and this week became the tallest building in manhattan as they are working towards the completion date of construction. i'm back. so much is in a political context because of the campaign, whether it's osama bin laden or the war in afghanistan. you're somebody who cares a lot about politics but hasn't been involved until 2008 when you talked about your inspiration and support for president obama. are you as inspired and satisfied with what he's done as president as he stands for re-election. >> you know, it's very easy to criticize people. i think he's done a good job. he's done other things that maybe he should have been stronger about. people will complain but it's not easy to be president of the united states. and he -- it was pointed out in the new york times in the last sunday weekend rereview about all of the things he did as far as bin laden and other things that he stepped up being a liberal president supposedly. that were effective. not always -- you know, there's always the negative side of that but he took the chance to do it and he did it. and ultimately with bin laden. wha

the u.s. washington heights in manhattan is the heart of the demand -- of the dominican diaspora.has become such a powerful bloc, that both candidates of the dominican presidential election have campaign here. every vote from the u.s. could be crucial. >> here, there's no possibility of buying off anyone. that is why our votes here are hard to get. >> but the community in washington heights is also targeting washington, d.c. ♪ >> he started his political career in this neighborhood. he could become the first dominican american congressman. his campaign is focusing on hispanic issues. >> this particular election is defining what we will do in the next 10-20 years. what we do as a state, as a country, when we have a diverse population, an immigrant population that is growing more importance in the country? >> much more latino and african- american. it is a shift that could challenge rep rango. dominican american voters are enjoying their new-found influence in both countries. >> a team of ski fliers of the first to descend it please mount etna. it is a combination of pair of lightin

the u.s. washington heights in manhattan is the heart of the dominican diaspora. the community has become such a powerful voting bloc that candidates in the presidential election have campaigned hre. in a close race -- campaigned here. in a close race, every vote can be crucial. hre, there is no -- here, there is no possibility of buying off anyone. the community of washington heights is targeting washington, d.c. he started his political career in this neighborhood. he could become the first dominican-american congressman. his campaign is focusing on hispanic issues. >> i think this election is about defining what we will do in the next 10 years, 20 years. what we do with the state, the country -- what will we do with a state, a country that is becoming more and more diverse? >> that may play well in a district that is now much more latino and african-american. it is a shift that could challenge the veteran black congressman, charles rangel, who has represented the district for decades. dominican-american voters are enjoying their new found interest from both cou

the votes of those living in the manhattan neighborhood of washington heights could tip the election balcombe. -- back home. ♪ >> the music is dominican. but this political rally is taking place in new york. more than 100,000 people are registered to vote in sunday's dominican republic president election. >> we are very close to our culture. even if we are in different places. >> politics is like this music for us. it is something traditional, like sports. it is in our blood. >> there are pragmatic reasons for getting involved, too. we want to make sure that things are going well. >> dominicans in new york remain attached to their culture of origin. they are becoming more influential. washington heights in manhattan is the heart of the dominican community. both candidates in the presidential election have campaigned here. in a close race, every vote from the u.s. could be crucial. >> there is no possibility of buying off anyone. that is why our votes are hard to get. >> but the community in washington heights is targeting washington, d.c. he started his political career in his neighb

now marks the resurgence of the occupy wall street movement thousands of activists flooded the streets of manhattan picking up where the grass roots coalition left off in the form of demonstrations taking place throughout the entire city including bryant park union square and wall street repeating the message that they have been saying over and over again voicing their outrage against wealth inequality in the united states against him for influence on u.s. politics an affordable higher education and health care in the u.s. and the ongoing jobs crisis that ninety nine percent of americans are dealing with ninety nine lines were set up throughout manhattan were active this were protesting outside of banks and the offices of us corporations and multinational corporations once the sun went down the thousands gathered at veterans memorial plaza in lower manhattan literally occupying the property many were organizing and demonstrating with respect to their issues but once ten pm came the n.y.p.d. stormed through the plaza evacuating it to literally forcing the activists to leave arresting some pushing ma

manuel gallegus climbed about 800 feet for this story. >> reporter: the cover in lower manhattan reachedew heights with the placement of this steel beam. tl first column of the 100th floor of the one world trade center now stands 21 feet taller than the empire staid building. >> it's inspirational, and it's going to make a lot of people happy. >> reporter: it took a while but eventually at a rate of a floor every week the tower started to alter manhattan's skyline. locals and tourists marvel at the structure. the milestone comes close to the one-year anniversary of the death of osama bin laden. >> you're not going to stop america. we're going to rebuild. we're going to keep on going. >> it sends chills up and down your spine when you think about what happened. >> reporter: from here on the 71st building you get a real sense of how massive this structure is and how tall it is. take a look at this panoramic view of all of new york. something that's noticeable different from the original twin towers is that the building is all glass. windows, floor to ceiling all the way around. the tower i

i met marv morganthau, the famed manhattan attorney completely by chance. i was wandering the halls of my law school wllhen i spied a tab of food in the back of the room and decided to sit in to hear bob, the last speaker being introduced. at the food line -- >>> the rest of justice sotomayor's speech you can watch anytime on c-span. we're back at capitol hill, the subcommittee hearing, returning from a series of votes on the house floor here and getting under way. live coverage here on c-span3.

it's intuitive. >> heather macdonald at the manhattan institute. ou speak about the intuitive appeal of the argument the government can solve our problems. there is another very intuitive and appealing argument that popular these days which is that growing inequality is a serious problem for society. you agree with the data that shows it is going on and that there has been stagnation the lubber half of the population and do you think that it is a problem either to the extent that it's the result of government policies or what is what is it simply was the natural result of the capitalist society that we would have this increasing inequality would you say that is a problem? >> as a libertarian i would say no it isn't a problem. if people are free there are some that would have much more than others. but as a human being i say it's a problem. it's why they are writing in chile. one of the big reasons is income inequality and education. i am annoyed that he gets more money than i have. i want some, and i should have that, and it's just a part of human n

we'll be right back. >>> the tallest building in new york is once again in lower manhattan. one world trade center has surpassed the empire state building. manuel gallegus explains. >> reporter: the recovery in lower manhattan reached new heights with the placement of this steel beam. the first column of the 100th floor of one world trade center now stands at 1271 feet high, 21 feet taller than the empire state building. >> it's inspirational and it's going to make a lot of people happy. >> reporter: it took a while after september 11 for construction to get started, but eventually at a rate of a new floor every week, the tower started to alter manhattan's skyline. locals and tourists marveled at the structure. the milestone comes close to the one-year anniversary of the death of osama bin laden. >> you're not going to stop america. we're going to rebuild. we're going to keep on going. >> sends chills up and dower your spine when you -- and down your spine when you think about what happened. >> reporter: you get a real sense of just how massive this structure is and how tall

remember, it was the english that made all of manhattan contiguous with the borders of new york city but it only existed in the lower part of the island and in 1800 with 60,000 people once you got to 14th street you were in upstate, new york. now, that changes on the left is a civil war era print and an aerial view of new york and by the civil war era the city expanded to about 60th street and central park at the top of the slide being built at the northern edge of the city. that is about 1860, 1868. on the right is an aerial view of the five burrough city in 1910 and the area we're covering today, we turned from a single island city into a five bu bureau city and the next part of westchester and staten island as well. here is a city in 1900 this city has 3.5 million people, a million and three quarters live in manhattan. about a million and a quarter live in brooklyn alone. by 1940 we're going to have 8 million people in the city. now, this means tremendous growth, and it also means that this city is on the verge of becoming a world capital and we knew it. this era is the era americ

diane, the economy of lower manhattan has changed and a lot is rebounding. where does today? rong. it was partly the commitment. it's interesting how well it did in the wake of how many financial sector jobs were lost in na area. in one week's time between september 14th and september 21st, 2008, wall street as we knew it disappeared. there was a major change. yet, downtown manhattan is still doing okay. some of that we can debate why, but they're coming back. we talk about all the politics here and we've had conversations in between the breaks about how many solutions are being done locally and how the economy is being helped at the local level by community college palencia and state colleges to train people to get the jobs that they actually have job offers for out there. that's where you have to have hope. i never give up in the economy, and i'm a survivor of the world trade center. it's emotional for me to see that. you never give up. i saw hope. >> we'll leave it there. thank you all very much. >> we'll leave it there. thank you all very much. perfect conversation. -- cap

th,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> the tallest building in new york city is once again in lower manhattan. one world tweets center surpassed the empire state building today with the placement of that steel beam. workers are still adding floors to the tower at a blistering pace. but the milestone today means more than just bragging rights for the building. manuel gallegus tells us that it comes to us that of another milestone in american history. >> the recovery in lower manhattan reached new heights with the placement of this steel beam. the first column of a 100 floor of one world trade center now stands 1207 1 ft. high. 21 ft. taller than the empire state building. >> it is inspirational, and it is going to make a lot of people happy. >> it took awhile after september 11th for construction to get started but eventually at a rate of 14 per week the tower started to alter the manhattan skyline. locals and tourists marvel at the structure. the milestone comes close to the one-year anniversary of the death of a osama bin laden. >> america is going to rebuild and keep going >> it sends chills

. >> he drives to a stroll, the area where street prostitutes work. on manhattan'sast side and picks up a young drug-addicted woman named susie. >> his mother is away on a business trip. he drives her out to long island to the home he grew up in, where he played with his sister, where he still lives with his mother. he plans on just having sex, although this fantasy of killing somebody is in his head like it always is. >> we were going back to stroll. she wanted a cop again. so i took her to the drug spot. then i still wanted to do something with her, so we went out to the house. she got high in the bathroom again. >> he has sex with susie. she wants to sleep. she wants more drugs. she wants more money. you know, she's not cooperating. >> you've been with her for quite a while, as you describe, 10 to 11 hours. and she essentially has really been much more interested in getting drugs than -- >> yeah, getting drugs and sleeping. >> getting drugs and sleeping? >> yep. any spots around here we can get something? >> drugs? >> yeah. no, we have to go back to the city. i d

. >> reporter: prosecutors at the manhattan district attorney's office are proceeding with caution. even with the alleged confession, it will be difficult to corroborate hernandez's story. the story as given also leaves police no closer to knowing where to look for a body. the new twist comes just a month after the cold case drew headlines when police dug up a basement in the same neighborhood where etan disappeared. that lead turned cold but the renewed publicity may have led to this break. investigators say they were tipped to hernandez just days ago when someone he'd confided in called police. hernandez had lived in new jersey since the early 1980s and his family members left his home this afternoon under police escort without commenting. hernandez has a trail of arrests for minor charges including bad checks, drunk driving, and at least one charge of domestic violence. we spoke to people who lived in the maple shade community. >> all we can tell you is they were normal neighbors. they were. they were the normal neighbors. >> pelley: john, you said it would be hard for the police

manuel gallegus has more. >> reporter: the recovery in manhattan reached new heights. the first column of the 1 u.n.th "owe 100th floor of one world center was placed. it took a while after september 11 for construction to get started, but eventually at a rate of a new floor every week, the tower started to alter manhattan's skyline. locals and tourists marveled at the structure. the milestone comes close to the one-year anniversary of the death of osama bin laden. >> you're not going to stop america. we're going to rebuild. we're going to keep on going. >> sends chills up and down your spine when you think about what happened. >> reporter: from here on the 71st floor of the building, you get a real sense of just how massive this structure is and how tall it is. take a look at this panoramic view of all of new york. something that's noticeably different from the original twin towers is that the building is all glass. windows, floor to ceiling all the way around. the tower is one of several buildings under construction at the site which is also home to the national septe

[laughter] [cheers and applause] >> i am very grateful to the manhattan institute. we're happy to be speaking to the audience. even c-span is here tonight. a style of non-partisan chip which is for the american media. excluded from cnn. [laughter] but i am told i am an extremist. but to refer to the president is the stealth socialists. to have that hat in hand asking which words i can apply to the self socialist. some things about my fund -- about my book the death of liberalism in has a have it of slipping away. the holy roman empire had lost on the potentate of europe that the empire was not wholly or roll man o' war and empire. there was a lot of colorful uniforms but nobody took notice. not even in the swords. the empire had a gaggle of principalities and nation states. now catholic europe may be mentioned in a remote geography class as catholic year. political domain of bishops and pope's for over a century it never really recovered from world war i. when churchill said i have not become the team's first minister in order to preside over liquidation of the briti

remember i mentioned to you that even vice president harry truman had not been kept informed of the manhattan project. one of them is, there's a few things you need to know. we've been working on a bomb. it's the biggest, baddest bomb around. here in potsdam, truman gets the word that it works. we have successfully detonated an atomic bomb. it works. and so he goes over to stalin and says to him, yeah, hitler's been defeated. we want to cooperate with you, but i need to let you in on a little secret. the secret is, we're going to end this war with japan because we have an atomic weapon, the likes of which, again, the world has never seen. that was supposed to be news to stalin. it wasn't. he already knew. really ironic, our own vice president harry truman was sort of kept in the dark about the whole development. yet, stalin already knew. we already have soviet spies in the united states who had passed information along to stalin that we were working on it, we were close to it. he already knew we were very close to having a successful nuclear weapon. well, what truman's going to do then is to

prosecutors at the manhattan district attorneys office are preceding with caution. even with the alleged confession it will be difficult to corroborate hernandez's story the story as given also leaves police no closer to knowing where to look for a body. the new twist comes just a month after the cold case drew headlines when police dug up a basement in the same neighborhood where etan disappeared. that lead turned cold, but the renewed publicity may have led to this break. >> the individual that gave is the information came forward because of the recent notoriety on the case. >> hernandez had lived in new jersey since the early 1980s. and his family members left the home this afternoon under police escort, without commenting. he did tell others about it. >> in the years following etan's disappearance, hernandez had told a family member and others that he thd, quote, done a bad thing, and killed a child in new york. ol john, you said it would w do thefor the police to corroborate the confession after all these years. how do they go about doing that. >> reporter: scot

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