it was sandy's. and dna testing confirmed that sandy licked the envelope to seal it. that sandy claimed the incident was an attack, investigators reviewed hospital medical records and discovered that the attending physician doubted a horse had done that damage. >> they were semi circular in nature and there were a number of them. they put lacerations in her head, when she had to staple shut and he said it didn't look like any horse kick injury i had ever seen. >> dr. john holsing was in the duyst barn shortly after the incident. he, too, noticed inconsistencies. >> i went in that stall and i couldn't find any blood on the wall where this reportedly happened. it was all outside of the stall in the walk-in area. >> david duyst was confronted with the letter and denied that the incident was anything other than an accident. but he did make a confession. he admitted he was having an affair with his secretary, linda ryan, and that sandy had found out about it. david also gave police a voice mail sandy left on his office phone. he said it proved she was suicidal. >> david, a

that was the justification for this being a sandy project. that's whatnot having the kind of website christie vetoed means when it comes to tracking sandy money. >>> moving back to the law. the law that did pass, the integrity monitoring law that went into effect nearly a year ago at the end of last march. integrity monitors were selected and many have been in place and seemingly ready to go since last summer. the law requires on the first business day of each quarter, every one of those integrity monitors is supposed to provide a report to the state treasury that includes, quote, detailed findings concerning the integrity oversight monitor's provision of services and recommendations for corrective or reimmediate yell action relative to malfeasance and inefficiency. they are supposed to be taken and given to the state legislature so lawmakers and citizens can keep tabs on the big bucks recovery projects and whether they are being completed the way they should be. we called for the legislature and asked for the reports for the third and fourth

distributing $780 million in sandy aid. and tonight we have late breaking news from wnyc, the administration has parted ways with a second sandy contractor, one that had been supervising the rebuilding of sandy sir v r vifr's homes. more on that shortly. >>> the dramatic scene in new jersey last night when sandy victims came face to face with the officials deciding their fate. >> my pledge to you tonight is i will govern with the spirit of sandy. >> the george washington bridge lane closures didn't just mean headaches for commuters and fallout for chris christie and members of his administration. it also has brought unwanted national attention to the officials tied to the other big scandal in new jersey. the one hiding in plain sight. the distribution of billions of dollars in federal hurricane sandy recovery money. those officials made a rare public appearance last night in newark at a hearing on how to distribute the next round of sandy aid. nearly $1.5 billion. >> obviously we want to hear what everyone has to say. >> th

way sandy aid was improperly used and threatened. this is a growing political problem for this governor. this is his signature accomplishment and it is not some kind of, like, lefty liberal msnbc conspiracy. we talk every week to the citizens of new jersey, some of whom are christie voters who are increasingly at wit's end about what is on with sandy recovery. >> yeah. what you saw today is they lost control of the sandy message. this was, as you said at the open, this is why he's here. he was mr. sandy, he was the guy in charge. he was down at the beach with the president with the fleece. and now you've got these front-page headlines, money is going to strange places, people are not getting the money, the money is not doled out fairly according to some reports. i think what you're seeing is he's really struggling to get that message back. to get back in control of that message and it's tough. and this is sort of the thing we all have sort of waited for. you know, and this is -- >> what do you mean by that? >> let's go back almost a

hit by sandy. after questions are raised about sandy money that went to belleville which wasn't all that hard hit by sandy. all that, of course, came after steve kornacki broke the story on this network about allegations concerning sandy relief money in hoboken. a town that was really hard hit by sandy. mayor dawn zimmer told steve on msnbc that the christie administration steered far less federal aid to hoboken than the town should have received given the storm flooded 80% of the town. mayor zimmer alleged that top members of the christie administration told her if she wanted to see more federal money flowing to hoboken, she would need to support a development project with ties to the powerful chairman of the port authority who had been appointed to that job by chris christie. the mayor says she would not go along with that and because she wouldn't go along with that demand, the christie administration held back federal disaster relief that she says hoboken needs and deserves and still should get.

who in new jersey is minding the store on sandy money?ntrepid steve kornacki reported, it may be nobody. a new jersey law requires that an integrity oversight monitor be assigned to every recovery project granted $5 million or more in sandy money in order to protect against waste fraud or abuse. that law went into effect march of last year. and guess when the new jersey treasury department says it began putting a law signed more than ten months ago into practice? not until january of this year, 2014. that's right. the sandy money has been going out the door, but it appears integrity monitors were not put in place until last month in the wake of the scandal that is now engulfing the christie administration. joining me now, kevin walsh, associate director of fair share housing center. you guys have been doing incredible work in trying to get to the bottom of where this sandy aid is going. today, marc ferzan, the sandy oversight czar that chris christie personally appointed, he gave a kind of conference call press conference today. and he sa

sandy victims everywhere should be furious. joining me now is bob ingle. "chris christie: the inside story of his rise to power." bob, first, thanks for being here tonight. >> glad to be here, rev. >> how serious are all of these questions about the sandy relief funds? >> i think it's very serious. but one thing you have to keep in mind, you know how federal regulations are, you get a stack about that high. and within that, the locals are given a lot of leeway to do things as they want to do. >> sure. >> now what the administration has said and what you just repeated is there is no politics involved. so the problem is proving that it really was made on a political decision. >> now, a new analysis by wnyc of one of sandy's grant programs found, quote, multiple irregularities in how funds were distributed. an analysis showed hoboken has been awarded the same amount as two much smaller towns, neither of which experienced much damage from sandy or previous storm. which the reporter said could lend credence to mayor zimmer's claim that hoboken was shortchanged.

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it's actual sandy victims. monmouth university spent months surveying 854 new jersey residents who were directly affected by hurricane sandy. 64% of them are dissatisfied with new jersey's sandy recovery efforts so far. 55% says it's been difficult to even get information out of the state. 74% don't think the recovery effort is focused on helping people like them. that they have largely been forgotten. joining me now, bob jordan, statehouse reporter for the "asbury park press." the editorial in your paper kind of surprised me today, it's fair to say. is there growing discontent among the folks who read your paper with way the sandy aid has been distributed? >> well, chris, that monmouth university poll certainly was alarming to us. almost by 2-1 margin of people who applied for aid are dissatisfied. and it's not a scientifically accurate poll because it was taken over a number of weeks and months, part of a larger project by monmouth university, but that certainly got attention. and the -- there's a black cloud

you've got a firm you've hired to oversee sandy relief money. a big amount. they're getting criticized by voters and legislators. when you're asked about their performance after they've already been fired, you don't think it's germane to inform everyone they've been canned? in fact, the only reason we know they were fired is because six weeks after the memo terminating the contract was issued, wnyc reporter matt katz got a tip and discovered it in an obscure corner. confirmed the contract was terminated but gave no explanation. hgi told katz it couldn't say anything, "under the terms of the contract i'm not authorized to make a statement." since then nobody has given a clear answer to the basic question, why was hgi fired? during a phone call with marc ferzan, yesterday reporters pressed him about hgi and got nothing. >> so you're saying hgi services were no longer needed? >> hey, marion, that's a question for dca. >> but you're not answering it. that's the problem. >> yes, the answer is services for hgi specifically for not needed. >> we reached out to hgi a

. >>> up next, an update on our follow the sandy money. plus, the obama administration firing back at the christie administration trying to blame them with problems disbursing the money. >>> i've made every right decision in the last 15 months on this issue. there are times i had to go back and revisit and say, i thought that was right, it's wrong, and change it. what you need to know is, today, still, i spend about 40% of my time every month on sandy. it used to be 100%, thankfully for me, it's going down a bit, there are some other things you have to deal with in this state as well. >> last night we brought you the story how the biggest contractor in new jersey was very quietly fired by the christie administration, which has offered no satisfaction explanation into what went down, and why the state of new jersey paid that contractor a ten and a half million settlement. today we got big news about the performance of the contractor, hgi, which had been tasked with distributing $780 million in funding to sandy victims in new jersey. data ob

heather havin, t"the wall stree journal" who has been reporting on sandy aid. and stacy berger, so nice to have you all here. so you have been reporting on this deeply, and you know, part of what i could ask you is, what do we know. but i think maybe even more importantly, i want to ask, what do you think we still don't know, especially around the sandy issue? >> there's a lot we don't know. and what's been really interesting this week is that we had no idea that the state was relying on this data beforehand, this this all came to light because of fair share's report they had put out. so we don't know why they relied on this data, when i talked to fema, they said they made it very clear to the state that this is not data you should rely on for long-term recovery, only for short-term recovery. and in new york's proposal to the federal government, they made it clear that they were not going to just rely on this data set. so they seemed to have some awareness about this. so why did the state rely on this data? was it for expediency? we really don't know. and i thi

he's on political high ground with sandy. all events had been sandy focused. it's where he feels comfortable. even if there's protest hers there to mix it up with him a little bit, that's an area he feels comfortable. i'm looking for the back and forth, trademark chris christie town hall style where somebody gets up and challenges him and he ends up calling them an idiot or stupid. lots of things to watch here. the last time he took questions, not a lot of bridgegate questions when he did a radio show a few weeks ago. it will be interesting if that's bubbled up now. >> given where the town hall meeting is, he's got a fairly friendly audience. let's talk about the line of questions. would it be a good thing for him to get these tough question sos he can expand the narrative he's doing everything he can to cooperate with investigators? >> on sandy or on the bridge scandal? >> on both really. >> you know what, there's investigations. fbi opened the investigation on the use of sandy funds. obviously you have the investigation of the bridge gale scandal. if i was r

[applause] >> thank you very much, sandy will be up here. she is happy to sign copies of her book, which are for sale if you don't have one, at the cash register at the front. thanks again. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations]

and oni defranco and joe ulinea folk singer and laborogers and sandy backum.ne of the largest demonstrations i have seen in my life of covering demonstrays were the protests around the republican convention in new york in 2004. what struck me was unlike other mars that had a unifying idea, this is what we are here about. there were will 80 different causes on display in front of madison square garden that day, and i am wondering whether that's a motif of the age that really there aren't one or two or three big causes the way there might have been in other times. but people's attention is going to a lot of different things. >> i think that's right. i think in the introduction where we heard pete talk about big things and little things, you know, he once sitting in a bar explained to me what he called his pomegranite strategy and some other guests may have heard about this. when you open it up, there are thousands of little seeds. he viewed art as sort of being those seeds and going out into all of the various communities that are working to build a better world

christie administration has been falling behind about not following the state's laws about hurricane sandy relief funds. especially when it comes to transparency. steve's reporting on that issue this week led to this rather blistering editorial today from new jersey's largest paper, governor chris christie reminded hurricane sandy victims again this week, that with nearly $40 billion in damage from the storm, there have been more needs than resources to go around. this has led to some frustration, he acknowledged. the governor said, we don't live in a fair world. the star ledger goes on to say, this is drew, and up that sad fact of life is also observable in christie's personal steering of $6 million in federal sandy relief to belleville. in a fair world that money would have gone to actual victims of hurricane sandy, there's no question that the administration can't meet every sandy need because it doesn't have enough federal aid to do so. season the that all the more reason not to use what emergency we do have as a political slush fund. instead of simply telling sandy hurricane victims t

first, we turn to sandy fonzo.er 17-year-old son ed kenzakoski was sentenced to 30 days in a juvenile boot camp by judge mark ciavarella. i began by asking sandy to describe how her son ed first came to be arrested. >> just a regular, normal, happy life we had. the summer of his senior year, what would have been his senior year, he started experimenting a little, too, sneaking out of the house that night. i knew he was drinking. him.s just me and so when i did have a problem with him, he was, i'm going to call your dad and your dad will come. >> he was a star wrestler? >> yes. the scouts were looking at him. for opportunities scholarships. a lot before him, a lot of good. he had a girlfriend at the time that was telling me about stuff he was experiment. just getting a bit out of control. i would call his dad and his dad couldn't do anything anymore. inchbig kid, six foot one and would lift weights all the time. nothing more than what i did at 17 years old, either, but he just had so much to lose. they got to the po

federal sandy funds? and why did they pay that company a $10.5 million settlement for termination of the contract? and why didn't they tell anyone why they did it? why on earth won't anyone from governor christie's administration give a straightforward answer to the questions? all these questions revolve around a company called hgi. that specializes if project management and government contracting. that's their chairman, ceo, larry oney. hgi is the chief contractor overseeing the federal road home housing recovery for post katrina new orleans. last may, the company got a $68 million contract from new jersey to manage the dispersal of $780 million of federal sandy relief money to perform a variety of tasks involved in getting money and aid to new jersey residents recovering from sandy. now, the contract was supposed to run through 2016, but by september of 2013, there were complaints from sandy victims about how hgi was handling its work. >> what was the interaction with hgi? >> they would be the people fr

sandy funds. as you can see there an absolutely packed house. i'm joined by bob ingal for gannett's new jersey newspapers. bob, you cover jersey and have covered jersey olympics for some time now. it sounds like with regards tho this town hall meeting they've got this thing pretty well locked down. i understand that folks who are going to ask questions or prescreen to a certain extent additional questions are going to be fielded by his administration's mobile cabinet after the town hall is over. is this standard operating procedure for this kind of town hall for the governor, or is this the result of the scandal? >> it is standard procedure that they pretty much control the questions and the people who are there. this area, you should know, is a very big pro-christie area. they chose it for that reason. >> this is also where he had his last town hall, correct? >> i don't know. this one was canceled because of the snow and he had to set it up again. but christie is trying to get back to -- back on

congress in terms of sandy aid. do you think -- what do you think -- has the ball moved in any direction after the town hall today? >> i think, you know, politics is performance art. so christie is going back to what's always worked for him, that brash bullying type persona that he thinks is popular in jersey and maybe popular beyond. but no matter how brash, bold, daring he may be in these town hall forums, the bottom line for him is going to be what comes out of these two investigations that are happening. there's a legislative committee, which is trying to get information out of its top aides who are resisting, and maybe even more important there is a u.s. attorney digging. and i've been saying this for weeks, i'll keep saying this. i think he may be in more jeopardy instead of the bridge lane closures from looking into some of these real estate deals and whether he used sandy recovery money or his administration to bully mayors and other people to support big development deals that were conducted to law firms th

you're investigating sandy funding. this something you would like to know whether it was a strong-arm tactic used down there in hoboken by the lieutenant governor on behalf of the governor? >> chris, i have seen no evidence of any kind of strong-arm tactics or politics. i think this was just managerial incompetence. >> wait a minute. the charge for the mayor issue is caught on a parking lot on shoprite and told on the parking lot it shouldn't be this way, but the governor wants you to know that he is saying if you don't support this real estate deal, forget the money. you're not getting it. that's not about managerial incompetence. that's a charge to me of extortion. what do you take it as? it's not managerial incompetence. >> the situation with the sandy recovery money that we're investigating. >> what do you think? you're looking at the money end of this thing. are you curious what went down in hoboken that afternoon in that parking lot, or not? aren't you curious than? >> i think every new jerseyian is interested in

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his response to superstorm sandy. know, you're talking about why didn't any bridge questions come up. you know, it's a good question. it's a fair question but it's worth mentioning that, you know, he was in an area that was rocked by superstorm sandy. residents there are still reeling from it, still recovering from it. so i can only imagine that they want a governor that's going to be able to help them and that's -- he's been popular because of that. we know that. when he was rocketed to re-election, his response to sandy helped get him to be re-elected so it's something that plays well. >> the governor's national polls are hurting. christie saw a 14-point approval drop between december and january and in ohio, a key battleground poll puts him 13 points behind hillary clinton in a potential matchup. i know this is years and years away and maybe hypothetical but why doesn't chris christie look worried at all, do you think? >> he's a master politician. that's why he's playing on the national stage. that's why the republ

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and they've got billions of dollars of sandy money flowing through. so, look, these mayors, everyone in new jersey politics, still depends on this office fundamentally, hunter. >> right. you know, this next set of san day moneys is a real opportunity for the christie administration to sort of clear up the gray areas. when zimmer made that accusation initially, wnyc in new jersey public radio did an extensive analysis. though they found some irregularities in how the sandy aid was distributed, there was really, you know, direct indication that it had been politicized. >> right. >> so he may try to sort of write those irregularities now in this second round of payments. >> well, that gets to what we broke at the top of the show. we've been covering this all week. the data out of the people appealing and being -- their appeal being approved suggested that the initial decisions were deeply flawed. i mean, if you're getting an overture rate of 80%, something is really messed up and we are -- i should say, i'd like to applaud the decision by the dca of the

that a democrat who stands up at a meeting would thank him for getting sandy aid. but the other problem of the narrative now is when you talk about every dollar of sandy aid helping people of new jersey, forget the scandal, what about the commercials? did those television commercials featuring the christie family, how did that help new jersey? on top of the bridgegate stuff. what david said is actually quite, either frightening or hopeful for christie. because we still have a number of republican governors races coming up for which the rga, and he's still raising lots of money, lots of big ticket races. you think about those guys in illinois, they're competing with wisconsin and michigan and florida. so big races. they still want the rga money. so you sort of have to hold him at arm's length, but if he stays in place and the investigation drags on until november, you still need him to raise money for you. >> the interesting thing about the town hall meeting if it comes to pass -- >> and the only thing that could derail is it a big snowstorm coming as well. >> or it

we have learned a lot from katrina, superstorm sandy. it is important we take those lessons and make sure that they are used appropriately in the disaster management of all types. in our state, we have worked hard to bring folks together on a number of fronts, unifying command on the public health site, working hard to consolidate highway and water control. would say tong i all governors as well as everybody here in one of the reasons our second presentation is here, we have worked very hard to take our faith these community in and engage them directly with us in disaster response. i would say that they provide an incredible help in extremely difficult times. this is played out by helping your fellow man. there are countless examples that enhances recovery. we have a full agenda today. the median -- the media today is divided into two sections. we will speak of the national guard bureau. will follow a senior leaders from the coordination was dates and strengthening disaster response. discussions are important. both of these organizations

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. >> reporter: an idea borne of the sandy hook tragedy and backed by some of tech's most rich and powerful. dr. pitco leads the effort to create a safer gun, the head of smart tech challenge foundation which put up money for the prize. if anyone can do it perhaps he can. he is a former researcher at xerox park, has a ph.d. in computer science from georgia tech, joined by laura seidel of national public radio and alistair barr of usa today. brings up to date. this is not a brand new effort, how far have you gotten? have you been handed something that starts to accomplish what it is that you set out to do? >> when we initially reviewed the field in january of last year, we came across some innovation that had already occurred, starting in the '90s. people were applying biometric technology, whether in the form of fingerprint or palm print recognition, grip recognitions, how you grip a firearm itself turns out to be unique and low frequency radio, rfid. since then and since we announced the idea of the  challenge, we have started to hear from more innovators that have come one more creative

storm sandy enhanced one photographer's work by almost ruining it. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news." >> axelrod: good evening. i'm jim axelrod. if you think this has been an especially miserable winter, you from absolutely right. and another winter storm is now bearing down on the northeast tonight. this is the 13th major storm system to hit some part of the country since december 1. by comparison, during the same period last year, we saw eight major storms. it looks like new england will be hit hardest by this storm, up to 18 inches expected? eastern massachusetts. let's go first to eric fisher of our boston station wbz-tv, who is right in the middle of it in plymouth, massachusetts. eric, it doesn't look very pleasant where are you. >> reporter: it depends on perspective. but if you're not a fan of blizzards you would not be happy tonight. gusty winds, big snowfall rates. let's track this storm on the heels of another storm a couple of days ago. this is fast moving so as we head through the night the rates jump 3-4 inches

it's been nearly 16 months now since super storm sandy devastated the northeast.uced to a photographer who thought the floods ruined his works only to discover the opposite. >> reporter: when randy taylor talks about his photos, he can't help but tell you what they used to look like. >> this is a moose and you can see the antlers up here. >> reporter: taylor was a documentary-style photographer who used to travel around the world. over a 40-year career he had taken close to 30,000 images. almost all of them were destroyed by super storm sandy. where did you have them stored? >> it was a commercial storage facility and it was basically downstairs in the baimentd. we had to rip open filing cabinets so we had crow bars and mold was kill the photographs. this one has mold all over it. >> reporter: to stop the mold on the few dozen images still intact, taylor dipped them in rubbing alcohol. the effect was surreal. you'd think something like this would detract from the photos but it really ads to them all. >> that's the magic of it. all of these are better now than they