so, clearly, he responded the only way staten island understands-- with a mob-style execution of theirt beloved resident. it was a cold-blooded groundhog hit job straight out of "woodfellas," ( laughter ) ( applause ) but the conspiracy goes even deeper, folks because after the mayor made sure chuck had seen his last shadow, staten island zoo officials went to great lengths to hide the death from the public-- possibly because the zoo gets nearly half its $3.5 million annual $3.5 million annual funding from the city. that's right. the mayor bought the zoo's silence. turns out elephants don't have such a great memory when they're being paid to "fuhget about it." ( laughter ) ( applause ) ( cheers and applause ) still, how did mayor deblasio pull something like this off? shouldn't a clairvoyant animal, able to see six weeks into the future, also see his own death coming? well bad news, bill-- he did. >> not the only bombshell in this report. chuck was actually charlotte. it was a female stand-in. and the groundhogs had been swapped out because zoo officials were concerned that chuck would

he's from staten island. people like his image. but he kind of personifies staten island.a tough guy, honest, speaks the truth and his constituents liked that. i think he would be doing better in this poll. you look at the poll. only 44%, he's below 54% and unfavorable rating around 50% and only about 12% of the people who were polled in a surveyed in that poll who were undecided. judging from the past, it's likely those 12% might go with the challenger. >> one of the people we showed in that video there, she talked about staten island as the forgotten borough. when i tapicked up talking to a bunch of people, they have a chip on their shoulder. they are the smallest borough and raises the question to me, i wonder, if a lot of the attention he's getting in a way with certain voters out there helps him in that it is sort of like he's the same people that over look us that ignore us in their minds are turning on him. we sort of have a common enemy here. >> i think they feel the establishment is against him. you see that in michael grimm's attacks on his opponent. you'll be su

it's now been two months since garner died in a clash with nypd officers on staten island. "america tonight" correspondent christof putzel, with two men trying to fix what they call a broken system. >> the rain fell on staten island saturday afternoon. the but it didn't spare the party. the family and friends of eric garner gather at a place he once lay to honor what would have been his 44th birthday. they shared stories, danced, sang, for a life that was cut short. garner died in july after being placed in a choke hold by police officer daniel pantaleo. enraged residents hold garner up as one more name in a long list of victims of police brutality. two months later as they await result from the city's investigation of the incident, residents here say they're left with little trust in the nypd. one man has taken matters into his own hands. >> we're going to keep him around patrolling. >> jose la salle is the founder of cop watch. >> cop watch is brothers and sisters who basically volunteer to go into the community to document police, their counters with civilians. >> as the

. >> the rain fell on staten island, but friends of eric garner gathered where he last fell, celebrating in mourning a light cut short. >> garner died in july after being placed in a choke hold by nypd officer daniel pantaleo. enraged residents hold garner up as one more name in a long list of victims of police brutality. two months later as they await results from the city's investigations into the incident residents here say they're left with little trust in the nypd. >> we've been coming out here since eric garner. >> one man has taken matters into his own hands. jose la salle is the founder of cop watch. >> cop watch is a group of brothers and sisters who basically volunteer to go into the community and document police their encounters with civilians. >> you ain't giving connect to search you. >> by the way he's an employee of new york city's parks department. but as the sunsets, he and his team roam the streets, they become an inverted neighborhood watch with eyes, ears and cameras pointed at the cops. >> we feel through cop watch in our own way community and activists like ourselve

what about staten island? there's no subway in staten island. see if you can find anything on the other perps in the bronx. hey, denise. this is detective reagan. yeah. where did your cousin lee hide in the bronx? he was at a bar at 147th and willis. thank you. dante vandos, lee's friend. and denise's bnd. he wasn't as careful when he went to the bronx. a farebeat summons from 149th and third on the number two, and a stop and frisk from westchester and courtland. oyfrie looks like we just made the choke on the shotgun a little bit smaller. still doesn't tell us where he's gonna hit, though. yeah, but we don't need to know where he's going to hit if we know where he's getting on the train. call the 51, have them assign uniforms to every station, north and south, and have anti-crime watch the 149th and third station. that's where he's getting on the train. we've put a fresh twist on classic desserts.ry, making them all new, any day treats. starting with cheesecakes, reinvented using thick and creamy traditional greek yogurt. then delicately topped

staten island, long island, and manhattan. whoever controls the seed control for the battle. and there is no question about who controls the see. in retrospect, even at the time, new york is indefensible. so why do we side -- so why do we decide to defend it? while this is where the store, the military side of the store and the local side keep interacting. the british fleet lands on july july 2, the entering seconds of the british fleet, july 2. that's the day the colonists vote on independence. the resolution from virginia, that these colonies are and have every right to the independent states. okay, the continental congress says look, how would it look if we just be clear independence? and then the army retreats to the main, either connecticut or new jersey? another question that might have been asked is how would it look at the army doesn't retreat and is annihilated? [laughter] there's a second reason why they defend it. but washington is a blade and civilian control your dog is wants him to defend new york, he's going to defend new york. there's another reason. washingto

speaker, in a neighborhood of staten island lies a beautiful memorial dedicated to the sum of 274 staten islanders murdered on 9/11, many of whom were first responders. all of whom went above and beyond the call of duty to bring their fellow new yorkers to safety. amidst these pictures lies an insubscription, on september 11, 2001, the world trade center was attacked by terrorists. from that hatred, a little peace of heaven evolved called angel circle. it reminds us, mr. speaker, that from the horror and despair that our nation endured on 9/11 and endures in all of our hearts this day comes the constant reminder of strength, our pride spirit.unwavering may god bring peace to our loved ones and may we never ever forget the sacrifice they bore for our freedom. i thank the gentlelady. and i yield back. mrs. maloney: i thank the gentleman for his leadership and for joining us tonight in this special order. tonight is a time to remember how just 13 years ago this entire country and even this congress came together. we were united and determined as i have never seen this congress before, stron

was it staten island? i think it is tragedy. what is tragedy is charlotte died and charlotte has a daughter named charlotte. >> really? >> who is up next to be on deck? >> who names a kid -- >> i don't know. >> sherrod, the animals don't name each other. >> they shouldn't have did that. you already have a replacement with the same name. it is a set up. >> they give the same name so if somebody dies. >> number two, number three. it could have been number eight charlotte. >> can i go to terry now? >> go ahead. terry is a friend of mine. >> this is a weird story. >> it is a weird story. by the way it sucks. have i a groundhog that lives under my shed and the dogs try to catch him and they can't. they are nice. they are chubby little animals. the zoo's credibility is really bad. have they substituted michael moore for an ape? do we even know -- is that really an armadillo or is that something else? >> remember that zoo in cincinnati and they were fooling people with a pittbull? >> they spray painted dogs to look like a tiger. >> peo

that's staten island chuck.ccording to news reports, one week after the incident, back in february, staten island chuck died. "the new york post" said chuck died of internal injuries. the zoo kept it quiet and it turns out not only did chuck die, chuck was a woman. chuck was a lady ground hog named charlotte. i think we just found the plot for next week's "scandal." but charlotte or chuck or whatever is dead. and see, this is why you have to elect short mayors like mayor bloomberg. the ground hogs don't fall as far. so, we'll definitely keep an eye on that. this is where ace ventura pet detective could really shine. remember mike the situation from "jersey shore"? he was diet indicted yesterday x freud. he and his brother didn't pay on $8.9 million of neincome. maybe he thought he only had to pay money on the tx taxes he deeverybod deserved? if convicted, he could face up to five years in prison and endure a lot more news reports like these. >> the man known as the situation has a serious situation. >> the situa

wu staten island is a tough community.set himself up by somebody who's being attacked by elites. it looks like it's working. >> he's going to break him in half like a boy. what a strange comment to make. >> and this strange comment, i'm not here to defend michael grim. he's got a lot of indictments against him. i think what it speaks to, though, is something it's very interesting that's within the body electorate. you look at their canter rates. why did eric canter get bounced out? because he didn't pay attention to his district. it's because people don't connect that to the job that they're supposed to do in congress. kpept with grim, there's some overlay that may come back to bite him. by enlarge, people have bifurcated trifurcated the congressional appeal. >> so if you vote pro-life and pressure your girlfriend into having an abortion, that's okay because it was off-campus? >> unbelievable. >> i'm not saying that's a problem, i'm just saying the voters are finding a way to parse and separate behaviors. >> how about mark

they saw the statue of liberty, came to staten island.we have a lot of christians who come up and assimilate quicker and easier than europe. >> it's worse in france, but what do you think? >> it's an identifying idea, a unifying idea. we went from a melting pot where we were all coming into one to this sort of crack pot. yes, best way to put it. multiculturalism. we are never going to be milk toast nation. who wants that, right? when you celebrate your differences, all the bad stuff that happens, mr. murdock, when talking about the crime that occurred, it was a child abuse case. in britain, there's a string of child rapes done, apparently by pakistani immigrants against white children. they didn't want to talk about it because of that. >> they didn't want to talk about their nationality. >> it was left out of the press. it's actually sick, if you think about it. >> what do you think? >> what has been going on the last several decades in britain is impossible to find anything that compares here in the u.s. it is essentially a state sponsor

since her family got a doberman puppy, this 55-year-old retired magazine editor from new york's staten island believes there may be another way for dogs to save lives. one night in the spring of 2011, a couple of weeks after getting a new puppy, diane papazian noticed her dog, troy, behaving strangely. >> he's in bed with us, and he is in between my husband and myself, and... so, his head is right here. and he is nuzzling up against my left side, and he keeps nuzzling, and he's nuzzling, and he's not stopping. and i'm thinking, what in the heck is going on with this dog? cut it out, you know, that's so annoying. what are you doing? and he kept doing it persistently, like it wasn't just once or twice; it was for a few minutes that he kept nuzzling. so, finally i said, "what in the heck is he doing?" so, i started to itch, because i'm highly allergic, and that's when i felt the lump. >> reporter: just days after discovering the lump, doctors found a tumor three centimeters long. diane was diagnosed with an aggressive form of stage two breast cancer. she'd gone for a mammogram six months earlier

. >>> a man accused of burglarizing a staten island home and then killing one of the homeowners when they walked in on him has been arrested. a neighbor says the couple was coming home from a birthday party in new jersey when they found the man inside their home. the intruder stabbed the husband in the face. he died a short time later. his wife was stabbed in the head, neck and back. she's in stable condition. >>> police in illinois are searching for the mother of a newborn baby found alive inside a trash bin. over the weekend someone living in jacksonville, illinois, spotted something moving inside this dumpster as they threw their trash away. that person alerted authorities who found the baby inside and rushed it to the hospital. doctors estimate the child was about 12 hours old. >> one of these officers that had been involved, they've offered to adopt the baby. we have taken it that much to heart. >> now, in illinois, you can drop your baby off at a police or fire station. no questions asked. which is very frustrating for people because the police station is just about 100 yards f

. >>> a high school football player on staten island new york collapsed and died during a practice yesterdayteammates say 15-year-old miles kirkland was running drills in the heat and humidity with other players when he fell to the ground. the 6-foot two, 320-pound junior was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. his father said the teen had just had a physical in july which cleared him to play football. an autopsy is being conducted. >>> a california mall is in a strange predicament. different minimum wages depending on what size of the mall you work on. san jose raised its minimum wage to $10.15 an hour while it's only nine dollars in santa clara. some businesses have shops on both sides of the dividing line so what they do to make it fair is they rotate employees each week. but other stores are having a hard time hiring employees. it seems people only want to work on one side of the mall. >> the phillies gave fans a taste of the future as it started its top minor league prospect for the first time. mikhail franco had a pretty good game at third base against the braves in at

. >> how is staten island doing? we'll talk about 57th street. staten island?ndy, sales activity was very low. is actually up fairly sharply from the lows after the storm to the point where they would have been if the storm never happened. >> let's get a final answer. it depends. if you want massive losses quickly, stocks are better. if you want losses that will return, housing is better. >> that is terrible. >> you don't go home every day and say, how does my -- how much is my house worth? a stock checker. it is a slow, inefficient transition with multiple parties working together. [laughter] >> are thanks to our guest hosts for the hour. great discussion on the merits of housing versus equities. "bloomberg surveillance" continues on radio. in the loop" is up next. ♪ >> good morning. it is thursday, september 25. we are live. you are "in the loop." we have a great show. apple had a rough day yesterday. 8 operatinge ios system. of the firstas one to highlight the fault in apple's operating system. he will join me in the next hour. tonight.er's last game the cap

. >> neal and his wife drove from staten island to say a final farewell.he couple says they've been staying at the showboat since it opened in 1987. >> fond memories of the place. we've been here many times and we like to come here. they were always very special to us. >> bane is more than 2,000 employees who will lose their jobs. the brigantine resident now wonders if it's time for her to cash out, too. >> i don't get another job, i'm going to retire. and just enjoy the rest of my life. >> reporter: also talked to another employee who tells us they have a job lined up at another casino here on the boardwalk in atlantic city. in terms of what's going to happen to the building, that's unclear but one employee tells us there's a rumor more going around a college may make a campus here in ac. reporting in atlantic city, drew dickman fox 29 news. >> as drew mentioned revel is the next kaseen no to close. it will cease hotel operations at 11:00 o'clock tomorrow morning. gambling will end and the casino will close 6:00 o'clock tuesday morning. they have been ope

riera has been suspend from his staten island fire station where he worked as an emergency technician. los angeles police expect to take custody of him on monday. >>> i think the message is that we're going emerge from this stronger than ever because of the community we support. >>> from building to rebuilding. we talk with a habitat for humanity official about his new motivation following devastating fire. >>> they could be known as the first grandparents. pictures of the new member of the clinton family. we're live in san francisco at ocean beach where two men drowned after being pulled out into the ocean. hear from the surviving son and brother and why he wasn't in the water. . >>> a tragic week at san francisco's ocean beach. a father and son in town on vacation died while swimming in the rough surf tonight the family of the two men who drowned returned to the beach looking for peace. compounding the tram i did is that a loved one watched from the beach as the two men disappeared and were pulled unconscious from the water. ktvu's katie utehs is live after speaking to the devastate

in the middle of a press conference with the families from ferguson, michael brown's family in staten island. and we said we would send to the white house and we called the office of engagement that we always deal with. saying we wanted input that all kinds of advocacy groups would want to. i'm sure that all of us would want to way in and have ideas. we don't have a candidate. we're not trying to pick anybody. we have no one in mind. wech in mind the things we advocated that eric holder was, in our opinion, moving forward on. that whoever is chosen, that that be on the table. gej, we do that as advocacy groups. just like the right wing decided that, you know, eric holder was gmt of everything under the son but being a good attorney general. they tried to act as though we're part of a good decision-making process. >> reverend al sharpton, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> republicans were predictably elated by yesterday's announcement. eric holder's rez resignation is long overdue. and the main force behind holder being held in contempt of congress for allegedly not submitting sufficient

a native from staten island whose father died. >> on 9/11, right? >> bob, did you catch that?i didn't see it, but it sounds funny. >> i think it's healthy, i think it's progress, i think the administration should look at that not, you know, in disappointment, but in that you know what? we're making progress, now they're making fun of us too. i actually think that is -- it's a leap forward. >> no, it's not. >> any satire or criticism of president obama after the 2012 election is as brave as heckling at stone, it's like throwing an egg at the queen mary, it had absolutely no effect. if they had done this before and taken some real shots, that would have been brave, when it maded. but it doesn't matter now, obama would laugh at this because it has no affect on him. >> that's a good point. thank you for explaining that to me like a 10th grader. >> i tried, i tried. >> good point, where were they in october or november of 2012. >>> all right, finally time for some feel good minutes. derek jeter finished a career in style, all five championship rings on and off the field. here's a m

so this is manhattan, staten island and the bronx. brooklyn and queens which were once separate cities have separate public library systems. we cooperate very closely with them and coordinate and try to do things together as it should be. so for instance, we became recently in effect the circulating library to support the public school system of new york. so for 100 years we lived side-by-side but didn't actually with the cooperate. and for 100 years the public schools depended for their libraries in a room the size with maybe 10,000 books, increasingly out of date, and a card catalog. a sweet idea, one i grew up with, but in the 21st century that can't possibly work. now we're at about 600 schools. we aim to be at all of them with computers in the library or a teacher can order up to 100 bucks at a time from our 17 million books. the three systems together, and we will deliver right to the school. so you get the efficiency of these huge system spreading around the city, and that's an example of how ultimately 1.2 million schoolkids w

tomorrow we visit staten island new york. where a group of vigilantes have given new being to noob our hood watch. we show why the focus is on the cops, not the criminals. >> if you would like to comment on the stories, log on to the website. you can join the conversation with us any time - on twitter or at our facebook page. >> goodnight. we'll have more of "america tonight", tomorrow. >>> will american ground troops go to iraq to fight i.s.i.l. after all? what military leaders said on capitol hill. thousands of american troops are now headed to west africa to combat the out of control ebola epidemic. i'm antonio mora, welcome to "consider this". those stories

dozens of students in staten island are protesting the new dress code. the code covers everything from tank tops and short-shorts to hoodies and sunglasses. school administrators say that skimpy clothing is banned because it "interferes with the learning and teaching process." students are showing their outrage by wearing banned clothing. not quite short short weather here in chicago. no tank tops and no shorts. cover-up. >> anything over 50 is 10 top weather for a teenager. you just don't know. 47 degrees right now. the dew points are at 44. it is a bit chilly. as to head up this morning, 30 degrees for the temperature early on. six degrees above freezing right now. at the lakefront its rating at 48. 47 in waukegan. kankakee rating of 49. we are cooler than normal across the region. temperatures are rebounding. each day we gain a few degrees. today will make the mid-60s. some like radar composite shows we are dry. cloud cover will be down to the south. a high- pressure system comes through it will bring dry weather in the region and keep us cooler than

>>the staten island zoo may ditch its policy of allowing mayors to hold its groundhogs on groundhog day. new york's mayor bill de blasio accidentally dropped the winter weather prognosticator in february. the animal, named charlotte, died a few days later of internal injuries. the zoo's president says the animal's injuries were not do the fall. the new boss at the l.a. clippers is tackling a big problem. the team's former owner was forced out for racist comments... and the team got knocked out of the n-b-a playoffs. but the new owner, former microsoft owner steve ballmer, is fixing what's *really wrong... seems that too many players and coaches still use i-pads. >> and that's a problem. >>ballmer tells an interviewer, he'll probably ban apple products at courtside, and replace them with microsoft "surface" tablets. white sox fans are enjoying the last days of paul konerko's career. the sox released a three minute video yesterday, featuring several moments from his career. they included his grand slam in the world series, but there were also shots of him getting hurt during games. konerk

. >> staten island zoo may ditch policy of allowing mayor's to hold ground hogs on groundhog day.ew york mayor actually drop the groundhog february and sadly charlotte died a few days later of internal injuries. mayor bloomberg had trouble with a wood chuck in 2009 when he was bin. >> up next forget the tolls. one will there's a catch. we'll tell what you you want to take on the next road trip. >> and you'll meet some amazing people who have have overcome >> and you'll meet some amazing people who have have overcome quite a life's super scary sounds. >> and you'll meet some amazing peopand sneaking in withoutme quitmoving the bed. and sneaking in without lifemoving the bed.sounds. i know... this third shift is rough... it's just a few more weeks max! what are you doing up? it's late. i just wanted to have breakast wih you. >> drivers and pedestrians in south jersey received a lesson in crosswalk safety and pepties for breaking rules. officers with the berlin police set up a check point on white horse pike. they reminded drivers that failure to stop for a nern crosswalk carry as i

. >>> groundhogs at new york's staten island to may have to look for a new day job.ials may stop allowing mayors who hold their groundhogs on that day. a couple of mishaps may have spurred this last february. the mayor of new york accidentally dropped it and it died a few days later. michael bloomberg was bitten by a groundhog in 2009. >> yikes. >>> 7:24. there's playoff fever as the regular baseball season ends. >> giants! giants! >> now, that's a giants' fan. fans showed up for the game at at&t park just hours after the milwaukee brewers lost to the cincinnati reds. that means the giants have clinched a wild card spot. >> good and bad. good we're in. i want to see them clinch it tonight. >> come in the front door, not just back into it because of the brewers. >> the giants beat the padres last night. the two teams met for the final series of the season. the giants play the pirates or the st. louis cardinals on wednesday in the single game wild card game. >>> the oakland as are still struggle, but they still have a good shot at the playoffs. they lost to the texas r

a week after his owner dropped staten isla staten island chuck in a front, died of internal injuriesan. >> what? >> staten island zoo officials went to great lengths to hide the death from the public keep secret that chuck was actually charlotte, a female. it died. this is a statement from the mayor's office. we were unaware that staten island chuck had passed, but we're sorry to hear of the loss. >> did they put the animal down? >> it wasn't chuck, it was charlotte, charlotte was found dead in her enclosure one week later and they determined she died from acute internal injuries. >> he killed charlotte. okay, this is not just a cover up, this is a conspiracy. there's a whole, there's a web of lies being exposed here. >> and the gloves. >> the gloves are the best part. >> that's the greatest tragedy in all. a grown man would feel like he has to wear hazmat gloves. >> so the president yesterday speaking before the united nations where, as we move beyond "the new york post" and groundhog charlotte, who many thought was groundhog chuck. let's talk about the president. john, we've all be

. >> congressman grim let staten island down. >> it's worse than embarrassing. >> i would think if you were innocent of the charges, he would have said that. >> now he wants the vote. >> in the battle for control of the u.s. senate, the national rifle association is on the air in georgia, leveraging what southerners feel towards new yorkiers, their disdain. >> in a new york city mansion, billionaire michael bloomberg sleeps safely, a team of armed guards protects him. he wants to take away your right to self-defence. he's pushing extreme gun control and michelle nunn will help him do it. michael bloomberg spends his own money to elect nunn, and nunn supports the michael bloomberg gun control agenda. >> did you notice the snore ag the the start af ad. here it is again. >> brutal sfuf by the audio -- stuff by the audio engineer. in the iowa race, where bruce is trying to keep the seat in democratic hands, a pack is attacking jody ernst over calls to privatize social security. >> every senior needs to watch this. >> i watched this. she said that. >> i have talked about privatizing social

. >> congressman grim let staten island down. >> now he wants the vote. >> there's no way i'm voting for him. >> in the battle for control of the u.s. senate, the national rifle association is on the air in giorgio, lefageing the disdain soth erpers feel -- southerners teel towards new yorkers. >> in a mansion in new york, michael bloomberg sleeps safeliment armed guards protect him. michael bloomberg wants to take away your right to self-defence, and he's pushing gun control. michelle nunn will help him do it. michael bloomberg spends his own money to elect nunn. >> notice the snoring at the start of the add. here it is gape. listen. >> in an elegant new york city mansion (snoring in background). >> brutal stuff by the audio engineer. in the iowa senate race, bruce is trying to keep the seat, a pact is attacking rugg can joanie ernst over her calls to privatize social security. >> every senior needs to watch this. >> i watched it. she really said it. >> i have talked about privatizing social security as an option. >> it is good for wall street. >> but not for iowa. >> if those are h

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. >> and finally staten island zoo officials are rethinking their annual groundhog day tradition afterame out this week that the ground hog fumbled by mayor bill deblaz owe last winter died a week later. this is the less than graceful shadow revealed on june 2. says she died consistent with injuries from a fall. but whether it was related to this particular incident is a little less clear. the "new york post" reports that since her death was uncovered, new york politicians are considering whether to be relieved of groundhog duties in the future and leave that work to the professionals. >>> the administration has announced that people already enrolled in obama care will be automatically renewed in their current plans. jim engel tells us that offers convenience but not without some risk. >> in notion of just sit bang and reenroll is real misleading and i think causes a lot of harm to people. >> reporter: after the disastrous rollout of the obama care website last tag, no wonder the administration wants to reenroll those already signed up in hopes of avoiding another embarrassment. but ex

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and while the special grand jury is convening today, the staten island district attorney daniel donovan not announced which charges the grand jury might consider in garner's death, nor against whom charges could be filed. my civil rights organization, the national action network, has actively lobbied for a grand jury to be convened and for federal officials to step in and investigate the case. midwin, what do you think this grand jury is looking at today? >> this grand jury is going to be looking at whether or not this police officer, one, i guess intended to kill eric garner. but one of the things that we have to point out here, the prosecutor hasn't been specific with what charges the grand jury is going to consider, or who is going to be charged. remember, there are several officers on that videotape, seen taking down, for lack of a better word, eric garner. so it's very difficult, actually, rev, to know exactly what the grand jury is going to be considering. >> who should be charged? >> obviously the police officer who put the initial chokehold and anyone else who assisted or added

of debris trucked out of there and some 1,400 dump truck loads brought to the land phil over on staten islandhere fbi agents and nypd detectives are going through that rubble. >> you can only imagine how gruesome the task is to recover remains. in a building hit by an airplane. which makes obviously recovery, you know, much more difficult. >> i think the country felt much better that the debris was being rapidly removed. at the samtime, it wasn't good for the scientific identification, collection of evidence. >> all the debris that was left was then taken out of the building and brought to a sifting area where it was gone through again. that kind of destruction -- >> when there's a major accid t accident, body parts of department phied exactly where they are, and picked up. everything is put into a proper receptacle. as that was done in this case. 40% of the bodieses have not been identified. >> my message is for everybody who wears the uniform. get ready. >> he said, andy, i want you to convene the war council at camp david tomorrow. now, there is no such thing as a war council, but i knew e

the staten island zoo hushing the whole thing up, apparently, claiming that the animal died of old agethat's according to the new york post. the zoo now saying it appears unlikely there's any link between the fall and the groundhog's death. so what's the real story? hmm? >>> police say the suspect at an ambush that killed a pennsylvania state trooper is toying with them now. occasionally coming out in plain sight and leaving a trail of items in a densely wooded area in the pocono mountains. rick leventhal has the latest. they found some very unusual items during the search, right? >> right, gretchen. pennsylvania state police say they have found soiled adult diapers that they say suspect has been wearing so he can hide in one spot for hours at a time and allude capture, which he has done for 13 days now. they also found serbian cigarettes. they say is he smoking them just like the ones he smoked when he played a serbian soldier in war reenactments. they released photos of his 2001 vehicle that he got stuck while trying to escape nearly two weeks ago. we saw the command post today in no

the groups highlighted the incidents in ferguson, missouri, and staten island, new york. gardner died in a police choke hold. brown was shot and killed in ferguson after a confrontation with a police officer. >> i am here to try to make sure this does not happen to anyone else's family. this is very terrible for us. >> last night, federal investigators took the stage in ferguson. the meeting was part of a civil rights investigation into the ferguson police department. defense told the packed house they wanted to learn about life as a minority in st. louis county. brown's death on august 9 th sparked weeks of protests and unrest in the community. the department of justice team just told last night's audience that they would be back and working with the county for as long as a year and a half. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather with meteorologist sheena parveen. >> well, we continue to see kind of windy, cool, rainy conditions through the day today. here's a live look out at center city, philadelphia, from the adventure aquarium in camden. overcast skies. areas of patc