new york, mike bloomberg. hugely successful businessman that made it clear that he wanted to take control of new york city's publicwith his very energetic and imaginative chancellor joel klein they have done just that. they're on the cutting edge of reforming public education in new york city and creating a standard that the rest of the country is beginning to pay attention to now. now it's my privilege to introduce the honorable mayor. >> thank you. good morning. sorry about the weather and all part of the mayor's program to e eliminate the drought. nevertheless, rain or sheen i want to welcome everyone to new york city. birthplace of four supreme court justices and one on "american idol." and i special want to welcome the 50 teacherses and principals who have been named education champions. it really is important to listen and learn from our best educators when we talk about reform. and there are so many of them around this country. but the reality is all of us are here because the american education system once the best in the world is now far from it. let me give you some statistics. today, our students rank 2

city regarding water issues. this is the first outreach which was a supplement in new york times and daily news which i think is the most circulated paper in new york city. and getting bigger as time goes on we'll try to engage in some of this thinking where people are thinking of this early and not just presented with a plan to go, thumbs up or down on it. the idea of putting sustained conversation with consistent information is very important. this is new york city does not preclude the water utilities thinking about climate change and water and the things that go along with that and trying reach out nationally. one more. last one. >> i'm representing the endangered species coalition. made up of four hundred different groups. i guess my question from yesterday revolved the impacts of global warming like the, eco basis. >> i don't want to disappoint you but we're not going to be able to do questions. so i hope you can make this a comment. >> i would encourage water managers and people included in water matters try to preclude or include other species and in the process early on rather than late in the game which h

new york city, where we are, we are in a park in queens, new york, just to give you an idea if you are not from this area, we are just a few miles from manhattan and a few miles from laguardia airport. and in this park, downed trees, debris everywhere, and this is just emblematic of what you're seeing all across several burr rougs of new york city. storms like this particularly dangerous in urban areas. still to be determined whether it was an official tornado. but, new york city and the northeast have had their share of weird weather over the past several months, from blistering heat to extreme cold and snow and now this. wild weather rolled across the northeast thursday, striking hard in new york city. over a thousand miles from tornado alley. tearing off roofs with reported wind gusts of over 100 miles per hour. >> it looked like doomsday it was coming in black. it looked like midnight. >> tornado warnings went up in three of the city's five burroughs just after 5:00 p.m. the fury lasted minutes as bolts of lightning hit up the statute of liberty and the surrounding city. >> it may

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

and now live to new york city with details. >>reporter: the police commissioner reminded us today that it was a year ago this week that a plan was arrested and charged with plotting to bomb the new york city subway system. charges he later pled guilty to. that plot led to attempts to make the transit system safer and this is part of the battle to prevent terror attacks. officials say the 500 new cameras installed in the major transportation hubs are a major step forward in "monitoring and disrupting potential terror attacks," on the major transportation hubs and brings the total number of cameras in new york city subway station to something like 3,700 and they all give an instant feed to the security coordination center based in lower manhattan. there are some civil liberty concerns being expressed by some activists but the mayor says that the cameras and the information they gather guarantee a greater freedom than they take away. they guarantee, he says, hopefully, the freedom for new yorkers not to be attacked by terrorists. a

so, kind of stranded for a while. >> while it's common for new york city to get a couple tornado warnings a year, only eight have actually hit the city since 1950. there were, also, powerful and damaging storms in central ohio. the strong winds and heavy rain hit thursday night there. are unconfirmed reports of several tornadoes, dozens of homes were damaged or destroyed. roads were blocked by downed trees and at least ten people suffered minor injuries. >>> a washington state woman may face criminal charges admitting she lied about being atacked with acid. she made headlines with her story a random assail sdhant threw acid on her face last month. her home was searched thursday. during an interview, she admitted it was all a hoax. the injuries were self-inflicted. >> she is extremely upset. she's very remorseful. in many ways this is something that just got bigger than what she expected. and so, she has sloan that this is has affected her a great deal. >> doctors say she was burned bay powerful acid. arrangements are being made to try and return any money donated to her. >>> politics now

natalee holloway's mom. >>> people here in new york talking about this and not just new york affected. some really unusual weather for the area in new york city yesterday. huge storms rolled through around rush hour. hail, powerful winds. there was a huge thunderstorm. sideways rain and a possible tornado. dave price joining us this morning in queens and forest hills, new york, where the storm hit the hardest with the latest this morning. talk about some destruction, dave. >> erica, you know, typically with this weather like this happens, we thohead in a plane southwest and new york city where we are in our backyard. this is queens, new york. if you are not from this area, a few miles from manhattan and a few miles from laguardia airport. and in this park, downed trees, debris everywhere. and this is just emblem attic of what you are seeing across several boroughs of new york city. storms like this particularly dangerous in urban areas. still to be determined whether it was an official tornado. but new york city and the northeast have had their share of weird weather from blistering heat to extreme cold and snow and now this. wild weather rol

last night did damage across pennsylvania and d.c., the maryland area got hit good and outside of new york cityports. areas where there was tree damage and power outages. one of those cells went through central pennsylvania up into the border of new jersey and into new york city. another one of the cells came just south of pittsburgh and then down towards the d.c. area. today we won't see anything like that. well off the coast. you can see them as they pushed offshore. lots of sunshine from about philly southward. there will be a mixture of sun and clouds from new york city through new england. temperatures are a little cooler today than yesterday. especially around albany but it's going to be another steamy day around d.c. and baltimore. should easley be up there around 90 degrees again. just another -- just an amazing summer. philly, 86. new york, 80. tomorrow we do it again, another surge of warmth that's going to come up. this will probably be our last warm day we'll see for awhile. areas around d.c. could easily be into the mid-90s. 94 or so. we'll do that on friday. saturday we cool it of

philadelphia and baltimore and a lot of wind with the storm so we have all kind of advisories here, new york city and across long island and toward boston, with trees down because of this. so we have a rough night ahead. new york city is not seeing it but it will pull into new york this afternoon and evening. >>shepard: by the time it is time to fly it will be fine in newark, right? >>reporter: tomorrow morning you could be delayed and get out around 12:00 noon. >>shepard: thank you, sir. a big day at the white house. fox is confirmed president obama will tomorrow morning announce the chief of staff, rahm emanuel, is stepping down and the resignation is reportedly effective immediately. rahm emanuel is expected to run for mayor of chicago and according to the associated press he will leave washington this weekend so he can start campaigning monday. but the departure leave as hole in the obama administration because the chief of staff runs the day-to-day operations at the white house and the gatekeeper at the oval office. our man at the white house, mike, the reality for the chief of staff, if he

this makes three to hit new york city alone. tornadoes have ever been recorded touching down in new york city since 1950. >>> well, no tornado around here, we hope. probably some rain, though, huh roberta. >> the first rain of the season, this was the scene earlier today. 65 degrees in san francisco, totally socked in accord to go chopper 5 high in the sky. 50s to 60 degrees a very muggy mild night. here the deck. the low clouds, apache fog streaming on shore. very slow to clear out tomorrow morning. 6:52, nobody is going to see sun up then. once the clouds do move out we'll see the replacement with mid-and high-level clouds, with the first front barrelling through the northern half of the state. the second impulse promises to bring some measurable precip. saturday afternoon a chance of light rain across the north bay. but more than likely the rain will arrive in the northern portion of our district and spreading across the entire area through the afternoon hours. anywhere from 5/100ths of an inch in san jose to perhaps a half i

and the flag of the new york city fire department. firefighter died on 9/11. when the first tower went down, joseph, a new york city cop, was riding on a ferry commandeered by police from staten island to manhattan. >> one second, they were both there in flames and smoke. and then, it disappeared. gone. one tower standing. at that point, instantaneously, i knew he was gone. >> reporter: this year, the emotions are all the more raw because of the proposed islamic center. [ chanting ] >> reporter: which he ardently opposes, because he believes its leaders are linked to radical islam. >> the funding behind this project, the leadership behind this project, is suspect. >> if you have a right but shouldn't, you don't have a right. >> reporter: just as fiercely as joe cammarata opposes the mosque, donna marsh supports it. >> the consequences of losing this argument means that generations of muslim-american children have been told, not there. that address is not for you. >> reporter: marsh, a professor at syracuse university, lost her daughter

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

here at 30 rock in new york city. we begin with a big development in the fight to reform the nation's public schools. "the new york times" reporting this morning that facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg will donate $100 million to the troubled public school system in newark, new jersey. according to "the times" he will announce the gift on "the oprah winfrey show" tomorrow. with new jersey governor chris christie and cory booker, mayor, the spokespeople for oprah and facebook have not yet confirmed "the times'" report. newark have among the lowest test scores and graduation rates. the $100 million donation would be one-eighth of newark's entire annual operating budget of $8900 million for its schools. his fortune has been estimated at least at $2 billion. again, mark zuckerberg according to "the new york times" ready to give 100 million bucks s ts tok and announce it tomorrow on "oprah." >>> today marks six months since the passage of health care meaning the law's key components go in effect and insure

northeast taking a look at temperatures toward 90 degrees in new york city. scattered showers and storms continuing for you in southern sections of florida.as we look california forecast, mostly cloudy a high of 64 degrees. that's a look at your latest weather. lynn? >> all right, scott. thanks so much. >>> well, an executive comeback, a strong arm takeover bid, and money can buy you happiness up to a point. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, onetime haitian presidential hopeful wyclef jean strikes back at sean penn in a very undiplomatic manner. >>> also the magic continues for boise state. and forget about catching a ball. catching a letter is a new souvenir at the ballpark. you're watching "early today." angeles los angeles los angelba" i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. a new "washington post" abc news poll shows republicans making gains against democrats in the final weeks before the midterm elections. 47% of voters surveyed said they would back the republican candidate in their congress

a tree falls in brooklyn and more in queens, but was it a tornado that swept through new york city? and we'll end the week by spinning a few records and watching them go down. captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news world headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news" with katie couric. >> couric: good evening, everyone. we don't know if sarah palin intends to enter the presidential race. the only failed vice presidential candidate in modern times who ever went on to win the white house was franklin roosevelt. but the former governor of alaska is at the traditional starting line tonight-- iowa. and our latest cbs news/"new york times" poll, only 20% of americans overall have a favorable opinion of palin. but 50% of republicans do. and those are the votes she would need for the nomination. dean reynolds is in des moines tonight. dean, the caucuses are 17 months away, but iowa is already getting plenty of attention. >> reporter: very true, katie. there are some 50 news organizations and a thousand dinner guests here tonight in des moines, all of them drawn to this room by o

what city did lonnie quinn work for -- work in, rather, before coming to new york, what city did lonnie. we've got a winner, our first 15 seconds of fame. since you only used three, we'll give you five more. so, what do you do? >> okay. i'm a stay-at-home-mom. i work for a chiropractor. >> here's the gift stuff. >> all kinds of stuff a. bit of everything. i'm so excited. >> nice job. >> congratulations. >> jackie holder, what a way to go. >> drink responsibly. >> we love a winner, we love a winner. >> chef daniel will be cooking up a four-star meal for us in just a few minutes. >> but first, another check of the weather with the aforementioned lonnie quinn who, of course -- >> i'm thinking, guys, a little drought on trivia questions? >> we want to make one easy. let's talk some weather out there, because you guys want to know about weather, you want to xhoeshgs i've got a bitterday girl right here but first of all right to it, all you visiting in new york city have a nice and calm day in new york. 39 hours ago, it's been confirmed two tornadoes touched down here. boy, i will say, though

new york minute. a fast, furious, and fatal storm hit new york city and the surrounding region yesterday.g to recover this morning. they're trying to clear some of the tracks on a long island railroad as well as a lot of people still without electricity. many don't have a way to work or school. so was it a tornado? we'll show you the video, the i-reports coming in throughout the night. >>> well, she is the new sheriff of wall street, we're told. harvard law professor elizabeth warren picked to build a new consumer protection agency to keep the big banks and predatory lenders in line. it's a tall order coming from the white house. can she deliver? >>> also ahead, drilling is now complete. bp finishing work on drilling that relief well in the gulf of mexico. now they're moving forward with the bottom kill. it's the procedure that would have bp's blown out well permanently cemented shut by the weekend. >>> up first, though, this was really bad. thousands still reeling this morning. some scrambling for a way to work in the dark after a powerful and deadly storm tore through new york city last

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new york region with little warning. whipping up high winds, flooding and hail. emily schmidt shows us the spots that were hardest hit. >> reporter: just as rush hour hit new york city thursday afternoon, so did a fierce, fast-moving storm. >> i thought it was the end of the world. >> reporter: tornado warnings went out around 5:30. at least 30,000 people lost power, as lightning filled the skies. >> all the doors in my house flew open. the air conditioning in my room crashed in. the windows crashed in. >> reporter: terrifying for people at home. trouble for commuters trying to get home. >> back up. back up. back up. >> reporter: new york's busy penn station closed because it was so packed with people after winds knocked down trees and power lines on train tracks. drivers didn't fair much better. >> i was just driving down the street. and it was like -- it was just like a giant, human car wash. everything just started spinning. and i saw, like, the small branches flying all over. >> reporter: one woman died when a tree landed on her car. others wondered how they survived. >> didn't know what hit me at first. glass was scattered everywhere. and i was thinking, am i a

call or click today. >>> more on the breaking news in new york city. this is a live image from east harlem, where a big fire is burning on a bridge. the metro north train in new york city is what it carries. the fire has closed grand central station. >>> if rs are on a shooting range is sending thousands of people running from their houses in utah. if the flames and burned hundreds of acres in 24 hours and destroyed two houses. more than a dozen people evacuated. drybrush caught fire during the national guard training on sunday. the soldiers were not able to stop the blaze from spreading. >>>her famous parents kept her out of the spotlight as a child, but now katherine schwarzenegger is a junior in college, going public with an issue if that she says impacts many women and girls. if she came to d.c. to spread the word about the problems and understands well. 20-year-old katherine sports integrys and dymond of this weekend talking with young girls about a new booked. >> i have a ton of young girl cousins and i thought how much pressure the media puts on

and then drove to new york city. >> i applaud the humanity that set sarah free. and i cry encore, encore. it's time for shane and josh to come home too. >> reporter: shourd and her mother were joined by cindy hickey and laura fattal, the mothers of the men still imprisoned. >> did either of your sons send a message for you through sarah? >> a little bit of the message that i have heard so far is, i love all my family. and we appreciate everything are you doing. >> reporter: bauer and fattal's mothers have requested a peting with iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad who arrived in new york today to attend a u.n. general a sellably. he described shaurd's release as a humanitarian gesture and asked the u.s. to do the same to the eight iranians he says america is holding. >> the u.s. government should make a humanitarian gesture to release the iranians who are illegally arrested and detained here in the united states. >> reporter: shourd did not describe the conditions during her months in prison and though she was apparently released for medical reasons, she says s

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still ahead on tonight's cbs evening news, after the storm in new york city's tornado alley. >> glor: hurricane igor has set itssitis squarely on the island of bermuda tonight. bermuda residents are busy preparing for igor which is expected to hit late tomorrow with heavy rains and winds over 100 miles per hour. in mexico, what's left of hurricane karl is still generating drenching rains the there. five people have died in mudslides and flooding and thousand have been forced from their homes. the national weather service confirmed last night the powerful storms that battered new york city on thursday included two tornadoes, a very rare occurrence as we hear now from tony guida. >> reporter: to their notoriously colorful vocabulary, new yorkers have two new entries-- tornadoes and nak row bursts. >> oh, my god! >> it was very, very frightening. >> this is a tornado. >> reporter: two tornadoes roared through nine minutes apart in the rush hour thursday evening. they packed winds up to 100 miles per hour, toppling trees, smashing windows, lifting the roofs off houses and stores. >> it se

as was mentioned, new york city in 1999 and torture by moving completely. i spoke with a fire inspector last week in new york city and he asked them about that ordinance and he remembered the fire, brought back to the city council on behalf of the fire marshal, who said that this would be a good idea for york city with his preponderant of wood frame buildings. the concerns of increased costs in addition to the effect on small roofers, they will adjust in 11 years. new york city has infinitely more construction than seven sisters and a density that is on par. as a constituent here, seeing the apart -- department's response and the fire department's lack of response, we went for this legislation two years ago. they know it is a consistent issue. to date if you have concerns regarding the band, personally i have yet to see anyone with a vested interest in terms of a written policy or any part of the fire department to proactively address this issue. and it is an issue. seven to 10 fires each year but there is no change in the permitting process, enforcement adm

and hundreds of trees like this one remain strewn about new york city. they're blocking streets, sidewalks and have fallen on homes. tens of thousands of people remain without power so, katie, cleanup crews will have a long weekend ahead of them. >> couric: all right. michelle millner brookline for us tonight. michelle, thank you. turning to afghanistan now where the polls opened just hours away from now for parliamentary elections. and the taliban have declared war on everyone associated with it-- including voters. in the last few weeks, at least 18 poll workers and one candidate have been kidnapped. in spite of that, plenty of afghans are willing to risk their lives for democracy. from kabul, here's mandy clark. >> reporter: as an afghan woman, everything about robina jalali is unconventional: ambitious, young and bristling with confidence, the 25-year-old is running for parliament. two years ago she was in a different race, running for afghanistan in the beijing olympics. she finished last then. tomorrow jalali hopes for a different result. "i represe

. >>> also ahead on day one of nbc news education nation summit in new york city, the mayor of this city, michael bloomberg unveiled a tough new plan to hold public schoolteachers here in new york accountable for their performance. coming up we're going to talk to mayor bloomberg about that as well as the president of one of the most powerful teachers unions in the country. >>> and the pest that is invading homes all across the country, i'm not talking about bed bug, but stink bugs. >>> al's upstairs and he's tracking the record weather from coast to coast. >> here's the culprit for the east coast. it's a low pressure that's developing, looks like an 80% chance it's going to develop into a tropical depression or a named storm, nicole. we have already got a risk of strong storms from wilmington all the way up to providence, rhode island, damaging wind, heavy rain, isolated tornadoes. heavy rain pushing its way up, parts of the carolinas yesterday got up to 10 inches of rain. we have got some video to show you of streets turned into rivers and lakes. a lot of flooded out roads, homes, base

we have high wind warning for new york city. be very gusty today along with some of the squally rains. we have flash flood warnings in effect for areas around d.c. and a tornado watch from philadelphia southwards down along the coast. you can see the rain, the rain. the yellows where heavy rain is coming down. between philly and d.c. is the worst of it. now we have flash flood warnings for the entire d.c. metro area. they picked up a quick two to three inches of rain in some cases. it's still raining hard. some of the small streams are coming out of their banks. many road closures today. our computers are projecting the heaviest rains from d.c. to philly, maybe just outside of new york city up through the catskills. we're talking potential for maybe half a foot of rain in some cases. this will be about a 24-hour event. starts this morning and won't end until tomorrow morning. >> lots to look forward to. >>> new york's bed bugs take to the airwaves. >>> quite a run for tina fey lately but wait it gets better. the first look at en

you've got shake shack in new york city. five guys. that go being to the 50s-style burgers. pj clarks in manhattan around for 50 years. >> great place. >> did the survey indicate there's some type of trend that is different than the regular fast food-type burgers? >> i think you are right we may be seeing a burger renaissance. people want something meat like this. >> what was the big criticism about mcdonald's? the kids love them. they seem to be grease for your folks? >> not terribly tasty most of the taste comes from the ketchup, mustard and onions. hard to pete for price. >> how much for the five guys? >> the single ones are $3.50 the doubles are $5. >> this is a substantial burger we have that's a serious burger eric? >> it seems to indicate to me that people are willing to pay more for good taste and not just the 99 cent deal. >> i that i is right. even in this economy most people can splurge. >> let's get that list up. again, the top on the list if if you are in the west you are lucky in and out and five guys. >> fuddruckers, burg

announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," september 9th, 2010. >>> good evening, i'm terry moran. breaking news tonight, and that's where we begin in san bruno, california in south san francisco. a towering fire is just burning out of control after a large gas main explosion. witnses on the scene report s visibly leaving the main and 35 to 45 homes are affected, as you can see there. and with uninterrupted supy of fuel the congression is moving unchecked on that neighborhood at that time. the number of casualties unclear. san francisco general hospital and other facilities are admitting burn victims, as authorities race to clear homes ahead of the fire. cal fire a stata agency respspded to the blaze with four air tankers, two attack planes. one helicopter and 25 fire gines carrying hundreds of firefighters. just a war out there tonight. california emergency management agency said the fires are being fueled by really strong winds in the area tonight and there are currently no indications of foul plplay in

despite the recent diagnosis of throat cancer, he did appear at the film's new york city premiere one wish him the best. >>> we'll be right back, but first, jimmy kimmel with what's coming up next on the show. >> jimmy: tonight, zach gal fan coming up next on the show. >> jimmy: tonight, zach gal fan knack kis, music from have bone if they have their way, we're facing a mountain of debt and a massive tax increase. employers will continue to leave our state, taking their jobs with them. the next four years will impact the next decade, so we've put together a road map to 2020. a plan that brings jobs back to maryland by reducing spending and lowering taxes. let's make the maryland we love not just good, but great. now let's get down to work.