>> i went to new york city spent the day riding around with cab drivers to test out cool technology, tric taxis in new york city. >> we want to hear what you think about these stories. join the conversation by following us on twitter and at here is more. >> beneath the fluorescentsun in a former meat packing plant is the latest trim in farming. they call it "vertical farming." these fields grow on floors on at industrial park and farmer john adel and his staff agrees user. >> my shipping proceed did you say 1500, 2,000 miles to get are. >> the plant of the indoor -- as the indoor formers call it doesn't grow corn or soybeans but mustard, high end micro greens on the plates of white-napkin restaurants. these fish supply the vert liser that number issues the >> al jazeera america is the only news channel that brings you live news at the top of every hour. >> here are the headlines at this hour. >> only on al jazeera america. >> welcome back. i'm phil torres, an i'm with lindsay and costa. you were telling us about your c.i.a. days with taxi drivers. >> when i was in the agency i always

>> i went to new york city spent the day riding around with cab drivers to test out cool technology, tric taxis in new york city. >> we want to hear what you think about these stories. join the conversation by following us on twitter and at >> welcome back. i'm phil torres, an i'm with lindsay and costa. you were telling us about your c.i.a. days with taxi drivers. >> when i was in the agency i always struck up conversations with cab drivers. they're almost always from other countries and you nevada know who they are. they could be physicists. it in is a pilot program going on in new york city where they're driving around completely electric vehicles. it's a really cool story. >> imagine a new york city with taxi fleet dominated by electric vehicles. now imagine the year, is i it 2030? 2050? how about 1899. that's right. there were close to 100 batly powered taxis on the streets of new york. that same year one of the electric cabs earned the city's first speeding violations barreling down the avenue at 10 mph. 114 years later electric taxis are back. the city is rolling out six fully

. >>> building just a few apartment buildings isn't enough in china where new cities are on the rise. while the economy seems to be picking up millions of americans are simpling for jobs and relying on government unemployment benefits to pay the bills. but long term unemployment benefits expire today. 1.3 million americans who have been out of work for months have been cut off. the government check they depend on will not be showing up. the long-term program began i in 2008 at the height of the recession. since then the payouts have cost the federal government $225 billion. extending them into next year would add another $19 billion. the congress has yet to do that. president obama is vacationing in hawai'i right now. we're live in hawai'i on who this effects. i understand that this seems to be the top of mind for the president and it has not amounted for a working vacation, correct? >> well, it certainly is, and richelle the white house has stressed the president is very much on vacation. he's still doing the people's business and he's working behind the scenes. as you mentioned rich

by breaking away from east baton rouge parish and starting a new city. the city of "st.eorge" would encompass an unincorporated area that's home to a quarter of parish residents, making it the 5th largest city in the state. it would control and run its own schools with its own tax revenue. >> a new city for you guys, this is strictly about education? it's 100% totally about education. we didn't come into this saying we want to create the 5th largest city in louisiana, we came into this saying we want to take accountability for the schools in our area. >> but critics say st. george would take more than just accountability. a report commissioned by the baton rouge area chamber warns the break up would cost the city at large 53 million dollars, 20% of its budget. and it would futher segregate the city. baton rouge is already majority black, st. george would be a majority white by a 3 to 1 ratio. >> so now we would have white kids going to school over here on this end of the parish, white kids going to school over there on the other end of the parish, and in the middle, we'd

thanks so much, joe bruno, commissioner of new york city. getting on the phone with us. >> thank you very much. >> we'll be right back with more on this train crash in new york just after this. >>> we continue to follow this hour's break news. at least four people died this morning when a commuter train went off the tracks in new york city. 67 people are injured, including 11 who are seriously hurt >>> now we want to turn to another story, the shock and grief following a fiery car crash that killed actor paul walker, one of the actors of the "fast & furious" movie franchise. he was in a crash outside of los angeles. >> to say paul walker's death has sent shockwaves through hollywood is an understatement. he's in the prime of his life and currently filming the seventh installment of one of the most popular movie franchises. police say he deed inn side the porsche at the scene. but they still have many questions to be answered in this crash. one of hollywood's most bankable stars, paul walker who has made ha name for himself died in a fiery ca

luxury homes are replacing public housing racing rent in cities to new highs. deteriorating transportation, and eroding transportation is hurting city's ability to prosper as outdated trains make it hard for commute. the transformation is far from over in towns of new york and boston. all eyes are on them. economists estimate that 10% of all global gdp growth will come from american cities in the coming decade. >> joining me now to talk about the health of our nation cities at a time of limited resources are from new orleans, also from new orleans, the former mayor who is now president urgent urban league. james brook, program director of the national league of cities and from boston a reporter with wbur radio. james, you heard player bloomberg. he said the golden age of the suburbs is over, do the fact back him up? >> the facts are mixed. cities, i think, with mayors like mayor bloomberg and others who will be in office, the mayor in st. paul, the mayor in houston, who have had good tenure and good success, they continue to be a great and continuing source of

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seems to be somebody that would be perfectly comfortable in the higher and upper-class area where new york city was. >> host: how was she identified? >> guest: she is in the letters and for example general washington, got good news. general washington would be number 711 and abraham would be number 712 and new york. 711 might hesitate 86 and you cannot even if you had to be the invisible ink figure this stuff out she was referred to as 355. there are females on the ledger and she is known as the lady. would you conclude that she would have had to have died after benedict arnold came into new york city determined to find out who the spy was that helped to unmask his plot and he went on a rampage to the point where junior quit and said i'm out, not giving it. he would say forget it. i'm not going to come back. they would ultimately get convinced to come back to finish off the war. i believe by the paperback which could be six months i would be closer to naming someone but i thought why reach if i go out of my way to convey convene a separate who live and breathe this every day why am i going to r

if would control and run its own schools with tax revenue. >> this is not about starting a new city, it's education. >> it's totally about education. we want to take accountability of the schools. >> st george would take more than accountability. a report commissioned warns that the break-up could cost the city $53 million. 20% of its budget. it would further segregate the city. baton rouge is majority black. st george is the mainlyingority white. >> we we have white kids going to school on this end of the parish and at the other end and in the middle just of the black kids. >> members in baton rouge make an average of $58,000, in the st george area they make $90,000. >> i think we need to look at does that take us backwards where we are segregating ourselves. it's not a win. >> it's not a trend. the white and black middle class have pled baton rouge to look for better schools for decades. >> this is nothing to do with skin colour. if you have the means to leave baton rouge and the school system, you have left. >> for those that may not be able to leave, it means more division. >> it

to me, seen as somebody who was perfectly comfortable in the higher end and upper class area of new york city. >> host: she's going to the british parties? >> guest: absolutely. >> host: and how is she identified? >> guest: she is in the ledgers, and the ledgers are, for example, we have news, and write, general washington is number of 711, abraham is 712, and new york was 86. 711 had to 86. you cannot, even if you add invisible ink figure this out. she is referred to as 355 #, the lady. now, there's females -- she's known as the lady, and we do conclude she had to have died after benedict arnold came back into new york city determined to find out who the spy was that helped unmask his plot, and he went on a rampage to the point where junior quit, townsend told washington he was out, not doing it, and picked it up, forget it, heat still on, i'm not coming back. they ultimately would get convinced to come back to finish off the war, but it seems as though, and there was a sadness through the group, and i believe by the paperback, which could be six months, i would get close to naming someone.

the train from poughkeepsie going south to new york city this morning. hello, everyone. i'm eric shawn. welcome to america's news headquarters on this sunday. >> i'm jamie colby. there are numerous emergency crews on the scene. we'll stay on the story and let you know if the numbers change. the map will show you exactly where the crash happened. for those of you who don't live in new york, it's in the bronx. basically, it was about to pull into the station, a time where you would expect the train to be slowing down. instead, it was going so fast that it literally, as eric said, flew off the tracks. we're being told that the train was headed into grand central station from poughkeepsie and there are multiple reports of injuries and fatalities. laura ingle rushing to the sk n scene, joining us live on the phone. what are you seeing and hear sng. >> i'm several yards away from the station in which this train was expected to arrive this morning. and we are just surrounded by a variety of emergency response vehicles. i have just seen one man being brought out on a stretcher, b

switched sides and he kept writing and putting up the newspaper. >> host: so he is a journalist in new york city >> host: he showed his sympathy to the >> guest: good point. every officer wanted to be in it because not only new york city but back to britain. look at my son, the captain, look what the lt. accomplished, look at the plan the general has for the end of the war and how long he thinks the war is going to last and the maneuver he says he's in a meeting in the hudson to it said he would get additional information from his adjacent coffee shop and jot that down and put it in the newspapers and books, work with townsin and a 355 to give washington incredible intelligence. >> host: like most journalists, he knows more than he prince. >> guest: absolutely and he gives it to washington not his newspaper. >> guest: >> host: so we have the whole secret six, and we've got them in place in new york city and also in long island. ts up with one of the things that they've accomplished. give us one story that or one of revelation that they get to washington. >> guest: one of the big breaks is that w

many people do that in new york city. we will be down there and live from the crystal ball for the ball drop coming up in new york city. catch that soon coming up in 30 minutes. windchills are chilly in the 20's. further west cleveland single dig get wind chills as we head out the door. colder in places like chicago and minneapolis before it feels like above zero temperatures out there. everyone wants to know what the weather will be like at midnight. it looks relatively quiet across most of the country. most of you will be dry. there will be a clipper system swinging through portions of the midwest. in chicago you could have a little bit of snow flying around. temperature will be about 10 degrees very cold a little wind and heather and ainsley keep in mind that windchill what it feels like as you head out the door. atlanta 44. >> they have to bundle up. >> fox news channel has the all american new year's eve special. i will join the host bill hemmer and elizabeth hasselbeck. it starts on fox at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. >>>

i've never been into the new years in new york city, so this is great. i'm so excited. >> reporter: a new year with new resolutions for the more than 1 million people expected to pack times square and the 1 billion expected to watch it on tv. >> get more centered in our lives. we're getting a little older and getting closer to retirement, so trying to figure out what we want to do when we grow up. >> reporter: a fresh start in the first few minutes of 2014. so, who gets the honor of pushing the button that will lower the ball this year? that belongs to u.s. supreme court justice and bronx native sonia sotomayor. veronica, back to you. >> i thought you were going to say that you do. >> reporter: i wish it was me. >> you let us down. sarah dallof. >> reporter: i will be somewhere warm. >> all right. thanks, sarah. >>> let's go ahead and check in now with my good friend, richard lui. you know, that would be something, right? >> it would be, but then sarah -- >> press that button? >> she would have to work 24 hours straight is what would happen if she was the

i askedfaiza why the new york city commissioner job is so important. >> important. >> it is the largest police department in the country. as new york goes, a lot of people are looking to see how it's conducting policing, what kind of tact i can it's using. >> maybe a man named bill braton who used to be the commissioner in new york, currently in los angeles. do you think it's a good move? >> i think that the new police commissioner has to do an important thing, rebuild relations with minority communities in the city. we have seen a drop decline. many credit bill braton from his first term when he used to be police commissioner for having put in place the systems that have led to this drop in crime we have seen over the decade but at the same time, what's happened over the last decade is that the relations have been shattered. this is true for the african-american and hispanic communities in the city who have been targeted by stop and frisk apologized which have been very excessive in which some 90% of the people stop and frisk by the nypd or either black or latino and you have the entir

new york city. itics say outgoing three-term mayor michael bloomberg is partly to blame but the city is spending more than it ever has on shelters. >> reporter: you new mayor bill deblasio, who will be sworn in tomorrow, will be targeting homelessness. the number of homeless is the largest it has been since the great depression. 62,000 live in shelters. 22,000 are children. >> raising small children would be tough for any single mom. daniel is doing it without a home. >> when your hom homeless, it ps on 20 times more pressure. >> this is where they're standing with 90 other families, a city in th shelter in the bro. >> it's infested and not well-kept. >> reporter: the number of homeless people in new york city has risen 20%: advocates blame the recession. >> do you agree or disagree with me-- >> reporter: and outgoing mayor michael bloomberg. >> there is literally no permanent housing assistance to help homeless children and families move from shelters into their own homes. >> reporter: critics say h

what is the importance of new york city in the strategic shape? >> this was educational for me that people stationary give this to my 15 year old? i grew up on long island i love history and social studies and i would just think with this be on the test? >> host: if you look at the 13 colonies of the location is the center of the new country. most of the traffic, cobbers, the wear big ships could come in or come out. then you could grow food and you could feed an army. the british army. it is a plan to become a country they cannot do it. as long as they have control of that area. >> washington's first idea of the spy is nathan hale? tell us about that. >> guest: nathan hale wanted to see the auction in just missed bunker hill sid he comes back with washington and there was a familiarity there. i gail graduate and teacher in to he volunteers to be a spy in washington says they need volunteers. he had no experience and is extremely bright and ambitious and peerless. he was sent him over against his better instincts. as part of research would reveal

when it does, new york city's new mayor, bill deblasio, will be sworn in, and charlie gas parrino says you may pay the price no matter what city you live in. >> charlie, i know you're -- you're not a bill deblasio fan but a record for everybody everywhere? >> he wave had 20 years under rudy giuliani and mike bloomberg and we became the city of urban renewal. and this guy said new york city is a horrible place, dicken sewnan hell hole, tale of two cities, a place that is -- turn back the clock to upton sinclair. that's how the described new york city. that's not true and these are the policies he is going to bring in barack obama came in as president as among the most liberal u.s. senator. this guy is far to the left of barack obama. and if you're a new yorker you have to be scared. the bottom line is this. bill deblasio was elected, won by 75-25%, big -- allegedly a big mandate, yet, yet, the won with 17% of the electorate. this is a very complacent electorate. the kids that move here from iowa and illinois and wherever don't remember the '70s. >> someone didn't artic late the other si

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

i have never been in the new year in new york city. this is great. i'm so excited. >> reporter: a new year with new resolutions for the more than one million people expected to pack times square and the one billion expected to watch on tv. >> getting older and closer to retirement. trying to figure out what we want to do when we grow up. >> reporter: a fresh start in the first few minutes of 2014. >>. >> this year's celebration will be a little different. it will be the first time in a decade a new york city mayor will not attend the celebration. outgoing mayor michael bloomberg plans to spend the time with his family. mayor-elect bill de blasio will be sworn in at a frift ceremony a minute after the ball drops. >> here at home preparations are under way for the big night on the water front in san francisco. crews are busy on two barges preparing fireworks for the show. 200,000 people are expected to watch the 15-minute fireworks show at the stroke of midnight. hotels in downtown san francisco as you might imagine are all booked up. forget about getti

jersey, and now new york city require the flu shot. chool principal carol schafenberg says some parents have expressed concerns about safety. >> parents are very scared. i think they should have their choice whether they want to vaccinate their child or not. >> reporter: but the c.d.c. considers the flu vaccine to be very safe, with a small risk of side effects such as allergic reaction. what would you say to a parent who is concerned about how safe this vaccine is? >> the most important thing for parents to understand is that influenza is not the common cold. influenza kills more children and hospitalizes more children than all other vaccine preventable diseases in the united states combined. the risk of having a severe complication from the flu vaccine is extremely low. it's less than one in a million. >> reporter: under the new rule, children younger than five will be required to get the flu vaccine by the end of 2014. scott, there are exemptions for medical or religious reasons. >> pelley: thanks, elaine. we love these pictures toda

should be made more self-reliant and provided short term rent assistance to two homeless people in new york city hoping that this would empower them this did not happen so. people are blaming bloomberg for the reason that also millions of dollars were spent in certain projects in new york city where as homelessness clearly obviously continues to be a huge huge plight of so many people here all very interesting stuff well thanks for your reporting r.t. correspondent. and there is a wide scope of illegal conduct inside the los angeles county sheriff's department according to the f.b.i. and federal prosecutors now more than a dozen deputies have been charged with corruption and civil rights abuses artie's among the linda takes a look at the scandal rocking los angeles i'm outside of the f.b.i. offices in los angeles agents here are spearheading an investigation into alleged abuse and widespread misconduct inside l.a. county jails posting a list of indictments including charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice were handed down against eighteen former and current members of the l.a. county sh

brian, live in new york city with more. how bad is it now? >> temperature is 32 in midtown new york, that's cold enough here. it feels colder than that. in some parts of the nation it's definitely below freezing. the winter storm wreaked havoc in and around areas of dallas, texas, little rock, arkansas, memphis, tennessee. it's bringing dangerous winter mix of rain, sleet, snow to cities on the east coast and mid-atlantic states. new york city, boston, baltimore, philadelphia, and washington, d.c. will be dealing with the storm throughout the day. going into monday morning, if dallas, texas, is any indication, this storm's major threat is ice. the winter storm or friday and saturday causing dangerous icy conditions in dallas leading to power outages, flight cancellations, traffic accidents and tree damage. ice up to four inches thick was reported on one interstate. at one point there was as many as left without power in frigid temperatures. that number wording to encore power and light there was down to about 40,000 this morning. this morning

, and this situation was going on so near -- actually between new york city and the hamptons, and maybe not so many loss, but so many people from new york drive to the hamptons every weekends that maybe they don't look sideways and think, you know, this is going on here. these people are our neighbors, and it's happening right next door to us. that's the second reason i was attracted to the story, and the third reason, because as you know, i'm an immigrant myself. i came from cuba when i was 16 years old, a boarded a boat named manana, and i wrote a book about it called "finding manana," and i felt connected to the story. those of us who came from cuba in 1980 came to be known because the boat lift, and it became a derogatory term, but one i like and use with pride, but it became derogatory, no question about it. i see countries of labels, and what that means, what how much they request hurt, how much they can contain an entire group of people. they, at a certain point, criminality or criminals and it's close, and that label of illegality hunted the people who in sussex became, in

i've never been into the new year's in new york city. so this is great. i'm so excited. >> reporter: a new year with new resolutions for the more than 1 million people expected to pack times square and the 1 billion expected to watch it on tv. >> getting more centered in our lives. we're getting a little older, closer to retirement. so trying to figure out what we want to do when we grow up. >> reporter: a fresh start in the first few minutes of 2014. so who gets to push the button that starts the ball drop this year? that would be u.s. supreme court justice and bronx native sonia sotomayor. back to you. >> all right, zaire ya. thank you so much. >>> now for a look at your new year's eve weather. here's nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, you spent a new years out there. >> i did. it was cold. it's going to be cold again. >> but it didn't snow, right? >> no, but cold is worse. snow is more fun. in many areas of the west, we're going to be ringing in the new year with nice, warm, dry conditions. that was a summary of 2013 as a whole. unbelievably dry. the

this is al jazeera america live from new york city i'm johnathan betz were a look at today's top stories. >> a train journey into disaster at the edge of the harlem river in new york. killing four people aboard. >> by the time i looked up it was completely going off it's track and there was the rubble from under the track just flying at my face. now safety investigators try to understand what happened. protestors in bangkok confront police using tear gas and water cannons. >> and world aids day is marked around the globe as the struggle to prevent and cure the deadly disease moves forward. ♪ >> an early morning train ride into new york turned into a nightmare today. a passenger train derailed narrowly missing the harlem river. seven cars in the metro north train came off the tracks just outside of the station in new york city. four people are dead and dozens more are hurt. they were heading south to grant central terminal in manhattan. right now the fire department says there are 63 reported injuries and 11 are in transit call conditions and six injuries are reported serious. >> morgan r

and that's where new york city's health department comes into the picture. leading a campaign to help us all cut back on salt. >> the salt initiative is really a national initiative. it's led by new york city, but it's really over 40 health organizations, other cities, and other states that are working together. we think it has the opportunity for tremendous impact and really can save lives. >> of course, we can all make healthier food choices without the government's help. it's simple to choose a fruit instead of fries. but the salt initiative is taking aim at the salt we don't see. >> almost 80% of the salt that we take in each day comes from packaged and restaurant food. so most consumers don't really have any control over the salt that they take in. it's already in the food when we buy it. it's not actually always the salt that you taste, so a muffin can have a lot of salt. >> when you're shopping for packaged food, check the label. salt is listed as sodium. it's measured in milligrams. and you don't need more than 2,300 milligrams a day. they add up fast

>> i was just a child. >> in new york city? o new york. >> this is captured in a particular moment. the new york folks are seeing. >> absolutely. >> do you have a personal relationship with that moment in history? >> i did because i was working at the time and what you see is just what it looked like. there was a freedom about that. the whole thing about that. i was nonexistent then. things are much cheaper. i was a terrible waiter. i would forget thing, but i made enough to pay the rent. it was an innocent time. a terrific time. they captured that. it was tough. i think that's also what this film deals with. what it means to be a creative artist in a tough world. >> is the tough part different than being a creative artist? was it different then? >> i think there was more -- i shouldn't say this because it sounds like i am dwelling in the past, but more a sense of community and belonging to something. whether you could make it or not and you could survive on much, much less. the idea of living in the west village for $80 a month

they don't know if you've ever been there but it's about 60 miles from new york city and this kind of situation was going on so near its actually between new york city and the hamptons and so many -- maybe not so many of us but people in new york dr. there every weekend but maybe they look sideways and think this is going on here, these people are our neighbors and it is happening right next door to us so that is the second reason that i was attracted to the story and the third reason is because as many of you know i'm from new england myself. i came from cuba when i was 16 years on a boat and i had a book about the boat so i felt somehow connected to the story. those of us who came from cuba in 1980 came to be known because the boat was called to the boat left. the term that i like and use with pride, but it became with no question about it. i've always been conscious of labels and what that means and how much they can hurt and contained an entire group of people. the label meant at a certain point commonality or criminals, it's not a criminality but it's close and that has haunted s

i don't know if you've ever been there, but suffolk county is about 60 miles from new york city. and this kind of situation was going on so near, it's actually between new york city and the hamptons. and so many -- maybe not so many -- [inaudible] but so many people from new york drive to the hamptons every weekend that maybe they don't hook sideways and think, you know, this is going on here. these people are our neighbors, and it's happening right next door to us. so that was the second reason why i was attracted to this story. and the third reason was because as many of you also know, i'm an immigrant myself. i came from cuba when i was 16 years old. i boarded a boat, and i wrote a book about it called "finding -- [inaudible] and so i felt somehow connected to the story. those of us who came from cuba in 1980 came to be known as -- [speaking spanish] because the boat lift was called the mariel boat lift. it's a term that i actually use with pride, but it became a derogatory term, no question about it. so i've always been conscious of labels and what that means, what -- how much

26 degrees in new york city the snow falling all the way to chicago. roads are covered with a bit of snow and you can also see that snow falling across portions of the northeast into new york city as well. we'll continue to have to deal with this throughout the course of the day. travel is very tricky along interstate 80, 90, and across up state portions of main. you can see the snow across illinois, idaho, and pennsylvania--iowa andpennsylva. you can see across the ohio valley and tennessee valley and across georgia, atlanta and north carolina. by tomorrow morning the front will be offshore but the heaviest precipitation falling this evening into pennsylvania, new york, and in new england where we could see a foot of snow falling. the roads will be treacherous all the way into the northeast. the heaviest of snow falling into new england up to a foot of snow expect there had. three to five inches of snow expected in chicago all the way back into pennsylvania along i i-70 and also along i-80. this afternoon into the evening is when the heaviest of the sn

at the end of the day new york city gets a cut of financial transactions and it behooves new york citywall streeters in the city. >> all my wealthy wall street friends in a panic, redistribution socialist was going to become mayor and all of a sudden dramatically change the makeup of new york city's economy was misplaced. there's, a, only so much a mayor can do and, b, only so much he will do. he has strong relationships with developers and wall street, as you should. you should be a mayor for everyone, not just the 1%. where this film is very powerful is what you see. artists and what street photographers have been able to see is often what new yorkers weren't able to see, what often society doesn't see, those living at the margins. same thing, we want a mayor who sees those parts of new york that are struggling, not just the parts doing well. >> cheryl, i would go back to you on that. so much of street photography is showing people the unseen, which is poor people, people living on the fringes. this was a multi-year project. that work is very much reflected in the film. what did you

we're following the latest on the deadly train crash in new york city. ge continues now. >> we want to continue with our breaking news coverage of this deadly train crash in new york city. we'll welcome our viewers in the states and around the world. here's what we know right now. at least four people have died. at least 40 others injured. this is according to two sources close to the investigation and when you look at these images, it looks like the

the developing sunday morning tragedy in new york city this morning. assengers have been killed in that train derailment that happened in new york city in the bronx. at least 63 others have been injured who were on that train. we just heard a few moments ago from new york city police department commissioner ray kelly about the continued search for other survivors. here's what he had to say about that possibility. >> well, there was a concern that the -- the cars are close to the water, concern that someone may have been ejected into the water. we used our divers.

only on al jazeera america. ♪ welcome back to al jazeera america, i'm morgan live from new york city are some of the top stories we are following for you at this hour. federal investigators are trying to figure out why a train derailed in new york city killing four passengers and looking attack conditions, speed and why the engineer may have triggered the emergency brakes. plus the white house says the obamacare website is finally running more smoothly. healthcare.gov can now handle 50,000 users all at the same time. with a sign up deadline just ahead this month it will face a very big check up coming soon. and a political crisis is growing in thailand. protesters in bangkok were hit with tear gas and water canons and calling for the prime minister to step down. a series of explosions at a funeral kills at least ten people in iraq. the bombs went off while they were burying the body of their son and no claim of responsibility in the attack. november was a very violent month in iraq and hundreds were killed and the u.n. says there has been a surge in execution-style attacks. more than

city. [laughter] 41 degrees for our high tomorrow prayed middle 30s on monday. i tuesday in the lower 40s. if you travel plans to new york city, six inches of snow on the ground. heavy thunder snow. imagine that. >> stay with us. extras next. >> this is abc seven news, saturday news extra, on your side. >> we are a week away from the start of winter. it has looks like winter for weeks now. the storm left people in the midwest and east digging out of several inches of snow. >> to storms converge along the east coast. >> it is a question of what mother nature is going to throw at us. >> roadways are treacherous. >> they think they can go anywhere. it is not so. away,h christmas a week shoppers battle the bad weather anyway to wrap up guest lists. >> we know what we are buying. >> retailers worried that it could help -- hurt sales. >> i am headed home. >> merry christmas. spirit didn't dampen the of santa con, a pub crawl that tracks thousands of revelers. much of the northeast, it is business as usual. across the globe, a once-in-a- lifetime site area and the for snowfall in more than 100 years. to roussell with a foo

low 30's for you in chicago and also new york city. early this morning it will be impacting portions of the great lakes and pennsylvania and new jersey. it will will race eastward. by tomorrow morning the storm has gone out of the northeast and also portions of new england. in terms of snowfall accumulation the more significant accumulations that could go across eastern maine not too bad in new york city. forecasting 1.2 inches of snow. it is dry across the northeast through out the day today. you will have cold company temperatures and some snow. >> my only request is it hold off until i finish my christmas p shoing. >> good luck with that. what are you buying me? >> we will see. >> a man convicted of master mining a scam to a navy veteran's charity will spend 28 years in prison. he called himself bobby thompson. authorities say his real name is john donald cody a harvard trained attorney. in addition to the prison sentence he was ordered to pay back $6 million in fines. new york serving top cop has a new job. nypd commissioner ray kel

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derailment in new york city. a southbound commuter train went off the tracks in the bronx as it headed into manhattan. at least four are dead. 63 more were injured much had those 11 are in critical continue. al jazeera's kilmeny duchardt has more from the bronx. >> firefighters, police, crews and the m.t.s.b. continue to work through the night, checking the tracks, cars, mechanical equipment, to try to figure out what went wrong. >> the halliday weekend ended in tragedy and chaos for those on board this train in northern new york city. the crash happened sunday morning. >> we have recovered the event recorder. we have downloaded the data. we've not had a chance to analyse or verify it. >> officials say the train carried about 150 passengers, heading to new york's grand central terminal. >>. >> they were screaming, asking for their families. >> it derailed on a curved section near the spuyten duyvil station. the injured were rushed to hospital. >> the injuries were consistent with broken bones, fractures, lacerati

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

the service from washington to new york city was never affected today. >>> after much anticipation, we now know bao bao, the name of the new baby panda at the national zoo, looking now live from the zoo's camera. she was announced to much fanfare and excitement today. crowds lined up to get a spot for the big review. darcy spencer was there and got reaction from the crowd. >> reporter: the dancing lions started the celebration. but this is what everyone was waiting for. >> three, two, one! >> reporter: the giant panda cub now 100 days old, gets its name, voted the most popular from a list of five in an online poll. 123,000 people voted. >> today is special, because one more giant panda has been added to saving not only the giant panda, but its habitat. >> reporter: the word bao bao means precious in chinese. many say it was perfect for the panda cub. >> because the pandas are endangered, it's nice to have a baby panda here. >> i think it drums up interest. it definitely makes people want to come out and see the panda. >> reporter: the ceremony featured video messages from first lady mi

the average techture in new york city in desz are in the 40s. we reached 70 degrees here in new york city today. well, well above nose average temperatures. if e if you came to new york city to visit, you might have been hoping for chillier weather. well, you will not get that opportunity. >> we packed really warm clothes. and now it's too warm. i'm here in a t-shirt. i have mid sweater, i have jacket, i have too much stuff. but it's nice. >> i brought boots to walk through snow. i have a heavy parka and i was so warm yesterday that i had to buy a t-shirt so that i could come out. >> if you were in new york city this weekend and you had some holiday shopping to do, you had no excuse for staying home. not only did it reach 70 today, it reached 65 degrees yesterday, which is also a record. >> thanks so much. enjoy it while you can. lets's check in with jennifer grey who is tracking all of these storm systems. >> you could see some slow downs in partings of the country. d.c. could see thunderstorms and showers. one to two hours there, new york city,

ntsb and the new york governor cuomo following a deadly train derailment as passengers head to new york city. this on the busiest travel weekend of the year. four people were killed. dozens of others were injured this morning. seven cars ran off the track. it was entering a curve in the bronx. they are scouring the waters below after passengers reportedly were thrown from the train. emergency crews had to use saws and cranes to cut those cars apart in the continuing search for survivors. amtrak has resumed service on the hudson line. the ntsb investigators have arrived at the scene to gather the black box to see if it was going too fast around the curve. in the meantime in massachusetts another accident, this time on the roads. a massive 70-car pile up being blamed on icy road conditions overnight near worcester. the tractor-trailers are colliding with smaller vehicles which slid under their cargo. 30 people injured. no reports of any fatalities. road crews quickly moved to clean up the crash site and the highway is now back open. police still caution everybody, drive carefully. >>> meanwhil

there were over 13,000 murders in new york city. the period after the tenure, it fell, a difference of 7,000 people. most of those lives that were saved were black and latino lives. >> you saw the report that came out, not too long ago that showed the number of people, the overwhelming number of people who were shot in new york city were black and latino. mostly black people. >> having tougher laws. what ray kelly did to his credit, they started investing in community programs, non-violence program, anti- gang programs. don't stop them when 89% of them are innocent. >> ray kelly doesn't get any credit that over the last two years it has plummeted. >> we took him to court! that's why it plummeted. he knew he was wrong. he wants his legacy to be -- >> is that too much to put on a police department? you say give them jobs, is that the police department's job? >> it's the police and the mayor's. >> to serve, not just to protect. it's also to serve the community. they do not serve black and brown communities. they antagonize them. >> whe

new york city 40 today and washington, d.c. 48. d.c. tomorrow 54 and new york city 54 a nice warm-up. look at this by sunday. zero the high in minneapolis and well below zero for the low. detroit about 10. chicago, 8. toronto 15. it's those last straggling people. if you are one person with a power line that is going to put up three more houses that is the last power line. the triage, if one line can get up 50 homes, they are going to do that line first before they do the one that can only get three or four houses back up. by wednesday, new year's day, 30 in new york city and thinking somewhere around 24 for the ball drop here in new york city itself. the air is fairly dry across the country and this right now, is a static cling alert. you have to wear natural fibers today because if you wear po polyester you will get static cling all day today with the dry air. >> was that an official static cling alert? >> it was. >> noted. >>> post-christmas shopping is in full swing. a new figure suggests it was a very busy and merry holiday shopping