there's a milk strike in new york city. the upstate dairies can't get the milk into new york city. they then have a milk strike upstate where the producers won't ship it to new york city. well, none of this is within the purview of the governor's powers. the governor tries to get his department of farms and markets to act. they don't act because they don't report to the governor because the governor has no power over his own departments. hearst won't take this answer. he says you're moving too slow on municipal ownership. you're the governor. make the legislature do this. they won't do this. smith goes head to head with him. october 29th, 1919, he takes the stage at carnegie hall and has it out with hearst. he has a debate. invites hearst to the debate. hearst won't show up to the debate. he goes to sam simeon and buys more art work. smith goes and probably loses control, red in the face, screams and yells about this man and unmasks hearst. hearst ironically comes out and backs smith for re-election. smith wants nothing to do with it. he battles again in 1922. smith is going to make

go to the upland and work by gravity." and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built up

right, this for every ghetto in the hood, nasty nas, you understood ♪ (cheers and applause) the don, main new york cityapplause) >> stephen: nas, the album is "life is good" the number-zero album in america. good night, everybody. (cheers and applause) dennis: frank, i'd like to thank you for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime. frank: whatever. i hope they have some cool, exotic creatures for us to fiddle around with and play with. mac: dennis, we're going to an animal rights event. there's gonna be all sorts of exotic creatures there. - you think so? - sweet dee: oh. they better have some cool stuff at this thing. i mean, the money i laid out for this charity-- they could have built a zoo. yeah. actually, guys, zoos are animal prisons. see, i've been boning up on my animal rights literature so i can have some talking points with chase. he's a big animal rights lover, and he's gonna be there. security is not gonna let you go anywhere near chase utley, bro. those creepy letters you've been writing him? you've got to be on a list somewhere. what are you giving me (bleep) for, okay? - oh! - dee's the

harlem. >> this community would be even more cut off from the rest of new york, were it not for a train, which connected to the rest of the city>> [unintelligible] >> ♪ all the board >> without the subway, new york city does not exist. if it does not run or succeed, neither does new york. ♪ >> adam and kenneth, exploring a train. if you have not been to new york city, it is a well worth a journey, taking you the length and breadth of new york city. well, that brings the show to a close. even update these stories any time on our website. more of us here on "bbc world news america," thank you for watching. >> makes sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu, newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, we work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture new ventures and provide capital for key strategic decisions. we offer expertise and tailored solutions in a wide range of industries. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was brought to you by kcet, los angeles.

, because, often, new york city is the butt of a few jokes hot seat again, for now, banning dancing in public spaces. specifically down in those subway platforms. >> dave: at least one particular instance they did. this couple you see here, 54 and 55 years old were arrested and detained for 23 hours for, yes, dancing. they were doing it, though on a subway platform. and they were detained for that. >> alisyn: because they had gone to hear jazz at lincoln center and went to hear midsummer night's swing and were in the mood to swing dance and had, you know, just sort of trimmed the light fantastic in new york and they were struck by the mood to dance in the subway and police didn't like it. police said they were in fact impeding the flow of traffic. >> dave: here's the bottom line... the crazy part of this, right? it wasn't that they started dancing randomly like a bunch of weirdos. which happens in new york, no, there were steel drums, a guy was playing steel drums on the platform in columbus circle which is a massive suggest way area. a lot o

the people that couldn't get away. they wanted a adirondacks or catskills in new york city. eaten path, you would have no idea you're in new york city. >> these steps are really tight. this is so beautiful. amazing. >> it is one of the great new york city views that not many people get to take advantage of. i am always shocked they never have been to the belvedere castle. it is a beautiful view in italian and when you go back 170 years ago, this was nothing but just a landscape. everything you see in central park is completely man made. every tree had to be brought in. all the soil had to be broad in. the only thing ohmstead and fox really used were the giant rock out crops of manhattan ships and everything was built around that. >> what's the most expensive part of the maintenance of the park? what would peel be surprised at? >> at the end of the day we don't own anything, don't capitalize anything. our greatest asset is the people that work in the park. we have over 35 statues in the park and every one is different and all of those have to be maintain and had taken care of.

>> so, then, i went to work for the new york city government. i started out in the budget division, where i was the first person to be general counsel of the new york city budget bureau as it was then called. now called the office of management and budget. and after a year there the corporation counsel brought me up to be the chief of the consumer protection division in the law department. so, when i went to work on the impeachment inquiry, i left being chief of the consumer protection division to go to work on the impeachment inquiry. >> tell us how that happened, who called you? >> so, i had had this job through the quincy administration, the corporation counsel guy i enjoyed a lot and enjoyed working for, and lindsay, his term was over. ed beam had become mayor and i wasn't, you know, violently opposed to beamon anyway, but it didn't seem like it would be quite so surprising. i did not have a political job. i served at the pleasure of the corporation counsel. and i don't -- there was never any sense that he wanted me to leave, but i thought ma

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tammany, absolutely the most powerful force, certainly in new york city politics at that moment, but really in new york state democratic politics as well. >> john evers, how did tammany hall fit into the 1928 election? >> that was the brush that painted smith into a corner. we talk about the religion issue. this started at the convention in 1928. tammany hall would go to the conventions, and they'd always have -- as we said, new york was a key state. they would nominate the democratic candidates. in fact, many elections we had both a democratic candidate and republican candidate from new york state like teddy roosevelt ran in 1924 against alton brooks barker, the chief judge in new york state. tammany hall was always seen as the corrupt machine. it was seen as boss tweed, people like william jennings bryan would rant and rave about tammany. he wanted their votes, but didn't want a tammany man there. they didn't want them pulling the strings. eventually smith is the tammany man and the candidate. it shocked many of the people within the democratic party. >> al smith lost new york in th

. >> the man who blew the lid off the new york city surveillance operations we in new jersey. for many months we have talked about the new york city police department spying on muslims that do not list in new york city or even new york state but across the river in new jersey. the associated press sued to get the information. a man was confused of what he found. listen to this tape. >> we have been doing the five year inspection. and came across an apartment where there is some suspicious activity. >> suspicious activity? >> suspicious in the sense the apartment has about, it has no furniture. two beds. has in -- no clothing. has new york city police department radios. there are computers in there. computer hardware and software. just laying around. there are pictures of terrorists. this are pictures of our neighboring buildings. >> in that town? >>shepard: the call sent local police and the f.b.i. rushing to this participate. nobody reportedly told the feds that the nypd was if town. jonathan hunt has this. remind us what this operation was all about. >>jonathan: it was an ant

the people who couldn't get away. they wanted them to have mountains in new york city. p in the north woods and get off the bebeaten paths, you would have no idea you're in new york city. >> wow, these steps are so tit. this is beautiful, amazing. >> this is o of new york city's great views that not many people get to take advantage of. and i'm shocked that they don't get to take advantage of belvedere castle, that is beautiful in italian. everything you see in central park is completely manmade. every tree had to be brought in. all the soil was brought in. the only thing they brought in, the ships, everything was built around that. >> so what is the most expensive part of the maintenance of the park? what would people are surprised at? >> at the end of the day we don't own anything, our greatest asset is the people in e park. we have over 35 statues, a of those are different. people maintain them. people come in the park to see the statues and the 23,000 trees. people come in the park just to see the bridges and arches. this is really a neat restoration of the park. >>

narrator: sandhogs are the men of local 147, who work deep below the city. they began building the infrastructure of new york in 1872. from the subways to the sewers, the water tunnels to the highway tunnels, new york city thrives because of their work. ryan: you got one little hole in the ground, and nobody knows we're here. see the empire state building, right. that's 1,000 feet. so you figure, you go down 1,000. how high that is -- that's how far we go down. narrator: stretching more than 60 miles under the city, tunnel 3 is taking generations of workers to complete. ryan: i don't even want to imagine what my father had to go through. when we first started, it was a rough job. everything was dynamite. now, they have these machines called "moles." it's like a big drill, and it just cuts right through the ground. so there's no more dynamite. and it's still a rough job, but it's gotten to a point where it's a lot safer. in the '70s, we lost a man a mile basically. here, maybe we've had two or three deaths in the last 20 years, which is too much anyway, but it's cut down a lot. hurwitz: city tunnel number 3 w

hives up here after i took his course. >> this is the third year that we've been able to keep bees legally in new york since the '90s. and the new york city beekeeper's association had a substantial role in bringing about the legalization. i sat in with doh. i helped write the best practices guide for urban bee keeping. we have close relationships with law enforcement. n.y.p.d. calls us. n.y.f.d. calls us. >> there's a unique challenge because bee keeping was illegal for so long. and many people didn't know how to properly work a beehive. >> i'm just one of the drones who help run it. our mission is to promote healthy, good, responsible bee keeping in new york city. as perhaps a poster boy for urban bee keeping, i almost hate to say it, but i don't know that it east's terribly important fo urban bee keeping to exist. there are 250 types of bees flying around new york city without us. so in terms of pollinating community gardens, i don't think they're necessary. but i think they greatly enhance our lives here. >> i have maybe a dozen or 15 customers in new york city. >> yes, ma'am? >> what's the best thing that we can do to make them most

the new york department of correction was bernard kerik. his get-tough on crime policies have continued today. the new york city department of corrections says the result is a remarkable 90% decrease in violence at rikers, which has led to a substantial reduction in the inmate population. five years later, our cameras went back inside rikers to see how this once infamous jail has re-invented itself. >> i've got friends here. i have acquaintances. you don't come here to make friends. >> i know i should have at least 80 something arrests, close to 100 arrests, and i've been here at least about 30 or 40 times. >> it is not a pleasant living space. we're not comfortable. we make ourselves feel comfortable to ease the fact that we're in jail. >> the inmates call rikers the rock. the penal colony. iraq island. the guards call it the meanest precinct in america. welcome to rikers island jail. >> it is easy to get cut up, stabbed, murdered, raped. all type of things you have to deal with in here. if everybody's thinking that this is all good, this is something coming and this is something to try, this is not the thing

the city billions of dollars a year in health care costs. critics say the measure is misguided and an unfair limit on consumers' choices. the new york city board of health will take a final vote on the plan in september. >>> turning to campaign 2012 now. following the colorado movie massacre, the tone on the campaign trail is shifting. mitt romney is challenging president obama's foreign policy credentials while the white house continues to hammer away at the former massachusetts governor's business record. danielle nottingham has the latest from the campaign trail. >> the -- >> reporter: the two presidential candidates are shifting the campaign back into high gear. at a fund-raiser in northern california monday, president obama told supporters not to believe what they hear in his opponent's ads. >> they start kind of splicing and dicing. you may have gone a little over the edge there. >> reporter: earlier monday, the president addressed the veterans of foreign wars at their convention in reno touting his commitment to the military and success winding down the war in iraq. >> today there are no americans fighting in iraq and we are

cheers and applause) >> stephen: here to perform "the don" off his new album "life is good" ladies and gentlemen, nas. (cheers and applause) ♪ ♪ new york cityers and applause) let's go! ♪ in the new york city, yo, yo, yo. ♪ smoking an escubano, there go my second bottle ♪ ♪ habitual happiness hit you with two tecs ♪ rocking roberto cavalli, no shirt on a convertible, my chropl beeiana mommy ride beg side me ♪ every tat mean something ♪ y'all was mad all the years i was getting it in the 97, the six, 98 the bentley, that was the ghost phantom and y'all can't stand 'em. ♪ the don, the don, the don inna new york city, inna new york city, in a new york city ♪ army jacket swag, army act green and black ♪ i never did that, where my stash is at yo, i listen to that red alert and rap attack ♪ i fell in love with all that poetry and mastered that ♪ cutting school with the team the fat cat was not crystal clear ♪ now i'm the one who's rapping queens, way beyond your wildest dreams, bottles on bottles with sparklers around my teams ♪ 20 years in this game looking 17, i don't lean no (bleep) i just blow green heavy dv rest in peace gave me the speech t

the romans. so it has that same kind of idea of entry into and outside of new york city. it has many symbols on top of it and throughout the facade -- symbols of new york city. you see thalf moon, which was henry hudson's ship. on the other side is a windmill, which refers to the original dutch settlers of new york. and then on the top is the great monumental sculptural element, which has three gods. >> the gods -- hercules, mercury, and minerva -- came from greek and roman mythology. they represent strength, commerce, and wisdom. even the clock is special. tiffany glass lines the numbers and the hands. >> it's very difficult to see, but when the light shines on it, it's quite beautiful and picks up in different colors. this is a really wonderful -- probably one of the most spectacular places to be in grand central and in the entire city. not very many people actually get to come up here. but what you can see from here that you can't see from down below -- first of all, you get a sense of the scale of the building, how large it really is. you get to experience the many di

during the new york city leg of their tour and answer the question, who are lmfao really?s out their music royalty, red fro is sky blue's uncle t son and grandson of the man who launched the kreers of michael jackson and dianna ross barry junior. >> it was a skill that we were barry gordie's offspring. >> but it was sky blue's not so famous grandmother who suggested lmfao, text language for laughing my, well, you know the >> what do you think of your knew name? >> and she replied, you can't be serious. >> for a bunch of 4-year-old, what does lmfao stand for. >> loving my friends and others. boom. >> it saul started here, raised with white mothers they both say they explored the other side of their ethnicity, they rebelled. >> we grew up in the same area, both went to the hood and did the whole hood thing. i want to be stuck in this craziness. >> sky blue dropped out of high school and was living out of his car for a time. >> i had a roof over my head. all the person in the world could understand me was this dude. >> you can sleep on the floor. >> they took me backstage to

on may 5th, the new york city independence party is hosting a theater night at new york city's premier political theater, the castillo theater. we will see a wonderful musical written by fred newman entitled sally and tom, the american way. it explores the love affair between thomas never son and sally hemmings, his slave, and examines the inhuman compromise they made at america's birth. jackie plays james madison in the production in herry this at cal debut. >> he asked me if i was going to sing tonight. i'm not. >> i tried. >> come see the show and i will. >> you understand the debut means there will be more to come. >> i definitely hope so. the play is wonderful. the music is just totally engrossing and very thought-provoking and jackie, it's dynamite. we have tickets on sale as you leave this evening. you can check in at the table and hope you will join us. my next invitation is to join me in taking politics for the people nationally. i began politics for the people over a decade ago to bring these dialogues to independent-minded new yorkers. in january of this year, i took the int

>> i grew up in the bronx, and went to the new york city public schools, i went off to harvard, more than anything else, i studied math temc sed ae oemang area. i actually worked on one o the adesso size coputers. which had about as much computing power as my hmna accident involving whole arms race - a wig me out. crazess out wtnd of stru my innocent sense of order it seems unfathomable ununy, encountereds some young activists who had some very shrewd ideas about how to appeal to a bunch of harvard students who were quite cynical soey eeu grainy and methodical -- they were ot alter militants. they were very congenial. so i got iolved ihei s e m b these people. i felt a lot of comfort with th. i felt morally aligned and intelltually engaged. foe l rgts movement,e o which back, in turn, between these two strands le me to meeting some of the sdf people, especially the group in ann arbor at the university of michan w jumtarted the gati d ffo h them. i don't mn warm and fuzzy although it was warm and fuzzy. i felt intellectually engaged, challenged, what i loved about that world was a comb

coming up in a few minutes. 90 degrees was apparently cool enough for people to take part in the new york cityhlon. take a look at this. temperatures were expected to top out around the lower 90's. in indiana, the heat was too much for a 4 month old baby boy. temperatures climb to 105 degrees saturday. the 18-year-old father is now facing charges. it was too late. just a few towns over, a 16 month old girl is in critical condition after being left in a hot car. startling news tonight where three kids went missing overnight and it turns out all three drowned. they went missing this morning. right now, they do not expect foul play, but they're waiting for more information. investigators want to know why a man was shot and killed and 97100 block-- in the 7100 block of parkville. no word yet on a motive. it was good while it lasted. gas prices were on a 78-day downfall. well intentions in the middle the standstill worried about supplies. as gas prices rise, so do worries about the gas markets. the still unchanged unemployment rate means the race to the white house is being fueled by a back- and-fo

health yrs items on the menu, but they're better for you in the big apple than in most other cities. >> after the restriction of transfat in new york city, we looked at what the average amount of transfat was in lunchtime purchases and we found transfat went down. >> reporter: five years ago new york city became the first in the nation to implement a transfat ban in all of its 24,000 restaurants. in a new study, new york city health officials calculated the nutrition content of nearly 7,000 receipts from orders placed after the ban was implemented. they found diners ate significantly less transfat and there was only a slight increase in saturated fat. >> you can walk into your favorite restaurant and order the exact same lunch you've always ordered and it just has much less transfat, nothing else has changed. >> reporter: including how food tastes and how much it costs to prepare. what appears to have changed is a customer's risk for heart disease. >> we know that when transfat intake goes down, bad cholesterol goes down, cardio vascular risk goes down. >> reporter: consumers still need to make healthy decisions when heeating out.

he was also invited to give his speech to the new york city council which he did, and he's joining us>> hi. >> you gave this big speech in front of the new york city council. how did it feel? >> it felt great and i was honored because most kids don't have an opportunity to do this. >> were you nuvs? >> no, not really. >> really? how did you keep it together? >> i just tried not to think about it and tried to enjoy it. >> okay, so originally, you were supposed to give this speech at a speech contest in school, but school officials told you that you couldn't do it. when they told you that, what went through your mind? >> i was pretty upset because -- that i wasn't able to do it. >> why did they tell you you weren't able to do it? >> they say it was too inappropriate for kids like me to know about. >> i'm just going to read an excerpt from your speech so everybody knows what we're talking about. this is from cameron's speech he was to give at the school contest. quote, president barack obama recently talked about same-sex marriage with his wife and two daughters. some people are for same

thomas farley, commissioner of the new york city deartmen health an alhgen aso had public health service about the state and national levels, including a cdc d is going to share with us thsuccessful results new york has achieved in lowering the incidence hr condions. anu bewi us. >> thank you in the afternoon. i will take you to ways that we new york city try to combat seases. these are not all the things we are doing but i'll take you to the imprtoc ghts tetive these are the things i'll go through. interventions that are done at the environmental level or what dr. rbara coutu is changing the contextand specifically smoking prevention taf anenum oionsmd intervention as the health record with quality improvement technical assistance. so let's take smoking first. three majo lmese nerky.g evention program t nsg hiri cettoecse taxes. in 2002, when the bloomberg administration came in office, the excise tax total and a pack of cigarettes was $1.50. at lnns t ia of $1.50 per pack scum which brought it to $3.39. with subsequnt increases at the state and federal level in 2010, the total tax on a