. thank you for the opportunity. [applause] >> st. john's university in queens, new york recognized republican congressman peter king for his work in congress in the aftermath of hurricane sandy. new york honored him an honorary law degree on may 19, despite a student protest of him being a commencement speaker. herself his 10 minute address. [applause] his 10 minute address. >> it is my honor to introduce ur honorary speaker peter king of new york. thank you very much. let me first of all, congratulate today's graduates. i wish you continued success. based upon the outstanding education you have received at st. john's the lasting friendships you have formed the enriching experiences you have shared and the life lessons you have learned at this great university. we also commend and thank the father for his many years of dedicated service and for all of the accomplished in leading st. john's university to ever higher academic heights. it is an honor for me to be your speaker and to receive the honorary degree. as someone who grew up in new york city, queens, this moment is particular

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morning. right now on "first look," billionaire new york mayor michael bloomberg said ricin-laced letters will not deter him from pushing his gun control measures. >> the heat is rising on attorney general eric holder as the news media balks over an off the record meeting over leaks. >> donations are pouring into oklahoma's hardest hit areas. >>> investing like warren buffett, we'll tell you where he's putting his money now. >>> flooding continues to be a problem in many parts of the country. >>> and one bear's frightening encounter with a motorist. >>> good morning. i'm mara schiavocampo. >> the fbi and nypd have launched an investigation into a pair of letters that tested positive for the poison ricin. one of sent to new york michael bloomberg, the other to the director of his gun control group. nbc's tracie potts joins us live from washington now with more on the investigation. good morning. >> reporter: what we know this morning, mara s that those letters were intercepted before anyone was hurt, and that earlier tests confirm they did con train traces of the deadly poison rici

states over the last 15 years. we see big losses from states like new york. john: new york, state. and i see people leaving for florida. california even. there are coming in from michigan and least. >> there is not the kind of in migration you would want to see, but for a state like florida you're seeing a massive amount of people and their income coming in. $86 billion. john: largo was the number one gainer. >> that's right. john: darcy, you run the goldwater institute. arizona is the number two state. and people come in from minnesota, my state, new york. you could say they get to arizona and florida just because it is warm. >> you'd be wrong. john: they are moving for weather. >> the number one reason people move and that since the sparrow asks, find a job. that correlates with low taxes. climate makes up about 5 percent of people's decisions. a small quality of life factor. not the big factor everyone thinks it is. >> and we see that in the data. states without an income tax to doing very well, states like wyoming, states like washington state. all gaining people and then come john

begin the hour with lauren at the new york stock exchange. good morning, lauren. >> good morning, everybody. stocks up across the board. we have the broader market higher by more than half of one percent, tech leading the way of up 72 points. we have the dollar strengthening today, and despite that, oil and gold and other commodities all up significantly today. the sectors leading the market, we have tech, especially, with facebook and yelp, and we also have the industrials, boeing, 3m, ups, and proctor and gamble and cisco the top dow components. back to you. connell: good enough. we'll check back. all right. online travel spending surpassing a money million dollars as millions turn to sites you know like expedia and priceline as they book vacations. ashley webster has travel today bringing us more. yo, ashley, how are you? >> just down the hall way and good. travelers get quotes on planes, rental cars, and so much more, of course, with just the click of the mouse. in the internet world, the travel agencies dead and buried? maybe not. our team of researchers day and night to pri

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and now police in new york say that cash may have been funneled to terror groups. rochelle richie is live with the latest. >> reporter: the brothers are facing a number of charges, including enterprise corruption. they were arrested in ocean, living a simple and unsuspecting lifestyle. >> it is one of the most lucrative cigarette smuggling rings new york police say they've seen in a long time. . >> we don't know where all that money went. what we know is deeply troubling. >> the master minds of it all are just two of the 16 arrested with who authorities call dangerous connections to terrorist groups. >> we know that some members of this group have ties to dangerous people. we know they were arrested with weapons. >> authorities in new york say the brothers along with 14 other people formed a distrue distribution -- distribution line. an accomplice would give them cash in exchange for the cigarettes. in a wiretapped conversation a brooklyn distributor was heard saying this business is better than selling drugs. maryland state comptroller peter fran choe. >> cigarette smuggling can pro

and so why you know the same claims were made about the new york times when the pubs print on papers it was destroying our security it was strong and so forth and so for the first amendment in that case trumped. the claim of the nixon administration now here you've got to ask yourself well what is the first amendment blame. the claim is that the sons can't be punished if in fact there is no clear and present danger to the country and if you look at the stuff that assigns. published i would argue there's no clear and present danger to the country i mean it's been three years whereas the danger i mean you're still here and i'm still here all claims terrible when it comes to national security but when you look backwards at them which is what i do in my book this is the pentagon papers i look back through the facts of what happened in the pentagon papers and nobody home nothing there are no damage now security you have to look at these claims with a jaundiced eye because after a period of time you take a look at them and there's no danger as you mentioned the obama administration has pro

there. i thought that the breadthth of the subpoena, new york, capitol hill, they went too far to get information. i've yet to hear their side of the story. >> eric: they used the eggs me entangling acted to get the records. is that an overreach? >> i think a complete overreach the i agree with juan. on the rosen case, it's one thing you have a leak within the state department. go after that leak within the state department but to target the reporter. freedom of the press is one of hallmarks of liberty. the idea they have targeted james rosen with a subpoena, access to his parents' emails and phone records, this is absurd. a.p. case is different because national security implication is there but in both cases is an overreach. >> eric: president obama delivered an hour long speech on counter terror. timing kind of stinks to me. 300 million will be in backyard probably talking about the scandals. does president obama is going chase this down a hole and not talk about it this weekend? >> i don't know what he thinks. the polls indicate that most americans aren't following it especially no

kind of an pertinence in that place. what would be a great restaurant in new york city. i have no idea, i don't spend enough time in new york city. >> rose: nathan lane, dan rose next. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> nathan lane is here, he's one of theatre's greatest gift, just ask all of his friends. he's a two-time tony award winner. he stars in a story of a gay burlesque performing, he was nominated for a tony once again for his performance. i'm very pleased to have him here back in our house, welcome. >> thank you, nice to be back. always a pleasure. >> rose: we started to talk about then ed brantly who said one of god's rare major gifts to broadway in the last several decades, one of the best comic marks in the theatre, a king of musical comedy, a classic broadway baby, master of the one liner with top spin. holy cow, lordy lordy. >> well, that's, well, that's very nice. >> rose: what's he talking about, what performance. >> i think that's a composite review of several things i might have done over the y

many american cities, including pittsburgh and new york. man: new york city went to philadelphia and said, "you know, we're thinking of developing a hudson river water supply -- what do you suggest we do?" and they said, "we've had "a lot of problems on the schuylkill. "don't go to the hudson river. go to the upland and work by gravity." 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 en

all new york politicians hit wal-mart? the guy who wants to be mayor. >> this just in, wal-mart is not out in new york. because republican mayoral candidate joseph lota not only likes wal-mart, but he loves it. that is an anomaly. he also supports wal-mart coming to new york. so you know the history on us. >> we have elected officials who want to be servants for the unions. elected officials in new york should be focused on getting jobs for the people who live in new york. allowing them to bike clothing and food at list prices. >> they would be allowed to set up on jupiter. but that issue always gets in the way. when they hate the idea that this comes from somewhere in asia, each one of them has an apple iphone in their pocket, made by non-labor union in china. >> things are expensive, but as it turned from from a $50 for a gallon of milk. [laughter] >> not that much. it would welcome it least a break. >> thousands of new yorkers from queens go to nassau county to buy thmilk at wal-mart. they save anywhere from six to 10% on costs. that is six to 10% of your payroll back in your pocket

national. go like a pro. yes, it is. welwhere new york state is... investing one billion dollars to attract and grow business. where companies like geico are investing in technology & finance. welcome to the state where cutting taxes for business... is our business. welcome to the new buffalo. welcome to the new buffalo. welcome to the new buffalo. new york state is throwing out the old rule book to give your business a new edge, the edge you can only get in new york state. to grow our start your business, visit thenewny.com >>> we have been talking a lot about foreign policy, but it is a big week for immigration reform. the senate judiciary committee will begin its debate of amendments to the gang of eight immigration bill, this thursday. and one thing's certain, it is going to be dramatic. republican senator marco rubio, he is the face of the gang of eight. it is really quite remarkable that he became the face of a bipartisan democratically led effort, but there it is. but these are the faces of the opposition, the gangbusters, if you will. demint is number one on that list becaus

from states like new york. >> now you have new york my state and i see people are leaving for florida and lots to california even. but they are coming in from michigan at least. >> there's not the kind of in migration you want to see. but for a state like florida you are seeing a massive amount of people and income coming in. $86 billion. >> florida was the number one gainer. >> that's right. >> darcie you run the gold wauter institute think tank. arizona is the number two state. people come in from minnesota, my state, new york. you could say they go to arizona and florida just because it's warm they are moving for weather. >> you would be wrong. >> but they are moving for weather you are not totally wrong. >> the number one people move census bureau asks, to find a job. jobs correlate with taxes. those go hand in hand. climate makes up about 5 percent of people's decisions small quality of life factor. not the big factor everybody thinks it is. >> john we see that in data there are states without income tax doing well in this analysis. states like wyoming states like washington. the

over press freedom, 40 years ago james goodale from the new york times when the nixon administration attempted to block the paper's publication of the pentagon papers, the secret history of the vietnam war, leaked by daniel ellsberg. then, environmental activist tim dechristopher recently released from prison joins us in the studio. >> there are a lot of things we have tried, most of which have not worked, especially on climate change, on trying to get our government to do something about climate change. mostly, we need people taking action. nobody can really tell you what that action should be. >> first, we turn to a shocking senate hearing for the pentagon declared the entire world is a battlefield and the president can send troops anywhere without new congressional authorization. >> i have only been here five months, but this is the most astounding disturbing hearing i have been 2 cents i have been here. you essentially have rewritten the constitution here today. >> all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman.

, new york. >>> both women appeared on starting point this morning. and don't appear to be any hard feelings on either side. >>> happening now, a deadly virus is spreading overseas, and the united states could be next. dr. anthony is here, to tell us why health officials are sounding the alarm. >>> plus, republicans are turning up the heat on the attorney general, eric holder. did he tell the truth about the administration's investigation of journalists? >>> and al qaeda incorporated. airing the dirty laundry, cracking down on a veteran fighter who didn't file his paperwork. >>> i'm wolf blitzer. we want to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. around the world. you're in the situation room. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> breaking news in new york right now. the new york city police department saying letters containing threats to the mayor michael bloomberg contain material that has now tested positive, initial tests for the poison ricin. the deputy police commissioner, paul brown, saying the letters were opened in new york on friday. he said th

thousands of ecuadorian villagers took another turn this week as a federal judge in new york ordered this guy's chevron c.e.o. john watson to testify in the case and defend his company against an eighteen billion dollar legal settlement now here's the story in two thousand and one chevron bought texaco a company that drilled for oil in ecuador in this area over here and it's alleged that texaco contributed to the environmental contamination of the ecuadorian rain forest and the poisoning of local populations with these oil pits that you see here by buying texaco in two thousand and one chevron was suddenly responsible for all of texaco's liabilities and pending lawsuits and that liability grew a lot more expensive in two thousand and eleven when a judge in ecuador ruled on behalf of the plaintiffs in the case ordering chevron to pay more than nine billion dollars in damages later revised up to eighteen billion dollars the second largest environmental judgment in history second only to b.p.'s gulf oil spill now chevron is the third most profitable corporation in the world in two thousand a

warn swimmers of the dangers. from hot to cold. in vermont and upstate new york, emergency crews plowed snow in higher elevations and restored power to homes after a late-season storm. temperatures have been 10 to 30 degrees below average for this time of the year and up until today rainy and cold. now the sun has come out. so have the crowds. >> this has been inusual even for the east coast to have it turn so cold. but we're dealing with it. >> reporter: at jones beach, people braved the blustery weather to take in the annual memorial day bethpage air show. the remainder of the holiday weekend calls for warmer weather, along with the potential for more storms later this week. michelle franzen, nbc news, new york. >>> now to the memorial day forecast and the threat of more severe weather later in the week. meteorologist todd santos joins us from weather channel headquarters. todd, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, lester. we are going to see at least some improvement especially for the northeast. the winds should settle down. we'll see 70 degrees from new york up towards b

from new york to boston. commuters are worried about monday morning. >> how aim going to be able to get to work? >> reporter: so far, officials have not said how long it will take to reopen the tracks in this area. >> we're learning 4 tracks are in the area where the are train accident happened. the crash closed two of them. the other two or we're out service, undergoing some upgrades. >>> 60 people in virginia are hurt after a car drives through a group of hikers. the crash happened in damascus. witnesses say that an elderly man was behind the wheel. early investigations show the man may have suffered a medical emergency right before the crash. the details in this case are still unfolding. it was a big event in baltimore today. the city was the center of the horse racing world with the running of the preakness stakes. mark viviano has more on the surprise finish and the big party. >> reporter: 117,000 fans packed pinlico race course, providing the infield fashion and all-out fun with concerts, concessions, and cash. nearly $82 million wagered on the stars of the show. >> they're of

even more. ashley: time for stocks now. let's head to the new york stock exchange. nicole: do not look now. look now, the dow and nasdaq with the aeros. that may snap its winning streak. five consecutive record all time closes. we have not seen that since 1998. a historic time here on wall street. new records day after day. we will see whether or not the dow closes in the green. it will be the 18th record close for the dow this year. we did get into jobless claims that were better than expected. they rolled out 114 of the charts. fifteen of them have been delivered to eight airlines. nice one year chart for boeing. lori: major averages hovering near the flat line. the s&p, well, it is only a few points off of a six record close. joining us now is raymond james chief executive. jeff, thank you for being here. >> can stay over for a lot longer than people think. the half life for people in this business is about 14 years. the market state overbought and it stayed over bob for a long time. my hunch is, unlike the past three years, i don't think that strategy plays this way. lori: how woul

in a songe as the publisher similar to the new york times similar to the guardian and all the other news outlets that then published what julian a songe disclosed through wiki leaks right there saying that it's the same thing if everyone's on the same point it's like if you have a website yourself and you publish this interview you're a publisher u.s. officials maintain that joining us on church compromised national security by publishing classified documents now as you know in america you know sometimes first amendment is trumped by national security issues when information is disclosed that could threaten the lives of soldiers on the battlefield or threaten the lives of americans here at home do you believe honestly that killing or saw a sign should face no consequences whatsoever yes that's right and so why you know the same claims were made about the new york times when the pubs print the papers it was this throwing national security it was drawing so forth and so on the first amendment in that case trumped. the claim of the nixon administration now here you've got to ask yourse

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in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes, and thank you for joining us tonight. an amazing strange, weird, fascinating news day, including a stunning development involving one of the boston bombing suspects and his alleged role in a grizzly triple homicide that featured marijuana sprinkled all over the victims' bodies. that's true. >>> also we'll take you to florida where an 18-year-old high school student faces felony charges for having a relationship with another female student. >>> plus, a truly remarkable thing happened in washington, it was a cause for spontaneous celebration by many. i'll tell you what happened. >>> but we begin tonight with a big political announcement that came ability in an unusual way, a major campaign launch, but the launch itself didn't happen today, technically, it happened in the overnight hours. instead of press conferences that mark most candidate announcements, former congressman anthony weiner announced his bid for mayor of new york city by posting a two-minute video to youtube overnight, which is not

. thanks for being with us. all in with chris hayes starts right now. >>> good evening from new york. president obama said the irs should be prepared for a full investigation after targeting conservative groups. tonight, we have the results of the investigation and it's a stunning look at an organization and bureaucracy completely overwhelmed in the aftermath of citizens united. plus, i'll tell you about angelina jolie's brave admission "the new york times" and the spotlight it shines on health care and three, a revelation from newt gingrich that is as jaw dropping as the time he was leaving the polls, but lest you still not believe that today was a really large, massive, big, enormous news day, we begin with the rare and remarkable occurrence. simultaneous top level super newsy press conferences. this is during andrea mitchell's 1:00 p.m. show, sim ul casting the live white house briefing with jay carney and the press conference being held by eric holder. andrea did not have the sound up on both press con trenss at the same time, although that would have been awesome and kind of fun. here's wh

. unbelievable. we studied this kind of thing up in new york. you know, people in new york, washington, all over the country, florida, putting the rules into place, and aaa doesn't like the saying they create accidents, and a they say, interestingly, the effort is to raise money for the state government. they say they are not even spending the money on public safety, just one in ten dollars goes to public safety. what do you think of that? >> no. that's exactly right. this goes into the general revenue fund, not public safety at all. it's unconscionable what's happening. gerri: you want to kill cameras all together, tell me about that. >> at this point, we look at the systems saying, these were sold as public safety, and what we're finding is that municipalities turn them into profit center, and that's absolutely should not be the case. gerri: rear end crashes rose 44% in a st. peterburg study after the implementation of this thing. fight the good fight there, senator. you know, good luck, god speed, and let us know if you get traction. thank you for the help tonight. >> thank you, we'

"hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. >>> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. thank you for joining us tonight. there is a lot happening on this monday, including the shocking arrest of the lieutenant colonel in charge of the air force's sexual assault prevention program. he himself is charged tonight with sexual assault. two big banks are accused of violating their responsibility to help struggling homeowners. i'll have the exclusive interview with the attorney general who is cracking down. and a major tax bill passes in the senate, pitting republican against republican, democrat against democrat, and grover norquist against big retailers. all that, plus click 3. we begin with new and mounting pressure on the united states to get involved in yet another war on the middle east. a war that just in the last few days has shown signs of erupting further into a true regional conflict. syria has been embroiled in a civil war for two years. what you're seeing are israeli air strikes along the outskirts of the syrian capital. this is the second time in three days on sunday.

syncom move between states over the last 15 years. we see big losses from states like new york. john: new york, state. and i see people leaving for florida. california even. there are coming in from michigan and least. >> there is not the kind of in migration you would want to see, but for a state like florida you're seeing a massive amount of people and their income coming in. $86 billion. john: largo was the number one gainer. >> that's right. john: darcy, you run the goldwater institute. arizona is the number two state. and people come in from minnesota, my state, new york. you could say they get to arizona and florida just because it is warm. >> you'd be wrong. john: they are moving for weather. >> the number one reason people move and that since the sparrow asks, find a job. that correlates with low taxes. climate makes up about 5 percent of people's decisions. a small quality of life factor. not the big factor everyone thinks it is. >> and we see that in the data. states without an income tax to doing very well, states like wyoming, states like washington state. all gaining peo

think it benefits the employee. dennis: this just in. peter, new york city council aid prove a new law in the city. it is veto proof even though mayor bloomberg wanted to reject it, requiring employers to give sick days to companies that don't do it. thought it would be something to work out with employees, if you don't like the no sick day policy, get another employer. what do you think?. >> i think it is a terrible idea. the government is legislating the contract that exists between the worker and employer. new york city is extraordinarily competitive labor market for those hourly workers. those are the ones who benefit from it. the employers have to make the best deal they can to get good labor to work in places like manhattan. i think this is a needless intrusion in the bargaining process and it's a terrible idea and it is another example of new york making itself less competitive than it should be. richard, what do you think of this i think it is hard on small business. >> i don't necessary disagree. we are in new york. it is very liberal and democratic and that is the way it will

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this rollover into some of the other united states of america? >> you will see thatn new york they tend to follow suit. probably illinois. you will see it in certain states that since that allow people. the district of columbia will follow suit, but i keep saying, when you are forcing electric cars and people, a little bit of the marketplace that is buying and then you look at all the rest of the car companies that are not surviving, they have gone bankrupt. are you leaving consumers with cars that there not going to be able to get parts. >> reporter: in a bind with a buy somethingn order to meet a certain standard and force it on the manufacturers who either take them back or they just going to take a loss or are we going to end up paying for all of this? nicole: electric plug in cars, it so foreign to me. all i do is report about them. i know anyone who has won. have never seen one of my own eyes. feels so foreign and so back to the future to a certain extent. the hearing that they're going to need to sell about 600,000 of the vehicles nationwide by the year 2025. does that sound

taking a pass on any off the record opportunities, nbc, cnn, "the new york times," the associated press, and the huffington post. but there have been some takers. quote, abc news will attend the meeting and press for that conversation to be put on the record. politico editor-in-chief johnç harris says i feel anyone, whether an official or ordinary reader, should be able toç have an unguarded conversation in a position of accountability with a news organization when there's good reason." brad wood-house said, kind of forfeits your right to gripe. >> when you've lost the press, especially a press that's been so supine, and so supportive of this administration, bent over backwards to give them every break, then you're really, r ty we're having this extraordinary attempt to kind of set the record straight on an off the record basis. >> meanwhile the clock is ticking toward the wednesday deadline for holder to reply from a set of questions from republicans on the house judiciary committee, who believe he may have misled them on during his testimony on may 15th. regardless or how he answe

going opposite directions just outside of new york collide at rush hour. >>> in office politics, i talk to richard engel about what was going through his mind when he was kidnapped in syria. >>> powerball mania reaching a fever pitch. the big clamor for the $600 million prize. have you got your tickets yet? good morning, everyone. welcome to weekends with alex witt. let's get to what's happening. >>> first in front page politics, a new fallout just a day after the irs commissioner faced fierce questioning from a house panel. steve miller was force the to resign his post as acting director this week. on friday he faced republicans and democrats who demanded answers about why the irs targeted tea party groups seeking tax exempt status. >> as acting commissioner, i want to apologize on behalf of the internal revenue service for the mistakes that we made and the poor service we provided. i think that what happened here was that foolish mistakes were made by people trying to be more efficient in their workload. the listing, as described in the report, while intolerable, was a mistake an

nominee to run the fbi. his name is james comey. he prosecuted the gambino family in new york city. he investigated and brought the indictments in the cobart towers bombing in saudi arabia in 1996. he's one of the people who helped pick patrick fitzgerald as the special prosecutor who went after the scooter libby, dick cheney, valerie plame outing the cia officer investigation, that bombshell investigation back in 2003. most famously, james comey was the guy who had the car chase to the hospital room and then the middle of the night hospital room stand-off with george w. bush's chief of staff and his white house counsel. when they ambushed john ash kraut who was basically half dead from acute panic retights in the hospital and they tried to get him to sign off in the hospital on a surveillance program that he believed to be illegal. that was james comey at the stand-off in the hospital room. and that was him threatening to quit in protest. and that was him then telling the whole sordid story under oath. that was him. in npr last night and "the new york times," they were the first t

and help conserve resources artie's instance a child going to visit one of the protests in new york. throughout the world and in dozens of cities across the united states weekend of action against monsanto takes place where in the heart of the protests in the big apple were hundreds of people have been marching through the streets of the city demanding that monsanto put an end to its action the corporate giant the biotech global giant has been very controversial it's existed for over a century accused of genetically engineered and genetically modified food culture and food accused of turning a blind eye on the health consequences of the food that it produces and also of the immense lobbying powers that it has in washington d.c. for one accused of sleeping in the same bed really with politicians blocking any kind of legislation that would make life for morning have on santa's more difficult and promoting and pushing through legislation that protects the rights of this biotech giant these companies are manipulating the food chain to their own advantage for monetary gain there's a few people makin

ago new york saw hundreds of fast food workers or better benefits and just last week hundreds of chicago fast food and retail workers at some of the country's largest corporate chains took some of their actions and went on strike to demand higher wages and union rights accorded the bureau of labor statistics the minimum wage should be ten dollars and fifty six cents today when accounting for inflation but currently the federal minimum wage is only seven dollars and twenty five cents and hasn't been raised since two thousand and nine in fact in the last thirty years congress has only raise the minimum wage three times just to give you an idea working full time at minimum wage surmounts to an annual salary of fifteen thousand dollars hardly a living wage for anyone hoping to live a comfortable life but there is a serious campaign by many employers who say that raising wages for low income workers would actually cause more unemployment and a less stable economy well that's exactly what i talked with less leopold about director of the labor center of new york i asked for his response

. >> shooting near hofstra university on new york's long island cast a somber shadow. 21-year-old junior was shot and killed during a terrifying home invasion there blocks from the campus. abc's linzie janis has the details. ♪ >> reporter: what should have been a happy day for so many turned bittersweet. >> our thoughts and our prayers are with andrea's family and with her friends and classmates. >> reporter: graduates at hofstra university wearing white ribbons and posing for a moment of silence to honor andrea ribello, the 21-year-old was killed by police gunfire during an armed robbery at her home. after a night out celebrating the end of finals, ribello and her twin sister jessica returned home with roommate and friend. 30-year-old dalton smith came in through an unlocked door and robbed them. smith took valuables but he wanted more. he sent the twin's roommate to an atm. she bolted and called 911. >> he told her if she did not return within eight minutes he would kill one of the individuals in the hois. >> reporter: officers araved to find smith holding ribello in a headlock point

they were going there? >> yeah. it seemed like they were going to new york because they asked me a lot of questions. >> reporter: en route to a gas station, danny's phone rang. it was his roommate who wondered why he wasn't home. tamerlan pulled a gun out. >> i said if you don't want me to pick the phone up, i won't. he said you have to answer your phone, but if you say any word in chinese, i will kill you. >> reporter: so when your roommate hears you speaking in english, did he hear you in english? >> he answered in chinese. he said why are you speaking in english, is everything okay. i told him i'm going to sleep over a friend's. >> reporter: what happens then? >> so after i hung up the phone, tamerlan was real happy. he said, good job, good boy. >> reporter: so at some point you start thinking i need an exit strategy here. >> yeah. i need to figure out a way, you know, to save myself. i had the normal sense of what to do. i had to unlock the door, unfasten myself, pull the handle on the door. >> at the gas station tamerlan left to pay. tamerlan was fiddling with the gps. danny knew