and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built u

nevertheless, rain or sheen i want to welcome everyone to new york city. birthplace of four supreme court justices and one on "american idol." and i special want to welcome the 50 teacherses and principals who have been named education champions. it really is important to listen and learn from our best educators when we talk about reform. and there are so many of them around this country. but the reality is all of us are here because the american education system once the best in the world is now far from it. let me give you some statistics. today, our students rank 20th in the world in high school graduation rates. 25th in math. and while other nations were racing ahead, expecting more of their students and teachers, america was standing still, i'm sorry to say. even though we've been spending far more than anyone else. and cutting class size far below what it used to be. by losing ground in our schools, we have also lost ground in our economy. in fact, the economic challenges facing the middle class in this country, especially the growing income gap dire

this makes three to hit new york city alone. only 10 tornadoes have ever been recorded touching down in new york city since 1950. >>> well, no tornado around here, we hope. probably some rain, though, huh roberta. >> the first rain of the season, this was the scene earlier today. 65 degrees in san francisco, totally socked in accord to go chopper 5 high in the sky. 50s to 60 degrees a very muggy mild night. here the deck. the low clouds, apache fog streaming on shore. very slow to clear out tomorrow morning. 6:52, nobody is going to see sun up then. once the clouds do move out we'll see the replacement with mid-and high-level clouds, with the first front barrelling through the northern half of the state. the second impulse promises to bring some measurable precip. saturday afternoon a chance of light rain across the north bay. but more than likely the rain will arrive in the northern portion of our district and spreading across the entire area through the afternoon hours. anywhere from 5/100ths of an inch in san jose to perhaps

most circulated paper in new york city. and getting bigger as time goes on we'll try to engage in some of this thinking where people are thinking of this early and not just presented with a plan to go, thumbs up or down on it. the idea of putting sustained conversation with consistent information is very important. this is new york city does not preclude the water utilities thinking about climate change and water and the things that go along with that and trying reach out nationally. one more. last one. >> i'm representing the endangered species coalition. made up of four hundred different groups. i guess my question from yesterday revolved the impacts of global warming like the, eco basis. >> i don't want to disappoint you but we're not going to be able to do questions. so i hope you can make this a comment. >> i would encourage water managers and people included in water matters try to preclude or include other species and in the process early on rather than late in the game which has occurred down through history where w

new york city, where we are, we are in a park in queens, new york, just to give you an idea if you are not from this area, we are just a few miles from manhattan and a few miles from laguardia airport. and in this park, downed trees, debris everywhere, and this is just emblematic of what you're seeing all across several burr rougs of new york city. storms like this particularly dangerous in urban areas. still to be determined whether it was an official tornado. but, new york city and the northeast have had their share of weird weather over the past several months, from blistering heat to extreme cold and snow and now this. wild weather rolled across the northeast thursday, striking hard in new york city. over a thousand miles from tornado alley. tearing off roofs with reported wind gusts of over 100 miles per hour. >> it looked like doomsday it was coming in black. it looked like midnight. >> tornado warnings went up in three of the city's five burroughs just after 5:00 p.m. the fury lasted minutes as bolts of lightning hit up the statute of liberty and the surrounding city. >> it may

some really unusual weather for the area in new york city yesterday. huge storms rolled through around rush hour. hail, powerful winds. there was a huge thunderstorm. sideways rain and a possible tornado. dave price joining us this morning in queens and forest hills, new york, where the storm hit the hardest with the latest this morning. talk about some destruction, dave. >> erica, you know, typically with this weather like this happens, we thohead in a plane southwest and new york city where we are in our backyard. this is queens, new york. if you are not from this area, a few miles from manhattan and a few miles from laguardia airport. and in this park, downed trees, debris everywhere. and this is just emblem attic of what you are seeing across several boroughs of new york city. storms like this particularly dangerous in urban areas. still to be determined whether it was an official tornado. but new york city and the northeast have had their share of weird weather from blistering heat to extreme cold and snow and now this. wild weather rolled across

and the flag of the new york city fire department. his brother, mike, a 22-year-old probationary firefighter died on 9/11. when the first tower went down, joseph, a new york city cop, was riding on a ferry commandeered by police from staten island to manhattan. >> one second, they were both there in flames and smoke. and then, it disappeared. gone. one tower standing. at that point, instantaneously, i knew he was gone. >> reporter: this year, the emotions are all the more raw because of the proposed islamic center. [ chanting ] >> reporter: which he ardently opposes, because he believes its leaders are linked to radical islam. >> the funding behind this project, the leadership behind this project, is suspect. >> if you have a right but shouldn't, you don't have a right. >> reporter: just as fiercely as joe cammarata opposes the mosque, donna marsh supports it. >> the consequences of losing this argument means that generations of muslim-american children have been told, not there. that address is not for you. >> reporter: marsh, a prof

york city. 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 clearly you know you're not up on what makes new york new york right now joe i'm looking at the 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 the victoria's secret store there and airplanes there in movie theaters there at the nike store everyone's forgot about them i think bedbugs are like tenfold in the last years supposedly based there was all bedbugs were almost eradicated completely. banned. 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 but i heard the main source really they're hiding in donald trump's hair that is under verifier and unprovable but you know it certainly is going to theories and he has but sort of these bedbugs are supposed to be resistant to. the past a

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 into long island and new jersey. keep in mind, it is going to be certainly not a quick fix to get all these trees removed, some of the roads open, and some of this beautiful scenery put back together once again and replanted. let's take a look at the maps and see what is happening across the country, of course, waiting to see if this is an official tornado or not. investigators will be here later today. as far as the u.s. goes, it looks like we'll see more severe weather rolling through sections of the plains today. watch it in nebraska and missouri and kansas and iowa for more severe weather, west coast looks good. and into sections of the northeast we'll see clearing. >>> that's a quick look at our weather picture. julia, of course a fish storm in the atlantic, a hurricane. karl gaining strength in the bay of campeche and igor rolling on a direct path for bermuda sunday night into monday and could hit as a powerful category 3 storm or very strong 2. needless to say, a serious situation developing and bermuda alread

a violent storm wreaks havoc as it sweeps through new york city. >>> hopes. a washington state woman admits her wounds in an acid attack were self-inflicted. >>> and the former alaskan governor heads to iowa today in what may be a first step towards the white house. this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, september 17th, this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, september 17th, 2010. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning on this friday. good to see you. i'm terrell brown in for betty nguyen. in new york folks are preparing for a rough commute. at least one person was killed, commuter trains were knocked out and roads were blocked by downed trees. hurricane-force winds were recorded and today the national weather service will determine if a tornado touched down. packing winds near 100 miles per hour, the storm sliced through the city in just minutes. tearing trees from the ground, ripping bricks from buildings, and knocking out power to tens of thousands. >> my used-to-be car is now a convertible. i've seen bad winds. this, they said there was a tornad

new york city is not seeing it but it will pull into new york this afternoon and evening. >>shepard: by the time it is time to fly it will be fine in newark, right? >>reporter: tomorrow morning you could be delayed and get out around 12:00 noon. >>shepard: thank you, sir. a big day at the white house. fox is confirmed president obama will tomorrow morning announce the chief of staff, rahm emanuel, is stepping down and the resignation is reportedly effective immediately. rahm emanuel is expected to run for mayor of chicago and according to the associated press he will leave washington this weekend so he can start campaigning monday. but the departure leave as hole in the obama administration because the chief of staff runs the day-to-day operations at the white house and the gatekeeper at the oval office. our man at the white house, mike, the reality for the chief of staff, if he wants to be mayor he needs to get to work. >>reporter: no question. rahm emanuel is famous at the white house for work ethic and he is famously said on the weekends there is only two more work days

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

first to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. we begin with a big development in the fight to reform the nation's public schools. "the new york times" reporting this morning that facebook founder and chief executive mark zuckerberg will donate $100 million to the troubled public school system in newark, new jersey. according to "the times" he will announce the gift on "the oprah winfrey show" tomorrow. with new jersey governor chris christie and cory booker, mayor, the spokespeople for oprah and facebook have not yet confirmed "the times'" report. newark have among the lowest test scores and graduation rates. the $100 million donation would be one-eighth of newark's entire annual operating budget of $8900 million for its schools. his fortune has been estimated at least at $2 billion. again, mark zuckerberg according to "the new york times" ready to give 100 million bucks s ts tok and announce it tomorrow on "oprah." >>> today marks six months since the passage of health care meaning the law's key components go in effect and insur

a violent storm wreaks havoc as it sweeps through new york city. >>> use hoax, a washington state woman admits wounds in an acid attack were self-inflicted. >>> palin power. the former alaska governor heads to iowa today in what may be the first step towards a run for the white house. this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, september 17th, 2010. good morning on this friday. good to see you. i'm terrell brown in for betty nguyen. in new york, folks are preparing for a rough commute. a violent and fast-moving storm tore through the city. at least one person was killed, commuter trains were knocked out, and roads were blocked by downed trees. hurricane-force winds were recorded, and today the national weather service will determine if a tornado touched down. packing winds near 100 miles per hour, the storm sliced through the city in just minutes. tearing trees from the ground, ripping bricks from buildings, and knocking out power to tens of thousands. >> my used-to-be car is now a convertible. i've seen bad winds. this, they said there was a tornado warning. i think it hit. >> i've been

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 doomsday. 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

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

there will be a mixture of sun and clouds from new york city through new england. temperatures are a little cooler today than yesterday. especially around albany but it's going to be another steamy day around d.c. and baltimore. should easley be up there around 90 degrees again. just another -- just an amazing summer. philly, 86. new york, 80. tomorrow we do it again, another surge of warmth that's going to come up. this will probably be our last warm day we'll see for awhile. areas around d.c. could easily be into the mid-90s. 94 or so. we'll do that on friday. saturday we cool it off for a nice weekend. almost done with what has been an incredibly hot summer 90 today and 94 tomorrow in d.c., amara. >> bill, thank you. >>> which artist has been banned from "sesame street" before her show even aired? . >>> joaquin phoenix is a whole new man with david letterman. first look at entertainment straight ahead. [ male announcer ] febreze changed how you freshened fabrics. and then how you freshened the air. now, febreze gives you a whole new way to eliminate odors and ge

northeast taking a look at temperatures toward 90 degrees in new york city. scattered showers and storms continuing for you in southern sections of florida.as we look california forecast, mostly cloudy a high of 64 degrees. that's a look at your latest weather. lynn? >> all right, scott. thanks so much. >>> well, an executive comeback, a strong arm takeover bid, and money can buy you happiness up to a point. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, onetime haitian presidential hopeful wyclef jean strikes back at sean penn in a very undiplomatic manner. >>> also the magic continues for boise state. and forget about catching a ball. catching a letter is a new souvenir at the ballpark. you're watching "early today." angeles los angeles los angelba" i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. a new "washington post" abc news poll shows republicans making gains against democrats in the final weeks before the midterm elections. 47% of voters surveyed said they would back the republican candidate in their congress

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

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

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

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

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

. >>> 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

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 i'll leave it 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 in the 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 they say it was all bedbugs were almost eradicated completely. sold it banned. 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 but i heard the main source really they're hiding in donald trump's hair that is an unverified unprovable but you know it certainly is good if there is any but sort of these bedbugs are supposed to be resistant to. th

york is on macdougal stay at a place called ben some place still there have been in new york city in over ten years but it's probably still there it is the best pizza in new york joe wiesenthal thanks again for being on the kaiser report thank you and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with max kaiser and stacy herbert i will thank my guests joe ways and fall from business insider dot com if you want to send me an e-mail please do so i ties a reported r t t v dot are you still next time this is max keiser so. for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers.

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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 different from anybody else. >> reporter: this is cody brown >> how was your day? >> reporter: this is cody's 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. >> 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 three wives to four. >> my wiveses have been together for 16 years, and all the children have grown up in this bringing somebody new into the family is a totally new thing, do you remember robin? do you like robi

new york city tornado that touched down. but a lot of residents say we don't need confirmation, we know what we saw. >> it seemed to hit out of nowhere. >> you can see the rain just coming down in sheets now. >> reporter: a fast-moving, ferocious storm exploded over new york city and the surrounding area just as people were headed home in the afternoon rush. commuters became storm chasers. and in a matter of minutes, sheets of rain, dark, black clouds, 80-mile-an-hour winds, powerful enough to rip the brick off store fronts. and from block after block, from brooklyn to queens, trees came down, crushing cars, blocking roads, ripping down power lines. one woman was killed when a tree came down on her car after she pulled over on the highway. >> the only thing that's important is that people are safe. we'll get power back, the trees will regrow, but you lose a life, you never get that back. >> reporter: severe weather also slammed parts of the midwest. people in ohio say they saw a funnel cloud leave this trail of debris. and h

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

. >>> also ahead on day one of nbc news education nation summit in new york city, the mayor of this city, michael bloomberg unveiled a tough new plan to hold public schoolteachers here in new york accountable for their performance. coming up we're going to talk to mayor bloomberg about that as well as the president of one of the most powerful teachers unions in the country. >>> and the pest that is invading homes all across the country, i'm not talking about bed bug, but stink bugs. >>> al's upstairs and he's tracking the record weather from coast to coast. >> here's the culprit for the east coast. it's a low pressure that's developing, looks like an 80% chance it's going to develop into a tropical depression or a named storm, nicole. we have already got a risk of strong storms from wilmington all the way up to providence, rhode island, damaging wind, heavy rain, isolated tornadoes. heavy rain pushing its way up, parts of the carolinas yesterday got up to 10 inches of rain. we have got some video to show you of streets turned into rivers and lakes. a lot of flooded out roads, homes, base

we have high wind warning for new york city. the winds are going to be very gusty today along with some of the squally rains. we have flash flood warnings in effect for areas around d.c. and a tornado watch from philadelphia southwards down along the coast. you can see the rain, the rain. the yellows where heavy rain is coming down. between philly and d.c. is the worst of it. now we have flash flood warnings for the entire d.c. metro area. they picked up a quick two to three inches of rain in some cases. it's still raining hard. some of the small streams are coming out of their banks. many road closures today. our computers are projecting the heaviest rains from d.c. to philly, maybe just outside of new york city up through the catskills. we're talking potential for maybe half a foot of rain in some cases. this will be about a 24-hour event. starts this morning and won't end until tomorrow morning. >> lots to look forward to. >>> new york's bed bugs take to the airwaves. >>> quite a run for tina fey lately but wait it gets bette

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

york. >> we have -- or, he has -- been in contact with the imam in new york city -- >> jimmy: it's not iman, it's imam. but continue. >> with the imam here, i will be flying up here on saturday to meet with the imam at the ground zero mosque. the imam has agreed to move the mosque. >> jimmy: just to be clear, this is the imam, okay? and this is iman. she's a model. i think she's married to david bowie. the imam isn't. okay? and then, to make it even better, the imam says he made no such promise, he doesn't have the authority to make a promise like that because the mosque is being built by a totally different imam in new york. now pastor jones says he may burn the koran afterall. and there's another church now in kansas that says if he doesn't, they will, so -- this is all working out just as jesus would have wanted it to. [ laughter ] right? this is interesting. after, i think a year-long study, scientists or something have found that overweight men make better lovers. as i've been saying for years, by the way. according to the research, men with higher body mass indexes last seven min

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

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as was mentioned, new york city in 1999 and torture by moving completely. i spoke with a fire inspector last week in new york city and he asked them about that ordinance and he remembered the fire, brought back to the city council on behalf of the fire marshal, who said that this would be a good idea for york city with his preponderant of wood frame buildings. the concerns of increased costs in addition to the effect on small roofers, they will adjust in 11 years. new york city has infinitely more construction than seven sisters and a density that is on par. as a constituent here, seeing the apart -- department's response and the fire department's lack of response, we went for this legislation two years ago. they know it is a consistent issue. to date if you have concerns regarding the band, personally i have yet to see anyone with a vested interest in terms of a written policy or any part of the fire department to proactively address this issue. and it is an issue. seven to 10 fires each year but there is no change in the permitting process, enforcement ad

and now live to new york city with details. >>reporter: the police commissioner reminded us today that it was a year ago this week that a plan was arrested and charged with plotting to bomb the new york city subway system. charges he later pled guilty to. that plot led to attempts to make the transit system safer and this is part of the battle to prevent terror attacks. officials say the 500 new cameras installed in the major transportation hubs are a major step forward in "monitoring and disrupting potential terror attacks," on the major transportation hubs and brings the total number of cameras in new york city subway station to something like 3,700 and they all give an instant feed to the security coordination center based in lower manhattan. there are some civil liberty concerns being expressed by some activists but the mayor says that the cameras and the information they gather guarantee a greater freedom than they take away. they guarantee, he says, hopefully, the freedom for new yorkers not to be attacked by terrorists.

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