in the middle part of manhattan flat. but new york is a city of islands. so if you're going to connect together se islands with a subway system, you have to do a lot of underwater tunnelling. are three methods of building the subway system that become prominent. one, is blasting through rock. one is doing underwater tunnelling to get between the is nds of manhattan -- this an image of the sand hog who has had to go underneath water, live compressed air, terrible conditions. possibly contracting the bends putting his health at great risk to a tunnel underneath the rivers of new york city. other method of subway construction was called cut and cover. digging cally entailed a trench in the street, covering t over with wooden planks, building a concrete tube which is what the subways would go through, the subways would run through. laying track. and then ultimately replacing the street above. that's called cut and cover. those are the three major methods of subway construction. to show this picture because this is an example.ng the tailor had to have his build

, in the middle part of manhattan it's relatively flat. but new york is a city of islands, and so if you're going to connect all of those islands together with a subway system, you've got to do a lot of underwater tunneling. so there are three methods of building the subway system that become prominent. one is blasting through rock. one is doing underwater tunneling to get between the islands of manhattan. this is an image of a sand hog underwater,to go live in compressed air, terrible conditions, possibly contracting the bends and putting his health at great risk to tunnel underneath the rivers of new york city. then the other method was called cut and cover, and that basically entailed digging a trench in the street, covering it over with wooden planks, building a concrete tube, which what is the subways would go through, laying track, and then ultimately replacing the street above, that's called cut and cover. those were the three major methods of subway construction. i like to show this picture, because this is an interesting example.

one is doing underwater tunneling to get between the islands of manhattan. they had to live in compressed air, terrible conditions, possibly contracting the bends and putting his health at great risk to tunnel underneath the rivers of new york city. then the other method was called cut and cover, and that basically entailed digging a trench in the street, covering it over with planks, building a concrete tube, which what is the subways would go through, laying track, and then ultimately replacing the street above, that's called cut and cover. those were the three major methods of subway construction. i like to show this picture, because this is an interesting example. this tailor had to have his building shored up, which was done by the subway system as they were building it. but if he saw a crack the his building, he's likely to go to the board of transportation and say, "hey, you built the subway, there's a crack in my building." the builders were very shrewd, and had photographed all the buildings before they started the construction project, so they coul

next, a visit to fraunces tavern at the southern tip of manhattan. to learn the history of the reconstructed 1719 building where general george washington bid farewell to his officers following the revolutionary war. >> fraunces tavern is at 54 pearl street, which is the corner of pearl and broad street in lower manhattan. it was built in 1719 with the delancey family. it was never lived in, it was built at a home, but it was a very mercantile area, lots of sailors coming in and out, lots of ships. so the delanceys never wanted to raise their family here, so it was rented out by different tenants. one of the tenants was mr. holt and he rented a dance hall. in 1762, samuel fraunces purchased 54 pearl street and he opened up the queen's head tavern. and being down here in lower manhattan, you were at the center of commerce. so it was location, location, location. it was a very popular tavern. soon, the politics of the times started really kicking up and samuel fraunces was a patriot, so having a tavern named after your king and queen was not a good ide

a million dollar plot is probably something you can only find in manhattan.iously we don't have a lot of landor space. it may be a different story, but what is your advice to people? obviously every family in person has to deal with this issue at some point. do you set it up beforehand, bargain shop? >> the important thing is to do your research ahead of time. many cemeteries have perpetual care that will provide for eternity. and you need to know what the cemetery's plan is to maintain that place for eternity. he said it best. you don't make many purchases in your life that last forever. so do your research ahead of time. cheryl: do your research. maybe talk to different people. is there a trend now with burials to where people are getting more and more lavish? is that a trend you are seeing? >> well, we find especially as the baby boomers reach the age where they start thinking about end of life matters -- cheryl: when is that? i'm sorry. >> you hope it starts early in life when you're able to sit down with your children, family, and talk about the importan

up next, a manhattan attorney says he is actively investigating u.s. banks.y latest when "bottom line" returns in a moment. ♪ >> manhattan district attorney cyrus vance says he is actively investigating u.s. banks. he spoke with erik schatzker on rik joinsakers," and e me now. the sanctions against bnp paribas -- how did he come to a number? >> that is a question i announced cyrus, mark. people wonder, how do these people, these regulators -- and it is not just the manhattan attorney general. there is eric holder, obviously the attorney of the united states running the united states. ofbillion sounds like a lot money, doesn't it? it sounds like a lot of money to me. it sounds like a lot of money to bnp paribas. this is what he had to say. >> it is not about putting businesses out of business. it is about the right amount of penalty for the crime involved. a $9 billion fine and significant restrictions and transparency in how they are doing the work going forward, we felt, was the right result. mark.re is a formula, the regulators and prosecutors do not police

merger between chase manhattan bank and jp morgan in 2000.it's neat to think that the biggest bank dealing with commodity got it's feet off the ground peddling even more basic needs, water. that's the show for today. i'm ali velshi. >> hi everyone. this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. truce extended. egypt and gaza has agreed to a new ceasefire after rocket fire continues. >>> admits the possible humanitarian mission could be a dangerous one. refugee crisis, nearly 30 million people desperate for

little while that each me, i founded the company, obviously, i use the service, i can't find rooms in manhattan myself to be able to use the service and get some work done. adam: so do you find that the majority of people using it are people in city wholy in the

manhattan's institute heather they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. engineering and innovation jobs. advanced safety systems & technology. shipping and manufacturing. across the united states, bp supports more than a quarter million jobs. when we set up operation in one part of the country, people in other parts go to work. that's not a coincidence. it's one more part of our commitment to america. lou: two illegal immigrants from mexico charged with first-degree murder in shooting death of a off-duty border patrol agent, both have been arrested and de54ed maned -- deported many te before this latest court appear an. appearance. >> good evening, we're getting new reaction from the sister-in-law of this slain border patrol agent, terrifying and also heart wrenching, she described javier vega jr. as a family oriented guy who loved his 3 boys more than anything in the world. up until this very end, this 36-year-old lived a life of service. prior to joining u.s. borde

type of new york landmark. >>> i was taken on a tour of the luxury apartment building in manhattan.'s seen a number of chinese clients grow in recent years. >> reports from first two quarters, we're fully 25% asian buyers in manhattan real estate. this is a mind blowing number. one quarter of every sale in building like this are now coming from asia. we have to anticipate and project that this number is going to get much larger. >> cynthia has swapped beijing for the big apple for the city she works. in the city that never sleeps, she has a place to call home sweet home. she moved in three weeks ago. >> for me it's basic willy the stability. i feel it's safe tore move money from china to new york. it's more stable real estate properties. >> china's rapid economic drive has brought prosperity to many citizens who like their government who want u.s. funds find america irresistible investment. bbc news new york. >>> there you go. follow me on twitter. i'll tweet you back. get me @bbc aaron. in 45 minutes i've got the world business report. we're doing a report on most livable cities in

there's very few viewpoints in manhattan.t could be the rivers and central park, that are priced less. you'll never be able to lose your view here. >> reporter: frederick ekland. you may recognize him from bravo's "million-dollar listing: new york." and his producer had one of the top brokerage teams in the country. their ten-person group has done $400 million in sales so far this year. >> you're entertaining in the great room, you can have staffers coming in and working in the kitchen. >> reporter: you're not doing the cooking yourself. >> exactly. >> reporter: the apartment they hope to sell is in the upscale time warner center, next to central park. the price tag, around $35 million. >> walk-in closets are very important. >> reporter: this is my favorite. >> this was designed by a woman. verify theot of uyrktoyls.tohe aif apessy,es$1 >> t ar on ep.ayusng furniture and a stacked wine cellar. although, not the art. >> somebody buying this house would be like leo dicaprio. i see leo dicaprio buying this house. >> reporter: di

it's hard to compare manhattan to the rest of the country if we're honest about it. i think the goal of the de blasio administration is to add units, to add housing, and remember a lot of this housing, particularly in the gotham west project in the far west side of manhattan are making 70, $75,000 a year, teaching our kids in public school. they're delivering our mail and building the buildings that are going up around us. so the balance that he seeks is middle and low-income housing and middle income housing added to manhattan is a product all of us will see. >> maybe a potential price bubble happening here, i think it's happening in san francisco. don't get me started on what's happening in london. one of the top realtors in new york city. a lot more to come during this hour, including, well, you and your voice. during the show we want you to facebook us or tweet me -- you can e-mail us gerriwillis.com. at the bottom of the hour, we'll read all your tweets and e-mails. bring it back on. >>> coming up next, it is the new buzz word among economists. secular stagnatio

. >>> steven robles faced his fears this morning and went swimming near the pier in manhattan beach. robles is a competitive swimmer and says he needed to get back in the water. >> this is really about getting back up and going again. and i've been doing this, like i've said, i've been doing this my whole life. of course this is a different event this time, but i think it's important that i get back out there. >> great white sharks are frequently spotted in the manhattan beach area, but usually they're juveniles and rarely attack humans. >>> he's a better man that i am. don't get in. don't get in, a poem written by -- rudyard kipling. numbers are set to drop a couple degrees a day for the next few days. traffic moving nicely, by the way. concord, 87 degrees. oakland is 20 degrees back at 67. 66 at san francisco and 76 in san jose. we have northwesterly winds at the airport, 20 miles per hour. blows pretty good too up in napa. a little bit of a breezy finish to your saturday. and the forecast is a breeze as well. the high temperatures you see today, just about the same tomorrow. we'll

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stricker, you won a manhattan type project for this. it's so pervasive. >> it's so pervasive. so many people have the disease. it's been ignored by funding agencies, the federal government. we need really a manhattan project, the kind of thing that addressed aids and created all these wonderful treatments for aids. we need the same thing for lyme disease. we need national legislation to promote this research that will develop better treatments for the disease. >> you want better testing, too. >> much better testing. the xer initial tecommercial te available are terrible. they miss more than half the patients. in contrast, the testing for aids picks up more than 99% of hiv patients. we need better testing. >> amy, grateful that you have a diagnosis. you don't measure life by the things you can't do anymore. we will show some pictures of something you did. this is amazing to me. pictures of you swimming with gigantic sharks. >> i discovered that as my health started coming back, i was saying i'm grateful for this. i'm grateful i can make my bed. i'm grateful that i can read, tha

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-today, i'm going to take you into what i think one of the coolest townhouses in all of manhattan. go. -and atlantis meets old westbury as we tour a house with aquariums for walls. plus, we visit the home of chicago based interior designer, michael richman. but first, an exquisite estate in beverly hills, which showcases a grand lifestyle from bygone era. [music playing] welcome to "open house." today i'm coming to you from an apartment atop the w new york hotel located in downtown manhattan's financial district. this corner two bedroom, two bath home offers sleeping open views of the manhattan skyline, world trade

. >> reporter: as of july the median rent in manhattan is just under $2,500.oms are going for around $3,300. >> when you live in a place like this, i have a rule, one in one out, because i'm at max capacity. >> demand for housing designed for one person is so great that new york has lifted zoning restrictions on one project in the city, and is allowing the development to create an entire building composed of 55 micro units. at between 250 and 360 square feet, these are so small they are built miles away in a manhattan factory. when complete, they will be driven in and stacked on top of each other. >> this is one complete unit. we're standing in what is going to be the hallway now. >> reporter: 22 will be set aside for middle and low-net income people. because these units are small, 17 more people will live in the tower than existing regulations would normally allow. >> the building would be incredibly densely populated so they will leave about a half of inch of space to reduce noise transfer. >> reporter: while in new york this is an experiment, in see at doze

median rent for an apartment in manhattan is under $2500, one bed rooms, 300. evan pays less because he went into an apartment created before the '80s. demand for housing for one person is so great new york lifted zoning on one project and is alog a development to be created composed of 55 mike units. between 260 and 350 square feet, they'll be so small they are built miles away in a factory, when complete, they'll be driven in, stacked on top of each other. this is one complete unit. it's representative. you are standing in the hallway. 22 will be set aside for middle and low-income, paying $900 to 924. the building will be densely populated. they'll have an half an inch of space between each to reduce noise transfer. in new york, this is an experiment. in seattle dozens have been around for years. >> it's a bad idea. it forces an upward escall agency in land prices. in urban areas, a challenge to producing affordable housing is the price of land. sara is watching the experiment saying singles become room mates, competing with families. >> a three bed room apa

>>> back in 2010 when they were building the foundation of the world trade center site in lower manhattan, they found what appeared to be a 32-foot-long section of a sailing vessel. scientists tested the wood by counting the rings on the wood and determining the age. in the journal called "tree ring research," and yes, there is such a journal, they say they've traced the white oak to a forest in the philadelphia area putting the ship's age at pre-revolutionary war. >>> some freakishly cold temperatures being reported for late july in the great lakes. parts of lake superior dropped to 38 degrees while it was 41 degrees in the water in another region of lake michigan. the kinds of numbers we usually see during the great ice melt in april. it happened virtually overnight this past monday when water at the bottom of the lakes rose to the surface. forecasters call it upwelling. water temperatures dropped by 30 degrees accompanied by dense fog. >>> this whole baseball season has been one big farewell, justifiably so, for yankee captain and walk-in hall of famer derek jeter. well last night at a

. >> reachable is closely by footbridge, theodore roosevelt island on ours are only manhattan born president boy as a result there has always been controversy surrounding roosevelt, which coexists uneasily with the wilderness. wasrepressive old daughter alleged to have called it the ugliest thing she had ever seen. was the soul of graciousness when dedicating the memorial. of a sculptor known for , it isure of prometheus flanked by a pylons. plaza complete the memorial. the wilderness backdrop does as least as much to invoke the spirit of the great outdoorsman. a group of indians residing on the island named it and it cost acostine.n for the next 30 years the island was left for staying in recognition of the white house placedationists who environmental's concerns on the white house agenda. theodore roosevelt island boasts 400 varieties of plants and 80 different species of birds. as well as one assertive looking president in bronze. next, an event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the battle of the crater honoring the role of the u.s. colored troops in the fighting. on julyle took firs

and in manhattan.hat started as a movement online, on facebook and twitter, turned into a flesh and blood national group of gatherings today. people came together in denver, colorado. they gathered in chicago, illinois. and in portland, oregon. this is just a nationwide outpouring. people putting their hands in the air to say, don't shoot. this was in orlando, florida. don't shoot in nashville, tennessee. don't shoot, baltimore, maryland. look at this, folks gathered in washington, d.c., big crowd in d.c. crowd in philadelphia, pennsylvania. on and on. around the country today. and this has been the scene, tonight in new york city, just a few blocks away from these studios in times square. in just the past few minutes we've been monitoring this from this live helicopter shot. it appears that protesters continued out of times square and have now been sort of corralled by police. we can't be sure yet exactly what's happening that gives you a contextual shot of where that is in midtown, manhattan. we're g

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these aalready swam around manhattan island. now she just needs to complete a swim across the english channel. >>> well, still ahead, a popular food chain releases new details about a recent credit card breach. >>> an abc news exclusive, alarming numbers of drones forcing pilots to take evasive action. what the faa is saying about it. >>> courtroom drama. emotional statements from the man who admittedly shot a teenager on his porch. why the prosecutor isn't believing his tearful testimony. >>> some bad news for air travelers this morning. ticket prices continue to climb. the first half of this year the average round trip ticket cost over $509. that's up 14 bucks from the same period last year. analysts say the combination of fewer seats and more people who want to travel leads to the higher airfare costs. >>> p.f. chang's is providing new details about a data breach discovered in june. it may have been stolen from 33 restaurants in 16 states. believed they may hastolen card used over an eight-month period. >>> lego sold out of i

liz: you guys have obviously this brick-and-mortar store in manhattan. a lot of them closed down.n my neighborhood in new jersey closed down. you have split the business. you're going to officially split the business. do you have a date on that? because you're splitting the actual retail business from the nook business? march? >> we have announced we're proposing a separation of our retail business from what is currently nook media and said that our anticipated timing would be sometime towards the end of the first calendar quarter next year. no firm date. liz: no firm date. what will that do for shareholders? and does it position the barnes & noble business for vail eventually. >> what it does for shareholders we believe we think it puts businesses with different growth profiles into different separate public companies, separate managements and given the opportunity to optimize shareholder value in total. retail is a very, very good, steady business. despite what pundits said about physical books declinings, we had flat core comp sales last year contending into the first quarter a

palestinian supporters unfurled a large flag from the manhattan bridge yesterday evening as about 500tors marched across the nearby brooklyn bridge. it's the second apparent security breach on a new york city bridge in a month. in july two german artists climbed the brooklyn bridge and swapped out old glory for two white flags. >>> a high school senior in tennessee this morning received or yesterday rather received an in-school suspension after saying "bless you" to a friend who sneezed in class. school officials claim kendra turner actually shouted bless you from across the classroom disrupting a lesson. turner is defending her actions saying she was standing up for her religious beliefs. the school has not yet commented publicly about the incident. >>> and in ft. myers, florida, a police officer is rejecting the label of hero saying he was just doing his job when he rescued a man in a wheelchair during a dangerous thunderstorm. the dash cam was rolling when officer gill benitez found michael arnold stuck in his nonfunctioning electric wheelchair a block from the arm in the pouring r

liver at mount sinai hospital in manhattan where rivers is being treated.d morning, what's the latest? >> reporter: good morning, ukee, erika, and to everybody. right now joan rivers is in the intensive care unit in critical condition, devastating news for fans who are wishing her the best from near and far. >> i truly believe more is better. >> reporter: joan rivers, seemingly strong and sassy at a wednesday night appearance in manhattan. hours later, she went for what was supposed to be a routine endoscopy. but sources tell cbs2, the 81 year old stopped breathing during the throat procedure, and she was in cardiac arrest when taken from the clinic to mount sinai hospital. river's daughter melissa returned there from california, arriving in this black car, through a private gate. soon after, she released a statement: i want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. she is resting comfortably, and is with our family. we ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers. cbs2's doctor max gomez says even if the proce

it prospered and started the bank, the bank of manhattan company. it's bank expanded until the water began to shrink until it sold off its water operations. in the intervening two nuts the >>> the truce in gaza is extended now. residents in the occupied territory battle the spread of disease. ♪ ♪ >>> hello, welcome to al jazerra live from our head quarters in dough law. i am jane dutton. also coming up. no u.s. rescue mission likely but help is still need today thousands of yazidis hiding in iraq's mountains. it was the first papel trip to asia in 15 years, probe fran advertise has touched down in south korea for a 5-day

it prospered and started the bank, the bank of manhattan company. it's bank expanded until the water began to shrink until it sold off its water operations. in the intervening two nuts the >> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>> hello, welcome to the newshour. i'm jane dutton in doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes, more problems for iraq ja's government as fighting breaks out near fallujah. >>> the ceasefire in gaza seams to holding after a shaky start. palestinians use the ceasefire to return to their home. >>> a rear since violence killed hundreds of

. >> not even here in manhattan? >> manhattan is always unique. >> right.n san francisco. >> generally, incomes in manhattan and san francisco are very high as well. typically, people spend about ---third of their mortgage of their income on their mortgage, and now they are about one spending fourth. as rates go back to normal, you'll be spending more of your income on the mortgage. rent is no bargain in san francisco either. there is basically nowhere to hide from high housing costs in the bay area. >> bottom line, then, stan, we --e gotten housing data case-shiller numbers not great by any measure -- where do housing prices go from here, the bottom line? ? -- here, bottom line? slowing, and it is actually a welcome development because if it is not slowly briskly inflating a housing bubble in some markets. >> aren't we still way below the 2008 peak? schiller index, we are still about 10% off of the peak levels, but the issue is those eight levels were unsustainable and we had a housing correction for a reason. >> ok. >> i do not think we should be in a hur

with us is the manhattan da himself. mr. district attorney, welcome and thank you. we should probably begin with news of the day. capital one, a large financial institution disclose in a regulatory filing it has been subpoenaed by your office into money-laundering probe. what can you tell? >> we cannot comment on ongoing investigations so there is not much i can tell you. thing seems clear, that this investigation, which involves check, is not of the scale that we saw in the case of or hsbc or standard chartered. those are really big and ultimately really expensive problems for those things. are there more such settlements two,? >> what i can say is we have been very active in these investigations. we are continuing the investigations. i would not predict what is going to happen when, but we are still very much looking into the areas and i think you can expect us to be active. asked what people want to know and the reason i will follow-up paribasere another bnp lurking out there? $9 billion, guilty pleas come a settlements with your office. standard chartered was se

i have been a developer in manhattan beach for 19 years.the past, in the hottest markets i've ever seen, you have roughly 240 homes available. currently, we are running at roughly 40 homes on the market. we are very scarce. they are the properties that just came on the market last week. it is only 1300 square-foot lot. it has 34 offers. sixhattan beach has four to areas. along the beach is an area called the strand, the oceanfront properties, and those are through the roof in terms of values. here,is property right this just sold for $16 million, equating to about 4000 per square foot for land value alone. this property is obviously a tear down. we have some of the biggest facebooknd managers, ex- people. vince vaughn waterhouse. well.kimmel as a house as virtually the entire los angeles kings hockey team. they prefer to live here because of the lifestyle versus beverly hills, where it is very flashy and fancy. here in town it is more about family. it just has a real sense of community. it is like a micro economy itself, completely differen

manhattan has got nothing to ultralux pad we are about to reveal. >> wait till you see this one.xpensive apartment in the world. this five-story penthouse in monaco's new odeon tower, soars 560 feet over the mediterranean sea. >> the 11,000 square foot residence features, a water slide, private chauffeur, and caterer. the price tag, get ready for it, $400 million. >> yikes. >> so maybe, just go in with a few of your friends, little timeshare going on. >> yeah, monaco, lifestyle of the rich and famous. a lot of wealthy people there apparently land is so valuable there that a studio apartment, just 400 square feet. costs more than $4 million. but, man, i am, i dig that, that water slide. take a look here. look at the water slide going right in. >> kind of need a water slide going into the pool. >> and you would have an audience. all the windows up above. put on a show for your neighbors. >> in comparison here in new york. the most expensive apartment, $125 million. >> doesn't compare. we are moving to monaco or not. >> taking the show to monaco. >>> coming up in "the skinny," advic

ins article here appeared the manhattan morning chronicle. i saw a reference from the manager coming over to manhattan. be playingoing to them and they wanted to see how they could beat the monarchs, so he comes over and scouts monarchs because you would not think people were actually scouting teams at that time. the first time they came through, they handle the local team, beat them 10 to two. mendes is in the game. he is probably one of the earliest hall of famer's, and wilber "bullet" rogan is there and wilkinson was there as well. sweet pearsonmed -- he was a local player and a heck of a good picture. he's probably good enough to go to the big leagues. the big leagues did not always pay a large amount of money, and they could get work on teams like that. they came to abilene and beat abilene but would you believe abilene is proud of that? in that paper, they printed there was some mean satisfaction knowing the kansas city monarchs beat them 13 21. i thought that was interesting. that happens all the time. if you did not eat them, maybe yo

iconically, westin, in 1927 was crossing a street in manhattan and was hit by a car. and was left crippled and never walked again and died two years later at the age of 90. o'leary fared a little better. he would stage walk expeditions before major league walk games. he would challenge a player to run around the races while he walked around once. more often than not he would pass a hat through the stands collecting nichols and dimes and this is how he funded his retirement. i imagine -- he performed before a game in chicago between the white sox and the a's in 1927 and i imagine the players in the dugout who were all born well, well after the golden age they had never heard of pedestrianism and they must have been bemused by the sight of this old man walking around the bases as fast as he could. but would have been blown away he had made more in six days than any of them would make in the entire season of 1927. it was a sport that flashed very brightly for a very short time. and then disappeared almost as quickly as it game on the scene. and i have written the definit

reachable exclusively by footbridge, theodore roosevelt island honors our only manhattan born president. to loveoy who grew up urban pavements less than the rugged vistas endangered by human exploitation. as a result, there's noise been controversy surrounding -- there has always been controversy surrounding the 17 foot statue of president roosevelt which coexists uneasily with the adjoining wilderness. is it repressive of daughter -- his irrepressible daughter was alleged to have called it the ugliest thing she ever saw. she was the soul of grace is this -- graciousness when dedicating it in october of 19 627. the work of the sculpture perhaps best known for the gold plated figure of prometheus writing the waters at new york's iskefeller center, t.r. flying past pylons inscribed with his quotations. a raised plaza, formal plantings, and fountains complete the memorial. the wilderness backdrop does at least as much to evoke the spirit of the great outdoorsman. in the 17th century, a group of indians on the island named it [indiscernible] duringd by union troops the civil war, it later b

and in manhattan.rted as a movement online, on facebook and twitter, turned into a flesh and blood national group of gatherings today. people came together in denver, colorado. they gathered in chicago, illinois. and in portland, oregon. this is just a nationwide outpouring. people putting their hands in the air to say, don't shoot. this was in orlando, florida. don't shoot in nashville, tennessee. don't shoot, baltimore, maryland. look at this, folks gathered in washington, d.c., big crowd in d.c. crowd in philadelphia, pennsylvania. on and on. around the country today. and this has been the scene, tonight in new york city, just a few blocks away from these studios in times square. in just the past few minutes we've been monitoring this from this live helicopter shot. it appears that protesters continued out of times square and have now been sort of corralled by police. we can't be sure yet exactly what's happening that gives you a contextual shot of where that is in midtown, manhattan. we're going to

legal professional professional, she is the adjudicator for various cases and has been the mayor of manhattan beach for two terms and sat on the city council. >> host: how many times did you reach out? to run three times i believe. no responses. >> host: the owner's family did they talk? >> they did not. i had a research assistant reach out and she said she would but then when we called back the family said no so we were not able. >> host: what is the owner doing today? >> she is retired and her family still owns two liquor stores but not in south central. one is since the san for ando valley. she has since retired she has grandchildren and children and her husband. she still attends church because she is very committed to her church work >> host: so she did not get life in prison? >> she did not get any jail time at all and that was the controversy. she was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and a recommendation by the probation officer she received the maximum sentence of 16 years in jail because she did not show remorse what she had done in the interview. but the judge decided she shou

plumbing, the way the trades were routed through fiber optic cables from his trading desk in lower manhattanlic exchanges in northern new jersey. but no one would tell him exactly what happened to his orders once he hit the "buy" or "sell" button. so he put together a team of technical experts, traders and, most importantly, an irish telecom guy named ronan ryan, who was an expert on high speed fiber optic networks. >> ronan ryan: i knew nothing about trading until my first day at r.b.c., when i sat in that three-hour meeting on algorithms. i called my wife afterwards, and i'm like, "holy crap, i have no idea what they just said." >> kroft: ryan had done work for the high frequency traders. he knew what they were building, and he knew about the colossal amounts of money they were prepared to spend. he told brad about a company called spread networks that had laid a high-speed fiber optic cable from the futures market in chicago to the exchanges in new jersey. they spent $300 million just to shave three milliseconds off the fastest route, and were leasing access to high frequency traders at $

. >> reporter: when the woolworth skyscraper opened in lower manhattan just over a century ago, it was the tallest building in the world. now, the neogothic tower frank woolworth built as a temple to the five and dime is about to become condos for the one percent. >> what we intend to do is to make these into 34 residential really magnificent condominiums. >> ken horn is president of alchemy properties which is developing the the top 30 floors. >> every single unit in the wool woolworth building will have great views of manhattan and not many where the view is framed by something as spectacular as the terracotta we have here. >> what does the luxury customer who will buy in a building like this want? >> the best kitchen you can imagine, the most spectacular bathrooms, because they are going to be spectacular pieces of art. >> the interiors of the woolworth condominiums are being designed by tierra despomt who is also working on the ritz hotel in paris. >> do you think it is important for your potential buyers that you have an interior designer? >> yes. >> many of our buyers want to kno

i know they played at fort riley, at junction city, they were at manhattan, clay center.can go out west. practically any city that was a city had a baseball team, and they had a kansas league that they would play in. they played all the those cities of not one year, different years. i would do research. i will get your name. i will be happy to supply that information. >> about 1959, satchel spent the summer and pitched for salina blue jays. unfortunately, we still, as a team, suffered under the discrimination scenarios. they didn't spent many nights overnight. but they traveled by bus. of course, after the game liked to eat somewhere. there were many times -- the time i remember was in mcpherson they told satchel that he would come in the back door. the whole team got up and left. i commend the manager and sponsor for that. i was fortunate enough to be the bat boy. i got to see a lot of satchel and the other players. as late as 1959, the black ballplayers were still suffering under that discrimination. >> that's an incident. i appreciate that comment. i was in nevada last

in manhattan in 1964, an experiment as dinner as theater, not far from broadway it had celebrities andhrough the door. on hot tables, american flavors prepared with flare, chefs, feeding shrimp and steak and fascination with american culture. >> this man is responsible for the most successful oriental restaurants in america. for 20 years if you wanted great oriental food you want to him. >> reporter: rocky aoki, the brains behind the brand, came to the u.s. as a wrestler and burst into business selling ice cream in harlem. >> he was a hot air balloonist, speedboat racer, car racer, quite the entertaineren his own right. >> aoki had an outsized influence, in that ever popular table top show. five decades on, still landing its place on tv and in the movies. here in "beverly hills ninja." >> oh. i got it. >> rapper young jeezy finding inspiration in the shrimpy show and benihana. even skateboarders making the restaurant name popular on the streets. but the real draw after 50 years is still those tricks, which i learned, aren't as easy as they look. [ indiscernible ] >> here we go. >> this