move over theonal last couple of days is go to manhattan -- last couple of decades, go to manhattan oru are priced out, you go to brooklyn. now people are bypassing manhattan and going right to brooklyn. it's a competitor to manhattan as opposed to being a cheaper alternative. >> and this has just happened in the last couple of years will stop >> just in the post-lehman brothers and housing crisis, we have seen that shift. if you had to pick the five boroughs of new york city, brooklyn by far is the most robust in terms of the sales market and rental market. >> if you were an investor looking to buy some investment property you are going to rent out, would you be looking to >> right now,-- if you look at the towers going up, and manhattan it is luxury condo. it is predominately luxury rental. the numbers in manhattan don't really work for new development. it's on the condo side. the question is is there too much new development going on and my guess, given the chronic shortage of supply and low vacancy, i think there is plenty of room to go. fact that rents are stabilizing right now, d

initial reports indicated that the manhattan u.s.pursuing possible conflicts of interest involving the chris christie-appointed chairman of the port authority, david samson. it was on thursday that the "new york times" joined this program's two-month-old plea that david samson be fired or resign. "the new york times" editorial cited david samson's appointment conflict of interest in lobbying the port authority and in effect lobbying himself on behalf of high-paying clients he represents. the next day, according to the "wall street journal," manhattan u.s. attorney delivered subpoenas to the port authority. the "journal" reported today, "manhattan federal prosecutors were specifically interested in any conflicts between mr. samson's private business interests and his actions as chairman of the sprawling bistate authority. joining me now is alfred baldwin, editorial page editor for the bergen record and julian epstein, democratic strategy exist former chief counsel for the house judiciary committee. julian, there are reports tonight in

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particularly in it manhattan, so much international buyer manhattan real estate as a store of value ong huge price pressure here in manhattan. >> you do not see that going away. we just got the test results. citigroup failed on the qualitative measures. does that have an effect on the willingness of a bank to lend? the fed breathing down their back, trying to ensure that we do not have another 2008? how does that inhibit their ability to go lend? >> the fed breathing down their neck on remediating stress test results, they are also giving them free money to lend. banks can borrow at basically no interest rate and turn around and charge the three percent to five percent interest rate to consumers. towill still be profitable lend, i counter vale on stress test issues. >> overall for the housing market? >> warm, but not hot. we came down 30% from the peak, bouncing off the bottom probably too quick. now it is slow and steady. >> i promise the viewers that i would ask you -- why did you keep [indiscernible] for free? you >> we bought it in august, it was on the north side of manhattan, we

there is just a lot of smoke crossing over manhattan. smoke itself is blowing to the, so the west, southwest, so you can see it is just engulfing many surrounding buildings. again there are numerous firefighters on the scene pouring water, to try to get the fire itself put out. what we've been trying to look at and try to distinguish, the buildings next door what we could see a solid wall. at this point what it indicates is that the building that was affected was a separate building that was next to these other ones as opposed to a portion of one building. at least again that is just an early indication. difficult to make out with all the smoke. there was debris thrown all over the place on neighboring rooftops. there is bricks and wood and all sorts of other building materials have been thrown all around and thrown down on the street below. we got a good look at all the bricks that have been thrown down on to park avenue along with everything else that would be inside of that building. at this point it is just an ongoing situation. the

explosiÓn en manhattan colapsa 2 edificios y estremece a vecindario hispanos, hay muertos y decenas deheridos. >>> satÉlite muestra... hay mÁs preguntas que respuestas. >>> cÁmara baja aprueba propuesta para limitar el poder ejecutivo del presidente barac obama se inicia la venta de boletos para el mundial de fÚtbol 2014. comenzamos. ♪ ♪ >>> este es su noticiero buenas noches.una fuerte explosion sacudio hoy el corazon de nueva york ... destruyendo dos edificios de aartamentos en el est de harlem, en manhattan, cada edificio,- estos,- de 5 pisos cada uno.al menos tres personas murieron y decenas resultaron heridas en el vecindario mayormente hispano, mas de 200 bomberos atendieron el siniestro. vecinos dijeron haber sentido olor a gas antes del desastre.enny pichardo nos tiene mas detalles desde harlem. vecinos dijeron sentir olor a gas. tenemos mÁs desde harlem. >>> 2 muertos, 22 heridos y varios desaparecidos es el saldo de una fuerte explosiÓn que derrumbo 2 edificios de 5 pisos en new york. >>> no sÉ si estÁ viva. >>> no ha sabido nada de ella?. >>> no. >>> los hechos a las 9:30 de

here you see manhattan. right up here 116th street and park avenue.o if we go to explore this area, we're just going to take a street view of it. this is the address that we're talking about. 1646. you have this piano shop here, this building -- this residential -- what seems to be a residential building here and here with the spanish christian church next to it. so you were just speaking to ion moments ago. he has been sending out pictures. he says progress here at harlem and 116th street. you also have this image that was sent out by chris. building explosion and collapse in new york. train tracks also danged. people report smelling smoke for files. hashtag harlem. you see all of the debris and firefighters at the scene. and obey says huge explosion uptown. close to 11 -- 116th street. and martin was in the area as well, just heard a big boom, and my apartment building shook. 118th and park avenue. and corey hoffman writes not your typical walk to work. del? >> thank you very much. >>> we are following several developing stories this hour. among the

more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in manhattan, which is part of the reason why the united states showing its continued international leadership, has organized a forum over the last several years that has been able to help eliminate that threat in a consistent way. >> there is no geopolitical conflict which can be solved without the united states, and therefore, i applaud the fact that president obama's administration has acted in every arena, ukraine, iran, syria, the middle east peace process and so many other parts of the world. in december i was in the region and spoke with syrian leaders both in israel and the palestinian territories, and they are extremely grateful to america. this is a difficult issue, can't be solve overnight, but progress is being made. take iran, i spoke with the president in january, i was able first dutch leader in over 30, 40 years, which spoke with an iranian leader. was possible because of the international court, and america provided leadership there, and i really applaud president obama's role in

more concerned when it comes to our security with the prospect of a nuclear weapon going off in manhattan, which is part of the

east harlem in new york, on the edge of east town manhattan.igh-rise buildings, four or five stories tall and public housing buildings, so we're talking about a very densely populated area, where there are a lot of people. obviously, one of the big concerns now is whether any people were trapped in this building when the explosion happened and when the building collapsed. it's still unclear exactly what the building was. i can't see quite from my vantage point. we're still trying to make our way as close as we can to see what we can see. still unclear exactly what the building was, what was going on in there, but i suspect there were a lot of people in the area, near the building, and perhaps in the building. right now there are people we can see trying to account for everybody in the neighborhood. people are covering their faces, as well, because of the smoke that's billowing and wafting out here in the streets of the city. there are countless fire and police apparatus on scene. i can see where the firefighters are trying to attack the flames

more than 60 people were hurt in that blast that happened on wednesday in the harlem section of manhattan. >>> the search and recovery mission for malaysian airlines flight 370 getting wider crews are scouring the indian ocean for the jet. this comes after the u.s. officials says the boeing 777 sent signals to a satellite for hours after it went missing. tom costello has the latest. >> reporter: this is video of the malaysian airlines plane that is missing, flying into los angeles last october. a week after it disappeared in southeast asia, u.s. government source says the plane continued transmitting a ping to an orbiting satellite hours after going off radar and cutting communications with air traffic controllers. an investigator say it's increasingly likely the plane did double back making a left-hand turn flying over malaysia, strait of mall la ka and the indian ocean possibly staying airborne for another four to five hours. that means the plane could have traveled up to 2500 miles in any direction. a vast expanse of the globe that includes the indian ocean. who was piloting the plane

i'm reporting live here in northern manhattan in east harlem.e'll continue to follow this story here on cnn. i'm ashleigh banfield. my colleague, wolf blitzer, my colleague, wolf blitzer, starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. we're watching two major stories. one, a deadly explosion in new york city that's caused two buildings to collapse. we'll have a live report from the scene in a few moments. stand by for that. we're also now in the fifth day since a malaysia airlines plane simply vanished without a trace. there are still more questions than answers about the plane's mysterious disappearance. here's what we know right now. malaysian officials have expanded the search area. now covers 27,000 square miles. almost double the size from just a day ago. the last words heard

. >> so, 15 years ago he joined glickenhaus and company, an investment house in manhattan founded byis father. >> jim came to me and said, "dad, the party is over in movies, can you use me?" >> seth glickenhaus is 98 and until recently worked at his firm four days a week. he recently decided to transition the $900 million in the company's management to newberg-betterman. jim will stay on as senior consultant. >> is there any skill set applicable in terms of the cars and in terms of what you do on wall street? >> it is the ability to look at something and to say, "this is really a very valuable thing. and one day it will be even more valuable." >> so far jim has put together a very valuable car collection. he owns 16 sports and luxury models, including six ferraris, and he keeps most of them on show in this heated 8,000 square foot garage. >> there are worse hobbies a husband could have. >> jim's wife, meg, doesn't share her husband's life-long obsession, but she says love is love. they have been together since they were teenagers. >> i have to say there isn't an ounce of snobbism or

>> well, we don't exactly know why the manhattan u.s. attorney issued the subpoena. the port authority offices are in manhattan and new york city, so they would have jurisdiction and that's where the votes happen and that's where samson has his office and the official actions take place. what is clear when all the dots settled, the subject matter looking into potential conflicts of interest by the chair of the port authority of new york and new jersey is now being investigated and that's a big new chapter because it's a subject area that so far as we know hasn't been under scrutiny before but now is and a potential problem for chris christie who may someday have to defend all of this which is separate from bridge-gate. >> in the hoboken allegations which are also separate from bridge-gate did sort of approach this subject matter. >> right. >> in the sense that the private development that the mayor of hoboken says she was asked to favor was a private development being done by david samson's clients. >> right, and that the port authority had funded a study that benefi

. >>> located on the southern tip of manhattan, chinatown is one of new york's best known neighbors.of thousands of migrants flocked here for centuries, hoping to build a new life for themselves. this part of new york has been influenced by chinese culture many years. but things are changing. a recent report has thrown up a real concern over the future of chinatown in new york, showing a population decrease of 7% since 1990. much of the blame falls on the recent relaxation. many chinese migrants simply priced out. and also big declines in traditional businesses and tourism. what has happened to chinatown in new york? >> chinatown has gone through a transition al cycle like many other growths that preceded us. we are trying to adjust the best we can. >> do you see less tourists come in. >> yes. . after the tragedies of september 11th, this was part of the frozen zone. and it basically pushes -- it pushed the industry over the cliff. it was already teetering. the industry was not competitive in terms of the worldwide market. and so that dispersed a lot of our workers to the other burro

also blowing up the fbi building in manhattan. that fell to me as i went from manhattan to brooklyn to supervise. deciding when to take down that case. what i mean by that -- every day there are more and more people involved in that plot. you obviously want to build the evidence to have a successful prosecution. you want to bring as many involved into that net as you can, but you never want to err on the side of is this going to get away from us and there's going to actually be a bombing? one of the things i did was immerse myself in that case and participate in that decision, when to take that case down, when to make the arrests? >> do you remember when you did that? >> absolutely. you're balancing, getting the evidence you need to prosecute, but never take a chance. so that is really what you are balancing. it is 24/7 agonizing time, no question about it. >> somewhere in colorado is a man named ramzi yousef. what you know about him? >> ramzi yousef was one of the masterminds of the trade center bombings. he was a major participa

con edison is the company that runs municipal gas in manhattan.s called to a possible gas leak right before the explosion. again, that doesn't tell us everything we need to know. it is highly suggestive of what could cause an explosion like this. powerful enough to be felt blocks away and to actually bring down buildings, old, pre-1940s. there were at least 138 firefighters on the scene, a five-alarm fire. that's a term that's familiar to people all around the country in terms of being the highest level of urgency you can have. something interesting to note. you will see on your screen, there are firefighters on top of the building next to it. there are two reasons for that, to make sure it doesn't spread to that building. fire moves up. heat rises, as we all know. the other reason is, because of the wind coming out of the north. it means it is blowing to the south. it blinds the firefighters. it is hard for them to see what they are fighting. it allows them to have eyes in the sky of communication where the men on that building can tell them wher

, several of them, east and west side of manhattan, so this is a real problem. we must get to repair these violations early before this occurs, and we must also force landlords to make these repairs. >> for clarification, we don't know what caused the explosion and building to collapse, 200 firefighters on the scene. now we have one person, a confirmed fatality here. we don't know if these violations that you have noted, the 60 -- >> no knowledge. >> but whether this happened or not, obviously, it's of great concern and you have a working class neighborhood, many of these people barely in some cases able to afford to live in some of these buildings and to know this has 60 open violations of various degrees here is enough of a concern that you've noted it here. >> that's correct. we don't know whether these violations had anything to do with the explosion, you know, we'll find out what was the cause of the explosion as we investigate this, but the fact of the matter is that families are living under these conditions in that building and far too many families acro

a buildings explosion in northern manhattan. we are just getting conformation from the new york police department to fox news that we do have one person dead, 17 others injured, but they don't have more details and are saying the numbers could increase. we are waiting on a live news conference from the fdny. 5-alarm fire and many of the units trying to get the blaze under control. >> a dramatic testimony in south africa. you will recall that oscar pistorius said he thought there was a burglar in the bathroom and shot through the door. the prosecution hauled the door into court and what do the tracks of the bullet say about what happened that night. what happened that night. gunderman group is a go. yes! not just a start up. an upstart. gotta get going. gotta be good. good? good. growth is the goal. how do we do that? i talked to ups. they'll help us out. new technology. smart advice. we focus on the business and they take care of the logistics. ups? good going. we get good. that's great. great. great. great. great. great. great.

it would have been the obvious thing to do would be put in manhattan d. a. to charge the agent or the gallery but he gave them immunity and instead went after the high-profile chairman and ceo of the large multinational corporation. little known fact almost everyone who knows something about this case believes dennis kozlowski is in prison for evading taxes. not true. these charges were dropped by a judge later. there is no crime in new york for a consumer failing to pay sales tax so the prosecutors overstepped a bit, in the indictment, charges related dropped. for kozlowski the damage was already done. things are not going well so as soon as he informed the board of directors he was going to be indicted they found out on friday, he called all the directors individually over the weekend and said i am going to be indicted because he is the ceo of refuge publicly traded corporation has a duty to report to the board of directors even though it is not connected to the company, his personal life is of interest to his shareholders. they fired him the day before he

she used to be a very highly thought of manhattan da. and she married an englishman and moved to london. and after her children grew up, she started a highly investigative agency, for the canadian government. and corporations and banks, and so on. so she's a high flyer. she was hired by the mcgrawhi to investigation, the defense lawyer continue just pick apart the prosecution case. they can say, not only is my client innocent. but i can point to the person who really did it. so the way the defense team worked, there was a team up in scotland, which george thompson was part of, and they were trying to pick holes in the prosecution case, and there were plenty of holes, while jessica, down in london, mounted an investigation into who really did it. >> what did she find that is new. >> well, what she found, i have to be very careful because it's very confidential. but she was able to trace two sources who live in a mediterranean country, one of whom went to a meeting, which took place in malt a. and the meeting was a coordinating meeting bet

if you think about what manhattan is, it's a rock. is a giant rock come and they had to build a subway through this took a lot of places are able to just cut and cover, but there were some places where they were not and that's what they had to tunnel. they tunneled using dynamite. it was risky and dangerous, and bad things happened, and workers died and there was a big explosions because they were unfamiliar with how to control dynamite. they would set off a blast under the city and then they, a pattern as we wait 10 minutes before we go under there. because that gives times for loose rocks to fall into seven. sometimes we'll would happen is they would wake him and, go down and in the rock would fall. they were just learning how it works. for the most part it was cut and cover but there were some spots where the did some actual tunneling your. >> did beach live to see either one of these subway systems open? >> beach diet passionate she did not. each died in 1901. i take that back. it was open when boston open but he was in new york.

most of the manhattan media, obviously, lives and is around manhattan, they love the show, at least describesproblem is, the rest of the country is not following lock step within them. and one final point, you bought up the "new york times" before doing a feature of her on age 11. since that time, according to the american prospector, lena dunham has been talked about or mentioned in the "new york times" alone 300 times. the problem is the audience is simply not following. they don't buy what lena dunham is buying. a lot of it is strictly for shock value and therefore the press comes running. >> what i would say is these new york media outlets constantly steal with each other's subjects and journalists, we've heard they're lazy and -- >> are you saying there's a certain pack mentality? >> i don't think i need to tell you this. you've covered it for years. the pack mentality knows lena dunham is a subject, she's dynamic, she's easy. -- >> and you're leaving out the most important thing. she takes off her clothes a lot and we like to write about that and she gets testy when she's candidate abou

that happened in manhattan courtroom blocks away from the site of the world trade center attacks.tured here with bin laden the highest ranking member of al qaeda to be tried it civilian court since the attacks. accused of killing americans and providing material support to al qaeda. as amy davidson asks, for a nation consumed by the attacks, both in our politics and popular culture, where is the great al qaeda courtroom drama? when it comes to bringing terrorists to justice in the courtroom, we seem to get bored, she writes. the lack of drama not for lack of material. the "wall street journal" reports that the trial is kicking off what looks to be one of the biggest years for terrorism prosecutors since the september and 1th attacks. in the coming months, prosecutors in manhattan will try al masri, accused of plotting to open a terrorist training camp in oregon and abu anas al libi, accused of planning the bombings in kenya and tanzania. the success of the terrorism trial s will be crucial in determining how the united states proceeds going forward. due to pressure from congress a

provoked the inevitable picture on the cover this morning with a mushroom cloud over the center of manhattan. but republicans have been hitting president obama over the course of the last weeks since of the advent of this situation, when mitt romney said that russia was the number one political foe of the united states. the president knocked it down yesterday, and he knocked it down again today calling them not a world power, but he said russia is a regional power that is threatening its neighbors not out of a position of strength, but out of a position of weakness, he was asked about that mitt romney comment yesterday and that was his response. and it really did raise a lot of eyebrows. del? >> mike as always standing by. ukraine's military says it will get out of crimea. on tuesday the parliament responding to the loss of crimea by voting to replace its acting defense minister. jennifer glasse is live in crimea, and tell us about tuesday's action by parliament, and what is next now for ukraine's military. >> well, del, the then interim defense minister in kiev tendered his resignation sayi

. >> fred, a real estate executive in manhattan. the choice of whether to convert this upper mid side apartment building from gas to natural gas seemed obvious - lower costs, cleaner energy sealed the deal. he made the switch had the a cost of $3 million. >> this building has achieved a 47% savings by converting by no.6 fuel oil to gas. >> with a boom driving down the price of natural gas, many businesses and governments are looking to make the switch. >> from what we have seen and the request to convert buildings it's the wait of the building. places like pennsylvania, they are brought more gas online, reducing price. if not for the additional pipeline we wouldn't have been able to. >> ed's decision was financial, his ability depended on infrastructure, and switching can pose problems in cities like boston, philadelphia, and new york, where the pipelines date back to the turn of the last century. new york city has a lot of cast-iron pipes, likely to leak than newer piping. that's a safety concern in a conversion to natural gas. >>

. >> and today donald trump tweeting in part by obama mentioning manhattan yesterday in his response he has single-handedly made it target number one. donald trump joins us. nice to talk to you, donald. >> hello, greta. >> donald, you practically barbecued the president. i didn't he even read the full tweet. this one got you going. >> it's one of the dumbest statements i have ever heard by a president. i don't mean just the president of this country. i have never heard a statement like that. i was watching and i heard it and it was like i can't believe you said testimony he just put a big target on manhattan. i think it's one of the dumbest statements i have ever heard a president make. i don't know if this man knows what he is doing at all anymore. he was exhausted, he was tired. looked like he was just exhausted. it was absolutely the dumb hest -- i guess i have to say one but maybe i can say the single dumbest statement i have ever heard a president make. >> you talk about being exhausted and tweeted about him being exhausted saying president obama looks absolutely exhausted in ne

new york city everybody lives in a further spout -- part of downtown crammed onto the island of manhattan. it was only when trolleys begin to speed up and the electric trolley came along and means of moving people around started to come along that then people were able to move out and move out of the city so at first it was a mild than two miles and then for miles and eventually six miles and the city started to expand and grow. that was critical to get people further out from the downtown area where they were living. that was sort of a big moment in the second half of the 19th century that happened with the expansion of cities. the book sort of developed from that pivotal moment when city started to expand and what happened was a couple of pivotal pivotal -- pivotal moments happen. it did blizzard, storm like nothing we have ever seen since then cripple the entire northeast. for at least 400 people but some estimate more than 1000 people were killed in this lizard. it just devastated the entire northeast. new york boston and everything in between ground to a standstill. when that happene

he claimed that the couple threatened to weight or kill him if he left the two manhattan homes. lawsuit was filed in the manhattan federal court, seeking unspecified damages. >> an environmental disaster is unfolding in north western iran. this was the largest lake in the middle east. it's rapidly trying up. we have more on what is being done to save the lake. >> iran's great lake now a great desert. the waters of arumia in the north-west used to draw holiday makers in their thousands. they'd come from everywhere. now the ancient lake is almost empty, the tourists gone. around the lake the bungalows are abandoned. the one coveted resorts a ghost town. opposite, it's the same. >> this man was in the tourist business, but left it long ago. >> compared to the past when the lake was not dry, it is totally different. when there was water, there were tourists and everything was flourishing. there was enough income. we had no water shortage for agriculture. if the water does not exist, would you come. >> the lake dried, people stopped coming, we loft our income. >> there are many reaso

we should emphasize what we found in manhattan's lower east side is more of a snapshot of public opinion rather than a scientific sampling. >> this is little ukraine, a small enclave in the east village of manhattan. there are more than 113,000 ethnic ukrainians living in the metropolitan area. some of them right here. there's the ukrainian butcher, a bookstore, a church, a museum, and a sidewalk memorial commemorating the dozens killed during recent protests against the former pro-russian government. we came here to see how the ukrainian-american community was reacting to the current crisis. in a small office above a restaurant, we met ukrainian-americans discussing plans to protest the russian incursion into crimea. their goal? to get athletes at the paralympics in sochi to publicly support the pro-western ukrainian government in kiev. >> we can try to get in touch with them through the facebook page, also a lot of athletes, they have their twitter accounts. we can tweet at them. >> maria is the community relations director at a community organization. she's lived in the united states

. ♪ >>> if sherman mccoy lived in manhattan, he would reside at 15 central park west.om wolf novel "bonfire of the vanities." wolf's gift was summing up. now michael gross has done likewise by taking us inside the most powerful address in the world. the book is called "the house of outrageous fortune." it concerns one manhattan address that has housed the likes of lloyd fine and denzel washington and a-rod and sting and jeff gordon. one sold for $88 million. 15 cpw writes, gross is the most successful, insanely expensive tie con-stuffed real estate development of the 21st century. the book opens with a bidding war between two titans. >> icahan was the backer. he was the aging lion of the finance and dan is the younger breed of cat. icahan wanted two apartments on the 39th floor. penthouses. he did not want to pay the price. $45 million. lobe came in and paid the price. icahan went ballistic. >> are they both new money? >> i like to see it old money versus new money. i think it represents two points of view and two kinds of wealth. >> what was the tipping point that mad

>> there is a great opportunity to buy single-family homes in s and even in manhattan as opposed to the buildings as opposed to the tax inequality. so people are making decisions based on the tax rate even if they don't know that is the reason why they are making the decision, but that is leading to differential pricing between the two products. >> are you seeing an impact on demand for your units that you are selling at hudson? >> to give you a sense on the rental buildings, we are taxed, or the owner of a rental building is taxed -- roughly, doing the math, 33% of every dollar rent that is paid goes toward real estate taxes. 50% of the net bottom-line. it is a tremendous tax. >> you are going to stay with me through the half hour. reallso his fight with a estate investment trust called commonwealth him and the father and son who run it. not everyone has given up on the idea for extending benefits -- of extending benefits for the unemployed. on the seasonned finale of "true detective" last night? go it watched it on hbo is probably is still a mystery. and a news conference under way in

most of the snow staying south of new york and manhattan island.f you go to d.c., you'll get a few inches of snow. the heaviest between west virginia and virginia. you see the intensity band tracking across the way, starting tomorrow night into the morning. another winter monday morning commute for the areas in the mid-atlantic. temperatures, when you start out, will be chilly for the halve marathon in new york. starting out at 30. milder into the south and south-west. high temperatures staying on the cool side for most of us anyway. the south-west is staying with the drought and the heat. you can see how we cool off dramatically to the north as the cold air blasts in. slowly but surely we'll get to thursday, when spring begins. >> as part of a continuing series, al jazeera examines the impact of droughts on people and their livelihoods. this morning we turn to focus on the american west, a region reeling from a dry spell. it's not the first one. rob reynolds explores arizona's past for answers to its future. >> today all that is left of mesa grand

this is a -- in little manhattan. this is a sizeable community.any are enjoying a friday night out. thoughts of what is going on are never far from their minds. earlier today, outside the united nations headquarters on first avenue there was a protest to get the members of the security council to do something to help their homeland. >> russian hands off ukraine. >> ukrainian americans protesting outside the united nations in new york. they were angry at what they say is russia's war-like manoeuvrings in their backyard. [ chants ] >> they have family in ukraine right now. it's dangerous situation right now. it's pre-water citation, invasion of russian military forces. >> we'd like to bring attention, and it's really important in ukraine. russia is behaving aggressively. it's frightening, scary. >> ukraine's ambassador to the u.n. was on hand to meet with the protesters. >> they are doing a tremendous job. they are raising the protest around the world. >> we have more than 20 million people around. they will protest on the square's around the world,

the manhattan u.s. attorney's office looking at a case involving an issue that is on a lot of people's minds right now. high frequency trading. charlie gasparino rushing to the studio on what is happening there. and are you worried about stock scams in the so-called pink sheets and their penny stock but but be a leader in the penny stock is up 2,000% just today alone. there's risks and reward. the cto for comwell coalson is with us. >> who in our word didn't see 650 minutes on high frequency trading. it's michael lewis's interview on 60 minutes. a is it possible we could see market manipulation cases in the future due to high frequency trading which michael lewis said was outright unfair? charlie gasparino here with detail. i was a little un-plussed by the piece. nothing in there that was knew except the guy who figured out how the broadband works. >> i was somewhat administer undeoverwhelmed. these high frequency traders can figure out what you're doing, just from alg all algorithms and trade ahead of

if you think about what manhattan is, it is a rock. it is a giant rock and they had to build a subway through this. they were able to cutting cover, but there were places where they were not and that's why they had to tunneling using dynamite. is risky and dangerous and bad things happen and there is some big explosions that happened because they weren't familiar with how to control dynamite. it set off a blast, for example, under the city and there is a pattern if we wait 10 minutes before we go under their because that gives time for loose rocks to follow things to happen. sometimes they would wait 10 minutes, go down and then the rock would fall. there were some spots for they did some actual tunneling. did he live to see either one of these open? >> said he did not. each died in 1901 u.s. open in new york and died before the new york subway opened. so he did not live to see it, but his story is certainly looked on. >> also the engineer -- >> which celebrated its 100th any herstory. the cape cod we know today. [inaudible] >> the que

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in manhattan it costs 200,000 per foot. but in rural areas it drops to $300. con edison said replacing all of its old new york gas mains could take decades and cost opinions of dollars. efforts to replace all leak-prone gas pipes in philadelphia could take as long as 80 years. in baltimore it could take almost twice that time. and yet without those upgrades soon analysts say the nation's emphasis on gas may bring more incidents like what happened in east harlem. investigators say the adjacent gas main was 125 years old. david ariosto, al jazeera, new york. >> that makes you think. today on twitter and facebook i've been asking you, america's infrastructure is crumbling, i have to tell you this is probably one of the more popular questions i've asked. so many answers. brian wrote on facebook we had to shut down one bridge for three weeks and a portion of another bridge for another weeks as we scrambled for funding. and another tweet, i live in michigan and driving the roads is like driving through a bombed-out city. >>> d-plus is the grade given to america's in

i'm actually in what we know as little ukraine in lower manhattan.ight be able to see a shrine to the dead in kiev, there are candles and photographs. people in this ukrainian community in manhattan are very, very concerned about what is happening in their home land. we've seen people with tears in their eyes today when they think about it and as you say john, earlier outside the united nations headquarters there was a protest by ukrainian americans determined to get the ambassadors of the security council to do something to help their country. take a look. >> russia, hands off ukraine. >> reporter: ukrainian americans protesting outside the united nations in new york. they are angry at what they say are russia's war-like maneuverings in their backyard. >> i have family in ukraine right now. and it is very dangerous situation right now in ukraine. it's pre-war situation. invasion of russian military forces to ukrainian territory. >> we'd like to bring attention that's really important in this really urgent issue and ukraine, russia is behaving very,