this is an irish fraternal group that was very prominent, around new york city for quite a while and did a great deal in terms of providing assistance to new irish immigrants and really one of the central institutions of the irish american community in new york city. so they're marching between these two big architectural symbols of the irish presence in new york and as you look at this, i am not sure you can see the details easily, but there is a flag they use, a regimental flag, all green with an irish harp in the middle and right next to it and also down the way a little bit as well is the american flag so you have both symbols, both expressions of identity, american and irish mixed together. when they were recruiting this regiment, they were waving this green flag right next to the american flag, and they were arguing this is a way to really prove to those doubters, a way to prove to those no nothings that think that catholics can't be good citizens that are really are good, loyal americans preparing to make the ultimate sacrifice that any american would make. so you end up gettin

we have more parks than i can count in new york city, in the five boroughs. >> i have wanted to do -- to have bees on the roof and grow honey for years. and when the city council finally repealed the law, i was like, oh, my god! i don't know how. and that's how andrew and i got connected. i sent a virtual stranger, who is head of the new york beekeeper's association, an e-mail. i think it was two weeks later, we had hives up here. after i took his course. >> this is the third year that we've been able to keep bees legally in new york, since the '90s. and the new york city beekeeper's association had a substantial role in bringing about the legalization. >> i sat in with voh when they were talking about making beekeepers legal. i helped write the best practices guide for urban beekeeping. >> with we have close relationships with law enforcement, nypd call us, nyfd call us. >> the new york city' beekeeper's association also has a very unique challenge, because beekeeping was illegal for so long and many people didn't know how to properly work a beehive. >> i'm just one of the drones who

if you're in the new york city or greater area, wait another half hour before you hit the roads, it willmess of a rush hour especially around the greater new york area, thunderstorms pushing over long island, it should be a heavy downpour for a half hour and that will be it. in boston, light rain. northern new england getting a cold, chilly spring rain out of this. in boston, probably only about 50 degrees. it will be much warmer areas to south. light showers heading for washington, d.c. so i-95 wet weather on it this morning which will make it slow. the worst weather out there today by far, thunderstorms, these are some midwest version of thunderstorms, with a lot of lightning possibility of strong, gusty winds, now heading through the ozarks, southern missouri. the forecast today, rain on and off this morning in new england, mid-atlantic. this afternoon, should be dry and just fine. also thunderstorms later today, minneapolis, watch out, norm of could you have some tornadoes late today. we're dry in the southeast. west coast looking okay for the most part. once again, we should have so

participating in the occupy movements the army first new york city.i was artie's marina port but hip hop artist and activist immortal technique. now as you've seen we've had correspondents all across the country covering these occupy actions earlier in the show we showed you a report from our very own churkin up on the stars who just got back from the station and filed another report bringing us the very latest from the city take a look. further than the eye can see the people filling broadway the longest street in new york thousands of people out on the streets protesting against wall street against the periphery and against the government sleeping in the same bed with bankers accountability and from the events of today we can tell that people have no intention of giving up their fight this is obviously the biggest part city of the one time i think south think it means that the movement is still alive it's growing and people are taking notice of huge protests where what looks like tens of thousands of people are marching downtown to wall street and s

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

. >> reporter: badat's deposition was played at a trial about three new york men charged with plotting to bomb the new york city subways in 2009. another al qaeda recruit from new york, bryant vinas, testified he plotted to bomb a wal-mart store and the long island railroad to cause the big economic hit al qaeda leaders wanted. don borelli, a former f.b.i. agent, was involved in the investigation. >> they understand the psyche of the west that even a small plot that's successful will cause huge economic disruption. >> reporter: al qaeda is weaker than it was a few years ago but is still trying to recruit westerners. >> this is the crown jewel for al qaeda, to be able to have somebody like that that they can trust, that they can train, and then reinsert back into their homeland and carry out an attack essentially whenever they deem appropriate. >> reporter: that point was underscored in this trial. the three new york men charged in the subway plot have joined al qaeda to fight american soldiers in afghanistan but when al qaeda leaders learned that they were americans with u.s. passports, they asked them to go ho

he hated it receives attainment, and this man wants to wipe out boys and corruption in new york city which was then one of the most corrupt, lieutenant russ increment to august cities in the world. mostly yorkers but he was crazy. this is of major news to report trading. almost a dark comedy. one of uncompromising harvard-educated reformer into the brothels and gambling joints of gotham. stir slightly with tough irish cops and wait for explosion. manhattan in the 1890's. this is times square. still call it a long acre square. no traffic lights are stop signs are overnight parking. the streets seemed much wider. a ministry to the peace store mall horses in new york city then the entire state of texas . they raced telos tables where they paid to the horse is a different color. these are chop shops for horses. let's get the sanitation men in the middle of the street. and least 30 pounds of manure per day per horse. almost 2 million pounds of manure a day. that were dragged had to stand in the middle of traffic and shovel and all . so this is downtown. cities talk crowded and noisy to my

in new york city. now, i have no doubt that many of you here today will be a part of these discoveries. your work will reshape our understanding of the world everything from the origins of the universe to a cure for cancer. for the nonscientists here, you too will have an important job to play. you business and finance majors may be providing the capital for the discoveries to be brought to market. education and journalism majors may be teaching about those discoveries. nursing and premed students may be talking to patients about them and you future lawyers, yes, lawyers always have to be involved in everything we do, you may be needed to protect

it was technically illegal throughout new york state, but new york city was ignoring the law since the civil war. bar owners paid police to look the other way. they pulled the shade down, everyone felt a little naughty and sold more food on sunday than any other day because it was a monday of. they liked to drink too. chief pretty women and manual popular song and wooed jokes, she is a ballet dancer. she dances on one leg, then another. between the two gene makes a living. if you bought a drink you can enjoy the free lunch counter. standard price was a nickel. shot of whiskey was a dime. they like -- sending your kids to fetch beer. basically in senator dad getting drunk alone, and family experience too. avery and crews, discovers low and behold they are open. everybody knew that. and decides to shut down saloons on sunday. t r makes it his crusade. he went from popular public official to hated puritan in the new york minute. was astounding. six weeks into the job. he tried to claim not as a crusade against liquor but enforcement against blackmail. he would say loudly and repeatedly he

attention to the people walking by because we know of course that many of the tourists who come to new york cityare going to be and having these people are staying there onto the streets to occupy their city and their homes the crowds are chanting a lot of mail that we've got sold out years after the bombing of a lot of there's been no real accountability street and among bankers in the united states that people are on the streets of the crowds to express their outrage when occupy wall street first started prayers were saying it will go away quickly but these demonstrators here today believe that this is the second stage of the biggest protest america has seen in years they're seeing those critics who are saying that they would become a thing of the past very quickly saying this is proof that these people represent the working americans of the presidents and they will be the ones who end up making up is not determining america's future as they see churkin at r.t.e. new york. the may day occupy protesters are making their voices heard here in the nation's capital our christine went out for a long

and this era saw the new scale of these world capital cities and especially new york we were the capital of the country in every way but political and we saw a vision for this new city of the coming 20th century in the chicago world fair of 1893 and after this world fair the great white city on lake michigan was mostly the product of new york architects and they had a vision of a great white neoclassical city that we new yorkers, all americans, whether you're from des moines, dubuque, new york, carry back to your city in 1893 this magazine sif ent vision of a city and considering we were becoming a world class country, a world power, our main cities world capitals, this was the vision we would carry for the next 30 years. it coincided with the coming of age of american architects. this is the first era we have professionally trained architects in the country. we always had amateurs and not anymore. they either go to the academy in paris to learn their profession or one of the new architectural schools in the united states. i know a lot of people think that bose ar all they did is teach y

in new york city. nay told a family member and others that he had, quote, done a bad thing and killed a child in new york. >> back in april, police spent several days searching a basement along the route the child would have walked to catch his bus. >> i believe it was the focus that -- given this case in april that sort of brought forth the knowledge that this person had about the statements that hernandez had made in the past. >> the disappearance of etan patz ushered in an era of awareness about missing children. now with an arrest and perhaps a chance to solve a 33-year mystery. >> the executive responsible for 2010's now infamous spending spree at a general services administration convention in las vegas is no longer with the agency. jeffrey neely planned the lavish employee conference that cost the government more than $800,000. he's been on leave since april after a report found rampant waste at the event. a statement from gsa makes it unclear whether neely was fired or resigned. the scandal als

this is just a month after the fbi and new york city police returned to that same walk to the school bus, digging in a basement of another building etan walked past that morning. they were looking for human remains in a cellar where a handyman once worked. but they found nothing. abc news learned that it was the attention that led to a new tip. it is believed a member of hernandez's own family or friends called authorities, saying, you should take another look at hernandez. >> in the years following etan's disappearance, hernandez told a family member and others that he had, quote, done a bad thing, and killed a child in new york. >> reporter: etan patz's parents were told of this break in the case before tonight's arrest. it was etan's mother who last saw her son on that short walk to the bus in 1979, standing at the front door of their building and seeing him off. author and generalist lisa cohen wrote the book "after etan." >> he turn and walked a block, crossed west broadway and the bus stop was right here. >> reporter: so this is a block and a half block? >> yes. >> reporter: a

here at 30 rock in new york city. the week in presidential politics is closing the way it began with a battle over business and the competing views of mitt romney's time at bain capital. president obama says romney's time there as corporate ceo was focused far more on turning a profit for investors than on keeping american workers on the job. speaking last night to supporters in iowa, the president challenged not only romney's record but his vision for the future. >> he doesn't really talk about what he did in massachusetts. but he does talk about being a business guy. he says this gives him a special understanding of what it takes to create jobs and grow the economy. even if he's unable to offer a single new idea about how to do that, no matter how many times he's asked about it, he says he knows how to do it. the challenge we face right now, the challenge we faced for over a decade is that harder work hasn't led to higher incomes. bigger profits haven't led to better jobs. and you can't solve that problem if you can

a trip of new york history through the city planning. the fall semester we go from colonial days until the 1890s. we'll go from the 1890s until today. first we got to make sure we all know what new york is. most of you are new yorkers, so of course we do know, but do we? new york begins basically in the 17th century by 1800, just 60,000 people crammed into the southern point of manhattan island. remember, it was the english that made all of manhattan contiguous with the borders of new york city but it only existed in the lower part of the island and in 1800 with 60,000 people once you got to 14th street you were in upstate, new york. now, that changes on the left is a civil war era print and an aerial view of new york and by the civil war era the city expanded to about 60th street and so you park at the top of the slide being built at the northern edge of the city. that is about 1860, 1868. on the right is an aerial view of the five burrow city in 1910 and the area we're covering today, we turned from a single island city into a five bu b

we take it up with new york city health commissioner, doctor thomas farley. e's also the chair of the board of health that would approve it. and andrew mosel, spokesman for the city's chapter of the new york state restaurant association. we thank you both for joining us. commissioner farley, to you first. tell us about the penalty if someone... if a consumer or restaurant were the violate this rule if it goes into effect. what happens to them? >> it's really not about penalties. what we want to do is have restaurants follow the rule that says no sugary drinks sold in a container larger than 16 ounces. but we have the option of fining them up to $200 for violating that rule. >> woodruff: and commissioner farley, why does the city think thatñtqí it's it's responsibili. the government's responsibility to tell people how much soda they should drink? >> we have a national crisis of obesity. nationally two-thirds of americans are overweight or obese. obesity in new york city alone is costing us $4 billion a year in health care costs. there are many contributing fact

it's more than any other fourhouse in new york city. firehouse in new york city. here's former mayor giuliani. >> good afternoon. i'm very honored that governor romney came to in particular this firehouse on the anniversary of the elimination of osama bin laden. this fire hours is of special importance to me and others in not new york city. the place we had our first press conference right here in this spot. and it's a firehouse that has suffered more than most. not only losing

he's going to build a boat out of junk he finds on the streets in new york city. e hudson river is what helped build new york city. >> he could have gotten some of the trash from the hudson. >> what did he make the boat out of? >> it's going to be a documentary and james hasn't built his boat yet. the project starts this fall, but this is sort of a trailer for the film, filmed on some of their scouting missions that they did on the hudson river. >> i can't believe the amount of waste that i'm seeing just in this trailer that they've put together. there are lots of things that he could use. >> you know what would be pretty lucky? if someone was throwing out a boat. >> you find a kayak on the side of the street. >> the hudson has 315 miles of navigable river that he can get through? >> you betcha. not only is it navigable, but he's going to have challenges in some rapids. did i mention he's going to take his boat up on the source on his bicycle? >> oh, wow. >> so his garbage boat has to fit on a bicycle but also have to be able to navigate rapids? >> you got it. he's

in new york city. i have no doubt that many of you here today will be part of these discoveries. your work will reshape our understanding of the world. everything from the origins of the universe to a cure for cancer. for the nine scientists here, you, too, will have an important job to play. you business and finance majors may be providing capital for the discoveries to be brought to market. education and journalism majors may be riding are teaching about those discoveries. nursing and premed students may be talking to patients about them, and the future lawyers -- yes, lawyers have to be involved in everything we do, it will be needed to protect patents and fight off other lawyers. the technology revolution that is reshaping our understanding of the world and the freedom that you enjoy to pursue your dreams are complementary, which is why i mentioned both of them. they reinforce each other. the more we learn, the freer we will be, and the freer we are, the more we will learn. life and liberty. that i

was stopped when the obama administration tried to shut down guantanamo and brent the trials to new york citygal experts say could take years for the trial to conclude. dru levenson cbs news. >>> perseverance from students and the north bay despite vandals' destroying their salmon restoration project. the students spent their own time and money and nurturing and a batch of fish. anne mackovic has more. >>> the goodbye kiss these teenagers have waited to get. the john salmons are released into the day a culmination of a joint product between the timber on salmon institute and petaluma high school students. >>> you take care of them put one in three times a day every day and took care of the fish. >>> the release was more joyous after the kids were robbed of their chance last time in october someone deliberately cut the underwater nets haul in about 40,000 baby salmon releasing them into the day one week for the kids to do it themselves. >>> normally we have a big celebration but then it was gone >>> investigators have classified the case as vandalism and grand theft. there are lots of theories

in the city would be lower much that's not the case. in new york are considered obese or overweight. >> wow. >> the health commissioner blames sweetened drinks for half of the obesity rates in new york. what's more interesting is that the city has done research, the studies show that higher obesity rates are more common in neighborhoods where soda consumption is high. they've pinned it down. that's why they're saying they're taking action here. >> the cdc has the support. it's data that shows that calories from sugar sweetened beverages are a small and declining part of the american diet. two schools of thought. is it a done deal? >> it appears so. listen, it could take effect as soon as march -- it could take effect as soon as march. it needs to be approved by the board of health here in the city. but you may not know this, the members are appointed by the mayor. that seems like a foregone conclusion. if all goes as planned, the ban could take effect as early as next march. get used to it. what is also interesting, you might remember that the mayo

new york. while a strike in new york city is not exactly what happened but for anyone who thinks the occupy wall street movement is a thing of the past is sorely mistaken because thousands of occupy activists flooded the streets of new york city on may day reigniting their grassroots movement that began in the fall thousands congregated in parks and outside of banks in the offices of corporations and multinational corporations to protest against economic. disparity between the rich and poor protest against corporate influence on u.s. politics others express outrage over other issues such as on affordable health care still the student debt crisis in the united states and also the under or the full cost of higher education so there were thousands upon thousands marching through the support streets all converging in union square where there was a concert from what has been reported approximately thirty people at least were arrested now many of them were actually those that were taking part in student occupy events parks throughout new york city there are some pictures of police officers getting qui

cold case out of new york city. new york city police say a suspect is no in custody and in that disappearance of etan patz. he was six years old in 1979. and he's more from our sister station in new york. >> good evening. this is one of the biggest developments and one of the most famous cases of a missing child in u.s. history. coincidentally, etan patz vanished from the neighborhood here in lower manhattan 33 years ago tomorrow. tonight, the new york city police department say they have a man in custody, pedro hernandez, 51 years old from camden, new jersey. earlier, the new york city police commissioner said that mr. hernandez made statements to, quote, implicate in patz's death. hernandez reportedly told police he worked in a mini market in this area three decades ago and lured him with the promise of a candy or soda. he told police he suffocated patz and got rid of the body so it was not found. after all of the years, patz's body has never been recovered. prosecutors are looking into the new lead and we're told

the teachers' union is the largest lobbyist based on the most dollars than anybody else in new york cityu have to imagine that a fair number of city council members are tied financially to the union donations. c-span: how long it is the documentary? >> guest: it's 80 minutes. c-span: is available on the web yet to buy or does it have to hit theaters? >> guest: its and the jitters right now. we are in washington, d.c. this week and then we are opening in denver in palm springs new york and l.a. and starting in august. c-span: how much will this all for coming do you know? >> guest: i don't know. that's a good question. i should find out. c-span: how many people work on this with you? >> guest: i don't know the total number of people. we had a small crew about seven people and a small team wearing a lot of hats. c-span: did you edit it yourself? >> guest: i did, yeah. i don't always recommend that, but i didn't have that budget reflects my doing lots of things. c-span: we want to go to another clip. we are running out of time during this year is eva moskowitz talking about the need to educ

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here at 30 rock in new york city. >>> a new suicide attack by the taliban this morning underscores the long-term challenges that face afghanistan, challenges president obama addressed from kabul last night in the trip to the war zone to lay out what he called a new chapter in the u.s. mission there. at least seven people were killed by insurgents today, just hours after the president left the country. marking the one-year anniversary of the mission that killed osama bin laden, president obama met are u.s. troops on that unannounced visit and later with a national audience watching back home where the president outlined his vision for ending this nation's longest war. >> my fellow americans, we've traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war, yet here in the predawn darkness of afghanistan we can see the light of a new day on the horizon. the iraq war is over. the number of our troops in harm's way has been cut in half and more will soon be coming home. we have a clear path to fulfill our mission in afghanistan while delivering justice to al qaeda. >> the president sa

new york state of mind. he will be attending an lgbt fundraiser in new york city.e will have a live report coming up. >> one college graduate not only picking up their diploma but also getting a diamond. it is a two for one. fore! no matter what small business you are in, managing expenses seems to... get in the way. not anymore. ink, the small business card from chase introduces jot an on-the-go expense app made exclusively for ink customers. custom categorize your expenses anywhere. save time and get back to what you love. the latest innovation. only for ink customers. learn more at chase.com/ink wnyw th wnywty hernandez has more. >> good morning. it is a safe bet the president going to touch on gay marriage several times during his visit to new york city. it is a jam packed schedule beginning here at columbia university women's college and barnard college. he going to give the commencement speech before about 600 graduating women and some in the district of columbia as well. we unusual speech. he asked to give the commencement speech at the school. he is going t

new york. as may day rallies got underway in more than one hundred u.s. cities some have already turned violent you can see pictures from oakland california where police fired tear gas and flash grenades to disperse the made a demonstration as it attempted to block downtown traffic in seattle washington a black cloud an artist reportedly smashed windows on store entrances before disappearing into the crowds arrests were made there and there are and there are reports of pepper spray to use against other protesters sarah van gelder says it's a defining moment for the movement. if if you're looking for the old style leadership we're plan big guy has to be in charge and tell everybody what to do that's right you're not going to see leadership because this is leadership from the bottom up this is ordinary people in over one hundred communities around the country that are all participating in their own way taking taking leadership themselves and deciding what's important to them what's important to them as part of the ninety nine percent and you'll see a lot of to sam

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

that, you know, it is possible to seek change and assist them. >> reporter: new york city's mayor bloomberg defends the policy saying it has taken 6,000 guns off the streets in the last eight years, making new york the safest big city in the country. >> the polls show overwhelming support by the public for the tactics that we've been using to bring down crime. >> reporter: the suit does not seek any money damages, just a change in the law. jim axelrod, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: the shoe company skechers has agreed to pay $45 million to settle a federal complaint that its ads were deceptive. sketchers claimed its shape-ups would help people lose weight and strengthen muscles but the federal trade commission today said the only thing that got a workout was their wallets. customers will get refund. hundreds had to run from their homes to escape a growing wildfire. we'll show you next. we keep making progress in the gulf. the twenty billion dollars bp committed has helped fund economic and environmental recovery. another fourteen billion dollars has been spent on response and cleanup. long

december 2005, new york city is in the middle of a mass transit strike. new york city public transportation is shut down. matt long has no choice. he must hop on his bike to get across the city to the fire academy. so this wasn't just training. you needed to get somewhere? >> i needed to get to work. and i made it four blocks. >> four blocks. and then disaster. do you remember being hit? >> yeah, i remember putting my left arm up and just going under, and that's it. >> a bus that had crossed multiple lanes of traffic made a right turn, and in the process, ran directly into matt long. >> he didn't see me, didn't know i was there, whatever, and took me right under the front wheel. >> in an instant, the self- self-described fitness junky has gone from dominating race courses to barely surviving. >> every compound fracture, my right side, my pelvis was shattered and open as well, and the worst part is the bike and i became one, it severed my abdominal wall, my femoral artery, i was bleeding out. >> he stayed in the hospital for six months and ended with 40 ope

he died again yesterday at the age of 60. >>> back here in new york city chinese activist chen guangcheng is adjusting to his new life in the united states. the blind dissident and his family left beijing saturday morning capping a tense diplomatic standoff between the united states and china. chen escaped house arrest last month and fled to the u.s. embassy in beijing. the 40-year-old had been detained in his home for months after calling attention to forced abortions and the sterilization of women by the chinese government. chen told reporters he is grateful to be safe in the united states but worries about his relatives back in china. the activist and his family are staying at a new york university apartment where he will be a fellow at the law school. >>> finally this morning, the word, the world is mourning the death of robin gibb a member of the begees, dominated the air waves in the 1970s racking up six consecutive number one songs starting with "how deep is your love." it was the most successful run of any act on american charts since the beetles and propelled the "saturday night

the road back from that was a long one. >> reporter: december 2005 new york city is in the grips of a massive transit strike. public transportation is completely shut down. new york city firefighter matt long has no choice. he must hop on his bike to get across the city so the fire academy. >> so you needed -- this wasn't just training. you needed get judge. >> i needed to get to work, and i made it four blocks. >> reporter: four blocks, and then disaster. >> do you remember being hit? >> yeah. i remember putting my left arm up and just going under and that's it. >> reporter: a bus that had crossed multiple lanes of traffic made a right turn, and in the process slammed directly into matt long. >> he either didn't see me or didn't know i was there, whatever, and took me right under the front wheel. >> reporter: in an instant the self-described fitness junkie had gone from dominating racecourses to barely surviving. >> from my left leg every bone compound fracture, tib, fib, femur, my right side of my pelvis was fractured and open wound as well, and my right shoulder was crushed. the wo

last year of raping a new york city hotel maid. bob barnard has more details. >> reporter: the alleged victim in this case never filed a police report but told french investigators she was raped a year and a half ago by the then head of the international monetary fund during an orgy with other french men here in washington. this is the w hotel two blocks from the white house and where in december 2010, a belgium prostitute claims she was gang raped at a sex party hosted by the former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn. >> we knew he was a womanizer and loved women. we didn't know it was to that level. we went know that and if the allegations are true, that he was brutal, that he was coercing and using prostitutes and that, if, again, the allegations are correct, that he was, he could go as far as raping someone. >> reporter: he is a washington- based correspondent for tf-1, a french television network. he said straws-kahn is -- strauss kahn is currently under investigation in france where the latest allegation surfaced. >> he's under