this is not the first time it has flown around new york city. didn't land but you saw this in the 1980s, if i heard you correctly? >> yeah, i did. i can't remember when it was in the 80s, but i remember being at school at u.s. merchant marine academy and not expecting it, seeing space shuttle fly by on top of the 747. it was an amazing sight. you mentioned the name enterprise, that was not the original planned name of the vehicle. the vehicle was completed in 1976 at the bicentennial, the original plan was to name it constitution, and there was a lot of people out there that were fans of star trek that wanted to see it named enterprise and president ford made the decision to change the name. >> trekkies have a lot of power, mark. >> apparently they do. >> explain to all of us so you saw this in the note in front of me, passing over the big apple on the way back from the paris air show, june 10th, 1983. what were your dreams and your goals about being an astronaut? >> well, at that point i was planning ongoing in the navy to be a navy pilot, with

deliberations will begin for the new york city man accused of being part of one of the most serious plots to attack the u.s. since september 11th. he is a bosnian born american. prosecutors say he was trained by al qaeda and planned to detonate a bomb in new york city subway system back in 2009. he faces life behind bars if convicted. >>> brand new details about the assassination of robert f. kennedy. a witness to the murder claims she heard two guns firing during the 1968 shootings and authorities changed her account of the crime. there is only one arhettsed and convicted in the shooting. they are set to rule on a request to be released or grant a new hearing based on the new evidence including the woman's first hand account. >>> an apartment building in london armed and ready for battle for the olympics. authorities saying they may put missiles on the roof of an apartment building two-miles from the olympic stadium. hundreds of people living there being warned it will be part of the air defenses for the olympics. it will only be used as a last resort if there are any terrorist threats.

that is a cool shot as the sun comes up in new york city. that's from our building here in rockefeller center. bill, how does it look? >>> winter chill continues, great lakes, northeast, it's cold but at least the snow is over with in many spots. it didn't materialize to be the big blockbuster snows in the cities like pittsburgh and erie and buffalo, but a lot of the hill towns outside of those areas got up to a foot of snow, still dealing with power outages from that. today just a cold morning, the snow beginning to head had north into canada. the chill is in the air from new england to the mid-atlantic, into the southeast. definitely have the winter coat for the kids, maybe even the gloves. look at the windchill, it's pretty low, about 25 in buffalo. there's some cold air out there. still raining in maine. here are the windchill readings, the 30s all the big cities on the east coast, including washington, d.c., and pittsburgh it feels like 29. i think this will be the coldest morning we'll experience until next winter. hopefully this is it

platform in new york city was the new york city police department and its members, the public, the media, mayor giuliani, everybody felt a safer city was in it for them. so that shared platform was easy to create. los angeles more difficult the race tensions in that city his historically. so trying to get the african american community and the los angeles police department who had been at war with each other for 50 years to get on the same platform and see a safer l.a. was beneficial to both of them more difficult. it took seven years there instead of the two years here. >> rose: continue with the eight platform wes need to understand. >> well the platforms are the idea that one of the stories we tell is about the arab spring, the egyptian experience that the widely understood phenomenon through twitter, through the web how a platform was found where the government shut down most of the normal means of communication, the media, etc., they were able to find on that platform. the internet, twitter, where they could exchange ideas, where the rallies were going to be held and so there's an e

to a new york city basement. john miller is covering. on the day pat summitt steps down, president obama makes a surprising announcement. dean reynolds is with the winningest college coach ever. and seth doane with the billionaire's son. how howard buffet troops in feed america's hungry. >> reporter: what would do you without a program like this here? >> starve. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. gillette government. september 2009 might have been one of those dates etched in our history. that is when al qaeda terrorists planned to walk on to new york city subway trains and grand central terminal with bombs in their backpacks. those trains are ridden by more than five million people each day. details of this plot came from an admitted terrorist, now a government witness, at the trial today of an alleged coconspirator. homeland security correspondent bob orr is following the case. >> reporter: this is the handwritten recipe for bombs najibullah zazi hoped to explode on ne

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new york city uses the intake points. seattle uses -- >> the question was specifically is there a program and others that we would want to have a broad overview. are there programs that we have not implemented that we may want to? >> seattle uses a vulnerability index. they assess every client and then they determine housing placement based on how these are assessed. this is targeted that way just a way that new york does. this matches clients to the individual shelter programs. >> thank you. >> i'm curious as to what percentage are released. >> on average of three-12th are released at 4:30. then, on an average of 15-25 are released after 8:00 p.m. if they don't need curfew. >> thank you. i want to follow up with the shelter monitoring committee. if o>> how many are turned awaya nightly basis? >> this committee is actually in the midst of conducting their first turn away count, that was the information that i was going to present. i can't give you some rough numbers based on the last three counts. the count conducted in 2

there is a new star in town in the new york city skyline. one world trade center. it will become the tallest building in the skyline today. it is a major milestone that comes incidentally yearlynearlyr to the day we learnedf the death of osama bin laden. steel beams will prop pell it into rarefied air. it will become the tallest building in the city. taller even than the empire state building which stands at 1,250 feet tall. that is not counting the broadcast tower which sits on top of the empire state building. thatdds about 203 feet or so to the height. most peo don't factor in antennas when they are calculating the height of buildings. >>> mayor michael bloomberg says this day was a long time and coming and an important one for this city. >> lots of people deserve credit. it has taken a long time. this is probably the most complex construction site any place ever. i think what we havehown is that democracy works. >>> once it is completed it will stand at 1,076 feet tall. the port authority will mark this historic milestone with a ceremony at 2:00 p.m. that is th

so it has that same kind of idea of entry into and outside of new york city. and it has many symbols on top of it and throughout the facade -- symbols of new york city. you see thalf moon, which was henry hudson's ship. on the other side is a windmill, which refers to the original dutch settlers of new york. and then on the top is the great monumental sculptural element, which has three gods. >> the gods -- hercules, mercury, and minerva -- came from greek and roman mythology. they represent strength, commerce, and wisdom. even the clock is special. tiffany glass lines the numbers and the hands. >> it's very difficult to see, but when the light shines on it, it's quite beautiful and picks up in different colors. this is a really wonderful -- probably one of the most spectacular places to be in grand central and in the entire city. not very many people actually get to come up here. but what you can see from here that you can't see from down below -- first of all, you get a sense of the scale of the building, how large it really is. you get to experience the man

new york city. laura engles watching with us. i want to reach out to laura right now. how does it look? good morning to you? >> reporter: guys it is very windy here at jfk. we're experiencing gusts up to 35 miles per hour right now. that could be a problem. all systems are go as we wait for this historic moment to take place here at jfk. as you've been mentioning, the journey that enterprise will be taking is an historic one. this is kind of imagine you see a parade. peep -- people are lined up and down the streets for a parade that is going by. you should see all the blogs and tweets going on for anticipation of enterprise coming to new york city. people are scouting spots up and down hudson river, near the bridges and of course near the statue of liberty today. people have their cameras out. they are ready to watch this thing take place and post their pictures. a lot of excitement here today. we'll have a lot of dignitaries awaiting this arrival. you know what i just heard, you guys? leonard nimoy

was played at a trial about three new york men charged with plotting to bomb the new york city subways in 2009. another al qaeda recruit from new york, bryant vinas, testified he plotted to bomb a wal-mart store and the long island railroad to cause the big economic hit al qaeda leaders wanted. don borelli, a former f.b.i. agent, was involved in the investigation. >> they understand the psyche of the west that even a small plot that's successful will cause huge economic disruption. >> reporter: al qaeda is weaker than it was a few years ago but is still trying to recruit westerners. >> this is the crown jewel for al qaeda, to be able to have somebody like that that they can trust that they can train and then reinsert back into their homeland and carry out an attack essentially, whenever they deem appropriate. >> reporter: that point was underscored in this trial. the three new york men charged in the subway plot have joined al qaeda to fight american soldiers in afghanistan but when al qaeda leaders learned that they were americans with u.s. passports they asked them to go home and car

new evidence leads police to search a new york city basement for a young boy who vanished back in 1979. >>> and back in court. george zimmerman could be a free man after a bond hearing later today. this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, april 20, 2012. >>> good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm michelle miller. we begin with the investigation into the secret service prostitution scandal in colombia. more agents are expected to lose their jobs as early as today. meanwhile, the white house is standing by the secret service director. susan mcginnis is in washington with more. good morning. >> reporter: michelle, good morning. as more information comes to light about what really happened that night in cartagena, it does look like more firings are going to happen fast. meanwhile, members of congress are now speaking out. more secret service agents involved in the prostitution scandal in colombia could resign or be fired as early as today. according to new york congressman peter king. >> director sullivan said as soon as he believes he has sufficient evidence to require someone to leav

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

politicians in new york city are unwilling to ask the questions. is this an effective use of tax payers' money? does any of this work? >> adam goldman of the a.p., thanks so much. >> thank you. >> ifill: finally tonight, a look at the controversial world of forensic science. the "washington post" today reports hundreds of potentially innocent people in this country may have been convicted of crimes because of flawed forensic work. tonight on "frontline," correspondent lowell bergman joins with pro publica in investigating some specific examples. here is a portion of that report. >> for over a century fringer prints have been used to identify criminals from petty thieves to international terrorists. in 2004, a series of explosions in the subways of madrid killed or injured nearly 2,000 people. when the dust settled, the spanish authorities found several partial fingerprints on a bag of detonators. >> the police did not identify anybody to those prints so they sent the prints to enter poll who then forwarded them to the f.b.i.. >> reporter: melissa g

navigating new york city is sort of like an urban jousting match. have you pedestrians who at times jay-walk, cars speeding, even through red lights. a lot of people out there breaking the law. advocates say they are angered by what they perceive to be a biassed against bicyclists. last year the nypd gave more than three times as many criminal court summons to bike riders as it gave to truck operators. >> while there may be some law breaking among the cycling population, very few, if any of those, transgregss of the law are resulting in death or serious injury. >> i know that right over there that's where he was hit, and then his bicycle was dragged down for another 171 feet. >> reporter: according to lafave, when information about measure son's case has trickled out, it showed stunning gaps in the investigation. at first the nypd claimed that matthew ran a red light, but that was later disproven by a surveillance video. >> it's frustrating beyond description to be handed videotape that shows the death of our son to watch it over and over and over a

it is on its way to new york city. before it lands there, it will make its way around the city and pass landmarks in the city like statue of liberty and central park. a couple minutes ago it took off from dulles airport in virginia. it was a magnificent takeoff. reynolds wolf is here. he's our meteorologist. i wanted to talk about the challenges of flying over the hudson river in new york. it's really windy there. >> it certainly will be on a day like today. if you were flying like a commercial airline flying over with a bit of a bump here and there and no question about it. it will be enough that these guys may have a safe landing obviously at jfk. amazing to see this immense object. two separate entities but they are joined as one. it's amazing when you think about the big tractor, the thing pulling it, 747, maximum air speed 700 miles an hour. with shuttle on top, you can do of a of that. if you were standing next to it and had this come by, it would roar by at incredible speed. from our vantage point it appears to

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. >> hinojosa: new york city. and in, you would say, what, a traditional chinese family, relatively traditional? >> yeah, with a mom and dad. my parents came over in the 1970s as part of the... you know, the open door act that sort of let more educated immigrants in, and a lot more people from asia. and then they came here, and they had three little babies, bump, bump, bump, that's me, my sister, and my brother. >> hinojosa: by thway, j, f, k. >> it's true. my name is jennifer, my sister's name is frances, and my brother's name is kenneth. and if you take our initials, it spells jfk, which my parents like to say is the airport that they landed at when they came to america. >> hinojosa: when you were growing up, did you have this kind of constant critical perspective of, "what is the food that i'm eating as a chinese firstborn in this country," versus, "what is the food that's being eaten in my upper west side new york city neighborhood," and kind of this... or were you just like, "you know what? i'm a new yorker,"

>>>i will see murphy new york city we will -- lyndsey murphy new york city we will check with you in a bit. >> today marks the third time since the merger quarterbacks will be taken first and second. last time, 1999, couch to the browns and mcnabb to the eagles. >>> 6:30 p.m. our special. qv count down draft day 2012 i will be here joined by dock walker, lyndsey murphy and dave ross, and wisdom martin. join us at 6:30 p.m. >> breaking news about the red skins and their new safety brandon merry weather he was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated he was stopped on i-66, around 3:00 a.m., police smelled alcohol on his breath he failed a field sobriety test, he then refused to take a breathalyzer he was take on the arlington county jail and has since been released merry weather we are told is a new addition to the red skins signing a $6 million contract for the team just last month. >>> get ready to pay more to ride metro, for the first time in two years, the board that over sees metro approved fare hikes for bus and rail they will go into effect july 1st as john has detail

politicians in new york city are unwilling to ask the questions. is this an effective use of tax payers' money? does any of this work? >> adam goldman of the a.p., thanks so much. >> thank you. >> ifill: finally tonight, a look at the controversial world of forensic science. the "washington post" today reports hundreds of potentially innocent people in this country may have been convicted of crimes because of flawed forensic work. tonight on "frontline," correspondent lowell bergman joins with pro publica in investigating some specific examples. here is a portion of that report. >> for over a century fringer prints have been used to identify criminals from petty thieves to international terrorists. in 2004, a series of explosions in the subways of madrid killed or injured nearly 2,000 people. when the dust settled, the spanish authorities found several partial fingerprints on a bag of detonators. >> the police did not identify anybody tthose prints so th sent the prints to enter poll who then forwarded them to the f.b.i.. >> reporter: melissa gish

that's personal pricing. >>> a beautiful shot of new york city, and not just any shot of new york city. that is the intrepid, and you know why that's so significant? because after today, all eyes are going to be watching the intrepid for when the space shuttle "enterprise" arrives and gets parked on top of that museum. it will be a fabulous thing for to you visit. sunny in new york, 56 degrees and the intrepid looks beautiful. >> ten minutes after the hour. time to check news making stories. shooter george zimmerman has raised more than $200,000 in online donations for his defense, but the judge didn't know that when he set bail. the judge thought he was indigent, didn't have any money. legal experts say when the judge was told about the cash he could revoke zimmerman's bail. >>> osama bin laden's three widows and two daughters are out of pakistan and now deported to saudi arabia this morning. they've been under house arrest for being in the country illegally. bin laden was called in a u.s. navy s.e.a.l. raid on his pakistani hideout almost one years ago. >>> 9,000 u.s. marines are shi

. >>> the nfl draft continues in new york city today. yesterday at the draft party fans watched on large monitors as the 9ers chose aj jenkins as their first round pick. the party was also promoting the new stadium. >> this is our fourth time come together draft we have a real good time, it is great, we love. >> what is your favorite part? >> just seeing people, picking up souvenirs. >> 3500 fans attended a sell-out. >>> warriors season is over now the team is hoping to get a good pick on the lottery may 30th. spurs beat warriors 107-101 putting them in a tie withtron foe for the 7th worst record in the nba. if the warriors win they will be 7th. if they lose the lottery pick goes to the jazz because of a deal made. >>> still ahead, latest on developing news involving early morning highrise fire that sent four to the hospital in san francisco. >>> was alcohol to blame? the story behind an overnight accident involving añ0ñ0ñ0ñ0ñ0ñi >>> good morning. it is 6:30. look at that beautiful shot! the sunrising, you got folks driving across

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. >> navigating new york city is an urban jousting match. pedestrians jay walk, cars speeding. even through red lights. a lot of people out there breaking the law. but advocates say they are angered by what they perceive to be a bias against bcyclists. >> the nypd gave three times court summons to bike riders to truck drivers frnl. >> there may be some law breaking amo mocmong the cyclis >> we know right over there, that is where he was hit, and then his bicycle was dragged down another 171 feet. >> according to her when information trickled out, it showed stunning gaps in the investigation. the nypd claimed matthew ran a red light that was disproven by surveillance video. >> it's frustrating beyond description to be handed videotape that shows the death of our son, to watch it over and over and over, and yet never see the events the authorities claim it shows. >> there were vital clues that could have implicated the truck differ for a hit and run that were missing from the police report. >> the truck had this blood and paint evidence on the front bumper, but the camera stopped

there is a new star in town in the new york city skyline. one world trade center. it will become the tallest building in the skyline today. it is a major milestone that comes incidentally yearlynearlyr to the day we learned of the death of osama bin laden. steel beams will prop pell it into rarefied air. it will become the tallest building in the city. taller even than the empire state building which stands at 1,250 feet tall. that is not counting the broadcast tower which sits on top of the empire state building. that adds about 203 feet or so to the height. most people don't factor in antennas when they are calculating the height of buildings. >>> mayor michael bloomberg says this day was a long time and coming and an important one for this city. >> lots of people deserve credit. it has taken a long time. this is probably the most complex construction site any place ever. i think what we have shown is that democracy works. >>> once it is completed it will stand at 1,076 feet tall. the port authority will mark this historic milestone with a ceremony at 2:00 p.m. t

at the smithsonian annex, discovery will take the place of the enterprise which goes to new york city. endeavor will head to los angeles this fall. atlantis will remain at kennedy. >>> today is the deadline to file taxes with the irs. this morning we asked viewers to comment on our facebook page about the question: u.s. taxes, do you pay your fair share? find us at facebook.com/c-span

. >>> this morning in a new york city basement, the police and fbi will resume their search for a young boy who has been missing for more than three decades. etan patz vanished without a trace in 1979. new evidence led law enforcement officials to a building a few doors from where patz's home was and back to someone they questioned before. john miller reports. >> reporter: for the first time in three decades police and the fbi returned in force to the new york city block where etan patz vanished. paul brown. >> we're putting great emphasis on the location, looking forensically for any evidence of human remains, of clothing. >> reporter: investigates intend to dig up the concrete floor of a basement, which was the workshop of a handyman who befriended the boy. the concrete floor was laid days after etan vanished. he vanished in may 1979, last seen by his mom walking to a school bus stop by himself. the case tapped into the fears of every parent. it was one of the most highly publicized disappearances of a child. author lisa cohen wrote a book on a case. >> i think this really was turning

. >> ever wonder what it is like to be a rookie cop on the streets of new york city? this show gives viewers a glimpse of what it is like or will. two of the stars are here to tell us more about it. good afternoon to both of you? >> good afternoon. you have such a great voice don. >> thank you very much. i have been watching the promos and this is actually shot on the streets of new york. tell me what that is like. >> yeah, it is not just on the streets of new york but specifically in harlem there has been you know quite a few things shot obviously in new york city but richard price, who is the writer-creator of the show and a really terrific kind of unique crime writer, okay, now i guess i am hearing terry from the show. he really wanted to make a point of showing the very specific side of -- of -- of new york city that you don't normally see so you know this neighborhood in harlem is really stind kind of an instrumental part of the show. >> while we were talking to you we were playing lips of clips of the show, yeah, but i -- >> -- different from every other cop sho

the man crashed in new york city yesterday landing like this? take a good look at his bumper sticker, though. it says "why am i the only one on the planet that knows how to drive." that man was not seriously hurt. he's not used to driving here. >> apparently he's driving upside down is what he likes to do. time to get scrambled up. gretchen carlson is here to help us out. big story today. gretchen, you know? >> how about a veggie omelet. that's what i want scrambled up right now. >> or something. >> it's not coffee here. >> thank you. ncaa? >> basketball. >> that's my girl. >> good job, vana. >> thank you so much. >> gretchen, have a good show! >> thank you, you, too. >> "fox & friends" starts now! >> and good morning, everyone

he disappeared in new york city 33 years ago. tonight, police are following a new lead. john miller has covered this case since the day etan disappeared and he brings us up to date tonight. >> reporter: today, for the first time in three decadees, police and the f.b.i. returned in forts to the new york city block where etan patz vanished. new york police spokesman paul browne. >> we're putting greater emphasis on this location, looking forensically for any evidence of human remains or clothing. >> reporter: investigators intend to dig up the concrete floor in a basement that was once the workshop of neil miller, a handy man who befriended the six-year-old boy. the concrete floor was laid just days after etan vanished. patz disappeared in may of 90. he was last seen by his mom walking to the skylight bus stop by himself. the case tapped into the fears of every parent. it was one of the most highly publicized disappearances of a child. author lisa cohen wrote a book on the case. >> i think this really was a turning point for american culture. i can't tell you how many time