >>> the president is weighing in on richard sherman's rant. and sending seattle to the super bowl. he called him a great player and he suspects the comments were a way to get attention. the stanford graduate was fined more than $7800 for making a choking gesture to the 49er quarterback after the champ game. , he made a great play. and won the game for the seahawks, give him credit for that. he is a very smart guy. and the fact he came up from compton and went to stanford. has helped other people. graduate and go to college from his old school. and my sense is that he has take an page out of the ali play book. he said that which is a good way to get attention. >>> the president expects the super bowl to be great game and declined to say who he thinks will win. >>> catholics are being warned about a man posing as a priest. and the fake priest has been celebr

the south bronx and allowed me to go into the army and compete with guys from west point and harvard and princeton and otherwise. the reason i got the education because the citizens of new yorkis more important to do than to educate the next generation? and now in this phase of my life, i'm back at ccny with the powell school for civic and global leadership and proud of it. i'm doing the same thing with the people up there for a new generation of minority kids and immigrant kids that was done for me so many many years ago. >> i want to show a clip of you at ccny, it may be at the opening of the powell school. >> it isn't about colin powell and the colin powell school as it is named, it's about the kids. it's about the youngsters who come here seeking a better life, seeking to make their parents proud, seeking to be good citizens, seeking to do what they can for their fellow citizens. that's what it's all about. >> so many barriers have changed from those days in 1954 when i think you once told me when you were courting alma, your wife and driving down to birmingham, you couldn't stop at a public rest station or diner. >> couldn't stop. >> they were only a few places along th