. >> josmar: this is rockaway park further down you call it far rockaway there's also rockaway beach.lot of different parts to it. >> anthony: josmar trujillo, a writer and local activist. >> anthony: you from queens originally? >> josmar: i was raised in the city but i lived in queens for most of my adult life now. >> anthony: and rockaway now? >> josmar: no i so i left here a little, about a year after hurricane sandy, 'cause the way sandy hit and the way that it kind of you know shook people out of where. you didn't want to put your family through that again, the risk of that. >> anthony: how bad did it get hit out here? >> josmar: this was like something out of a movie. >> anthony: hurricane sandy pounded the east coast in 2012 and many communities suffered, but the rockaways were hit with a particular ferocity. >> anthony: how was the response? >> josmar: you know, the response from everyday people was good, like one of the best things about what happened right afterwards was the way a lot of people came together who lived here, but also how a lot of people kind of came in, pitch

there is another one of fishermen in the rockaway in queens, balanced on a pier and ll the next shotlike they are going to n the inlet. despite all the conditions around them, they are enjoying themselves. obviously, some gravitational pull for all of us, seei photos from the time we knew that we passed through, seeing that fullness of a given epoch era. but here it is more about how im is at of potential decline but also of resurrection. i would hope that people walk away with the notion that parts -- parks are essential to the quality of life in our cities,ir and that treservation couldn't be considered something enripheral in the management of the urban enviro laura: a new york summer. i am laura trevelyan. thanks for watching "bbc world news america." >> with the bbc news app, our vertical videos e designed to work around your lifestyle, so you can swipe neur way to the of the day and stay up-to-date with the latest headlines you can trust. download now from selected app stores.>> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation,er kooundation, pursuing sol

probe, but investigators want to ask about the sale of the rockaway brand. the group he sold it to is being investigated for fraud. you got to go. >>> you don't have 99 problems, but he has one. "early start" continues right now with the credibility of the president once again on the line. >>> i can't get into the details of the ongoing litigation. i have given the best information i had at the time. >> i have given you the best information that i had. >> i have given you the best information that i had. >> the white house struggling for words after rudy giuliani admitted the president did pay back stormy daniels the money. >>> south korea's top national security official is in washington ahead of nuclear talks with north korea. now donald trump reportedly taking steps to reduce the u.s. presence in the south. >>> and mandatory evacuations in hawaii as the kilauea volcano erupts. emergency resources deployed as lava heads for residential areas. look at those pictures. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm christine romans. >> i'm dave briggs. happy sta

aka jay z knows about iconic brands and its dealing with him and the brands he has jay z owned the rockawaye selling it to i conix and this i conix has lost a lot of its market value over the past year. they say, jay z, through an attorney that he has not made any dates available for when he will show up for potential testimony. however, this is something that we're keeping an eye on. a very big anything in the world of media and music and everything else. the s.e.c. wants to find out what he knows about a possible securities violations or laws on iconix back to you, guys. >> thank you very much for that. meanwhile, what a day, tesla not the only story, the ten-year low, a two-week low. and off down a full percent. >> it is tech not suffering as much as some others in that selloff. i was looking at microsoft apple holding up better than the and far as companies doing pretty well, iac is up 1.5%. >> and in terms of companies not doing so well, a ig leading financials well. a big move in the nasdaq, almost 9% >> and so much almost got lost with tesla overshadowing so much other news let's get

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you go to rockaways or long beach.out there in the snow. >> seth: and you just wet suit it out. >> yeah you wet suit it out. it's not so much the water. it's getting out. you know you take and you're like half naked. it's 20 degrees outside. you're driving back and you're soaking wet truck. and it's just not the most comfortable thing. you wear the hood, the booties and all that. i did take the hood off in the water one time. >> seth: mistake? >> it was a sunny day. you know -- i thought it was in the 30s, 40s. i took the hood off. i dipped my head into the water and you ever had an ice cream headache? >> seth: yeah. [ light laughter ] >> this was like that only the ice cream was like sledge hammer flavored and i was being smashed -- my skull was being smashed at all angles. i wrote a note in the sand -- i got out of the water, wrote a note in the sand, never do that again. >> seth: that's helpful. so "westworld" not only is this a wonderful show, it is a show that there are many fan theories. >> yes. >> seth: and i as

the last of the six that we did not touch on i would like, hamilton's legacy other than on rockaway. >> hamilton is crucial in solving the debt problem. in 1790, 91. >> which was a gigantic problem. >> i think influence has been exaggerated. capitalism owes more to all of .hose northern entrepreneurs hamilton actually did not like them. he wanted a natural -- national bank. he cannot stand the hundreds of state banks that would be created. -- that is how little they understood the future. the economy would have been frozen. thathave been stymied if have been rigidly enforced. states get around that by banks. which in turn issued paper. hundreds of banks. that paper money is the capital that feeds the economic powwow that emerges. of rhode island, as a colony, was notorious for printing paper money. sot is why madison hated it much. he was glad they did not come to the convention. as the states print the money, that turns rhode island into an economic powerhouse. by the end of the 19th century, rhode island has the five largest manufacturing firms in the world. engines, jewelry, steam