chris cuomo with an abc news exclusive. >>> and the long and winding road. a milestone for sir paul mccartney. a chorus on the streets saying, hollywood, what took you so long? ♪ >>> good evening. we begin, tonight, with big news for homeowners and their mortgages. today, the justice department announced that five of america's biggest banks will be forced to pay a record penalty, $26 billion, for their rol in the mortgage mess. they will also have to help a lot more homeowners renegotiate. better mortgage terms. so, tonight, millions of american families are asking this, what does it mean for us? how much? how soon? and abc's david muir talked to the people who negotiated this deal today. david? >> reporter: diane, as you know, we've been reporting from day one here on homeowners to get the banks to modify their mortgages. tonight, here what's different about this landmark settlement. these five banks have agreed to help homeowners across the board. not just those missing payments. all homeowners that are under water, are paying more thar their home is worth

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andrew cuomo, our current governor, andrew cuomo. >> john: mario quo me. >> and andrew cuomo served ainternship. he was his father's campaign manager, legislative aide, political aide and when he ran for governor of the state nobody said anything about nepotism. why? because in fairness we recognize that he had a long apprenticeship. >> john: and in fields like sports, where there's less bull and you have to perform, clearly we also see these patterns. eli manning just won the the super bowl, brother is peyton, father is archie. other be football stars. ken griffey, sr. and junior. muhammad ali and daughter layla. in the arts. drew bare more, charlie sheen, martin sheen. and ben stiller. this supports your arguments. you got your job because of the nepotism. your father is saul and won a nobel prize. >> as far as my history is concerned, i describe myself as a product of new nepotism. my father didn't do anything to help me get a job in publishing. that doesn't mean that his name didn't make a difference, that it helped me? it did. >> not only-- but what was really important my upbrin

cuomo through the end of december. and this is a fight. now, our friend obama now has this new idea. it's an old idea but he thinks it's new. this is what democrats do is they have trickle down taxation. and that is they say, here's what we're going to do. we're only going to tax rich people. now targeting several tens of millions of people. it starts, theyal p promise onl hitting 115, soon millions, then tens of millions. some of you may remember the spanish-american war tax. in 1898, only rich people had long distance phone bills and added a tax on that. however, that continued up until a few years ago. more than a hundred years. i went to public school, but recently saw on the history channel that the war ended earlier. and they -- they took a tax on rich people and it became within a matter of decades tax on every american. okay? and our friend the income tax itself imposed in 1913 was only going to hit 1% or 2% and now gets at least half the country and obama's most frequent promise when he ran for office, i'll never tax anyone anyway

devoted sports fans can thank jeremy lin with an assist from governor andrew cuomo. warner blocked out the network msg for 48 days, leaving nearly 2 million customers in new york city in the dark. the two companies could not agree on how much time warner should pay to continue carrying the sports network. largely because of linsanity, governor cuomo made a phone call. >> i believe jeremy lin did heighten it. my instinct the is, that heightened the pressure because people wanted to see the programming. >> of course that was governor cuomo. the dispute was resolved just in time for new yorkers to see last night's knicks game against the hornet. despite a 26-point night from lin, he turned the ball over nine times and the knicks lost to the hornets, snapping their seven-game win streak. >>> much more ahead on "today in the bay." coming up, bird watching on a whole other level. where you can see one of natural weerd. [ male announcer ] what happened when ford owners compared their trucks to a chevy silverado? i can see myself driving in this for hours and hours. i like i

chris cuomo?e one who told me to do the book. yes. she was telling me that, look, mom, for 12 years, you worked so much actively in the government with dad. and you met so many interesting people. so many accomplished people. so why don't you go back to them and ask them, who mentored you? who was the person who changed your life? and i looked at her and said, my god, that's brilliant. >> and that's why? >> that's why we did the book. >> and in the book, we learned whether they are a successful doctor, opera superstar, they all had mentors who guided them. diane sawyer. >> a great mentor teaches you the best gifts you have been givens but in yourself. >> for gloria estefan, it was her grandmother. >> she told me whatever i does, i was going to be singing. >> whoopi goldberg, mike nicholls. >> everybody needs somebody they can turn to sand a it's okay. and mike's my guy. >> movie star rachel mcadams fondly remembers her high school drama teacher? >> miss presque, think so much. thank you so much. >

. >> o'brien: in the other corner is new york governor andrew cuomo. >> governor andrew cuomo says the plant's location on a fault line makes it a disaster waiting to happen. >> i understand the power and the benefit. i also understand the risk, and this plant in this proximity to new york city was never a good risk. >> o'brien: the long-simmering fight over indian point-- and nuclear power in general-- came to a head after the catastrophic nuclear disaster that took place half a world away in fukushima, japan. on the afternoon of march 11 2011, at 2:46 p.m., a massive earthquake shook japan. >> we just had a major earthquake. >> o'brien: the event was captured in real time on cell phones and security cameras. the epicenter of the so-called tohoku quake was 80 miles off japan's northeast coast. nuclear plants around the country automatically shut down-- including the three operating reactors at the fukushima daiichi complex run by the tokyo electric power company-- tepco-- the largest utility in japan. the massive earthquake triggered blackouts throughout the area. inside the plant, te

passed a law and governor cuomo passed it into effect last year.dian side what they wrote is they made an addendum to their law, they said once in a generation they will consider revisiting a stunt. >> help us gauge the level of danger here. >> we are dealing with wind conditions, a lot of updraft because the falls are forcing down so rapidly. i'll train with high winds, water, mist in the air. i'll be more than prepared for what i will experience. this is something governments have changed laws over. how does that make you feel to be the guy? >> it's quite a blessing. other wire walkers have tried for 30 years to get to do this. i have to pinch myself, i'm living a dream. >>> this is flute playing like you've never heard before. ♪ >> just call it flute boxing. >> that takes some skill. that's amazing. >> the story behind the >> art is best when it's interactive in my opinion. this installation takes that to a new level. it is called starfield by lab 212. basically it's a swing with a projector projecting a starfield on the screen in front of you.

others include cuomo, mark warner, elizabeth warren and secretary of state hilary clinton. the times points to o'malley as traveling to south carolina and criticizing mitt romney and the fact he is a quote progress i fighter as indicaters of a possible 2016 campaign. >>> do you know whether your doctor has done something that warrants taking his license away? our bad medicine investigation. why doctors are able to continue practicing even years after they are socked with serious allegations. >>> to on going investigation. bad medicine, as abc2 news investigator found out. it could take years for doctors to be punished. this is attracting a lot of attention. >> reporter: that's right. more than 12,000 people have checked out abc 2 news.com/bad medicine , the special page recreated. you can look up the doctor's we tracked by name and complaints, watch all the coverage we have done, look up and found out if your doctor made our cut. despite the cases against many of the doctors, many of them continue to practice for months or years before any action is taken. you trust them wi

calling him chicken cuomo. does that raise questions about the news organization that is murdoch controls? >> no. i think that's very congruent with what people expect him to do. i think it's been a good luck into the inside of his head. he's rupert murdoch. he lives a life beyond consequence, let's face it. he controls his board. he can pretty much do what he wants. and i think he oddly understands twitter and what it can do, and it's been good. i mean, i don't think it's a bulletin to anybody who follows rupert murdoch or reads the news that he's somewhat conservative in thinks political views. >> and not to put too fine a point on it, who is going to tell him not to. david carr from "the new york times," thanks very much for joining us. >> always a pleasure to talk to you, howie. >>> coming up in the second part of "reliable sources" the conservative daily collar. plus the backlash against a washington television reporter after her story about underage drinking. >>> and later, why the media are making a huge

. >> you can see all of chris cuomo's exclusive interview on a special "20/20" tonight. >> imagine what that woman's been through. >>> in other news, consumer advocates are criticizing the megamortgage settlement as too litt little, too late. karen travers has more details. >> reporter: help is on the way for nearly 2 million american homeowners hurt by the hou crisis. >> we have reached a land mark settling with the nation's largest banks that will speed relief to the hardest-hit homeowners and some of the most abusive practices of the mortgage industry. >> reporter: a $25 billion deal was reached between 49 states and the nation's five largest banks. under this deal, about 1 million underwater homeowners will have their debt reduced or be able to refinance at a lower rate. another 750,000 americans who lost homes in the last three years will get a check for about $2,000. >> it's good for the families, the neighborhoods, the communities, and our economy. >> reporter: critics say this will only help a small fraction of the millions of homehoowners drowning under mortgages. >> no compens

chris cuomo is live from new york with more on that and taking us inside the troubled life of whitney houston including a rocky personal life and battle with addiction. >> that's true, but the headline is "we have lost a member of the american family." she was not just another celebrity. think about how many artists there are that could bring band parents, parents, and children altogether -- grandparents parents, and children altogether in the same room. think about if what she was doing when the country was in crisis in 1991 and she sang the national anthem at the super bowl. was a huge figure and had a very up and down life. what we will do is celebrate the whitney houston that we all knew and go through what was seen as much. it's very difficult to do two hours about somebody like this with so much material. quite a challenge. if we believe whitney houston deserves the attention of. >> it's going to be quite a challenge, because we are talking about big stars that will show up tomorrow at the funeral to celebrate her life. everybody feels like they know so much about her because we

. >> new york governor andrew cuomo delivered his second state of the state address at the empire state plaza convention center in albany in january. the governor reviewed 2011 and released his agenda to boost new york's economy during his second year in office. he announced plans for the nation's largest convention center in new york city, a $1 billion jobs initiative for the city of buffalo plans to repair 2,000 miles of bridges and roads. his speech is about an hour. >> thank you. thank you very much. thank you. thank you, thank you, thank you. happy new year, new york. it is going to be a good one. 1st lt. governor bob duffy, isn't he great just listening to the lieutenant governor? he is when we started the administration, we has three call words, performance, integrity, pride that you see behind me. bob is the personification of that. he was a great, great mayor. of the sti -- city of rochester. he's been a phenomenal lieutenant governor. he's been everywhere. he's truly a superstar. our great controller who a really important job at one time. he was a former seemp man, thomas dp

if the giants lose, new york's governor andrew cuomo is making his bet with 46 cases of new york yogurt, 46 dozen bagels, and 46 cheesecakes, all to be donated to a massachusetts food bank. >> i didn't know new york was known for its yogurt. >> what about the pretzels? or the pizza? interesting. yogurt. it is a new era. >>> still ahead on "today in the bay," an unexpected break in a decades-old murder case. how police finally caught the suspect. >>> an oakland teen returns to court today after being charged with the murder of his parents. why he's now also being charged as an adult. >>> plus, speaking out makes a difference for parents in a south bay community. how they're pushing google to change its bus stop. >>> we're on facebook. you can get all your news, weather and traffic updates. logon right now. just search nbc bay area news. >>> what a nice shot. this is san jose off in the distance. kind of looks like a red-orange hue from what i canitay w.h us h us. 4w w >>> the 15-year-old oakland boy accused of killing his parents heads to court today and will be tried as an adult. i'm ch

governor cuomo put a rational tuition in place which protects the ceiling for the next five years, makeshe increases very fair and minimal, makes sure that students can predict how much the cost of college will be over a long period of time, and prioritizes students in need as the first students to close that financial gap. so i think that's a serious approach, one that we're using, and i think the country could embrace. and i'm glad the president is talking about it. >> you know, king out there in california, though, students have a lot of choices really, quite frankly. they can do a state school, private school, community college. and a lot of them are deciding, making decisions based on money, not what they're interested in, their aptitude or what they think their career path will be. in some cases a lot of this is kids are looking so hard to find the money to go to school, but the tuitions just keep going on. that can't go on forever, can it? >> i think -- first of all, i'd like to also commend the president for raising two very important issues. one is there are good and bad players

largely because of lin-sanity, governor cuomo made a call. >> i believe jeremy lin did heighten it. and my instinct is, that heightened the pressure because people wanted to see the program. >> the dispute was resolved just in time for new yorkers to see tonight's knicks game against the hornets. and despite a 26-point night from lin, he turned the ball over nine times. the knicks lost to the hornets, snapping their seven-game win streak. >> they actually lost a game. let's bring in henry for our local teams. henry, how are you doing? >> doing great. lin-sanity. no need to argue over the guy. spread the love, everyone. earlier this month, the warriors took the conference-leading thunder down to the wire at oracle arena. today, they tried their luck in oklahoma city. find out why monta ellis had martin jacksonnd a the warriors more worried about his knee. >>> welcome back to nbc bay area. last week, monta ellis had 48 points against the thunder. but the oklahoma city guys got the last laugh after holding on for a three-point win. golden state, looking for payback tonight. could they

abc's chris cuomo got action. you remember last november, he told us about an outrage, lavish pensions for members of congress. in some cases, more than $50,000 a year for life. while so many others, including military families, get so much less. you may remember chris -- blocking reform, including a committee chairman. listen. >> you are the guy who can get this ball rolling. it's in your committee. you've got to do it. >> we will do it. >> but it hadn't happened. >> it has not been the number one priority right now. >> and today, it happened, tucked inside the payroll tax extension jake just told us about. legislation that reins in pensions for new congressmen. their pensions will now be on par with what other federal workers receive. >>> the governor from new jersey, chris christie, finding himself in the spotlight of one of the most highly-charged social issues of the day, gay marriage. tonight, a bill legalizing same-sex marriage voted for by the new jersey legislature, was vetoed by christie. he will play th

i don't know if the state, with all due respect to governor cuomo, if the state's fully equipped to appreciate differences between various spots of the stage. i'm just asking you to keep that in mind when you go forward. >> yes, sir. >> thank you. with that i recognize the ranking member. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as well as the other states in the united states other than new york, we -- we join you in that concern, mr. chairman. with respect to the reference the chairman made of the letter from the national association of counties, national league of cities, u.s. conference of mayors and national association of fire chiefs and others, i'd like to have it entered into the u record. >> without objection. >> also with respect to the theme of grants, there is some concern that these stake holders have not been included. in the process of developing guidance on the grants and the consolidation proposals. will you commit to the committee that if it has not been the best, you'll make your best effort to work with those groups? >> yes. and we have had a lot of discussions with stake holders over t

ya know i did not realize that when even the rings we had lots of cuomo mortars. they were expecting to be able to. turn these guys to scare them didn't realize that within two days of the original raids and january two thousand and ten we would have some of the top borders in the nation there and started buying them so it's things like that that ensure that no matter what happens. we're going to be burning out any time any time soon right certainly something very interesting that we here at our to keep our eyes on all day long you should see our web department they all kind of are into this making sure they don't miss anything and they were the ones who notified us about the department of homeland security and who knows within the next few hours we might have more news we do appreciate your insight founder of project pm there at ground zero. well in just a little more than a week many egyptians will be celebrating the one year anniversary of the day their longtime leader president hosni mubarak stepped down after quite a bit of pressure and of course weeks of pro

"the sins of the father," chris cuomo reporting. good night.

as an i italian-american i would be incredibly insulted of rudy giuliano -- rudy guiliani are mario cuomo used an italian accent to appeal to my a better nature. professor cornell west don't use black english or tavis smiley except for emphasis would you address that issue by the mechanism is so popular and in use? >> guest: that is a fine question. when the president of the united states when they get before an audience they try to figure out how to connect with the audience. that is pretty typical in terms of people trying to be persuasive. when black politicians are more predominantly black church or the naacp or another organization, they will often speak in a way or make allusions a reference is they think that will connect with the audience. there is a fine line between doing that and engaging in unattractive pandering. it is a fine line in sometimes people go over the line, but by and large when the president changes his diction and a little bit, what he is doing is what politicians typically do. not just politicians. if i am speaking to my audience at harvard law school i will oft

eliot spitzer preceded me because i served with attorney general cuomo from new york, so the potential agreement you're talking about there was not when i was in office. i will say this, that as attorney general since that time, and knowing what attorneys general have done, particularly the rule that new york can play because of the martin act and other enforcement ability it has, new york has been an important player on looking at states enforcing consumer rights. and in some instances, overseeing banks. but by and large, remember, a lot of the oversight in regulation of banks and securities is done by the federal government, whether it's by the fcc or enforced by the department of justice at the federal level. the banks lobbied for a long time to be preempted by any state legislation. they would rather have one regulator, and frankly they have friends in congress that have allowed them to escape any state regulation that might have slowed the kind of fallout that we now see from the home loan crisis. i will say that the attorneys general, and speaking from massachusetts, we work at t

"the sins of the father," chris cuomo reporting. good night. >>> breaking news.in flames. a s.w.a.t. team moves n a standoff with several robbery suspects believed to be inside. >> oakland takes a new approach to fighting prostitution, insisting it's the only way to stop what is going on here. >> analysis of a fatal fire shows a broken window played a major role in the deaths of two firefighters. >> venturing out into a long dormant volcano that may be overdue for an eruption. >> and it's happening vallejo. sky 7 is over the scene of a burning home now. >> this is a police standoff that has been taking place here, several suspects believed to be inside for the past few hours, both vallejo police and a s.w.a.t. unit are on the scene with fire department. >> we believe the fire began after police fired smoke grenades into the home. you can see from this video that flames and smoke began pushing through walls and windows in this house. >> this appears police have entered but then backed off. and he's with us now. what can you tell us about what you've seen out there

. >>> and on the topic of that bill, an update tonight, a big one, from abc's chris cuomo, who got action. you may remember last november, he told us about an outrage, lavish pensions for members of congress. in some cases, more than $50,000 a year for life. while so many others, including some military families, get so much less. you may remember that chris pursued some of the congressmen blocking reform, including a committee chairman. listen. >> you're going to get this bill, right? >> no. >> that's how you get it rolling, though. >> and after that, he pressed the issue with another powerful member of congress. >> you are the guy who can get this ball rolling. it's in your committee. you've got to do it. >> we will do it. >> but it hadn't happened. >> it has not been the number one priority right now. >> well, that pressure worked. today, it happened. tucked inside the payroll tax extension jake just told us about, legislation that reins in pensions for new congressmen. their pensions will now be on par with what other federal employees earn. >>> and tonight, the two-fisted governor fr

first, "20/20" anchor chris cuomo is in graham washington with the latest. good morning, chris. >> reporter: good morning, george. as shock begins to fade, new details and questions are emerging. could more have been done to solve susan powell's case? could her two little boys have been saved? why did it take almost seven minutes for a dispatcher to take a case worker's pleas seriously. >> they have to respond to emergency, life-threatening situations first. >> this could be life-threatening. >> reporter: nearly 22 minutes pass between the time the call is made and a deputy arrives at the house. far too late. >> he blew up the house and the kids! >> reporter: by that time, the case worker has called 911 again, this time, reporting the explosion. her thoughts have been on braden and charlie ever since. >> she's very upset and -- traumatized. this is something that is going to be a life-changing event. >> reporter: for many, the call is another in a series of missed opportunities. they began when susan cox powell vanished in december 2009. her husband, josh, w

new york governor andrew cuomo. it turns out he's always missing from national events.n't go to places where other governors are. and in his 420 days in office, hasn't done a single network television interview. it turns out this is a very specific strategy as he looks ahead to 2016, wants more than anyone to be at the top of the pack. to succeed barack obama. but his folks figure he should come off as a governor, not a politician. he knows that the media will come, so he's holding off for now. >> he's done no national tv interviews, turns down all the sunday shows, apparently wants to be viewed as a confident governor of new york to launch himself in 2016. >> john heilemann, this guy has always stayed away from the media. he's been, he's acted like he's above the media in his campaign, i remember saying once he gets elected governor, he's not going to like it. but he's going to have to talk to the press, he doesn't. >> he doesn't. and you know, he has had a traditionally gone way back, he's had a media strategy. it's no the that he totally avoids the press, he tries to

z cuomo? on the fact that we have a large footprint in the public housing area in western queens, 35,000 public residents, many of whom are food stamp eligible and are reluctant to apply because of the finger imaging. and families go without food because of that. >> so the flip side, you have the mayor and supporters who say the practice is vital. we reached out to the mayor's office and here's what he told us. he defends the fingerprinting saying the new york city food stamp program must be managed with integrity. not only does it identify duplication and fraud, but it also prevents people from even attempting to scam the sam. it protecting the system from apbus. so what is wrong with trying to prevent fraud and abuse? >> i don't think there's anything wrong with trying to prevent fraud or abuse, but there are other ways of doing it. for example, just using computer imaging with social security numbers would be sufficient to prevent fraud. we're doing it already with medicaid and other benefi

after new york state passed marriage equality last year, after the length gislature, and governor cuomoigned it in laurks the new york times did a post morten came together, what motivated the governor to do it and push hard, what persuaded the republicans who changed their minds, how the pro-game marriage side came together. the rich guy republican donors, conservative donors who met secretly with the staft fers and said they would help him out even though he is a democrat. "within days the wealthy republicans sent back word they were on board each of them cut six figure checks to the lobbying campaign for gay marriage rights." those wealthy republicans who bankrolled the pro-gay marriage fight in new york were three hedge fund zillionaires, three conservative hedge fund zillionaires supporting gay marriage last year in new york state. all three of them now supporting mitt romney for president. >> our conservative values came under attack. less than a year after i took office the state's supreme court inexplicably found a right to same sex marriage in the constitution written by john e

and the church that she sang in as a kid, which only a cuomo dates 300 people will be the place where funeral there. was a big rush today on the internet and tv saying there was going to be this public memorial at a big venue in new jersey. not true. there will be none, at least right now that is what the family wants and that will be honored. >> i can understand the family wanting to keep this private but there are so many fans that would like their own special way to say good-bye. we will see you for tmz at 6:30. >>> madonna fans you have another shot at seeing her in concert at the verizon. sold out the first show. promoters added a second date, september 24th. tickets go on sale february 24th through ticket master. 9. >>> coming up at 6:00, should welfare recipients be tested for drug use? that is one of a handful of controversial bills making its way through virginia. rginia.  [ male announcer ] at green giant we know nature gives us the most nutritious of gifts. but only when they are ready to be given. that's why green giant picks vegetables at their peak. ...and freezes them