how long could you stay on ellis island?e found to have a contagious disease, would people stay here for days, weeks, months, years? >> yes, a all of those. jenna: even years? >> yes. the person who was paying for your treatment runs out of money, and you could still be deported. jenna: obviously, sometimes you'd be really sick, and you could also, unfortunately, not make it, right? >> right. about 3500 people do die on ellis island. jenna: and so during the next hour of "happening now," we're going to take you to one of the places. again, this was a research hospital. gregg: right. jenna: because some of the doctors were seeing things they hadn't seen before, there was a essential place to make sure that they could diagnose what the ailment was. and so we'll show you that. we'll also show you some of the wards where people were treated so you can actually see what they look like now. but it was really remarkable to learn that the treatment wasn't free. so you had these very strict standards -- gregg: right. jenna: -- very c

and the story of world war ii on ellis island. >> immigration flowed through ellis islands in the thehospital remained open for treatment for the shell shocked in world war ii. >> this whole place doesn't have the eerie. knowing the morg and people stayed here for years. i expected to have the haunted house feeling. it doesn't feel that way in here. it is different. >> it is like the whole level of care that people were given and dignity and respect and how they were treated here. i don't necessarily think the ghosts are creepy feeling. it is more energy and emotion. >> i am not sure i would like to be here in the dead of night in halloween. >> i will not come back on halloween. >> our travels take us to one final room. immigrants from different countries. waited to learn their fate. most made it through to mainland america. and the american dream remained just that, an image than a reality. >> you could be in one of the beds here being treated and look out of your window and see the statue of liberty. i can't imagine what it was like to be here. so close to being able to being free a

on ellis islands, brian thompson, news 4 new york. >>> in westchester, residents might have relieved to know that the slithering neighbors are gone. >>a constrictors and pythons were determined that the owner could no longer take care of them. among them, a 60 pound better piece burmese python. >> imagine having 11 of those at home. >> just having the one one. >> not sure how that goes, but 11 would be way too many. anyway, great weather again today. we're on a roll with temperatures in the 80s. almost near 90 in the city. what about tomorrow? 7 day coming up. our view from atop the rock. temperatures are warm, it's 83, mostly sunny skies in the city. just a little bit of hayes ze on the horizon. temperatures was up to 88 in the city. average is 75. record today was 93. so an unusually warm day nonetheless. but at least not humid. that's the saving sgras. other tens around area, newark 88, 80 in bridgeport, 84 laguardia. immediate shore stayeded in the 70s. warning trend continues. no change until we get to the weekend. we'll start to slowly cool down. but especially next week big ch

. >>> plus, a milestone for ellis island. a look at the artifacts beginning to return fter hurricane sandy sent them elsewhere. >>> ten after 6:00 here. our sky cam live giving us a look at some of the traffic coming off the brooklyn bridge on this saturday morning. . >>> nearly three years after super storm sandy, historic ellis island marked a milestone this week, empty buildings coming back to life as 2,000 artifacts are now back. brian thompson has our sorry. child's shoe, delicately placed, marks the first step in making ellis island whole again. for two years, tourists could find little of what immigrants brought here and all these empty display cases. now the heating, cooling and most importantly humidity control systems are ready for workers to put items like this hospital wheelchair back on display. after spending all this time in a maryland warehouse, they have to be very careful. for six weeks after sandy these items, like this little girl's embroidered coat, sat in this great haul great hall with no controlled air

. >> something has been missing from ellis island for years. how history found its way back to the public today. >> and temperatures right now in the upper 80s. what about a 90-degree reading? is it looming? is it out there? in just a bit after the break. >>> a federal program that helps 9/11 victims pay for medical bills is expiring soon. >> weijia jang reports from washington where hundreds including some famous faces gathered to try to push congress to extend the program. >> reporter: on 9/11 new york city firefighter robert tylerville rushed to the world trade center and got sick. >> it's cancer. it's cancer. i had brain surgery. >> reporter: he pays for hefty hospital bills with the help the of the james zadroga 9/11 help and compensation act which helps cover medical expenses and treatment for people who became ill while working at ground zero. >> now it's time for congress to get off its butt and do its job. >> reporter: on wednesday, hundreds of 9/11 victims held a rally on capitol hill urging lawmakers to make the federal program perma

. >> the long journey to restore ellis island after from hurricane sandy. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >> homeowners affected by superstorm sandy have extra time to have flood insurance claims reviewed, an extra 30 days. extension comes after accusations of widespread underpayments. fema says more than 20,000 homeowners asked for reviews. 459 claims worth more than $7 million have been approved. >> talking nearly three years after sandy roared through new york harbor and ellis island marked a significant moment. >> reinstalling 2,000 display artifacts began. >> immigrant child's shoe, delicately placed marks the first step in making ellis island whole again. tourists couple find lit tle of what immigrants brought here. >> it's a shame. >> heating, cooling, and humid control systems are ready for workers to put items like this wheelchair back on display, after spending all of this time in a maryland warehouse. >> nerve-racking, trying to jockey things in tight places. >> reporter: for six weeks after sandy, items like this girl's embroidered coat sat in display cases with no control and up

is back together again. >> reporter: now that nearly 2,000 artifacts are back inside the ellis island national museum of immigration. >> something this delicate and ceremonial would have been packed in the luggage and considered a treasured item to bring with them. >> reporter: crews loaded the one of a kind pieces into displays. letter they were gown for three years. when superstorm sandy barreled through, the storm surge destroyed the electrical, cooling and heating systems. staff knew they had to do something fast. >> six weeks after the storm, it was very apparent to us that climate control was not going to be up and running in a short amount of time. so, we decided to do the best thing for the collection. >> reporter: they moved each and every piece to a storage facility outside of washington, d.c. but now that the museum's mechanical and electrical infrastructure has been overhauled, it's time to get things back in order. here on the third floor dubbed santa's workshop, they are unpacking and categorying everything. behind each item is an amazing story chronicaling the journey t

>> see you back in an hour and part two of hidden walls of ellis island. we cannot wait to show you that. in the meantime, "outnumbered" starts now. >>> this is "outnumbered." i am andrea tantaros, and here with us today is sand ra smith, fox business melissa francis, the author -- wife of chris kyle is back and today judge alex ferrer is here. >> it is great to be back. >> all hail. >> i like the all hail. next time in court instead of all rise, all hail. hail to the chief. >> chief justice. >> i wore a black suit and that was the closest i would do on here. >> you made the promise of the robe last time. >> we might have to wager a bet. but first the news. more trouble for hillary clinton as the tech guy who setup her private server is being called before the house committee on benghazi in about on hour. he is expected to plead the fifth to avoid self-incrimination but they are considering granting him immunity to discuss clinton's e-mail set-up. here is what trey gowdy had to say. >> we have to make sure the record is complete and talk to him. we have to

new york to philadelphia, the pope had a better than first class seat and requested a fly by of ellis islanded people are his focus halting his motorcade to bless a 10-year-old crippled by cerebral palsy. a pontiff that continues to surprise and inspire. well, the pope is attending a concert right now, the world meeting of families, the festival going on right behind me. tens of thousands of people attending that but a much bigger crowd tomorrow, more than 1 million people expected here for the pope's final mass in many ways, the center piece of the three-city trip to the united states. >> brian, it's been incredible watching the pace that he has kept as we sort of said before, just everything that he's done in one day, this huge mass tomorrow, he doesn't even look slightly exhausted. he's incredible. tell us about this mass tomorrow. 1 million people. >> reporter: more than 1 million people expected here and this was the reason this pope came. it was actually something that the previous pope had signed up for and pope francis said it was a good idea to attend the world meeting of families a

that tradition and hair tanl are epitomized by the sto statue of liberty and by ellis island. the nation has not always lived up to the high standards that have been set by us for it. we are still very much a work in progress, and there are times in our history when we have failed the high test of morality. but the statue of liberty stands tall at our harbor and embodies what is best about our nation. we are a nation of immigrants truly because we welcome the tired and the hungry yearning to be free. we need to demonstrate the international leadership that has made us proud in the past to establish a new inclusive vision for syria, to abate this refugee crisis, to provide a path for them to come to here and to provide them, consistent with our security, the opportunities that our feacialtion and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers going back in history -- all of us have come here from somewhere else, or almost all of us -- and human and effective policies to help us keep alive that great tradition and heritage serving millions of people who are tired and weary and yearni

50 new citizens to the united states at the former immigration stations, sometimes called the ellis islandof the west. it processed close to 1 million immigrants between 1910 and 1940, many from china. today's ceremonies were timed to coincide with citizen -- citizenship day in commemoration week. >>> the european union is planning emergency meetings to address the worsening refugee crisis there. some countries are closing their borders to the flood of migrants fleeing their war-torn countries. john huddy reports from jerusalem. >> reporter: thousands remain trapped along the borders of the countries that are now refusing to take any more migrants and, saying they are overwhelmed. among those countries, croatia has started shutting down its borders with slovenia, serbia, and hungary. more than 20,000 people have floated to creation since wednesday. now the country's prime minister said that croatia will force hungary into accepting migrants by busing them to the border and leaving them there, whether have been clashes between police and migrants with the least using water cannons and peppe

the pope made a special request, asking for a detour to view the statue of liberty and ellis island. it was said that pope francis got very emotional. he's made immigration a priority. his grand parents immigrated from italy in 1929. for much more on the pope and a slide show of his visit, head to nbcnewyork.com or check out the news 4 app. >>> we have good news tonight. nine years in the making. th mets are finally back on top and headed to the postseason. >> they clinched their first division title since 2006. andlve. >> almost no one picked the mets to win the division this year. even as thigh slugged their way to a comfortable lead atop the n.l. east, most mets fans just wouldn't believe it until they saw it. so, mets fans, here it is. >> he struck him out! tears of joy for the 2015 new york mets! >> yes, mets fans, this is real. and this is amazing. the mets are n.l. east champs winning the division for the first time since '06. they clinch tonight with a 10-2 win in cincinnati. and fittingly, david wright homered in the victory and then celebrated with his teammates who, yes, b

call it that they started to talk about making it more difficult to pass through the portals of ellis island. who set off the bomb and why? were they ever caught? 1920 was the only year in which to amendments the constitution of united states to a defect the first was the 18th amendment that made it illegal to sell or buy or manufacture but not to drink alcoholic beverages of course, we know that as prohibition and starting in january 16th 12 o 1:00 a.m. and ended titters 16 at 12 '02. [laughter] many people made their own version most commonly ab year that people called home brew for this reason prohibition was the greatest do-it-yourself project in the history of this country and brought the family closer together than it ever had before. the others in the kitchen and washing up the judge sister is in the pantry. fodder in the cellar mixing the pops jihadi is on the front porch watching for the cops. [laughter] americans still respected the law generally but this one specifically was to contrary to human nature and among those were rotary club president's doctors veterans of the great war

circling the statue of liberty and ellis island, the site where so many have immigrated to america. >>> you're keeping an eye out on the tropical storm. >> joaquin, tropical depression 11. the big takeaway with this storm, you're not going to like the track. the big takeaway is we've got a lot of rain coming this week. there's going to be wind and coastal flooding. we don't know the intensity or if there's a land fall. we have a tremendous amount of rain potential this week. we're down over eight inches for the year. would not be out of the question if by the weekend that entire deficit could be wiped out. that much rain. 73 degrees right now. south wind at 5. the pressure is on the fall. high today shy of 80. running 8 degrees above average and we have one more day where we can do that, tomorrow near 80. fair amount of cloud cover. there are a couple spotty showers by day. but it's a soaking rain later at night. probably really kicks in around this time tomorrow night. then it's rainy the remainder of the week in to the weekend and we have to track tropical storm walk. numbers again

theland at ellis island, the told the immigration authorities who they were, and unless there was a reason exclude them, they were included. there were times where people had those things that you mentioned, but they were not a prerequisite for getting on a boat in europe and making your way across the atlantic. it's simply not the case. >> host: was it the 1920s that the immigration laws changed? >> guest: tightened up a great deal. >> host: pretty respective towards eastern europeans, i.e. jewish people and business the southern borders as well. >> guest: absolutely. they were trying to limit the flow of row romanians, eastern european jews, italians, greeks. citizens from the then ottoman empire but now several different countries in the eastern mediterranean, there were limits there. but if you got on a bottom in hampton or holmburg, unless there was a disqualifying factor, you were not given a great deal of scrutiny if you knew where you were going and you had a ticket to get there, you could go. >> host: what if you got on a boat in naples? >> guest: with naples the law changed from

on his way out of manhattan his helicopter circumstantialed ellis island and the statue of liberty. before taking off from jfk airport, the pope stumbled a little as he climbed the stairs beginning his journey to the final stop of his visit. he was okay. we begin with bill. >> reporter: how are you? good evening from philadelphia. we are at the benjamin frankly parkway. below us the pope is passing as he is making one big sweep over this giant parkway. the crowds have been lining just standing there all day waiting for this moment. the stage is set for tonight's big concert. it is shut down for all business that is not pope related. they were expecting about a half million people. we haven't finished counting but it looks to us that they're not to what their expectation was. as for the pope of course he is not counting. he is clearly basking in all this. he handed in philadelphia this morning greeted by a band playing the theme to rocky. there is philadelphia museum of art where rocky was shot. remember that scene of him walking up the steps. he wasn't off the airport grounds long b

new york to philadelphia, the pope had a better than first class seat and requested a fly by of ellis island and the statue of liber liberty. on the ground he showed, once again, that people are his focus. halting his motorcade to bless michael keating. another touching moment from a pontiff who continues to surprise and inspire. brian moore, nbc news, philadelphia. >>> president obama once was called a name by him that we can't say on television. but it has to do with a donkey. anyway, next month, he'll be teaming up with kanye west here in the bay area. president obama and kanye west at an afternoon concert. performing at the theater october 10th. commander in chief is going to be there. cost $250 to attend. but a personal vip experience with president obama will cost you $10,000. what would a personal experience with kanye west cost? more. all the money raised will support the democratic national committee. >>> certainly not the pair you put together, right? an unusual pair in there. that's for sure. >>> well, coming up after this quick break, too scared to fly. what the san francisco air

security, but they started talking about making it more difficult to pass through the portals of ellis island. who set off the bomb? why? were they ever caught? 1920 was the only year in which two amendments of the constitution of the united states took effect. the first, was the 18th amendment which made it even legal to sell, buy, or manufacture but curiously enough, not to drink alcoholic beverages. of course we know it as prohibition. it started on january 16 at 12:01 a.m. it ended for all practical purposes on january 16 at 12:02 a.m. many people made their own versions of the beverages they used to know and love so well, most commonly a beer in which people called home brew. for this reason, prohibition became the greatest, do-it-yourself project in the history of this country. it brought the family closer together than it had ever been before. a poem from the time. mothers in the kitchen watching out the jugs, sisters in the pantry. fathers and the seller mixing up hop, johnny's on the front porch watching for the cops. [laughter] americans still respected the law generally. this one s

off from the heliport because he wanted to specifically fly over to the statue of liberty and ellis island and he wanted to speak about immigration, and how inclusion is so important to him, and you have written about politic politics and resolution, and what part of it has resonated most with americans this week, do you think? >> well, part of it is the simple compassion and get out of the chairs and do something for other people, and he says nit an inviting way. buts chris matthews says, it is more in the flying in the face of the hateful rhetoric that we have been hear ing ing in the rhetoric that we have been hearing in the past few years and months. and in the words that he spoke at the white house, the first words were of himself as immigrants, and our country being proud of immigration country, so he has moved the n conversation there, and he has spoken over and over again, and the need to protect the planet, and explicitly talked about the climate change, and these are the two areas where he is kind of pushing the church, and particularly on the climate chan change. i think that th

pataki: both of them were immigrants, they came through ellis island. they cannot speak english. my grandmother from ireland had such a great accent it was tough to understand her. they came here because they loved the idea of freedom, they had nothing when they got here. my father was born in new york where everybody spoke the same language, hung gary my father's parents came from hungary. hungarian, my father's parents came from hungary. they worked in factories. why one of the key changes i would make is a lower tax on manufacturing. right now it is the highest in the developed world, i want to make things in america again. it is great for our country and economy and people who may be do not have a college degree. it is a middle-class job that pays well. when i was in college i worked in the same factory my grandparents worked in. i was always happy to get that paycheck. they were tough jobs, but good jobs where you made something. we don't have enough of those. steve: where do you go to -- did you go to college? --. pataki: i went to neil yale. my parents did not go to colleg

what's going back now to ellis island. >>> plus, bring your appetite. the promotion that's making a comeback, but it's not available to everyone. >> all rigatoni all the time. don't forget, follow us on facebook and twitter. >>> we're back on this thursday. if you love pasta, you better be at your computer this afternoon. the olive garden never-ending pasta pass that was a hit in the past year, it's coming back. they're going to sell 2,000 of them online. these are the individual passes. so you pay $100 for that. for $300, four people can have all the pasta they can eat for a month and a half. this starts at 2:00 this afternoon at the olive garden website. >> that's a good deal. >> just go there and eat all that pasta. >> for 45 days. >> gain about 45 pounds, right? >> perhaps. >> a it's all my kids eat, so this is perfect. >> $300, family of four. it'll be great. it's what you put on the pasta. >> that's right. >> you want to run outside today if you can. enjoy it early on before it get toos hot. temperatures in the upper 80s later this afternoon. agai

this is ellis island today. what you're hook looking at. >> we have gone and interviewed some of these children and you and i have marvelled at how intelligent they are, how well spoken they are. they are getting an incredible education. >> sister kathleen, she's the director of spirituality, what is it about the eblg kags these kids get at a school like this that is so effective? that lets them be as smart as they are and teaches them what they need to know. why is that edge ucation so good sm. >> i'm happy to offer insight because i belong to a congregation which could be said to have begun the catholic school system in north america and we have our own extraordinary school not unlike think what makes these schools so exceptional and special is the community that is fostered by people who come to teach there, who are committed to the mission. these are mission driven communities. and they are, they are conducted that way. not just the teachers have this exceptional commitment to mission, but that mission then

later, artifacts from ellis island saved after superstorm sandy being returned for the first time. we are there as they are put back on display. plus, a home buyer's trap that almost cost one couple 12,000 dollars. the shocking bill that they received after buying a house and how to make sure that you don't get caught with the exact same bill. we will have those stories and much more beginning at "first @4:00." >> nina pineda to the rescue again. >> yep. >>> it's time for the stories that are popping up on your social media feeds. we like to call it the we begin with the uproar over facebook's decision to remove a post about an antipolice t- shirt with profanity on it. a sheriff in michigan asked his online friends if they thought the shirt was appropriate for sale. facebook flagged it as a hateful message and took it down. critics say that limits free speech. facebook has not issued a statement. >>> another controversial thing going on, virginia team has started a campaign to get the gap to pull some of its mannequins. she took a look around. she said the company is sending a bad

there in the popemobile earlier this morning was on the plane shepherd one and wanted to go by ellis island moved by that. let's go to greg argos right now. >> reporter: guys, this is a live look at the holy father passing through the ben franklin parkway. what a historic moment for our city here. tens of thousands of people cheering as you can see pope francis passing by the ben franklin parkway. he's going to make an entire other loop. we were high above the parkway right now. our friends at wawa are allowing to us use their space and his holy father is expected to make the loop then go onto the northern side of the ben franklin parkway any minute now so a lot of the people you see here crossing the street trying to get that second glimpse of pope francis as he is going make another loop. this is what people have been looking for all day long and of course our coverage continues live here along the ben franklin parkway as pope francis conducts his first papal parade here in philadelphia. back to you guys. >> thank you so much greg and i mentioned a little while ago that he might be tired

today what happens, he leaves the heliport in manhattan and flying over the statue of liberty and ellis island. religious freedom and immigration to come here to speak about religious freedom and immigration. i mean, could that be more planned or more blessed or better? he said to cardinal dolan, can you have them do it again. not once, but twice, three times. so i think his actions speak even more loudly than his words. >> you're looking at images of the pope kissing babies et cetera when he was in lampedusa. you, john, your take on how he walked that line. also a pope that's said a good catholic does meddle in politics. be involved, be part of the conversation, the debate, but he also walked that line a bit in his remarks ahead of this visit. >> sure. only non-man of the cloth on this panel, let me inject a little bit of political edge to this conversation. i'm a little worried we're losing what ought to be our main focus. actually, we are expecting most of his speech tonight is not going to be on immigration policy, it's going to be on religious freedom, and that has been a somewhat content

remember ellis island, canada, australia. we have to really close the border.have really to maybe organize immigration camps under the supervision of united nations and we have to figure this out. >> in the long run there's no question about it. there are issues linked to isis, there are issues linked to terrorism, but to be quite honest, the approach that we should have right now should not be one about going against nato controls or putting up borders. >> i think it's a secure issue for the refugees because they are not secure when they are trying to cross the mediterranean by boats or trying to walk by foot on the highways in europe. of course there is a security situation like in syria or the islamic state. that's of course a security situation. >> we do not agree in compulsory quotas although we absolutely agree with the fact that all member states should take part in the effort to make sure that the migrant crisis turns into opportunity for the european union. we've talked about the progress of another plan, investment plan for europe which is going on sm

. >>> artifacts removed from the museum on ellis island after superstorm sandy are being returned. the national park service finished a project to protect the museum from future storms. the work included elevating mechanical and electrical systems and upgrading humidity controls. more than a million documents and thousands of artifacts were taken in storage but they will be returned starting tomorrow. >>> a baby fed a bottle of vodka by accident. we will tell you how the mix-up happened. >> also, a monkey running loose in one town. the big >>> a one-month-old baby in wisconsin is fighting for his life after drinking vodka from a baby bottle. the mother put water in a bottle in order to make formula but the father dumped the water out and put vodka in the bottle instead. the mother mixed the formula with the vodka not knowing there was alcohol in the bottle. the baby had a blood alcohol level of .29. police are investigating to find out if this was a case of negligence or an accident on the father's part. >>> queen elizabeth, ii broke her great, great grandmother, queen victoria's r

staten island we can see bayonne, elizabeth, new jersey s staten island and the statue of liberty, ellis island, way in the distance sandy hook, new jersey. a pretty look from brooklyn to the lower east side. taking the ferry, great ride. clear skies back to the great lakes. this high-pressure ridge has been here all week. it will last would the weekend. temperature by 9:00 74. noontime 84. 89 this afternoon. nearly 15 degrees warmer than normal. this morning at the bus stop it feels great. after school 89 degrees. if if you have sports after school, drink a lot of water. i give it an a. >> that is 100% an a, which is 100%. >>> we have shannon showing us a mess that we have here on the verrazano bridge and it is still just a mess here. the ramp to 92nd street is closed down. you can access the belt. you can access the gowanus. an accident involving a bus and a vehicle. the vehicle overturned. the people on the bus are waiting for the new bus to show up to get them out of there. we have major delays across the verrazano bridge. delays reported with long island railroad, ronkonkoma branch and por

take a trip down to ellis island and walk through the gallery there. look at all the pictures from people who came from every part of the globe. in many cases, carrying all of their belongings in their hands. look at their faces. look at their eyes. the determination. people who work not five days a week but six or seven days a week. not eight hours a day, but 10, 12, 16 hours a day. no such thing as a minimum wage. why did they do it? because they were working for their sons and their daughters, their grandsons and their granddaughters. hundreds of years before that, other immigrants came here involuntarily in the bottom of slave ships. they too had a dream that one day there great-grandson's and great granddaughters might be free to pursue prosperity and success in this country. do you know of all the nations in the world this one, the united states of america, the only one big enough and great enough to allow all those people from all those backgrounds to realize their dreams. that is why i say every single one of us is culturally relevant to every

. >> he gets around very quickly, when he was asking for the opportunity to go around ellis island and go around the statue helicopter right? on the way from wall street to jfk a 12 minute trip, took longer now we know why. can you imagine that pilot going yes, sir, yes, sir. >> got a new plan, a different flight path skwoo the pope does have a jam packed schedule in philly, follow the numbers in new york, impressive, fasten your seatbelts in philly, one event expect half a million and then the big finale is a mass in philly tomorrow that could draw as many as 1 million people certainly, so you think, we thought here that new york was kind of the bread and butter. [ laughter ] but the reason he came to america was this catholic families event in philadelphia, everything else, dc, new york, was an' piezer to -- appetizer to what he does in philadelphia, his biggest day or two days are still to come, fly back in rome about 7:00 tomorrow night after this historic trip to america. his first time in america and his first time in cuba as well. >> i think he's sitting on the other side of the

dari: millions of artifacts will be returned to the ellis island national museum tomorrow. they were placed in storage three years ago after the building suffered major damage during superstorm sandy. the artifacts make up 50 percent of the museum's collection and should be on display in a month. steve: giants fans will not be seeing jason pierre paul anytime soon. he's not ready to play after badly injuring his hand in a fireworks accident. one finger was amputated. coach coughlin says there's no timetable for his return or if he'll sign a contract to play with the team. he has returned to florida to continue getting back game ready. dari: fantasy football, you're good to go. steve: had my draft last night. dari: all right. it's a huge business for companies and also individuals. steve: that's right. dan bowens takes a closer look at the growing popularity of fantasy sports and how it continues to change and evolve. >> reporter: tom is the cofounder of fan duel, the fantasy web site. we got a tour inside their manhattan offices where they have a countdown to week one of th

pataki: both of them were immigrants, they came through ellis island. they cannot speak english. my grandmother from ireland had such a great accent it was tough to understand her. they came here because they loved the idea of freedom, they had nothing when they got here. my father was born in new york where everybody spoke the same language, hung gary my father's parents came from hungary. hungarian, my father's parents came from hungary. they worked in factories. why one of the key changes i would make is a lower tax on manufacturing. right now it is the highest in the developed world, i want to make things in america again. it is great for our country and economy and people who may be do not have a college degree. it is a middle-class job that pays well. when i was in college i worked in the same factory my grandparents worked in. i was always happy to get that paycheck. they were tough jobs, but good jobs where you made something. we don't have enough of those. steve: where do you go to -- did you go to college? --. pataki: i went to neil yale. my parents did not go to colleg

rising so quickly that it's on track to break a record set when waves of europeans arrived at ellis island in the late 1800s and early 1900s. right now the largest immigration group is hispanic but researchers say that will not be the biggest group for very long. there's a new group that's rising. we'll break down the study and tell you which foreign born group is set to outpace hispanics. that's coming up at the top of the hour. see you then. >> look forward to that. thank you, shep. >>> nasa scientists nounsing one of the most important space discoveries in recent memory, and they found it right on this planet. what it could mean for the possibility of life in another world. >>> plus, former president bill clinton says all the hubbub surrounding hillary clinton's e-mails is being trumped up by the media and the gop. well, that was happening at the same time another secretary of state weighs in on whether she would have ever allowed a private server. manement can tap global insights. active management can take calculated risks. active management can seek to outperform. because active inve

he wanted to see ellis island. so they made a detour. we were wondering why it was taking the flight longer than normal. now we know why. he wanted to see ellis island and the statue of liberty. you're in new york, you've got to see those landmarks. our top of the rock camera caught that fly by. gus and i were talking about that yesterday. cardinal dolan who was on board with the plane said pope francis got very emotional. of course, he's made immigration a priority in his pontifficate. his grandparents were immigrants from buenos aires in 1929. >> it's like the saying goes, if the pope asks for once more around the park, you go twice. >>> up next, we'll have reaction to the pope's address as he spoke on immigration and religious freedom. >>> and just one day after central park was packed for the pope, another big event brought in the crowds. we'll show you the big names who took the stage. >>> and could rain be in the forecast? i think it could. we'll tell you when coming up in >>> 6:30 on a sunday morning. a live look at ben franklin p

. >>> artifacts are moved from ellis island after superstorm sandy are being returned now that a museum upgrade has been completed. more than a million documents and thousands of artifacts that were in storage will be returned today t. the project to protect the museum from future storms has been completed. the 39 million-dollar project should be restored by next month. >>> we are closing in on 5:00. just ahead on "eyewitness news this morning," we have new information on the case of mistaken identity that is getting folks talking across the tri-state. what lead a police officer to tackle former tennis pro james black and what the nypd is doing about it this morning. >> happening today, a new push to increase the minimum wage from where it is now to a full $15 an hour. not just new york city but the entire state. welcome to fort green sheets. welcome to castle bravestorm. it's full of cool stuff, like my second in command... and my trusty bow. and free of stuff i don't like. and in my castle we only eat chex cereal. chex cereal. it's full of delicious crunchability. no artificial flavor

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> for a man who has never been to america before, to be drawn today and the days before to see ellis island, the statue of liberty from the air, according to cardinal dolan. the icons of american rights and american liberty and american progress. he seems so in view with them. i think he thinks they mirror many of the concepts and traditions of the roman catholic church. >> benjamin franklin, of course, was one of the founding fathers and signed those documents. he has a famous quote about god and government. the longer i live, the more convincing that god governs and the sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice. it is a very strong history and dna. it was founded on that very principle. you can't continue with it unless that part of it continues and it strengthens. >> if he's tired he doesn't show it. i want to know what he does in between experiences to keep the stamina and energy going. >> somebody asked him that on the plane on the last trip. he said holy father, my father is younger than you are but he is a lot more tired than you are. what's the deal? the pope joked. he sa

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asked that his helicopter that was taking him to jfk airport circle the statue of liberty and ellis islandrently, new york's cardinal dolan said you could see he was very moved. buenos aires was a city of immigrants too. we've all been wondering what does the pope think of us, think of the united states and that gave us a little bit of inkling about his interest in this country. >> well, i have to say, natalie, he has received a very warm welcome in washington, in new york and now in philadelphia. they have really pulled out all of the stops to make him feel what they really do feel, that he is a superstar for them. he's very, very welcome here. one of the things that we've noticed has been a very heavy security presence and so the pope hasn't been as free as he normally is, for example at the vatican or in other countries where he could get off of his pope mobile and greet people. but at the airport today when he was getting into his car, he's driving a small fiat car here in the united states, that everybody is kind of amazed at the size of this tiny fiat car compared, of course, to the

place of peace, a place of remembrance, and the power of those names reminds me of the wall at ellis islandmemorial in washington, where you see people come and touch that name so the person will never be forgotten. >> many people come with tracing paper, father, as you've i am sure seen, rub a pencil over that name on the bronze plaque to take that name with them. there are the white roses left by the pope. those names are engraved all the way through the bronze, so very often people come by, slip flowers into the name, right through the space there, and we often see flowers all over the area. very serene, quiet place in lower manhattan, not far from wall street. our correspondent chip reid following the pope in new york city is down at the former site of the world trade center. chip, what are you seeing? >> reporter: scott, we get a glimpse of the pope occasionally through the trees. i wanted to add that the pope will be conducting an interfaith service at that museum. the vatican in a document we obtained from them is calling it an inter religious encounter. they're making very clear thi

an area of ellis island not seen in more than0 years. learned will change the way you think about our past. that is all at top of the hour. bill: thank you, jenna. see you then. apple unveiling a shrew of new products and update including the new apple pencil. it has the web buzzing but not in good way. lance ulanoff, from mashable.com. from california. what is up with you and does it work? >> good morning. apple, hell froze over. they finally did it, release ad stylist for the ipad which steve jobs specifically said you don't need this thing. but it is really a nice device. it's a bluetooth penalty lous you to write on giant 12.9-inch ipad pro screen. it has tremendous sort of response. you can do thick lines, thin lines, pressure sensitivity. you can hold it sideways to do sort of artistic stuff. i was impressed, shocked, impressed by what they did. hidden little lightning plug on the back to charge it up. bill: you wonder what jobs would think. he hated that idea. the people memes are exploding. i have your pencil right here. he attac

take a trip down to ellis island and walk through the gallery there.romat all the pictures people who came from every part of the globe. in many cases, carrying all of their belongings in their hands. look at their faces. look at their eyes. the determination. people who work not five days a week but six or seven days a week. but 10,t hours a day, 12, 16 hours a day. no such thing as a minimum wage. why did they do it? because they were working for their sons and their daughters, their grandsons and their granddaughters. hundreds of years before that, other immigrants came here involuntarily in the bottom of slave ships. that onehad a dream day there great-grandson's and great granddaughters might be prosperity and success in this country. do you know of all the nations in the world this one, the united states of america, the only one big enough and great enough to allow all those people from all those backgrounds to realize their dreams. that is why i say every single one of us is culturally relevant to every single one of us and that is why we are ca

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they all came through ellis island. three of the four could speak a word of english.my grandmother from ireland spoke english but should such a thick accent that was tough to understand. they came in because they loved the idea of freedom. they didn't have anything in the county. my father was born in ethnic community in peekskill for anybody spoke the same language, hungarian. when he went off to the first great he didn't speak the word of english. he only spoke hungarian because the entire neighborhood working is when factory. so my four grandparents were immigrants. they worked in factories. it's one of the reasons i believe, one of the key changes i would make is to lower the tax on manufacturing in america to the lowest in the developed world. right now it's the highest i want to make things in america again. it's great for our country, great for our economy. it's great for people who maybe don't have a college degree but it's a middle-class job that pays well. while i was in college i worked in the same factory my grandparents worked in over christmas and summer

it is a city of entry through ellis island historically and other means people go to new york and becomeup the boroughs with spiciness of those ethnic back grounds. it's amazing. it looks different than a washington audience. it is much more representative of the country i think in terms of our diversity. it is amazingly different looking crowd. i say this is the new york i know from going there. it's great. it's really something. it's powerful. >> different faces than what have been visible in the al smith era. more and more diverse as the years have gone on. >> and it works. >> you can still tell catholic school students from their uniforms as we just saw. that's the one unifying feature. what a shot. that is the still empty and vacant converted jeep popemobile. as we have been pointing out bullet proof shield. you see darking green windshield. that is the thickness of the glass yet it is open on the sides the way the pope likes it so there is really nothing between him and the people he is there to see along the route. this is a live picture on the left from further uptown. that is a