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

one-on-one with new york city mayor bill deblasio. might ask him questions, might dunk on him. either way, he's getting a lot of lw in his face. deblasio's fighting to save new york city's middle class. all twelve of them. we'll also discuss the mayor's relationship with the nypd, which has more beef than a new york city hot dog. i'm in a new york state of mind. it's the "the nightly show"! captioning sponsored by comedy central (cheers and applause) ♪ >> larry: thank you very much! welcome to the "the nightly show"! i appreciate it. i'm larry wilmore. tonight, i'm so excited. i'm sitting down with mayor deblasio. (cheers and applause) appreciate the mayor coming by. as someone who's lived in new york for, gosh... six months now, i feel like there's no bigger authority on new york city than moi. for instance, did you know the subway runs 24 hours a day? knowledge! since the mayor is here, and there's a lot going on in new york city, let's get a quick update of the issues. i guess the top story about new york is the weather. it's the third coldest winter on record. thanks deb

right. originally a big grand idea. i was going to do new york over 20 year span. end of world war i to the beginning of world war ii boom and bust and do all five boroughs taking in all of new york city. but then as often happens in writing not long into the research i was drawn to another topic in the story if you will a larger story and that was the story of the sudden and spectacular emergence of midtown in the 1920s as the epicenter of new york city. you have to understand that for 300 years lower manhattan dominated new york city, almost was new york city to the world. then in the 20s bears the sudden eruption of midtown and to give you a sense of eruption in 1919 there is not a single skyscraper north of 42nd street. nine years later half of new york's skyscrapers are in midtown. a new building goes up in midtown every 57 minutes in the 20s. so this is one of and i don't exaggerate i think one of the great city building decades in all of history. and it's a process that is accompanied by and i deal with the building boom. i deal with the architecture and the people who built t

york city although it deals with a lot of other places. the title is meant to suggest that new york was a game they went fugitive slaves got to new york city, they were then very quickly sent to upstate new york, eventually canada and they could really achieve freedom. new york was a pivotal turning point in the journey from slavery to freedom. i got interested in the subject completely accidentally. a few years ago a student of nine who was working on a senior thesis in colombia about sidney howard k. and abolition as journalist who is interested in his journalistic career. she said to me and the papers we have better: be a library, there is this document about fugitive slaves. you might find it interesting. i filed that away in one day i was up there and asked for this box yet i never heard of this document. i never seen it cited anywhere. basically for two years 1855 1856, the journalist, also an activist in the railroad recorded the experiences of over 200 men women and children who came to new york city on the way to freedom and been a journalist, he interviewed them and took down

? >> guest: welcome of the title is meant to reflect -- the book centers on new york city, although it deals with a lot of other places. i kind of gave way. they were then very quickly sent to upstate new york eventually to canada and could achieve freedom. new york was kind of a pivotal turning.in their journey from slavery to freedom. i got interested in the subject completely accidentally. a a few years ago a student of mine who was working on a senior thesis of columbia about sidney howard day for an abolitionist journalist was interested in his journalistic career. @was interested in his journalistic career. said to me, in the papers which we have at our library there is a document that fugitive slaves. you might find it interesting. our file thataway. i asked this box that had that -- i never heard of this document. but basically for two years 1855 from 1856 1855 from 1856 a journalist and also an activist in the underground railroad record of recorded the experiences of over 200 men, women and children for fugitive slaves on their way to freedom. being a journalist to interview

wonderment of new york city. with the city of of opportunity to describe explore cities you could read them like to read the pages of a book every stone has a tongue and every tongue tells the story was concentrated expressions of civilization that can be told almost autobiographical a. that is the city of opportunity where he uses his own life as an example of how you can make it in new york city. so buildings to have lives. so by 1930 yorkers are:42nd street with "the daily news" building chrysler, the lincoln building and it is a new new york. with boarding houses and dave r. ray. but this was the problem today it has grown very tall and they don't have the edge dissertation to support the population that will result with the recent skyscraper revolution. but in the 1920's they build to move people the third avenue subway will not be finished in 20 years but they build the sixth avenue subway. they build the bridge two months after george washington bridge then the tunnel was finished. that is the first vehicular tunnel of that lankan the entire world and the nose to holland is

through new york city. of the book begins with a document may be a star with a historical question then find the resources they hear it is the opposite. i worked out to piece together a narrative of history. >> what was the underground railroad? . . was not in the south telling them to a scape. so the first thing was actually running away in various modes but then they would make contact with either agents of the underground railroad or might know okay this is of. this is a fugitive slave up the road. one shouldn't take the railroad metaphor literally that it was a success to them. there were 8,000 out of slavery to this north and canada in the 30 years before the civil war so that would be 30,000 people. there were 4 million slaves in 1860. they gained with the assistance of white and black activists something i think i could look back at with pride in our history. the hidden history might be slavery misleading. i was trying to say the new york part of this is unknown. they were the abolitionists involved in the movement so on the one hand they are engaged in secret and illegal ac

police commissioner of new york city begs to differ. he says the streets are now more violent and dangerous and legal pot across the u.s. is partly to blame. listen. >> in this city people are killing each other over marijuana more so than anything having to do with what we dealt with in the '80s and '90s with heroin and cocaine. >> is he right? >> i'm not privy so the things that he sees on a daily basis, but if you look at the facts with a state like colorado that legalized about a year ago and the first 11 months in the city of denver violent crime decreased and according to the colorado department of transportation statewide traffic fatalities are also down. i think it's too early to tell and ultimately it's up to the voters in those states and ultimately it's up to the states to decide. >> your thoughts on this? by the way new york city it's still new york state and city it's still illegal to possess and smoke weed. >> the laws have loosened up a little bit. it's not a question of -- it's really a consequence of economic disparate. low income communities that are struggling a

weather stories right here in the united states. in new york a plane carrying 130 people slid off a runway at new york's la guardia airport. we'll take you live there in just a moment. in kentucky as many as 200 motorists still stuck on a major highway. heavy snoes have kept them stuck for more than 12 hours. we begin in new york city at la guardia airport. the nose of this delta plane crashing right through a fence just feet away from a huge body of water before it came to a stop. six people were hurt. some have been taken to local hospitals. 125 passengers were on this delta flight. jared was one of them. he's joining us on the phone from new york. are you okay? >> i am. i am. >> tell us what happened. >> so i was sitting in first class, fly all the time. we were circling new york city because of the weather conditions the pilots had announced that the snow and the ice, that we were delayed in landing and then we were given clearance to land. as soon as we landed we felt the wheels hit the runway and we did not feel the wheels take traction and we started to skid. and we skid to t

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

why are there so many of them in new york city? i tonight get that. if somebody from-- you have the st. patrick's day parade. the macy's day parade. gay pride parade, do dominican day parade. hold on a second. here's my problems with those three praedz-- puerto rico and the dominican republic are both in the caribbean. that's a parade double dip, people. ( laughter ) it is. it's like having a macy's parade and a macy's husky boys department parade right? ( laughter ) i'll let you decide who is the husky boy in that scenario. ( laughter ) but as parades go, new york's st. paddy's day's celebration is the irish mother of them all. it's a five-hour extravaganza down 5 health avenue. it's fup for everyone, not everyone. >> organizers for the annual st. patrick's day parade have banned l.g.b.t. groups from marching. >> larry: are you serious? is this-- is this still a thing? i mean, people, this is a parade whose mascot is an effete little man in a green velvet suit and sparkly shoes who flies down rainbows while playing a harp. ( laughter ) i mean, if you're trying stro your parade look bu

piece in "the new york daily news." juan: i wrote about an interesting symposium held at the harvard cup -- club yesterday. an all-day symposium titled "bombs and blackboards: investing in turkey schools." it was in thea a meeting sponsored by the gates foundation and the walton foundation -- amy: of walmart. juan: basically, enticing more investors to begin to see how they can make money off of charter schools. an all-day symposium, a small protest of parents were outside. but it really has marked the enormous change that has occurred in new york politics and i think around the country as a new report showed hedge fund executives over the last decade have poured nearly $40 million into political contributions just in new york state, the prime beneficiary over the last two years has been governor cuomo who has received almost $5 million. we're talking about carl icahn, the famous corporate raider them a talking about paul singer the vulture hedge fund i, julian robertson of tiger management. some of the richest people in new york city. most of them also are major backers of charter schoo

lived in new york for, gosh... six months now, i feel like there's no bigger authority on new york city than moi. for instance, did you know the subway runs 24 hours a day? knowledge! since the mayor is here, and there's a lot going on in new york city, let's get a quick update of the issues. i guess the top story about new york is the weather. it's the third coldest winter on record. thanks deblasio. i don't remember it being this cold when bloomberg was mayor. in fact, it's so cold in new york, that... >> this morning three men living in brooklyn are accused of conspiring with i.s.i.s. authorities say two of the men plotted to join the i.s.i.s. fight in syria . >> larry: that's right. it's so cold, they joined i.s.i.s. just to warm up. so not for ideological reasons, but for meteorological reasons. by the way, worst reason to join i.s.i.s. ever. anyway, back to new york, the greatest city in the world. (cheers and applause) >> larry: absolutely true. you know what they say about new york -- if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. or as the saying has been shortened to nowad

loews corporation and co-owner of the new york giants. tisch was born and raised in a new york family. in 1959, his family branched out and bought loews theaters. today, the loews corporation has $80 billion in assets that generate $15 billion in annual revenue with interest from everything in hotels, insurance, to oil and gas. jonathan tisch runs the company with his cousin and is also the chairman of loews hotels. >> he totally took this area and made it guest friendly. >> true to his roots, he just completed a massive luxury renovation of the flagship regency hotel that is near and dear to his heart. >> i grew up in this hotel. >> but that work has not stopped him from writing three business strategy books. and bringing the super bowl to the new york region. >> you get about six hours of sleep? >> 5 to 6 hours of sleep. you will get an e-mail from me at 3:00 in the morning. >> despite a grueling schedule, he tries to make it to every giants home game. i caught up with him at his team's home turf -- metlife stadium. ♪ >> it is incredible to be out on the field. how does it make yo

were good guys. >> explosion that rocked a new york neighborhood yesterday. wait until you see the video of the explosion. look at that. >> i knew was some kind of an explosion. >> i'm in new york and the team is here. simulcast on the internet on tv. jcm jenna. >> she was in harry potter. >> check out this video of these two degenerates taunting them autistic guy parker drake 19 years old. >> it hasn't been easy for him. he was diagnosed with autism and type one diabetes. friends have not come easily. parker one-day thought thoughts that would change the two kids he went to high school with 19 and 20 years old invited him to go out to a dangerous rock formation leading directly into the atlantic ocean. i visited there yesterday morning. the waves were crashing. in the video i received from parker and his mother's attorney mother's attorney you can see the two gentlemen that for mike and check -- nick choke and allegedly coerce him into the water. $20.2 packs of cigarettes. >> the polar plunge. >> wanting to fit and he did. he was instantly taken in by the end are current. it was 3

laguardia airport here in new york city. we're just getting pictures in of a plane, an md-80 that skidded off the runway there. you can see that still image there from the local news station, cbs 2 in new york. you can see the plane kidded off the runway. it seems to me that the rear landing gear is not deployed although it's far away and hard to see from that picture. an md-80 skidded off the runway at laguardia airport. we understand the passengers have been evacuated. no word yet on injuries. that's according to the fire department here in new york city. we do not have anymore information on this right now. but you can see that picture. we can put the picture back up again because i think it is very telling. you see that plane in the snow off the runway here in new york at laguardia airport. the conditions today, the flying conditions, b travel conditions are terrible. we are in the midst of a giant ice and snowstorm. more than 2,000 flights have been canceled today, that's across the east from texas all the way to massachusetts because the conditions are so bad. now we see why

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

they knew susan was contacted by new york her fate was sealed. she knew too much. i think he confessed. chip lewis we love you. love asking you onhaving you on. i am not going to wish you luck. >> with me now new york times reporter charles bagley a journalist who covered the durst case for years. lisa depalo kathy durst's brother jim mccormack and homicide detective who led the investigation in galveston, texas cody kaslef. we have been together in this case some of us 15 years. >> 33. >> 33 for you. you are the brother of kathleen the first wife. lisa i remember going down to galveston texas with you in 2000. charlie you have been worrying about this a long time. among us there's almost a bond, it is a group that kind of suffered through this. i want to ask each one of you the same question. what was your reaction when he said i killed them all. i killed them all. >> i would say shock that he actually said it. i am not surprised because i always felt like he was responsible for these three deaths but to hear him say it out loud i was shocked. >> jim, for the first time you

by the president not for war overseas but for the great new york postal strike of 1970. finds himself one day personally delivering the mail to the rockefeller family offices. i learned from this new biography that under nelson walk for the state than you expend more on fighting water pollution than the federal government spent nationwide. this reminded me of one of this commonwealth's crusade republican governors bill weld who also believed in government's ability to do good and especially to protect our environment to first elected in 1990, he was reelected four years later by the largest margin in massachusetts history. since the reference to clean water i thought appropriate to remind the audience of governor weld's ability to make campaign fund. as captured by this photo of his impromptu dive into the charles river during a press conference to tout the state's environmental progress under his watch. it is an honor honor to have you with us this evening, governor. we have dry towels at the ready it the harbor looks enticing on your way out of the door. [laughter] our moder

between what happened in new york city and what happened last night in ferguson? >> the attorney general makes an atmosphere. he indicts a whole police department for giving out too many tickets to african-americans. he is just stirring things up. somebody was missing during the funeral like the attorney general. where was his big announcement condemning the two cops that were killed in new york city. he has a big problem. he said his representatives there to find out that the cop did wrong. after the investigation the cop didn't do anything wrong. the investigation found that the cop did not do anything wrong. coming there and firing upon these cops. feeling as if they have some sort of a justification for it. stuart: tactical units are pounding onto a home. they are searching for a suspect related to the shooting did we are monitoring the situation. this is happening right now. take me to the future. what will happen to relations between police departments and the communities that they police after this? >> will be give police officers to go out there on control? >> when the we

happened. reporting in the "new york times," citing a senior military official and forensic evidence the airbus a320 voice recorder that one pilot had left the flight deck prior to the crash and was unable to get back in. at the time was quoting the official an investigator saying quote the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door and there's no answer. and then he hits the door stronger and no answer. there is never an answer. you can hear he is trying to smash the door down. again the "new york times" reporting, lufthansa is not commenting on it. we haven't been able to verify the times reporting. joining us is david sucy, richard quest and dr. sanjay gupta. there's two main ideas behind this if the "new york times" report cigarette correct, according to what this investigator said based on the flight voice recorder that there's something nefarious the pilot wanting to bring the plane down or some sort of medical emergency. does the medical explanation make sense to you if there was a medical emergency would there be some sound of that? >> that's what i would wonder. how sensiti

, dallas and northeast. don champion is in new york where the snow is starting to fall. don, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lauren. it's starting to fall and change over in the past hour or so. people in two dozen states are under winter weather alerts. the storm makes for dangerous commutes from dallas to the boston area. plows hit the road in west virginia overnight as snow quickly accumulated on the ground. just yesterday, parts of the state had flooded roads and mudslides after heavy downpours. up to a foot of snow expected today, officials issued a state of emergency. >> i have never seen it like this. >> reporter: there's a similar soggy story playing out in parts of kentucky. >> i hope the snow moves in quicker than they anticipate to slow down the water flow. >> reporter: it could be winter's final punch of the season expected to bring snow and ice in texas. >> try to plan the flattest route with the fewest turns and the fewest areas where you could get in trouble. >> travel in arkansas could be so tricky, police plan to use military hummers to get around. >> giv

parents. >> i was born and raised in new york city. my mom was a teacher. she started in the music industry. my dad was a composer. did a lot of work for television, particularly in news. i found myself surrounded by all of this creative technology growing up. in my dad's recording studio. in my mom's work in the recording industry. i remember spending those nights and weekends in the recording studio. it felt like the starship enterprise. >> when did you learn how to code? >> i learned markup languages when i was 11 years old. to start making stuff for the internet. when i was 13 years old or 14 years old, i started to get proficient in perl, php, a little bit of c, just enough to do a little damage. one of the first things that drew me into it were these personal identities people were creating for themselves. i saw the aol profiles and away messages. i saw that in the websites people were building. i really loved that expression, that identity. the idea this could be a place to create something that represented you. >> you dropped out of high school when you were how old? >> aft

reported that clinton set up a home blue e-mail system at her home in new york. the system was said to given her latitude and access to the messages coming in and also that it would always muddy the issue of what the state department could be compelled to turn over. we're seeing that right now. the ap also said it was considering legal action after protracted freedom of information battle to get clinton's full schedules and the calendars during her tenure as well as documents related to clinton's top aids. yesterday the house select committee for benghazi subpoenaed the e-mails and the committee chair claimed she used multiple private accounts during her time at state but an attorney for clinton said she used only one switching to a any address after switching down from the cabinet. jeb bush also owned his own server server. the do main he was using for official and personal matters. it was housed in a state department build and he turned all the e-mails over ahead of time before he started talking about running. he released every e-mail in the name of transparency. >> and if you need

, congress is now involved. it wants to know if she broke any federal laws. "the new york times" first reported the story. yesterday, secretary clinton was honored at the emily's list congress clinton made no mention of the scandal but she did did stir the crowd with this one-liner. >> i suppose it's only fair to say, don't you some day see a woman president of the united states of america. >> as for the e-mail controversy, they reiterated in using her personal e-mail address, she was following the practice of previous secretaries. >>> reaction is still pouring in for people who saw or chose not to see yesterday's must-see event in washington. >> to defeat isis and let iran get nuclear weapons, would be to end the battle but to lose the war. >> israeli prime minister netanyahu spoke to congress what he called a bad deal between u.s. and iran with nuclear weapons. the speech had some bipartisan support but largely cheered by republicans, like possible 2016 presidential candidate jeb bush. who treated powerful message from netanyahu. glad he addressed congress and detailed the dangers of

a landmark" discusses the process and holding of the skyscraper in new york city. actual construction took 14 months in 1930 and 31. touring knock remarks on the stakes of building the building -- tauranac remarks on the stakes of building the building and it is a little over one hour. >> it is always difficult to introduced john tauranac. he not only writes on new york architectural history, but his books included many subjects. his other books include "new york from the air" with the great aerial photography. other books include "elegant new york." there are too numerous to mention. john teaches architectural history at the school of professional studies. this spring, his courses the design and architecture of public transportation. he has been a licensed guide since 1975 and gets tours for the city museum. we always welcome and enjoy his tours, especially about new york's art deco icons. john also designs maps. his first published map were undercover maps of midtown and lower manhattan, published by "new york magazine." maintaining what he calls his malls i perspective

point. ♪ >>> for six years a serial killer prowled the streets of new york city hunting his victims. he promised to kill 12 people, one for each astrological sign. and he only struck while certain constellations were visible. it took forensic astronomy, handwriting analysis, and a world war ii code breaker to find him. >>> late one cold night in march 1990, 49-year-old mario orozco was walking home from his restaurant job in brooklyn. without warning, he was shot in the back. mario survived. but he couldn't describe his attacker. three weeks later there was a similar incident a few blocks away. 34-year-old factory worker herman montenedro was walking home after a serious night of drinking when somebody shot him in the back. he, too, survived, but he didn't see the gunman either. police recovered the .9 mm bullet. >> there were no grooves on the bullets. and we're probably dealing with a zip gun type of homemade rep. >> two months later, a short distance away in queens, 78-year-old joe proce was about to open the door to his apartment when he was shot with a 0.9 millimeter zip gun. h

new york willie. >> andrea you first and put it out to the table, i wonder if the speech yesterday makes it more or less likely that down the road we get some kind of deal. it's a big if if the white house and john kerry can strike a deal to begin with bigger if that it would get through congress. >> i think there are two things there's a greater chance that there will be a deal obviously president and john kerry are now pushing as the president said full steam ahead, but less likely that it will survive congressional objections. it's not a treaty they don't have yay or nay, but they are moving as i said on legislation that would not that could not be filly bustered. >> gene. >> if there were other negotiating partners involved here, and there's certainly a recognition on the part of the israelis, it's not just the united states. the other five countries involved in the negotiations and so even if congress and even if the president were to take a harder line you're not going to bring the russians along, you're not going to bring the chinese along to that position. and so at least f

would kind of travel around with her around new york city where she would speak and to the places like philadelphia or new jersey. and so he was often kind of accompanying her on her early talks. and i think he was very proud of her. and one of the interesting things was really the pride that her family took if her work. and i know he was very proud of her, but one of the reasons i was able to write book was because they saved all of these clippings of her appearances. so just rare newspaper clippings that would be very difficult to get, you know, from just obscure little papers. and the family took it all and saved it, you know? it's all pasted into these books which is amazing. >> shirley guess -- chism adored her family. he was from guyana. he was working class, he was a staunch unionist, he was a garveyite, and shirley chism always said that if her father had been able to go to college, could afford to go to college, could have gotten into college he would have been a great professor. and he supported her all her work. and before he died he became an admirer of the growing bla

americans. reporting in the new york times, citing a senior military official and evidence from the airbus a 320 voice recorder suggesting one pilot had left the flight deck prior to the crash and was unable to get back into the cockpit. the times quoting the official, an investigator saying quote, the guy outside is knocking lightly on the door there's no answer. and then he hits the door stronger and no answer. there is never an answer. you can hear he's trying to smash the door down. joining us on the phone, retired airline captain jim tillman. joining us is peter gold former managing director and cnn safety analyst, david soucie former faa accident investigator and author of malaysia flight 370 why it disappeared and why it's a matter of time before it happens again and cnn aviation correspondent richard quest. let me start off with you. the new york times report that a couple different ways to read it. there's nefarious way of reading it is one pilot had another pilot locked out of the cockpit, doesn't allow him back in and brings the plane down or something happened to that pi

from taxing it and crime will go down as a result of it but the police commissioner of new york city begs to differ. he says the streets are now more violent and dangerous and legal pot across the u.s. is partly to blame. listen. >> in this city people are killing each other over marijuana more so than anything having to do with what we dealt with in the '80s and '90s with heroin and cocaine. >> is he right? >> i'm not privy so the things that he sees on a daily basis, but if you look at the facts with a state like colorado that legalized about a year ago and the first 11 months in the city of denver violent crime decreased and according to the colorado department of transportation statewide traffic fatalities are also down. i think it's too early to tell and ultimately it's up to the voters in those states and ultimately it's up to the states to decide. >> your thoughts on this? by the way new york city it's still new york state and city it's still illegal to possess and smoke weed. >> the laws have loosened up a little bit. it's not a question of -- it's really a consequence of eco

superior ordered their release without the tests. questions by congress member nita lowey of new york, secrets are the secret service director said he learned of the incident days later. >> this episode seems to be more evidence of a cultural issue that has not been adequately addressed by changes in senior management. >> it will take time to change some of this culture. there is no excuse for this information not to come up the chain. i am frustrated, i am very frustrated that we did not know about this. i did not know about this until monday. amy: a republican commerce member has announced his resignation. arun shock of illinois spent some $40,000 to redecorate his office in the style of the television drama "downton abbey." he was also dogged by reports of improprieties in his use of donor-owned private jets and overbilling for travel costs. missouri has executed a mentally ill and disabled prisoner by lethal injection. cecil clayton was missing 1/5 of his frontal lobe as a result of a work accident. years after the injury, he was arrested for killing a police officer and sentenced to death

acres of public land. the session from the new york historical society is about two hours. >> good evening. it's an honor to be here at the new york historical society. i want to shed some light on one of my heroes, theodore roosevelt , and why he is considered a great leader. when the schwartzes wanted to make this series go they really want us to focus on leadership qualities, and i'm telling you, there is no president quite like t.r. to get to talk about that. i want to begin thinking about roosevelt being new york city's president, being born here in 1858. in his household growing up in new york, he had a father who was a dutch knickerbocker here from new york and a mother from the bullet family. she came from georgia. 1858 -- you all know something about history. the civil war is upon us. in the roosevelt family, you have a feud, a mother who loved robert ulee and a father who loved grant. t.r. decided to love the west instead. as i talk about some of his formative years in the dakota territory, it will be clear what the west meant. if i focus for a moment on 1858, one year af

revenue. sarah lacy facebook is talking to the "new york times" on the verge of giving zuckerberg a fat bit of content to keep people on facebook. >> it is fascinating and it is the combination of "new york times" and buzz feed together such a p.r. master stroke of face book, two big media giants on polar opposites of the scale buzz need is very modern very new media, highly valued going after shares and distribution and all about distribution, and "new york times" all about brand, one of the only publications where subscriptions seem to kind of be working. leveraging off the 150 year plus reputation and frankly beg of the publications want a limit bit of what the other has.

building the skyscraper in new york city. construction took four months. this took place at the museum of the city of new york and is a little over an hour. >> to introduce john tauranac could take the entire evening. john writes on new york architectural history. his books include many subjects including the empire state building. his other books include "new york from the air," with great aerial photography. other books include "in central new york." there are others. john teaches at nyu's school of professional studies. this spring his course is designed an architecture of public transportation. he does tors for the city museum. we welcome and enjoy his tors. his first published map was undercover map of new york published by "new york" magazine . he was reader of the 19 -- he was creator of the 1979 new york subway map. it also included "manhattan block by block." john tauranac. [applause] mr. tauranac: greetings. i'm going to start with a bit of a digression. i want you to know that i'm an old fan of this institution. what he think was my favorite thing in the museum of the city o

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

embarks on a solo career with his new wife, yoko ohno. a year later, they move to new york city and take up residence at the dakota apartments. the dakota's gothic facade had been featured in the film "rosemary's baby." it was home to the world's most famous actors and musicians. >> i think they viewed america as being a breath of fresh air for them at that time. little did they know what trouble awaits them. >> in new york, john and yoko adopted a high profile, politically, and musically. perhaps their anti-war activism drew the attention and ire of the nixon administration. >> in the early '70s, the united states government began a campaign against john lennon to silence him. they were concerned that he would influence young people voting in the 1972 election. and they didn't want that to happen. >> they were conducting surveillance operations. they were monitoring him. cars would follow him around. they did the whole intelligence enchilada. >> after nixon was driven from office by the watergate scandal, the pressure on lennon let up and by 1975, he had withdrawn from the public eye. >

apartment fire in new york city. we'll have the latest when "action news" at 5:00 comes right back. >>> oklahoma's governor declared a state of emergency for 26 counties after tornadoes roared through yesterday. they led to one death and widespread damage, the person killed lived in the town of moore, a town that is no stranger to severe weather, one elementary school had much of its roof torn off and suffered water damage. >> we have been down this road before and we know what to do. and i am grateful that we have so many people that work so hard over the night to make sure that people were safe. >> a tornado that hit ploor back in 2013 destroyed two schools and killed seven students. >>> in health check tonight, america's heroin epidemic spawned another health problem, an hiv outbreak in indiana governor mike pence declared an emergency in southern indiana, hiv cases have ballooned there since december. >> the average number of hiv cases on an annual basis is roughly five cases, as i stand here today we have 79 confirmed cases and more testing is being done. >> officials say that

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