so much happened, so much began on new york's lower east side. ♪ in the new york city of the '70s, nearlywer east side, particularly alphabet city, was left to fend for itself. huge swaths of it abandoned, ruined, or simply empty. much of it became an open air supermarket for drugs. whole blocks taken over by organized drug gangs. rents were cheap, and the neighborhood started to attract a newer, highly energized and creative group of people who wanted to make things. music, poetry, movies, and art. ♪ it seemed at the time, everybody was a star. and for a while at least, that it was a golden time. but it was dangerous, you lived down here you had to be tough, and talented, and often very quick. now, things are different. very different. >> harley: okay, everybody together. ready. >> harley: okay, on three. 1, 2, 3. let's go. ♪ >> harley: so this is pretty much some of the last remnants of what the lower east side was kind of used to be like, you know? good old school, no elevator. >> anthony: but you didn't live in this building? >> harley: no, this wasn't the building i lived in. this is

in the lower east side, it began -- and the lower east side it , began to empty out. this snapshot was a temporary manifestation. as was written in the 1930's, we are now surrounded by empties. they didn't all move to brooklyn at once, but over time, they moved in large numbers. susan: how did the 1917 immigration law changes impact the story of housing in the u.s.? mr. husock: the restrictions on the types of housing that americans were permitted to build really had origins in a sordid history of anti-immigration sentiment. my favorite example in the book is a gentleman named prescott hall, the head of the american immigration restriction league. beginning in 1917 and culminating in 1924, the door was slammed shut on immigration into the united states. we can decide whether that helped us assimilate the immigrants. there was a lot of pushback against immigration and prescott hall understood the kind of housing types i celebrated on the poor side of town as being facilitating of immigration. he wrote one of my favorite essays that i tried to rescue from obscurity in t

he focused on the immediate physical conditions on the lower east side. in the book, how the other half lived, which has made him legendary in american history, one thing that really stuck me -- struck me as we never hear the voices of the residents at all. we do not know what they were experiencing. were they miserable? other accounts show that people were optimistic and thought it was temporary and that things would be better for their children. and that happened. it was a transitory phase. but many people concluded from riis that he conditions of the lower east side with the tenements showed that the private sector would always feel the poor, and we really had to tear down those structures and neighborhoods and replace them with public housing. so he put us on that path and he did not take into account the day-to-day activity and savings and aspirations of the poor that he did a disservice and lead the country on a false path. susan: if the slums were torn down, wherewith the people go? mr. husock: that has always been the problem with tearing down the

saturday night live" star michael che on his new netflix stand-up special and his rise from the lower east side to snl, with an eight-season run as co-anchor of "weekend update" that admittedly was a little shaky at the start. >> what did those early days feel like? >> hell, man, it was horrible. >> really? >> i have a stepdad theory that when you're replacing someone that america loves, like seth or tina and amy, they're like where's the other guy? we like the other guy, we love the other guy, you're not the other guy. >> a sunday sitdown with michael che, plus another life well lived later in the show. >>> let's begin with the tension in kenosha, wisconsin, as the city awaits closing arguments and a verdict in the kyle rittenhouse homicide trial. nbc's ellison barber is in kenosha with the latest. ellison, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, willie. worried about the potential for violence to happen here again, the governor of this state activated some 500 members of the national guard. they're on standby to come to kenosha should local officials ask for help once the jury delivers a ver

produced, the soul will go to so columbia is deemed acknowledged what became the problem on the lower east side and where they were coming from their and from columbia. he said the school had become, socially uninviting students from homes respondents as of the school over the next five or six years, cut the percentage of jewish students admitted in half but the sons of the elites had not returned to columbia. so it was a lesson for the president of harvard, you can see this headline the papers the new york times, limited colleges might help the jews so he decided that they should institute a quota on the number of jews as a way to mitigate anti-semitism so limiting the number of juices going to make it easier to alleviate anti-semitism. in the international comparison of before the court is on the jews educational opportunities, existed in russia, established in 1982, limiting the jews depending on the level of schools to worthen five - 10 percent of the students and they existed poland and hungary. so the idea of the quotas on the number of jews admitted, spread to most of these other schools

baxter street was on the lower east side, that's where jews were coming from to study the at columbia, and he said that the school had become, and i quote, socially uninviting to students from homes of refinement. so the school over the next five, six years cuts the percentage of jewish students admitted in half. but the sons of the protestant elites did not return to columbia. and so it was a lesson for the president of harvard, a. lawrence lowell, who you can see on the headline of the front page of "the new york times," so lowell decided that they should institute a quota on the number of jews as a way to mitigate anti-semitism. so limiting the number of jews is going to make it easier to alleviate anti-semitism. and again the way the international comparison before, quotas on jewish educational opportunities existed in russia, they were established in 1882 limiting jews depending on the level of school to somewhere no more than 5-10% of the students. they existed in poland. they existed in hungary. they had just not existed before in the united states. so the idea of quotas on the

pete: the pickle guy on the lower east side, thank you for sending these pickles.ity. he's given $3000 to local food banks. janice: i'm going to give this to him. pete: you can find his pickles. you have to order locally. if you are willing to wait a bit, slick willie's bills, you will love them. maria: are you ready? will: this is what we are doing? pete: my son, boone, loves pickles. maria: i do to. janice: how many pickles can you eat until the end of the show? who's going to win? who says rachel? who says pete? who says it will? pete: give us the on your mark get set go. janice: on your mark, get set, go. pete hegseth is downing those pickles like no one's business. will is saying no more, don't show him on camera and rachel not bad out of the gate. i'm proud of you, rachel. you are not going to have anymore babies are you because women love pickles. that is not a fox news alert. pete, i think it might be pete. how many cracks i don't know. who won this? did anyone keep track? [cheers and applause] janice: national pickle day. there you go, my friend. how are y

lower end of the peninsula into the south bay. some wet conditions sprinkles picking up in santa clara and a little bit on the heavier side out to the east in northeast of san jose from milpitas up to freeman is a showed you a second ago, north bay your first spot to be drying out. definitely quieter across both marine sonoma and napa counties. few remaining sprinkles right around napa itself. and if we zoom out just a touch again, you can see solano county mostly south and east of 80 out towards rio. vista is one of those spots in the north bay. that is still holding on to some light showers overall, though we've definitely see conditions coming down and this next area of rainfall is already on its way out. moving in quickly about to be moving out quickly as well. so an early morning dose of rain that really isn't going to be sticking around for too terribly long that means our early commuters are really getting the slickest of conditions later, commuters will start to dry out 50's and 60's for our current temperatures. as for the rest of the day. we will see some damp conditions well through the late morning. but by the afternoon, all

data shows new development deals surging 75% in lower manhattan, 150% on the upper east side.assess it all is the chairman and ceo of the whitkof group, steve whit kf. thank you very much for being here. i don't hear steve's mic. let's fix that. but steve, i want to get you to assess the real estate market across the country. i knows you've got lots of development happening as well in miami. but let's start with new york. assess the current real estate market for us. >> well, currently it's very healthy. having a lot to do with demand from people and obviously tight supply. maria: where is the demand mostly, steve? walk us through the country and where you're seeing the most demand and what does that mean practically speaking? are you saying prices are up? is it now a seller's market? >> i would say it's a real sellers' market. i think the demand is up. it's market related in some respects but it's also generic in other respects, maria. i think miami might be the hottest market out there, not because we're developing there, because it's just a simple fact. new york is enormous

. >> reporter: hi, good rning, it's a beautiful day here in lower manhattan to start things off. we're at the east sidell the devastating effects from that storm and you can see it's an active construction site and our drone will show you how big it is. this big crane here is dropping in huge steel beams which in some cases go -- pile driven down over a hundred feet all part of a 2.5-mile wall par a 2 of a plan to battle back the increasing impacts of climate change. nearly 20 years ago scenes like this from "the day after tomorrow" seem like products of hollywood's imagination. >> a wall of water coming towards new york city. >> reporter: but then came hurricane sandy in 2012. battering new york city's coastline in a way that the big apple has never seen. and now just months after hurricane ida, and tropical storm henri devastated parts of new york and new jersey with catastrophic flooding caused by torrential rain. experts say catastrophic flooding could start happening every five years in new york city by 2030 thanks to climate change amplifying rising global sea level. so the city is taking aggress

east down west of that treasure island exit so the lower deck got an accident. they are 2 lanes are blocked. >> we also an accident. 80 westbound just near the toll plaza on the westbound side of the bay bridge. as i was also traveling into the city this morning on the upper deck once you do reach that final tunnel there. it looks like the lights on the bay bridge or out this morning. so again, as you're driving, you might encounter some dark spots, as you're traveling slick conditions. also in the east bay. we're looking at martinez highway 4 westbound east of mcewen road. there's an accident there. let's head over look at the san mateo bridge looks like an accident 92 westbound at industrial boulevard in hayward. so just as your getting ready to hop onto the ridge. there again, slick conditions take your time. a little under 13 minutes as you're traveling also along 8.80 southbound south of 66 avenue in oakland. you got an accident. a little further down and fremont 8.80, northbound south of mission boulevard an accident there says tell me it's slick along 80 this morning. richmond center fell coming as you travel out of richmond. a little under 9 minutes. a slick conditi

side popping to some lower 70's as we head south. that also is very contingent on how much clearing we get through all of this, 72 for san jose 69 milpitas east bay shoreline near 7070 or so for tri valley, 69 for walnut creek and concord looks like 67 for berkeley 66 hercules 67 67 for napa and santa rosa at 68 in that seven-day forecast. this doesn't cover course the 10 days and so forth. that's coming up. but we do have another hit for thursday and then maybe more showers as we get into monday. pam. >> all right. thank you, dave. and kron 4 can help you stay up to date on the latest to weather in your neighborhood. use the camera on your phone to scan this qr code it will take you to download the kron 4 mobile app there you'll find current conditions live radar and the latest forecasts. well, today the u.s. supreme court took up to challenges to that texas abortion law that controversial law effectively bans the procedure after 6 weeks of pregnancy. but today's cases focus on whether the texas laws design is constitutional. not the actual right to have an abortion. >> kron four's, washington correspondent anna wiernicki has more from the s

side as well. down to the south. we pop some lower 70's, redwood city at 70 in the south bay 74 for san jose east bay shoreline, lower valley. again. you might have some morning fog to contend with. looks like 71 fairfield 69 for nap and 69 santa rosa, lots of sunshine. not a bad day at all. then it calms that dose of rain we talked about for thursday and then early next yes, it could be kind of messy. but we need a good dose of some rain there might. if that all comes together might have some local problems here and there with all of that. but it might be some more mountain snows which we could use very yeah. haha, thank you, facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software. the company said today it will delete the face prints a call it of more than a billion people. >> more than a decade. the tool identified user's friends and pictures and suggested taking them. at least 7 states in about 2 dozen cities of limited government use of that technology over on civil rights violations, racial bias and invasion of privacy yeah. who is saying goodbye to china, access to all yahoo. services has been shut down in t

lower deck. eastbound 80. >> right near the treasure island exit. so we are seeing a slight delay. 2 lanes here currently closed traveling from the city to the east bay heading on the westbound sideor issues there roadway. daly city northbound 2.80, that connector ramp to highway one. so definitely be careful as you're traveling there here in santa rosa, we have a road closure eastbound highway 12 from mission boulevard through middle road due to a water main break in that area. so they've had to shut down the eastbound side like i mentioned from mission boulevard to middle ring conrol show you a couple of bridges. a little under 14 minutes. be the san mateo bridge and the golden gate about 20 minutes traveling from the north aay into the city during james, back to you. all right. thank you very much. rain 5.21 is the time and other big story we have the supreme court now reviewing. >> its first major gun rights case in more than a decade. >> alexandra limon joins us from dc with the latest. what's this all about. alexandra. >> hey, good morning. will that new york law restricts where and under what circumstances people can carry concealed weapons. but a decision from the supreme

side. foster city at 7071 for palo alto in the south bay lower 70's. even morgan hill. los gatos about 73 back to 70 on the eastut les, 6867 fairfield 68 for napa and 72 santa rosa keep it coming and we will for the 7 day forecast lower 70's all week long. our lows pretty much in the 40's, although possibly some upper 30's is a possibility. there and looks like hanukkah gets here tomorrow. that's and >> well, fashion and technology has been an irresistible combination ever since we saw cher horowitz's closet in the movie clueless. we've come a long way since then, of course. and today we're talking about an nft runway a digital fashion show and auction that set for next week in the metaverse. here to help us understand how this all works. call. she's a forbes. next 1000 honoree, the ceo and co-founder of a company called ozone. it's a 3 d fashion tech startup, thank you so much for joining me this morning. just in the last hour we were talking about the fact that nft is the collins dictionary. word of the year. so you're right there on the forefront with all of this from us. for those who don't know what is an