, we're going to do new york. so in each of these let me just remind you of the new york angle. the first one, george washington, he's picking a new yorker, john jay, educated just right down the road here at columbia to be his chief justice, so an obvious new york angle in that one. what makes in two words thomas jefferson president in 1800, you could say the sedition act or you could say new york. aaron burr. that's the swing state. adams and jefferson are running against each other and jefferson comes in second and then they do the rematch in 1800 and jefferson prevails and that's because he gets burr to help him win new york. new york is the swing state in that election so it's looming very, very large. it was burr against hamilton here on this island. whoever won the island would win the state, whoever won the state would win the presidency setting up this confrontation. now, i admit that the third face-off doesn't have as much of a compelling new york angle, lincoln and tawney and neither of them is quite a

york, in clinton, new york. and at the age of 14, little charlie, getting taller now, went to colgate. and made superior grades. became restless and transferred to brown university where he was elected to phi beta kappa in his junior year and graduated third in his class. so you can see that his trajectory was slightly different from roosevelt. hughes was a prodigy. he had a photographic memory and as i said, he was a superior student, even before he went to school. and continued throughout his career. on the other hand, franklin roosevelt, to talk about the differences and the contrast, was quite an indifferent student at harvard. made okay grades, but nothing special. and his great interest was the harvard crimson, the newspaper at harvard. so he didn't spend too much time studying, we think. and then he, like hughes, went off and studied law at columbia law school in new york city. hughes of course was at the top of his class. made the highest grade ever recorded on the new york bar. and franklin actually flu

i think i'm going to win new york. i think i have a chance to win new york. can you imagine if you win new york. if we beat hillary clinton i think i will win new york. if i win new york, no republican will even campaign. i think i will win new york, i really do, i mean in the general election. if somebody ever won new york it totally -- with the electoral college it totally changes the map. i think we will win new york, i really do. >> you're not going to win new york. i'm not like saying like i don't think you're going -- you're not going to win new york. the latest statewide poll just out today in new york shows hillary clinton crushing donald trump in new york, i'm not being hyperbolic, she's crushing him, beating him by 30 points in new york. obama beat romney in 2012 by 28 points insane and unstoppable competent the fact clinton is pulling ahead of donald trump more than that. donald trump keeps saying i'm going to win new york. new york is a fantasy for any republican in a year and particularly a fantasy for donald trump. he's not going to win new york

we have new york's finest and new york's bravest now we deserve new york's greatest mayor. let's encourage some real leaders to apply for the job and help put new york city back on a winning track. steve: marijuana is a dangerous drug. those are the latest findings in a study released by the u.s. drug enforcement administration. despite growing support for the station the dea has opted not to to -- no accepted medical use. the agency putting pot in the same class as heroin but plans to allow more research into the drugs possible medicinal benefits. the brain is helping paralyzed patients regain some function. steve: joining us document is from new york orthopedics and affiliate with lenox hill hospital. we have seen those exoskeleton things in use in the past couple of years. >> what we are doing here is a patient with complete spinal cord injury. you have no motor or sensory function below the injury however most of the time we have spinal cord inj vertebrae. it's not a complete lac like with an eye for a gunshot and we found in dissections up to 10% of the nurse may still

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"today in new york" starts now. debuting in a bit. very excited. good morning. 5:00 a.m. on this friday, august 19th. i'm michael gargiulo. >> i'm darlene rodriguez. storm team 4's chris cimino is here with the forecast. we'll talk about the new toy later, chris. >> we have some exciting news. storm ranger 4 out in the field this morning. out in the rockaways. you. not only a new toy for us at the weather center and how it will help you at home and give you information that you need to know. it's a unique thing. it's exciting. we'll talk more about that through the morning. weather not all that exciting. 74 in jersey city. tenafly, 69. in the city, 75 degrees. a lot of 60s. a fairly comfortable morning. a mix of sun and clos 83 by lunch time. upper 80s by the end of the day. let's see where the trouble spots are on this friday morning. here's lauren. >> we have a trouble spot out there. heading over to the long island expressway in queens, all lanes are shut down with an accident in the westbound lanes between mauri

in new york" begins at 4:30. good night. see you tomorrow. >> ryan seacrest here in rio de janeiro. if you didn't catch the action today, these are the three stories you need to know. rio, day three. we start with the host n game. always a big moment. it was magnified when silva who grew up in the city became an olympic champion in one of brazil's favorite sports. judo. >> emotion pouring out for one of rio de janeiro's. >> at the olympic aquatic stadium, the united states had a huge night. >> murphy stretching to the wall! olympic gold, gets it.

. >> hena daniels in new york, thank you. hena. >>> there are two high profile races including senators who have run-ins with donald trump. arizona senator john mccain is entered the race. they are trying to maintain control of the senate. coming up on "cbs this morning" we'll talk with cbs news political contributor mark leibovich who interviewed anthony weiner at the democratic convention last month. >>> a tropical storm warning is in effect this morning for a stretch of north carolina's outer banks. a tropical depression that's expected to become a tropical storm is forecast to leave the or coastal areas are expected to see wind gusts of up to 45 miles per hour and flood-producing rain. folks along florida's gulf coast are preparing for another tropical depression that could hit later this week. it has sustained winds of 35 miles per hour that's headed west. but expected to curve back towards the florida gulf coast. thursday night's preseason game and washington is rescheduled. >>> hurricane madeline has storms of 123 mile

discover something one of a kind in new york. york. it's all here. it's only here. >>> police release new images of a subway attacker who was wearing an mta uniform, and the nypd says the suspect seen in nicholas subway station last week, and police say he put a sharp object to the victim's neck and stole his backpack before running off. the victim was not seriously hurt, and investigators do not believe the suspect is an mta worker. if you recognize him, call police. >>> a terrifying robbery in texas caught on camera. three masked men fire shots and send the customers and employees running. the employee gets behind the the armed men try to fire off shots to get in, but when they couldn't get in, all three ran off. >>> jeff smith is in for bill with the accuweather forecast. >> reporter: if you're north of the city, you may have been woke up by the thunderstorms. nothing going on in midtown manhattan, and i think that will stay that way through the morning hours. the storms to the north in the city. temperatures 71, humidity up the wind coming off th

. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> several major wildfires are burning out of control this morning in california and putting tens of thousands of homes at risk. the three big fires are the chimney, the blue cut burned more than 25,000 acres so far after breaking out tuesday morning. the fire is just 4% contained. and 82,000 people have been told to evacuate. tom wade of our los angeles station kcbs reports. >> reporter: good morning. as you can see behind me, there are still many hot spots burning near the town of wrightwood. here is a critical defense line the inferno raced on for a second night in san bernardino county. fire crews are paying particular attention to the ski town of wrightwood where flames are inching closer and closer to home. >> hopefully, these guys will take care of it and then we can be safe because we got no place to go. >> reporter: the blue cut fire has already managed to scorch thousands of acres and destroyed countless homes, many in the town of

that began here in new york city. two officers in my city were murdered in direct response to the garner case. a gentleman traveled from baltimore with the intent of killing officers in a misguided response to the garner incident. that was the beginning of so many of the issues that are on the forefront of papers today. we are aware and concerned about that. i have just spent in the last , month i just spent $7.5 million buying 20,000 ballistic helmets and 6000 heavy-duty ballistic vests that officers would wear to stop a rifle round from an ar-15. we are providing phenomenal amounts of training. unfortunately that is the state of american policing in terms of the terrorist threat that we have to be prepared. the active suitor -- shooter situation. the potential for what we saw in dallas and baton rouge. charlie: turning back to terrorism. john miller, terrorism and intelligence. is the most troubling issue the idea of the lone wolf because there is no connection to intelligence? intelligence reporting. cmsr. bratton:

only in new york. new york. it's all here. it's only here. plan your summer vacation at iloveny.com alison: you might think the best athletes are in rio, but we can argue the real talent is in the runners in london who have classic. chug a 12 ounce beer and run a lap. the winner finished in four minutes and 34 seconds. >> you can pour one after the vcr. this is the first month since their invention that they're no longer being made. what's out there is all that's left. christal young set out to say goodbye and found there are still businesses out there that depend on vcrs. the vcr had a good run but it's time to say goodbye. rest in peace. >> i got rid of it 10 years ago. >> the world's largest manufacturer of vcr's is calling it quits. how no, stalgic you are dependsn how old you are. >> when the format hit our didn't take long before vhs tapes ruled. the price was 70 bucks. vcr's were a pretty penny. >> they cost almost a thousand dollars. it was insane. to have one was a really big deal. >> reporter: an entire industry grew from the invent

we're also going to be talking about the new york angle on all of this because this is the new york historical society. and, yes, why is this night different from all others? well, here is one thought, it's only really this week that has become, i think, pretty apparent that the upcoming presidential election will be a subway series between two -- not just two new yorkers, but basically two people head quartered in manhattan. shades of burr and hamilton. and -- and why am i mentioning a new -- a presidential election given professor that this is a conversation about the supreme court? well, there inn lies my first of five points and it's going to be about the interesting relationship between presidents and justices. and not only -- and i will work my way up to the present moment, but not only is this going to be an election between two new yorkers for the presidency, but the supreme court really is the on the ballot and new york plays a big role in that because the person who is right now the nominee for the vacant spot is a man who learned his law, learned how to be a judge basical

2016, donald trump touting success in new york, as new york city was a disaster. we made it great, i want to jump start america and it can be done. the rich pay their fair share, but no one will pay so much that it destroys jobs. >> trump made remarks in detroit while unveiling a tax plan calls for cutting the corporate tax rate to 15% for individuals there would be 3 tax brackets, instead current 7. >>> democratic candidate hilary clinton toured a brewery in florida today where she blasted trump's planks as nothing more than trickle down economics and predicted it would plunge the economy back in to a recession. clinton plans to discuss her own economic plan next week. >>> here in the city, new city bike stations installed on a block that hasn't seep traffic some neighbors not so happy about the bicycles, cbs 2 demanding answers. >>> a wild crash on the bqe causing quite the buzz. the tractor trailer overturned, spilling beer everywhere. a long island woman gets an extra dose of ground hogs days she is having a hard time getting rid of these relentless rodents. >

. >> hena daniels in new york, thank you. hena. >>> there are two high profile races including senators who have run-ins with donald trump. arizona senator john mccain is and in florida, marco rubio entered the race. they are trying to maintain control of the senate. coming up on "cbs this morning" we'll talk with cbs news political contributor mark leibovich who interviewed anthony weiner at the democratic convention last month. >>> a tropical storm warning is in effect this morning for a stretch of north carolina's outer banks. a tropical depression that's expected to become a tropical storm is forecast to l coastal areas are expected to see wind gusts of up to 45 miles per hour and flood-producing rain. folks along florida's gulf coast are preparing for another tropical depression that could hit later this week. it has sustained winds of 35 miles per hour that's headed west. but expected to curve back towards the florida gulf coast. thursday night's preseason game and washington is rescheduled. >>> hurricane madeline has s

news 4 new york at 11:00 starts right now. we have to get right to that breaking scene in the bronx. good evening, everyone. i'm david ushery. >> and i'm sibila vargas. a man shot and killed in a beauty salon as customers watched in horror. news 4 checkey beckford. >> reporter: sibila, police sources telling us it started as a dispute over money and ended with that dead. you can just imagine the chaos inside that narrow beauty salon here as bullets started flying and people tried to find cover inside the business. you can see inside there. there's still evidence markers and crime scene tape inside as detectives continue to collect evidence tonight. surrounded by yellow crime tape, the believe beauty spa was the scene of a deadly shooting. a man shot multiple times inside the east tremont street salon as get shot, people still die, and it is something that i wish could stop. >> reporter: police sources say the victim, 29-year-old julio lebron had come to the salon earlier in the day demanding money from the owner. the two even

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headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> well, this morning, donald trump is taking on all comers. he is refusing to endorse senior members of the republican party. he is responded to a blistering denouncement by president obama. and he is refusing to back down from his battle with the muslim family of a u.s. soldier killed in iraq. hena daniels is here in new york with all of the fallout. >> reporter: good morning. fresh off his feud with the parents of that fallen muslim american soldier, donald trump is reopening old wounds within his own party. this time for refusing to endorse two powerful gop leaders in their re-election bids this month. the latest we need very strong leadership and i'm just not quite there yet. appearing on fox news, trump expressed similar reservations about senator mccain. >> and, you know, i've never been a big fan of john mccain and i just hate the way our veterans have been treated by john and other people. i hate it. >> reporter: just this week, bot

and squabbling in new york. and he is very interested in moving beyond that, uniting the various republican factions, conservatives, liberals, moderates, and bringing them together as one powerful unit. he does a good job of this. he will organize a topdown organization as we talked about just a moment ago, dewey is tough. and he is going to be very efficient in administration and there is a top down organization. there will be policies that are planned by a few top leaders. but dewey oftentimes is the one pushing the agenda. he's the one engaged in the debates. he's the one setting what is going to be done. there would be room for disagreement and he would listen, but the disagreement should never, he believes, spill out into the newspapers. or spill out into public. this was something that was internal and he expected those around him to toe the line. so he wages a very efficient administration, and really shapes the republican party to do what he wants it to do. so the result is going to be that the republica

ehre in new york. hamilton came from a place that marked him, and he moved to a place that continued to mark him. he never graduated from columbia. the revolution had happened, and he left his college to fight. he started in a student militia company, and he became a captain of an artillery company. he was noticed by george washington, on his staff as a kernel, where he served for four years. and finally, at the end of the fighting, given a deal to manage the battle of yorktown. after the war, he came back to new york. made his money as a lawyer, but he also briefly served in the new york assembly, and in the continental congress. he was sent as a delegate to the constitutional convention in philadelphia in 1787. he was not a very regular in his attempts. but after the constitution was written, he took up the job of campaigning for it in the newspapers. and here,'s performance was stellar. he organized a series of essays, we would now call them op-ed in the new york newspapers. acause it was crucial, c

i rather be senator from new york and control the port of new york currencies coming in. the custom house of new york appoints his good body - body -- chester author is the director -- hayes say conkling is a -- he's feared and obeyed and he's personally incredibly vain. he wears his red coat and always has his thick hair in the center of his forward. he has one major detractor in the united states' congress. that's the former congressman and now senator from maine, james g. blaine. >> why can our politicians talk like that? conkling vows that the only goal he has was to be president. if i can keep blaine from becoming president then my life's ambitions are accomplished. 1880, hayes is not running for reelection, blaine announces he wants to run for president. congling says, i got to block. in order to block him, you need a candidate. grant, now, this raises some questions. gorge washington says he only serves two terms. the question was since grant served two terms and left and if he comes back and runs again, is that okay? >> this was before franklin roosevelt and of th

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now he's taken to a whole new level. "today in new york" starts now. good morning everybody. 4:30 a.m. tuesday morning, august 2nd. i'm darlene rodriguez. >>> i'm michael gargiulo. storm team 4's raphael miranda is here in for chris who has the weather headlines. raphi? >> we're still dealing with this tuesday morning. you can see on the satellite and radar picture, heavy rain well north of new york city. sullivan county, ulster county. thunder and lightning waking you up early this morning. we're almost in the clear in terms of the rain. 71 degrees outside and still on the muggy side. it gets better as the day goes on. even more sunshine by the end of the day. want to bring the umbrella to be on the safe side. looks like a beautiful finish. 75 degrees at 7:00. we'll look at the ten-day forecast in a few. lauren scala is here with the early commute. hey, lauren. >> good morning. fastrack maintenance on the l train. still in service in both directions between broadway junction and lore more street. as far as other overnight track work out there, the 1,

that was bill in pawling, new york. mike, stanton island, new york. >> caller: yes. i'd like to ask mr. smith, if mr. dewey had won the 1944 election, what would his policy as far as ending the war? >> 1944 did you say? >> caller: yeah. >> mike? okay. >> i think, well, you know, it's a fair question, but i think if you look at the calendar and you see where the armies were in january of 1945, i think at that point, obviously, the nazi defeat was only a question of time. the larger question, of course, of for example, yalta, how dewey might have conducted diplomacy differently if it had been him meeting churchill and stalin. >> and what about the atomic bomb? do you think dewey would have done that? >> you know, it's hard for me to believe that any president, after we'd spent $2 million to do this thing, knowing that if he didn't use the bomb, and if the war were prolonged, quite frankly, he'd be subject to impeachme impeachment. i mean, what was the point of -- you know, i mean, i think this retrospective argument over truman and whether it was moral to use the bomb

headquarters in new york. good to be with you. i'm meg oliver in for anne-marie green. >>> a kansas water slide park will be closed today after the death of a young boy. the waterslide is the highest, 17 stories high and park officials who say the rides are inspected daily are searching for answer. brian webb in new york is here. in july 2014 after several delays that included extra safety testing. since then, thousands of people have stood in long lines to take the ride and there haven't been any reports of problems until today. a day after the tragic death of caleb schwab at kansas city's schlitterbahn water park, officials have yet to determine what happened. >> a full investigation is under way. right now, our focus is on that family. killed on the waterslide sunday afternoon. the ride certified as the world's tallest by the guinness book of world records features 168-feet plunge at 65 miles an hour. 264 stairs lead to the top. >> our lifeguards are critical and it will be very difficult for them to focus

kenneth craig, cbs news, new york. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories. one of hillary clinton's top aides huma abedin says she is leaving her husband, former congressman anthony weiner after another sexting episode. and republican donor and fund-raiser meg whitman hits the campaign trail today for hillary clinton. whitman meets with business leaders in denver. >>> and tropical storm warnings are posted pour most of north carolina's outer banks. a tropical depression that is expected to gain strength is likely to make landfall later today. heavy rain and flooding is predicted. another storm for florida's gulf coast. in the pacific, two hurricanes are headed for hawaii and may also pose a threat later this week. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," crowd control. questions about how to keep the public safe amit panic during a security crisis. >>> plus, we'll meet a judge who received a life-saving kidney donation from another judge. and we talk to legend area author tom wolfe about his new book "the kingdom of speech." that is the "cbs morning news" for th

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i'd rather be senator from new york and control the port of new york currency coming in. the customs house of new york, conkling appoints his good buddy to be in charge, a man by the name of chester a. arthur. yes, the same guy who becomes president of the united states. who is seen as so corrupt but he runs the customs house in new york. hayes then tries to remove chester arthur as the port collector of new york and conkling blocks it. hayes says conkling is a thoroughly rotten man because he keeps this corrupt system going in new york. conkling is feared, he is slavishly obeyed, he is secretly despised. he's personally incredibly vain. he wears canary yellow waist coats and always has his thick wavy hair in a split curl in the center of his forehead. he has one major detractor in the united states congress and that is the former congressman and now senator from maine, james g. blaine. blaine ridicules conkling for, quote, his disdain, his grand duous swell, his majestic overpowering turkey gobbler strut. why can't our politicians today talk like that? conkling vows the

. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> several major wildfires are burning out of control this morning in california and putting tens of thousands of homes at risk. the three big fires are the chimney, clayton and the exple the blue cut burned more than 25,000 acres so far after breaking out tuesday morning. the fire is just 4% contained. and 82,000 people have been told to evacuate. tom wade of our los angeles station kcbs reports. >> reporter: good morning. as you can see behind me, there are still many hot spots burning near the town of wrightwood. here is a critical defense line for firefighters. they need to make sure these the inferno raced on for a second night in san bernardino county. fire crews are paying particular attention to the ski town of wrightwood where flames are inching closer and closer to home. >> hopefully, these guys will take care of it and then we can be safe because we got no place to go. >> reporter: the blue cut fire has already managed to scorch t

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in mantouk, news 4 new york. >>> breaking news. in the killing of the new york city woman attacked while out for a run near her mother's home in massachusetts. police reveal new clues just minutes ago. natalie is in the newsroom to tell us more. >> david, here just in the past 45 minutes, we learned there was a struggle between 27-year-old killer, who theybelieve. the killer may have injured, and they want people to pay attention to this. this comes four days after the new york city google employee was found dead after she had gone for a jog on sunday afternoon near her mother's home in princeton, massachusetts. police have been searching for clues in a wooded area they're now focused on a narrow timeline of 1 to 3:00 p.m. on that day, looking into cars that might have been parked on brook they reiterated the killer might be injured. >> evidence and information that we have in this case, again, leads us to believe that there was a struggle between vanessa and her assailant that led to scratches, cuts, scrapes, and/or bruises. >> we

>>> right now on news 4 new york, danger in the park. violent crime on the rise in some of the places new yorkers trust to be safe. and you parks are seeing a big spike in assaults and robberies. >> tonight, 4 investigators where you and your family could be at risk. here's news 4's natalie pasquarella. >>> everyone hold hands. hold hands. hold hands. >> reporter: very shara, a camp counselor in flushing meadows park, nothing is more important than protecting her kids. >> like the little buggers. want to keep them safe. >> reporter: of all parks in the city, flushing meadows ranks startling numbers from the nypd show that while violent crime has dropped citywide, down 50% in central park, it's up 23% in other parks. >> we've never seen a jump like this before. >> reporter: jeff croft is president of new york parks advocates, which crunched the latest nypd crime reports comparing the most recent nine months to the same period last year. it found rapes were up 40%, felony assault jumped 34%, and robberies spiked 15%. >> 417 victim of viole

and squabbling in new york. and he is very interested in moving beyond that, uniting the various republican factions, conservatives, liberals, moderates, and bringing them together as one powerful unit. he does a good job of this. he organizes a top down organization, as we talked about a moment ago, dewey is tough. and he is going to be a very efficient in administration and there is a top down organization. there will be policies that are planned by a few top leaders. but dewey oftentimes is the one pushing the agenda. he's the one engaged in the debates. he's the one setting what is going to be done. there would be room for disagreement and he would listen, but the disagreement should never, he believes, spill out into the newspapers. or spill out into public. this was something that was internal and he expected those around him to toe the line. so he wages a very efficient administration, and really shapes the republican party to do what he wants it to do. so the result is going to be that the republican par

"today in new york." >>> good morning. pay for play. donald trump asks for a special prosecutor to investigate hillary clinton after a watchdog group accuses of her of giving clinton foundation owners special access when she was secretary of state. shocked by the vast scope of hillary clinton's criminality. >>> on late night, clinton laughed off trump's unfounded claims that she's in failing health. >> it's part of the wacky strategy. just say all these crazy things and maybe you can get some people to believe you. >>> deadly encounter. a north carolina trooper shoots and kills a deaf driver. after a traffic stop turns into a chase. that officer now on leave.

"news 4 new york at 5:00" starts right now. police are scheduled to hold a news conference just one hour from now. good evening, everyone. i'm david ushery. >> and i'm sibila vargas. this was the crowd of nearly 1,000 people who gathered in brooklyn to pay respect to the imam and his associate. new york with details new at 5:00. >> reporter: as you indicated, we expect to get an update on the investigation, including an individual in custody. we expect to hear that update at 6:00 from the mayor and top police officials. behind me is a big city parking lot, and they needed every inch of it to hold the outpouring this afternoon. we're only a west of the murder scene. they lined up to pray and share some words about the imam and his assistant just two days after a killer shot them from behind. an imam and his assistant had been walking not far from their mosque. surveillance video shows the gunman walking up to the men in broad daylight and shooting them from behind. today community leaders here >> the muslim community has lost a

new york city will be the dividing line. eastern new york cooler and hot for everybody. the cooler spots will feel like 90, 95 degrees. we will be sweating again around here. what we are not sweating is strong high pressure system, giving us a good loo brighter picture than new york city and down around ocean county, more clouds now. it's going to be problem fee for the nighttime hours. down to the south, is the spin off the pan handle of florida. it's also keeping this from moving on shore, if this stays offshore, nobody is watching this but me. i worked in this area for a long time. i get suspicious when i watch something stalled offshore. potential to develop. for you. a look at what is off to the west. the rain chance and heat and humidity. the heat dome moves in, by the time we get to wednesday, let me show you how the numbers are going to come together. the rain chance comes back and the halt comes back and temperature goes up. 87 wednesday, thunderstorm chance back to the picture. wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, it's a typical summer pattern with up

he campaigns around upstate new york. he turns out the new york city vote. he wins by a very slight margin. he gets in there. in 1920, the legislature crosses its arms and says we will not do any of these things. peter: the republican legislature? john evers: the republican assembly and senate. smith starts the campaign by saying, we will have a reconstruction commission capitalizing on the transition from a wartime economy to the private sector economy. he starts saying he is going to strengthen -- we are going to bond so we can have capital improvement spread out for many years instead of the infrastructure starts to crumble. he has a lot of these great ideas. the legislature says this guy will never win in 1920. that will be the presidential year. back then, new york governors ran at the same time the president ran. the coattails were long. smith gets reelected in 1920. he has very little to show -- he loses in 1920. he has very little to show what he goes up in 1920. they run a very conservative, upstate republican who wins. sure enough, al smith goes aw

the new york times has been so biased. i recently read two editorials by her own editors bemoaning the bias. when i hear you talking about the think tanks, if you was substitute the new york times tanks and the dnc your statements would be a hundred percent correct. as far as someone holding up a think tank report, the new york times is the gold standard, if someone reads it in the new york times people think it is beyond reproach. my question is, are we going to be reading articles in the next couple of weeks about how i is your report is? those i agree that reporters -- as reporters we have an obligation only interviewed think tank scholars and potentially quote them in our stories to know what their financial connection is with the industry that they are talking about. we don't know that. we are quoting them as authorities and giving them a platform in our news stories without fully understanding their financial relationships. that can make our stories bias. we as a newspaper biased? the newspaper is a collection of --

"good day new york". (vo) it'd be great to take a break from the expected, virtually. y from the new york lottery. fios is not cable. we're wired differently, which means we can fix things differently. thanks for calling fios. this is ryan. you can't tell me this cord isn't in. i know it's in. it's in, but it's not working. i'm sending you a link to the my fios app that going to let me see what you're seeing. really? yes, mr. mcenroe... see that cord? just plug it into the connector on the right. i like that. tech support that lets your technician see the problem over your smartphone. only from fios. island ferry. i would not be surprised if he is up early, it is a beautiful day, 7:30 in the morning, go back and forth on the staten island ferry. antwan: it will be a steamy day, maybe thunderstorms. rosanna: too hot and humid, that is my take on things. i didn't study any you go outside, you can feel it. i know somebody else was studying the radar and has keen observations. i put my head outside the window

this is new york in 1789. we are standing in front of federal hall looking towards these river of new york. and the city even then, although the buildings were four or five stories high has some of the bustle and teaming qualities that it's had for the last 200 years. federal hall, even though the appearance i will show you look very classical, it is here. this is another image of new york and it may be somebody in this audience -- i would bet a who knows this house is standing at the manhattan end of the hall and tom. -- holland tunnel. it is not there anymore. this is where vice president john adams rented for the two sessions when the congress met in new york. this is to convey some sense of how rural and be collect manhattan was in 1789. the city ended about where new york city hall is today. if you went beyond city hall you are going out of town. and this stood -- this building stood approximately 1.5 miles maybe two miles from new york city. when members of the first congress needed a break, and that was

4 new york at 6:00" starts now. good evening, i'm chuck scarborough. >> and i'm natalie pasquarella. two people are dead this evening, 16 injured. two new jersey transit buses collided. >> it happened this morning at 6:00. an empty bus traveling at high speed t-boned another bus filled with passengers. the impact nearly split it in half, leaving people trapped in the twisted metal. investigators are trying to figure out whyt still fighting for their lives. >> reporter: chuck, this crash involved two veteran bus drivers, one of whom was already on his route here along broad street. the other just left the iron bound garage and was traveling down raymond boulevard at speeds of which witnesses say over 50 miles an hour. >> reporter: was it a medical one? >> he flew by me like he was driving on the highway. >> reporter: just after 6:00 a.m., the number 59 bus t-boned the number 13 as it ran northbound on broad street with 17 passengers on board. they all went to the hospital with a variety of injuries. the driver later

syracuse, new york. and towns not big enough. and he had relatively sometimes, major figures on the way up, and both george burns, and actually mae west also claims that he helped her, gave her, her start on stage. the point about all this, is he wasn't a nobody. but he kept his dreams always surpassed his income. [laughter] >> in 1904 he had the dream, enough with the surkit it's time for the bernstein circuit. he gathered together 17 theaters, in places like scranton, harrisburg, and guaranteed them split fee entertainment. bernstein production and it worked like a charm until he had to change acts. the fact is, that in vaudeville, the only way to get people coming back, is there had to be something new each monday. and the problem was, the gate receipts weren't big enough to book a second tier of good acts. so he had to book a second tier of very bad eangts. [laughter] >> the gate receipts such, that there was only enough money for one train ticket out of town. [laughter] >> i will let you guess who got it. in vaudeville he sp

headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> today, hillary clinton is outlining her economic plan in detroit. meanwhile, her opponent, donald trump, is claiming the current create the world's most feared terror group. >> isis is honoring president obama. he is the founder of isis. he is the founder of isis. is. >> the white house hasn't responded to that claim yet. in the meantime, trump is taking clinton to task for a guest at her rally, while someone front brian webb reports. >> reporter: directly behind donald trump is disgracer republican congressman mark foley. he resigned in 2006 amid allegations he sent text messages to boys that served as pages. donald trump criticized clinton for her own event where the father of the orlando nightclub killer sat behind her. >> wasn't it terrible that the father of the animal that killed the wonderful people i was sitting with a big smile on his face right behind hillary clinton? >> reporter: the clinton campaign said he was is not invited.

kenneth craig, cbs news, new york. >>> here's another look at this morning's top stories. one of hillary clinton's top aides huma abedin says she is leaving her husband, former congressman anthony weiner after another sexting episode. fund-raiser meg whitman hits the campaign trail today for hillary clinton. whitman meets with business leaders in denver. >>> and tropical storm warnings are posted pour most of north carolina's outer banks. a tropical depression that is expected to gain strength is likely to make landfall later today. heavy rain and flooding is predicted. another storm for florida's gulf coast. in the pacific, two hurricanes are headed for hawaii and may also pose a threat later this week. >>> coming up on "cbs this morning," crowd control. questions about how to keep the public safe amit panic during a security crisis. >>> plus, we'll meet a judge who received a life-saving kidney donation from another judge. and we talk to legend area author tom wolfe about his new book "the kingdom of speech." that is the "cbs morning news" for this morning. thanks for wa

john: he did well in new york. he always did well in new york city. he did extraordinarily well in his own district. but he just couldn't make it up over the whole state. the other question, what was the other? peter: well, did he win new york city? do you know off hand if he won in 1928? john: oh, i don't recall. i don't think he did. peter: not even in new york city? john: new york city also had outer boroughs that had republican dominance, which is still the case in staten island. but in but in pockets of queens as well. peter: social security? john: the issue on social security is something that smith had tried to implement in new york state when it came to widows and orphans' pensions. he tried to experiment with health insurance for industrial workers, and he also tried to do all kinds of social security issues when it came to trying to support those that were downtrodden, make-work projects were something that he had experimented with, and it might have been one of those programs he would have carried into the new deal had he won. johnprof. gag

welcome to "good day new york." lei, congratulations.p>> absolu excited to be here and back in new york. i was in cleveland, it is a horrible town. i am excited to be and not just because my name is on most of the rosanna: nobody thought you would be where you are and you are getting closer and closer to the white house. >> i am getting closer and i am going to win. i'm not going to live in the white house. i refuse to live in government housing. we are going to bulldoze down the white house and make a fantastic trump hotel and incredible. greg: make america great again, how are you going to do it? it is going to be really, really amazing i have to tell you. greg: can you get specific here? >> i can't get specific because hillary will steal everything i have. rosanna: i am concerned about the wall across mexico. it is amazing. we are putting in an incredible trump hotel on top and the side. it is incredible. greg: we saw the pictures of the first lady of the united states, your wife on the front of the new york post

prior to that he served as head of new york city's transit police in 1990. the commissioner is a vietnam army veteran and his distinctive boston accent shows his roots as a beat cop there in 1980. he is married to ricky cleman. they saw corruption investigations involving top brass. as recently as this morning, there were city hall protest calling for his resignation. there have been ongoing interact with various communities. taking over is chief of department james o'neil. and o'neil has been a cop with nypd since 1983. sources tell us and tell political reporter that bratton appears to have a new job lined up already, finalizing a lucrative private sector offer. we will have much more for you at 5:00. >> all right, dave carlin in the newsroom for us. thank you. you're looking at a live picture of city hall where de bratton's resignation officially. we'll bring the announcement live and as soon as it happens here on this broadcast. >>> to health concerns over the zika outbreak. issues authorized a travel warning to miami where mosquitoes are suspected of tr

"nightly news" begins right now. >> announcer: from nbc news headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt. >> good evening, it is late at night in central italy where an urgent effort is still under way to free possible survivors in an earthquake that has killed people. >>> and officials are assessing the damage from at least two powerful tornadoes that rolled through late today hitting homes and businesses and cutting off power to thousands. much of the region is under a tornado watch until late evening. let's get details from miguel almaguer. >> reporter: as the first reported tornado steam rolled through central indiana late cover. some had nowhere to go and no time to go. >> oh, my gosh, starbucks just got run over and no people in there. >> reporter: a menacing twister knocked off the coffee shop in seconds and you can see the roof crashing down with some trapped inside. help arrived quickly. >> me and two other guys managed to pop the door hinges off and get everybody out. >> reporter: the fast moving storm flew across the midwestern flames close to p.m. roofs

news4 new york. >> that does it for us. thank you for watching. >>> stay with us as the news with a cop's weapon. how they're trying to warn about a troublemaker. >> plus, bike ring bust. a group of teenage thieves go on a brazen bicycle robbery spree. >> and a jogger murdered. the community where carina died. staged a mass robbery in hoboken. the target, bicycles. >> yeah. on these exclusive pictures you'll see in a moment, they did have bolt cutters and there were ten juveniles from the bronx to union city. this, a big haul for hoboken police. >> quite a haul. eight stolen sgik likely more. >> it was like they owned the place. >> they're working in through a parking lot. cutting the chain on this gate. that gave them access to the garage. a target rich buffet of bikes. an offduty officer injured in shoved into a moving car. >> outside police headquarters, family members as young as 13 declined to talk. >> no comment. >> the other adult, jorge, talked with me exclusively to proclaim his innocence. >> we saw a group of kids

order for students in new york. what it is and the question "news 4 new york at 5:00" starts right now. concerns tonight from the family of the driver accused of speeding in the deadly l.i.e. crash. good evening, everybody. i'm david ushery. >> and i'm sibila vargas. tonight 4 investigates is uncovering new information. marc santia is in dix hills with the details. >> reporter: today marked the first of six funerals. answers. on this grassy median where their cousins died, this family is trying to piece together events of that deadly day. >> we just had to kind of come out and see for ourselves. >> reporter: this family stresses they do not believe carmelo was going excessively fast. >> everybody is assuming it was speed and he must have been going 100 miles an hour doesn't necessarily mean that was true. >> reporter: the family is raising concerns about the cable barriers and steel plates near this bridge. >> i want the county and state authorities to see exactly what's going on with the construction and the plates