that's not called the brooklyn burger?lem, right? the sports contracts that we have don't justify any sort of investment. i've made the decision to terminate all of the sports contracts, and save over $400,000 a year. we're gonna focus on selling these burgers in grocery stores around the country. look, i'm as enamored as you are by the glitz and the glam and the logos and all the fun stuff that goes with it. but at the end of the day, it's a business decision, right? >> correct. >> so it just doesn't-- although nice, the economics just don't work. >> and who gave you the p.o.? okay, let me check with frank and i'll get back to you. okay, bye. frank? >> yeah? >> you're still giving your own purchase order. you're approving your own purchase, and giving your own purchase order. >> right. >> for instance, this day, no one knew you ordered this. >> then i will not purchase any more beef items, then. that's the way i-- if allowed to purchase only supplies, then i'll only purchase supplies. >> i still need to see it. you can't

welcome to the brooklyn book festival at brooklyn law school. our dean is here to welcome you. the dean has been a wonderful bridge between the law school and brooklyn and the brooklyn festival so i would like to introduce him to you all. [applause] >> thank you. welcome to all of you. we are proud to be able to host part of the largest literary festivals in new york city and one of the largest in the united states. certainly the hippest and most diverse look festival so we have got that working for us. also welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. some of you know we are the only law school in brooklyn but you know we are the best law school in the largest and most vibrant borough and the greatest city in the leading state in the most wonderful countries that we have got that working for us. it's pretty good. yesterday marla and i returned from a short trip to russia where i was speaking to scholars and students about why study law and last night on my way to the festival gala eyes on the wall of 25j street and inscription by alexander hamilton that in just a few words capt

or some relative who lives in brooklyn.e who has young children has friends and so on who live in oakland. me, iis not too hip for love brooklyn and i fit in. >> i know you are a vocal supporter of the democratic party. you have worked in government before in your prior career. we had george a tacky on yesterday -- george pataki on yesterday. >> we went to law school in the 1960's. we sat next to each other, pataki, ratner. we joke. way,mes a little bit this i come from this way, and we always wind up in the same place. i think everyone appreciates him for that. >> i want to play something that you said yesterday regarding the minimum wage debate thomas which is something that -- the minimum wage debate, which is something that hits your business as well. here is what governor pataki s aid. -- i am forwasting raising the minimum wage. we want people to have the optimum wage where they are earning as much as their talent and drive lets them earned, as opposed to telling someone you have to raise the wage, even if you do not

we transformed our brand into of brooklyn. our food speaks to brooklyn.ur employees are from brooklyn. we have been able to embrace this dynamic. it was free. >> how is this all-star we going to work? the next, and the nets, cohosting. i can't see the mets and yankees putting the rivalry aside. >> we are putting the rivalry aside for a week. we are working with the guard. they have some exciting plans. we have incredible plans leading up to all-star week in on friday and saturday night. we are thrilled to bring a huge global event to the borough. >> i can't stop thinking, you are in the running to get the democratic national convention in brooklyn. >> that's a big moment for us. by -- been led [inaudible] ,e recently toured the building and we are excited about the opportunity. it will validate us. it is an iconic venue. it puts us on the world stage. >> it has been an extra ordinary two years. >> at the end of the day, do i think i am there? we are not there yet. we are on the landscape when people start thinking about the biggest and greatest venues in

"brooklyn nine-nine"!e's the reigning nba mvp, and the face of the new nba 2k15 game, the durantula, kevin durant is in the house! [ cheers and applause ] cool dude. he's short. >> steve: what? >> jimmy: he's really short. >> steve: is he really? >> jimmy: he's 4'9." >> steve: is he really? >> jimmy: yeah. >> steve: well then he would have trouble getting over that three foot fence. >> jimmy: that is true. [ laughter ] we'll ask him about that when he comes out. and then we have a performance from, wow, he's great. country music superstar, you know who i'm talking about. kenny chesney is in the house tonight! [ cheers and applause ] yeah, he always puts on a good show, kenny chesney. guys, we're always looking for feedback here at the "tonight show." so recently we reached out to a a bunch of elementary school kids, from around the country, and we asked them to write us letters about the show. things they liked, things they think we could do better. things that -- they'd do if they were in charge. so here'

you grew up in brooklyn and you love the brooklyn dodgers that the personality of that whole brooklyn dodger team was the great jackie robinson. i am wondering if you would think of that subject but i think you would be the person to do that. >> no question he was like you are on the brooklyn dodgers. i would like to believe it was because i was a young civil rights advocate but i think it was more when i was five or six years old that he would get on race and steal second and then he would steal third and steal home and completely rattled the other pitchers. he was such an exciting vital player. in fact all of my childhood i kept wanting to get his autograph. i never could get it. you guys get them at the park in those days. you could pay for them but you had to wait in lines in his line would be long. finally when i was in all awesome -- adolescent i brought my autograph book for him. in those days women will remember we have these stupid autograph books where it was say i will love you until niagara falls or cherish you until rubber tires. if he signed a book you would look like on

great to be here, the part of the brooklyn book festival and here at brooklyn law school. wonderful on a sunday morning to be up and awake and alert and ready for some discussion. my book is about comments, but it's kind of an inadvertent comments i will call it. my book looks at the williamsburg waterfront in the period before the condominiums, before the ferry, before shema richburg it before all of communist, all of the stuff that we read about in the new your times and new york magazine. it seems like every other day. and the story that i tell, actually several stories, but it's a story of reclamation. it's a reclamation of an arctic landscape, but it's a reclamation that was made without money, without professional assistance, the architects, no players, no designers, no politicians. a reclamation without permission, a reclamation without intent. it was a place, thinking about this waterfront, and you can just take the l. train or the ferry there today and walked down from bedford avenue to north seventh street where it meets the river, and you can see what is there n

and brooklyn was at the core of it. you know, brooklyn was a special place to come from. i treasure the fact that i grew up there. she did, too. there is nothing like being from brooklyn. brooklyn is so hot now, she would make fun of that. she said people go now to the upper east side because they can't get a place in brooklyn. >> she had a real energy. i met her once or twice with james brown and others. she had an energy. she wasn't intimidated by anybody. she didn't care. she was just joan rivers. >> correct. nobody intimidated joan rivers. she was a spunky, terrific lady. she was something. she was really special. you know, some people come along and you say you will never see their likes again. you will never see her likes again. >> let me say this quickly. you mentioned it. i want to ask you. johnny carson discovered her. then he wouldn't speak to her after she took a show opposite him. did that hurt her? >> it did. it hurt him, too. he thought she could have called him before she took the deal. he expected her to call him, not to sign a contract without him knowing

did not know that you were born in brooklyn. [ cheers ] were you raised in brooklyn, or no?rother, and myself. >> jimmy: all brooklyn in the house, yeah. >> oh yeah. oh yeah, oh yeah. >> jimmy: brooklyn! how come you don't have an accent? a brooklyn accent. >> because i went to graduate school at nyu. and i had to study how to speak for three years. >> jimmy: yeah? >> and it was intense. >> jimmy: but does it come out if you've had a few cocktails? [ laughter ] >> oh, yeah. oh yeah. >> jimmy: you get like, like a new york accent? >> well, rhode island -- i moved to rhode island -- oh, yeah. [ cheers ] everybody's here. >> jimmy: that's a lot of accents. >> there you go. like you know -- >> jimmy: you brought your family here. >> that's all of rhode island right there. [ laughter ] yes. it was like you go to the warwick mall. >> jimmy: yeah, that's what i'm talking about. it would be the warwick mall. absolutely. yeah. >> that's right. >> jimmy: it all comes out. so you went to nyu. >> yes. >> jimmy: to study acting. >> yes. >> jimmy: but then -- i don't know if people know,

handsome rides the train, alone, into brooklyn. yeah. he calls up his crew, tells them which station to wait at. they meet up, do the robbery, and handsome fades away again. we've been hunting him all over flatbush 'cause that's where he hits, that's where his boys keep getting collared, but he could be anywhere in the city. an north of 42nd street, anyway. after that video, he's got to know we got the two train covered. i mean, there's no way he's going to hit there tonight, is there? yeah, but there's no way he's not going to hit somewhere. 26 lines, 468 subway stations.e i read it somewhere; it stuck. let's attack this from a erent angle. danny: handsome's also got a farebeat arrest in april on west 4th street and a discon summons in june diff at 31st street and northern boulevard. is that all? that's it. every police contact, every known associate and relative home and work address for handsome for the past six months. now we have to find a pattern to his movements. so, what do we got? manhattan, queens, brooklyn-- he's all over the

have. >> we had the convention in philadelphia, it was a great convention. >> i think it's true brooklyn would be a nightmare for the delegates. brooklyn has become the locust of hardship youth culture, if you're trying to get young millennials involved in the political process and recruit them as active democrats that might not be a bad political play. >> pennsylvania is a swing state and new york is not. inside story comes bac >> the nude photo celebrity controversy. some people are saying it's the fault of the celebrities. the fbi has been trying to find who plucked private photos from jennifer lawrence and kate upton and others did it. i'll read what ricky gervais said. he caught heat for this. ful a lot of people thought he was being insensitive. on the on the other hand, a lot of people told us, why are people taking these photographers. and putting them in the cloud, is this the celebrities fault. >> it's like saying blame the victim. you could fight credit card frawght e -- fraud by not having a credit card. there's good reason for carrying a credit card and not a good reason for

it's named after brooklyn fisher, a young girl with spina bifida, who lives in pocatello, idaho.oklyn's playground was recently named one of the most inclusive in the world. >> the first thing we knew we had to have was the surfacing, there could not be any rocks or bark, there had to be solid surface for kids in wheelchairs or walkers. >> brooklyn's mom oversaw the design, play areas for children with different physical and mental abilities. >> what's it like to see brooklyn playing on a playground with children of all abilities? >> well, the first time i got emotional was when her school took a field trip here, and i saw her with her best friends play like every other child. and she wasn't on a different level, and they all enjoyed the place together. and they did it for hours. >> what makes this playground even more special, how it was built. it wasn't cheap, and pocatello isn't a wealthy area. >> how much money did you raise to build that playground. >> $575,000. >> did you get any state tax dollars? any federal tax dollars? >> no. we got some grants from different foundation

it's hiding in at the brooklyn literary festival. it's high noon here at the brooklyn law school and today we are opening with a discussion of nelson mandela who we will talk more about in a minute and also to engage your ideas and thoughts about one of the people who is referred to certainly is one of the greatest men of his age and of his time. my name is danny schecter. i'm known as the news dissector. i'm an author of a book "madiba a to z." as a filmmaker and made six films with nelson mandela including a sound that was showcased his visit to brooklyn in 1990 when he came out of jfk into brooklyn that was then boys and girls high to an incredible reception from the streets from every kid in town en masse welcome of the kind he was not prepared for. i have been following this story for many years and i will tell you a bit more about that. first of all before we begin the program i would like to let you know that books by authors in this program can be purchased by books on call nyc downstairs just outside the entrance to the buil

(cars honking) a young american traveled from london to brooklyn, infected with the virus. he returned home to his tight-knit orthodox community where most people vaccinate, but he came from a group of families strongly opposed to vaccines. measles quickly spread through unvaccinated families living in the same building and then out into the community. children were hardest hit, especially those too young to be vaccinated. simon fensterszaub: the first case that i saw was a 12-month-old girl that came into the office with mom because of a rash. and i'm looking at this child, examining this child, and, like, "this can't be. this child actually has measles." i've never actually seen measles, but, uh, i've seen them in textbooks, never in real life. so i was a little taken aback. three or four days later, perhaps, we had another case and then the next day, another case and then another one. and it just, it started getting overwhelming. like, wait a second. narrator: the department of health tried to stop the spread. jane zucker: the thing about measles is it's droplet-spread.

gotham explores batman's back story the hoe is about how a young bruce wayne becomes batman with brooklyn as a back drop. government that many devils into the origins of self heroes and villians in batman universe. david ma zoo stars as bruce wayne he's only 12 years old when he meets rookie cop james gordon played by ben mc ken zoo see. >> young bruce is 12 years old when he loses his parents. and so jim's relationship with him is more kind of, um, as a surrogate father.

from brooklyn, new york, please welcome...2004, he set a 74-game winning streak record that may never be broken. from seattle, washington, please welcome... and he's won more money on "jeopardy!"

. >> thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, congratulations on the groundbreaking for brooklyn in her street i'm the president and ceo. the industries is a long business plan two years ago which we call innovation and it highlights the importance of all the about his so we've been there it's out for real and by being more active in government business in the united states especially in san francisco we mark toy as an initial step our long-term goals i want to express my gratitude and appreciation. i would first like to thank our partner s c s thank you very much for making this venture happening and thank you to the architectures not only for the design but also engineering energy and the downtown product thank you. and i also want to thank mayor ed lee and supervisor kim and san francisco government and the neighboring resident for supporting a new relationship to the community. thank you very much. we are extremely fortunate in the stage of this project they've chosen here as their headquarters and with all of this in place the success on brooklyn no one is a success with our co

son imagen que para ellos dan testimonio de lo que hoy se vive en brooklyn voces que denuncian brutalidaddicen que esto comenzÓ cuando los vendodores se negaron a abandonar el Área. >>> jonathan que aparece en este video en el suelo, dice que se sentÍa que era el Último dÍa de su vida. >>> me golpearon en la cara, espalda, cadera, el cuello. >>> en el piso recibiÓ una patada, su hermana dice que quiso defenderlo. >>> me torciÓ el brazo y me jalÓ. jonathan, sus hermanas y otros vendodores fueron arrestados en esta calle donde se desatÓ el conflicto activistas dicen que no es la primera vez. >>> ha habÍamos levantado la queja, entendÍamos que tenian que fomentar una relaciÓn mÁs estrecha con la comunidad y no u Íbamos atol tolerar la falta de respeto. >>> la congresista velÁsquez mandÓ una carta al comisionado de policÍa exhortando atenciÓn a un problema que es grave. el jefe de la policÍa dijo estar preocupado por los hechos suspendiÓ al oficial que aparece pateando a jonathan. en new york, telemundo. >>> aunque mucho se habla de la influencia y reb ebola expertos dicen que una amenaza son

from brooklyn, new york, please welcome james rowe.w are you, my friend? >> i am doing wonderful. magnificent. >> come on in here. >> magnificent. >> brother, that beard is amazing. >> thank you. thank you very much, man. >> do you know, i cannot grow a beard. it's weird. it's like--i have it here, and then it's just a big spot of nothing. >> [laughs] well, man, that's just--i guess just genetics, right? >> i don't know. i want some--i'm gonna put some fake hair on it. >> yeah, man, put some fake hair on. you'll look great. you'll look great. then put some mustache wax on the side like i do, right? >> i know. i want to try to curl up the ends. but, you know, listen, are you ready to make some money? >> i am exactly ready to make some money. >> well, here we go. here we go.

m a i want to ask you about brooklyn.er on and he was talking about how he would love to host the democratic national convention in brooklyn. he said it is time to bring it to the berkeley center. i want to play for you what bruce said to me about that effort. >> they are creating special lanes. during august the streets are not very crowded. rather go for miles or 20 miles outside of a city to gets to a -- from a hotel room to a convention center? it is really not that very far. we have the convention technical committee to get out. it took them 15 minutes to get from midtown, 20 minutes by bus. available and ready to host a convention in brooklyn. brooklyn is definitely ready, new york is ready. i'm on the mayor's post committee. we have had several meetings theek. it would be fantastic for new york to host the democratic national convention. we have proven time and time again we can handle these large events. it would be a spotlight on the york and particularly brooklyn, which is really exploding in terms of popularity

born and raised in brooklyn, and i have a --

only a couple of subway lines coming out of brooklyn into manhatta hu headach for those who have to get. >> right. let's check the forecast. it is 4:41. weather and traffic on the 1s. 61 degrees out our studios. tom kierein, what's going on? >> another dry canadian high pres pushing in. there's capitol hill. under a partly sunny sky this monday morning. by 8:00, we'll still be just in the low 50s and partly sunny. by noon time, you'll be comfore in short sleeves. up around 70 degrees. ming back home from work and school, mid-70s. comfortae in short sleeves. low humidity. partly sunny skies. you'll need long sleeves this morning. w 60s by 11:00. after my night until dawn we have a small chance of a light sprinkle. you may need an umbrella early morning. we start off tuesday. next weather and traffic on the 1s at 4:51. now let's check the monday commute. a littlt of construc, right, melissa? >> a little bit of construction should be cleared out in a litt bit. georgia avenue at randolph road, two left lanes blocked in both directio. should be out of the way by 5:00 this morning. a 270 at m

it was called jashivi university high school of brooklyn boys division, brooklyn branch of yashivi --gine our loco motive cheer? we had no mascot. >> what is the acronym. >> give me a b! >> exactly. did you have a mascot? >> we were the howl rebels. we used to have a confederate flag and it changed several years before i was born. >> did you march to get it back? >> why do we need mascots. go big blue! short arrows, why not? they always go straight. >> the flaming arrows. >> if they wanted to change it, maybe uh alladin. everyone thinks highly of disney or the problem with mighty, it is kind of masculine, and it also kind of means a large or strong and that's where the eating disorders start. >> the biggest ipo in the world history calls itself ali-babba. that's an obvious take from an arab name and it is a chinese company. >> we should sue them. let's do a group suit. >> they have deep pockets. >> sonny, what do you make of this? is this pc nonsense run a muck or is it time to get rid of the mascot? >> since i was in a band once i always think of the production of it all. let's think

you may know me from brooklyn nine-nine, and i'm thrilled to also be here hosting millionaire!ause] today's returning contestant is a student who's been risking it all to get to a million dollars. she's only one question away from classic millionaire. from brooklyn, new york, please welcome back tiffany joseph! [cheers and applause] how you doing? oh. wow. you have been playing amazing. now, what would you do with $1 million? >> well, the very first thing i want to do, if i win the million, is put an extra sink in my bathroom so that my husband can have his and i can have mine. [laughs] >> let me tell you something, girl, you get $1 million, you get double everything. >> yes. >> that's how you do it. look, just to recap, you are still battling your way through round one. so far you've banked $65,500, and are five questions away

in this brooklyn neighborhood shootings and stabbings happen often.g. >> your job is to resuscitate them and britian them back to life. >> reporter: the man behind it is 73-year-old robert mathison. >> i want to save a life. raise their level. they can be anything they want to be. >> people respect me when i wear this uniform. >> reporter: 30-year-old isaac rodriguez used to sell drugs. now, he's training to be an emt. >> this place woke me up, you know, seeing so much positive, i want to do that, too. i want to be part of that. >> reporter: was it hard to give up your old lifestyle? >> in a way, it was because you're surrounded by it. >> reporter: over the years, robinson has trained 8,000 neighborhood kids. he funds the program with part of a pension and his mortgage. donations make up the rest. the money pays for uniforms and supplies as well as two ambulances that are staffed by a certified emt. you've told me yourself, you're not a wealthy man, in the course of the 26 years, did you ever think, why am i doing this? >> i don't think i can do nothi

brooklyn and queens which were once separate cities have separate public library systems. we cooperate very closely with them and coordinate and try to do things together as it should be. so for instance, we became recently in effect the circulating library to support the public school system of new york. so for 100 years we lived side-by-side but didn't actually with the cooperate. and for 100 years the public schools depended for their libraries in a room the size with maybe 10,000 books, increasingly out of date, and a card catalog. a sweet idea, one i grew up with, but in the 21st century that can't possibly work. now we're at about 600 schools. we aim to be at all of them with computers in the library or a teacher can order up to 100 bucks at a time from our 17 million books. the three systems together, and we will deliver right to the school. so you get the efficiency of these huge system spreading around the city, and that's an example of how ultimately 1.2 million schoolkids will be using the library on a daily basis. teachers to assign a paper will be able to cons

anne thompson, nbc news, brooklyn. >>> and that is our broadcast for a thursday night.ou for being here with us. i'm brian williams. of course we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. goodnight. >>> nbc bay area news starts now. >> right now at 6:00, the cost of crime skyrocketing. not just for the victims, but in some cases, for the entire neighborhood. good evening and thanks for joining us. i'm janelle wang sitting in for raj mathai. >> and i'm jessica aguirre. new at 6:00 tonight, the hidden cost of crime. not just the losses from coming home to a ransacked house or walking up to a car that has vanished. tonight on a story you'll see only on nbc bay area, damian trujillo shows us the added cost for those who live in the south bay and the costs they're facing now that they were hit by thieves. damian joins us live. >> reporter: i've seen the numbers, andhey do not look pretty. the burglaries and car thefts in san jose are costing those victims a lot of money. tens of millions of dollars. and now there is another fear potentially, rising insurance premiums

and as we look at the beautiful back drop of the brooklyn bridge. police commissioner bratton said tonight they have no information of any threats to new york city in the days leading up to the anniversary of 9/11. erin. >> thank you. our next guest's father was convicted of the trade bombing. zack, it is really good to have you on and very perfect timing, we talk about what this week and the significance of this week. your father was convicted of planning the 1993 attack on the world trade center. you heard susan candiotti reporting these landmarks are major terror targets. that doesn't surprise you, does it? >> well i think -- well, one, i'm not a terrorism analyst, but it is unfortunate that after all of these years this is something we still have to deal with. as someone who has lived in the shadow of terrorism for a long time, it makes me somewhat fearful and a bit sad. but i think that is why the message in my book is so important about empathy, about being able to look at those around us in our community and just try to be more empathetic tow

from brooklyn, new york, please welcome back james rowe!! >> well... >> james, you're doing so good. listen, you being a philosophy professor--you have a poem... >> yep. >> that you'd like to read. >> i'm also a poet, and here's my poem "who wants to be a millionaire?" who wants to be a millionaire? i do! i'm as poor as beans. well, beans are rich in protein, not so much in cash or other liquid assets. well... asides from bean juice, but that's liquid but not an asset. who wants to be a millionaire? i said i do. can't you hear me? but you want to final answer, don't you? well, here's mine. i want to be... [foot stomps] a millionaire! >> yeah! [cheers and applause] listen, i like that.

i'll be your host, and you can also check me out on brooklyn nine-nine.r first contestant is the oldest child of seven, and with an extended family of over 100 people, i have a feeling our ratings will spike today. from brooklyn, new york, please welcome nick ackerman. what's up, nick? how you doing, man? >> doing good. doing good. >> dude, what a huge family. what is this? >> big family. a big irish-catholic family. my mom's one of eight. my dad's one of six. everybody's got at least two kids except for the priest. >> no wonder you're so skinny. >> yeah. >> you had to fight for food in your family, didn't you? >> absolutely, yeah. if you didn't eat fast, you didn't get seconds. >> well, listen. let you be the one to get a million dollars. that's what i'm trying to give you. >> that's why i'm playing. >> all right, are you ready? >> i am ready. >> all right. well, say hello to our millionaire money tree, 14 questions spread over 2 rounds with money values growing from $100 all

see you in brooklyn. >> the same population of brooklyn. it has more land and sheep.me number of people. >> there you go. a special "surveillance" theme. leadership. we speak with the president of barnard college and the incoming ceo of booz allen hamilton holding our guest host sylvia ann hewlett is here for the entire hour. we will be right back. ♪ >> good morning. i am tom keene. with me scarlet fu adam johnson. futures flat. >> the president ready to make an address tonight. talkingnancial times," about how the world and americans have grown weary of barack obama. his introversion once made him look adult, he is now live. aloof.s now he says the saturation quality of the modern media means all contemporary presidents fall prey to the seven-year itch. it is the seventh year of his term. >> the book on the reelection of the president really addresses the struggle of how he got there versus where he was two years or three years ago. and critically where he is this evening as he speaks to the nation. >> when you look at what president obama must do, is it a case of we