the city. philadelphia, throughout the 19th century, was the major industrial city of the united states. all of these industries used water from this system. and it served as a prototype for many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. 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

. >> i grew up in the philadelphia area, in new jersey. i went to school up and down the east coast. i went to undergrad at duke university. i went to law school at harvard. after clerking for a judge, i came out here in 1997. i have been here for the last 14 years. i have always lived in the castro. i am an attorney. i started out in private practice. i settle private law firm during complex commercial litigation. in 2002, and moved over to the sentences the city attorney's office where i worked on the trial team doing trials for the city, handling my own cases, and supervising a team of attorneys as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? >> i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area since that is where my family is. i was always interested in san francisco in terms of what it is as a city, its culture, it's amazing lgbt community. i came out here for a summer, fell in love with it. i have been interested in politics since i was a kid. i worked on campaigns as a teenager. i was involved campaign against senato

the philadelphia defense has no idea what's going on. announcer has no idea what's going on, too. listen to this. >> popping up with the ball, in over the line. set up by shawn williams, score. >> the guy that scored the goal is john taveras. we see the secret here. number 15 flips the ball to john. as they have their backs to the philly defense. the national lacrosse league came out and said this goal should not have counted. the ref should have indicated during the stoppage where the ball was on the field. so technically the goal shouldn't have counted. >>> this is a trailer to a new action movie called "mission impossible-baby." you see the hero of the movie, the stunt man himself and actually it is the stunt woman herself. it makes the movie even better. her name is ava. she's about six months old and they did this trailer, as a stunt about 12 days ago. ♪ ♪ >> about time for this to happen. >> we're sick of tom cruise, anyway, right? >> and she's better than tom cruise. >> come on. >> you see that swift, stealth drop, right? >> is tha

>>> in the nfl chip kelly is the new head coach of the philadelphia eagles after saying he would stay in oregon, kelly changed his mind and took the job in philadelphia. >>> and a billboard sign in boston is counting down the minutes until the retirement party for baltimore linebacker ray lewis. the sign suggests that the patriots will beat the ravens on sunday and that lewis will retire after 17 nfl seasons. >>> well, just ahead, charlie sheen names the biggest partiers on the planet. that's got to be quite a list. >>> plus, your weather as you head out the door. you're watching "early today" on nbc. >>> well, welcome back. pretty sample forecast for nevada, arizona, california. lots of sunshine today after a cold start. again, freezing fog until about 10:00 a.m. in isolated portions of seattle to portland. it is hit and miss where it is. same case will be tomorrow morning. too. los angeles, you're in for a stretch of just fantastic weather. all that cold conditions you had ringing in the new year are long gone. we are sitting pretty with sunshine across the board through monday, mid

do things such as play basketball or do other types of activities. >> this year's big draw at the philadelphiaevent was the program's partnership with charlie mack's party for peace weekend bringing in lots of stars in sports and music. >> they meet with them, they talk with them. it was a perfect match. >> a program like this, and a woman like maria battle and a man like charlie mack has the ability to unify the community. >> coming here, trying to raise awareness educate kids about asthma, about getting better health information. about living a healthy life. and this allows us to do that. >> now in its ninth year, the program is still growing. they're having a clear impact on health care costs. >> i want to continue doing what we're doing in a bigger way, because we can do more. >> with asthma affecting some 9 million children in the u.s., maria knows there's a bit fight ahead. >> she's wouldn't super bowl with healthy hoops. this is a miracle. >> i am blessed to be able to have a job that i can go into the community and bring these type of programs to the community. it's a joy that i can he

last year, the number of shooting victims in philadelphia was 1,282. this is down considerably from the year before. it was the lowest number since we began tracking shooting victims in 2000. however, the number of homicides was actually slightly up last year, 331, seven more than the previous year. how are these two statistics possible? the answer is the homicide victims have more bullets killing them. put it another way, there are more rounds being fired and more intentional head shots. so despite better policing and someone in philadelphia is shot, unfortunately, they may be more likely to die even though there are fewer shooting victims. we had an 11% increase last year in philadelphia in head shots. we had a 30% increase in the number of bullets found at scenes measuring more than 20 rounds at a location. let me note that pennsylvania does not have stringent gun restrictions. when the city of philadelphia adopted stricter gun laws the state supreme court struck some of those laws down. that is why we need federal legislation, comprehensive, common

sources tonight say that notre dame head football coach brian kelly interviewed with the philadelphia eagles tuesday and then left the country. he says he will visit this weekend when he gets back into the country. this is days after the national championship game after he says he will never leave notre dame. >> thank you. >> w [ male announcer ] now at your neighborhood subway: the big hot pastrami melt. we've perfected the pastrami sandwich -- filled with juicy pastrami pickles, yellow muard and melted cheese. all piled-high on freshly baked bread. taste one at your local subway today! subway. eat fresh. >> we are looking forward to the next few days. >> the weekend is going to be sweet. we have moisture moving in from the south and west and forming clouds now. over the weekend we will start to clear out. start we will see temperatures climbing into the lower 60's with partly cloudy skies. complose to 70 in spots on sunday. colder and rainier for next week. deny rainy next week. >>

this interview recorded at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia is part of book tv college series and it's about 20 minutes. >>> you are watching book tv on c-span2 and one of the things we like to do is visit college campuses. we can talk to professors' letter authors and showcase books that he might not know about otherwise. we are pleased to be at the university of pennsylvania philadelphia joined by the president of the university, amy gutmann and she is the co-author of this book "the spirit of compromise with government demands it and campaigning undermines it." president gutmann are we a completely compromising nation? >> we were created in compromise. a lot of people think of the revolutionary war which separate us from our mother country but if you recall historically speaking the founding fathers crafted a compromise that created the constitution, they were as polarized as any set of americans had been throughout the country in history there were pro and antislavery compromised so yes, we were funded and compromised but today compromise has become more difficult th

during his lifetime he donated the building front of each and every church built in philadelphia. at one point they were building a new hall and it's still there and called the new hall left of independence hall and he wrote the fund-raising document that says even if the constantinople were to stand here to teach us islam and preach to us about mohammed we should offer a pulpit and listen for we might learn something. on his deathbed he is the largest contributor to the synagogue, the first synagogue built in philadelphia. so when he dies instead of his minister accompanying his casket all of the ministers, preachers and priests in philadelphia went on to the rabbi of the jews that is what they were fighting for back then when the country was founded and that's still a struggle that we are in this world today so i hope that you have enjoyed my dissolution of the three lessons of my great heroes. thanks. [applause] time for a couple questions if i may. the person with a virginia t-shirt and in the washington national. >> one of the characteristics i thought you might speak of at le

by the time philadelphia rescue crews get him up from the riverbank and to a local hospital, it's too buford is dead. >> no one will ever know for sure whether he could have been saved. garrett couples says he doesn't blame the crowd or the police for not jumping in if they weren't properly trained. but he says it's hard to believe with so many authorities on the scene that none of them knew how to make a water rescue. >> i mean, it's -- it doesn't make sense to me that you have fire rescue within two blocks, marine rescue within two miles, and none of them are trained in water rescue. to me, that is -- i mean, that's unspeakable. >> after the incident, the victim's family files a complaint and the philadelphia police department conducts an internal investigation. the internal investigation concludes that their officers provided adequate service. as soon as police were notified of buford's position, they dispatch a negotiator and within minutes also call their marine unit. but the marine unit, though based nearby, had been dispatched to another river earlier that day and is miles away

philadelphia sovereignty. second i'm going to examine the ideas of the global governance project, which challenges philadelphia sovereignty. and then we'll move to action and look at the actual activities. fourth, will examine the significance of this conflict between constitutional government and global governance. sovereignty is defending the scholars scholars than most people as westphalian, embodied in the nation state is going the treaty of 1648 and that's true to an extent. when i was working on the book and thinking of coming up with concepts, i relist americans don't think of themselves as westphalian sovereignty. we the people of the united states of america. opening words of the constitution, written in philadelphia, hence philadelphia sovereignty. but what is philadelphia sovereignty, the people are sovereign, the three constitution and the core of the twin pillars of our liberty and consent. so we do have majority rule, but majority rule is limited reconstitution and the whole system of separation of powers, federalism and limited government. a lot of times people get hung up in the republic or dem

the pressure and play here in philadelphia has been outstanding. verybody's been great. >> doc: it's been riveting to watch. reminiscent in the way it went in the short season, the energy was remarkable. some of those passes not necessary. but they were. boy, the energy that these teams have brought is remarkable. this play ricocheted on back. the net is empty. shovelled by kunitz and in! chris kunitz into the empty net. the penguins have a two-goal lead. and barring any kind of unusual thing they will start out with two points and the flyers with none. a real good job of the pittsburgh penguin defensemen standing up in the neutral zone. a great play by martin with a skate, up to kunitz. university of minnesota and ferris state frto the back of t net. good day for the penguins. they've done a nice job here today. the flyers played a great game here this afternoon. >> doc: after a slow start, they are rebounded well. the horn sounds. the pittsburgh penguins have won 8 of 12 regular season games here in philadelphia. marc-andre fleury, win 227. that i

he signed with the philadelphia eagles. with this record and oregon, money, money, money. the n f l. montreal head coach once upon a time a raider and an assistant is the new head coach of this chicago bears. >> pam: that sounds like fun. good night. .

from the philadelphia inquirer. christy, shame on congress. cnn, called it a bomb shell. is that too much dralm ajim? >> well, i mean, it works for christydoesn't it? the governor of new jersey set himself up as a figure looking down with mostly scorn at the democrats and republicans in terms of the middle of the country that feels anti-congress . not all that keen on president obama either it is a pretty good position. >> she - on he does have to run for reelection. >> the decision to delay the vote to make sure the money was well spent. bill kristol defended it. >> it is indefensible and we talk about well spent money, shut down the entire congress. come on, it was a political move and there was a response to a political move that was genuine not only by chris christy but pete king who said the same thing. disaster money should not be politicized. >> the point, justin critics of the bill said it was not all disaster relief. >> let it go to the floor. the speaker had an open vote and he could have done it here and they had the vote to pass it >> media mean seems to be tha

>> the newsroom of the philadelphia inquirer. it was interesting. we were both hired. >> guest: we actually arrived on the same >> we arrived on the same day. >> same day. we never knew each other and had no contact during the first year. >> host: routine you up? >> guest: a veteran of the paper, the paper changed ownership and he was very interested in projects, and investigative projects, enterprise journalism and he thought the two of us were newcomers, might be able to work together. very often that doesn't work and people don't like to work together. we tried an experiment and so far so good. hey say. >> host: why did it work for so long? >> guest: we think it worked because a similarity of work ethics. we both love to research and report. we love to research and report and we were of sound mind and it makes for a sound mind that is hard for all of us but it was similar work habits, we believed down deep in fairness, government, private interest, not always treat the average person fairly and we sort of realize that early on in the partnership a

it crashed head-on -- in the wrong direction on the 8100 block of philadelphia row. the drivers were not seriously injured. the crash team is now investigating. a standout in alabama is in its second day. s.w.a.t. team is our surrounding an underground bunker where a retired truck driver is holding a 5-year-old boy hostage. we have an update on the situation as we cover the nation. >> this standoff has been bizarre from the beginning. it is dragging past 40 hours. hostage negotiators have been speaking with the suspect. local officials say the 5-year- old hostage is on herndon. the police have been able to bring the child-local officials say the 5-year-old hostage is -- local officials say the 5- year-old hostage is unharmed. the suspect boarded a school bus and the men and seven children get off of the bus with him. -- demanded seven children get off of the bus with him. the bus driver was shot. >> a man enters the bust and threatens to take some children. you have a driver who stands up between him and the children. his death should be considered a hero's death beca

the engineers tell the philadelphia inquirer, we don't use about half the buttons on the current remote. we should get it soon. >> fewer options, in this case, is better. >> absolutely. it's nice the buttons are bigger. the tiny little ones -- >> you're getting old. >> i am, man. it's tough. good news on the horizon. >>> meteorologist christina loren, i know you're counting down the hours until you are live with al roker out at the ferry building tomorrow. >> i am so excited. jon kelley, old never looked so good. good morning to you. taking a live look. this is a hazy sky over san jose. we're not sparing the air. we have moderate air quality. our air quality could be suffering quite a bit more with offshore flow firmly in place. we're going to enjoy really comfortable temperatures. 57 in napa. 52 right now currently in san francisco. these aren't your highs. 60 in gilroy. 54 degrees in san jose. we are headed towards a gorgeous afternoon. lots of sunshine, a little hazy out there. not too bad. we still have good air quality. tomorrow probably seeing our air quality suffer just a little

the n.r.a. points out philadelphia and d.c. nd other major cities saying they have the toughest gun laws but look at all the gun crime. virginia is one of the major problems because what happens, even though governor wilder limited handguns to one a month, they reversed it, the virginia legislature. so now people will go in and whether it's a gun show or whatever, buy cases of guns, transport them up 95 and then find a convenient urban street corner, open up the trunk and sell the guns. so i'd like the mayor to address that phenomenon and why it demands federal legislation. thank you. >> mr. kildee one minute and then i'll ask -- i am going to ask the mayor to answer the question first because he'll have to leave. mr. kildee. >> thank you, panel. thank you for your presence here and your testimony. i represent flint, michigan, where over the last few years one in every 540 residents have been slain. an amazing statistic. i talked to our prosecutor today. he's concerned that the guns he sees on the street are held by teenagers. n

professor happ was interviewed at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. part of book tv's college series. >> host: university of pennsylvania history professor, stephen hahn is the author of this book "the political world of slavery and freedom." professor hahn, before we get into the subject of the book, what's the image on the front cover? >> guest: that's a very good question and the answer is i have no idea. the editor proposed -- thought it was a very eye-catching image and when i showed it to friends and colleagues they had no idea what it meant. it doesn't clearly relate to anything in the book but i think they were interested in selling books, and that's how they chose it. i think it is a really interesting photograph, and i think it speaks to sort of complex connections within african-american communities that involve gender as well as power. but beyond that, i don't know. >> host: well, professor hahn, what do going to the topic of the book -- what do we know wrongly about slavery in the u.s.? >> guest: well, one of the issues that i try to deal

the great mayor of the city of philadelphia is here. e is the chairman of the united states conference of mayors which has endorsed this legislation and i will be calling upon him in a moment. we also had the philadelphia police commissioner charles ramsey, who is president of the cheap association which endorses this legislation i would like to call on both of these distinguished gentlemen to come forward. >> good afternoon. thank you, senator feinstein, and members of the house and the senate. we are honored that the congressman has joined us and all who have assembled. again and again, americans have been stunned by senseless violence and acts involving assault weapons and large capacity magazines. columbine was in april of 1999. thirteen people were murdered. virginia tech was april 2007 or it tucson was january 2011. the people murdered. twelve wounded, including gabrielle giffords. aurora, colorado, july of 2012. twelve murdered. oak creek was august of 2012, six murdered. on december 14, 2012, tragedy struck again, killing 20 chil

. >>> i was tweeting when i was on vacation how nervous i was with the philadelphia game and dallas game. >> are you nervous again? >> i'm really nervous now. >> you need to take a deep breath. >> nervous excitement. >> which is kind of nice. there's the best christmas presently, redskins in the playoffs. let's -- present i had, redskins in the playoffs. temperatures falling pretty fast, 35 downtown, dew points still in the mid-teens, pressure up now 30.19 and the winds are quiet north, northwest at 7. when you have dew points in the teens, it's going to be a chilly night. a lot of showers and rain along the gulf coast. that will stay to our south. the precipitation part of it, but the high and midlevel clouds will move northeastward all night and tomorrow. so some of our friends in southern maryland, charles county, st. mary's county will probably have high and midlevel clouds all day and more sunshine to the north, gaithersburg and leesburg. temps, 32 in rockville, 28 in gaithersburg, a water main break off 255, 31 in great falls, 33 in college park and 29 in bowie. so it's going to st

i select "silver linings" as one of the five great philadelphia movies of all time. although "rocky iii" was pretty darn good. there's "the philadelphia story" starring katharine hepburn and carey grant and jimmy stewart. then two other favorites, "witness" with young harrison ford as the police detective guarding the young boy in amish country. then one of the truly great most haunting movies i have ever seen, "sixth sense." "silver linings playbook" belongs with the great philadelphia movies, and that's saying something. we'll be right back. >>> i helped close the government twice. it actually worked. bill clinton came in and said the era of big government is over after two closers, not before. >> wow. the expert on government closing, newt gingrich. we're back, and we have rung in 2013. but some republicans are acting like it's 1995 again. conservatives are actually talking about shutting down government in order to get their desired spending cuts. take a look at arizona congressman matt salmon on cbs yesterday. >> i believe that that government shutdown actually g

with a new coach. >> those are the 47 players -- >> okay. >> the philadelphia -- 47 millionaires watchingthat's terrible. 47 millionaires watching the super bowl every year. anyway -- thank you. ite excited about next saturday. and saturday i got the bengals, houston. and -- >> you got us beating the seahawks? >> i don't know. i hope so. i don't know much about seattle this year. >> wilson, he's good. another good rookie quarterback. >> he's a rookie, too. see, i'm not that clued in. i like the two rookies on the redskins. all right. i'm going to hang my tie near the big screen. thank you. >> you bet. >>> we've got another piece of news. there was another piece of legislation discussed in the house last night. but unlike the fiscal cliff, there was no vote on this. despite pleas for bipartisan support for this -- from a bipartisan group, the session was adjourned, and the current term of congress will end without having a vote on superstorm sandy aid. that was something that people were looking for. >> this is absolutely indefensible. the fact is every bit of documentation that was requir

the pressure and play here in philadelphia has been outstanding. verybody's been great. >> doc: it's been riveting to watch. reminiscent in the way it went in the short season, the energy was remarkable. some of those passes not necessary. but they were. boy, the energy that these teams have brought is remarkable. this play ricocheted on back. the net is empty. shovelled by kunitz and in! chris kunitz into the empty net. the penguins have a two-goal lead. and barring any kind of unusual thing they will start out with two points and the flyers with none. a real good job of the pittsburgh penguin defensemen standing up in the neutral zone. a great play by martin with a skate, up to kunitz. university of minnesota and ferris state frto the back of t net. good day for the penguins. they've done a nice job here today. the flyers played a great game here this afternoon. >> doc: after a slow start, they are rebounded well. the horn sounds. the pittsburgh penguins have won 8 of 12 regular season games here in philadelphia. marc-andre fleury, win 227. that i

the head of the philadelphia fed charles plosser said the central bank's policy of buying bonds is riskyut it was a mild day for wall street. the dow gained 17. the nasdaq added almost four points. the s&p lost a fraction. and for the first full trading week of the year, both the dow and s&p gained half a percent. the nasdaq ticked up nearly 1%. >> susie: investors were preoccupied tod! with wells fargo. the first big u.s. bank to report earnings. even though its results came in better than expected. investors were concerned by slower loan growth and how much money the bank makes on those loans. the so-called net interest margin declined more thanç expected. wells earned 92 cents, three cents more than estimates. revenues also came in higher than expected: up 6.5% to almost $22 billion. but the stock fell less than 1% to about $35. joining us now, joshua siegel, founder of stone castle partners, a new york investment firm that specializes in banks. josh, welcome to the program, thanks for coming. some disappointment about that slowdown in mortgages at mortgage lending, and mortgage appl

i know the mayor has to get back to work and philadelphia. mr. ayor, if you have to slip out, we understand and i want to thank you now. [applause] the following fed members who kick it off. congressman eddie bernice johnson of texas, cumbersome and -- she's gone? representative frankel from florida, representative velazquez, representative going to be cheaper boric in. >> thank you very much, madam chairwoman. my question is a broad one and probably directed to the mayor and chief of police. without the budgetary restraints that we suffered throughout this country, do you think you can have an effect this program without funding? >> note. >> we are going to take all five questions at one time. [laughter] >> mr. holtz. >> thank you are the stories. they certainly make one cry. they should make one determined and committed. why has america is so different in the statistics you gave us? you know, it is not that we have so much more mental illness are less mental health care and other countries are so many fewer armed police were different for studen

andy reid of the philadelphia eagles, ken whisenhunt of the arizona cardinals and lovie smith of thecago bears are all super bowl veterans. also now unemployed buffalo's chan gailey. cleveland's pat shermer. kansas city's romeo crennel and san diego's norv turner. five general managers were also fired. >>> in the nba. in orlando miami's chris bosh, 22 points including a jumper with 35 seconds left to tie the game. lebron james scored 36 points. in o.t. he beat the magic 112-110. >>> in college hoops, syracuse coach jim boeheim. tied bob knight for second place on the all-time wins list for men's college basketball. michael carter williams scored 18 points. syracuse beat central connecticut state 96-62. career win 902 for boeheim. only duke's mike shashehski has more with 939. fifth ranked indiana was on the road to take on big 10 rival iowa. cody zeller led the hoosiers with 19 points. indiana hangs on to beat the hawkeyes, 69-65. indiana improves its record to 13-1. >>> when we come back on this tuesday, another look at this morning's top stories. and survivor stories. new details f

after five nfc championship appearances andy reid has been let go by the philadelphia eagles. go has fired former redskins head coach foreinorthe turner. lovie smith is out in chicago. chan gailey was canned up in buffalo axed after three seasons. not a good day. >> no. >> the guys work 22-hour days. >> you come back from a 3-6 and where we are now no risk of that in washington. >>> an update on the fiscal cliff. vice president joe biden has just left the capitol telling reporters tonight you should never predict how the house is going to vote. be sure to follow for the latest on nbc washington.com and first thing on news 4 today tomorrow morning. well, they are busy in pasadena tonight putting the finishing touches on everything for this year's tournament of roses parade. teams have been hard at work all week long decorating floats with flowers. this one a tribute to those who have been organ donors. the rose parade starts rolling tomorrow morning at 11:00. watch it right here on nbc 4. that's our broadcast tonight. carson daly is up next with the final countdown to 2013 live

. >>> in the nfl, jim kelley is the new head coach of the philadelphia eagles. >>> and a billboard signting down the minutes until the retirement party for baltimore linebacker ray lewis. the sign suggests the patriots will beat the ravens in the playoffs again on sunday and lewis will retire after 17 nfl seasons. >>> well just ahead charlie sheen names the biggest partiers on the planet. plus the catch of the day comes from michigan but it's not the kind you want to find on your plate. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] some day, your life will flash before your eyes. ♪ make it worth watching. ♪ the new 2013 lexus ls. an entirely new pursuit. with fancy feast morningsls. gourmet cat food. (announcer) make mornings special, mornings are delicious protein rich entrees with garden veggies and egg. fancy feast mornings. the best ingredient is love. can a 30-day-old pluggable febreze make even this old container smell fresh? take a deep breath. describe the room that you're in. i think just like a big, open space. like i'm hanging the sheets on the line. and it sm