the brooklyn nets that the -- beat the hawks. >> the brooklyn nets are on the road. no ordinary away game. they are facing off against the hawks. atlantaome game for only it's in london. it's the national basketball association's eighth ever regular-season game in london and the latest arduous step to take the franchise local. >> we look at some of the assets that we have. brand.n is a global now we want to further leverage and ultimately monetize. >> the nba is already going global. the nets owner is russian. two layers are from europe and the hawks players include a german, a mexican, and someone from macedonia. biggestrnett may be the draw but these chinese issues are the business. even the nets black-and-white kicks is designed for a global audience. at least in europe the soccer players don't have much to worry about just yet. in big asball be russia as you are tall? >> it's big in russia just not as big as soccer. like so many fans of his own and it's hard to get a question in. the nets won the game putting it on the right foot but basketball's battle for the w

>> let's take a look at the brooklyn nets. they have not been successful on the court. 15-wins -- 15 wins and 22 losses. they have been successful and aggressive in promoting themselves as a global franchise. they're playing against the atlanta hawks. they will go to china and russia and have three international players. they give people in other countries their own countrymen to look at and they have a russian owner. they can make a push into russia. the way they are trying to monetize things is say that they are not just an american team. they are a global team. we were talking to an analyst and this is what he had to say. >> look at it from a business perspective and building the brand. can they build a halo around the team that speaks to audiences all over the world? we advocate being global. -- mikaelrogram off program off\ >> take a look at the berkeley center in brooklyn. the naming rights are owned by a british bank. obviously, they want a way to conversely, if they do nothing else with this trip to validate the interna

the u.s. team in brooklyn. we will be with him on countdown. ahead is the nba face-off in london against the atlanta hawks. >> and we look at how car racing is going global with the infinity red bull team. plus, we talk more with the chief commercial officer for the arsenal team. he talks about how he is working to promote the team to win international fan base. >> asian stocks are higher this morning. that after the world bank raises its forecast. it sees the world economy expanding 3.2%. that compares with the june projection of just three percent. the upgrade comes with a warning. developing markets remain vulnerable to tapering in the u.s. >> the french president is trying and failing to escape questions about his personal life. this overshadowed his speech. caroline hyde is in paris. take it away. hour.s been a 24- full of headlines. >> you are right. i was there at a press conference. it kicks off that -- kicked off at 4:30 yesterday. they got impatient as he tried to sell to the french public how he will turn the economy around. all anyon

her real home was not the townhouse in brooklyn, but here. buried since 2003. "our beloved mother," reads irene's headstone, "everyone's talking about the lady in red." also, a note from her son, "love, tom." but thomas parkin, shown here at the funeral home in front of his mother's casket, had much more sinister matters in mind than bereavement. parkin was a con man and a thief who hatched the big lie, an elaborate scheme to impersonate his dead mother for criminal gain. >> he became her. that's exactly what he did. because in his own mind, in his own plan, she needed to still be alive. >> reporter: parkin's incredible ruse started the very day of his mother's funeral. for her death certificate, he provided the funeral director with a fake date of birth and social security number, which means her death was never officially recorded. so the government continued to issue irene's monthly social security checks, and parkin, seen here on a bank surveillance camera, cashed them for himself. parkin was also able to dupe various banks into issuing h

the brooklyn nets beat the atlanta hawks.ote was there. >> the brooklyn nets are on the road. this is no ordinary away game. they are facing off against the hawks. it is a home game for atlanta, only it is in london. it is the national basketball association's 8th regular-season game in england and the latest franchiseep to take a global. >> we look at some of the assets that we have. brooklyn itself, a global brand. now we are at a point where we want to further leverage it and ultimately monetize it. >> the nba is already going global. the nets owner is russian. one of the nets players is from russia. two others are from europe and the hawks roster includes a german, a mexican, and the league's first macedonian. kevin garnett may be the biggest draw, but his chinese-made shoes and the millions behind them are the business. guatemala over, air jordan. here comes anta. they are designed for a global audience. at least in europe, the soccer players do not have much to worry about just yet read and basketball be as big in russi

the berlin air owner of the brooklyn nets speaking to ryan. lantaed off hawks in london, taking down their rivals 127-100 -- whatever that means. >> the brooklyn nets are on the move. this is no ordinary away game. the nets are facing off against the hawks. it's a home game for atlanta -- only it is in london. it's the national basketball association's eighth ever regular season game in england and the latest arduous step to take the franchise global. >> we looked at some of the assets that we've had. brooklyn itself, 150 nationalities of global brand. now we are at the point where we want to leverage attend on a ties it. >> the nets owner is russian. one of the players is russian. two of the players are european. >> i did not know that there were so many macedonians in america. garnett may be the biggest draw, hundred million dollars behind them is the business. , air jordan. occupied theurope soccer players don't have much to worry about just yet. thet least in europe, soccer players don't have much to worry about just yet. >> it is big in ru

not from brooklyn but brooklyn there you know what it's like just to have the brooklyn vibe there are there is a brooklyn broad there is a brooklyn but it's also the super bowl brooke so it's hard to explain this to people who don't know but when you run into a guy you haven't seen in fifteen years in a minute yeah the time disappears in a minute and you're home with him instantly and he's inviting me to his house for dinner my mother is going to cook call you should come and then says there is something about that place but you're right you can't have a really label it one space and we jews and yes yes yes that's right and you italian yes and i was jewish yes we knew each other will absolutely we grew up together essentially going to the y.m.c.a. not coming out would talk sandwiches and sports and about a guy named sal next. day . very hard to take. on. that that was the other thing here. the people. place. science technology innovation all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. everybody if you if you did you know the price is the only industry spec

. >> we will also hear from the ceo of the brooklyn nets. find out why he is feeling lucky ahead of the nba face-off in london. they are playing the atlanta hawks. >> let's focus on france now. the questions were avoidable. francois hollande's policy conference was overshadowed by his personal life. >> he vowed to clear up the -- well, who is going to be the first lady, saying he will make big decisions on the economy. he will make a decision on who is going to be the first lady before his trip to the united states. >> it is such a bizarre situation. of -- because barack obama needs to know. the french people can be kept in the dark. the four that trip, everyone must know. >> this is the big decision he is going to make. not the french economy, not sorting out the international story when it comes to french foreign policy, who is the first lady. let's talk to caroline hyde. she joins us from paris. she was at the press conference yesterday. >> i was one of the 600 journalists packed into the palace. dripping withroom chandeliers, gold, red ve

at age 16.5, i was a failure, and by age 17 and a half, i was at the top of my class in brooklyn college with straight a's. i never got a b. and i think the reason was i didn't change as much as the school changed. i went to college where anything went. you're punished essentially for raising questions. the classmates would have been trying to get into columbia. wise decision based on my grades and i was so lucky the brooklyn college was a free school and had an exam that you could take to get in so that is what turned me around. so, one person told me i was spared, why have a lot of respect for told me i was smart and i said i just have a good memory. he said you were actually smart. that son can and gave me a little confidence. >> you once told me that you had two things for your work, outrageous and free. i do have my cases for free and i represented lots of people, for example i represent soldiers and first responders and police officers and people perform an enormous public service but are underpaid. and so, i have a policy representing them for free and in my book stand your ground

. >>> the warriors go for nba ,,story tonight in brooklyn. r was the biggest flu outbreak in over a decade. before the first sneeze... help protect with a spray. before the first tissue... help defend with a wipe. and help prevent with lysol. to get 10x more protection... and kill 99.9% of germs around the house. this season, help protect your family with lysol. start healthing tomato florentine soup, it took a little time to get it just right. [ ding ] ♪ but finally, it happened. perfection. at progresso, we've got a passion for quality, because you've got a passion for taste. [ male announcer ] you say tomato. ♪ old el paso says diced tomato stand 'n stuff chicken tacos. ♪ you say what's for dinner? old el paso says start somewhere fresh. their histor >>> the brooklyn nets had twice snapped ten-game win streaks in their history. could they do it a third time against the warriors who were hoping the secure the best road trip ever? were in nets colors, but warriors have 16 first quarter. andrew look at the slam but lee fades quickly. fourth kw

. >> you know we drive down the road-- (laughter) when you drive across the brooklyn bridge, there's no one deciding who gets to drive on the bridge. >> no, but on the george washington bridge-- christie decides. (cheers and applause) tim wu, thank you so much for joining me. tim wu, the master switch. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) 3.alal8úb@bkqd ,aq (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome back, everybody, thank you so much, folks. ladies and gentlemen, this show from day one of broadcast, this show has always been all about america. but i have recently learned that i have a global reach around. evidently there is a new tv show in china inspired by me. and by inspired by i mean inflagrant violation of intellectual property rights. jim? let's shock the conscience of a nation . >> stephen: i've been ripped off by the chinese! (laughter) folks, this is nothing short of wholesale theft. and i love it. (laughter) because only the biggest hits get chinese bootlegged. seinfeld knew he finally made it when china started airing high-pants petty jew. (laughter) now my knockoff, m

end of the first half, bank stays open late in brooklyn. zzer from inside half court. brooklyn up 7. 4th quarter, nets up one. steph curry in the lane. flips it with his right hand before garnett gets it off the ground. this is a live update, folks. this is a shocker, i think! golden state is down 96-93! one minute to go. oh!! brooklyn has been one of the most disappointing teams in the nba. but they remain in the mix for the play-offs in the eastern conference. forget divine intervention. according to kevin garnett, their savior is already on the roster, guard joe johnson. >> joe jesus as we like to call him. because when you call him, he might not be there when you call him but he is there when you need him. >> they need him right now. they are upsetting the warriors. while the warriors are trying to become the team with the best road record in history, the 49ers have the best road record in the nfl this season with another test coming up sunday in charlotte. san francisco lost earlier this year to the panthers but if they are uptight it's

that's how i got the brooklyn accent. >> jimmy: so the key to great acting is pretending you had a man cure. >> kt ai acting 101. >> jimmy: there's nothing worse than when someone does a bad brooklyn accent. >> it would be infuriating. almost as infuriating as the sound of an actual brooklyn accent. i love it. it's my favorite accent. >> jimmy: sure, sure, but everybody else hates it. i'll pass that along to my family. where are you from in australia? >> i'm from the gold coast. it's a coastal town in queensland, but my family is from a little country town called dolby. three hours inland. it's very small. >> jimmy: how small? >> very small country town. it's -- the big news when i go back everyone is like what's been happening to you? oh, i did a movie. what's been happening out you? we're getting a big w. it's the equivalent of target. for two years, all the town talked about was getting the big w. and then big w came and everybody would talk about how good big w was. so for a really long time, that's been what's happeni

bitter own you know i'm a knicks fan and now that the nets are in brooklyn a lot of my friends have jumped ship being net fans i will always be a knicks fan like of the knicks moved to l.a. i'd be in l.a. knicks fan it's not so much about where i'm from but now somebody's love with that franchise like you follow the dodgers the yankees you know when i grew up the yankees were awful in the eighty's like i suffered through the dave winfield all we really i was don mattingly that was it i mean i could go down that list of yankees in the eighty's and they were terrible so when i started feeling the success in the ninety's everyone thought i was a front runner but i just my mom was a yankee fan and i just grew up loving don that only i would talk about lone survivor in a minute less vegas and usual you got there of the kind of floaty yeah you know i've kind of play this character who is a convict frat boy and his job is to antagonize these to mt rushmore of acting as i like to call them and in their own douglas and it's kind of hard to be obnoxious to guys that you vitalized your whole life gro

their histor >>> the brooklyn nets had twice snapped ten-game win streaks in their history. do it a third time against the warriors who were hoping the secure the best road trip ever? were in nets colors, but warriors have 16 first quarter. andrew look at the slam but lee fades quickly. fourth kwaert, kevin garnet turned back the clock. he had 11 in the final frame. down the stretch, the warriors become sponsors of stone cold creamery. seth curry could not hit. andre, no. and then down three with 15 seconds left. seals the curry path. 102-98 is the final. the win streak ends at 10. warriors settle for 6 and 1 road strip. >> truth be told, none of us knew who actually held the record prior to us trying to chase it down, and the history that we're chasing after is bigger than the seven game, you know, road trip. >>> and a capper got dunk cammed by old lineman alex boone, jim harbaugh and the 49ers not feeling the pressure and the coach is sounding more like andy williams in preparation of sunday's game against the panthers. >> we can't have anymore fun. this is as much fun as

now, the brooklyn nets and the atlanta hawks. an away game tomorrow in london.ey are sold out. gone in about four hours. we had a chance to catch up with the ceo and we asked him about going global. >> we are excited to be here. our team has been here in london three out of the last seven years. we look at the market as being our home away from home. we love london and have been pretty successful here. we hope to have success tonight. >> in terms of money and building a global franchise? >> i do not look at it from a business perspective. i look at it if we can build a brand, can we build a halo around the team that speaks to audiences. that is our goal. we have the first global -- we played with brooklyn, 150 nationalities. aspire to be global. we take it one step at a time. we will ultimately be able to monetize it. think about our naming rights with our golding. a big bank here from the u.k., that was a start for us and gave us an incredible halo effect. we have been able to attract other global partners around the world and here in the u.k. it takes time to

. >> the brooklyn pipes keep me in business. the temperature is going to drop.o be a lot of work for me. >> the storm has caused a number of flight delays. 32 departures from sfo and 48 arrivals were canceled. oakland airport had two canceled flight and as always, passengers should check with their airlines before departing from the airport. >>> seems like the rest of the country is battling the weather, and here in the bay area it couldn't be nicer. we have sunshine, well, at least in the daytime we have the sunshine. warm temperatures. but we sure could use some rain around here and there's no sign of rain in the forecast, at least for the next seven days. perhaps a few sprinkles and that's about it. as we go in to tomorrow we have this weather system right here approaching from the west. it's going to increase high clouds across our skies tonight and make for a fairly cloudy day tomorrow. however, the storm is moisture-starved and what rain exists with this system is going to get shredded apart by the time this thing arrives. it's going to come on shore as a

. >> the brooklyn nets are on the road. this is no ordinary away game.cing off against the hawks. it is a home game for atlanta -- only it is in london. it is the national basketball association's eighth ever regular season game in england. the latest arduous step to take the franchise global. >> we looked at some of the assets we had. brooklyn itself, global brand. now we are at the point where we want to further leverage it and ultimately monetize it. >> the nba is already going global. the nets' owner is russian. some players are from europe. the hawks of the first macedonian. kevin garnett may be the biggest draw, but his chinese shoes are the business. >> move over, air jordan. >> the net say it is designed for it -- nets say it is designed for a global audience. the soccer players to not have much to worry about yet. >> invesco bobby big -- can basketball the big? >> it is big in russia, just not as big a soccer. >> it does have one fan it is hard to get a question in. big, it is hard to get a question and. >> i love it. >> the nets won the game. b

. >> reporter: today at his inauguration, the brooklyn native was sworn in by his one-time boss, presidentill clinton. few new yorkers knew who he was a year ago. but it changed following the compelling story of his mixed race family with his unapologetically liberal platform. >> bill de blasio will be forever a new yorker. >> reporter: he's working with animal rights activists to get rid of these horse-drawn carriages. his predecessor, michael bloomberg undoubtedly changed new york. he banned smoking in bars and restaurants and famously tried to outlaw big sugary drinks. there was a dramatic drop in crime, a record 333 murders in 2013, down from 2,245 in 1990, which bloomberg in partcredited the stop and frisk policy. de blasio has made a point of separating himself from bloomberg. >> if we can do things well, that their town, their city can do them well too. so everybody will be watching this guy. >> reporter: a new local leader who will succeed or fail on a national stage. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >>> and the city of detroit got a new mayor today. mike duggan was sworn in as

was joe johnson that did most of the damage and grabbed 25 points as brooklyn ran out 103 to 81. d vancouver coach for 15 days for his conduct following the vertebral been the canooks and the flames and started with ten players and dropping gloves two seconds in the first period and 8 of them ejected and the canooks coach who will miss ten games after attempting to get in the locker room during intermission and his actions were dangerous and embarrassing. american athlete jones is perhaps best known for being a top hurdler competing in beijing and he will go for winter olympics in sochi and will be on the bob shred team and the 4 by 100 rely team. a happy ending to the jamaica bid to reach the game and offered to pay for the two men squad travel cost, this is the first jamaica bob shred team to qualify for the winter olympics since 2002. that is a look at that. ♪ ♪ the second cold snap of the year has officially arrived, millions of americans are waking up to brutally cold temperatures and in the northeast they are bracing for another serious snowstorm. iran will not be taking par

he appeared in the title role of shakespeare's epic tragedy at the brooklyn school of music through februaryth. i am pleased to call him a friend and pleased to have him back at this table. >> good to be here. >> good to see you and having seen the performance i agree with all of those critics who are raving about what you brought to it. so i want to know, what have you brought to this role and what has this role brought to you? >> well, i think one of the first things i brought to it is fear of death which i never had before in any, in any of the decades of my life and at 76 if you don't begin to think about think about it you are nuts. so when i read the play, i thought, okay, i am closer to the end than to the beginning, what is it about this man i most want to investigate? and it was the quality in me that i don't particularly like, it is very much in him and very much in a lot of people, which is existing for your metaphor ical crown, whatever it . whether it is your money or your success or your sex appeal or your power, most of us live behind a mask. a persona that is not really just

freshman, the brooklyn 99 claim the best club. tervwingor.aob. thatne.one. e onwho ems ke hs alrey gothe job 'cau he udieall e rit ursefromhe g-go. d th's aaccotant a mo a unersi of oeni sclarsp repient, who ed o unie --ratcthat awese caer-pnnintool and at's stunt, rkinlate th aay j, tang crseslign th t industry 's aing be . rey touildn edatio arnd t carr at y wan les geto wk. ♪ wita da of lt, th mwone loveou mt ♪ we'll have more on what's next for her the 49ers who took a astonishing victory continuing their journey to the super bowl. with just one game in a flock of birds standing in their way. we will tell you what to expect for the week ahead is the niners get ready to take on the seahawks.

> thank you for being here. >> and i forgive you for that tie. >> frank langella, king lear at the brooklynemy of music. go. thank you for joining us. see you next time. ♪ >> live from pier 3 in san francisco, welcome to "bloomberg west" where we cover the global technology and media companies that are reshaping our world. our focus is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. we start today with venture capital legend tom perkins who set off controversy after he compared the war on the rich in america to the persecution of

running around me you know we're always on the grind grind grind when we grind our own meat and began to fans right beginning fans i'm a bit of fan we're brooklyndodger fans will l.a. dodgers to our live group at the dodgers i grew up with the brooklyn dodgers when i was a duke snider mania new jackie robinson i was at his first game really is it true you hire homocysteine this guy right here a couple of years ago. he started a foundation three amazing. where you know he's able to actually change change people's lives and take people that haven't had a great opportunity and give them give them what what they need in life to actually succeed it's pretty special you know we started something called me ball heroes you know and as a restaurant in new york city we always get asked by so many different charities to participate and we always do participate and then about a year and a half ago i said you know we participate in so many different charities would be really nice to sort of focus on something that we feel is personal touch to and so the covenant house in new york city is a shelter where they where they housed homeless youth and body works t

almost 22% of the population of brooklyn lives in poverty. while the causes of this polarization are complex, i believe they're not insurmountable. the people of brooklyn have started to stand up and demand action on the issue. we know that the wage stagnation contributes largely to income disparities, so let's raise the minimum wage. we know that education is the true ladder of opportunity in our communities, so let's make the vital investments in education. we know that unemployment insurance is not only an essential tool for individuals, a bridge to find new work, but it is also a stimulus to our local businesses. so let us extend unemployment insurance. most importantly, we must make every effort to make sure that no american is allowed to fall through our social safety net. and that we, as their national representives, truly look out for those who have been driven deeper into desperation and poverty by the recent financial crisis. so our message today is simple. the economic disparity that has creeped across our nation is threatening amer

. >>> in the nba, longtime celtics' paul pierc and kevin garnet return to boston as brooklyn nets.big hand from the brooklyn nets and they helped beat the boston celtics, 85-79. >>> in miami, a rematch of last year's finals. chris bosh scored 24 points as the heat handle the san antonio spurs, 113-101. the spurs are now a game and a half behind the west, leading oklahoma thunder. >>> and more than 50,000 fans showed up at yankee stadium to watch hockey. it was the first nhl game played at the stadium. the new york rangers scored the last six goals to beat the new jersey devils, 7-3. the opening face-off was delayed, though, an hour because of a dangerous glare on the ice. >>> when we return, grammy gold. daft punk takes home the big awards at last night's ceremony while beyonce and jay-z heat up the stage. beyonce and jay-z heat up the stage. ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ [ male announcer ] the beautifully practical and practically beautiful cadillac srx. lease this 2014 cadillac srx for around $319 a m

nba, paul pierce and kevin garnett returning to boston for the first time since being traded to the brooklyncene at boston garden sunday. both players given video tributes throughout the game. pierce and garnett knew this game would be difficult. pierce said it was the most difficult game he's ever played. harder than any game seven. neither played very well. neither shot very well. pierce had six points. garnett had six points. but the nets win on the road, 85-79. >>> to miami. nba finals rematch. heat and spurs. san antonio in miami for the first time since losing game seven. miami led throughout, wire to wire. led by as many as 29. chris bosh finding lebron james in transition. watch the difficult angle for james. nearly behind the backboard. he had 18. chris bosh leading the way with 24. heat win over the spurs. >>> we'll be covering the super bowl all week long on "sportscenter." a lot to check out. and of course, "sportscenter" will bring it to you, beginning live, 9:00 a.m. on espn. >> all right, guys, thanks. >>> up next, the pulse. we're about the grammys. the winners and the perfor

the brooklyn. welcome back you're watching aren't here a national live from moscow now low income families in new york are feeling the pinch of a so-called sequester they are mad multibillion dollar spending cuts which kicked in last year after congress failed to agree a budget people are being told to find smaller and cheaper apartments or see their rent skyrocket are not met one of them is my brother and his family and inside and brown's home this is home for me a lifetime of memories are displayed everywhere you look one of my friends went in with me doing this is eighty three year old has lived in her one bedroom new york city apartment for thirty seven years this is the first played out for mercy from h.p.d. but it's a few months ago city officials told her she has to downsize her options move into a studio apartment or see your seven hundred dollar rent triple the only thing i know is they heard the word sequester whatever that means you have access to this ng is the city agency that subsidize

he had to deal with the brooklyn court system, to manage her finances, because he wasn't capable of doing it on her own. he had to deal with the doctors or whatever santarian she called home at the time. he did this while putting himself through medical school. he was face to face with madnd there too. he studied under the named neurology walter freeman. if you have heard of him, it's probably because he's the man who introduced lo bot my in the united. it has a rather sinister reparation. much is well deserved. at the time you have to understand in the 30s it was seen of a package of bold psychiatric treatment trying to -- when he serve as a psychiatric treating mental exa carolty at the front line. i'm going read you about what the job entailed in world war ii. after two years of brutal conflict the casualty remarkably high. officials came to terms with the fact that all men pushed hard enough in combat had a breaking point. in november of 1943 they arranged if are single psychiatric to join each tuition and action. they were responsible for the mental health of troops over the full cou

. >> you can catch them at the brooklyn academy of music through february 9. only a bloomberg television, so tune in. hart's police company right along was a win -- ride along was a win. the only wide release debut over the weekend. do you ever wonder how movies control the weather, like how you get a blizzard going during a scene? here is the man who makes the snow. >> mother nature is pretty unpredictable. a lot of times, she does not come through. we are standing by to make sure it happens. ice at and shape block rate of 800 pounds a minute. and then we paint everything with the ice. frozen particles of ice. is extremely warm, plt,so we use water scu or snow foam. >> fargo used your snow. >> fargo was an interesting movie. about half of that motion picture is man-made snow. we were up in minnesota, and they had one of those winters where it wasn't cooperating too well. there are many places up and down streets and fields and parking lots. the academy of motion pictures, they gave you an oscar for snowmaking. theack in the earlier days, only thing we had as f

and the knicks lost to local rivals the brooklyn nets. it was their fourth defeat in a row. e out of it from the start. it was joe johnson that did most of the damage. he grabbed 25 points as brooklyn won out 103-80. >>> the nfl has suspended vancouver coach for 15 days for his conduct following the brawl wheen the canucks and flames. ten players dropped their gloves just two minutes into the second period. the nhl say the coach's actions were dangerous and embarrassing. >>> low low jones is perhaps best known for being a top hurdler, completing in both the bay sheen and london olympics. but now she will go for gold at the winter olympics in sochi. she has been selected to join the bobsled team. >>> and that is all of the sport for now. steven. >> jo thank you. i which i had been there for tennis. brilliant game. stay with us, much more news to come in the next half hour. stay with us on al jazeera. ♪ >>> welcome to al jazeera america. i'm del walters. these are the stories we are following for you. >> we are going to go there and try to minimize the suffering of the syrian p

was at london's o two arena where the brooklyn nets remain undefeated in three games after beating the atlanta hawks one hundred twenty seven point two one hundred ten for joe johnson scored twenty nine points and andray blatche added twenty to make it three wins from three zero through also between the toronto raptors is that twice in two thousand and eleven atlantis col cooler extended his record of scoring three pointers to one hundred nights consecutive games after sinking to travel at the tent with eight minutes to go to all the new n.b.a. deputy commissioner adam silver is considering creating a european division. once we have in place that core infrastructure arenas there's an opportunity to potentially have a division here we know the interesting. this you know i've been i wrote down in. in that tape they played i couldn't agree more with le bron who said the number one sports brand in the world i think that's a great way to capture the n.b.a. so we see opportunity there's no question. now moving on to the second tier euro cup where russian team him key brushed aside is ready c

it is the highest level in 11 by recordkeeping firms. rents are also rising in brooklyn. re to discuss this real estate the man behind the edge property on the waterfront. jeffrey, thank you for being here. much appreciated. i want to start out with a little bit of your history. you're from brooklyn originally. he moved to queens. -- you move to queens. now you're headquartered in brooklyn. tell us about the company. in development as we graduated from doing construction for others to participating in development deals and then taking over the developments ourselves. i went to city college at night. i graduated from the new york city school system. very proud of that. i started working with the agencies in new york. with very little capital, we were able to do larger and larger projects. experience in growth in expandreas enabled us to into new market areas and we continue to do a blend of affordable and market rate development. we had the opportunity to do our relationships with various agencies to construct affordable and new homes in brooklyn, essentially in the area of

the first thing that i saw was the world trade center, driving down the brooklyn creek expressway. --ieldsage building lls you. did you ever think you would be designing the stamps that would be used in the imagery all over the world? >> not at all. i'm still thinking, is this a dream? what a dream job this is, that the united postal service has given me and you knock -- a unique opportunity to showcase my art and my culture to the world. >> why you? >> to this day, i do not know. ,omeone, a talented designer called me -- , and inrking on the koi the process of that project, they asked me by the way, they are wanting to do a second series of the lunar new year's day up. -- stamp. and they wanted me to come up with a concept, and that is how it got started. >> were any designs rejected? tradition,ed the using the animal from the chinese zodiac, and the first step was the year of the rat -- stamp was the year of the rat, and i thought something was missing from that concept. and so i came up with an idea with the encouragement of the wanted toor, that i use the traditional element of ye

the brooklyn bridge buried. iconic skyscrapers, barely poking through. >>> and next, tonight, we were amazed by this story off the virginia coast today. the pilot of a navy f-18 fighter jet, ejecting, thousands of feet in the sky. falling into the ocean. and somehow, miraculously, a fishing boat is there to save him. here's abc's pierre thomas. >> reporter: this navy pilot is being raced to the hospital tonight, after narrowly averting death. he had been flying an fa-18 supersonic jet, 15 miles off the coast of virginia beach, likely soaring 30,000 feet over the ocean. something goes terribly wrong. he pulls the emergency ejector lever in his cockpit. >> and that handle's going to be like a rocket ride. so, it's a very, very violent occurrence. >> reporter: the plane's canopy blows off. and the pilot, still attached to his seat, is ejected. you can see the force in this training video. as he plummets in the cold, wintry air, his parachute automatically deploys. his seat detaches as he falls into the atlantic ocea

he would leave the house and walk through queens passed the newly built brooklyn bridge to lower manhattan where his offices were and say hello, geology, fellow geologist, i've just been on this field trip, i'm going to be a couple of weeks. he would write up his notes and live in a hotel in what is now tribeca, and then after a few weeks he would say goodbye to go to another filter, walk back across the brooklyn bridge, resume his identity as james todd, say hello, darling. at the heads of his children, two of whom not particularly surprise, were white. and resume his life and give her the tips he allegedly had earned on the train. this continued for 20 years, and got into terrible financial trouble to get to borrow money from the secretary of state, a great friend of his but he also went very mad at one paid and he had some quite hard. i think that was the lions cage of the central park zoo and had to be put in a silent for a couple of weeks. eventually he fill out with tuberculosis and was sent down to albuquerque to convalesce, but actually to die. and he confessed to his doctor, the o

heart of in the brooklyn. this cvs literally just reopened for business moments ago. his is an icon in the neighborhood and a historic landmark. and it wasn dangles surrounded by smashed glass and twisted metal. >> i thought it was an accident. >> it was intentional. the front entrance of the -- of the cvs was obliterated by thieves who use the van to break-in. i was toldot home they heard a loud noise. >> that sound happened at 4 a.m. when the thieves broke -- drove the van it through the entrance. the stork landmark was now a crime scene. the criminals stole the atm inside the cvs and loaded it into the van. you may remember a similar crime last summer at gas stations in prince george's county. can getcrazy people away with that here. >> catholic university students used to congregate around here but it recently had a fire. >> i can get my medicine. >> customers started to show up one after another. out and got the much-needed medicine out. >> i needed my prescription. >> she did get that prescription filled for her husband. -- it was a white van and was last seen dr