denino's on staten island, the bred crumbs on the island. go to joseph's. [bleeped]. i get it. i get it. [applause] you're in a hurry. maybe there's security concerns. i'll forgive you the selection. i apologize. let's just go to the content of your meeting and then we'll just -- son of a bitch. you stab your slices, donald? with all due respect, you stab slices of pizza, the steam from the bottom of the slice is going to make the top crust [bleeped]. maybe all those years, all those years of making your hair do

staten island republican, huh. i guess marriage equality rests on the hands of whether this guy is willing to be called the staten island ferry for the rest of his life. it's good news. moving in the right direction. the gay news in a place like syria a little more somber. >> a well-known female blogger has allegedly been abducted in seara. relatives of ameena abdullah has not been seen since she was bundzled into a car yesterday. her blog "gay girl in damascus" has made her a hero of the uprising. >> jon: wow, an openly gay blogger giving president asaad the finger right under his nose. this amina abdullah has real bols. >> over the weekend, 40-year-old tom mcmaster, an american based in scotland, admitted he was the man behind the popular blog "a gay girl in damascus." >> the words of a 40-year-old married american man who claims he just wanted a western audience to care about the story in syria. >> jon: literally, literally has balls. [laughter] what the hell? this brave, gay, missing syrian freedom fighter is n

because my parents are born in brooklyn, i was raised in staten island. uncles, cousins, that italian-catholic family. >> jimmy: right, yeah. >> but we moved here for acting. >> jimmy: i can't imagine my parents moving, really, for me, for any, like, doing anything. even driving me to, like, little league would have been -- [ laughter ] an achievement. but that's -- you came out here, you started doing commercials? >> yeah, i started as a ford model when i was 5 1/2. >> jimmy: really? >> yeah. >> jimmy: really? how did you get a modeling job at 5 1/2? >> it's a very long -- >> jimmy: were you a sexy baby? >> i had a great body. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: beautiful navel. >> it was weird. my mother owns dance studios. at the time, she owned two in new york. and we went to go take pictures for her costumes for the dance studios and the photographer put me in a costume. naturally. >> jimmy: what kind of costume was it? >> it was like a sparkly sequined number. >> jimmy: perfect. and you were all right with that? >> i loved it. i don't know what that says about m

denino's on staten island, the bred crumbs on the island. go to joseph's. [bleeped]. i get it. i get it. [applause] you're in a hurry. maybe there's security concerns. i'll forgive you the selection. i apologize. let's just go to the content of your meeting and then we'll just -- son of a bitch. you stab your slices, donald? with all due respect, you stab slices of pizza, the steam from the bottom of the slice is going to make the top crust [bleeped]. maybe all those years, all those years of making your hair do whatever it is that it does, you think you can go around layering any [bleeped] thing you want the layer and no one is going the say anything about irtd, but you cannot. you know something, i apologize. i apologize. no disrespect. i apologize. let's continue with the meeting. are you eating it with a fork, a [bleeped] fork? ahhhh, nooooo! [laughter] [speaking gibb irish] donald trump, why don't you take that fork and stick it right in new york's eye. donald trump, we work hard. can you do this? you disrespect us in our own house? you can few your name on everything. you

. >> reporter: the sweet life ruben martinez lived on this block on staten island almost came to an end four years ago when he and his family were just days away from eviction. >> i lost it. everything at that moment just fell apart. and... >> reporter: low point of your life? >> that's the lowest point of my life. >> reporter: trapped by a ballooning sub-prime mortgage and out of work, in 2005, martinez stopped making his monthly mortgage payment of $1,774.84. two years later, the bank was about to foreclose when a neighbor suggested he call lawyer robert brown. >> i have at least 50 clients that have not made a mortgage payment in three years. >> reporter: today, martinez is still in his home, six years after he made his last payment. what saved him? as in millions of other cases, the record keeping was sloppy. in the frenzy to write mortgages during the real estate bubble. >> the bank that started the lawsuit against the martinez family did not own his note and his mortgage on the day that they started the lawsuit. so the wrong bank was foreclosing on him. >> reporter: it's because o

not a fancy school for the gifted and talented, just a regular old public school on new york's staten islandd yet these fifth graders are already making musical waves around the world. over 8 million you tube hits and counting. >> i'm really thankful for all of the opportunities that we had to meet celebrities like rihanna and like all the others, you know. >> reporter: all the other celebrities include tori amos, who was moved to tears when the chorus sang her music. ♪ just stay a while, stay a while, stay a while ♪ >> reporter: a link to this scene on a popular blog sent p.s. 22 into the internet big time. ♪ stay a while and on to television and stage appearances like this one with the band crowded house. ♪ try to forget you make me call your name and i'll shout it to the blue summer sky ♪ >> reporter: the teacher that makes it all happen is gregg breinberg. p.s. 22's fame is thanks to his ability to help the kids really feel the songs they're singing. ♪ time makes you bolder, even children get older ♪ >> i encourage them to find a musical connection to every song we do. we'll discuss lyri

. >> reporter: the sweet life ruben martinez lived on this block on staten island almost came to an ends ago when he and his family were just days away from eviction. >> i lost it. everything at that moment just fell apart. and -- >> reporter: low point of your life? >> that's the lowest point of my life. >> reporter: trapped by a ballooning subprime mortgage and out of work, in 2005, martinez stopped making his monthly mortgage payment of $1,774.84. two years later, the bank was about to foreclose, when a neighbor suggested he call lawyer robert brown. >> i have at least 50 clients that have not made a mortgage payment in three years. >> reporter: today martinez is still in his home, six years after he made his last payment. what saved him? as in millions of other cases, the record keeping was sloppy in the frenzy to write mortgages during the real estate bubble. >> the bank that started the lawsuit against the martinez family did not own his note and his mortgage on the day that they started the lawsuit, so the wrong bank was foreclosing on him. >> reporter: it's because of cases like

we have to just keep speaking now we have to stand up king speaking now in staten island that the community need to come out like egypt were so proud of their stand against a community where we see today no one comes out and no council members speak out everybody must be so sal and all these cases why no not even our government even our president why do you think that is the stance again for nazi thing and the fear factor when you use the word terrorism. creating that fear among a community you're going at the community for one you're going at a jewish community and then you're using muslims and jews and news and muslims and religion so when you see fear in the white terrorism a lot of people will not come out in stand up and fight but as a family member you're going to stand up and fight for your loved ones you know everything i've been fighting for desoto years has been the more love from the hot there's a definite is a muscle that keeps on pump and keeps all fighting i'm not going to be feared by our government i am an american citizen so i'm glad my government can't feed into my heart w

how much weaker is the economy, specifically the jobs sector than anticipate staten island. >> this is a huge shock to wall street today. this number was a massive miss, john. the expectation was that we should have added 150,000 to 170,000 jobs. 54,000 jobs added to the economy really doesn't even keep up with the population growth. then you see how much it dropped from the previous month where we had 232,000 jobs added. then you add the other alarm bells for weeks about the problems in the economy, manufacturing growth slowing, consumer confidence down. housing prices are down to levels that we haven't seen since 2002. then of course the icing on the cake is this jobs number. it really put wall street in a funk. wall street did not take this well today, john. >> so how serious is the talk of a possible double dip recession? >> the big worry is it is talk now. traders i talked to today said no longer are we hearing just whispers but people are actually talking about it. the big worry is if we have millions of people out of work looking for jobs that aren't there, what is really going

and even in places like the bronx and staten island. there's real opposition to this. it's taken this long. but there is an explanation for it, i think. >> let's talk more about the president. michelle indicated his position may not evolve much more before the election. that's the word the president has used. his position is evolving. what do we expect before next november? >> well, perhaps not much. i mean, this is still a president who has done more for gay rights than, you know, much more than the one before him. you know, he's struck down the defense of marriage act, repealed don't ask, don't tell. he's signed major hate crimes, anti-hate crimes legislation. so he's done a large amount and he supports everything but calling it marriage. you know, he said that gay couples should have -- >> should have all the same legal rights just civil unions instead of marriage. fund-raiser last night, 3500 a head. a clearly important group. >> and he does need their enthusiasm. there is on one hand this argument well, the gays have nowhere to go. and that's probably true. i don'

. >> crystal from staten island. >> all right, crystal, you know that marcus is over there, though.' birthday. happy birthday, marcus. >> okay. >> all: happy birthday, marcus. >> okay, see, there was a plant. i didn't write that sign. somehow this is destined to happen. let's get to the boards. a bunch of things going on this morning. as you look outside wls is providing this view. and you know what, if you're not watching wls in chicago, just don't even bother turning on the tv set because they know everything about chicago including the fact there is heavy rain in the area. look at this. more than 2 inches is likely in that area today. some will be in thunderstorms farther to the south but that's just some very heavy rain today. on the west coast we're glad to say things are drying out a little bit. it's a little bit more comfortable. l.a. comes in at 71 degree today. san antonio, still hot. who is here, somebody from texas, right around here. you know galveston needs the rain, so does san antonio. >> so but outside for barry manilow, a big crowd because it's barry's what? >> barr

and we went to staten island and had a lot of fun.u connected with the idea they're new and fresh and here you are, you had this chance, so there was a connection. >> i think sometimes actually now it's easy to get caught up in the business aspect of everything. a show like inherently excited about music. >> what are you playing? >> are we're playing the new single, "last goodbye." >> david cook, ladies and gentlemen. ♪ hear this on the radio and we've already said our last goodbye ♪ ♪ i won't be there when you get home but now there's someone else that hears you cry ♪ ♪ ♪ i wonder if he holds you like i do i hope you feel better ♪ ♪ because we hear everything that's right and wrong inside ♪ ♪ i didn't want to lose you leave you with a broken heart wherever we are miles apart i know we tried but this is the last goodbye ♪ ♪ ♪ i didn't want to let you go wherever we are miles apart i know we tried but this is the last goodbye ♪ ♪ ♪ it really is beautiful a broken place put on display ♪ ♪ nearly but impossible another perfect moment thr