in new york city. >> congratulations to them. you can see a one on one tour of one designer's collection and you can get some tips from a project runway finalist. the bonus interview is on our website at wusa9.com. it's in district news. just look under the news tab on our home page and click on local news. >>> good afternoon. fall begins tonight at 11:09. doesn't feel like it. it's summer-like out there. upper 80s by 3:00, mid-80s at 6:00. thunderstorms in a few spots later this afternoon. by 9:00 holding onto 80. the muggies are back. in fact right now 81 with the air quality code yellow 88 to 93 in the metro. maybe 95 places like winchester. partly cloudy. an early shower. where it rains have a threat of patchy fog overnight. lows in the 60s to low 70s with light wind. 7:05 on sunset. tomorrow another unseasonably hot and humid day with a few storms in the afternoon. and like today going 88 to 93. satellite and radar a few clouds up here with showers and storms. still plenty of sunshine and temperatures have really skyrocketed

yes welcome back to the kaiser report now first paschal treat we go to new york city to speak with stock market junkie joe wiesenthal of business insider dot com joe welcome to the kaiser report thanks for having me joe just a quick question what's the best pizza in new york city oh i don't know i think you know the odds are better than me which one is let's move on i'll tell you i'll these are clearly you know you're not up on what makes new york new york right now joe i'm looking at this sideline bed bugs are the new sexually transmitted disease in new york what is happening in new york sitting there everywhere there are the abercrombie and fitch stores or the victoria's secret store or other and airplanes there in movie theaters or at the nike store every once figured out a bottom i think bedbugs are like tenfold in the last years supposedly based there was all bedbugs were almost eradicated completely off the face of the earth until they banned d.d.t. brilliant stroke of insight there then ever since then they've been climbing and i guess the. elbow in the curve another mistake but i

york city. i don't know i think you know the odds are better than which one is let's move on up. clearly you know you're not up on what makes new york new york all right. now joe i'm looking at this sideline bed bugs are the new sexually transmitted disease in new york what is happening in new york sitting there everywhere there are the abercrombie and fitch store or the victoria's secret sterger and airplanes there in movie theaters or at the nike store every once figured out a bottom i think bedbugs are like tenfold in the last few years supposedly based there was all bed bugs were almost eradicated completely off the face of the earth until they banned d.d.t. brilliant stroke of insight there then ever since then they've been climbing and i guess the. elbow and the curve and now they've just taken off and i are the main source really they're hiding in donald trump's hair that is unverified unprovable but you know it certainly is good if there is any but sort of these bedbugs are supposed to b

and then drove to new york city. >> i applaud the humanity that set sarah free. and i cry encore, encore. it's time for shane and josh to come home too. >> reporter: shourd and her mother were joined by cindy hickey and laura fattal, the mothers of the men still imprisoned. >> did either of your sons send a message for you through sarah? >> a little bit of the message that i have heard so far is, i love all my family. and we appreciate everything are you doing. >> reporter: bauer and fattal's mothers have requested a peting with iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad who arrived in new york today to attend a u.n. general a sellably. he described shaurd's release as a humanitarian gesture and asked the u.s. to do the same to the eight iranians he says america is holding. >> the u.s. government should make a humanitarian gesture to release the iranians who are illegally arrested and detained here in the united states. >> reporter: shourd did not describe the conditions during her months in prison and though she was apparently released for medical reasons, she says s

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. - new york city. what about happen? >> currently, the city has plans in place that would happen and hunker down. the problem is that there would be very little time to prepare because hurricanes are difficult to predict and are fast moving. experts say that there's only hours to issue evacuation mornings before a storm hits. the main problem with over 8 million people the big apple this most densely populated city in the nation. based on studies, officials of found that are vulnerable, low- lying areas would have to leave before the evacuation came in part bottom line? scientists predict that if it hits newark city? there would not be enough time to get a pretty out. -test new york city. for more on the south what's on the web with kimberlee sakamoto. www.kron.com ♪ >> it is still hot out there today. inland, the north bay, the south bay, temperatures in the '90s. even triple digits, a few of those. one at 00 = fairfield! cooler on the coastline with 100 and fairfield-- >> and the sea breezes are coming back up in the

york city. i don't know i think you know the answer better than me which one is let's move on i'll tell you out there clearly you know you're not up on what makes new york new york right now joe i'm looking at this sideline bed bugs are the new sexually transmitted disease in new york what is happening in new york sitting there everywhere there are the abercrombie and fitch stores or the victoria's secret store there and airplanes there in movie theaters there at the nike store every once figured out a bottom i think bedbugs are like tenfold in the last years supposedly based there was all bedbugs were almost eradicated completely off the face of the earth until they banned. roy and stroke of insight there then ever since then they've been climbing and i guess the. elbow and the curve another mistake and i are the main source really they're hiding in donald trump's hair that is on verified unprovable but you know it certainly is good if there is any but that's not all these bedbugs are supposed

new york is the most densely populated city in the u.s. and over 40 million tourists visit the city every year. the 1.3 billion gallons of water required every day are delivered by a system of extraordinary scale and complex engineering. man: water is essential to the economic viability of new york city. reliable infrastructure and reliable delivery of water is a must. you have to reinvest in the infrastructure every single minute to keep it current. hurwitz: we have the stock exchange, we have the united nations -- failure can have a dramatic impact on the nation, and even internationally. so there's a really keen awareness that you always have to be fixing the system. things corrode, they rust. they get to where you turn them on and nothing happens. but it is so totally used in every nook and cranny, that making any accommodation to shut it down, to do something to it, is very difficult. narrator: two massive underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the city's water supply. they run hundreds of feet below

a family company. . >>> there's been a tragedy near new york city. you are looking at the scene of a crash that has killed six it involves a church minivan. this scene 50 miles north of new york city is just above woodbury common shopping mall along the new york state through way. a church minivan with 14 people crashed in this accident that occurred about 3 1/2 hours ago. six people reported dead. at lost eight people have been injured and taken to hospitals. we have no further details on now accident happened or what happened or what church the parishioners belonged to or if they were at the mall, which is a popular site near new york city. very sad news sunday evening, six people, members of in a church minivan killed in a tragic accident along the new york state thru-way. >> police in los angeles chasing leads as they search for a parolee wanted in the murder of a bride-to-be. 34-year-old man wanted for allegedly stabbing a woman to death during a burglary then setting her house on fire. >> bp says one more test is needed before it can declare th

we gave you $40, the chef in all of new york city. you must have come -- you did, by a nudge, $39.79, congratulations. on our how low can you go, bill telepan came in at 37.01 in first place right now but this is fantastic, really, really g. now we have a new wrinkle, this week on our "chef on a shoestring" we'll ask you at home what we should cook next week. here's the menu either grilled pork tacos. spaghetti with pesto. and for spiced chicken kabobobs, dial. standard data and message rates apply. we had to throw in that disclaimer. it will cost a bit of money but, you know, we'll save you money. a trade-off. great to see you. >> thank you. >> to fine jeff daniels' recipe go online. all these wonderful recipes from daniel and our past chefs are there for your viewing pleasure. do not go away. when we come back, rosanne with another performance here on "the early show." give the man a round of applause. at sharp, our goal is to reproduce every color in the world on tv. introducing quattron quadpixel technology, it adds a fourth color

york city. the was a confirmed tornado in ocean county, new jersey. early in the morning, you can see the last of the showers heading out across the atlantic and moving away. it is back to dry weather pattern. even the cloud cover is beginning to dissipate a bit. any of the cloud cover that did build up around here will generally clear out as high pressure moves in with comfortable temperatures. 59 out near oakland right now in four western maryland. 64 at pittsburg, 65 at cleveland. 54 right now and bradford, pa.. the warmth will be pushed farther to the south. salisbury at 80, and everybody else has cooled back into the 70's or even 60's in the far western parts of the state. the futurecast shows the clearing trend expected across a region. overnight lows should drop into the low 50's, upper 50's at the inner harbor. there is the front that kicked up the big storms. you can still see a couple of those storms on satellite imagery out over the atlantic. high-pressure delivers a beautiful weekend

in new york city, this is "nightline," september 22nd, 2010. >> good evening, everyone. it is known as one of the most beautiful and livable cities in america. but thanks to the numerous strip joints and massage parlors, portland, oregon, has earned the nickname pornland. and it is an epicenter for child prostitution. many of the working girls, some young for middle school, are not kidnapped or runaways. they are tricked into walking series, "nightline" investigates. >> reporter: they call it the track. on any given night, it is littered with pros tults and strippers. but a lot of these girls probably aren't what you think they are. how old are these girls? >> i have seen them as young as 12. >> reporter: kids turning tricks before they're old enough for high school. not runaways or one can i s ork little girls lured here. >> i'm a [ bleep ]. do you think i [ bleep ] like this? not really. >> reporter: portland, oregon, often voted one of the most livable cities in america. it is now a national hub for child sex trafficking. >> i went to a strip club and danced, whatever

. >> reporter: today former new york city mayor rudy guiliano compared the cultural center with the florida minister's plan to burn the koran. >> the imam has the right to put the mosque there. the freedom of religion gives him that right. the florida minister has the right to burn the koran. really you should not do it because you're hurting too many people. >> reporter: tom kean, who chaired the 9/11 commission, says discussion is important, but he's concerned about its tone. >> muslim americans were killed in the world trade center. seven million people are in our country, loyal americans. >> that's gotten lost in this discussion. >> it cannot get lost. when it does, we play into the terrorists hands. that's what they want. they want this division and hate. >> reporter: kane says what's needed is more passion and less division. how much of each will mark the debate. >> mitchell: tea party activist have adopted this day, september 12th, as day the rally for their cause. tens of thousands of conservatives held 9/12 demonstrations in cities across the country from sacramento, california, to

we're back in new york city. times square lit up, raining a little bit. pack your patience, everybody. >> so donny deutsche, you're an ad guy. >> i like ad mogul. >> you, for instance in that letterman clip, letterman tries to make bloomberg uncomfortable about being rich. what does he do? >> he owns it, man. he teed it off. he said, why would i be embarrassed? that's a good thing. i think most people would go for that. he's a brilliant, thinker, politician, could be the next president of the united states. >> we were talking and the conversation was going around. said, of course, talking to somebody else, money can't buy everything. he was just sitting there. he's like, what can't it buy? >> happiness. >> happiness. >> but it solves a lot of problems. i'm not comparing myself to mike bloombe bloomberg. >> is the white collar back in? >> here with us now president of the national action network -- >> i've got a couple -- >> very wall street. >> i have a couple white-colored shirts in my closet. i haven't had the nerve to bring them out. >> i want to hear

we have some incredible video of that violent and deadly storm that ripped through the new york city area leaving widespread damage. hurricane-force winds uprooted trees as the storm barrelled through the region during rush hour yesterday. this morning, more than 26,000 homes in new york, more than 11,000 more in northern new jersey are still without power. look at these pictures taken from the shore looking at the statue of liberty. here is some of that damage we were telling you about. police say a driver was killed and her passenger injured when a tree fell on a car in queens. neighborhood have been littered with downed trees and tree limbs and residents say the intense storm caught them completely by

sharyl attkisson, cbs news, washington. >> couric: in other news here in new york city, weather service investigators spent the day trying to determine if a deadly storm system that hit yesterday included a rare tornado. whether it did or not, the storm left a 14-mile path of destruction across brooklyn and queens. here's michelle miller. >> reporter: even for jaded new yorkers it was a storm that got their attention. >> look at the tree! look at the tree! >> reporter: winds at 100 miles an hour gusting through the city with tornado warnings in the middle of rush hour. >> the entire roof has been ripped off, sheared off. >> reporter: by daybreak it was clear: this was one for the record books. from roof tops blown away in staten island... >> it looked like dooms day. it was coming in black. it made it like midnight. >> reporter: to more than a thousand toppled trees in brooklyn and queens. stunned new yorkers began to clean up the damage from the storm that tore through some of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the country. what did you think when you first saw it? >> i think

we gave you $40, the chef in all of new york city. you must have come -- you did, by a nudge, $39.79 congratulations. on our how low can you go bill telepan came in at 37.01 in first place right now but this is fantastic, really really g. now we have a new wrinkle, this week on our "chef on a shoestring" we'll ask you at home what we should cook next week. here's the menu either grilled pork tacos. spaghetti with pesto. and for spiced chicken kabobobs dial. standard data and message rates apply. we had to throw in that disclaimer. it will cost a bit of money but, you know we'll save you money. a trade-off. great to see you. >> thank you. >> to fine jeff daniels' recipe go online. all these wonderful recipes from daniel and our past chefs are there for your viewing pleasure. do not go away. when we come back rosanne with another performance here on "the early show." give the man a round of applause. at sharp, our goal is to reproduce every color in the world on tv. introducing quattron quadpixel technology it adds a fourth color, yello

across new jersey, staten isnd area around new york city. also the southeast pocket of ohio there with nine tornado reports coming out o the area. now it is well south and east of the area so continuing clearing we'll have and it will be a cool night, too. still looking at some extremely dry conditions over eastern west virginia. pretty dry here. then severely dry conditns still downround culpeper, rappahanck and going over to the shenandoah valley. we need that rainfall. our radar currently is quiet. i know we've got the clouds out there but those clouds are moving out ofhere. we'll talk about the next rain chance coming up. our temperatures, nothing like yesterday. we got past 90 degrees. capitol hill at 79. trinidad, too. you folks in fairfax county, 74 degrees. a little cooler. then your warm spot is south. 82 now in leonardtown. cooling down to 65 by 11:00 p.m. our skies will be clearing out this evening. a gorgeous seasonable weekend coming our way and a dra pattern going into next week. we'l talk about that and the fact thatkarl, hurr

in new york city this is "nightline," september 23rd, 2010. >> good evening. we begin tonight with a look inside the home of an american family that is anything but ordinary. the brown family is thoroughly modern and yet they practice an ancient custom polygamy. cody brown has four wives. he sleeps with each in a different bed every night and has 16 children. now, the browns have opened their home to a television crew emerging from the shadows to prove, they say, they're no different from anybody else. dan harris reports. >> reporter: this is cody brown and his wife mary. they have a teenage daughter. >> how was your day? >> reporter: this is cody's second wife, janell. they have six kids. >> if you are questioning the order of how family came together, he's number two. >> reporter: and this is his third wife, christine. they have six more. >> lost every morning. >> reporter: the browns are polygamists. >> i just fell in love. and then i fell in love again. and then i fell in love again. >> reporter: they're the stars of the new show on tlc called "sister wive

footnote to that story, new york city has been hit by eight tornadoes since 1960. it's rare but it does happen occasionally. weather service will determine whether that was the case. they look for twisting in terms of damage and actual debris spread across the region. today we're watching the tropics now. two systems that dominated the headlines long beginning to weaken. julia barely hanging on at 75 mile-per-hour winds. it almost looks lack a satellite compared to this planet of igor hanging out there churning at 110 but finally for the first time this week below major hurricane status. that is a category 2 system. that system and forecast tracker just waiting to catch up will work its way back towards bermuda. looks like still a direct hit for them. the weather stays well off towards our east. bermuda will have a problem with that. mexico has the problem now with carl. it made landfall in the yucatan peninsula with the tropical system merging over warm waters. this one has a distinct eye and taking all of the energy in the tropics with winds now 120 miles per hou

shourd spoke in new york city since her release on tuesday. she spent more than 13 months in the notorious prison along with her fiancee and a friend. the three were arrested while hiking in 2009 and were accused of spying. >> this is not the time to celebrate. my disappointment in not sharing this with shane and joshed is crushing. i stand before you today on the one-third free. >> she says the trio were in

in new york city, this is "nightline," september 22nd, 2010. >> good evening, everyone. it is known as one of the most beautiful and livable cities in america. but thanks to the numerous strip joints and massage parlors, portland, oregon, has earned the nickname pornland. and it is an epicenter for child prostitution. many of the working girls, some young for middle school, are not kidnapped or runaways. they are tricked into walking the streets in exchange for clothing, jewelry or just human love. sharyn alfonsi reports for our series, "nightline" investigates. >> reporter: they call it the track. on any given night, it is littered with pros tults and strippers. but a lot of these girls probably aren't what you think they are. how old are these girls? >> i have seen them as young as 12. >> reporter: kids turning tricks before they're old enough for high school. not runaways or one can i s ork little girls lured here. >> i'm a [ bleep ]. do you think i [ bleep ] like this? not really. >> reporter: portland, oregon, often voted one of the most livable cities in america. i

and the mayor of new york, mayor bloomberg, and the city of new york, and the cfda for an in addition it difference to get people back in to stores after the economic meltdown of 2008. people needed to have a sense of oneness, a feeling of family going to shop. so this is now a global initiative. it will be in 16 countries. it will be in dubai, moscow, milan, new york, madrid. and it will be in 100 cities across the united states of america this week. >> so a lot of stores staying hope late that night. so show us some of the looks that maybe we could shop for. >> one of the big looks is a return to sort of '50s feeling. this is a prada dress. very mad men. so we go from high to low. we have things in the show that are from $10 to the person who wants to spend $10,000. >> so this is the more high end. >> this is the high end. plaid is in. very much an investment piece, because great piece for fall. >> for those of us who are on more of a budget? >> straight to white house black market, one of michelle bap's favorite labels. a little banana republic cardigan which will get you through t

he moved to new york city in 1948, where benny goodman hire him and he became very famous in new york at the time and he died in new york in 2001. one of the pieces of my ticket to ride is how many cubans of irish ancestry are there. because this connected to my family, that's why i wanted to read it to you. in the 40's, my father moved to new york in search of his destiny. he learned to make brillantine in red, blue and golden colors to give a beautiful sheen to the hair. in his spare time, when he could break free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chico, i remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's house in our neighborhood became so famous that even my father, not particularly fond of cuban jazz, c

new york city crowd! feeling it. i'm feeling the love on a monday. thank you very much. [ cheers and applause ] welcome to "late night with jimmy fallon," everybody. let's get right to the news. thank you, guys. let's get right to the news. president obama has been talking about education all day, and this morning the "today" show, obama said that he supports having a longer school year. in response, sasha and malia announced they support sarah palin. [ laughter ] ridiculous. and check this out, a new poll found that only 5% of americans think the public school system is working well, while the other 95% think it could be working "gooder." [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] could be "gooder." listen to this, you guys, bill clinton recently told cnn that republicans had eight years to dig the country into a hole. and the democrats need two more years to dig us out. meanwhile, those chilean miners were like, "hey, we're still here. so how about using a different analogy for the next few months, okay?" [ laughter ] "can you have someone lift up this p

. >> juliet: i always like it when it's fleet week in new york city. >> rick: why? >> juliet: many reasons. it feels patriotic. >> rick: it is. it's a fun time. >> juliet: lots of men walking around. moving right along. some serious news, rivers are spilling their banks in the northern midwest and communities under water right now. others bracing for the coming flood. a look at what they're up against straight ahead. >> rick: the poverty rate in the u.s. hitting a level unseen for at least 50 years, but statistics, they don't always tell the whole story. is the situation really as bad now as it was then? >> today millions of american families are caught in circumstances beyond their control. their children will be compelled to live lives of poverty unless the cycle is broken. >> rick: bottom of the hour,. >> juliet: time for the top of the news. >> rick: president abbas, the palestinian president, blasting israeli settlement construction saying there will be no middle east peace until the building stops in areas that palestinians would like to use for a future state

sudden storms blew through new york city and being blamed for one death. tornado warnings were issued as winds gusted up to 100 miles per hour ripping off roofs and bringing down trees. tens of thousands of businesses were left without power. >> community college's are seeing unprecedented demand. enrollment has soared for schools that cater to two-year degree programs. administrators are struggling coping. some have cut courses. others are offering more core class is to meet the growing demand. you might want to hit the museum. more than 1300 museums will offer free admission on saturday, september 25, to celebrate the museum of day. you cannot download a ticket from the smithsonian.com website to get the free passes. jane king has the morning bloomberg business report depressed open for some office romance, try working at southwest airlines. these companies encourage in- house hanky-panky. sunset office love it makes people want to spend more time at the office. other companies try to discourage romantic works relationships. walmart discourages company d

. >> cleanup is underway in new york city after a violent storm brought 100 mph winds and torrential rain. scientists are checking today to see if it was a tornado. and in central ohio, officers are going door to door searching for victims of a tornado that touched down there before moving east. emily has the latest. >> just as rush hour hit new york city thursday afternoon, so did a fierce, fast-moving storm. >> i thought it was the end of the world. >> tornado warnings went out around 5:30. at least 30,000 people lost power as lightning filled the sky. >> all the doors in my house blew open. the air conditioning in my crashed in. the windows crashed in. >> terrifying for people at home, trouble for commuters trying to get home. >> back up, back up, back up! >> new york city penn station closed because it was so packed with people after winds knocked down trees and power lines on train tracks. drivers didn't fair much better. >> i was just driving down the street and -- it was like -- it was just like a giant human carwash. everything just started spinning. i saw like small branches

york city. yeah, the craziest part is that after the show, they played the knicks and won. [ laughter and applause ] how is that possible? bieber's got a crazy jump shot. [ laughter ] here's some tech news, at apple's big press conference today, steve jobs said that, so far, the company sold 275 million ipods. and everyone at the conference was like, "what?" [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ 300, 300 that's right. >> audience member: fist pumping! >> jimmy: that's right, yeah. [ light laughter ] apple sold 275 million ipods, meanwhile, somewhere out there, someone purchased the 100th zune. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] zune jokes. this is pretty interesting. a new poll found 76% of americans would still buy a ticket to a mel gibson movie. [ light laughter ] the other 24% were like, "what are you, a meshugana?" [ laughter ] check this out. a new survey found 30% of parents get bored playing with their kids. [ scattered applause ] [ light laughter ] you can't clap at that! [ laug

we're going to have much more ahead from the big easy and new york cities on a thursday >>> good morning, everyone. mike is going to get your traffic in saekd, but i wanted to update you on a story. reports are that iran will release one of the three detained american hikers. of course, you know these are berkeley grads. we don't know which one. more details as the morning progresses. now to the traffic. >> follow that, meanwhile, following a commute through oakland. northbound continues to show a slow flow after the accident this morning. the general overview, things are

and these two issues are of great concern for the city of new york. we talked with a former nypd criminal intel head, head of the intel unit here in new york city, and he did concede after talking with us, it's a 60 year old structure, it's always going to have some vulnerabilities >> you're never going to make this building 100 percent safe, no matter what you do. what you want to do is you want to increase the level of security that you have there, make it as unattractive a target as possible. >> reporter: and what john carters was talking about, specifically, jon, the threat of some type of a car bomb, that's because the u.n., built in an urban environment, has essentially a very, very small perimeter. jon. jon: any reaction from the u.n. yet? >> reporter: well, we talked to the united nations, we talked to the head of u.n. security, and he told us yes, the u.n. has been in meetings with the city of new york, as well as the state department, because after all, it is the united states that is a host country here and this is taking place but he did s

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. >> and stormy weather in new york city. question is was it a tornado. all that come up for you later on "nightline". >> come up next on "nightline". man shoots a surgeon then kills his mother and himself. we have the latest from that disturbing scene at johns hopkins hospital. >> whale shark. we go under water for a close encounter water for a close encounter wouldn't it be nice if every time meg whitman told a lie her nose would grow? newspapers report the claims in this meg whitman ad are false. and she knows it. taxes went down under jerry brown. but whitman's nose keeps growing by the millions. meg whitman's nose keeps growing. whitman says california lost jobs under jerry brown. turns out 1.9 million jobs were created. she spent millions saying jerry brown raised taxes. fact is brown cut 4 billion in taxes. but whitman's nose keeps growing by the millions. >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. 72. >> we show you some of the new ad quickly done viral on the internet. links mcdonald's to heart atta

jersey and new york city. somebody jumped off that bridge september 23rd, they believe. they have not yet found a body but there are local reports that the car belonging to the victim in that sex act taping was found near the george washington bridge with his cell phone and his camera in it. we have spoken to the attorney for one of the two accused freshman in this and he confirmed that the victim of the taping was, indeed, his roommate at rutgers. >>shepard: still nothing from rutgers? >>reporter: the statement is "the university takes these matters seriously and has policies to deal with student behavior. under federal law the university cannot comment on specifics involving student conduct," and they confirm the prosecutor's office is the lead agency looking into the alleged taping of this sex act and that the port authority is the lead agency looking into the possible suicide. >>shepard: thank you, jonathan. our chief fox correspondent chatting away with you at the website if you feel like it. join in the

has there ever been a tornado in new york city? >> yeah. it's rare. but it does happen. it's rare in september. this is the same storm system that gave us rain. it is still raining heavily in eastern long island. we're clearing out in th wake of the rain from yesterday. mild morning. we're in the 60s throughout most of the region. high today reaching the low 80s this afternoon. it shld be partly cloudy. should be clear tonight. down into the 50s by dawn saturday. tomorrow, mostlysunny. great weather for all the outor games and recreation. highs near 80 degrees. morning lows, upper 50s. partly cloudy. good weatheror the skins and texans, 4:00 afternoon game. monday, should be mostly sunny, into the low 80s. remaing dry tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and mi. now let's check traffic for this friday morning. ashley, how are we doing? >> well, this early morning, a new beltway accident. 95 northbound, single file to the right will get you by. 109 towards the struck scale. nothing too substantial beyond that. headlights travelinglong the toll road, making their way to the capit

it will be a day of a lot of cleanup across new york city, after getting hit by a storm that brought torrential rain and winds of up to 100 miles per hour. >> this is what it looked like in brooklyn, as it tore off roofs and knocked down countless trees. >> it swept across the entire new york region with little warning. whipping up high winds, flooding and hail. emily schmidt shows us the spots that were hardest hit. >> reporter: just as rush hour hit new york city thursday afternoon, so did a fierce, fast-moving storm. >> i thought it was the end of the world. >> reporter: tornado warnings went out around 5:30. at least 30,000 people lost power, as lightning filled the skies. >> all the doors in my house flew open. the air conditioning in my room crashed in. the windows crashed in. >> reporter: terrifying for people at home. trouble for commuters trying to get home. >> back up. back up. back up. >> reporter: new york's busy penn station closed because it was so packed with people after winds knocked down trees and power lines on train tracks. drivers didn't fair much better. >> i wa

i think new york city will get the heaviest rain later on tonight. here is the total we're thinking. anywhere in the yellow and oranges, 3 to 4 inches. along the coast, we could see 4 to 5, maybe 6 inches of rain. the rest of the united states looks fantastic. that's a look at your forecast. now here is a look at the weather outside your window. sunshine in milwaukee, wisconsin. 67. really great weather out there. beautiful fall weather. leaves are changing around the great lakes. dallas, more like it, 86 and sunny. denver, likes today at 80. we'll take a look at friday's forecast. the weekend is coming up here shortly, veronica. >> and it should get better, right? today is going to be the worst of it for the east coast? >> today examine tomorrow, yes. >>> oil climbs, scary foreclosure numbers and mcdonald's benefits? your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, it's been quite a run for tina fey, but it gets even better. >>> you're watching "early today." >> good morning, and welcome back to "early today." i'm veronica de la c

according to the new york post, penny pinching billionaire and new york city mayor michael bloomberg has only worn two pairs of shoes to work over the past two years. his spokesperson says when the soles wear down, he just has the soles replaced, which is really an easy way to save money. that's how the rich stay rich. those are just some of the things we thought you should know about. that's going to wrap up this hour for me. i appreciate your time this hour. stay tuned for the rebroadcast of president obama's investing in america town hall. that is coming up next right here on msnbc. stay with us. we're back with that and much more after a quick break. you exercise and eat right, but your blood sugar may still be high, and you need extra help. ask your doctor about onglyza, a once daily medicine used with diet and exercise to control high blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes. adding onglyza to your current oral medicine may help reduce after meal blood sugar spikes and may help reduce high morning blood sugar. [ male announcer ] onglyza should not be used to treat type 1 diab

in new york city, this is "nightline," september 15th, 2010. >> good evening. we begin tonight with an incredible story from the world of organized crime. it's about a man who pledged himself to the mafia at age 22 after his father, a nor or the use new york city crime boss, was sentenced to 50 years in prison. he devised a scheme that brought the family hundreds of millions of dollars but then came a woman, and a moment, that made him walk away. >> reporter: most wise guys quit the mob in one of two ways. witness relocation or a body bag. but michael franzes ze has managed to avoid both and still can show his face on the streets that he captained. >> some around here, too, in this section, too, but this was our town. this was us, so -- we had it wrapped up. >> reporter: this mobster turned minister has come back to brooklyn on a mission from god. to pay a jailhouse visit to his mafia boss father in an effort to save his soul from hell. and that would be no small feat. because sonny is a living legend. fbi wiretaps have captured this underboss ofbragging about

it will be a day of a lot of cleanup across new york city, after getting hit by a storm that brought torrential rain and winds of up to 100 miles per hour. >> this is what it looked like in brooklyn, as it tore off roofs and knocked down countless trees. >> whipping up high winds, flooding and hail. emily schmidt shows us the spots that were hardest hit. >> reporter: just as rush hour hit new york city thursday afternoon, so did a fierce, fast-moving storm. >> i thought it was the end of the world. >> reporter: tornado warnings went out around 5:30. at least 30,000 people lost power, as lightning filled the skies. >> all the doors in my house flew open. the air conditioning in my room crashed in. the windows crashed in. >> reporter: terrifying for people at home. trouble for commuters trying to get home. >> back up. back up. back up. >> reporter: new york's busy penn station closed because it was so packed with people after winds knocked down trees and power lines on train tracks. drivers didn't fair much better. >> i was just driving down the street. and it was like -- it was just l

there's a lot of drizzle in new york city this morning. more of the steadier rains are down to the south. that will shift northwards during the day. if you're in especially southern new england today, make sure you have the umbrella and everywhere up and down i-95. appalachians, maybe even flooding rains over the next three days. it was 103 in l.a. yesterday. 105 in phoenix. an incredible heat wave. that continues today. contrast that with 60 degrees in chicago. here's how the forecast looks. the heat wave continues. 104 today in l.a. 106 is the record. we're close. 106 in phoenix expected. areas in the midwest, this is some of the coolest temperatures we've seen in texas in a long time. the front has kicked through. all the moisture goes up ahead. and then behind it, the cool canadian air filters in. so the east coast is where we're going to see some of the worst conditions the next two or three days. out on the plaza, we have our big education summit. luckily a lot of it's indoors. we'll give you a tour of that a little later. >> don't f

but right now in new york city you've got the u.n. convening, you've got extremely heavy traffic because of all the dignitaries in town, dignitaries who include if you want to call him this mahmoud ahmadinejad, the iranian president who is supposed to speak in front of the u.n. general assembly. and anytime the u.n. is meeting in manhattan, traffic is an absolute nightmare. you have motorcades of police vehicles taking these dignitaries from their hotels to the u.n., back again, to meetings. it is gridlock in manhattan, and now to potentially -- and i want to stress the potentially because we don't yet know how long this outage is going to last, but we do know that metro north trains which carry tens of thousands of commuters from westchester county in connecticut into manhattan each and every day, in and out of manhattan, those trains are not running right now at least until they get this fire out and at least until they get a look at that bridge. they are not going to be running any trains. so traffic today on this particular day co

. >>> first, to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. this morning's "washington post" is reporting that a group of republican senators are considering an alternative approach to the tax cut debate that is bitterly dividing congress. currently senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and john boehner locked in a standoff with president obama and democrats over the fate of the bush tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of the year. democratic leaders are pushing to extend the cuts to the middle class but not to the nation's highest earners. republican leaders want all the cuts to be made permanent. but, according to "the post," some republican senators argue a two-year extension of all the bush tax cuts would give the economy time to improve and give congress time to help develop policies that restore the country's fiscal health. this has been the third alternative that they've put out there. we'll see. yesterday house speaker nancy pelosi got a letter from a freshman democratic congressman from virginia who collected more than 30 sign

that's like new york city-style apartments. >> that's easily double the size of my place. >> my first apartment in new york city, 400 square feet. >> not bad. >> so, it felt a little bit like that. >> even if you have to share a common bathroom. >> it wasn't 55 bucks either. >>> time now for an early look at some of the stories we'll follow throughout the day here on nbc. in washington, education secretary arne duncan announces the winners of the blue ribbon school awards for elementary, middle and high school, performing at high levels under difficult circumstances. >>> and the national football league teams up with united way, rebuilding homes in new orleans. the "no place like home" initiative will help families who are still struggling to recover from hurricane katrina. >>> and new orleans residents will have a home field advantage tonight when the super bowl champion saints take on the minnesota vikings to kick off the nfl season. and you can catch that game right here on your nbc station. >>> all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and o

general assembly new york city will be more coverage of more fallout from new york about what's been said over the coming hours but for now anderson churkin the thanks for bringing us up today. it has some of the most harsh conditions on the planet but we're talking about the arctic now it's also among the most desirable places on earth right now to for one reason its resources of oil and gas are proving to be a huge source of temptation for several northern countries and that's why the best scientific minds and politicians have been governing here in moscow trying to ensure cutthroat competition doesn't destroy conservation. one of the hottest issues surrounding one of the world's called us regions is territorial claims at the moment several arctic states including russia canada the united states denmark and norway put forward their claims and i'm trying to prove their rise to the one most of reach which is believed to contain as much as a quarter of the world's untapped undiscovered natural resources so very lucrative piece of pie the question is how this pie is going to be divided

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new york city is going to be nice and 77. dc should be gorgeous. all the way back through the southeast as we feel like summer. upper 80s, low 90s. chicago, minneapolis, on the cooler side for you. texas, still hot. dallas, today, 94. lynn, everything is looking good. >> all right, bill, you keep an eye on the canes for us, huh? >> the canes. >> the weather man lingo, i like it. all right, thank you. >>> woody allen shoots down rumors about the first lady of france. >>> plus, oprah opens up about her final season with a bang. the first look at entertainment is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. wall street is getting back on its feet. but the financial landscape is still full of uncertainty. in times like these, you need an experienced partner to look out for you. heads up! and after 300 years we have gotten pretty good at that. rheumatoid arthritis going? they're discovering the first self-injectable ra medicine you take just once a month. it's simponi™, and taken with methotrexate, it helps relieve the pain, stiffness, and s