st. croix overstepping his authorities so this is what has been alleged now publicly by a former mayor of the city and if the case we should have immediate response to that one allegation. >> commissioner, as you're familiar all investigations conducted by the ethics commission are confidential. >> we're not talking about an investigation. we're talking about just something dismissed out of hand. we as a commission over the course of the last few months had discussions relating to matters not getting to us because of former director st. croix's deciding he was going to make arbitrary decisions relating to it. i think it's important relating to this allegation for us to know was a complaint just dismissed out of hand? and that has nothing to do with the confidentiality of an investigation or anything like that. was it just tossed out? >> again commissioner we treat complaints by the ethics commission by the laws and campaign laws as confidential. in addition to that may i remind you we're curren

i'm from st. croix as well. and -- i don't know whether it is one of your themes in the book since i haven't read it yet. what role do you think his work with kruger, who not only was a mercantile but was a slave trader, how did that impact alexander hamilton and his role as an abolitionist? in, once he came to what's now the united states? mr. newton: firstly, i don't discuss slavery in this book, because it is not one of the themes of this book. hopefully i will address it in a later book. but slavery does appear numerous times. we know that when hamilton was working for kruger, they would receive and sell slaves. hamilton, of course, would of seen that both on the paper in his accounts and looking out the window and seeing a slave auction. he never wrote his opinion of seeing that. but, of course, we do know he became an abolitionist. so, he definitely remembered it when he decided to oppose slavery. another interesting thing about slavery in st. croix is when hamilton's mother died, she owned slaves. and so,

st. croix. john st. croix is a person i have come to know and admire in my time working not only on thboard of supervisors but also in my time in the mayors office on staff. i have found him to be professional, thoughtful, caring and very quick to get an answer when you have a question. today is a interesting day because i have a proxluimation before me that will acknowledge mr. st. croix years of service to the city and county of san francisco. now, as i reviewed the proclamation there is information i didn't know of and sure many of you didn't know. i will share a little information about mr. st. croix. under 10 years of leadership of san francisco ethics commission increased the staff of the department from 8 to 16 and budget of 8 hundred thousand to 4.5 million dollars and that wasn't wasteful spending. in addition to [inaudible] intelligent and professional staff, john saints croy served under 16 different members of the san francisco ethics commission and plire to the service to san franc

st. croix. john st. croix is a person i have come to know and admire in my time working not only on thboard of supervisors but also in my time in the mayors office on staff. i have found him to be professional, thoughtful, caring and very quick to get an answer when you have a question. today is a interesting day because i have a proxluimation before me that will acknowledge mr. st. croix years of service to the city and county of san francisco. now, as i reviewed the proclamation there is information i didn't know of and sure many of you didn't know. i will share a little information about mr. st. croix. under 10 years of leadership of san francisco ethics commission increased the staff of the department from 8 to 16 and budget of 8 hundred thousand to 4.5 million dollars and that wasn't wasteful spending. in addition to [inaudible] intelligent and professional staff, john saints croy served under 16 different members of the san francisco ethics commission and plire to the service to san franc

st. croix. john st. croix is a person i have come to know and admire in my time working not only on thboard of supervisors but also in my time in the mayors office on staff. i have found him to be professional, thoughtful, caring and very quick to get an answer when you have a question. today is a interesting day because i have a proxluimation before me that will acknowledge mr. st. croix years of service to the city and county of san francisco. now, as i reviewed the proclamation there is information i didn't know of and sure many of you didn't know. i will share a little information about mr. st. croix. under 10 years of leadership of san francisco ethics commission increased the staff of the department from 8 to 16 and budget of 8 hundred thousand to 4.5 million dollars and that wasn't wasteful spending. in addition to [inaudible] intelligent and professional staff, john saints croy served under 16 different members of the san francisco ethics commission and plire to the service to san franc

. >>> let's go under the sea to st. croixtiful reef there, a couple of folks doing spear fishing. looks like they got one of the lion fish big fluffy lion fish. when there's blood in the water, who else shows up? >> the sharky shark. >> i'm no biologist but they look like black tips to me. they start circling around and one gets so close as to say mwah! hello. big toothy kiss for the diver. looks like these divers start to paddle back. the sharks go right after what they just caught. >> that's like the kiss of death to a shark. i'm going to kiss you and then steal your lunch. >> over to australia, another beautiful reef we're watching this crab. and suddenly -- >> hey baby girl. what's up handsome? >> it doesn't roll like that at all. the crab starts to just lifelessly tumble down the reef and across the ocean floor. is that crab dead? not at all. what you just saw, what you two thought was a little was not. the crab was molting out of its old shell, left the shell up on the reef and tumbles down. it takes a bit for the shell

then to st. croix when he finds out it's even closer.ut as the plane is climbing away from the airport in a torrential downpour, there's a problem. >> my navigator said to me, balsey, my god, look at the fuel gauges. >> because of the wind, the turbulence and the conditions, the airplane was rocking back and forth as it was climbing. the fuel totalizer was spinning. >> i told him not to worry about it because i considered it was probably -- you know, being low on fuel to begin with, the turbulence and sloshing up and down in the tanks might cause this. >> but at 6,500 feet warning lights indicating low fuel pressure illuminate and captain dewitt knows just how grave this situation has become. >> he talks to the controller, how far are we from st. thomas? i've got five minutes of fuel, i'm not going to make st. thomas. >> i briefed the crew that we would keep going to st. croix but we were going to set up for a possible ditching. it's dark. it's overcast. it's raining. and the sea is very angry. the amount of whitecaps. the swells were qu

the circulation is south-southwest of st. croix. top winds are at 45 miles per hour near the center. the winds aren't as intense as the rains are. it can produce up to 8 inches of rain, and in some cases, already produced a foot of rain. it's moving over puerto rico into tomorrow morning. that's how fast it's moving. into the bahamas and turks and caicos over the weekend. by sunday, it's approaching south florida and expected to become a category one storm and could make land fall anywhere on the peninsula. closer to west palm beach on monday. we'll talk about that more in a few minutes. >> you can track the tropical storm on the news 4 new york app. tap the logo in the corning and celebrity the weather app. it's available in the apple app store now. >>> now to the woman struck during a police pursuit in new jersey. she was walking her dog when a car slammed into her. lights trailing behind. news 4's ray villeda is live, where a few things remain unclear. >> reporter: investigators have left the scene but the investigation is underw

the key point of the triangle trade down there in st-croix. and he wrote his way off the island. and he wrote a poem about it describing the carnage saying that he saw sights that would strike astonishment into angels. this poem was used for relief efforts for the island. and people took up a fund to get him an education in new york. >> rose: so here we have a character. >> yes. >> rose: who, a great american. we know there's drama, that he dies at the end of a dual. and which he may not have, in fact, fired his gun. >> lots of differing opinions. >> rose: speculation about that. so here we have that story. but you have translated into so much more. i mean tell me about the ideas that you wanted to pour into this to make it a new look at the founding fathers, the american experience, and a different way of presenting-- presenting it that would appeal to young people because you're peopled by young actors. >> well, you know. >> from diversity. >> you speak to what we were really conscious of which is how do we eliminate any distance between our story and now. we know that the sto

still kind of ragged and disorganized, but it did cause some tropical storm force winds up towards st. croix earlier this evening. we don't want this thing to strengthen. unfortunately if it can survive the trip and make it north of hispaniola, then it's got a chance to get over toward florida early next week as potentially a weak hurricane. it will be skirting the coast by monday night at 8:00. that's west palm beach there. let's talk about our forecast at the beach. we're talking about a nice weekend at the beach and it's going to take a second to get there. we got low 80s friday, saturday, mid-80s sunday, monday. around here cool night nice and comfortable, 55 to 65 and start tomorrow with sunshine in the afternoon, 82 to 87 degrees. we head to the three-day forecast 88 on saturday, not too humid, 92 sunday, stray storm mainly in the mountains. next week it will be hot to start september with just an isolated storm, highs in the low i know how dangerous iran is. they trained and supplied insurgents who killed my... brothers and sisters in iraq. we cannot let them get a nuclear weapon. the

hade was a hurricane that ravaged st. croixhe wrote a home about it, describing the carnage saying he saw fights , that would strike astonishment into angels. people took up a fund to get him an education in new york. charlie: here we have a character, a great american. we know there is drama. he may have not fired his gun in the dual. here we have that story. you have translated it into so much more. tell me about the ideas you want to pour into this to make it a new look at the founding fathers, the american experience, and a different way of presenting it that would appeal to young people, because you have young actors. >> you speak to what we were conscious of. how do we eliminate distance between our story and now. we knew that this is a country that was founded and created by immigrants. somebody in all of our lines stepped off of a boat. they put their foot down on this soil and went to work. as we started thinking about taking the inspiration from ron's book, we thought here are a lot of events but we have to , tell a s

there was a hurricane that had ravaged st-croix and he wrote a poem about it describing the carnage sayingls. this poem was used for relief efforts for the island and people took up a fund to get him an education >> rose: so here we have a character, a great american. we know there's drama that he died at the end of a duel. in which he may not have, in fact, fired his gun. >> lots of differing opinions on that. >> rose: speculation, all right. so here we have that story. but you translated it into so much more. tell me about the ideas that you wanted to pour into this to make it a new look at the founding fathers, the american experience, and a different way of presenting -- presenting it that would appeal to young people because you're peopled by young actors. >> well, you know-- i mean you speak to what we were really conscious of which is how do we eliminate any distance between our story and now. we know that the story was going to be set thenment but we knew it would sound like now. and we knew that fundamentally this was a country that was founded and created by immigrants. somebody,

for this location, we are going to see areas st. croix, puerto rico being affected. we have drought relief coming into play across the northern parts of the care bean, with you second be seeing flash flooding. haiti does not take rain of this nature very well. we're going to see big problems there, by the time we get to the middle week. >> landslides, et cetera. thank you. >> it is a down day for stocks in asia after sharp losses on wall street, the dow lost 2% on thursday. theness back plunged. it could be another rough day for u.s. markets. john henry smith with the details. john, there have to be very nervous investors this morning. >> i'm one of them. that's why they say don't read your 401k. statement. just let it go. you may hear there's a pending interest rate hike by the fed. the dow is now at its lowest point all year. the s and p. and nasdaq fell 2%. stock marketsen germee, france and china were down sharply, as well. in this world we live in, it's all connected. so we also know there are big economic problems in china. what's the factor there? >> in recent

st. croix and my grilling of him several times he did little if anything, and i speak as someone who for 20 years was chief assistant of a city department, and was the person who was in charge of getting the budget and dealing with the mayor's office and dealing with the board of supervisors, and for any agency you have to -- it's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. you need to go constantly knock on them, and i think the new executive director has to make that a priority, and enlist this commission in helping them. i would be perfectly happy in regard to the budgetary processes as a commissioner if my colleagues would see fit to work with the executive director to meet with the budget analyst and meet with the mayor's people and i know the dance. i have done it for many years, and i think to do that in regard to getting things like a secretary. we need a secretary. i don't think the next executive director whoever it is should be sitting up here in the middle with us. for one thing that ma

that means category 2 hurricane, 105 miles per hour before it heads to st. croix, st.s and other islands. we are talking five days away, before we get to any island out there. it could turn left or right. it's forecast to get stronger from here. >> keep an eye on it for us, chad. thanks so much. >>> after rejecting it twice, the fda approved the use of so-called female viagra. the pink pill has big, red flags. what you need to know, next. there are two cages in this room. the one on your right is made out of high strength steel and the other is made of aluminum. now i'm gonna release a 700 pound grizzly bear into the room so you better pick a cage and get in it. this is crazy. oh my goodness. why did you pick the steel cage? harder for the bear to get into steel. you want to see something else made with high strength steel? that's the chevy silverado. made with high strength steel for high strength dependability. beautiful. this is highly irregular. i brto get us moving.tein i'm new ensure active high protein. i help you recharge with nutritious energy and strength. i'

st. croix and my grilling of him several times he did little if anything, and i speak as someone who for 20 years was chief assistant of a city department, and was the person who was in charge of getting the budget and dealing with the mayor's office and dealing with the board of supervisors, and for any agency you have to -- it's the squeaky wheel that gets the grease. you need to go constantly knock on them, and i think the new executive director has to make that a priority, and enlist this commission in helping them. i would be perfectly happy in regard to the budgetary processes as a commissioner if my colleagues would see fit to work with the executive director to meet with the budget analyst and meet with the mayor's people and i know the dance. i have done it for many years, and i think to do that in regard to getting things like a secretary. we need a secretary. i don't think the next executive director whoever it is should be sitting up here in the middle with us. for one thing that ma

st. croix overstepping his authorities so this is what has been alleged now publicly by a former mayor of the city and if the case we should have immediate response to that one allegation. >> commissioner, as you're familiar all investigations conducted by the ethics commission are confidential. >> we're not talking about an investigation. we're talking about just something dismissed out of hand. we as a commission over the course of the last few months had discussions relating to matters not getting to us because of former director st. croix's deciding he was going to make arbitrary decisions relating to it. i think it's important relating to this allegation for us to know was a complaint just dismissed out of hand? and that has nothing to do with the confidentiality of an investigation or anything like that. was it just tossed out? >> again commissioner we treat complaints by the ethics commission by the laws and campaign laws as confidential. in addition to that may i remind you we're curren