kramer goes forward with the suit, which says he was unfairly terminated.ey owe him backpay of 70 to $100 million and sues for defamation of the memo. the memo was a huge topic of conversation on wall street. cheryl: the huge topic anywhere. the circumstances could be anybody, and anyone that is fired. >> he is one of the deans of the investment banking business, doing investment banking since the 1970s, worked at first boston, wasserstein pirrelo, he's created a fairly good firm. we want to see the whole thing. go foxbusiness.com, and get the story. have you michael kramer who might be the best restructuring guy around. one of the best. the starting outfield of restructuring outfits. you are pinning the two players and that memo is interesting. like i said, i've never seen a memo like that. i'm not saying it's right or wrong. cheryl: it was brutal. >> you generally don't put that out. >> great story. >> i'm not saying it crosses the line into defamation, i'm not a lawyer. cheryl: well, they're going to court over it. >> i've never seen anything like that.

cbs 2's political reporter marcia kramer with details. >> reporter: how many homeless people will the mayor's plan take off the streets? well, not many. that's right. officials estimate that only several hundred will be affected by the new homeless plan which focuses on what officials say is the narrow problem of the mentally ill homeless who are violent. the $22 million effort will fill three mobile treatment units to service 75 people. establish other treatment teams to handle 272 with violent behavior, send more cops to police areas around shelter, and increase the number of peace officers in inside shelters. the plan unveiled today is part of a larger program to deal with the mentally ill. arrival date sometime in the fall. marcia kramer, cbs 2 news. >>> a scary school bus ride for some special needs students on their way to camp. their bus fell into a giant hole. cbs 2's jessica schneider live in the tremont section of the bronx with the story of this ride home today. jessica. >> reporter: yeah, dana. a frightening and scary and unexpected series of events out here. take a look a

kramer's wife says she know it was football that took the toll and he suffered severe depression and himself. we will get you more, she said he is an amazing father. two sons, one who died of a drug overdose in 2011, the other one, 17 years old. the nfl has not yet commented on his attempted suicide. >> thank you. we'll be right back. what's the most important thing your parents do for you? they buy me food. they make sure i'm never lost. well... they pay my allowance. encourage me. ♪ they sing us a lullaby at night... a lullaby at night. ♪ oh! now i remember... why does it matter that cigna covers preventive care? because the next most important thing you can do for them is take care of yourself. cigna. together, all the way. normally you put it on the stove and let it melt. >> put this in. watch, brian. >> my goodness. >> thanks a lot. made a smoothy and daytona put the fox on. >> that why i bring my kids to cook. they learned it all from me. >> not really, they're fantastic cooks. thank you for being part of "the real story" i'm going to cooking class. >> donald trump versus jeb b

and welcome back hilary kramer. what did you make of the report, steve? >> i want nothing to do with china. i don't believe any of their numbers are true. we know they've been cooking the books for a long time. the only question is how long and to what extent? how can i look my clients in the eye and say i want you to buy some, i don't believe the numbers are real, and there's a full-blown currency war over there, and by the way, we've got a communist government trying to pretend they know how to control an economy growing that way. liz: you thought goldman sachs report was totally absurd and off the wall. >> basing the numbers on p/e ratios being attractive? how are they attractive if you don't believe the numbers are real? if they are 30% discounted which is probably realistic, they are overvalued 12-15%. how do you look someone in the eye and say buy this. liz: wasn't it goldman sachs that said get into commodity markets, 5 or 8 years ago. what do you think of the report? >> not every call -- they've made the macrocalls. it's wrong, i totally disagree,

this suit with kramer, if they don't settle, will be made public, and that's going to up a window intoprominent but very private. melissa: sit tight, because we're going to do another story you know a lot about. victoria craig talked to nasdaq president edina freeman recently, and it set off succession rumors all over the internet. victoria, what did she tell you? >> hi, melissa, thanks for having me on. i spoke to her last week, and she's been very quiet on this issue. she came back to nasdaq from carlyle group as cfo, and she spent almost two decades at nasdaq. but when she returned back to the company, it fueled succession rumors about what happens when bob greifeld decides to step down from his post, and this is what she had to say. >> my long-term ambition is to be a ceo, but my view on that is it can't just be the ceo of any company. i think to be the best ceo you can be, you have to be passionate about the business that you're running. and i have true passion for the financial markets and passion for the financial industry. >> so the important part here is that she wasn't saying

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cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer has more. >> reporter: it was a spoof. a video released by the mayor himself showing him working out in a gym with the actor steve buschemi to train for his appearance at a political roast. >> labor contracts you need to sign, mr. mayor. >> reporter: but to some, the spoof was emblematic of gym. critics claim that on several occasions since de blasio took office gym took precedence. after the fire lieutenant james hayes was shot by an ex- con, the mayor decided that the a workout at his gym and ticketed. it didn't sit well with those who should have gone to staten island immediately to be the firefighter and his family. >> i think his priorities -- i think he should be with the family at the hospital. >> reporter: also not amused once again saddened for all new yorkers as to the lack of leadership from city hall. the mayor's spokesman insisted de blasio spoke with the police and fire commissioner several times about the incident which started at 6 a.m. he got to the gym at 9 and stayed until 10:40 she said. reporters looki

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. >> reporter: while her attorney ross kramer didn't say when pennsylvan pennsylvania's first female ag will talk he did slam the prosecutor's case against kane. >> leaves out players and leaves out communications. it is really only a small part of the story. not uncommon in a criminal case and we expect as time goes on, a great deal comes to light and we're very, very confident that at the end of the day, attorney general kane will be exonerated. >> reporter: but special prosecutors michelle henry from bucks county and kevin stele from montgomery county cite a sad day for pennsylvania. >> we have a team of career prosecutors working on this case. and our job in going forward here is simply to do justice and bring the truth out in a courtroom. >> now, kane will appear in court here for a preliminary hearing on august 24th. live in norristown, monique braxton, nbc 10 news. >>> kathleen kane's driver is also facing charges. patrick reece is charged with attempt. prosecutors say he secretly accessed the files of the grand jury that was investigating his boss. >>> kane said she will not

cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer reports on what police weaponized marijuana. >> it's disturbing video. a naked home less man blocking a vehicle under the influence of a resurgent drug synthetic marijuana, also known as k2 and spice. police commissioner william bratton calls it weaponized marijuana. the man is howling and irrational. the commissioner says it's the new favorite drug of some homeless people who buy it for as little as $1 a packet. as this second video shows, it makes it very difficult and dangerous for cops to arrest them. >> many of the individuals under the influence of this drug totally crazy. superhuman strength, impervious to pain. so some of the normal take downs that we would use are not going to work. >> reporter: it's such a problem that police recently confiscated over 10,000 packets in central harlem. police released the latest crime stats showing while overall crime is down 5%, homicides are up 10% over the last year. officials say most of the shootings like the one in red hook last night in which five people were shot is gang-related and confined to up

cbs2's political reporter marcia kramer has more on these new concerns. >> reporter: what? me worry? not a chance. not with the nypd on the job. that from mayor de blasio after a member of his security detail was shot in the back by a pellet rifle on the street outside gracie mansion where he lives with his family. >> i have tremendous faith in the nypd and i think my security being handled well. >> reporter: while the nypd doesn't talk about specific plans, sources stel cbs2 that security to guard de blasio, his wife and two children is robust, to say the least. the mayor saying that while he was worried about the officer, he had no concerns for his own safety, even though there were several tall buildings that overlook the home. >> we understand what we signed up for. and obviously my family is the center of my life. but we have absolute safety in the nypd. they are the security experts and we know they will take care of the situation. >> reporter: 19-year-old michael ver bitsski being escorted out of the 19th precinct is faced with assaulting a police officer with a dead

here's cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer. >> reporter: the costumed characters and bare chested paints women are about to get some company in times square a lot of company. the nypd is establishing a new task force of 100 cops to patrol the bowtie area of times square and focus on quality of life issues. it's just part of mayor de blasio's determination to get a handle on a situation his administration calls, quote, nuisance quality of life issues. >> the mayor's goal is to crackdown on in particular aggressive solicitation that often times borders on out right harassment. people harassing people for money. >> reporter: the nypd is recruiting cops for the new unit even before the mayor's times square task force decides whether to dig up the pedestrian mall or what other steps to take. the cops will be assigned to foot patrol from 42nd to 49th streets and from seventh avenue to broadway, 24/7. times square is an important piece of real estate in new york city. and we have to pay attention to what is going on there, said nypd chief of department james o'neil. and that's not all. t

. >>> after two years of construction, the maryellen kramer park reopens today in new jersey. the renovations -- beautiful. new dog walks, walking paths and closer access to the waterfalls. >> that's a national landmark now to paterson, great falls. >> the gender and the paternity will tell us -- one was lost sadly. we have one. >>> recreational drone use has already raised privacy and security concerns. this week a high school football game in new jersey was delayed because a drone was buzzing too close to the players. it happened between a game between middle township and ocean city high school. at one point one of the coaches says the drone was hovering ten feet above the players' heads. the referee put the game for 20 minutes and called police. >> we were waiting for the lawmakers to give us some enforcement powers to regulate the use of these drones. >> just brings about a sense of you're kind of uncomfortable as a result of not knowing what the situation was. >> drone users should stay clear of stadiums, crowded areas and of course airports. >>> the relationship between

. >> kramer says we should be be ready for more to the down side. >>> 4:04.appening today, the next round of a school funding fight in delaware county that may have statewide implication. parents, teachers and administrators are upset about a plan to cut funding for the chester upland school district. katy zachry is live in media. >> the hearing began in courtç yesterday and it continues today. also happening today, a school board meeting around 6:00 tonight, that is expected to attract hundreds of parents. there's a lot of passion surrounding this issue, as we saw firsthand yesterday when skyforce 10 was above a large gathering of charter school parents and teachers who were outside the courthouse in media. inside, the chester upland school district is battling the state department of education over special education funding that directly affects charter school students here in chester. governor tom wolf recommended cutting the amount of money per student by more than half because the district is already $20 million in the red. >> letting the governor know

i am in films that are purely human stories, films that inspired me is kramer vs. kramer and the graduate which are clearly talking about things happening from society but from the picture perspective of characters you care about and that just happened to me when the script occurred to me that was a situation that that 18-year-old was in, is that she was ten weeks preg than and was trying to figure out and navigate a decision about that. >> rose: thank god she had a grandmother. >> yes. yes. to help her, and there is nothing made light of in the film. the first thing lily says to her have you thought about this because this is something you will think about every day for the rest of your life and i won't say what happens in the movie, but it is a thread, running through the movie. >> rose: what is the relationship between el and her daughter? >> contentious. >> rose: yes. >> and marsha gay plays it so well, just so amusingly funny, everything. i mean, thank god for vi, my partner was probably much more -- much softer, much more available to marsha gay when she was

cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer with the latest on the cross hudson connection. >> reporter: there are some cases when it might be better to write a letter than send t take governor andrew cuomo's letter to the "new york times" taking issue with its demand he get on board construction of a new rail tunnel under the hudson river. cuomo insisted he supports the tunnel but the primary obstacle is the federal commitment to fund it, he wrote, adding that washington's only offer so far of a partial loan is not a viable financing plan. the let provoked a strong response the feds saying cuomo is wrong several sources saying cuomo was promised both grant money and low-interest loans. the grant money which would be billions could come from the government's new starts program among others, sources say. cuomo fired back in the late afternoon phone call to cbs 2. >> i only wish that that were true. we're now in this bureaucratic maze where the federal government is saying one thing, different governments are saying different things. the only thing they have offered is a loan. thank you very muc

cbs2 political reporter marcia kramer has more on gun city. >> reporter: brook borough president eric adams and five community leaders were paul bear he is carrying a casket to dramatize the devastating impact of gun violence following a weekend when bullets rang out with frightening frequency on the streets of the city. >> our children deserve to live. our adults deserve to live. >> reporter: demand be more money and resources after ten incidents, 22 victims, into murders. one of the victims 25 darnell smith was shot and killed inside a hallway at glenwood houses in east flatbush saturday morning. his mother pleading for justice. >> they shot him down like he was a dog in a street, and that i'm not standing for. >> reporter: and there was this. nine people shot and injured as gunmen in this surveillance video opened fire on a house party in east new york. many viewers taking to facebook to place blame. 22 too many in my opinion. where is deblah blah blaze yeah. tend marcia after him. unacceptable posted deborah. louis valentino says it is simple. mayor puts blew it. team de blasio sa

. >> reporter: he found out the photographer, a guy named bob kramer, went to work for kodak labs right of high school, and that girl was his high school sweetheart, leona sharp. >> she would be 96 years old. >> reporter: if she was alive. >> and i wondered. >> reporter: he did find an address and went there. >> a woman came to the door. she opened the door three inches, and i told her we had these films. and the door opened a little wider. >> reporter: literally and figuratively. >> yes. and then she said, "wait," and she disappeared. she came back about a minute later holding her wedding picture, and she said, "come in." >> reporter: here's what bill learned. bob and leona got married right after bob joined the air force. a few days after the wedding, he left to learn how to fly a b-17 and then got sent to europe to fight in world war ii. on the way, he actually flew his plane over leona's house. this is a picture of it. >> and then he wiggled the wings to salute us, and then he was off. >> reporter: you never saw him again? >> no. >> reporter: leona says losing him was hard, but find

will be the brave they will merge with the company i think that will be a juggernaut we have hillary kramervid nelson it with us. any other names we should know about? >> an edition into google because they have the prototype i think you might want to think about blackberry which. [laughter] but the ignition systems are from another company. the google has been leaps and bounds ahead and make sense. for those that are we are ending -- earlier ending. >> mib driverless but i don't know. >> i have to go with hillary. google is the best choice to have 1 million miles registered already only 14 accidents hopefully they have learned a lot. charles: that would not be a pure play. >> so they all have these features so i am just thinking whenever we have these all over the place some of the pure plays. >> normally this is not to a stock i would like but looking at the numbers is not so bad. on the peg ratio but it is growing at 80% it is almost justified. now the market is not so stealthy but the biggest name in the market the apple decline is is the crash there waiting for or another time to buy a

hillary and kramer back with me. what does this mean for the little guy?ntry on an individual level our soldiers can be safer, we can monitor them more,the more, the whole era of warfare has changed. we keep focusing on cyber attacks, but men and women need to stay safe. using the technology that we use today to monitor how many steps we are taking in calories we have eaten and heartbeat is doing and for diabetes patients can now be used. liz: i need that calorie one. >> wonderful technology, and we are applying it. liz: i thought this is going to be a big deal. >> this is a great development. the pentagon has used its own procurement system to develop technology in parallel with the private sector. they have tried to pull in the private sector companies with great technological -- from the silicon valley to migrate level of expertise to partner with you. we have so much knowledge and so many technological edges that we should be leveraging more than we do. our soldiers are in austere environments using more technology which is not currently durable. teesi

hillary kramer mentioned this a moment ago, back it up. is that what they're saying?> yes, absolutely. stuart, now we have sustainable valuations here and investors are looking for opportunities. lots of investors were smart to have money on the side line and that's why we are pea seeing netflix down more than 10%, but the industrial names and large banking stocks. stuart: give me the names. >> honeywell, hon. >> they've come back up off the lows and have an opportunity to go higher. they're dividend yields and company hurt june to august. the stocks that keep going down today are the stocks that were still going up while it was june to august and we were seeing stocks going down that were including, even stocks like general electric. can you look at your computer there? i want to find a stock in the dow industrials, a really big name industrial stock that's going to pay me 4 or 5% dividend at these prices. >> 3m and just hasn't had any strength to it since june. money is going to start going there. >> what's the dividend? >> about 4%. >> 5%, and find good ones. >> wh

the last two days, will the rally continue tomorrow, with us shah gilani, jason rodman and hilary kramerwaiting for the market to go higher. i don't know how high it's going to go. liz: you're rooting for the markets to go higher? >> i want to short the market more. we're not done here. we can't have an action like today, out of nowhere the market gives up the gains and finishes strong. what does that mean? liz: hilary, what do you think? >> the market is encouraged by oil prices firming up, seeing a bottom. liz: do you think we saw the bottom in the market? . >> i think so. liz: short covering. >> short covering rally, yet to go below 40, 39, 38, 35, settle down somewhere. >> next week car sales will be important. ford, gm. liz: jason, we're in the dog days of summer. it's a friday tomorrow, summer friday. you know, it's going to be more dog days for the dow or up market, what do you think? >> tomorrow is going to be quiet. the volatility happened. today is classic overeuphoria day, if i could just give everybody a little clue as to what to look for technically, put my trader hat on, we

hilary kramer, steve cortes still here. what's the job number tomorrow?> i think we're going to see 230,000 jobs added. tom: that's a mediocre number. >> that would be right in line, that would mean we have 5.3% unemployment. the problem, tom, it always goes back to wage growth. we're not going to see wage growth. if we see .2% up, that's a lot. that's why we're seeing consumer defense stocks like campbell's soup do well but not apple do well. it's pointing to the problem, people aren't making enough money. tom: steve, what are you looking for tomorrow? >> you know, i suspect, trying to get exact number is incredibly difficult. my guess is it's in the 200,000 neighborhood. the good news is, look, the job market is improving. the bad news is it's not improving anywhere near to the clip that we need given where we're coming from. in other words, in a recovery, and this is a recovery off of a debt in 08-09 that we haven't seen since the great depression. we shouldn't be adding 200,000 jobs. remember in the mid 80s, or early 80s, adding high six figures, at t

cbs2's marcia kramer explains what the city plans to do now. >>> allegations tonight of sexual harassment at a long island high school. emily smith has the story new at five. >> reporter: they say they have been repeatedly sexually harassed physically and certainly by a female colleague at the high school where they teach. along with their attorney they have filed a complaint with the state against the valley stream school district saying cecelia sanossian assaulted them. stop that? i felt it. that was the moment that i felt kind of the, you know, how powerless. >> reporter: dedino said it began in 90s when sinosian began touching him and making inappropriate comments. in 2014, he says he submitted a harassment claim to the valley stream high school district. no action taken. finally in 2015 ten teachers submitted a harassment complaint. >> it got to the point as a father, you know, as a co-worker, especially as a teacher, i had to do something. i couldn't let this continue. behavior. >> reporter: we have a cop but of the letter signed by ten staff members and it says at the bottom not al

>> caller: yeah to kramer from the once great golden state, is it time to jump on lima, lima? >> i understand the desire. they have that compliance officer, that i can turn around, housing is getting better. >> that one is too deep in the woods for me. i'm a hope depo guy. i know i may not go up. i want to sleep at night. dan in idaho. >> reporter: hey, jim, how are you doing today? >> real good. how are you? >> good. if recent weeks, you have been talking about staying away from all chinese stocks. that bring miseto'o my question. i currently own shares of yahoo which is going to spin off its portion of ali baba at some point if time. do you think this spin-off? >> i think are you in good shape. look, i have been up and down, stock obviously trades with ali baba. the food news, it's time reflecting no value, even if they can't do the tax spin right. i think you are okay. let's go to nick in colorado. nick. >> caller: hi, jim, thanks, to all your folks, too. my question is about ahs. >> health care staffing is terrific. and may i just say that susan sofka who we had on many ti

the mary ellen kramer park undergone a renovation. visitors will find landscape, walking path, dog walks and closer to the magnificent waterfalls there. reopening ceremony begins in about half an hour at 11:00 a.m. >>> a beautiful day to go to that park or any today. lots of sun. low hoopedy. humidity. 83 the high. tomorrow, sun, still a little warmer. 87. sunday and monday look like we might get near 90. >>> and coming up next on the "today" show, learn how to master the chop chop chicken salad in a pasta salad with tomato and brie. >>> we're back on the best of entertaining tryday friday with all kinds of food and fun. >> okay, today's special, chicken chop chop salad straight from chicago. >> i like that! thank you, alex. >> this is the one from belly deck, right? >> yes, he's the owner of a restaurant in the windy city and last time he was here he had a hard time concentrating on cooking, as i recall. >> you know why, right? reeg! >> that's a nice hat. what do you have? >> i have great white wine summer cocktails. i muddled some f

versus kramer." >> ted, i'm leaving you. ted. keys. here are my keys. here's my american express card. here's my bloomingdale's credit card. here's my checkbook. i've taken $2,000 out of our savings account because that's what i had in the bank when we first got married. >> what is this, some kind of joke? >> reporter: three years later she took home the best actress oscar for her role in the tragic holocaust story "sophie's choice." perhaps what best defines streep's acting is her range. she can master foreign dialects. >> shoo! shoo! >> shoo? >> >> reporter: play the absurd. >> alex! you pushed me down the stairs. >> reporter: the demanding -- >> your incompetence do not interest me. >> reporter: real-life dignitaries. >> in the end, right will prevail over wrong. >> reporter: and yes, she can sing. in her latest role, streep plays a rock 'n' roll queen -- oh give me the beat boys and free my soul >> reporter: -- who after life on the road returns home to a family in trouble. >> hop in! >> meryl streep is in "ricki and the

i would be able to meet him good fox 29 shared cancer survivor julie kramer's story she through throughouthe first pitch at opening day. chase has been a huge inspiration to her. >> i'm getting sad. i don't want to see him go. he's my favorite player. >> the vibe around here we're all pretty upset. i wish the best to him. i love chase utley. one of my favorite phillies but i wish him luck with jimmy rollins in la. >> it's a fond farewell to chase from little chase of newtown square his message on the sign coming from the heart. >> this chase doesn't want to see chase utley go. thanks for some wonderful years! >> he wasn't exactly name after number 26 but he did score this picture with utley more than a year after he was born his parents have good memories, too. >> trish and i were here when they won the world series. it was just great experience. we thank chase utley for that. >> over at chickie's and pete's fans think about the glory days of chase leading the phils to victory in the 2008 world seri series. >> it's still tough to see. i thought he might be the one guy that sticks around an

. >> marcia kramer joins us with more on this. >> reporter: well, dick and kristine, central park is a whole lot safer than it was two decades ago. but still the increase in robberies and other crimes in the park this year has guardian angels founder calling it a mugger's delight lightning and he wants the mayor to do something about it. >> the mayor is impervious to it. >> reporter: founder curtis lee blamed the increase in crime in central park squarely on the mayor's doorstep. >> there is no question that the cops no longer rule the park at night. and if they don't rule the park at night, they may not rule the city at night. and that means then the thugs, the thug life rules. >> reporter: the guard jun angels are back that troll for the first time in 20 years. many were happy to see them. some even posed for pictures with then. the patrols are mostly at night. but when cbs2 cameras followed them today and it was daylight there were still some scary moments. this man with his pants cinched below his underwear. running around and screaming, drinking openly from a liquor bottle. city

cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer investigates. >> people will definitely die from either smoke inhalation and/or burns or trapped in. >> reporter: the corrections union president knows what's going on at city jails as well anyone. and he says a report obtained exclusively by cbs 2 on the lack of fire alarms and fire suppression systems at city jails may be just the tip of the iceberg. >> the newest facility that they built is the rose singer wing to it. the fire apparatus equipment is not working. if a fire alarm system went off right now in the housing area, there would be no way of sprinkler system dousing that fire. >> reporter: among the things found in the report to a federal monitor at the north infirmary on rikers newsroom russ life safety issues not being addressed. at the cross center on rikers, the recommendation that special smoke detection be provided in every cell was ignored. manhattan detention center an inoperative system to keep smoke out of stairwells. 30,000 people could be in danger. he lays the blame on mayor de blasio. >> the mayor has to get involved beca

cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer here to explain why. marcia. >> reporter: the mayor's spokesman says the homeless plan was delayed because at the 11th hour officials discovered they needed, quote to finalize one aspect of the policy, no further explanation. but for a progressive mayor wary of stepping on the rights of his constituents, any plan to get people off the streets is a land mine of legal and political issues. he and the police commissioner have to make sure of every detail. >> any individual who is homeless and breaks the law will be subject to enforcement. >> reporter: tough talk yesterday from mayor de blasio about his now delayed plan to get the mentally ill homeless off the streets. tough talk from a mayor under pressure to deal with an increasingly difficult issue, homeless everywhere. like this homeless man taking a bath in the fountain at columbus circle. >> we have to get to the root of that problem and we will. >> reporter: $1 billion has already been added to the homeless budget for the next four years to fund improv

cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer has more. >> reporter: it's too early to know whether the mayor's times square task force will ultimately allow cars to drive through times square again. but the idea that he would even consider it is provoking a heated debate, elected officials, transportation advocates who helped put him in office and some business groups are turning thumbs down. >> this is not a treasure hunted where you start digging up streets. the bottom line, you should be dealing with the quality of life issues that face new yorkers. >> reporter: it puts him in the no column when it comes to the proposal considered by mayor de blasio and the police commissioner to get rid of the pedestrian plaza in times square to deal with the elmos and painted topless women. melissa mark-viverito is a "no" vote, too. the city council is considering its legislative options but the speaker believes in and supports keeping pedestrian plazas aid her spokesman. several times square groups are against allowing traffic in the area. a group said pedestrian injuries have fallen 40%. >> to suggest w

the guy that happened to be on duty the day that the draft went in fellow named slim kramer. he and i said there are going to be a lot of people upset about this word. but it's their job to find out, and i'm not going to tell them about it. and let the president see it. then you start getting the phone calls. as director of speech writing, once they have gone to the president, i had to keep track of things and the changes. so once it had gone to the president and came back out and he kept it in, if you got a call from a senior deputy from the secretary of state expressing, the secretary of state feels this needs to come out. well, i feel the secretary of state must tell the president this must come out because he kept it in. and if the secretary of state wants to tell the president and can convince him, that's his job and more power to him. well, nobody did. reagan kept it in. it made history. of course he caught all sorts of criticism at home. they always said he was wrong. they always underestimated him. it was one of the best things he had going for him. it was brought hom

cbs 2 political reporter marcia kramer with the cbs 2 exclusive. >> it's dangerous. we should not have to wait for a horrible tragedy to happen before the city does what it's supposed to do. >> reporter: furious, that reaction from councilwoman elizabeth crowley who oversees the department of correction when cbs 2 showed her a report prepared for the agency's federal monitor. the lack of interest by doc in completing projects or correcting any life safety [000:59:57;00]

cbs 2's political reporter marcia kramer with the story. >> reporter: there are grapes, apples and oranges on the assemblyman's conference table. they are to make a point. too much processed sugar is a health hazard for everyone especially kids. he wants to ban the sale of large sugary drinks to minors under 18 unless accompanied by an adult. >> we allow children to go see g-rated movies on their own but they can't see an "r" rated movie on their own. it's the same concept. you know? a parent or guardian if they really want their child to have that obscene amount of sugar, they can purchase it for them. [000:59:57;00]

cbs2 political reporter marcia kramer here with more on this one. marcia. >> reporter: maurice and alice, there is a spector of terrorism. the fact that 160 heads of state will be here at the same time as the pope for the united nations general assembly. then there are the complexities of protecting a pope who likes to mix it up with his flock. >> it's going to be an unprecedented challenge for the department. >> unprecedented. >> reporter: police commissioner bratton and john million are, the nypd's top terrorism boss, on security plans for the pope's visit to new york. >> it's going to be a massive operation, a complex operation, and one, as the commissioner will remind us, that a city has to live and breathe and operate around at the same time. >> reporter: operate, yes. quickly? maybe not. frozen zones can mean massive traffic congestion. and there is also the headache of how to protect the pope when he offers mass at madison square garden above penn station. the busiest train station in north america. 600,000 commuters use the six sub island ra

coming up as six, marcia kramer will find out what some say needs to be done and what the city has to say about all of this. >>> well, in less than an hour city officials are set to hold a town hall meeting to discuss the ledge theirs disease outbreak in the bronx. four people from the southern part of the borough have died. there have been seven one kisses cases. legionnaire's is spread through weight. it is curable if treated quickly with antibiotics. >>> a retrial in the etan pate murder case is sed for federal. pedro hernandez, if he is accused in the 1979 killing of etan patz, a judge scheduled jury selection to begin on february 22. the defense attorney opposed the judge's ruling to delay the case to football to give the new prosecutor in the case more time to prepare. >> we just believe that the evidence listened to by a pair and impartial jury? the first trial ended in a mistrial in may after the jury was deadlocked. the lone hold out juror refused to convict hernandez in the case. >>> police say they have caught the man who attacked a woman in her west village apartment. inve

the guy that happened to be on duty the day that the draft went in fellow named slim kramer. he and i said there are going to be a lot of people upset about this word. but it's their job to find out, and i'm not going to tell them about it. and let the president see it. then you start getting the phone calls. as director of speech writing, once they have gone to the president, i had to keep track of things and the changes. so once it had gone to the president and came back out and he kept it in, if you got a call from a senior deputy from the secretary of state expressing, the secretary of state feels this needs to come out. well, i feel the secretary of state must tell the president this must come out because he kept it in. and if the secretary of state wants to tell the president and can convince him, that's his job and more power to him. well, nobody did. reagan kept it in. it made history. of course he caught all sorts of criticism at home. they always said he was wrong. they always underestimated him. it was one of the best things he had going for him. it was brought hom

political reporter marcia kramer is on this one for us. >>> the nypd is also looking for a man who attacked a woman in manhattan. the woman in her 40s was sitting outside a produce store off of grand street early this morning. police say that's when the suspect approached her and hit her in the back with a sharp metal object, cutting her in the process. the attack has left nearby workers on edge. >> we are very nervous right now. it's not safe right now. >> i think this is the first time. yeah. this neighborhood is very good. >> the victim is expected to be okay. investigators are now looking through surveillance video from nearby shops hoping to identify the suspect. >>> danger up above. the city is launching a crackdown on rooftop cooling towers that use recycled water because of the legionnaires disease outbreak that's sickened 86 people and killed seven. lou young has the story from the south bronx. >> it turns out the patients in this largest outbreak of legionnaires disease ever in new york city didn't get sick from inside a contaminated building as is usually the case with the diseas

kramer, we're going to do a second round. you could be really quick on the shot clock here. we'll go to the gentleman from new mexico for five. >> thank you for having us here today. chairman wheeler, commissioner pai, thank you for joining us as well. i appreciate the testimony around the rural access. i'm a rural guy. i think congressman walden represents a very rural district. many parts of the country need broadband access and affordability. chairman wheeler, you've heard me say, we can have connectivity at 30,000 feet flying across the united states in an aeirplane, there's no reason we shouldn't have it in rural areas. in new mexico, for example, 77% of those living in rural communities and 89% living in tribal communities lack access to broadband. you pursued an aggressive agenda that includes reforming the e-rate programming, and establishing the connect america fund. can you discuss what this agenda means for people who lack sufficient access to broadband and communication services? not just with buildout, but making it more affordable for people to take advantage.

again, nathan kramer wants to know, is it better to buy government bonds than stocks?so. because i look at all investing on a long-term track record. what's going to make you the most money over the next ten years? what's made you the most money over the last 20 years? that would be good growth stock mutual funds that have long track records. i don't own a single government bond, personally. i personally adhere to that advice. you look at the rate of return, what's that bond paying? nothing compared to what a good growth stock mutual fund has averaged over the last ten years. >> candy on twitter wants to know about her facebook stock. should i keep or sell? >> i have no idea candy, because i don't track individual stocks. i honestly don't know what is happening with facebook. we have got a big facebook account with 3 million folks on it. that's the extent of my knowledge. what i say is i don't buy single stocks because i don't like the risk of individual companies, i by mull funds because it gives me diversification. based on, that i would sell that and move that same

marcia kramer investigates. >> people will definitely die from either smoke inhalation, and/or burns or trapped in there. >> reporter: corrections union president norman seabrook knows what goes on at city jails as well if not better than just about anyone and he says a report on daned by exclusively by cbs 2 and the lack of fire alarms and fire suppression systems at city jail may be just the tip of the iceberg. >> the newest facility that they built is the rose m. singer wing to it and the fire apparatus equipment is not working and if a fire alarm system went off in the housing area, there would be no way a sprinkler system, dousing that fire. >> among the things found in the may 2015 report to a federal monitor on the infirmary at rikers, safety issues not addressed. the recommendation that special smoke detection be provided in every cell was ignored. at the manhattan detention center, an in operative system for keeping smoke out of evacuation stairwells about. 30,000 corrections officers and visitors and inmates could be in trouble. the mayor is the one who is ultimately respon

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. >> joining me now, the director of the documentary, seth kramer and daniel miller.here. i couldn't stop watching this morning. and let me begin with you, jeremy. what made him tick? >> i think he was a couple of different personalities bundled into one package. and he would try his mettle at different things until something stuck. eventually he discovered he had this inner beast that could go out there and make people uncomfortable. and he went with it. that's what i think the most interesting part of his life is those two years of the show he does, where he really rages. >> soars, and then drops in terms of his fame and success. >> yes. >> seth, to you, he's constantly being compared to his famous father who had a beautiful voice. it seems that was a battle he battled his entire life. >> as a filmmaker you hesitate to put that in your movie, because they'll think you're making it up. his father was considered one of the first recording stars in the world, the famous tenor, irish t tenor. he was outspoken to his friends, he wanted to be more famous than his famous d