they were not going to make it to new york city. york city, it seems like it's always, always there as a possible target, because it is an icon. and, you know, we saw the attempted bombing in times square not too long ago where a guy pulled up there in a van and tried to detonate a bomb, but that didn't go off. so, again, new york city police, new york city fire, they are constantly, every single day, responding to reports of suspicious packages. i see them every single day, at least one somewhere in the city, so this is something they live with constantly. >> yeah, and thank goodness for that astute hotdog vendor. i remember being on cnn when that was unfolding, but mayor bloomberg and talking today alongside commissioner kelly, he stressed the need for more resources in places, as you point out, high-risk areas and targets like new york city. take a listen. >> the fact is, new york city remains a prime target for those who hate america and want to kill americans. the attacks in boston and the news that new york city was next on the

new york city's busy times square was supposed to be their next terror target. plus, the reluctant hero who helped turn the tide and maybe even saved lives. new details on how a carjacking victim's split-second decision foiled the bombing suspects' escape. >>> and a long wait at the airport could finally be over. new this morning, congress putting an end to furloughs in air traffic control towers. there's some good news for you. good morning. welcome to "early start." glad you're with us this morning. i'm zoraida sambolin in new york. >> and i'm john berman live in boston this morning. it is friday, april 26th, 5:00 a.m. in the east, and this morning i am standing in front of that memorial, zoraida, that beautiful memorial that's been set up here in boston's copley square. there are running sneakers here, there are mementos left behind for all those people lost here in these tragic events nearly two weeks ago now. and as everyone here in boston around the country remembers, investigators are still piecing together their case here, and we begin with a chilling, ne

and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built up

so, i would kind of defer to that at the moment, but new york city is new york city, and there are just soft targets that could be easily used to attack people quite easily. you've got the major train terminals, new york central terminal, penn station, you've got the ferries, you've got the massive subway system and subways and trains were used in 2004 in madrid, 2005 in london. so that certainly would not be a first for any terrorist that reads about it on the internet that a target of mass transportation will have a lot of people and be a relatively soft target. >> you know, tom, it is interesting for two suspects who are accused of planning this, plotting this attack on the marathon day, they did not seem to have much of an end game. i mean, we now know that dzhokhar tsarnaev attended classes, hung out on campus, even, you know, went to a party in the days after the bombing. was seen on campus kind of living his life. tamerlan was seen by his wife, apparently, on the thursday, the last day, thursday after the bombing. but they had to get money from atms late thursday night, early fri

new york city has been the target of 16 plots since 9-11. n 2010, right here in times square, there was the failed plot to try and detonate a car bomb, also plots against the new york city subway system, and of course, 20 years ago, 1993, the bombing of the world trade center that killed six people. two years later, a plot by islamic terrorists to try and bomb landmarks in new york city, including the u.n. and the tunnels and like. this has been a very ongoing sensitive issue for new yorkers, given a 1973 palestinian terrorist put a5ñéç car bomb on fifth avenue. luckily at that time, that did not go off. and also it turned out that the new york city marathon this past year held in november, this time for the first time in its history happened to be canceled because of hurricane sandy. so tonight this city's hearts and prayers and thoughts go out to the victims in boston. bret? >> eric shaun in new york. thank you. moments ago, the washington, d.c. mayor said no information of any specific or credible threats against targets here in the u.s. c

you're looking at new york city. beautiful shot. t's go to bill karins and check on the weather the. >> all points bulletin for new england. red alert. ba barnacle has chantaken out the shorts. it's spring. >> seeing them under the table, it's not good. >> after yesterday, the cloudy weather, the rainy weather out on cape cod, the low clouds, we have finally turned the corner. great news for everyone. look at today. we'll have one of the warmest days of the year, new york city, 74 degrees. philly, 74. d.c., 77. slightly cooler in boston. i think about six or seven days in a row, highs will be in the 60s each and every day. most of those days will be dry an sunny. that's your reward for a miserable spring. back to the midwest, still raining from indiana back to south of st. louis. that's where it will be rainy day. winter is still in full effect from the northern plains through denver. windchills this morning are in the 20s. even there, there's good news. the midwest who suffers through the snow and cold even worse than new england, t

their next target we found out was new york city. re is nanny mayor of new york, michael bloomberg, revealing the disturbing news earlier today. >> we were informed by the f.b.i. that the surviving attacker revealed that new york city was next on their list of targets. he told the f.b.i. apparently that he and his brother had intended to drive to new york and designate additional explosives in times square. they had built these additional explosives and we know they had the capacity to carry out the attacks. the investments that we made in counterterrorism operations, technology and intelligence help reduce the important of a successful terrorist strike, but they certainly do not eliminate it. nothing can do that. we don't know if we would have been able to stop the terrorists had they arrived here from boston. we just are thankful we didn't have to find out that answer. >> sean: it's not all new york city police commissioner ray kelly revealed that the second suspect was photographed with his friends in times square in new york city

at 30 rock in new york city. >>> we begin with chilling details behind the tsarnaev brothers alleged ot to attack the heart of new york city after, of course, causing so much damage in boston. according to city officials, the two marathon bombing suspects discussed driving to new york to detonate their remaining explosives in a spontaneous assault on times square. at the time their arsenal included five pipe bombs, one pressure cooker bomb, similar to that one, of course, and the two usedn

in 2001, new york city had a few weeks to figure out whether or not they were going to hold this kindf race. across 26 open miles right after 9/11. >> sunday is the new york city marathon, 30,000 runners, over 100,000 spectators. can an event of that size be protected? >> darn right it can be, just the way the three world series games will be. >> can you tell us what kind of security you have in place? >> a lot. we never tell the kind of security we have in place. >> what kind of security for the marathon? a lot and no, whether he not you what it is. after 9/11, runners be warned not to take the orange slices and water from strangers along the route as a security precaution. new york city held its breath and the runners shoved off from staten island and into central park. the race came off great, safely. we do not yet know why the boston marathon was attacked yesterday, killing three people, injurying more than 170 people. it could have been chosen as a site that would be guaranteed to f a lot of people. a symbol. patriots day in massachusetts. there was tax day for the county. this w

man: water is essential to the economic viability of new york city. reliable infrastructure and reliable delivery of water is a must. you have to reinvest in the infrastructure every single minute to keep it current. hurwitz: we have the stock exchange, we have the united nations -- failure can have a dramatic impact on the nation, and even internationally. so there's a really keen awareness that you always have to be fixing the system. things corrode, they rust. they get to where you turn them on and nothing happens. but it is so totally used in every nook and cranny, that making any accommodation to shut it down, to do something to it, is very difficult. narrator: two massive underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the city's water supply. they run hundreds of feet below manhattan, far deeper than the subways. built at the beginning of the 20th century, they are concrete-lined and bored through solid rock. they could last centuries. but the mechanical equipment within them will not. engineers in the 1950s discovered

that is a new york city on heightened security. ange, one of several big landmarks in new york city under tight security. you mentioned what happened with the stock market yesterday. at the end of the day, what we saw was frankly a panic sell. i don't use that word lightly at all in the last few moments as traders here at the new york stock exchange and around the world were trying to get their head around what was happening in boston, that fluid situation developing as the night wore on. when the market closed, the dow lost 245 points, biggest loss in five months. then you had gold. gold was a huge loser yesterday. it was the worst day for that contract in 30 years. that was other things happening around the world. the chinese economy was falling down, banks in cyprus potentially selling their gold reserves to pay to the european commission. a lot of things on minds when they open today. i'll tell you what's different today. this is the security tent. everyone that goes into the new york stock exchange has to go through that securi

new york attack had gone down? >> what to make off all of that in the city on tender hooks? we go to times square and rick leventhal. >> senior law enforcement officials are not convince thread was a plot. there were no specific plans to attack new york city but according to the mayor and the police commissioner the century so ifing brother told the fbi they decided on the spur of the moment to drive to new york city to times square, and set off the remaining explosives. that included another pressure cooker bomb that went offty boston marathon, and five other explosions. they were in fact pipe bombs. new york city has mobilized his counterterrorism operations there was a very heavy police precious in times square, and these two guys were among the most wanted men in america, but there's no guarantee that anyone would have been able to stop them in time. >> the investments we made in counterterrorism operations and intelligence, helped reduce the possible of a successful terror strike but they too not -- eliminate that. nothing can do that. we don't know if we could have stop

one of the exciting things is new york city is probably the most diverse tech sector. art-up genome report showed that we have more female founders in new york city than any other city in the world. digital is not just about the tech sector on its own. you wantly all of these various large sectors, many housed in new york city, will become digital. >> as jared said, it's the digital age. >> more than half of the world's population are women. they're coming online, that's more options, more choices, more independence, obviously there's challenges for when you have a smartphone, options are good. >> maggie is a highly wired digital proponent. >> i am, and we will end on that note. >> maggie is wrapping the segment. rachel, jared, thank you so much "the new digital age" is on sale now. >>> a self-described celebrity/licensed reflexologist, but one thing he is not, police say, is not the man who mailed ricin-riddled letters to the president. >>> sore of welt-known as artist was inspired bit his father's paint-stained paper scraps, collecting them to use as wrapping paper. w

cities don't have that flexibility. that is quite true. but then again, new york city is along with washington, d.c. probably right at the top it of the list all the time whenever you arrest these guys. it is always an interest in new york or washington. >> greta: these guys were peculiar. they bombed in boston. they apparently had no exit strategy. basically hung around the neighborhood until they got picked up and then there was talk about going to new york. it was sort of odd. it wasn't like this is part of an elaborate plan. just seem thed violent. >> contradictions in the way in which they did the bombing in boston was professional. looked cool in the way in which they did it. got the bombing off effectively. that was professional. the end game was completely amateurship and the plan about new york was an afterthought. had six bomb left and were are going to try to go out in a blaze of glory. i mean the real issue here now as we come away from this is all of the opportunities that we had in advance at least to catch the older brother at least to keep focus on the older brother and we didn't. and

as you can see the police of new york city are on heightened alert. ey have taken precautions that have been in place since 9/11. increased security at hotels, prominent loanings, the new york city subway system. the new york city having gone through this before, not just 9/11 but back in 1993, the bombing of the world trade center that killed six people. and, shepard, the new york city marathon happened to have been cancelled last november because of hurricane sandy. but those here tonight have their thoughts and prayers with our fellow compatriots in boston because of what happened there. >> shepard: heightened security in other major cities as well. yes, that's right. not just london but across the country and washington, d.c. the white house has a perimeter, the secret service expanded that perimeter further out just out of an abundance of caution. mayors across the country saying seattle denver illinois police departments on heightened alert. no specific threats in those cities. of course, the common theme from city halls is that we are all in thi

>> new york city is always ready for this kind of thing. d from the moment that anybody in new york heard that the bombings had taken place in boston, while a lot of the press reports were saying it wasn't clear what it was, they determined immediately that this was probably a terrorist act, and they heightened the alert all over new york city. they've got cars ready. almost 100 cars ready at any given moment to deploy to places that they think need extra protection. they did that. they were -- they are always on alert and they went on to super high alert as a result of this. so i think they would have been as well prepared as any city. but to catch one car coming in with some bombs to hit times square, which is what we are now hearing that tsarnaev brothers allegedly planned to do, or do almost spontaneously, that's a hard one to stop. >> so, on the heels of that, can and should other cities try to match new york's capabilities, securitywise? >> you know, it's hard for any other city to match new york's capabilities. new york's police depar

got to 59 degrees on saturday in new york city. behind this front, much chillier. 36 degrees for your high temperature in minneapolis. 40 in chicago and 37 in cleveland. again, a cooldown is coming. in new york city by tuesday, you won't get out of the 40's. a significant cooldown by 16 degrees in a span of 24 hours across the city. big cooldown behind this frontal system. today showers across parts of new england, great lakes, parts of the carolinas and georgia. areas of heavy rain out here. on the tail end of this front, we will see thunderstorms. some of these could produce severe weather. keep this in mind if you live in lubbock, texas. some could produce isolated tornadoes and large hail. it is a very slight risk. we're not spefbgting a massive severe -- expecting a massive severe weather outbreak. lake-effect snow watch has been issued across parts of upstate new york because six to ten inches of snow can fall out here. that's north of syracuse. otherwise tigers playing the twins today in minneapolis. it is going to be 32 degr

new york city mayor michael bloomberg saying he received confirmation from fbi investigators said thathe brothers had planned to detonate bombs in new york city's crowded times square, a plan that investigators call spontaneous, but nonetheless potentially deadly. >> we were informed by the fbi that the surviving attacker reveal that new york city was next on their list of targets. he told the fbi, apparently, that he and his brother had intended to drive to n new york than it dineed additional explosives in times square and. they had built these additional explosives, and we know they had the capacity to carry up the tax and the. lou: we also learned today that fbi investigators were stunned to see a it federal magistrate judge, assistant u.s. attorney in, and the federal public defender stopped their interrogation of tsarnaev monday order to read the suspect is marin writes. to federal officials telling fox news that the fbi confirmed in a capitol hill briefing today tha they felt by l. -- valuable intelligence was sacrificed as a result of the judge shutting th down. an unnamed fbi

city. they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we first started, it was a rough job. everything was dynamite. now, they have these machines called "moles." it's like a big drill, and it just cuts right through the ground. so there's no more dynamite. and it's still a rough job, but it's gotten to a point where it's a lot safer. in the '70s, we lost a man a mile basically. here, maybe we've had two or three deaths in the last 20 years, which is too much anyway, but it's cut down a lot. hurwitz: city tunnel number 3 will be an

there are 28,000 restaurants in new york city. new york city were to decide tomorrow to stop importing food, we'd have a big problem right now. most of us live in cities now, over 50%, and maybe 80% in 20 years from now. we love each other. we like to be with each other. we like to sit down to a good meal together, and we all want to know what's in our food. so why not grow it where we live? - my name is john mooney.

in 2006, targets were financial targets in new york city. and that was the citigroup building in manhattan, the presume building, the new york stock exchange, and today there was a moment of silence before the exchange started, and we got a moment to walk around the fortress to ask new yorkers feel safe? >> the nypd knows exactly what it's doing. we haven't had an attack here since 9/11. >> as new yorkers we're accustomed 0 these things. we have to go about our business and not let these keen of people affect our daily lives and just hope for the best. it's not much we can do. reporter: shortly after the attacks, of course, at the boston marathon in boston, the mayor of new york city coming out and saying the city is on high alert. there was an update this update from the mayor, that new york will continue to be on alert. whether it's the stock exchange or world trade center, all of these sites will be under height heightened security until further notice. >> neil: thank you very much. 'm a lot of times, people say, who cares about market, ca

the rest of the bombs in the heart of manhattan. >> we were informed the surviving attacker said new york city was the next on the targets. they intended to drive to new york and detonate the additional explosives in times square. they had built these additional explosives and know they had the capacity to carry out the attacks. >> new york officials acknowledge that as the suspects made it to new york it is possible they could have carried out the plan there could have had many deaths despite the police presence there and many camer cameras. >>> it is time for the top 5@5. a new jersey man raised for carrying homemade explosives. it happened before the boston bombing. they found him carrying two homemade explosives on a new jersey train headed for new york. they found bomb making materials in his house. they did not report the arrest the information came to light when the 27-year-old came to court. he received a summons. that investigation is ongoing. >>> president obama said it would be a game changer in syria. >> a red line for us is we start sealing a bunch of chemical weapons moving acros

those cities are new york city and los angeles. the cities are vulnerable. i particularly know new york city does because first responders from the region has assisted in the wake of the horrific 9/11 attacks and the devastation from hurricane sandy. we know that these attacks could happen anywhere and knowing this there should he and incentive to fund first responders consistently answering the call when our nation is in need. along with writing this information-sharing among state and local officials must be strong when it comes to intelligence involving chemical biological radiologiradiologi cal or nuclear attacks. this congress i am an original co-sponsor of h.r. 1542 which strengthens intelligence information-sharing about weapons of mass destruction. it is my hope that this bipartisan legislation will be voted on favorably by this committee. this legislation is a step in the right direction but there is still much work to be done. first responders and i'll areas of risk need to be fully capable and equipped to handle an attack and this means full fundin

new york government. it ensnares republicans and democrats, party officials and leaders and corruption in the city, the suburbsital. >> six people including senator smith are accused of bribe ry, extortion and fraud. since 2006, nearly a dozen new york state office holders have faced similar crimes. everything from theft and bribely to rabribe bribery to racketeering. the lawyer for one of the party bosses now facing charges suggested it's just the way the system works. "it seems that they are trying to make the business of politics as usual into a crime." it is a crime. joining me now, you know, a lot of this stuff is old school politics but this stuff seemed like rank amateurism too on a level in a town and a state that has people like michael bloomberg and andrew cuomo high level politicians. this was low level petty crime. >> no one accused people arrested this week of being the best and brightest of new york politics. far from it as a matter of fact. this is what you get. frankly among other things the problem -- it's interesting that you mention michael bloomberg and andrew cuomo. he's mayor rrried to a

coming up, former new york city mayor rudy giuliani joins us on set. isla 28 past the hour. with us now -- is former new york city mayor rudy giuliani. stop it. you guys don't want to get me started on this. >> we don't. >>> let's go to pete williams who is live in washington. pete, what are you hearing about the investigation to the bombings in boston? >> right. it's all about putting pieces of puzzles together. first of all, the devices themselves are here in the suburban washington in the fbi's crime lab where they will try to reinstruct them. they believe they were carried to the scene in black nylon duffel bags and say that because of the weight that each device probably weighed 20 pounds filled with gun powder and shrapnel and in pressure cookers. you can see the brand name of the pressure cookers in a couple of the pictures that we have obtained. the second part of it is the pictures themselves that they are asking people to send in and they are getting a huge amount, so far, three terra bytes of data that is thousands of hours of video and still

there is also the impact that this movement is having on city and state politics is worth noting new york last week the city passed finally the paid sick days bill that's been going for three years and the state passed a minimum wage increase so and you know the people that i've spoken to that are involved in this campaign has said that these things would not be possible without lowish workers like the fast food workers really organizing and standing up for themselves and demanding better. sarah we've seen just over the last decade and probably two decades and you go back three decades just an exodus of manufacturing jobs that used to be were commie was built on these kind of pretty good paying factory working jobs in our economy is more and more these service sector jobs we're seeing by fast food workers so doesn't that make what's happening today all the more crucial considering this is where the bulk of employment is going in america over the next decade to the foreseeable future and absolutely in the point that i really like to make up and about this is that those factory jobs wer

that there's the guy who gets his salsa from new york city. new york city?!southwest by the bottle. we need to leave our contract plan for net10 wireless. anything else just ain't right. what? says who? change can be difficult. i love my phone. yeah, she loves her phone. you could keep your phone and number. but for half of what we pay now. half? i don't love our family plan. it doesn't mean i don't love you. welcome to the next generation of family plans. fifty dollars the first line, 40 dollars each new line with unlimited everything. visit net10wireless.com. made the way you say at subwa. with our oven roasted chicken, now a $3 six-inch select. make it your own with melty monterey cheddar or creamy ranch. and during april, the black forest ham is also a $3 six-inch select. subway. eat fresh. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: our next guest is one of the funniest and busiest guys we know. here he is on the march cover of "wired" magazine. how cool is that? he hosts amc's "talking dead" and "the nerdist," which starts its new season this saturday, march 30

see, there are a lot more democrats than there are republicans in new york city, so it is a tried and true method to become a republican, specifically for the purpose of running for new york city mayor. it means you don't have a difficult primary, right? you have an easier primary if you're running as a republican than if you were running on the democratic side. that's how mike bloomberg got the job in the first place, then once he was in, he ran as a republican, then dropped the republican label and became an independent. but if you are a registered democrat and you want to pull this, you want to appear listed as a republican on the ballot in a new york city election. what you need is a majority of republicans in the city to sign off on you doing this. we know what you want to do. when that democratic state senator was arrested today, he was arrested alongside two other democrats and three republicans, with whom he was conspireing to bribe his way into getting that permission to get on to the ballot so he can maybe end up running america's largest city. it was the state senator who h

marathon terror bomber told the fbi he and his brother were planning to attack time's square in new york city t. question is, would the new york police department have stopped the terrorists before they have killed anyone? given their track record and math moth operation, i believe the nypd would have stopped it dead in its tracks. >>> and is the pain on the plane about to end? the push continues to overturn the flight delays. we could be getting close to a deal. "the kudlow report" begins right now [ music playing ] [ music playing ] >>> first up, the u.s. government confirming today it now believes syrian president assad used chemical weapons against his own people. nbc news amman naldene jones us now. >> it came from chuck haggle, he was traveling in the u.s. emirates. in the past two years, the u.s. intelligence "assesses the regime has used chemical weapons. as we are about to hear from the secretary of defense, that statement was unqualified with a lot of uncertainty. here's what he has to say. >> the u.s. intelligence community assesses with some degree of varying confidence that the s

involved since i took office as a controller. >> do you think that anthony should run for mayor of new york city? >> it's very hard to get away from that question nowadays in new york. it's a democracy. >> it's good to see you. thank you for coming in. they told us that all of their leaders were unavailable to me all day long. >> it's coming up next with the dow jones industrial average. >> if you haven't paid your taxes yet, you're going to jail. not really. but after the break you will meet some of the biggest tax cheats ever. >> keeping you up to date with the big sell off in the gold and silver market. the dough has certainly not been immune. 14,000703.68. and on top of that, it is tax day. many may be overlooking a new option in their workplace retirement plans. sharon epperson joins us with the details on that. >> let's talk for a minute about how the roth 401(k)s work. you put in aftertax dollars and you're generally able to withdraw your money tax-free in retirement. with a roth 401(k), there are no income limitations. we are seeing that employers are increasingly offering this option. f

place were this the center of it and those those scars are deep and you don't have to give the new york city police department a huge reason to to beef up security and in response to what some are speculating looks like a terrorist attack in boston the new york city police department is responding full force beefing up security and merino we do know that there's been a lot of confusion obviously and chaos going on in boston there was questions over whether this was just some type of natural disaster how was this information being disseminated and what it when are we going to find out more. look i have to you know you have to give it some time everybody wants to know everything instantly of course with social media with twenty four hour news but this this is an incident event that is unfolding and the police are trying to investigate and figure out themselves what is taking place they the shut down cells cell phone service there to make sure that no explosives would go off if they haven't even found all of the explosives if you know from from one standpoint and some experts security experts h

that there's the guy who gets his salsa from new york city. new york city?! male announcer ] only pace has that big, bold kick. anything else just ain't right. pace. grab the southwest by the bottle. get the fresh style you deserve at stunning prices. like printed shorts -- $19. or colored jeans -- $19. joe fresh is now at jcpenney. another viva dare. our fans think there's a rule that a paper towel can't handle this. fans? now that's tough when wet. [ peggy ] grab viva and break the rules on all your tough messes. this is what they do for fun. on all y♪ r tough messes. ♪ if loving you is wrong ♪ i don't wanna be right [ record scratch ] what?! it's not bad for you. it just tastes that way. [ female announcer ] honey nut cheerios cereal -- heart-healthy, whole grain oats. you can't go wrong loving it. bee happy. bee healthy. with clusts of flakes and o's. oh, ho ho... it's the honey sweetness. i...i mean, you...love. >> jimmy: welcome back. mark wahlberg, jennifer morrison and music from new order coming up. anthony weiner infamously posted a photograph of hi