recreation park department and the uptown parking corporation.d because, as you know, the mta redeemed the outstanding revenue bonds on four of our nonprofits. and as part of that redeeming that the prior leases were no longer effective. so we have to enter into a new lease or as two of the garages have chosen is enter into an advisory capacity, not a lease. out of the four nonprofits, two of the nonprofits will no longer continue to have a lease structure but uptown, which includes center stockton managed by the mta and union square will continue to have a lease. japan center, which did not have outstanding debt also wanted to continue a lease. so this amendment before you gives us 180-day window to come back to you with a new negotiated lease without the bond debt service but bond issues associated with that new lease. we be back before you along with recreation park department in 180 days from the board of supervisors approval for you to approve a new lease with uptown corporation as well as japan center. so i will be happy to answer questions

>> it is it tough uptown.en colbert wondering if sandy has a political agenda. >> none of this surprises me. hurricanes have a well known liberal bias. first katrina tainted george bush's presidency. then isaac wiped out the first day of the republican national convention. now hurricane sandy. sandy, what kind of name is that? are you induced or a lady storm? big surprise, just when obama needs a boost, who shows up in a gender ambiguous weather system? a category 5 bi-hurricane. don't get me wrong, i don't mind you being a meteorological event but why must be so flam poiboya and in my face about it? no, i'm hurricane sandy. deal with me. >> all right. did you see this video yesterday? a 4-year-old girl in ft. collins, colorado, if you think you're sick of the presidential election, look to her reaction after a ride to her grocery store with her mom during which she listened to an mpr report about the campaign. >> because i'm tired of both obama and mitt romney. >> that's why you're crying? oh, it will be over

they came uptown to fill their needs.pportunity for you guys if you could open, you knew that it would be good. >> yes. i mean everyone was not open so you also have food and refrigerators and things. melissa: right. >> nature of business. if you fall behind, november and december are telltale months financially for restaurants, especially in new york. melissa: right. >> it is really, you got to stay moving. melissa: you turned a potential negative into a positive. like you said you have the food in the fridge that would rot otherwise. >> right. melissa: you generally have six cooks for maybe 200 people. you ended up having 300 people, four cooks. how did you manage something like that? were you cracking the whip? >> no. just people, we have a great staff, a dedicated staff. real new yorkers and they came in and they understood, you know, we treated them well. we helped them with taxis. the guys who chipped in and caravanned everyone we gave them extra money. you have to take care of the people. like i said, we had fortun

on uptown and nothing downtown.ill feels that way for so many people who are still without power. and as we've been talking about as it gets colder without heat which is, you know, really becoming a precarious situation for a lot of folks. >> manhattan is mostly back now again. new jersey, lots of areas. >> we did get power yesterday but even my husband said as soon as it went on he looked at the they a thermostat and it was 52 degrees. that was warm in the middle of the day, what some folks will be facing tomorrow night. >> ours came on friday and i didn't want to turn it off. afraid they wouldn't come back on. we're hoping others get it back on. capital one venture miles for a golf getaway. double miles you can actually use... but mr. single miles can't join his friends because he's getting hit with blackouts. shame on you. now he's stuck in a miniature nightmare. oh, thank you. but, with the capital one venture card... you can fly any airline, any flight, any time. double miles you can actually use. what's in you

. >> you look uptown, and you see lights. you look downtown and it is completely black. i was driving with a partner of mine, and i said that i do not think we will ever see something like this again. >> it is scary seeing new york like this, but i am happy to be alive. >> a little confusion, but it is still not so bad. you can get around and maneuver a little bit, and that is it. >> sandy also took out the subway line, which carries 1/3 of new york's workforce each day. flooded tunnels and miles of tracks will need to be cleared, but it was a new jersey shoreline that took the brunt of the super storm's wrath -- houses, boats, and boardwalks along the ocean have been destroyed. the storm is now largely dissipated over the great lakes. it is still dumping heavy snow and rain from north carolina to west virginia, creating hazardous road conditions for motorists. >> we are joined now by our washington correspondent. how do americans feel about the government's response to the disaster so far? >> it has been generally applauded. unlike 2005 when hurricane katrina devastated

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the traffic uptown is epic and that is why yesterday new york city mayor michael bloomberg announcedrs will have to get used to something they may not be used to, and that is the carpool. >> i've ordered that the four east river bridges be restricted to high occupancy vehicles only, tonight, coming into to manhattan, meaning three or more people per vehicle all day on thursday and all day on friday from 6:00 a.m. to midnight. >> reporter: the reports are that they are very strictly enforcing that three person to a vehicle limit. as a result traffic is jammed up badly coming into manhattan so even though they had those vehicle restrictions, it is going to take people a long time to get into work. we're also told that there was a rush of people trying to get into the city before 6:00 a.m., a lot of them did not do it. the one good thing that's going for the city now is that some of the mass transit is back, the subways uptown where there's power, they are back. some of the commuter railroads have come back, though not entirely, and there is bus service down here in lower manhattan, but

but uptown the lights are on. that's all part of the city that's getting back to normal including some of the subway service this morning slowly but surely things getting better there. >>> it's been years since a death row inmate has been executed in california but a new poll suggests state voters want to keep the death penalty. the cbs 5 surveyusa poll shows 51% oppose proposition 34. the measure would end the death penalty in california making the maximum punishment life in prison without parole. 41% said they are in favor of prop 34. >>> the poll also shows the tide has turned against prop 37 which would make companies label processed food with genetically modified organisms. 51% oppose it, 40% in support. the same poll in september showed prop 41 was leading. >>> some close state contests may not be decided on tuesday night. half of registered voters will cast their ballots by mail. they take longer to count because election workers have to compare signatures on the ballot envelope to those on voter registrati

what i've seen uptown is downtown was arguably out of power i think at that point so on the one hand we see such devastation and a city rendered powerless by a storm literally literally and on the other hand we see just these weird things that can still go on that letter the tick that's pathetic i didn't realize that was during the part of the during no i did realize the writing now it's bloomberg was a big fan of it because he's like this is going to give moral support but that was a surge it was a marathon only someone like bloomberg is a billionaire would actually think that these things are morals like you should be focusing on actually the people in the rockaways who are like it's like a scene a lot of the flaws right ok or no escape with ray liotta look i mean i never thought i'd say this i'm over apple i'm over apple after the i pod you can you believe you're over the coals i'm going to call look i'd like apple i like the computer it's amazing i like the operating system i'm glad i have an i phone i don't want to send song i know it's better better bang for your buck up but wh

so, yes, there is subway service uptown in parts of manhattan. it's vastly reduced, but at least there's something. and some of the commuter rail lines to bring people in from the suburbs are coming back, as well. so in parts of the city other than this where there is power and there is some subway service, the traffic has been horrendous, so they've instituted in restrictions. three people to a vehicle coming into the city this morning. and then you have to try and get down here if you work in the financial district. this city is still struggling mightily to recover. >> and we're seeing the effects felt globally as airports struggle to reopen. it sounds like laguardia will reopen at least with limited service this morning. but generally speaking how hard is to get into the city at this point? >> it's interesting that they're getting laguardia back and running. the arpirport is right on the water and it's flooded up to the gates. jfk, the major international airport as well as newark liberty, they're also reopening, but they have to get planes ba

felt terrible even doubting that so i said, all right, so, i got on, you know, i got up from soho uptownnd michael strahan came in and said, i can't believe they made me come here, they told me that you were on board with doing the show. >> jimmy: who did this? >> gelman, of course. >> jimmy: he is the devil, i keep telling you that. >> that is gelman. >> jimmy: so, they duped you into doing the show. you brought the kids to the show with you, because they were out of school? >> well, the kids had off school all week but they had just canceled school that one day. they were so excited until i was like, here, kids, put on these costumes, you're coming to work with mom and they had to do the holiday fashion show. >> jimmy: i noticed that your kids were in costume and seemed a little earlier. you coerced them into doing that. >> listen. they didn't have a choice. i have no child care for them. i thought they would go to school. they didn't. >> jimmy: what did they dress up as? >> okay, so, they were -- they were general zod and ursa from "superman 2" from 1979. my friends make fun of me. th

we're going to go uptown to john oliver. what are things like up there?was describing, jon, it's a total hellscape up here. for starters, i don't want to call it a panic. serendipity has run out of mocha sprinkles. which begs the question, jon, where the [ bleep ] is fema when you need them? >> the horror. >> that's pretty funny. >> it's pretty good. did you see this clip? it was shooting around the web yesterday. a little girl, 4-year-old in colorado named abigail evans. >> yeah. >> literally driven to tears. >> uh-oh. >> because she's heard so much about this election. too much about this election. she was listening on the way to the grocery store with her mother to an npr report about the never-ending race for president. here she is when they arrived at the grocery store. >> i'm tired -- i'm tired of barack obama and mitt romney. >> that's why you're crying? oh. it will be over soon, abby. okay? the election will be over soon, okay? >> okay. >> oh. >> she's tired of hearing about barack obama and mitt romney. >> i think she thinks for everybody. abigai

we are in the uptown area, and tells us this party just keeps getting bigger every month. >> reporter: that's right. first friday begins in an hour, but the street near 19th and telegraph is shut down. vendors, business owners and galleries are expected a huge crowd tonight. she shows off her gallery which recently celebrated a year in its new location. she says first friday had has afforded her the opportunity to make her business a combination of art, and economic development for the city. >> we took over a vacant storefront space and turned it into a gallery. >> reporter: it draws nearly 20,000 people to an area where crime usually captures the headlines. >> in any urban city, you'll have urban problems. but it's absolutely changing. >> reporter: and the gallery is one business that contributing, we spoke to the city of kland marketing director by phone. she stressed how the city just recently stepped in after art members organizer indicated the crowd was large enough to etch validate street closing along telegraph. the movement began six years ago with just galleries. it now has t

why is there nobody with a billboard saying, don't go to downtown, go to uptown.n will kill you. we've been through 45 years of turning over our power to insurers, to medicaid and medicare. look at the result. >> goldhill's solution. insurance should only cover catastrophic events, serious illnesses, like routine care should be paid for from a health savings account that each person controls. the poor would get government subsidies for their accounts. >> we have to care about the costs, because what we're doing in medicine is destroying the american dream. >> dr. gowandi is the author of several best-selling books on medicine. he agrees with goldhill that the market in health care isn't working, but he says there's an important fact to consider. >> the sick account for most of the costs, 5% of patients are 50% of the costs. and these are folks for whom the bills are $40,000 and $50,000. >> under goldhill's solution, limiting insurance to catastrophic events and serious illnesses, insurance companies would still be paying for a lot of our health care costs. figurin

. >> at least uptown is moving. you get down to 34th street and then below that and it's tough. traffic and the lines are all red, which means cars are barely moving, but let's go uptown and look at the subways, the a, the 1 train all doing very, very well. if we gl farther to the south, 34th street is the cutoff. that's where nothing is really going south. there's no power south of here. you get across to the other side, you go over to brooklyn into queens, and all of a sudden you do have some traffic coming in going to three separate bus locations and the buses are taking people over to lower manhattan. there's another issue down here, the a-train down towards the rockaways. there's just iffing to be an issue here for a long time because that's what the train track looks like. there's just a sloop right in through here. there's no support. that bridge is gone, and there's so much debris. boats literally washed up on shore. come back over here to south ferry. we'll show you a picture what this looks like. yeah, that's going down the escalator, and that's where the water is righ

it starts about three miles from where we are uptown.ust a little while. natalie and willie, happy thanksgiving. back to you. >> and to you, as well. >> happy thanksgiving in less than an hour. >> and the coverage of the macy's thanksgiving day parade begins at 9:00 a.m. >> for now, we want to send it inside the news desk. andrea canning manning the ship for us. >> good morning to all of you and happy thanksgiving. >>> a cease-fire is holding in the middle east just hours after israel and hamas leaders step back from the brink of what could have been a full-fledged war. nbc is in gaza this morning. a a yman, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, andrea. well, the only sounds we're hearing of rumbling are of those of thunder above us. looks like it's about to start pouring down rain here. that hasn't deterred the tens of thousands of palestinian supporters of ma has and the other palestinian factions from going town to the streets. they have been participating in rallies all across the gaza strip. it is being called a day of victory. t

and the apparently normal farther uptown. i say apparently normal.because life won't be entirely back to normal for quite a while. because of that, moments ago, new york governor andrew cuomo has declared a transportation emergency, announcing from now through the end of the week, all travel on public transit, buses, subways, any subways that are running, and commuter trains will be free. the idea to get people who need to come into manhattan for work out of private cars and of on of the streets. a number of people have lost their lives. 28 people have lost their lives in new york city. 56 total across sandy's deadly path in the u.s. and we're seeing both at ground level and especially from the air, perhaps the worst physical destruction is along the jersey shore. some images have been extraordinary today. as you saw at the top. president obama and new jersey chris christie toured the devastation area. more on that from jessica yellin. >> reporter: unexpected political bedfellows. >> i can't thank the president enough for personal concern and compass

but uptown the lights as you can see are on. that part of the city is getting back to normal including subway service this morning. so new york slowly recovering. >> it's 6:45 right now. let's get another check on the weather. you guys were trick or treating in the rain last night? >> out in the rain with a lot of other trick or treaters out there with the umbrellas out. looks like the rain is sliding further south this morning breaking up a little bit. high-def doppler radar picking up on the showers toward san jose and into the santa cruz mountains we are seeing moderate amounts of rainfall. the rain sliding further south now on 101. so toward gilroy and morgan hill, be careful. it's going to be slick early on. skies parting a bit by the afternoon. we'll see a little bit of sunshine this afternoon with clearing, still a slight chance of a wandering shower but much drier much warmer weather is on the way and for the weekend we're look really nice. this cold front moves through right now. you have one behind it here. looks impre

>> well, i live uptown and more like above the line of misery that's in new york city right now. >> jimmyts at all. >> and up where i am i am, it's awesome. no. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it's like nightclubs and like -- >> yes. yeah, no. >> jimmy: -- champagne. bottles! bottles of bub! you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> alize out of the faucets. tastes pretty good. >> jimmy: alize. oh, my god. >> is that how you say it? i don't know. >> jimmy: yeah, sure. >> so, yeah, no, it's been okay. i lost -- i had a boat and i lost my boat. >> jimmy: wait, what? >> i had a boat. and i was tching the news and they have those piles of boats, you know? where they just look stupid now. they're in a pile, like it's next a tub or something, you know? >> jimmy: yeah, a float, yeah. >> just -- and so i called the pier where i keep the boat, and i go, "is my boat in the pile?" and they go, "yep." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: "talk to you later, man. thanks." >> i'm, like, "it's ruined?" they go, "yes, it's totally ruined." >> jimmy: oh, my god. i didn't know you had a boat. >> i did. well, i got -- you know, i had a pret

then they said they were uptown. then they couldn't get through. >> reporter: she finally made it to the hospital and got treated but wonders if she'll be so lucky next time. >> people could be on their deathbed because i was in a lot of pain. >> reporter: d.c. fire chief kenneth ellerbe denies there's a problem. >> we do have the capacity to hold folks over to reduce our overtime but also to make sure that we are fully staffed to make sure that we can respond to the needs of the community. >> reporter: in order to keep up the paramedic we interviewed and the union claim medics are often being held over by as much as 12 hours past the end of the shift. sometimes that means they're working 24 or 36 hours straight. >> there aren't enough paramedics in the system. we do need to increase in units. >> reporter: even if they're tired or sick, they have no choice but to stay. >> you can't go home. you will be put on charges which are disciplinary action even if you don't feel up to it. >> reporter: in a followup interview c

. >> go uptown to nasdaq, which is basically hugging the flat line right now.tha comes is there. >> hugging the flat line, tyler, but fractionally positive, fractionally positive for the month. nasdaq looking to turn positive here after the big tumble last month. research in motion, today the worst performer in the nasdaq 100, best perform other is far this month a lot of folks starting to feel questionable about the blackberry ten launch in the new year. tablet wars continue to show, apple dominates, according to abi research, ten straight quarters, they continue to be the dominant force in tablets. they are losing market share to android and to some exstent to amazon as well. today, the biggest gainer here on the nasdaq with a monster 41 million shares traded already today r today, acadia pharma, drug trial results positive on drugs to treat parkinson's disease patients who suffer from hallucinations and psychosis. apparently some 40% of them at some point do suffer from that back to you. >> thank you very much. wow, quite a chart to take a look at. >>> our g

and there was so much talk about the uptown, downtown anything we were seeing.t feels that way for so many people who are still without power. as it gets colder, they will be without heat, which is -- you know, it's becoming a precarious situation for a lot of toex. >> we should mention, manhattan is mostly back now. new jersey, lots of areas around here. >> we got power yesterday, and my husband looked at the thermostat and the temperature was 52 degrees. >> ours came on friday and i didn't want to turn the lights off after that. but we're rooting for the rest of folks to get theirs back on quickly. that will make life better. >> and we are back right after this. but mr. single miles can't join his friends because he's getting hit with blackouts. shame on you. now he's stuck in a miniature nightmare. oh, thank you. but, with the capital one venture card... you can fly any airline, any flight, any time. double miles you can actually use. what's in your wallet? alec jr? it was a gift. how does it brew such great coffee? well, inside the brewer are these green fie

we're going to go uptown to john. what are things like up there? >> what al was describing, jon, it's a total hellscape up here. for starters, and i don't want to call it a panic, serendipity has run out of mocha sprinkles. which begs the question, jon, where the [ bleep ] is fema when you need them? there to talk. i love you, james. don't you love me? i'm a robot. i know. i know you're a robot! but there's more in you than just circuits and wires! uhhh. (cries) a machine can't give you what a person can. that's why ally has knowledgeable people there for you, night and day. ally bank. your money needs an ally. [ crowd cheering ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> you know, that i said florida, florida, florida. >> the great tim russert on the 2000 election, but the same could be said for 2012. sure, ohio may be the hot state right now, but florida is the real swing state powerhouse. the one with electoral bang to make tuesday an early night. for normal people, anyway, i'm sure we'll all be up till the bitter end because we're not normal. take a look, these are the sta

i just moved uptown. i have a baby and i can't live in my shoe box anymore.n we see something else"? we moved uptown and thought we had dodged the hurricane because we didn't lose power. i had all of the upper westside guilt. it was amazing because all of manhattan, they closed off all of the bridges and tunnels. manhattan was isolated from the rest of america which is how people of manhattan already view themselves. then i had a flood in my place downtown after the hurricane and then my storage unit was flooded with four feets of hudson river sewage water. >> oh! >> john: i would like to invite all of you climate change deniers to come and help me get the sewage smell out of my winter clothes because man there was some real destruction. it was really heartening to hear al gore call on obama to talk about a carbon tax and i think that you've got a lot of people who might not have believed in climate change science in new york and new jersey who have been converted in the last two weeks. it is a tragedy but it took something like this to help. i hope something

erica will look after forecast should let us know what the conditions will be like after heading uptown>> good morning erica. >> good morning to you anni e. >> storm tracker for all lit up this morning you conceive a live sweet corn by.d >> to take a look at the east bay it is raining to 42 per concord over walnut creek heading down the east shore freeway picking up light rain broke when you can see mandela parkway east 12th street also ride around broadway. allow yourself a bit of extra time. we have saw highway flooding. but is not producing any slowdowns on our traffic map still drive with. as a ticket to san francisco green on screen indicates light rain. it is light in nature. it is raining everywhere stretching from the coastline the richmond district in the sunset. gary boulevard market street as well. as we take our maps to the east bay livermore interstate 5805 with extra costs and a coming of the altamonte pass. we are seeing a dry break in portions of the south bay but the wet weather is sure to come. not raining now in san jose a we are seeing wet conditions from palo alto s

members who couldn't work and asked if they could walk across bridges whatever they could do get uptownt demonstrations how this will happen again. when you hear that what do you think as a restaurant business that's town town in those areas? >> well the downtown restaurants of ours in battery park city believe it or not were unscathed. i couldn't believe it with all you saw in the news. we were able to get north end grill, shake shack and smock grill in battery city open almost within 36 hours. >> wasn't battery park evacuated. >> they were evacuated but they were on the brooklyn grid so they didn't lose power. power was the issue. as soon as you lost power which we did in eight of our restaurants you couldn't keep food. so we threw out ten tons of food. >> no way to deliver that to homeless or anybody? >> the problem is you can't get food to the area. as long as the food temperature has gone down below a safe point you can't give it to anybody. it was a crime. >> what's this lesson for you. >> the biggest lesson for us was one of communication and we're going to have to come up with a

then they said they were uptown. then they couldn't get through. >> she finally made it to the hospital and got treated but wonders if she'll be so lucky next time. >> people could be on their death bed. >> fire chief denies there's a problem. >> we have the capacity to reduce our overtime but to make sure we are fully staffed to make sure we can respond to the needs of the community. >> in order to keep up, the paramedic we interviewed claimed medics are being held over by as much as 12 hours past the end of the shift. sometimes that means they are working 24 or 36 hours straight. >> there aren't enough paramedics in the system. we do need an increase in units. >> even if they are tired or sick, they have no choice. >> even if you don't feel up to it. >> in a follow up interview, the chief declined to talk about the risk to public safety and had the department's medical director respond. we asked numerous times if patients were in danger. >> you provide good care even though you have a paramedic that might be workin

together build one of the world's biggest labels, revolutionizing the way we dress, bringing easy uptownkaran and dkny she was called the queen of seventh avenue but never alone, stephen was at her side from every decision to launching a men's line to creating a fragrance. >> we cannot design clothes, hem lines go up and down but a fragrance will last forever. >> reporter: stephens personally designed the perfume bottle but the pony-tailed artist handled the business side taking the company public in a massive deal. >> i love these pieces personally because they remind me the most of stephen. >> reporter: his creativity is clear in his art and somewhat quirky, he brought out the unexpected in the high-powered fashion mogul. >> every night we listened to obi-wan kenobi. >> reporter: he worked in an endless variety of medium, clay, paint, sculpture. >> shall i make a pair for the runway. >> reporter: look at that. >> this would definitely be donna karan. >> reporter: but the couple esteemed to have it all soon found out that stephen had lung cancer, and everything changed. he died in 2001,

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a lot of people had to go to work uptown or elsewhere, and i spoke to a number of them that were in fears. i had to lend my phone to a couple, they had to call their boss and verify that they couldn't get on the bus. that's one of the things we'll have to deal with today. cabs are doubling up, but still not enough of those. the bottom line, the 5 million or 6 million people that typically would be taking the subways are now aboveground. they're trying anyway to get to where they need to go. there are limited subway lines up and running today. mostly all of them, actually, are north of 34th street and the tunnel is close. the bridges by the brooklyn bridge, which will have a fair amount of foot traffic, you can believe it, starting now, actually. if you come over by car, you need at least three people. you'll start carpooling and forcing that so you don't have the gridlock you had yesterday across manhattan. >> that was a sight to behold. how about the electricity, rob? the power. still a virtual blackout below 25th street right now. is it starting to fray people's nerves? >> reporter: i

there was the dark downtown and well-lit uptown. for millions, it's been far worse. we'll have much more of that for you throughout the morning. we are back on this saturday morning, november 3rd, 2012. i'm erica hill along with lester holt. coming up in this half-hour, more on that aftermath of hurricane sandy. >> we've seen all the devastation from this storm. it could potentially change the landscape of the u.s. coastline. that's how much of a beating the coast took. we're going to get more on that in just a few minutes. >>> also, if your home was damaged, we have some tips on rebuilding. and also, we're going to have you take the proper precautions to stay safe when that next storm arrives. >>> a bit later we'll switch gears with a lottery story that's a little tough to believe. a woman that had a winning ticket in her glove compartment didn't even know it. >> she knows it now. >> yes, she does. we all know it. >> it's a great story. >>> let's begin with the road to recovery after sandy. across the country, everyone from electric workers to local charities are ru