hoboken is on the frontlines of climate change.significant flood events since sandy. we are dealing with flooding on a regular basis. look at the climate change assessment report. it shows. downpours are happening. in the last 50 years, downpour events have increased by 70% in the northeast. it's something we have to deal with. i'm excited that this plan will give us the opportunity to really comprehensively protect our cities. >> when you were on the show in january, while you were making allegations, you were appealing to governor christie for help with this. did you receive any help from them and have coordination with them as you were preparing the bid in the last few months? >> i think governor christie and his team made a decision that we were not going to take a public position on. they did help with coordinating and helping them with the process. >> i have to ask you this. we show the picture and the video from this past event. we know that the back story here is very surreal. that's the word we used to watch that. you are

it's a yellowed 1934 license issued to francis sintra of hoboken. they the hoboken part right. he is 5'8", 130 pounds, and as peggy pointed out, his eyes are recorded as blue. >> oh, yeah. >> the license sold for about $16,000. >> that is a cool piece -- especially because it's got the error there. you see it did sign it correctly. he did spell his name correctly. >> he knew. >> he knew. >> it's a year before he became what he became. >> in hoboken, they're so proud of him in hoboken. you can kind of feel his presence there. >>> let's check the forecast one more time with christina. >> start spreading the news. it's going to be nice. 70 degrees. 75 in the north bay right now. we're headed towards a little bit of heat, guys. but it's not going the last forever. we'll see hot days monday, tuesday, and wednesday and thursday, cooling you off. >> all right, thanks a lot. "nbc nightly news" is next. >> have a good night. >>> on this saturday night, facing justice. the first suspect charged in the benghazi attacks that killed four americans arrives on u.s. soil and appears in court.

the shaking down of the mayor of hoboken. and the more complicated case of diverting funds, possible security fraud. >> you know, it's funny. david sampson becomes the grand unifying theory for tying those together. when we saw what came out of bridgegate we saw bill bor are oni calls on sampson to run interference against the new york side of the port authority. the people who opened up the bridge again. when we look at what happened in hoboken, even if you strip away what the mayor alleged about being shaken down, we saw documentary evidence that shows david sampson was using -- pivoting off the port authority grant in a way to benefit one of his clients. this real estate development group. we look at the financials the port authority filed in the process of oh diverting money to new jersey's transportation infrastructure. it's important to remember that one of every $4 in christie's transportation budget came out of the port authority. we think about the port authority as a giant agency with a 25-mile radius around the sta

the stevens family owned hoboken and created the north side of hoboken. i will not get into that argument. fields were a way of escaping the city. could youon was, why not stay in new york city and have this experience of something rural, green, and landscaped? everything new york was not. the man who thought about this was a brilliant man. his name was downing. birthday -- it is easy to know his birthday. he grows up in the hudson river valley. , growing up in the 1820's and 1830's, sees the hudson river valley industrializing and being polluted. he asked himself, what is the etween the built environment to the natural environment. in the 21st about century. he is the first ecologist will stop he practiced landscape architecture will stop he had all sorts of different names for it. we think of landscape architects, we think of flowerbeds. he was a city planner and a metropolitan planner. he was all about the environment . the whole environment. a brilliant man. was getting bigger and bigger. it was like a whale developing an front of you. he said that th

hoboken. you went to the elysian fields.the stevens family basically own ed hoboken, and that basically playground of new york. some people think the first baseball game was played there. i won't get into that argument. the point is the elysian fields were a way of escaping the city. the question was why couldn't you stay in the city and have this experience of something rural, green, landscapes, beautiful, everything new york was not? well, the man who thought about man,f this was a brilliant our first environmentalist. his name is aj downing. it's very easy to know his name because he was named for andrew jackson. he grows up in the hudson river valley. his father is a gardener. and downing, who grows up in the 1820's and 1830's sees the hudson river valley industrializing. he sees this beautiful valley being polluted. he begins to ask himself, what of the builtonship environment to the natural environment? what do we talk about today? a green this, green that. this is what we're talking about. he is basically america's fi

and frank sinatra was from hoboken. and you walk in and it hasn't changed. it's been open for 75 years, through world wars, through, you know, hurricanes and downsizing and all kinds of things. a lovely people. there was a reason for the visit, which i'm not allowed it talk about. >> oh, my god. >> this is my friend rocky's husband agun. yes. and, you know, this guy -- they're playing all this frank sinatra music, and i thought they were playing frank sinatra's cd. no, it was a guy named david sudano who walks around with a mike singing. >> i love it. >> people take the mike. frank was singing time after time. >> i love frank. >> you know what, it was so much fun and we were spreading a little cheer, if you know what i mean. >> mm-hmm. >> i'm not allowed to talk about it. >> i want to wish a quick happy birthday to a guy who is a huge fan of our show. >> who's that? >> his name is david potter. he turns 87 today. he is -- there is david. we want to wish david a very, very happy 87th birthday. >> the other thing, many of you on our facebook wanted to know wha

you talked about the may of hoboken. that's easy if they believe the mayor in as classic case of extortion. the other things may go on a while. don't expect indictments soon. somebody in the bridgegate case and the other case involving the alleged access road to the lincoln tunnel, people will start flipping. it will go up the ladder. how high? we'll know in a matter of months. >> this reads like "on the waterfront." thank you both. >>> coming up, war talk. are we inching our way back to war in iraq? 71% of americans now say as of today that the war over there wasn't worth it under george bush, jr. why go back in now? two bushes, two wars and now what? plus thad cochran is trying to get african-americans to vote for him in the mississippi republican primary run-off but tea party supporters are using a jim crow-era law to challenge the right are of people to vote. >>> democrats hope to turn red georgia blue by registering hundreds of uh thousands of african-americans. we'll see if it works in georgia could work somewhere

it was issued to his address in hoboken, a year before he got his first break in show business.ding which ends tomorrow night is up to at least $2,500. >>> a tie, a draw, that's all the u.s. soccer team needs against germany to advance in the world cup in brazil. here's team usa practicing yesterday. after a dramatic win over ghana and a somewhat disappointment draw with play tomoow. w w firstgr a tie. >> we're not thinking about a tie. u.s. takes on germany tomorrow at noon. >>> this is a great story here. an 8-year-old boy from the pittsburgh area doesn't have to wait until he grows up to be a police officer. >> this is all thanks to make a wish foundation. onstn. tapaed dhe'sdid wiab g monto s day he tstreetanouet > wan takeidolnew was hefeich or hadl teiv exactly whatns por t he's beingre a witness. neears oage.noweat acss were they conscious? >> 71-year-old female with the most stab wounds, at least 15, unconscious. the male had two stab wounds. he was conscious. like i said, he's in critical condition. they're both very critical. >> police were unable to talk to him. >> we

that once belonged to frank sinatra. 1934 license was issued to francis sinatra when he lived in hoboken. it mentions his famous blue eyes. bidding has reached $2,500. now if you want it, you have to put in your bid by 6:00p m tomorrow at legendary auctions.com. >>> the chairman of the board. >>> well, this is a story you will want to see before heading off to work. third grader from burlington county, new jersey reunite with her brother she has in the been able to see in years. >> this touches every heart string you have. here's pat ciarrocchi. >> owe yah. >> it just blew up my mind. >> reporter: pigtails, roses in her arms, riley gardener has a smile that can make a grown up cheery. >> i never knew wow come here. >> reporter: riley's surprise came to shamong elementary school. children gathered cross legged on the gym floor while backstage, riley's older brother, navy petty officer he can class frank tommy schaefer waited to surprise his little sister. they have not seen each other in three years. >> it is pretty rough, you know, being away from family with the younger sibling, being a

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let's talk to a small business risk taker who recently invested $140,000 to open a coffee shop in hoboken, new jersey, near a light rail station, and it will bring in hungry and thirsty commuters. he opened black rail coffee in april. and he joins me now to tell us of the quest and the risk that he took. james worked for a korean barbecue food truck before he started this business, and you decided to take a leap and you would do it yourself. >> yeah, i worked on the food truck for two or three years, and it was a great experience. we had a blast on the truck, and always had fun, but i realized that i had this great opportunity for a brick and mortar, and me and my partners, my sister and my friends, we thought it was too good to let go. so we had to take it. and yeah, it has been six weeks, and we want to hustle and do right by the community. >> what's happening in the six weeks? are you doing what you expected to be doing? what are the surprises? >> we're doing better than we thought, which is great. and of course we focused on our coffee. but our sandwiches, which i really stressed a lo

number three, is that dawn zimmer, the mayor of hoboken has accused the administration of holding up sandy aid. she wanted flood relief money, and she's gotten that now from the federal government. her city one a contest with hud, for big money for flood mitigation. number four, is that moody's has downgraded new jersey's credit rating for revenues not coming in where christie had projected them. and number five, christie going back on the national campaign trail, last week speaking at ralph reed's faith and freedom foundation and was talking about the shifting of drug laws. >> thank you very much. i'm now caught up on the two and a half months of christie that i've missed while i've been on the disabled list. my favorite thing was stepian showing up just to listen. i love that. >> they not up for the break and the reporters all asked why are you here. >> steve, stay with us. the next thing i want to talk about when we come back is the biggest mistake chris christie ever made, and i knew what that was even before this year. that's coming up. thanks, steve. >> sure. [ laughter ] smoke

attorney is looking into allegations the christie administration withheld money from the city of hobokeno punish its mayor. now we are learning about new investigationses by the manhattan d.a. and s.e.c. the governor might be relaxing but the investigators aren't. joining me now is brian weiss. thanks for being here. >> good to be here, rev. >> the times reports the christie administration used money for a cancelled rail project to fix the bridge and, quote, again and again port authority lawyers warned against the move . the pulaski skyway, they noted, is owned and operated by the state, putting it outside the agency's purview. but eventually the authority justified the repair pas by casting the bridge as an access road to the lincoln tunnel though they do not -- they are not directly connected. what is the manhattan district attorney looking at? >> they are looking at something called the martin act which is a 1921 law in new york state that basically gives prosecutors almost unlimited discretion when it comes to securities or bond violations. >> break the martin act down for me. i und

dozen of officers from several departments were called to the scene, and in hoboken, wehocking.self ram streets shutdown while police searched another emergency cam, light rail service nearby, and police finished their massive search just after 8:00 last night, the investigation on the ongoing threat here continues. >>> there is a one year old child, from pennsylvania, central pennsylvania, in the hospital after get august hold of one of those popular e-cigarettes. >> this was in york. the child's parents say they called 911 immediately after realizing the child had swallowed the fluid use in the those e-cigarettesment doctors say, each e-cigarette bottle has enough nicotine to equal five packs of cigarettes. , drinking it could be more harmful than drinking even lie sole. >> nicotine in a extreme form is used as a pesticide. it is not something that's child safe. >> police spoke with that child's family, they did not file any charges, and they're calling this an accident. the boy's mother says they're going to get rid of all forms of nicotine in that house. we will be talking w

number three, the mayor of hoboken who accused the chris christie administration of holding up hurricane sandy aid. she wanted flood relief money and she's gotten that now from the federal government. her city won a contest with hud for money for big money, a big check for the federal government for flood mitigation. number four is that moody's bond rating for new jersey, they downgraded new jersey's credit rating because of revenues not coming in where chris christie and his administration projected them. the third time this year that the credit rating was town graded. and number five, chris christie going back on the national campaign trail, trying to put this behind him, last week speaking to the faith and free tom foundation, calling for shifting the focus of drug laws to treatment instead of prosecution. so he's trying to make some noise on that front to get away from all this. >> steve, thank you very much. i'm now caught up on the 2 1/2 months of chris christie that i missed while i've been on the disabled list. my favorite thing was bill stepien showing up just to listen. i love

the projects approved for new jersey include the restoration of beaches and other areas, including hoboken11 projects in the works. >>> right now, evacuated residents of a devastated nebraska town are waiting to be let back into their neighborhoods. their town was partially destroyed yesterday by a pair of deadly tornadoes. this is what the residents will be returning to. emergency officials say more is destroyed. the county sheriff's office confirmed that one of the people killed is a 5-year-old child. we also learned about a secretary victim who died overnight. we're learning to find out more about both of their identities. the national weather service said two twisters touched down within roughly a mile of each other. it's estimated one of the tornadoes may have been on the ground for more than an hour. authorities evacuated pilger overnight. they're expected to let residents back at 8:15 this morning to survey the damage and gather any valuables they can. we are joined now by vince for a look at images posted on social media. >> let's take a look at this photo. this is one of the twist

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jersey side of the tunnel, dozens of officers from several departments were called to the scene, in hoboken, and we who can end, the tunnel, several streets shutdown while police conducted search. another emergency call prompted police to respond to light rail service nearby. police finish their massive search just after 8:00 last night. the investigation is ongoing into the threat itself. >> 4:19. police in houston, texas, searching for mother after they fine her child dead inside of their home. police say the body of this nine year old little girl was found wrapped in blankets in the kitchen of the apartment, officials think she had been dead for months. neighbors called police after they noticed the child had not been around, this little girl had special needs and has cerebral palsy, the child's death is under investigation, but at this point officials do not suspect foul play. >> learning more about those 5us troops killed in what the pentagon says might be the worse friendly fire incident during the 14 years of war in afghanistan. the special forces were taking part in a joint operatio

hoboken cannot take money from the port authority. that is called good state of urbana.ob peter to pay paul. that is essentially what the allegation is. forget about. skate. that is not a good thing. if he knew, and, by the way, if you read the story, legal authority was telling him he was not supposed to do this. his internal staff stretch the boundaries. once you involve public money and bonds, once you have that, you have the potential for securities fraud. i do not think that this issue should be taken lightly. stuart: charlie, how will we get executives into the white house if they are tripped up. i will not call it a technicality. maybe the fact that he did this shows that he is incompetent. i am just a simple country reporter. i am telling you, if you are the new jersey governor, all right, and you are told you cannot use these funds for nothing but fix the infrastructure is that have to do with the airport and roads that directly correlate with the airport and you use it on a bridge somewhere, that is not right. i am telling you, that is not right. stuart: you ar

attorney is looking at sandy money and looking at this idea of hoboken which you have reported so muchthey have a lot on their plate to investigate. i do think the manhattan da could turn this around faster. >> we'll look at that one first and all of the other ones at the same time. my thanks to paul butler and new york times kate, how the gop is destroying itself from within. the infighting has only gotten worse after the shocking death of a key figure in the race's biggest scandal. all of the new details are next. don't wait for awesome... totino's pizza rolls... ...gets you there in just 60 seconds. smoke? nah, i'm good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release smartcontrol technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. could help your business didavoid hours of delaynd test. caused by slow internet from the phone company? that's enough time to record a memo. idea for sales giveaway. return a call. sign a contract. pick a tie. take a break with mr. duck. practice up for the

what seems more dangerous is stuff like the hoboken story, which even if you strip away what the mayorowed, david samson was pivoting off a port authority grant to -- pivoting off public money in a port authority grant in a way that was going to promote a development project that was going to specifically benefit a client of his law firm. that's dangerous and that could very well be a violation of a hobbs act, which is section 1951 of the criminal code. and that specifically relates to participating in a stream of benefits in a way that's inappropriate and suggestive of conspiracy. >> i've said it from the beginning, that the lane closures are not -- they're not the things that chris christie should worry about ultimately from a legal perspective. >> from a political perspective maybe. >> but even so, i think that would fade if that was all there was here. but when you start -- you know, authorities, like the port authority and others, the bridge authority, are basically slush piles of money that aren't well controlled. we hear from the governor's office and governors tend to put in th

my tone of hoboken, it went nuts. >> i was at an event with a lot of yankees players.opacabana beach in rio was fuego. great parties all across the country, around the world people celebrating. but now it gets harder. we're hoping, fingers crossed, there's partying again on sunday when we play portugal. i think they have a good shot. i mean, i think the u.s. team is looking strong. clint dempsey has a bit of a broken nose. did you see the high kick from the player? and they're down a player, jose altidore, also, the striker was injured with a pulled hamstring. we'll see. i think we have a good shot. >> they lost right? >> portugal lost against germany yesterday. so i think we looked strong. >> they can either come back with a vengeance or limp in. >> we are going to come back and we're going to fight back. i say we're the underdog but with a bite. watch that bite. >> all right. sunday, tweet with us. we'll see what happens. >>> another story we're following, this is interesting. when is it appropriate, if ever, to swear? so the mayor of l.a. in a bit of hot water. they

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