josh, a korean man who was adopted and raised by a jewish family, owns the wildly popular long island city right away? >> joshua: yes, pretty much immediately. you know i was cooking out of my house, then we transported onto this bagel shop. we served from 7 o'clock to 9:30, ten seats at a time. it was me in the kitchen and my wife out in front and one day somebody text me he goes, "congratulations." i go "for what?" they go pete reynolds just gave you number one ramen in new york city. >> anthony: so new york times loves you? >> joshua: yeah, and i saw the article and i started crying. >> anthony: cosme is the owner of casa enrique also in long island city. it's the only mexican restaurant in new york with a michelin star. >> anthony: you didn't even do the smart thing, the smart thing of course being to make shitty mexican food because you know americans will always buy shitty mexican food. you started making really associated interesting mexican food, why? >> cosme: my brother come up with the idea to open a mexican restaurant, and i told my brother come on, i've never cooked mexican fo

city play into that? it's mostly a stronghold for republicans. the 27th district upstate is a republican stronghold donald trump won handily. you can see some republican strongholds on long islandbut new york city remains a bastion of liberal, democratic power, except for the 11th district, the district primarily on staten island, where we are seeing an interesting race between incumbent dan donovan, who is being challenged by max rose, the democrat. it looks like the republicans , but ittain that seat may because. staten island is the only bastion in new york city of conservatism. we forget, because we have had republican mayors and republican governors, but many of those, if you look at somebody like mayor bloomberg, the last elected nowblican mayor, who has just most recently declared himself a democrat after being independent for some time. trajectorysee the that new york city at least is going on. but there is a split. some people call this a tale of two states, state that is more conservative upstate, pro-second amendment, versus downstate, where it is a much more liberal haven, particularly under mayor deblasio. host: if you are in new york , for all02) 748-8000 .thers,

we have new coastal flood warnings out for the jersey shore, new york city and long island.or flooding is expected with the high tide saturday morning. could be high enough that we get some beach erosion. here's the timing of this mess. this as we wake up saturday morning. the rainfall all through the northeast spreading northwards quickly during the morning. not a lot of snow, only the highest of elevations will get snow out of this. by the time we get to saturday evening the storm is almost right over the top of new york. the rain is done in washington, d.c. saturday afternoon, but still kind of rainy philadelphia to new york. the rainfall forecast does have as much as 1 1/2 inches of rain from boston to new york, also the potential for wind gusts in the 40-50 miles an hour range. saturday is the day philadelphia, hartford, new york city airports, boston too that you could have cancellations and delays. rainy weather arrives through areas of virginia. the weekend forecast, there's the saturday mess. notice the middle of the country is good. when we get rid of the storm in

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long island? how does new york city play into that? >> guest: it is.onghold for republicans as a mention the 27th district upstate as republican struggle that donald trump won handily. use some republican strongholds still in long island but new york city remains a bastion of liberal democratic power, except for the 11th district which is the district on primary staten island where we're seeing an interesting race between incumbent dan donovan who's been challenged. looks like the republicans may maintain that seek. seat. it's close but it looks like most people think republicans will retain that. staten island is the only bastion in your city of conservativism some people come we forget because we've had republican mayors and republican governors but many of those if you look at somebody like mayor bloomberg, the last elected republican mayor, who is now just most recently declared himself a democrat after being and independent for some time. you can see the trajectory that new york city is going on but again there is a split. some people call this a

of rain and coastal waves you may have to worry about like at atlantic city and ocean city and even towards long islandd the temperatures in the next few days don't get out of the 40s and 50s. john, for you, the good news, the game is not in boston 80 degrees and sunny later on today. 5:09 pacific time. i know where you will be. >> he is even forsaking his red sox to look at the book you can read. >> and the book by alisyn camerota -- >> you are so good. >> thank you very much, chad. appreciate it. go red sox. >> after a disasterious start -- before we get to the red sox we have to get to other sports teams. the texans could be the hottest team. >> a lot of folks wrote the texans off after three straight losses and not since 1980 has a team lost their first three and then made the playoffs, and the tough young quarterback, 23-year-old watson. he still dominated the dolphins last night, five touchdown passes. only four incompletions. he had a 73 ye--yarder. hopkins with the velcro on his glove or something and prevents this ball from hitting the ground, it's showing up in highlight reels, the texaseexan

anywhere you see the shading of green, anywhere from long island into new jersey, parts of massachusetts, new york city you are included as well with this. this is all thanks onshore wind that is being whipped around and winds will get strong today specifically across nantucket and into the long island sound region. 40 to 50-mile-per-hour wind gusts. we have high wind washings from t -- warnings and advisories. the strong heest part esest -- warnings and advisories. the strong heest part ese part will occur midday today. look as these wind gusts about that -- it will quickly die down sunday, but it will create a lot of rainfall. radar is lighting up like a christmas tree. i-95 will be very tricky along the east coast. good thing it is not a workday. this area will see some treacherous driving conditions. but again, it will keep it all rain, so we won't see the snow piling up in the typical nor'easter fashion that we would see. nonetheless, take the storm seriously because the wind, the storm -- the coastal surge threat or i should say the flood threat associated with this powerful low pressure system i

long island. and the mexican conductor. great musicians and friends from all over the world. means. the. the. me. so they were in mexico city my hometown and we're about to meet with one of my favorite musicians over the mother like that and. he's the person i know who knows the most about the mexican song especially the part leno that's what you got there and the different folk music of each area and region of mexico and tonight he has a show at the third less without and we're going to sneak in backstage to see what he's doing right before the show and see what he has to share with us. for. the long. end of the rope my spouse lies that i was going thought i was a good kind of the basic family was they were going to give us a job with us the boy he went you know this you look at whether you like them. yes i'm a little musical bascom but the skipper moscow is a composite or at least that pianist that mr cantor you're presenting these compliment looking ten years ago. he said levels with c.n.n. yes they'll get the less you ask assistant at the going to that's when i will double. gone is to live on toys but i'm sorry he's. th

was just listening to lieutenant governor hoch ul. , new york.ong island all she was saying was upstate new york and new york city. longand, according to governor cuomo, is forgotten. i have seen people lose their to high property taxes. nothing has ever been done to help the people of long island. i am a democrat, but i am not voting for governor cuomo or his party. people on long island are working six, seven days a week. they have to deal with the illegals. construction companies have lost their businesses due to illegals. does governor cuomo look into long island? no. the highest taxes across the nation are being paid by the people of long island. that is the reason why they have had their homes for so many years, and they are losing them left and right. host: that is gloria speaking about the people of long island. this is harry from buffalo on our independent line. go ahead. caller: good morning, sir. i don't want to go back any farther than 30 years ago. we first started with hmos to get rid of the private doctors 30 years ago. hmos got worse and worse. wages stagnated. that was according to a union official tha

island. i know that you have just arrived after a long journey trying to access the area, what more can you tell us? well, we started driving from the city for around 20 hours, it is taking a lot longer than we expected but we finally arrived at this police station where we are waiting for instructions on how to be escorted into palu because of reported looting. survivors of the earthquake and tsunami are desperate for food and tsunami are desperate for food and water and there have been reports that some of the cars going into the area have been looted, so we're waiting for the escort into the area. we are still 200 kilometres away from palu so it is still going to take several hours to get there. but along the way, babita, i saw some of the infrastructure, i guess, of indonesia's countryside, which could be quite similar to what we had in palu, some of the houses built by word and brick, so very modestly built even along the coastline, probably not strong enough to withstand a strong earthquake or tsunami. so we have been witnessing that. but at the same time we also saw people standing on the streets, collecting donations with the has

longest bridge over the sea it's fifty five kilometers long with four tunnels and two manmade islands all linking hong kong and macau to zhuhai and other cities in the south of china drivers will have a thirty minute commute instead of four hours critics condemn the fifteen billion dollar cost construction delays increasing chinese government control and in danger meant of wildlife in the pearl river delta area lots more news on the web site al jazeera dot com is the address you need up next it's the big picture i will have more news for you on this channel in about half an hour then thirty minutes after that it's the news hour hopefully see you soon but i. a century on from colonize ation by italy. libya had become an important player on the world the stage. at their feet had gone from being an accused the sponsor of terror to an ally in the west's war against it. in the early days of two thousand and eleven transformations were sweeping through north africa the so-called arab spring uprisings had seen the end of two dictators bin i mean tunisia. and egypt hosni mubarak. pressure was building on mama to get that for the better for libya. was

island that's part of new york city. >> not a lot of people know this. staten island for a longwas represented by democrats in congress, but then it was redistricted, gerrymandered to include some parts of brooklyn and made it a republican district. donald trump just smashed there. it's the only majority white district which is important to point out -- borough, i could say, in all of new york city. there's a republican member of congress. democrats think they have a play to knock him out. we're trying to figure out why and what matters to people there. this is what we found. take a look. that's lower manhattan. it doesn't get much more democratic than that, but we are heading to the one place in new york city that is actually represented by a republican in congress. and the democrats are hoping that's not going to last. not far from the ferry terminal in new york's 11th congressional district is the neighborhood of port richmond where we headed to find what the local congressman told us was a famous type of pizza at a placed called denino's. >> so good. what kind of jobs do mos

i was in bronx in new york city up to fifth and moved to long island. i worked for america magazine, the largest catholic magazine, a lot of my cartoons are about religion. put that behind you. [laughter] >> my only 9:00 to 5:00 job lasted 3 hours. wait one moment. anyway -- right there is good, thanks. i only had one job in my life that lasted 3 hours, i worked at golf course and i was fired immediately by the club owner because he assumed i was on drugs or something. i was sending people off at the tee and everybody was laughing and having a good time and he didn't like that but i promise myself then that i would never have a real job and that's why this is my favorite cartoon. [laughter] >> the next one is -- [inaudible] >> i went to art school in brooklyn and i don't know how many people -- [applause] >> he's so good. you said something about enemies and talking to people that you have differences with and being open-minded, amazingly the same. really connected with me personally, when i was in art school i had an enemy too and this person and me di

longest bridge over the sea its fifty five kilometers long as four tunnels and two manmade islands that link hong kong and macau to do high and other cities in southern china has taken nine years and fifteen billion dollars to build drivers looking forward to a thirty minute commute instead of four hours. say now with all the headlines more news here on al-jazeera after the street. you can't stand the differences. and the similarities of cultures of. al-jazeera. i have family ok and you know in the stream today will hollywood ever really properly represent muslims it's no secret that stereotypes and tropes of dominated u.s. popular culture for decades are times changing that a lot to discuss today and we want to hear from you so join our live conversation on the change. so what do we have we have the angry terrorist the bumbling shake the sochi belly darts are the good muslims versus the bad muslims so without a doubt all stereotypes that you've seen in your favor hollywood film or television program according to a new report the hollywood illuminating one hundred years of muslim tropes and has transformed them this representation has fue

longest bridge over the sea its fifty five kilometers long as four tunnels and two manmade islands that link hong kong and macau to do high and other cities in southern china has taken nine years and fifteen billion dollars to build drivers looking forward to a thirty minute commute instead of four hours. say now with all the headlines more news here on al-jazeera after the street. the differences. and the similarities of cultures of. al-jazeera. have only ok and you're in the stream today will hollywood ever really properly represent muslims it's no secret that stereotypes and tropes of dominated u.s. popular culture for decades are times changing that a lot to discuss today and we want to hear from you so join our live conversation. so what do we have we have the angry terrorist the bumbling shake the sochi belly darts or the good muslim versus the bad muslim so without a doubt all stereotypes that you've seen in your favor hollywood film or television program according to a new report the hollywood illuminating one hundred years of muslims.

city. but it is racing to the east at 29 miles an hour. so eastern long island seeing have our heaviest rain at this time. also very, very gusty. strong winds in new york city and d.c. as well. that could create some flight delays this morning. in the southwest, we have a tropical storm that will pump in a lot of moisture through the southwest. we could end up with several inches of rain that could lead to a flood risk. we'll get to your local forecast in the next 30 seconds. >>> good morning. i'm meteorologist kari hall. it's a nice clear start to the day, but those temperatures are chilly across the bay area. as you get ready to head out, it will be a warmer afternoon. we're looking at our highs in the south bay reaching 83 san jose and 83 in palo alto. in concord expect a high of 88 degrees and we'll be in the lower 80s for san napa. san francisco today reaching 69. the weekend is going to be summer-like with some hot and dry conditions. >> that's your latest forecast. >> thank you. >> that's your latest forecast. >> thank you. >>> coming up, newly released v

edward: there was a lot of worry at the time this camp was here on long island about soldiers running away from camp to go to new york city and getting involved in the shadier activities going on in the city. there was an attempt to kind of cordon off camp upton from the city to keep it morally pure. it didn't really work. brian: how long were they at the camp before they were shipped out? edward: they were at the camp from september of 1917 up through the spring of 1918 before they shipped overseas so it was about seven months. so here we see the former burglar on the left, and now, wearing a uniform. and, of course, he can't deal with things in the army the same way he used to do on the streets. brian: what was their regimen like? what was a typical day like? it looks like they're peeling potatoes and getting ready for chow? edward: the troops, the soldiers later complained and they complained at the time, that they really didn't learn much of anything about how to fight. so they didn't get much rifle training. often they went overseas without knowing how to fire a shot. they didn't know how to use any other types of we

newspaper is reporting a long way was taken away after his act crafted landed he's not been heard from since leaving the city of leone it's been a week now since the indonesian island of super ways he was struck by a magnitude seven point five earthquake the triggered a tsunami the official death toll stands at almost one thousand six hundred but bodies are still being pulled from the day bri military aircraft from around twenty countries of flying in with much needed aid and supplies pakistani opposition leader shahbaz sharif has been arrested by anti corruption investigators over alleged links to a multi-million dollar housing scam he's the brother of the former premier known as sharif who was ousted last year over corruption charges the twenty eighteen nobel peace prize has been awarded to the women's rights activist nadia moved out and congolese dr dennis mccuaig would add campaigns for the victims of sexual violence quake he runs a hospital in the democratic republic of congo that's dedicated to helping the victims of gang rape there is the headlines these continues here on al-jazeera to witness next. which defused a move to. a move to do. a deal with his in t

for too long sfusd has allowed lowell to operate as an exclusionary island separate and apart from the other schools in our city. it's unacceptable that san francisco schools including lowell are racially segregated because racial segregation hampers achievement. one, reversing the trend of racial isolation and concentration of underserved students in the same school. two, providing equitable access to the range of those to students. improving the admissions process is the first step to achieving the goals. i support allowing 8th graders from willie brown middle school who meet band 3 threshold to apply. willie brown has one of the largest african-american population. if the board wants equitable access to underserved students, meet them where they are. i want it address some of the concerns that other people have stated about if students willie brown belong at lowell and if they can be retained. before i was a civil rights attorney, i taught 11th grade u.s. history in the bronx. i can assure you that all students can excel when they have teachers that hold them to high expectations and create meaningful, relev

long before the civil war. announcer 1: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. honolulu is wise capital city. locating on the island of water, is the largest city in the state with about 350,000 residents. up next, we continue our special look at hawaii with a visit to the state capital. alone. i'm the majority leader of the hawaiian state senate and i want to welcome you all to hawaii. and to a brief tour of our capital. the hawaiian history is very unique in america, we were an independent monarchy, then a provisional government, then a republic, then a territory and now a state. behind us is the first state capital of hawaii, which was the palace, a royal palace, then it became the seat of the provisional government of hawaii, then the seat of the territorial government, then went hawaii became a state of until he joined the union, from 68, this was the state capital. the senate sat in the throne room, the representatives sat in the dining room on the opposite side and around the building were add-ons for the officers. .his is the first state capital on the palace grounds where the ands and queens of hawaii toda

cities and states. following this 2015 limo crash on long island that killed four, a special grand jury found limos with custom aftermarket modifications can lack safety features and urged them to convene a task force. they say if nothing changes, there's bound to be another tragedy. >> we should note that this limousine is not the same as the one vfld in the new york state crash. we don't know a whole lot about this one in particular. they did not respond to our request for comment. but the chairman says she would like to see better consistency in the law. she compared them to frankenstein laws for frankenstein vehicles. she also says the record keeping on how common these accidents are needs to get better. >> reporter: andsa tony h as to us, the passengers texted saying they were concerned about the status of the limousine. so many questions. thank you thank you. and our coverage continues in the next hour. we'll hear from family members and close friends of the people killed in this incident. right now let's go back to vlad. you look at an eimage inside of limo and you think what happened when you go

the lines are long and the traffic is going to be significant as you leave the island areas like panama citynd the other northwestern communities trying to go inland. again, kate, if people have not left yet, they need to think about getting in their vehicles and getting out and going inland now. the storm surge is going to be severe. >> thank you so much. the governor saying to heed the warnings. we are continuing to follow other breaking news. ambassador to the united nations, nikki haley announced she is resigning, sending shock waves through the foreign policy establishment. much more on that, coming up. ♪ ♪ our new, hot, fresh breakfast will get you the readiest. (buzzer sound) holiday inn express. be the readiest. >>> welcome to inside politics. i'm john king. thank you for sharing your day with us. justice brett kavanaugh took his seat on the supreme court. he said it's time to put the bitter confirmation battle behind us. the president vows to keep the kavanaugh divide central in the mid-term fight. the vote just four weeks from today. new polls give democrats a clear path to retakin

island, two thumbs up on a monday. halloween forecast and how long the fire danger will stay high, next. >>> coming up, all new at 6:00 tonight, sorted or paying. what one bay area city's plan to deal with recycled trash that could make trash sorter a permanent job. >>> we're following breaking news right now. chopper 5 is live over pleasanton where police are checking reports of a mountain lion spotted in a neighborhood. the animal was reported near the 3800 block. you can see there are some police on scene in the areas right in the border between holmes and an office park you. can see sort of a parking lot right there. that's where police are focusing their attention. we'll stay on top of this story and bring you the latest updates tonight at 6:00. paul? >>> certainly possible. the mountain lion or the animals are searching for water that has been so dry in the east bay. didn't get the rain in early october like you did in the north bay. we are almost to november. and still waiting for a widespread rainfall. we are clear, no fog, no anything in the sky, just crystal clear blue skies. after a somewhat cloudy morning. concord 74, livermore and santa rosa 71. in the 60s

long but it's important. real quick, here's the area, here's panama city. here is the city itself, the barrier island, here's panama city beach. coming right here, this is panama city beach right here. maybe you will get category 2 weather but east bay is going to flood, parker, callaway, panama city, you are getting a direct hit on the east side in the next couple of hour hours. live in destin florida, to the west of here. >> six airports shut down, 50,000 people without power, that number is going to grow by a large amount. we are just entering what is expected to be the worst couple -- the rain and wind coupled with the storm surge we will be seen, hopefully not too bad here but further across the panhandle, those are the biggest dangers they are telling people that they just had to write out and wait until this evening before they can even begin to think about doing an assessment. >> shepard: that reporter as far west of the center of circulation, they will be getting winds out of the north, tropical storm force winds for sure, a lot of rain and some of the bayous there, destin east pass for thos

did still have some hea rain through new york city hanks to post-tropical storm michae it is racing to the east at 29 miles per hour. so eastern long island seeing the heavier rain and southern new england we have our heaviest rain at this time. we have very strong winds in new york city. and d well. so that could create some flight delays this morning. in the southwest a tropical storm that is going to continue to pump in moisture to the gh southwest thr arizona, through new mexico. we could end up with several inches ofain andhat could lead to a flood risk. we will get to your local forecast in the next 30 secos. >>> good morning. many ofr us unwind advise until noon today for gusts as high as 50 miles an hour. heads up for some debris potentially in the roads today. we could see some more downed trees and powerau outages b of the winds. also flood warnings forarts of southern maryland and southern prince george's county. these are going to go through the mid-morng hours until about 10:00 a.m. and it's a chilly start. grab theacket. degrees right now. 64 for a high. >>> that's your lest forecast. >>> coming up, newly released video show

kilometers long six point seven kilometers of tunnels and two manmade islands today with the official opening. tomorrow it will be open to the public and this bridge is designed to connect three major cities a jew high in china mainland china hong kong and macau and while there be a limited number of private vehicles allowed to take this bridge the main mode of transport will be shuttle buses and trucking companies. companies trucks. items from mainland china through to hong kong the airport and the ports until now the main mode of transport has been ferries and a drive from here in hong kong to mainland china to do high has been about four hours that commute time will now be between thirty minutes and forty five minutes the bridge will be operated under the chinese rules you have to drive on the right hand side and the told in chinese currency this is also opened the bridge of this project with some criticism as he cites yet another attempt by china to encroach on hong kong's autonomy and undermine its independence from mainland china. to royalty its autonomy but critics say that there are critics there are some people who support this project and china is very proud of this monumental i

city is finally ending. we got hit hard in north carolina and virginia. now the heavy rain is exiting new jersey. it's long island to be in the rain another three to four hours. then it will finally be gone. we go from hot and humid on the east coast to almost late fall like. it's 44 this morning in detroit. you're grabbing your coat. we're looking at 60 still on the i-95 corridor. the temperatures will actually be dropping. chicago, only 45 for a high today. soak this up, denver, at 61. that's as warm as you're going to be for a long time. a little bit of rain in texas and oklahoma. that's going to be a theme as we go through the weekend. here's your saturday forecast. unfortunately not a complete washout but much of the area is going to be rain and thunderstorms, oklahoma and north texas. here comes some frigid cold air and snow through wyoming. look what happens as we get into sunday. denver, 27 degrees and snow. right now 3-5 inches of snow expected in denver. a rainy day on sunday once again in north texas and the rain spreads into kentucky and tennessee. big changes. this time of year in october, it was so

local news from a lot of different cities every night for our show, and this one, this is something we happened upon back in january, courtesy of news 12 long island. >> long island plans to build a new high volt power line which would run 7.2 miles underground. people we spoke with are worried about increased traffic near that route. that includes hugh. he works at a liquor store in garden city. >> stewart avenue's already bad enough during rush hour. >> it was a wonderful moment when we met hugh janus and ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce someone very special who is sitting in our audience, none other than mr. hugh janus himself. he told us he was coming to visit. so i have a couple questions. first of all, i'm assuming that hugh janus is not your real name. >> no but you'd be surprised how many people thought it was. >> what is your real name? >> joe >> jimmy: not as interesting. how did you sneak hugh janus past the reporter? >> well, i knew i wasn't going to give her my real name so once she asked me what's your name and i said, hugh. and i waited a few seconds and she was like, last name? and i was like, janus. and she was like

long island. moderator: so on the subject -- on the subject, mrs. grechen shirley, on experience, some people critical the president said he never held elected office. he never stepped foot in washington and didn't know how the city operated, let alone the institution. you have never held elected office either. why should voters feel comfortable with on-the-job training given the stakes going on? mrs. grechen shirley: the experience i have is different from the experience mr. king has. i have worked all over the world, with farmers, diplomats, presidents, managed the merger of multi million dollar organizations. i have made sure working families have opportunity they need. that is my experience, 15 years of experience building strong economies and helping people improve their livelihood. mr. king has blocked people from facebook, if you ask him a question. that is ridiculous. moderator: okay. mrs. grechen shirley: if you ask a question on his voting record or do not agree with mr. king, he blocks you from his facebook page. he has not had a debate with a challenger in eight years, this is the first debate, because we are raising money and built a grassroots movement. when you have a job and are afraid to meet wit

cities with nearly 70 million people. the bridge is made of more than 400,000 tons of steel. it's as long as nearly 20 golden gate bridges. two artificial islandslt to link underwater tunnels for vehicles so ships can still pass through the busy sea way. it costs nearly $20 billion and hong kong taxpayers were stuck with 60% of the bill for a bridge in many of them will never use. this citizen says we rarely go to china. hong kong operates under a different system from the mainland. it allows certain rights such as freedom of speech, assembly, and the press. but beijing is exerting for control here and kraukicrack do decent. this is seen by many as infrastructure propaganda. claudia mo is a hong kong politician. >> they still need it as a political symbol icon to remind hong kong people that you are connected to the motherland with this very grand bridge. >> isaac stonefish is a senior fellow with the asia society. >> a lot of people in hong kong are worried that the direction it's going on is bad for them, bad for freedom, and bad for this idea of a distinctive hong kong. >> reporter: whether people here like it or not, this bridge is going to