. >> undercover and now she's taking us to new york city where some of the toughest put it to the test. >> the engineer who designed the bionic eye. he takes us to colorado to meet the man who created the 3d bionic hand. i've seen a lot of amazing things in the field, but this is really cool. that's our team, now let's do some science. [♪ music ] >> hi, guys, we are back here at "techknow" for another week of amazing stories and screen and innovation. we'll get started with this "heart in a box." check it out, this is an actual beating heart outside of the body. this is seriously the most amazing thing i've ever seen and touched. let's check out the story. >> when it comes to heart transplants, it's always a race against time. we've all seen it on tv. when a donor heart becomes available, medical teams must move quickly. the organ is removed and preserved by placing it in ice. the heart must arrive at the recipient's hospital within six hours that's because the ice damages the heart making it unfit for transplant. in this will keep hearts warm and beating. this will be a major break

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so they come back to new york city and he says you can't face them. you can' can to be can't beat td so he has to use espionage and the guerrilla warfare. he has to be smarter bandanna. so it's only logical that we bring it to he needs a spy force, he needs his own cia and then you find out that he has a huge espionage background. he is noted from the french and indian war. to brush up on those skills so he tells the others this is what we are going to need to do. we need to find these people to help me out. >> host: to fill in the background tell us briefly what he did in the french and indian war. >> guest: i know that he was an officer where he had a chance to work with the french and find out what were they thinking here and there. he was able to pick up working with the british and they also made mistakes. he was a aggressive as a colonel at that point and he learned from that. that is another thing which i found fantastic about george washington who was on the side of a mountain. you would think no mistakes, he owned up to it and he learned for

a popular rail system outside of new york city. if this was a week day, there could have been hundreds and thousands aboard this train and waiting in other trains along the wings here. this will be shut down now. it could take a few hours. it could take a few days before investigators would begin to even think about moving some of the pieces of this train. commuters will have to find a way around and travelers will have to plan ahead and know there will be delays for them and in some cases find a way home today. that's the reality of it. >> i think it's also important to mention this is close to a very big curve and while it's too early for authorities to say what happened and why, do you have any sense as to whether speed could have been a factor in the derailment? >> reporter: certainly, yes, too early for us to speculate. some of the people that live around here have referenced the fact that curve is in the tracks and sometimes they feel trains are going quickly and they say it's speedy devil. we can't say if speed is a factor.

>> undercover and now she's taking us to new york city where some of the toughest put it to the test. >> the engineer who designed the bionic eye. he takes us to colorado to meet the man who created the 3d bionic hand. i've seen a lot of amazing things in the field, but this is really cool. that's our team, now let's do some science. [♪ music ] >> hi, guys, we are back here at "techknow" for another week of amazing stories and screen and innovation. we'll get started with this "heart in a box." check it out, this is an actual beating heart outside of the body. this is seriously the most amazing thing i've ever seen and touched. let's check out the story. >> when it comes to heart transplants, it's always a race against time. we've all seen it on tv. when a donor heart becomes available, medical teams must move quickly. the organ is removed and preserved by placing it in ice. the heart must arrive at the recipient's hospital within six hours that's because the ice damages the heart making it unfit for transplant. in this will keep hearts warm and beating. this will be a major break t

new york city. critics say outgoing three-term mayor michael bloomberg is partly to blame but the city is spending more than it ever has on shelters. >> reporter: you new mayor bill deblasio, who will be sworn in tomorrow, will be targeting homelessness. the number of homeless is the largest it has been since the great depression. 62,000 live in shelters. 22,000 are children. >> raising small children would be tough for any single mom. daniel is doing it without a home. >> when your hom homeless, it ps on 20 times more pressure. >> this is where they're standing with 90 other families, a city in th shelter in the bro. >> it's infested and not well-kept. >> reporter: the number of homeless people in new york city has risen 20%: advocates blame the recession. >> do you agree or disagree with me-- >> reporter: and outgoing mayor michael bloomberg. >> there is literally no permanent housing assistance to help homeless children and families move from shelters into their own homes. >> reporter: critics sa

they are fueled in new york city and sussex. now, i don't want to alarm you, though it is alarming, but what -- part of what has happenedded is that in some places, sussex county being one of them, the way there were certain hate crimes classified as vandalism. if you write something awful on the wall of a synagogue, which is often the case, that used to be vandalism. that was the hate crime. the numbers have gone up in part because of that. okay? i think it's embarrassing, frankly, when you read the report that new york state, hate crimes have gone up 30%, and that the two places that are responsible for that, are sussex county, and new york city. i think we need to be clear that we're really not out of the woods just because we live in new york city. the second question that i wanted to say is you question this is difficult to answer because, clearly, i'm not in this kid head; right? i was not able to speak to any of them. i was able to speak to the parents of two families that have said, and it's complicated to know exactly w

the british took new york in the summer of 17 # -- 1776, and what is the importance of new york city in the strategic shape of the war? why is that important? >> guest: this is educational to me and which i find when people write me now, do i give this to the 15-year-old or 14-year-old? i live, i grew up in long island. i love history. i love social studies, and i thought to myself, okay, is this on the test? we moved on. if you look at the 13 colonies and look at new york and their ports and location, it's the center of what would be the new country. it's where the traffic was, the commerce was, and it's where shifts pull in and big ships pulled out. people knew new york. there was another area, and you could have cattle and feed an army like the british army. if the colonists were to be a country, they can't with britain there and as long as they don't have control of the ports and area. >> now, washington's first idea for spy is nathan heal; right? tell us that story. >> caller: nathan hale missed bunker hill. he wanted to see the action, and i know you know this inside and out, a

york times makes a good point if all of the homeless children of new york city were to go into madison square garden which is a huge stadium in manhattan as many as over forty eight hundred children would be left without a seat so i imagine that is pretty staggering number that's that's really really scary to think about actually want to set that could you talk a little bit more about what is really fun to be behind these numbers what is behind this rapid increase in homelessness specifically for families well i mean we're out what we have is a continuation of increasing home prices of course met with very low incomes and it's a widening gap and experts are saying this is likely to continue so because housing prices are going up and so many people are still unable to find work what we have is the situation where as many as fifty two thousand people are in shelters every night in new york city and it's twelve thousand people and families twelve thousand families and those families have children and the sad part really is that the children are the few the ones we don't see you don't know

york times makes a good point if if all of the homeless children of new york city were to go into madison square garden which is a huge stadium in manhattan as many as over forty eight hundred children would be left without a seat so imagine that is pretty staggering number that's that's really really scary to think about actually want to see could you talk a little bit more about what is really thought to be behind these numbers what is behind this rapid increase in homelessness specifically for families. well i mean what we have is a continuation of increasing home prices of course with very low incomes and it's a widening gap and experts are saying this is likely to continue so because housing prices are going up and so many people are still unable to find work what we have is the situation where as many as fifty two thousand people are in shelters every night in new york city and it's twelve thousand people and families twelve thousand families and those families have children and the sad part really is that the children are the people the ones we don't see you don't know they are the

what is the importance of new york city in the strategic shape? >> this was educational for me that people stationary give this to my 15 year old? i grew up on long island i love history and social studies and i would just think with this be on the test? >> host: if you look at the 13 colonies of the location is the center of the new country. most of the traffic, cobbers, the wear big ships could come in or come out. then you could grow food and you could feed an army. the british army. it is a plan to become a country they cannot do it. as long as they have control of that area. >> washington's first idea of the spy is nathan hale? tell us about that. >> guest: nathan hale wanted to see the auction in just missed bunker hill sid he comes back with washington and there was a familiarity there. i gail graduate and teacher in to he volunteers to be a spy in washington says they need volunteers. he had no experience and is extremely bright and ambitious and peerless. he was sent him over against his better instincts. as part of research would reveal

derailment as passengers head to new york city. this on the busiest travel weekend of the year. four people were killed. dozens of others were injured this morning. seven cars ran off the track. it was entering a curve in the bronx. they are scouring the waters below after passengers reportedly were thrown from the train. emergency crews had to use saws and cranes to cut those cars apart in the continuing search for survivors. amtrak has resumed service on the hudson line. the ntsb investigators have arrived at the scene to gather the black box to see if it was going too fast around the curve. in the meantime in massachusetts another accident, this time on the roads. a massive 70-car pile up being blamed on icy road conditions overnight near worcester. the tractor-trailers are colliding with smaller vehicles which slid under their cargo. 30 people injured. no reports of any fatalities. road crews quickly moved to clean up the crash site and the highway is now back open. police still caution everybody, drive carefully. >>> meanwhile

it is sunday night the next police commissioner of new york city. incoming mayor bill diblasio might announce this week. everything from immigration to civil lib we can at this. the top pick is bill brackton. most recently he has been with the los angeles police department. if he picked, braton would take over for ray kelley. under his leadership, the crime dropped but the nypd has been accuse did of excessive surveillance and targetingmul muslim. stop and frisk became a popular tactic for officers. we discussed it with faisel patel and john j college of criminal law. i askedfaiza why the new york city commissioner job is so important. >> important. >> it is the largest police department in the country. as new york goes, a lot of people are looking to see how it's conducting policing, what kind of tact i can it's using. >> maybe a man named bill braton who used to be the commissioner in new york, currently in los angeles. do you think it's a good move? >> i think that the new police commissioner has to do an important thing, rebuild relations with m

i've never been into the new year's in new york city. so this is great. i'm so excited. >> reporter: a new year with new resolutions for the more than 1 million people expected to pack times square and the 1 billion expected to watch it on tv. >> getting more centered in our lives. we're getting a little older, closer to retirement. so trying to figure out what we want to do when we grow up. >> reporter: a fresh start in the first few minutes of 2014. so who gets to push the button that starts the ball drop this year? that would be u.s. supreme court justice and bronx native sonia sotomayor. back to you. >> all right, zaire ya. thank you so much. >>> now for a look at your new year's eve weather. here's nbc meteorologist bill karins. bill, you spent a new years out there. >> i did. it was cold. it's going to be cold again. >> but it didn't snow, right? >> no, but cold is worse. snow is more fun. in many areas of the west, we're going to be ringing in the new year with nice, warm, dry conditions. that was a summary of 2013 as a whole. unbelievably dry. the

york city. four people are dead and dozens more are hurt. they were heading south to grant central terminal in manhattan. right now the fire department says there are 63 reported injuries and 11 are in transit call conditions and six injuries are reported serious. >> morgan rad ford has more. quiet weekend was shattered when a commuter train violently derailed. the train jumped the tracks along a nare ro turn. narrow tu. there are police a and firefighters here gathering in clusters. >> when we got here it was a traumatic scene. we had people in cars and we had to lift use air basion bags to e train. >> the train was about half full carrying far fewer passengers aboard than on a busy workday when this rail line deposits tens of thousands of passengers heading straight for new york's grand central station. >> i was sitting on the train and i wasn't paying attention to anything in particular and all of a sudden the train felt a little more sideways than it should be. and by the time i looked up it

in new york, jay gray, news 4. >>> amtrak's empire service which runs from new york city to upstate new york was suspended for four hours because of that crash. service was just restored. the trains will be going slower through the area, through that northeast corridor. the service from washington to new york city was never affected today. >>> after much anticipation, we now know bao bao, the name of the new baby panda at the national zoo, looking now live from the zoo's camera. she was announced to much fanfare and excitement today. crowds lined up to get a spot for the big review. darcy spencer was there and got reaction from the crowd. >> reporter: the dancing lions started the celebration. but this is what everyone was waiting for. >> three, two, one! >> reporter: the giant panda cub now 100 days old, gets its name, voted the most popular from a list of five in an online poll. 123,000 people voted. >> today is special, because one more giant panda has been added to saving not only the giant panda, but its habitat. >> reporter: the word bao bao means precious in chinese. many say it

snowhave six inches of outside of new york city. we lucked out on this one. if you love the snow, not so great. ahead of ourselves though. looking outside, the rain has come to an end. cloudy skies at reagan national airport. windsor out of the northwest. the winds are going to kick up as they move through the day tomorrow. 42 was our high earlier in the day. the record was 70. 34, upper northwest ec. 41 degrees. that could start to freeze up as we move through the early morning outdoors. look at the map rate temperatures, a wide range. 29 in hagerstown. ocean city, down one degree. there at 54. it is mild. they are at 61 degrees at this hour. us, colder to the north of 33 new york city. heavy snow in boston at 30 degrees. not so far from carson -- from boston, their 10 degrees. all of the rain, sleet, snow moves off to the north and east. areas of low pressure developing off the coast. that will bring the heavier snows to boston and domain is the move through the overnight and into the day tomorrow. our weather, our rain now over with. doppler proves it. it

york and even across new york city and new jersey. please be careful on the roadways today. from pennsylvania to the state of maine. winter storm warning we could see up to a foot of snow. what is going on is the storm system is moving quickly eastward and it is forecast to intensify. that's why we look at the accumulations further north parts of new hampshire and even up into parts of main. take a look at the radar. this is a forecast of the timing of the system. it will be with us in the morning hours and by the afternoon it is already gone. quiet conditions behind it and it will stay very cold out there. keep that in mind especially in areas further west across the great lakes. here's a look at the kurr p rent windchill temperatures feels like 22 in new york city. single tig gets for you in chicago and down into texas and florida we are looking at windchill temperatures relatively chilly. feels like 41. the high temperatures across the south warming up nicely into the 60s and 70s. high in new york city only 30 degrees. it will stay

and what is the importance of new york city in the strategic shape of the war? why is that so important? >> guest: its educational for me and i find when people write me now they say should i give this to my 15-years-old, to my 14-year-old? fi lived and grew up on that island. and i love history and social studies. and i was thinking to myself okay. is this going to be on the test. if you look at the 13 colonies and the ports and its location it's the center of what would be the new country. it's where most of the traffic was, much of the commerce, where the big ships could pull in and the big ships could pullout and people knew of majorca and have this other area called long island where you could grow food and you could have cattle and you could actually feed an army like the british army. so, if the colony's planned on becoming a country, they can't do it as long as britain is there. they can't do it as long as they don't have control of the ports and the area. >> host: washington's first idea for a spike is nathan hale, right? tell us that story. >> guest: n

joining us new york city mayor david dinkins. mr. mayor, welcome. >> good to see you again. >> good to see you, too. we know him and remember him as an icon. you knew him personally. what was he like as a person? >> that's the thing that was most amazing about him, total absence of bitterness. i don't know who among us after having been imprisoned for more than 27 years in protest against a cause you deeply believe could behave as he did. but here is a man who when they asked him why aren't you angry and what not? his response was to be angry was to continue to be in prison. he was the same always. you wondered, was that his publ was he different in private? he was the same -- he stayed with us at gracie mansion. we have a granddaughter. you notice i see we, not i. my wife taught me that. our granddaughter was born in february. this was june. so she was a little bitty thing. whether he was holding her or with the rest of us at small, intimate dinners, he was the same as when he was -- i'll never forget he was interviewed by ted koppe

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

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nbc's kristen dahlgren is north of new york city in scarsdale, new york. >> reporter: good evening. yeah, we're beginning to see some people slipping and sliding around here. take a look. you can probably see the snow piling up on the roads faster than the plows can get to it. we're just north of the city. there's a winter storm warning in effect until 6:00 a.m. for an awful lot of people, there's a lot more of this ahead tonight. from missouri to maine, the massive storm dumped snow. 1,000-mile swath stretching through 23 state, more than 100 million people in the storm's path. for some, it turned deadly. car crashes in missouri claimed three lives and dozens of accidents were reported across several other states. in indiana, state police issued a travel warning. near indianapolis, firefighters had to rescue the driver trapped in this multivehicle crash. this car was stopped at a light as the first two cars collided. >> they hit each other in the intersection and spun out. one hit us and the other one went behind us. >> reporter: for many people, this is the third storm system in t

that's how the described new york city. that's not true and these are the policies he is going to bring in barack obama came in as president as among the most liberal u.s. senator. this guy is far to the left of barack obama. and if you're a new yorker you have to be scared. the bottom line is this. bill deblasio was elected, won by 75-25%, big -- allegedly a big mandate, yet, yet, the won with 17% of the electorate. this is a very complacent electorate. the kids that move here from iowa and illinois and wherever don't remember the '70s. >> someone didn't artic late the other side of this, to your point, anytime a politician wins with north of 60%, done matter how many people showed up, they're going to claim mandate and push that agenda -- >> charles, charles, joe loto, the republican candidate, ran the mta during sandy, ran new york city -- >> a terrible candidate, though. >> but, but, the new york city press, most of it, i would say, everybody but the "new york post," did not cover just how left wing these guy is. the "n

>> i was just a child. >> in new york city? >> i was getting into new york. >> this is captured in a particular moment. the new york folks are seeing. >> absolutely. >> do you have a personal relationship with that moment in history? >> i did because i was working at the time and what you see is just what it looked like. there was a freedom about that. the whole thing about that. i was nonexistent then. things are much cheaper. i was a terrible waiter. i would forget thing, but i made enough to pay the rent. it was an innocent time. a terrific time. they captured that. it was tough. i think that's also what this film deals with. what it means to be a creative artist in a tough world. >> is the tough part different than being a creative artist? was it different then? >> i think there was more -- i shouldn't say this because it sounds like i am dwelling in the past, but more a sense of community and belonging to something. whether you could make it or not and you could survive on much, much less. the idea of living in the west vi

and a five to eight snowfall total in new york city. it's the temperatures, on friday morning, we're talking 14 to 15 in new york, boston friday morning at sunrise about 12 or 13 degrees. so there's going to be a big enough factor in the snowfall. this will move on out and some of the coldest air in years moves in. subzero cold on saturday morning in boston and in new york city, look for lows saturday morning in the park in the single numbers. we'll keep you updated at the weather channel. count on cancellations and flight delays. back to you. >> thank you. gold heading for its first annual loss in 13 years and its biggest annual loss in 30 years. what traders are saying about it in 2014, that's next. plus, are quotes from the pope criticizing capitalism hurting donations? michele spoke to timothy dolan exclusively. >> the pope made critical comments and capitalism and the wealthy. the catholic church in new york is trying to raise money from the capital lists and the wealthy. how is that working out? next on "power lunch." is also enou

i've never been into the new years in new york city, so this is great. i'm so excited. >> reporter: a new year with new resolutions for the more than 1 million people expected to pack times square and the 1 billion expected to watch it on tv. >> get more centered in our lives. we're getting older and closer to retirement, so trying to figure out what we want to do when we grow up. >> reporter: a fresh start in the first few minutes of 2014. so, who gets the honor of pushing the button that will lower the ball this year? that belongs to u.s. supreme court justice and bronx native sonia sotomayor. veronica, back to you. >> i thought you were going to say that you do. >> reporter: i wish it was me. >> sarah dallof -- >> reporter: i will be somewhere warm. >> thanks, sarah. let's check in with my good friend, richard lui. you know, that would be something, right? >> it would be, but then sarah -- >> press that button? >> she would have to work 24 hours straight is what would happen if she was there, right? >> yeah, yeah, but still, quite an honor. >> it woul

the train was traveling between lynchburg and new york city. we are told no one was hurt and amtrak says the train will be told to union station. a huge gesture this morning at arlington national cemetery. onunteers based wreaths thousands of headstones as part of national wreaths across america day. we talked to some of the participants. >> among the hills of arlington cemetery -- >> the enormity of this place is very humbling. >> along the rows of white headstones. melanie adams laid a wreath for the second time. i year and a half ago, she lost her son in afghanistan. he was just 31 years old. >> i cried. i think about him all the time. , betty edwardsr sets another one in memory of her father, a two-time purple heart recipient and vietnam veteran. it is a chance for her to tell him one last time -- >> how much she meant. how much he has done for us. more thane joined by 25,000 other volunteers and family members spread across the grass to lay a wreath for america's fallen. they will adorn more than 100,000 graves with holiday wreaths, a simp

i have never been in the new year in new york city. this is great. i'm so excited. >> reporter: a new year with new resolutions for the more than one million people expected to pack times square and the one billion expected to watch on tv. >> getting older and closer to retirement. trying to figure out what we want to do when we grow up. >> reporter: a fresh start in the first few minutes of 2014. >>. >> this year's celebration will be a little different. it will be the first time in a decade a new york city mayor will not attend the celebration. outgoing mayor michael bloomberg plans to spend the time with his family. mayor-elect bill de blasio will be sworn in at a frift ceremony a minute after the ball drops. >> here at home preparations are under way for the big night on the water front in san francisco. crews are busy on two barges preparing fireworks for the show. 200,000 people are expected to watch the 15-minute fireworks show at the stroke of midnight. hotels in downtown san francisco as you might imagine are all booked up. forget about gett

new york city's mayor michael bloomberg is leaving, too, after more than a decade at city hall. >> new york city has never been stronger than it is today, and i think it's fair to say that our future has never been brighter. >> reporter: in the final speech of the term, he said his city today is drastically different from the one he took glover i think it's safe to say that it's clear that the golden age of the suburb is over, and it is being replaced by a new urban renaissance redefining the future. >> reporter: violence, governmental dysfunction, decay. in the 1970s new york lost more than 10% of its population. it was a center of a growing trend of cities around the country where middle class residents were fleeing fast to the suburbs. >> if you want to change the world, run for mayor. >> i, michael r. bloomberg do solemnly swear... >> ly after the september 11th attacks he took over investing . it would be his legacy and inspiration to other metropolitan areas around the country. today crime is way down in new york. perhaps in part due to a tough and controversial policing policy c

, new jersey, and now new york city require the flu shot. new york city elementary school principal carol schafenberg says some parents have expressed concerns about safety. >> parents are very scared. i think they should have their choice whether they want to vaccinate their child or not. >> reporter: but the c.d.c. considers the flu vaccine to be very safe, with a small risk of side effects such as allergic reaction. what would you say to a parent who is concerned about how safe this vaccine is? >> the most important thing for parents to understand is that influenza is not the common cold. influenza kills more children and hospitalizes more children than all other vaccine preventable diseases in the united states combined. the risk of having a severe complication from the flu vaccine is extremely low. it's less than one in a million. >> reporter: under the new rule, children younger than five will be required to get the flu vaccine by the end of 2014. scott, there are exemptions for medical or religious reasons. >> pelley: thanks, elaine.

all the way from savannah, georgia all the way to new york city. the temperatures we are expected to climb to a high of 73° in new york city today. the record is 63. normally at this time of year we should be in the 40s. that's a testament to just how warm this is, after all this warm air pushing off of the gulf of mexico. pennsylvania expected to climb to 67. columbus 69 is the high today, predicted, the record is 62. strong line between the warmth and the cool air. new york city to albany, that's a distance of 150 miles and look at the temperature difference here. we have an ice storm making its way across portions of the northeast and it's extending back from portion e-of michigan into new york and canada as well. ice accumulations along i-95, this could cause power outages in addition to pulling down trees and power lines. we want people to be careful. these warnings go on through later tonight. if you are traveling along i-95, take it easy. back to you richelle. >> thank you for joining us. for updates go to our website, aljazeera.com. that w

new york city and that is my group with these wonderful brewers from new york city. ashley: do they go hand-in-hand with the jewish religion? >> jews don't drink beer, that is totally not true, total fiction and has been a wonderful hanukkah this year. we had events all over the country and we sell hebrew, the chosen be in 35 states around the country and it is a great way to celebrate the season. ashley: i am sure it wasn't easy to get going for any small business but what advice would you give to someone out there? >> small breweries are very popular. more than ever and it is wonderful, great quality beers, a passionate individuals. new york city brewer's gilda's growing, kkaft beers is growing like mad so wonderful new passionate young people are getting involved. there's a lot of competition whether it is for financing or real estate or consumers. it is about passion and creativity and having a unique angle. ashley: you are putting in the hard work but what about the state of the economy? people in the mountains drink more? >> they say beers is recessionproof but

many people do that in new york city. we will be down there and live from the crystal ball for the ball drop coming up in new york city. catch that soon coming up in 30 minutes. windchills are chilly in the 20's. further west cleveland single dig get wind chills as we head out the door. colder in places like chicago and minneapolis before it feels like above zero temperatures out there. everyone wants to know what the weather will be like at midnight. it looks relatively quiet across most of the country. most of you will be dry. there will be a clipper system swinging through portions of the midwest. in chicago you could have a little bit of snow flying around. temperature will be about 10 degrees very cold a little wind and heather and ainsley keep in mind that windchill what it feels like as you head out the door. atlanta 44. >> they have to bundle up. >> fox news channel has the all american new year's eve special. i will join the host bill hemmer and elizabeth hasselbeck. it starts on fox at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. >>

not such great news for philadelphia and new york city. looking at radar, the skies are beginning to clear from southwest to northeast. we are going to look for a chilly temperature moving through the overnight hours. amateurs falling to near freezing at martinsburg and winchester. is 46 at lexington park. look to the extreme right hand side of your screen. ocean city now at 55 degrees. hanging onto the winter wiser -- winter advisory, i suspect that may come down a little bit earlier now that everything is beginning to rapidly clear. or the overnight, 30-35 degrees. went out of the west at 10-5 team -- 10-15. we will talk about the next seven days. we have some of that coming your way in the seven day outlook. a the slick roads have led to number of accidents. there is concern about how things will look as you head out tomorrow morning. richard continues our live team coverage for martinsburg west virginia. here.are close i-81 a couple of things we notice when we got here, really how cold it is. how bad the conditions are. then we spotted

at the end of the day new york city gets a cut of financial transactions and it behooves new york city to have very wealthy wall streeters in the city. >> all my wealthy wall street friends in a panic, redistribution socialist was going to become mayor and all of a sudden dramatically change the makeup of new york city's economy was misplaced. there's, a, only so much a mayor can do and, b, only so much he will do. he has strong relationships with developers and wall street, as you should. you should be a mayor for everyone, not just the 1%. where this film is very powerful is what you see. artists and what street photographers have been able to see is often what new yorkers weren't able to see, what often society doesn't see, those living at the margins. same thing, we want a mayor who sees those parts of new york that are struggling, not just the parts doing well. >> cheryl, i would go back to you on that. so much of street photography is showing people the unseen, which is poor people, people living on the fringes. this was a multi-year project. that work is very much reflected in t

new york city's mayor michael bloomberg is leaving, too, after more than a decade at city hall. >> new york city has never been stronger than it is today, and i think it's fair to say that our future has never been brighter. >> reporter: in the final speech of the term, he said his city today is drastically different from the one he took glover i think it's safe to say that it's clear that the golden age of the suburb is over, and it is being replaced by a new urban renaissance redefining the future. >> reporter: violence, governmental dysfunction, decay. in the 1970s new york lost more than 10% of its population. it was a center of a growing trend of cities around the country where middle class residents were fleeing fast to the suburbs. >> if you want to change the world, run for mayor. >> i, michael r. bloomberg do solemnly swear... >> ly after the september 11th attacks he took over investing. it would be his legacy and inspiration to other metropolitan areas around the country. today crime is way down in new york. perhaps in part due to a tough and controversial policing policy ca

shanghai, china, new york city, almost in the heart of times square in new york city and preparations getting underway. the barricades are already up and a million people will cram the heart of new york city. there is a look, ringing in the new year and a happy new year to all of you. stocks on track to set another record on the final day of 2013. lauren: it looks like stocks want to go out with a bang. could be the 52nd record close for the dow industrials this year. going through a new intraday high. yesterday they didn't do that, but they might today. closing at another record high. hitting any record high today. the nasdaq is up. looking at all 10 sectors positive this year. the discretionary sector up 40%, health care up nearly 40%, the less time they had been in the green was back in 2010 so really a broad-based year of gains. twitter stocks seeing green after two days of serious selling down 18% over the past two days getting back some of that momentum. twitter had been a volume leader on thursday, 3 million shares changed. a lot yesterday, so the momentum definitely picking up

then tomorrow back to 34 in boston. 30 new york city. washington, d.c. 36 degrees. lots of sunshine except across central florida where we could see a couple of showers. after such an active start to winter we did start to see things calm down. >>> now for entertainment news. the film out of the furnace has put markers into a fire storm of controversy. members of the native tribe filed a lawsuit against the writers and producers behind the film. the plaintiffs mark the character as negative stereotype and false representative of their people. >>> and verbal jabs for jennifer lawrence saying she hopes the oscar winner grows up in 2014. the feud was sparked after lawrence accused "fashion police" of teaching young people to judge others. >>> upton split from ball room dancer. it is all about new beginnings for a couple of reality show divas. basketball wife star is showing off the $1.4 million engagement room she received from carl crawford. the couple is also expecting. not a bad christmas gift. >>> a terminally ill child watched in awe as the mega star descended bef

out of new york city that if you can make it here you can make it anywhere but according to new data from the department of health fewer people are actually making it here rather they're being sidelined by their very own growing weight according to new data about one in every four people who go to hospitals in the big apple have obesity related to diabetes officials say we're experiencing a diabetes epidemic where about one in nine adults are now diagnosed with the disease about six hundred fifty thousand new yorkers were diagnosed with it in two thousand and eleven alone record numbers are dying from diabetes and related issues like andy taishan and kidney failure in fact about one new yorker dies from diabetes related issues every ninety minutes nowadays thing is new york's overall death rate is folly and its life expectancy is improving we're only seeing sharp rises in diabetes related health issues in specific places this and guess where those might be. in the poor in places like the bronx and harlem obesity related hospitalization rates there are approximately eight times the ra

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

here in new york city itself. the air is fairly dry across the country and this right now, is a static cling alert. you have to wear natural fibers today because if you wear po polyester you will get static cling all day today with the dry air. >> was that an official static cling alert? >> it was. >> noted. >>> post-christmas shopping is in full swing. a new figure suggests it was a very busy and merry holiday shopping season. >> this actually is a surprise because the expectations, the bar was really low so this is just one of many sort of reports we are going to get on -- >> i always set the bar low. >> you have to think that way. >> no expectations. i like that line of thinking. it seems according to mastercard total holiday spending is up 3.5% over 2012. amazon is having its best holiday season ever. they report almost 37 million items ordered worldwide on cybermonday alone. that is, of course, the monday following black friday. so what exactly were people buying? the holiday winners were jewelry, children's

there was a metro north train heading from update poughkeepsie, new york to new york city's grand central station in manhattan. and the derailment happened just at the harlem river between the bronx and manhattan. some passengers said the train was just going too fast to make it. authorities said the train did have a black box, so one could imagine they could get some information on the speed? >> reporter: absolutely and that is one of the first things we have been told the ntsb investigators are going to be looking for. we know that the go team has been dispatched, we have been up here, we have got a pretty good perch here overlooking the train detrailment, goug through, and and under those tipped over rail cars, they are making absolutely certain that everybody has been accounted for. of course there is not a list to double check passengers names because there are so many stops coming up and down this hudson line this. train derailed around 7:00 this morning. this is a holiday weekend, a sunday, a busy travel day, sunday after thanksgiving, a lot of people taking note that if this would

celebrations are planned in new york city burrows. he takes office january 1. >> president obama and his daughters caused a stir today when going shopping at a washington, d.c. bookstore. the third year in a row the first family made a postthanksgiving trip to a bookstore to do their part for small business saturday. the president bought 20 books for all age g. >> well, i was down in san francisco's union square and had to take off my scar of. it was pretty warm out there. let's check with in mary rose. a beautiful night out there . the sunset more than two hours ago and temperatures falling off but we had a mild afternoon as heather mentioned widespread 60s around the bay area. 64 san francisco, temperatures now the 50s for most of us, even few upper 40s out there. mid-40s napa, 5 p #3 sapta rowsa, 46 walnut creek, 54 livermore, 54 oakland, 53 san francisco. winds are generally light and skies mostly clear. we're going to see a return of the patchy fog as we get into late tonight and early tomorrow reminder today spare the air today

maria molina is here in new york city tracking the storms as they approach new york city. but they've already hit a whole bunch of places. >> that's right. dc, philadelphia, already looking at a bit of a wintery mix falling out there. some areas just outside of d.c so some of the suburbs, they are reporting that that snow is coming down. actually right now in new york city as we walk outside, we started to see -- obviously it's mostly cloudy. but we started to see a mist or drizzle coming down. that is happening right now. so we should see that transition eventually to snow when temperatures do continue to drop and we are going to be seeing accumulation in new york city and also in surrounding areas. you can see right there on the radar picture, you have that snow coming down in west virginia, parts of northern virginia and up into pennsylvania and new jersey, already at this hour winter weather advisories stretching from tennessee all the way up to parts of rhode island and across massachusetts. the winter storm warnings are in effect across some of the areas we could see

. >> new york city mayor. >> new york city mayor. >> 12 years. >> as we know. in the end, we feel we are going to miss this mayor very much, because particularly with the advent of his successor, mr. de blasio, and the assault of progressivism we now see coming at us in droves. look at things he has done. he has, incredibly enough, gotten rid of smoking. he has stood up against occupy wall street. of course he has assaulted us with other health indangering things like bicyclists on the prowl. but all in all, we owe him thanks. >> mary, how about you? >> my hit goes to breakthroughs in medical research, particularly the area of brain science. the first is we made some major progress in working towards the treatment of parkinson's disease. in december, a professor of neurology won a prize from silicon valley, a breakthrough prize, for his work on understanding the circuits that go bonkers with parkinson's disease. this goes straight to the treatment of the disease. >> very exciting developments on the science front. james. >> my hit is to the earth and the sun. w

the peak tech schools that ibm in new york city, the colleges in new york city, the new york city department of education, and our union actually put together. it got a lot of attention because the president mentioned it in the state of the union, then the president went to see it, but this is a fantastic school. it's a school where ibm has back-mapped from what the entry position, the skills required for the entry position in ibm is, and we have put a six-year program together that also is aligned with the common core critical thinking, and everybody, you go to the school, everybody loves it. so it is actually helping re- envision what career tech ed should look like in this new economy, and frankly, there is a lot of really great career tech ed schools throughout the country. toledo has one that is a terrific school, that has been aligned with gm. aviation high school in new york city, aligned with the aviation industry. transit tech in new york city. so i think there is some steam and a headwind that could actually push perkins through the gate, but it has to be formulaic. meaning we have