so, i would kind of defer to that at the moment, but new york city is new york city, and there are just an abundance of soft targets that could be easily used to attack people quite easily. you've got the major train terminals, new york central terminal, penn station, you've got the ferries, you've got the massive subway system and subways and trains were used in 2004 in madrid, 2005 in london. so that certainly would not be a first for any terrorist that reads about it on the internet that a target of mass transportation will have a lot of people and be a relatively soft target. >> you know, tom, it is interesting for two suspects who are accused of planning this, plotting this attack on the marathon day, they did not seem to have much of an end game. i mean, we now know that dzhokhar tsarnaev attended classes, hung out on campus, even, you know, went to a party in the days after the bombing. was seen on campus kind of living his life. tamerlan was seen by his wife, apparently, on the thursday, the last day, thursday after the bombing. but they had to get money from atms late thursday

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and in new york, and we had the situation with new york this year when that was canceled, new york going through staten island, people are throwing candy at you, you're going through central park. you're going uptown and there are throngs. but people are high fiving you. and to somehow stop that or prevent that, that would change the nature of the road races. i think people are rushing to say well, we can't have these types of event anymore. clearly this tells us something. look, we've been very fortunate since 9-11. we all remember that fateful day. boston was touched by 9-11, of course, when one of the jets from 9-11 took off from logan airport that fateful morning. but we have to at the same time keep this in perspective. the suffering is real. a child dead. i have an eight-year-old daughter. heart breaking. but if this were a biological or radiological device that was detonated, we could have had potentially thousands of people dead on the scene. it could have been far worse. thank goodness we had the first responders there. great americans who helped out their fellow man. and two de

to come to new york. and this was his next journey and he basically said that and the police are up in arms in new york for not being informed about something like this. if he had come to new york and there had been another incident -- >> what's the reason they were not told? >> they just didn't tell them. >> they were caught up in the -- >> they were captured by them. >> they were. nevertheless, this was the next stage. who knew how many people were involved in this thing? and one of the things you always do, the one department should have informed the police in new york and they were up in arms over it. and rightly so, as far as i am concerned. >> it's hardly an organized plan. they just decided to do it in the car. then the car didn't have enough gas in it. i mean, that -- the question -- excuse me -- the two bombersk had no exit man at automatic. they thought they have to get rid of these bombs. >> they throw the pressure cooker out of the wind owe of the car. >> they could have easily have gone to ti

police seemingly everywhere in new york city. extra security for the dodgers game in los angeles in washington in las vegas, atlanta, chicago, no matter where you look, cities and the whole country is on the lookout, here, and there, and we got you covered everywhere. with amy kellogg in a nervous london, and eric in times square, and sheryl outside fortress wall street, and rick leventhal in an anxious boston. we start with rick. >> a number of developments this afternoon, including a boston globe report that investigators found a circuit board believed to have triggered the bombs. they were made with pressure cookers, a style of explosive device found in afghanistan and pakistan. we learned that the saudi national who was tackled running from the scene, whose apartment was searched, has been cleared as a possible suspect, and they have re-opened part of boylston street as the shrink the crime scene and focus their efforts on the bomb site. we know investigators and atf and fbi are documenting every inch of payment, collecting e

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 is on high alert this morning. law foreignsment sources are telling us we are operating at the highest threat level possible that is despite there is no specific credible threat against new york city in the wake of the boston bombing. still governor cuomo and mayor bloomberg are asking all new yorkers to be extra figuvigilan this morning. go about your day and go about your life. they are doing a number of things. mainly they are focusing on the mass transit system and major landmarks. you are going to see a lot of police officers heavily armed guards. you may see canine units maybe the national guard. they deployed 1,000 nypd counter-terrorism officers. they are mobilized just as a precaution. that's what you will notice around the city. there is another that you will not notice for good reason. here is mayor michael bloomberg. >> here in new york city we immediately took steps to prepare for the possibility of a related attack. there is nothing we know that makes us think it is going to happen but we have to be p

that is clout in new york. when the city looked like it a lot to sue for the patent central road was to the cities of what the designation wanted to build a skyscraper and talk. the city was not going to repeal the ruling, which i didn't know either because the city said it would be hoped liable for damages from the railroad if it appealed and missed the bus and was damages to come up to $80 million, which in those days was a lot of money. so jacqueline anastas read a story in "the new york times," learning about the hoped for an appeal. word doc on that later became part of the landmark conservation commission was an intern i picked up the phone and yelled over to the head of landmark preservation commission. as a woman who says she's jacqueline onassis, followed and of course it was. one of the things i enjoyed in researching the book was discovering secrets of grand central terminal. the goal in the place and see out the spare lightbulbs on the marquee in front of it. this giant, ornate brass chandeliers wit

now new information has come in here to new york. that, yes, perhaps they did discuss talk about the idea of coming to new york to strike at times square. aspirational at best, at most. >> david gregory, thanks for being with us. you have to study, not just the news you develop, you have to understand always the gravity of this. you know how new york, resonates, the very notion of coming to new york, to blow up anything is going to become a powder keg of a story now. >> well, it is because it just speaks to the larger plots. i don't know if jonathan is still with us. it's not clear to me, whether this information came at what point during the questioning. that will get sorted out. but look, this is part of what they initially wanted to as tags. which is what were the larger goals and as pete williams has been saying in his reporting from the very beginning, a key area for investigators who is who else was involved to help them develop not just the planning, but the expertise to be able to pull off a larger-scale bombing or plan of ma

joining us now, former new york governor and former new york attorney general, eliot spitzer. good to see here. thank you. >> thank you for inviting me. >> i want to talk to you about the broader connection between different types of corruption here. this big potential election rigging scandal that unfolded today is the silver lining here is that it was nice and bipartisan at least? >> it was so incredibly stupid. malcolm smith has put himself into that rare category of corruption, stupid, venal. not terribly surprised. it's a sad, sad day at every level. >> u.s. attorney saying it shouldn't feel like ground hog day. i feel like there's a nexus of petty corruption that's almost expected among public officials in both parties. that's why listening to you introduce this segment about the petty and obviously corrupt case, one that needs to be brought. yet, you were saying that deep corruption, mary shapiro going from the sec to the regulative company, oh, you don't need to worry, she misses the point. the entire time she was in government, she was being windowed by these companie

i can't believe he works at the "new york times". [laughter] >> so these two things together, if you pull one or the other away, i think i'm just -- >> david carr of the "new york times" trumps david carr was denver post. >> or david carr of davidcarr.com. >> well, we appreciate who you are. we appreciate you coming and sitting with us. >> a pleasure. >> thank you. david carr [applause] >> we'd love to have you join us in the studio. visit our website at klru.org/overheard to find invitations to interviews, q and as with our audience and guests an an archive of past episodes. >> i write about newspapers and they're kind of boring. i mean, it's a bunch of white people in cubes typing. it's not like -- i don't know. it's not argo, i've just got to say. >> funding for overheard with evan smith is provided in part by the mattsson mchale foundation in support of public television. also by mfi foundation, improving the quality of life within our community. and from the texas board of legal specialization, board certified attorneys in your

the very heart of it new york, new york. gloat ba-ba, with a bucket on my head. ♪ da-da just my face ♪ da-da red. ♪ i'm back at my place. i'm sitting on a couch in my office ♪ where i feel safe. i can make it anywhere ♪ if i just stay right back hee ♪ where i'm actually sittin wih a bucket on my head ♪ da-da-da. . >> da-da-da. well, that about does it. if it's one thing i learned from my journey today it's deep down we're all really just a-- dang it. we'll be right back. hello? hello? hello? what's going on? ,x0d >> stephen: welcome back, everybody, thank you so much. nation, i'm sure you agree with me that it is a proud day to be an american because thanks to a minority of u.s. senate, we no longer have to live in fear of some maniac coming after those we love with a gun control bill. ( laughter ) jim. >> on wednesday, the senate blocked the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades. >> it needed 60 votes. it got 54. >> the gun control package is stopped cold in the senate. >> stephen: that's ri

we heard that from the mayor of new york. we heard it from the police chief in new york. lindsay graham is joining us now the republican senator from south carolina. senator, thanks very much for joining us. how serious do you believe this alleged times square bombing followup if you will really is? >> i just feel they're trying to go out in a blaze of glory. i think it was deadly serious. the only reason they didn't make it is because of good police work and the people of boston stopped them. >> you caused quite a stir today when you suggested the obama administration must have a great deal of the blame for what happened at the end of the boston marathon because they didn't do the right thing whether it was the fbi or the cia in following up with those russian leads. i want you to explain to our viewers what you were -- what you were driving at. >> absolutely. well, the blame goes to the two terrorists. they're the ones that bear the responsibility but, you know, when we got bin laden that was a great operation, gutsy call by the president. a lot of praise. here is my co

we are watching new york right and a news conference any moment from right now. you can see they have set it up. we expect mayor bloomberg and police commissioner to speak about these reports which you heard confirmed here 30 minutes ago that the boston terror suspects were planning another attack, this one on times square. remember, when they were in that shootout with police on thursday night they were said to have thrown out a pressure cooker bomb. as we get that news we will bring it to you. we are following reports from the boston herald that the massachusetts governor's office are refusing to release any taxpayer bfs the accused bombers may have been receiving. they are citing privacy laws. critics say the public deserves to know. as questions remain, on how the attack was funded, how the older brother who was on a terror watch list continued to receive public assistance and now people want to know just how much he was getting. joining me now is mark theson and former speech writer and john linko is president of linko consulting. i'll start with you on it,

the "new york times" story. but i'll be glad to sit down with each of you individually next week. >> reporter: this after "the new york times" magazine released its profile on him and his wife. in it, weiner admits he may want to run for new york city mayor, saying i want to ask people to give me a second chance. i do want to have that conversation with people who i let down. this image is what caused weiner who had one time many democrats considered a rising star to resign in disgrace. it wasn't just the tweet he sent to a 17-year-old girl but also his explanation of it. >> someone was pranking me, punking me. >> a lie weiner repeated. >> this is a twitter hoax, a prank that was done. calls for his resignation kept coming, soon, wean letter no choice. >> so today i'm announcing my resignation from congress. >> reporter: in the two years since then, weiner disappeared from the political spotlight. until now. the "times" says weiner spent more than $100,000 on polling and research to gauge voters' feelings about

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this is done -- this is from " the new york daily news," "give us a vote." for republicans, 202-585-3881. for democrats, 202-585-3880. for independents, 202-585-3882. we welcome our audience on c- span radio, heard coast-to-coast on xm radio. what is on your mind this morning? tyrone? go ahead. caller to a good morning. host: good morning. caller: republicans are coming back to work and did not do anything to help this president. it should not be this way. we are all god's people. host: is it racism or partisan politics? ander: is partisan politics racism. host: jack, what is on your mind? caller: i wanted to comment on the gun ban. i believe the constitution is the most important thing in this country at this point in time. i am very sorry about the people that were killed. but i still believe that we need to keep the constitution in -- constitution intact. the call.k you for the front page this morning of "the washington post," baucus looking for bipartisan tax reform. laurie montgomery points out -- host: again, the story this morning looking at tax legis

the very heart of it new york, new york. gloat ba-ba, with a bucket on my head. ♪ da-da just my face ♪ da-da red. ♪ i'm back at my place. i'm sitting on a couch in my office ♪ where i feel safe. i can make it anywhere ♪ if i just stay right back hee ♪ where i'm actually sittin wih a bucket on my head ♪ da-da-da. . >> da-da-da. well, that about does it. if it's one thing i learned from my journey today it's deep down we're all really just a-- dang it. we'll be right back. hello? hello? hello? what's going on? jay? >> stephen: welcome back, everybody, thank you so much. nation, i'm sure you agree with me that it is a proud day to be an american because thanks to a minority of u.s. senate, we no longer have to live in fear of some maniac coming after those we love with a gun control bill. ( laughter ) jim. >> on wednesday, the senate blocked the most far-reaching gun control legislation in two decades. >> it needed 60 votes. it got 54. >> the gun control package is stopped cold in the senate. >> stephen: that's ri

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new york spared from disaster in the nick of time. new details on how the suspected boston bombers were reportedly planning to attack times square this last week. as new yorkers shutter at the thought at what could have been, brian ross uncovers the alleged deadly plan gone awry mere hours before detonation. >> juju, what the new york mayor and police commissioner said thursday, dmork just missed being attacked by the accused boston bombers they arnt payly sought to maim and kill again. >> the fact is is new york city remains a prime target for those who hate america and want to kill americans. >> and no target seems more attractive than times square. the surviving brother told the fbi he and his holder brother made the decision to head here one week ago tonight. to carry off a second attack at this crowded cross roads. >> the boston marathon bombers planned to travel to manhattan to detonate their remaining bombs in sometimes square. >> investigators say it was a spur of the moment decision by the brother ps. >> they discussed this w

new york city even hosted a world series after 9/11 that year. but something like this, like marathon route. it's 26 miles long. this is not so easily locked down and secured. these pictures are of the new york city marathon which happens every year in november. in chicago and fargo and bermuda and where ever, they tend to be open events. crowds crowd in close. they slap runners high fives. offer the runners water and orange slices. in 2001, new york city had a few weeks to figure out whether or not they were going to hold this kind of race. across 26 open miles right after 9/11. >> sunday is the new york city marathon, 30,000 runners, over 100,000 spectators. can an event of that size be protected? >> darn right it can be, just the way the three world series games will be. >> can you tell us what kind of security you have in place? >> a lot. we never tell the kind of security we have in place. >> what kind of security for the marathon? a lot and no, whether he not you what it is. after 9/11, runners be warned not to take the orange slices and wa

and they say like new york. and danny said, yeah, yeah, it can go to new york. >> what an unbelievable story. officer sean collier killed along with other victims from the bombing. >> thank you. >> i had a chance to sit down with a family, one who was near the finish line here at the button marathon. three members of the family affected by the bomb blast injured. one was hit by shrapnel. the father lost his leg. but they are not bitter about the attack, despite all that has happened to them. an amazing story to tell. and then new this morning, congress putting an end to furloughs and air traffic control towers, but is this really as good as it sounds? we'll have a live report. coming up next. at angie's list, you'll find reviews written by people just like you. i love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angie's list for bringing us together. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. [ female announcer ] the sun powers life. ♪ and now it powers our latest innovation. ♪ introducing the world's only solar-power

their next target we found out was new york city. here is nanny mayor of new york, michael bloomberg, revealing the disturbing news earlier today. >> we were informed by the f.b.i. that the surviving attacker revealed that new york city was next on their list of targets. he told the f.b.i. apparently that he and his brother had intended to drive to new york and designate additional explosives in times square. they had built these additional explosives and we know they had the capacity to carry out the attacks. the investments that we made in counterterrorism operations, technology and intelligence help reduce the important of a successful terrorist strike, but they certainly do not eliminate it. nothing can do that. we don't know if we would have been able to stop the terrorists had they arrived here from boston. we just are thankful we didn't have to find out that answer. >> sean: it's not all new york city police commissioner ray kelly revealed that the second suspect was photographed with his friends in times square in new york ci

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yes, new york city mayor michael bloomberg says there is)uí6 no n specific threat against new york city, but here in the city that lived through 9-11, you can see they're taking no chance. heightened security, these units are all part of a unit created because of 9-11. the critical response vehicles. 1,000 counterterrorism officers deployed on the streets of new york city. there is increased security in hotels, prominent and we have seen bomb sniffing dogs that have been focusing on garbage cans and trash receptacles, especially apparently because of what happened in boston. part of the ongoing effort from the city, there is a program that has ongoing random checks on subways, inspecting backpacks and bags. there is increased security on bridges, tunnels and commuter lines. andrew cuomo saying agencies throughout the state are on a heightened level of alert. new york city has been the target of 16 plots since 9-11. in 2010, right here in times square, there was the failed plot to try and detonate a car bomb, also plots against the new york city subway system, and of course, 20 years ago

amtrak has been suspended from new york to boston. to law enforcements across the country right now are focusing on this and stopping everything, putting it in lockdown mode. ambassador, thank you very much, phil mod, thank you very much. >> we have got the latest on the boston manhunt continuing throughout thebroadcast. >> we will speak with former u.s. marshal, who spent years chasing down fugitives. stay with us as our special live coverage continues. it's as simple as this. at bny mellon, our business is investments. managing them, moving them, making them work. we oversee 20% of the world's financial assets. and that gives us scale and insight no one else has. investment management combined with investment servicing. bringing the power of investments to people's lives. invested in the world. bny mellon. governor of getting it done. you know how to dance... with a deadline. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the m

had intended to go to new york after leaving boston on late thursday night, head toward new york, and try to detonate whatever remaining explosive devices they had in times square. again, this is information according to the commissioner and the mayor that comes from fbi and other interrogators based on the second interview with the suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. as you know, as commissioner kelly mentioned yesterday based on a first interview with the suspect, the suspect had said that they intended to come to new york to party, as commissioner revealed in a press conference yesterday. as for the discrepancy between the first interview and information coming out of the second interview, commissioner kelly believes he was more lucid during the second interview. importantly, though, and i think it bears repeating, commissioner kelly stressing this seemed to be a spur of the moment decision, or at least interrogators believe this is more of a spur of the moment decision, not a preplanned trip to new york, and also the mayor and commissioner stressing there's no known information about any d

democratic governors in new york, connecticut and colorado have all signed tough new gun laws since newtown. legislation n.r.a. president david keene says hasn't gone unnoticed. >> the biggest threats that we perceive coming against second amendment rights are in the states. we've been dividing our focus, shall we say, between the congress and state legislatures for the last few months. >> woodruff: the n.r.a. has also worked to strengthen gun rights in some states. despite their loss on capitol hill, backers of gun control like james and sarah brady insist they're not giving up. >> discouragement is a temporary thing. you just saddle up and get back into the fight. >> woodruff: get back into the fight. >> yeah, i think you hardly ever win something without a defeat first. >> woodruff: last week senate majority leader harry reid put consideration of the measure on hold but said it's only a matter of time before it's brought back for another vote. opponents like keene say it will be a long time before that happens. >> i think it's dead for this session, probably dead for the next few years i

it's possible that both stories are true. >> new york officials do acknowledge that the whole new york story is -- was sort of an impromptu thing, not something they believe was preplanned. >> right. the fact that he's becoming more lucid, willing to tell things, may have something to do with he's sort of realizing i have between choosing the death penalty or possibly a life sentence. so this may be the consequence of these interrogations, and this is going to happen for weeks to come. we've seen this in crises before, that the story evolves, you can't say that person was lying or that was false. it's literally the information comes out more clearly over time. >> i want to go to nick payton-walsh in dagestan. we are also learning new details about the mother. apparently she was also placed on the cia watch list. what do you know about this? >> reporter: well, you can imagine the context in which it may have happened. it's clear that she and tamerlan tsarnaev, her son, chose a path toward a more devout strand of the muslim faith, round about the same time. she told me, in fact, she was

i'm shepard smith in new york. this is breaking news from the sight of the boston marathon, where reports and cameramen and onlookers are standing by as the run this time-honored tradition, and then one explosion and then another right at the finish line of the boston marathon. cops scrambled. people on bicycles, emergency workers, coming to help, and then as the camera panned around in the middle of the chaos, they're removing the barricades to try to get to the injured, a word from the man standing there saying, oh, my god, they're dead. i should let nowow, we would love to be able to bring you context and perspective on this matter right now but that is going to have to wait a minute. we don't know what exploded. we don't know if there was an accident, something from a gas line. we don't know if somebody set off something. we don't have any way to know yet. these are live pictures coming in from boston. and let's just watch along with what we have here. we're expecting within moments to get some clarity on exact

fast food workers in new york city took to the streets today demanding better working conditions and better wages we'll have the latest on the ground from this is. also it's been forty five years since martin luther king jr gave his last speech to the american people but to this day questions still remain surrounding his death who is really behind the assassination of one of america's greatest heroes and america's poised to sign on to yet another so-called free trade deal why is president obama considering a plan that will help corporations prosper even more while the rest of us are left to suffer. so today on the forty fifth anniversary of martin luther king jr's debt fast food workers in new york city are going on strike and there couldn't be a more fitting way to honor the great civil rights leader on april third one nine hundred sixty eight the day before his assassination king gave his final and some would argue most powerful speech at the mason temple in memphis tennessee condemning racial injustice corporate power and wealth inequality he reminded the audience that the struggl

in new york state, they have a thing called the new york safe act. ofdeals with the controls how many bullets are put into a cartridge. those are physical controls on a gun. as far as the constitutional to not infringe the second amendment, i do not think this has as much impact on that argument as the actual physical design of a weapon. as people having rights to having firearms, long guns, people that hunt and sportsman, i am seeing an impact for people getting really interested because they do not want to see their rights to have those types orguns in their possession any controls over that. i believe that the constitutional argument is very important to the people, but keep in mind, we have to control what types of weapons are out there on the streets that these so-called nut jobs are using to go after children and people that are out there. it happens all the time. i do not think any legislation really is going to fix the whole entire problem. mentioned new york's safe law -- what do you think about that? senate andhink the assembly in the new y

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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

there are 1,000 new york city police officers every day assigned to counterterrorism duties in new york city. nonetheless, you had two terror suspects who had carried out successful bombing of the marathon. they had six explosive devices on them. and there was talk, based on the alleged confession in that hospital room, talk among the brothers, that they were going to come to the city and try to pull off an attack. and the mayor said today, doesn't know if they would have been successful in stopping them and finding them, if they had not run out of gas, and that victim had not called 9/11, turning into that major gun fight when police responded. but, you know, the mayor says basically he's very glad they didn't have to find out the answer to that question. because, yes, they have lots of resources, but intelligence is key in a case like this. if they were lone wolves, which is the leading theory right now, very difficult to track. the question that keeps popping up in my mind, we keep hearing the fbi got one call from the russians and so did the cia. but the russians didn't share much.

new york, fidel for an orlando all feeling the pinch. it's only going to get worse and how will that affect the business of air travel? caterpillar looking more like a slug. heavy equipment maker reported big earnings miss. looking for the bright spot in the u.s. economy as the stock falls 20 plus percent over the last year. we will battle out if this stock should even be in your portfolio. billionaires, maybe news corp. ceo and berkshire hathaway warren buffett are onto something. as to more billionaires start reading in on investing in newspapers. "countdown to the closing bell" starts right now. ♪ liz: 82 years old and can still throw a newspaper like he was a kid. that's mean, everybody, i am liz claman. we need you to focus on the s&p 500 because today it is all about setting new highs, not lower. after the market first week in a year, a new day today, look at what is powering us higher. they're all rich and not 52-week highs, but all-time highs. 60 stocks in the s&p 500 hitting new highs today. 13 of them happen to be utility sto

. >>> unexpected discovery in a new york city alley. a remnant of the 9/11 attacks, all these years later. why was it found now? >>> face to face for the first time. we're hearing from the man who looked the boston bomber in the eyes, and what he noticed moments before the blast. >>> flooding fears rise. why there's new alarm this morning in the midwest as some rivers head for record highs. >>> another face-lift. the u.s. is being forced to create new $100 bills, again. we'll explain in our big money headlines. good morning, everyone. welcome to "weekends with alex witt." let's get to what's happening right now out there. it is a race against time this morning in the upper midwest. as volunteers try to protect homes and buildings from the rising red river. sandbags are being put in place in neighborhoods in fargo, north dakota. 600 roads and 300 bridges are expected to be flooded. this is after a very wet spring already. heavy rains have brought on flooding on rivers, and illinois, missouri, indiana, and michigan. nbc's kevin tibbles jo

we'll spend much of the hour of recovery efforts in new york and new jersey from superstorm sandy. first, killer guns down another prosecutor in the state of texas. the d.a. and his wife murder it at home. the second lawman killed in one texas town in just the past few months. north korea reporting it's at a state of war with south korea. now the united states has sent stealth fighter jets to the region in a show of military might. the dram dramatic story of the louisville basketball player who dramatically broke his leg on the here laughs night. the horrific scene as it played out live on tv. he says it was all worthwhile. that and the young man's courage and the team that follows him, ahead, unless breaking news changes everything on "studio b." >> but first, at we're live at the boardwalk. over my shoulder, the roller coaster still in the atlantic. six months after superstorm sandy batter the shoreline and changed the lives of families up and down the eastern coast. now folks are keeping a close eye on the calendar. we're exactly eight weeks from memorial day. the unofficial sta

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new york did something similar. they did focus groups and most didn't understand that 25 miles per hour is the default speed limit and they had an ad campaign and that's that kind of approach so we want to do it in miniature and we have a grant to do it city wide that we can do shortly that is very exciting, so this map shows most of the crashes in this area are clustered around the arterial streets and the commercial district. they're happening around schools and school age children are over represented in these pedestrian crashes and the time of day they're happening is in the sort of the pick up -- when school lets out. it's between 330 and 4:00 p.m. and that told us a lot and we wanted to do a campaign that was focused on the drivers. the messaging is to the drivers so putting them along some of the arterial and corridor street wrist we see this happening and having a campaign focused around the commercial district s and the merchants using a shopping bag to get the message out about pedestrian safety, and we're

let's head to the floor of new york stock exchange. our own nicole petallides who has some heavy hitters on the dow for us. nicole? >> you are not kidding, melissa. let's look at names we're taking a look at. luckily for us they're all on the same post. we'll start off with general electric which you see is down 2.25. next to it is caterpillar up 2 1/2%. coming out with numbers for the quarter. i definitely want to focus on caterpillar. their profit fell, but it is interesting and they trimmed full-year guidance but they had given out numbers on friday thinking it would be worse than what they got. actually ended up being better than expected. bring you over to mickey d's, mcdonald's. mcdonald's is down about 1%. so that is certainly worth watching. year-to-date, it is a real winner. up 12%, cut by clsa. but they did have weak sales overall. they had just to do more with a low-priced menu to try to lure away the customers from some of their big competitors. back to you. melissa: nicole, thank you so much. lori: do you think the faa's w