a thirty percent state renewable energy by 2015 but the state of new york has rolled out new york sun again, you might have heard my good friend but you'll call him david sun bank if you like i'm going off the cuff here. this is the new york public utilities commission with the development authority the flagship of alternative energy authority in the state of new york to fund 3 thousand megawatts of energy throughout 20023 and the climbing block to build capacity this is something we've fought very, very hard for if the state of n.y. new york it's going to be revolutionary but for all people. and we have a bill that actually, i'm the sponsor of surprise, surprise it's a bill 752 of this increases the renewable portfolio standards to percent of renewable energy by 2050 (clapping) you can keep clapping if i like thank you, thank you, thank you. no, this is - as i indicated when i spoke earlier this is a fight those biggest don't just happen i introduce them and because it's wonderful and they step arrested it through i'm going to need people to call on the governor and the state legisla

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as a result, the new york transit museum has this fabulous document of what new york city looked like at the turn of the century, because all these photographs were taken for insurance purposes, but it leaves us with this terrific sense of what our history is like. our archive is used by filmmakers, advertisers, by students, by authors, because it is a wonderful -- it really gives you a sense of the history of new york city, based on all the contract drawings that we have, the maps of how the subway was built and how it ultimately was extended, the photographs that show what the city looked like as the subway was being built, and after, and the attempts to expand the subway system. we have this terrific collection of documentation in our archives. this picture here shows you -- this was a labor march to get better conditions for the workers who were building the subway system. the subway was built mostly by irish immigrants, italian immigrants, and african-american immigrants. the irish and the italians were able to get jobs based on their connections to either tammany hall or the pad

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but new york is a city of islands. so if you're going to connect together se islands with a subway system, you have to do a lot of underwater tunnelling. are three methods of building the subway system that become prominent. one, is blasting through rock. one is doing underwater tunnelling to get between the is nds of manhattan -- this an image of the sand hog who has had to go underneath water, live compressed air, terrible conditions. possibly contracting the bends putting his health at great risk to a tunnel underneath the rivers of new york city. other method of subway construction was called cut and cover. digging cally entailed a trench in the street, covering t over with wooden planks, building a concrete tube which is what the subways would go through, the subways would run through. laying track. and then ultimately replacing the street above. that's called cut and cover. those are the three major methods of subway construction. to show this picture because this is an example.ng the tailor had to have his build

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he was born and raised in a new york family. in 1959, his family branched out and bought loews theaters. today the loews corporation has $80 billion in assets that generate $15 billion in annual revenue with interest from everything in hotels, insurance, oil and gas. jonathan tisch runs the company with his cousin and is also the chairman of loews hotels. >> he took this area and made it guest friendly. >> he completed a massive luxury renovation of a flagship hotel that is near and dear to his heart. >> i grew up in this hotel. >> but that work has not stopped him from writing three business strategy books. >> you get about six hours of sleep? >> 5 to 6 hours of sleep. you will get an e-mail from me at 3:00 in the morning. >> despite a demanding schedule, he tries to make it to every giants home game. i caught up with him at his team's home turf -- metlife stadium. ♪ >> it is incredible to be out here. how does it make you feel? >> pretty amazing. i think of my father and what he went through to afford us this opportunity to be

>>> on a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the new york public library, where we spoke with the library's president and ceo anthony mark, about the hoyt of the institution as well as its current operations and future. >> let's start with numbers. how big is the new york public library? how many employees, budget, et cetera? >> guest: a public library combines the largest circulating branch library system in america, 88 branches, in every neighborhood in the burroughs, as well as four important research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system and also the shop berg center in hard -- harlem. we have 2100 employees, a budget of $280 million a year, operating, about half from the city of new york, largely to pay for the circulating library system in the neighborhoods. the other half comes from return of a billion dollar en.com that employs me, a trust, and that we raise somewhere between 80 and 100 municipal a year. there's also -- $100 million a year. there's also somewhere in the vicinity of 40 or $50 million a year of capital improvements, again

right to supply water to new york city.the company sank wells on manhattan island and stored water in a reservoir on chamber street near today's world trade center. it prospered and started the bank, the bank of manhattan company. it's bank expanded until the water began to shrink until it sold off its water operations. in the intervening two nuts the bank of manhattan would expand into new alliances the most recent the merger between chase manhattan bank and jp morgan in 2000. it's neat to think that the biggest bank dealing with commodity got it's feet off the ground peddling even more basic needs, water. that's the show for today. i'm ali velshi. >> hi everyone. this is al jazeera america. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. truce extended. egypt and gaza has agreed to a new ceasefire after rocket fire continues. >>> admits the possible humanitarian mission could be a dangerous one. refugee crisis, nearly 30 million people desperate for

and what do you think though about coming to new york the most famous city. i think my last year played in sweden this is all four or five people kept telling me i think the york will fit you you will like it and it's a good challenge for you i wasn't sure what they were talking about but my first year in new york i kind of understood where we were coming from and. i love it you know the day one day we're going to say shinji me so well and the city you know it's just exciting to be there it's definitely. unsing sometimes but. if you love to compete and know the new yorker knows the sports they do and even they would have played in times if they booed you deserve to be right in the well the first time i watched the rangers game they booed off the entire team after the game that was my first moment watching raider akio was like wow this is this can be a scary place but at the same time. you know when you do well i don't think there's a better place to play some of these over tough times on me or. i think it's a lot tougher to come in as a big name for me person

that's the new york national guard. remember, it's interesting, too, that this black regiment is recognized in new york state but it's never an organic part of the new york national guard 27th division. and in fact, it is called, colored, in that regiment, but it's also brigaded in a provisional brigade of the fourth provisional brigade. so it was like a detached appendage. it was never really a part. so the 27th division was down at spartanburg but the 15th 15th new york national guard was separate from them even in spartanburg. they were there at the same time but some of the men actually stood up for the black soldiers of the 15th new york national guard. then there's the incident that involves james reed, the nobel -- this was the turning point. they said we have to get these men out of here or we're going to have a race riot on our hands in spartanburg, south carolina. >> i think that to me this was an interesting, again, part of the book, because you used the term retaliation. so much of the popular media that we

right to supply water to new york city. the company sank wells on manhattan island and stored water in a reservoir on chamber street near today's world trade center. it prospered and started the bank, the bank of manhattan company. it's bank expanded until the water began to shrink until it sold off its water operations. in the intervening two nuts the >>> the truce in gaza is extended now. residents in the occupied territory battle the spread of disease. ♪ ♪ >>> hello, welcome to al jazerra live from our head quarters in dough law. i am jane dutton. also coming up. no u.s. rescue mission likely but help is still need today thousands of yazidis hiding in iraq's mountains. it was the first papel trip to asia in 15 years, probe fran advertise has touched down in south korea for a 5-day

right to supply water to new york city. the company sank wells on manhattan island and stored water in a reservoir on chamber street near today's world trade center. it prospered and started the bank, the bank of manhattan company. it's bank expanded until the water began to shrink until it sold off its water operations. in the intervening two nuts the >> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>> hello, welcome to the newshour. i'm jane dutton in doha. coming up in the next 60 minutes, more problems for iraq ja's government as fighting breaks out near fallujah. >>> the ceasefire in gaza seams to holding after a shaky start. palestinians use the ceasefire to return to their home. >>> a rear since violence killed hundreds of

and you were the police commissioner in new york. i think you brought up this, other places think about it as well. here's what the governor of texas rick perry had to say about borders being insecure. >> i think there's the obvious great concern that because of the condition of the border from the standpoint of it not being secure and us not knowing who is penetrating across, that individuals from isis or other terrorist states could be, and i think, is a very real possibility that they may have already used that. >> is it a very real possibility or is that a domestic political issue and a governor using it maybe to make people concerned about a situation locally? a real possibility. >> it could be both. i think certainly, if there's operating assumption that we have to have that peopledom hurt us could come across the mexican border. >> the canadian border, right? >> the loss of entry points that are loosely guarded. yeah, i think the threat level has gone up, though it's remained relatively consistent since 9/11. some people think

the new york city mayoral race.nd a state assemblyman was arrested for trying to sell legislation. u.s. attorney for the southern district of manhattan announced all of those charges within 48 hours. that month. it was humiliating and shattered any hope that albany was anything but corrupt and so in response to all of this, the governor of new york, andrew cuomo, made it one of his chief priorities to get ethics reforms passed in his state. he tried to get his ethics bill through the state legislature but the legislature wouldn't do to, so that effort filed. after that, governor cuomo decided to appoint a commission, called the moreland commission to investigate public corruption. this was going to be cuomo's way of fixing the corrupt system in new york without the legislature because the legislature didn't seem interested in doing anything. i know what you're thinking when you hear the term commission, join hear about a politician appointing a commission. appointing a commission is what politicians like to do when

you don't write for the "new york times," do you? >> nor do i have any -- so i can be honest. >> i thought you were going to say they were drinking too much alcohol. >> no, they're just bad. >> i'll looet leave that to your opinion. but i think the times has influenced the debate here. jonah goldberg, keli goff, thank you for joining us. >>> after the break, up next is the american press start to go blame israel for the rising number of civilian casualties in gaza? >>> as the war between israel and hamas continues to rage, as the death toll in gaza continues to climb, the tone of the american media is changing. some journalists are more skeptic kral, more challenging of the magnitude of the israeli assault. >> what do you say to americans and other people around the world who admire and cherish israel as the only democracy in the region, yet see the images uncontested images of palestinian -- and what do you say to them that israel may be losing its -- >> if my calculations are right, israel has in the last three weeks killed more pa

you don't write for the "new york times," do you?nor do i have any -- so i can be honest. >> i thought you were going to say they were drinking too much alcohol. >> no, they're just bad. >> i'll looet leave that to your opinion. but i think the times has influenced the debate here. jonah goldberg, keli goff, thank you for joining us. >>> after the break, up next is the american press start to go blame israel for the rising number of civilian casualties in gaza? celebrate your love of crab with gthis year's largest variety!. 'cause it's crabfest at red lobster! dig into a succulent selection of crab entrées. like new crab lover's trio! with sweet snow crab legs, split king crab, and jumbo lump crab over savory shrimp. crab three ways! all on one plate. or try new jumbo lump crab over wood-grilled salmon. experience crabfest at red lobster today. only for a limited time. come in and sea food differently! if your denture moves, it can irritate your gums. try fixodent plus gum care. it helps stop denture movement and prevents gum irritat

this tells the history of the sons of revolution in the state of new york. they had wonderful experience over the last 100 years through fraunces tavern doing many different programming options to educate people about the revolutionary war, including saving fraunces tavern and opening up a museum. flag day parades, tallmadge day, nathan hale day, as well as saving artifacts through the museum and displaying them here for the last 100 years. this case is a small segment of the washington collection here at fraunces tavern museum. what you're looking at right now is a lock of george washington's hair. so this object has been in the museum for close to 90 years, and in the 1990's the f.b.i. was debuting d.n.a. testing. so as a media stunt, they gathered locks of supposedly george washington's hair from many institutions including fraunces tavern, and they tested this hair to one of george washington's descendants. and this hair here at fraunces tavern is 50% likely to be actually from george washington's head. now, the reason why it's only 50% likely is because

you don't write for the "new york times," do you? >> nor do i have any -- so i can be honest. >> i thought you were going to say they were drinking too much alcohol. >> no, they're just bad. >> i'll looet leave that to your opinion. but i think the times has influenced the debate here. jonah goldberg, keli goff, thank you for joining us. >>> after the break, up next is the american press start to go blame israel for the rising number of civilian casualties in gaza? when i had my first migraine, i was lucky. that sounds crazy, i know. but my mom got migraines, so she knew this would help. excedrin migraine starts to relieve my pain in 30 minutes. plus, sensitivity to light and sound, even nausea. excedrin migraine works. but have you been on an airplane lately? [ man ] man, this thing's got a lot of onions. i really wouldn't survive it without this scarf. and i have tide plus febreze. it gets it fresher for longer. getting ripe in here, huh? [ female announcer ] tide plus febreze. that's my tide plus. [ female announcer ] tide plus fe

the gentlewoman from new york. recognized for -- the gentlewoman from new york is ecognized. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i rise today to oppose this outrageous bill and the ridiculous process that produced it. just yesterday, this house attempted to consider a bill that went too far on policy and not far enough on funding levels. but apparently, even that wasn't bad enough for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. yesterday's bill vanished into thin air and in its place, we now have this haphazard mess. this bill is the result of some sort of auction with members of the majority. the bill also paves the way for another piece of legislation to be approved tonight a brand new bill on the so-called daca, deferred action on undocumented children program, related to young people who were brought only s minors by 2007 and know the united states of america as their home. this new bill has not been approved by any committee, contains language that would put thousand -- throw thousands of young people into legal limbo this new supplemental funding bill would add an additional $35 mill

state -- new york state. it isn't because of the anti-fracking movement although that has craig contributed to the recently on a fracking in new york state is because in 2008 the farmers got together and landed this big deal with xto. tom barr dashboards and this was before josh fox came out with this movie and there was awareness of it. the local officials that town boards, these work planners and emergency responders, they weren't necessarily after this. they got together and said let's wait a minute here. this is different. how is it different and how will that affect us? all the committees started saying we will probably be next. they packed town boards. the town reps got in touch with the state legislators. long story short this became a big story in the legislature and then governor paterson said we had better hold off on this and do a more thorough review before we know it's going on. five years later the anti-fracking movement has gained national prominence. they have faced a lot of questions about pu

new york city policy center at new york city's hunter college. we spoke and i asked her about the changes she is seeing now when it comes to people needing food. >> if you look at what happened to the value of the minimum wage over the years, you get a little insight into that. it is, indeed, a lot of the people who work in the food industry who are most impacted by the low - the low wages, and the tipped minimum wages will blow the regular minimum wage. if we go back to 1968 and look at the minimum wage then, if you updated that for inflation, it would be at 10:90. >> and the federal government, the administration is proposing 10 and a quarter, coming up against a deal of resistance from some parties. let talk about food insecurity. what does that mean. you earn income, but you don't know if you have enough money to put food on the table. >> it's experimental. it asked people if they have gone without meals, if they reduced the size of their meals. it's measured through a set of questions. what it gets at are people who can't count on feeding th

a similar situation brewing in the courts of new york. parents saying teacher tenure laws violate kids rights to a good education. because it's so hard to get a tenured teacher fired. why does it take five to 800 days to keep a tenured teacher fired? >> in new york and new jersey and connecticut all those laws have been changes. because k-12 teacher tenure is supposed to be, if there is just cause to dismiss someone, then they should be dismissed but they have a right to have a hearing beforehand. and so what we saw was, how do we make sure that teacher tenure is what it's supposed to be, a way in which people can actually exercise professional judgment, can stand up for kids, but at the same and night about patronage and cronyism, but at the same time if a person can't teach they shouldn't be there. in california those laws have been changed in new york, connecticut and new jersey and that's why we're a little surprised that somebody would try bring a copy cat. because the real issue in new york is how do we make sure kids get art and mu

i'm poppy harlow in new york.are watching protests that escalated in the last hour or so on the streets of ferguson, missouri. before we get back to that i want to bring you breaking news coming in from the "new york times." what the "new york times" is reporting is that preliminary results from the family's autopsy of the body of michael brown, that teenager who was shot and killed by a police officer one week ago, they are reporting now according to the "new york times" that the autopsy conducted at the request of the family, this independent autopsy that's separate from the county's autopsy shows that michael brown was shot six times. the "new york times" said it shows he was shot twice in the head and four times in the right arm. again this is according to the "new york times." preliminary results show six bullet entered michael brown's body from the front. cnn has reached out to dr. bodden for chent on the preliminary results as soon as we get our own independent confirmation. we'll bring it to you. this is a

for cbs this morning, vinita nair, new york. >> so the chief spokesperson for the new york city police department invited those artists to come back to the big apple and talk about their stunt. no surprise, there hasn't been a surprise from the artists yet. go figure. >> you usually find them helping sailors and boaters in distress but the u.s. coast guard was called in recently to rescue some sea life. a giant turtle. a boater saw it struggling near atlantic city, after it became entangled in fishing line. the coast guard crew climbed into the water alongside the turtle and carefully removed the knotted mess and the turtle was able to swim away. that is a big turtle. >> some of the gas prices that are driving you crazy. we are looking at prices in cumberland, maryland, according to aaa fuel finders the most expensive $3.69 a gallon op maryland avenue and regular unleaded for $3.50 a gallon if you go to the d afned & d pit and go on mccullen highway. >>> when we started the morning show this morning, we came in around 3:00 in the morning, it felt like the humidity might have been near

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as we talk about new york i hate to do this and with all due respect to our mayor ed lee who is a fast friend of mine i want to submit my first objection to this being the first conference in san francisco i think brooklyn sighing show get a chance i am here to share chastises going on in new york and i think it really in solar in a way that i think it different how the confidence usually goes i want to come back but one the lessons that new york has learned from climate change and two the current state of the renewables in new york and the state where we go from here i want to start with the climate change been new york economy there's been i don't know why an idiotic debate around climate change (clapping) why this is a debate i'll never know, you know, we don't talk about drowning polar bears but new york was hit with super short term sandy it was the largest and when it hit new jersey but spit despite it was the second most it's truthful storm in history trailing katrina sandy caused more than $68 billion in damage and it happened in new york state it happened in the real estate to

that new york city made, including the subway system. new york city has been building water supply infrastructure continuously for 20 years. >> why is that necessary? >> it has a population growth exceeding expectations. >> to quench the thirst, new york city built a network of aqueducts. >> at one point there were 20,000 people deployed in the construction of the systems, thousands of engineers deployed for the cities of new york. the rain captured was pure fied as it passed through the forest and reservoirs. by the 1930s the city was again running out of water. they built the delaware aqueduct, a deep rock tunnel delivering up to 850 million gallons of water from new york city to the we were mountains. >> finished in 1945, the delaware aqueduct became the longest tunnel in the world. >> it was the biggest and best that the world had seen. new york city moved water collection and the science of hydrology to a level never seen before. >> reporter: as new york was more dependent on the aqueduct residents from an upstate town notices somet