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 education, the governor said the standard of education should be elevated to the highest of the chief of our responsibilities. it is true today. when it comes to education, i say two words, more and better. we need more

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. 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 education, the governor said the standard of education should be elevated to the highest of the chief of our responsibilities. it is true today. when it comes to education, i say two words, more and better. we need more learning time in this country,

melissa: you're a new yorker. i'm a new yorker.o this? you think people come in, wow, this is really tiny space, are you kidding? >> look, i'm sure there are many opinions and clearly, you know there are options where one can live. but, our role as architects to make it as humane a as possible and allow people to live beyond the four walls really. melissa: yeah. >> there are a lot of public spaces in the building. melissa: that is part of secret. there is common areas. there is different things if you want to get out of your closet, slash, apartment, you go somewhere else in the building. >> we see it as russian dolls. you don't live in the four walls. you live on the floor. melissa: in your neighbor's apartment maybe. maybe borrow some space. that would work. >> you probably know your neighbors like this. melissa: is there any closet space? >> there is. melissa: pretty much like this. you nodded it is like this? >> it is a standard closet but there is 16 feet of linear storage above. melissa: for the surfboard. >> sure. melissa: t

and, dana, why is it always the new yorkers and new jerseyians so outspoken.fter the break, senator chuck schumer joins me. boy, i wonder what he's going to have to say about this mess. >>> congress going down to the wire, again, to help hurricane sandy victims. we just learned the house will vote friday on a $9 billion bill to help sandy victims and by january 15th on another $51 billion. speaker boehner met with congressman peter king and other republican lawmakers from the affected states this hour. and new york senator charles schumer joins us by phone from long island, new york. is this enough? voting on part of the package on friday and then part later on, are you okay with that? >> it would have been better had they voted on the full package today. that didn't happen for all the reasons that dana bash and others mentioned. and at least it provides a clear path to having the $60 billion signed into law by the end of january. are there going to be still some bumps in the road? that always happens in the congress. but now we see a total change in attitude

just because they were new yorkers and they saw other new yorkers in need. they saw the commonality among us. they didn't see the differences, we weren't black and white and rich and poor we were new yorkers. we were united. we were one and there is energy the in that unity. that is new york at its best. that is new york fulfilling its potential. that is new york fulfilling the dream. that is new york the laboratory of the american experiment of democracy. that is new york honoring the lady in the harbor, the statue of liberty who holds the torch and says you are all invited. i don't care the color of your skin or how much money you have in your pocket. you come here and we will invest in you, work with you, and we want you to do well. we'll educate you. we'll give you health care because we believe in community. we believe when you are raised we are all raised. that is new york at its finest. so my friends, what is the state of new york state? the state of new york state is that new york state is rising. new york state is rising because it's more unified th

. >> new jersey and new yorkers are tired about being treated like second class citizens. shame on you. shame on congress. >> top new york democrat christine quinn tells me what she wants now from the speaker john boehner. plus a family still struggling after sandy. >> my politicians are going to hear from me and from my community. >> hillary clinton out of the hospital, but that hasn't stopped the conspiracy theories. why some of the right claim the secretary's illness is not what it seems. >> people who go out and generate rumors and lies are stupid. >> and a star is born. in about six months. the unending fascination with kimye. this is "piers morgan tonight". >>> good evening i'm wolf blitzer in for piers morgan. it isn't often you hear a politician a governor no less on the job react with the kind of anger we heard from chris christie today. he says what he thinks and what he thinks about john boehner's failure to vote on superstorm sandy aid. >> i was given no explanation. i was called at 11:20 last night by leader cantor and told authority for the vote was pulled by

>> you make a strong point that people, especially new yorkers, real native new yorkers, people theree that point. melissa: i've been here a long time. you're digging i'm not a new yorker. >> at least ten years; right? 20 #th birthday or something like that? melissa: come on. >> a lot of people are really against mayor bloomberg for going against this whole -- for saying you can't have the bill gulp sodas, you can't have transfats. this woman is taking it to the next step saying it's poisen. it's not. it alleges in her legal complaint they are poisen. if you look at the fda, transfats are not poisen. that's where she has the problem. melissa: if she said something else, could she have the lawsuits? >> say unhealthy ingredients. she may motivate nestle, it's talked about on national television, they may relabel and repackage it, throw money at her to shut her up. the lawsuits don't have teeth to them, they wind up causing some change in our society which hopefully is a good change and not a bad change. melissa: it's a bad change of the it's about liberty. i can do what i want. if i wan

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new jerseyians and new yorkers are are tired of being treated like second class citizens. new york deserves better than the selfishness we saw last night. new jersey deserves better than the duplicity we saw on display last night. america deserves bert than just another example of a government that has forgotten who they're there to serve and why. 66 days and counting. shame on you. shame on congress. disaster relief was something that you didn't play games with. but now in the current atmosphere, everything is the subject of one ups man ship. everything is a possibility, a potential piece of bait for the political game and it's just -- it is why the american people hate congress. >> republican congressman peter king of new york said that john boehner's action was like a knife in the back and had threatened not to vote for him for speaker again. >> what was most galling about this is that within ten days of katrina, we gladly voted $60 billion and went over 100 billion ultimately. it's now nine weeks since sandy struck long island and new york, new jersey and we have not go

. >> a short documentary about new yorkers who survive by redeeming bottles and cans from curbs is up for an academy award. we will speak with the filmmakers jon alpert and matt o'neil. all of that and more coming up. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the senate took up president obama's proposal to reform the nation's gun control laws with a high-profile senate judiciary hearing on wednesday. in a surprise an unannounced appearance, gabrielle giffords, the former congressmember badly wounded in the tucson shooting rampage two years ago, urged lawmakers to back and control. >> this is an important conversation for our children, for our community, for democrats and republicans. speaking is difficult, but i need to say something important. the violence is a big problem. too many children are dying. too many children. we must do something. it will be hard, but the time is now! you must act. the bold, the courageous. americans are counting on you. thank you. >> appearing alongside the former congressmember giffords who was shot in the h

made it clear it's better to have people insured than not and the effort to make it reach as many new yorkers as possible is more than 95% of new york city's children have either public or private health insurance. hour uninsured rate for children is less than 5%. virtually universal coverage. the best it's ever been and better than any other large city in the united states. therred income tax credit is another important thing. 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 eff

he has a new book out from "the new yorker." azier is dropping in. [ cheers and applause ] he'll talk about his new book. he's a touch of class. hey, guys, it's time to take a look at the stories making headlines today and weigh the good with the bad. it's time for "pros and cons." here we go. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ pros cons pros cons and pros ♪ >> jimmy: tonight, we'll be taking a look at the pros and cons of the golden globes. ooh. the awards air this sunday night on nbc. tina fey and amy poehler are hosting. [ cheers and applause ] >> steve: yeah! come on. come on. >> jimmy: gonna be a great time. lots of movie stars, lots of tv stars. it's the show that has both of those. >> steve: movie and tv stars. >> jimmy: movie and tv, yes. very glitzy, very glamorous. >> steve: lot of alcohol. >> jimmy: a lot of alcohol. let's take a look at the pros and cons of the golden globes. here we go. pro -- daniel day-lewis is expected to go home holding two golden globes. con -- so is sofia vergara's date. [ laughter ] >> steve: that's no

why is he trying to lure new yorkers to texas?orney general abbott joins us, good evening, sir. >> good evening, greta. >> the story has gotten complicated. what started this, i guess the newtown shooting and governor cuomo's gun control measures and the newspaper in new york publishing names and your facebook telling new yorkers to move there and of course the shooting in your state. you know, it's gotten so complicat complicated, so ugly. your thoughts about this tonight? >> well, several things. first, our hearts and our players go out to the families of those who were shot today at a college just north the houston. and the same thing goes with regard to the shooting that took place in connecticut, no parent believes that schools should be in the way that a child should get shot at school and when the parent gets dropped off the school they expect to pick up that child that very same day. and we need to make sure amidst this debate we need to remain calm and address the problems appropriately and at the same time use this debat

i'm so grateful to be a new yorker now. to be here. i feel much safer. hopefully he's going to set the standard for the country. maybe everybody will do this. >> john: i would love to see it. jackie, do you think that newtown really was the tipping point for this nation? that the american people are finally fed up? and do you think that's enough to move congress along? >> i think newtown was the tipping point and i really think that the american people are horrified that -- and just can't stand on the sidelines and say okay, this is going to happen. 2012 was the worst year ever for mass shootings. we had seven mass shootings this year and i think people watched the news. they see what's happening. not again is what everybody's saying. and we should do something about it. so i do think it's important. i think governor cuomo really made an outstanding -- being in the forefront of the country and saying it can be done. the nra spends more money on new york state elections than anywhere else in the country. so this is another resounding defeat for the nra. j

. >> sean: average new yorker can't carry a gun. >> average new yorker is not the mayor of new york city there. is a big difference between the mayor of new york city. and. >> sean: a woman being harassed? with a restraining order? >> he is not armed he has five plain clothed security detail that mayor rudy giuliani had when he was the mayor of new york. >> sean: mayor rudy giuliani isn't calling for strictest gone control laws in the history of the country, katie. >> the left believes mayor bloomberg and mayor rudy giuliani are more important than the average american citizen who can't aferd to have 24 hour seven day per week security. >> absolutely not. not. >> excuse me. to the point of attacking jason matera. what is wrong with are you willing to give up armed security you're a big proponent of gun control? michael bloomberg has been arguing guns make us less safe. why does michael bloomberg need five armed security guards with handguns and i'm sure have ar 15 rifles in the car. why do they need that if that is the case? >> because here is the difference. we're talking about a traine

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it claimed the lives of 60 new yorkers, left hundreds of thousands with significant damages to their homes and their businesses, their neighborhoods and their families. this body came together just before new year's to provide the desperately needed aid that families require to rebuild their homes and their businesses and their lives. the aid our small businesses so desperately needed to get their businesses up and running, the lifeblood of our communities flowing again and getting our families just back up on their feet. this bill should neither be controversial nor partisan. we have already debated and passed an almost identical package that was passed by the republican-led house of representatives. once again, the american people are watching us to see if we can come together and stand by families in need just as we've done for every natural disaster in our nation's history. they are watching once again to see if this body will do the right thing or just turn its back on them and not give them the support they need to be able to rebuild. this was always an emergency spending bill.

because last night they put a knife in the back of new yorker and new jerseyians with absolute disgrace: obviously peter king is not looking to switch parties, but do you think he would encourage a challenge against boehner? or is that just him being angry. >> well peter king's day-long revolt ended with a meter with john boehner today and congressman king came away from that meeting somewhat more pleased hearing that the speaker was going to bring up at least part of that spending package this week. it's a bill to be voted on on friday, and congressman king said he would continue to support speaker boehner, and really this was all a publicity stunt or just congressman king sleep deprived and incredibly pissed off, trying to make a statement. >> jennifer: all i can say is you think $50 billion for hurricane sandy is going to be a problem, people need to consider what the cost is of all of these extreme water events that we're going to continue to see, because congress is the deep pocket that will continue to be asked for help. andy thank you so much for giving us a little bit of incite

to congressional republicans is out of their minds because what they did was to stab in the back new yorkers and new jerseyians with absolute disgrace >> jon: wow, when peter king is calling you a disgrace. i'll say this. to kristie and king, by the end of the week... >> the house voted to approve more than $9 billion for flood insurance claims from hurricane sandy >> jon: see... wait a minute. you heard that right. $9 billion which is, as you may have noticed, not the $60 billion that the senate passed. the house decided to separate the $9.7 billion in flood insurance from the $61 billion which they're going to vote on next week. because what's another week? one more thing >> 67 republicans voted against $9.7 billion in aid for victims of super storm sandy >> jon: this is what i mean. this is just a simple down the middle black-and-white cut-and-dried warm cup of what would jesus or any other human being that isn't an [bleep] do? and you blew it. you blew it. ( cheers and applause ) what possible reason... what possible reason could you have for voting against aid to hurricane victims by wa

>> guest: native new yorker from brooklyn mostly mostly, a public-school, a case to 12. brooklyn technical high school was almost 5,000 people. then washington d.c. as a undergraduate and went to howard university then i went into anthropology where i could make a film set if i was the sociologists are political scientist thought that i could do it as a hobby but to use this fairway they do with anthropological research that i could make the movies but also to go out to the world but what howard could not teach me but we were still using 16 mm film that does this kid doesn't know about the world go out and learn? that is how i ended up in anthropology. >> host: what did your parents to? >> guest: my mom and dad both were working class, both in the medical profession they both worked in bellevue hospital as a dietary aide. my mom went back to school to get her college degree to become a social worker. they were continuing the struggle so to this day tried to better themselves to gain more knowledge from any crevice that they could so i got that you never try to stop learn

so many new yorkers thinking, can i get it? we asked dr.en horowicz ride the subway with us and help us understand the power of sneeze. all it takes is one good achoo to send 30,000 droplets barrelling in your direction at about 100,000 miles an hour. they can quickly make dozens of commuters within a few feet very sick. if a person used his hand to cover his sneeze, look out. now if someone sneezed and grabbed this poll to hang on to, they're going to leave germs behind and then i hang onto it and i pick them up. then i touch my hands on the seat. i'm going to leave those germs behind for the next unsuspecting commuter and is it spreads from there. and dr. hor 00 vicz says germs are so hearty they can survive overnight. >>> the mysterious poisoning >>> a 360 follow on a bizarre story in chicago about a man who won a million dollars in the lottery and a month later he was dead. prompting from a relative made authorities take another look. sure enough, testing showed a lethal amount of cyanide in his system. no one has been named a suspect.

and now calvin trillin staff writer for "the new yorker" presents the thoughts on the 2012 presidential campaign. his book is "dogfight: the 2012 presential campaign in verse." this is about an hour. [applause] thank you. the only fault i found with that introduction was -- i told them don't worry about being too e fusive. go ahead. [laughter] sometimes i'm very modest about introduction. you don't have to go overboard or complicatedded. something simple since not like marc twain. [laughter] i'm not here to boast, the only thing i found is temp rare isn't going out is the first parking novel ever written. [laughter] i regret to say there hasn't been a bandwagon of people trying to write parking novels. i thought i'd talk tonight, since "dogfight: the 2012 presential campaign in verse" is a sort of result of what we call debt mine poetry. talk about being a deadline poet, some years ago at an author's guild benefit, they organized a program which four or five authors rejected famous works and literature. [laughter] garrison himself rejected waldman pond by henry david monroe. he said the

. >> i'm proud to be a new yorker because new york is doing something. because we are fighting back. >> the new law expands the band on assault weapons and allows from seven rounds to ten. it also increases actions to limit firearms on the mentally ill and imposes stiffer penalties on those who use guns while committing a crime. >>> president obama will offer new sweeping gun laws of his own. any proposal to ban assault weapons is likely to face some stiff opposition in congress. tracie potts has details from washington. what are some of the measures we're expecting? >> reporter: in a few hours the president is expected to push congress to pass an assault weapons ban not clear on capitol hill if that can pass. a ban on high capacity magazine clips. but on his own the president is also expected to pitch universal background checks that would close loopholes for people who buy weapons at gun shows or online and don't have to go through those background checks. he's also expected to suggest tougher penalties for people who lie on their background checks for

and the result of this motion, public health insurance, the effort to make it reach as many new yorkersas possible is that more than 95% of new york city's children have either public or private health insurance. our uninsured rate for children is less than 5%, virtually universal coverage. the best it's ever been and country in. the earned income tax credit is another important work. we have the most generous in the country. we had a stay credit and a secret. this tax credit is a classic transfer program that provides far more than the amount needed to refund payroll taxes, and it's expensive. but probably most important of the earned income tax credit helps low-skilled new yorkers working. then there are food stamp benefits. hear the level of support have been more uneven than ambivalent. one of the differences between the bloomberg administration and its predecessor, mayor bloomberg so long as we can expect recipients to work, and there are adequate fraud prevention's, believes the food stamp benefits are another important proponent of our efforts to increase the economic strength of

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he they are in new york all the time filling their pockets with money from new yorkers. i'm saying right now anyone from new york and new jersey who contributes 1 penny to congressional republicans is out of their minds because what they did last night was put a knife in the back of new yorkers and new jerseyens absolute disgrace. >> bill: so king is not voting for boehner. he is cass straght his own party. >> well, i wouldn't say that. this was spoken in a heated moment; it was the same reheated moment. in essence, the same cast of characters from the new york, new jersey delegates met with speaker boehner a short while ago and it was all hashed out and the money for sandy victims for hurricane sandy relief is going to be voted out of the congress in two stages. the final vote on january 15, which is the first legislative -- >> bill: why hold it up in the first place that got king so teed off. money on the 15th. why didn't they do it last night? >> because by splitting it up into two votes boehner gives his conservative membership a chance to say on one occasion i voted

. >> the republican leadership has turned backs on new yorkers. >> the democrats still control the senate, the republicans the house. but the new congress is different, more win, more minority and the call, at least to come together. >> to work in friendship and partnership to live up to the legacy of our founders and our aspirations of our constituents. >> that bipartisan saw a display today senator returned after a year abs sense after a stroke and made his way up the steps to get back to work. the nation hoping the rest of congress can do the same. they face a real laundry list of top issues. you have the debt, obamacare sequestration, immigration, all of them but congress gets back to work tomorrow and they are screded to take their first vote -- squeded to take their first vote of the sandy relief package. >> thank you. among the new members sworn into today tim kaine to take the oat of office. jim web is was on hand today swearing in he defeated george allen for the senate seat. >> the i.r.s. is trying to figure out if tax refunds will be delayed because of the last-minute fiscal cl

are always raising the subject with me, mostly new yorkers. i am not interested in what people in san francisco think. i like the food, the weather, the ambiance, it is where i want to live. if they want to live there too, the liberals, good luck. i will be eager for your questions as far as we have time. [applause] >> if you will just raise your hand, the gentleman with a microphone, please give your name and ask your question. hopefully a question, not a statement. first question down here. >> you mentioned how rusher wanted to take a populist tone. you think that -- >> speak up just a bit. >> a more populist tone to the conservative movement. do you see that as a potential lesson to be applied today? >> i am not comfortable trying to say what rusher would say today but it is clear that he always believed and from the 1970s on certainly always believed and never lost his belief that populist and social conservatism of those voters were absolutely essential to success, that their issues had not been dealt with, have not really been dealt with

. >>> plus, a tough day for new yorkers. we'll have the latest on what caused this commuter ferry accident and also this crane collapse. >>> and we have a lot of rain right now streaming right through louisiana, where is it headed? all of your forecast, you're watching "early today." >>> today, the president hosted a screening of nbc's white house comedy "1600 penn" which centers on a goofy guy who keeps embarrassing the white house. or as joe biden put it, why's everybody looking at him? [ laughter ] >>> here's a look at other stories making news in "early today" in america. passengers were tossed around when a new york ferry slammed into a new york pier. the crash let over 70 people blooded and battered. the national transportation safety board has launched a team to investigate the accident. >>> and new york firefighters were investigating a cable snap. >>> a drug deal bust turned baltimore streets into a drag strip. a female suspect led police on a hair-raising chase for 30 minutes before they pinned her in and made thei

new yorkers, pardon me, over 8%. the jersey, nine and a half percent. these metrics matter. icking new york's but the reid is a culture difference? hello, yes. thank goodness. i thought that is what liberals celebrated, diversity. i guess i probably shouldn't get so upset. after all, he has had this problem. the 40 year-old congressman was censured by the house two years ago after facing charges of 17 years of unpaid taxes on property in the dominican republic and more than 500,000 in undisclosed public assets. crazy. he also was investigated for raising millions from companies with business before the committee each year. by the way, it's not all bad. he won a purple heart and a bronze star for his service in the korean war. that's good. you know what, he is still in office. despite the center, the tax embarrassment to mothers keep returning to office 40 years later. the cultural implications? i'd say it's a culture of corruption that is to be overcome. coming up, how apple's earnings could impact you and your money, and you might not even know about it. congress living up t

. >> yours -- new yorkers eve stadium was packed with people. -- new years eve, the stadium was packed with people. in the stampede many people were stepped on and died as a result of suffocation. >> we were waiting for the people at the front to move forward, but because my wife is six months pregnant, we respect. >> this happened while thousands of people were tried to leave the stadium. they also expect the death toll to rise. the president visits the injured at the hospital. he says an investigation is underway to determine what actually happened. >> i send my condolences to all the families of the victims. this is a national tragedy and we are in mourning. >> in 2009 by people were killed at the same stadium. ivory coast wants a stable economic recovery in that south africa. the fireworks event had been organized to celebrate. >> a similar incident in angola led to the deaths of 13 people. they were crushed to death while trying to enter an overcrowded stadium in the capital. this happens individual organized by a local church. in syria, activists under heavy fighting have closed

what do new yorkers really need? what are you seeing? know, new yorkers are some of the most resilient people hit by an event like this. there's things to learn. when i was in louisiana earlier this year, they have got hit by four or five storms in the last five years. they're really practiced at this, and they know the nuances and rules and regulations. new yorkers are learning them, but we're there to help them and there to be there to talk them through it. what they need to do is get the assistance from us and start to repair their homes. if they need more assistance, more time to rent a piece of property while they're doing repairs and keep talking to us, stop by one of our disaster recovery centers and we'll continue to help them. >> mike, it is a process here. you have to -- the insurance company is involved. you have to prove there is damage done. you have to determine what is covered and not covered and apply for funds. yesterday i had a chance to talk to mitch landrieu, and seven years later they're still trying to get federal m

making a huge personal sacrifice to make sure new yorkers have beef on the shelves.and idaho potato doing back breaking work dirt underneath the finger nails to make sure that new yorkers also have potato. the question i would ask, do you think that doing this because they love new yorkers? no, pause say that love themselves. they want more for themselves. now, in a free market, the way that you get more for yourself is to serve your fellow man. to make your fellow man happier, to carat to his -- cater to his needs and desires. if he asks the question, how much beef and foe they tow do you think new yorkers would have if it depended on human love and kindness. i would be worried a about new yorkers. c-span: when you way column, what is the most successful? what grabs the attention, and how often do you do that when you find out? >> guest: i don't think of it in that term. i watch the news, or i'm talking to somebody, or i get an idea and write about it. as a matter of fact some of my column years ago the thinking for my column was -- going up a steep hill and muscles