but it is the holidays in new york city. new york city is among the biggest terrorist targets in the world. islamic state has been putting out calls for its followers to do this type of activity. that also means the threat continues on and going into the holidays whether it's here or christmas markets in germany or anywhere around the world. there are real problems we have to keep an eye on. >> bill: buck sexton analyzing all this in real time along with us here in new york. six minutes past the hour. the story is ongoing. there were some other things out there we want to get to right now. roll this on a fox news alert right now. other big story of the day. brand-new poll out moments ago on the alabama senate race showing that democrat doug jones pulling ahead of republican roy moore. with less than 24 hours now until voters cast their ballots, this is what we find. the fox news poll says jones, the democrat, holding a 10-point lead and one of the ruby red states of america, jonathan serrie live in alabama with more. what is

new yorkers who don't live in fear. liz: panic during the morning rush hour. new york city failed suicide bomber. breaking news here. the new york bombing suspect told officials he was inspired by isis and that he chose the new york city subway because of its christmas-themed posters. also invoking isis stripes in europe against holiday markets. he injured himself and three others after detonating a pipe bomb in a underground subway passageway at the port authority near time square. this is the third terror attack in new york city since september 2016. and now this. the failed suicide bomber entered the u.s. on a chain migration visa because he had family ties here. it has been called an abused back door into the u.s. that president trump wants to shut. we've got the details and more. also, this story for you. to the special election showdown in alabama. the polls all over the map on the senate race between republican roy moore and democrat doug jones. the vote is tomorrow. we break down the latest fox results on who is in the lead. now, this race could affect tax reform and your with all the. and bitcoin stock price

and at this time we're hearing that there has been some kind of last in that bus station now the new york citypolice department is telling us that that the trains in the area are being evacuated and that is that is the most free recent update that we have from the new york city police department that the a train. the other trains that are in that area that go to a tavern on forty second street are being evacuated in response to this blast and we are hearing the blast as somehow you know it came from a bus station but as of yet it's not clear that this is very close to times square times square is just one block away from this location times square located on seventh and eighth seventh and forty second street so this is this is the in of the center of midtown manhattan this is a place where a lot of tourists who come into the city come from they come from the buses though the buses that come over from new jersey in the morning it's a it's just this place is just swarming with people that they at the time of day that we're seeing right now i mean it's this is this is this is morning this is the

now when the incident took place at the new york city police department immediately on the screen on the scene the swat team moved in swat teams were in the area and it's important to keep in mind that this is just a block away from times square this is one of the most heavily policed sections of new york city this is in manhattan but not so far from times square just a very very sour widely policed area kind of a center of tourism however you know on a morning like this and right now it is it is just now nine o'clock with the blast happening maybe about an hour and a half ago. you know this is just this is this is commuter prime time there are thousands and thousands of people pouring into manhattan to begin their work day and and areas like this you know eighth avenue the train stations below that avenue the bus stations coming in from new jersey these areas are going to be packed full of people ready to. begin their work day on monday morning so when a blast goes off in an area like that the potential for a tallit is rather large as these individuals are very tightly packed into a

the atf. bill, i want to go to you first. new york city police commissioner said the subject did make some statement about isis. the police won't tell us anything more about that. what do you think? >> well, at this particular point in time, stephanie, i'm sure they are peeling this guy apart piece by piece. into his home, into his electronics, computer, cell phone. first of all, they have to see who he is, where he came from and some of that is already known. how he made that bomb. where he got the instructions. where he got the material to make that bomb. that's important to them. what kind of associates he had. what affiliations he might have had. all of that is being done by a myriad of people at the same time. new york city police department is terrific. combine them with the fbi and the jttf, they'll know a lot about this guy within the next five to six hours. it's really a tragedy. thank god is a huge tragedy that was avoided. as many, many bomb makers are, they just do a terrible job at making bombs and destroy themselves. the 1993

fox 5 reports that there mother of two has not had heat or water the new york city housing authority apartment since saturday. the woman who uses a wheelchair lives with the kids can in harlem. no hot water. no cold water. so heat. >> it is freezing outside. >> mind you. >> new york city and new jersey declared a code blue tuesday allowing authors to take ohmless people to warming center and shelter and visited a warming center in new bruns wic. the soup kitchen is usually serving those in need seven days a week p. when this is cold. they are working overtime. robert mason has been with the promise for 13 years and has never seen a code blue issued for this many consecutive days t. the hours are long. but to him, is worth. i as you can see the faces of so many people. and appreciation they show us is it worth more that any money into as the shelt we're caught up with mike who says he has fallen on hard times. was living in a park before coming to elijah's promise. it is so important the community. >> this is the beginning of stabilizing the community. as far as i am concerned. since t

school of american ballet has removed its long-time teacher peter martins, while the school and the new york city ballet conduct a joint investigation into a sexual harassment claim against him. in new york city, john hockenberry, the recently-retired host of public radio station wnyc's "the takeaway" has been accused ofsed touching, and bullying by several female colleagues. and vice media has fired three of its e employees over what the company called "verbal and sexual harassment" and other unspecified behavior.

the day. the city including new york city boosting security in the wake of the attacks. andrew cuomo increasing security at high profile locations including airports, bridges, tunnels and mass transit systems. of the big cities across the us following suit. in boston there will now be an increased police presence at all transit stops. officers and canine unit standing by at north station and south station, philadelphia, stepping up patrols across mass transit lines. k9 and police around suburban stations in center city. authorities beef up security across the country, we are learning about the four heroic cops but took down the new york city bomber, port authority police officers, sean gallagher, jack collins andrew preston credited with making the split-second decision and putting their lives on the line to save others running towards the panic, leaping on top of the suspect and removing the device before he could set off another explosive. thank you to those four men. roy more making a last-minute push hours before voters hit the polls. >> i want america great but i wan

know that sounds ridiculous but i'm the leading expert still to this day on toilet paper in the new york city school system. i spent a month trying to understand how at the time of 15 billion-dollar operating budget it's now 31 billion. how come there is no toilet paper in the new york city school system and did they purchase toilet paper and if so how did they distribute it. what i discovered was in the affluent schools parents purchased the toilet paper in a poor schools kids went without. that seems acceptable. so i kept having hearings on topics. even though i worked hard on us a public servant was really hard even with the power of subpoena to move this bureaucracy. it's not that they weren't good people there but there's finger-pointing constantly trying to cover your tracks, excuses and the end-user, kids and families to not get what they needed and deserved. even then i thought there had to be a way to fix this. it wasn't until later that i got pessimistic about our chances. >> you talk in the book about charter school pioneers that you knew about their work. we are ready thinking abo

they would run up to the hotel and send telegraph wires to new york city. they also opened the hotel balmoral early that year. they opened it when the grant family arrived. there was a lot of activity. people new grant was here, he was in the papers everyday. he was a spectacle, you could say. before secret service, the only person that volunteered was a civil war veteran, about the same age as grant, sam willis. he was a local civil war veteran and his early 60's. he volunteered and they put a tent behind the cottage up for him. he ended up being grant's bodyguard. he stood at the bottom of the stairs, oh near where grant sat on the porch. he would tell people to move along. he would guarantee grant's privacy. grant made sam's job difficult because grant was such a friendly man that the folks passing the cottage he would tip his hat and wave and was friendly. that was one thing about grant, he was an unassuming man. you could sit next to him and not know he was famous. no matter how much money or fame he had, it did not change him. he was a simple man, very

they enjoyed the winter in new york city with family and summers with the entire family at their new jersey cottage. when grant arrived back from his tour he was in need of a income. that was a head scratcher for most people because he was a general and a president, and people wonder why he did not have a pension. it turns out he had given up his military pension to take the presidency. at the end of his presidency there was no pension. he spent a lot of money on a world tour. his son, ulysses junior, buck, he was born in ohio, buck had gotten involved in wall street. he got his father involved and they formed a firm with a man named ferdinand ward. they named the firm grant and ward. investments went well for a while. the early 1880's were a comfortable time. money was coming in. everything started to collapse in the final year of grant's life. he had a slip and fall on the icy sidewalk in new york city. that put him bedridden for a few weeks. early in 1884, the spring, he arrived at the office of grant and ward and found out there was a major financial crisis. he had to get a loan

the police. that's not something for me to answer. so it is new york city. ome ways are used to dealing with security, you know, things that happen like this, in the city, new york cer you keep hearing it over and over, a resilient group of people. and that's what folks are dealing with this morning. >> again, we're looking at live pictures from outside port authority right now. we are waiting for this news conference which is about to begin. >> let's bring back in our law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes is our senior law enforcement officer, and joseph giacalone is back with us. we're waiting to hear from police commissioner o'neil. i don't know if we'll hear from the mayor of new york city, we well may. four injuries at this point in time. how close of a near miss, tom, was this? >> i think, poppy, if it was detonated in a passageway, as we heard, then it probably would have the ability to touch a lot fewer people. so, yes, we have, you know, it sounds like four people injured, including the person with the bomb. but that's not like standing in one of the

rob: the network covering donald trump's diet coke consumption as there was a terrorist attack in new york city is here with the soda segment backlash as the story was developing. >> cnn facing major back lash, attempted terror attack in new york city became a number one news story yesterday morning. that issue caused panic across the country, the big take away was it could have been far worse but cnn facing back lash for reporting about the president's soda consumption as the details were still unfolding. more than an hour after the pipe bomb story broke cnn was busy with trump's diet coke, ticker at the bottom of nypd responding, crisis expert, twitter user says shows how obsessed cnn is with destroying trump and chris on twitter says we truly know where cnn's priorities lie, covering the president's soda habits rather than the new york city terror attack. probably some timing slightly off. jillian: those millennial's want everything. >> renÉ hall says they are having trouble finding people that want to be police officers and she says millennials are partly to blame. >> nights, weekends and h

why the dangerous cold my silence a philadelphia new year's day tradition. >>> safety and a celebration. the new steps new york cityllions of people safe when the ball drops. just a few minutes before 4:00 a.m. good morning, this is "nbc10 news today" first look at 4. i'm katy zachry. >> i'm dray clark. we've done it again -- that is, issued a first alert as the bitter and dangerous cold sticks around another day unfortunately. you'll want to again dress in layers as you head out and face the bone-chilling temperatures. we'll get right to meteorologist steve sosna with the first alert forecast, the most accurate neighborhood weather forecast. steve? >> good morning, guys. a touch or sprinkle of good news. the first alert for today expires at 8:00 this morning. the reason why, the wind speeds will will be lightening up. we'll be looking at the dangerous conditions north and west of the city, the lehigh valley and poconos. it's through 8:00 this morning. again, it's the painful wind and dangerous conditions outside. if you're out for any extended period of time. here are the current feels-like temperatures. 6 in phil

and the mayor of new york has been saying this is one of worst fires in the city's recent history? new york city fire department commissioner said it is of historic magnitude — the worst fire, there was the triangle shirt factory disaster many years ago, about 27 years ago, there was the happyland social club fire that killed 87 people, but this ranks up there. i2 fatalities is not the norm and certainly has left this city shaken this morning. police say a woman found murdered in north london had been stabbed and beaten. the body of iuliana tudos — who was 22 and from moscow — was discovered on wednesday in finsbury park, near her home. it's thought she might have been attacked on christmas eve. apple has apologised to its customers — after it admitted slowing down older iphones in order to protect their batteries. the company said it would never intentionally shorten the life of any apple product and said it would offer replacement batteries at a discounted price. the technology specialist charlie brown says the company has given in to anger from its customers. joining me now is ou

street gangs, or the gangs in new york city. the gang he became head of was in new york. he was a charismatic guy. very intelligent. he was a self-made man. he ended up being connected with tammany hall for a point when tammany hall was connected with all the gains that were running the wharfs. talents andis skills as an intelligent person, earns money, gains notoriety among the society in america, and ends up becoming elected into congress. -- ahe is battering bettering himself, he turns on tammany hall. there are some satirical fun ofs that made morsi. they show this tough guy as a reformer but also with money in his back pocket. he comes to saratoga springs in 1862 with the idea of opening a gambling house appear. he knew how successful target -- saratoga was becoming. your printed on the west side. the following year, he becomes one of the founding members of the saratoga racing association which today has morphed into what is our saratoga racetrack. in the areaack was called horse haven, it was an older track. it was a harne

it doesn't allow the new york city police, let me make this point. neil: very quick. >> mayor deblasio does not allow police to go inside mosques. neil: talking about the mayor of new york city. what do you think of that adam? >> we children, great grandchildren of immigrants should not sort of change the way america behaves. >> why? >> because it's what makes america america. >> my parents came here because they needed people to work on roads and bridges and manufacturing plants. >> and because your grandparents needed some place to go as well. >> and they've setup businesses. >> they would have went to argentina if we didn't have an industrial revolution in the u.s.. charles: right now charlie would be yelling at you in spanish. neil: yeah. what are the odds there's someone like you? >> there is a lot of italians in argentina. neil: yelling and screaming. sure all right in the meantime, one u.s. company telling its workers you don't have to wait until pay day to get paid but someone here says they could pay a big price if they do. building a website

the five." terror has struck again in new york city. six weeks after that truck attack in lower manhattan. this time a man with a pipe bomb strapped to them set off the device in a subway tunnel near times square and the height of the morning rush. three people were hurt along with the suspect who is in custody. here were authorities right after the incident. >> this was an attempted terrorist attack. thank god the perpetrator did

i think stop and frisk -- in new york city, it was so incredible the way it worked. had a very good mayor. new york city was incredible the way that worked. i think that would be once of you could do. amy: it was so incredible, candidate from said, who is now become president trump. this was after your ruling. also, the news today is that the murder rate in new york as the lowest it has ever been since record-keeping began. judge scheindlin, are you single president trump is attempting to do? >> in my saying -- amy: have you seen -- welcome he is talking about a federal stop and frisk. >> it showed his ignorance. he raise this in the presidential debate, the first debate. he attacked me personally. he said, oh, she was a terrible judge. she ended this wonderful policy. a did that nationally in presidential debate. he showed his ignorance. he has no control over local police policies. federal law or federal authority don't control local police. so he can't institute a national stop and frisk policy. and he did not know that. i thought an effort to begin was frankly be

investigating who this guy is, what help he might've gotten along the way and now also focusing on getting the city back up and running. >> new york city is blessed with the finest law enforcement and what our first responders did today was another example, the ability to adjust the situation quickly and pain and make sure people are safe. let me just say it's very important for my fellow new yorkers to know there are no additional note instances at this time. there are no additional known activities. >> obviously, that is a key concern and remains the focus of this ongoing investigation by the nypd and the fbi and other agencies investigating who the suspect is. they are now at a home affiliated with him, his address, other locations affiliated with him and his family trying to piece together what may have inspired this guy to do what he did here this morning. >> harris: thank you very much for giving us the latest from the streets of new york. for more on the investigation, i want to bring in former new york state homeland security director michael balboni. you were with us, and as you look at this, i said good news off the top

and the mayor of new york has been saying this is one of worst fires in the city's recent history? fact the new york city fire department commissioner said it is of historic magnitude — the worst fire, there was the triangle shirt factory disaster many years ago, about 27 years ago, there was the happyland social club fire that killed 87 people, but this ranks up there. 12 fatalities is not the norm and certainly has left this city shaken this morning. police say a woman found murdered in north london had been stabbed and beaten. the body of iuliana tudos — who was 22 and from moscow — was discovered on wednesday in finsbury park, near her home. it's thought she might have been attacked on christmas eve. two men have been charged with terror offences by police investigating an alleged plot for an attack over christmas. farhad salah, from sheffield, and andi sami star, from chesterfield, have been charged with engaging in the preparation of an act of terrorism and will appear via video link at westminster magistrates' court today. they were among four men arrested earlier in decembe

one of the things about new york is the incredible resilience of the city. kids went treat or treating that night. we had the new york city marathon, huge event, enormous crowds. people came out to cheer the marathoners. that sense of resilience, refusing to be cowed is essentially to a successful approach to terrorism. you mention id worked in jerusalem those years. one of the things that was so striking about the way jerusalemites responded to one suicide bombing after another is they picked themselves up, they opened cafes that had been bombed, quickly resumed normal life. that is also part of the attempt of success in defeating terrorism. they cannot ultimately disrupt the desire of free people to go about their lives. it's essential. as serious as you take an event like this, it happened right across the street from my office at "the new york times" that you get up and you say we're moving, we're moving forward with our lives, irrespective of what these people think they can achieve. >> and that's what new yorkers know how to do. i want to bring bill coh

that sounds ridiculous and i am the leading experts still to this day on toilet paper in the new york city school system. i spent one month trying to understand how a 15 billion-dollar operating budget now 31 billion, how come there was no toilet paper in the new york city school system and did they purchase it and if they did how was it distributed and i discovered that at affluent district schools parents purchased the toilet paper and at poor schools they went without. which is just terrible and unacceptable. and incredibly hard as a public servant it was hard even with the power of subpoena to move the bureaucracy. not thatat there weren't people or those who were trying but finger-pointing constantly trying to cover your tracks, excuses and the end-user didn't get what they needed and deserved. i thought there has got to be a way to fix this. not intel much later i got pessimistic about fixing the broken system. >> you talk in depth about charter school pioneers. were you already thinking about charter schools with the education committee? >> i came out for charter schools in 1997. an

the gop's tax plan? up next, a new yorker caught between two world's. new york cityitizens he answers to and the business he needs to pay their pension. new york city controller, scott stringer walking into our studio s right now, wait until you hear all the ways he says the cons out weigh the pros in the big apple, got to hear that. countdown coming right back. trish: i'm nicole petallides on the new york stock exchange with this fox business brief. stocks trying to break a two day losing streak here they are higher in the final hour trading here, apple confirming long-time conspiracy theory admitting its purposely closed down the performance of its older iphones after the new models are released the company claiming it tells us not to push people to buy the newer models that are more expensive but instead to keep the older phones from crash ing, taking a look at apple shares right now, they're currently trading at 175.42 up a half of 1%. tesla charging the top of the consumer reports owner satisfaction survey elan musk, tesla 90 out of a possible hundred beating al

transportation hubs in response to the new york city's explosion. chris christie urges everyone in the state to stay alert. also, septa and philadelphia police officers increased patrols in direct response to the terror attack in new york. the police chief showed nbc 10 how extra officers started patrolling immediately after this morning's terrorism attack. they watched for suspicious activity, utilizing tens of thousands of cameras and encourage people if they see something, say something. >> i think after incidents like this, we all see a spike in the number of calls from people. we want them to call all the time. >> philadelphia police also adding more officers. they say there's been no direct threat to the city. >> stay tuned for nightly news after this newscast. pete williams will be here alt 6:30. >>> it's a chilly evening out here tonight as we look live at center city as the temperatures will drop much lower pretty soon and we've issued a first alert starting tomorrow night because of dangerous cold and strong wind gusts and a blast of arctic

and in particular, two attacks in the last year, both of them very different, have changed the way new york city is going to be protecting times square this new year's eve. as the risers and barricades go up in times square, the new york police department announced it is taking new steps to protect the estimated 2 million people expected on new year's eve. >> as a result of the events of december 11th, we have prepared a tactical bulletin, a response to suicide bombers. >> reporter: the attempted suicide bombing on december 11th took place just steps away from times square in an underground walkway. in response to that failed attack, the n.y.p.d. says training for officers on duty new year's eve will include identifying would-be bombers, clearing crowds if they detect a threat, stopping the bomber with lethal force, and treating the wounded if a bomb goes off. there will also in t detectives in the many hotels after the shooting in las vegas when a gunman fired rifles from a window to a concert crowd below killing 58 people, the worst mass shooting in modern u.s. history. >> so, in previous year

went 16 years without a successful attack in new york city and if you are a bad guy looking at new york city new york city looks and vulnerable. there is thehield around the city. on october 31st that shield was pierced and it was demonstrated that an attack can be carried out in new york city and we have less than six weeks later a second attack, the first suicide bomber in new york city. >> that is what he was attempting to do and he was incompetent and we got lucky. >> only the fact that he couldn't make it work but there's nothing to stop him from exploding a few blocks from here. >> is the nypd as you observed doing something differently now than it did in the past? >> there is a political question that has to be asked, bill diblasio ran for mayor, he ran to some degree against the nypd. that is who he positioned himself against and shortly after coming into office a lot of media attention was garnered because they issued a press release when they shut down the demographics unit. don't know how many times when the unit of half a dozen people is shut down, justified a press release. >> what did that demographics unit do and why was it

just wanted to enjoy the dickens village and being in the city with the kids at christmas. >> reporter: jim, tonight we see no signs here in center city that the incident today in new york city has tamped down the holiday spirit in philadelphia. live in center city, i'm vernon odom channel6 "action news". >> thank you vernon. >>> and an overturned tractor-trailer caused delays for drivers through gloucester county this afternoon. the accident happened in the southbound lanes of route 55 in the area of the interchange for route 322 in harrison township. there's no word on what led up to the crash or the condition of the driver. heavy delays are reported as officials work to clear the scene. >>> two students are in custody for an alleged threat made at a school in lehigh county. authorities received information about a plot at park land high school in south whitehall township last week. allentown police along with the district attorney's office and the fbi worked to track down two 15-year-old boys. the boys remain in juvenile detention. both are expected at a juvenile court hearing on thursday. >>> a trial challenging pennsylvania's congressional district boundaries got u

of the new york times, records of the waldorf-astoria and a mysterious collection called new york city miscellaneous 1640 to 1975. but it is the painstaking work of historians and scholars that brings the contents of those collections the life and into public discourse. the room meticulously researched books like "'greater gotham" and so we are thrilled to welcome you back to the library to share the first of your research with us and to moderate the conversation we are honored to have another historian, writer and scholar, jelani cobb. through his pieces of the new yorker where he's a staff writer, he provides a steady stream of emotional nourishment to many of us seeking to understand to today's political client climate. bringing a perspective that puts events in the context of our long american life and i have to say jelani, the piece you wrote yesterday on what happened in las vegas was my morning nourishment today so thank you for that. jelani as the race the library stage on many occasions, interviewing people of all words and the rapper timberland. he gave an outstanding lecture

went 16 years without a successful attack in new york city and if you are a bad guy looking at new york city new york city looks and vulnerable. there is theound the city. on october 31st that shield was pierced and it was demonstrated that an attack can be carried out in new york city and we have less than six weeks later a second attack, the first suicide bomber in new york city. >> that is what he was attempting to do and he was incompetent and we got lucky. >> only the fact that he couldn't make it work but there's nothing to stop him from exploding a few blocks from here. >> is the nypd as you observed doing something differently now than it did in the past? >> there is a political question that has to be asked, bill diblasio ran for mayor, he ran to some degree against the nypd. that is who he positioned himself against and shortly after coming into office a lot of media attention was garnered because they issued a press release when they shut down the demographics unit. don't know how many times when the unit of half a dozen people is shut down, justified a press release. >> what did that demographics unit do and why was it importan

the pipe bomb did not completely explode. abc news reporter linda lopez takes us through the terrifying morning in new york city. >> reporter: during the height of the morning rush hour, police evacuating the port authority bus terminal in new york city after reports of an explosion. a crude device set nated in the passageway passageway below ground at the largest bus terminal. >> hear about a bomb in a subway station, many ways one of our worst nightmares. >> reporter: one person is in custody, pour people injured including the suspect. >> this was an attempted terrorist attack. thank god the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate goals. >> reporter: the suspect, according to sources, is 27-year-old man named akayed ullah from bangladesh. she he's been living in the u.s. for the past seven years and thought to be wearing the device when it went off. he was alive and seriously injured and stripped naked to make sure he wasn't carrying additional explosives. he's now in the hospital. >> a thorough background investigation is being conducted by the joint terrorist task force. >> reporter: the port authority is the major trans

new york. a failed terrorist attack in "new york times." >> the -- failed terror attack in new york city. there is increased concern about a looming attack here. >> it will happen at some point. it's too easy. >> the front lines in the battle against terrorism acknowledge washington, d.c. is a tantalizing target for would-be terrorists. >> there are few options. >> if you are willing to die, that really takes it off the charts. >> the city is crowded with the visitors but they won't let an attack deter them. >> anybody is vulnerable but you can't sto despite the concerns the local authorities say they know of no credible threat here in the nation's capital. reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. >> you can get breaking news by signing up to text alerts at wjla.com/text. michelle: "7 on your side" with a crime alert after a woman says she was attacked by a man she thought was a driver for hire. this happened yesterday. the woman says the woman pulled the car over and he attacked her when she screamed for help. they are working to confirm details including used an a

city managed by for. this is. from berlin tonight what motivated they would be suicide bomber who detonated an explosive in the heart of new york city police say the twenty seven year old suspect wore a homemade pipe bomb attached to his body when it detonated in one of the city's busiest transport hubs we'll go live to new york for the latest on the investigation also coming up. do want to donald trump did that was the message today from the israeli prime minister to the european union over jerusalem the response from brussels a unanimous thinks but no things plus mission accomplished russian president vladimir putin declares victory in syria and announces a partial withdrawal of russian troops and germany accuses china of using these social networking site linked into spying on thousands of german politicians and officials. i'm off it's good to have you with us a twenty seven year old man is in custody tonight after an explosion rocked new york's port authority terminal officials say that he was inspired by so-called islamic state and that he learned to make his crude pipe bomb on the internet new york city mayor bill de blas

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in fear city, new york new university's kim phillips spine call the fiscal collapse of new york city 1975 and how the cities brush with bankruptcy we shake ideas about government and wrapping up our look at publishers weekly books of 2017 is the color of law, richard rothstein's report on how local, state and federal legislation isresponsible for america's segregated cities . >> today, those homes sell for 300, $400,000. african-american families were prohibited from moving into those homes and frankly apartments in the city did not gain 200, $300,000 in equity over the next two generations. whitefamilies gained equity from , and today those homes are unaffordable for working-class people. $100,000 in 1940 in our terms to 1947 was twice the national median income. working-class families could afford to buy homes with an fha mortgage so today those homes sell for seven times the national income. working-class families, middle-class families can't afford to move to these suburbs that were created as segregated enclaves in the 1940s and 50s so nationwide when you have a ratio in income,

we have big breaking news, terror in the heart of new york city. at least four people right now have been injured in this explosion behind times square. what we have learned a 27-year-old man is in custody, someone by the name of akayed ullah is the one that please believe carried this out. >> wearing some kind of improvised explosive device a pipe bomb with velcro and zip ties he was injured, the most seriously injured person in this incident right now with burns to his abdomen and hands. three other people were injured but their injuries are pretty minor ringing in the ears and headaches. and we know that the incident was captured on video, being poured over by law enforcement. the president has been briefed. new york officials briefed the mess moments ago. this was mayor bill de blasio. >> this was an attempted terrorist attack. thank god the perpetrator did not achieve his ultimate goal. thank god our first responders were there so quickly to address the situation to make sure people were safe. thank god the only injuries that we know at this po

it's the deadliest fire in new york city in at least a quarter century. >>> and in new york as well ashere around the country, tightened security ahead of new year's eve celebrations. police have positioned concrete barriers, sand trucks, canine teams, and heavy weapons squads. other cities like las vegas and chicago are also beefing up security. >>> airlines are now testing new technology to improve security and speed up the boarding process. soon you may have to show only your face to board a plane. kris van cleave has those details. >> you can board without presenting your boarding pass, passport, or other documents. >> reporter: this plane has passengers taking a trip to the future without a boarding pass. >> you're going to walk up and take a picture and that's it? wow. it amazes me. every year things change. it just amazes me the technology. >> reporter: in seconds facial recognition technology can take a picture and compare it to a passport stored in the government database. francis sadowski is sold. >> reporter: delta is testing the technology in new york and atlanta and is als

first week of the new year, it looks like this dongeus cold is stickinverybody wants to here i'm sure. thank you.d adding another degree of difficultyn already challenge here in new york city tomorrow night. the new york city firefighter will be on the scene providing medical support to anybody overcome by the elements and abc's marcus moore is also in times square tonight. >> reporter: an unprecedented security effort taking shape, tonight at the crossroads of the world -- barr and police officers with a watchful eye at neaof uniforthe checkpoints. >>hotel and strant gue time squar sniffinameras, and police officers in subways and in the ready to security everywhere. >> reporter: be weather those bone chilling teates h's nf "extreme temperatures" in new hothermal camera we see just how important it is to keep that all imped and orange co capturing heat escaping. with windchills during the ball drop expec single digits, officials brafor the possibility of medical emergeoo live we know authoritout folks getting frostbite tomorrow night. what is the plan for people who get sick? >> reporter: dan, we're t people -o could be exposed to the ele tomorrow in times square. will be

the bay." we are following breaking news out of the new york city. these are live pictures from the scene right now. one person in custody, following an explosion. >> it happened underground near 42nd and 8th avenue. it is set to be open this morning. the police activity is very busy in that area. our sister station reports that device somehow went off prematurely. they believe it wauz pipe bomb. one person in custody and a lot of activity this morning in new york city near times square. we'll continue to monitor what is going on there. 5:27 here. new this morning, one of the most common household items can pose a hazardous danger to children. a national study spanning 27 years indicate window blinds injured 17,000 children. 271 children tragically have died. in some cases, the injuries occurred when the blinds fell. the most serious danger has been cords that left young children tangled and strangled. they can pull out the cords. you have to watch them. >>> coming up, breaking overnight, terrifying moments in a south bay neighborhood. the rush to ca

the morning. for those of you who are familiar with new york city, that time of the morning, it is very busy. perhaps the busiest place in new york city is this area around times square. we are standing on 8th avenue and 41st street, but underneath me is a maze of subway tunnels that connect times square to the bus terminal here. and that is where this explosion took place. hallie? >> stephanie gosk reporting for us in new york. thank you. we want to get to, also in the show, new information about robert mueller's white house investigation. what he's trying to find out about former national security adviser mike flip and what it means for the russia investigation overall. that's next. what if you had a medical emergency away from home? my chest hurts. i can't breathe. what you need is mobile help. america's premier mobile medical alert system. most systems only work at home. but with mobile help, you get help outside the home, with coverage nationwide on one of the largest cellular networks, at the press of a button. call the number on your screen for a free, full color brochure. we'll send yo

you're watching the news a recap of the breaking story coming in from new york new york authorities say and explosion at the city's port authority bus terminal was an attempted terrorist attack one suspect has been taken into custody and few people were reported injured new york matt believe the c.e.o. said apologies new normal credible or specific threats to new york and he said quote the people there are safe. we have more news coming up for you in just a few minutes sara how much is standing by to save the d.w. if your cat. and living in germany she's reminded of what that means on a daily basis. this presenter. if you see. she travelled across germany to meet other black people and to hear their stories. for your country but you're still the black. germany. in fifteen minutes. official estimates more than one point two. legally and illegally. return to. to visit friends i don't think i'd ever go back there to live you know what i live there again i don't know so i'm not sure flailing witness global news that matters. made for mines and their w. me speak your language they don't get up. for content in dari pash

the high end. temperatures are well below zero in new york city. it briefly warms to 25 on saturday. l be. morning lows into the single digits. if you're partying outside, this will be as cold as 1962. when you're out there freezing, think about that song tonight we're going to party like it's 1962. if it's 10 degrees, we go all the way back to 1917 and i don't want to party like it's 1917. atlanta, 20 degrees for a windchill factor. key west and miami, somewhere in the upper 60s. frigid weather continues. it is just this one batch right after another. it doesn't stop. it's not going to stop until at least i see is a break january 10th. alisyn. >>> that sounds horrible, chad. thank you very much for the forecast. okay. so the president says those of us in the media want him to be re-elected in order to survive. all of this and more in a new revealing interview. that's next. with neulasta onpro? strong chemo can put you at risk of serious infection. neulasta helps reduce infection risk by boosting your white blood cell count, which strengthens your immune system. in a key study, neulas

big event we're watching now a joint news conference by the justice department and homeland security as the suspect in the attempted terror attack in new york city been charged two hours ago. we'll talk to new york congressman peter king about where that goes next. >> as we crush the caliphate and defeat isis in iraq and syria, it reminds us, though, that they have ballooned elsewhere. we have to get a handle on who is coming into this country so we don't have threats like what happened this morning in new york. i love you, basement guest bathroom. your privacy makes you my number 1 place to go number 2. i love you, but sometimes you stink. febreze air effects doesn't just mask, it cleans away odors. because the things you love the most can stink. and try febreze small spaces to clean away odors for up to 30 days. breathe happy with febreze. >> bill: waiting on a couple things now. fox news alert awaiting the news conference with attorney general jeff sessions and the brand-new secretary of homeland security kristin neilson expected to update us on the investigation after the christmas terror attack in new york. the suspect charged earlier today

>> the man accused in a botched suicide bombing in the new york city subway chose a time and place intended to maximize the deaths he hoped to cause. federal prosecutors filed five terrorism charges against akayed uliah. now, they say the 27-year-old from bangladesh became radicalized by isis over the internet three years ago and he built the bomb a week ago. according to court documents, akayed uliah posted an anti- -trump message on before the bombing. a search of his brooklyn apartment turned up bomb making materials and a note on his passport. >> a chilling note in handwriting, i quote, owe america die in your raid. >> akayed uliah came to the u.s. in 2011 on a visa available to relatives of american citizens and remains in the hospital with burns. three others suffered minor injuries. >>> the mother of three grown children went missing the day before thanksgiving. now police fear that they found her body dumped in an alley behind an abandoned building in northwest d.c. friends and family say that joanie rockingham, they had been searching for her for three weeks now and police

the store is giving way coffee all weekend to its new washington, d.c. customers. the philly pretzel factory is opening in new york city area. there are 172 locations now. the new york city locations will start open next year. >>> after several days of gains, the major stock indices all saw slight loss, the dow falling by 76 points. this morning futures are pointing to some gains at the opening bell. ♪ it was a pitch perfect battle of acapella groups in manayunk, performers from drexel and temple university competed in the holiday sing off. the audiences voted for their favorites. in the end, the teams shared first place, you all win. more "action news" in just a moment. >> most parents worry about what to serve their children for dinner, but research serves there can be health benefits by sitting down to eat together. the study was done in quebec canada. those who had ages together were physically fit and less aggressive and drank less soda. they were not sure if it was the result of sitting together or having a healthy stable meal overall. >> probably all, a combination. >> it's nice to sit down to a family meal. >>