neil: you think that staten islanders have been robbed?think that staten island right now is like the rid headed stepchild -- red-headed stepchild of recovery funding efforts, we still have volunteer and faith-based organizations doing more work than from the federal government. but, the ferris wheel, in itself, i touch base with local councilman, i touch base with the head of the community board 1 who approved that ferris while. their feelings are there are 8 million in in in city, and this will be a benefit to those people in new york city, the tourist dollars that will come in the funnel down into staten island means on a long-term basis. neil: if you go to the ferris %->> maybe you can go to strip. mall they will build next door, move people will probably -- most people will get back on ferry head back to new york city. and you know,. neil: i never thought of your angle, that is a good angle, anything is better than nothing. >> from a public perception, it does not look great to talk about building amusements but i think this long-term

on staten island of course we were hit so hard and it seemed like our friends and family needed immediateand the governmental agencies were showing up with water and sandwiches and blankets and stuff like that, but they were not helping fill the immediate needs of the residents. we learned that after sandy in the communities and we decided once this storm happened, so many people from oklahoma had come here to helps us, that we wanted to come out and fill immediate needs. we have besifting through pilesf debris. and helping people find important items -- been va van -- we have been checking the area, and seeing what people need. we are going out and purchasing it and bringing it to them where the governmental agencies do not do that stuff. >> i said last time when you were on, derek. it was shortly the whole thing happened with hurricane sandy. and neither you nor john were upset with the government, you said, you need boots on the ground, know how to get to people without wasting a lot of time and filling out forms and all the rest and just help them. and i was wondering why, at the time

and new dunes will be constructed on beaches in staten island and queens.ap at all. some $20 billion. >>> all right. nobody seems to know the whereabouts of edward snowden this morning. the man who told the world about the nsa secret mining operations is staying in the shadows. so is his girlfriend lindsay mills. we don't know much about the woman he left behind, but she wants the world to know she's struggling. more from miguel marquez. >> reporter: the man at the center of the controversy left everything behind for his beliefs. >> you have to make a determination about what it is that's important to you. and if living unfreely but comfortably is something you're willing to accept -- >> reporter: snowden said he cut his ties cleanly with everyone he knew or was close to including his girlfriend lindsay mills who lived with him here in hawaii. mills father's said that his daughter dated snowden for five years, but met him only a few times. >> he's head strong, convictions are right and wrong, it kind of makes sense, but still shocked. >> reporter: snowden p

- i'm staten island mike. - do me a favor. stay out of it. - you got it. - thank you.lace, because martin won't be there! - this is probably a big misunderstanding. how about i do you a favor, okay? - i don't think so. - go get you a cup of coffee, a large, two sugars. - do me a favor. don't do me any favors. - is that considered a favor? - beat it. - oh. - oh. - hey. - hey. - just made it. - good. so, nick, you're not gonna make me go to the back of the line now, are you? - uh... gigi, thank you. but there's nothing i can do. - have you tried, nick? - i'm sorry. - look at you. oh, my goodness. you know, i don't usually do this, but you are striking. - save it. i know what you're doing. and believe me, i have had way hotter women than you tap this. back of the line, lady. you might be hot, but you're not hotter than these deals. - ho, ho, ho! merry thanksgiving. - where'd you get all that stuff, terrence? the store isn't even open yet. - who said i got it from the store? - come on, man. it's black friday. man, don't tell me you're just gonna leave me out here to fight

you have area particularly in staten island. everything is selling.l be next year or the year after that or the year after that. if you do not have to sell now, you are crazy. weight a while. you will get sold a year or two from now. >> i do agree with you. i am coming back. [ laughter ] >> i agree with you. i will use vegas as an example. certain areas of vegas, you should keep the home for a longer period of time. i absolutely agree with you. if the inventory -- some sellers are still afraid that something will happen. it will require a disciplined for the sellers who have equity to stay there to try to sell it later on. connell: have we ever had two of our guests kiss on the air on our show? dagen, will not even let me pat him on the back. [ laughter ] thank you for joining us today. that was fun. great panel. dagen: it was great to see all of you. though boston. tivo party. we hope that they really come back and spank the jets. connell: weeklong series. new ideas on markets now. keep it here. ♪ ion: how d is the oldest person you've known? we gave

the implosion took about 12 seconds and could be seen from parts of maven hat tan, brooklyn, staten islandear sacramento. as ron jones shows us, they could help farmers grow better parts. >> flying just several feet above crotches in county sz yamaha remote controlled helicopter, an unmanned drone. >> very specific, very targeted, very precise. >> no, not targeting suspected insurgents or enemy bunkers but pesky crop-eeth bugs. uc davis professor is an ag engineer. he says this chopper weighing 200 pounds and about half the size of a golf cart is used specifically for crops and would never fly over neighborhoods. they have to notify the fa before even taking off. his team is looking for ways to help farmers spray and save. >> this is an example of a sprayer that a helicopter might replace. >> he says the traditional ground or aircraft crop sprayers use more chemicals than necessary. >> with the aircraft, we can treat three or four acres in much less volume, maybe a hundred dretd a volume this would take. >> most ground sprayers can negotiate tough terrain. >> place that might be difficult

. >> must have been great being on the staten island ferry when that thing went down.hat a view. >>> road conditions, sloppy and wet around washington, d.c. the rest of the east coast will also be slow going. >> and if you're flying, airport delays are possible mostly in the east. washington, d.c., philadelphia, new york city, boston, charlotte and atlanta. >>> just hours from now jury selection will begin in the high-profile trial of neighborhood volunteer watch george zimmerman. >> the defense case is centered around florida's controversy stand your ground law. here with a preview is abc's marci gonzalez. >> reporter: from a pool of 500 potential jurors, it will come down to 6. today the process begins at the seminole county courthouse in central florida. george zimmerman charged with second degree murder in the shooting death of 17-year-old trayvon martin in february of last year. martin had just left this convenience store and was walking in a residential community in sanford, florida. zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, called police reporting martin as a s

brooklyn, queens, staten islands, they are not back. the shore communities are devastated. >> he goes to jersey for the photo op with christie, it helps christie and him. he looks at it as a nonpartisan kind of guy, but he didn't go to some of the places. >> he went to new york city and -- >> so you're cynical about it. >> it's hard to believe mcguirk would be xenical. >> they could use a morale boost. but would you ride on a roller coaster with governor christie? >> if he paid, i might. >> it's interesting from the sky, when you see president obama and chris christie lying on the beach, it looks like morse code. i know people visiting jersey. after five years, the whole nation is a disaster area. you should be going detroit, atlanta. >> it's not just sandy is what you're saying. >> nothing goes over your head. >> i'll try to recover from mcguirk. and just do a single on mcguirk if you would right now. a single one. this is a man critiquing my outfit. >> i went to the store and i actually bought these clothes. >> the goodwill store. >>

the shore -- this is not new york city not la this is staten island and my crazy house with my contract show where celebrities come to keep it real. how are you doing, man? thank you for coping to my house. my mom is giving lil wayne broccoli right now. >> anderson: welcome vinny. [applause] [cheering] [♪] >> anderson: how is it going? >> well, in light of my show with my mom being a great cook she made you something special she made her her baked ziti. >> anderson: your mom would come and bring food like on the weekend. >> yes. she became like a character of her own. >> they say she is going to steal the show. >> anderson: is your mom cooking all the time? >> yes. first, feel how heavy this is. >> anderson: good lord that is like a 10 pound ziti. >> low cal. >> anderson: was food the center of your house? >> it is everything. when celebrities come over my mom they don't care who is on the show or all they care about is feeding them. when little wayne came into the house she was like did you eat on your flight. >> and how do they react? >> they might have been doing something else on th

. >> michael: way to stick to your conconvictions, it's a photo presenting a check to a staten islandcomes from obamacare funds. and representative cassidy right there in the middle cutting a ribbon to a high school clinic funded by boom obamacare money. hypocrites much? they are requesting obamacare money even if they stomp on its merits and advocate it's repeal. lee fang, always great to have you here. >> good to be here. >> this is fantastic. you found a letter from john cornyn, a senator from texas. the letter asking for a cdc grant and it will improve the health and quality of life for area residents. when you read this, it's just amazing. but tell us there are more letters. it's not just cornyn. >> he's the second most powerful republican in the senate, but these letters requesting obamacare or affordable care act money really go across the board in the republican caucus. he have freshmen, tea partyers committee chairs, the republicans are saying we got to repeal the entire bill, it's a monstrosity, but when the camera is away they're sending letters saying it's going to save li

but the way that the storm is slanted toward staten island may be very different from the way it is being felt in the northern bronx. i am going to bet this is the same for other key agencies that have a similar style. i think it would strengthen the department to trust the acumen and the experience of the field officers who maybe are not ready to start salting or want to start salting for the central agency is ready to declare time. a other words, when you have system of promotion and you're confident the people you have promoted into managerial decisions are skilled and competent, give the men the power to call the shots at the local level in ways that are immediately relevant to that district rather than have all of that central, especially when you have information lag. we will never face a storm like that again, not because we won't have a storm that big. i'm sure we well. but because there are now in place very sophisticated data gathering mechanisms like gps and all the trucks for a start, that will help the department understand and respond in a much more nimble way than was possi

the disclosures associated with this case was that telephone records relating to my parents in staten islandarently were obtained in some form or fashion. that was a moment when i felt real world impact associated with this. >> james rosen said today he does not think his reporting threatened american national security and that he believed the public has a right to know about what the government does to keep it safe. furthermore, james says in this case he treated sensitive information with care. >> my dealings with my sources in the reporting that has become at issue were practiced in accordance with the same sources and methods and information as i try to bring as a working reporter to all of my sources and all of my stories. >> as for why james rosen was targeted by the justice department in the first place, he said this morning he doesn't think the fact he worked for fox was at any point overlooked. shepard? >> shepard: peter, rosen says there were legal and ethical considerations about how much he could say today but he tells us he does fully intend to say a lot more some day. well, pre

the staten island ferry in the foreground. >>> those who tuned in to see another nba classic finals gameween the spurs and the heat last night, didn't work out that way. sorry. >> it was close for the first three quarters, with lebron james and the heat struggling offensively. then, miami turned it up. it was too much for san antonio. it ended up in a blowout. miami evening up the series with a 103-84 victory. >> they'll do it again tomorrow night. you can see the game right here, game three, that is, on abc. >> did you watch any of the game? >> i did not. >> are you a basketball fan? >> i'm a fan of basketball. but i never watch it. no clue what's going on. >> well, miami, like they really showed their colors tonight. they blew them out in the fourth quarter. i hope this is a close series. but miami looked pretty tough tonight. >> okay. >>> coming up, the laughs and the surprises at last night's tony awards. >> ah, yes. >>> and the sexy, chiselled supermodel who is posing just about everywhere. who is he? and what makes him tick? we're going to tell you. you're watching "world news now.

example the rockaways which is a peninsula along the coast of new york city got hit very hard as did staten island and sheepshead bay and coney island and red hook each of these commune. what was happening is that the police and fire were very devastated they lost. thousands of . civil servants lost their homes and that the city was not able to respond very quickly the infrastructure had broken down and there were barriers for the federal government to come in in the absence of these official responses what happened was we set up mesh networks set up collaborating centers and the population itself the communities came together through social networks identified with the problems were and rapidly enabled and adaptive logistics system for services and also the flow of material like food for example and energy so one example was right after the hurricane we got hit in addition by a nor'easter and so all the electricity is out the sewer sewers are broken there's no water flow in many of these buildings and people are getting hypothermic meaning they're freezing so we set up mechanisms with what we cal

. >> when a call comes in in 2010 from a school teacher needing help in staten island, new york, theysment. with video camera in hand to document the case. but he assures all their clients that their identities will remain confidential. >> you couldn't open the door 90 degrees, maybe 30. this lady had a hard time getting into her own door. as soon as you walked in the front door, the floor is stacked from the floor to the ceiling. >> i remember having a difficult time walking through the front door and being amazed that she was in a wheelchair. and the first thing i thought is how does she get in and out? >> the disaster masters make their way around the packed home to assess the severity of the problem. >> behind the door, up against the wall in the closet, still stacked to the ceiling and little paths back into the living room, kitchen in the back. you could barely walk into the kitchen. >> it was a mix of construction material like tiles, plaster, to repair walls, tools and things that she had recently purchased as gifts. >> just a complete mess. everything came home, nothing had a

you know, looking for -- looking for girls from staten island. down in tucson heights. for those of you who want to go looking to see exactly what kind of great places i stayed in, 46 franklin avenue in seaside heights. it was -- we told the realtor that four of us were going down there to stay in the house, and there were 12 of us. >> jimmy: i did the same thing, yeah. >> and it was quite a week. it was quite a week. we had a good time between high school and going off to college. >> jimmy: now, you're doing this thing now. you're speaking at the clinton global initiative america on friday. >> yes. >> jimmy: with bill clinton. >> yep. >> jimmy: that's very interesting, i think, of you to do. and exciting, of course. >> well, listen. i mean, president clinton is -- is, you know, a leader. and has always been very good to me. and he asked me to come out there and talk about the lessons that i learned about leadership in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. and i thought it would be a great thing to talk about and have him interview me, which is what'

however, there are going to be flood walls around manhattan and levees in staten island, red hook. 250ted. >> has any other city in the world done this? >> not on this scale. >> therefore, this may be a setting of priorities for cities around the world? >> that's right. the netherlands have been one of the leaders in terms of this. we have 520 miles of coastline to protect around the new york city area. so this could then be a precedent changing event for the entire world as they see that new york city is setting the pace. >> professor kaku, thank you so much. >>> tiger woods and sergio garcia are making nice at the u.s. open. the rival golfers shook hands on monday on the practice tee. last month, garcia had to apologize after making a racially insensitive joke involving woods. yesterday, he said he also left a message in tiger's locker. >> yeah. i did leave him a note, a hand written note. hopefully, he can take a look at it. >> woods said we are already gone through it all. it is time for the u.s. open. the first round begins tomorrow morning. >>> so they didn't hug it out but they

it connects brooklyn with staten island. it was built in the 1960s. chinese steel is being used because it is cheaper. american steelmakers say they're at a disadvantage. they complain the chinese government helps cover the cost of that country's steel. >>> the wug post says more than 700 doctors wrote questionable prescriptions for the elderly and disabled. the report finds a group of doctors wrote more than 400 prescriptions for a single patient. >> and the "los angeles times" says nasa's releasing a billion pixel view of the surface of mars. nearly 900 images were stitched together. they create a panoramic view. the images were captured by the cameras on the mars curiosity rover. >> and massive wildfires in the western u.s. are threatening hundreds of homes this morning. one fire has burned throu through several thousand acres in prescott arizona, north of phoenix. and in denver a new wildfire forced dozens of people out of their neighborhoods. so far there is no major damage and no serious injuries are reported. >> one place you don't expect hot w

come from, this will devastate my local delis, my specialty food stores, restaurants throughout staten island, brooklyn, and throughout our nation. as for oversupply, today new york is america's yogurt capital. that industry accounts for almost $1 billion, with a b, in economic growth, revenue and 15,000 jobs. yet while we repeatedly talk bout jobs, entrepreneurship, yogurt exemplifies this. started in 2005, chobani transformed a ground breaking new industry of greek yogurt in america. but without aned a quality milk supply at reasonable prices, them, local dellies, other companies will have a limited ability to grow and keep their products reasonably priced. for this reason, i urge my colleagues to support the goodlatte amendment. thank you and yield back. the chair: the gentleman from minnesota. mr. peterson: i'm now pleased to yield to the gentleman from new york, one of our good champions of the dairy industry. the chair: how much time? mr. peterson: one minute. mr. owens: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank mr. grimm for mentioning the yogurt industry. that is very prominent in my district a

staten island, new york. our line for independents. caller: good morning, steve, and to all the people behind him that get you on the air. thank you. host: we appreciate that. go ahead with your comment. caller: ms right, mr. madison, very glad to hear you speak. mr. madison, i think we were together when the freedom walk occurred with the united nations. you look great, happy to hear from both of you. i am irish. my mother was born 25 miles south of belfast. i think blacks, in my experience, both being a pastor in anacostia, right near where you are, and then living in harlem, get short-shifted. president obama gave us who he really is. he is not henry belafonte, and he is not danny glover, but he is also not dr. carson. the trouble in america is the media, especially a mainstream that is polluted, which is why people are buying bottled water on the internet so to speak, will not allow true blacks like yourself, miss wright and mr. madison -- whenever there are two together, it is a conspiracy. if you take the statistics that steve ha

the bronx district, in edgewater, where homes were treated in a similar way that they were in staten islandnd new jersey, but not at the same scale. .uch of my district is back up i want to give fema a shout out and thanks to fema for all the work they did. my mother is from the rockaways in queens. my aunt was with us for a couple of months. my cousins were with my sister for a few months. there are brack -- back in rockaway. rockaways coming back. i know there is still a lot of to a lot of the economic areas of the peninsula. restaurants and stores are coming back. they're not back yet, but they're on the way. i spent my summer months in rockaway beach and where i grew up, a good portion of my life. been talking with representative joe crowley, democrat from new york. we appreciate your time this morning. one more segment coming up. for going to be looking at the issue of diplomatic immunity, asylum, extradition, and tie it into the edward snowden situation. matley with the "associated press" covers the state department. jobless numbers in this hour show the number of americans seeking th

in williamsburg, brooklyn, prospect heights, brooklyn heights, park slope, may be out in staten hampstead,g island, great neck, little neck. i am asking you to stick your neck out for live tv. oregon, montana, if you live in the nebraskas, make the call. illinois is in the house. susan call from syracuse, new york. how about white plains, anyone in rocklin county? houston is in the house. can we hear from austin? please call in and let us know that you are there. michael called in from chicago. i was there on sunday. beach,rom long california. how about long branch, new jersey? marjorie calls in from los angeles. caring from -- karen from california. the folks from new mexico should start to go competitive. represent your state. i hosted a couple from new mexico and we had a fantastic dinner. you can watch the broadcast and meet the guests on set, and then i host you for dinner. we get these calls and every day from all over the country. last night we had a great time. it is a $2,000 charitable contribution that goes directly to the tv. we give you a tour of the greenest tv studio in the country.

. >> interestingly enough when i was 11 years old i was a young little girl from staten island, new york who went to kalamazoo, michigan for the softball world series. here we are again. our first opening slide remind you that we're from the other end of this great nation coming from california and arizona. you've heard the background. we acknowledge that simplifying is important. it is necessary and far from sufficient. a lot of our research is backgrounded with about 600 interviews were community college students, you've focus groups from student community colleges from around the nation. we'll draw on that information later. for the most part, we also are dealing with what's happening in a technology sector and essentially those in this sector are trying to circumvent educational institutions. that's important to realize. we're taking up sort of in the institutional context of where simplifying this one form leaves off. we're asking what role does technology play in terms of connecting students and families with the financial aid process in general. colleges and universities are tryin

staten island, new york. our line for independents.teve, andd morning, to all the people behind him that get you on the air. thank you. host: we appreciate that. go ahead with your comment. caller: this right, mr. madison, very glad to hear you speak. think we were together when the freedom walked occurred with the united nations. you look great, happy to hear from both of you. i am irish. 25butt -- my mother was born miles south of belfast. i think blacks, in my experience, both being a pastor in anacostia, right near where you are, and then living in harlem, get short-shifted. us who heobama gave really is. he is not handing belafonte, and he is not danny glover, but he is also not dr. carson. the trouble in america is the media, especially a mainstream that is polluted, which is why people are buying bottled water on the internet so to speak, will not allow true blacks like and mr.f, miss wright madison. whenever there are two together, it is a conspiracy. if you take the statistics that steve has shown us, they will parallel cathol

and leave the poor people of new jersey and staten island out of it. >> stephanie: i love your piece.human shield. >> that was really crazy. so the talking point last week, massive freakout, he appointed susan rice because they can't obstruct it so they can't stop it. people on fox yelled and screamed about benghazi all day. but sean hannity was talking about the only reason she was appointed is because she's a woman. and he doesn't -- that means republicans won't attack her and andrea tan toro went further saying that susan rice was his human shield. and that they use these women to deflect criticism. a, you know, republicans weren't shy about smearing and attacking susan rice last november and december when people thought she might be secretary of state. >> stephanie: right. >> in fact, they seemed to be overly excited about smearing and attacking a powerful woman. and so that doesn't work. and b, you know, look at her resume. rhodes scholar youngest ever under secretary of state. u.n. ambassador and now the national security adviser. she's the puppet? she's this woman who is wander

thefunds develop and train management team, successfully in staten island, supporting the city office of emergency shelteringnagement, up to 3605 people. these grants in new jersey to fund the area system that was one of the biggest public safety communications' success stories in hurricane sandy. federal grant programs help to bolster state and local the bostons in marathon bombing, using forward- looking imaging in a purchase with grants to purchase and locates bomb subjects. they used the swat teams to better integrate the teams in integration, a crucial capability demonstrated to all in the aftermath of the bombing. their ability to conduct collapsed search and rescue as we have seen too many times in recent tornadoes, it is significantly more advanced than it was 10 years ago. 97% of the u.s. population lives within four hours of a structural collapse team, up 60% from a decade ago. we have demonstrated the efficacy of our grant program, with a clear product to work towards. tracking spending towards meeting those goals. mr. chairman, members of the community, thank you for the o

superstorm sandy victims in staten island sent water bills for storm damaged homes that they have nots were charged an average of $1.20 a day since the end of october. the congressman asking the city to waive all fees for homes damaged by the storm. >>> take a look at this. four horses running wild along a highway in texas. the horses broke out of their pen. a driver called police who corralled them away from the road until their owner came to pick them up. >>> thank you, allison. it's been just over 100 days since the former archbishop of buneos aires was made pope. >> a pope who may have strayed from the church back into the fold. the francis effect. father jonathan morris joins us this morning from reno, nevada. nice to see you this morning. what is the francis effect? >> first of all, i should say i'm in reno but spending eight days on lake tahoe, most beautiful place i've seen in a very long time, absolutely beautiful. i'm spending some days trying to finish up a book. it is inspiring to see this, what people have coined the francis effect and that's that they are seeing in rome,

a coastal flood area but because superstorm sandy left a trail of destruction, particularly in staten island and parts of brooklyn. destruction that was unprecedented. tins of thousands of my constituents found themselves homeless. their lives were turned upside down and are wondering how they are going to rebuild or move forward. many of my constituents lost everything to superstorm sandy and will be years before their lives return to any sense of what i would consider normal. so to ask these victims of a natural disaster who find themselves in this horrible position through no fault of their own to pay upwards of $15,000 upwards so soon after this disaster took everything from them, amounts to them being victimized yet again. if these premiums were to go into effect, the reality is simple. for my of my constituents they will find themselves unable to pay both their mortgage and flood premiums and their bopt in the -- property in best case will lose considerable value, but in the worst case, it will be completely worthless. this is unacceptable and this is why i support delaying the impleme