jim allen was raised in northfield.nd has previously held executive positions in atlantic city's casino industry. now he's at the helm of a major project that many hope will breathe new life in the struggling resort. hard rock international chairman jim allen on his way back to florida this afternoon after spending yesterday inside the former trump taj mahal in atlantic city. >> we spent a good part of yesterday walking the building and i was actually there when we opened that building in 1990. sometimes you forget how large it is. it's an amazing facility with so much potential. it's dated. >> reporter: hard rock and its new jersey based partners planning to spend more than $300 million to buy the taj from billionaire karl icon, strip it of its current theme, renovate the property from top to bottom and rebrand it as a hard rock hotel and casino with the aim of opening in late spring of 2018. >> the design process will take a minimum of two to three months, so i don't think we'll see any actual construction for three,

jim allen is an atlantic county native. >> he knows the market like the back of his hand. >> keeps itocal. somebody from this area who knows what this area needs and what it's about. >> reporter: leaders believe the cuseen wi casino will open next year. they say the property will be remodeled and rebranded. in atlantic city, i'm ted greenberg, nbc 10 news. >>> chilly day out there on the boardwalk. >> yeah, here too. windy as well. let's go to first alert chief meteorologist glenn "hurricane" schwartz. we see the camera behind him shaking. you're standing pat there, glenn. >> right, we almost seen some white caps on the river. it's been so windy out there. and of course, the camera is shaking because that wind is so strong. now, we have warm winds yesterday. and at 2:00 in the morning, it was still 62. look what happened as we went through the morning, 8:00 a.m., down to 46. it's kind of levelled off but going back down again tonight. here we are in the 40s, sustained winds of 24 miles an hour in philadelphia. 24 in new jersey. a lot of sunshine out there today. it's a nice looking da

jim allen tells nbc10 news he spent a good part of yesterday inside the property. hard rock and its new jersey based partners struck a deal last week to buy the taj from billionaire investor karl eye kahn. they spend to more than $300 million to purchase it and rebrand it and renovate it with the aim of opening in late spring of 2018. >> design process will take a minimum of two to three months, so i don't think we'll see any actual construction for three, four months or so. >> the casino hotel expected to employee some 3,000 people. allen says the majority of those jobs will be created about six to eight months prior to opening. >> new at five, one county in our viewing area is cutting ties with a private foster care agency after nbc10 revealed allegations of child abuse a decade ago. the impact project is a place sarah packer once worked and a place two former foster cares reported abuse. sarah packer is accused of murdering her adopted daughter last year. north hampton counter is no longer sending kids to the center and will meet all children by that agency. dea

and i think that jim brooks and allen burns realized that if we want to have the right details, we needtories are here. >> you look different. i like it. >> yeah? >> yeah. i like it back here, too. >> i've got a feeling he's going to kick my tires. >> women are so important in the bigger world of comedy, because our experience is different and there's that much more to mine for humor. >> i don't know what you two are laughing at, but i'll take a chance it's dirty. >> betty white on "mary tyler moore" is one of my favorite characters of all time. i mean, what a viper. >> wherever did you find a party hat made of skin? >> she was sort of fun to play, because something betty might be shy about doing, she would do in a heartbeat. >> tell me one good thing about me, anything at all. >> you're attractive, very attractive. >> sexy, provocative, a tawny, sensual beast? >> yes, a beast. >> i think it was important to all of us to try to reflect what was happening with women during that time. things were changing so quickly and we were right in the middle of it. >> it was an explosive time with s

allen in texas. >> caller: hey, jim cramer, how are you? >> how's it going? >> caller: doing well. so, i have a question today about urban outfitters. and whether -- uh-oh. so, the 52-week low close yesterday, what are your thoughts, buy, sell, or hold. >> what was the stock there? your broke up. you're in the back-up audio. what was the stock? that's a term. which one? urban outfitters. oh. no, you got to stay away. that score is a tough call. they're doing not so good in direct to consumer, not doing that good in bricks and mortar. unhappy with that call a year ago. i thought this thing was coming up great. though, we're going to have to stay away. let's go to adam in pennsylvania. adam! >> caller: booya, greetings from your hometown, philadelphia, p.a. >> holy cow. here we go again. this is like the greatest day ever. i thought you might be from pittsburgh. alshon jeffery, tory smith, go ahead. >> love philly. my question is about realty income trust. >> letter o? >> caller: letter o. they did a secondary stock offering on february 28 at $62 a share. retired some old debt, issue

and mike allen and democratic congressman jim from connecticut, a member of the house intelligence committee investigating russia and its alleged ties to the trump campaign. so let's start with you. sean spicer is trying to use evelyn farkas saying she was on the distribution of intelligence and trying to refocus attention of what she did and why she did it is that why the obama administration was looking into the trump campaign. >> here on the set we've been poking around and talking about w incredible it is, how fast thisas taken off in right wing media. her name now is an incantation like benghazi used to be. we've seen again and again in the clip there, just to outline the chronology, why her as a central player, will be hard for them to sell. throughout this briefing we saw sean spicer doing this saying that chairman nunes' visit was routine and proper. it may well have been proper. but not routine. >> and still not saying who devin nunes met with but they're not denying the three names floating out there. where does this administration go next? >> for me that's the big issue. official

jim gardner. goodnight. ♪ ♪ >> dicky: from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live!" tonight -- tim allennecessary censorship, and music from the mighty and now, here's jimmy kimmel! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: very nice. hello, i'm jimmy, thank you for watching. thank you for coming to the show. we have a lot going on, beginning with the start of the ncaa basketball tournament. the round of 6

. >> and also redskins president bruce allen with the first public comments on the dismissal. jim, scott mc clue plan will talk about that coming up in sports. >> welcome back we're hereing from bruceal when it comes to what we could probably call maybe a bit of raging dumpster fire of off season at least the start of. it allen on 106.7 fm the fan asked key questions will kirk cousins be the quarterback of course says allen and they won't hire new gm until after the draft. it begs the question what happened topped scott mccloughan any way. >> it was first day of league year and we thought it was important that we gave direction to everybody in the organization where and i liked scott. a lot. as a person i had great relationships with his father and brother in our years with the raiders and success. >> from oakland, la and back to oakland again now get used to las vegas raiders. nfl voted 31-1 to approve raiders to las vegas miami dolphins being loan holdout. there's not a stadium in vegas they plan to stay in oakland a few more years which should go over at oakland crowds and they

jim. we have a mixed bag for this weekend. temperatures right now are mainly in the mid to upper 30s. however, the lehi valley seeing low 30s and allen town, 38 degrees and reading at 33 and pots town 32, and philadelphia at 37. temperatures will continue to decline, we have a chilly weekend on tap. i'm tracking hour by hour increasing clouds and some rain and a wintry mix as jim just mentioned, moving across the delaware valley. we have an area of low pressured it will bring us a wintry mix in to the over-night hour a dwping ohio valley that will be here tomorrow that will give us a light coating for areas further north and west. we will time it out fovr e-- tie it out for you. we are seeing a coating to maybe two inches. back to you, jim. >> a story that you saw here first. septa police are planning to charge the students that started this fight at the race and vine street station. but this incident is part of a much larger problem. we have the new details from investigators tonight. >> well, it all started with a snowball. he was trying to getting another group from stopping to throwing the snowballs when he became the target. now

government regulations to their own benefit and elizabeth allen taylor recalls the rise and fall of america's black delete from emancipation to the jim crow era. harvard university caroline blight offers a critical examination of standard ground laws and you'll hear about the impact of charles darwin on the origin species published in 1860. that all happens this weekend on booktv, 48 hours of of nonfiction authors and books. it's television for serious readers. we will kick off our programming this weekend jill jonnes who talks about the use of the trees in city planning. >> good morning and welcome to the new york botanical gardens. this is our special friday morning science conservation and humanity seminars. i also welcome you this morning very heartily from my cohost, brian and charles. my name is vanessa sellers. i'm the coordinator of the humanities institute, a special research division in the library set up to stimulate critical thinking at the intersection of science and the humanities. and what better subject than urban forests to bring science and humanities together? to discuss science and society, to study the deeper rel

disk jockey allen freed gave it a name, and chucker berry, he ws the godfather of rock 'n' roll, its inspiration and guiding force. chuck berry died saturday at the age of 90. jimis story and his music. >> reporter: there are plenty of ways to articulate the importance of chuck berry. he was the first inductee into the rock 'n' roll hall of fame, where the rolling stones' keith richards came clean. >> i lifted every lick he ever played. ♪ down in louisiana close to new orleans ♪ >> reporter: berry's was on the voyager 1 when it launched, just in case some other form of life wanted to understand ours. ♪ i got a 1966 cherry red mustang ford ♪ and then the man himself explaining his uncommonly common touch. >> everybody drives cards. everybody has to have money. everybody has a love affair, inspirations. these are things i write about. ♪ roll over beethoven i got to hear it again today ♪ >> reporter: but the best way to measure chuck berry's influence is not through words but through music. for their very first song of their very first u.s. concert, the beatles chold berry's "rollover beethoven." ♪ rollover beethoven >> reporter: years later berry's agent would su

jim: that was wonderful. york" wasn'tf new far after that. i think probably if there is one job that really changed how i was perceived, it might have been getting a part in woody allen's for a british actor to be in a woody allen film, it was very unusual. that was a door opening job, i think. anthony: the success of "downton abbey," did it take you by surprise? michelle: nothing can prepare you for that. we all thought we were on something exciting and it was a of mine hadfriends heard about and were reading for. of course it was julian, she had already been cast. it was exciting from the very start but you can never predict how an audience will take it. anthony: it just kept building. michelle: of course, when it hit america, everything changed. anthony: what changed? for me, it was being suddenly recognized. that was a huge change for me. anthony: what is that feeling like? amazing and's terrifying at the same time. -- to me, itends depends where i am. inan go completely unnoticed some parts of the world, some other country. it all depends on when the show was airing. it's not something i would never complain about because it has brought so much to my life and my c

jim, stick around. i want to bring in perhaps the mostly widely mentioned "new york times" reporter of the night, matthew rosenberg. this reminds me of the scene in annie hall where woody allen gets annoyed and says i happen to have marcia mcclune right here. we're happy to have you here. what do you make of the white house citing your article as part of the evidence? bizarre a point. anybody can read the story and see that's not what it said. this bizarre circular thing happening where the president cites a theory that he was wiretapped which two-pointed on kind of fringe right-wing media and after his tweet storm, info wars says it was "the new york times" that reported it, citing our story, and now a few weeks later the white house and the president are citing info wars. so they've got one kind of bizarre right wing theory to depend another bizarre right wing framed theory, both of which there's no evidence to support. >> just to be clear, there's nothing whatsoever in your reporting in "the new york times" that indicates president obama wiretapped or ordered wiretapping of then candidate trump, correct? >> nothing. i mean, if we knew that, that is a fantastic story. we w

government regulations to their own benefit and elizabeth allen taylor recalls the rise and fall of america's black delete from emancipation to the jim crow era. harvard university caroline blight offers a critical examination of standard ground laws and you'll hear about the impact of charles darwin on the origin species published in 1860. that all happens this weekend on booktv, 48 hours of of nonfiction authors and books. it's television for serious readers. we will kick off our programming this weekend jill jonnes who talks about the use of the trees in city planning.