there is a paradox, really, about the york's role and its various wars. i suppose you could say this about america's generally command and not trying to save new york is the only place in the united states that this has happened, but worse have often been an occasion for unity, cohesion. we are all in this together. we all have to when this together. we have to put our more -- are parochial interests aside and pull together to win whenever wore it might be. at the same time new york, as the great magnet for immigrants come from around the world, from its very earliest days in the 16 twenties onward has been a place where discreet, separate populations of newcomers have often brought their own political cultures, their own loyalties and allegiances, their ethnic and national religious cultures, and have ended up jostling each other often, and especially at times of war, this has been the case in new york, sometimes with tragic consequences. so i am going to start by showing you these images. starting with the civil war. again, the book starts will for that,

but new york is, it's not so simple in new york. it never is. just germans versus england or germany versus france. the world war, the first war from 1914 onward, um, engages all the different ethnic groups, national groups in new york city. many irish new yorkers, um, are sympathetic with the movement for irish independence from england or at least for sort of a more emphatic home rule. um, and so they see no reason to be pro-allied. remember, the allies in world war i are primarily england, france and tsarist russia. so there is pro-german or at least anti-english feeling in new york city very prominently among irish-americans. polish-americans are split, who's going to get us independence, is it going to be the czar, or is it going to be the kaiser? it's sort of like a toss-up, and there are actually different factions as in poland, as in the homeland. there are factions. and really each group has this, is looking across the ocean and really thinking about its national, um, ambitions. jews, the czar of russia is one of the principal allies. so

i was lucky to perform it in new york for october for a big jewish audience and people fell in love witht's a true story and something that still exists now. this means god watches over -- this piece a girlfriend her boyfriend goes to war and she says, i was lucking to be in love for a little while. i had love and everything i could ever want and now he's off at war and i'm alone. and i don't know what will happen after this. will he kill another mother's child. will i have to live with that? god watch over my belove ed and all the mother's sons. [music] [applause] >> so, not sure how much time we have left? keep going. all right. right? all right. so the next few pieces i wanted to tell you about. one is by [inaudible] and the other is by the same composer that did [inaudible] those conductors the father of russian music. know this song is not a song that was a yiddish it was a russian song and translated to yiddish because people loved it so much when they immigrated to new york it became a favorite. this next piece the lark, is a beautiful piece about a small bird singing between the

you run into some drizzle this morning. 54 in it york, pennsylvania. 71 in annapolis. -- 64 in it york, pennsylvania. the sun will break through an act to create some instability for a thunderstorm this afternoon. villages get hotter over the next -- it will just get hotter over the next couple days. >> people who undergo weight- loss surgery may face an increased risk for alcoholism. >> nearly 2000 adults were followed and they were surveyed on their alcoholic used before and after the procedure. cases of alcohol abuse went up 2% a couple of years after the surgery. it is the equivalent of 2000 additional people with alcohol abuse disorders in the u.s. every year. you might want to reach for minty cough drops. >> a cough suppressant effect or breeding in menthol -- or breathing in menthol. the menthol reduced coughing better. >> mary poppins was right about a spoonful of sugar. in other outing for jake arrieta and the orioles. one player kept the birds out of the record books. >> starting to warm up just-in- >> starting to warm up just-in- time [ male announcer ] we have more than 3,0

the fact is it's only new york state. it's interesting. state, all the horror stories emanate out of the city right here. for those of you, i don't live here. the rest do. >> it's isolated the new york city and new york state. >> bob: 3.7%. everybody can look at this and say of course. >> dana: you don't think you are paying for somebody to eat or take care of themselves. spend it on strip clubs -- >> bob: imagine election year anybody voting against this bill? >> dana: who is going to say this? how big is the problem? 3.7%. >> eric: i think it's higher than that. 3.7% of the cases they find and they know about. you know you can take ebt card, walk down the street and go to any bodega and say give me half the money on the card in cash. >> bob: i can go to the garage next door and buy ounce of cocaine. what does that mean? >> greg: don't oust the garage. >> eric: therein lies fraud. that's illegal. you don't count that. >> bob: with all the people on food stamps keep in mind, vast, vast majority don't do that. in new york city, con artist o

virginia is up to 4.8-inches, off pennsylvania it's 3.7. in new york it's 2.8-inches. and as it continues to rise in the future. >> that will make a difference in storm surges and the effects of that on coastal communities. >> reporter: meaning more water pushing further inland during storms, why levels are higher is unclear. one theory colder fresh water from melting arctic ice is blocking the gulf stream. >> water coming down from the north atlantic that may have slowed the gulf stream is basically causing water along the shorelines to actually rise. >> it's not just the coast, the chesapeake bay is also rising. people who live here have watched it climb over the years. >> probably 10 to 15, the water level is higher every day. >> we have more of a rise because the land itself is subsiding or sinking a little bit. >> reporter: that's not good when storm surges like the one from isabel push up the bay. >> we probably had 8 feet of water in the basement. >> reporter: everyone though they know the water will likely rise higher. >> maybe it's going to happen after us and

(laughter) i got to tell you though, manment i don't know if you have been in new york city man, but ity. i hope you don't mind, i'm going to just take a sip of a comically oversized movie theatre beverage, it's so hot. >> it could be the end of the big gulp, new york city mayor bloomberg wants to ban the sale of all sugary drinks that are larger than 16 ounces. he wants the ban at all new york restaurants, movie theatres, sports arenas and more. (laughter) (applause) (laughter) sorry, what? you are going to ban-- no! >> they can still sell 32 ounce of sugar drink to you but they have to put it in two containers. we're not taking way anybody's right to do things, we're simply forcing you to understand that you have to make the conscious decision to go from one cup to another cup. (laughter) >> jon: mr. mayor works these giant cups where are homeless people going t to-- [bleep] (applause) >> jon: are you going to tell them to take two smaller [bleep] because i'm not. wow. wow. wow, mayor bloomberg. wow. i love this idea, you have of banning sodas larger than 16 ounces. it combines the dr

there not a great deal of stigma to being neurotic in new york. itaccepted to the point of maybe being desirable in certain circles. i think now that these medications are more common, new york is the place where people are going to be comfortable with it and going to be open about it. >> you make a point of saying here that this is brain styling, not mind altering. you make a clear distinction between the two, do you not? >> yeah. i think people when they have actual problems like anxiety, depression or insomnia. they take these drugs. they become normal. they don't become drugged out. >> but you're differentiating certain kinds of drugs from very serious drugs, and you can speak to this, dr. doyle. >> sure. >> and that, say, schizophrenia. we're not in that category of drugs here, are we? >> it is highly unlikely for people in new york to pop antipsychotics for the fun of it. >> we're not talking about bipolar, are we? >> we end up talking about that, and that's in ariel's article. >> is it a national trend or just in manhattan? >> i'm sure it is t

there not a great deal of stigma to being neurotic in new york. itaccepted to the point of maybe being desirable in certain circles. i think now that these medications are more common, new york is the place where people are going to be comfortable with it and going to be open about it. >> you make a point of saying here that this is brain styling, not mind altering. you make a clear distinction between the two, do you not? >> yeah. i think people when they have actual problems like anxiety, depression or insomnia. they take these drugs. they become normal. they don't become drugged out. >> but you're differentiating certain kinds of drugs from very serious drugs, and you canpeak to this, dr. doyle. >> sure. >> and that, say, schizophrenia. we're not in that category of drugs here, are we? >> it is highly unlikely for people in new york to pop antipsychotics for the fun of it. >> we're not talking about bipolar, are we? >> we end up talking about that, and that's in ariel's article. >> is it a national trend or just in manhattan? >> i'm sure it is tru

thank you very much the food isn't ok if you don't have it as bloomberg in new york city to crack down on one industry harming the lives of americans another industry is doing the same thing but getting away with it no questions asked and that's big oil isn't it concerned scientists is out with a new report exposing big oil strategy to pull the wool over our eyes when it comes to global climate change looking at twenty eight u.s. companies on the s. and p. five hundred that a publicly expressed concern over climate change and carbon emissions the you see as found at the same time these companies are behind the scenes funneling huge amounts of money into causes and organizations devoted to discrediting climate change one of the contributors to the report francesca grifo but the u.c.i. said the actions of many of these companies might come right from the tobacco industry playbook for the end goal is do lanes sensible regulations that protect our health and safety in two thousand and seven and two thousand and nine just as congress was debating crucial climate change legislation the energ

york for the next 15 minutes. shoes bury, that cell is over you as mentioned. it would be and is moving through southern york county. maybe through west lancaster in the next 20 minutes. severe thunderstorm warning around ham stead. that's the second one which is moving quickly into york. you talked from hanover into southern portions of york county two storms headed your way. first one is prompting the tornado warning for southern york until 4:45. this severe thunderstorm warning, let's take a look. this probably has still rotation with it as we have been watching the cells evolve from the south to the northeast. still seeing some rotation around trenton. not as much as earlier, but still still capable of strong damaging wind gusts and even hail in some cells. very heavy downpours. some areas may get over an inch in less than an hour. around baltimore we have shower activity that's popped up. the strongest is southwest of bwi, south of columbia on the lower area moving up 95 to route 29. later showers and a little bit activity in hart ford. but nothing compared t

they did it in saloons and places like that. this is in the sixth ward in new york. there are a lot of details that clue you in as to the environment that's being created. it is a saloon. you have a dog running around, a kid who is i think begging, asking for money, and you have -- if you look at a lot of art from the magazines of the middle of the 19th century, the clothing you see is very much working class style. the guys with the dark top hats on the right are sporting men, men usually involved in gambling and other kinds of vice and so forth. if you want to vote, you can see the doorway all the way in the back. you had to go in there to vote. anyone who wanted to vote had to make their way through the saloon itself to get into the back. if you see the two posters on either sides of the door -- i don't know how well you can make it out from back there, but on the left is a campaign poster for john clancy and on the right is a campaign poster for john kelly. clancy and kelly. this was an irish environment. this was an irish neighborhood. what's going on here is you

but pt if -- but if it is similar to new york it is a ban on 16 ounce seweders a -- sodas or anything larger. >>> a group of people in canada take food recycling so seriously they are willing to dive into dumpsters to get it. >> we live in a throw it society. toe madeo -- tomato that can be used for i don't know scooping on sandwiches. 1.3 billion tons of food was thrown out in the states alone. >> they have started an online club for fellow dumpster divers and it has more than a dozen members and they target commercial dumpsters where they find everything from bikes to clothes to small appliances but what piles up the most is food. still packaged so they started giving it away. >>> 911 cab lifesaver when it comes -- can be a lifesaver when it comes to a emergency. but a guy dialed dispatchers because he was unhappy with the service he received at local deli. >> they giving me a hard time and i wonder if you could stop by and. >> who is this? you are calling 911 because you don't like the way that they are making your sandwich. >> exactly. >> so don't buy it. >> i wish you could see t

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their lives. >> glenn katon, thank you for being with us, just on a lawsuit policeng the new york a promise stop itsveillance of mosques, businesses, college campuses and other gathering spots in new york we will be talking to the israeli- palestinian filmmakers of a new documentary called "5 broken cameras." ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> we turn now to a prize- winning new film that tells the story the palestinian farmer who lives with his wife and four small children in the village of bil'in, the central west bank. it is called, "5 broken cameras." emad burnat got his first camera in 2005 when his and his son jibril was born. almost simultaneously, the israeli army began building a separation wall between bil'in and a nearby israeli settlement, separating residents from the olive tree groves that are their livelihood. this is a clip from the documentary, narrated by emad burnat. >> emad burnat, narrating an excerpt from his do documentary, "5 broken cameras." emad burnat teamed up with

it's the good the bad and the very very bella bulletin really ugly the good buffalo new york occupiers occupy buffalo protesters have convinced the city government to move forty five million dollars in funds out of an account held with j.p. morgan chase and transfer it instead into a local buffalo bank city comptroller mark schroeder says the move quote sends a crystal clear message to j.p. morgan chase that the city of buffalo is not happy with the business practices across the nation occupy activists of convincing tea and town governments as well as religious organizations to move their money from big banks to smaller locally owned banks big banks need to be punished for these actions for their actions and while losing a few accounts is much it's certainly a start the bad honeywell c.e.o. david cote code who is named to president obama's budget deficit commission told andrew sorkin that he thinks the u.s. corporate tax rate should be zero it was. david i'm attacking question for you what do you think the the ultimate effective tax rate should be on corporations zero. zero yeah the pr

it's interesting how the cops were doing this in new york. egal to have it in your pocket so they would frisk you and say take out your pockets. then you'd have the marijuana in your hand and they'd say, well, you're publicly displaying the marijuana, you're under arrest. >> and people were saying they were racially profiling. >> so cuomo said, hey, we've said they can possess that amount. we should legalize this amount up to almost an ounce for personal possession. >> all right. well, we'll see. and then bloomberg says you can't buy the snacks that you want if you were to do anything with it, so i don't know that man. >>> still outfront in our second half, george zimmerman, he could be forced to spend months in jail awaiting trial and his lawyer has a unique strategy to get it out. we have it. >>> and a porn star wanted for murder and sending body parts through the mail. what the man finally said when police caught him today. what's with you? trouble with a car insurance claim. [ voice of dennis ] switch to allstate. their claim service is so

and it's already on "the new york times" best-seller list. don't know how much of it we can share when she comes out. but joan will be joan. and rielle will be rielle. there's another book that's getting some attention. >> so rielle hunter as you guys know, wrote a book -- >> and that's not her real name. >> all right. her book is called "what really happened: john edwards, our daughter and me." in the book, there are a lot of things -- this is the front page of the "daily news." love and sick. i mean the "post." sorry. "love. sick." the two of them. in this book rielle calls elizabeth edwards who passed away from breast cancer crazy. venomous, and a witch on wheels who was full of rage. in the "new york post" today you see pictures of rielle hunter and john -- >> and quinn, their daughter. >> together. >> this past weekend -- i guess he has a beach house in north carolina. >> you'd think he would know what was in the book before they were snuggly. >> that's the big question. who knows what goes on behind the walls of -- >> she also claims in

the new york based grocer announced it was building its howard county location back in 2007.a final approval for the increase in the bottle tax. how the profit is expected to improve city schools. details coming of new at 6:00. >> navy sailors in town for the sailabration are lending a helping hand in the community. i am kim dacey and i will explain, coming up. cor >> kim dacey takes us to one neighborhood or sailor spent their morning leaving a good marke. >> is never good is getting a helping hand for more than 25 navy sailors or reject this neighborhood is getting a helping hand. -- this neighborhood is getting a helping han from more than 25 navy sailors. >> we are from all over the united states of america. anything we can do to help out the community and another city is just like helping a committee in your home city. >> the sailors are working alongside local neighbors, including one boy scout. >> the navy sailors are not just helping revitalize this community. they are also serving as mentors for those young boy scouts. >> when it comes down to it, kids need a positiv

. >> but davis decided that he needed to stay in new york, and he turned down the opportunity to go to the court and it was from this vantage point of major new york lawyer that he was nominated as the democratic nominee in 1924. i think, to me, one of the most interesting chapters in the bock, one of my favorites is chapter on the 1924 convention in new york which i don't have time to talk much about today, but i think it's a fascinating story of the perfect antithesis to the cleveland, gop convention and this was the longest, most heated, divisive nightmare that anybody could ever devise and it went from 103 ballots and the two major candidates, al smith and william gibbs fought back and forth endlessly to themselves, the party, the platform and everything to shreds and finally at the end of three weeks the party kind of staggered towards a compromise and nominated davis who was very much a conservative from the conservative wing of the party, but acknowledged by both sides to be a candidate that could potentially bring the democrats together. the nomination was pretty worthless by that point and the

it's fun to be in new york. in new york on broadway. >> yeah. >> i still get a thrill. i get a thrill walking to work, walking down the street, seeing my friends that are down the street around the corner who are working. walking through that stage door. it's awesome, and i love what i do. >> do you get any anxiety about playing a character, particularly in this performance, who has been played by cass calloway, sammy davis j jr. are you standing on extraordinary shoulders. >> these are heroes of mine, so there's never any part of the process where i have to do better than, greater than. i just am grateful for this opportunity and trying to find my own way in this production because, you know, sammy davis jr., they don't make brothers like that. he did everything. >> right. >> nowadays -- it's like tiger woods, michael jordan all rolled into one. plus, he could sing, act like denzel. i mean, all that stuff. brothers, now you got one area of expertise, you know? >> right. right. what about the next generation? yo

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it's tough as nick adjusts to eating tiny portions. look at you, how good you look. seven weeks later, he's come to new york city. you look amazing. >> thank you. >> reporter: it's obvious, he has lost a lot of weight. what does this number have to be? >> at least 317. >> reporter: all right, 317 or lower or i win the bet. 315.2 that is incredible. i've never been happier to lose a bet ever. nick, his mother toni and i go out for a healthy lunch. she tells me it hasn't been easy, he's vomited a lot. he's been on an emotional roller coaster. >> i cry at sad movies and chick flicks and stuff. >> reporter: but he's determined to keep losing weight and is ready to make an even bigger bet with me. six months, you weigh 315 today. >> i'm going to go 100. >> reporter: you're going to weigh 215 six months from now? >> yeah. >> reporter: i'm with you, pal. >> all right. >> reporter: we stayed in touch with nick for the last nine months, all through his senior year. he joined the swim team and the water polo team. and a few weeks ago, nick agreed to meet me in central park for the big weigh-in. look at you! oh! you feel sma

it is politico saying it and caused a ripple and the media scrambling to defend the washington post and "new york times." >> it is a given. the media are so deep in the tank for this president and his reelection if they came up for air they would get the bends. >> up next, covering the serious crisis in syria and the challenges for the media in doing so. >>> images of atrocities. men, women and children massacred in syria. the reports coming by way of social media to the mainstream media. can we trust the details, and should the press be doing more to deliver all sides of the story? >> i'm not taking any bait. >> the first lady pushing her new book and getting first-class treatment be the media. but how are the media treating two new books about our president? careful, pringles are bursting with more flavor. [ crunches ] mmm. ♪ [ male announcer ] pringles... bursting with more flavor. [ crunch! ] >>> the fighting is unlikely to stop without direct neglect make shakes between the government and opposition. >> an unraveling situation in syria. evidence of yet another massacre there of the syrian pe

it. i think this has two strikes on him and probably shouldn't have run. >> jodi kantor from "new york timesaway. >> i will gladly defend my beloved colleague and my beloved newspaper and i'll do it like this. i read a book about the obamas, and the really complicated transition they went through from being regular people to president and first lady of the united states. one of the things i learned when i reported that book, and this is true of republicans, it's true of democrats, is the question of how you live a kind of normal residential life, and specifically what happens to your home when you won for president is incredibly interesting. you know, the drama around the obamas a home in hyde park, the fact the first trip they made back to chicago was kind of a disaster. it turns out once you're president, you can't go home. 9 secret service dropped black curtains down both sides of the home. they weren't sure they could eat normal food, because it wasn't supervised by the secret service, so i think what he was writing about was not a cheep political attack, but this tension between your re

and you know, it's going to be great games and i look forward to welcoming people from new york and america. >> rose: we hope to be there. it is always a giant celebration and achievement is what it is. it's celebration of the universality of the sports. >> that is right. and also of course of competition. >> rose: in your city there is an investigation into hacking. >> yes. >> rose: what is it going to do to journalism? what is it going to do to conduct. >> i think media for a long time was one of the great unregulated professions. this is the reality and i think all newspapers and all newspaper groups to a greater or lesser degree were involved in unscrupulous practices of one kind or another. >> rose: unscrupulous and illegal? >> and certainly illegal in the case of hacking people. i believe their behavior is disgraceful and it's right it should be investigated. >> rose: yes, all that's true. >> but in you ask will it change the media. >> rose: yes. conduct is what it will change. will it change conduct. >> it already has change the conduct and it will continue to change. i don't believe

>> it is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. it is the only kind of structured, artist program. weit is beautiful. a lot of the plants you see were pulled out of the garbage, and we use our compost to transplant them. the pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. we talk about recycling and conservation. they can meet the artists. >> fantastic. let's go meet some of your current artists. here we are with lauren. can you tell us how long have been here so far and what you're working on? >> we started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. i am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand- embroidered objects from our day-to-day life. >> can you describe some of the things you have been making here? this is amazing. >> i think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. i have been thinking a lot about thing

it is politico saying it and caused a ripple and the media scrambling to defend the washington post and "new york times." >> it is a given. the media are so deep in the tank for this president and his reelection if they came up for air they would get the bends. >> up next, covering the serious crisis in syria and the challenges for the media in doing so. >>> images of atrocities. men, women and children massacred in syria. the reports coming by way of social media to the mainstream media. can we trust the details, and should the press be doing more to deliver all sides of the story? >> i'm not taking any bait. >> the first lady pushing her new book and getting first-class treatment be the media. but how are the media treating two new books about our [ male announcer ] what's in your energy drink? ♪ wer surge, let it blow your mind. [ male announcer ] for fruits, veggies and natural green tea energy... new v8 v-fusion plus energy. could've had a v8. in your fight against bugs. ortho home defense max. with a new continuous spray wand. and a fast acting formula. so you can kill bugs inside, and keep

other than to tell you it originated in new york city, they took -- it's sort of like the red cross and the uso and whatever it might be in today's world, they're all rolled into one. it was a quasi governmental agency. but these men took care of the soldiers, they themselves are not necessarily doctors, but they introduced the concept of cleanliness. and then finally the sanitary commission -- and i put this slide up because of the home lodge of invalid soldiers. they began to understand you need to take care of the veterans. this is the big bang theory for the veterans administration starting back in the civil war. well, s.weir mitchell talking about his recollections of the civil war, 1905. the constant mingling of men of high medical culture, and the general influence of the war was a great service. in other words, men who were very well educated got to spread the word out to the men who were less educated. and the idea is the comradery that was existing during the course of the war. finally i just wanted to say that there were other big bang theorys that happened during the war. on

if i wanted it in new york and couldn't get it in new york, i could get it in maryland i'd go to maryland. guess what would happen? pretty soon, every insurer in new york would offer preexisting condition clause. >> bob: maybe that is true but maryland doesn't want to be inundated with everybody coming in. they offer -- >> greg: we have maryland to blame for saving bob's life. direct your letters to maryland. this bill is an outrage because it doesn't cover jasper, your dog. i know you can't mention jasper. i can. beautiful poodle, by the way. what about the administration's response to this? how will they -- if you were there, how would you manage their posture? >> dana: tonight, i'm sure for several months they have been working on the statement to be first out of the gate to have the reaction. i think it's a mistake. i think they should wait, digest it, think about it and look at the statement. they only need one thing immediately, which is what president bush did when they lost the supreme court on the decision that was an antiterrorism, gitmo type of thing. he went to the rose garden