i went to manhattan in the fall of 2005 and the big boss of the whole group, nancy shepherd and carlin coburn in publicity. we met in a little room and i stated my case and they said, this is your first book so you need to listen to a few things here. first of all only 12 percent of nonfiction books make a profit and 2/3 are pre chosen by the publisher. we'd like to put our marketing arm behind us but your having to fight tear riz m to this. since i grew up in africa and worked pakistan for many years you never settle a deal without driving a hard bargain so i said if the hard cover doesn't do well, i'd like the subtitle changed later on for the paper back. julia and our other board relently pounded away month after month. i was in pakistan of december of 2006 and there was a new editor on the book and they said they decided to change the title to one man's mission to promote peace. the hard cover didn't do that well. sold 20,000 copies. while the paper back came out on january 30th of this year and since out it's been on the new york times best seller selling over 700,000 copies now.

remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's house in our neighborhood became so famous that even my father, not particularly fond of cuban jazz, couldn't resist dropping in once in a while at the much-talked about terrace. i listened to the rumba of chico's suite, then i would imagine chico back in new york doing arrangements for count bassie and ringo starr and i see myself turning into a big fan during my teenage years in havana. so that gives you a little idea about all these connections. i was born in havana in the mid-50's and my memory have many sounds. my history of my family has given me a variety of experiences and languages. my memory is like an orgy of music. i learned at an early age to get up on my feet and dance. looking at a photograph of myself, i saw a girl dancing an irish dance. i look at me from a seated audience that avoids the music with polite applause. my audience is courteous and embodies all the mystery of creation. my audience is my irish ca

rational she's in a war but iran is the city of the old people you can go to manhattan and it's really female delhi as if you are born there because bali for the cinema for the leader for many respects anyway ok but so that is a very interesting the brownlees between the battle for my heart and. in the therapy. and that mosque is really cool so so so you drawing these parallels professor you want to say that it still is possible to make moscow a very livable city a nice city to live in there are you sure what should what should we do. let's watch it should we stop driving is not dramatically there you solve the problem of the metabolic infrastructure as a specially the traffic infrastructures because the level of the noise for example isn't that magic in the moment but if you. use a very i when i was arrived today from a fan with a brain and i mean in terms of the cd there the quality of the architecture the dimension of the boulevards. the geometry of the river and especially the relationship between the new one that. there is a very important german thing that an architectural. this

would you like to live in mid-air i was really manhattan sometimes many times i was teaching in jail when i was leaving jail i was already very practically at seven o'clock in the afternoon to the never in my heart and so it's laughable you think your use a livable city monotonous a livable place yes my heart and in my opinion the most. rational she's in a war but is the city of the old people you can go to hide them and it's really female at the lee as if you are born there because probably for the cinema for the leader for many respects anyway ok but so bad it's a very interesting the brownlees between the battle for my heart and. in the therapies and that mosque is really cool so so so you drawing these parallels professor you want to say that it still is possible to make moscow a very livable city a nice city to live in the are you sure what should what should we do. that's what you should be stop driving is not dramatically there you solve the problem of the metabolic infrastructure as it is personally the traffic infrastructures because the level of the noise for example is at

it was the culmination of the manhattan project the first american nuclear explosive device nicknamed the gadget went off in new mexico just weeks before devastating the japanese city of hiroshima many including the godfather of the atomic bomb j. robert oppenheimer were terrified by the power of the deadly mushroom cloud people . cried both people were spared the echo of that blast carried far beyond the atlantic and the soviet union experiments with nuclear energy were on the way too but just like the us in this research institute on the black sea coast the main rules were played by german scientists this used to be a top secret nuclear facility but aside from these lines the entrance was guarded by soviet soldiers the lab will see it in deep inside up cause a subtropical paradise. three hundred germans top nuclear physicists their assistants family members and even personal chefs were brought to this clue's compound in a pause by the order of joseph stalin in one nine hundred forty five the nazis were famous for their highly developed nuclear research programs so after world war tw

where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built up by gravity from the mountains pushes the water upwards toward the surface through vertical shafts. these shafts feed the water mains of each neighborhood, which branch into smaller pipes below the streets... feeding into buildings and houses, into the plumbing, and finally, after its long journey, to our faucets. providing water to homes and industry is a monumental task, requiring immense infrastructure. but once the water is delivered and used, it must also be taken away. man: it's important that the waste generated by any society not be left around. cholera, and other diseases and problems, have been spread, because people wound up living in filth. even the ancients understood that you couldn't have the sewage where you lived. and the easiest thing to do was transport it to another spot -- by water, or a river. most of the first sewer systems were on the east coast of the united states, often in places that already had developed a citywide water supply system.

. >> reporter: at issue, this building in lower manhattan, the proposed site of a 13-story communityenter and islamic prayer space. >> this is the muslim community's effort to rebuild lower manhattan. >> reporter: the controversy, it's only two blocks from ground zero. this week sarah palin went on twitter. she called on peaceful muslims to refudiate the plan. calling it a stab in the heart for america. >> they have power in their words. they could refudiate what it is that this group is saying. >> reporter: liberal bloggers pounded on the made up word and palin retracted her tweet but not her sentiment saying shakespeare liked to coin new words, too. gramtical mistake aside, mayor michael bloomberg has come out firmly in support of the plan. >> everything the united states stands for and new york stands for is tolerance and openen. >> reporter: what is it your hope this center will do? >> my hope is that this center will attract a lot of people who don't know about islam. >> reporter: do you feel like the debate is shifting at all? >> yeah. it's it's on a national stage now. >> repo

about 1/3 of lower manhattan is actually manmade. you won't be seeing this ship in any museums.entists say now that it's exposed it will deteriorate fairly quickly, ghost ship.

. >> reporter: at issue: this building in lower manhattan, the proposed site of a 13-story community center and islamic prayer space. >> this is the muslim community's effort to rebuild lower manhattan. >> reporter: the controversy? it's only two blocks from ground zero. this week, sarah palin upped an already raucous debate when on twitter she called on peaceful muslims to "refudiate" the plan calling it a stab in the heart for america. >> they have power in their words. they could refudiate what it is that this group is saying. >> reporter: liberal bloggers pounced on the made-up word and palin retracted her tweet but not her sentiment saying shakespeare liked to coin new words, too. grammatical debates aside, new york city mayor michael bloomberg has come out firmly in support of the plan. >> everything the united states stands for and new york stands for is tolerance and openness. what is it you're hoping this center will do? >> my hope is that this center will attract a lot of people who don't know about islam. >> reporter: do you feel like the debate is shifting at all? >> yeah

. >> you grew up in manhattan. >> manhattan's upper west side. >> let's just cut to the chase. you're a jew! >>> that's it for us. have a great weekend everybody. "larry king" starts right now. >>> tonight, he sold elvis to the masses, staged sinatra's comeback, and has the biggest stars on his speed dial. >> george clooney, brad pitt, julia roberts. read it. >> larry: when celebrities want something done, he's the man. hollywood producer, power player. >> i'm a go-to guy. >> larry: and ultimate show business insider, jerry weintraub. >> i call my own shots. i do what i want to do. >> larry: next on "larry king live." >> larry: what a pleasure to welcome to "larry king live" for the full program tonight the legendary jerry weintraub. hollywood producer, talent promoter, and author of a terrific memoir. i read it and could not put it down. it's "when i stop talking you'll know i'm dead." it's a hell of a book about a hell of a life written with my old friend rich cohen who wrote "the great tough jews." why did you write this? >> i wrote it now because i'm 72 and because my life

robert oppenheimer was the scientific director of the manhattan project three weeks after the test in new mexico known as the trinity test the uranium bomb was dropped on hiroshima three days after that on august ninth the fat man was dropped on nagasaki a few days later the japanese surrendered and the pacific war was over the action itself of colossal importance but experts say the ability to develop and test became the driver of the arms race the british got it the french got the chinese. the indians the pakistanis now the north koreans. tested to is the reason why countries tested over the years has been primarily to develop new and more deadly types of nuclear weapons to demonstrate their power and to send signals to one another signals like this one sent by iran the signals that even today steer relations and shift the balance of power around the world christine for r.t. . well christine's here in the studio to tell us a little more christine like you said sixty five years ago today that was the beginning of the nuclear age you can say do you think that we're getting any closer

and flicker and hundreds of demonstrators marched and new york across the brooklyn bridge towards manhattan. this about was waiting for them, to support legal snell, and 50 arrests were made, and if there were a lot of police officers surrounding that one person. and in phoenix, that in support of the law. if you'd like to read the latest developments on the controversial paris on emigration law? www.kron.com >> and-controversial immigration arizona law. >> and at the fire failed to come to an agreement with 50 firefighters will lose their jobs this weekend. that will save the city $6 million for the physical year. the union offered a 3 percent cut in benefits but the city requested 9%. craig sklar has a closer look on how this will impact fire protection of the people of san jose. >> it is midday, and the crew of 30 is on our third call and less than 30 minutes. and perhaps one of the last, and saturday, this station will only be open sporadically. because of the cutbacks, and reducing engines. >> the cuts will be department wide, and it will feel that at the station the most with a skelet

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they sang birthday songs and the former south african president large a retired manhattan. and president barack obama issues a statement about him saying how great his attitude and vision was. >> doctors say they will do the surgery tomorrow. the 93 year- old has been partially paralyzed since a car accident in 2002. and another big loss for tiger buttoned uthe big land. and a programming note this monday nbc will be airing the giants game so we will have some nbc programming. beginning at 8:00 p.m. ending at tent you can watch back-to-back episodes of the last, expanding. an antenna special edition of the news. and dr. phil will be at 3:00 p.m.. we will be back with more news, weather and traffic in a few moments. >> taking a quick look at sports shall tighter when it's finished at 26 and the british open this year. he has won three times before. theres the winner. a man the most affable don't know yet to appear and he finished the tournament 16 under par and takes home $1.3 million. and a wild and close their with at&t park today with the giants and the mets. it is spot o

they were given one clue, they were told to be within driving distance of manhattan.ign back new york is hundred miles north of new york city. -- rhine back, new york. >> i will say without a doubt that she will be married here. >> he went one step further and told us whose names were on the place settings, the mom's boss and few other faces you might recognize. >> if it's announced earlier or late, people will want to know and people want to come. >> this isn't the first time that something festivities were kept in the dark. j.f.k., jr. kept people guess go to the end. and beyonce and j. z., they didn't even trust caters, they cooked most of the food themselves. but most residents here say they know what it is cooking and it smells like a wedding cake right in their backyard. >> that is going to do it for us. we're off early because of sports. i'm carolyn tyler along with lisa argen. have a good afternoon.

descubrimiento inusual, un barco de 32 pies de largo y habría sido puesto ahí para extender la zona del bajo manhattanuna despedida muy cubana, angie sandoval estuvo ahí. >>>angie: durante más de 60 años olga guillot le cantó al mundo. en su funeral le cantaban a ella el himno de cuba. >> tenemos que hablar de olga como una extraordinaria cubana como una gran cubana, en cuya voz siempre hubo un grito como ella misma decía de libertad. >> la reina del bolero faffalle de un ataque cardiaco tenía 87 años. >>>angie: fue la primera cantante latina no presento arose en nueva york. >> grabó más de 50 albunes y recorrió los escenarios del mundo. >> hoy día es un día de luto mundial para todos los románticos. >>>angie: su oposición anticastrista la llevó abandonar cuba. pero siempre cerca radicada en méxico pero no solamente utilizó su voz para cant cantar. >> pueblo disidente. >>>angie: si no para luchar por la libertad de cuba. >> el cariño que no pudo recibir en cuba, lo consiguió en el exterior. una estrella con su nombre y elimina la pequeña habana. en esta disquería, su último cd está agotado. pero graci

the nuclear scientist igor sutyagin, the ten pleaded guilty to acting as unregistered agents in a manhattanederal courtroom. >>> it's been six months since a massive earthquake devastated haiti, killing nearly 300,000 people and laying waste to the capital, port-au-prince. the picture remains bleak for the island nation. only 2% of the rubble has been cleared. plagued by corruption and a weak government. relief camps have swelled. 1.6 million people are living under plastic tarps or in tents. >>> and it's fiesta time in spain. from madrid to barcelona, spaniards took to the streets to celebrate spain's first world cup championship, defeating holland 1-0 to take the title. for >>> well, for a lot us, the need to fit "in" with a group can often make you feel left out. but cliques don't have to complicate your life. felipe has the story. >> reporter: let's face it, we all look for friends who like the same things we're into. it's when certain groups of friends become "cliques" that problems start. >> most cliques flaunt their exclusivity to others by not allowing others to participate in it. >

they say it was likely used for part of the fill to extend manhattan.hey want to salvage some o the timbers, but it was unclear if any large portions of the ship could be lifted out intact what used to be the world trade center. >> we that he around the bay area. >> we do. >> let's check in with mike and the forecast. >> inland neighbors, where the air-conditioners will be rling and the electricity, bill will be going up. emeryville back to san francisco you can see just how gorgeous the sunshine is on the bay side but look over towards the ocean and e clouds are link clinging to the coast keeping the folks moderate mild. comfortable, how about that? let's take a look from the top down. you can see some of the clouds still holding on to the coast. i think just like yesterday, that will start to peel away and see some sunshine. let's take a look at those temperatures, half moo bay, 59. low to mid-70s already around oakland d redwood city and napa. upper 70s for santa rosa. 80 in san jose and mid to upper 80s for antioch and fairfield. 50 at monterey. san

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the ship and other debris were probably used as landfill to extend lower manhattan into the hudson river. >> it was apparently somewhat common to sink ships in landfill as people were building land further out into the hudson river and the east river. but only a happenedfndful of th ships have been found. so it's really quite rare. >> based on the expert's conclusions, the new york authorities will consider preserving the ship as an historic artifact. >>> it's day six in the sumo tournament. let's look at the action from day six. hakuho is at the center. hakuba is finding it tough. they move forward and that's it. that's all that is needed as hakuba is out. 38 consecutive wins for hakuho. in earlier action on day six, most of the interest was with the two that were undefeated after five days. kotiyoshi was runner up last year. starting strong and seizes a double inside grip, remaining strong and with a grip, he shows his skill and strength to power out the veteran and that makes it six great wins. kakadu is doing great at the rank of six. he takes the initiative and drives him back. it's

she lived and wrote in manhattan for years and became very well known as a writer of the beat movement. for the past 34 years, she has lived and worked, wisely, in northern california. 68. that is about when i started life. [laughter] so, for the past 40 years, she took part in political activities with the diggers. she studied zen and tibetan buddhism, sanskrit and alchemy, raised five remarkable children. unbelievable. an author of remarkable 43 books. there on my desk, as well, including "pieces of the soul. " her language has been translated, and she received an award of lifetime achievement in 1993. congratulations. well done. in the spring of 2000, she was a master poet in residence at columbia college in chicago. in 2002, issue as one of three finalists not just for this position but the primary position in our great state of california. allen ginsberg wrote a wonderful few words about it. i struggle to read it. i want to appreciate it. how revolutionary activist, 1960's beat literary renaissance, a road in life and politics. humorous, both union -- bohemian, 20 century radical,

they say it was likely used for part of the fill to extend manhattan. they want to salvage some of the timbers, but it was unclear if any large portions of the ship could be lifted out intact. what used to be the world trade center. >> we that have around the bay area. >> we do. >> let's check in with mike and the forecast. >> inland neighbors, where the air-conditioners will be rolling and the electricity, bill will be going up. emeryville back to san francisco you can see just how gorgeous the sunshine is on the bay side but look over towards the ocean and the clouds are link clinging to the coast keeping those folks moderate mild. comfortable, how about that? let's take a look from the top down. you can see some of the clouds still holding on to the coast. i think just like yesterday, that will start to peel away and see some sunshine. let's take a look at those temperatures, half moon bay, 59. low to mid-70s already around oakland and redwood city and napa. upper 70s for santa rosa. 80 in san jose and mid to upper 80s for antioch and fairfield. 50 a

. >>> unearthing history in manhattan. these are pictures where crews are clearing the world trade center site. on tuesday they found a wooden ship at least 200 years old. experts say the 32-foot-long hull was buried on purpose to extend lower manhattan island into the hudson river. archaeologists found a 100-pound anchor in the same area. they're not sure if it belongs to the same ship. >>> a company in new zealand today unveiled an exciting new invention, a pair of bionic legs, legs that allow paraplegics to walk again. >> the inventors worked on their creation in secret for seven years. it started as a hobby for two men whose mothers will confined to wheelchairs. the bionic legs allow this paraplegic former test pilot to shake the hand of new zealand's prime minister, looking him directly in the eye. hayden allen was confined to a wheelchair by a motorcycle accident five years ago. he said when he had a chance to walk again, he couldn't pass it up. >> they brought me in and i said i want to be a part of it. i couldn't w