york state and new york city that was the night with different solutions for the budget crisis in new york he spoke for new yorkers against budget now it is not just the thing these challenges believe and the nation eight. trillion dollars in debt or anything to struggle to pay their bills and their creditors residents are paying a price not just cut and jobless. this but cities and states have increased fines and fees to raise revenue in new york for example police are accused of going on a bicycle ticketing blitz to meet quota this next guy maybe one victim he got a ticket for not writing in the for writing in a bike lane or not riding in a bike lane sucker so confusing he put his quite on the line here some of it. you see here for human rights not when the boys were. little. or the food. and fuel for food were very fluid limits. and. your vices. from five dollars. are yours to see or are you the pouring rain drops of your russians and you would rather you look like. now that all obviously resonate with people because it became an internet sensation it's gotten more than three milli

york and joining me now for more from our new york studio is our city correspondent and editor and felt and it's out there so good to see you now i'm just curious you know what is the biggest beef that these protesters have. well learned the biggest beef that they have is that mayor bloomberg last month has proposed a budget cut of an entire four hundred million dollars and what this would mean for these people common common american teachers health care health care professional social workers librarians that as many as six thousand jobs are going to be thrown out the window and these people are going to be either their paychecks are going to be slashed road they're going to lose their jobs and what they're saying is that first of all the city has plenty more other sources to get the money to fill the budget gaps especially with wall street being here we know that last month there was a report out saying that compensation for. corporate c.e.o.'s has gone up an entire ten percent and ironically you know who makes up the top list in that in that whole list is the media see those are the o

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

new york city, 25 degrees, 22 degrees in chicago. it does say hot in houston at 36 degrees. 34 degrees in denver. we're looking at arm and dry conditions in the northern tier of europe. to the far north, wet and unsettled. around the mediterranean, though, we're going to see plenty of thunderstorms developing here across italy, much of the balkans into poland and also the ukraine, experiencing plenty of thunders weather. temperatures look like this in europe today. 28 degrees in moscow with plenty of sunshine. stays warm and sunny in kiev as well. thunderstorms will affect warsaw today and looking more comfortable in berlin, 22 degrees with partly cloud skies. here's your extended forecast now. >> that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi. hope to see you back at the top of the next hour. a 4

new york city. the greatest city on earth. and samantha b found out politicians just figured out a way to make it even greater. >> new york city parks. an oasis sullied by a scourge of self-ish miss krints. people smoking but finally there's justice. >> new york city has expanded smoking ban has taken effect not lighting up at parks, beaches or pedestrians plazas. >> politicians have stood up and said not in our backyard. >> parks are a place where people should go to relax and to have fun. go with their kids and not, you know, fear that they're going to expose them to cigarette smoke. >> when people come to the park they want it to be clean and green. they want to be able to have fresh air, not have a bunch of litter, a bunch of cigarette butts where they are sitting down to have a picnic. >> and the parks aren't just for picnics. >> every one can finally enjoy the splen door of our outdoor spaces. >> tell me about what the parks were like prior to the smoking ban. >> it was not as enjoyable. it was not as enjoyable. >> not a

the pictures of new york city hotel workers protesting. we have video of him leaving his at the hotel or apartment and heading to the courtroom. >> we are also following out of oakland four separate shootings that took place over the weekend you conceded where it was taken place. at to 30 in the afternoon the saturday afternoon wheel doesn't was shot. then later on in the evening i shooting they found a man shot in the driveway of his apartment complex. he was taken to a local hospital and is stable condition than sunday morning two separate shootings two men shot. and then to a.m. three more men were shot outside a nightclub. no arrests have been made in the shootings >> officers are investigating that dead body of the was found in a garbage bag in sunnyvale it was found yesterday morning, it was stuck between to bush's next to the sidewalk. the officers opened a bad and saw that there was a body inside. an autopsy is going to be performed to determine the cause of death a 22 year-old mary mayor as was pulled over and they saw 14 year-old

like say, for example, new york city, there are three communities in new york city where 70% of the prisoners throughout the state of new york come from. it's no surprise that those are also communities where you have -- >> you said -- three communities and 70% of the state's prison population come from these three communities? >> these three areas. these three counties in new york city. so what you see also is that those are the same counties where you have heavy policing, where you have special programs like the street crimes unit which was responsible for the killing of a suspect so there's an intense level of policing that fuels people into the arraignment process and on to the prisons. >> one of the really fascinating things in terms of trying to change this and break this bottleneck is andrew cuomo, just elected governor of new york said something sensible. we have to cut budgets and we have prisons, upstate new york, where they are being underutilized. we have to close some of those down. he is having so much trouble trying to close these prisons. all of a sudden people are s

>> i was there a week ago and it's 50 miles from new york city. what's there for tourists, it's fourth of july every day of the year. the thayer hotel is located within the confines of the campus. it's the only hotel that is within a military installation. so, that's interesting in itself. the grounds are really beautiful. it's right on the hudson river. they have trophy point, which is an area where you will see the artillery cannons from several different wars we fought where we have recaptured the cannons. the national purple hall of fame -- not hall of fame, hall of honor is outside and off the ground. a lot of historic sights. >> we saw the amazing views above the hudson river. next is cape may, new jersey, along the famous jersey shore and this is supposed to be a lovely town. >> it's lovely and not the

dominate strauss-kahn pled not guilty to sexual assault charges before a judge in new york city. union hotel workers came by the busload to blast strauss-kahn. >> we are here to show support and show her that new york city is the wrong place to mess with hotel workers. >> the hotel worker works at the high end sofitel. the woman says strauss-kahn assault and her as she cleaned has a $3,000 per night suite. police arrested him before he boarded a plane to paris. >> our judgment is that there will be clear there was no element of forcible compulsion in this case whatsoever. >> the former global financial leader had been favored to become the next president of france. the maid is expected to testify. >> all of gemini strauss-kahn's power, money, and influence from the world will not keep the truth about what he did to her in that hotel room from coming out. >> his wife is supporting him and joined him in court. live in the satellite news center, julie parker and abc7 news. >>> breaking news. he has been held ordered without bond. officer richmond phillips shot wynetta wright and lef

and jonathan hunt is here in new york city. >>jonathan: these were e-mails and notes of conversation between wendy button a former speech writer for john edwards and the senator, himself. most occurred in the summer of 2009. and she was trying to persuade john edwards to come clean about the mistress rielle hunter and their love child. now, according to the reporting of the associated press, mr. ed wards in the e-mails and notes averaged knowing about the payment to rielle huntedder but what they don't reveal is whether he ordered the payments and most critically legally is whether he knew the payments were coming out of campaign finance cash. >>shepard: we don't know if this will actually go to trial? >>jonathan: no. obviously it will take a long time to get to trial. i spoke to judge napolitano and he said likely to be at least a year before it gets to trial. and there will be ongoing conversations about a plea deal. he could be interested in one for obvious reasons but, also, according to the judge, prosecutors could be inte

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

, guys. >> in new york city. >> in new york city. >> reporter: now, the law takes effect in 30 days, and there could be a rush for couples to become the first to marry in new york state. >> historic night, but still controversial. dan, thank you very much. >> all right, thank you. >> bianna. >>> now the other news of the week, the man who topped the fbi's most wanted list, james "whitey" bulger is back in boston this morning. when he fled 16 years ago, he was the city's reigning crime boss, and now he's finally behind bars, and we're learning more about just how he was caught. abc's rob nelson has the latest from boston this morning. good morning, rob. >> reporter: good morning, bianna. well, perhaps the headlines in today's boston globe" says it all, "back in the town that he terrorized." for the first time in nearly 20 years, whitey bulger is waking up in back-to-school this morning, a city that knows that this very ugly chapter of its history is coming to an end. the feared and storied mobster who escaped boston 16 years ago has finally been brought back home. for him it's justice

i mean, for [bleeped] sake, it's new york city. i hate to use this term this close to ground zero, but we're a bit of a pizza mi mean, you kt lombardi's... [cheers and applause] honestly, lombardi's. oldest pizza rhea in town, little italy, they make their own pork sausage. go to grimaldi's under the brooklyn bridge. go there early. totonno's, coney island, thin crust, sweet sauce.

. >> reporter: in new york city, nick and rick, together for the last ten years, are the parents of 3-year-old twins. >> ours is a different family, but it should have the same rights as any other family. >> reporter: they are already making plans to marry late next month. when the law goes into effect. >> i think it will just sort of be nice to finally say, i'm married. >> reporter: and the celebrations here in new york city are expected to last well through the weekend, lester. tomorrow, coincidentally, is the annual gay pride parade. >> it wasn't talked about during the debate, but i understand there's an economic payoff to this. >> reporter: that is exactly right. new york state is expecting a surge of gay couples to come to this state to wed. a recent survey estimated roughly $184 million would come in over the next three years if this law was passed, as it's been. also, new york city has come to an agreement that there will be more state judges available to perform these same-sex marriages. >> peter alexander here in new york, thank you. >>> it's going to be a long, tense night

york city. check this out, we're at a food stand and we're going to put the geiger counter on some bananas, which contain potassium which you need to live but also radiation. and check out how the needle pins when we went in grand central station. this place is made from granite. which emits radiation. we should say, the radiation from granite or bananas or the sun or airport scanners or x-rays is very different from the radio waves that come from phones. those radio waves are much weaker, and there's still no proof that that kind of radiation can penetrate our bodies and make us sick. the w.h.o. now puts cell phones in the same category as some scary stuff like pesticides and gasoline engine exhaust, but also some everyday stuff like coffee and pickled vegetables. >> it is a wide-ranging category and it reflects the uncertainty of the evidence. >> reporter: so, what should the howards do? well, experts say they can talk less and text more. they can use blue tooth-enabled headsets, which emit mu

with my partner right now so why not go to new york city? >> we want to go to every state. we are even going to go to canada and collecting the legislator and use all of this. documentation, and celebrate. revo or domestic partner certificate. >>reporter: in san francisco, kron 4. >> vicki: 4 of the five people of the shootout were innocent bystanders. police say this suspected shooters are now in custody. da lin has new amateur video. >> the busy market street in downtown san francisco was packed with people and. this was recorded by david wilson and posted on the you tube. a man sitting on the ground with his left leg a gunshot wound. the would not released his name a 74 year- old victim of san francisco. >> he just seemed to be in shock. with blood all over his legs. >> police say that the gunshot injured several people. this santa cruz man was struck by gunfire. his injuries appeared minor. investigators say the other innocent bystander 345 year- old man visiting from england and is 17 year-old boy. all of these chickens will survive. th

new york city and philadelphia, 96 to 98. we're still very who hot in the southern half of the country. thursday, it's warmer than in the middle of the country. a pair the of 98s in new york and d.c. >>> if you're watching us in norfolk, virginia, bring your bicycles and pedal through 12 miles of the garden pathways at bike night at the norfolk botanical garden. that's your "early today" event of the day. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> now here's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. >>> i'm lynn berry, and this is one starlet has apparently scored hollywood's hottest new bachelor and it has his perks. "us weekly" reports through venice and the french riviera, leonardo dicaprio and blake lively took in a trip to disneyland. once source told the magazine, quote, i've never seen him like this with a girl. >>> see anna miller has settled phone hacking claims against news of the world, an english tabloid run by rupert murdock's news corporation for over $160,000. miller accepted damages. her legal costs and an uncond

i remember he living in the wide new york city totally alone i don't just to put my bathroom sash around on it. and why i got down was because. my friends. i had made after the war who had been through the same thing i had and i felt if i get that kill myself i would betray. the bottom e. . coochie vietnam federer for taint night in sixty six by eight feet they call it hell's halfacre because of the american people. that have been still there tano do and be a crime snipers have done most of the damage today was no exception on this attack in twenty seven unfortunately the frames were found some moved out there were attacked the snipers over not from such perfectly camouflaged possessions but most of the a copy not the whole day with c. and none of them a sergeant was hit in the shoulder in the leg as he rolled over a third shot were up to his back. a medic broke from cough and rushed to his side as he dropped to his knees to began given a bullet smashed into the stomach. of the sergeant in the medic that i had a killer book well it was laid out to screen a squad going after the world tha

york state and new york city do you think that. change the conversation and you think there's any political will to do the kind of things that you're doing when many politicians don't like a bloomberg have the interest you're talking about you know wall street big banks corporations that are major political donors well that's why we're hanging that's why we are camping out. in. city hall we have to force them to develop the political will to recognize the need to do justice instead of just supporting the rich really quickly richer and a good way with murder ok really quickly our reporter pointed out that the mainstream media has not really been covering that why do you think that is and do you think that you can achieve what you want to achieve if people are paying attention. well the media in general ignores our rights. protest as a general thing this has been standard for the last two decades and. actually bloomberg has achieved more media attention then all of the work that we've done in the last year if it's necessary to just w

in new york city he was speaking to a republican group there. he was the headliner and talking about taking our country back and looked and sounded like a presidential candidate. today, perry is meeting with giuliani. i would love to find out what is going on there in that meeting right now. later this week, on saturday, perry is speaking in new orleans at a major republican conference where a lot of the other candidates are speaking so keep your eyes on rick perry and see what he does. maybe, maybe there will be a rick perry on the stage at the next debate. stay tuned for that one. >> paul, thanks. >>> another political update in an hour. for the latest political news go to our website 24/7. >>> consumer groups fight back what they call facebook's invasion of privacy. complain over the new facial recognition technology.

made at his arraignment hearing today in new york city. if convicted, he faces as long as 25 years in prison. as for the markets, stock futures pointing to a loss of zero. -- a loss of 0.3%. crude oil, the outlook for the airline industry is being cut by 64%. there's the japanese earthquake and the mideast unrest not helping either. hackers are going after nintendo now. more on that in the next hour or. -- hour. >>> 66 degrees outside. >> still to come, living longer. two major breakthroughs in the fight against cancer. >> first the humidity is m captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> 4:40 on this monday. adam caskey in the belfort furniture weather center on this monday. let's look at temperatures. not so bad. we are in the 60's with a little humidity locally and south of town. winchester, 61 along with frederick and gaithersburg. manasseh's at 63. 69 in quantico. -- manassas at 63. the average high is 82. today, 84. hot and humid air will move into the region. near 90 degrees tomorrow. we will be in the upp

ps-1 in new york city's south bronx. it serves about 700 students from pre-k through fifth grade, most of whom qualify for free lunch. based on its reading scores, the school is failing. but in person, it seems to be thriving. is it a good school or a bad school? there may be a lot of schools like ps-1. how should they be judged? do you believe what you read or what you see? could educational quality be like beauty in the eye of the beholder? or does the test score say it all? we went back to ps-1 to find out more. >> nice and loud especially on the vowels. >> reporter: our search for answers began in rachael hunt's first grade classroom. we found her students getting a lesson in phonics, the building block of reading. they're learning that letters make sounds, that groups of letters make different sounds. and that when you put those letters together, they make words. it may appear to be a simple lesson but it's not. ms. hunt's students seem to be getting it. what we are doing is called decoding, but decoding is only hal

in new york city, this is "nightline," june 28th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. an estimated 35,000 murders were committed in the last five years in battles over control of the u.s. market for illegal drugs. but those murders didn't happen here. they happened in mexico. meanwhile, the products keep flowing north and the cash throws south. well, tonight, we get an exclusive look at the drug war as few have ever seen it, on the border, and at a top secret facility. here's abc's peer yeah thomas. >> reporter: on a recent afternoon, "nightline" cameras were rolling as customs agents targeted this 18-wheeler. it was supposed to be carrying furniture. but an x-ray suggested something else was hidden inside. >> wow. >> reporter: jackpot. marijuana. pay dirt. you got what you were looking for? >> we did. we found packages containing marijuana. >> reporter: in the end, the truck contained 100 ottomans filled with 2,300 pounds of marijuana. more than a ton in total. this is a major organization, a small group wouldn't be able to do something like this, right? >> that's cor

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. >> former head of the imf is due back in court in new york city tomorrow. three weeks ago dominique strauss-kahn was accused of attacking a maid in a new york city luks luxury low tell. there could be some big surprises. >> i think they will say in open court when they can't say in the media and they will let everyone know what his defense will be. >> he has been out on bond serving home detention in a posh new york city townhouse under constant surveillance. >>> a high school senior became an international celebrity for being told he couldn't go to prom danced the night away. james tait picked up his date, brought letter her a corsage and did everything a date does. last month tait asked hit date by putting up cardboard letters. of a school hours the school did not find it pro mantic or cute. they said it was trespassing. they suspended him and banned him from going to the prom. tait says he is glad that all of the attention helped get him to the prom but now wants his life back. >> i can't wait for everything to calm down, to get back to normal. >> get th

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

right now,the top bidder will get lunch in new york city. >> wow. what would you talk about? financial advice. >> i think i would get financial advice. >>> still to come at noon. bernadette woods will have a look at the forecast. >> probably tell you to buy low and sell high. >>> we'll look at the multimatch numbers and stocks. , >>> welcome back, the sun is out. we have clouds pause of the storm to the northwest. this is going to bring us a warmup. right now, we have a few thunderstorms with it. these are fizzling out quickly. we'll have a chance for a shower and thunderstorm with that batch. this is moving straight to the south. the western parts of the state will see showers and thunderstorms with that. we'll switch it over and show you what it looked like earlier today. we're getting a few clouds from the storms from the northwest. we'll be in and out of those into the afternoon. here comes the warmer air on the south west winds. 88 in ocean city with the wind off of the land and not off of the water. cooler out to the west. there's a code orange air quality alert in effe

in new york city, this is "nightline," june 17th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. well, for some people, the only thing more fun than going shopping is showing off what they bought. thus was born the so-called haul video, shoppers mainly women setting up a web cam and displaying the spoils, the haul, of their latest outing, for all the internet to see. well, the twist here came when the videos of certain haulers began to win fans. in some cases, lots of fans. and the devoted shoppers began market movers all their own. here's abbie boudreau. >> hey, everyone. >> hey, everyone. >> hi, everyone. >> reporter: it's one of the fastest growing trends hitting the web. >> we got a haul, people! >> reporter: women of all ages. >> any kind of boot goes. >> reporter: shopping and then posting videos of their catch online. >> i just thought it was cute. >> reporter: perhaps a dream job for many women. >> i love that. >> i love that. >> smells like cake batter. >> reporter: this is elle. >> and honey. and cake batter. >> and this is her younger sister blair. >> i don't really li

the one that's existed the whole time is to be mayor of new york city. he ran in 2005 was all set to run in 2009 and he's been running for 2013. i don't think many people in new york believe it after this he's a serious, viable candidate. >> i do. i do, yes, for mayor. i'm just one and i'm not a new york voter. >> the case against a viable candidate for mayor is simple. the new york democratic establishment doesn't like him. he's only at 20% in the polls right now. you've got six other options in new york. the new york media's not going to let this go. the second issue, the second reason he's been in congress is to be a tv star. which he's emergencied as. part of that is part of his strategy to run for mayor in 2013. his base in new york the blue collar voters. he's expanded that base appealing to man hat tan liberals, liberals in brownstone brooklyn. it's a successful coalition. but can he really be on tv as the congressman? >> yes, he can come on this show tomorrow night. i won't ask him a single question about it. he answered every question today that

she is the speaker of the new york city council. she's the first woman and the first openly gay official elecd to that position. it has been a big weak for her. the city council voted on the budget and comes after much negotiation betweethe mayor's how s and e city council. i'm very pleased to have christine quinn back at this table. weome. >> thank you. >> charlie: before we lk about open politics here, just tell me about this for you and your partner of 12 years. >> 10. >> charlie: 10 years. >> right. >> charlie: what does this mean. tell me the feeling what you too had when you realized you could get married in this state. >> we didn't really realize it until friday night and i was in my office in city hall working on the budget. we were on the phone and when we heard the senator, i was watching it on tv, at that moment, we realized it. and kim was we don't know, it can change. but we knew it. and it's a hard feeling to describe although a lot won't change. we lived together for nine years. a whole lot will change and you felt th

maybe the place to be is on a train headed to new york city for the weekend, because by friday, new york city is only 81 degrees. that is something better than what they have seen. back to the fire for a second. ridgetops and flames all of the way through here. these are satellite-derived spots where they find the hot spots and the problems is that the hot spots are only three miles from this town. and you see springerville, and it sounds like a ville, but it is a large me trop you louse area. >>> and amtrak is suspending service because of the spreading flooding along the missouri levels. there is a high level of stress on the levees that is threatening to flood some towns. officials are scrambling to fill sandbags and try to contain the river. this is likely to continue through most of the summer. >>> joran van der sloot is charged in the death of stephany flores, and her body was found in his hotel room of may of last year, and today, his lawyers will try to convince a judge to consider a lesser sentence claiming it was a crime of passion and not uvian authoritio file formal charges.

. >> reporter: take new york's indian point power plant just north of new york city. evacuating a 15-mile radius would mean moving more than 17 million people. 6% of the u.s. population. really stricted by two lane roads and busy bridges. >> frankly, the idea you can ask a population let's say within 50 miles of indian point in new york city to evacuate within a matter of hours is absolutely ludicrous. >> reporter: 50 miles happens to be the evacuation distance recommended for americans in japan after the fukushima disaster. today, we asked him why the requirement for the u.s. remains just ten miles. >> even in japan, it was multiple days to a week before we really saw the significant types of challenges. in the united states, we anticipate the same kind of situation. you would have time to adjust and expand evacuation zones if necessary. >> reporter: another investigation by the ap found radioactive tritium has leaked from three quarters of u.s. nuclear power sorts. >> it's kind of destroyed our whole life. >> reporter: tom and judy zim had just moved into their home

so you're in new york city. you've got the most talked-about song around. people are coming out every night to hear it. the natural thing is, "let's turn this into a record." "let's make a few bucks." and did anyone step up and say, "we want to put that out"? did the major labels step forward? well, the major labels cowered in fear. columbia was her label, and she wanted to get the song recorded. i mean, as you said, she sort of, you know, had a proprietary interest in it after a while, and columbia would not touch the song. columbia refused to record it. columbia was a national company. columbia had southern customers. they were afraid of offending people down south, and so billie holiday went to a place called the commodore record shop, which was across from grand central on east 42nd street, run by a fellow named milt gabler who had his own little, tiny record label and put out a few things, a guy whose politics were congenial to her and to the people at cafe society-- billy crystal's uncle, incidentally. billy crystal's father worked in this record stor

temperature in new york city, 7 degrees warmer right now than when you left the house this time yesterday. there's not much rain out there. so the forecast for today, we'll call 98 in d.c., where yesterday were in the low 90s. the only saving grace, the difference between this heat wave now and what we get in july and august is lot more humid. low humidity. today, 96 in new york. 95 in dallas. thursday, that's when it will peak in the mid-atlantic. 98 in new york city. >> so, just brutal. >> that's it. start of our summer heat season. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> big ben bums out the sister. big win for nbc. your "first look" at this morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> coming up, tiger looks away from golf and game four in the nba comes down to the final shot. wÑ >>> welcome back to "first look." here are some of the top stories making news this morning -- arizona's massive wildfire has chased thousands from their homes. burned ten structures and 486 square miles. no one has been injured by the blaze, which was captured by a nasa satellite. along with another fire-burning

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