it was called the manhattan engineering district, and for short, the manhattan project. >> the atomic heritage foundation partnered to create the oral history project. tells us a little bit about the organization. >> i founded the atomic heritage foundation in 2002, especially for the purpose to preserve the manhattan project and its historic site to try to create a manhattan project national historical park and to preserve its history. we partner with the las alamos historical society, which has its roots in the 1960's. its mission is to interpret the history of los alamos. what got us started was a grant from the institute for museum and library services. that may does eligible for the grant that established the manhattan project site. i started in 2002. i understood it was a quickly aging population. ironically, we had these interviews for 10 years or more before we had the funding to create the website. >> did the end of the cold war make this project possible? cindy: the end of the cold war was the signal to ramped down the nuclear weapons complex. there was funding provided to c

that is the latest from lower manhattan. back to you. ben: president obama, speaking of storms tour parts of new orleans devastated by hurricane katrina. hard to believe that is ten years ago. juliet: when you go down there it looks great in the tourist areas that there's a lot of work to be done. 1800 people died when the city's levees broke flooding the lower ninth war. the president spoke at a new community center, an area under 17 feet of water, he praised the progress that has been made but there's a lot more to do with hurricane katrina cause $150 billion damage in the gulf area. the second man to walk on the mission has his sights set on mars. ben: buzz aldrin will work with the 40 institute of technology on a plan to colonize the red planet by 2039 which happens to be the 70th anniversary of the apollo levon moon landing. the astronauts as it won't be at one way for a bonnet ten year tour of duty. juliet: how much to spend ten years on mars? ben: you couldn't pay me enough. $100 million, you lose ten years of your life. juliet: $

bit about a little the people behind the manhattan project. did they know what they were doing? projecthe manhattan must have employed something like 600,000 people over the course of the three years that it operated. , buts a very short project it built the equivalent of the panel -- the panel canal. panama canal. they were laborers recruited from all over the country. they were construction workers. none of those people knew what they were doing. all of these hundreds of thousands of people kept the secret because they didn't know what the secret was. they came to work because after the depression many people were just subsistence farmers or driven off their firms in the midwest. to have a steady paycheck was an attractive proposition. scientists who had fled the persecution of the nazi regime in europe. we benefited from the anti-semitism that hitler and his allies represented. we had the leading scientists and physics of the day. j robert oppenheimer, who was in charge of the research would be enough. at los alamos alone, there were 5000 people. they supplemented the senior

in lower manhattan. a lot of rain in a short time. that happens with slow-moving thundershowers and they are still going on. in the northeast sections of new jersey around hudson, you are likely to run into quite a bit of localized flooding, then heading out for new work and morris county those thundershowers are still going on. in the city came in and out quickly. look for a pretty active morning for some of us. we have a flash flood warning in effect for that point and that is the south end of manhattan until 6:00. advisory's around that, if you have thundershowers in your neighborhood is likely to be putting down a lot of rain and try to get out there. 73 central park, 66 in sussex, depends where you are, some places are clear, some deal with those thundershowers in the area but look for more of that through the day, the same basic weather scenarios we had yesterday, more cloud cover in the afternoon which will limit high temperature to 90 later today, 84 your high tomorrow, 83 thursday, biggest risk days with showers and storms th

manhattan bound side still open. in the meantime, you'll need to head over to the williamsburg or the manhattan bridge. police activity is on the ramp as well. >>> we also have issues on the 5 train now. delays on uptown 5 trains. otherwiso, the roads look pretty good as well as the rest of the rails. more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. >> lauren, thank you very much. >>> police just made an arrest in the stabbing death of actor morgan freeman's granddaughter. lamar davenport killed 33-year-old e'dena hines early sunday morning. the aspiringelctress was found lying in the street near her washington heights home. she had been stabbed several times. davenport taken into custody at the scene. witnesses say they saw him attacking hines and screaming. >> get ou m get out devils. i cast you out devil. in the name of jesus christ,ke cast you out. >> in a statement, morgan freeman mourned hines saying in part, the world will never know her artistry and talent and how much she had to offer. her star will continue to

we're going to give you a a manhattan." 'cause this is new york, and there you go. so he goes, "okay." so the guy starts making a a manhattan for higgins. and all of the sudden goes, "mr. fallon, you would like a a gin and tonic, right?" and i go, "that's my drink. i love that." so i go, "sure." so they mix higgins' drink and then -- he's done stirring it, and pulls out this giant glass with a giant ice cube in it, and pours it i- - it's like a bucket of manhattans and a giant cucumber, and gives it to you. and then he pulls out a tiny juice glass and -- [ laughter ] --uses an eye-dropper. like, and all with a straight face.

flood advisory for essex, manhattan and brooklyn. you see a flood warning now from the midtown tunnel southward, 59th street to the south. that southeast corner of the park is where there is the flood warning. a couple of cells this morning. you take in the entire tri- state region, cells popping up just over the upper best side and around the park. good lightning strikes. about 3 or 4 in that batch in ventral new jersey and then you see this cell dissipating across the great south bay and heading to the south shore of long island. back to the west there is a cold front. this will come to us thursday. you see on our accutrack radar, lightning strikes have been here around lower manhattan and toward jersey city. those are kind of sliding eastward and up the upper west side. there was a lightning strike on canal street a few moments ago. these cells are dissipating. another lightning strike here at kenmore alternative high school in bayonne. those are ending and dissipating. the downpours of rain throughout essex, hudson, union county

tianen was laid out like manhattan.to think of is of the: nation of the manhattan project was something that no one could have ever invented. it happened by. chance. who would believe it? unless there is some guiding light of their that is really telling us what to do. it makes you think about that. >> people have no idea. benjamin: no. that was long before we got there. we had two resident huts, and a laboratory hut that was air-conditioned, much fancier than our living quarters. it had a dark room because it was necessary to test -- use the street camera, which i should mention was shipped over. the camera we used at los alamos was shipped over to test the switches, the real switches. i was in the hut when i was told that someone was going to give us a visit. i was dressed in my usual tianen way. i had my boots on and shorts, and that was all. i didn't have assured. the people in charge said, this will not do because curtis levay, a big shot general, would not like to see a g.i. dressed like you are. so, it was too la

now moved on through manhattan. now it is just to the north and kind of starting to weaken as it heads up into northeast, new jersey but there have been some heavy showers that came u through there. that's the live radar. here's fox 5 sky guardian 3d no lightning with it. thunder shower cluster right will is losing its intensity. look how slow it is going and in a short period of time and a reason that you get localized flooding that is going to continue to happen for you. all right but high pressure is stiling in control other than ice latessed storms that keeps us quiet. expecting sunny skies. expecting high pressure to drift further to the east out into the atlantic waters. but for now we have that, and 73 montauk with depends on where you are. you've got either some showers skies. we see the risk of more shower and storms deeper into the day. here's the future cast that doesn't bring us much of anything today but it gives us more cloud cover tomorrow that's reason we're expecting our temperatures to come down mo

ben: bill deblasio announcing the flood plan to lower manhattan and other coastal areas across the city. >> could ban the sale of sugary drink to minors. soda. juliet: talk about the nanny nation. ben: i am ben simmoneau. juliet: i am juliet huddy. friday august 28th. not the we don't love our job but we hate waking up at 2:30 in but morning. >> nice to see you on this friday. ben: you may have talked us into going to the u.s. open. it is fairly confirmed. we got to make sure they will let us in. >> meteorologist: a minor detail to take care of. we will keep you posted on at. let's talk about this morning. when you step outside in this very early hour like we did on the show temperatures feel pretty cool, we are in the 50s, 54 in poughkeepsie, 50 in sussex, 56 in central park, it feels good, 65 n. isil, 68 the current reading for montauk point. looking at are winds, nice and white at the moment and nice and dry on satellite radar. -clouds out there but overall we expect a nice dry weather pattern. high pressure is in control, that brought great weather over the last couple days and will

the brooklyn bridge is closed into manhattan. manhattan bridge, williamsburg fine. construction at the hudson river crossings. should be cleared away by 5:00 a.m. minor delays, however. we have alternate side of the street parking rules in effect. ken, over to you. >> thank you. >>> the australian government will continue to lead search efforts 2500 miles away from where a fragment of missing malaysia airlines flight was found. french investigators determined the wing fragment that washed ashore was part of that particular missing 777. investigators will now use the piece of recovered debris to try to determine what caused the plane to crash. >>> more than 40,000 people gathered in japan this morning to mark the 70th anniversary of the united states atomic bombing of hiroshima. the solemn ceremony was at peace memorial park. it's near the epicenter of the people. another bombing at nag gay zack can i three -- nagasaki three days later pushed japan to end world war ii. caroline kennedy was at the ceremony. >>> in wisconsin, a candlelight vigil marks three years since

i haven't felt constrained. >> how that manhattan project changed science. ,> before the manhattan project the league sources for any kind of science were private. it was all private money. that office did many constructive things. the national science foundation was created as a direct result for things like the manhattan project. it has been without bounds. as time has gone on, the government funding has been so successful that private companies have tended to give up their basic research. the labs no longer exist. likesed to speed something some more like half $1 million. but no more. essentially left that for the government to do. . think that is a tragedy congress doesn't really realize that this has happened and they now have a responsibility where before it was a shared .ensibility most congressmen don't really appreciate that. they have left the leadership to the europeans. they could cancel it. activity is taking place. they have all picked up where the u.s. is by default. it is my own area. particle physics that has some of the most. at the same time, we could spend enormous quan

cops arrived arrested her and took her to manhattan central booking. while there she said she didn't feel well, so yesterday police brought her to new york presbyterian lower manhattan hospital and it was there where she ditched her handcuffs and made a run for it. cops think that she also shed her hospital gown and is now in hers is latest in a disturbing litany of escapes from police custody in the city. stevenson escaped from police custody in east harlem he was recaptured. last month arthur collins escaped from a holding cell at the 25th precinct. he turned himself in. and who could forget this surveillance video of detectives chasing after tariq arnold after he made a run outside of the 22nd precinct in june may have been able to temporarily outrun the winded officers but couldn't outrun the law. he too was captured. >> so how did tiffany newman get place? a source tells me that yesterday she told police that she might be pregnant. copscops are not sure if that is true or if that was just a reduce to get her here. but either way. this is another e

the manhattan had two 15 inch guns. i'll tell you right now, and of theiver fell into one 15 inch guns and doesn't work. they spiked their own gun. they are just firing one of these huge 15 inch guns. the hartford would come to ram the tennessee and the lackawanna would come and ram the hartford inset of the tennessee. farragut is back up there, tied to the rigging, looking over. the lackawanna rams right where he is up on the mast. they crack the hartford all the way down to the waterline. farragut shouts, "get out of my way." -- the monicao circle to bramg -- to ram the tennessee again. ramming the tennessee doesn't do any damage to her. at this time the manhattan has gotten her ring. she is 50 feet off the tennessee. she will send a 15 inch solid shot into the case of the tennessee, which crack's feedback and the five inches of iron. it andck said -- crack's light started coming into the deck. buchanan had these nets set up so splinters to not injure anyone. however when that section of the -- the bolt that bolted th

. >>> plus, a new plan to keep this from happening to lower manhattan the next time the city faces a destructive hurricane. >> first, a look at what's on nbc 4 tonight. 11:00. caring about the things that make each of our clients unique... ...that's what makes riverspring health unique. with the help of comfort keepers, i'm keeping my mom healthy! i'm keeping dad on schedule. i'm keeping my mom happy! comfort keepers in-home professional caregivers can provide meal planning and preparation, health and wellness services and personal care services through custom care plans that can change as needs change, so your aging loved ones can stay happy and healthy in their own home. >>> breaking news now. and these pictures are from chopper 4 in lower manhattan where southbound and q trains are running on the r line from canal street to dekalb avenue with delays. this is the result of a track fire that began around 5:30 in brooklyn. less than an hour ago. you can get the latest online and our mobile app. lester holt with a look at what's ahead on "nbc nightly news." >> we're following up on th

it started with the manhattan project. it was entirely due in the scientists sector. they were keen on getting control. there were some efforts to give an international control. we all ended up in the atomic energy commission. it was a reasonable way. that was always entirely due to the activism of scientists. this is a very effective organization. entirely inspired. then there was the establishment of the t cell -- of the group that consisted of mostly physicists. that was a very effective organization in advising the president. when i first went on psac, there is ahead of the radiation lab at m.i.t. during the war. then he became head of the psac. is very active and inviting. they would have to sign off. as a matter of fact, it had been inhabited during the war. after nixon get rid of psac, everything pretty much fell apart. it is the office of science and technology. the chairman is pretty much a unit. originally that was not the case. it all started a change in the 1970's. i say this to give you some idea of the high esteem with which science was held in the gover

of theifications manhattan project have just been without bounds. as time has gone hashe government funding been so successful that private companies have attempted to give up doing basic research. bill labs -- be ll labs exist. ibm used to spend something like -- certainly in the 60's and 70's, the use of spent something like half $1 billion on their research laboratory. no more. they have essentially left that for the government to do. i think that is a tragedy. gradually we are learning to deal with it, but at the same time, congress does not really realize that this has happened is that they now have the responsibility, whereas if it were a shared responsibility, now it is entirely the government's responsibility to support this. said, i am afraid most congressmen don't really appreciate that. as near as i can tell, anyway. they have left the leadership in certain fields entirely to the europeans. for example, energy physics. killed the collider that was being built in texas after $2 billion had been spent on it. they suddenly canceled it. -- si

brooklyn bridge is closed to manhattan. no major problems manhattan bridge, williamsburg. willis avenue bridge an accident being cleared. street cleaning rules are in effect today. shirleen, over to you. >> heather, thank you. >>> we are seeing video this morning of a terrifying hold up in the bronx. police say a man with a gun stormed a gas station in mott haven, pointed a gun at the clerk and ran off with a thousand dollars in cash. the robber is still on the loose. >>> on long island, a worker at an assisted living center will be arraigned on charges she stole money from a 90-year-old woman man police say she grabbed the clark out of the victim's pocketbook. clark was supposed to be giving the woman medication. >>> a nearly 4-year-old faa study may cause concern among air travelers today. >> this is an old study. the 2012 report just released yesterday reveals chronic fatigue among air traffic controllers by long schedules and short turn around time. 20% admitted making significant errors like allowing planes fly too close to each other. more than 60% of controllers sai

rain is pushing east of manhattan. temperatures in the mid-70s and we're looking at mid-70s to long island, coastal connecticut down the shore. wind out of the south pumping up the moisture here across long island out of the southeast, and then the winds turn to the north up toward monticello north of the area. flood advisories in parts of area where the rain is the heaviest. that's dutchess county and down towards monmouth and ocean county. that's sliding eastward through nassau county and around brooklyn and queens. behind that we clear out. rainfall amounts look at sussex an inch and a quarter of rain so far, and toms river an inch and 3/10. >>> i've been looking at this webcam in queens as you travel on to the l.i.e. getting on to the bqe ramp, and it looks as though we still have some kind of activity on that ramp. this looks like it's a tractor- trailer just about to pull away, so this tractor-trailer may have been involved in that accident, so we may have that ramp reopening shortly. let's go over to our maps an

and they had to take a ferry across to manhattan. electrification meant they could build a tunnel under the hudson river. and they did that and then they built a tunnel under the east river to connect to the long island railroad. that was another reason the new york central realized it had to build a giant, majestic, grand central terminal in the middle of manhattan. in 2011, metro-north became the nation's busiest commuter railroad. we might not think of it is that but it actually surpassed the long island. this book is not just about the building. it is the biography of grand central, it is about people. william, the chief engineer who came up with this ingenious plan to build grand central. brian henry, a metro north cop who befriended the homeless. audrey johnson who fields customer complaints. the most frequent, guess what, where's the restroom? how do i get out of here? there are so many passageways. and the third, a tribute to good taste, where is the apple store? people can't find it because it is so subtly woven into the fab

in parts of manhattan, 14 feet of water. 7 subway lines shut down. today the mayor helped put together go bags with flashlights and batteries and announced the city will spend $100 million on a new effort building berms and temporary flood walls to hold back the east river. >> for people in this community it's vivid what it means that there is still a threat out there. and we don't take it lightly. >> reporter: we don't know what the berms and flood walls will look like but the city is spending the extra hundred million in hopes of attracting more federal money to protect lives and some of the most expensive real estate. >> it could happen again. we are in a red zone. it's a hill that goes down. i am on the top. these other buildings back here get flooded. >> reporter: do you worry about it lapping again? >> yeah. >> reporter: the mayor's announcement comes on the tenth anniversary of katrina and a couple of months from the third anniversary of sandy. >> we learned some painful lessons from katrina and painful lessons from sandy. we are trying to do

. >>> and now back to that breaking news in manhattan. traffic tiups on the west side at the worst time, too. chopper 4 over the scene in hell's kitchen where manhole explosions are causing delays up and down the west side and in midtown, as well. the blasts sparked a small fire underground at 45th street and 9th avenue. nobody was hurt. right now coned crews on the scene trying to fix this problem. traffic, though, on the west side, the bridges, tunnels, it's been a headache tonight. we'll keep you connected with updates here and on the news 4 new york app. >>> a brooklyn man as pleaded guilty to supporting isis. 25-year-old abdul rasual is from uzbekistan but lived in this apartment building. he's one of four arrested back in february, suspected of having ties to the terrorist group. according to court documents, he talked about assassinating president obama and bombing coney island. he faces up to 15 years in prison. >>> new here at 5:30, we're making calls to get details about a death investigation in shelton, connecticut. somebody ca

he's reporting for jury duty in manhattan. yesterday, the republican presidential candidate provided details on his immigration policy. he told nbc's meet the press that he wants to end the constitutionally protected birth right citizenship for children of illegal immigrants living in the u.s. >> we have to make a whole new set of standards. >> you're going to split up families? you're going to deport children? >> no no, we have to keep the families together, but they have to go. >> what if they have no place to go? >> we will work with them. they have to go. chuck, we either have a country or we don't have a country. >> trump also said he's okay with sending u.s. ground forces to fight isis overseas but would want our middle east allies to pay for it. >>> advisors to vice president joe biden have reportedly told him he must decide byauk 1 if he's running for president. sources close to him say biden it would be difficult but not impossible to aassemble a viable campaign team but nowhere near hillary clinton. >>> a plane went

the manhattan project would validate the big science paradigm. the atomic bomb could not have been invented bay solitary physicist using handmade equipment. it required an investment of billions of dollars, armies of scientists and technicians, laboratories built on an industrial scale. the manhattan project was the first great big science program and it proved how powerful an approach this could be, while hinting at how hard its results might be to control. now, many of you no doubt know at least the outlines of the make offering the atomic bomb. the efforts starting with albert einstein's letter to franklin roosevelt in august 1939, actually wherein by a hungarian physicist and signed by einstein, observing the recent discovery of nuclear fission implied that bombs could be constructed from fissionable uranium and warning that nazi germany might already be working on the problem. and that fear brought government and the community of physicists together to make sure we would get the bomb first. lawrence and big science would play a paramount rol

you can see the manhattan bound side of the span is open. weekend track work out there. 1, 4, 5, 6, a, e, f, n, q, r. expect delays and service suspensions. once you get to the platform, you can see that. alternate side of the street parking in effect. more weather and traffic on the 4s. >> thank you, lauren. >>> we're learning that a 2-year-old girl was one of the victims on that deadly accident in yorktown. the toddler was a passenger in the suv that went airborne and then landed right in front of oncoming traffic on saturday. two brooklyn residents were also killed in the four-vehicle collision. police are still investigating the cause of that crash. >>> the taxi and limousine commissioner are meeting today. this comes one day after members of a new reformed taxi medallion driver association rallied in lower manhattan. uber and lift, they would like them to face the same regulations as medallion owners. >> if somebody come, we don't mind. let them the same policy they have to follow. let them change the cars every three years. let us trea

again, a federal agent shot in lower manhattan. the circumstances surrounding that, though, remain unclear. >> and fox 5 health news, new guidelines for treating morning sickness. they've been updated now. expectant mothers can get safe and effective relief with a drugs. alison: this is dr. devi from the nyu school of medicine. nice to see you. >> there are two drugs. one is vitamin b 6. symptoms. antihistamine. you think of it in terms of allergies. it blocks acid production in the stomach, which can help. a lot of times the acid or acid vomiting. steve: that's a huge problem for many women. the morning sickness thing. a lot of people are trying to eat healthier, more organic, get rid of the pesticides, the fruits and vegetables. experts say when it comes to trying to clean off the vegetables, tap water is the best way to get the job done. alison: this makes me feel better. i barely do that. i'm terrible. >> you don't need the fancy washes. you can use the water pressure from the tap water to get all the dirt and mold and other st

he's in lower manhattan tonight with more. >> reporter: as we just saw there, there was a huge media presence here in lower manhattan all day long today both locally, nationally, even internationally for donald trump facing something all of us had to face and that is jury duty or at least some of us have had to face. ultimately he was dismissed from the jury but trump is in a lot of controversy for another reason and that is his new policy on immigration. it could affect millions. donald trump says he didn't know he had been summoned to jury duty before, claims those summons went to one of his many addresses, he got fined but today no complaints at all about jury duty. >> it's the system, we go through it and it's a great system. it's a system that works and they do a fantastic job and i met some wonderful people. >> reporter: trump is taking this jury duty break from the campaign trail right as the latest polling shows him still way out in front. jeb bush has fallen all the way to fourth. over the weekend trump complained at the iowa state fair and promptly caused more controversy w

sunnyside, queens area, the queenstown bridge, midtown manhattan coming down. there's another cluster of showers and storms coming down. these are all drifting off toward the east. the bottom line through this morning, isolated showers and thundershowers could pop up from time to time. expect a brief heavy downpour. the heat wave continues especially inland. temperatures get knock dound 8 ed down. right now lauren scala has more. what are the conditions like? >> on hillside avenue, there's a breakdown in the left lane. there's repairs taking place and on route 21. it's shut down in both directions. a spot to avoid. alternate side-of-the-street parking rules are in effect and we'll have your next weather and traffic update on the 4s. >>> a summit could help get the ball rolling on the funding fix for the hudson tunnel. tracie strahan joining us from penn station in newark. good morning, tracie. >> reporter: good morning, kerry. there was trouble on the tracks less than 24 hours ago. the train was delayed up to an hour yesterday because of a switch problem. there

the biggest increase happening in manhattan. shirleen allicot is in tribeca with more. >> reporter: >> reporter: one of these costs $1,200. if it gets lost or stolen on your watch you have to pay for it. >> this is convenient. i park it, walk away. and it's great. >> reporter: but apparently so do thieves. new numbers show thefts in new york city so far this year have soared to 476 compared to 200 last year. manhattan had the most, 296 bikes stolen this year compared to 139 last year. the problem? officials of the bike share program say riders aren't returning them properly. >> when you dock it they say it's almost impossible to take it out once it's docked. >> for the company's sake it's not a good idea to be having these bikessable to be taken like that. they have to do something to up braid the security. >> that coupled with leaving the bikes unattended while running errands made it easy for thieves. >> this pennsylvania man was caught red handed when port authority police pulled him over for side sweeping a police cruiser. i

in manhattan where the f. i will have to move out of state to get married when i get married one day. why is that funny? the cost of a wedding in manhattan for example is $89,615. >> the store is traditionally no matter how old you are at this point you have to have somebody fly to india with your measurements and actually bring them back. we had a family member on a trip who sent the measurements over and my sister got married in paint. >> are you planning to do something like this? >> i thought it was cool. i shopped around and looked at it. >> a nightclub and a burger shop? we take you inside the hidden bar. >> this bar has most expensive bathroom door and all of new york. it's art. >> the new york you wouldn't know it unless you are in the know so for this adventure i went to the west village at the intersection of seventh avenue and barrow street where there's a huge -- i went inside and saw her eating her burger and fries and diaster do you know if there's a bar somewhere around here? aybar? there is no

lower manhattan, it's a little hazy to start off this morning. i think the headline of hazy, hot and humid is the one that takes us through the next several days. it gets hotter as the days go o. if yesterday didn't do it for you, we add a few degrees today and then monday and tuesday we could have near record heat around here. 66 pow keep city -- poughkeepsie. a quick warm-up today. the heat really builds. it gets even hotter tomorrow. the humidity will make it feel like the triple digits as we head early into the week and possibly record setting heat into tuesday. we have a couple of more days of this. if you were struggling yesterday, really make some school. morristown the temperature that's what we're looking for across much of the area as degree mark. we get 94 in the city. high pressure still in control allowing the southwest wind to pump into the area. it will have a tropical feel. on monday 96. that puts us in record territory for hot temperatures. on the futurecast, not a lot of several days. there could be a spot shower monday afternoo

from manhattan to new jersey where the gunman is from. authorities are camped outside his home in fort lee waiting for a court ordered search warrant. aj ross has new details on the motives. >> reporter: sade, this quiet and tucked away fort lee community has been turned upside down as they're waiting for the search warrant. police don't want us to shine a light in that direction. there is a large police presence and we're learning new information about an ongoing dispute he had with the department of labor. clues that may help them figure crime. >> i heard a helicopter and i saw the police cars. >> reporter: disbelief and shock blanketed this fort lee community friday night as neighbors came home to crime tape and heavily armed police surrounding the home of 68-year-old kevin downing, the suspected shooter inside this lower manhattan federal building. >> i said hello and good-bye. >> i might have seen him once or twice but i don't know who he is. >> reporter: he is a former employee of the u.s. department of labor and statistics. he has

. >>> it's spider versus a seado in a race -- >> around the entire island of manhattan manhattan. >> see if the winner comes by land or by sea. >> parents flock to people's park in china. >> they're all out there trying to marry off their kids. >> get a fascinating tour of the shanghai marriage market. >> i'm just looking around. >>> and if you combine hot women and fast cars you've got yourself an internet hit. see who has taken jo jo and maria on a wild ride. >> is this brought to us in jiggle vision? >> the call came in to police and firefighters a disabled vehicle in the middle of the street in china, that black suv is the one in question you see a man slumped over the steering wheel, a lot of concerned citizens trying to get around the car and make sure that this guy gets the help that he needs. when police arrive you notice that the guy isn't completely out of it. there is some movement inside the cabin, they're knocking they're trying to get this guy to wake up, hope that he's all right but eventually firefighters have to show up. police aren't able to get this guy out. he doe

the brooklyn bridge open to manhattan. holland tunnel, new jersey turnpike approach has an accident. go with 1 and 9 approach if you can. truck routes 1 and 9 stalled vehicle in jersey city. lincoln and holland minor delays. route 80 west at the pennsylvania border an accident being cleared away. traveling up the meadowbrook north at the southern state another accident is being cleared there. on or close to schedule as far as mass transit goes. 4 trains downtown you have express service only. don't pay attention to the h, 149th to 125th because of signal problems. taking the new jersey turnpike western spur north near 15-e an overturned tractor trailer. routes 1 and 9 at zip avenue -- sipp avenue, disabled vehicle. i was just telling you about that. street cleaning rules are in effect. >>> twitter is letting you catch up on the favorite jets and giants highlights. >> possible fix to make iphones stronger. >> in today's techbytes, a thicker iphone. >> there are reports that apple's next phone will slightly sturdier. early c

that is latest live from lower manhattan this morning. ben and juliet back to you. ben: robert moses for us downtown, thank you very much. president obama in the meantime toured parts of new orleans devastated by hurricane katrina ten years ago this week. >> 1800 people died when the lower ninth. the president spoke at a new community center in an area that was devastated under 17 feet of water after katrina. he praised progress that has been made but still a lot more to do. our work won't be done when 40% of children still live in poverty in this city. that's not a finished job. that's not a full recovery. juliet: there was about 150 billion dollars, 150 billion dollars of damage in that guflt area after hurricane katrina. >> was there after at storm, it was all over the place. questions this morning about whether subway, the restaurant chain knew jared fogle had inappropriate interest in kids. woman who owned several subway franchises in florida warned company 7 years ago that fogle had a sexual interest in children. but they did nothing about it according to the

we are following the deadly shooting in a federal building in manhattan. today they are searching the suspect's home for what led to the shooting, and eyewitness news is live. >>> a deadly night in newark and killed. suspect. as well. >>> good morning; everyone. a live look at the empire state building on this pretty nice saturday morning, august 22nd. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for being with us. i'm rob nelson. >> and i'm michelle charlesworth. >> today is going to be beautiful it hasn't been bad at all. >> it's been good. >> yes! >> you're dressed in your summer white. >> i know! beachy! >> i have like half of the beach around my neck. no more shells left. it's all good things. speaking of good things, meteorologist amy freeze is over there. good morning to both of you. >> didn't you work late last night? >> i worked the 11:00 news last night. >> every single show except for the morning. >> i don't want to say it's easy, because it's so difficult, but it has been a very pleasant pattern, so not a lot to get worked up over. we vii 30 degrees ri

it would be named the manhattan military engineering district. dr. teller: finally we became a -- we began to participate in the war effort. it was a relief. narrator: the project was massive, it designed and built a design that existed in theory from material that didn't exist in any quantity, under unprecedented's secrecy, many of who were not even u.s. citizens. it was known that the nucleus of one form of uranium would split when it absorbed a neutron. when this happens, energy is released and more neutrons were created that struck and split the nuclei. when it happens continuously, it is known as a chain reaction. no one knew at the start how much fissionable material would be needed to start an explosive chain reaction. that volume would be known as the critical mass. another element only discovered in 1941, by a berkeley chemist, properties to explode in a chain reaction under the right conditions. he named it for the ninth planet, plutonium. >> the isotope was plutonium 238. produced by a bombardment of uranium. one month later i was joined b

the manhattan project was a tremendous projects. cities. three or four researched and six or seven universities. and he had to keep his finger on all of that. he had this ability, which not everybody has of being an ultra .anager he got to know everybody. but knowing is not the principal thing. the principal thing is his ability to act in a very decisive way on very, very large projects. it's hard to find a man like that. he's in extraordinary manager. as a man to work for, he was demanding, but most people say he was quite kind to them. he didn't -- he expected results, but the relationships we all had with him were good. he didn't like to waste time. he was quite sympathetic if you got into a spot. but mainly, he was a pusher. he large that from somerville, i guess. bossal somerville was his prior to the manhattan project. somerville moved on to be head of supply for the army. tremendouswas a mover and shaker, to be able to envision a way of supplying 11 million people in the field. overseas. and -- tions contracts there were two great en

right now there is no service between manhattan and brooklyn because of power issues affecting the signals inside one of the east river tubes. >> here is how it breaks down right now. southbound trains are stopping that brooklyn bridge city hall and bowling green stations. now, some five trains are running on the 2 line from nevins street to the 149th grand concourse stop. also northbound are stopping at the atlantic center. >>> a long island history teacher has pleaded not guilty to raping a child under the age of 13. lionel harvey dodged our cameras as he left court today. the former uniondale high schoolteacher was arrested earlier this year. according to court documents, harvey sexually abused the child multiple times. >> mr. harvey denies the allegations. he maintains his innocence and looks forward to proving his innocence at trial. >> the spokesperson for the uniondale school district confirmed that harvey is no longer employed there. the child was not a student at the school where harvey taught. >>> an orange county woman who takes care of children is now facing charges that she fa

more than 200 people attended a memorial near federal plaza in manhattan manhattan. the officer was killed last friday as he stood guard inside a federal office building. the gunman, kevin downing, then killed himself. the security guard worked for the services for 16 years. his co-workers said he loved what he did. >> with all the adversities and the trials and the tribulations that we have experienced, he never, never was shy on his duty. >> employees launched a go fund me account to support his family. >>> also new tonight, security officials say a u.s. air strike killed an isis terror leader in syria. he is believed to have played a key role in the extremist' online recruitment campaign. he died in a drone strike on tuesday, sources say. he allegedly tried to recruit attackers in our area through social media and was one of the top hackers for the terrorist group. >>> police officer foiled a sophisticated million dollar heist. the thieves broke through a concrete wall in a warehouse in hicksville. they were about to get away with $2 million until the police offic

steve ogermeyer is live in lower manhattan. what's the latest? >> reporter: well, tom brady is practicing with the patriots right now so he's not here. nfl commissioner roger goodell isn't here either but they weren't required to be here. however, they will both be required to be in attendance for the next court appearance on august 31st. i just stepped out of the federal courtroom where tom brady's attorney made a argument, a number of attacks on the commissioner's authority saying his power is not limitless, he does admit he has broader power in personal conduct issues but the deflate scandal was an he argued nobody told the players they could be finished for knowing about wrong doing. the kicker also refused to turn over his cell phone and text messages. he wasn't penalized. most importantly, the league's collective bargaining agreement is covered by new york law and federal labor laws. oral arguments will continue today. the new report does say that tom brady will accept some form of suspension just so long as it's for his failure to cooperat

they rallied in lower manhattan this morning. cabbies was rideshare services regulated the same way taxis are. drivers say there's a double standard that creates unfair competition. >> let them change every three years. let us treat fairly. that's all. >> last month the city and uber agreed to a four-month study on the impact of cars on traffic. in exchange, the city will not cap uber's growth during that time. >>> no campaigning for donald trump tomorrow. he has to report for jury duty. the republican presidential candidate is expected at a courthouse in lower manhattan. trump says he's looking forward to appearing. the republican presidential candidate is accused of not showing up in the past, but his campaign team says he never received those summons. if he's not there tomorrow, he faces a $250 fine. >>> the first human case of west nile this season is being reported by the city's health department. a brooklyn man was hospitalized with viral meningitis. he is out of the hospital now. queens is said to have a high mosquito popu

clouds over manhattan all the way down to the battery. you can see stockton and mostly cloudy and 82 degrees. currently in the park. pressure is holding steady. notice the camera jumping just a little bit. that's because winds have been picking up especially from the camera elevations. and we've seen some winds coming out of the south ahead of in front up to 20 miles per hour. right now the heat index still steamy. brooklyn feeling like 88 degrees. so the highs were in the 80s today. mixed with that humidity. and it's a sticky situation even at this hour. dealing with feels like temperatures in trenton and newark in the middle 80s. we'll continue to have that steamy feel to the atmosphere even as we go into sunset temperatures will still be in the upper 70s and a lot of locations. these storms will stay to the west early. then the downpours will develop after 11:00 tonight. they'll move from west to east so long island, you'll see them last. early before sunrise tomorrow. rain is going to be heavy enough to flood some areas, that's why th

this is in lower manhattan. shannon sohn is in newscopter 7, she is over the scene right now. shannon. >> reporter: yeah, it is traffic nightmare through this area. the little bit of good news that we have here is you can see the cars coming from right to left across your picture. that is varick street. for a while there in the first few pictures we showed you, that street was completely shut down right at the intersection with houston street. they have since managed to reopen it, captain randy empey repositioning us so we can show you down varick street and you can get an idea. it is a nightmare through this area. keep in mind this is just a few blocks north of where varick street comes into the holland tunnel so this disruption in the middle of the rush-hour is the holland tunnel. we will bring this picture back. it is limited in the amount of lanes that are available but that's the intersection right there where it meets up with seventh avenue and you can see huge delays. it is going to cost you at least 45 minutes trying to get into the holland tunnel because you have to g