sandy.that true mystery, what happened to the vibrant young mom who vanished from a seattle suburb endured for years. those who loved sandy johnson, those who longed for her return waited almost two decades for answers and a slice of justice. >>> the story starts in april 1996, april 26, to be precise. a friday. in the seattle area, the weather was doing what it does in this part of the world -- clouding up and spritzing rain. that day, sandy johnson, a 28 year old wife and mother had a to-do list as long as her arm. >> she was going to run and do all her errands that day to get ready for her son's birthday party the next day. >> vickie was a good friend of sandy's. they bonded in the hospital ach their sons, both premature were born on the same day. sandy was a little younger than vickie, a tiny woman with a huge zest for life. >> i loved being around sandy. seemed like she really cared about people. >> no one knew that better than sandy's cousins. they all grew up together. >> sandy is act

it was sandy's. and dna testing confirmed that sandy licked the envelope to seal it. now that sandy claimed the incident was an attack, investigators reviewed hospital medical records and discovered that the attending physician doubted a horse had done that damage. >> they were semi-circular in nature and there were a number of them, and they put lacerations in her head, which she had to staple shut. and he said it just didn't look like any horse kick injury i'd ever seen. >> dr. john hulsing was in the duysts' barn shortly after the incident. he, too, noticed inconsistencies. >> i went in that stall and i couldn't find any blood on the wall where this reportedly happened. it was all outside of the stall in the walk-in area. >> david duyst was confronted with the letter and denied that the incident was anything other than an accident. but he did make a confession. he admitted he was having an affair with his secretary, linda ryan, and that sandy had found out about it. david also gave police a voice mail sandy left on his office phone. he said it proved she was suicid

velcro man was sandy frank's idea.r, went to harvard law school, signed up with a boring town in manhattan, was instantly bored. he wrote a submission to the letterman show which dave loved. and sandy suddenly was in show business. here's a picture of some of the letterman writers in those days. there's sandy right beside chris elliot. sandy sometimes played wildly crazy characters on the show. sandy won four writing emmys working for dave. then he got another emmy nomination writing for "in living color." sandy went on to write for other comedies. i hired sandy for his first job in drama on a series i created for nbc. i couldn't have done that if sandy hadn't given me my first job as a tv writer on a comedy pilot that he was co-writing with matt wickline. i had been close to sandy in college and we grew closer after college. he helped me through some depressing years of struggle writing a book which he also helped show me how to write. two years ago sandy was diagnosed with a form of cancer that no one survives. the d

sandy. >> hi, my name is sandy blackman and first i want to thank supervisor yee for nominating me for serving on the childcare planning and advisory council and to the committee for considering my appointment. as brief background, i has been a san francisco resident for six years and has raised three children in the city. and i served in the leadership capacity for non profit organizations. for the past three and a half years, i've been the executive director of children's counsel where we help thousands of families per year and help low income san francisco families secure subsidies to pay for care, support and nurture the childcare sector, especially family child care homes, and work closely with our government and community base partners to insure that all san francisco families have access to quality early care and education. our organization works with families in supervisor yee's district including families in san francisco. 80 percent of the families who come to us are low income families looking for subsidies to help pay for care. we have a diverse staff that delivers services

. >> that's my sister sandy. >> her brother walter and his familiar wl told d inform a tests proved sandy and martha were identified as two previous jane does had were buried in a potters field in berks county in the late '60s. >> for awhile we thought maybe she was life. >> the girls bodies were he can humidity last fall as cold case unit with the pennsylvania state police started looking into the jane does on behalf of sandy's family. b county coroner said sandy was murdered in 1968. >> it was found along route 82. she had several bullet wounds in the abdomen chest and one in temple. >> reporter: body of unidentified marsha stiver was found about a year later in nearby french creek state park. the discover has brought relieve to sandy's family. her dad died in his 70s from cancer. but never gave up looking for her. sandy's mom is alive in ohio but in fragile health. >> especially 46 years not knowing. it's a shame. she gets close shower now. >> reporter: it's believe the girls may have been trying to hitchhike their way back to kansas when they vanished. the killer has never been found.

. >> that person was sandy lively, a remarkable physical match to ari squire. >> it's a creepy picture the hunter and i'm the prey. that's exactly how i thought about it. he was stalking. i mean, that's how i felt. >> he didn't know that he was a possible victim. he had no idea until we brought those pictures in. i mean, it was scary. that was really scary. >> strangely, ari, who normally didn't wear a beard, grew one in the weeks before the murder. >> ari starts to make himself look even more like sandy lively, and by growing a beard, the two almost looked like twins. >> when sandy agreed to do some work for ari, ari gave him this extraordinarily detailed job application. >> i've never seen an application that asked where a tattoo was at, what they were of and the piercings. if i had any piercings anywhere, i don't see how that would make a difference if i have a piercing if i want to be a carpenter. >> finally, sandy agreed to meet ari at his house, but fortunately for sandy, the meeting never took place. >> i was supposed to go to ari's on a saturday morning, and the night before, m

sandy, first of all, what wall of worry? had the vixx drop 11 today, first time in the years we've seen that. [laughter] oh, i'm sorry. and bruce. bruce, in fact, we're having trouble with sandy's shot. let me go to bruce. what's she talking about? yes, we could talk about the fact that there isn't a lot of fear, and what did you think of this jobs number? >> i think the number is solid. it gives you a sense of strong job gains holding through the spring, it gives you a sense of breadth across industries, a good sense of income being generated, and i think we want to think about against the cone text of an economy -- context that showed volatility during the first part of the year. i think it gives us confidence that growth is going to remain pretty good here through a lot of the questions we've been asking about other parts of the economic scene. liz: it is now appearing at least, sandy lincoln, that people are starting to believe it. but we've already had an unbelievable run of more than 100% gain for the s&p since 2009 an

. >> feeling the sting from sandy. why some businesses at the jersey store are still at square one nearly two years after the super storm. >>> we were worried it was going to harm the engine. >> face to face, take a look at this. local boaters describe for nbc 10 their close-up encounter with a great white shark right off the coast of the new jersey shore. >>> and head over heels. a pennsylvania bridge becomes a proving ground for some young people who gave a gold medal performance in their quest to become world record holders. >>> another set back for those who hope to bring sports gambling to new jersey. the us supreme court will not consider a bid to revive sports betting in the garden state. >> advocates think they have found another way to let you legally bet on some of your favorite teams. >> you can bet on the ponies and in the casinos. but state law says neither racetrack nor casino can take bets on the big or little games of any sport, pro or college. >> this could save live horse racing in new jersey. >> this

i want to speak on behalf of the c pack on behalf of the sandy's recommendation. sandy is being considered under the discretionary category and have the executive director of one of san francisco's resource and refer process is critical. she makes informed decisions and served -- excuse me, children counsel serves families across all districts and not just district 7, but all across the country. she brings a voice that serves families across the city. she's a leader and one of our most active leader. she mentioned being the chair of our children's fun and piece ad hoc committee that worked for month and months recommending recommendations and advocating for those priorities. in addition, due to a change in our previous chair schedule, she also chairs our budget and legislative committee. to be honest, i have no idea -- in addition to being the council, she's more of the most active members. on behalf of the c pack, we absolutely support sandy for the district 7 seat. >> any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. let me do th

sandy? >> thank you. i -- i set out on doing this because -- do you want me to tell how i came to write this book? >> if that's what you want. we want to know what you learned in the book. >> let's talk first about that then. i will explain later how i came to learn it, and why this became an obsession of mine. i was struck that there were myths about immigration that everybody came from certain places, as you suggested. that immigrants -- you know people use to say when they traveled, they traveled to prague, or to stockholm, ireland, dublin, poland. they said these people look just like americans, it was amazing to them. the reason for this was that we have all come from those places, of course we look like those people. what changed, and you alluded to this, what changed in the mid-60's, what began to change dramatically years later, the stream of immigrants to this country no longer looked just like the people in these favorite european destinations. admittedly, they weren't all favored european desti

connecticut's sandy hook advisory is reviewing current policies and making recommendations on school safety, mental health and gun violence prevention. the panel spoke to the parents and teachers using skype. the mother of one of the victims told them about gaps in school security and communication. >> many schools across the country are only have means of announcing a tragedy like this one. >> the panel in connecticut will use the testimony in its continued efforts to prevent future attacks. >>> a woman stripped of her title and crowned as mrs. delaware will get to keep her scholarship award. the 24-year-old lost her crown because she is apparently too old. pageant officials told her she can't hold the title because she will turn 25 before the end of the year. she did write her birthday on all pageant applications. in any case the officials decided the first runner-up who replaced her will also get to keep the scholarship money. >>> and then take a look. this is pepper. a snow sur and poodle mix. she was taken by a robber but is now back with the family. >>> your favorite brand of i

>> many who took part were directly affected by the mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school ine former new york mayor has become one of the most visible gun control advocates. >>> volunteers in connecticut are working together this weekend to build a playground in honor of one of the victims of the sandy hook school shooting. the group broke ground on this playground, the 23rd they built. they plan to build 26, one in honor of each victim. this one is in memory of 6-year-old sherman bacon. many of the volunteers have worked on several of the play grounds. >> i think it is very important to be a part of this great cause and a way of remembering all of these kids and the teachers and the principal for their sacrifice. >> the playground will be dedicated in charlotte's memory tomorrow. >>> it started with a wish to thank a soldier overseas. >> i can wake up with pride every morning. >> his company brought a moment of peace to thousands of soldiers overseas. tonight one life changing consequence that no one expected.

john's on the phone, sandy's there on camera as you can see. which has done very well, and we like to spread it out over five years because we know that can certainly gyrate the numbers, your average return has been about 19%. how are you proceeding today with your clients' money when we know that there's a disconnect between what's happening in the economy -- which is waverly -- and what's happening in the stock market which is strong. >> that's exactly right. our fund can be between 60-70% in stocks and 25-40% in bonds, and we are all the way down at about 25% in fixed income because we believe with interest rates at historic lows, now's the time to be selling bonds and try to increase your equity exposure -- liz: hold on. even with an incredibly weak gdp number for the first quarter that we got, down 3%, sandy? >> yeah. in fact, the fed has actually said that they've lowered their forecast, right? probably down to 2.1-2.3%. and janet yellen said she's going to keep rates lower for longer. but frankly, we think eventually rates will go up, is

dave and sandy lutgens both remembered eating a salad in their restaurant before getting ill.eds of their customers and most of their employees became ill too. at the county health department nurse diane kerr contacted everyone who fell ill and discovered they had all eaten a salad from one of ten local restaurants. >> most of the people seemed to have eaten potato salad. at another restaurant most of the people seemed to have eaten a green salad. and so what was going on? >> they looked at common suppliers of food. they looked, you know, where did everybody get their lettuce? where did everybody get this? where did everybody get that? >> we couldn't find one source of cucumbers or lettuce or of meat or of anything that would explain all those restaurants being contaminated at once. >> dr. michael skeels runs the laboratory that processed samples from the dalles salmonella outbreak. microbiologists discovered that all of the victims had the same strain of salmonella, one that was exceptionally rare. >> it was dulcitol negative, which means it didn't biochemically break down a

have done nothing to stop sandy hook so. right it's but it's a first step i mean having well no it's not a way to pass laws that you claim are so solving a problem that you that admit to actually doing nothing it would have solved that particular problem would have saw actually it might well do you know what i'm talking about the people who are saying that we need to close the gun show loophole you're right that wouldn't stop sandy hook if you talk about the people or say we need to go back to the legislation that ronald reagan supported the prevented the large clips and the assault weapons then you're wrong because well if we went with ronald reagan sandy hook wouldn't happen to scott we have ten seconds it's yours well i think the main problem is that people are always going to try there's a lot of disturbed individuals out there who are always going to try to do so we got in line for a want to and there's even a problem in china where they've been there it's very hard to get firearms there and they have a huge phenomenon

on behalf of the c pack, we absolutely support sandy for the district 7 seat. >> any other public comments on this item? seeing none, public comment is now closed. let me do this. both seats are important to me and as my colleagues know and i worked in early education for over 30 years and so it's -- these seats are -- knowing what c pack does is crucial to continuing to look at what the needs are in the early education for zero to five. it's one of those -- it's being to get recognition and beginning to -- for people to understand the importance of it, but there's still -- in many ways, that field has gone beyond the infant stage, but they're pretty much in the toddler stage when it's compared with other type of services that are crucial to our residents in san francisco. and to have rosalind step up at this point is crucial. to have that parent voice in there, a lot of times when we make decisions, we forget what parents really want and what maria torres who was in that role before, it was heard in what parents want and i think rosalind can fill her shoes for that. with sandy, since this

sandy and barbara were cross- matched with four other people. who they are is still unknown. all six people underwent sucessful surgeries. among the one thousand people at the san francisco kidney walk. there are many success stories. but there are thousands more still waiting to be written. reporting in san francisco, dan rubin, kron four news. american idol finalist scott macintyre made an appearance at the kidney walk. the singer was diagnosed with stage 4 kidney failure when he was a teenager. he describes what it was like to battle the disease from a young age. macintyre performed for over one thousand kidney disease survivors and their loved ones this afternoon. the event was held by the national kidney foundation. which raises money for kidney disease research. 7 people were killed in a private plane crash in massachusetts. it happened last night after taking off from hanscom field airport, outside boston. the plane was headed to atlantic city. among the victims was lewis katz, a media mogul popular in philadelphia. katz was a former owner of the n-h-l's new jersey dev

they're getting sandy. >> reporter: for some a summer night in the park left its mark.ers snapped photos to help capture the fun. many say they'll be back for a rematch soon. >> i know i'll be back. i have two months off and i'm going to and joy this summer down here. >> i can't wait to see what they do on july 4th. >> having been there tonight it's a place that you definitely want to check out this summer. the park is now open seven days a week through august 31st. you have all summer to enjoy this pop up park. >> phillies fans that for a special trip. check out this sipe line outside citizens bank park today. anyone brave enough to try it could ride for free. just a way for the phillies to give their fans a little fun. a lot of people enjoying that. >>> well some fun in the sundown in atlantic city. check out some of these works of art. this all part of the do ac sand sculpting world cup. you can see all kinds of sculptures like this in atlantic city all weekend long. >> and let's go to scott william for your saturday morning forecast. scott? >> looking pretty good if

. >>> superstorm sandy victims left without aid to ild. now we know what held up the money. >> and finally a breakra the storms. i'm watching to see i w ndst d >>> we will be on strike at 12:01 saturday morning. >> right now septa strike, nbc 10 has learned that septa regionalailke off the job at 12:01 after both sides couldn't agree on a deal. this affects thous o commuters who will have to make alternate plans to get to work. the last time this was a regional rail strike was back in 1983. george spencer has been following the story and joins us live in center city. tell us how things fell apart. >> reporter: jim, it seems that the ultimate frustration was really septa's atems to keep the union talking and delay the strike. in the end they had four years to talk. all of rl lines across the delaware valleare being brought to a halt and the union is telling aus of its workers to walk off the job. they serve some 60,000 commuters on a regular work day. pennsylvania suburbs, north delaware and trenton. septa had wanted the union to accept the

as hurricane sandy brushed passed south florida it was only a tropical storm. >> when sandy was coming -- >> reporter: if you lived beachside, like this man, you remember sandy. >> all of this was under water right here. >> reporter: in fact the tide got so high, he set up a camera to document the storm, making this time lapse record og of the flood waters rushing in over the sea wall, filling the streets and up his driveway, but sunset, the water sets to resed. when it's coming that high, what's going through your mind? >> what do i have to take with me? >> reporter: something experts at the national hurricane center hopes doesn't cause complacency. >> my fear is that people have forgotten what it's like. >> reporter: a storm surge expert the storm surge is the deadliest part of the hurricane. this year, they're unveiling their new storm surge graphic showing people how deep the water will be and how far inland the water is expected to go. revised evacuation zones that go must farther inland. >> evacuation zones are getting bigger because our understanding of hurricanes has improved.

one in one community we asked sandy busters if you will ready to go on hashi's which is where they are in ukraine today oh literally descendants. of the early here want to. leaders to me to show you how roche a cold blooded killer quoted him say publicly as he boasted of a wanting to kill the jews to legalize i'm sure which if i was in ukraine and what i know about nancy your story. i don't wait around for a bus to take me. i mean you know right away fascist most global research news have become the military enforcers for the new ukraine government the us has financed the new ukraine national gold ripples also mug shots of those he called the as off but highly and emblem is a combination of the notes the black and the division roy london sunday times the patel ian is responsible for bloodshed against civilians schools revulsion amongst the population nato has begun gladio full fledged operations in ukraine according to u.s. intelligence sources quoted by author william angle the operation is led by rightwing extremist you in a politically parts of right sector one of ukraine's big two

national security adviser sandy berger who joins us from washington.he global strategy and business advisory firm all bright stone bridge group. good morning. >> good morning. >> sandy, before we go further do you want to respond to the widespread criticism from the gop that effectively obama has made this situation worse by not attending to the detail over recent years and perhaps not acting sooner? >> i'm certainly glad he's taking his time to decide what the right course of action is here. the stakes are high in a situation. it's very complicated. going back to where this origin is, you can go all the way back to the original invasion of iraq where it's in the aftermath of that that groups like isis grew up. there is a lot of origins of this. i think it doesn't do us a lot of good to go backward here. >> i think we probably will over the coming days. for the moment, let's leave it there and stick to the present. how does president obama ensure that his legacy as president isn't the creation of a terrorist state that stretches from northern iraq into

we've learned so much from hurricane sandy. our national association of utility commissioners, neruc, issued a resolution after hurricane sandy calling for better coordination, heightened coordination. not only with regard to mutual assistance and how the utilities have traditionally worked. what do we do in response to a storm of such a magnitude as hurricane sandy? what are we doing to educate the public? and we are -- we believe that the -- we are technology neutral. so whatever the platform might be, the consumer comes to expect a certain level of service, a certain level of quality of service. certain consumer protections. and we support continuing that. we also support preparedness efforts, coordinating among the electric sector, the telecom sector, the departments of emergency response throughout the country, county and local officials. we also, too, want to ensure reliability. that's our core mission as economic regulators ensuring safe, reliable and affordable utility service. >> i guess my response is that we all want

we've learned so much from hurricane sandy. our national association of utility commissioners, neruc, issued a resolution after hurricane sandy calling for better coordination, heightened coordination. not only with regard to mutual assistance and how the utilities have traditionally worked. what do we do in response to a storm of such a magnitude as hurricane sandy? what are we doing to educate the public? and we are -- we believe that the -- we are technology neutral. so whatever the platform might be, the consumer comes to expect a certain level of service, a certain level of quality of service. certain consumer protections. and we support continuing that. we also support preparedness efforts, coordinating among the electric sector, the telecom sector, the departments of emergency response throughout the country, county and local officials. we also, too, want to ensure reliability. that's our core mission as economic regulators ensuring safe, reliable and affordable utility service. >> i guess my response is that we all want

. >>> two summers after sandy and volunteers still needed on the jersey shore. i'm brian thompson. i'll have that story. >>> ahead at 6:00, a local bridge is declared unsafe and closes without warning. what it means for commuters trying to get around one part of our area. >>> tomorrow is an important day for parents. it's national ask day. parents are encouraged to ask whether there is an unlocked gun in the homes where their children play. child experts say one out of three homes with kids has a gun. over a million of those guns are unlocked and loaded. the ask campaign says parents should approach friends, family members, even home-based baby-sitters about gun safety. >>> work less, sleep more. it's a combination many americans would probably enjoy. but it turns out it's happening a lot more already. a new survey from the labor department shows americans are spending less time working and more time catching zzzs. researchers say the recession and retiring baby boomers contributed to their findings. in a survey of 11,000 americans, the average day's rest equalled eight hours and 4

and 17 months after sandy, more like hurry up and wait. billions unspent, hundreds of homes not built. thousands of home owners not helped. let all that sink in, then ask yourself like chris christie was in such a rush to get that money out? >> there's only one person to blame for the continued suffering of these innocent victims. the house majority and their speaker, john boehner. neil: news flash, governor, they're still suffering. you got the money, please explain what and you so many other finger waving politicians back then did with that money? because i'm a little curious, and a lot of folks are a lot furious. so how about you, the folks watching in the folks affected? my thoughts, i would very much like to hear yours. use hashtag cavuto, you tweet it, we will share it. to the "wall street journal" laura cassiso who uncovered all of this coming to light right now. very good reporting. the bottom line is that a lot of money sits there, why? >> there are a couple of reasons for it. one of the reasons is federal bureaucracy around rebui

and after hurricane sandy some people were forced to go to wireless and it isn't the same. you have relability issues you don't have with wireline. >> guest: i think you are referring to the situation in fireland, new york, which is unique. it is an island that has a summer population predominantly. this was an example of the advanta advantages of a robust system. we could not rebuild the wireline structure between sandy and memorial day when the populati populati populati population surged. we put in wireless and got feedback and at the end of the summer we made the decision we would rebuild with fiber instead. this was an example where wireless provided a great short-term solution but we determined fiber was the right solution longer term. the trials are looking at issues with areas that go to wireless. we are looking at copper to fiber migration in my situation which doesn't produce the situations. customers are getting the same services at the same price just over a different fiber platform. >> another issue is the theft of smartphones. officials say a large number of c

fund out why the white sandy beaches are losing their appeal among tourists. >>> welcome back. the top stories here on al jazeera, a u.s. soldier is being flown to hospital in germany after beingersed by taliban -- being released by taliban fighters. sergeant bowe bergdahl was released in exchange for five taliban detainees from guantanamo bay. >>> a sudanese government official said a woman sentenced to death for abandoning islam may be released. >>> more on our top story. joining me from kabul is a former afghan member of parliament. thank you for being with us on the show. we know that there are ongoing peace talks between the taliban and the afghan government. how do you see the deal? how do you see it influencing the peace process in afghanistan? >> well, of course, living in qatar, it shows that taliban have been able to strike a deal with the united states directly, showing that the direct talks between the two are producing results. and it september a signal to the afghan government and the future deposit that the taliban are able to talk to the united states and vice v

this particular bill was passed three months before hurricane sandy. our guess is it would never have been passed if hurricane sandy had occurred in july. but hurricane sandy did occur and this past march the bill was not necessarily repealed but revamped, so to speak and we're now facing a challenge with respect to how you're going to have premiums reflecting risk because affordability dominated the issue appropriately so. so what we're faced with now, how do we deal with the short term challenges and how do we deal with issues like affordability so we can use tools that could be effective for therebyive thinking recognizing intuitive think cigarette often driving the kind of decisions that get made and we're facing this as of march how do we bring afford jblabili into the picture. >> the hallmark of the work that all five of you have done is that you've had -- you've done research impact which is academic, has to be in order to be done at a university but also had impact in the field. so in the audience we have folks from other academic institutions

the bill was introduced after the shooting at sandy hook elementary. it would require all elementary and secondary schools to be equipped with a panic alarm and red engineer lights for emergency situations like an active shooter or lockdown. >> here are the stories making headlines at 5:30. the truck driver charged in this weekend's deadly accident on the bo. a complaint showed the driver had not slept for more than 24 hours before the crash. one person was kill and four others were hurt including tracy morgan who is currently in critical condition. >>> protesters are marching through center city waiting for tom corbett and chris christie to attend a fund-raiser for the reelection campaign. tonight from ten dot's second largest project ever, a major project was supposed to start at 10:00, but delayed in the tomorrow. the fro ject is expected to last four years. >>> here at 5:30, the search for lurgulary suspects and caught on surveillance video. two men forced their way into the apartment and got away with $2500 worth of jewelry and electronics. >> mor

we've learned so much from hurricane sandy. our national utility commissioners issued a callingon after sandy for better coordination, not only with regard to mutual utilities and how the have traditionally worked, what do we do in response to a storm magnitude as hurricane sandy, what are we doing to educate the people and we believe that we are technology platformo whatever the might be, the consumer comes to expect a certain level of ofvice, a certain level quality of service, certain consumer protections and we support continuing that. we also support preparedness therts, coordinating among electric sector, the telecom sector, the departments of response throughout the country, county and local officials. we also, too, want to ensure reliability. that's our core mission as regulators, ensuring affordableble and service. >> we all have the same ambitions and goal, my concern into hurricane season again, which means the gulf coast and the east coast could weather event,or stressdo we -- are we testing, how are we sure as we g

we know where we were as a country after sandy hook, and is where we are now. do you have sense from your reporting and from, you know, inside the 1600 pennsylvania avenue there will be a concerted effort to do something, any kind of renewed energy focused on this part of gun safety refor the? >> unfortunately, i don't share dan's optimism on this. at the white house briefing, the president's spokesman reiterated his commitment to doing common sense as he calls it, gun reforms, background checks, obviously, for individual purchases. and then on the hill, senator joe manchin reportedly said today he wants his legislation, which was the premier legislation to push back, he wants that reconsidered. but we have fallen into the predictable pattern, which is that we have these moments of gun violence that are happening incredibly often. we calculate it at about 1.3 school shootings every week. keep in mind, there's not many school weeks during the summer. so we're having those moments all of the time. we have sort of crazy speculation about what kind of lengthive rea

sandy. >> sandy is an accelerant detection canine, a food reward dog, who only gets fed when she worksned nose can detect accelerants commonly used in arsons. but there was another force at work. the unit's controversial new director, jack balentine, a police detective but no prior background in fire investigations. >> i spent my whole career undercover. seemed like a great challenge. >> balentine was as comfortable posing as a hit man or drug dealer as he was in the media spotlight. his first move as director, launching an intensive training program to transform fire fight nears criminal investigators with the purr ower to arrest. and he admitted the learning curve was steep. >> we were pretty comfortable on a firetruck. pretty comfortable to fight a fire. then we are asked to investigate the fire. we really didn't have a clue. >> all they have got to do is just get probable cause. >> my job is to make sure that day can realize success on every one of the cases that they go on. >> between balentine's leadership, the clearance rate skyrocketed, solving just 22% of cases in 2007. 65% in

not only did we experience hurricane irene and sandy, we had five significant flood events since sandyate change assessment report. it shows. downpours are happening. in the last 50 years, downpour events have increased by 70% in the northeast. it's something we have to deal with. i'm excited that this plan will give us the opportunity to really comprehensively protect our cities. >> when you were on the show in january, while you were making allegations, you were appealing to governor christie for help with this. did you receive any help from them and have coordination with them as you were preparing the bid in the last few months? >> i think governor christie and his team made a decision that we were not going to take a public position on. they did help with coordinating and helping them with the process. >> i have to ask you this. we show the picture and the video from this past event. we know that the back story here is very surreal. that's the word we used to watch that. you are in the audience and they asked you to stand up and get applause. chris christie is 15 feet away. did yo

>> many who took part were directly impacted by the mass shooting at sandy hook elementary school back the former mayor has become one of the nation's most staunch visible gun control advocates donating millions of his own 34u7b to that cause. >>> volunteers in connecticut are working together this weekend to build a play ground in honor of one of the victims of the sandy hook school shooting. the group broke ground on friday. it's the 20th playground thigh have build. they plan to build 26, one in honor of each of the school shooting victims. this one is in memory of 6-year-old charlotte bacon who died in that december 2012 shooting. >> it's my third one, i think it's very important to be part of this great cause and remembering all these kids and the teachers and the principal for their sacrifice. >> kudos to that community for what they are doing to honor those victims. the playground will be dedicated to charlotte's memory this morning. rj coming up next, the giants game is decided by a unique and very unusual play. and the as were lights out against the yankees in the coliseum. it

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gerri: you mentioned sandy. that is my next question.it possible we get another big event here in the northeast, new york city? >> oh, certainly, certainly. in fact guys like me are look at this pattern and saying, it is almost almost i wrote about article bit on the eastern seaboard, we should be in the next three to four years in the time we were in the middle of 1950s. look at storm like sandy, 1933 we had a storm come in from the southeast into virginia beach, those storms, people go why are they occurring? i ask why haven't they occurred? you have to understand that we're in heightened period of peril, even though we're right around the corner to where hurricanes go down. by the way this cycle has not been as bad as 1931 through 1970. over 35 major hurricanes since the united states. since 1970. only 20. it is not as bad as what they told you is. gerri: talk about the weather, and said there is major global change going on, gerri? right. gerri: is there climate change. >> there is clot mat tick shift towards colder. climatic shift t

thank you very much for your consideration. >> thank you, sandy. next speaker, please. >>> good morning, supervisors. my name is [speaker not understood] and i am a member of the hiv planning council and i am also an iv care voice for the latino community. we are still asking for the supervisors to seriously consider including housing for the transgender community and the homeless latinos. they're still asking for somebody to give them the opportunity to have a roof over their heads. we are now facing with another problem. the recertification of hiv for the people that are receiving subsidies from the other places are being cut off because the rent certifications are not being complied with in a timely manner. therefore, the subsidy for housing has been taken away. we need to seriously consider a budget for people who are being put out in the street. these are women and these are children in the latino community, and most of them are not speaking citizens. so, we are faced with two problems and primarily we want you to reconsider adding these two p