and all that stuff. >> he moved to new york city and moved to new york city as a junior.was a culture shock. >> whether and the food. 80 degrees. we have local food here, and my jacket freezing. your friends teas you about the movie coming to america. they do. >> they say coming to find my bride. >> the 6 foot 9 sof more is a leading shock blocker. to me defense is winning championship. i love playing defense. whatever we do to stop the other team we do. >> it's a big thing for me. >> his iq or feel, court sense is exceptional. as he gets stronger he has a fright future not just at st. johns, but the next level. >> have your parents seen you play? >> a couple of times, on tv though. >> what do they say when they see you on the basketball court. >> they are proud of me. >> mum almost stopped crying. they stopped crying. they are proud of me. >> he is loving life and hoping to play at the next level like his idol and fellow countryman. >> i can't imagine what it feels like. he is from where i'm from, he came here and made a name. that's what i wanted to do. i'm looking at t

first, new york city settles a seven-year lawsuit over discrimination hiring policies of the new york city fire apartment, the largest in the country, second largest in the world. >> there was open and blatant discrimination in the department for at least 100 years. black africans applications would be thrown in the garbage. they would do well on tests and would never be called. a black african would have committed some minor offense, literally jumping a turnstile, and would be excluded because of that. >> all that and more coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the latest disclosures from edward snowden show the national security agency is recording every single phone call in an undisclosed foreign country. a surveillance system called "mystic" stores billions of conversations for up to 30 days. phone calls are also being recorded in another four countries on a more limited basis. the washington post" has withheld from naming the countries in the request. jay carney declined to comment. >> i have not seen the report and i do

there are a lot of facilities in new york city. never very far away from a medical facility, so that is the good news, but the concern, obviously, who might have been in that collapsed building at the hour of day when this collapsed before 10:00 in the morning. we'll take a break, be back with more on "jansing and co." after this. your first grasp, your first smile... we were there. your first roll, your first friend, we were there too. and swaddlers blanket-like softness, that you've loved since day one, is now available through size 5, for many more firsts to come. ♪ wishing you love, sleep & play. pampers. my sinuses are acting up and i've got this runny nose. i better take something. truth is, sudafed pe pressure and pain won't treat all of your symptoms. really? alka seltzer plus severe sinus fights your tough sinus symptoms plus your runny nose. oh what a relief it is [ girl ] my mom, she makes underwater fans that are powered by the moon. ♪ she can print amazing things, right from her computer. [ whirring ] [ train whistle b

new york took great pride in the bold and inventive leading city in the country is not the world yet they had a scam by as lost in this tiny podunk town brought the first subway. the quote in "the new york times" said that conservative city the first to open a subway in this country. this is a little bit galling to them that they had let boston be first. they would catch up in time but lawson certainly did get there first and it's a fun story to tell. i hope that gives you a little bit of insight that the book is not just about the big players but it's about the little people who built the tone all and that is the lesson that comes away from it is a special appreciation for not only our subway but new york london and paris and all the great underground cities that exist today. london open the world's first subway and new york and boston didn't calm until 30 years later so there's a big gap between the worlds first subway in america's first subway and the book explores why that was. i will stop there and i'm happy to talk about anything you want to talk about her questions you might ha

city. tisch's has worked closely with the past mayors to improve new york city's image. ped kick off the new york times square makeover. so far, his efforts seem to be working. new york had 54 million visitors in 2013. the regency sold out for super bowl weekend about a month before it even opened. it is not just about keeping hotels full. tisch says tourism is critical for the new york economy. >> it is about the jobs. it is about the ability for visitors to come and spend money so we can hire more new yorkers. if you look in new york, thousands of people are making a living in some aspect of travel and tourism. we want to bring in the international travelers. that is extremely important. they stay longer and spend more money here. >> since 1970, the regency has been home to the power breakfasts. business leaders and politicians convene every morning over coffee to get their day started. >> you look at the history of the power breakfast. it was started by my father. >> your father and your uncle. >> right. these were the times new york city were in very dark financial sh

first right here in new york city. look at these pictures. mounts of smoke, deadly scene there in harlem as fire crews and new york police department's bomb squat went after an explosion and two buildings collapsed

when we talk about the infrastructure of not just new york city and new york state but throughout the country, there's a massive need for investment. we've identified transportation related plans, mass transit or bridges and what's often forgotten about and neglected is our suh and areas that we have to understand is due for an upgrade, meaningful life for many of these projects are 40, 50 years, we're pushing 100 and counting. >> there's a lot of risk out there. we appreciate you being with us, robert rodriguez, thanks. >> when we return, mystery on the high seas or not? the search for answers in the disappearance of malaysia air 370 and how any of us could play a key role in helping to find it. >> we had tens of thousands of people helping us comb through hundreds of thousands of kilometers. we were able to convert all of that imagery into individual structures and damaged neighborhoods so that they could get the best help for the recovery effort and for the rebuilding. >> director of product development from digital globe, thanks very much. we hope your contributors do find somethi

in new york city, the charters have done even better. ven among that group, the success academy charters run by the former new york city councilwoman, that's the group that mayor de blasio says he won't let expand even though this expansion had already been approved by mayor bloomberg. this is basically a cancellation of the previously approved expansion. so there's just absolutely no justification for it. parents line up around the blocks for these schools. and for mayor de blasio so say, listen, participaents, we don't if you want this school. we don't care if you're leaning up overnight for this school. we're going to not let you have it. >> leslie, it comes down to one word. unions. >> i don't think so. because they didn't back de blasio. they backed thovp son, who was not the mayor. honestly, i don't feel this is about unions. obviously, everything a politician does is political to a degree. i think this is about improving the public education school district in new york city, which needs to be done in every school system. >> but the

for organizers who have been working in new york city real estate for decades, a lot is at stake in the wake of the recent housing bubble. the boom in new york city real estate grew out of a time in the 1970s and 1980s when the city lost nearly a million residents, and large portions of the city were deserted. >> so what it looked like in the 70s and 80s was that you could stand on some corners in the south bronx or the west bronx, uh, turn around, and not see an occupied, multi family building. see for basically blocks and blocks, buildings that had been vacant and abandoned. >> shultz worries that the mistakes of the past could be repeated during the new recession. >> one or two bad buildings can have a very bad effect on surrounding buildings and on a neighborhood. you don't want to have all the investment that's been made by both the city and private entities to improve many of these neighborhoods to, in effect, be wasted because people did stupid things like over mortgaging their buildings. >> predatory equity deals aren't inevitable. when the bank forecloses, the court sometimes a

the death toll is rising after a new york city gas explosion. michelle miller has found there's pipeline danger in many cities. we learned that g.m. knew about a faulty part for 13 years as it continued to build cars with deadly consequences. jeff glor has details. and a little boat launched on a tide of misery is sent home with a cargo of hope. >> definitely mind blowing thinking that this boat traveled upside down two years all the way across the ocean to get here. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it has been nearly one week now since malaysia airlines flight 370 left linda lane for beijing, and seemingly vanished into thin air. but it has to be somewhere, and tonight the search for the boeing 777 is moving farther into the indian ocean because there is evidence the plane may have changed course toward the west after losing contact with air traffic controllers and that it continued to fly in that direction for quite some time. bob orr in our washington bureau begins our cove

and use them in new york city . architectly, you may want -- be architecturally you may want to -- they pay not fly in new york city. >> things that we as americans get used to, the idea that report began with the bathtub being the heaviest thing in that lady's home. in america we have big expectations, big appliances and a lot of things that are quite different. >> definitely so but those can be sof solved through the architecture and engineering. importing these to new york city and also in general to the issues. first of all, one issue is that until haas year, float -- until last year, floating homes fell under maritime law. >> so they are technically considered in the sea as it were? >> technically they were considered boats. but the supreme court last year said they're not boats. they should be considered houses. and therefore they should not fall under maritime law but they should fall under state law. but the state has not regulated these homes or these floating homes as homes. and therefore, there is no regul

. ♪ >>> we begin with the breaking news story we have been following in new york city, a five-alarm firen an apartment building in spanish harlem that collapsed around 9:30 this morning. now the new york city police department, the nypd reporting that 15 people have been injured. authorities say there may have been an explosion that caused the building to collapse. but that explosion would be consistent also with natural gas explosion. pictures of the smoke rising from the building. more than 150 emergency responders now on the scene. metro north service has been suspended until further notice. dwran mills is on the scene, she joins us by phone. what have the latest? >> police are confirming that there was an explosion followed by a building collapse. the officers tell me it appears that a gas main may have been ruptured, but they don't know that for sure yet, but it appears that that may be the case. i have also been hold that there are injuries, but i am not being told how many. i see a massive response here. i'm at 118th street and park avenue, literally a block from the scene. i see

cuomo ask himself to leave new york city or new york since he said new york had no room for conservatives, he just became one through an act of common sense. the greater issue is why did the greatest city in the world under two decades of incredible strength and leadership, hand power over to an abject moron? it's like building a beautiful jumbo jet and choosing a pogo stick as a pilot. de blasio is a left wing lurch. he's harming more children than lawn darts and freddy krueger combined, and the reason is they're not his kids. this reflects every liberal politician who kills school choice while sending their children to private schools. >> he's only been in office for a couple months. >> he's evil. this progressivism is evil because it's about money and power. you know what the school chanceler said. she came out and said these kids are on their own. >> you know where the evil cell cpac. >> detour. >> cuomo took de blasio. he realized de blasio was on the ropes in a corner, and what andrew cuomo did was smart. this is going to be my first venture towards the 2016 presidential run. i'm go

the mayor, the newly elected mayor of new york city is going to be giving a news conference and updating the situation and the facts that we know on hand. any moment now, mayor de blasio is actually on this location, as we speak. the pictures you're probably seeing tell the story. if not tell the emotion in this area. the smoke pouring from a building, the effect of that explosion heard and felt for blocks upon blocks. there were reports that even said there was one witness saying she could see actual people coming from the buildings. that from one of the local news reports on the scene. and we can tell you right now that the new york city police department is confirming that the two fatalities are two women. we just actually moments ago saw the medical examiner pulling out of the location where we are right now. we are unclear as to whether there was a body in that vehicle or whether that was just an investigative vehicle. but clearly, the information is just coming in trickles. here are the things i can tell you off-hand. president obama has been briefed in washington on the situation

in new york city if you buy goods outside the city and bringing them into the city you have to pay an 8% sales tax or use tax. the manhattan district attorney, prosecutor in new york city found out many people were buying expensive art outside the city, bring it in but failing to pay that sales-tax. so they were watching calories and large purchases and happened to see a purchase where the sales tax wasn't paid and saw the name dennis kozlowski, a name a prosecutor recognized. this was someone who had been on magazine covers, had a big presence in new york city so the man henry d. a broad sales tax evasion charges against kozlowski. think about when you make a purchase. do you submit sales tax to the state? personally for everything you buy? the vendor collect and submits to the taxing authority. isn't that the normal way we do it. you are told what the purchase price is, you pay it and assumes sales taxes get submitted to the state. that is what kozlowski thought about his art. he thought he paid the purchase price to the gallery, and the arts agency was using submitted the sales tax

one thing about this book is that it toggles back and forth between two great cities, boston and new york. because as we know those two cities have a great history together. babe ruth, they tend to think that is what started the rivalry. but in fact it goes back much further than that. so i will talk a little bit about that as well. so those cities have a lot in common and a lot of differences. so i will do some readings and a few passages from the book that should give you a flavor of how the book covers boston and new york. because they are very different projects. one boston opened its subway was about a mile off track. a tiny section of track when new york open its subway, exactly 20 miles prieto is a much bigger project when they opened and of course some people like to joke that boston stopped building after they opened open up that 1 mile and never improved upon it. they are still riding on what they would have back then. new york certainly did expand and grow and sort of expand. and so briefly how the book came to be. when i first started, i used to be a transportation reporte

john blackstone, cbs news, crescent city, california. >> pelley: and that's the cbs evening news foright. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. >>> now at 6:00, chaos at c csf as a student protest gets out of control. good evening. i'm elizabeth cook. >> i'm ken bastida. this just in, get a look at this protest completely out of hand at the city college of san francisco. protestors were fighting to get past police officers and into the administrative building. hundreds of students and faculty members are upset about new policies they say discriminate against illegal immigrants and poor students. the groups save ccsf coalition is also calling on the special trustee to step down. the school is in jeopardy of losing its accreditation. we have a crew on the scene. we'll have a live report later at 6:00. >>> the inferno that engulfed a construction project in san francisco's mission bay was so big that firefighters couldn't rely on just the normal fire hydrants. kpix 5 reporter ryan takeo tells us they had to tap into a high pressure water tank hidden up in the hills

in new york city, it has a backstory. mpaign to end horse-driven carriages in new york city by animal rights activists has been e forgffective and what knocked christine quinn out of the mayoral race. a group of horse lovers helped back the first major ad buy in the entire mayoral campaign, an ad against christine quinn. was a campaign that helped campaign deblasio past quinn to become the democratic nominee for mayor and win the entire race. which is why as soon as he got into office one of mayor deblasio's first acts was to end the horse-drawn carriages in new york city. so enter this guy. >> i don't know what you want. if you're looking for ransom, i can tell you i don't have money, but what i do have are a very particular set of skills. skills i've acquired over a very long career. skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. >> yes, liam neeson raced to the aid of the ticked off owners who don't want their business banned. neeson, working on this issue since 2009, has even drawn the ire of peta, but he's not s

>> before city councilmember who ins the 22 success academies new york city. she has an interest in the failure of public schools, occupying public school space. she spends north of $1 million a year on advertising, $1300 per student. >> steve barr, you are the dot publicgreen schools, and california is an incubator of charter schools. you areu talk about how seeing the debate in new york city from your vantage point in los angeles? green dot public schools, and i care less about charter schools except how they affect public schools. i think there is research on what good school districts could become. i listen to a lot of teachers. they felt out of the decision-making process, and we used all of those reforms to be successful in areas where there are 50%, 60%, 70% dropout rate, we retain and graduate 80% and 90% of those same kids. i'm a public school advocate, and charters are a progressive tool. the other thing i would say is these are somehow private entities, it is no more of a pacifica,tity then they are nonprofits. the idea that i got into this with my

city. tisch's has worked closely with the past mayors to improve new york city's image. ped kick off the new york times square makeover. so far, his efforts seem to be working. new york had 54 million visitors in 2013. the regency sold out for super bowl weekend about a month before it even opened. it is not just about keeping hotels full. tisch says tourism is critical for the new york economy. >> it is about the jobs. it is about the ability for visitors to come and spend money so we can hire more new yorkers. if you look in new york, thousands of people are making a living in some aspect of travel and tourism. we want to bring in the international travelers. that is extremely important. they stay longer and spend more money here. >> since 1970, the regency has been home to the power breakfasts. business leaders and politicians convene every morning over coffee to get their day started. >> you look at the history of the power breakfast. it was started by my father. >> your father and your uncle. >> right. these were the times new york city were in very dark financial sh

new york city has a lot of cast-iron pipes, likely to leak than newer piping. that's a safety concern in a conversion to natural gas. >> one spark is all it takes for an explosion after the surrounding air is filled with 5% of natural gas, and 6,000 miles of pipelines run beneath new york city, half installed before 1940 when cast iron and unprotected steel were the order of the day. >> if we invest in natural gas in this country, we have to reduce the leeks through the pipeline system. >> the problem is cost. in big cities like new york there's layers of underground pipeline from watermains, phone, electric, making for a muddled and extensive process of removing gas lines. it costs in manhattan about $2,000 a foot. when you get to rural areas it drops to $300. conedson says replacing all gas mains could take decades and cost $10 million. other cities may be in worse shapes. efforts to replace lines could take 80 years, according to robert jackson from stanford and duke university. in baltimore, twice that time. without the upgrades soon, analysts say the empha

in new york city everybody lived in the fourth as part of downtown new york city. crammed into the finnell of the island of manhattan, and was only when college began to speed up an electric talley came along and other means of moving people around started to come along that in paper able to move out and without of the city. at first it was a mile, two miles, then for miles and eventually six miles. the city began to expand and grow and that was critical to get people further out from the downtown area where they were living. that was a big moment in the second half of the 19th century that happen with expansion of cities. the book sort of developed from the pivotal moment when city started to expand. what happened was a couple pivotal moments happened. the blizzard of 1880. in 1888 a storm unlike nothing we have ever seen since then crippled the entire northeast. at least 400 people but some people estimate 11,000 people were killed in this blizzard. it just devastated the entire northeast. new york, boston and everything in between ground to a standstill. when th

good morning everyone. >> the sunrise in new york city. very cold in new york city. up to the right side. i got the 90th floor. it is like the gdp of madagascar are to buy -- >> the view out of central part. got to have it. empire state building. good morning. >> company news. general electric is filing for an ipo of its north american retail finance business. it is the first step towards a planned exit of the retail finance business. volkswagen is ahead of schedule. it may sell more than 10 million vehicles this year. that is four years earlier than planned. its expansion is part of the efforts to overtake toyota become the world possible are just carmaker -- world's largest carmaker. a civil investigation into business practices. this is a win for bill ackerman. he has been trying to convince regulators to shut down the company. that is today's company news. >> a big announcement from herbalife. >> the president will be making a big announcement at around 2:00 p.m. on the minimum wage and overtime issues he has been pressing so hard on. >> gap said it was going to

new york city is only 21 degrees. but like you said, once you add in these winds -- and they are strong -- we're talking about gusting as high as 40 miles per hour out towards new york city, philly also seeing gusts about 43. now we talk about the feels-like temperatures, right? many places feeling like subzero again. i mean, it's march! what is going on? detroit feels like 4 below. pittsburgh right now feels like 7 below. it is a rough day. the good news, it's not going to last long, but let's talk about what we have seen from the storm that's already been out there. cleveland, ohio, about 4 inches, detroit saw about 6 inches, but again, out towards buffalo, they had a blizzard, saw over a foot of snow and more snow still expected on the way, but you can tell it is winding down and pushing off toward the northeast. still some places could see heavier amounts. i doubt we're talking about almost over a foot of snow here still, but it looks like 3 to 5 inches still expected in the northeast, more likely than what we'll t

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cuomo ask himself to leave new york city or new york since he said new york had no room for conservatives one through an act of common sense. the greater issue is why did the greatest city in the world under two decades of incredible strength and leadership, hand power over to an abject moron? it's like building a beautiful jumbo jet and choosing a pogo stick as a pilot. de blasio is a left wing lurch. he's harming more children than lawn darts and freddy krueger combined, and the reason is they're not his kids. this reflects every liberal politician who kills school choice while sending their children to private schools. >> he's only been in office for a couple months. >> he's evil. this progressivism is evil because it's about money and power. you know what the school chanceler said. she came out and said these kids are on their own. >> you know where the evil cell cpac. >> detour. >> cuomo took de blasio. he realized de blasio was on the ropes in a corner, and what andrew cuomo did was smart. this is going to be my first venture towards the 2016 presidential run. i'm going to distance

center of new york city. transportation going over there with the new seven subway line. >> how is that going? >> it's almost finished and it should open this year. >> back to that question, time warner is one of your tenants. >> time warner was our power and are -- our partner in time warner center. we recently purchased their office space back from them. we did that in partnership with two separate funds. they committed to go to hudson yards. they will stay in place for the next five years while we lease -- while we build the building. they will anchor our second office tower. the second tower will be 2.6 million square feet. it will be the third tallest building in new york city. >> what did it take to convince them to move over there? >> it did not take a lot, actually. >> fancy new buildings in new york to fancy buildings in las vegas. hotel suites when only the best will do. >> think amazon delivery drones are controversial? a drone that shoots stun darts. the wing suit -- one adventurer plans to fly at

an explosion leveled to new york city apartment buildings, killing two women and injuring more than a other people. and number of people are still missing. the new york city mayor saying the explosion was caused by a gas leak that had been reported 15 mins before the blast. firefighters continue to battle let five alarm blaze that broke out at 9:30 a.m. new york time. host the obama will new ukrainian prime minister at the white house in an effort to cement the west's allegiance. we got word that secretary of state john kerry will meet with the russian foreign minister in london on friday. that's a look at the top stories in the news at this hour. a group of seven world leaders will say they will not recognize the results of a referendum for crimea for that region to split and join russia. the referendum is scheduled for this weekend. it will have no legal effect. the leaders have said they will take further action individually and collectively if russia tries to annex crimea. more and breaking news on pfizer. my colleague olivia sterns is standing by with more details. >> pfizer is s

and more than 6,000 miles of pipelines carrying natural gas run under new york city. half of them were installed before 1940 when cast iron and unprotected steel were the order of the day, and that raises questions about how well the nation's infrastructure will handle the energy boon. >> we've got to reduce the leaks that happen through the pipeline system. >> reporter: in big cities like new york you have layers of underground pipeline from water mains, phone, electric that all make for a muddled and expensive process of removing and replacing natural gas lines. in manhattan it costs 200,000 per foot. but in rural areas it drops to $300. con edison said replacing all of its old new york gas mains could take decades and cost opinions of dollars. efforts to replace all leak-prone gas pipes in philadelphia could take as long as 80 years. in baltimore it could take almost twice that time. and yet without those upgrades soon analysts say the nation's emphasis on gas may bring more incidents like what happened in east harlem. investigators say the adjacent gas main was 12

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he had a huge art collection and would throw open the doors of his mansion in new york city to allow the public to tour the five art galleries. that was his family home in new york city. 121 rooms for a family of four. that is the circumstance that she grew up in after coming over from paris and 1904. >> there were the two children. huguette was the youngest. >> yes. >> in the first daughter and her sister died tragically. >> yes, her sister died just short of her 17th birthday of meningitis. this is well before penicillin. the family had great concerns and they had a quarantine cower in the top of the mansion. yet they grew up in a household with a lot of fears. fears of kidnapping rap the forefront. and her sister was an outdoors girl and the girl scout. so after she died the family donated the first national girl scout camp, in new york city. some of you may have gone to girl scout camp there were the clerks gave more than 100 acres for that camp. and huguette would've been an early teenager at the time that only sibling died in a one conversations begin with you and huguette, had

new york city police and firefighters are battling a five-alarm fire. 16th upper manhattan. according to the "new york times" and bloomberg, one person has died from the explosion. officials are saying there could be much more fatalities and minor wounds are too numerous to count at the moment. windows were blown out as far away as 10 blocks from the actual site, and cars across the street were destroyed as woelfel stub you are seeing live pictures of the scene right now. police say it was a gas explosion. the major utility said emergency crews were in route and they have no information on whether a natural gas leak might have played a role. service on the metro north, the commuter rail that goes in and out of grand central and runs nearby the building was also suspended. "market makers" will be right back after this break. ♪ >> live from bloomberg headquarters in new york, this is "market makers," with erik schatzker and stephanie ruhle. >> welcome back to "market makers." i am stephanie ruhle. >> and i am erik schatzker. president obama hosts the ukrai