and it really is so exciting. >> i want to talk about the benefit for new york city as a whole. but you're also making wedding plans for is it next year? >> yes, for next year in the springtime. >> well that's a wonderful time to be married in new york. but in terms of what it means for new york city, christine, this is also a big business boom potentially. >> well, you know, that's not the reason you do it, but i do think this will help the economy of new york city. i think lot ofs people want to have their weddings and receptions and their honeymoons here in new york city, and that's a great thing. you know, for people all across the world to see that this city has been made stronger, in human and moral and economic ways by this law, sends an incredibly powerful message that moving human rights forward is always a good thing, never a divisive thing like our opponents would have us believe. but you know, for folks watching new york better place to get married than the big apple, let me tell you. >> we had a lot of fun getting ready to get married in their rainbow leis with their

the closest to new york city is washington, d.c. york city has a heat index of 94 to start your morning. that's just, you know, gross, i guess, if you want to call it that. d.c. at 93. so let's get down to it. today's forecast well advertised, record heat possible. d.c. could be as high as 103 today. that includes all the cities in between, the 100-degree heat will spread through the raleigh area, too. st. louis should be near 100 today. we do get a break with thunderstorms in chicago, so good for them. detroit won't be quite as hot as yesterday, either, but still brutal in dallas where today will be the 21st day in a row of 100-degree heat. that, by the way, is the fifth all-time streak. sunday is the day it gets better for a lot of people from the midwest right to the midatlantic. so just got to make it until sunday. >>> bill, thanks so much. just another day in the celebrity tsunami life of lindsay lohan. plus, captain america's mission was to fight the nazis but he has an even tougher mission this weekend at the box office. beat

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

captioning funded by cbs >>> welcome to an already steaming new york city this saturday morning. 108 degrees today. ugh. i'm russ mitchell. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. it hits you like a brick wall out there. we're going to be joined by new york mayor bloomberg. he will be with us to discuss the first gay marriages to take place here in new york tomorrow. for him, it's personal. he'll be officiating two of his top aides who are getting married tomorrow. all three will be joining us coming up a little later in the program. >> we're going to begin with fire in a youth camp, killing at least 84 people. cbs news correspondent jeff glor is in oslo with the latest. jeff, good morning. >>> russ, good morning to you. norway woke to the full scope of this tragedy. today as the death toll rose dramatically overnight. many of the deaths as you mention at a campground 60 miles north of here. >> 600 kids on this small island. and police now confirm that of the 84 people killed, some are as young as 16. they say 32-year-old anders bravic was dressed as a police officer. he told police he tried to gather

but the city assures me that everybody here in manhattan and all the other boroughs of new york city will marry. in all, 823 couples today in new york city. they had entered a lottery and the city made sure that all who had entered would get a chance to become a part of history today and also making it official for them. we've got an exit door on the other side, and you've got people showing up there who are just wishing the couples who just got married well as they

state of new york, i pronounce you a married couple under the state of new york laws. >> reporter: making it official. michael and doug robinson were among the first couples married in new york city today. the first day same-sex marriage became law in new york state. together more than 25 years, they shared the moment with their two grown sons as their witnesses. >> and we're so happy that they can be together. >> reporter: new york city ushered in the biggest wave of newlyweds. officials say out of the more than 800 who applied to get married today, 659 picked up their licenses. in manhattan, meredith and tiffany waited five hours before making their debut as a married couple. >> this is the most amazing day for new york. it's just a celebration of love and victory. >> reporter: city council speaker christine quinn wiped tears watching the first ceremonies and called it a victory for equal rights. >> today those families were told they matter and that the state of new york cares about them as much as anybody else. >> reporter: inside the clerk's office, organized chaos. >> is everyone with you? >> reporter: volunteers helped couples wade through the process. even judges donated

we're expecting 101 in new york city tomorrow. temperatures record-breaking, maybe down to washington, d.c., but by sunday it does shift a bit. it drops south. that means cooler air will come in or at least not as hot and into the 80s in new york city by sunday into monday, but notice the southeast, the southern and central plains, still in the brink of that heat. they will not get the relief from the jet stream. patterns over the oceans in the north atlantic oscillate back and forth. it's in a negative phase right now which may be attributing to the heat and the drought over parts of the southern plains and why that's continuing and why they won't get any relief because the jet stream is just not strong enough to go that far south. >> see if you can do something for those folks in st. louis. >> i really wish i could. >> janice huff, thanks for joining us here in our studios as always. >>> overseas, tonight we'll tell you about the next global crisis you will be hearing about. it's bad and fair warning, it's hard to watch, and it'

new york. hundreds are getting married legally today. this couple, the first in new york city to say their vows. new york passed its marriage equality act last month. a state set up a lottery to handle a crush of requests for marriages today. a live report from new york city in a few minutes. >>> and six people shot dead at this skating rink near dallas, texas. a man opened fire during a family birthday party last night. he killed five members of his wife's family and then himself. four other people were hurt. also, family members. police say a fight between the man and his wife escalated until he began shooting. >>> the king and queen of norway openly weeping led their nation in mourn ing. the 93 people killed in friday's bomb and shooting terror attacks. most of the victims were teenagers attending a summer camp. police say the man they have in custody has confessed. >> translator: there's no progress on the question of what the motive was for the bombing and the shootings. he has admitted and not made any changes to what he said. he insists that he was alone. police are sti

in new york city. cry from the triple-digit temperatures that we experienced yesterday in new york city. but across the country in the midwest and northeast, oppressive and heat, air alerts in affect in new york city and heat advisories continue in north texas. we have video of the 22nd day in a row peop are enduring over 100 degrees temperatures. so far this summer, the area has had a total of 28 days in the 100 degrees mark. there is drought-like conditions. water levels are decreasing and causing water levels to simply disappear and the heat wave blamed for a hundred deaths in the country. an 18 year old landscaper died in kentucky and had a temperature of 110 . in chicago seven people doid of heat stress or heart stroke. but meteorologist with the national weather service saying cities like new york and chicago are experiencing the urban heat island affect. that means all of the concrete and black top warms up and keeps the city faster and stays hotter longer. overnight very little relief. temperatu

david lee miller is live in our new york city news room with more details about this, and david, how are the cuts across the board? >> well, unfortunately, kelly, thises a serious prem problem as you mentioned not just in new york city, but across the country. the national league of cities, reductions in revenues and cuts in spending are at this time, worse than they have been in the last 25 years. and let's talk now, that's some of the cuts in summer programs, i have a laundry list here. in new york city, a youth employment program was slashed by 15 million dollars and about 10,000 fewer spots also in new york city of the pools in the city had to be shut and in washington d.c., youth advocates say that 17 million was cut from summer programs, and that meant up to 15,000 kids are having to go without organized activities. one group in d.c. said the funding went from 120,000 to the summer to zero and in cash strapped detroit, a summer program that once served some 7500 can now only accommodate 1200 kids and coast to coast there are reports that libraries are having to layoff staff, cut

it is 94 heat index when you walk outside right now in new york city. that is warmer thani where else in the entire country right now. the worst of the heat is going to be from d.c. to new york, somewhere in that region will probably get close to 120 heat index later on today. so as advertised, this is even worse than what we saw yesterday. here's what we're looking at as far as numbers. today should be about 101 in central park. we're looking at 103 in washington, d.c., raleigh, up to 104. and it's humid. this isn't phoenix heat where it's a dry heat, this is oppressively humid. here's what i'm forecasting for the max heat index. this is when you combine the humidity and the temperature out there. it should feel about 110 to 120 in the busy areas of i-95, but look how much of the country is up there, 105, to 110. it will improve a little bit saturday in some areas but we're still looking at about 102 for the temperature in new york city. >> i'm supposed to be playing a softball game in central park at noon. >> you will be a sponge. a walking sweat facto

in this instance, the new york city police and the new york city police commissioner. w york city police commissioner at the time in question was bernard kerik, giuliani's personal choice to be police commissioner. he certainly was no one else's choice to be police commissioner. there have been fewer new york city police commissioners than there have been presidents of the united states. it is the single most prestigious police appointment in the country. and rudy giuliani decided to give it to his former chauffeur, an utterly unqualified high school drop out. how corruptible was bernie kerik? he's spending tonight in the cumberland correctional institution in cumberland, maryland, serving his sentence for tax fraud and lying to white house officials. bernie kerik was also a tool of rupert murdoch. nothing would stop bernie kerik from doing anything murdoch or his lieutenants wanted him to do. bernie kerik was and is a criminal, and he was rudy giuliani's choice to be the police commissioner of the city of new york. there is no doubt tonight that bernie kerik is at the

so, we hit 104 in new york city today. >> reporter: lee goldberg, chief meteorologist at wabc in new s been watching this heat tidal wave attack the u.s. for more than a week. >> you know, it was born out in the southwest, and then it just spread throughout the entire country. so it just stays. it breeds ititlf. >> reporter: and it is deadly. >> it just gets hotter and hotter with each passing day. >> reporter: dr. neil flomenbaum is chair of emergency medicine at new york presbyterian hospital weil cornel medical center. he says it isn't just the strength but the length of the heat wave that's the problem. >> the longer the heat remains over 90 degrees, the more people will end up in emergency departments or worse. >> reporter: our bodies simply can't process this weather. if your body temperature rises above 100.4 degrees, you could suffer from heat exhaustion, nausea, headaches, confusion. above 104 degrees, you're at risk of heat stroke, seizures, heart failure and loss of consciousness. and this time one of the real changers isn't just the daytime sun but the relentless lack of r

>> reporter: this is the center for avian an exotic medicine in new york city.e cats here. just more than 100 other creatures of every possible shape, size and symptom. >> someone's got to do it. and we like doing it. >> reporter: lorilei tibbets is a veterinarian technician. >> thanksgiving dinner is like a joke. you did what to a who? clie clien clients, too. we'll be like, you have to do an enema on a snake -- and they'll be like, what? >> reporter: here, she's prepping sancho for surgery. and here, she's helping hannah, a hedgehog with a lump in her jaw, some anesthesia to make her less prickly. >> this is a face mask that would fit a large dog. but we're using it as a chamber. >> reporter: improvisatatn, huge. veterinary school doesn't exactly focus on many of these guys. >> this really is made for rabbits. >> if you can believe it, they don't make a hedgehog oral restraining device. >> isn't he the cutest thing ever? >> reporter: and there's a good deal of common sense, like dealing with a bound up baby bearded dragon. how do you treat him for constipation

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

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a hotel maid in new york city accuses a top banker, dominique strauss-kahn, of sexual assault. but the maid's story, her whole story, in her own words, has not come out until now. she has come forward, out of the shadows, to speak. and joining us now is abc's robin roberts, who's got the compelling first television interview with the maid. for two months she held her silence. she spoke with you, robin. this is the voice that has been missing from this case, really, in public. what did you make of her? >> well, she wants a jury to find out what they make of her, not a reporter, not the public. and she's concerned that that won't happen, and that's part of the reason she came forward, terry. she wawaed to put a face to the story. and as prosecutors are still weighing whether or not to proceed with this case, she's coming forward to give her side of the story of what really happened in room 2806. >> this defendant is charged with criminal sexual act in the first degree. attempted rape in the first degree. >> reporter: he was one of the most powerful men in the world. a french mill

cities like new york and in the country. nt and concrete it takes longer for the city to cool down . meaning very little relief overnight. in many cities, temperatures didn't get lower than the 80s. but all over the country, record high temps have caused deaths and blackouts . heat wave is not taking the week off. 90s for the midwest and northeast including oklahoma, new yorknew jersey and connecticut. the murky in newark new jersey reached 108 degrees. that's the highest temperature ever reported there. new york city 104 . philadelphia and boston at 103 . maine 101. heat wave is blamed for a dozen deaths in the country and an 18 year old landscaper who died in kentucky had a temperature of 110 degrees. in chicago being blamed for seven blamed there. good news is. that finally a light in the end of the tunnel. by monday, temperatures should return back to normal and tomorrow, expecting in the 80s here in new york city. it will feel like summer and well, not like it has been the last week. back to you uma. >> 80s will feeling

in the new york city fire department, i'm a new york city firefighter, the new york city fire department four cases of multiple mie luoma a blood cancer in a national population of 100,000 people you wouldn't see one case. we have four in a firefighting force of about 8500. to me that's a lunke. you continue to bury young, young, new york city firefighters at an appalling rate. >> here's what they say is science is. they're saying it's not definitive that what happened, what you guys were exposed to doesn't cause cancer. it's just not definitive that it does. here's what they say, the probablity that a person will develop cancer over a lifetime is one in two for men, one in three for women. there's an absence of findings. the current absence of published scientific and medical findings demonstrating a causal association does not indicate the ed of the absence of a causal association. at least they're saying at this point we need to do more studies is that not good enough? >> not good enough. it's ten years. i call on the new york city fire department to core late -- correlate cancers to

but the city assures me that everybody here in manhattan and all the other boroughs of new york city will marry. in all, 823 couples today in new york city. they had entered a lottery and the city made sure that all who had entered would get a chance to become a part of history today and also making it official for them. we've got an exit door on the other side, and you've got people showing up there who are just wishing the couples who just got married well as they begin their lives together. and alex, some of these couples have been together for some 25, 30 years. and the first -- one of the first couples that married here in manhattan today, christine quinn told us a short time ago they were in their 80s. >> well, the very first -- i think we're seeing the very first, which were in niagara falls there. the typical wedding and honeymoon place. we're seeing some pictures there to the left of you there, michelle. but nonetheless, no matter where it takes place, it's evident across the state there are a lot of people very, very happy today. thank you very much for the live report. >>>

. >> while new york city is the safest largest city in america, crime has been going down, one of the reasons the crime is going down is because the police do make a lot of arrests. everybody who gets arrested and who doesn't get bailed out comes to us. >> get arrested in the big apple and you're almost assured of a trip to rikers island. a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of the laguardia airport. the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> we patrol the meanest precincts in america. when our officers go to work, everyday, they know everyone they run into is going to be a criminal. every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> is coming through here if they're coming from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they're tired, they're dirty, they're hungry. and you saw everything there, whether it was somebody who was from wall street who was charged with fraud or whether it was the lowest of the low of the drug dealers. >> we get between 80 to 90 admission

> i love you. >> i love you. >> reporter: the engaged couple are among the 823 who entered the new york city and chosen to marry on the first day same-sex marriage is legal in new york state. >> i'm just so happy. i mean, we wanted to get married in new york so badly because this is where we live. this is where we made our home. this is where we met. this is where we fell in love. >> reporter: douglas and michael will officially make it legal today, using the historic occasional to celebrate their own history together. they were married in a church ceremony nearly two decades ago and have raised two sons. >> who would have ever thought in our lifetime this would happen or the state would recognize our relationship and the love we have for each other continues at 25 years. >> reporter: new celebrations and new sources of income for businesses catering to same-sex couples. >> that is going to help all of us who have been suffering through this terrible economy. >> reporter: at city cupcakes in chelsea, the orders are already coming in. >> we're actually booked for a gay wedding on monday. it's

new york city gave their companies a five-year window to implement the changes with percentages every year of how much the fleets had to be moved over to loud speakers. but in san francisco, because we don't have a permitting system like new york city does, we sort of -- we just have to choose a date and we can't phase it in. so last week, i had the opportunity to meet with a policy committee and they made several recommendations, all of which the sponsor is very open to. i'm happy to answer your questions. thank you. president o'brien: commissioners, any questions? >> are you going to include the open-sided vehicles along with open-topped? >> yes, we're talking to the city attorney about changing the wording. >> thank you. president o'brien: commissioner kasselman? commissioner kasselman: do you know the cost? >> they said per bus it's $12,000 to $15,000, so to buy a whole new bus with the system in place, it's like 80,000 to 100,000, but if you're just retro fitting an existing bus, it's around 1 to 15. . >> the same would apply to the guy who goes across the bay bridge? this is a h

good luck, new york city. >> you've been a big part. what are you going to sing for us now? ing for the weekend but not anymore ♪ ♪ because here comes that familiar feeling that friday's famous for ♪ ♪ yeah i'm looking for some action and it's out there somewhere ♪ you can feel the electricity on in the morning air ♪ ♪ and it may just be more of the same ♪ ♪ but sometimes i want to go where everyone knows your name ♪ ♪ so i guess i'll have to wait and see ♪ ♪ but i'm just going to let something brand new happen to me ♪ ♪ and it's all right ♪ it's all right it's all right it's all right it's all right ♪ ♪ bright lights n. and new york city belongs to us tonight ♪ ♪ new friday's cool but there's something about saturday night ♪ ♪ you can't say what you won't do because you know that you just might ♪ ♪ i'm alive this morning ♪ it was love at first sight ♪ this saturday and every saturday for the rest of our lives ♪ ♪ and everyone standing in line ♪ yeah looking good and looking for a real good time ♪ ♪ so i'll never have to wonder if i'll have someone to share all of this with ♪

elaine quijano is live here in steamy new york city with the very latest. ne, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, russ. here in new york city, the high in central park reached 100 degrees, and across much of the country, millions of americans are wilting under intense heat. saturday brought no relief from the relentless heat. >> you can hardly breathe out there. it's very tough. >> this is the hottest day of my life. believe me. it is. >> reporter: some new york city residents took advantage of city cooling centers. as sidewalks outside sizzled like this one at 147 degrees. >> we're getting heated from above and below and all around. >> reporter: columbia university climate researcher stuart gaffin said cities tend to hold on to heat making people more vulnerable and miserable. even in the shade, the sidewalk was still 107 degrees. >> it takes a long time for concrete and granite and buildings to cool off. >> reporter: it basically means cities like this don't get any relief at night or much relief at night. across the country, heat advisories ha

wedding of two of his male staffers and we'll bring that to you here live in the cnn newsroom. >>> new york city was so swamped for marriage licences they had to hold a lottery for 764 open slots. if all of those weddings happen today, it will be a one-day record for the city. our susan can ddiotti takes us there. >> reporter: they're the first male cup toll say "i do" as cameras rolled at the city clerk's office. >> till death do us part. >> when i heard those words "till death do us part," i started to cry. i couldn't stop at that point. >> reporter: they exchanged vows in front of a handful of witnesses. they met online, fell in love at first sight and have been fighting for same-sex marriage ever since. >> we've been waiting for this. >> this is my husband now, freddie, as opposed to my boyfriend or my partner. >> reporter: the significance hasn't escaped them or what they hope to proudly tell their children one day. >> i guess we'll be telling them when we were young, you know, there was no such thing as this and we were part of that day, we were part of the people who were there when it di

. >>> next on book tv, oscar hijuelos talks about growing upl in new york city in the 1950's as the son of cuban immigrantssh and whose subsequent life as a writer. it's about 45 minutes. to be [applause] >> thank you. we are thrilled to be here todas with oscar hijuelos. those of you who know him a probably know him best from one of his eight novels first for latino writer. he has had many milestones since then, has written the most beautiful fiction and now has written about himself in a nonfiction way. oscar hijuelos, thrilled that you are here. why now? why a memoir now? >> there is a short answer and a long answer. the long answer is in my first novel which was called our house in the last world, i talked about the influence on my life when i was coming up and call our house in the last world, that came down to this. i went through some difficulty as a child. i was separated from my family for a year because of illness and i went through a period wed having been interest in the culture and language i found myself suddenly immersed in american culture and language. as my mother woul

julian zugazagoitia, nice to have you here as the director of el museo del barrio, from new york city. >> thank you for your invitation. >> hinojosa: so you are born in mexico city, then you spend about 20 years living in europe, and then in 1999, you come to new york to work at the guggenheim, and then you're named to head up this museum called el museo del barrio. correct. >> hinojosa: so el museo del barrio started kind of as a puerto rican institution, very grass roots, very community-based... >> correct. >> hinojosa: ...and it's had to change its mission. >> we've had to more than change it. we have amplified its mission, so over the course of the last 40 years-- and it's... we're celebrating our 40th anniversary with a big expansion of el museo, a big renovation of el museo. and over the 40 years, what has changed is also the profile of the us as perhaps the most diverse latino country. >> hinojosa: because basically, 40 years ago, el barrio, spanish harlem, was predominantly-- it had been italian at one point-- but it was predominantly a puerto rican community. >> correct, and

compared to friday when it was 104 degrees in areas like new york city, we'll take 76. temperatures we've seen in five days out there. it's not refreshing. but it's better than what we were at. if you're in northern new england, you're cooler and are going to get some rain today. but d.c., you're at 81. it's the one spot we're having trouble cooling off. the clouds and radar map is, the green is where the showers are. some coming down over lake ontario and lake erie. today will be a cooler today. and the clouds will be appreciated. today's forecast, there's a chance of a thunderstorm mixed in with the showers. it's not going to rain everywhere. typical thunderstorms and showers, hit and miss. temperatures will be kept down because of the clouds. what's going to happen this week in areas like d.c. the coolest temperatures are today and tomorrow. and then, the heat is going to build again towards the end of the week. not as bad as last week. but i'm sure 95 to 100, is not going to feel as comfortable by thursday and friday. the humidity will return. the rest of the country

well, this comes to us from wnbc 4 new york in new york city where a somer homecoming is a reminder of the brave sacrifices of september 11th. bagpipes blared as a new york city fire department truck was lowered into its final resting place. city officials, firefighters, and 9/11 families saluted as the flag draped truck from ladder company 3 made its descent into the september 11th memorial museum where it will provide a permanent reminder of the many who gave their lives. i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> what does santa do in the offseason? look no further than denmark. that's where over 100 santas gathered for the annual summer santa congress. it's a chance for them to meet with their peers and compare notes. topics include standardizing the width of chimneys and weight issues. they cap off with a giant parade for all to enjoy christmas in july. >>> well, while much of the country is suffering through a heat wave, a huge chunk of ice is making waves in canada. a floating island of ice is floating about 30 miles

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tonight in new york city macy's fourth of july show will attract 3 million new yorkers and millions more at home on nbc. mark barger has this preview. >> reporter: for 35 years fireworks and macy's have beensy nonmouse on t synonymous. once again the hudson river will be command central for the massive production which has kept licensed pyrotechnicians busy for more than a week. >> six barges two miles long. 40,000 shells bursting almost 1,000 feet in the air. 17 colors in a myriad of shapes. >> reporter: singer nikock lach says there's added -- >> the 125th anniversary of the statue of liberty as well as the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 and paying tribute to those who lost their lives on that day. >> reporter: the statue of liberty will provide the backdrop for museal performances from beyonce. ♪ i love this land, god bless the usa ♪ >> reporter: meanwhile, country star brad paisley will perform in front of the empire state building. >> we are celebrating one common thing. that's the fact that we get to live in the greatest country anyone's ever designed. >> reporter: for the millions w

cities. but in new york, we have to be concerned about someone plotting about an event away from the city, coming into new york. so, we're on the lookout for this sort of thing. but, it's difficult totodentify. >> is it politically difficult as well? there's obviously an infamous case of a special report on this issue, written by an analyst, at the department of homeland security, and because of an outcry, once it was about to be released, it was quashed. is there a problememith trying to focus enough attention on this threat, given the sensitivity about the threat since 9/11, for instance, the islamic threat? >> you know, i guess there are always some first amendment issues that you have to be aware of, but i know -- we don't have a problem focusing on it, in new york city. we follow certain individuals on the internet. they put out their feelings, quite clearly. a lot of them are careful about not advocating violence. for instance, the individual in norway, although we had a lot of internet activity, did not advocate violence. he put his manifesto on the internet six hours before the attacks. b

this morning we had some heavy rain move through new york city, still showers right now. be heading off the coast in about a half hour or so. so from 6:00 on, you'll be dry around new york. a lot of heavy rain around buffalo. if you're cloudy, you'll be on the cooler side, wet. but if you get in the sun like you should be in philadelphia, baltimore, also down around d.c., you'll be hot and it will be humid, too. that's why we have heat advisories in effect. so feel fortunate if you actually get the rain can take and that will be the case late today especially up in thupg. s about ton will be 80, d.c. could be 20 degrees warmer. so a big difference in our big cities. also heavy rain overnight through detroit, that's heading for toledo and cleveland this morning. so you're also going to have to deal with a wet morning and maybe even thunderstorms mixed in. so very warm once again this dallas. afternoon thunderstorms in atlanta. chicago today, you'll dry out because your humt levels will drop a little bit. as we go into saturday, notice that it's not that bad of a mess. satu

you are the director of the hayden planetarium in new york city. you're the host of nova science now. and you write books, and you dance, too. >> i once danced. not much anymore. that was an earlier chapter in my life. and odd that you would mention my ethnicity there. and i say that because i once thought about that. and i realized that i may be the most visible scientist of any discipline, of any ethnicity, of any skin color, in america today. and the reason why i went through that mental exercise was because there i am trying to bring the frontier of science to the public, and i said, "i don't want to do that alone. i want some others there with me." and i looked around to see who's there with me. you know, do we have a geologist there with me, and a biologist? and there are a few that are known-- you know, e .l. wilson and brian greene and michio kaku. but given the size of that science frontier, we need many more. and so i'm disappointed that i'm sitting there alone with that kind of distinction. >> hinojosa: so when i was growing up, the most

they agreed to let dominique strauss-kahn freely roam the streets of new york city or any other cityed states knowing full well that the victim to this very day maintains that he sexually assaulted in that room. know i knowing very well to this very day that the forensic evidence shows that. knowing very well to this very day that they have a picture of her bruised vagina. knowing very well to this very day that she suffered a tear to her ligament when he threw her down to the ground and knowing very well to this day that they have a pair of stockings that were ripped by dominique strauss-kahn. so, the district attorney of new york county has an obligation to stand by this rape victim. he has an obligation to stand up for all women who have been raped or sexually assaulted. now, it is a fact that the victim here made some mistakes, but that doesn't mean she's not a rape victim. and so all of this stuff that they leaked to the "new york times" was designed to discredit this woman and i spoke to her a little while ago and through her tears, her hurt, she asked me, why did they do this

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." >>> whether it be bride and bride or groom and groom, new york city will be filled with newly married couples this weekend. new york is the latest and largest state to legalize same-sex marriages. the law goes into effect on sunday, and nbc's michelle franzen meets one some of the happy couples. >>> upopen it -- >> reporter: tiffany and meredith got the word they've been waiting for. >> that's it! we're done! >> reporter: an e-mail telling the couple they had been chosen from the new york city lottery to marry on sunday. >> i'm saying this, i agree to this, and we're doing this in a public way with somebody watching. like this is -- it's been validated. and to us, that means a lot. >> reporter: the big apple will usher in the first day of legalized same-sex marriage with back-to-back ceremonies. the city clerk's office originally planned to wed 764 couples on sunday. it announced it would expand hour to make sure all 823 who registered could marry. new york city's mayor, michael bloomberg, is also marking the first day with a special evening ceremony at gracie mansion. he will officia

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