the priorities should be placed by the city and i think the city is essentially decided that under intense pressure from the ford ministration and which is something the court was not releasing to new york but many cities that he did not literally say it but cities were no longer getting that type of resources they got under the model city programs of the '60s and the municipal funding that they once got and there was intense pressure to privatize and downsize public spending and increase competitiveness and attract new investment as opposed to a similar the keynesian approach to what obama is talking about now to invest in a stimulus package and the working class there was a calculus that if one had to be lost, what could be lost is the quality of life for the working and middle-class of the city in order to bring in new funds in the corporate headquarters, tourism and an upper middle class. there was a bold restructuring of the priorities and ultimately the budgetary priorities and new forms of incentive for provided for investment and relocation and tourism at the same time that money was cut from social spending for existing residents and workers of the city. >> host: what is the fa

we were able to identify the introduction of the swine flu into the city early after its arrival since new york city as you heard in the last session and presented as a highly explosive outbreak at st. francis prep high school in queens which was just two days after the cdc first announced the initial cases in california and only one actively a day before the first confirmation that h1n1 was causing an outbreak of severe respiratory disease in mexico. a challenge though of being one of the first affected sites was that there was no information yet on the viral transmission characteristics or its virulence, as we had to make our initial decisions on how to respond in the absence of the data that we had hoped would be available and though initially the new york city outbreak was primarily associated with the high school within two weeks we started to see evidence of more widespread community transmission first in the area around the high school and then eventuly all areas of the city and as of yesterday we had identified over 900 hospitalized cases and 47 deaths and we estimate the several hundre

the sand. so there are a lot of caricatures of the city in representations of new york in which the city ceases mix this, and i love new york, i heart ny, really responded to what was an anxiety of that for new yorkers. many new yorkers for i heart ny t-shirts and increased the campaign as well as amongst the nation and had people identifying with the i heart ny that there was something in the kind of our vanity and cosmopolitan nature of the grittiness of the city i think blazer and i write about this was pleading with the font of the campaign, the kind of gritty and softness of the heart and position and the european newspaper, sorry, print and television campaign featured prominently broadway stars and broadway shows from cats, from a chorus line, from some of what remained to be the great musicals and productions that many of which originated in the 70's and early 80's and, annie and other things and there were characters from those performances gave their services for free and there was the creativity and vitality of new york association with broadway and times square so that was the kind

today at about this time the mayor of the city of new york and a police commissioner will be speakingout against this proposal and our police commissioner is particularly upset because his job is the safety of police officers. a police officer of stop someone in a car and now have the safety and sanctity of mines to no wobble that if that person has a gun in their car it has been approved by the new york city police department. there are people that needed guns for self-defense or other purposes. after this law passes the have no such peace of mind, no such statement. in fact, they have no way. imagine you are a police officer and saw someone they could be from 47 different states with 47 different requirements were and you are responsible to figure out if the person has a gun in his car and the right to carry a gun in his car. it is impossible to do. in our large urban areas. and in that reason mr. president each state would have carefully crafted its white was in the way that makes the most sense to protect its citizens. clearly larger urban areas like new york merit a different sta

it's your responsibility to coordinate new york city with federal agencies and the like. >> that's right. and that's right. and new york city occupies a unique role. it occupies a unique role as a potential target, as a target that already has been attacked. but also a unique role because of the fact that it has built its own intelligence gathering apparatus and it has organized a huge counterterrorism effort in new york city and in the new york city region. we don't have those things all over the country. but we do have cases all over the country. you may have seen, for example, that there were arrests a couple of weeks ago in minnesota. there were arrests rely this week in north carolina. so we have.... >> rose: tell us about those because that's interesting stories. the arrest in north carolina in terms of local... how would you characterize it? >> participation? knowledge? lack of knowledge? well, to be frank, i really don't want to talk about that because that's an open criminal investigation. but i think it's fair to say that this was a group that was a terrorist-related group or p

the ball on. here in new york city, of all places, michael bloomberg, the mayor of this great town shows a glimmerf common sense "the new york times" reports the city program where the bloomberg administration is getting up and saying we're going to fight homelessness! they're going to start giving the homeless one-way tickets out of town. the times reports now, instead of putting families up in expensive shelter systems that cost $36,000 a year just to house a family, the city is going to pay for families to go live with a relative in some other place, or maybe even another country. it doesn't have to be another city. another country, too. hey, maybe we could have them sneak across the border in the middle of the night and take the jobs that the canadians just won't do! new york is paying for more than 550 families to leave the city since 2007. if they pay me to leave the city, i will consider t how much? $3? i'll take it! i guess it is like the old song says "if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere." but i guess if you can't make it in new york, get the hell out! wait a minute. i just

[applause] >> edwin burrows is the co-author of the "gotham," the history of new york city to 1890. he was the recipient of the pulitzer prize for history in 1999. he is a history professor of brooklyn college at the city university of new york and lecturer at the organization of american historians. to find out more, visit brooklyn the.edu. >> this summer booktv is asking, what are you reading? >> this summer i plan and reading several books, a couple of them that the need to finish right now. one of them is on william wilberforce, a great man in history, responsible for eliminating the slave trade in great britain and he is one of my political heroes in life. the abolitionists in america look to wilberforce and his example of how to get rid of slavery in the united states, so almost anything i can read about wilberforce i tried to get my hands on in the book i am in the middle of right now i want to finish this summer. it is a tremendous book about his life and how he brought people together to eliminate the slave trade in great britain. and other book i am going to read this summe

to give united the strange existence the we have in the york city, for the longest time our offices were located above the offices of a rap recording studio. the most interesting part is the stranger to efficient about how when we opened the car windows in the spring and summer, there was an unmistakable oder that would -- odor that would waft up. many times we have been produced in the haze of marijuana smoke. some people think that explains a lot. my favorite story in urban america is a man that told a story that was told briefly at harvard. many moved to cambridge, it was in the fall. there was a congressional election. he and voted in that election and reflexively and voted against the democrats in the race. the next morning, it was curious how it turned out. he asked his wife at the breakfast table, how did the election? how did the republican do? she looked at the newspaper in london very quickly and said, there was another republican in that race. republican in that race. >> he said look, i know i voted against the democrat. she said, honey, you voted for the communists. which is

the number of people living in streets and shelters. city officials dismiss criticism they are just shifting the homeless. >> they identify outside new york city, resources they have. they will either be going to their own apartment. going to live with a family. or going to live with a friend. they are going to a home. >> the mayor says a one-way ticket is a lot cheaper than what it would cost the city to provide an apartment. >>> health experts are sounding the alarm on the dangers of tanning beds. researchers for the world health organization, says damage from the ultraviolet radiation, moves the beds into the top cancer risk category. and young women in particular should be very concerned. here's abc's diana alvear. >> reporter: new research confirms what doctors have long suspected. the pursuit of that summer glow could lead to cancer in the long run. finding that tanning beds are as deadly as arsenic or mustard gas. and the younger the user, the more dangerous they are. before 2 age of 30, the risk of skin cancer jumps by 75%. a troubling discovery, considering the vast majority of tanning salon patrons in the u.s., are young women b

we were able to identify the introduction of the swine flu into the city early after its arrival since new yorkcity as you heard in the last session and presented as a highly explosive outbreak at st. francis prep high school in queens which was just two days after the cdc first announced the initial cases in california and only one actively a day before the first confirmation that h1n1 was causing an outbreak of severe respiratory disease in mexico. a challenge though of being one of the first affected sites was that there was no information yet on the viral transmission characteristics or its virulence, as we had to make our initial decisions on how to respond in the absence of the data that we had hoped would be available and though initially the new york city outbreak was primarily associated with the high school within two weeks we started to see evidence of more widespread community transmission first in the area around the high school and then eventually all areas of the city and as of yesterday we had identified over 900 hospitalized cases and 47 deaths and we estimate the several hundr

his list of accomplishments include serving as the commissioner of the new york city department of healthental hygiene. one of the country's oldest and largest public health agencies. under his leadership, the number of adult smokers in new york city declined by 350,000 and teen smoking rates were cut in half. under his leadership, new york city became the first location in the united states to eliminate trans fats from restaurants, to rigorously monitor the diabetes epidemic and to require selected restaurants to post prominently their caloric information. now as the director of the cdc, dr. friedan is focused on bringing his considerable expertise and his passion to achieving cdc's vision, healthy people in a healthy world through prevention. please join me in inviting dr. friedan to the podium. [applause] >> thank you very much. and thanks to the staff of cdc who worked so hard to organize this conference and our partners, others who have been so critical not just to this conference but to pushing the effort to address obesity as a public health crisis that our country must face. i'd l

to the north, active weather around the new york city it area and up towards new england. nother batch of active weather back toward the central part of the country. overnight the front moves through bringing a chance of shower or storm. then behind it for tomorrow it, high pressure builds in. this bring in less humid weather. so here's future cast. tomorrow morning we start off with clouds, maybe a stray shower or two. the day goes on, the front continues to kick off to the south taking the clouds with it. eventually we go mostly sunny with temperatures into the mid 80s. monday, the front stays to our south. there's a little disturbance that may throw a couple clouds in our direction. that's about it. for most of the week, high pressure will be the main player keeping things pretty quiet. come tomorrow morning, again, we start off mostly cloudy in the morning with maybe a stray shower or two. your sunrise at 5:53 in the morning with overnight lows dropping down into the 60s. then as the day goes on and as the front kicks out of heer it, takes the cloudsith it. a beautiful

. >> the president addressed the naacp in new york city. he recognized the work of early activists and how their sacrifices helped him. >> and historic moment with the nation's oldest civil rights organization. president barack obama marking the naacp's convention in new york city. >> what we celebrate tonight is not simply the journey they have traveled about the journey that we as americans have traveled over the past 100 years. >> decades of discrimination battles anhelped pave the way fr the moment. >> i made a trip to springfield college -- springfield, ill., a couple of years ago. >> the president focused his speech on the hard work ahead. >> we are required to overcome today's barriers with the same as what was needed before. the same commission, the same sense of urgency, the same sense of sacrifice and the community, the same willingness to do our part for ourselves and one another. >> the naacp is in the midst of redefining its image and expanding its membership base. more than half a million people belong to the organization. >>vo

this is a very large cell with hail moving right into the south, new york district, right into the bureaus of new york city. this is going to run through new york city probably with some wind damage. we know this smaller cell right there did wind damage in wayne, new jersey. then, there is another cell right there. strasburg, that's crandon lake storm. that tornado is rotating with a tornado warning. another storm that has a tornado warning, 10 or 15 miles south of mount pocono. this is unusual for the northeast to have this type of weather. we don't see severe weather moving in new york city with hail and the potential for tornadoes any time during the year. it isn't like a storm, kyra that may affect 10 people in eastern new mexico. storms today could affect millions of people, putting down trees, power lines and maybe even some mail. make sure your kids and pets are inside as well. >> thanks, chad, good advice. >>> the employee who

the hartford courant." this official testified yesterday in front of a senate ethics committee. new york city on the democrats line. caller: thank you for c-span. it came to me, the name of a flat health care, like the flat tax. host: how does that work?

and edward morgan, building the post office. new york cityat 29th street, the largest cities in new york, it's after the party washington papers. this was a devastating blow. harrison will eventually have a family of five children and after this he was in poverty for the remainder of his life. regarding marcus garvey, that's going to be volume ii. a much more complex relationship. many people don't know marcus garvey came to the united states if all the work of booker t. washington and washington died in the garvey was prepared to go back to jamaica when he saw harrison on a street corner and saw his tremendous appeal and his effectiveness reaching the audience and harvey decides to stay. when harrison colds the first meeting of his liberty league june 12, 1912 and the book by the way has a fascinating history of the development of this need for movement, a story that's never been told before and a new negro movement is like the black power movement of the 60's so it is a story worth learning. it's got many similarities. harrison has garvey s

we were able to identify the introduction of the swine flu into the city early after its arrival since new yorkcity as you heard in the last session and presented as a highly explosive outbreak at st. francis prep high school in queens which was just two days after the cdc first announced the initial cases in california and only one actively a day before the first confirmation that h1n1 was causing an outbreak of severe respiratory disease in mexico. a challenge though of being one of the first affected sites was that there was no information yet on the viral transmission characteristics or its virulence, as we had to make our initial decisions on how to respond in the absence of the data that we had hoped would be available and though initially the new york city outbreak was primarily associated with the high school within two weeks we started to see evidence of more widespread community transmission first in the area around the high school and then eventually all areas of the city and as of yesterday we had identified over 900 hospitalized cases and 47 deaths and we estimate the several hundr

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. >>> some crazy weather in the new york city area. remember it's summer. red the ground like snow during fast-moving thunderstorms. north of the city, hail the size of golf balls fell and wind gusts up to 65 miles per hour brought down trees and a rare tornado warning over northern long island. >>> there is a fiery end to a hostage standoff in connecticut. advertising executive set his home near hartford on fire yesterday after holding his ex-wife captive for hours. she had escaped earlier but the husband refused to leave until the games got to the basement where he was hiding. he had missed a court hearing and abducted his ex-wife in downtown hartford. he is now expected to face charges of kidnapping and arson. >>> on the cbs "moneywatch." big sell-off for asian markets. claire leka is here. >> reporter: tumbling oil prices sent asian stocks kidding. the bench mark nikkei had a losing sixth day. in hong tongue stocks mored authorize 0.75%. now on wall street, the broader market starts at its lowest level since may. later today alcoa kicks off what is expec

the city spread out over the landscape, that was weird. that was not normal. now we're seeing a return to the normal. >> reporter: the best walking cities in the u.s., san francisco, boston, and new york. the worst? las vegas and oklahoma city. on walkscore.com, you can find out your own city and your own home's walkability by putting in your address. walkscore has losing weight because you walk more to spending less on car or gas because you may not need to own one. >> what was that web site, walkable cities, was that it? darwin moon walked from las vegas to his metown in oakland, maryland. he's 45 years old and is a logger out in oakland, maryland. he could be in for a big payday coming up in november they started again. he's in the lead right now. how about that, huh? >> get on the web site. i want to see what baltimore ranks. >>> hey, look, you may want to get out and walk this morning. walking this afternoon, we have more heat with the humidity and a better chance of strong thunderstorms. 72 right now, fairly typical summer stuff that has been atypical this summer as yesterday, the hottest day of the year so far where we crack 94 degrees. new york city hit the first 85 of the ent

the a.m. new york news. good morning people. >> reporter: the good news at this subway station is its name. new york cityd the name of the massive atlantic avenue pacific street station to barkley's bank. >> this is the first time we've succeeded in getting somebody to pay for a name. >> it may look like this barclay's a british bank. >> it's a bit of a slippery slope when you start selling branding names of government-run. >> reporter: new york city transit needs money. ridership has dropped as the global economy has gone off the tracks. >> like transit systems all over the country and the world, we are facing budget deficits. >> reporter: many of the locals don't think barclay's should be a sign of the times. >> what do you expect me to say? that's ridiculous. the whole country's a branding nightmare. >> a london bank shouldn't be the name of this public station. >> reporter: a real estate developer is paying $200,000 for 20 years for the naming rights. it's the underground branding for a plan barclay's sports arena. some don't mind the switch. >> if they can do it, why not? >> reporter: some do care a

the new york city transit rules. presence of an unauthorized person in the cab of a subway train is expressly forbidden and viewed as a serious infraction. depending on the outcome of the investigation, disciplinary charges may be filed against the employees you. have evidence in the picture. most assuredly something will happen. an investigation is under way. >> i didn't want this young man to get in any trouble. i don't want the conductor or the driver to lose their jobs over this. i just think it's a -- like president obama said, these are teachable moments and that hopefully something good comes out of it. you know, i didn't want something to happen in a couple of weeks. a train being in an accident and people get injured or killed. and to think, god, i didn't do anything and hopefully this makes the system a little bit safer. >> good you have that handy cell phone with the camera in it. thanks so much. stick around. we're watching extreme weather as well. the latest for you from that front. it is 44 minutes past

. >> attracting youth is one area the naacp is focusing on during the convention in new york city. the civil rights organization will have to reach out to a new organization. the president says the group must focus on original noising and changing the position of young people within the movement. many face challenges in the classroom and on street corners. the generation from baby boomers on down need to come together and figure out how we are truly going to put young people up front. president barak obama will address the group tomorrow. you can log on to our website and click on local news. congress strifes to unveil a plan. in washington with a look at the $1.5 trillion plan and where things stand right now. democrat yick leaders in the house say they plan to vote before they leave for their august recess. some others say not so fast. this bill is a starting point and path to success to lower costs and give greater choice to americans including keeping a plan. better quality of care putting doctors and not insurance companies back in charge. highlights plan for health insurance.

the plot of a thriller. new york man accused of giving al qaeda leaders information about the new york city transit system andg island commuter railroad. turns out the suspect was also a secret informant for the u.s. government. cnn's deb feyerick has this story. >> he became an informant after he was captured. bryant kneel venice left i don't think island to train with al qaeda in pakistan according to the unsealed indictment. he pled guilty in january with conspireing to attack bases in afghanistan and also with providing details of the new york transit system in long island railroad that may have led to a heightened alert in november. source close to the investigation says venice was arrested in pakistan about a year and a half after leaving long island and the mosque he attended there. >> honestly, you know that it's out there but you don't truly think it's in your own backyard or next door to you. that's a scary thing. >> i have a feeling that everything what he have done, he have done when he left the mosque about a year and a half ago. if when he was there, i don't think that he was. i don't think that

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and then cooler up the road to philadelphia and new york city, thanks to rain showers up there. dew point temperatures in the low to mid-60s now, so a little bit on the summer humid side out there. and here is a check on the regional doppr. and here is most of the rain now, and much of connecticut, and southern new england and toward the boston area getting in on showers right now. and you may run into flight delays. and partly sunny around here. still a chance for shower and maybe a rumble or two of thunder this afternoon. a check of the seven-day forecast coming up. for ynow, back to you. >>> let's check with jerry edwards for the check on traffic. >> another painful day for folks trying to head on down towards the auk akwan river. and construction south of lorden takes away the right lane. and northbound right now looks like we are doing okay. elsewhere, we will check out the woodrow wilson bridge. no worries there. and a little work zone, the outer work of the beltway. >>> time 11:11. hitting the roads in virginia. what you might want to do before you go. >> issue one for the

sean: in the city of new york, a city of 8.5 million people, right? >> right. n one of the local papers that 50% of new york city's income tax bill, a city of eight million people, comes from 42,242 people. >> probably correct. probably correct. in fact, i'm not at all surprised by that, because of the graduated income tax. we already have major distribution of wealth going on in this country. sean: redistribution of wealth. >> from witch to poor. the rich pay -- the so-called rich, we're talking about $250,000 or more in new york city. i know this is hard. but so people understand, these people sometimes are two-earner families and they're really struggling. what he will do is drive away wealth, which is, after all, what produces jobs. obama's plan or the plan in new york, the plan in new jersey, these are plans that will change the nature of our society into a social democracy. sean: but we see things are shifting. the governor of new york is extremely unpopular. the governor of new jersey is extremely unpopular. chris dodd is in terrible trouble in connecticu

york city night club last november. he could also face disciplinary action by the nfl. >>> a horrific crash in new york city as eight people are killed in an accident, including some children. a woman who was driving her minivan on the wrong side of the parkway when she hit a suv head-on. all three men in the suv were killed as were the woman and four children with her. just hours earlier, five people were injured in another crash on that same vehicle as a vehicle was also traveling the wrong direction. >> everybody has the capacity to save a life and more and more people are getting that message. wjz's jessica kartalija has a preview of what is coming up tonight. >> reporter: good morning. i am jessica kartalija here at john hopkins hospital where doctors and nurses save lives over day, but one angel proves you don't have to have a fancy title to save a life. robert iams a painter at john hopkins never thought his lifeline will come from the vice president of human resourceses, pamela polk, but it did. pamela took a genuine interest from robert's health when he returned from medical leave. >> i said so great to have you b

maybe that experience on the criminal court in new york city shelter prepare for these hearings. after leaving my office, judge sotomayor joined a prominent law firm and accepted a part-time appointment as a member of the new york city campaign finance. there she continued to earn a reputation for being tough, fair, non-political and an arena where those were strongly needed. she has taken those characteristics with her to the federal bench, where they are equally important. judge sotomayor's career spanned three decades and she is worked in almost every level of our judicial system, prosecutor, private litigator, the trial court judge and an appellate court judge which i think is the most important court in the world. she is bin enable champion of the law and her experience will be invaluable on our highest court. judge sotomayor is highly qualified for any position in which a first-rate intellect, common sense, collegiality and good character would be assets. i might add that the judge will be the only member of the supreme court with experience in criminal cases in state courts

the blow. >> i know our friends in new york were disappointed they didn't get money. they're getting today, $6 million in additional local aid immediately add justed. >> but the new york cityssioner said the nation's largest police force has different challenges. he said new york deserves additional money and is hoping to put more officers on the ground. >> been kind of unsuccessful here twice. eight major plots since september 11. we know that terris want to come here if they can. >> it's not the first time new york and washington haven't seen eye-to-eye over police kos. over 2006, the city had anti-terror funds cut under the bush administration that caused an uproar. this time around, new york's major says while he's frustrated, maybe it's a compliment that new york didn't get grant money because the crime rate is down. >> it's a compliment that we got left out. it's not the compliment that i like the results of, but i do like the recognition that we're doing well. >> and to the departments that did get this money, the specific money, the attorney general says these grounds will allow for almost 4700 officers to be on the job for three years. departments then must retain

the little boy on the left just got those glasses and they were given to me by the city of new york. we were on relief, the city bought me glasses. they took me to coney island. tavis: being on relief, what do you make of this being such a story. i have to envy your salary. what do you make of the life you've crafted. >> i never forget about this, many people who had depression childhood, they want to be buried with their money. this has never happened. if you need a dollar, my shirt -- tavis: can i have the suspenders? >> sell them on e0bay. it always stayed with me. my friends are with me every day. being poor taught me a lot about things, when the nominee for the supreme court says that her background was helping her decide things, people criticize this. but everyone's background has something to do with how they came out. if i was the son of a banker, and i had a house in farmingdale and horses, i think that i would be doing something else, so we carry with us these things that we carry with us. there is no joke about welfare. 99% of the people on this do not want to be there, thi

poconos, you know, kind of a little romantic get agray the folks in new york city. remember the campaign back when i was a kid, so, if they were, you know, folks were out there doing their thing they got a rough wake-up call. 16 reports of tornadoes yesterday, heidi, and we'll see rough weather again today. we had tornado warnings out for dallas, ft. worth area this morning and that line of thunderstorms has since been allowed to chill out just a little bit, so, that's good news. here it is on the radar scoop. dallas down to houston. this is not going to get far enough south to where the drought is, which is pretty much austin and south towards san antonio. so, unfortunately, the rain continues to fall in places where they don't are don't really need the rain so much. seattle to portland, another day of probably record-breaking heat although today will be cooler than yesterday. check out some of these numbers from yesterday's heat. 108 in medford, oregon. vancouverer, washington, 108. that's an all-time record. you have to think, eight, nine ten months from now they'

by the time saturday arrives, look at the warmth. new york city near 90s for the first time this summer. detroit and cincinnati, typical storms. typical storms in florida. well, if you're watching wnbc 4 in new york, head to pelham bay park to hear music of the temptations and bee gees. that's your barry gibbs eastern event of the day. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. three films open facing an impossible task. no one will catch harry pot ter and the half-blood prince. it will take its second weekend with about $35 million. the strongest movie is expected to be g force, a film about highly trained james bond like guinea pigs. it will earn about 25 million and start paying back the 80 million it cost to make. and the weekend's date movie, the ugly truth, stagger katherine heigl. it's bringing strong female interest. it is rated r and that will keep the audience down. it should take 20 million, but that makes it already a winner because they made it for only 40 million. and a horror entry orphan about the ad

. >> the violent weather that ripped through the new york city area is tapering off this morning but t is leaving behind a big clean-up job. torrential downpour, hail, lightning and powerful winds battered the area yesterday knocking down trees and power lines. saturday a tornado touched down in upstate new york, tearing through four miles and damaging more than two dozen homes. i was out earlier in the evening last night. there were tree limbs down in the middle of new york city. it was pretty crazy. just scattered showers in the northeast today, rain and thunderstorms from the carolinas to florida and along the gulf coast. strong storms around the great lakes today. thunderstorms in the southern rockies. >> 83 in colorado spring, 91 in albuquerque. near 21 degrees above normal in the pa sick northwest. highs in the 80s for saint lieu eshs indianapolis and fargo. 87 here in new york, baltimore and atlanta. >> doesn't it seem like we do a lot of stories about robots? >> they're all equally as creepy. >> here's another one for you. cutting edge technology is creating humanoid robots li

york, tearing through four miles and damaging more than two dozen homes. i was out earlier in the evening last night. there were tree limbs down in the middle of new york city was pretty crazy. >> now here's a look at your weather for today: just scattered showers in the northeast today, rain and thunderstorms from the carolinas to florida and along the gulf coast. strongtorms around the great lakes today. thunderstormn ern rockies. >> 83 in colorado spring, 91 in albuquerque. near 21 degrees above normal in the pa sick northwest. highs in the 80s for st. louis indianapolis and fargo. 87 here in new york, baltimore and atlanta. >> doesn't it seem like we do a lot of stories about robots? >> they're all equally as creepy. >> here's another one for you. cutting edge technology is creating humanoid robots like we've never seen before. are they on track to outsmart man? wouldn't be tough to do. >> this would make you wonder if it could happen. this guy can open doors and navigate on its own. when it's running out of juice, it can actually find a socket where it can recharge all without any human guidance. >> it stays alive basically. one scientist says if we're

the guide to new orleans. there was only been a half a dozen or a dozen guides to cities. the guide to washington, dc, new york city, new orleans, lincoln, several other cities. san francisco and l.a. but, yeah, the new york, john cheever worked on that one. actually, in talking with michael, we found sort of evidence and a description of a day in coney island, the fingerprints of cheever and how his perspective kind of goes from morning to dusk and gets this whole sort oflyrical view of the board walk. >> i just won erred because so many of the writers at the time went on to write fiction, like jim thompson or this person in idaho that was a one-man editorial force. there is any question about the editorial accuracy of the guides? >> that's an interesting question. a number of the guide did set up -- the states had copy editing, fact checking. for example, where the editor in nebraska who had torn -- had been a hobo but had been an english major before he had to leave college. he wound up back in lincoln, and his former professor said, go over here and get a job at the artist project and don't catch another f

this is the new york city premiere. the sixth movie in the series and follows the ever-popular teen wizard harry potter and his friends too the journey to defeat the world's most evil wizard. >>> a plane crash in iran and everyone on board feared dead. stay with us. kim pruett, salina, kansas. zipline-- terrifying. my husband, robert, robert made me come. he dragged me up here. i'm scared. i don't want to take my feet off the platform. hey, this isn't bad! you look down and you're like, ooh that's a lot farther than i thought it was going to be. well that wasn't bad at all, that was fun. >>> 5:25. let's head up to new york for "tech bytes." >> in today's "tech bytes" -- apple's store celebrates its one-year birthday. apple says 1.5 billion applications for the iphone and i-pod touch have been downloaded since the store launched last september. there are about 65,000 aps available. it took nine months for the first billion to be downloaded, just three months for the next half-billion. >>> blackberry is trying to rev up i

[applause] one of the things she hoped to do was to spend this summer working in new york city for dr. freedman and another person that he ripped out of his department there to make new york the most successful city in the country in the transition to electronic medical records so i just want you to know, doc, she was still there on the job. but i say that because this whole issue of public health -- we're here to talk about childhood obesity. it's become an obsession of mine. but i want to say that in general, it is a public health issue that cannot be dealt with entirely within the confines of a medical office. and you don't want it to get to the point where all cases are dealt with within the confines of a hospital or a pharmaceutical response. it seems to me that in that way the childhood obesity problem is the microcosm of the whole thing we need to be thinking about here with health care reform. and i didn't come here to give a talk about it. it's beyond my pay grade now. i don't have to think about it, except that all of these debates about what change will save what money have

. >>> and meet the newest candidate in the new york city mayor's race, the naked cowboy. ♪ i walk throughimes square in my undies. >> robert burck is serious about his campaign. plus a look at other unlikely candidates from the past. all that and more this hour on msnbc. >> good afternoon, everyone. i'm tamron hall live in new york. >> i'm david shuster. we do have breaking fuss to start. >> we've been following this story out of ft. lewis washington where a woman was shot by a man at the px, the post exchange on the base there. the man turned the gun on himself. he's right now receiving emergency treatment at madigan army medical center. this happening it around 11:20 local time in ft. lewis, washington. police have closed off the area and there was an evacuation earlier of that area, but right now a woman has been shot and a man now receiving emergency treatment there in ft. lewis, washington. >> now to the big picture. four hours from now, president obama is scheduled to hold his fourth primetime news conference of his presidency. the main focus, health care reform. he will be taking h

city tax and 9% sales tax. you end up with about a quarter on the dollar. >> that's right. if you live in new york city and make the maximum, which kicks in low for city and state, the top rate, you will pay 12 1/2% income tax, plus, as you say, you have over 39% on the federal. it is an extraordinary time, yet sales tax keeps going up. revenues are going down. eric: mike goodwin, fox news contributor, and we want to thank representative brad shermman from joining us from washington as well. >> small businesses are responsible for 70% of the jobs in this country. why aren't they getting any still plus money? we will talk to one small business owner who says the cap and trade bill, the energy bill, the cap and trade bill will run him out of business, next. what are you doing for lunch? how about beer-battered shrimp and chips... or one of our coastal soup and grilled shrimp salad combinations? eight dishes that fit into your lunch hour... starting at just $6.99. at red lobster. getting your daily vegetables and fruit can be difficult.. nine out of ten adults don't get the recommended amount. that's

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