is. >> were the slaves in new york city? no slavery ended in new york city over gradual period but it ended in 1827. however, southerners could legally bring their slaves with. the when they came to visit so there were slaves in the city put not local slaves. there will 12,000 blacks and were free blacks. beyond their being free they're situation was not measurably better than in the south. >> was it legal to buy and sell slaves. >> no, not after 1827. it was could freeing she slaves. they started that in 1798 and let got until 1827, partly to give the owners and the slave owners in new york enough time to find buyers in the south for their slaves. actually i should say that's my interpretation of it. i'm not sure that's true. actually, i'm sure that's true. sure. okay. i'm. >> i'm trying to imagine the geography of the factions in the city at the time. were abolitionists and republicans sort of occupying identifiable neighborhoods or kind of mixed. >> a very good question and, yes, they were. abolitionism tended to by a new

there slaves in new york city at this time? >> no. slavery was ended in new york city over a gradual period, but it ended in 1827. however, southerners could legally bring their slaves with them when they came to visit, is so there were slaves in the city but not local slaves. there were about 12,000ing blacks, and they were free blacks. beyond their being free, their situation was not measurably better than being in the south. >> was it legal to buy and sell slaves -- >> in no. >> -- in new york city. >> not after 1827. one of the reasons -- they started, it was called manumission, they started that in 1798 and let it go until 1827 partly to give the owners, the slave owners in enough time to find buyers in the south for their slaves. actually, i should say that's my interpretation of it. i'm not sure that's true but, actually, i'm sure that's true. [laughter] sir, okay. >> i'm trying to imagine the geography of these various factions in the the city at the time. were abolitionists and republicans sort of occupying identifiable

reputation of all, new york city subway. >> there are weirder things that have happened on the new york city subway today. >> reporter: time for the moment of truth. 31. i am blown away. i thought this would be dirty but it is totally clean. in new three surfaces we test are clean but now let's take this challenge to los angeles. >> l.a. metro. >> reporter: swabbing this train pole. >> you can see the dirt on the swab. i don't know what it will come out with but that's visible dirt. >> 189, really dirty. >> reporter: not going so well in l.a., but what about germs above ground on this l.a. teaming with bacteria. gross. >> reporter: think that's bad, watch this credit card machine. >> more than three times the bacteria level you want to see. use cash. >> reporter: surfaces we test in l.a., all dirty. we shared results with our nbc medical contributor. >> exposure to bacteria virus can make you very sick. it is simple how fast it can happen. touch the pole, wipe your nose or your eye, you sick. >> reporter: we have one more city to go. these results are the most surprising. chicago calls

about the life of a new york city cop. >> how are you doing? my name is steve osborn and i used to be a new york city cop for 20 years, and yes, thefo accent is real. but the funny thing is i didn't know i had an accent nil came to savannah. i was a cop for 20 years and then i became a writer. people asked me how you go from being a cop to a writer. don't liketling the story especially at a back festival with other writers because they want to strangle me. happened by depend. -- action dent. when you're a cop you have no life. i'm working around the clock. i'm working nights, weekends, holidays, never home. then all of a sudden i'm retired. and i'm sitting there and stare at the walls. first thing did was to move the sofa from there to there.. and my wife says, what are you doing? she goes, you haven't been homea in ten years. put that sofa back writ was. -- where it was. so i did. so now i'm sitting there and i'm kind of bored, and i don't know why. i guess everybody had that little voice in the back of their head that whispers in their ear wha

it's going on right here in new york city. a growing number of people doing what was unthinkable in the co and more and abc's will gans climbed on board the manhattan's east river to get a closer look at the fishing fishermen who have taken up some urban angling. >> reporter: it runs through the heart of new york city. bordered by factories and highways, fed by the most polluted creeks in america. a famed final resting place, a punch line for generations. >> the east river? the most contaminated? on the eastern river? >> reporter: forget that. we're going fishing on the east river. welcome aboard the capital princess, this is your assistant captain, will, speaking, we're going to catch serious fish. >> reporter: it's the ultimate in urban angling. fishermen casting lines in the shadows of some of new york city's most soaring skyscrapers, some even eating the catch. more on that later. the best way to learn about it is do it, right? princess was anything but smooth sailing. there was not a lot of instruction. i just got the pol

up in new york city cooler, 68 degrees in central park and in northern new york, buffalo and binghamton still in the 50s. 72 not too shabby in pittsburgh. as we look at winds again not all that strong 7 miles per hour here and 15 up in new york city. there is a chance that at times you get the breeze kicking up in

robbery pattern, and to be honest, it's a hypothetical that sadly mirrors the crime situation in new york city, that preys on minority victims in minority neighborhoods. when you look at who is committing robberies in new york, blacks are 23% of the population, they commit 70% of all robberies. whites by contrasts are 34% of the population and commit four percent of all robberies. so it's in those minority neighborhoods where you have elderly people, getting stuck up. so, when he came up with this pattern, out one that his police officers here again and again, not from themselves but from the victims of robbery themselves and it's -- police officers hope against hope that they will for once gate description of a suspect in a violent street crime, whether it's a drive-by shooting or robbery, that it white, but given the fact how crimes distributed in cities today that almost never happens. >> host: one definition of racism -- the definition i called classic racism -- you take the behavior of a few people, from a particular group, and then project that behavior on to everyone in the group. we ha

it's not our job to serve all new york city immigrants. we do it in partnership with our sister agencies in the new york city government, with the really rich and broad kind of community of community-based organizations in new york, faith, labor, business. you know, we work with all kinds of stakeholders and partners who see the benefit in supporting new york city immigrants. and then i think another sort of key to our success is thinking about, you know, testing innovative policies and programs, new approaches for delivering services, connecting to immigrants. we -- i think probably the best known program that we've launched in this administration is the idnyc program, new york city's municipal i.d. card which was launched at the beginning of 2015, so less than two years later, one in ten new yorkers has a municipal i.d. card. it's just been tremendously successful. i'm happy to talk about it more. i think it's been a really great learning experience for us. the partnerships and collaborations that need to happen, and how to design program

new orleans. that has absolutely no connection to the city of new orleans. now, the company was operated with an elected official as a co-owner, which, i think, is deplorable. and i think that that we should be looking at prosecution for. the owners of the company. but to just single new orleans as some decided we wouldn't enforce the law is just incorrect. mr. butterworth let me ask you a question. when did you all initiate trying to make sure that the city's policy was consistent with federal law. >> so we began the drafting of this policy in march of 2015 and we began discussions with i.c.e. in september. those have continued on both the local and headquarters level and at no point at anyone at i.c.e. ever say that this policy didn't comply with federal law. at what point is it your office's opinion at any time did they not comply. >> the justice department, at least the policy, in february complied with federal law. the revisions that we just put into effect were made out of an abundance of caution after we received inquiries from officials in louisiana

it is not our job to serve all new york city immigrants. we do it in partnership with our sister agencies throughout the new york city government with the really rich and broad community of community based organizations in new york, faith, labor, business. we work with all kinds of stakeholders and partners who see the benefit in supporting new york city immigrants. then, another sort of key to our success is thinking about testing innovative policies and programs, new approaches, for delivering services, connecting to immigrants. i think probably the best known program that we've launched in this administration is the idnyc program. it's new york city's municipal i.d. card, which was launched at the beginning of 2015. less than two years later, 1 in 10 new yorkers have a municipal i.d. card. it has just been tremendously successful and i'm happy to talk about it more. i think it has been a really great learning experience for us and the partnerships and collaborations that need to happen and how to design a program so they are useful and be

nyc program, it's new york city's municipal i.d. card which was launched at the beginning of 2015, so less than two years later 1 in 10 new yorkers has a municipal i.d. card. it's just been tremendously successful and i'm happy to talk about it more but i think it's been a really great learning experience for us in the partnerships and collaborations that need to happen and kind of how to design programs so that they're useful and beneficial to immigrant new yorkers and to all new yorkers. i think we've learned that that's a real necessary ingredient for program success. >> so from what i know it sounds like the nyc i.d. doesn't just benefit immigrants. it didn't come out of your office. or did it? >> we were one of the agencies involved? >> so the idea is that if you have one of these i.d.s that you have access to a bunch of things and it provides city agencies and other organizations i.d. but i guess you've got 1 in 10 now. do you have a sense of how well people are using this? what share are immigrants or foreign-born people? what

or do you think this is something that will work in new york city and start and end it can work in new york city, it can work anywhere." and we want to be as successful as possible with this service. we know many other cities could use a service like this. i did not tell you that we are also providing trained counselors who speak spanish, mandarin, cantonese, and other languages. soledad: it is not inexpensive. mrs. mccray: the service itself? who are calling. but for the city to fund this with the languages and support across every level, its not cheap. mrs. mccray: i think it is actually. you have to take into consideration we lose so much money by not treating this properly. we estimate $14 billion in lost productivity because we are not dealing with mental illness and substance misuse in the right way. alcohol related emergency room visits to hospitals because they weren't treated because of alcohol alone. we know that people lose many years of their life because of substance use disorders, and they lose their life as well. soledad: i'm looking forward to chatting again in a year a

new york city police say they've shot and killed a police say they've new york city new york city they've shot and killed a woman.. who tried attacking them with scissors and a baseball bat.. the incident happened inside an apartment in the bronx last night.. officers say they were responding to a call about an emotionally disturbed person..when they found the 66-year old.. they say a sergeant persuaded the woman to drop the scissors... but she then grabbed a baseball bat and tried to hit him.. that's when the sergeant fired off two shots.. the woman was taken to a hospital, where the days until the end of his presidency... he hosted his final state dinner at the white house last night. fox's jackie ibanez -- has more.. 0:34-0:47 matteo renzi / italian prime minister 0:57-1:04 john kerry / us secretary of state 1:32-1:39 jackie ibanez / fox news correspondent (on-cam "fox news" tag) president obama hosting his last state dinner as leader of the united states. the president and the first lady welcomed the italian prime minister and his wife as their final guests tuesday night. coming as th

the preliminary report into that deadly train crash near new york city. the ntsb releasing a new image of the train the roof peeled back there. one woman was killed. authorities say the train nearly tripled its speed just 38 seconds before the crash. the emergency brake was activated less than one second before impact. >>> robin williams' prized collection on the auction block now. the late actor at one point owning more than 100 bicycles. many are stunning one of a mind some valued up to $15,000. the money going to his two favorite charities. >>> well, the hockey rookie off to a hot start. 19-year-old auston matthews playing his first nhl game, scoring the first goal of his career, moments later, scoring for the second time. apparently that wasn't enough. then he scores his third goal of the game. you get how this goes. then comes goal number four. a report for a player in his first game. his mother in the stands there moved to tears. and look at this, holding four pucks to celebrate history made. america strong. the nobel committee announcing a major win

and it was his promise to rebuild a splended city hall and a new civic center area. after the earthquake destroyed the board's legislative chambers, the board of supervisors meetings were held at several temporary sites, and in 1911, 1231, market street, became the official temporary city hall during the creation of the plans and the construction to rebuild city hall and the city. in 1912, the voters finally approved the issuance of a $8 bond for the new city hall and a civic center. a design competition began for the best design despite the fact that there were limited architects registered in office design in california. in 1912, the winning design was awarded to the arther brown firm of bake well and brown, and in 1913, the ground breaking commenced for the new city hall, city hall was newly opened on february, 20th, 1915. and was dedicated to coincide with the panama pacific international ex-poe tigs, occurring in the city. but the boards legislative chambers would not be finished for another year. in part due to its ornate and stunning workmanship. finally, on oc

city. >> while new york city is the safest large city in america, and crime has been going down, one of the reasons that crime is going down is because the police do make a lot of arrests, and everybody who gets arrested and who doesn't get bailed out comes to us. >> get arrested in the big apple, and you're almost assured of a trip to rikers island, a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of laguardia airport. connected to the mainland by a narrow two-lane bridge, the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> -- is coming through here if they're coming from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they're tired. they're dirty. they're hungry. and you saw everything there, whether it was somebody who was from wall street who was charged with fraud or whether it was the lowest of the low of the drug dealers. >> get between 80, 90 admission a day. around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> what size do

headline right here in new york city tonight. a court appearance for the suspect in the bombings that rocked new york and new jersey last month. abc's linsey davis now with our first look at the suspect since that day on the gurney. >> reporter: bandaged and bedridden, today, ahmad rahimi, the man accused of three bombings in new york and new jersey last month, made his first appearance in court via video conference from his hospital room. >> were you provided with a copy of complaints charging you with various offenses from the city of linden? >> yes. >> reporter: his attorney at his bedside entered a plea on his behalf of not guilty to five counts of attempted murder of a police officer and weapons offenses. the last time we saw rahimi, he was on this stretcher after a shootout with police. rahimi was cooperative during the arraignment, answering "question" to several of the judge's questions, but he made no other statements. bail is set at $5.2 million. david? again tonight. >>> overseas tonight, and the pentagon now making goo

from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm reena in new york city, i'm reena ninan. captioning funded by cbs in new york city, i'm reena ninan. >>> it's monday, october 3rd, 2016. this is the "cbs morning news." >>> donald trump's reported 916 million dollar tax write-off raises more questions about trump and the federal tax code. >>> monster storm. very dangerous hurricane matthew moves through the caribbean with 130-mile-per-hour winds. >>> and reality tv star kim kardashian is allegedly held up by armed robbers in paris and millions of dollars in jewels 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> donald trump says his knowledge of u.s. tax laws makes him the ideal candidate to fix them. he doesn't deny that those laws allegedly let him avoid federal taxes for nearly two decades. jamie yuccas is following campaign reaction to a report about trump's taxes. good morning, jamie. >> reporter: good morning, am presidential candidate's rival, democrat hillary clinton called the tax report a bombshell. but trump's a

this was on flight 201 coming in from new york city's laguardia airport. the plane landed safely here at mitchell but the man caused local law enforcement met flight 201 and removed the passenger the flight took off from new york city just before 8 p-m and landed in milwaukee around 8:45. a source with knowledge of what happened tells fox6...a man started acting suspiciously and things escalated quite quickly. the source says the flight attendants had to detain the passenger. southwest officials say their primary concern is the safety of their customers. they say they are on the incident. interfering with flight crew members or flight attendants is a federal offense. live from mitchell airport deandra corinthios fox6news. brendan dassey's case is one step closer to being back in a courtroom. attorney general brad schimel filed an opening brief in federal court yesterday -- appealing a ruling that overturned dassey's conviction. in august, a federal court ruled dassey has been coerced by investigators into confessing to helping his uncle, at that time, the j

and new york city alone you may have about 43% of children who are proficient. that includes those childrens who come from wealthy backgrounds. children in sixth grade should not be responsible for taking exams that are filled with research documents that i had to read in college. those researcherred did not make the tesss off a sixth grate comprehension tess. neither was a book made in 19450. if we don't start pushing our legislators, with we don't start showing up and asking the good questions, how can i help? or i sitting next to a child and asking them, what did they learn today? ... what do you think i important for young people such as myself who are considering working in education, i'm to understand that it takes a heartbeat the potential that educators have to have a positive impact for their students and why? >> are you currently education major? >> i'm not currently. >> okay. so, the thing about education is a lot of focus on theory and not practice. and so what i would suggest is that if you have the opportunity of volunteering, perhaps meeting with

the new warning for people who live in cities and other polluted areas. you're watching "world news cc1 >>> bravo on the choice of song because here's the story. if you're a city dweller, you'll be shocked what's under your skin. >> nearly half of americans live in cities with unhealthy levels of pollution that dry and dull and even prematurely age your skin. >> good news is there are easy steps to take to combat all that. >> move to the country. >> reporter: well but now some experts say your skin may have a new enemy. pollution. dae that over the last few years finds pollution from car exhaust and emissions, tiny particles 20 times smaller than skin pores causes inflammation and irritation and could accelerate signs of ageing like wrinkles and brown spots. >> a a lot of the matter in the your skin. >> reporter: one study supported by a a cosmetics company compared two groups of women and found those living in the city had a 20% increase in hyperpigmentation and wrinkles than those living in the country. 23-year-old chelsea biles has been living in new yo

. >>> next to new developments after the bombings in new york city and new jersey. the fbi and police raiding the home of the suspected bomber in elizabeth, new jersey, today. investigators say they still don't have a complete picture of rahami's motivations or movements. he's still in the hospital. unable to be questioned due to injuries sustained when he was arrested. >>> next to new developments after the rush hour nightmare just outside of new york city, in hoboken, new jersey. the train crashing into the station. the train did so much damage to the station, the recorder and a camera in front are still out of reach. david kerley is at the scene again tonight for us. >> reporter: more scenes tonight of the moments after the crash. and that lead car, which slammed through the stop bumper, flying into the platform. the damage so significant, investigators can't get to all the wreckage. only one data recorder has been recovered. which has been sent to the manufacturer to read out the data. the train headed south at 7:23 in the morning. just after 8:00, cameras catch

. >> i was reading an article that you are comparing this to the plaza in new york city. house so? you come into the plaza. that is what we feel about this building. i have toward this hundreds of time. you cannot do anything like this again. the crash mansion -- craftsmanship is great. >> what is the toughest part aboutt this off the ground. >> a lot of moving parts. we are dealing with a historic building so we have to be very sensitive to the nature and the historic basis of the building. obviously, from a financial standpoint, we have to convince the capital markets that cleveland is not only booming but ready for a -- project. you have to convince the people there typical sales pitch or tell me what you would say if you are trying to get $300 million for project like this. >> we say that this building was sitting in manhattan this would be 3 billion. this is -- this is a portfolio asset force. we are putting on money where our mouth is and we want them to do the same. this us. >> you are a florida-based property. which is the difference between developing something there and d

from fox business headquarters in new york city, the new "wall street week."hony: welcome to "wall street week," the show of record for long-term investing. i'm carr. gary: i'm gary kaminsky. jpmorgan getting things started on a positive note beating estimates. other banks include city group and the profits came in slightly lower. investors keeping a close eye on wells fargo which did beat estimates but profits slid lightly over news of its sales scandal. anthony: next week we'll see 90s & p 500 companies reported. goldman sacks, just to name a few. we'll turn now to former goldman sachs partner partner danielle dimartino booth. and peter kiernan. >> you have h elevated stock prices and earnings growth that doesn't seem to be measuring up. i don't know how long those two things can be out of balance. how are you going to grow your business at 15% earnings with 1% economic growth and nothing happening in europe. that's the essence of the question. gary: danielle, the fed which has created this base asset prices, stock prices, they don't seem to be indicating th

she lived in new york city. and would take those home and distribute those to some of the homeless or people that were in need. and she'd see >> she would see that they were distributed and used. and i'm sure that didn't go with airline policy. but this is her with her husband. the beginning of her career. over here you have items that belong to first officer leroy homer. he was a graduate of the united states air force academy. and his luggage tag from united airlines. >> also has marion britain that is traveling with martinez. they were traveling for the u.s. census bureau. he is a 21 year veteran of the census bureau but this is the bronze medal he received for exceptional service. i think the other neat piece that we have here, this is the congressional gold medal that was struck for flight 93 and then in 2003 that was presented here on set 11th to the site for the actions of the passengers and crew in flight 93. so you have both sides represented there. and it's important to say that each site, each of the

go, new york city! and i'm nervous because we're about to test the place with th >> and just a guy swabbing for germs with latex gloves on. there are weirder things that have happened on the new york city subway today. time for the moment of truth. 31. i am really blown away by this one because i thought this would definitely be dirty, but it is totally clean. in new york, two out of three surfaces we test are clean. but now let's take this challenge to los angeles. no here is the l.a. dirt on the swab. i don't know what it is going to come out with. that is visible dirt. >> 189. the pole, really dirty. not going so well in l.a. but what about the germs above ground on this l.a. city bus? 259 on this bus pole. teeming with bacteria. gross. think that is bad? watch what happens when i swab this cab's credit card machine. more than three times the bacteria level you want to the surfaces we test in l.a. all dirty. we shared our results with nbc medical contributor dr. john torres. exposure to this bacteria

the deadly six-alarm fire here in new york city. the >>> the major storm hitting. snow, ice, freezing rain from d.c. to philly to new york. >>> the college student accused of sexual assault, and tonight, the list of women. what was allegedly discovered in the book next to his bed. >>> diane sawyer is here tonight. isis in america. one-on-one with the college grad, the star student behind bars. his stunning answer, what drew him to isis. >>> and made in america is back. come with me to the statue of what we discovered. >>> good evening. and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy thursday night. and tonight, 12 days to go. new polls just out in the key battlegrounds showing a tightening race between hillary clinton and donald trump. today, for the first time, first lady michelle obama walking out onto that campaign stage, right there with hillary clinton, with her own message about clinton, saying this is not over. and it comes as the clinton team faces a new wikileaks headline involving money made by bill clinton after the white house. what one e-mail ref

she talked about her role on the high court and her childhood in new york city. this is from the equal justice conference in washington, d.c.. it's an hour. welcome to the equal justice works conference. i am the proud executive director. you are in for a treat today a conversation between the justice of the united states supreme court and the judge e on the cot of appeals for the seventh circuit. let me quickly get, where debato they fit like liquor, you took it. that's okay. so, justice kagan needs no introduction. serving as the associate white house counsel, the dean of harvard law school and first solicitor general seized 112 justice and fourth woman to serve on the united states supreme court. our moderator has also dedicated all of her career to public service. she was the first woman of color to serve as division chief in the office in chicago and the u.s. district court for the district in illinois. she is the first and only judge of color on the u.s. court of appeals. she cofounded just the beginning foundation a pipeline organization that aims to incre

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