investigators say in all of the brooklyn cases the victims have been jewish. one of them a feat-year-old woman. >> these are anticemettic attacks. not a game. >>> expected to announce a big expansion tomorrow. the company is said to open 10 operation centers across the state. the bay area is solarcity's home base with a total of seven warehouses here. many locations are expected to be in northern california, that means a lot of new jobs. solarcity makes and installs solarpanelses for homes and businesses. >>> fewer californians are traveling this year for the thanksgiving holiday. compared to last year. according to triple-a. 5 million people plan to travel. it may sound like a lot but it is a 4% decrease from last year. of those, more than four million people plan to travel by car and 500,000 plan to fly. >> saint anthonys foundation in san francisco is about halfway to its goal, collecting 1,000 turkeys by thanksgiving day. it began yesterday, the group received about 500 birds. >> it has been exciting. turkeys were slow coming in this year. maybe because th

>> guest: and i attended a reformed church in brooklyn diamond older there isn't the faith of those goes through peeks and valleys i would be lying if i would say in his consistent. is a struggle. you look fatah or every confine evidence and then you have points but for a knee that tends to be nature to feel it pulls me closer. >> host: are you a christian today? >> guest: i would use that word sometimes i am troubled by the basics of the language. what do we mean evangelical? conservative? but christian is the right term. i follow jesus as best i can. >> host: so with your search what did you find with established religions religions, a christian religions and if that is acceptable? >> looking at american and christianity today you find open hostility, a great silent discomfort and it depends on where you look. but the feeling is that most of these people will try their best to do what they think is right to and the motive does matter. most people try to be loving even if it always does not feel like or looks like love to the rest of us. >> host: and can you give an example? >> west bor

it's just a little [brooklyn accent] cawfee talk. okay? like buttah. come on in here. mike myers. - [mouthing] oh, my god. - thank you. thanks. thanks a lot. really appreciate it. you guys were supposed to have my back, okay? instead, you let a guy named plop steal my girlfriend.

they socked the brooklyn rapper and his record company with a copyright infringement lawsuit. saying he copied a '60s jam and he will have to defend himself. the track "run this town" features rihanna and kanye west and samples hook and sling dozens of times allegedly according to the suit.

. >>> like many inner-city community as cross the country, brooklyn has seen many changes in the past decades, now propose toll name a street after a late rapper is highlighting some of the changes, al jazerra reports. >> reporter: two decades notorious b.i.g. christopher wallace wrapped his his neighborhood. he was nerded in 1987. since then the streets he called home have undergone a profound transformation, robert price has owned this back enter sharp for 20 years. >> this was a solid black neighborhood. you have people coming from other places and different types of people. it really has changed here. it's changed. it's changed for the better. >> reporter: wallace used to a rap in front of the barber shop and fan leroy mccarthy wants the community to remember him. >> i started a petition to co name this interception christopher wallace. and hope. this corner will become something of an honor, i tribute to him because he lived here as a child. >> reporter: when mccarthy presented his proposal to the community board, some board members said wallace wasn't a good role model because o

he had his victory party in brooklyn, last night. >> i have spoken throughout this campaign about a tale of two cities. that inequality, that feeling of a few doing very well while so many fall further behind? that is the defining challenge of our times. york is notn new something that only threatens those who are struggling. the stakes are so high for every new yorker. making sure no son or daughter of new york falls behind defines the very promise of our city. >> bill de blasio, new york city mayor elect. union backed martin walsh has been elected the mayor of boston. there were several ballot initiatives from across the country -- in washington state they rejected an initiative requiring genetically engineered foods to be labeled. opponents spent $20 million to defeat the measure. to talk more about the results we are joined by john nichols, political writer for "the nation. his latest article is about gop extremism. and how the money and media election complex is destroying america. let's go through the big races. new york, new jersey, virginia. >> if you watch the national media on

i say because they are in brooklyn, people who live in brooklyn are annoying so it doesn't matter ifhey are young or old. this is what i'm saying. >> ricky, this to me is ageist but in the opposite direction, normally bars do things to keep people over 25 out or over 40 out. i welcome this reverse ageism. what do you think? >> yeah. country bars are definitely older people. >> yeah. you can be in a country bar and sit there with a dog and drink and pass out in your own filth. something i do. >> you know what i'm so amazed at, i keep looking at andy's nice suit here and it doesn't have one cat hair on it. >> and it's black. >> i know. for someone that has cats. >> they are hairless cats, i believe. >> maybe. >> by the way, they didn't come hairless. he gently plucks them in the bathtub. >> really good about being subtle when he is not on camera. he is always -- >> are you looking for a weapon. >> i'm looking for my phone to call my agent. >> your agent is dead. >> you brought up something that drives me crazy. the rise of red bull and booze has completely ruined certain kinds of event

i grew up in brooklyn and went to college in the midwest. >> why did you find your way from queens, brooklyn area to the midwest to the university of wisconsin? >> i went to visit it and i thought it was the most beautiful and unlike anything i had ever seen. i had never actually been to the midwest in my whole life. i was attracted to all of it including the university. >> what year did you graduate? >> 1970 -- i took a little time to graduate so i think it was 19 76 or eight i the time i graduated. >> one of the things that i saw when looking at your background, you started out reading roughly smith's "wired nation." >> yes. >> tell us who that was and why did that matter to you? >> yeah. i don't know how i got the book. i was interested in tv and studied it in college and came upon "a wired nation" in which he offered a view. at the time, there were few tvs wired to cable television. and he offered a view of every tv set in america hoped up to a hardwire where, if you recall, not only a diversity of national channels, but he was really focused on local and cut that there would be this rob

one happened right there in brooklyn. >> that's right.'s say, this is a sick game where teens just randomly sucker punch strangers with the goal of knocking them unconscious with a single blow. it's usually a dare. it's turned deadly. it's being shared on social media and caught the attention of law enforcement agencies from around the country. let me show you exactly what we are talking about. folks, you are going to want to get close to your television screen to see this. you'll see black and white surveillance video. if you look closely, time and time again, you see strangers punching another stranger on the street. similar reports filed in new york, illinois, missouri and washington. one of the latest attacks happened on friday in brooklyn. four people were questioned, 28-year-old amrid was charged with aggravated assault with a hate crime. why a hate crime you ask? some of the cases are allegedly specifically directed at jewish people. people in brooklyn find it appalling. >> this is one city. no one should set upon anybody based on

wasn't born ine a poor family in the lower east side or in brooklyn.ndiana. >> you messed up my joke. [laughter] i was going to say that he is from peru, indiana. tavis: i know the cole porter story. michael jackson, of course. >> indiana got some good something out there. tavis: good water. great artists who perform this stuff but don't necessarily write it emma since you mention sinatra, con -- necessarily write it, since you was hisd sinatra, khon muse. he sang 87 songs from the same guy. >> one thing i can say about frank sinatra which white -- which i will say in my show is that he always acknowledged to the writers. if you ever notice in his live performances are you see -- or you hear a live album, he always gave them credit. tavis: and you do the same thing. i have seen you everywhere but the carlyle. this season, hope to get there and see you. i saw bobby short there when he was holding court for 30 some years. years and iere 36 have been there nine. i have been there every year since he passed away. by the time i catch him come i will be am a

los hechiceros de 80 la enfrentaron a los medios de brooklyn.tomaba ventaja. los hechiceros fueron oportunidad de empatar y ya con 12 segundos en el reloj, nene anotó: para mandar el partido tiempo extra, donde el equipo capitalino zoco una victoria apretada por marcador de 112 a 108. - méxico contra nigeria. las águilas africanas, la mejor selección de la competencia. primero llevaron a que minutos , autogol de defensa aguirre. méxico buscó responder, pero el portero de nigeria protagonista con intervenciones como esta. 55, aprovecha al rebote y anota el segundo. al minuto 81, mohamed de tiro libre la pone fin al encuentro. nigeria es el máximo ganador de los mundiales sub 17 con 4 títulos. las águilas establecieron un récord de goles anotados con 26 tantos. - semifinal de la conferencia oeste, realzan exhibir reciba a los ángeles galaxy. se termina los 37 minutos con un cabezazo de juan sebastián velázquez. sobre si mejor. llega el segundo y deja eliminado a la bicampeón. real se enfrentará al portland denver mientras que en el este el dínamo

on the lady, was she related to the an didn't robling lady who built the brooklyn sglij she married in to the robling family and her story is interest ing. she didn't embark on career in finance in the 1950s. her husband was of that family and they had created the trenton trust and her husband died prematurely. all of a sudden, she was thrust in to the leadership. she could have backed away and said no, thank you. i want to just do the country club scene but her relatives and everyone said you have common sense. you can do the this. and she did it. her legacy is remarkable because she did it in a 1950s context while break ing new ground. she was known for always looking very lady like and she loved the social aspects that went along with being a leading community in the new york area but she was the first female head of a bank and new york stock exchange. i found her character as a paradigm of the air rachlt 1950s, like the brooklyn "bridget jones"ing different spans if you will. a 1950s context of a woman belong at home versus coming changes and getting more involved in the corporate

it's or eric the biggest is in brooklyn. new york has the highest design schools and designers and because designing stuff looks like like software. it matters less who has the smarter space but who is the most threatened. what we're competing with t is not new york or the metropolitan area but paris but, you know, someplace in indian this is a global connection how is san francisco going to capitalize to compete. let me turn to the panel and start with the negatives. what's your biggest problem what's the one thing that bothers you the most and if you could be mayor for a minute what would you change start there >> i can do one wearing two different hats. as a manufacturer my biggest problem and concern is not hiring the top level engineers, you know, software prarmdz. it is 90 in high quality people who know how to make a high quality product and it well finished and people that do that people need to a debug machines. so we have a gap if the manufacturing work in the middle so the operators are not going to change the pro

the same for these parks at the foot of the brooklyn bridge. this pilot has been surveying the skyline for 30 years and appreciates the change. >> this was a rundown. area previously. now it is beautiful parkland. manhattan all rebuilt. >> perhaps the most original park, a disused railway tracks makes its way around manhattan above ground level. infested,ted and weed it is a must-see for tourists all over the world. it is fascinating to see this in the sentry town. we are surrounded by greenery but at the same time there are these buildings around us. it is dorie -- it is disorientating. it is ready. preserving the idea of an industrial wasteland. another iconic image of new touch,iven the greek times square. a decade ago it was bursting with traffic and fumes, now partly pedestrian. all tables and chairs attract 52 million tourists per year for a much needed rest. walk quiteo have to a bit. now i can take a seat. people want to stop in times square. >> on the other side of manhattan, brooklyn has some new picturesces, including with the perk -

. >> on the robeling lady, is she related to the robeling family of the brooklyn bridge? >> yes. and her husband was of that family. and they had created the trenton trust, and her husband died prematurely. and all of a sudden she was thrust into the leadership. she could have backed away and said no, thank you, i just want to do the country club thing. but her relatives said she could do it, and she did it, sort of in a 1950s context. she was known for always looking very lady-like. and she liked the social aspects. but she was the head of a leading bank and became the first leading woman of the american stock exchange of i found her as a paradigm of that era. 1950, like the brooklyn bridge, the context of a woman being at home versus coming changes and getting more involved in the corporate world. okay. that's about it. i thank everybody. and i'll be available if anyone has anything else they'd like to bring out. thank you. [ applause ] >>> with the war in europe turning hot, when the blitzkrieg took place, the u.s. was totally unprepared. and george marshal came to president r

he is still remembered in a brooklyn neighbourhood. as that area goes through a transformation his fans want him to be a permanent fixture - not everyone is on board. kailin ford has the detail. >> two decades ago christopher wallace known as b.i.g. wrapped about his home here. >> wallace was murdered in 1987. since then the streets he called home underwent a profound reformation. >> this is a solid black neighbourhood. there were people from other places. >> it's changed, yes. for the better. >> wallace used to wrap in front of the barber shop and fan ley roy mccarthy wants fans to remember him. >> i want this intersection called christopher wallace, and hopefully if will be an honour or tributable ute. he lived here as a child. when mccarthy presented his proposal some board members said wallis was not a good role model. >> his music is what we are trying to honour. there's a lot of good coming from his life and life experiences. lyrics went from a negative to a positive. >> two decades after his music made this area famous, the deba

it's actually part of brooklyn and it's like a center of life for arab americans in new york city. you can see a lot of signs are in arabic. there are halal grocery stores and it's also a real hot spot for nypd surveillance. >> it seems like no institution is off limits to the nypd. police department documents show they planned to place an informant on the board of the arab american association of new york. it was part of a "terrorist enterprise" investigation. >> is there any reason to believe that something here could be a terrorist group or activity? >> if helping kids with their homework and teaching immigrant women english is terrorist activities then i guess so. i don't know, i don't think there is any reason to believe that an organization with good people, trying to do good work would be engaged in any type of activity. >> so this one of the secret documents that was leaked to the associated press. and what it does is it talks about multiple mosques and organizations and people that we know so that are mentioned in here and when i saw first saw it, so it says, it's looking

just today a wok in brooklyn was pun. in the face by a stranger.stigating it as a possible case of the knock out game. that's what some people are calling these attacks. a brutal game where kids and teenagers assault random strangers for nothing other than a thrill. is it an actual trend or a catchy label? cnn's pamela brown has been investigating. >> reporter: it's shocking to watch, but this is happening. whether the victim is walking down the street like this or taking public transportation like this unsuspecting rider. these videos from surveillance cameras show these people being sucker punched by people who are believed to be complete strangers. while unprovoked attacks on strangers are not news, the question of whether these could be part of the so-called knockout game where a person punches a stranger with the goal of knocking them unconscious in a single blow has captured the attention of law enforcement. >> we're trying to prevent it from becoming widespread by taking action at this point in time. >> reporter: but authorities say the don'

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in brooklyn the $50,000 still to tell you about.' coach jason kidd being fined after the nba found he intentionally skilled his drink on the court in an attempt to delay the game, trailing by three points. watch it again. he bumped into brooklyn reserve's taylor with 8.3 seconds to left during the loss to the lakers wednesday causing his drink to spill. delaying the game, allowing the nets to had no more time outs to diagram a play. the video shows him appearing to tell taylor hit me. kid is denying any intent saying he had sweaty palms. okay. the nfl announcing 2014 lund in day which will include three games instead of two like this season. the first game will be played on week 4, september 28th. the oakland raiders against the miami dolphins, the 26 the detroit lions play in the atlanta falcons across the pond and the cal bowl is, in's team will take on the jacksonville jaguars. and all three will be at london's wembley arena. from your pocket to theirs, a new bill would send loose change that you leave at airport security to vete

i guess brooklyn are the pickiest ladies. >> jersey city.ou have to do is go across the bridge to jersey city. and you find the at least pickiest women. las vegas, they're not responding to dating requests, they're answering craigslist ads. >> what else does this tell us if anything? i don't understand. what i do they mean when they say pickiest? >> it means women don't pond to online dating requests because they're inundated with overtly sexual messages. apparently that's the -- these are women who are so sick of 35-year-old men who have full beards that smell like arrest cheese. >> but in j.c., stinky band members who want to drain your wallet for beers is okay. >> it's not going to be your higher end beverages. >> you wonder, jersey city and brooklyn are pretty close. and they're sort of -- i don't know, we're all sort of similar around here, aren't we? . >> for women who are looking for love, they want people who are a little more established and in jersey city, they're maybe a little more laid back and polite. >> have you been to washin

now you don't know your neighbour. >> what is happening in brooklyn is a wider trend. >> brooklyn is more trendy in the eyes of hipsters, yuppies, mobile professionals. they are mooving to neighbourhoods like clinton hill that was predominantly african-american and working class. housing prices are rising. >> for some that lived here their whole lives, it's about embracing a new home. >> cool, diverse vibe that's going on. different people, more blacks than whites collaborating toot. it's cool. -- together. it's cool. it's a big difference. >> a shine now and old neighbours are eager to be a part of. . >>> the jonathan martin bullying scandal has captured the county. >> rickie incognito told fox sports that jonathan martin was his best friend and the text mess ims and voice mails were taken out of context. the suspended linesman opened up to fox sport about his harassment scandal. rickie incognito said he redeprets using -- regrets using the racial slurs, he said it was not bullying, it was an accepted part of locker room culture. >> when the words are put in the context, i understan

>> a brooklyn man apparently.e notice adds gold statuette sticking up from a pile of garbage and he took it home. and cleaned it up. and no idea who the trophy -- what it really was since he didn't have the plate on it that said who won it. then he watched the emmy awards on cbs. >> next thing you know i'm watching the emmy's. and i see this silhouette of the emmy award and i'm looking at my coffee table like doing like back takes, what the hell? it's an emmy award. >> well, the emmy is believed to be from the 1950s when the man took it back to the home where he found it. no one knew who it belonged to. >>> steph curry back in the lineup after sustaining a concussion. but was it enough at home tonight? >> and in the big game, stanford -- wasn't a question of if, it was by how much over cal? ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, drama... ...got a minute to chat... >>> 116th big game and i'll put it this way. it was certainly no drama. got a minute to chat about it. guest shot of the coveted about didn't change possession -- act didn't

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first year as a head coach, brooklyn. you see him spill the drink there. >> "hit me." >> as plain as day. look at this acting there. >> you do not need to hire a professional actor here. a lot's people called it clever, bill. a lot of coaches look at it as clever. >> what did he do? >> didn't have time-outs. tried to get a time-out by spilling a drink. the nba came down on thanksgiving day, 50 grand. >> a lot of money. >> trying to make a point. >> how much money would you pay for a win if it ended up working? >> they lost. >> i know, they did. it didn't work. >> speaking of money. check this out. this could cost upwards of $10 billion but could be worth every penny. look at this. this is essentially a floating island. it's going to be a mile long. it's called a freedom ship. you can actually live here. it will house 50,000 residents. it's just like a city. it's got, you know, shopping. it has places where you can go out to an aquarium. it has an airport. this is one that would actually be floating around the world. it ta

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lucas and east brooklyn. that is one disappointed looking tracker lantern right there. jack blanton. >> this is what it looks like on on our side of the lake. beautiful weather. it is just cold up there. unseasonable cooling. coldest air since 1996. we're sort early in the season. these are mid december level temperatures. the high today will be 34. the normal high as 50. we are way below normal. here is the leading edge of the cold air. the fund has gone way south. you could see the snow left on a grounder here. that is what all of the weight is. the last of the lakes now has been falling. to set up to produce the light snow has been breaking down. watched the southwesterly wind field shooting in here. developing across the area. that is tomorrow morning wind gust. we'll have some wind gusts up to 40 mi. per hour. up to 50 mi. per hour and parts of the upper midwest. there is late in the day on wednesday. use are moderating those temperatures. all of the advisories for snow have just come down. look how widespread the school there is. this pattern changes. here's a 2.5

being a young kid, free in brooklyn. it was nothing like that.was going to happen. but just an amazing life for me as a young kid. >> why did you like it so much? >> i've never been that free before. no restrictions, anything. when i became a fighter, i had restrictions and then i was hiding, being sneaky about the way i was living my life and when i was young didn't care what people said, i'm 10 or 9, 11 years old, 12 years old, i had to restrictions and it was just pretty awesome for me, you know. >> if you had a chance to talk to the 10-year-old mike tyson and warn him -- >> he wouldn't listen. >> he wouldn't listen? >> i loved having my fancy clouds, a little kid with grown-men clothes on and all of that attention. i was just really misguided back then. but it was an amazing time of my life. >> why did you like it so much? >> i've never been that free before. no restrictions, anything. when i became a fighter, i had restrictions and then i was hiding, being sneaky about the way i was living my life and when i was young didn't care what people

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i'm stationed local over in brooklyn.ith how the smartphone industry is going these days and how blackberry has been slowly on the decline and up and down, do you buy, hold or sell? >> i don't want to touch blackberry. i'm a believer in best of breed and best of breed still remains apple. i know it looks dead in the water, but it could be a sleeping tiger. thank you for serving in brooklyn. and thank you for serving in iraq. all right, tonight is a special salute to the troops, "mad money" style! we're fighting for financial knowledge and freedom. next week, it's about conferences, not earnings. learning, not acting. "mad money" will be right back. >> just ahead on "mad money" salute to the troops, cleaning up? from cleaning to cooking and everything in between. clorox has it hands on some of the world's biggest brands. but does it have the growth to wipe up on wall street? cramer sat down with the ceo to find out and hear about its commitment to hiring our heroes. >>> later, pause or play? take two interactive scored big

i'm happy to have former world heavyweight champ and brooklyn native like myself -- go, brooklyn -- mike brooklyn? >> decker high school. >> good space. tell me about the book and your life story. when did you hit rock bottom and how did you bounce? >> i don't know. i was really doing bad and i could have went a lot further. i could have had a couple more overdoses. but i didn't hit rock bottom. like my rock bottom is catching aids or something -- >> i see what you're saying. >> i wasn't really -- but i was really doing bad. >> what was the worst moment that you can remember? >> just not paying my drug dealers and telling them they're not going to get paid. so, tell your boys to come visit me and ask for the money. >> oh, gosh. did they come for the money? >> no, they never did, which i'm so grateful they didn't because i could have got in a lot of trouble. and i had a 4-year-old daughter that was deceased. she had a freak accident and died. and that was really my lowest point in life. >> how did it happen? you were at the top of the point in your life. what happened to bring you down so

today a woman in brooklyn was punched in the face by a stranger. police are investigating it as part of the knock out game, a brutal game where kids and teenagers assault random strangers for no other reason than the thrill. the question is is this an actual trend or a catchy label? pamela brown has been investigating. >> reporter: it's shocking to watch but this is happening, whether the victim is walking down the street like this or taking public transportation like this unsuspecting rider. these videos show people being sucker punched by people who are believed to be complete strangers. while unprovoked attacks on strangers are not new, the question whether these could be part of the knock out game where a person punches a stranger with the goal of knocking them unconscious with a single blow captured the attention of law enforcement. >> we're trying to prevent it to become wide spread. it's difficult to say because they are classified as simple assault, aggravated assault, perhaps robbery but there are a hand full that could fall into this cate

i actually went to brooklyn and could not get into the school when i tried to talk to the people there. then i went on several television appearances. and i went anywhere, anytime to defend her, no matter what it took. and indeed, i ended up having to leave my position there, because i felt that it was too important. the gift to be a writer is too great, and you can't say, "well, i have this requirement to do this other small thing." and it was very hard, but i had to leave what i was doing. you've been an educator at prestigious institutions. what does it tell you? what does it say when parents rise up in anger about that kind of content being taught in a classroom? [sighs] i'd like to know-- first of all, they didn't read the book. and it's so hard to-- what can you say when they don't read it? and i can-- on one hand, they say, "well, why should we read it? "we think it's a bad book, so we don't want to spend our money on it." and so they don't read it, and then they protest it, and they feel like they don't-- the people who tell them what the book is like are not telling them the t

censored authors, carolivia herron, whose critically-acclaimed book, nappy hair, was challenged in a brooklyn school, and cammie mannino, a bookseller who took a stand against censorship. welcome to all of you. i have to begin with judy. you know, there are these lists every year about the most banned books. each and every year, you're in the top five. you're sort of the beatles of banned books. how did you obtain this status, and what are you doing wrong? uh-oh, you know, you're asking the wrong person. it's never the-- the person who wrote the books is always surprised. you have to ask the people who ban the books. i can go back to 1980, and i can say to you-- of course, i remember, you know, "what was it?" it was a shock to me. it was anything to do with sexuality, which, for my characters, was puberty; any language that people found offensive, sometimes lack of moral tone, whatever that is. i think it has to do with hitting the kids-- i didn't hit them over the head with right and wrong. gosh, what else? were you writing a different kind of book than existed in 1968, before you began writ

she's a professor of law at brooklyn law school as well.dward snowden in that parlor game hero or goat? >> guest: my usual response, peter, when people want to talk about snowden. my first response is to say instead of talking about the messager, should we talk about the problem? and i think snowden has done us a great favor. he said the reason he wanted to start releasing some of the documents so the american people could make the decision about whether they think we have gone too far. or whether they are too many costs? i think that's in fact discussion we're now having. i think his strategy worked. the american people are being informed. because one of the things we learn is not even just that the government was spying in ways i was already describing in my book, but that we had in the fisa court we had secret law. there was law that the court was making that the american people couldn't find out what the law was. to me, it really went too far. >> host: is there anything in the patriot act you agree with? >> guest: there was a lot. there

the brooklyn da calls me in september of 05. the book came out in 04.year later they call me and an congressman william delahunt of massachusetts had been a prosecutor also contact them, as did angela clemente, forensic investigator who got a lot of these trials. a confluence of the three of us. i'm writing my book and ageless referral resulted in the delvecchio on the 30th of march, 2006, came up from sarasota, florida, where he retired with a full pension and was indicted on four counts of murder. on the right, that is said the night before surrendering him. they allowed him to surrender. the next day, after he was a million dollars bail was set for an. 50 x agents supported him showed up in blue suits, white shirts come either red tries or blue tights and surrounded him as he walked out on adams street from brooklyn supreme court and there was a seen him like you've seen. they are pushing people away. they looked like soccer hooligans and u.k. soccer match. they were protecting him by the reporters asked questions. they called it hottie checking. sen