on fried chicken waffles but i wanted to try another diner so i went to another diner miss american jersey citye stainless steel on the outside. i wanted to have a -- so i went in and spoke with a new owner john marketti. >> it's americana. you don't see this anymore the small homage -- hometown places. >> he sat me down on a stool at the counter. and made me a milkshake from one of the old original milkshake makers. it was outstanding and he told me he knows everybody that comes in there so i left having a day of fantastic jersey fun. i'm going to hit more diner so i want to know what your favorite diners are so i can go. >> people are shooting. >> a very unique skill set. wednesday the skills were at work. >> how about that? >> it? rohan you are chasing -- new jersey india golf with her. >> she is 17 years old. that was perfect. east brunswick high school senior. she's the reigning miss teen new jersey usa. student council president and several languages performs in school plays and she's competing for miss teen usa in august in the bahamas to try to bring the title back to new jersey. do you

landing in numerous american cities including new york, new jersey, buffalo, and atlanta.rches have so far turned up nothing. still enough to rattle nerves with more than 37 million americans traveling over this holiday weekend. a 10-year record according to aaa. and in washington, d.c. amid huge crowd. police grew worried over the weekend about a suspicious car parked near the capital the they said it smelled of gasoline and contained a propane tank and pressure cooker. but once the bomb squad destroibd tdestro destroyed the cooker it was never intended to do any harm. that was tom foreman reporting from washington. >> a deadly weekend in the u.s. city of baltimore. police say 28 people have been shot since friday and nine of them have died. the surge of shootings added to the record breaking violence. the "baltimore sun" reports 35 people have been killed so far this month. making it the deadliest month in the city in more than 15 years. >> disheartening we are seeing such an increase in violence. especially when you think about the progress that we have made. we have co

deal with some planes coming from europe and the middle east landing in numerous american cities including new york new jersey atlanta. searches have so far turned up nothing. still, it was enough to rattle nerves with more than 37 million americans traveling over this holiday weekend. a ten-year record according to aaa. in washington, d.c. amid huge crowds police grew worried over the weekend about a suspicious car parked near the capitol that smelled of gasoline and obtain as propane tank and pressure cooker. once the bomb squad destroyed the cooker investigators determined it was never intended to do any harm. in retrospect all of this may see overly reactionary, essential poily to people who's holiday plans were erupted. there's no choice in this day and time than to take every threat seriously, because they never know when one might really be serious. john? >> the caution is quite understandable. tom foreman, thank you so much. >>> the politics lead. when you thought it couldn't get bigger the 2016 presidential field will expand even more this week. expected to delair candidacy on the republican side for

with some planes coming from europe and the middle east, landing in numerous american cities including new york, new jerseyned up nothing. still, it was enough to rattle nerves with more than 37 million americans traveling over this holiday weekend, a ten-year record according to aaa. in washington, d.c., amid huge crowds police grew woreried over the weekend about a suspicious car parked near the capitol. they said it smelled of gasoline and contained a propane tank and pressure cooker. with you but once the bomb squad destroyed the cooker investigators determined it was never intended to do any harm. authorities don't really know for sure but they're investigating the possibility that all of these threats to the planes may have come from a single person maybe more than one, but possibly one person possibly upsetting travel for so many millions of people brianna. >> oh, so inconvenient on a day like today. tom foreman, thank you so much. now to the war against isis and tough new comments by defense secretary ashton carter say that go iraqi forces showed no will to fight, to hold on to the key city of rama

city and chester in at 71. seventy-two in oxford. down across new jersey, upper 60's from bridgeton vineland, 71 in browns mills and 72 for both american in a and hockessin. check out dew point that is level of the moisture in the at in months fear with highs still remaining still into unday. high on monday and on tuesday no relief coming until the the middle half of the week ahead and beyond. we will show you why it is so humid overhead, satellite six with action radar showing you just to the north and west we're tracking a a frontal boundary. tapping in the southeasterly wind tonight very warm, stick any advance of the warm front that will eventually make progress to the south and east. best dynamic has been across interior northeast region and also great lakes and ohio valley. this will dip in the south and east sunday. set up tomorrow sunshine giving way to increasing cloud, still very warm high up to 87. we will track this front getting closer to the region and essentially stalls out over next couple of days. showers and storms, looking to be more numerous. so what to expect tomorrow. scattered afternoon showers and storms coming

city. >> oh, looks so nice down there. >> beautiful sunrise thanks, jan. >>> fifty people will commemorate memorial day by becoming americans naturalization ceremony on the battleship new jersey and camden. four of the new americans served in the military, the battleship will also hold a wreath ceremony remember americans who died while serving our country. >>> washington helped the roar of motorcycle engines. thousands of bikers saluted veterans with the rolling thunder ride for freedom. after rally at the pentagon, they crossed the potomic crews around the national mall. bikers also gathered elsewhere around the country. >> later today president obama is scheduled to lay a wreath at the tomb of the unknown soldier, as the ceremony takes place the president's defense secretary is now openly questioning iraqi forces' will to fight in battle. the latest from kim. >> us defect secretary made waves when he said iraqi troops forces the us spent billions training, weren't up to the fight against isis. >> the iraqi forces just showed no will to fight. they were not outnumbered. but, in fact, vastly outnumbered the opposing force, yet they failed to fight. >> after the iraqi city of

american dream. only on al jazeera america. >> part of our month long look at working in america. "hard earned". >>> so what do you do with a dubious distinction, the most dangerous city in america? camden new jersey faced the moniker, and "america tonight" turned its focus on efforts of reform beginning two weeks ago. now president obama touted camden as a model for other cities. let's make a difference from "america tonight"s adam may. >> reporter: a camden police officer confronted by a woman hiding in a shower with a 12 inch knife. for police station, the dangers of the job are very real. nothing like it used to be. >> shooting homicides in the alley up here - there was a homicide tlsks a shooting in the -- there was a shooting in the store behind us. >> there's a lot of crime rate. it's hard to imagine, it looks clean. >> it's different. >> officer christian jeffreys walks the beat in camden's fairview neighbourhood. >> all done for the summer? >> good. >> he's one of 400 officers on patrol in america's dangerous city. in 2013 camden dismantled its police department, bringing in blood. the orders - engage in real community policing. more boots on the ground. 8-hour patrol shifts on foot. maki

city's deadliest no in years. >>> new jersey star ledger says an american who recently visited liberia in north africa died mondayw jersey hospital. the cause of the death was fever, a disease that's rare in the united states. the patient had no symptoms when they arrived at jfk airport. he fell sick the next day and went to the hospital. >>> "the boston globe" said they will not hear the appeal of tom brady. an investigation found brady probably knew the patriots deflated football games in the afc title game in january. >>> and "the washington post" said one of its reporters locked up in iran for nearly a year is on trial. the world did not get to see the morning's first hearing which just ended in the case against jason rezaian. his newspaper is slamming iran for a last-minute move. they described it as shameful. margaret brennan is at the state department. good morning. >> good morning. jav rez jason rezaian faces charges of espionage. the trial proceedings are so secret, even his family has been banned. jason rezaian, a reporter for "the washington post" and his wife were arrested last july. rezaian who holds

city comic convention season it have. >> american pharaoh rallied to win the american fareio's number one post tn itted the prime spot. live coverage right here at 4:30 on nbc 10. >> new jersey's newest outlet mall is schedule to open. plus a health scare at a local restaurant. a part of what standardized tests don't measure, very frankly they don't measure the diligence, the potential passion of a student. so it's really a measure of how adept you are to working out a problem quickly. but what if you're brilliant and it might take you twenty minutes, but you can figure out something if you were just given time to do it and show real brilliance. is that a real measure of ability and intelligence? what you can do in one minute on a problem? get out of here. >>> new this morning, the maker of blue bell ice cream says the company will lay off a third of its workforce following the listeria outbreak. about 1,500 employees will lose their jobs and another 1,400 workers will be furloughed. the outbreak killed three people and forced a recall of all products. >> the gloucester count yy outlets will hold a job fair. >> a new package of bills this week in response to the criticism over

city this morning, jan carabeo cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >> jan, thank you so much. fifty people will commemorate memorial day by becoming americans. a naturalization ceremony scheduled this morning on the battleship new jersey in camden. four of the new americans serve in the military. the battleship will also hold wreath ceremony remember americans who died while serving our country. >>> as the president prepares to honor the country's fallen at the tomb of the un mean soldier later today, second every defense questioning the iraqi army's commitment to the war. in the rush to lead the town of ramadi, american forces left behind large number of us supply vehicles, including several tanks now presumed to be in the hands of islamic state militants. in a weekend interview with cnn, defense secretary ash carter blamed the weak state of iraq military as one major reason for the city's fall. >> iraqi forces showed no will to fight. they were not outnumbered. in fact, they vastly outnumbered the opposing force. >> the head of iraqi defense called carter's comments unrealistic, and basically also said the iraqi army and police did have the will to fight but lacked good equipment, weapons and aerial support. >>> uke

americans with an unsettling and largely known reality. many police departments have military vehicles and gear. all of it shipped at no charge from pentagon surplus. in camden new jersey a cityystemically fighting crime, president obama announced some military equipment will now stay in pentagon storage. >> we've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to eye aforce that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them. can alienate and intimidate local residents and send the wrong message. >> reporter: banded equipment includes personnel carriers grenade launchers and bayonets. but police can still receive personnel carriers of the kind used in baltimore. and local departments can request and receive, long-range firearms, night vision goggles and riot shields. the president travelled to camden to highlight lower crime rates and he said the results of better community-oriented policing. since 2012 the rate of violent crime in camden has dropped 23%. and its murder rate has been cut in half. >> we know these problems are solvable. we know we're not lacking for answers. we're just lacking politica

americans to live comfortably near where they worked. today we have a question of working class affordability. people live in the old industrial cities of new jerseyause they simply can't afford to live closer to the places they work in the center of new york. they have to pay extra transportation costs. >> take it beyond new york. we get from d.c. new york baltimore. y'all think manhattan is a valuable place to live but that lives crazy to me. thank goodness i live in some place that is more open, more space, moreland. surely we don't have these same kinds of problems. >> back when obama's grandfather was getting a house, we had a surplus. today we have 5.5 million unit deficit. so, again -- >> that we made in part by taking down -- >> right. we have taken down the ones that are affordable. when we put it back up we don't make as much. suburban poverty has been climbing maybe even higher than urban poverty. it's unaffordable to live in a lot of places in this country. >> it will always be this kind of gut punch to me that one of the first things that new orleans city council did after qaakatrina was to take down so many public housing as though i

the holiday set aside to honor americans who died in service has become vital to the nation's economy. especially in places like the jersey shore. atlantic city'slips moving as she kicks off our memorial day weekend. then we celebrate 35 years of an icon. pacman. and get ready for bear grylls' biggest adventure yet. all that and more coming up now. >> announcer: from nbc news this is "today's take" with al roker, natalie morales, willie geist, and tamron hall. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> welcome to "today" on a special friday morning. may 22nd 2015. it's the kickoff to memorial day weekend and the kickoff to our toyota summer concert series. big turnout for meghan trainor. >> is somebody eating popcorn? >> i was just going to say. meghan trainor killed it out there. she's going to do another song in our hour. >> how much do we love her? >> a year ago we didn't know her name, can you believe that? >> i can't. >> it was july her song blew up. >> every song on her album is a hit. she is just amazing. and she's a nice person. she's out there giving autographs and taking selfies with kids. just awesome. love her. >> look forward to

jersey from our own country. >> the city's player lifting the week long 10:00 p.m. curfew. >> this is the resiliency of our city. >> this is not a baltimore problem. this is an american>> i have never seen a hurried rush to file charges. >> it's outrageous. >> good morning, everyone, well come back to your "new day." chris cuomo is live in baltimore in the freddie gray case. mikaela is off this morning. we do begin with breaking news. a free speech event in texas ending with gun fir. now police are investigating whether the gunmen targeted the event featuring cartoon drawings of the prophet mohammed. among the hundreds in attendance attendance, a politician placed on an kuwaiti hit list. the fbi has joined the investigation this morning. cnn has team coverage beginning with ed lavendera. >> reporter: this line, fbi team grounds here starting to collect evidence of the shootout. >> i just need everybody to be orderly. i'm going to take you to the front of this building. >> reporter: breaking overnight, a deadly scene in a dallas suburb, two gunmen shot dead after opening fire and wounding an event where the cartoon of the prophet mohammed was being held. the entire sh