e delays outpartur york at laguardia right now. if you a family trying to make it here, it could be an issue. to 78 degrees. will show you a beautiful of the sun rise in few minutes. looking forward to that. is sure was beautiful. and not suit the deep -- and now heated race between tim kaine and george allen. the debate is just getting underway. introduction the allen is making his introduction. it is not the presidential race, how this senate race turns have a massive impact the makeup of capitol hill in november. squaring off, trying to shore up t seven weeks before election day. d democrat tim kaine and in alican george allen are fight. according to the latest t poll, tim kaine allen among likely voters. it is a much -- george allen much finer line to walk. the subjects for debate today the economy and transportation. haveace is expected to implications. as goes virginia some may go the senate and the entire presidential race. >> just in these introductions candidates, wee both talked already about the economic potential of vir

we are working with the faa to expand the program to laguardia and newark airport. jfk alone, the system has saved nearly 5 million gallons of fuel and almost 15,000 hours of taxi time annually. over the last decade, our agency has invested more than a billion dollars to make airport operations on the ground more efficient. our initiatives have delivered. we've invested in building high speed taxiway, minimizing runway occupancy time, enabling a more efficient procedure. the bottom line is that tens of thousands of hours of delay have been averted to say nothing of reduction in emissions, environmental benefits that come from curbing delays and congestion. as we move forward to nextgen we made a number of efforts to be better neighbors, having recently launched single phone number that pulls together all of airports noise complaint hotline together with a website that enables the public to express concerns regarding aircraft noise. this new system provides feedback in real time to have standardized the posture and offers the to analyze the complex than we have in th

laguardia flight departure delays otherwise all major airports on time you don't see organized areasf severe weather. best chance of wet weather will be in the four corners region. flight tracker abc7news.com. >>> for the first time last night fans at the oakland raiders' game had to pass through a metal detector before they could enter. new level of security at all football stadiums as part of a new nfl league policy raider fans were asked to arrive as early as possible to give plenty of time for everyone to get through security. >>> federal judge says oakland mayor quan faces serious consequences if she skips another deposition about the pace of court ordered chains in the police department. she says she will -- absolutely appear for her september 25th, deposition. she said an emergency council meeting forced her to delay an an all-day except circumstance august 30th. two local attorneys want the feds to take over the police department for fail to implement reforms ordered in 2003. hearings are scheduled for december. >>> what does your pet spay about you? a lot, according to a stu

newark, laguardia, jfk airports, reporting now delays of a half hour to an hour and decreasing, whichgood news. that cold front's moving. so hopefully won't see air travel delays from our local airports tomorrow. today around the bay area, nothing severe about our weather. just cool outside. we had the sea breeze through the day today. inland saw highs in the low 80s. very cool for this time of year. only 80 in livermore. san jose, 71 degrees. 68 in oakland. 62 in san francisco and right now it's practically jacket weather in the trivalley. that's what you have with the winds coming in off the bay, 25-mile-per-hour winds in fairfield setting us up for a cool finish to the week, too. might have noticed the low clouds. we think they'll re-form on the coast tonight. and the big thunderstorms along the spine of this today, the moisture should stay off to the south and east. this area of low pressure offshore should keep the bay area under mainly a southwest air flow aloft limiting the monsoon moisture to southern california and the sierra. but it's going to keep the sea breeze going tomor

flight arrival delays into laguardia, departure delays out of philadelphia severe weather possible aroundolis and chicago today. use our flight tracker abc7news.com. >>> 4:48. the controversial back about the raid that killed osama bin laden written by a commando who was there goes on sale today the author matt bissonnette was member of the seal team, in the book he says bin laden was shot in the head as he peeked out his bedroom door. he said he and another seal entered the room and finished him off with shots to the chest that differs from the official count that weather weather -- that bin laden was reaching for a weapon. >>> bay area teens are taking advantage of the foreclosure crisis using social media to turn vacant homes into party houses big plans posted for a concord home over the weekend. how police intervened just in time. >> reporter: this vacant five bedroom home in concord was about to become party central. >> when i came home the front door of the house was open. >> reporter: the neighbor says the police showed up just as a carload of teens began cruising by the house the

and right now just checking the airports, laguardia, jfk, teterboro airport, and new york, new jersey, and new york airports seeing ground stops because of the severe weather moving through right now. we're seeing wind gusts up to 60 to 70 miles per hour with straight-line winds moving right over long island and heading out towards boston, so the severe weather threat will continue across the northeast as we head into tonight. so, folks heading into the northeast even tomorrow may want to check ahead for flight delays as a lot of these airlines try to get caught up from today's severe weather in the northeast, diane? >> all right, thanks a lot, rob. >>> and now to decision 2012. republican vice presidential candidate paul ryan visited the bay area today, not to campaign but rather to raise money and to reach out to younger voters through silicon valley. ryan's first stop this morning was in danville. former san francisco 49er brett jones and his wife held a fund-raiser at their home. tickets started at $1,000 and ryan could be seen there greeting guests and he took time to meet young

. >>> esta producción marca el regreso de ernesto laguardia a las telenovelas con un papel de villanota rosa que este fin de semana recibe un importante reconocimiento. >>> me siento muy contento, muy honrado es la primera vez que se reconoce a un artista, regularmente se reconocían a jefes de estado, y me dan un premio por la carrera y por mi aporte a la cultura popular. >>> cómo recibes este tipo de reconocimientos. >>> tengo respeto por todos los reconocimientos que se me dan pero cuando son reconocimientos que se acercan más a la gente y a la comunidad de nosotros. >>> cómo van los preparativos de la boda. >>> súper, van todo bien, y hemos decidido hacerlo a principios de año, porque la agenda de nosotros están agraciadamente complicadas. >>> y harás una despedida de soltero. >>e> so no me toca a mí. >>> muchas gracias por estar con nosotros en primer impacto, regresamos a los estudios. >>> yo me voy a encargar de la despedida de soltera de ella (risas) >>> los planes que tendrán, felicidades, muy merecido, en manos de jomari goiso se puso nuestra jackie guerrido antes de ir a una

and fresh off a win at the third annual vanilla ice look alike contest and a baggage handler at laguardia airport, writer and comedian jesse joyce. those are comments on how he often dresses. his come day cd is called -- comedy cd is called pro choice, a fun pun. and he is considered a bracelet. it is bill schulz. and he is so interesting that the world joins the navy just to see him. sitting next to me, ron bolton , former u.s. ambassador to the u.n and fox news contributor. >> a-block. the lead, that's the first story. >> that was so stupid. but i love it. will barak be your rock? it is a landslide for the bedside. abc news, whatever that is, is asking the question nobody would think of asking and found by a large margin that voters preferred obama to nurse them back to health over his rival, mitt romney. and they believe obama would make, quote, a more loyal friend. when asked which candidate they would rather have as a captain in a storm the answer is closer. excitement is reaching a fever pitch. >> you know, you laugh, but he gets there early to get the best seats. the parade doesn't

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newark just reported arrival delays with laguardia.evere weather today at o'hare, midway, minneapolis. at home, flight arrival delays into sfo because of low clouds. oakland and san jose i think will be on time. check out our flight tracker, abc7 news. >>> hope you had a great labor day weekend. i'm kristen sze. >>> i'm eric thomas. breaking news out of the north bay haz-mat team on scene at a cotati pool service business to deal with a chemical spill. this video just in, alarm at north bay pool says sounded after 1:30 this morning police called in the fire department. fire officials tell us they've had trouble contacting the business owner. we'll be live on the scene shortly stay with abc7 news for updates. >>> we are also following developing news from hayward in alameda county, deputies are on the scene of a deadly drive-by shooting it happened 9:30 last night on the 400 block of bartlett near garden. 20-year-old from hayward was found dead at the scene. no word from investigators on the victim's identity or any suspects. >>> misusi

abc's mark greenblatt is at new york's laguardia airport. >> good morning to you, dan. frequent travelers complain about evasive screening procedures. two guns made it on to airplanes this week, has many travelers on edge and worried about their safety. a long line of high-profiled security blunders of tsa came to a head on fr loaded .38 caliber gun went undetected by screeners. new orleans hornets executive joshua richardson, mistakenly took it with him on a flight from new orleans to newark. in just one day earlier in orlando, officers missed another loaded gun, this time in a firefighter's purse, it made it passed security and all the way on to her ane. those lapses came to light. some in congress worry now about what else is slipping through. >> unfortunately, the reports that i get, it's not just this one weapon, it's hundreds of items every day. but it can't be tolerated. >> reporter: in dallas, the tsa couldn't keep up with this 65-year-old grandma who carried a gun right passed them in january. >> it makes me feel concerned about what's really going on. >> repor

abc's mark greenblatt is at new york's laguardia airport.his morning, mark, good morning to you. >> good morning to you, dan. frequent travelers often complain about invasive screening procedures here at the airport. now news that not one but two guns made it past security screeners on to airplane s this week has many travelers on edge and worried about their safety. a long line of high-profiled security blunders of tsa came to a head on friday. that's when a loaded .38 caliber like this went undetected by screeners. new orleans hornets executive joshua richardson mistakenly took it with him on a flight from new orleans to newark. and just one day earlier in orlando, officers missed another loaded gun, this time in a firefighter's purse. it made it past security and all the way on to her plane. >> scary but surprising. >> reporter: those lapses came to light. some in congress worry now about what else is slipping through. >> unfortunately, the reports that i get, it's not just this one weapon, it's hundreds of items every day, but it can't b

to gene with everything from coal miners to migrant workers in maine, air traffic controllers at laguardiaus what you learned. >> well, i learned a ltd. of the conversations we're having right now in the national conversation of the 47% or the 99% are very abstract conversations and i got to know people who are the people who are doing these jobs and what conversations they're having. and how they have a lot more to say than we're listening to. >> right. who is this america hidden from? i think we all know people from various walks of life. i mean, you know, i have been in so many gun shops across the country i'm probably on a government watch list. crystal's grandfather was a coal miner. who are you trying to suggest doesn't know about these people? >> oh, i think that we're just not aware in our daily lives of how connected we are to awful -- well, all of these people. every time we flip on a light switch we are burning a lump of coal and an intimate connection to these people and dependent on them in actual ways. you know, who's landing the airplanes? the air traffic controllers. and th

when the jet fuel is ready to use, it will be piped up to laguardia and jfk, delta's new york hubs buthas been controversial, a bold move to reduce a staggering fuel bill of $12 billion a year and others say it has no business being in a field it has no experiment. recently i learned united continental, delta's biggest competitor has also considered a refinery deal. we routinely evaluate opportunities, and we have evaluated refineries as a means to improve our returns, united told me in a statement. a united official took a preliminary look at a small refinery for sale outside of hues fob, i'm told, but for now united isn't pursuing it. that's because the next best use of a spare 100 million, united said, is to pay down debt. i'll keep you posted but no developments as of yet. we'll look for some possibly from united. >> kate kelly, thanks so much. >>> the demand for u.s. crude oil is down 4.3% in august year over year, but in that time crude prices are up 10%, while gasoline is up nearly 12%. >>> let's take a closer look at this space as it relates to the overall market. with us helen

planes are still -- talking about laguardia, that makes me, makes me think, planes are -- i still thinknes are still considered glam glamorous. when i flew in yesterday, there on the tarmac was a jet, a private jet, and it had, um, it kind of stood alone in a circle of lights, and, um, painted on the fuselage was "trump." donald trump's giant jet. [laughter] and i remember, i wondered about that because when i was a reporter in norfolk, i had gotten on the trump princess. remember his yacht? and it was, like, an exercise in excess. and so i wonder whether or not his plane is the same, same thing. >> he bought the trump princess for a song. >> yeah. >> but the guy who owned it had named it after his daughter, and i was on it for a party. >> you were? okay? >> it was one hell of a boat. >> there's somebody back there who wants to ask a question. okay, yes, ma'am. >> did you get a chance to talk to charles lindbergh's grandson, eric, who did -- he did about ten years or so ago he did a flight over the atlantic in a single-engine -- >> i'd heard about that, yeah. no, i didn't get to talk to

shuttle from reagan up to laguardia. newly-appointed deputy assistant secretary of state for middle eastern affairs, and i had the portfolio of a country called iraq in august 2001. so my job was to go up and convince the chinese, the russians and the french that our way was the right way, and i figured that'd take half a day. it was while we were making our approach into laguardia that we could see smoke coming out of the first tower, and just as we landed all of our cell phones went off. we actually had cell phones in 2001, with the news that the second tower had been struck, and it was then clear this was not a misguided private aircraft or some other accident of navigation, it was an attack. i was stuck in traffic on the queensboro bridge when both towers went down. three-and-a-half months later i was part of a small u.s. contingent raising the american flag over the opposite end of ground zero. kabul, afghanistan, the still badly shattered american embassy. following a very quick military campaign that ousted the ta

. >> you know, keep in mind that we're in an area where there are three major airport, kennedy, laguardia, all within several miles of the world trade center. it's very unusual for a plane to get into this area without being completely tracked or identified by air traffic control. so you would have to imagine that, a, if this plane were headed right to the world trade center there must have been someone trying to talk or communicate with that pilot, and, for it to fly right into the side of the building. >> the smaller plane, you can understand almost. but a jumbo jet, a large jet, completely -- >> let's rerack that video, if we could, down in the control room where we actually saw the jet flying into the building. unbelievable. >> elliott walker said it was a big plane. i was looking in the distance and saw a small plane which might have been a el copter. to see this plane come into the picture. that is a big plane. and i mean, it's hard to imagine, it's a 737, we're now being told. and flying directly into the mid section of the what would be the eastern tower of the world trade center.

[laughter] now, bullet mcclure had landed other big names in the past, new york city mayor laguardiaho, of course, you may have flown through the airport that bears his name, and at the time new fbi director j. edgar hoover. they had both spoken because of bullet's audacious invitations, but winstonture chul was in -- churchill was in another category altogether. budget knew even with truman's help it was still a long shot. churchill received dozens of invitations every month asking him to grace the colleges of harvard and stanford with his presence. but when churchill read mcclure's note and saw truman's addendum, he knew this was it, this was his opportunity. with the president of the united states introducing churchill in his home state, the world would have to be watching and listening. so despite the odds, bullet mcclure from westminster college had done it. churchill and truman were coming to fulton in march of 1946. unfortunately, bullet mcclure didn't really know what he'd bargained for. it seemed pretty easy to write the letter and certainly nice getting to go to the white h

my daughter is at a specialized high school, laguardia high school.chools targeted in this program are what we would call title one schools, high poverty schools, low income parents, and that is my concern when it comes to this opt out process. i have three big concerns about this. one is as recently as last thursday, "the wall street journal" had an article about low parental involvement in new york city schools. we've hit a historic low. so if parents already are not involved according to the mayor's own management report and you're telling us that you sent out these letters to parents and we know from experience with the department of education that they do not send notices out to parents when they tell us to. in our experience, last year when we sued the department of education over community council elections, we were able to successfully get an injection because the public of education didn't notify the parents. >> so you're saying they may not get the form. >> that's right. >> the reverse argument of that is parents who are not involved may not

two new york city airports did not farewell, jfk at number 16, laguardia ranked number 26. time rating with almost 71% of their flights arriving on time. san francisco and houston also at the bottom of the list. >> it's nice to know. thank you very much. what if you don't use those top three airports, right? >> you can't go to chicago via salt lake. >> therein lies the problem. next on "early start," what's weighing on middle class minds as democrating get ready to make their case for four more years. the capital one cash rewards card gives you a 50% annual bonus. and everyone likes 50% more [ russian accent ] rubles. eh, eheh, eh, eh. [ brooklyn accent ] 50% more simoleons. [ western accent ] 50% more sawbucks. ♪ [ maine accent ] 50% more clams. it's a lobster, either way. [ male announcer ] the capital one cash rewards card. with a 50% annual cash bonus, it's the card for people who like more cash. [ italian accent ] 50% more dough! what's in your wallet? [ italian accent ] 50% more dough! questions. when you're caring for a loved one with alzheimer's, not a day goes by t

there are more flights out of charlotte than there are out of laguardia, something few people would think transportation and distribution is a major driver of our economy. host: how do you become a banking center? special legislation? how you promote yourself as a banking center? guest: the history is interesting. in the 1920's, north carolina was progressive in allowing for branch banking, which gave north carolina bank's the culture of acquiring other banks when many states around us did not allow that. you can go back further to the 1800's when gold was discovered in the region. the first branch of the u.s. mint was located in charlotte. go to the 1920's, and the branch banking legislation. there was a decision a couple of decades later to put a branch of the federal reserve bank in richmond in charlotte as opposed to other parts of the carolinas, so what happened in the 1980's is a our banks began to push for regional interstate banking, which allow them to expand. that was followed by national interstate banking. we had aggressive, ambitious bankers that wanted to compete with new yo

senator, one thing, we have all these things, at the end of the year, i say back up like planes in laguardiaayroll, and it all expires at the end of the year. what is your best projection, are they giving that a 3 month extension to work it out with a new president, the same president? >> what do you think? >> i believe if we have a democratic president there will be compromise. we need to reduce the debt and deficit. there may be extreme views. in particular on republican side. that say -- >> three month extension. is that it if you would guesstimate. >> i think we would have a real deal, i would hope. neil: thank you very much, senator for the state of connecticut richard blumenthal. all right, there are business-types here, not just exclusexclusive to republicans,o cofounder here as well, he came up with ordering things in bulk, when you go to costco, and you' hamburg irs, yo'hamburgers and t them 5,000 at a time, he is the guy, after this. neil: welcome back, to the show, there are businesses represented here, this is high account, not nearly number at the republican convention, that cou

not comment that we are a little bit disappointed that a the procedure that was put into place and laguardia will work towards a solution to benefit us in the new york metroplex. all that said, i am very pleased about the partnership that is taking place. in closing, nextgen is a vital part of the aviation industry. nextgen will reduce waste and improve the environment. it will also improve efficiency and safety and add jobs and strengthen the economy. the case for nextgen has been and continues to be compelling. i would like to thank you, mr. chairman, the ranking member and the distinguished members of the committee for hosting the panel today. i look forward to any questions you might have. thank you again, serve. >> thank you. mr. reynold. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> nextgen is a catchall phrase that means everything to everybody in the aviation community. i am proud to be involved as an essential stakeholder in nextgen development and fully participate in the advisory committee in which was just spoken of. the nextgen advisory committee has been an outstanding job of simplifying of w

from reagan airport to laguardia. i was the newly appointed deputy area -- deputy secretary of state for eurasian affairs. i have the portfolio called iraq in 2001. my job was to convince the chinese, the russians, and the french that our way was the right way. that could take half a day. it was while we were making our approach into a boarded that we could see smoke coming out of the first tower. atlanta, all of our cell phone support off -- were off. they went off with news that the second tower was struck and it was clear that it was not a misguided private aircraft or some other accident of navigation. it was an attack. i was stuck in traffic on the queens borough bridge when the towers went down. 3.5 months later, i was part of a small u.s. contingent raising the american flag over the .pposite end of ground zero this followed a quick military campaign to oust the taliban. i did not spend those intervening 3.5 months unoccupied. i was on one of the first planes out of dulles after it reopened airports following 9

new york city mayor laguardia to of course you may have floated airports that bears his name, and atime, new fbi director j. edgar hoover. they both have spoken at westminster college because bullets audacious invitations. a churchill, winston churchill was in another category altogether. bullet was confident of his success, but needed even with truman so it was still a longshot. after all, churchill received dozens of invitations every month asking them to come and grace colleges like harvard and stanford and oxford with his presence. most of them he turned down, if, in fact, got to him past his army secretary's. but when churchill red mccluer's note, he got to the pot and he saw truman to dinner, he knew that this was it. this was his opportunity. the president of the united states introducing churchill in his home state, the world would have to be watching and listening. so despite this, boiler mact were, westminster college had done it. churchill and truman were coming to form in march 1946. unfortunately bullet mccluer didn't know what he bargained for. it seemed pretty easy to