it is then that the manhattan product is put under way. the scientists initially think they may be able to handle this venture, but they realized early on they are going to need all the weight and immense force of the american military in a wartime situation to gather the infrastructure needed for the science that richard of course has written about so well. it is from that point on that fdr is behind the venture, enormous amounts of money committed to the venture, so it takes a little time to get behind what we now know as the manhattan project. but eventually he does. when you think about the original einstein letter -- poor einstein, he had all sorts of difficulty gaining access to fdr. >> and he was an old man of science by that time, not on the cutting edge. it is interesting to note that part of the problem was not that a weapon could be built but whether it could be built in time to use in this war. there was great concern on the part of the scientists and certainly the wartime leaders that any resources and manpower would be used,

yesterday five suspects with the alleged ties to the attacks will be tried in a civilian court in manhattan. the courthouse just blocks away from ground zero. they include khalid shaikh mohammed and four other guantanamo bay detainees. >> i care about the fact these people are war criminals, they're terrorists. they do not deserve a full p panoply of the u.s. law. now they're going to be given a forum to make america seem bad again. criticize and mock america. it's extremely unseemly. >> it may turn out to be an opportunity for some people to get some of the justice they've been looking for for a long time. and they show that the civilian court system can succeed in certain case where is the evidence is clear, it's overwhelming, and you don't need to use all of this secret evidence or evidence that's been obtained through the torture program of the bush administration. >> families of 9/11 victims as you can imagine have some powerful feelings about holding this trial in new york. susan candiotti reports, some people say it hits too close to home. >> reporter: eight years of waiting is eight

it was very much like a gated park in lower manhattan, very much like gramercy park and they ripped itwn and put this huge freight depot and at the top was a statue of vendor built and this huge bronze freeze on either side that depicted his career, sailboats, steamships and railroads and what not and that's part of the statute was moved to the front of grand central terminal. i don't know what happened to a but it is interesting because, obviously i think it is interesting-- but. [laughter] i know anarchists at wells fargo, and so i said i don't know if you liked the book because william fargo is an enemy in the book. he said well, wells fargo is still around. in new york central railroad isn't. i said, good point except this physical, in addition to his legacy in creating the corporate world in developing this kind of financial and economic kind of as i put it the unseen architecture of our world, he also built this infrastructure built the original grand central. the build what is falcotano live runs up park avenue, constructed a lot of the real infrastructure that today is a vital

said yesterday, five suspects with alleged ties to the attacks will be try in a civilian court in manhattan. the courthouse just blocks away from ground zero. the suspects include confessed 9/11 mastermind, khalid shaikh mohammed and four other detainees. >> i care about the fact they're war criminals, terrorists, they do not deserve the full panoply of u.s. protection of law. and most important of all, they did terrible, horrible crimes against the human race and now they're going to be given a forum to make america seem bad again and to criticize and mock america. it's just extremely unseemly. >> this may turn out to be an opportunity for some people to get some of the justice they've been looking for for a long time and may show that the civilian court system can succeed in certain cases where the evidence is clear, is overwhelming, and where you don't need to use all of this secret evidence or evidence that's been obtained through the torture program of the bush administration. >>> families of 9/11 victims, as you can imagine, have some powerful feelings about holding this trial in new

and the number one place for living alone is manhattan. so, if you want to date, if you're looking for someone, manhattan. look, this has a lot of downsides in our culture. if you listen to what young people listen to today, just give you a few of the claim lyrics that i can. popper roche, broken home. i know my mother loves me but does my father even care? blink 182, the song is stay together for the kids sake. what stupid palm could fix this home? i'd read it every day. good charlotte, who is actually from maryland. we kept dad's room. his things were gone, we didn't see him no more. one more. i blame my family, their damage is in the. so, this is a revolution in the family, but it's a revolution with some serious all of the consequences. i don't think we have fully dealt with it, but certainly it is an important demographic reality and that would be a big story in of itself. and we've got a revolution. and that revolution i think we forget how big of a story this is. phlegmy tell you one brief one. 2003, new year's day, we all get the n

the associate attorney general and federal prosecutor himself in manhattan is opposed as well. he was the associate attorney general. he has complained about former attorney general mukasey, who has also criticized his decision. i do not think that the american people are overreacting. i do not think that they are reacting fearfully. i think that they think that this is more. that the decision that you have made to try these cases in federal court represents a policy or a political decision. cases in federal court represents a policy or political decision. wouldn't you agree? >> no. >> it's a policy decision at least, is it not? >> it was a decision case driven, based on the evidence i know. it frankly, some of the people who have criticized the decision do not have access to. the decision i made was based on my judgment looking at all of the evidence, talking to the people who have gathered that evidence and the determination made by me as to where we can best prosecute these cases and come up with the best chances for success. there was not a political component to my decisio

www., a professor of history at tennessee tech university documents of media located around major manhattan project facilities responded to the announcement on august 6, 1945 that the bomb had been employed against japan. newspapers close to los alamos, new mexico, hanford washington and oakridge, tennessee's stressed the role played by their neighboring facilities and stress how well the secrecy had been maintained. jenny barker divine provides another documented account of how rural america with engage in civil defense programs throughout the 1950's and into the early 1960's. this was particularly important during the period of fears of nuclear radiation fallout. in addition to serving as the evacuation sites, rural america was concerned or preparing themselves to protect their livestock and crops so west to ensure that america had a proper food supply. as a retired naval officer i have to mention william david friedman's chapter on life and culture aboard a u.s. submarine during the late cold war era, now a historian. he draws from his perspective as a young enlisted man aboard the fast

get in towards manhattan, kansas, today, about 4 to 10 inches of snow a possibility. you are in a winter storm warning. those are areas shaded in red. blue shaded areas 2 to 4 inches of snow. winds up and moves to your north tonight. weak front in toledo and fort wayne. most of the rain falls shy of chicago for the morning. later today a breakaway shower is a possibility. winds are going to be out there for you, chicago. it's going to move on in towards the rest of the region. flash flood watches and warnings. warnings shaded in green. all near st. louis because of the heavy rain. pacific northwest, here's a cold front. a lot of clouds wrapped up with that, too. rain, snow for the cascades in towards the olympics. be looking at that for later this morning. the mid-atlantic, the white house, pretty decent start. temperatures into the 60s today. should be pretty nice. the fall foliage still there, rob. even with all the wind they've had. hanging on tough. more on that in about a half hour. >> just depends on what kind of tree it is. >>> did you know one of your fellow v

four to ten inches of snow from manhattan to kansas today. two to four inches of snow will pile up from areas between i 80 to i-70. >>> something else we're watching. space shuttle "atlantis" is on its way towards the international space station this afternoon. they plan on launching this thing a2:28 eastern. the only thing of concern is a wind now about 15 miles per hour at times. also look at the mid-level deck of clouds. that will not go far too far soon. i tell you, it will not rain there. no thunderstorms just low clouds and also stiff wind out of the northwest. might not get it up. you can see breaks in the action with the clouds a little. i don't see rain in the forecast that. will slow them don't. i don't see any of that. >> sts-129. hopefully they will get up in the sky. >> delayed, delayed. i think they will get it up. >> one delay, they'll be lucky. >>> a man who collapsed did not have a pulse 40 minutes and then lived to talk about it. >> it happened five steps after i finished the race. >> he had a heart attack after running a ma

while their classmates were at home for the thanksgiving holiday, the band members were in manhattan performing at the macy's thanksgiving day parade. >> for the first time -- [ inaudible ] >> it means so much to me. >> reporter: it was a history making trip for the band as well as the city. they are the first high school marching band from d.c. to perform in the parade. the routine was a tribute to michael jackson. it took days of practice but they put the finishing touches on the performance at 3:30 in the morning the day of the parade. >> it was -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: were you nervous? >> no. >> the crowd -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: band director darryl watson says ballou was selected after submitting an application to the parade committee that included a documentary on the band. >> very emotional [ inaudible ] >> reporter: four days of fun in new york performing on national television and making d.c. history. it's a thanksgiving that members of the band won't soon forget. >> to be the band from southeast washington, d.c. to represent the city, i think it means a lot

parts of jersey, light showers are a possibility this morning, and we'll move on to lower parts of manhattan today, rain a possibility out across long island, too. not a big deal, but enough to slow you down. i'll have those delays in a bit. good chunk of nashville area, including most of tennessee. look at the temperatures right now. low 30s, mid 30s around nashville. we see the blue, below freezing from kentucky through the ohio valley. weak combed front, showers in chicago land, light showers north of you, in towards milwaukee and stretching in towards green basement it's on the light side once again, picking up later on. light rain around bloomington, illinois. rain gets harder in central parts of nebraska. a quick-moving cold front. once this goes by, you'll see more sunshine. all in all, weather looks good today. major records for october set. they all fell. we'll show you some of those coming up. records in october, cold and rain ones. no kidding, right? >> wet your beek. never heard it. >> from the godfather. godfather ii. >> never watched it. >> there you go. >> too violent for me.

winter storm warnings in effect for day through night and all the areas shaded in red including manhattanour to ten inches of snow this afternoon and down to the southwest a little bit farther, a little bit less in the way of snowfall, but two to four. tough go for you on i-70. look at the snow piling up with that bullseye right around northern parts and eastern parts of kansas, that is about eight inches of snow. so, i think maybe four to ten is a good bet. get away from that and looks like things will be on the wet side for you ft. wayne into toledo. heavier rain back later today right across central areas of illinois and missouri. flash flood watches and warnings. the warnings are all the areas shaded in green and you can see them there and the pacific northwest. you're getting slammed again today. a lot of wind and a lot of rain and a lot of snow. we'll talk about that in the next couple hours. >> look at the cloud cover there. >> there is a cold front blowing it ashore and it is heavy at times. >> all right, thank you. >>> the u.s. and russia could reach a deal by the end of the year

now we're in the diamond district of manhattan.we're going to some of the stores, some of the establishments. they all say, we buy gold. we buy, we buy, as you see over see what they'll give us off of this gold necklace. >> reporter: but the lowest offer was still to come. we headed to canal street in downtown manhattan. 200 bucks. that was my offer in there. $200. and i said, is this a fair price, fair market value? he said, yes, a very fair price. >> oh, it's so easy to get ripped off. poppy is live from new york. $200 to $630, what a difference? >> reporter: in the matter of a day, it was just unbelievable. the story where they offered me $200 for this necklace, then i told him i work for cnn money and he said let me recalculation. it's actually $550. $350 difference because i said we work for the media. here's the lesson learned. do your home work. this is a 14 karat gold necklace, so it's only 58% gold. today gold is trading near record highs. know what it's worth before you make any deal. you can lose hundreds or thousands of

the silverdome stadium in michigan sold for the price of a one-bedroom manhattan apartment.s is the former home of the lions, $583,000 at auction. to a canadian real estate group. the whole 80,000-seat-plus building, be $500,000. >> what are they going to do with it? >> they want to host some events. it will cost the city $ .5 good for them. >>> in the next half hour, a baseball player overcomes a major obstacle to win a major award. we'll have it. >> a good story coming up, too. thank you. >>> do you work at a place that has a 401(k) plan? if you don't, hln money expert clark howard has information about a savings plan that won't leave you out in the cold when you do retire. >> in the world of haves and have nots, there's something i want to make you really aware of. somewhere close to half of us work for smaller employers that offer no retirement plan whatsoever. the other half of us work at places that might have a 401(k) plan or nonprofit 3b plan. a 457. in all the plan, the idea is savings becomes automatic. money comes out of your paycheck before you receive it. in fac

basically in manhattan but to mt. pleasant and close to atlantic city later this morning. the rain stretches back down in towards washington, d.c., baltimore as well, and it breaks up a little bit for you, the lower parts of virginia. so i think you're going to get a break with the rain today. the wind is still going to be a factor. the wind advisories, those are gusting at about 40 miles an hour. the jersey shore down to about virginia beach look at some of these wind gusts from yesterday afternoon. just huge. we're talking hurricane strength when you see 75 miles an hour. oceana, virginia, reported a 75-mile-per-hour gust. norfolk, virginia, about 74. even right around the york river, that is blazing fast. it's going to loosen up a bit today. not quite as breezy, about half that speed but, still, it's going to be a tough day. more on that in a little bit. >>> guess what? the parents behind the balloon boy frenzy, they're going to be in court this morning and they're expected to change the story they've been telling all along. plus, wasting your time on facebook can actua

eric holder said five suspects with alleged ties to the attacks will be tried in civilian court in manhattan, just blocks away from ground zero. the suspects include khalid shaikh mohammed and four other detainees from guantanamo bay. family members of the victim are sharply divided over the prospect of a civilian trial. >> bring it back here, me, my feelings, it's tasteless. it's insensitive. and those scars which have never been healed are just going to be opened again. so i am not comfortable one eye owe ta with this call. >> i think, again, it speaks to the very heart of who we are, not only as new yorkers but as american citizens. you know, if a crime is committed on our soil, you are going to be given a trial. you will be given access to an attorney. >> it's not just the families of the 9/11 victims sharply divide over the idea of a civilian trial. some say it's dangerous. because any evidence obtained against the defendant under duress, such as waterboarding, cannot be used in the trial. >> i do not understand why a war criminal should be able to have the same rights as a common crimi

from manhattan. >> larry: that's where the talent comes from. okay. what is musicians village?llage is a project i started with branton marsalis, to build a bunch of homes for displaced new orleansans. our ideals was to get as many of the misplaced musicians back in the city. we've ended up building 80 residences with 80% of those homes being lived in by musicians and their families. and now we're just about to break ground on a big center for music called the ellis marsalis center for music. all the homes are lived in. legendary new orleanian musicians live there. >> larry: i don't know anyone who's done more for his city than this man. >> thank you, larry. i love new orleans. >> larry: brad pitt going to be mayor? >> you know -- >> larry: there was a rumor they would try to get him to run for -- >> not that i know of. whoever is the next mayor, i'm hoping will have the right combination of personality and knowledge and surround himself or herself with the right people to do what needs to be done for that city. because it is such an american treasure, you know? >> larry: what

move to new york as you do when you graduate college and i wound up getting my first job at chase manhattan before was jpmorgan chase when night graduated or before i graduated i was 19 years old. [laughter] they were doing a lot of analysis and computer work. >> host: why? how did you end up on wall street? [laughter] >> i had a sense of responsibility and financial independence. i figured out i would only be there for it a year or two and work in musical theater and as it turned out i wound up staying there a very long time through a number of different towns and it just became easy with all of the hardness of the wall street firms it did make enough money to pay rent in the city. it was certainly enough to live on your own. >> you write the book says being in the belly of the beast. what are your views of life story as they occurred as you're working for goldman sachs? >> i was there two years it was the end of my career on wall street. i ejected myself after being at goldman sachs. was in london for bear stearns and was there seven years. that was the crooks of a lot of the work that wa

we came up on friday evening and made up the trip from manhattan and it is always worth the trip. we love coming back to the cape i grew up here and the story of lehman brothers around the weekend september september 15, really is a day that capitalism change for ever and our world changed forever it was a tough weekend and not only for the lehman employees but so many people around the country that their lives would change, of business credit lines were cut on credit cards, 401(k) became of 201k. and most of the problem 78 -- emanated from the tragedy that never should have happened. i was sitting there i was really down on the match. i felt like muhammed ali was standing on top of me. and the referee was giving me the account. and so many of us were down and i was really down. but i just wanted to dig deep down into the reserve that we all have to try to make lemonade out of lemons. i reached out to to jane and patrick and they were nice enough to give me the time. and patrick's agent was very helpful and articulating the project in helping me to understand what we were about to

side and in the upper west side where she attended high school and ultimately the entire island of manhattan. she was extraordinarily strong. this walker and the city was also a self-taught. she was a mediocre student in school. she did not attend the university but she discovered on her own the modernist art that was blossoming in new york. she taught herself photography by taking jobs. burford job was as a person and one of those jane of portrait studios where she made cold calls to people, trying to sell them portraits and worked as a receptionist at various photographies studios in basically gained on her own these photographic skills. one of the people she worked for was a very avid photographer, also a german-american and she thought she was very talented and gave rick castoff camera. [inaudible] i figure she might be anywhere between eight intent in that picture. she moved to san francisco in 1918 and opened a photographer eric studio in an upscale application. within two years she had become the portrait photographer for san francisco's wealthy art patrons. this hi villosity success

take the concern of people from upstate new york about being dominated by the people in manhattan. the second and most important impediment is there reform where government is being reformed by politicians we always grab our wallets. the idea of the australian ballot the government will provide the balance. prior to the 1890's, ballots were privately printed by the parties themselves so any party could print up a ballot if they wanted but in the 1890's in response to a lot of corruption that occurred in the 1980 elections governments begin to supply a single consolidated balance for all candidates for all offices. this was the austrian ballot and by 1910 only two states did not use steel strike in bala. one of those come the south carolina permitted the use of private pilots up until 1950. control of the ballot by gulf allowed government to control who gets on the ballot and a major justification for the australian ballot is non serious candidates can be excluded. as those patronize same condescending e elites who know what is best for the rest of us or are well aware , too many ch

the feds are going after a manhattan skyscraper, four mosques and other assets allegedly linked to iran's government. cnn's debbie feyerick explains. >> reporter: the charge that the corporation which gets money from the properties is actually a front company for a larger iranian-owned bank and that the bank channels money to support iran's nuclear program and parts of its military forces considered terrorist organizations by the u.s. the four mosques include the islamic institution of new york, the islamic education center in texas, and two other mosques in maryland and california. president obama today extended the national emergency with respect to iran because relations, of course, with that country remain strained. >> the buildings in question, they're going to stay open an the tenants aren't accused in the case. the foundation's lawyer says that they're cooperating with the government and will challenge the complaint. >>> the man convicted in the 2008 beating death of an acre acre news anchor will spend the left rest of the his life in jail. jurors deliberated for three hours before

i wound up getting my first job at chase manhattan bank before it was part of j.p. morgan chase when i graduated. actually before i graduated. >> you were 19? >> yes, i was. i started there during a lot of analysis. computer board and numerical work. >> when others are partying habit. >> i was way too serious. i was the oldest child in the family. that might have had something to do with the. this sense of responsibility and financial independence. i figured i was only going to be there for a year or two. work in musical theater or something else. as it turned out have wound up staying there a very long time through number of different firms. i did it just became bar easy to some extent. with all of the hardness that comes with wall street for you make enough money to pay rent. nothing like the kind of sums that are being made today, but certainly enough to live on your own. >> you write your broken in a sense as being in the belly of the beast. what impact on your use and life use about wall street occurred as a result of working for goldman sachs? >> i worked at g

. >>> the manhattan madame talks about client number nine. >>> tonight on the joe behar show, first carrie prejuan threatens to walk off of larry king. what will she do? give anderson cooper a time-out? and an attorney will join me for a one-on-one about screen plays, back mail and david letterman. >>> and shop aaholic. we will talk about that. all that and more starts now. >>> christmas is coming and the gift that keeps on giving is back. yes, sarah palin sat down with oprah to promote her new book. that interview will air on monday but why not unwrap this one early. listen to what oprah asks her. >> that was a designing moment for you. >> that is why segment two and three and four and five were scheduled. the campaign said right on, good, this is what america needs to see. it was a good interview. i knew it was not a good interview. >> i am joined now by mo rocca. sarah bernard, and brian, comedian and journalist. welcome to the show. did you see the interview she did? >> i did. >> did you think it was hostile of katie? >> it was straightforward questions and she did what she was suppose

$55 million to build, but the silverdome stadium in michigan sold for the price of a one bedroom manhattan apartment. the former home of the ryans sold at auction, $583,000 to a canadian real estate group that wants to use it for sporting events, but the dome was to be fair costing the city $1.5 million a year. desperate to get rid of it but thought they would get at least around $3 million. comes to about $7 a seat. >> wow. a beautiful stadium, from these picture, at least. >> super bowls and so there you go. >> the whole nine yards there. thanks, rafer. >>> new this morning, thousands of people who got ripped off by bernie madoff are closer to getting some of their money back. an auction of madoff's boats in florida that raised more than $1 million. a both of madoff's sold for $700,000, all the money raised goes to victims of madoff's ponzi scheme. he is serving a 150-year prison sentence. >>> a new jersey woman has found a unique partnership between two unlikely bed fellows. robin meade has the story of an effort helping those in need this week's "leaders with heart." >>> a natural disa

the high school is in pine plains, 90 miles north of manhattan.ear-old christopher craft, saying he's a former student and his son was recently suspended from the school. >>> u.s. intelligence flagged communications from the suspect in the ft. hood shootings a year ago. federal agents say nothing came of that investigation. they reviewed communications between major nidal hasan and a man identified at the subject of a federal investigation, anwar ellackey the former imam of a suburban center left in 2002 and may be living now in yemen. after reviewing communications agents decided there was nothing to warrant further action. again, though, want to let you know, president obama and mrs. obama shgs video of a couple minutes ago arrives in texas for a memorial service for the 13 people killed, and we, again, have a live report coming to you from ft. hood in a few minutes. >>> the cbs news producer charged with blackmailing david letterman is in court right now. prosecutors say robert joe halderman threatened to expose his affairs with women on his st

we had split the atom with the manhattan project. america was a can-do nation, but now are we still justifiably out of our accomplishments? can we still say the same about our government today? do we still have that pride? and the question of the day is, is our government capable of executing on our most important challenges? and in recent events are not likely to lead to any ticker tape parades. >> we have iraq, katrina, boston's own big dig and it's collapsing tunnel, the brutal economic meltdown. political observers know when the crisis right now in trying to accomplish big things that the man industry knows we have a big problem. so do public officials. we surveyed members of the senior executive service, and 60% said the government was less capable today of executing large projects than it was 30 years ago. president obama even made note a couple weeks ago in his radio address when he said, he raised the question, whether or not we as a nation are capable of tackling our toughest challenges if we can still do big things in ameri

i wound up getting my first job at chase manhattan bank before it was part of j.p. morgan bank. i did a transition. >> nineteen. >> yes, i was. i started there doing a lot of analysis and computer work. >> what was it like? other than the parties. >> i was the oldest child in the family. i think that might have had something to do with it. a sense of responsibility and financial independence. i figured i was only going to be there for a year or two. work in a musical theater. new york instead. as it turned out at a mound of staying there a very long time through a through a number of dt firms. i think it just became easy. with all of the harness that comes as wall street he you did make enough money to pay rent in new york city. nothing like the kinds of films that have been made today. >> let me ask you this. you read the book as being in the belly of the beast. what impact on your views occurred as a result of your working for goldman sachs? >> i worked there for two years. it was the end of my career from wall street. i ejected myself from wall street. >> i was over in london

manhattan, what are you thankful for? caller: i'm thankful for alternative media, like on websites, such as are referring to the black plague taking on europe. i'm also thankful for a particular media company going down. nobody is buying "the daily news'" anymore. all the official media is just propaganda. it is government-owned. host: reminder that you can send us a tweet this morning. you can send us your comments there. we will move on to florida, on the independent line. caller: good morning. i am very thankful for brian lamb and i hope that mr. icahn the thankful for seeing the vote tally board in the house. host: here is a front-page article. it says that the administration's decision to identify a series of goals including cutting emissions over the next decade in the range of 17% is a calculated risk given that congress has never set mandatory limits on greenhouse gases. president obama will go to copenhagen on december 9. he will be there at the beginning of negotiations. the white house also said they are puttin

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less or about the same as a one-bedroom manhattan apartment. sold at auction to a canadian real estate group that wants to use it for sporting events. that comes to about $7 a seat, but to be fair, the dome cost the city $1.5 million to main contain. >> a bargain for sure t. is. >>> next half hour, baseball players overcomes a major obstacle to win a major award. we'll have it. >> thanks. >>> i see reaching for the door. travelers just a second. bob will tell you if you have to rush or not. >> don't have to rush if you're headed towards charlotte or atlanta. atlanta, 15 to 30-minute delay because of the low clouds. all morning long. the rest daft, more rain, more low clouds around chicago. midway and o'hare, watch for delays. could be an hour or more. then, of course, atlanta with low clouds. afternoon, pretty good. charlotte more rain all day long. east wind, too, that will slow you down. then seattle, it's rain and then really picking up in intensity late are today. a lot of wind with that, too. half hour to hour-long delays for seattle. more

. >> thanks, everyone, back in a minute with eliot spitzer's manhattan madam, talk about an addiction. >>> remember the disgraced new york governor, eliot spitzer? he's giving a speech on ethics. ethics is the keyword here. with me to discuss this is kristen davis, not the kristin davis from "sex and the city" although she could if that city was albany. she's the madam who provided spitzer with his escorts, and she joins me now for an exclusive interview. the guy goes to harvard and he's giving a clek lecture on ethics up there. you wrote a letter objecting to all of this, tell me about it. >> initially i wrote a letter just addressing some very basic questions, i can't attend the conference because i'm on probation so i can't leave the city of new york. >> you were going to go there? >> i would have loved to. >> maybe just to hear it? >> maybe ask some questions, no one replied to my letter so i posted it on my blog. >> why is he doing this? is he trying to meet women or what? >> there's big money in the public speaking circuit. it's sad that he has some influence over the future eth

. >> thanks, everyone, back in a minute with eliot spitzer's manhattan madam, talk about an addiction. >>> hello, ethics is the keyword here. with me to discuss this is kristen davis, not the kristin davis from ""sex and the city"" although she could if that city was albany. she's the madam who provided spitzer with his escorts, and she joins me now for an exclusive interview. the guy goes to harvard and he's giving a speech on ethics. you wrote a letter objecting to all of this, tell me about it. >> initially i wrote a letter just addressing some very basic questions, i can't attend the conference because i'm on probation so i can't leave the city of new york. >> you were going to go there? >> i would have loved to. >> maybe just to hear it? >> maybe ask some questions, no one replied to my letter so i posted it on my blog. >> why is he doing this? is he trying to meet women or what? >> there's big money in the public speaking circuit. it's sad that he has some influence over the future ethics of any harvard student, of any student in general. i mean they even sold out. it's obviousl

peel back the sidewalks of manhattan and you'll find a larger concentration of copper than anywhere else on the planet. more, in fact, than in the world's largest copper mine. many of the cables under our streets are over 50 years old as the wires age they degrade under a battery of stresses. the combination of sweltering heat in the summer and freezing cold in the winter causes them to expand, contract and weaken. the constant vibration it is of the city and its underworld, feed pounding on payment, incessant traffic can wreak havoc over time. when water mains break they soak, and degrid. and snow on snowy street it eventually trips into the street cracks and manholes eating away at the cables. equally common as a nick in the cable from a construction workers jackhammer or jack hoe. but the biggest challenge facing new york is its outsized electricity demand which is growing at a rate of nearly 2% a year. that doesn't sound like much but it translaced an annual load of 200 megawatts, enough to power nearly a war million homes or a midsize city. it's like moving albany onto the new york

. >> back in a minute with eliot spitz spitzer's manhattan madame talk about an addiction. e enclave, ponte vedra coast. a high-powered money man comes home to find his young wife with covergirl good looks, the mother of his two little girl, gone. vanished. left behind? a handwritten ransom note demanding $50,000 in exchange for the life of the wife and mother, quinn gray. she allegedly suffers a horrific ordeal of kidnap, abuse, sex attack. tonight, ponte vedra, after $50,000 cold cash is paid, cops close in to nab the alleged kidnapper and accomplice. kicker? it's mommy. mommy, herself, along with her brand new boy toy. that's right. they faked it. bye-bye, good times. hello, hard time, mommy. >> sheriff's office 911 what's your emergency? >> my name is quinn gray. and i was kidnapped and i'm not sure where i am right now. >> she is not with me. she called me and said she was held by gun point by three men. >> did she tell you where she was at? >> no. >> $100,000 ah lot of money. >> i know. >> $50,000 is a lot of money. either that or you just blow his head off. >> it's ju

so he goes to a synagogue in manhattan, hanging out with rabbi shmuley. is that going to help things with the family? help with his image? my colleague jane velez-mitchell is going to join me in just a moment. >>> welcome back. is jon gosselin finally doing the right thing after months of partying, paparazzi, gallivanting with younger women? and lashing out at the mother of his eight kids? the reality tv dad now says he's going to tell his estranged wife, kate, he's sorry. >> i can't forgive myself for the things i've done. so to ask for forgiveness from someone is tougher. so i do ask kate -- i do apologize to kate. i am sorry for doing the things that i did. and i do ask for her forgiveness. >> there you go. sounds sincere. you want to believe him. what do you think? is he genuine? or is this a publicity stunt so public opinion might go his way a little bit more? take your calls, 1-877-tell-hln. joining me to talk about this, i welcome in my colleague and friend, jane velez-mitchell, host of "issues" coming your way at the top of the hour. and brooke an

this is live pictures in lower manhattan, the route called the canyon of champions. it goes from battery park to city hall, something new yorkers are used to. it's been nine years since the yankees had one of these but the giants had one last year. they call it the canyon of heroes because walking through the tall buildings, well, you get the idea. >> even tossing somebody up in the air there. >> kind of cold there. mid 40s. derek jeter and andy pettit and jorge posada went on letterman and the talk show asked how does it feel winning it all? >> what is it like? it's guys commemorating an experience that will last forever, isn't it? >> you just explained it all. we have nothing to say. >> and then they left. congratulations to the yankees. congratulations to jen westhoven's mom who was very upset. what is he talking about the $200 million payroll like that has anything to do with anything. i'm just telling you what jen told me. jen anagen's mother congratulations to all of you. >> there you go. >> all right. cnn.com and oprah are teaming up for the biggest oprah's bo

. >>> all right, the alleged mastermind behind the september 11th attacks will face trial in manhattan. that's not sitting well with one mother whose son was killed that day. hear what she said when she came face to face with the government official who decided to bring the suspected terrorist to the united states. >>> investigators were finished searching the home of a man in cleveland. he's charged with five counts of aggravated murder. they haven't found any more bodies. ten corpses and a human skull have been found at that property and recovered. the victims were all women and were apparently strangled. the lawyer for defendant anthony sowell met with prosecutors and a cleveland judge this morning. they discussed separate rape charges against sowell stemming from an alleged attack on a woman in his home in september. a hearing for that case is set for december 2nd. >>> the federal government could face billions of dollars in lawsuits over hurricane katrina. that's after a judge ruled that negligence by the army corps of engineers led to the devastating flooding in 2005. yesterday,

and media critic for a well-known magazine, peter braunstein was once at the center of a glamorous manhattan lifestyle, furious when his fashionable girlfriend dumped him. he decided for some reason to go after her co-worker so he dressed up like a firefighter on halloween, no less, and lit two fires in the lobby of the victim's apartment building to get her to let him in, then he knocked her out with chloroform and proceeded to terrorize her for 13 hours. the "new york post" reported in 2007 he stripped and bound her by her wrists and ankles to the bed, he put electrical tape over her eyes, she felt his hands on her breasts and between her legs. yikes. the phony firefighter told "inside edition" that she was his perfect mark. >> this woman, it seemed like the ideal victim, because she represented everything i loved. she had just an enormous number of shoes. it was striking. it was like i couldn't believe someone would have this many shoes. >> he's laughing. is that because he's a lunatic? here to analyze this sicko's jailhouse rant, jill vermeer, certified sex addiction therapist and co-lea

they are 90 miles north of manhattan. sheriff identifies the suspect as a man in his 40s who attended that school in the '80s. the gunman's sun was recently suspended from school. >>> three florida teenagers accused of setting a 15-year-old boy on fir will be charged as adults. all three were charged with one count of attempted second-degree murder. 15-year-old matthew, directed 15-year-old jarvis to pour rubbing alcohol all over him last month. the 16-year-old lit him on fire. two other teens are being questioned. the boy has burns over 65% of his body and remains in critical condition. >> we can come in each day or get a phone call at any time that things are getting a lot worse or getting a tiny bit better. people get sick real fast. they get better slowly. right now with him we're getting a tiny bit better every day. >> police say the bobs attacked him because he reported one of his friends stole his father's bicycle. apparently because he didn't pay $40 for a video game. >>> now depression ida is zumping razump i --

remember the woman last seen leaving a manhattan bar. women were told that have case don't drink alcohol and walk home alone. mir digit was murdered while hiking on georgia's blood mountain. but anne pressly was in her own home and she was still brutally attacked. this why i talk about the psychological burqa american women are forced to wear. we are condemned to living in fear because there is no safe zone for women. when they can be attacked even in their own home. you know, we put down our noses at these cultures where women are forced to wear burke kaz. it is awful. i put one on once and i thought i was going to die. but we have a psychological burqa because there is no place for us to feel safe when a woman is in home, in her home by herself and she is attacked. so, let me ask this question, don clark. why are we always talking about modifying the behavior of women? why don't we talk about modifying the behavior of violent criminals? >> jane, i couldn't agree with you more. and whatever that will person just said about corrupt syste

handling these cases and no district has a longer history than a southern district of new york in manhattan. i have talked to mayor bloomberg of new york and both he and commissioner kelly believe that we can safely hold these trials in new york. >> critics are also concerned the trials will give mohammad and other suspects a platform for air anti-american views. holder says he isn't scared of anything terror defendants might say. >>> a single mom soldier says the army reneged on its offer of an extension so she could find child care. the army says that's not the right story. specialist hutchison was refusing orders to afghanistan because there's no one to care for her infant son. the army says each soldier must agree to a family care plan when they sign up. hutchison says her child care plans fell through. the army said she knew for months her unit was going overseas. the army says she was given an extension in august and september. hutchison's lawyer said she never got the extension. >> her command indicated to her that they would give her an extension and that's normal under regulations

the december 5 rally in new york against bernanke 9/11 suspects to a federal courthouse in lower manhattan. . . american icons, continues tonight at 8:00 p.m., with the history, art and architecture of the most symbolic structures, tonight at 8:00 p.m. on c-span and get your own copy of american icons, a three-disk set, $24.95. order on-line at c-span.org/store. now a look back at cuban missile crisis, with kennedy advisors ted sornson and carol kasem. from the kennedy library in boston, this is an hour and 15 minutes. this war policy was done in secret and steps were taken to deceive us by every means they could. they were planning in november to open to the world the fact that they had these missiles so close to the united states, not that they are with intending to fire them, because if they were going to get into a niewg clear struggle, they had their own missiles in the soviet union. >> the white house advised us there was a matter of high urgency. i talked to several members of the congress and several of them suggested a different alternative when we confronted them that monday with

he invited cameras to a conference with rabbi schmuley on the upper west side of manhattan and says i want to be better, i didn't ask for this. absolute insanity. >> jon actually was recently busted trying to get what you might call a hit of attention. here he is with paparazzi reading them his e-mails from hiss estranged wife. got to listen to this. >> i just got an e-mail from kate saying she doesn't want to see you. >> she doesn't want to see you? may we see it? >> hold on one second. she wants to change custody. i would appreciate if you would pick them up at the bus stop tomorrow at 4:00 and stay until 6:00. that's ridiculous. i'm going to stay longer than that. i don't care. >> it was supposed to be a joint day because it's a birthday? >> yeah. >> that was for -- >> all holidays, birthdays, whatever, yes. >> how do you end up dealing with this when -- >> doesn't matter. it's joint share. i can stay as long as i want, and i will. >> dr. dale archer, can fame addiction be as dangerous, even deadly, as drug addiction? >> absolutely. we know now that all addictions are really linked