york, "uss new york," and especially the first responders. we are the first responders of the united states military. when the president needs us to go do something, when there's a situation somewhere in the world, he's going to ask where the navy is. and we're going to be ready to go do that. >> reporter: and that's where ships like the "uss new york" play a key role. this type of warship is called an lpd. that stands for "landing platform dock." >> it's classified as an lpd because it's an amphibious ship. our job is to carry the marines to the fight and do whatever we need to do to support them. >> behind me on the ship are two landing crafts, each one capable of bringing 100 marines to shore. >> this craft is capable of transporting loads up to 60 tons at speeds up to 50 knots, which is about 62 miles per hour, and can drive over water or land. and they've been used in other operations besides transporting marines, like humanitarian operations such as katrina, and the tsunami relief in indonesia a while back. >> reporter: next stop was th

for new york city? >> that's what was put together after the staeventh buyer the crisis and >> said that we almost lost new york and i want to organize business to be really committed to caring about a great new york city and keeping it that way. >> how big of an organization is it? >> in terms of size, we have 15 employees and about 300 members that represent the top c.e.o.s of the new york and metropolitan region. >> i know that is hardly 300 and what are the big names? >> we have immediate c.e.o. of macy, and murdock of news co corporation and most names of the fashion and retail of new york. >> i have a quote that you uttered in 2009, you said it's not an easy time to defend rich. i guess it never is, and we have the millionaire tax and we have to think about our society in complex ways. being part of the global economy is the key to what brought our city and america and the world's greatest cities back into economic health. if you recall in the 60's and 70's we were writing off urban america and th

they say in new york, new york is made up of people that didn't fit in where they grew up. so it's a diverse community. i know that's what i fell in love with when i first came here, after my freshman year in college. i found it so diverse and exciting and meeting new people and that's what draws people. >> where did you go to college? >> madison. i would like to of going to the university of wisconsin but my folks thought i would be better in northfield minnesota. >> was the difference of living in madison and new york? >> i refer to the midwest as being homogenized as compared to new york. >> and did you go to school? >> i was raised in a county, so i would have liked to go to the university of wisconsin, but my parents thought i would better off going to saint luke college. >> so what is different from madison and new york? >> i refer to it being homogenized as compared to new york, it's truly the diversity and the pace of new york that make it different. the density. you know where i grew up, you were in single family houses. and you couldn't hear what was going on next

for the new york state and puerto rico the new york fed is the bank. it is run by a president named bill dudley. he originally approached me about becoming one of three public members. three representing the public. formally the three public members are appointed by the board in washington. the others are elected by the banking members. so i got involved almost two years ago and was honored because it is is very important institution but also have enjoyed what i have been able to learn about how the overall economy works and how the fed takes lead on many aspects of the open market committee. so the new york fed had an unprecedented rol ein helping restructure the country's financing system. now the regulatory system. it has been an amazing time to be part of the institution. explain the national federal report -- reserve board is government approved by the united states sent an -- united states senate -- >> it is part of the central bank. there are regional banks across the country that are part of a central banking system. >> they are owned by the sh

finance in in new york. there's no industry where knowing a little bit is more valuable, more important, and that's why there's a strong tendency of idea oriented industries to be the mainstay of urban renaissance whether you're talking biotech in massachusetts or computers in greater san fransisco. you're talking about leveraging this ability on smart people who learn from one another. it's suggested that computers will make that obsolete, but i don't think that's true because there's something so fundamental about us as people that makes face-to-face contact so valuable. we evolved over years to have a rich set of tools to communicate with each other. anyone who taught knows the hard part about teaching is not knowing the information and your script, but it's knowing whether or not your audience gets it and your ideas are getting through. human beings have these great cues to signal confusion, and that's, you know, a critical part of transmitting complicated idea, and what new technology has done is make t

it is like new york, i'm sure there are places people go. what we do on the last monday of january -- we send out 500 volunteers dressed as vagrants, and we assign them to different places around the city where you might find homeless, and we send out 2000 volunteers who go all night and tried to count, and we assume we get the same percentage of the actual population as the decoys, and it has been coming down about 13% each year. i have not got the numbers for this year yet. we should be getting them in the next few weeks, but it is a great challenge, and we have about 2500 people living on the streets of new york city, and almost all of them, we interface with. they have emotional problems or psychiatric or addiction problems. there is no simple answers. there are people who just need help, and it is hard to reach out to them. from what i have heard about the mayor, he has a real compassion for people, and that is what you need, someone who is going to do that. >> what advice would you give our new mayor to try to keep his head above water

and finance is in new york. there is the industry were no just a little more is more valuable, is more important. that's why there's this very strong tendency of ideal oriented industry to be the mainstay of the urban renaissance. you're talking about leveraging this urban ability to connect smart people who then learn from one another. it's often suggested of course that computers will make that obsolete. i don't think that's true. because of something so fundamental about people that makes face-to-face contacts of valuable. we have evolved over millions of years to have an incredibly rich set of tools, communicating. the hard part about teaching, not knowing your script, you're not knowing the information that you want to proclaim from on high. it's not whether or not your audience gets. it's whether or not your ideas are getting too. human beings have all these great juices in the compensation of confusion. that's a critical part of transmitting complicated ideas. and what new technology is that is to me the

york story in a brief new york minute. i live in brooklyn and a little backyard in the back and stone walk in the front. years back my son was in the front and we left our backyard and there was a huge august moon rising and we up the block and out into a neighbors backyard when there was a party and when my son got to the party, he said we've got a moon just like that in our backyard. let me say we've not a climate change just like yours in our backyard. the time spent yesterday, at least for me, was very well spent and leads up to the business of today. yesterday we talked about the state of knowledge. some of it was wonderfully obvious. and water goes down hill and collection areas and some of it was breathtakingly vague trying make a billion dollar decision about something. we talked about simple solutions and bold actions and diverse drinking water systems in san diego and we heard about thinking about discipline, winning over regulators and economic development agencies and environmental groups as getting them to wor

>> coming up next on booktv, william mcgowan says that the "new york times" "new york times" has adopted a liberal ideological agenda under the tenure of current publisher arthur sulzberger junior. he says the newspaper has tarnished his reputation of a trusted news source. william mcgowan presents his arguments in the debate with the american editor at large for "the guardian." u.. >> a few months ago, the daily beast absorbed "newsweek" or the other way around. and we have seen situations in which there's now some original content that occurs only online. i mentioned two sources. the fiscal times, and those who want to follow new york issues, web site called "the city pragmatist." something exciting is happening, and one good thing is this web page of "the new york times." a rocky start. a lot of good content. the title of tonight's discussion, "the new york times" good for democracy? a better question would have been, wouldn't have been as provocative, on balance, is "the new york times" good for democracy? and to that question we can give, yes, but, and no, but, answers, with a lot o

the police, the state of new york. the public defender came to me -- this is the craziest part of the situation. the public defender who is there to defend your constitutional rights -- she came in to see me with plastic cause and a surgical mask. i saw her walking around with all the rest of the brothers. i thought maybe she had something that she did not want to give us. [laughter] that is righteous. i respect that. whenever you have to do. then she got me into the interrogation room and she said to me, you say you have education. where did you go to school, high school? public-school of new york. this does that add up. i skipped two grades before college. where did you go to college? how did you pay for college? you went to grad school? how did you pay for law school? what did that have to do with my case? i was just going with the flow. finally, she said to me, it is my professional obligation to inform you -- not only as an attorney but as a registered nurse acting as a dentist -- you may have a bipolar disorder.

if you like green space, lifted new york. -- lived in new york it was not trying to urge people to live in an area. the point* of the book is america has i die eight -- idealize the style of living that involves some birds and does not include living in urban apartments and we have a terrible policy that i badly want to be part of a national dialogue just apart from the issue themselves from disruption the three policies the most obvious and problematic are the home and interest deduction endeavors structure spending. first, the deduction of lowered is clearly problematic over the last 10 years we've bribe americans to leverage themselves during the years of the housing market encouraging to buy bigger houses and move away from urban apartments come 85% houses are unoccupied and multifamily units are rented. renting out an apartment and with the house of the inevitable depreciation they depreciate about 1% per year and if you put a lot of owners under one year you have of the chaos of the new york city co-op. [laughter] so when you subsidize owning a push people away from the dense urba

and now with the old then in with the new is it time for the new york times to get with the times the huffington post seems to think so we'll debate old media versus news. as the on rest in the mideast unfold how will the u.s. react from oil interests to keeping allies land of the free is finding itself in this work spot. it's friday march eleventh seven pm in washington d.c. i'm christine for now you're watching our t.v. . well we continue our coverage following the eight point nine earthquake struck off the coast of japan now the aftereffects include not only aftershocks but fears of a radioactive fallout after a japanese nuclear power plant northeast of tokyo is having some major issues the radiation levels now a thousand times normal levels i want to go now to columbus ohio and speak to harvey wasserman is the author of solar topia are green powered earth eighty three . harvey i know we spoke a few hours ago but i want to get the latest as the sun comes up in japan and the radioactive levels get extremely high can you tell us what's happening. now when last we talked about one rea

can you come to new york? [ light laughter ] come on. come to new york. this will be fun. [ cheers and applause ] it will be so good. we love you. it would be great. >> i'll come to new york when we play the knicks. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: oh, come on. are you going to stay? are you going to stay at orlando? >> i want to stay. i love orlando. it's a beautiful, beautiful city. i have a nice two bedroom house there. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it's a studio apartment, i'm sure. that's cool that you're going to stay. because after the whole lebron thing went down, i don't think that ended well for him or for anybody. i mean, even for miami. i guess, yeah, you can't really talk about it, i guess, but did you learn a lesson? what are the nba players talking about? >> i don't think people had a problem with him leaving. i think it was just the way he did it. coming on tv and -- it was like breaking up with your girlfriend on national tv. >> jimmy: it hurts, right? >> yeah, it hurts. i just felt the pain from all of the fans in cleveland. they just saw their her

york times." >> i don't care. >> does "the new york times"pay attention? >> i don't pay attention. >> they constantly beat up on " the new york times"as being the antiqued christ. >> i don't pay attention to and i don't know anyone in the building who pays attention to it. they are striving to be objective. we all have opinions and they are different than a dozen other major theme in a part of this area do you live in? >> in park slope. >> how often do you go into the office? >> as often as needed. if i can work from home, i will do it. >> how often do you get ideas for a column outside of either a pole or survey? where did they come from? >> i have ideas all the time and things i love to write about that i cannot find data to support. i follow pop culture. there are many things there i would love to read about. contrary to what many believe, i am not a political nerve at heart. l nerd at heart. i have a broad range of interest to some of them feel too light for that space and some don't have data to support them so i do not write them. >> this is a column

i had in turn at the new york times. they said that they could hire me but wanted me to go out and experiment and make mistakes somewhere else. that is the best advice i have ever gotten. i left there when i graduated and got a job at the "detroit news." i interviewed. it was snowing. i got there at night. i saw the beautiful buildings. it was a great city full of people. i did not realize until the day i started work that all the buildings were empty. it was a very different city than i was expecting. i learned to love detroit. there's a certain greediness -- grittyness about it and a spirit to overcome. there are a lot of great people there. and did not like the weather. i stayed 1.5 winters and had to leave. the job was graphics artist. that was the job title. at grambling, part of the mass, major was that you learn reporting and editing like everyone else. i was the co-editor of the college newspaper. i started a magazine. when i got to detroit my goal was to figure out a way to married that reporting with what they

then my new york times a.o.l. i have a good job because its side is a good deal but you know it didn't i mean. there's a cadillac and there's a subaru i mean a new york times is still a care like it's going to be plodding it's going to be slow but it has that it's called the gray lady it has that brand and it's worth a lot more money believe it or not then that huffington post than what a.o.l. paid for huffington post because it is creating real content the reporters are really going out and tracking down sources etc etc so you have to have that going for them but again in the present climate where people are mining news for people are looking for stuff that appeals to them and a validates their own point of view you could say well it's a liberal point of view with i think imposed validates a conservative point of view with fox and certain blogs people aren't looking for that deep analysis they're looking for stuff that the validates their own opinions of they can get those quick hits be about politics or charlie

is still in new york. he shifts his route from between new york and that. canal and then shifts his shipping lines to new york to new england. then when the california gold rush started and man who, like you said, spent almost his entire life in new york city and yet he becomes an interval part of the rise of the pacific west becoming a major figure with his shipping line that had a transit route across piragua and the rise of california. and, of course, the middle west ride was a very much part of his girl wrote life because getting from new york to chicago with an integrated railroad line was one of the great business braces after the civil war. geography was a natural focus, and yet it still speaks to the life of the nation in the 19th century. it doesn't just mean filling up the frontier. it means the rise of industry, the changing shape of where people got things from. the country this changing shape. vanderbilt's life is wrapped up in the changes. >> interesting because our country is so large. when

york times which is a brand but not a brand in the layer goal of personalities the new york times speaks through words not through individual personalities and we're in celebrity land. argile want to thank you very much for joining us and i think that you and i are in agreement here that i think both sides blew you know what could have been a broader argument about where journalism was going today really just turned into a tit for tat between the media royalty as they like to call themselves thanks so much thank you. a newly elected tea party member in new hampshire is made a few comments that are so politically correct you see one of the newest members of the state house is ninety one year old martin hardy elected into office with the help from the tea party and yes he is a freshman and he is ninety one years old now even though hardy is probably about forty years older than your typical freshman state politician he clearly knows how to stir things up tea party style when hardy received an e-mail from a concerned constituent over a budget cut proposal to take money for mental health ser

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

now, new york's port made that happen. the thing that made the harper brothers succeed in the 1920s was that they could get the latest novels before their competitors because they were in new york, this great port that got the books first and enabled them to print first and dominate the market. chicago as well. chicago's greatest industry, the stockyards grew up around the rail yard. the stockyards were next to rail, and in detroit and even more remarkable event occurred in the rise of the automobile industry, and it shows the ability of cities that formed for mundane reasons to then create these chapes of innovation -- chains of innovations. if you go back to mid 19th century detroit, it's a city of small firms, smart people, and connections to the outside world. it has trade and taking care of the engyps on the ships -- engines going on the great lakes. detroit, a dry dock, frank kerby, a great shipping entrepreneur comes there and they perform a critical role educating young people working with engines like henry ford.

the jumper gave new york the lead with just over a minute to play. nets had a chance to tie. darren williams stopped and popped but couldn't get it to drop. knicks won, 120-116. >>> fight night in our nation's capital between the heat and the wizards. john wahl covering zogavkus. wall came back with a body shot and then everybody got involved. in came mcgee and howard. ilgauskas, wall and howard were ejected, mcgee given a foul. jordan crawford was ready to play, kept washington in it until the end. he had a career high 39, but the heat simply too much. miami knocked out the wizards, 123-107. >>> possible playoff matchup hawks and magic give the edge to atlanta. tied game late fourth. joe johnson drove, got the runner to fall. magic with the last shot, needing a three. turkoglu didn't even draw iron. hawks won it, 85-82. >>> finally, a few rarities from the nhl. the blues hung ten goals on the mighty red wings. st. louis put up five in the second period. nine different players scored. blues won by a touchdown, 10-3. >>> in carolina, rutu with a heartless hit on hal gill that

up to so basically the new york times reported on friday that g didn't pay any taxes in fact they got three point two billion dollars worth of tax credits right now g.'s in contributions is this year and it's asking employees to do with their health insurance they going to give people these health savings accounts which only save corporations money and cost workers their lives because they will provide savings out there like a limit of five thousand dollars a year or something like that high deductible any of taking your own money or put in the account and then if you get sick you hope you have enough to cover their butts in their own work they save corporations money they cost workers their lives so now they want all employees to get that they've already implemented this for their nonunion salaried employees and on top of that they're going to limit they want to limit pensions for new hires general electric so no pensions anymore if you're a general in kayseri and not even that not even that well so we're talking about a corporation which is made massive profits which has been subsid

york times which is a brand but not of random a layer of personalities the new york times speaks through words not through individual personalities and we're in celebrity land. our joe i want to thank you very much for joining us and i think that you and i are in agreement here that i think both sides blew you know what could have been a broader argument about where journalism is going today really just turned into a tit for tat between the media royalty as they like to call themselves thanks so much thank you. a newly elected tea party member in new hampshire is made a few comments that are so politically correct you see one of the newest members of the state house is ninety one year old martin hardy elected into office what the hell from the tea party and yes he is a freshman and he is ninety one years old now even though hardy is probably about forty years older than your typical freshman state politician he clearly knows how to stir things up tea party style when hardy received an e-mail from a concerned constituent over a budget cut proposal to take money from mental health services

my base now is new york city. >> why new york? >> i was raised there. my dad moved us there when i was three and it's been my home pretty much since then on and off except for the decade i spent here in washington. so it's where i'm from. >> your father dan jenkins for those who don't follow sports still writes some but wrote what? >> he was a senior writer at "sports illustrated" for 35 years. that was his main gig. but he also became a very successful novelist. i wrote a great novel called "semitough" that was a big best seller in the '70's and got made into a movie with burt reynolds. so that would probably be the most notable thing people would recognize him for. but he's a hall of fame sportswriter. he writes for "golf digest" magazine now. he's probably one of the greatest golf writers that ever lived. he knows more about golf than any human being on the planet. >> here's the cliff of senator joe biden back in 2003. >> the bowls have a deep and important history part of football. we all know that. and i think everyone wants to make that go away. >

to new york. a state of emergency is in effect in already-flooded new jersey. >>> the state assembly in wisconsin is expected to pass a bill that strips public employees of the right of collective bargaining. thousands of protesters rushed the capitol after the senate passed that bill yesterday, maneuvering around the absent democrats. >>> and there will be extra-tight security on capitol hill, as new york congressman, peter king, opens up hearings on muslim radicals. king has come under intense criticism for holding the hearings. >>> president and mrs. obama kick off a white house conference today on the growing problem of bullying. >>> and also, lindsay lohan, due in a los angeles court today. this is where the actress will reportedly not accept a plea deal on charges that she stole a necklace from a store. had she accepted it, she would have been sentenced to jail. >>> and for some of you, your local news is coming up next. >> and for everybody else, new problems for broadway's most expensive s

new york. and wall street banks have contributed to this economic crisis that has left millions unemployed for close down and without prospects and all this in the worst economy since the great depression and the financial crisis massive tax revenue shortfalls for the rest federal government were supposed to the largest monthly deficit in history in february a stunning two hundred and twenty three billion dollars and that's billion with a b. now to deal with these budget woes politicians are cutting public spending they're attacking public sector workers and eliminating and sensual services for those people who need them most indeed it really seems like the only folks that are left off the hook are those in power who are making profits on wall street and for a closer look at how we got here and what we can do about this entire mess i'm joined by max fred wolf he's the economist at the new school that's thank you so much for being here now you know i'm not an economist but basic math skills i th

this new war -- new york library has to the event will honor several writers. on april 9th book tv will be live from the ninth annual annapolis boat festival in annapolis maryland providing coverage of several nonfiction . is there a book festival happening near yu

market which is the cities chicago new york washington d.c. boston and there's about a hundred billion dollars of new sales in those cities terraces. that you know that house in town so it wants that house and as a consequence wal-mart has in fact made some just years maybe sometimes even more than just yours. to say well. we want to be as we want to accommodate obama we want our comedy kind of politics of new york city so for example. how about sustainability initiatives to make their factories and suppliers have a smaller carbon footprint a cooperative show obama want to have project out less sugar in foods yeah nelson they're so anti-union and let's not forget unions are the single biggest as a funding for the democratic party tell them how in fact are they courting obama that well i mean that right they are not courting obama or not certainly our quote of the union that when it comes to that they always say we have a we have sort of a home and we have enemies are enemies of the unions when it comes to environmentalist. african-american gro

ron allen, nbc news, buchanan, new york. >>> we are back in a moment with a troubling question a lot of people are asking after the events of the past several days. >>> finally tonight, after the unrelenting and literally world-changing news of the past nine or so days, a question many of us have been asking, now perfectly captured on the cover of "newsweek" magazine out tomorrow, against the backdrop of a cresting wave, the words "apom lips now: tsunamis, earthquakes, nuclear meltdowns, revolutions, economies on the brink, what the blank is next?" we wish we could tell you but whatever it is we will be covering it on multiple fronts as we did tonight. but as we leave you on this first day of spring we wanted to lighten things up and look up at the sky last night. did you see it? we're talking about the promised supersized moon. here it is rising near the lincoln memorial, bigger and brighter than it's been in 18 years because it was closer to earth, all part of a cycle of our universe, one of mother nature's most spectacular performances, worth taking a special look at, perhaps duri

. >> kate snow, for us in new york. and kate is going to be back in a moment with some of the other news headlines of this day including a horrific bus crash in new york that has left more than a dozen people dead tonight. we will be back. >>> back in new york now with other news of the day. new questions about a terrible bus crash this morning in new york city. a tour bus returning to new york's chinatown from a casino in connecticut hit a sign post was sliced in two and overturned. 14 people are confirmed dead. everyone else on the bus was hurt. seven of them critically. the driver told police he lost control trying to avoid hitting a truck. tonight law enforcement reports that passengers felt the bus swerving before the crash. they are looking into whether the driver was distracted or fell asleep at the wheel. >>> up and down the east coast, major flooding forced people from their homes. some parts of patterson, new jersey are underwater after the passaic river spilled over its banks. bridges connecting two parts of

then there is new york. new york, the constitution had been ratified by the time knew york decided what it was going to do. a lot of it was arguably a majority, certainly a majority going into the convention thought that it should be rejected or not adopted a less certain changes were made before hand. there was a real problem with states left out. think how strange the united states would look without new york or virginia. without rhode island it would have been less of an issue. >> host: who was patrick henry? >> guest: what thomas jefferson called the greatest orator who ever lived. a leading figure in and virginia. living in an age of oratory. they did not have microphones or voice enhancement systems. a speaker who could project, who could speak dramatically the purchase will could command great audiences. that is one reason why people were crowding into these conventions to see the performance of the greatest orators and thomas jefferson called him the greatest orator who ever lived. jefferson hated he

practically destroying the gulf of mexico but absorbing is what one new york judge chose not to do by stepping up for a share of iran and blocking the ecuadorian courts ruling from being enforced in the us or worldwide the judge cited harm to chevron's business that's just nonsense. so why would a new york judge meddle in a legal battle chevron initially insisted take place in ecuador obvious it's a us company they have huge interests here they're capable of very severe pressure as well against those that wish in any way to harm their interests and of course they have friends and a lot of high places while ecuador is tribal members certainly don't says greg pilaster investigative journalist and filmmaker greg says chevron has been calling all the shots in the case they said don't pry the case in the united states so they sent it down to ecuador they said now. we don't like the case in ecuador because we got a bad ruling so now try it in the united states now the multinational corporation is accusing ecuadorian villagers and farmers of trying to rob the company's pockets and we have be

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