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they called in the president of the national city bank. cora subpoenaed all the records from national city bank. went through those records carefully, the way a prosecutor should. then came back and brought in charles mitchell, a tall, distinguished looking banker. he had been an adviser to presidents harding, coolidge and hoover. he came with a large retinue of bank officials. and he was very supremely confident that he was going to come out of this with no trouble. pecora laid out with his bank has done, including selling short his own stock. including the fact mitchell had not paid income tax for years. he had written off as lawsuits. and a whole bunch of irregularities. in those days, the stockbroker companies were part of the banks. whenever the bank had a bad acid, it turned it over to a -- had a bad asset, it turned it over to its stockbroker which sold it to unsuspecting investors. so they were unloading that stocks. they documented all this. -- they were unloading the bad stocks. one by one, the retinue that were around charles mit

city hall. philadelphia national bank bought the building in early 1950s. to be closed tomorrow. it will be happening from 6:00 in the morning in about 4:00 in the afternoon. >>> after more than 150 years in business the renault winery resort and golf is in danger of closing. what's being done to try to keep it open. >>> the timing couldn't be better as it's cold outside and, of course, you're probably depending on your heater. there's a recall we want to let you know about. about 29,000 tankless water heaters are being recalled because they cause a fire hazard. the recall involves all models of single and dual purpose coair and quiet side brand tankless gas water heaters. there have been 40 reports of the units over heating including two fires and four burns on the wall where the heater was mounted. >>> a south years si winery is ug trling to stay in business but is vowing not to close. the renault winery and golf in egg harbor city filed for chapter 11 protection. the winery opened in 1864 and plans to remain open during the bankruptcy reorganization. off

city hall. philadelphia national bank bought the building in the 1950s for for tomorrow with the removal of theetters expect the streets in the area to be closed from 6:00 in the morning until about 4:00 in the afternoon. >>> today begins the second open enroll m period for the affordable care act. the law requires that everybody get health insurance. last year you may remember there were some glitches to say the least with the launch including the website healthcare.gov. this year officials are encouraging people to sign up early to help them avoid any last-minute problems. if you do enroll by december 15th, coverage will kick in on january 1st. if you've got questions, we want to help you answer them. we've got some more information about the affordable care act on our website, nbc10.com. >>> we've been talking about the cold weather today. the frigid temperatures, they're not going to stop the participants in the als walk in philadelphia this morning. the popularity of last summer's ice bucket challenge sparked a lot of people to sign up this year. here's a live look in south philly. this is

demolition crews returned to the former philadelphia national bank building on south broad street right by city hall sunday morning. contractors first removed three of the 16-foot tall letters back in august. life-long residents welcomed the change. >> philadelphia is doing a lot of new things, so i guess that's good for the city. >> those giant letters had been in place since the 19 50's. >> well, a crushing defeat for the eagles at the hand after nfc rival. the birds lost 53 to 20 yesterday, dan rogers and the greenbay packers. mark sanchez was not as sharp as woe have likes in his second start for the injured nick foles, but can't be to blame for beating the birds took on the other side of the ball. greenbay took it to the team in all three phases, full wrap, including mark's postgame comments coming up in just a little bit in sports. meanwhile two, other nfl teams got unexpected visitors after their games yesterday. dea agents showed up un announced to question the medical staff of san francisco 49ers and tampa bay buccaneers, part of an investigation into claims from former players that te

national bank. reporter syma chowdhury shows us how crews changed the city skyline today. >> reporter: this p will nowtand for the word past, that is because it is a past memory you will see these iconic letters in the philadelphia skyline. crews tried for a second time to remove the famous pnb letters on top of the highrise on one south broad street. it had stood there for more than 50 years. without the letters, the building looks different to life long philadelphians. >> it looks real naked. i can't believe they took it down. >> reporter: back in august, crews attempted to take down the 12 letters but only managed to remove three. each letter was about 16 feet tall and 3,000 pounds. the letters were in poor condition possessing a safety hazard. >> they're so big, huge and heavy. >> reporter: during the first attempt crews learned the letters were in worse shape than originally thought. sunday morning a chopper came in with a plan b to safely remove the remaining nine letters. it took crews about 30 minutes to do so and caused some commotion and road closures. the n was the last letter to go. it rep

>>> in philadelphia, in fact across the united states, the nation's well federal reserve banks are marking 100 years and tonight in center cityial event commemorated this day a century ago those banks opened. the program look at the impact of technology on the fed and showcased the banks history and the fed remains as controversial today as it was 100 years ago. >>> hackers are always looking for ways to attack the us government. but something they just did has a state department taking the unprecedented step of shutting down its entire unclassified e-mail system. a senior department official says the feds detect add quote activity of concern in the system and they discovered it at the very same time as another incident target the white house commuter network. the official says the state department shut down the e-mail system late friday. so far they've yet to detect any damage and technicians are hard at work making security improvements to the department's main computer network. no word on who might have carried out the attacks. >> coming up an all out brawl. a fight break out inside a beer store and it's all caught on came

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city hall. the 3,000-pound letters were considered a safety hazard since they had been up there on the building for six decades. the pnb stands for philadelphia national bank. that company is gone, and now the last symbol of that piece of history is gone as well. >> it's amazing to see a helicopter come that close up on me. and down low like that. >> reporter: not something you see every day. >> yeah, nothing seen like that before. >> i was amazed. i have friends who were supposed to meet me here and they totally missed it because last time we were here, we stood here for three hours and saw them take down two letters. >> reporter: it was fast indeed, and just within the past 30 minutes we saw the workers begin to move the giant letters on to flat bed trucks and take them away from the area. we're giving you a live look. road closures are still in effect. the early plan was to keep these roads around city hall until around 4:00 this afternoon, but once this is all cleaned up, that reopening could happen a lot earlier than expected. we will keep you posted here on tv and online, nbc10.com. for now, we are live in center city. i'm matt delucia, nbc 10 news.

bank from almost anywhere with the citi mobile app. to learn more, visit citi.com/easierbanking >>> the national parks service is considering raising admissioneeze. right now it costs $7, visitors under 16 are free, however now they are proposing to increasing it to $10 and doubling the cost of an animal pass to $40. they are asking for public comment right now. >>> there was a spirit of caption at oakland city hall as -- cooperation at oakland city hall as they pledged to work together for a smooth transition of power. mayor jean quan's term ends in february when libby schaaf will be sworn in. the mayor said she wants to help the next mayor as she takes over. libby schaaf's says her first priority is the safety of residents. >> continuing to efforts that mayor jean quan has begun in making our city safer. that is our challenge. to make this city safe, to make it clean and to take better care of its children. >> libby schaaf says she plans to give special attention oeast oakland and improve the quality of life -- to east oakland and improve the quality of life there and keeping the a's and the raiders in oakland. >>> we are learning the name

city. 40,000 pounds of fruits and vegetables and 3000 turkeys were given away. barry arranged for the items to come from whole foods and the national capital food bank. it was the biggest event ever, even as it was his last. as for the needy, they were grateful to get the food. >> i am so happy. i did not know where to get a turkey. i went to every church, and they said they didn't have anymore. so thank you all. >> to know that someone in a higher office cares made a big difference in my life. barry'slanning for funeral continues. the thought is it will be sometime next week, not this week because of the things giving day holiday. perhaps at the convention center. they are arranging for a number of acres, -- speakers, including a number coming from out of town. the planning goes on, but no date is certain at this point. again, this was a big success, barry's last turkey giveaway in southeast. reporting live from southeast washington, sam ford. >> thanks. hundreds of people lined up at fedex field today for the redskins annual turkey giveaway. tim brant will have more on that coming up shortly at 4:40 today. >> the d.c. counsel is set to advance a $3

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live look at center city where crews are spending the day removing the iconic pnb letters from the skyline. the letters were hoisted on top of the highrise by philadelphia national bankack in the 50's. crews attempted to remove the letters several months ago but had to stop because they were in such bad condition. >> looks like it's all going well now. >> it does. >>> several streets around city hall will be closed until 4 o'clock so crews can work. fifteenth from arch to chestnut. north broad to j.f.k. south broad the from penn square to chestnut. fifteenth to 16th, south penn square from 15th to juniper and j.f.k. to juniper to 16th. did you get all that? hopefully you can see it on the map. police will be on hand of course to help direct traffic around that area. karen. >> you stink, that's what some folks in new jersey are saying. they are tired of living with the putrid stench from the pennsylvania landfill drifting across the river into their burlington county neighborhood. they're so fed up they're suing. they've made this a class action case. let's take a look at the landfill. this is what we're talking about right in bucks county right across from florence n

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cities of the occupied west bank have been cutoff because of it and east of jerusalem has been separated from the rest of the palestinian territory and defies international law as well as united nationscouncil resolutions and deviates considerably from the original land captured by israel in the 1967 war. >> the war is only a symbol of this horrible injustice and maybe there is a good sight to anything after israel has been forced to make its occupation visible and after the second has been forced to make its violence even more visible. >> reporter: israel maintains the wall is intended as a defense against attacks and palestinians view it as a long-term maneuver aimed at taking more land and restricting movements in occupied territories, whatever the case 25 years after the fall of the berlin wall this is not likely to come down any time soon, al jazeera, bethlehem in the occupied west bank. >>> let's take a check on the weather now with everton and you've got news on flooding in north africa. >> yeah, that is right, we seen heavy rain making its way from the atlantic effecting western europe and looking at the satellite long line of clouds and flooding in morocco and likely over no

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national government and we will do. >> let me ask about that. these terrorists weren't from the west bank, they were from jerusalem. so in terms of the safety and well being in your cityyou do to increase that? especially at these holy sites? >> reporter: well, we have to understand that the reason for the -- for them taking butcher knives and going to kill jews is the incitement and lies that have been told by the terrorists and the palestinian authority about all kinds of rumors and misfacts about the way we are treating in jerusalem. christians, it's the safest place in the middle east for christians. they can safely pray in the christian sites. and jews manage jew sites. and for us it's imperative we seek peace and enable people to freely move around the city of jerusalem. unfortunately, terrorists want to kill jews, to terrorize us and naturally make us run away from home from our home in jerusalem. and we will not allow that to happen. indeed, what israeli police and all of us together are focusing on is increased punishment for the people that take the law into their own hands. as much as we can by law, fight the incitements of the palestinian authority and oth

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city sharing becomes powerful. is the command and control? know, but will do a lot more than the united nations or the world bank does? multilateral agreements between nations? yes, it will. >> let me ask this question and bring the mayors and. this is heavy stuff for at least it could be heady stuff. what do you think? do you want your male colleagues from around the world to be able to weigh in and help solve some of the most vexing problems, some of the most vexing global problems? mayor walsh? >> first of all thank you all for being here today and thank you for the presentation. isaac and backward trip from our of our sin belfast, over to dublin and the concerns of the mayors of type outcome of same was on talked about here, growing an economy, creating a for, stabilizing our cities and worrying about attacks, terrorism, whatever it might be. we are talking about the same issues. but we talked about the marathon bombing, about how we're preparing for it, talked about ebola, about what's happening what steps we're we ae taking. i think there's an opportunity as a mayor to sit and ensure best practices. i was asked

city sharing becomes powerful so is it command-and-control? no. but will it do a lot more than the united nations or world bank does?l agreement between nations? yes it will. >> let me bring the mayors in. this is heady stuff for could be heady stuff. what do you think? do you want your mayoral colleagues from around the world to be able to weigh in and solve, the most vexing problems, the most vexing global problems. want to start? >> thank you for being here today, thank you for that presentation. i came back from a trip to ireland when i was in galway and donegal over to dublin and the concerns of the same ones i am talking about here, growing the economy, creating affordable housing, stabilizing our city, worrying about attacks, terrorism, whatever it might be. we are talking about the same ease is. we talked about the marathon bombing, we are preparing for it, talked about ebola, what is happening and the steps we are taking and i think there is an opportunity to share best practices. i was asked this morning about the steps new jersey is taking about setting up a quarantine for folks coming in from west africa

even in areas as security and intelligence city cooperation and sharing becomes very possible -- necessary but we will do more in the united nations or the world bankg in the mayor's. this is kind of heavy or it could be. do you want your merrill colleagues from around the world to weigh in to help solve some of the most vexing problems or global problems? >> 84 being here today and for the presentation. i just came back from a trip to ireland up that the belfast area and the concern is the same thing talking about the growing economy to stabilize our city so we're talking about the same variations how we are preparing for it and we talked about ebola and the steps we're taking and there is then the opportunity for best practices and that was asked the question in this morning the stepsisters he is taking to set up a quarantine for those folks coming in from west africa. that i want to educate the medical facilities and public health and the fire department and the public to understand what the crisis is about. it is an opportunity to have a conference like this to share best practices. we meet fairly regularly and we had had a meeting last week bu