and it has many symbols on top of it and throughout the facade -- symbols of new york city. e thalf moon, which was henry hudson's ship. on the other side is a windmill, which refers to the original dutch settlers of new york. and then on the top is the great monumental sculptural element, which has three gods. >> the gods -- hercules, mercury, and minerva -- came from greek and roman mythology. they represent strength, commerce, and wisdom. even the clock is special. tiffany glass lines the numbers and the hands. >> it's very difficult to see, but when the light shines on it, it's quite beautiful and picks up in different colors. this is a really wonderful -- probably one of the most spectacular places to be in grand central and in the entire city. not very many people actually get to come up here. but what you can see from here that you can't see from down below -- first of all, you get a sense of the scale of the building, how large it really is. you get to experience the many different kinds of motion that occur here. kristen, behind you is the information booth, which is

then, how a new wave of technology startups in new york city helps silicon valley. stay with us. >>> welcome back. pob pisani do you know on the floor of the new york stock exchange. earnings keep coming in, including retailer nordstrom's, just came in. looks like they beat on the bottom line, but they're giving guidance very much on the conservative side. i have $3.59 for analyst estimates. i think that is the reason you're seeing the strok trade down a little bit in the after-hours. a nice rally today, just the groups you want to see rallying, material stocks, technology and industrials. that all happened around 11:30 eastern time as the ecb reportedly agreed to swap the greek bonds for new bonds. elsewhere, the euro, materials, transports, and apple all doing well today. more on the greek debt talks, at tradertalk.krshs nbc.com. maria, back to you. >> bob, thank you so much. breaking news in the auto industry. phil lebeau on the phone with the details. >> maria, we learned chrysler has withdrawn its application to the department of energy for a loan of approximate

christie neither of these guys had any idea what the department was doing in in new jersey what the new york citypolice department was doing in new jersey it's pretty breathtaking the new york city police department is going into these other communities and conducting surveillance work without. telling local politicians in the people who are supposed to be in charge of those those communities what they're doing all that is breathtaking i'd say but you know it's basically illegal we found out that you had that i.p.t. working with the cia helping out you know helping to set up some of these domestic programs or monitoring u.s. citizens or just the muslim community here in the u.s. you know and now you have them extending their jurisdiction. i mean do you think that we would have. actions there and then get into any trouble how do you deal with a situation like this. well there are different groups in new york city are looking at different options in terms of how to hold the police department accountable yesterday the new york times at least an article talking about how there's this coalition of ove

not one of them in new york city. y cops wandering out of the territory looking at different places? no right to do that. i tell you one thing, it stinks. >> greg: i don't care if it stinks, it helps thwart, a word i have a hard time saying, 13 plots on new york city since 9/11. >> bob: what did? >> greg: the infiltration. if they weren't thwarted we would haven't the conversation. >> bob: thwarted from syracuse? >> eric: we had someone try to do it in d.c. guy thought he was negotiating with al-qaeda and he was negotiating with the f.b.i. that is fantastic. you have want to make sure that -- >> dana: it was on a student visa since 1999. >> bob: the police department in washington doing that? >> kimberly: why do we have to apologize -- this is crazy. i feel like other activists groups are trying to get -- commissioner kelly has done a great job. new york police led the way in the war against terror. trying to get him out of a job putting this controversy right at his front door. they don't like it. but the fact of the

new york magazine piece. ray kelly, has been a great police commissioner, programs the city's greatest, and this from "the nework times", kelly five, run the city longer than any other commission her, almost everything about him -- many inside and outside the force wonder the pileup of scandals and thorn tarian, authoritarian use of power have diminished his effectiveness. >> you have to look at the job anybody is doing to determine whether or not they should move on. i see myself in good health, i have tried to keep fit. i think good things are happening, crime is down to record lows. we haven't had a terrorist attack here in new york city, the department is mult multimore diverse than it has ever been. in fact the police officer rank became majority minority in 2006, and we continue that, and it is something we are very proud of. so i think a lot of good things have happened and continue to happen in the department, and of course, i report to mayor bloomberg and it is a decision for the mayor as to whether or not i should remain as police commissioner, but i am pleased with the job that i have done and the

. >>> plus, new york city speaker christine quinn is here on the day the new york giants get their we won the super bowl particularer taip parade, i don't want to hear about it rob, i'm getting teased all day. >>> iraq veterans are looking at the parade and asking why we can do this for football but not mark the end of the iraq war and welcome home the troops. so far michael bloomberg says no to that idea but the other most powerful person in new york besides mayor bloomberg is christine quinn, she says she is for this idea. christine quinn will be joining us tonight. that is all coming up over the course of the hour. >>> but first, as ed mentioned, it is elect shun night again in america. sort of. bringing you results as they come t from the republican presidential primary in missouri, and from the republican presidential caucuses in minnesota and in colorado. at this hour, polls have closed in that missouri primary. they closed at 8:00 p.m. eastern, across the state of missouri and the results we have so far are as follows. in missouri, very small proportion of the vote in, 2% in, r

>>> coming up, the controversy in new york city over whether churches can hold worship services in public schools. >>> and tough new requirements for voter id in south carolina. is this to prevent fraud? or to keep minorities from voting? >>> plus, the government's partnerships for foreign aid with faith-based groups. >>> welcome, i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. as the syrian government's crack-down intensified this week, religious leaders called for an immediate end to the violence. at the vatican, pope benedict xvi prayed for peace and issued an urgent appeal for dialogue. the world union for progressive judaism condemned the syrian regime for quote "murdering its own people" and said the international community must intervene. on thursday, the un general assembly overwhelmingly, 137-12, ssed aarab leaguback resolution calling for syrian president assad to step down. >>> in washington, tibetan activists gathered at the white house to protest the visit of chinese vice-president xi jinping. human rights and religious freedom advocates urged president obama to press him o

men and women kissing in new york city. there's one canyon of heros in the whole world. >> what needs to happen for this to come true in new york? >> for an official new york city parade at the canyon of heros, it really needs to be called by the mayor of the city of new york. >> so far he is resisting the idea. >> he is. i feel badly for the mayor in the sense that he checked with the pentagon and said to the department of defense, can we do this and what he heard back from them is we don't want cities to do that. that position on the part of the pentagon or dod puts mayors in a tough spot. do you disregard what the federal government has said to you? i think what needs to happen is the federal government government or the pentagon needs to change their position and make it okay for cities if they want to do this to do this. i really believe strongly if mayor bloomberg got a green light we would have a parade as quickly as we had this one. >> he is in the midst of choodsing between the generals and the grunts. it is a tough

men and women kissing in new york city. there's one canyon of heroes in the whole world. >> what needs to happen in order for this to come true in new york? >> for an official new york city parade up the canyon of heroes it needs to be called by the mayor of the city of new york. >> is he resisting the idea? >> he is. i feel badly with the mayor and checked with the pentagon and said to the department of defense can we do this. they said we don't want cities to do that. that position on the part of the pentagon or dod puts mayors in a tough spot. do you disregard what the federal government has said to you? i think what needs to happen is the federal government or the pentagon needs to change their position and make it okay for cities, if they want it to do this, to do this. i think really, really i believe very strongly if mayor bloomberg got a green light, we would have a parade as quickly as we had this one. >> the mayor is choosing between the generals and grunts. it's a tough position to be in. >> it is, it is. if you h

that's a matter of serious concern to us. >> suarez: but new york city's police commissioner, ray kelly, insisted last year the surveillance is is necessary and legal. >> we're doing what we believe we have to do to protect the city. we have many many lawyers in our employ. we see ourselves as very conscious and aware of civil liberties. we know that there's always going to be scrutiny. there's always going to be some tension between the police department and so-called civil liberties groups. >> suarez: the program used undercover police officers and recruited muslim informants to keep watch. mayor michael bloomberg insisted last december the operation was not about racial profiling. >> the city's police department has worked very hard to bring crime down and prevent terrorism. we've done it in a way that is consistent with making sure that we obey the law and don't target anybody. >> suarez: but muslim activists in the city say surveillance is coosive and coterproductive. >> it creates mistrust amongst people within their own communities. it also hinders what people do in their daily l

prior to the occupation of zucotti park, med mob a holistic community producing events in the new york city area for years, meditated on wall street outside the new york stock exchange. they also held public meditations at union square and washington square park. anthony whitehurst, a member of med mob, described the effort as a collaboration with about 10-12 active facilitators in the group. he added the structure is intended to be universal. it includes chanting, silent medication, playing music -- sorry, and playing music. following a flash mob meditation on october 5th, members of med mob and the consciousness working group among other groups in the community created the beginning of the community altar. charlie gonzalez, a founder of the consciousness group, created a sign declaring the london plain as a tree of life. within a few days the space began to flourish. the sacred space is it is designated on the map of the park was used for self-reflection, yoga, chanting, prayer and meetings of a spiritual focus. when speaking to the participants involved in the creation of the space, may

here at "30 rock" in new york city. two-time pulitzer prize winner anthony shadid died yesterday of an apparent asthma attack. he had been inside the country for a week reporting on the violent crackdown against opposition forces by syrian president. the assignment embodied his storied career of challenging and dangerous work from the streets of iraq to the arab uprisings in egypt and tunisia. he survived a bullet wound while reporting in the west bank once and a week-long kidnapping in libya just last year which he described on "morning joe" last year. >> i remember listening to people speaking arabic. and the one man did say shoot them. it felt like a minute to me elapsed but it was probably just a matter of seconds. as you pointed out he said, you can't. they're americans. why that would have necessarily saved us? the only thing that i can gather is that we were somehow worth something to them. one of the more disturbing moments was getting interrogated by our captors. he was asking me in arabic who you are, where di

was one of the reasons because we know it was a great stage the show was specially created for new york city and moskos why why was moscow chosen the only other city new york to save the show and then another because it was the only place where you can find the the building i mean this well that's that's one of the reasons but not the only reason is the only two large large stages in the world that could fit a show this big and yes that's it really yeah absolutely well the outdoors outdoors what we what we're prosector so you want. to be low i mean you can do that instant some of that but we don't do a lot we don't do a lot of shows and i would doors like that that's number one number two is. the business that we set up here you know so it's a special business and we want to bring some plane to russia that the russian audiences deserve and i. i think they did the big there's a great audience here i think they're very well educated in arts and entertainment and so for the artists it's a wonderful place to perform is the show exactly the same in moscow than in your city i mean it's the same th

new york united wednesday october 5. student walkout, union marches, occupy wall street.org, new york students rising.org. the new york city student assembly, which facilitated connections among student activists at different universities had been acting along with others didn't solidarity with the local workers, especially the art handlers of teamsters local 814. be union members have been locked out of work prevailing to agree to a new contract with a 10% wage cut and a stipulation granting owners unlimited freedom to hire nonunion workers. the latter would have effectively ruined the union. united together, students and trade unionists affiliate with occupy wall street interrupted the sale of multi-million dollar paintings of furniture. i did that. it was fun. [applause] one ows impinged infiltrator announced and put its workers on the street in 10 minutes later after the auction return to order a second protester would rise to shout, the ceo makes $60,000 a day. these interventions continued eventually causing them to require a 5000-dollar deposit just to enter the sales room. ows affiliation protesters also disrupted

thursday in minneapolis the rain moves into the eastern third of the country here and eventually into new york citynow, though. again, mild enough this time around for rain. 57 will be the high in new york city and who are spring-like. rain across the southeast where we need it. cold in places like denver with the passage of the front on friday, we're only in the 30s. saturday not too bad, snow in montana and across the chimney of idaho. a few snow showers around the lakes and will keep lake effect snow going. snow showers all the way back into the northern plains including minneapolis there. you can always get your latest forecast weekday mornings at 6 a.m. wake up with al. shift. when they have more energy than i do. when i don't feel like working out. when there isn't enough of me to go around. ♪ when i have school. and work. every morning. it's faster and easier than coffee. every afternoon when that 2:30 feeling hits. -every day. -every day. every day is a 5-hour energy day. [ male announcer ] 5-hour energy. every day. ♪ icy, cool flavor in a delicious 5-calorie stick of gum. ♪ polar ice. from

last february new york city embarked on a ten-year $700 million plan to replace all the old light in new york city schools overtime next decade. could you please explain epa's role in that mediation project and provide for me an update on its status? could you also provide an update on efforts to address window caulking in schools as well. >> certainly, sir. in 2011 epa inspected new york city schools for leaking. lighting ballasts were leaking and they were leaking pcbs. those inspections found numerous leaking ballasts with pcb concentrations, some exceeding 600,000 parts per million. the city stepped up and announced a plan in 2011 to replace all pcb lighting ballasts in 727 schools. i believe it's part of their capital budget plan to make schools more energy efficient, the lighting being part of that. the city has allocated $708 million to implement the plan over the next 10 years. epa reviewed the plan and told city officials five years would be a more reasonable timeframe to address the ballast issue as part of the larger plan. >> i know five years -- i know new york lawyers for

. >> showing the really beautiful side to new york city. a lot of new york shows, don't show new york like that. >> a lot of the crime shows on tv, there's a white collar scientific approach to what is very bloody crime. you're going after the stuff that is done cleanly and steals billions of people. >> we really tried to show the beautiful side of new york city as well, even the way it was shot and how we portray the city. it is a beautiful side. i believe new york city is a beautiful city. >> so you know, are you done shooting the second half of this season? is it always over? >> yeah, we actually, we're actually going into production for season four. we start next month for that. we finished shooting the episodes you guys are seeing right now. we finished those last year. we usually finish the end of august. mid-march to the end of august. >> you're on a treadmill that isn't stopping here? >> pretty much. >> i feel like the luckiest woman in the world. i get to go to work with the most amazing people, be in new york city half a year. i'm

new york city beautiful day today. temperatures around 51 degrees. full sunshine. orlando hanging on to still the chance for showers. i mentioned kansas city. notice those temperatures in the upper 30s. those are day time highs today. at least a few areas with a chance for snow showers and nothing too wildly but talk more about where it's headed tomorrow coming up. >>> coming up, more greek foot dragging. time runs out on a celebrated squatter. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> frustrated postgame comments in support of her husband send this super model to the dog house with his teammates. >>> eli manning visits mickey at the magic kingdom and kobe finds yet another way to top shaq. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back. i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning. >>> iran is now facing tough new u.s. sanctions against its economy. the measures give american banks new powers to freeze assets, linked to the iranian government and encourage israel to give sanctions more time before any potential