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

we have the most generous in the country because here in new york city we add a state credit and city credit to the mix. this tax credit is a classic transfer program it provides far more than the amount needed to refund payroll tax and the expenses. but probably most important the earned income tax credit helped keep low killed is workers working and off cash welfare. there are food stamps. here the level of support has been uneven. one of the differences between the bloomberg administration about predecessor is the my your so long as we can expect the work and there are adequate fraud preventions and finger images believe they are another important element of our efforts to increase the economic strength of low-income working families. push by federal and state policies which we are required to -- and by our own desire to make the application process simpler for our recipient and workers. it's grown dramatically from 779 re,000 recipient in 2000. to what we have now is not an entitlement based welfare system but a work-based welfare system. if you're able bodied and you can work, yo

new york. i believe casinos in upstate new york would be a great magnet to bring to new york city traffic up. they go to new jersey, they go to connecticut, why don't we bring them to upstate new york. [applause] we propose the casino plan to go to upstate new york. the plan is to bring it downstate new yorkers to upstate. if you put a casino in new york city, they will go to the new york city casino. the people coming in from out of town will go to the new york city casino. we want them going upstate and using this as a magnet to go up state. we propose a revenue split of the funds for education, 10% for local taxes, we believe the local government and the committees should have a right to support or not support and that should be a factor in this election of the facility of the location. we believe that we should have the local competition. -- hold a national competition. we should have the best casino companies in the world should come to compete. we should keep the politics out of the decision and leave it to the gaming commission. this would require a november referendum. in terms of educ

we have a new total of 30 to 50 people injured. >> back to our breaking news from new york city. e crash of a ferry in a dock, we have new numbers of those injured and one report says up to 53 from our sister station in new york city, wabc. transit police, firefighters, the coast guard, one of the injuries could be serious, a head injury. that person has been taken to the hospital. others are going, as well, to the hospital. we will keep you informed on this and the latest information at abc news bay area open twitter. >> five things to know before you go. one, the ntsb joined the coast guard in investigating monday's collision by an oil tanker into a bay bridge support tower. the coast guard warped the ship by radio they say that it was in danger. the coast guard is calling it major marine casualty because there has been more than half a million in damage. >> number two, the gun task force head by vice president biden will meet at the white house today and tomorrow. the national rifle association confirms they will be among the groups meeting with the vice president. the task for

so we asked our senior correspondent john miller, who say former deputy commissioner of the new york city police department, to join us from new orleans tonight. john, why is new york city enjoying record-low violence when the violence is so high in chicago, philadelphia, or new orleans? >> reporter: well, you look at new orleans. there's a celebration going on around here, but part of the reality is, this is one of the cities that leads the nation in murder, and the disparity, according to a police executive research forum study that brought all the police chiefs together was it's what happens to the arrests after they get to court. now, take new york. they have a three- to five-year mandatory minimum. that means that gun charge ends up in front of a judge, you're almost certain to go to jail for three years. in chicago, you've got a 50-50 chance you're not going to do any jail time almost. 33% of those cases are dismissed outright. >> pelley: so if you're caught with a gun in new york, whether you have used it in a crime or not, you're going to jail for three to five years, but not in c

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

welcome back here is some things you need to know about working people are going on strike in new york city on tuesday more than eight thousand school bus drivers walked off the job for the first time school bus drivers have gone on strike in new york city in thirty three years and it's the largest bus drivers union in the nation the union claims bus drivers jobs are in danger as the city puts their contracts up for bid in an effort to reduce costs on average the drivers make thirty five thousand dollars a year with starting pay of fourteen dollars an hour which is barely enough to get by in new york city the school bus drivers new york city are facing the same problem as police officers in camden and sanitation workers in detroit this is made worse by those cities teetering on the edge of bankruptcy since wall street crashed our economy and the bush housing bubble loaded everyone with debt now to get their balance sheets in order cities are cutting public services and selling our commons off to private corporations frankly don't like unions and don't give a damn about paying their workers

welcome, i'm neil cavuto and fox on top of union barking the base, and new york city bus driver training 150,000 kids, and boeing engineers union, threatening to strike, not good timing, and the dreamliner keeps striking out. apparently also striking out union jobs. a new report showing nonunion manufacturing jobs jumping by 700,000, between 2010 and 2012. but the number of unions factory jobs, falling by 60,000, so, if the jobs are falling, and the unions latest actions, really helping? >> charles payne, dagen mcdowell, adam lashinsky, charlie gasperino, charles, what do you have. >> the numbers, you need a symbiotic relationship, for manufacturing, for instance, that's a long-term commitment. you don't want to stay it's going to take me five years to make it up, the unions walk out, have a strike, shake you down. and i think that's the big problem. the unions just only care about the unions. >> what do you make, dagen, of the fact that we had the right to work stateseeing activity hiring soar? >> i think that's evidence of the kind of growth that right to work states produce. and a lot

she is live in new york city with the details. >>> good torning to you. seems this year's flu season the panic especially in new york city really began. they are seeing such a spike in flu seasons. what this allows pharmacies to do is to be able to administer the vaccine the flu vaccine to kids. tho those six months of age or older. they are getting the vaccines being turned away. a lot of these technicians are pharmacies are not trained anser fied to be able to administer the vaccine. the other a major run on the flu shot. people every where are trying to get it. there is not enough to go around. there will be shipments of this this moirpg and farm t morning pharmacies are shifting it around. >> teresa reporting live for us. thank you. >> it is time to brew on this. here's what we would like to brew on today. a hard hitting question. all eyes in hollywood last night on the kickoff to the award season. the golden globes not just about the awards also about the fashions. >> what are you wearing? >> there were definite winners and losers when it came to the

we are going to see most of our rain today just south of new york city, stretching through the mid-atlantic region right down into the new orleans area, right down into the gulf of mexico. it is heavy at times, but you can see it's just this strip of rain. and it is going to continue to push out of southern new england. so it's not going to be raining all day across portions of connecticut and massachusetts. even new york city, we started off with some light rain. earlier this morning. that will continue to move to the south and east. this is a stalled front. so unfortunately, it's not going to move out of the southeast any time soon. we do have this light rain still across martha's vineyard, heavier rain across nantucket. the outer portions of long island, but you can see it is already clearing out of philadelphia, new york city starting to clear out. southern new jersey seeing some of that rain, and then it does stretch back across virginia, back into eastern tennessee, western north carolina and then extends all the way down into the gulf coast region from lafayette, louisiana, right ove

now it's in ruins. >> sandy broke records for the biggest waves in new york harbor, for the biggest surge in new york cityd for the biggest pressure north of north carolina. what was the impactful part of sandy was the surge at 12, 15 feet. that surge had never been seen in new york city before. >> when we were here, the water was just below this mezzanine level. >> reporter: nearly a month after our first interview. >> you can see the rusts on these stair treads. >> reporter: jesky, this time dressed in a suit and tie, took us back down underground. >> it wasn't a rebuild as some of our stations, this was a brand new tunnel station that was built. they've been taken back to the shops and labs -- >> reporter: just rebuilding south ferry station alone can take up to a year or more at a cost he's not even willing to guess about. >> we'll start taking components or pieces of the station down, the finished surfaces, the finished ceiling, the acoustic pieces of it. the signal systems will have to be rebuilt. all the conduits and piping will have to be opened up and drained. >> reporter: not to mention a sophis

temperatures not too bad, 43 for the high in new york city and upper 30s over across portions of upstatein norfolk, virginia and portions of northern florida and central florida. rain showers associated with the same system that's bringing flurries to the northeast. texas staying dry, highs in the upper 50s. cold in fargo, 20 degrees for the high. chicago's 31. otherwise a dry day across the midwest. out west, a storm system is bringing in rain across parts of san francisco. and also some mountain snow in the sierras and 8 inches of snow can fall above 5,000 feet. mountain passes will deal with a couple inches of snow to careful driving. the same storm will head east the next several days and could dump as much as 4 inches of rain across portions of texas, locally higher amounts will be possible and severe weather. that's as we head into tuesday and wednesday of next week. >> thank you so much. let's revisit or top story, about what the white house's plans is with the new task force to figure out how to stop newtown, connecticut from ever happening. one of the things i thought they were

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much as they can. >> reporter: it's clear the pressure is mounting. >> we've taken bold action in new york cityse obesity is a national epidemic that's getting worse. >> reporter: new york mayor michael bloomberg spearheaded a ban on soft drinks over 16 ounces. other cities are considering similar bans. health experts warn the evidence is mounting. >> sugary beverages can affect body weight quite quickly, perhaps more so than any other single food product. >> reporter: the growing criticism seems to be having an impact. soft drink consumption has been declining steadily since 1998, down 17%. >> public opinion is really turning against the industry. i don't think they can use a pr effort to cover up all the harm that their products are doing. >> reporter: responding in the primetime ad and company statement, coke argues it's already offering smaller sizes, putting calorie counts on cans, and expanding low and no-calorie alternatives. >> over 125 years, we've been bringing people together. >> reporter: taking up the fight because it didn't get to be one of the world's most iconic brands by sleepw

speakers include the key to digital officer in new york city. is is part of the world in 2013 festival at new york university, hosted by the economist magazine. it is about 25 minutes. >> welcome back. i wanted to introduce this session. we have been hearing about data and how it is an increasingly powerful force in our lives. we will talk exactly about that. the are looking forward to a lively debate. the first speaker is the honorable shirley jackson. the president a wrestler polytechnic institute -- of renselar polytechnic institute. [applause] >> midafternoon. -- good afternoon. there is a significant transformation under way globally and awaiting make predictions, make connections and a ultimately -- and the way we make predictions, make connections. the transformation is being driven by the rapid expansion and availability of data from multiple sources. and competition a capacity generating new information. let me begin with a vignette. as super storm sandy was beginning to gather steam, five days before it slammed into new jersey and we yo

there were more than a hundred who jo lio joined the thousands of new york city police officers. >> we'reere to provide real- epme response. >> reporter: 23-year f.b.i. veteran kris kottas is a long- anyt new yorker, who says she looks for anything unusual. >> it's what's happening where a lot of people don't see. >> reporter: what are those things? >> there's a lot of different ng wonents. 's a lb.i. has hazmat, radiological teams, sharp shooters, surveillance, undercover officers in the anowd. ra >> reporter: the partygoers are orter: theon cameras, and radiation detectors check for threats the revelers cannot see. a bl a block away, an f.b.i. bomb used to diff us the special thereused to diffuse bombs. luckily, there were no major t staynts last night, so most of the equipment stayed packed away of unassuming s.u.v.s. ay be mopectacle that is times square, what may be most remarkable is what you never ws, seth doane, cbs news, new york. themason: america's forgotten war was remembered today at the rose parade in california. the pentagon sponsored a float that was a replica of the korea

new york city and other big cities are going to have to face the problem of handguns on our streets for a long time to come. >> where do the guns come from? new york city itself has pretty fig tight laws. are they from out of state? >> precisely, 90% of the guns come from out of state, we call it the iron pipeline. >> isn't the problem with the background checks is that states have not been living up to their obligations? the states have not been giving drug data to the national database they have not been giving mental health issue or even arrest data in some cases to the national database? >> apparently some states think there are privacy issues when there really are not. we know now that some states have held on to as much as 6,000 records in terms of mental incapacity, if you will. now that flow is beginning to move as a result of all of the attention on the issue. >> do you think something has changed after newtown? do you think there is enough will? do you think there will be a sort of legislation or at least stricter gun background checks? >> i think there will be something. but

sandy broke records for the biggest waves in new york harbor, for the biggest surge in new york city ver north of north carolina. what was the impactful part was the surge at 12, 15 feet. that surge had never been seen in new york city before. >> when we were here, the water was just below this mezzanine level. >> reporter: nearly a month after our first interview, this time, dressed in a suit and tie, took us back underground. >> it wasn't a rebuild as some of our other stations. this is a brand-new tunnel station built. they've been taken back to the shops. >> reporter: just rebuilding could take up to a year or more at a cost he's not even willing to guess about. >> we'll start taking components or pieces of the station down. the finished surfaces. the finished ceiling. the acoustic pieces. the signal systems will be rebuilt. all the conduits will be opened and drained. >> that's jason carroll reporting. check out "cnn presents, the coming storms." coming up at the top of the hour. >> at 10:00, my interview with pete rose. he talked about his current ban from the hall of fame and h

>>steve: everything is cold in new york city. in new york city, it is 10 degrees.hy we never originated this show from miami. currently it is 65 degrees in miami. why aren't we in florida? why? >>brian: and no taxes, we'd have no state income taxes too. >>gretchen: okay. i'll put in my vote for florida. i'm not sure my family would be in line for that. >>brian: i'll buy the bubble wrap. let's move. >>gretchen: let's get to your headlines first. family and friends remembering the life of beloved philadelphia pediatrician melissa katunutee outside her home her body was found bound and burned, a horrible crime. police say an exterminator confessed to killing her. jason smith told police the two got into an argument during his appointment at his home. he then allegedly strangled her and set her body on fire. >> this points out that it could happen to anybody at any time. any one of us let people into our houses without doing background checks or having somebody else present. >>gretchen: that's scary. surveillance video showed that smith's truck parked nearby and it sho

the evening's festivities are part of a public-private partnership between his firm and the city of new york. >> you've got our costs, you've got the cities costs, it's a lot of money, but it's also one of the biggest events in the world. the promotion that new york city gets from times square new year's eve when the world is watching. that's priceless. >> reporter: and, that means lots of eyeballs for marketers. the big sponsors tonight, nivea, toshiba, philips and the ball's maker, waterford. >> first and foremost. this is a civic event and we needed partners who understood that the civic nature is the priority and if we could build there marketing goals into what is the tradition of the event then it works for everybody. >> reporter: tonight's star attraction weighs in at nearly 12,000 pounds, is made up of nearly 27,000 cut crystal panels and is worth an estimated $1 million. but the celebration isn't just great exposure for the sponsors. >> after the christmas holiday people come to new york city to be part of this big event and they are going to be here having a great time and spending

about an hour ago, a passenger ferry in new york city crashed -- and i mean crashed -- into a pier. than a dozen people are hurt. some are being taken away on stretchers. cnn's national correspondent susan candiotti is in new york. she's been following this. tell us more. >> hi, carol. what a scene down there. when you take a look at that ferry, you can see a large chunk, it looks like, that's been eaten out or bitten out, as it apparently crashed into the dock. now, we talked to a passenger on the ship, and she says that this is a ferry that makes a daily run from new jersey. she got on in highland, new jersey, and it goes all the way over to wall street dock number 11. this accident happened according to officials just before 9:00 in the morning. this is a ferry service that makes daily runs from new jersey to new york and has a number of ships in its fleet. this one appears to be one that contains -- that can carry as many as 400 passengers. so right now authorities and rescue crews are on the scene, reporting at least 17 injuries. apparently all of the injuries, we are being tol

i'll show you the newspapers here in new york city. if you can get this, john. is is "daily news," "go a-way." the back says "toxic waste," talking about alex rodriguez. back of the "new york post," "void range." a weekly newspaper in miami reports that a-rod's name appeared 16 times on lists from an anti-aging clinic that allegedly dispensed a variety of peds, performance enhancing drugs, including human growth hormone. records obtained show a-rod who will turn 38 in july was connected with the clinic bioagabi biogenesis. a-rod has denied the allegations, but espn reports the yankees and their executives are looking into ways to avoid the remaining five years and $114 million left on his contract if the league disciplines him. >> wow! willie, can i ask you this? >> yeah. >> i did not know -- i mean, these steinbrenner boys, they're sticklers. what's right is right and what's wrong is wrong, right? because this has nothing to do with them trying to void the contract with his poor performance last year, right? >> no, it has nothing to do with the fact that they si

video of new york city police officers lift ago taxi off a man who had just been hit by a car. k. the cops surrounded the vehicle. they picked it up several times until ems workers were able to pull the pedestrian out. he was then rushed to the hospital where he is said to be in critical condition. we certainly hope that he can recover and we see all these heroic acts. they do them every day. infrequently, they're captured on video. >> peter: i hope they get a medal. they really should. >> steve: absolutely. we got other headlines for you on this monday morning. chaos breaking out as thousands of people try to get their hands on housing vouchers out in tailor, michigan. look at this. >> a whole crowd bomb rushed the whole front area. >> they started shifting us off the sidewalk. >> this is a mess. ridiculous! people standing here since 6, 7:00 o'clock last night and still can't get an application. >> let's go! >> steve: the crowd kept growing and growing when vouchers were ready to be distributed. they stormed the door. organizers had to shut the event down. people started fight

in a recording studio in new york city. iah carey is putting the finishing touches on her new track, not yet released. a song she wrote and performed for the president called "bring it on home." and it could be her next big hit, one of dozens for the diva with the golden voice. ♪ feeling emotion >> in the two decades since she burst on to the scene with chart toppers like "emotion" mariah carrie has sold more than 200 million albums making her the best-selling female artist of all time. >> there are some grammys. >> reporter: in a tucked away corner of her penthouse, accolades from an unparalleled career. >> i look at the case and i'm wow -- >> reporter: not so bad. >> i did all right. >> reporter: a lot more than all right. this mother of two is not only an accomplished singer, song writer and producer she also had critical success as an actress in the movie "precious." now there is a new chapter in her life. >> this is the american dream. >> reporter: "american idol" is starting its 12th season next week with mariah carey

new york city's countdown was the first in decades without television host dick clark, who died in aprilname was engraved on one of the crystal panels on the ball. >>kimberlee: we will take a look at your forecast, when we come back. a >> jacqueline: . >>> and this is a live look from treasure island. where you'll be able to see one of the many firework shows around the bay area at midnight. we're counting down to the new year --starting at 11-30 tonight. kron4's new year's live with catherine heenan and gary radnich. we'll show you firework shows from all over the bay area and around the world. stay with us, we'll be right back! vista river around this evening police in of oakland. the shooter is still on the the city. in national news. the bush tax cut expire at midnight, and if nothing is done, taxes go up for middle class americans. that is what everyone is trying to avoid. late monday evening vice president joe biden and senator harry read headed to the capitol to brief democrats on a deal worked out between congressional to prevent across the board sources say the deal calls for a

sandy broke records for the biggest waves in new york harbor, for the biggest surge in new york city, lowest pressure ever north of north carolina. what was the impactful part of sandy was the surge at 12, 15 feet. that surge had never been seen in new york city before. >> when we were here the water was just below this level. >> reporter: nearly a month after our first interview. >> you can see the rust. >> reporter: this time dressed in a suit and tie, he took us back underground. >> it wasn't a rebuilding as some of our other stations. that was a brand new tunnel station. >> reporter: just rebuilding south ferry station alone could take up to a year or more. at a cost he's not willing to even guess about. >> we'll start taking components or pieces of this station down, the finished surfaces, the finished ceiling, the acoustic pieces. the signal systems will have to be rebuilt. all the conduits and piping will have to be opened up and drained. >> that was jason carroll reporting from katrina to sandy. are we ready for the next superstorm? be sure to check out cnn presents, the comin

. >> you are looking live at picture of times square in new york city 2013 just moments away listen in and watch as away listen in and watch as they ring in the new [ yelling] 2013 has arrived. in the united states. and new york city. we are now just 3 hours away. ball that dropped is 12 neat diameter and weighs almost 12,000 pounds covered with 2600 water ford crystal triangle. couple sharing a kiss as we mark the new year. more than one ton of confetti is falling as we speak right now. 100 confetti engineers. there's mayor bloomberg in times square. 100 confetti engineers. there is a position to oversee it all. 1 million people in times square with over 1 billion watching throughout the world including you here on coffee tv 20 live on the news at 9. delighted to ring in the new year with you live. as i said it will be our turn soon. of course security no problems that we know of in times square thank goodness. but of course very tight there fpl. uniform plain clothes officers in huge numbers assigned to blend into the crowd. revellers celebrating new year's naive times square like th

the evening's festivities are part of a public-private partnership between his firm and the city of new york. >> you've got our costs, you've got the cities costs, it's a lot of money, but it's also one of the biggest events in the world. the promotion that new york city gets from times square new year's eve when the world is watching. that's priceless. >> reporter: and, that means lots of eyeballs for marketers. the big sponsors tonight, nivea, toshiba, philips and the ball's maker, waterford. >> first and foremost. this is a civic event and we needed partners who understood that the civic nature is the priority and if we could build there marketing goals into what is the tradition of the event then it works for everybody. >> reporter: tonight's star attraction weighs in at nearly 12,000 pounds, is made up of nearly 27,000 cut crystal panels and is worth an estimated $1 million. but the celebration isn't just great exposure for the sponsors. >> after the christmas holiday people come to new york city to be part of this big event and they are going to be here having a great time and spending