tom llamas with us from new york city as new york city continues to react well into the 2:00 hour. >> backing up little bit, the president spoke for ten minutes tonight. he recalled the sense of unity in the united states after the september 11th attacks and reminded everyone why the u.s. went to war in the first place, to protect americans, its friends, and its allies. >> september 11th, 2001. in our time of grief, the american people came together. we offered our neighbors a hand, and we offer the wounded our blood. we reaffirmed our ties to each over. and our love of community and country. on that day, no matter where we came from, what god we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one american family. we were also united in our resolve to protect our nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice. we quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al qaeda, an organization headed by osama bin laden, which had openly declared war on the united states and was committed to killing innocence in our country and around the globe

and that's what new york city did. they first went to the hudson highlands, but 150 years later, it went to the delaware highlands. and really diverted the water that normally went to philadelphia to new york city. i don't think they anticipated that. narrator: the majority of new york city's drinking water comes from watersheds in upstate new york. a watershed is the area of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. mountains act as a funnel to feed rivers and lakes. and in this case, reservoirs. in the new york city system, water is collected and stored in 19 reservoirs, which can hold more than a year's supply -- over 580 billion gallons of water. almost all of the system is fed by gravity, without the use of energy-consuming pumps. valves open to regulate the flow into the 85-mile-long delaware aqueduct -- the longest tunnel in the world. at hillview reservoir... the water is partitioned into another giant tunnel system. where it travels deep below manhattan. the pressure built u

he was in new york city when 9/11 happened. we will tell you what he has to say about going back there today after hearing that osama bin laden is dead. live at penn station, linda so, abc2 news. >> thank you. >>> local reaction continues to the historic news of the capture and death. sherrie johnson is live at the world trade center in baltimore's inner harbor. sherrie. >> reporter: yes, we are here in the downtown area. look behind me here. yes, right in front of the world trade center of baltimore. this was mentioned as a possible target for september 11th attacks, but of course we know that didn't happen. but this morning, many people that i spoke with here are relieved about the news of osama bin laden's death. there's been a huge surge of patriotism since the news of the death. he was responsible for the murder of thousands of men, women and children. most notably the september 11th attacks which was nearly 10 years ago. people who work here in the world trade center baltimore say they are not nervous about heading to wor

new york city prepares to enforce a new law against smoking in city parks and on beaches. >> this is the "cbs evening news" with russ mitchell. >> mitchell: good evening. president obama fresh from that frosty meeting with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu took his middle east peace plan directly to supporters of israel today. the president speaking to the american israel public affairs committee defended his proposal and tonight the reviews are in. witt johnson has more from the white house. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: president obama stood firm while providing reassurance to the crowd of nearly 10,000 pro-israel activists. >> the commitment of the united states to the security of israel is ironclad. >> reporter: the overall warm reception came two days after his stunning proposal, one no u.s. president has ever uttered publicly before. >> we believe the borders of israel and palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps. >> reporter: those borderlines which are a key palestinian demand were in place before israel's capture of jerusalem, gaz

down in our basement this retired new york city police officer nurtures the garden of rebellion this garden is about reacting and to find their attempt to control my behavior hundreds of home grown tobacco leaves hang to dry before silk shreds and smokes her nicotine we're talking about products here so back it was legal if they don't want people to smoke they should go to congress and lobby to have it criminalized the big apple's new smoking ban comes a bit close very soon it will be illegal to light up in new york city's parks beaches and causes like this one in times square violators blowing smoke can be slapped with a fifty dollars fine. if that's so dangerous. they probably make a lot of because they want to morning america. just like. the bad how come you can't smoke in public officials say the band aims to limit harmful public exposure to secondhand smoke this is the latest avalanche of restrictions rules and prohibitions being aggressively enforced under a shrinking economy among them one hundred dollars for putting too much personal rubbish in public response kids and taking

this morning in new york city. it has some residents here puzzled. and others smoking mad. jay dow has the story. >> reporter: over the last decade, smokers across the country have been put on the defensive. pushed out of offices, restaurants, and bars. new york city is now taking the war against tobacco a step further with a new law that goes into effect banning smoking outdoors at beaches, boardwalks, parks and pedestrian platforms. >> you know, i'm a smoker. that's my choice. i smoke. it's not going to make me stop. it's almost like a dictatorship telling us that we can't do this and we can't do that. >> reporter: new york city mayor mike bloomberg, a former smoker, pushed for the law that aims to drastically reduce, if not eliminate, exposure to secondhand smoke. >> we feel like everywhere i go people are outside smoking because they can't be smoking inside. and i have to steer my stroller out of the way of secondhand smoke. >> reporter: new york city health officials are also hoping to discourage a new generat

and for those of t >> inin we're at ground zero in new york city w he twin towers of the world trade center once stood. you can see the footprints behind me, in fact. they'll be turned into reflecting pools at the memorial here. tonight the man who ordered the attack that destroyed the towers is dead, killed by u.s. navy seals at his hideout in pakistan in an attack ordered by president obama. chip reid is at the white house tonight. chip, that's where this operation was planned. >> reporter: katie, this operation has been in the planning stages for more than eight months and president obama was deeply involved every step of the way. >> our country has kept its commitment to see that justice is done. the world is safer. it is a better place because of the death of osama bin laden. >> reporter: the operation began over seven months ago. august, 2010, president obama is briefed about a rare lead after a bin laden courier is traced to a massive secure compound in pakistan. mid-february, the 2011, after months of surveillance, u.s. officials conclude there's a strong likelihood bin laden

keep in mind it is about 1:32 in the morning in new york city. there are a lot of people outside, standing on light poles, waving american flags, shaking bottles of champagne and spraying the foam across the crowd. ground zero, of course, is the site of the two towers of the trade center that both collapsed after plains, taken over by hijackers, on orders from osama bin laden flu into those towers and killed almost 3000 people. at osama bin laden, the man who ordered those attacks, the man who destroyed the two buildings were these people are gathered, is dead tonight. >> we want to get more reaction now about the breaking news from people living here. we talk with an expert at stanford and are light in fremont. that is home to one of the country's largest afghan communities were back it is starting to get quiet, but we have talk with several people. the overall sentiment are saying that this is good news including the owner of this resident -- restaurant. you will see a that the flag is flying tonight. just down here, two doors down, there is a

when i became mayor of new york city the new york times took a poll. and the poll said 60% of the people in new york city don't want to live in new york city anymore. they want to live somewhere else if we could. 65% of the people in new york city felt new york city was going in the wrong direction. that is the most disturbing thing that can possibly happen because it means people started to lose hope. when people start to lose hope they don't create great things anymore. what i wanted was to change them. by the time i left office we had a new york city in which roughly the opposite of that. 70% wanted to be there and like being there. 70% thought new york city was going in the right direction and not the wrong direction. often think that in new york city with the depressed attitude we had in the early 90s would have had a much harder time overcoming as quickly the tremendous damage done to us by the attacks of september 11th. it helped new york city that when we were attacked we were a strong and confident city, and optimistic city. a city that the le

new york city becomes even crazier. is it hard walking around new york city with a cowboy hat on? >> well, it used to be. it was harder before "celebrity apprentice." it used to be yee-haw. i would walk into a store to buy a shirt or something, and they'd look at me like "are you lost? we don't put things on layaway in here." [ laughter ] but now it's like "hey, where do i get a hat like that?" and even today walking around, folks that probably never listen to country music recognized me and said "hey, way to go with st. jude" and they're donating now. so hey, it's nice. >> jimmy: it's great. you also released a couple of eps. this one's for the kids. this one, all money goes to st. jude's, or a portion goes to st. jude's. >> it does. yes, it does. >> jimmy: i saw that, it's on itunes. and you got "rich rock." >> hey now! >> jimmy: look at this guy. >> that's featuring kid rock, hank williams jr. and lil' jon. >> jimmy: is that right? >> he's on there. >> jimmy: you and lil' jon? >> yeah, he's on there. yeah! >> jimmy: yeah! exactly. i love that. is this your saddle? you really us

four days after the killing of osama bin laden, president obama heads to new york city today. he will meet with families of those killed on 9/11. we hope to learn more about the decision not to release a photo of bin laden's body. surae chinn is live in arlington with more on that and a vip visit to the pept gone today. >> reporter: the vice president will be visiting here meeting privately with 9/11 victims and participating in a wreath playing ceremony. at the same time the president will be traveling to new york, doing the same thing, meeting with 9/11 victim at ground zero. these visits come after the president says he will not release pictures of osama bin laden after he was shot to death by navy seals. he explains all of this in an interview with steve croft of 60 minutes. >> it is important for us to

new york is the most densely populated city in the u.s. and over 40 million tourists visit the city every year. the 1.3 billion gallons of water required every day are delivered by a system of extraordinary scale and complex engineering. man: water is essential to the economic viability of new york city. reliable infrastructure and reliable delivery of water is a must. you have to reinvest in the infrastructure every single minute to keep it current. hurwitz: we have the stock exchange, we have the united nations -- failure can have a dramatic impact on the nation, and even internationally. so there's a really keen awareness that you always have to be fixing the system. things corrode, they rust. they get to where you turn them on and nothing happens. but it is so totally used in every nook and cranny, that making any accommodation to shut it down, to do something to it, is very difficult. narrator: two massive underground tunnels, called simply tunnel 1 and tunnel 2, provide most of the city's water supply. they run hundreds of feet below

sometimes the new york city firefighter will only call on another new york city firefighter to assist him. that's what i wanted to do. i wanted to be somebody they could go to ask for help and get help. sometimes we're embarrassed. sometimes we're afraid. and sometimes the only one we can turn to is another new york city firefighter. so yes, we are a close of knit community, but we always take care of our own. we make sure to the best of our able when we roll out the door, out of a firehouse in the city of new york, that we come back the same way we left. together. everybody goes home to their families. and the brotherhood remains still to this day as strong as it was ten years ago. >> well said. kenny, i appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> thanks so much, anderson. have a great day. >> wolf, there really is no place like new york. and there's no folks like the new york city firefighters in this great city of ours, wolf. >> i know. you're a new yorker, anderson. you can appreciate it. i know a lot of new yorkers. they love the firefighters in new york. these last ten years, ne

york city. we're keeping an eye on new york city. in fact this is a live picture from ground zero. the camera pointed and it's a familiar sight for most of us. almost ten years ago on september 11, 2001, this is of course where the world trade center towers fell. that has led to several sovereign ceremonies. but last night a different kind of gathering took place. [ cheering and applause ] >> this is what was happening last night outside of ground zero in new york city. thousands of people turning out last night and early this morning for a celebration similar to the one we showed you at the white house. and as you just heard, some of them started singing the star spangled banner. >> i feel ecstatic that we finally have captured and contained one of the worst threats in the country and the world is and that finally our country can be at rest and at peace with the situation that has happened and september 11. >> that late night and early morning celebration even led some people to climb on top of

about 65% of the people in new york city thought new york city was going in the wrong direction. that is the most disturbing thing that can possibly happen. because it means that people have started to lose hope. when people start to lose hope, they don't create great things. i felt what i wanted to do was to change that. and by the time i left office, we had a new york city in which roughly the opposite of that. 70% wanted to be there, and liked being there, and 70% thought new york city was going in the right direction. and not the wrong direction. and i often think that in new york city, the depressed attitude that we had in the early '90s would have had a much harder time over coming as quickly the tremendous damage done to us by the attacks of september 11. and it helped new york city that when we were attacked, we were a strong city, confident city, optimistic city, city that believes that our best days for ahead of us. so the attack was a temporary interruption of that feeling and the city was able to get back on track very, very quickly. most important thing that a mayor

and authorities in new york argues that chasing the buck right out of people's pockets into the city coffers with heavy penalties for petty offensives. and broadcasting will live from moscow this is r.t. where it is six zero one on a sunday morning i'm john thomas glad to have you with us a nato missile strike kills libyan leader moammar gadhafi youngest son and three grandchildren according to a government spokesman the tac was a direct attempt to assassinate their leader this comes after nato and the country's rebels have dismissed an offer from tripoli for a cease fire and the staging of peace negotiations a coalition insists that there will be. talks until colonel gadhafi stops the bloodshed because the earlier one dribbles into the besieged city of misrata to lay down their arms or face a full scale offensive the unrest which started in mid february has already claimed at least two thousand lives according to the u.n. health watched. in syria six people have been killed as the pro-government forces stormed a mosque in the southern city of herat meanwhile the country continues to

they have the chaos of new york city co-op board. both of these reasons say when you subsidize owner, you are taking people away. ape not surprised. but deeply disappointed by the, you know, fetish for infrastructure in the recent budget. this infrastructure which filtered by the senate is anti-urban. during the stimulus. infrastructure per -- infrastructure spending per capita was twice as high in least dense than the most dense. the least have a lot of senators as opposed to people. america will no longer compete by producing and shipping natural resources and manufactured goods slightly cheaper than our competitors. we will compete by what is in our minds. we will compete by the ideas and innovation and entrepreneurship that happened so naturally in cities. i guess the third thing, i want to end with this, so many participants leave cities because of the school. the way we have structured our school undose the innovation and entrepreneurship. if you took new york restaurant seen which is currently one the great glories, if not all

the finalists and parents receive a free trip to google's new york city offices. they will meet the search engine's doodlers, learn about technology and then find out the top winner. the trip to new york, mateo's first, is a grand prize in itself. >> he put a lot of hard work into his doodle and we never thought it would end up here but we're proud and excited. >> reporter: the winner will have the doodle on google's homepage on may 20 and receive a $15,000 scholarship. google will also give the winner's school a $25,000 computer lab. >> we don't have a computer lab. so we would love to have one here at month verdi. >> reporter: on lane ballots decide the winner. vote online. sharon chin, cbs 5. >> can get enough of it. we were down there like this that kid's in the third, fourth glade. >> budding artist. already there. >>> a new way of dealing with rowdy passengers. the airline teaching its flight attendants now to do a little kung fu. >> nine bucks for a gallon of gas? why some bay area drivers are paying a fortune to fill up. >> why trying to do too many things

york city's new smoking ban go too far you can respond to us on facebook twitter and who to and who knows your response just might make it on air. now and what could be a big blow to prison systems across the u.s. the supreme court has ruled that california's overcrowded prisons violated constitutional protections against cruel and unusual punishment they rejected the straits of quest for more leeway and agree that a prisoner release plan is now necessary in two thousand and eight and two thousand and nine analysts found that one hundred twelve california prison inmates die unnecessarily due in adequate medical care but while these prisons are overcrowded to begin with you can say that it's the war on drugs california's three strikes law at general lock them up and throw away the key mentality are there other forces lurking behind the scenes a lobby for those strict laws and for more prisons the private prison industry not only are these private institutions beginning to spread to more states in the us but they also been found to lobby legislators force direct immigration laws like

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of new york city, ray kelly. thank you very much for being with us. >> thank you, brian. >> i was driving through mid-town manhattan last night. i saw these columns now familiar to new yorkers, squad cars moving through the city, very visible. let's say a family of four is coming to visit us here in new york tonight, what will they see? >> an increased uniform presence, certainly in times square tomorrow. you'll have it in the financial district in lower manhattan. certainly in the subway system. we have dogs, we have what we call surges where uniformed officers will go in large numbers. so they will see increased police presence. >> you and i have talked about this in plain english, because new york didn't get the federal funding you wanted, you needed, you thought you deserved, you have set up a kind of mini-cia, m mina-fbi here. you have eyes on major parts of the city. do you feel your infrastructure is up to perhaps an increased tempo from what we have seen the last ten years? >> certainly a possibility. we'

in new york city, this is "nightline," may 17th, 2011. >> good evening. on the verge of being elected governor of california, arnold schwarzenegger found him answering charges that he had sexually harassed multiple women. many of the things that are in there are not true, he said. and then other things may be true, and in case they are, that's why i want to apologize, end quote. well, today, almost eight years later, schwarzenegger's apologizing again for other things no one imagined. here's david wright. >> reporter: a week ago, their 25-year marriage, including seven years as the first couple of california, came to an end with a whimper. today, came the inevitable bang. a bombshell disclosure for schwarzenegger himself, that more than a decade ago, he secretly fathered a child with a household employee. and that the mother of that child remained a daily presence in the lives of maria shriver and the couple's four children, until january, when schwarzenegger left the governor's office. "the new york times" reports tonight, for a time, 14 years ago, both

as we go into the afternoon areas, it will arrive in new jersey and new york city. right now it's raining lightly in d.c. philly, it's knocking on the door for you during your morning rush hour. i'm sure you'll see raindrops. an umbrella day from areas of new england right down through the mid atlantic. in d.c., i have think most of the rain will be early today. this afternoon it should clear on out. it will be chilly with temperatures in some cases only in the 50s. the middle of the country, you're drying out. a little cool later. we'll warm it up, 79 in dallas, 81 in san antonio. in florida, no problems at all. the northern plains, today we're okay. there's a weak storm system that will slide your way on thursday. tomorrow we'll have a chance of storms in chicago. in general, lynn, we're finally out of this horrific weather pattern where we've seen one big storm after another. no severe weather to come. this is may so this is the peak tornado month. we'll take it. >>> oil prices fall, bp pays for its spills and the website for those who find breaking up is hard to

york city jail. a bail hearing is scheduled for today, and cbs' joel brown is in washington with more on this. joel, what took him so long to resign? >> well, betty, balancing these explosive allegations with trying to hang onto his job. just proved too much in the end. for now, the only priority for the embattled frenchman is fighting a rape charge. dominique strauss-kahn stepped down as head of the international monetary fund overnight under growing international pressure. just days ago, he was arrested for allegedly trying to rape a hotel maid in new york city. in his resignation letter to the imf, the 62-year-old adamantly denied the charges and said, quote, i want to protect this institution, which i've served with honor and devotion, and especially, especially, i want to devote all my strength, all my time, and all my energy to proving my innocence. today his lawyers will enter a new plea for his release. they'll propose that he post a $1 million cash bail, wear an electronic monitoring bracele

new york city was going in the wrong direction. that is the most disturbing thing that could happen, because it means people were starting to lose hope, and when people lose hope, they do not do great things anymore, and i wanted to change that. when i left office, we had a new york city in which 70% wanted to be there and liked to be there, and others thought it was moving in the wrong direction. i also thought new york city would have done a much harder time overcoming the tremendous damage done to us by the attacks of said december 11. it helped that we were a strong city, and optimistic city, a city that believes our best days were ahead of us. our city was able to get back on track very quickly. the most important thing is to reestablish people to believe in themselves. they are the ones who create things. they are the ones who produce jobs. they are the ones who invent great medicines or tremendous technologies. the government either hinders that or steps aside and encourages it, and ronald reagan understood that. we need to

york city jail. the hotel maid who accuses him of sexual assault says she did not know who he was. >>> over the years oprah winfrey hosted nearly every big star you can name on her long running talk show, plenty of them turned out last night in chicago as the last oprah shows were taped, including madonna, stevie wonder, beyonce, and as sandra hughes reports, many more. >> reporter: after 25 years of talking, oprah winfrey was almost speechless as she created an ecstatic crowd as she greeted who won tickets from an online lottery. the event called "surprise oprah, a farewell spectacular" featured a-list stars saying their good-bye. tom hanks was the first. >> more than 40 million people have tuned in every week and that means billions of viewers over generations, and you have said it over and over again, oprah, it's all about them. >> it's all about them. >> another tom came next, star-studded event went into overdrive with tributes. >> the oprah show taught me the power of forgiveness. >> reporter:

i remember we live in the wired new york city totally alone i don't have to put my bathroom sash around on it. and why i got down was because. my friends. i had made after the war who had been through the same thing i had but i felt if i get back to my self i would betray. the bottom me. cucina vietnam federer for tain't right in sixty six by eighty they call it hell's half acre because of the american people. that have been still there tunnel go out and be a crime snipers have done most of the damage today was no exception on this attack on the twenty seventh and fortunately the framed wall founds moved out to attack the snipers open up from such perfectly camouflaged positions the most of the a cockney like the whole day with c. and lot of the enemy a sergeant was hit in the shoulder and leg as he rolled over a third shop were up to his back. a medic broke for cough and rushed to his act as it dropped to his knees to begin given a bullet smashed into the stomach. both a sergeant and a medic that i and a killer broke but he was laid out to screen us while going after the world at the s

how new york city is reacting to the news. >> reporter: good morning, i'm christie smith live in la fayette at the crosses. those who died fighting the war on terror. >>> as we look at the san francisco bay bridge this morning, it's monday, may 2nd. this is today in the east bay. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. it is 4:30. osama bin laden has been killed in pakistan. we are going to talk to brian moore, who has the very latest from washington. >> reporter: this is where osama bin laden met his end. not in a cave, but a suburban mansion in pakistan. the world east most wanted terrorist and the master mind of 9/11 taken down by u.s. forces at the order of president obama. >> the united states killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. a terrorist who is responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children. justice has been done. >> usa! usa! >> reporter: celebrations erupted outside the white house. it was important to bring a wicked murderous person to justice. >> reporter: at ground zero in new york, towns large and small across the country what can

it's led by new york city, but it's really over 40 health organizations. other cities and other states that are working together. we think it has the opportunity for tremendous impact and the ability to save lives. >> reporter: of course, we can all make healthier food choices without the government's help. it's simple to choose a fruit instead of fries. but the salt initiative is taking aim at the salts we don't see. >> almost 80% of the salt that we take in each day comes from packaged and restaurant food. still, most consumers don't really have any control over the salt that they take in. it's already in the food when we buy it. it's not always actually the salt that you taste. a muffin can have a lot of salt. >> reporter: when you're shopping for packaged food, check the label. salt is listed as sodium. it's measured in milligrams. and you don't need more than 2,300 milligrams a day. they add up fast. even a can of vegetable soup can be loaded with sodium. >> you can have as much salt as you're supposed to eat in a whole day in one chicken sandwich at

york city. the m.c. was legendary motown singer and rock and roll hall of fame artist martha reeves. the kids received a video message from popular recording artist alicia keys and our students made great friends with scores of kids across the country and got to see the sites of new york city. truly a memorable experience i'm sure for the both of you and we're so proud and we're looking forward to your performance this evening. but before you go do that i'd love to invite the society director of the bay area, emily. >> thank you, president mendoza. good evening, everybody. yes, these are our two poets who just got back from new york city and i'm very, very proud of them. we made our debut last year here at the meeting and we're very happy to come back and just to give you a scope of america scores bay area, we are the only soccer and literacy after school program in san francisco with also programs in richmond but of course san francisco is number one. and we play soccer and we write poetry and

york city. michelle franzen. mayor bloomberg visited ground zero and he described saurm's demise as a critically important victory. what does it mean for new yorkers, now ten years after 9/11? >> reporter: well t certainly means a big boost here emotionally as one victim's family member put it that for the last ten years they've been held emotionally hostage by not knowing where osama bin laden was and not knowing what was next. now at least they know that osama bin laden is no longer a threat and that's exactly the point that new york city mayor michael bloomberg was trying to make today that -- that he was evil, that certainly new york has a lot to be proud of. it's a resilient city and the spirit is certainly strong and he's made those remarks and you can see it in the people and how they came out here overnight and the steady stream that continues throughout here today. not just new york residents, but also people who commute in and out of the city daily. people who are visiting from all ove

his 29-year-old son jimmy, also a new york city firefighter, was killed september 11. he was chief riches' oldest boy. >> we carried his body out of here down at ground zero on march 25, 2002, me and my three other sons. i congratulated him, and i thanked him and i said "you brought some solace to my family and we're happy at least one person has been brought to justice after nine and a half years." >> reporter: what did you say too the president and what did he say to you? frank and mary fetchet also met with the president. their son bradley was 24, an equity trader in the south tower. >> our two boys said "tell the president number one that i'm sleeping better already and number two, if he keeps up the good work, i'm going to vote for him." >> reporter: in their son's memory, the fetchets founded "voices of september 11," a web- based living memorial to all those who died, as well as a tribute to the rescue workers and survivors. >> that was right before uncle alvin went to heaven. >> reporter: for all those who met with president obama this afternoon, there were hun

i know your family is from jamaica. >> yes. >> but you grew up in new york city? >> very proud first generation american. my father was an olympic boxer and my mother was a model. i'm the youngest of nine. >> you're not only an actress but a singer a well. >> yes. >> you sing in this production, which was a surprise. >> i heard that a lot. shall i ask you to sing? one or two notes. you sing ocpelo in the show. >> sure. ♪ ♪ douse the fires of your fears my friend ♪ >> what a gorgeous voice and she sings throughout the show and it is astounding. and you are really the comic in this, aren't you? >> yes. >> the comic in many ways. how tall are you, actually, and how tall do you play? >> i'm 5'11" without heels on and in the show i think i have four inch heels on throughout the show. yeah. >> where did you study acting that led you to the arena stage? >> i went to school here in d.c. and i went to rutgers university for acting and got my bfa from there. >> now, is that you? >> that's me. >> yes, there you are, again. wonderful, wonderful job from all of you. one

in new york city, this is "nightline," may 5th, 2011. >> good evening. today, chilling information gleaned from osama bin laden's compound. material con his kated from there revealing al qaeda was planning a possible attack on the united states four months from now, on the tenth anniversary of september 11th. it's still unclear how viable the plan was, but we know the target was passenger trains. meanwhile, president obama traveled today to ground zero to honor the fallen and meet with some of the victims' families. we began the day with one of them. >> he skied in colorado. >> reporter: rose mary cane's son's name was george. he was 35 when he was killed on 9/11. he was a firefighter stationed in midtown manhattan. on that day, one of hundreds of first responders who rushed into the towers after they were hit. >>> remember walking in my house and turning on the television and, you know, those crueller cn the bottom of the screen. and i remember seeing "hundreds of firefighters trapped." i'll see that until the day i die. >> reporter: she's made the driv

people in new york city don't want to live in new york city anymore. they want to live somewhere else if they could, and about 65% of the people in new york city thought new york city was going in the wrong direction. that is the most disturbing thing that can possibly happen because it means that people have started to lose hope, and when people start to lose hope, they don't create great things anymore, and i felt that what i wanted to do was to change that, and by the time i left office, we had a new york city in which roughly the opposite of that, 70% wanted to be there and liked being there and 70% thought new york city was going in the right direction and not the wrong direction, and i often think in new york city with the depressed attitude that we had in the early 1990s would have had a much harder time overcoming as quickly the tremendous damage done to us by the attacks of september 11. it helped new york city, but when we were attacked, we were a strong city, a confident city, an optimistic city, a city that believed our best days were ahead

mary snow, reporting live from new york city. we appreciate it. join us for our special coverage of president obama's visit to ground zero. anderson cooper takes the reigns at 11:00 a.m. eastern. >>> the president's visit comes after his decision to not release photos of osama bin laden dead body. he says, little would be gained by publicly showing those gruesome images. >> it is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence, as a propaganda tool. that's not who we are. >> as you might expect, the president' decision ignited fierce debate. a former homeland security adviser says the public has a right to see visual proof that bin laden is dead. >> it seems the president is terribly concerned with foreign opinion when most americans want to see these photographs. john, we have spent over ten years, billions of taxpayer dollars. if they want to see them, they ought to be released. >> duncan hunter echos that. the combat veteran says, i want

and i did a reading in la last year, and we did the reading in new york city. and this is a show where the asians and the asian americans in the show are not necessarily portrayed as villains. there are villains... there's the good guys, and there's the villains. or what is perceived as the villain. because stereotypically a lot of asian actors in a lot of american shows would be maybe the triad leaders, or gang leaders, or what. but with this, the romantic lead is asian, the romantic lead, the leading lady is asian, and george takai is the lead guy. >> hinojosa: what i love is the fact that you are here, this international star. because your music, you've, like, what, gone multiplatinum on who knows how many records? but you still have to go in sometimes and read for a part. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: right? >> absolutely. >> hinojosa: you still have to do that. and people might not know this, because, you know... >> i still have to audition. >> hinojosa: ...people don't necessar... i always watch all of the credits on everything, especially because i have kids. wh

outside new york city so i was really excited. it should be big for morale and a definite boost to our own morale. >> reporter: he specializes in u.s. action toward terrorists. >> it certainly has an impact on the morale, it certainly has an impact on the symbol of al qaeda, the face of al qaeda terrorism, but i think it also has a bit of an impact practically because it will discombobula discombobulate. >> reporter: he also says bin laden's death may increase the risk of revenge attacks. >> i think more dangerously, if someone or some terrorist group within the united states takes this to heart and over a period of time smolders with anger and perpetuates a very serious attack, that's a possibility. >> reporter: still, he says, killing bin laden is a definite victory for the u.s. there may be other leaders lurking in the wings but he says they lack bin laden's charisma. >> they don't have the same kind of appeal. he was a leader that appealed to people. he spoke to them in a way they understood and he could mobilize them in a way

this morning president obama goes to new york city. he'll be there for a wreath laying ceremony at ground zero. the president will meet privately with family members of those who died in the september 11 attacks. he'll also meet with firefighters at a station where 15 first responders died on 9/11. the president's visit comes just days after the killing of osama bin laden. >>> president obama has ordered the grizzly photographs of osama bin laden's body sealed from the public view. in deciding not to release the photos, the president says "that is not who we are." now the president expressed concern that any release of the photos could become a propaganda tool for bin laden's followers. >>> not everyone agrees with the president's decision though to withhold those photos. 56% of americans surveyed say they want them to be released. 39% say they do not need to see the photos. >>> meantime the c.i.a. is busy going through the stash of computers and other information brought back by navy seals from bin laden's compound in pakistan. they'r

great day. >> announcer: "nightline" continues from new york city with cynthia mcfadden. >> in the summer of 2008, the story of 2-year-old caylee anthony made tabloid headlines when the little girl went missing, prompting a massive search effort. eventually the girl's mother, casey anthony, was charged with her daughter's murder. ashleigh banfield was in court today for opening arguments as the story took yet another shocking turn. >> reporter: bomb shell day in court as the defense team unveiled its answers to a 3 tleerld mystery. who killed caylee anthony? and why did it take casey 31 days to say anything about it? >> well, the answer is actually relatively simple. she never was missing. caylee anthony died on june 16th, 2008, when she drowned in her family's swimming pool. >> reporter: as if that defense were shot shocking enough, casey went on to point the finger at her father, george anthony, suggesting he was there when caylee died and threatened casey. >> look what you've done! your mother will never forgive you and you will go to jail for child neglect for the rest of your life. >

in new york city, this is "nightline," may 27th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm terry moran. 65% of americans have college debt. maybe you're one of them. and total student debt in this country at nearly $1 trillion is now greater than total credit card debt. that's partly because more people are going to college, even as college costs skyrocket. having decided that the sacrifice is worth it. but is it, really? tonight, we meet a man who made billions in silicone valley who says the answer is often no. here's linsey davis. >> look at a day like this, you would think anything is possible. >> reporter: and you probably think so, too, if you were peter thiel. he's the silicon valley version of the man behind the curtain in "the wizard of oz." he didn't give you a brain, a heart or courage, but he had a lot to do with giving you paypal, facebook, youtube and yelp. he's now paying students who drop out of college, is surprising for a guy who went to stanford for undergrad and law school. but maybe it's his own story that helped lead him to this conclusion. he was a derives trader before cofounding

in 1853 in response to a freight elevator accident in new york city. until that time, elevators were quite common in buildings but typically used just for handling freight. elisha otis -- elijah otis successfully demonstrated the safety device he had created. even of the elevator and he cut the device, and he did not fall. everyone was impressed by that. in 1857, the oldest brother's company installed their first passenger elevator on broadway in new york. believe it or not, many of those first elevators were actually started and stopped by a hand broke. >> what drove those old elevators? what was their motive power? >> in some cases, they might have even been hp. >> and then changed to electric? >> electric cited to come in the 1890's, and that was around the time when the elevator stopped from material handling and started to be used more frequently for passengers. in 1878, there was a demonstration of the other thing that allowed architects to build taller buildings was the advent of a higher quality steel manufacturing. in 19003, the first producti