on corey washington, i'm ray >> new york new york. eight point four million people call this city home. >> twenty-four degrees snowing hard in central park going down to twenty in midtown. snowfall one to two feet. so they're now saying we could have snow falling as rapidly as five inches an hour. >> this has been the coldest winter here in eighty-one years. and it coincides with a grim reality. more people in new york city are homeless today than at any point since the 1930s. >> it's really difficult especially to just find ways to get through day to day from you know finding clothing to finding shelter to finding you know where you're going to eat. >> tonight it's pretty hectic because of the snow outside and there's not a lot of places for us to sleep now, so everybody's kind of coming in. >> in just a decade, the number of people living in new york's homeless shelters has nearly doubled reaching 60 thousand a night last year. it's a homelessness crisis unprecedented in any american city. >> what we see today the homeless that we s

i'll see you again in an hour. >> new york new york. eight point four million people call this city home. >> twenty-four degrees snowing hard in central park going down to twenty in midtown. snowfall one to two feet. so they're now saying we could have snow falling as rapidly as five inches an hour. >> this has been the coldest winter here in eighty-one years. and it coincides with a grim reality. more people in new york city are homeless today than at any point since the 1930s. >> it's really difficult especially to just find ways to get through day to day from you know finding clothing to finding shelter to finding you know where you're going to eat. >> tonight it's pretty hectic because of the snow outside and there's not a lot of places for us to sleep now, so everybody's kind of coming in. >> in just a decade, the number of people living in new york's homeless shelters has nearly doubled reaching 60 thousand a night last year. it's a homelessness crisis unprecedented in any american city. >> what we see today the homeless that we s

york and new jersey. this is a super bowl of a lot of firsts. this is the first time that the super bowl is being hosted by two teams, the jets and the giants. the first time it is being hosted by two states and one big city. this is the first time the game is being played in a northern city in a building without a roof. >> bringing the super bowl to the new york region has been a decade-long effort for tisch. it all started after 9/11, when he began pitching the idea to nfl and local politicians as a way to jumpstart the stuttering economy. but it wasn't until the metlife stadium was built in 2010 that the idea caught on. >> the nfl owners like to bring the game to some of the newer stadiums to highlight them. so the world can see the great facilities. >> millions of people around the world will be watching super bowl xlviii. perhaps no venue is better prepared or staffed for an event like this. 20 times a season, metlife undergoes a transformation. a staff of about 20 takes two days to change it from on

he was born and raised in a new york family. in 1959, his family branched out and bought loews theaters. today, the loews have billions of dollars in assets that generate $15 billion in annual revenue with interest from everything in hotels, insurance, oil and gas. jonathan tisch runs the company and is also the chairman of loews hotels. >> he took this area and made it guest friendly. betty: he completed a massive luxury renovation of a flagship hotel that is near and dear to his heart. tisch: i grew up in this hotel. betty: but that work has not stopped him from writing books. you get about six hours of sleep? tisch: 5-6 hours of sleep. you will get an e-mail from me at 3:00 in the morning. betty: despite a demanding schedule, i caught up with him at his team's home turf -- metlife stadium. ♪ betty: it is incredible to be out on the field. how does it make you feel? tisch: pretty amazing. i think of my father and what he went through to afford us this opportunity to be partners in the giants. betty: in 1991, bob tisch, john'

york and new jersey. this is a super bowl of a lot of firsts. this is the first time it is being hosted by two teams, the jets and the giants. the first time it is being hosted by two states and one big city. the first time the game is being played in a northern city in a building without a roof. >> bringing the super bowl to the new york region has been a decade-long effort for tisch. it all started after 9/11 when he began pitching the idea to nfl and local politicians as a way to jumpstart the stuttering economy. it was not until the metlife stadium was built in 2010 that the idea caught on. >> the nfl owners liked to bring the game to some of the newer stadiums to highlight them. so the world could see this great facility. >> millions of people around the world will be watching super bowl xlviii. perhaps no venue is better prepared or staffed for an event like this. 20 times a season, metlife undergoes a transformation. a staff of about 20 takes two days to change it from one team to the other -- from

in a sense, new york is in new york is an epitome of the sectional conflict. it is a house divided like the nation itself. >> your point is well taken that there is a vibrant free black community in new york. they are very much involved in supporting these fugitives arriving. they are farming vigilance communities with white new yorkers as well force. free black people have a positive role to play in the underground railroad and what happens to people who were alive in new york. why have we not heard very much about that before? >> guest: that is absolutely right and i try to emphasize that in my book. the so-called vigilance communities, boston, new york, syracuse which were what they call themselves groups trying to help fugitive slaves were almost entirely black except when in boston for a while. they were created by free blacks. the one in new york city, david ruggles, a black abolitionists. but they were white abolitionists involved. is interracial organizations and much of the money came from white. most free black people were rather poor. they had limit

in new york in new york it was pretty secret because new york was a place with close ties to the south a lot of public officials who were happy to help apprehend fugitive slaves. so it wasn't as public as syracuse or albany or places like that. >> let's talk about that for a minute. this process and sentiment in new york. slavery ends in new york in 1827. but there is strong sentiment in favor of the south for a long time after that. why is that? what is it -- what is this connection new york? >> this is something not emphasized. i'm a new yorker as you well know. we don't emphasize this. we pride ourselves being a bastion of liberalism, tolerance, multicultural city. it wasn't it wasn't like that in the 1st part of the 19th century. first of all slavery was a vigorous presence in new york in the colonial era and lasted as you said down to 1827. even after that they were slaves on the streets of new york. southerners were allowed to bring slaves along with them for up to nine months until 1841. this 20 years before the civil war and there were still slaves visible on the streets of new

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the east village of new york. very, very troublesome when you see that much smoke particularly when you realize that fire officials were involved in that. they may have been inside as well. >> more than 100 firefighters have been dispatched to that fire in new york. keep an eye on that. here we go with the closing bell. another volatile day for the market. >> at least 50 times, the dow has crossed the unchanged market. up and down. of course, it started way down as a result of what was happening in the middle east. word that perhaps saudi arabia and iran coming to blow as a result of iran's actions in yemen. and saudi arabia going into yemen to try to kick the iranian backed proxies out of that country. that led oil to spike upward today and the market to go down. but the market had been improving based on how things over in the mideast were improving. it's really been a foreign policy driven market today. a lot of information including the former head of the cia is going to be joining us to assess the problems ov

this is @thedandymannyc from new york city. when will recreational marijuana be legal in new york? in other words, why should the rent be the only thing that's too damn high? (laughter) is that on the progressive agenda? >> not now. we did change law so we do fewer arrests for very small amounts of manner. >> larry: they don't have to go to jail if they have manner on them? >> for small amounts it's now a summons. arrests are down 65%. (applause) >> larry: how much marijuana do you have on you to be arrested? i'm asking for a friend... (laughter) >> we'll get your friend the answer. >> larry: okay, great. here's one. this one is from @chirlane. did you or did you not promise to pick up the dry cleaning over the weekend? >> this is keeping it truly 100. i was ordered to pick up the dry cleaning and i'm too scared to defy that order snore so what you're saying, mr. mayor, is black wives matter? (laughter) (cheers and applause) >> clever, clever! yes, they do. (laughter) knee>> larry: we'll be back. i have one more before earning enough cash back from bank of america to help pay for h

eric foner, new york state, you focus on new york city, he was kidnapped in new york state. >> as i said, this was not in common particularly in the 1820's and 1830's. a little later because of the vigilance committee, because of the free black community, became more and more no realized against kidnapping -- mobilized against kidnapping. this was certainly an order -- known process to black people in new york. amy: i want you to read from "gateway to freedom" but first we're going to take a break. our guest is eric foner, renowned, prize-winning u.s. historian. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman and juan gonzalez. our guest is eric foner, author of "gateway to freedom: the hidden history of the underground railroad." he is a dewitt clinton professor of history at columbia university. his book "the fiery trial" won the pulitzer prize. can you tell us or read a section from your book? >> this is about henry brown, as you'll see in a minute, becomes known as henry box brown. equally dramatic was the tale of

they changed new york, new york changes them. as jeff denham see the boxer said he came into new york 126 pounds and got the hell beat out of them the first time he fought in new york city and nobody recognized him. he said i finally figured out something about new york. you might want to new york but new york has to want you. steinbeck had the same experience before he wrote nation of wrath. he said it wasn't the city do is mean until i was able to cope with this energy and have some recognition -- recognition of my own that i live to new york and settled and he did. a lot of these characters in the book came from nothing. he came from belarus eight village that was so backward he hadn't seen a ship or anything that moved that wasn't pulled by a horse until he was 11 years old and came to new york with his mother. one of the characters is tex ritter. he is a big boxing promoter. he is a saloon keeper from the alaskan colon. he built modern madison square garden. he taught boxing promoters are lasting lesson that every successful

this is @thedandymannyc from new york city. when will recreational marijuana be legal in new york? in other words, why should the rent be the only thing that's too damn high? (laughter) is that on the progressive agenda? >> not now. we did change law so we do fewer arrests for very small amounts of manner. >> larry: they don't have to go to jail if they have manner on them? >> for small amounts it's now a summons. arrests are down 65%. (applause) >> larry: how much marijuana do you have on you to be arrested? i'm asking for a friend... (laughter) >> we'll get your friend the answer. >> larry: okay, great. here's one. this one is from @chirlane. did you or did you not promise to pick up the dry cleaning over the weekend? >> this is keeping it truly 100. i was ordered to pick up the dry cleaning and i'm too scared to defy that order snore so what you're saying, mr. mayor, is black wives matter? (laughter) (cheers and applause) >> clever, clever! yes, they do. (laughter) knee>> larry: we'll be back. i have one more if you can clear a table without lifting a finger... you may be muddli

we have breaking news to report tonight involving new details reportedly by "the new york times" concerning that passenger airline crash that took place in southern france yesterday. that crash killed 150 people. it has dominated headlines around the western world since it happened. well, "the new york times" is reporting some new details tonight about with what transpired in the cockpit in the moments leading up to that crash. they are very troubling new details. what we have known about this crash up until tonight is that this plane, an airbus 320, taking off from barcelona, was headed toward dusseldorf in germany. this airbus 320 took off as normal yesterday morning it reached a safe cruising altitude of 38,000 feet. it leveled off for about four minutes. and then over the next eight minutes, it went on what has been described as a controlled, fairly slow, not particularly steep, straight descent. before crashing into the mountains. or crashing into the french alps, killing all 150 people onboard. what has remained unclear is why. what caused that controlled descent in the first place? w

the port authority of new york and new jersey which operates the major airports in the new york or new jersey area they're about to have a news conference. we're going to have live coverage of that news conference get more specific details how this happened. we know the national transportation safety board already announced it's sending investigators to la guardia to find out what happened. let's discuss what happened with our safety analyst david soucie joining us on the phone. don't the air traffic controllers know the runway is icy and it's not a good time to happened david? >> they're supposed to know that. that's going to about the first thing that the faa looks at. the ntsb will look at the approximate cause which is the last thing that would have prevented it which is going to fall onto the pilots. the faa is going to be looking at this because if that port authority had made the -- had reported the conditions improperly to the air traffic controllers and those air traffic controllers said it's safe to fly, there's going to be an incredible investigation and this is not the way

see how new york can grow your business and create jobs. visit ny.gov/business >>> we are back now with the breaking news tonight and it is the shocking report that one of the pilots of the doomed germanwings jet was locked out the cockpit according to "the new york times". lufthansa, owner of germanwings says they have no information about that report. back with david soucie. i want to talk about more information and we talked about the cbr and that is where this report from "the new york times" would have come and also the data re/* data recorders, and there is a chip missing the vital memory chip that contains the data is missing? >> yes, the flight data recorder which records the parameters as it goes through the sky, and the primary device that you can see, that sis the cockpit voice recorder, but the part that is smashed, those are analog converters converters that take the analog sound like we are talking to put it in numbers, and they are stored in the other device which is reinforced and stainless steel, and many, many layriers of

by the way new york city it's still new york state and city it's still illegal to possess and smoke weed. >> the laws have loosened up a little bit. it's not a question of -- it's really a consequence of economic disparate. low income communities that are struggling and unfortunately people are drawn to the drug industry to make a couple bucks. this is prj, this isn't cocaine or heroin, this is marijuana pretty much harmless in my opinion, harmless drug. it's not a consequence of using the drug it's a consequence of an unregulated you want to talk about free market this is a perfect example we could use the free market where it's getting off the streets and into storefronts. >> john, i guess you agree that there are low level criminals in jail for buying, selling, possessing weed that you can make some voom for violent criminals. >> that's the only people who should be incarcerated. this wol notion that weed is is legalized, it is double speak to the highest regard just like in new york state it's only legal for medical purposes there's only 20 medical dispensaries for 20 million people

but irish catholics of new york are dug in on this issue. honestly, gays, no offense, but do you really want to be in this thing? i mean people are drinking too much to even notice you marching, and the music sounds like two goats doing the devil's business. ( laughter ) on the other hand, the gay pride parade is a glitter bomb of inclusion. ( laughter ) joining me to talk more about this is our new contributor to "the nightly show," david smithyman. welcome, david. ( cheers and applause ) >> thank you. okay now. now, david you're gay. >> i am. >> larry: oh, and it also sounds like you're australian. >> you're a keen observer larry. >> larry: okay. so you went out to the st. patrick's day's parade. >> di, and a also sat down with andy hum, irish american gay activist. let's take a look. it does seem like a bunch of angry walking-- i'm australian. i'm not even irish. this this is an outside perspective. it looks like everyone's angry dad is dressed up in the suit they got married in and grumpily walk along. why do you want to be in it? >> to

at the museum of the city of new york. a show that happened in november of 2013 and closes in october of 2014. in this beautiful little jewel box of a gallery we've assembled a variety of objects that help the pub luck to appreciate what life was like for the 1% in the original guilded age i, that period that followed the civil war from about the 1880s to about 1910. and that period was characterized by great wealth, kind of like the dot-.com people of our own era, but in those days, the money came from various kinds of industries, mining, railroads, smelting iron, and also the rise of the modern corporation. all those businesses yielded enormous wealth, at the same time that there was mass immigration to the area, a time when new york was unified by all of its burroughs and the total population was over 3 1/2 million people. with all those -- with that mixture of people coming, the lower classes, this rising upper class, there was this desire to sort of set oneself apart from the teeming masses, and so this .1% of people,

>> new york does it naturally. betty: not just new york. elsewhere. >> london has 100,000 hotel rooms. new york city has 100,000 hotel rooms. according to the london visitors bureau, the 16 million visitors to new york city a year pale in comparison to 56 million visitors a year in new york city. if you build it, they will come. moxy will just go to the highly urban areas like seattle, san francisco, miami, london. it is not for -- betty: it is not motel 6. i get it. on average, though, when you get out of new york city and san francisco and los angeles and miami, how do you bring the revenue up? >> right now, it is not taking much of an effort because after the great recession, banks stopped lending for hotel construction. occupancy this year will be up 25%. construction and new supplies up 5%. doesn't take a genius to realize 25% increase in occupancy and 5% increase in construction -- there will be a gap there. occupancy today in the hotel industry across the united states is at 65%, which is the highest it has ever been since the hotel

third new jersey, second new york, second ohio, the new york, first vermont, third indiana. hearst new york, second and third west virginia. the upper grade -- gbrigrade was shorthanded that they. they are moving on to the nation. there are three trains loaded with applied. 120,000 rations, equipment medical supplies -- everything lee's army needs. you pictures are taken by timothy o'sullivan in the late summer of 1865. the second new york advancing on the station first. there is a young fella right here named fred blodgett who was 16 years old but the veteran of a dozen bottles and writes out and pulls out his serve all over -- pulls out his revolver and you know what he said? hands up. the trains are captured. they will not leave the train right there. they will try to get him down the track. it is a volunteer army. they have previous occupations before joining the army. some of them have worked on the railroad and start to move the trains out of the area. send some artillery shells start to fall on the area of the station. where are they coming from? coming from the comma

york as it skidded off the runway in new york city. the fire department in new york city tell us all the passengers have been cleared from the plane. we see video of the situation right after. this is a first picture we've seen of passengers leaving that aircraft. our miguel marquez in laguardia reporting that there do appear to be some minor injuries, a few minor injuries. we'll get more detailed on that. want to bring in our aviation analyst mary schiavo who is learning about this just as we are. we're looking at these pictures of this delta flight, this md-80 aircraft, with its nose necessary ed into a berm off the runway here at laguardia. we don't know what happened here. we don't know if this plane had problems in the air or if the problems were just once it was on the ground because of these conditions. i don't know if you have a chance to look at these pictures right now. ice and snow on a runway, if you are landing in ice and snow, what effect does that have on an aircraft and what precautions are taken? >> it has a terrible e

york people i say new yorkers are so rough. i have eyes had great experiences. >> this is confusing. >> i spoke to big al and he -- >> favorite moment on the show was with jc and elena cheerios commercial. >> cheerios has not commented on their web site because they are getting all kinds of hate. >> if they are upset about this commercial how are they this commercial power they can to feel about the one you guys are working on? >> what is the cheerios then you are doing? >> they are part of -- pack of smart alex talking about what's going on with social media and technology. >> it sounds familiar doesn't it? >> i came to see her in new york city. >> always heals people. >> if you drive in jersey know about the dreaded traffic circle but we found a worse one. >> our favorite jersey girl made it to "american idol" top nine. she tells me she has the pipes to make janet? cough if you can hear me. don't even think about it. i took mucinex dm for my phlegmy cough. yeah...but what about mike? (cough!) it works on his cough too. mucine

york at the time and the opponent was frank o'connor who is head of the city council of new york city. so there was one ad 62nd rockefeller added during the baseball games which is all he ever watched india was three shots of white coffee on a black screen. the first was and this is statewide. frank o'connor from new york city is running for governor. site number two. frank o'connor says he thinks the subways in new york city should be free. slide three. guess who he thinks should pay for them? nobody outside the five boroughs could go for frank o'connor after that at. speed mackey also made the case how government can work for you and that is something today's republican party is i just don't much mileage further for an approach to start as the phrase came in president reagan's terms. cut the deficit. cut the budget browser and cause government programs to be unfunded. what has since been infrastructure continues to crumble? we need to pay for this to make it work. >> is there some way which nelson rockefeller in your boat richer is the first big roosevelt and harry truman you really

adam shapiro is in conklin new york. being that a match and if you had a billion dollars and you were not allowed to spend 1 penny of it. you could not touch it. that is what is happening here. joining me now is the town supervisor. it has to be incredibly frustrating for the people that live in an area that is quite honestly economically depressed. billions of dollars because they can frack. >> that is true. we see it every day and it upsets people. >> how do you get the governor to reconsider his ban on fracking? >> the first part, i do not think that he will reconsider. he was asked last month. is there anyway we can do hydraulic fracturing. >> that is allowable to be economically feasible. >> what can you do? >> keep working on it. one of the reasons you are here right now is talking about possibly being a part of pennsylvania. talking about splitting in the two states. >> we appreciate you being here. we have all these angles covered. actually possible. we spoke to a political science professor. it could happen. >>

according to "the new york times" report, one of the two piles, not clear which, left the cockpit area after the plane hit cruising altitude and never got back to the cockpit. first knocked to get access. then according to "the new york times," he knocked harder and finally you could hear the sound of -- according to "the new york times," hear the sound of someone trying to break down the door to the cockpit. of course the doors are armored. it's tell to do that. there's also a code which in an emergency a pilot can use to get back into the cockpit, entering an emergency code. it can be overridden if there's someone in the cockpit that pushes the mississippi and overrides the access to the cockpit. so some of this clears up some the mystery but add more elements of mystery. now i should say that one thing that happened in the past hour, the marseilles prosecutor has announced that he will hold a

it was an experience that -- >> welcome to new york. >> welcome to new york. >> what's your name? >> was i scared? no, i wasn't scared. >> this is our continuing rolling breaking news coverage of delta flight 1086 after it skidded off runway 13 at laguardia airport here in new york city. coming in on an approach roughly around 11: 10 this morning when it came down roughly 4,000 to 5,000 feet on that runway and veered left. we see there ending up in the berm with the nose dipping over into flushing bay. 127 passengers on board, five crew. there are 24 reported with minor injuries. three of whom were transported to the hospital at this time. we just had a port authority press conference moments ago. they gave us new details. >> with respect to passengers the chutes as we understand, did not deploy. the airport rescue and firefighting division of the port authority police was on scene, as i mentioned. there were 14 arf firefighters on scene. >> so that's just some of the press conference. we learned new details about this. we want to go straight to laguardia. treymaine lee is there.

so it is not just washington and new york. you have in the south and dallas and memphis also covered in ice. stuart: is your airline still telling you that your 3:30 flight leaves on time? >> this was a delta flight in laguardia, skidded off the runway, thank goodness no injuries as far as we know so far. my plane at 3:30 is a delta flight. i am on the delta web site as we speak in the middle of your program checking my flight status and it says on time. stuart: i don't know what dell's web site is like but i fly united a lot. if you look for the schedule, is the united flight on time, you can click a button and it tells you where the plane is coming from. if you did that with your miami flight you could tell whether or not the plane would take you down there, is on its way to take you away. >> or delayed getting into this mess at la guardia. and when you have 22 minutes left with us. you can't get out of here until 12:00 noon, 130 passengers on that flight no serious injuries. that is the good news. 300 gallons of fuel leakin

did she like new york? did she like the snus >> she loved new york. she loved diner breakfasts were one of her favorite things. she loved everything about new york. she loved broadway. she loved lincoln center. she was completely and utterly taken away with it. >> what was she like as a performer because i'm fascinated by the power you have to have as an opera singer to get your voice past the, through the orchestra, there's not microphones, to have yourself heard in these enormous auditoriums. >> that's very true. she was -- we can always talk about the beauty of her voice because it was stunningly beautiful. i think that is pretty universally acknowledged. what made her incredibly special at least for me as a performer was that she always had something to say and she always said every single word meant something to her. every single note meant something. she was a consummate musician and artist, and that voice will be very, very missed. >> when was the last time you saw her? >> before the new year. she and her partner and her baby came to visit me w

the south, new york shipbuilders built the ships, new york insurance companies. the bows review the most important southern monthly periodical before the civil war which was actually published in new york city t said new york city is as -- depends on slavery as much as charleston does. so the economy of the city was very chosely tied to that -- closely tied to that of the south, and that also led to ramifications. business interests wanted to appease the south politicians were pro-southern in their attitudes on, you know, on the sectional conflict. the abolitionist movement in new york was quite small and weak compared to other places. on the other hand, new york also had a vigorous free black community, people who were willing to take to the streets to protest the p apprehension of fugitive slaves. so in a sense, new york is a little epitome of the sectional conflict. new york is a house divided just like the nation itself. >> host: yeah, your point is well taken that there is a vibrant free black community in new york and so they're very much involved in suppor

good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. a stunning escalation in republicans' attempts to sabotage nuclear diplomacy with iran was on display today. the latest move an extreme lie unusual open letter signed by 47 republican senators written to the iranian regime essentially trucking them that any deal they reach with washington won't be worth the paper on which it is printed. quote, it has come to our attention while observing your nuclear negotiations with our government that you may not fully understand our constitutional system. we will consider any agreement regarding your nuclear weapons program that is not approved by the congress as nothing more than an executive agreement between president obama and ayatollah khomeini. the next president could revoke it with the stroke of a pen and future conditions could modify the terms of the agreement at any time" the letter was organized by senator tom cotton of arkansas who proudly admitted to a conservative audience back in january that he wanted to quash the ongoing negotiat

new york insurance companies. the review of the most the most important southern monthly periodical before the civil war which was actually published in new york city said it is as it depends on the slavery as much as charleston does. it's closely tied to that of the south and has the ramifications. they want to appease the south and politicians were pro- southern in their attitudes. they were weak compared to other places. they had vigorous community and people are willing to take to the streets to protest the apprehension of the fugitive slaves. >> host: there is a vibrant community in new york and so they are very much involved in supporting those that are arriving but free black people have a prominent role to play in the underground railroad and what happens to people when they arrived in new york. we don't know much about that report. >> guest: that is absolutely right and i try to emphasize that in my book. the vigilance communities in new york boston, etc. which are what they call themselves were almost en

. >> new york new york. eight point four million people call this city home. >> twenty-four degrees snowing hard in central park going down to twenty in midtown. snowfall one to two feet. so they're now saying we could have snow falling as rapidly as five inches an hour. >> this has been the coldest winter here in eighty-one years. and it coincides with a grim reality. more people in new york city are homeless today than at any point since the 1930s. >> it's really difficult especially to just find ways to get through day to day from you know finding clothing to finding shelter to finding you know where you're going to eat. >> tonight it's pretty hectic because of the snow outside and there's not a lot of places for us to sleep now, so everybody's kind of coming in. >> in just a decade, the number of people living in new york's homeless shelters has nearly doubled reaching 60 thousand a night last year. it's a homelessness crisis unprecedented in any american city. >> what we see today the homeless that we s

in new york city, is adds up to many millions. in philadelphia, $40 million, batt more - $12 million. that's over four years. los angeles, $54 million in the year 2011. in chicago, 450 million over a decade, and that is something that police departments like the one in richmond california want to avoid. >> what you are about to see could make the difference between life and death. >> drop the gun, richmond police, drop the gun, do it now. >> stop moving. put your hands by your head. >> do it now. >> i don't care if you shoot me. i'll kill you. >> don't move. >> drop to your knees. >>> this time it's a training exercise. next time it could be a real confrontation. that's when the challenge will be to keep an encounter like this from becoming lethal. >> i notice you use good cover, utilizing the car. i would probably talk about your approach first, perhaps maybe parking a little further back and making the approach on foot fight have given more time. >>> with the deaths of michael brown in missouri, and eric garner in new york. ques

this is @thedandymannyc from new york city. when will recreational marijuana be legal in new york? in other words, why should the rent be the only thing that's too damn high? (laughter) is that on the progressive agenda? >> not now. we did change law so we do fewer arrests for very small amounts of manner. >> larry: they don't have to go to jail if they have manner on them? >> for small amounts it's now a summons. arrests are down 65%. (applause) >> larry: how much marijuana do you have on you to be arrested? i'm asking for a friend... (laughter) >> we'll get your friend the answer. >> larry: okay, great. here's one. this one is from @chirlane. did you or did you not promise to pick up the dry cleaning over the weekend? >> this is keeping it truly 100. i was ordered to pick up the dry cleaning and i'm too scared to defy that order snore so what you're saying, mr. mayor, is black wives matter? (laughter) (cheers and applause) >> clever, clever! yes, they do. (laughter) knee>> larry: we'll be back. i have one more new trident unwrapped is the gum you love without a wrapper. welcome t

project in new york, "hamilton." it is the single hottest ticket anywhere off or on broadway winning rave reviews from everyone from andrew lloyd webber and rupert murdoch. recently i had the opportunity to talk about the genius behind "hamilton," lin-manuel miranda who has been working on this project for years. >> i'm thrilled the white house called me tonight because i'm actually working on a hip-hop album that's a concept album about the life of someone i think embodies hip-hop, treasury secretary alexander hamilton. ♪ ♪ how does the bastard orphan son of a whore and a scotsman ♪ ♪ dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot in the caribbean by providence improverished to squalor grow up to be a hero and a scholar ♪ >> guests at the white house probably weren't expecting a hip-hop performance as told by his nemesis aaron burr but that's what they got from actor and composer lin-manuel miranda. ♪ inside he was longing for something to be a part of, the brother was begging, stealing ♪ >> what they also

from comedy central world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with jon stewart. captioning sponsored by comedy central [cheers and applause] >> jon: welcome to the daily show. my name is jon stewart. our guest tonight is the great robert smigel will be joining us on tonight's program. [applause] now, earlier tonight after this taping but before the airing of this program, i was on monday night raw, which is the wres whring -- wrestling to fulfill a feud, a very powerful feud i'm having with a wrestler. so tonight i got in the ring with professional seth wallen so i can only assume this is a before picture. by the time you see this, i will have been royally [bleep] because i'm an old man who has no business doing any of this. [laughter] now you may remember back when democrats controlled the senate, the republicans controlled the house of representatives, nothing got done. grid block ruledgrid lock ruled the day. but after the republicans red wedding'd the droks last november, the outlook changed. >> the republican now has an opportunity to show we can actually go

this is @thedandymannyc from new york city. when will recreational marijuana be legal in new york? in other words, why should the rent be the only thing that's too damn high? (laughter) is that on the progressive agenda? >> not now. we did change law so we do fewer arrests for very small amounts of manner. >> larry: they don't have to go to jail if they have manner on them? >> for small amounts it's now a summons. arrests are down 65%. (applause) >> larry: how much marijuana do you have on you to be arrested? i'm asking for a friend... (laughter) >> we'll get your friend the answer. >> larry: okay, great. here's one. this one is from @chirlane. did you or did you not promise to pick up the dry cleaning over the weekend? >> this is keeping it truly 100. i was ordered to pick up the dry cleaning and i'm too scared to defy that order snore so what you're saying, mr. mayor, is black wives matter? (laughter) (cheers and applause) >> clever, clever! yes, they do. (laughter) knee>> larry: we'll be back. i have one more the banquet bottle is a piece of our history. that's because it's fill

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i went to the libraries where i'd worked before: the new york public library and new york historical. one thing leads to another leads to another leads to another, and you find yourself just following your nose. i ended up going to england to the public record office to read all the british stuff about him and about the battles that he'd fought when he was a british officer. and, of course, i went to philadelphia where he was commandant. i also went to all the places where he fought battles and went up the kennebeck river -- not every square inch of it, but a lot of it i went up. i went to lambuebec in january just to see how cold it was -- it's cold -- because that's very important to me. i think it's important to know what it feels like to be in that place, as close as you can get to it. so i tried to go to the places and i tried to go with the right season of the year. c-span: how many times was he married? >> guest: twice. c-span: how many children did he have? >> guest: he had a total of eight survivors. there were some babies that died young. three by the first wife, who was a n

we have breaking news to report tonight involving new details reportedly by "the new york times" concerning that passenger airline crash that took place in southern france yesterday. that crash killed 150 people. it has dominated headlines around the western world since it happened. well "the new york times" is reporting some new details tonight about with what transpired in the cockpit in the moments leading up to that crash. they are very troubling new details. what we have known about this crash up until tonight is that this plane, an airbus 320, taking off from barcelona, heading to dusseldorf in germany, it took off as normal yesterday morning. it reached a safe cruising altitude of 38,000 feet. it leveled off for about four minutes. and then over the next eight minutes, it went on what has been described as a controlled, fairly slow not particularly steep, straight descent. before crashing into the mountains. or crashing into the french alps, killing all 150 people onboard. what has remained unclear is why. what caused that controlled descent in the first place. what led that plane to

york and at new york hospital so i called libby and the science section of the new york times had a new editor. a woman named cornelius been. when new people come in they want to mix things up and bring in their own people. so i was one of her people. she took a liking to me and i pitched an article about a leprosy hospital in carville, louisiana. she said sure. we will send a photographer down. go down and do the story so i went to cargill and stayed two or three days and wrote this piece and it came out about three days after i started my internship and two days before i met my wife, sonya. it was an eventful week. and corey dean would say why don't you write about your internship? i said okay. it turned out to be a great indication, because in an internship everything is new. as you go on in medicine you get jaded. you see things and you start questioning but when you are and in turn everything is new is rubles a year end up with i don't give a hoot what i write. i am going to write about what i see and the things that interest me and the things i am going to question. i remember

good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. we have breaking news at this hour regarding the crash of a germanwings flight yesterday that killed all 150 people onboard. "the new york times" with a chilling report just moments ago that during the plane's fatal eight-minute descent before crashing into the french alps one of the pilot was locked out of the cockpit. quoting extensively from that cockpit voice recorder. it indicated one pilot left the cockpit before the plane's descent, and was unable to get back in. a senior military official involved in the investigation described very smooth very cool conversation between the pilots during the early part of the flight, from barcelona to dusseldorf. then the audio indicated that one of the pilots left the cockpit and could not reenter. the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door, and it there is no answer the investigator said and then he hits the door stronger. and there is never an answer. he said you can hear he is trying to smash the door down. the airbus a320 crashed abo

start building your confident retirement today. ♪ ♪ welcome to new york welcome to new york ♪ >>> i don't know about that song but i think we should start with that video. every top and bottom -- you know what i mean? >> yeah. >> the name in lights -- did you ever -- well you did think, actually, from an early age. >> i know. >> and it's just go -- >> on the marquee. >> right. >> why did i not think that -- >> it's sad. >> it's just going to go up from here. it's almost the top of the hour. we need to get important news out there. let's check on the markets this morning. and the future is down 53. yesterday it looked like it was going to be the first 100-point loss in a while. i don't think we had had one in february. >> right. yesterday, even though it was a 85-point decline it was still the biggest decline since january 3rd. >> it shows how good february was. in contrast -- something is better -- >> that's it. there it is. down 53 points down 7. i feel bad for the nasdaq. doggone it. and we didn't get pictures of carl -- remember with the hair. >> it took me back. >> he looked like he s

and, you know, with new york and l.a. they're very musical and everyone really lives there in general. but i just really wanted to live somewhere that reminded me of home. >> if this reminds her of home it's far grander than anything clarkson saw as a child. in the small town of pearl son texas. when you were growing up did you worry about money? >> we lived like prepaycheck to prepaycheck. i had this whole mentality whatever i'm going to do i just don't want to have to worry. i used to hate, money doesn't buy everything when you're little and poor. rich people say that. not poor people. i don't know one poor person says money doesn't buy you happiness. ♪ >> money problems were the least of it. her family was broken up several times. and the video for her song "because of you" is inspired by the turmoil kelly witnessed as a little girl. >> that was my musical director's daughter. >> i mean literally. >> i honestly -- i was trying not to insult you. i'm trying to be nice. okay, i was trying to be nice. figuratively. >> f

in new york, a plane carrying 130 people slid off a runway at new york's la guardia airport. we'll take you live there in just a moment. in kentucky, as many as 200