are are a great business idea for new york city.roblem which is accessing buildings which is a big problem in new york city. they had a great vision for where they wanted to take the company. they may help thousands of new yorkers get into their offices. for now the company is looking for an affordable office of their own. the next day the 27-year-old is off to an important meeting. he is going to install one of the systems in a new york office. a local electrician takes care of the technical aspect saying it is the first of the devices to be stored in new york and they hope that it will work. but something is not quite right. the device does not seem to ork. he e lectrician can't find the problem. a setback with their very first customer. if they fail here the dream might end before it even begins. he says the device did not work as they had hoped. now they have to come back next week to install another relay. it is up to the young inventor to do damage control and tries to explain the glitch to the customer. >> i think it did not

c-span: when did you go to work for "the new york times"? >> guest: i went to work for "the new york times" full time as a staffer in 1955. january 19, 1955. and i had spent seven years doing general assignment reporting and feature writing for other newspapers, and i was a stringer on women's news for the times for about a year before i came back to new york. i was in london. and there i was with all that general experience behind me, and i was immediately sent to the women's page to cover fashion. because that's where women went in those days. c-span: there are all kinds of crazy little things that you learn when you read this book. i mean, crazy maybe not to the audience -- [laughter] but for those of us -- >> guest: not for the women. c-span: be let me tell you what i'm talking about. you married a man named stan levy. >> guest: that's correct. c-span: and his son is bob levey? >> guest: that's correct. c-span: that's what i mean by things you learn in this book. >> guest: yes. c-span: you married stan levy when? >> guest: in 1961. c-spa

we are seeing this in new york, update at central new york. we are going to see this diminish as we get into early monday morning, it's something we have to be worried about. otherwise the big story is focussing on the west where the winds gust up to 30-40 k/hr. wind warnings have been issued for large portions of the north-west, bill wyman, utah and colorado. wee look at the overpass in idaho. it's heading off to the east. boy, it's getting snowy. temperatures are falling. we'll see all the rain in the mountain passes. we'll total up about two feet of snow as we get into tuesday. now, when we look at the rain fall you can see that it's primarily falling west of the cascades. we have a rain shadow. it's blocked by the proik mountains, it's soggy and we are concerned about flooding. we'll talk more about the snow and arctic air. >> pope francis asked catholics to pray for people with h.i.v. in honour of world aids day. the pontiff told vaticans to pray for the help for the sick. >> for 18 years bobby tolbert has been living with h.i.v. >> it's

new york in ben's eyes is the hardest market in the world.s not ready to close the door on germany. he might be able to bring the company back home once it is firmly established. a couple of days later, i meet annika in an upscale restaurant. she's nervous. today, she's signing on with her new manager. >> hi! big day today. you get to sign the contract. are you excited? >> i am. >> his name is robert bloom. she met him through a friend. he's sure she's got a real chance. already, she's started her next performances. finally, annika signs the dotted line. >> ok. >> you feel different? >> yes. >> not quite like a marriage contract. >> annika is relieved to have found a manager like robert bloom. he's already helped a lot of new come kerse -- newcomers get their start. >> now that we're signed their first thing i have to do is we have to get her a work visa. i know one visa that will allow her to officially work and get paid. >> first, annika will have to return to germany for a few months to apply for her work permit. as soon as it's issued, sh

when giuliani was mayor, he was admired further away you got from new york than new york itself. then he became a hero in 9/11. but the crime rate began to go down under the administration and people were worried about giuliani. and a lot of people were worrying, what was going to happen after giuliani was gone. >> then crime continued to drop and dropped even further. now new york is even at its early 1960's rates of crimes where people my age remember when there were little kids, and the way we looked at the street then. it's a remarkable change. david, roberta brought up the roaring economy of the 90's. and the mayor's two firms coincided with those sometimes. did that help shape the way people felt about him now that he's about to leave city hall? >> it did, indeed. he said in his farewell speech that he said he couldn't believe that he had the fortune of being mayor of boston during it's best decades. we have strong hospitals, universities, and you can't underrate the value of those things. i also think that business is revaluing the city. in this information economy. the de

people knew new york. there was another area, and you could have cattle and feed an army like the british army. if the colonists were to be a country, they can't with britain there and as long as they don't have control of the ports and area. >> now, washington's first idea for spy is nathan heal; right? tell us that story. >> caller: nathan hale missed bunker hill. he wanted to see the action, and i know you know this inside and out, and he just missed by a little while, and he comes back with washington, and i guess there was a familiarity there, and he's a teacher, and yale graduate. he says, i need volunteers, washington knew in the gut this guy was ill-prepared to do it, no experience, he was bright, good looking guy, robust, ambitious, and seemed to be fearless. he sent them over against what i understand, what i concluded was his better instincts. he only last fairs we can tell, as far as the research reveals, a couple days, went to huntington, the point which he crossed, and there's a few stories g

we'll go into new york here. see manhattan pop up on the map and here is the hudson river and then spuyten duyvil up the hudson river and where it meets harlem river is the curve we've been talking about that the train has been going around and has a reputation for often times being a very perilous curve as those trains come around at high speeds and train itself we've seen those train cars kind of dotted along here where the train tipped over. we were talking about the divers that were in the water potentially looking for some victims. the water temperature there was right around 43 degrees. it takes about 30 to 60 minutes in water of that temperature for your body to start to break down and for you to lose your coordination and then after that about an hour or two hours before it is potentially lethal to be in water that temperature. the air temperature at the time of the incident was right around 38 degrees so it was definitely on the cool side in the area of the accident. in fact, 34 degrees at the time of th

i'm in new york david in or watching our team. well prominent lawmakers have come to an agreement on the latest version of the n.b.a. or the national defense authorization bill with the clock ticking down until the house adjourns for the holidays this friday leaders of the senate and house armed services committees worked out a deal to move forward with a bill that will fund the u.s. military next year the twenty fourteen bill will authorize five hundred fifty two billion dollars in national defense spending and nearly eighty one billion for overseas contingency operations yesterday i attended a press conference in which the leaders of those committees expressed confidence that the bill would be passed in due time however if it's not passed there are a number of extensions that are set to expire now those include combat pay hardship duty pay special pay for nuclear nuclear qualified service members and listen bonuses incentives pay retention bonuses and more mourning to senator carl levin but beyond funding the military passing th

a new york transit official tells nbc news four people are dead after a train derailed in new york city. the metro north line derailed in the bronx just a short time ago. we also just learned from our sister station in new york that the number of injured people has gone up. they are now citing at least 63 people injured, and of those, about a dozen critically injured. the train was on a curve when this happened. something to keep in mind on a busy travel day. amtrak service affected between manhattan and albany, new york. ntsb investigators are getting ready to leave washington now and head to the scene of the crash. something that we're learning also that that area is known for tricky turns and curves and conductors were known to slow trains down as they approached those areas. no telling what caused this. we are waiting for a news conference with governor andrew cuomo. we'll bring you it latest information as it comes in. keep it here on nbc 4. you can go to nbcwashington.com for updates. >>> police arrested a man who accidentally fired a shot on the d.c. metro last night near the sta

we've never had any incidents in new york, new york state does not do pollution well.shut it down immediately, stastandards out the door are highest in the world. so we're confident that the excellent track record that exists in new york will continue, under this new program, we just need the program out the door. and that is the problem the governor is playingolitics with science. he has harmed people, i mean about a hundred jobs lost, a hundred million dollars of investment, i have land owners calling me of day telli me they lost their farms and their in foreclosureecause they can't lease their minal rights, it is a tragedy 92 thomas before i lead you go, not that lawsuit is proceeding is there a timeline, we may get a answer on this? >> well, we have done is commented a summary proceeding, return able third week in january on merit, this not a protracts litigation, we go before a judge, we toil the story in our paper -- we told him the story in our paper we'll ask him to compel new york state to finalize the standards, new york is only state that shut do as not embr

new york is the statue of liberty.te event. >> jon: that was closed because of hurricane sandy. >> that's what they told you because you were not invited. >> jon: what was the event? >> i can't tell you but it was a secret sex party with masks. i don't know who i was having sex with a woman who looked like sumner redstone with a mask on p. the point is he is going to turn this city into a living hell. >> jon: he's not. all he is doing is adding a half percent tax increase on wealthier residents for pre,-k. >> a living hell. new yorkers traveling underground packed together in urine scented sub terrainan sewage trolleys and line up to eat wet tubes of meat dispensed from soviet era metal carts. ew. >> jon: i think you are describing how most people in new york live right now. [ laughter ] >> what about crime, jon? are you ready to go back to running in fear of gangs wearing roller skates. >> jon: that's footage from the warriors. the documentary the warriors by ken burns. >> jon: i'm surprised you are not happier that n

the new york times. it is getting his courage back but it did hold a story that is similar to snowden's for a year. for which james rise and finally got the pulitzer prize it was all about the wiretapping done by the n.s.a. and one doesn't like to see those things happen because you're but you buy out of the pressure of the times and you have to think about press freedom as something that's goes on a straight line and that doesn't when we get in bad times for the nation name we now you know goes down it should be it should be the same all the all the time. where do you were do we draw the line in terms of. what can be released i mean chelsea manning did a huge data dump the most famous part was that video clip and one could argue maybe the video clip of the u.s. chopper pilots killing the the reuters journalists and the other locals would have been enough you know but it was a huge data dump snowden has released large amounts to wiki leaks released recently releasing large amounts you talked about sort o

i am jonathan betz in new york. >> we are going fast and as it hit the curve, it was flying. moments of panic on a new york train as investigators tried to figure out what went wrong. >>> anger growing in ukraine. the largest protest in that country in nearly a decade. >>> demands that thailand's prime minister must go violent in bangkok streets and calls for a national strike. >>> tonight, crews are working to clear the scene of a train crash in new york city that de-railed on its way to manhattan. at least four people are dead, 63 more hurt of those, at least 11 are in critical condition tonight. al jazeera kimberly dukehardt has the latest from the bronx. >> fire fighters, police and the ntsb could not working through the night, checking the tracks, the actual train cars, mechanical equipment, communication equipment, to try to figure out what went horrible wrong. the holiday weekend ended in tragedy and chaos for those on board this suburban commuter train in northern new york city. the crash happened early sund

and what's been left out details on that ahead and homelessness on the rise in new york the growing income inequality is forcing families out of their homes and as a result the big apple is seeing the most homeless children since the great depression more on these dire economic conditions coming up. and sheriff's deputies charged with abuse in los angeles county eighteen sheriff deputies are being accused of abuse and local prisons now it looks like the jailers might end up being jailed themselves an in-depth look at this case later in the show. it's tuesday december tenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm in you're a david and you're watching r t. prominent lawmakers have come to an agreement on the latest version of the n.b.a. or the national defense authorization bill with the clock ticking down until the house adjourns for the holidays this friday leaders of the senate and house armed services committees are working out a deal to move forward with a bill that will fund the u.s. military next year the twenty fourteen bill will authorize five hundred fifty two billion dollars in national d

new york times published snowden write. the government directly go in and punish the new york times for doing it after publication but you know i don't think it's going to happen and when it does happen. it's going to be a real constitutional battle but i think the press will probably win well and that's that's i'm curious how you think the the your case the new york times case pentagon papers case how that has changed american journalism over the last forty years and is there a straight line or even a. this squiggly line between that and we can leaks and and what snowden did with you know working with glenn greenwald and the guardian in those releases. you know what all glenn greenwald we all know he's the former blogger to whom snowden leaked right i mean he's the sort of the modern day new york times in a way so what is there a straight line between the pentagon papers case and what happens today i think the straight line goes like this that if you're going to publish something like the snowden leaks. you'll probably go

for those of you who don't live in new york, it's in the bronx. basically, it was about to pull into the station, a time where you would expect the train to be slowing down. instead, it was going so fast that it literally, as eric said, flew off the tracks. we're being told that the train was headed into grand central station from poughkeepsie and there are multiple reports of injuries and fatalities. laura ingle rushing to the sk n scene, joining us live on the phone. what are you seeing and hear sng. >> i'm several yards away from the station in which this train was expected to arrive this morning. and we are just surrounded by a variety of emergency response vehicles. i have just seen one man being brought out on a stretcher, being loaded into an ambulance. he was talking to emergency responders. they had him sitting up. another man was seen brought up. they were holding an ice pack to his face. he was not walking very well. he was stumbling a little bit. looking to gain his balance. we're being told the governor, governor cuomo is here, survei

it means cannot manage and then to new york times. he and his team on introducing the and to visitors. he says business is running smoothly the moment sponsors. we have twenty customers in manhattan and brooklyn he tells me it's great we're earning real money. we need to expand in manhattan and reveal the field in the coming months to keep the business of time when done with this new york thorns. in this market. full ban on to stereotypes mean good business. key benefits from the fact that americans considered yemen's very trustworthy when it comes to security matters. my next tee and he expects to be in the back the old one thing about this but not the sense of following his dream and moving to new york last wednesday. of course it was risky but everything worked out. and now he and his crew are a success. it's everything they could of had it all. the us remains a place that fascinates than not and many of pajamas making that american dream a reality. take strong willed potluck and a piece of chalk statistics. you know. you know the

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at the end of the day new york city gets a cut of financial transactions and it behooves new york citywall streeters in the city. >> all my wealthy wall street friends in a panic, redistribution socialist was going to become mayor and all of a sudden dramatically change the makeup of new york city's economy was misplaced. there's, a, only so much a mayor can do and, b, only so much he will do. he has strong relationships with developers and wall street, as you should. you should be a mayor for everyone, not just the 1%. where this film is very powerful is what you see. artists and what street photographers have been able to see is often what new yorkers weren't able to see, what often society doesn't see, those living at the margins. same thing, we want a mayor who sees those parts of new york that are struggling, not just the parts doing well. >> cheryl, i would go back to you on that. so much of street photography is showing people the unseen, which is poor people, people living on the fringes. this was a multi-year project. that work is very much reflected in the film. what did you

to some extent, the new york fed and tim geithner, the president of the new york fed recognized that the system was changing and that it needed closer oversight and some fixing. he initiated before the crisis efforts to make the derivatives markets more robust, more transparent. he saw that there were problems and there are speeches that he made noting there are problems. i think part of this, taking a step back, this is about the evolution of the financial system from a bank-centered financial system to one in which has banks and nonbanks and the nonbank piece of it, the securities markets, the securitization markets or p markets, how that stuff is financed becoming more and more important over time. i think to a considerable extent, the regulatory system, oversight, did not evolve with the evolution of the system. the legal basis for oversight did not evolve with the evolution of the system. i think the new york fed saw actually some of these, some of the weak points, but the legal authority, the political backing, the general recognition wasn't there. >> the new regime basically s

we had one of the best ones in here and i'm talking from new york city here in new york state and what did that what does it do it means when there is a source for a story a reporter doesn't want to disclose the reporter doesn't have to do disclose it and that's pretty much the rule in the states but in the federal courts you know we have state courts we have federal courts. in the federal courts there is no such statute i think there should be one. there was a pretty good pie the way hang around before obama came in and he messed it up by putting in national security exception in it and i think we will have some point on that it may not be tomorrow. i've. created a distinction perhaps only in my own mind to get your take on it between journalists and acts of journalism it seems that if you're trying to craft a shield law or anything that has to do with journalism and you end up trying to define who is a journalist and this is what dianne feinstein has been trying to do in my view you you are dancing all over and around to maybe right through the first amendment saying well this person

once they get in new york and get it out of new york, do they convey that back >> guest: here is the dramatic part they're able to listen. people get to see and say what's going on heading north where we had it? a great then they would go upstairs and pan a letter and go to the location he penned his letter after the beginning in invisible ink and it was very precious stuff they invented or brought to the states. >> host: let's talk about the ink. how did it work? >> guest: the way it was they called it a sympathetic stain and when you do is you would write -- and i've tried this -- imagine writing and not be daniel to see the letter prior that you wrote it is really confusing. i don't write great anyway. it vanishes as you write and you are writing all this stuff down and put it inside a book and it comes off as a white page or 76 in the middle of a book, i don't know what that means. that means you go to 76 in the journal which and the page might be blank that was a message to washington if he wanted to bring it to life on long island devotee go to page 76 and that's where you'll f

to key members of the spy ring. >> host: how do they get the information to york it out of a york and convey it back to the americans? at. >> guest: they are able to listen now i listen if fear of people talk loud and other times people say what is going on? where are we headed? great. he would go upstairs a and write a letter and go to the location in and write it in invisible ink. it was precious that john j. invented or brought to the states for off. >> host: talk about that. how did it work? >> guest: they call the sympathetic. i tried this. imagine writing in not be able to see the letter prior. it is very confusing. >> host: it vanishes? >> guest: as you bright. you write this down and it is inside a box or of the white page or you right 76 in the middle that means go to 76 in the "journal" book the pages blank that is the message if you want to bring it to light to go to 76. jumping ahead they got more sophisticated afterwards when they said nobody goes white page to white page so right between the lines. so they went to the printing press guy who owned the does said they would

we begin with that incident in new york. a search for answers into what caused a commuter train to derail in the bronx. four people were killed and dozens injured as a train came close to landing and the harlem river. we have learned that the passengers killed ranged in age from 35 to 59. they all lived in new york. one of the victims was an audio technician for the today show. tom roussey joins us with the survivor story. >> as you said, this was a commuter train. it started appearing poughkeepsie new york. its ultimate destination was grand central station but in the bronx, it suddenly left the tracks. passengers say they never saw it coming. >> they are letting trains go through. >> investigators are looking at whether speed or something else made the train derail on a sharp curve just before a stop in the new york city borough of the bronx. >> our mission is to understand not just what happened, but why it happened. >> investigators are from the d.c.-based national transportation safety board. they caught a flight from r

washington said i know when they are coming back to new york. so they come back to new york city and he says you can't face them. you can' can to be can't beat td so he has to use espionage and the guerrilla warfare. he has to be smarter bandanna. so it's only logical that we bring it to he needs a spy force, he needs his own cia and then you find out that he has a huge espionage background. he is noted from the french and indian war. to brush up on those skills so he tells the others this is what we are going to need to do. we need to find these people to help me out. >> host: to fill in the background tell us briefly what he did in the french and indian war. >> guest: i know that he was an officer where he had a chance to work with the french and find out what were they thinking here and there. he was able to pick up working with the british and they also made mistakes. he was a aggressive as a colonel at that point and he learned from that. that is another thing which i found fantastic about george washington who was on the side of a mountain

and when you did to new york it wasn't at an office here. it was by buying capital new york.bout the reason you decided to acquire as opposed to just start something is here? >> the reason we waited, and i think people did wonder why we waited six years to make any expansion. when you're in business, you're always tempted. wow, we've done something right. we can do anything right. you're tempted to overreach. when you overreach the core of what you built becomes weak. when it becomes weak, someone else will come in and disrupt you. we wanted to make sure that the foundation was strong. >> reporter: and then you could start thinking about expanding? >> we were there last year and started thinking, where do we want to do in terms of expansion? we were ready to expand. and then everything in life, it's all about timing. why it did you buy capital new york instead of just start politico new york which, trust me, we thought about it for years. it turned out they wanted their take on a buyer or take on a cash infusion, they came to us and it was an easy call from our end and ultima

you did at the new york times. i don't know how many subscribers "the new york times" has now, but i think i got a great deal on "the object and -- on "the huffington post." i think jeff got a great deal depending on what he does with it. >> i want to stay on "the washington post" for a minute. you ran the digital division at the "post" and that it was integrated back into the parent. in retrospect, do you think it was inevitable that the graham family would sell to someone like bezos or was or something that could've been done at some stage that would change that future? >> i don't think it was inevitable. i am probably not answering -- it is too hard to say. i think it is quite wise to sell to him. they have been friends for quite a long time and have shared similar values. understanding the technology and having to understand an audience, which is something that newspapers didn't have to traditionally do but now really have to do it, is quite wise. bezos understands the subscription model and putting it into a p

new york, some clouds today. 35, the high. miami will be sunny.go, clouds and bitterly cold today. 15 degrees. dallas, sunny. los angeles, sunny. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," six states chosen to test drones. and a new jumbo tv is unveiled. marlie hall is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, marlie. >> anne-marie, good morning. stocks in asia were mostly higher on the final trading session of the year. china's shanghai composite gained nearly 1%. hong kong's hang seng was unchanged. tokyo's nikkei was closed for the holiday. here on wall street, the dow is up 26% for the year. the most since 1996. yesterday was a quiet day. the dow jones industrials gained nearly 26 points. the nasdaq lost 2 points. >>> americans are using less electricity. the energy information administration says power usage as declined for a third year in a row, to levels not seen in a decade. higher energy costs and more efficient homes and appliances are part of the reason. some tvs use 80% less power than older models. >>> federal officials have

the new york governor is speaking right now about the deadly train derailment outside of the new yorky. >> safety is job one and any lessons we can learn from this tragedy is what we want t want w and that is the purpose 69 ntsb's investigation o on site. >> once the ntsb is finished with their investigation, then the site will be turned over to the mta to commence repair work. therthere is a crane that is non route that will right the trains that will be part of the investigation and part of the review of the site. but only once the ntsb is finished with the investigation can the mt affiliata seriously o fix the tracks. the mta will update people periodically as to what the schedule will be for for the rs and the return of service i think it's fair to say that tomorrow people there us peoples line should plan on a long commute or using the harlem line. mta.info is where you can go for the most recent information on service. i want to thanks all of the first responders who have been heroic all day long. new york city police department and the fire department, the mta and the amtrak co

>> i was just a child. >> in new york city?to new york. >> this is captured in a particular moment. the new york folks are seeing. >> absolutely. >> do you have a personal relationship with that moment in history? >> i did because i was working at the time and what you see is just what it looked like. there was a freedom about that. the whole thing about that. i was nonexistent then. things are much cheaper. i was a terrible waiter. i would forget thing, but i made enough to pay the rent. it was an innocent time. a terrific time. they captured that. it was tough. i think that's also what this film deals with. what it means to be a creative artist in a tough world. >> is the tough part different than being a creative artist? was it different then? >> i think there was more -- i shouldn't say this because it sounds like i am dwelling in the past, but more a sense of community and belonging to something. whether you could make it or not and you could survive on much, much less. the idea of living in the west village for $80 a mont

he quit new york to hide out in l.a., and took a job at a piano bar.aying) (harmonica playing) one night, he sat at his piano-- a painter at his easel-- creating a poignant world so real, you could see it as you heard it. ♪ it's 9:00 on a saturday ♪ the regular crowd shuffles in ♪ ♪ there's an old man... bennett: so began his journey to set to paper a young man's hopes and heartaches. ♪ a bottle of white ♪ a bottle of red ♪ perhaps a bottle of rosé instead ♪ ♪ what's the matter with the clothes i'm wearing ♪ ♪ can't you tell that your tie's too wide? ♪ ♪ well, we're living here in allentown ♪ ♪ and they're closing all the factories down ♪ ♪ out in bethlehem, they're killing time ♪ ♪ tell her about it ♪ tell her everything you feel ♪ give her every reason ♪ to accept that you're for real ♪ bennett: his songs are born at his piano, but they burst into life on his stage. ♪ friday night, i crashed your party ♪ ♪ saturday, i said i'm sorry ♪ sunday came and trashed me out again ♪ dj: look out! billy joel! ♪ i've seen the lights go out on broadway ♪ ♪ i watc

the "new york times" article also says this. a fuller accounting of the attack suggests lessons for the united states that go well beyond libya. it shows the risk of exz pkting american aid in time of desperation to buy loyalty. it also suggests as the threats and militants around the region have multiplied, an intensive focus on combatting al qaeda may distract from safeguarding american interests. who, if anyone, can we trust? >> that's an example of something they got right and that actually contradicts other parts of the same article. you read the passage that you just read, and of course, the word that comes to mind is syria right off the top. but what that passage also shows is that it's very hard to identify in concepts that westerners understand exactly what the nature of the enemy is. that's the way al qaeda operates. that's the structure or non-structure they use. i think it's a real lesson to us on a much broader basis that shows what happened in benghazi has still not been taken into account in american policy. we we

back in new york city, a very different scene. visitors at rockefeller center shed heavy coats on this spring-like sunday. >> fantastic. i'm in a t-shirt. >> this is what people in florida must feel like. >> reporter: in baltimore, christmas shopping in the sun. across the region, record high temperatures. new york city, a balmy 71. breaking its old record of 63 degrees. in philadelphia, 68 degrees. from 66 degrees, the previous record. augusta, georgia, 79 degrees. overnight the same storm produced powerful tornadoes and straight line winds. in arkansas, severe structural damage. in monroe, louisiana -- >> we saw the sides of the wall falling and then i saw the transformer over there blew up and flashed everywhere. the glass started shattering. >> reporter: just south of louisville, kentucky, fallen power lines sparked a fire. nine cars ablaze forcing a highway to be shut down. in indiana, rain fell hard and fast flooding streets and homes. >> a couple more inches and i think we would have been really in trouble. >> reporter: alm

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feels like 39 in new york city.s as you head out the door. farther south in texas, in dallas, texas, the high temperature today, just 46 degrees. kind of chilly for you. a little on the cool side. we are tracking a clipper system that is going to be impacting portions of the midwest and the plains. this could produce more than six inches of snow across parts of wisconsin, michigan, and even across northeastern portion of the state of iowa. so keep an eye out for that. otherwise, the weather in new york city for the ball drop, i'm sure a lot of you are interested. the temperatures forecast to be about 28 degrees. our own elisabeth hasselbeck will be out there coming up tomorrow night with bill hemmer for our all american new year's eve special and the wind chill could be in the teens. it is going to be a little chilly. you got to bundle up. let's head back inside. >> very nice. maria, i noticed that some of the people behind you are coordinating on their phones so their loved ones back home can see them. go ahead and

there were close to 100 batly powered taxis on the streets of new york.t same year one of the electric cabs earned the city's first speeding violations barreling down the avenue at 10 mph. 114 years later electric taxis are back. the city is rolling out six fully electric nissans for a year-long test run. >> this is where i plug in. >> an owner operator who has been driving a taxi for 17 years. he's also one of the test drivers. >> it's something new . it's never been tested before, and i wanted to be a part of it. >> this is the engine. it's not really "a" engine. it's the imitation of an engine. it covers the electric motor. >> why would you have a take engine in there? >> so people don't get concerned that there is something missing, perhaps. >> but there is no noise. the car is on right now? >> it is. >> you can't hear anything? >> nope. >> amazing. >> this car attracts more attention than a lamborghini or a rolls royce is. people are not phased by anything here, but this grabs their attention. >> do you feel like the angelina jolie of taxi drivers. >

actual highs today 8 degrees in minneapolis 37 in new york.ooking at temperatures only reaching the middle 40's in the st city of dallas. let's head over to you. >> thank you so much live in the wint weather center for us. >> new york is behind florida in the 4th place as the most populus state. they released the latest population estimates and looks like florida will over take new york at some point in 2014 or 2015. immigration is an important factor. as a result they could gain congressional seats and new york could lose some. >>> the nfl regular season ends in dramatic fashion. first sunday night football eagles and cowboys to the 4th quarter eagles ahead 24/-16. backup qw to bryant for the score but they missed the two point conversion. still down two driving in the final two minutes pass intercepted by the eagles. eagles win the nfc east. >> packers at bears green bay down one under a minute left in the fourth quarter. 4th down aaron rogers with a desperation heave. on a 48 yard touchdown pass. packers win the nfc north 33-28. kansas city

new york city and that is my group with these wonderful brewers from new york city.in-hand with the jewish religion? >> jews don't drink beer, that is totally not true, total fiction and has been a wonderful hanukkah this year. we had events all over the country and we sell hebrew, the chosen be in 35 states around the country and it is a great way to celebrate the season. ashley: i am sure it wasn't easy to get going for any small business but what advice would you give to someone out there? >> small breweries are very popular. more than ever and it is wonderful, great quality beers, a passionate individuals. new york city brewer's gilda's growing, kkaft beers is growing like mad so wonderful new passionate young people are getting involved. there's a lot of competition whether it is for financing or real estate or consumers. it is about passion and creativity and having a unique angle. ashley: you are putting in the hard work but what about the state of the economy? people in the mountains drink more? >> they say beers is recessionproof but that is not the case whe

, a new york battle? >> guest: uh-huh. >> host: or to put it another way, to what extent are the battle lines drawn because of the characteristics and the political environment and the social environment that is new york city? or to what extent do you glean from the battle here more universal lessons? or is this really a parochial -- fascinating, but a parochial battle for the hearts and minds of new yorkers? >> guest: i mean, it's about new york insofar as the constraints on the land were very new york and that it was a piece of land in one of the most expensive areas of the city in the financial district. i mean, i know that you could imagine if this happened in other places, there might have been more freedom to think about how this land could be used. but beyond certain commercial or noncommercial uses. but here there were restrictions. this was one of the most valuable pieces of land in the world. but because it is one of the most valuable pieces of land in the world, i think it does offer some more

nbc's kristen dahlgren is north of new york city in scarsdale, new york. kristen, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. yeah, we're beginning to see some people slipping and sliding around here. take a look. you can probably see the snow piling up on the roads faster than the plows can get to it. we're just north of the city. there's a winter storm warning in effect until 6:00 a.m. for an awful lot of people, there's a lot more of this ahead tonight. from missouri to maine, the massive storm dumped snow. 1,000-mile swath stretching through 23 state, more than 100 million people in the storm's path. for some, it turned deadly. car crashes in missouri claimed three lives and dozens of accidents were reported across several other states. in indiana, state police issued a travel warning. near indianapolis, firefighters had to rescue the driver trapped in this multivehicle crash. this car was stopped at a light as the first two cars collided. >> they hit each other in the intersection and spun out. one hit us and the other one went behind us. >> reporter: fo

some work untarry town new york, working upstate.d her commute is already two hours in the morning and this will make it longer, 22,000 people affected by this line closure. this could go on for an indefinite period of time. they don't know when it's going to reopen. the tracks have to be radar, as well, so we're seeing a difficult morning rush hour the first monday of a the thanksgiving holiday here at grand central material national. >> hopefully, they're employers will understand if they're late. jennifer glass reporting to us from grand central terminal, jennifer, thank you. >> vice president joe biden begins a delicate diplomatic visit today in japan. he is looking to ease tensions. he will make stops in china and south korea. >> after nearly two months of harsh criticism, the obama administration says healthcare.gov is now ready for its next big test. >> the obama administration met its deadline over the weekend and now says the site works more than 90% of the time. that's up significantly from 40% when it was launched two mont

26 degrees in new york city the snow falling all the way to chicago. roads are covered with a bit of snow and you can also see that snow falling across portions of the northeast into new york city as well. we'll continue to have to deal with this throughout the course of the day. travel is very tricky along interstate 80, 90, and across up state portions of main. you can see the snow across illinois, idaho, and pennsylvania--iowa andpennsylva. you can see across the ohio valley and tennessee valley and across georgia, atlanta and north carolina. by tomorrow morning the front will be offshore but the heaviest precipitation falling this evening into pennsylvania, new york, and in new england where we could see a foot of snow falling. the roads will be treacherous all the way into the northeast. the heaviest of snow falling into new england up to a foot of snow expect there had. three to five inches of snow expected in chicago all the way back into pennsylvania along i i-70 and also along i-80. this afternoon into the evening is when the heaviest of the s

in new york city all year long.onetheless you're looking live at auckland, new zealand, 12:01 a.m. there. already midnight. some famous people from new zealand. russell crowe, lucy lawless to name a couple, bringing in a brand-new year. >> it is a beautiful country, a great city. i guess we'll do that a little bit during the show. we'll see a couple of places around the world. >> those fireworks are coming out of their eiffel tower, i believe. >> every city has an eiffel tower. >> i know they have one in las vegas. any way, happy new year, everybody. >> happy new year to you. >> happy new year. we're going to have to figure out what our new year's resolutions are going to be. we're getting our first look at the 2014 glasses. >> are those prescription? >> you make those look like gucci. >> come on. >> you do. i know they're $3 but you make them look like $300. >> we're ready to party. tonight make sure you're watching the channel. duck dynasty in their first interview with bill hemmer and elisabeth hasselbeck seeing