the authors go to lmy.net.edu. flsh >> mr. yum greenbrier is the author. when you think of new york city in the 50s and 60s, what do you think of? >> guest: human. well, i think that new york in the post world war ii period was in a position of people sentence, really in the united states, and as portions were rising for a time, i think it was a famous kind of working-class city, to quote another book by joshua freeman, and it was a city that had had a lot of business during world war ii and its industries had been employing many new yorkers, and it was also a growing media capital. it was expanding its office infrastructure. it was growing in the citing of the united nations, getting international attention, and politically, and was part of -- it was sort of the capital of the resurgent u.s. following world war ii. yes, very much. so its star was rising. >> host: what happened to new york in the 1970s? >> guest: well, it's a complicated question that has global, national, reasons behind it. it was a period of crisis on many levels, and it was a period that began really in the 1960s. and

horrible air disaster here in new york city today. a sightseeing helicopter carrying a group of italian tourists collided in midair with a small single engine private plane. tonight, a total of nine people are feared dead. it hand in clear skies above the hudson river. stunned onlookers on both sides of river watched as the aircraft fell to the water and hurled debris onto the new jersey water front. we have two reports on the collision and the many safety questions it is sure to prompt. let's start with nbc's jeff rossin here in manhattan with the latest. jeff? >> lester, good evening to you. here's what we know at this hour and the story is still developing into the evening. the helicopter took off around noon today from here at the heliport on the west side of manhattan just seconds after takeoff, authorities say it collide with that small plane over the hudson river, between new jersey and new york city. witnesses say they heard a big boom. tonight police divers are in the water searching for bodies. >> the midair collision was so violent both the airplane and helicopter are

a rock into the hudson. >> police along new york's hudson river watched in horror. >> like in the movies. it was turning and then the head went down first. about three, four seconds later, i thought it was a wing of the helicopter, probably the blades. >> within minutes, divers combed the murky water, but sadly, mayor michael bloomberg whicheverdelivers the bad news. there appear to be no survivors. >> this has change from a rescue to a recovery mission. >> what went wrong? we investigate right now on cnn. we start with breaking news. a pleasant sight seeing trip on new york city -- over new york city ends in tragedy. you're looking live at new york's hudson river where divers and investigators are desperately looking for bodies and wreckage from a mid air collision. it happened just about noon eastern time. right now, nine people appear to be dead in all of this, including a child. a child that was on board the plane, an italian tourists on board the helicopter. and you can see it is a very clear day in new york city. the sun is going down. at the time of the crash, thousands of

, they go to college, they get a job, they leave town, they are nowhere in new york where you live, and they get moving again and you are back home in bismarck, and the children love to be with you and what not, but they are in phoenix or some other place and they can't come to see you, and you as parents, is a huge effort to see them. the interaction, the decline is rapid in these families. so what ensues is what i call families of collateral relos. these are parents who follow their kids, and they go, for example, outside atlanta, a place called the season's. in this particular community it might be called the winter. but they follow their kids to what are called active adult communities. they are all back together. then the kids get moved again. and the parents get older and they are now living in a place they know nothing about, where they note nobody and they cankn get back to bismarck. it was a striking phenomenon to me. >> your book talks about the end of the relos era. i wanted to know if you -- is there an end to the relos era and what will take place and what will you name it?

along new york's hudson river watch in horror. >> like in the movie. and they start, it was turning, and then the head went down first. about three, four second later, i thought it was the wing of the helicopter, probably the rotor blade. >> within minutes. divers combed the murky walters. sadly, mayor michael bloomberg delivers the bad news. there appear to be no survivors. >> this has changed from a rescue to a recovery mission. >> what went wrong? we investigate right now on cnn. >>> hello, everyone. i'm don lemon. following breaking news. a pleasant sight seeing trip in new york ends in tragedy. you are looking live now at new york's hudson river. where divers and investigators are looking for body and wreckage from a midair collision that happened noon eastern team today. right now, nine people appear to be dead. and all this according to the mayor. they include a child on board the plane, an italian tourist aboard a helicopter. you can see very clear in new york as dusk settles there. thousand out and about in both new york city and new jersey. witnessing all this as it happen

as cnn confirms through variable sources, the faa as well as sources in the new york/new jersey area, that a helicopter, a tourist helicopter collided with a small plane there and many eyewitnesses who joined us throughout the last half hour described various things. these two aircrafts colliding and simply swirling and twirling into the hudson river there rescue teams were on their way to respond. according to one eyewitness, she says there was nothing buoyant. it didn't appear as though any remnants of the aircraft or even the helicopter were at the surface of that water. divers have been seen descending into the water trying to find signs of life. at least six people may have been onboard that tourist helicopter. it's unclear how many may have been onboard that small aircraft. joining us is scott schuman who was actually walking in the vicinity there with family members. heard this loud bang and then saw this twist of these two aircrafts descend into the water. scott, give me an idea of what you are seeing now. >> right now i see a bunch of boats in the water. there seems to be le

didn't. i missed that. >> it's hard in new york city with all the lights. but if you live in a rural area, the best meteor showers on the earth. it will happen midnight to 5:00. we're running out of window do you want to look outside. we have walt of clouds in the east. that's blocking the views of some people trying to see it overnight. we are looking at a tiny area of rain over west virginia, southern virginia, right along our front. high pressure in the great lakes. great day from detroit to chicago. early morning clouds in new england but should be a nice afternoon. where the humid is south of the front we have showers and storms. beckley, bloomfield, pushing its way to roanoke. later this afternoon, with the heat in the southeast, we'll pop up more showers and afternoon storms. nothing too steer. new york, 77. easily up to mid to upper 80s. same with d.c., norfolk. one of the hotter spots in the deep south. we're talking mid-90s before the storms arrive, charleston, savannah, along the beaches. orlando, 93. a quick moving shower or storm. shouldn't ruin any of your plans outside

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found some type of debris. you can see the boats, new york police departments are the white and blue ones and gray and orange boats are coastguard. they have been in and out of the water. scuba divers with the nypd all day long. we've seen them pulling out baskets the sides of a stretcher. we cannot fell from our vantage point what they are pulling out. we have heard that at least two bodies have been recovered. on the other side of the river, you heard the mayor saying this was not a survivable crash. five italian tourists and one pilot was in tour helicopter. and the others in the small plane. this is a dangerous part of the hudson river. water is very deep and murky, 60 feet in some places that we are watching this effort going on right now. there are a lot of questions, a lot of people talking about the type of communication, radio frequencies, air to air frequency going on between the helicopter and airplane. apparently there was none. witnesses have been telling us since we arrived, they saw the crash and heard the crash. they saw the blades of the chopper go into the water. th

. >> when i'm in houston fixing roofs, i'll still be applying for jobs in new york. hopefully, i can come back and hit it out of the ballpark. >> reporter: in the meantime, he's packing for texas, just one of 15 million americans out of work, doing what he can to survive. and many are hoping fewer layoffs will translate into people having more confidence in the market. they'll borrow more and spend more. >> susan roberts in washington, thank you. >>> sonia sotomayor will be sworn in tomorrow as the 111th justice of the united states supreme court. the court's third woman and its first hispanic. sotomayor was confirmed yesterday. the vote was 68-31. all the democrats and two independents voted yes, but nine republicans also voted for sotomayor's confirmation. jill brown reports. >> reporter: just hours after making history, sonia sotomayor walked out of the federal courthouse in new york city ready for her new job. >> the nomination of sonia sotomayor of new york is confirmed. >> reporter: president obama's choice for the supreme court is the first hispanic woman elevated to that benc

helicopter drop like a rock into the hudson. >> 350e78 along new york's hudson river watch in horror. >> like in the movie. it was turning. and then the head went down first, about three, four seconds later, i thought it was a wing of the helicopter, probably the rotor blade. >> within minute, divers koemd the murky water, but sadly, mayor michael bloomberg delivers the bad news, there appear to be no survives. >> this has changed from a rescue to a recovery mission. >> what went wrong? we investigate right now on cnn. hello, everyone, i'm dom lemon. we're following breaking news right here on cnn. you're looking live right now on hudson river where divers and investigators are desperately looking for bodies an wreckage from a mid-air collision that happened noon eastern time. right now, nine people appear to be dead including a child aboard the plane. italian tourists on the helicopter. you can see, it is a clear sunny day, at the time of the crash, thousands of people were out and about, both in new york city and in new jersey. watching, stunned at what they were seeing with their

-- put it thiway -- some lks visiting a n public park here in new york are seeing a whole lot more than they bargained for. >>> also tonight, the tv mmercial designed to scare you. mmercial designed to scare you. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. just yesterday a white house spokesman told the press corps traveling with t vacationing president, "don't exct a news." then a funny thing happened today, news broke out. the kind of news that can dede the nation's financial fure. the president reappointed the head of the fed, ben bernanke. he was aush hire, his hand is now on the tiller, and now it will stay that way forhe next four years. >>> the other news today, the deficit is soaring way above what anybody in this adnistration projected. our ite house correspondent savannah guthrie here in new york with us tonight with mor on this. talk about news breaking out. >> it was. the news the finanal world was waiting for, brian. while not everamerican knows his name they have certainly felt ben bernanke's work. >> it's bee a particula

the news we were there before the new york helicopters got there, and it seemed like new york responded a lot quicker than jersey, even though it was closer to the jersey side. and then i actually saw one person being put on, i don't know if there are harbor police or whatever, from the new york side, the little red miniature looking tugboat thing that went very fast, then sped back to the new york side and i'm assuming that's the one survivor. so we saw it -- i mean we saw it come together before it happened. my family was very shaken up. we're just thankful to god that none of the debris came on the topic of that ship. it could have hurt a lot of people. >> rick: you just described a horrifying scene, bill, and i'm so sorry for you and your family and all those on board the circle line yet to witness it. what kind of information did you get -- we should remind people that the circle line in some of the other sea-based tour companies here in york city, were very instrumental in helping passengers after the miracle on the hudson back in january. those were the ships they responded immed

. incidents involving on-demand aircraft have happened in new york before. in 2006 yankee pitcher cory lidle and his flight instructor crashed into ayman mann high-rise and in 2005 another liberty tours helicopter splashed into the east river. all 7 aboard survived. >> while you saw the bulk of the helicopter wreckage being pulled out earlier today, researchers are still using sonar to try and find the bulk of the aircraft still in the water. and of course those two bodies as well. >> mitchell: let me ask you about these federal safety recommendations for these so-called on-demand aircraft companies. what you can tell us about though? >> reporter: well, you know, these recommendations, the ones that were made in july are only ecoing ones since 200 -- the faa's own subcommittee put out 14 different recommendations and very few if any of them have been implemented yet. >> mitchell: hari sreenivasan here in new york city, thank you. >> president obama is arriveing in mexico at this hour for a summit meeting with the leaders of mexico and canada. the two-day north american leader's su

right now. for the second time this year. we have an air emergency in new york's hudson river. rescue efforts are under way right now after a reported collision of a helicopter and a small plane. and it happened just after noon today. six people reportedly on board the chopper which belongs to a local sightseeing company, called liberty tours. according to the u.s. coast guard only one person has been recovered so far. here's what other eyewitnesses are telling us. >> i did not see the collision. i looked up into the sky. and i saw a plume of smoke. i saw a helicopter twirling through the air. and the rotors were removed. there were pieces and shards of the helicopter flying around. the actual body of the helicopter turned and made a nose-dive straight down while there were still parts of the rotor floating above it. >> we were walking. we heard the loud bang and saw the plane and helicopter go into the water. >> then what? >> well, i mean we saw the plane, lost its wing and whirly birding its way down. brown smoke coming out of the back of it. it crashed into the water. a few second

pulled from the water separating new york and new jersey. we understand that other victims still strapped into their seats where the wreckage came to rest. these pictures exclusive to "fox news" showing the immediate aftermath of this disaster. you can see one of wing ripped straight off the plane. the chopper's rotors snapping off as it plunges into the water. the terrified people on board, never had a chance. >> it appears to us at this point that this was probably not survivable from virtually the instant of the accident or certainly a few seconds later when both aircraft went into the water. >> julie: we understand family members currently identifying the victims who have been recovered. at this point we do not immediately know the victims names, but we do know is there were three people onboard the piper airplane including a child, and onboard the euro copter five italian tourists in the pilot. one of the new york city's worst disasters in recent memory occurred today, the most youthful days have seen in new york all summer long. the small plane reportedly running into the b

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the medical examiner's office. outside the new york medical examiner where our producer has snapped some pictures, we will show you a truck pulling up, appearing to unload at least one gurney. >> this, as we look at these pictures, it's just tragic. you know the medical examiner vehicles, they respond to the scenes of accidents all the time and it happened yet again. two bodies recovered from the hudson and we're told that there were nine people killed all together. the sad reality is that the staff at the m.e.'s office, their work is not done as divers will be going down, back into the waters to retrieve those victims of this terrible tragedy over the skies of manhattan again today. we heard from mayor bloomberg that some of the victims were -- they were found, they were spotted still in their seats in the helicopter while it was found, the wreckage was found in the water. just a nightmare scenario for family members. if there is any kind of a silver lining, it's that at least the bodies will be recovered and that these families will have loved ones to bury. i know it's a small con

new york times special edition" and now, it's time for op edge, our weekly look at the sharpest columns "the new york times." paul krugman says we have good reason to be angry over the way wall street executives get paid -- next up, in the wake of bill clinton's success at freeing two american reporters, nick says no one should count on the american public changing kim jong-il's dictator ship. he says -- and randy cohen takes on vacation time. he says -- randy joins me now. it feels to me like a cheap shot at congress to focus on their vacation and i say that because i cover this place and most of those members of congress, when they go home, they're working all the time. parades, town meetings. it's not a week at the beach from my perspective. >> those parades, that's gruelling. i sympathize. but they do work hard, fisherman, the crews in meat plants. they don't get eight-week vacations. >> but i'm saying they're not vacations. >> well, they don't get time off, time away from the office. if congress is going to grant that to itself, surely other americans who work equally hard

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update on the ongoing search for victims of saturday's tragic mid-air collision in new york city that killed nine people. on monday, divers continued to pull debris from the murky waters of the hudson river. despite poor visibility and treacherous currents, authorities were able to locate a man's body in the plane's wreckage, buried 60 feet below the surface. they were not able to dislodge it from the plane. so far, bodies have been recovered for seven of the nine passengers of the small plane and sight-seeing helicopter, which collided in the narrow air space. >>> there are reports out of taiwan this morning that 260 victims from this weekend's typhoon have been rescued from villages buried by mud slides. hundreds still remain unaccounted for in the worst flooding in a half century. as much as 80 inches of rain swamped the area, washing out roads and bridges and severing contact between remote villages and cities. the devastation carried into eastern china, where a massive landslide buried an unknown number of victims. entire apartment buildings were reduced to rubble. >>> now here's

over new york's hudson river. the debris field now being combed outside of hoboken, new jersey, to try to find survivors, so far, no immediate reports of the number of people either on the plane or the helicopter, but again, the coast guard confirming that there is a rescue operation going on right now in the hudson river, in new york, off the west side of manhattan, and off of hoboken, new jersey, looking for survivors of either the passengers on this helicopter reported to be a tour helicopter, and a small airplane, both of which chided midair -- collided midair sending debris into the river. right now, the reports are that this happened off of the coast of hoboken. we don't know how wide the debris field is. we do have a reporter on scene that will be calling in to us to let us know. remember, the hudson is the sight of an incredible miracle where a mane was brought down -- where a plane was bout down with 150 people on that plane. authorities doing the search there are hoping to find everyone that may have been onboard the small plane and helicopter that collided and crashed mi

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incredible. and it was like the movie because people coming to new york city and they know a lot of movies are from here. tragedy on the hudson could be the title. this was not a movie, certainly a tragic thing to happen. thanks for talking to us. >> gregg: all right. we want to set the scene right now. >>> 29 minutes after 5:00 o'clock east coast time. it has been a horrible day because of this tragedy on the hudson and they are still out there. they are searching for bodies, seven of which they hope to recover because of this midair collision. we want to tell you also that because the two-hour business block was preempted for this breaking news, this is go to air tomorrow, the business block, sunday, august 9, from 2:00 o'clock to 4:00 o'clock eastern time. so if you missed your business picks and there are a great many people who are looking forward to that, you can get it tomorrow, 2:00 o'clock to 4:00 o'clock east coast time. fox news business block. >>> continuing now with this fox news alert, i'm gregg jarrett along with julie banderas. >> a tour of the new york city skyline

example, could be crucial in finding out exactly what went wrong. against a clear blue new york sky, the mangled helicopter plunged into the hudson river, shocking onlookers down below. >> something hit the blades and the blades went flying. >> the sightseeing helicopter was carrying five italian tourists along with the pilot. investigators believe a small plane similar to this one collided with the rear of the chopper. the piper aircraft was carrying three people, including a child, which was headed to ocean city, new jersey. >> tonight ntsb chair deborah hershman recalls what another pilot who witnessed the crash told authorities. >> he told them "one lima hotel, you have a fixed-wing behind you." there was no response from the pilot. >> witnesses described seeing the helicopter blindsided and one of the plane's wings sheared off by the helicopter rotor blades. according to the national transportation safety board, three bodies have been recovered. >> everything was spinning. it happened so fast. bingo. >> within minutes both aircraft was under water. rescue divers rushed to the scene

along new york's hudson river. that as late thursday the faa in control of the piper flight was involved in inappropriate phone conversations at the time of the accident and that the supervisor wasn't present in the buildin while the faa says there is no reason to believe that contributed to the crash, both have been put on administrative leave as the investigation continues. kristen dahlgren, nbc news. >>> now here's a look at some other stories making news "early today" in america. >>> a new york woman says dash cam video from january supports her claim that police used unnecessary force. she was hit with a taser twice after arguing with an officer who stopped her for speeding and talking on a cell phone. although he claims she was refusngis h commands, charges of resisting arrest were later dropped. >>> the federal building in los angeles was closed for hours yesterday after its parking lot became the scene of an hour-long standoff. police fired four rounds of chemical agents into the vehicle of a man who allegedly made threatening statements about the white house. eventually

river here in new york. we thought, not again. but there was. today, a tour helicopter collided with a small plane, and this time, there were no survivors. just down the river from where us airways 1549 safely landed. in today's crash, all nine people aboard the two aircraft were killed. we begin with abc's stephanie sy. stephanie, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, david. the mayor of new york is calling this tragedy on the hudson, not a single survivor. we have learned now there's a temporary flight restriction over this stretch of the hudson as salvage crews doing the very difficult work of looking for wreckage and bodies. against a clear blue sky, the mangled helicopter plunged into the hudson river, astounding on job onlookers. >> something hit the blades and the planes went down. >> reporter: the helicopter carrying five italian tourists and a pilot had just taken off for manhattan on a sightseeing tour. when it collided with a small plane. the piper aircraft was carrying three people, including a child. witnesses describe seeing the helicopter blindsided from the rear and

heads up a flight instruction program and one of their services is tours of the new york city area. good morning to you. >> good morning, alex. >> you know, you look at this incident, it was a beautiful day here yesterday. it was calm, there weren't winds. could you imagine there must have been a lot of people up in the air. what is it that you think contributed to this problem? how did it happen? >> well, the cor der itself is very busy and if you're not making the radio calls as you go down the hudson you can lead to a scary situation where people don't know where other people are so that contributed to the issue and then you had the teterboro fixed wing meeting up with the helicopter already on the hudson. >> is this a visual problem? say you're in a car, more people can relate to that. you're in a car, backing out, there's usually blind spots in the car. you have to be careful. you have your side rear view mirrors there. is there such a thing on a helicopter, is there a blind spot? are there any sort of mirrors on them to look behind you? >> no, we don't have any mirrors and yeah, it

summer jobs. the job i picked, a new york city tour guide for a day. one of those double-deckers. i had a great time. >> did you lie or tell the truth? >> a couple things i may have made up. >> did you embellish? >> no. a fun show and a fun way to see the city, because it makes you look up. >> i've never taken one of those buses. i've been told, even if you live here you should do t. i'll take you on the bus. >> all right. >>> coming up, cash for clunkers. a report it was running out of cash. the obama administration and congress took quick action. the white house promising to honor all the deals made through this weekend and the house of representatives voting friday to pour another $2 billion into the program. the senate takes up the bill next week. because nobody knows how long the program will actually last, the rush to cash in is on. nbc's chris jansing has more. >> reporter: back at the ford dealership friday after a long night. it was a mad house. it was crazy. >> reporter: phone lines have been jammed with customers. >> thanks for calling. >> reporter: nervous customer, anxi

? >> the tentative identification has been made of the body found in the new york canal as that of 8-year-old robert manwill. >> the coroner trying to determine the cause of death. again, he vanished on july 24 of july under what police call suspicious circumstances. >> investigators from the boise police department with the assistance of the fbi have located evidence that may, may bring us closer to finding out what happened. the evidence we've uncovered shows that there are suspicious circumstances regarding robert's disappearance. >> detectives say finding the body is the beginning of a brand new investigation. >> our system of justice demands that we focus on evidence. our investigative experience tells us that we cannot jump to conclusions. the police investigation into robert's disappearance continues and is very active. our priority remains in finding answers for robert's family and this community. >>> also, the mystery surrounding the sudden death of music icon michael jackson intensifies. questions still mount as to his sudden death and $500 million empire. after murder charges l

bridge, and for those viewers who are not from new york that is about a mile-and-a-half, two miles down the river, from where this has happened, past the statue of liberty they had an operation, relative to a potential terrorist attack, and the police department and the fire department and the coast guard work very closely, together in new york city, at training for these operations, and executing them when and if they should happen. >> jamie: according to information that i'm getting from the fox news brain room the piper pa 32, which is believed to be the plane that took off from teterburo and crashed mid-air with the helicopter carrying as many as six passengers, five tourists and one pilot, it has had ten accidents since november, 2008 with 12 fatalities. the euro copter, as-350, believed to be the helicopter operated by liberty tours involved in the mid-air collision, ten accidents since september, 2008 with three fatalities, jon scott, are you with us? i want to ask jon, how does that sound to you, for a safety record? first of all, with the piper. >> until you know how many

while he dies, the new york times correspondent. good to see you again, pinch. >> hey, check out the thursday style section. cheerly the '80s are back and that means the recession is over. hoorah. >> greg: enough from you. back to banging goats or whatever he did before prison. the only man convicted in the 1988 lockerbee bombing. in tripoli they celebrated the return of the convicted terrorist who served only eight years of his life sentence which comes to less than two weeks per victim. the reason for the release? he was recently diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and given two months to live. to they bestowed upon him something he didn't show to his victims, compassion. what to you make of this? >> it is outrageous. beyond contempt. they supposedly are releasing him because he is said to have just three months to live. you know what happened three months ago? neither do i because it was a long time ago. that was in may and i can't remember. that is how long three months ago is. maybe when has three days. maybe three minutes. or maybe not at all. >> a lot of this has to do wit

that later. and homeless people can now get a one-way ticket out of new york. i'm considering living in a box for that opportunity! if you think this country is great but the government is trying to dump too much stuff on you at once, it is time to stand up. come on, follow me. this is a rehearsal, right? we're not really on the air? ok, good. hello, americament i have always wanted to be a community organizer, yes, because i love communities and i love being organized. they are in such disarray! here is the one thing tonight, the community organizer in chief is transforming america but nobody is really noticing, and i think it's because they don't know what they're looking for. i want to show you a picture here. can you bring this picture up? i want you to look at this picture and then tell me what is changing in this picture. this is from the university of south dakota department of psychology, their website. this is a test based on a scientific theory called change blindness. it is a theory that i think might help explain what's happening in our country right now. actually, i foun

. let me show you a picture of one of the leaders from the apollo alliance here in new york. this man's name is jeff jones. now, i don't know if he has directly advised the president. i don't know that, because we can't seem to get the entrance records at the white house, but we do know this -- his organization, the apollo alliance that he chairs here in new york had a lot to do with the stimulus bill. this is according -- we showed you this yesterday -- to harry reid, who said, quote, this legislation is the first step in building a clean energy economy that creates jobs. the apollo alliance has been an important factor in helping us develop and execute a strategy that makes great progress on these goals and in motivating the public to support them, end quote. does the president know who this man is? s do the president and america demand and listen to this answer? does the president know that he has now had two pretty big encounters with the founders of the weather underground? that's the group that bombed government buildings. do you remember he didn't really know bill ayers, bu

in phoenix. 85 in minneapolis. a muggy 89 in boston. and getting to the 90s from new york to miami. it will be 94 in new orleans. and a heat advisory is in effect in dallas, as it climbs to 103. >>> all right. still ahead on this wednesday. how many struggling homeowners are being helped by a government program to ease the mortgage crisis. it turns out, it's surprisingly few. >>> and schools brace for another round against swine flu. th were thl be different than >>> overseas, stock markets are mostly lower this morning. tokyo's nikkei average fell 1.2% today. hong kong's hang seng is down. in london, the ftse opened lower. wall street starts the day with the dow at 9320, after adding another 33 points yesterday. the nasdaq ticked up, nearly 3 points to close at 2011. >>> looks like cash for clunkers is not out of gas just yet. the senate appears set to extend the rebate offer for trading in gas-guzer wills until labor day. americans are quickly burning through the program's original $1 billion. scrapping nearly 160,000 vehicles already. >>> only a fraction of struggling homeowners

. >>> on the "cbs moneywatch," stocks in asia lost ground this morning. claire leka is in new york with more. good morning. >> good morning. asian stocks turned lower overnight. foreign investors are waiting for more clues about the strength of the economic recovery in the u.s. japan's benchmark nikkei slipped 1.25%. hong kong stocks fell 1.5%. on wall street, stocks begin the day at nine-month highs. the dow jones starts the day up 33 points. the nasdaq begins with a gain of nearly three points. >>> it's a busy day on the economic front. the july reading on private sector employment from payroll services firm adp is due in the morning. employers are expected to have cut 340,000 jobs from their pay rolls. key reports on the service sector and factory orders are also due. meanwhile, you still have time to clunk your car into labor day. democratic leaders say the senate will join the house into pumping more money into the cash for clunkers program. so far the government says 157,000 people have taken advantage of it, at a cost of taxpayers, $664 million. the administration has released a

of a deal. but he's just home from china, just home from new york, all he wanted to do was get to bed, his door was jammed, and so he was in a mood where he said -- >> larry: are there those who say he brings the whole history into that body of a black movement? >> that may well be the case. but i still think that it might well have been resolved in a different manner if we didn't have this verbal altercation between the two of them. my first teaching point for young people, especially, not for dr. gates, but for young people especially is when the police are looking into something and you're involved in it in one way or another, cooperate. don't make the situation more difficult. and i think in this case, the situation was made more difficult. on the part of the cambridge police department, once they felt they had to bring dr. gates out of the house and to handcuff him, i would have thought at that point some adult supervision would have stepped in and said, okay, look, it is his house. come on. let's not take this any further. take the handcuffs off. good night, dr. gates. >> larry:

new york city sightseeing helicopter collide. officials believe all nine people on board died. i'm jeff glor. also tonight... >> i, sonia sotomayor, do solemnly swear... sfwlor an historic moment at the u.s. supreme court. sonia sotomayor takes the oath as the first hispanic justice. >> so help me god. >> glor: meet the job savers, big-name companies that have yet to lay off one employee in this recession. and abbey road anniversary. 40 years ago today the beatles took that famous walk. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with jeff glor. >> glor: good evening. seven months after a miracle plane landing on the hudson river in new york there was another incident today, this one with a lot different result. shortly after noon, a small plane and sightseeing helicopter collided. this is what it looked like moments after that collision. this happened between lower manhattan and new jersey, and officials say all nine people on board were killed. "early show" weather anchor dave price is a licensed private pilot who flew this route yesterday. he joins us from near th

what "the new york times" reported today, for months they have been hinting that, they'll go down whatever road is necessary to get a deal. even if it means just democrats voting for it. >> all right, chuck todd at the white house. thank you. >>> a clarification to correct the record. the $1 trillion price tag in our story last night about various proposals to pay for health care reform covered all of reform. not just the cost of the so-called public option. awe under the house proposal to pay for reform for namelies earning over $350,000, income exceeding that level would be taxed at 1%. up to $1,500 in additional tax. for families making more than $500,000, the additional tax would be 1.5%, $1,500 to $9,000 in additional tax. and families with income in excess of $1 million, the additional tax would be $9,000 or more. and to be clear, that is not the president's proposal, his would raise taxes on wealthy individuals by limiting charitable deductions. >>> now the latest on skash fca clunkers. general motors is ramping out production at two plants and rehiring some workers to meet

and pediatricians. johncickenzie, abc news, new york. >> to the weather now as hurricane bill picks up steam in the atlantic, forecasters say it could become a category 4 storm sometime today. bill is not on track to make landfall but it could kick up some very rough surf and dangerous riptides as it moves between the east coast and bermuda over the weekend. here is an interesting look at bill from above. this is the view from the international spac station. massive looking storm. >> that is really cool to look at. >> here is a look at your wednesday forecast: severe weather in the middle of the country. powerful thunderstorms, hurricane strength winds and hale and a chance of tornadoes from oklahoma city to chicago.jo showers and thunderstorms across nd deep south. still hoand d ndmihuhe tmi northeast >> a sticky 89 in new york. it's going to feel like 99 today. 80s inim the midwest, an unusually hot 100 in portland, 89 in seattle. the hot trend continues in the pacific northwest. >> i hate hearing humid in new york. >> i know, it stinks. >> we'll be right >> it literally stinks. >> a

laden offices of origin. the new york office of the fbi which i'll refer to repeatedly today, known as the n. y. oh, and the office of u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. and these incredibly, federal agencies, the bureau, this is the biggest outside of washington, the best of the best, the original joint terrorist task or was set up in his office and of course his house rudy giuliani, who later became a federal judge and fbi director and of course patrick fitzgerald, the gentleman who was probably the most successful and powerful federal prosecutor in america. we will talk about mr. fitzgerald in a minute. so this incredible office produced these people. we're not talking about the wichita office. we are talking about the best of the best. how was it that this al qaeda cell, which i proved in my work, basically set up an operation in new york as early as 1988 and were on the radar as early as 1989, 20 years ago as the week we are taping this event in july of 2009. how was it that these two offices missed so many opportunities on the chart to indicate the al qaeda jugg

rupa, our producer in west babylon new york there at the schuler home. rupa, welcome. what can you tell me about admissions whether intentionally or unintentionally made that mommy is not afraid of a joint. she is not afraid of a big fat doobie. >> nancy, it is all very unclear. i am out here in the neighborhood where this family reside. and i have been knocking on doors, speaking with neighbors, they're being very quiet. however what i can tell you is there has been very little activity in front of the home. nancy, the car, the truck owned by daniel schuler has been parked here. my understanding is that this little boy is doing better and he may or may not very shortly be released from the hospital. >> to michael amand. reporter with news day, joining us from melville, new york. a pleasure to have you with us. michael, what can you tell me about statements made that the mother did use pot socially, that she did smoke pot. new york state police told me that when they interviewed daniel schuler about his wife's medical conditions they also asked him, did she do drugs, recreationally, did

device was seized, of course, they looked at it, the new york city police department bomb squad arrived on the scene and used a water cannon to blow it up. it was determined to be a fake device. but here's the information we have from a law enforcement source close to the investigation about the suspect. he is identified as scott mcgan. he fake a fake address in manhattan. he has three prior arrests as recently as last month, and he also was holding boarding passes on united airlines. he was supposed to fly, according to the source from laguardia to chicago o'hare then on to denver and finally on to oakland, california. right now he's in police custody. but, of course, all of this and the evacuations cost a huge disruption at the airport, causing a lot of passengers, a cloth of confusion. >> well, we arrived at 10 to 6:00 when they first caused the airport. thought there was an accident, no big deal. nobody said anything. it was total chaos. absolutely bizarre. i've talked to agents, nobody seems to know what's going on. i wanted to go to kennedy to rebook my flight. i'm so frus

>> rick: 3:00 in new york city and we are through hours into a disaster over the hudson river. there was only seven months ago we were talking about a miracle. that is not the case today after a midair collision in the skies between new york city and hoboken, new jersey, a sightseeing helicopter by liberty tours colliding with a small plane right over the skies just before noontime. there is one person confirmed dead and there is perhaps eight more people who are being searched for right now by those rescue boats. you can see on the ground, the new york city fire department, new york city police department. the coastguard. even sightseeing ship operators involved right now in the search for any survivors, a little at this point now, three hours after the collision. it does not look good for any one having survived this crash. i am in new york city along with gregg jarrett as we continue to follow this breaking story in new york. in the lower right hand corner of the screen you can see microphones and the podium. we are waiting to hear from michael bloomberg who will be steppin