long island city was rising.utside of manhattan that can absorb big companies and satellite offices. amazon solidly put it on the map. i is a big deal successful tech company. other companies think they might be on to something. they might want to move in to grab all the research they did. connell: are they getting incentives? that is the big deal with amazon? some of these other ones? >> i'm still digging into that right now but there are some incentive packages to move into long island the state offers. one offers $3,000 per employee per year, not for creating jobs just relocating to the area. long island city remains undeveloped, so close, so successful by transit, a lot of companies might want to do there but the state still thinks it needs to incentivize companies to move there. connell: is there any pushback from local politicians screaming about amazon or are they going away. >> i asked one of the vocal opponents if it is smaller businesses they are doing what they should be. centene is a big companies. co

live in long island city where that protest is happening just a few feet away. jackie?tests like the one you see behind me wrapping and at least ten major cities across the country. in some areas, strikes are also happening. in new york this morning, right in the middle of rush hour, drivers refused to drive people. also in los angeles, a 24-hour strike is also underway right now. in new york, rideshare drivers passed over the brooklyn bridge with signs attach their cars and rallied in long island city where both huber and lifter headquartered. see the members of better pay, saying they raise serious rides but also saying the drivers are occasionally deactivated without warning. essentially being fired with no recourse. >> make no mistake, for all these years they have treated drivers as if they are expendable. and it drivers across the globe are sick and tired of it. >> what they are doing? i am the proof. i used to make $37 an hour. today i make about $9.80 an hou hour. >> drivers across the country are asking for a guaranteed rate of $28 an hour. after expenses they

unfortunately you had a couple of people in long island city around that area for whatever reason did not want 40 to 50,000 jobs and that that could provide for the next couple decades. melissa: yeah. >> amazon looks like they will go manhattan. guess what? good for manhattan. shush, don't tell her. melissa: don't tell anyone. liz, your thoughts? >> they're clearly building on an existing presence in new york. it makes a lot of sense for them to come in quietly, take more office space which is what they're doing. i would say a shoutout to our ex-mayor bloomberg, which made new york a tech hub. it was nowhere 10 or 15 years ago. melissa: that's true. >> all the tech companies are here. really impressive and a big engine for growth. melissa: no matter how much de blasio tries to destroy it. gary, liz, see you guys. jackie: north korea's nuclear threat, president trump dismissing the rogue regime's missile test and an opinion that runs counter to his top advisors so what is behind the president's strategy? melissa: bracing for devastation a string of tornadoes rip through ohio and leavin

. >> amazon fem 202020 crosshairs choosing arlington virginia long island city new york to open secondquarters minutes from manhattan democrats promised 3 billion dollars in tax breaks for 25,000 jobs average salary 150,000 dollars. but on valentine's day zam broke up with big apple sighting preliminary opposition. >> amazon would have been an vechl in in future. >> kevin law president of long island association nonpartisan business group. >> once amazon created jobs we've got a tax credit it wasn't like a three-billion-dollar pot of money handyed to amazon. >> new york senator kirsten gillibrand blamed amazon. >> never intended to invest in new york looking for massive tax breaks. >> president trump has attacked amazon ceo jeff bezos uncharacteristically took his side. >> a big loss for new york city kind of thicking our uncountry is going to on radical left. >> green by packers bart star passed awaip this morning in alabama hall of fame first to win five nfl championships two-time super bowl mvp played entire 16-year career with packers in poor health wins 2014 when he suffered two s

course, this comes after amazon pulled the plug on plans to build its second headquarters in long island citypenn station lately, you'll notice one thing it's full. i wonder how the city will react if you have a few thousand more workers coming in and out of penn station every day it would be crazy. >> i think the mer chans would be happy, mass transit, and real estate owners on the jersey side would be happy it wows be easier to live over there. >> mass transit wouldn't be happy. there's no more room on the train snos they would have revenues. >> there's no more rom on the trains come out to jersey sometime. there's no room. >>> game one of the stanley cup final, the boston bruins trailed st. louis, 2-0 in the second period boston has done what it does in every sport, scored back twice more in the third to take the win. 4-2. the blues will look to even out the series wednesday at 8:00 p.m. on nbc sports. >>> all right. as we head to break, a must-read alert. "the wall street journal" with a deep dive into huawei over the weekend alleging the company's year-round ride is littered with accusat

lauren: we're looking at protests from long island city to philadelphia. ian, thank you very much.exciting morning. cheryl: they're going to have to report eventually. in case you missed it, despite the dire forecasts, earnings have come in pretty strong. 90% of s&p 500 companies reported results. among companies reporting today we've got news corporation, cardinal health and keurig, dr. pepper. three quarters have beaten earnings estimates, earnings up 1.7% from a year ago and that is well ahead of forecasts for a 2.3% decline. let's bring in jonas max ferris, a fox business contributor. jonas, good morning. >> good morning. cheryl: let's talk about this. what happened to the big horrible earnings reporting season we were supposed to get? >> interest rates didn't go up any higher, that's what happened in all likelihood. it was supposed to be pretty bad so it's better than it was supposed to be. investors are optimistic. we have low rates so we're not going to cause a he recession with high interest rates. that is making investors more or less comfortable, that's why we recovered m

you have one person that stopped amazon from bringing 40 to 50,000 jobs to long island city and anotherne that is proposed every tax and taking -- >> getting off topic though, gary. >> enough is enough. david: i don't think it is entirely off topic. >> we're talking about credit cards. david: we're talking up about teaming of up bernie and aoc. they believe in socialism. they don't believe in capitalism. they have been honest about that. if you don't believe in capitalism, you don't believe in supply and demand. as jonathan is saying there is reason why interest rates are fixed at a particular point and move based on what happens to the markets. it is involves risk an calculations if you try to artificially stem that at some point which has no relation what the market is tag you will have chaos. >> david, imagine if they were, imagine if they were actually able to put in legislation on all the things they want to do? david: oh, boy. disneyland. >> the economy would head south, cost was go up. you know what will go into the crapper, it is simple as that that is all i'm talking about here

. >> amazon fell into 2020 crosshairs after choosing arlington, virginia and long island city new yorks from manhattan. new york democrats promised $3 billion in tax breaks in exchange for 25,000 jobs. average salary $150,000. but on valentine's day, amazon broke up with the big apple because of democratic political opposition. >> amazon would have been an investment in the future. >> kevin law is president of the long island association. a nonpartisan business group. >> once amazon created the jobs, they would get a tax credit. it wasn't like there was a 3 billion-dollar pot of money that was being handed over to amazon. >> presidential candidate new york senator kirsten gillibrand blamed amazon. >> they never intended to invest in new york and all they were looking for was massive tax breaks. >> president trump who in the past has attacked amazon ceo jeff bezos blamed democrats. >> i think it's a big loss for new york city. it's the kind of thinking that our country is going to on the left on the radical left. >> amazon says they employ over 250,000 american workers. a quinnipiac pol

you drive through indiana, pass through gary, amazon headquarters, wanted to roll out in long island cityu can help out the people. so the number -- leland: i don't know. there was help wanted signs in every part of that town and not that far from gary, elkhardt and people can run over. >> i would love to see companies like amazon and mid-size companies move to the midwest and manufacture here but you're totally right there's help wanted signs. we are basically at full employment and to deny the success of the economy, a lot of it has to do with tax cutting and deregulation. leland: i have to get in the next topic about health care, medicare for all, health care becoming name for democrats because it worked so well in 2018, kamala harris trying tokes plain comment where she wanted to get rid of insurance companies, take a listen. >> you said on stage with me in january that when it comes to private insurance, quote, let's eliminate all of that and let's move on. >> yeah. >> you later said we don't need to get rid of all private insurance, so -- >> let's clear that up. okay. in the context

cities around the world drivers for uber, lyft, and other rideshare services went on strike over their shrinking paychecks and eeshah hasorpping as long >> reporter: dozens gathered outside uber headquarters in long islandon wednesday demanding higher wages and benefits. they're joined by drivers in at least ten major cities turning off their apps and striking. >> it's about making nothing. without drivers this company won't exist. >> reporter: rideshare companies can take around 50% of passenger payments. they want it capped at 20%. this new york city driver says his pay recently has been chopped in half. >> i could not even feed my family. we have to stay out more time. we work between 70 and 80 hours. >> reporter: the timing comes right before uber's ipo, expected to be announced friday. uber says drivers are at the heart of our service, we can't succeed without them, thousands of people come into work at uber every day focused on how to make their experience better on and off the road. despite the drivers striking, some plan to stay on the road, like jose avila in boston. >> right now i make 52 minutes, just paid $22. >> reporter: even though he supports the strike he just can't afford to take time

workers here in the city despite the fact they are not going to build their second headquarters in long island city,000 jobs and so they need more office space. charles: there's new york city offers them a lot of things including tax incentives and workforce you necessarily can't find everywhere. >> that was the point of why they chose new york and why it took so long for them to narrow down the cities but in the end if the politicians don't want you here you have to walk away according to bill bill deblasio. charles: american resources is a big coal mining company and joining me now mark jenson ceo of american resource corporation so when you say a major impact like how would it hurt your industry? >> anything steel-related everything we produce in the coal industry is the essential key components. charles: you're metallurgical coal? >> that's correct. charles: so now is it the part where i know new york city mayor deblasio is putting out plans or talking openly about limiting the height of buildings, the structure of buildings, it's just sort of worrisome in so many different ways but that direct

either redstone or pic center, long island city, new york, and it was at that point, not so much at redstonee perform ic center, where you might see some classification going, or actually, probably coming out of the pentagon and the fifth floor, where if something was too sensitive, it would get classified. >> and the other part of that story is, i was doing a job with a, what was the group that had the tanks? >> the first and the 69th? >> the 59th. >> yes, i believe that was the unit that general patton's son was commanding. >> the 11th armoy calvary. >> yes. and when i got there, and i discussed what i was going to firm, he was not happy about it, because he wanted to prove that they were great tanks. well, congress and the pentagon didn't feel that they were living up to what they wanted them to do. they couldn't climb over burms. the radiators sucked in all of the foliage. the tanks would stall. things like that. and he sent an officer out with me to make sure what i was doing was what, you know, he wasn't happy. so i took a resupply out of there, and the guy that he sent me didn't even

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a great white has been tracked off long island, not far from new york city, and it comes of course amid heightened concern already off cape cod. here's abc's linsey davis tonight. >> reporter: an ominous alert has residents near the long island sound rattled tonight, as a great white shark is believed to be lurking just off the coast of greenwich, connecticut. the shark-tracking organization ocearch says this is the first time the organization has ever gotten a ping from a great white in the long island sound. the researchers tagged the male shark off nova scotia last year they're able to use to track its whereabouts. the shark has been on the move in recent months, from florida to delaware. the organization announced the new location of the 9'8", 533-pound shark named cabot with a tweet, using the shark's handle. "hello greenwich, how are you today?" new england states are worried about shark activity going into the summer months after last summer's deadly shark attack on cape cod. >> i have a report of an unknown shark bite, male party. >> reporter: the first fatality in more than 80

saying that that was one of the issues that new york officials didn't like that amazon coming to long island city the things that's a big challenge there have been a number of instances where facial recognition have proven to work more effectively on people with lighter skin than darker skin. that has raised a lot of concerns as well as well as civil liberties worries, a lot of companies like microsoft who are in the space trying to come out and know that right now the world has got tech under a microscope and something like this where it would have enormous amount of power, tech companies are aware that this is something to be preemptive about. >> the other area that i point to what is happening in china right now, chinese government is using technology to surveil its own people and particularly minorities. maria: effectively. jon: you see what can go wrong when a government gets technology like this and use this for bad purposes. maria: they are tracking citizens and they've got -- you could point out anybody, 1.4 billion people with this technology that's so good. jon: right. maria: it's worri

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. >> for the first time ever, a great white has been spotted in long island sound near new york city.e summer beach season is around the corner. >>> and things start getting serious on "the bachelorette." see which one of hannah b's men is throwing around the l-word. that's in "the skinny" this may 21st. >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now." >> things are heating up. >> the l-word? >> the l-word. >> what? >> i say that to you all the time. >> what? >> as in i don't like you. >> i don't like you. >> i can't wait for that. jack is standing by to give us all of the -- >> all the details. >> but we do begin with extreme weather situation in the southern plains. >> overnight, there's a risk of tornadoes, hail, damaging winds and flash flooding all centering on oklahoma city. >> tornadoes have already touched down with more on the way. public storm shelters are open. many roads and schools are closed. >> reporter: overnight a terrifying scene in the southern plains. a massive tornado barrelling through mangham, oklahoma. the whipping winds reaching nearly 100 miles per hour

kicks off, reports this nearly ten-foot great white shark has been tracked to the long island sound just miles from new york city. >>> eiffel tower scare. thousands forced to evacuate as firefighters race to catch this man caught on camera scaling one of the most famous tourist attractions in the world. >>> "jeopardy" james' big return. overnight the champion taking home his 23rd win. now he's just ten games away from topping ken jennings. the new message from the biggest winner of all time overnight. >>> and golden state now going for gold again. overnight the warriors sweeping the trail blazers in an overtime thriller. and the touching moment just after between the curry brothers. ♪ >>> what do you mean you turned the game off when the warriors were down at the half? >> and then i wake up to a surprise. >> now we wake up to a possible dynasty. that's right. big win for steph and his golden state warriors heading for their fifth consecutive finals. there he is with his brother. >> that's amazing. amazing feat and the curry brothers you saw there exchanging jerseys after the game and steph says he's going to han

. >> and speaking of much more expensive city, you think long island is a bit crazy.e, this shack, a mere 2 1/2 million dollars teardown. we had access to go inside and take a look out back. this gives new meaning to the term open house. it's wide open in the back. the reason it is so valuable the realtor who has the listing telling us that basically you have to cut through the red tape. you have the right to tear it down and plans already approved for 4 1/2 million dollars total package send it above the neighbors with full view, near the freeway to commute and also near that new 1 billion dollars chase center where steph curry and the warriors play. she said maybe even one of the warriors would buy it. you might have to have that salary to do so. connell: exactly right. sign up kevin durant if he stays for that one. interesting story. now robert gray. connell: a nice parking spot in front there too. -- melissa: a nice parking spot in front there too. americans have suffered a workout hangover that has forced them to stay inside all day. the post workout pain also ca

long island. if you are in the city, you go to the cornwall's over the summer, i have no idea. more relevant to those places than it is in other markets? >> is an interesting thing, if certainlyross europe, the setup varies country by country. the one that stands out from arguably the most extended at this juncture is switzerland. it is a big market from a european context. the u.k.'s largest then france and germany, but switzerland is number four and it is substantive. it is stereotyped as the defensive haven with pharmaceuticals and consumer staples. those are the groups, the defensive's that have risen hard this year in switzerland, and it is less of the upside in that ,arket very cyclically exposed if you think about where upside is, expectations and targets. if there is one market that seems set for a pause, maybe it is switzerland. you very much, tim craig, bloomberg intelligence european strategist helping us out as we get halfway through earnings season this morning. hsbc shares have jumped in hong kong after the bank delivered first-quarter profit comfortably analyst e

for the first time ever, a great white shark is being tracked in long island sound just off the coast of connecticut and new york city ocearch says the shark named cabot sent off a ping off the coast of greenwich monday. the shark's twitter handle sending out this taunting tweet, hello, greenwich, how are you today? cabot is nearly ten feet long and weighs more than 500 pounds. researchers tagged him off nova scotia in september. he then traveled to florida then back north. researchers credit cabot's unexpected cameo on the recent effort to clean up the waters off long island sound. >> it's interesting that he's gone so far west into the sound and i think that's because it's cleaner than ever. i think it's because there's a lot of life there, and they're always on the life, these white sharks. he wouldn't be in there if the water was dirty. >> while the odds of a shark attack are small, the u.s. saw the largest number of unprovoked attacks worldwide last year. cape cod saw its first deadly shark attack in more than 80 years. local researchers believe the sharks are being lured by a growing population of seals. author

the northeast, we are looking at highs in the 60s up across new england. 70s on long island 70s at the jersey shore. ocean citye day, sunshine and temperatures still in the 80s and 90s not bad beach weather on the east coast that's a look at the weather across the count >>> check out this beautiful view of golden gate bridge. we've got the clouds out there. but notice the roadways are dry. that's because the rain that affected us this weekend is out of the area and right now the current temperature as you head out the door this morning, nice and cool in the low 50s down through the south bay, san jose, 54 degrees. we got a couple of low 40s. and your highs will be climbing into the mid-60s, low 70s into the north bay with sun and clouds. >>> don't forget the puck drops on the stanley cup final tonight. the boston bruins taking on nhl cinderella story the st. louis blues. catch game one tonight with coverage starting at 8 eastern right here on nbc. >> blues and bruins. thank you. >>> just ahead, two acting heavyweights on their new movie with a sweet message we'll talk to blythe danner and john lithgow first, t

long outofreak violent weather has reached e northeast. multiple warnings were triggered overnight including one for staten island and some new jersey counties surrounding new york city. a possible tornado touched down in stanhope, new jersey, where trees up rooted and power lines fell durorg the st as this fast-moving storroswept thugh pennsylvania, it brought were it powerful wind gusts, heavy rain, and golf ball size hail in someti areas the naonal weather service confirming that the tornado touched down i in morgan town. ining down from the sky deisbris afterwards >> earlier one of the largest tornadoetbof this ak was spotted in lawrence,ansas. stunning video shows the twister estimated to be about one le wide around 30 homes wereoy destred, with many others damaged, and so far there haven't been reports of serious injuries. meanwhile, areas of arkansas and oklahoma are experienced some of the most severe flooding they've ever seen. for the possibility that the situation will get much worse. let's turn now to nbc meteorologist bill karins who is folling all thserious weather threats for us this morning. good morning >> good morning. last night we went from tracki

long outbreak of violent weather has reached the northeast. multiple warnings were triggered overnight, including one for staten island and some new jersey counties surrounding new york city. a possible tornado touched down in stanhope, new jersey, where a high school there was damaged. trees uprooted and power lines fell during the storm. as this fast-moving storm swept through pennsylvania, it brought with it powerful wind gusts, heavy rain, and golf well-sized hail in some areas. the national weather service confirming a tornado touched down in morgantown. this video showing debris raining down from the sky afterwards. >> hours earlier one of the largest tornados of this outbreak was spotted in lawrence, kansas. stunning video shows the twister estimated to be about one mile wide. around 30 homes were destroyed with many others damaged. so far there haven't been reports of serious injuries. meanwhile areas of arkansas and oklahoma are experiencing some of the most severe flooding they have ever seen. with officials there preparing for the possibility that the situation will get much worse. nbc meteorologist bill karins is following all these serious weather threats thi

york harbor a symbol not just of the city but of the entire united states a beacon as it says in the inscription for the huddled masses longing to be free now the island lady liberty has called home all these years is getting an upgrade a new $100000000.00 museum designed to enhance the experience for the more than $4000000.00 visitors who cram the island every year and that building can hold about 500 people at any one time so we think of it as 500 people every 30 minutes can move in cycles through the museum we're going to be ok. it's hoped the exhibits will fill the gaps for the many tourists who don't beat the lines to get into the statue itself and immersive the it or not only recounts the early history but also takes visitors on a virtual journey inside and up the structure structure was not used to engineering marvel outside galleries continue the abridged history from a recreation of the workshop of the statues french designer frederick bartoli to its opening ceremony in new york in 886 the statue has layers of meaning for americans not least as a symbol of hope for waves of immigrants but at a time when president tribe has attempted to drasti

. >> i live on long island, how am i going to run as mayor of new york? >> sean: you may taxes in the city buy an apartment for me in new york, then make me a minority parter? when a dollar comes in, highest tax break, 53 cents goes out, we have to fix that. >> sean: thank you, buddy. coming up creepy, sleepy uncle joe biden taking, well, a shot at this show in a campaign ad. we have an answer when we get back for uncle joe. later, s.a.t.s, those tests are adding a new adversity score, what does it mean? trace gallagher has a full report. my views might surprise you. i'll explain, coming up. car. it turns out, they want me to start next month. she can stay with you to finish her senior year. things will be tight but, we can make this work. ♪ now... grandpa, what about your dream car? this is my dream now. principal we can help you plan for that . ♪ ♪ ♪ >> sean: crazy joe buy den is at it again with a spanish language campaign atd attacking fox news prime time including yours truly. i'm shocked. take a look. >> we the people. >> nosotros pueblo. [speaking spanish] >> now, joe biden is runni

in new york city we salute the piano man billy joel 70 years ago today in the bronx, new york. ainsley: lives out on long islandows on madison square garden. toba our sound guy who we adore is going to hear him tonight. i said how was your birthday today he said

york harbor a symbol not just of the city but of the entire united states a beacon as it says in the inscription for the huddled masses longing to be free now the island lady liberty is called home all these years is getting an upgrade a new 100 $1000000.00 museum designed to enhance the experience for the more than $4000000.00 visitors who cram the island every year and that building can hold about $500.00 people at any one time so we think of it as 500 people every 30 minutes to move in cycles through the museum we're going to be ok. it's hoped the exhibits will fill the gaps for the many tourists who don't beat the lines to get into the statue itself and immersive theater not only recounts the early history but also takes visitors on a virtual journey inside and up the structure it was not used to engineering marvel outside galleries continue the abridged history from a recreation of the workshop of the statues french designer frederick bartoli to its opening ceremony in new york in 886 the statue has layers of meaning for americans not least as a symbol of hope for waves of immigrants but at a time when president trump has attempted to drastically

long island. >> strong island. >> we can handle it. only miles from new york city apparently a world away.strongly disagree and that is "pop news." >> don't worry, y'all are all right. >> thank you so much, michael. >>> our "gma" cover story and a parenting alert about a struggle families are facing in the smartphone age. teens are getting burner phones to hide internet use from their parents, we saw it first in "the wall street journal" and amy is here with more. good morning, amy. >> reporter: hey, michael. those sneaky teenagers, you know, many parents, we try to control our children's smartphone usage but more and more teens are finding a way to get second devices to use without their parents' knowledge. it's parents versus their teens' phones. it's become the feud amongst families where teens are looking to have more screen time. >> no more safe faces for you. you give me your phone. >> it's roo it there. go biff me your burner. >> what's a burner? >> don't insult me. >> ha! >> for teenagers in particular, at least half of their lives are being lived online. for many of these kids the

manchester city complete a domestic treble of trophies with victory over watford in the fa cup final — we'll have the latest from wembley... can brooks koepka go coast to coast on long island championship? and a title on clay is in the offing forjohanna konta as she goes marching on into the italian open final. also coming up in the programme... northampton take the last play—off spot on the final day of the season in rugby union's premiership as harlequins late burst comes up just short. good evening, the month of may represents the business end of the season in so many sports which means there is a raft of showpiece events to tell you about over the coming weeks and today as well. and after the granstand finish to the premier league last weekend, which saw manchester city crowned champions, they have the chance to win a domestic treble in the fa cup final against watford, today. it was a five o'clock kick off and manchester city broke the deadlock after 26 minutes thanks to david silva's deflected effort. seven minutes before half—time and city doubled their advantage — raheem sterling on target this time. kevin de bruyne put the result beyond doubtjust after the hour ma

city. it's a male shark nearly ten feet long named cabot. laura ingle has more. >> we're on the the north shore of long island where the great white shark pingedound yesterday. now the creature is on the move, made a u turn and went around long island and last picked up southwest of montauk. i spoke with one of the lead researchers, chris fisher. he's part of the expedition leader that tells us today that his team believes that cabot could be heading northbound soon, possibly back to the waters of nova scotia: they attached a spot tag to his fin and took blood and tissue samples. it's not unusual nor a great white to be in the area. it's rare for a great white to be tracked as far west in the sound after he was monday. cabot is 533 pounds. researchers believe he swam in after bait fish. that means he's finding enough food in the ones depleted sound. researchers are happy about that. >> what does this mean for the sharp population overall? >> researchers told us today that they're very excited about cabot's movement because the large shark population is down 90%. that is a lot. in the early 2000s, the shark population got to about 10%. so findi

long will the clouds stick around? we have reached that time of year. let me show what you it looks like from the camera that sits over on treasure island. certainly low clouds over the cityd if we go higher than the camera, you can see the cloud are pretty widespread over much of the entire bay area. not just in the bay prop are but wherever you go. if we look at the time on there, see how it says 6:00 a.m. you can see the extent of the low cloud now pretty much has most of us covered. it only gets more intense over the next hour. it has the whole bay area an extending far inland. we'll advance this into the afternoon. by the time we get into the late morning, it melts back to the coast. by around 10:00, 11:00, everybody starts to see pore sunshine except for the coast. it will stay gray at the coast most of the day the whole weekend including mother's day. i'll talk about that in more detail coming up in one second. that is the rest of our saturday afternoon. here we go. sunset approaches, the clouds start to build back in and we'll do this again to sunday. sunday morning, we wake up to widespread low gray clouds again. that our 7:00 a.m. on happy mother's day. we'll ad

city for development. what we were expecting was a very short time frame before the developer would develop the island. it's now been 18 years, something around there. >> been a long time. >> been a long time. so, they are out there now, they are on yerba buena island, they are moving down into treasure island fairly soon, and we just, we see the long sort of like build-out, it's going to take some time. the treatment plant is key to the development of the island because the existing plant takes too many resources from us and too many resources from tida, so actually moving forward with the replacement of the treatment plant is in our best interest at this point in time. >> i'm just wondering if it's soul-source contract or some issue down the road, i mean, who knows if relationships sour, that they have the option. >> right. >> to go out to bid. doesn't sound like that's in play. >> not at this time. >> ok. thank you. >> good segue. so, tom birmingham, the project manager for the new wastewater plant. i'll talk about the development going on out there, and the proposed new treatment plant. a bit of good news, so the development is a massive 10 to 15, maybe 20-yea

city in the kind of thinking our country is going to on the radical left. >> reporter: amazon said they've invested billions of dollars into the u.s.. nearly 60% of new york supported amazon's long islandtvu fox2 news. >>> wall street is closed today because it is memorial day. some big deals are being worked out overseas. here's today's dollars and cents. >> reporter: we've been talking about the president meeting with the prime minister of japan to discuss trade between the two countries. also in europe, they are talking about merging resources. of approved the car makers would be the third-largest behind volkswagen and toyota. we will continue to watch those tomorrow. and then more problems for boeing. new scrutiny over the 737 max jet. they are investigating whether the plane maker disclosed issues surrounding the plane. airlines ground at the jet after two crashes that killed 346 people. bowling is under investigation by the f8 a. recently announced there's a fix for the software believed to be partly responsible. >>> best buy is canceling samsung galaxy orders because they postpone the date and they sent an email saying they would let them know when the phones would become availa

in new york city we salute the piano man billy joel 70 years ago today in the bronx, new york. ainsley: lives out on long islandried to christie brinkley. prepares shows on madison square garden. toba our sound guy who we adore is going to hear him tonight. i said how was your birthday today he said continuing. janice dean's birthday today. brian: she is going to be scrambling into position shortly. billy joel born in the bronx but reared in hicksville, long island where he had an upbringing that was not only around music but he even kind of planned suicide at a young age. ainsley: really? steve: his father classically trained pianist. mother pushed him to play the piano. three bands by the time he was old enough to drive and do you know what inspired him as a musician? he saw the beatles on the ed sullivan show which was filmed live right up the street and that changed everything. brian: gets a dream to actually be neighbors with paul mccartney out in the hamptons. ainsley: i saw him uptown girl christie brinkley was on the front row and the camera zoomed in on her. the audience was zoomed in on her the entire

long island rail red arried out by someone in afghanistan plotting to carry out the attack. we witnessed the port authority bombing in 2017 which the speaker is well awear of involving our city. the continuing threat from isis and other terrorist groups and lone wolf attacks, we must ensure that first responders and transit authorities have the tools needed to secure our transit systems. based on previous work by the subcommittee under the leadership of my good friend dan donovan, we learned of the challenges associated with the fluctuating period of performance for grant program projects, especially for completing vital large-scale capital security projects. transit security grant program flexibility act address this is challenge by codifying the period of performance for this grant program at 36 months for the majority of eligible projects. it also extends the period of performance for large scale projects to 55 months. this ensures that these major projects can be successfully completed in the allotted time. transit security grant program awards can be used to provide personnel with essential security training. however recipients of the awards are not currently permitted