new yorkers don't care who you are. can be in a bar next to somebody you can't stand and it doesn't matter. isn't that how it should be? >> yeah, the thing is where he messed up is he is a famous and controversial and you can't just walk out -- you don't get to go to the movies and bryant park. you don't get to pretend you are the average joe. kids, let's go to a park. that's why they invented 100-inch plasmas so you can have movie night at your house. you don't get that chance. it is like you going to a playground. it can't happen. >> and it is a great trade. i would gladly trade -- i would pay $40 million a year, and the tradeoff is you can't see people in public. >> absolutely. i can't wait to howard hughes my life. >> i am a shut in and i don't even make $10 million a year. >> you know why he did this? you know why glen beck did this? it is exactly like he said. he needed material for a-block. he didn't have any topics so he went to bryant park and went like this. and wait for it. that's what happened. >> i should s

the second is a story that virtually very few new yorkers know. september 11, after the towers came down, many new yorkers went south. some of them discovered for the first time that man had was an island. a colleague of mine did something rather spontaneous. calling out of the broadcast frequency, he asked any available boats to come to lower manhattan and help these people off the island. ferryboats, tugboats, barges, yachts, converging on lower manhattan, evacuating close to 500,000 people. all over the course of several hours. putting that in context, the great dunkirk evacuation of the british troops, resulting in the certain destruction of the expeditionary force, we know that from world war ii. we celebrate it. the same thing happened on 9/11 band we do not know the story. of course, we need to invest more. let's put these numbers into context. since 9/11 what we have spent on the wars in afghanistan is close to $12 trillion. $275 million per day, every single day for 10 years. the total amount we have been spending annually in programs to

the new yorker had a long article.ial saying we are leading from behind and this a controversial quote. do you think it accurately characterizes obama's foreign policy? to you wish that senior administration official had not said that to the new yorker. >> i don't think it has anything to do with the obama's foreign policy or the way he approaches his job as the president of the united states. i have -- well, let's put it this way. part of my job is to brief the president every morning and i think i'm now up to 450 of these briefings. that doesn't reflect anything that i have ever heard from president obama and i don't know how that person, whoever he or she was could call themselves an adviser to the president. it is an adviser who's never been in a serious situation with him. >> it says sometimes he seems passive. does that strike you as correct? >> it doesn't strike me as correct. i read brook's column anded that the following reaction to at this time. it doesn't strike me as correct at all with respect to foreign p

do you wish that senior administration official had not said that to the "new yorker"? >> i don't think it has anything to do with the policy or he's approached his job as president of the united states. part of my job is to brief the president every morning. i think i'm now up to 450 of these briefings. that doesn't reflect anything that i've ever heard from president obama. and i don't know how that person, whoever he or she was, could call themselves an adviser to the president. it's clearly an adviser who has never been in a serious conversation with him. >> david brooks says obama has a leadership style about convening and delegating and sometimes he seems passive. does that strike you as correct? >> it doesn't strike me as correct. i read brooks' column and had the following reaction to it. it doesn't strike me as correct at all with respect to foreign policy. we he we have from the outset, as i described earlier, taken a serious effort to rebalance activities in the world. it's a president who made decisions at the outset in iraq. it's a president who made a deci

>> there were hotspots by disease, hotspots by patients, by zip code, and by neighborhood. >> "new yorker" writer atul gawande meets doctor hotspot next. >> gawande: camden, new jersey, sits in the shadow of philadelphia. it's a city that seems in a constant state of peril. poverty here is rife. unemployment is double the national average. public institutions are in crisis or, like the local library, simply shuttered. it's officially one of america's most dangerous cities. but camden may also be the city to help solve one of america's most intractable problems-- lowering the cost of health care. as a doctor and writer for the new yorker, i came here to meet the local physician who began to figure it out. it all started ten years ago with a shooting. >> i was working in my house one evening. heard gunshots, then got a call from a neighbor. so i went running down the street. the police had gotten there already. so i ran up and said, you know, "i'm a physician. where's the victim?" and they all sort of turned around and said, "he's over there." >> what is the location? >> he was laying on hi

city officials are making sure new yorkers are getting a little bit of relief from all this oppressivevepened 500 cooling centers throughout the city. today's high in new york could reach 101 which would tie e a record. today sounds like the worst day of the last three or four. so brace yourself. >> i think some people will probably give that sheets trick a try. it's really just getting pretty tough out there. >> just don't leave them in there. just a few minutes. >>> take a look at your forecast for the day. in addition to the heat, you can look for some stormy weather from billings to the dakotas, upper midwest and ohio valley. thunderstorms from louisville to the gulf coast and another rainy day in the desert southwest. we do have scattered showers in northern new england. >> boston hits 97. baltimore 102. miami 91. nearly 100 in dallas and kansas city. 80s boise to fargo. 70, that sounds nice, 70 i seattle, your neck of the woods. 90 in salt lake city. >> my hometown right there. >>> president obama and top republicans appear very close to reaching a deal to resolve the nation's debt

as a former new yorker, you had better keep in touch. >> any other commissioners? ok, we'll see if there's any public comment. is there anyone from the public that would like to address this application? seeing none, it is in the hands of the commission. >> can i have a motion? >> i move that the application be approved and including i suppose all the conditions set forth by the captain. >> a second. >> second. >> please call the roll. >> ok. good luck. i'm sure that it will help improvement to the neighborhood. >> thank you very much for your time. >> moving on, item six. commissioners comments and questions. >> i just wanted to take a minute to think a few people for being able to be here on this side of the partition tonight. i look forward to working with all of you. thank you for doing the of reach the day after i got passed through because that meant a lot. i appreciate it. it made me feel more secure. i wanted to think -- and everyone who works with him for all the help that they did. also the supervisors, i was passed in an 11-0 vote. i hope to do him proud

>> we're new yorkers.ecticut, we could have gone to massachusetts, but we're new yorkers and we really held out and wanted to -- to have our marriage legal here in new york and have our relationship recognized here. >> well, ladies, you all tell me, how is this going to go today? you're going down to the courthouse. they say you can start showing up at 8:30. i think you're going down there maybe right after this interview. what is the plan for the day? who will be there? i guess, are you wearing your wedding outfits now? is there a party later? tell me how this is going to go. >> this is it. these are our wedding outfits. we expect there to be a huge crowd and with -- friends will there, i'm sure, and hundreds of other couples and we're just so excited. >> our friend, the judge, is going to marry us and afterwards we're going to go back to our house for a small reception. >> and i assume your daughter will be there. >> oh, yeah, absolutely. >> is she standing in there right now with you guys? >> no, she's

but we're new yorkers, we work for new york, we decided to raise our kids in new york.re firmly sort of committed to the city. we didn't want to have to pack our bags and go somewhere else. we wanted to do it in new york where our kids are being raised and where our home is and where our kids can invite 15 of their friends to celebrate with us. it meant a lot for us to do it here and not have to go off somewhere else to do it. >> mayor bloomberg? >> i think it's great that they're doing it in new york. we want new york to be a destination for everyone, whether you're coming to get married or coming for a vacation, or you're coming to live or coming for education or medical care, new york city has always been open to everyone. if you take a look at the history of civil rights in this country, you know, at the beginning, women couldn't vote or hold office. nonproperty holders couldn't vote. african-americans couldn't vote. and over the years, we have opened up and improved our democracy. and we haven't taken away the rights of individuals or individual religions to have w

but, i'm a new yorker, too. but, god i love brooklyn.e you walked across the brooklyn bridge? you must have, right? >> yes. >> jimmy: a lot of people haven't. i hadn't until recently. >> oh. >> jimmy: it's amazing. and it's free. you just walk across. >> it is. it's a good time. >> jimmy: it's such a cool thing to do. i would recommend it to anybody. >> nadia should have her next party there. >> jimmy: she should, yeah. invite a bunch of firemen. >> yeah. >> jimmy: it's good pizza over there, as well. >> oh, my god, yeah. i grew up near di fara's pizza. >> jimmy: di fara's? >> if you want some of the best -- best pizza in the city. >> jimmy: di fara's oh, my gosh. >> maybe you shouldn't go. >> jimmy: then everyone will know, they have such a good pie. now, there's another movie we didn't mention but you're in "salvation boulevard." it's out today. >> mm-hm, yes. >> jimmy: in that movie, you play a dead head. >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: are you a dead -- are you a grateful dead fan? >> honey foster. i am a fan, yes. but i can't say, i haven'

. >> stephen: san francisco chronicle, new yorker, washington post, part of the post's pulitzer prize winning tea party for coverage of the virginia tech massacre, and in june you wrote an essay for the "times" magazine entitled "my life as an undocumented immigrant." you're abillegal alien. >> new york i'm undocumented. >> stephen: you're what we in the american world called "an illegal." you're an illegal. i think i've broken the law just having you in my studio. [laughter] >> no, this is actually an important point. i don't want like a 12-year-old sitting in middle school somewhere in america thinking that he or she is illegal. human beings are... >> stephen: the cops are coming from you, junior. put a chair in front of the doorknob because the federales are coming. you came from mexico, right? >> no, no, i'm from the philippines. >> >> stephen: that's warmer mexico. you get your sombrero, you paddle over here to take american jobs. >> no, sir. steep open the what happened? what's your story? >> basically my mom sent me to america when i was 12 to visit my grandparents. and it was.

yes, we could have gone to connecticut or marks but we're new yorkers and we really held out and wantede legal here in new york. >> that is jo-. >> that is jo-an shain. they're excited. this is a couple married and over the moon at their wedding reception. they graciously took a break to talk about this day in new york history with same-sex couples can get married, so thank you. we appreciate it. congratulations. we also want to go to doug robinson and mike elfasser. did i say that right? >> perfect. >> they just had their wedding as well. all four of you were part of a group that sued in 2004. that failed. now the legislature gave you what the courts could not, a legal marriage license, so thank you so much. doug, are you excited? >> we're ecstatic. we -- in our lifetime never thought this would happen, and it's so wonderful that today the state of new york recognizes our family, includes not only just michael and i but also our two sons to say that we are family. >> yeah. and your two sons? you have two sons together that were adopted or from previous marriages, mike? >> they're our a

i mean, he was a new yorker, you know? because of how he spoke. um, and because you knew that he was as hip as most new yorkers were. yeah. [applause] >> and i think one of the important pointing to the highlight is when malcolm set out to write his autobiography, he did it initially to highlight the transformation of islam. so he did it pre-nation, post-nation and rendered his activities as apolitical. but when we cover the political subtext of much of this formation, and i think just as detroit red the hipster was very political in many ways, so are many be of our young people today. i think it's important for us not to dismiss cultural formation as lacking any potential for political consciousness just as we shouldn't do that with our young people today. >> great point, zaheer. brother, your name and your question, please. >> i don't have a question, i have a comment. my name is todd stephen burrows, i'm a lecturer at morgan state university, and i'm co-editor on a second book that's going to collect reviews of manning marable's malcolm x. the

. >> yes. >> jimmy: and a lot of new yorkers don't have their driver's licenses, cause you don't neednd buses. >> no, it's a waste. >> jimmy: no, it's not. you have to learn how to drive. i'm awful, though, by the way. my parents are originally from brooklyn. they taught me how to drive. and i'm just -- i couldn't be worse. >> still not good? >> jimmy: i am the worst driver on the face of the earth. >> well, my dad is a cab driver. i'm pretty sure he's worse than you, though. >> jimmy: oh, well -- come on. [ laughter ] wait, your dad's a cab driver and he didn't teach you how to drive? >> no. >> jimmy: oh, come on. >> jimmy: i'm not his favorite child. it happens. [ laughter ] i'm kidding. he loves me. he loves me. >> jimmy: i know he does. he does. so wait -- so what, you have your learner's permit? >> yeah. >> jimmy: that's all you have. >> yeah -- and so i got to practice driving up there. but like, the friends i was staying with have like an 11-year-old daughter who is from denver. and she's learning to drive, too. so everyday would be a fight between me and an 11-year-old over wh

it was done in the new yorker about the discovery -- from eisenhower in the new yorker. a really fascinating article that came out recently. with that i would like to turn it over to jim and have him tell us how we got into writing about earl warren. >> a cue for being here. before i say anything, it was a finalist for the book prize in history last night. what she should also tell you, the winner of the los angeles times. [applause] >> earl warren. i started poking around in 2001. i became an editor at the time and was responsible for california government and political coverage. i was initially drawn to his curiosity about his time as governor. you know earl warren until quite recently, to the history of california. it was a remarkable achievement--the first race he won, and incumbent democrat in the middle of the war. a very popular president in 1950, a third of those elections, not only beat us on -- and jimmy roosevelt, over a million votes. in the middle, the most interesting of all people in those days they practice cross filing which meant if you could run for an

he avoids tourist spots and says new yorkers are "very cool." they don't flip out if they see me. >> the fallout from the jennifer lopez and mark anthony divorce seems to be coming from her camp, focussing on his controlling nature. us weekly quotes sources who say he always tries to manage her wardrobe because he didn't want the 40-year-old mother of two looking too sexy. >>> finally, trying to save a ratings leader and hype its debut episode on the same night of former star charlie sheen's roast. cbs has this new billboard for "two and a half men" featuring new star ashton kutcher. >> this goes to wxya where one couple showed love is a best business in a life threatening situation. alan suffered what he thought to be a fatal heart attack. doctors had declared him dead when they called in his wife to say good-bye. instead she told him she loved him and couldn't live without him. moments later alan's heart began to beat and he since made a full recovery inspired by his wife's undying love for him. i'm lynn berry. this is "early today," just your

there was a recent "new yorker" article, actually a long book review, talking about people leaving cities. for decades people and leaving cities. not just san francisco, but all around the country, and moving to the suburbs. there are people moving back to san francisco. they are different population. that kind of thing is universally happening, so it is not just here a long. i have not read the book that was given to us a couple weeks ago, but that was one of the books that was mentioned, along with a few others. in context, it is really not an isolated problem at all. president olague: i think the same thing goes for manufacturing families and a lot of other issues. it is not simply -- you know, it is not that simple. commissioner sugaya:

. >> my god, i'm so proud to be -- i'm so proud to be a new yorker.iting for this day and it's rare that you see a child be able to walk her two parents down the aisle. i'm so looking forward to that. i couldn't be prouder of them. and i think it's a great day to be a new yorker. >> you know you make a very good point. it's a rare day that a child's able to walk her parents down the aisle like that. how about a honeymoon? i'm certain maybe it's just the two of you. do you have plans for that? >> you know we haven't made plans yet. somewhere down the line i'm sure we will go away on a honeymoon but we're just enjoying the day today. >> how about i'm looking behind you, is that the line there? are there a number of people behind you in line for all for the same thing? >> yeah. the line -- the line snakes around the building. it's really incredible. hundreds of couples here today. >> well, it's a very happy day, i know, for the two of you as well as-sayliya. mary jo, thanks so much. congratulations. best wishes. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> t

in honor of this man, in honor of this great man, i will no longer do my offensive italian new yorker voice. for as long as... because it's not often you see this son of a b... the courage that this mother (beep), the giant (beep) hanging over this man like bocce balls on a summer afternoon. i'm sorry. it's very hard not to do the voice. it's a very fun voice. so with support of grisanti and his fellow republican steven salan gay marriage passed and of course you know with that means. >> the city estimates the new law will bring more than $180 million to the state in the next three years. >> jon: ladies and gentlemen, all right. also cashing in the perfect time to roll out my new jon stewart brand tuxedos. all the elegance of a tuxedo but with the flattering physique. >> (cat yowling). >> jon: indeed. fray fry's decision brings the total number of states permitting gay marriage to 7. 41 other states still have laws on the books explicitly banning same sex marriage. it's why many gay activists are looking for federal action to achieve national marriage equality. last thursday barack ob

. >> marie howe is a new yorker best known for her book what the living do, poems she wrote after her brother john died of aids. marie howe, who said, "john's living and dying changed my aesthetic entirely." >> the gate. i had no idea that the gate i would step through to finally enter this world would be the space my brother's body made. he was a little taller than me: a young man but grown, himself by then, done at twenty-eight, having folded every sheet, rinsed every glass he would ever rinse under the cold and running water. this is what you have been waiting for, he used to say to me. and i'd say, what? and he'd say, this -- holding up my cheese and mustard sandwich. and i would say, what? and he would say, this, sort of looking around.

there was a 25 page rebuttal in "the new yorker." they were horrified. "the new yorker" also had a cartoon of the secretary and merriam webster picking up the phone and saying the editor ain't in. [laughter] but 10 years later the furor died down and today, description is considered the norm. and webster himself says this in the 17 '80s quoting cicerone, that the norm of language is usage. and sarah palin uses refute each enough, someone like webster might be squeamish when he uses the first 10 times, but it is used for a few years you got to stick in the dictionary. webster would describe language but prescribe how to live. some of his religious beliefs are in the dictionaries come and merriam-webster company would take out these personal preferences, as i said, james orr have tremendous respect for webster called born to find. they also took out, had this crisis, they realize the etymology was way off base. they were worried that the dictionary would lose its market share if they didn't fix the etymology. they hire a guy from germany and they take the

so she goes the new yorker and she says "i will cover it." send her to israel and she's not there for the entire trial. she's there for parts of it and she writes a five-series part for the "new yorker" and then publishs that manuscript under the eichmann in jerusalem, one of few books better known by its subtitle,he banalty of evil. and in it she argues that the jews were complicit in their own death. that in every ghetto there was a jewi council which made up the list of who would be on the trains et cetera and the people in the ghettos faced two enemies: the nazis and jewish council. she equates the two. and she speaks in a cruel fashion about... first of all, she sweeps over historical differences. there were councilshat were terrible and councils that were excellent. councils that helped jews and councils that didn't. but she speaks with cruelty and with a she feel it is trial is a show trial. she can't stand gideon hausner. she calls him a jew who doesn't know any languages even though he's conducting the trial in english, hebrew, germa

he avoids tourist spots and says new yorkers are "very cool."ut if they see me. >>> the fallout are from the jennifer lopez and marc anthony divorce seems to be coming from her camp focusing on his controlling nature. us weekly quotes sources who say he always tries to manage her wardrobe because he didn't want the 40-year-old mother of two looking too sexy. >>> finally, trying to save a ratings leader and hype its debut episode on the same night of former star charlie sheen's roast. cbs has this new billboard featuring new star ashton kutcher for "two and a half men." that's causing a little bit of a buzz. >> so which would you rather watch? >> i don't think either. you know what i am interested in, ryan gosling on jimmy fallon tonight. >> are you ingoing to wait in le for tickets? i'll be the creepy girl lurking outside the studio. >>> rupert murdoch calls it the most humble day of his life. the news corp. the question is where did win wendy learn to throw that right hook. >>> now the mafia sounds gang of six is coming p with a plan of its own

rochester, much bigger group took to the streets outside the united nations to demand that all new yorkers, not just membered of the legislate -- members of the legislature be given a way on whether gay marriages are legal. here in the bay area, another show of support for same sex couples. a museum security guard told two women they were not allowed to hold hands. anne makovec is here. >> reporter: the san francisco lesbian gay freedom ban kicked offhand holding day at the contemporary jewish museum. >> to really celebrate diversity and pride in the mount. >> reporter: that's the museum's director who had been playing a day for here for months to celebrate an exhibit on gertrude stein. they added the hand holding part later. the inspiration came from the incident last sunday when a security guard told two women to stop holding hands. he said it wasn't allowed in the museum. the director said the guard was wrong and was immediately removed. >> this goes completely against museum policy and values and our commitment to diversity. >> reporter: it was a teachable moment. how home phobia still

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