the subject and title? >> well, the title is meant to reflect the book centers in new york city where he deals with a lot of other places. the title the title is meant to suggest that new york was a kind of gateway. when fugitive slaves got to new york city there were quickly sent to upstate new york eventually canada and could achieve freedom. new york new york was a pivotal turning. i i got interested in the subject completely accidentally. a few a few weeks ago a student of mine was working on a a senior thesis at columbia about sidney howard gay, and abolitionist journalist was interested in his journalistic career and said, in the papers there is a document about fugitive slaves. i am not sure what it is about. you might find it interesting. i interesting. i filed it away and one day asked for this box. i had never seen it say anywhere but the basically for two years 1855 to 1856 a journalist and activist in the underground railroad record of the recorder the experiences of over 200 men women, and children who came through new york city. being a journalist, he interviewed t

york state fair this is eyewitness news 5 at 5:00. >> and good evening, everyone. i'm david muir. >> and i'm maureen green live at the new york state fair. we have a lot to tell you about in this exciting busy day. >> a fair is busy no matter what day you choose. the first family of the united states came through the fairgrounds a short time ago, their motorcade passed by our channel 5 studios here at the state fair. and we're going to be meeting some of those people they got a chance to greet as they tour the fairgrounds. >> besides all that this is senior citizens day, dairy day. and the weather is spectacular. >> senior citizens day and dairy day and the president of the united states and the first lady of the united states and their daughter came to the new york state fair. they were staying by for their summer vacation in skaneateles. they did not know anybody in that town. they didn't even know the people whose house they borrowed for the purpose of vacationing in it. >> the first family went to developer tom mcdonald. his wife cathy and their family. they have offered up t

-- skinny-atlas. the local news anchor that covers skinny-atlas, new york, in 1999 the local anchor was a super dorky local tv anchor. but he is now a network news abc anchorman named david muir. you know david muir at abc? this is what he looked like before he was david muir. >> live from the great new york state fair this is eyewitness news 5 at 5:00. >> good evening, everyone. i'm david muir. >> and i'm lorie green. we have lot to tell you about today. >> the fair is always busy no matter what day you choose but today, the first family of the united states came to the fair grounds. their motorcade past right behind here. and we're going to be meeting some of those people that they got a chance to greet as they toured the fair grounds. >> and this is senior citizens day, and as you can see, the weather is spectacular. >> senior citizens day and dairy day, and the president of the united states and the first lady of the united states and their daughter came to the new york state fair. and that's because they were staying nearby for their summer vacation. they had never been there before,

jazeera america mousse >>> this week on "talk to al jazeera", new york city police commissioner william bratton. >> this is not race unfortunate. despite what the federal court says. >>> it's his second go as head of the police force, and back when race dominates. >> when you have people chanting what do i want, cops. i'm sorry, that's too mar >>> he says police arrogance, like the issue with an uber driver was not an incident that will be tolerated. >> that is not the overriding type of behaviour the office exhibits >>> stop and frisk was well intended but abused. >> the powers that be didn't fully recognise the alienation that created >>> to the chrissic. broken windows, a tactic targetting low-level crime, the use was indispensable in lowering violence. happened. >> the muslim community and law enforcement that brought about actions of unfair targetting are a thing of the past. >> how i identify the communities in the city, we do it in al qaeda's much less intrusive >>> i spoke to commissioner bratton at police headquarters in new york. a day after taking over the department you said

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

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 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 doubli

you. >>> this is a fox news alert. baltimore protests sparking controversy in new york city. david lee is on the streets of new york. david lee? >> greta, we are in new york's union square. the organizers of this rally, and take a look at it for yourself have billed it as the lancasterest protest rally and the most peaceful in the history of new york there are only about 2,000 people. i say only 2,000 because we have seen much more than that in recent months for other antipolice rallies. so far this rally has been nothing but peaceful. one of the prevailing themes from this rally that we have heard speaker after speaker those in new york city must show solidarity with those in baltimore. wuvment chants the crowd has repeated over and over is that black lives matter. also during the demonstration taking place here in union square, greta there has been a lot of outrage and frustration focus canned on new york city police department. here in great number, you you can see them for yourself lining the street here the peripheral area along union square are the hundreds and hundreds of ne

to seattle to see how the chief technology officer is tapping into mobile tech talent. new york's own cto is giving payphone booths a lease on life as wi-fi hotspots. ♪ emily: this is "bloomberg west," i am emily chang. we hear from the chief technology officers of seattle and new york on their tech agendas. the chinese scooter company ninebot is aiming for a u.s. ipo in the next two years. the news coming a day after announcing it hot u.s. rival segway. the company has seen a sales growth rate of 400% since 2012. gopro founder might be the highest-paid executive in the u.s. he was granted 4.5 million restricted stock units last year, giving him the number one spot on bloomberg's ranking of highest-paid u.s. executives. if you have not heard, the concept of a city having a chief technology officer is gaining steam in the u.s. there is a national cto in washington, d.c. other major cities have followed suit, from new york to chicago and seattle. that is where we went to meet michael mattmiller. one of the youngest municipal ctos in the country. bloomberg shows us how the former micro

fugitive slaves during the mid 19th century. the author recounts the development of the new york vigilance committee in 1835 and other organizations throughout the north that provided protection against slave kidnappings that occurred in new york city. he speaks with edna green medford, chair of the history department at howard university. >> host: we are joined today by professor eric foner dewitt clinton professor of history at columbia university. he is the author or editor of two dozen volumes, many of them award winners, including "the fiery trial: abraham lincoln and american slavery," which won the pulitzer, bancroft and lincoln prizes in 2011. professor foner, thank you for joining us today. >> guest: thanks very much for having me. >> host: "gateway to freedom: the hidden history of the underground railroad," how did you arrive at this subject and this title? >> guest: well, the title, i guess, is meant to reflect it's the book centers on new york city although it deals with a lot of other places, but the title is meant to suggest that new york was a kind of gateway. .. but she sa

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new york. a day after taking over the department you said it's unfortunate the relationship between the police and community was marked by disconnect and alienation, speaking about new york city, saying that you want to identify why it is that in this city people do not feel good about a department that made them safe. what have you been able to do that. >> new york being new york, when things happen here they have national ramification, so the controversy of stop and frisk, the alien situation of the minority chounty, the black community, alienation of some parts of the muslim community, and concerns about terrorism and activities of the n.y.p.d. - it sees a lot of attention. ironically as we come out of 2014, we saw that those issues, the issues involving blacks were not just unique to new york. they were actually exploding elsewhere in america. as we exit 2014, there may have been co sis in 196 -- controversies in 1968 and the civil rights battles, we are in a new paradigm. it will be the battle of 2015 to address the issues. >> the police department was seen as the enemy by many

. when standard move its headquarters to new york city, rockefeller and flagler had homes across the street from each other on fifth avenue. into office back in cleveland they pushed their desks back to back so that they could hand the documents back and forth to each other. flagler was standard oil's railroad man. he was the person who worked out the deals with the railroads in new york and pennsylvania and ohio to all standard oil's products. and flagler was noted for driving hard bargains, that he would get rebates from the railroads which would be reduced rates for flagler's, for standards products. mek standard a big advantage over his competitors and that it could ship more cheaply over the railroads than they could. the other thing that flagler did was that he our region and the of the standard oil trust, a way of combining various refining companies into one big organization. later on john d. rockefeller was asked, who had come up with the idea and rockefeller said come well, i wish i had the brains to think of it but it was henry flagler's idea. so he was the key person in s

new york city. my mom was a teacher. my dad was a composer. 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 and i was 11 years old. when i was 13 or 14 i started -- justproficient in 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 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? >> after my freshman year, when i was 15. >> you were homeschooled. >> computer science education in new york city really did not exist. it was not in high schools. now it is there in a huge way. kids are learning to code in grade school. if you have that stuff at your i alway

, you are a former new york times reporter and the author of fortune cookie chronicles: adventures in the world of chinese food. and lets just start with that first statistic of if you look at the number of mcdonald's, burger kings, kentucky fried chickens, and wendy's combined, you still have more chinese food restaurants. >> more chinese restaurants. more than 45,000, and growing every year, about ten percent. >> hinojosa: so how is that possible? because people think, you know what? you have fast food everywhere in the united states. or there's an image. so the truth is that in fact chinese food is... >> more pervasive, yeah. >> hinojosa: more a part of who we are, in a way. >> exactly, exactly. because, you know, as i like to say, you know, if our benchmark for americanness is apple pie, you should ask yourself, when was the last time you ate apple pie versus when was the last time you ate chinese food? i think for the vast, vast majority of people, they will have eaten chinese food, whether it's general gau's chicken, or beef with broccoli, or, you know, fried rice more recently.

. they don't say your surgery wept well up. >> also tonight - bargain bed or bad deal. new york city wakes up to new, not always welcome neighbours. >> people they didn't know had building. were in their hallways. elevators with no explanation. >> lori jane gliha on how the temporary residents are breaking the war. >> a top frequent in travel. why lawmakers think it's ruling the neighbourhood >>> thank you for joining us. we want a travel bargain, luxury style, a chance to enjoy a visit to another city at a great price. the hot hook up at the moment is air b and b, giving travellers a chance to rent homes and apartments direct from owners in 34,000 cities around the world. sound good? the welcome mat to this home sharing is being pulled in in one of america's hottest destinations, new york city. why? >> it makes me nervous. >> reporter: john lived in this building since 1992, he and others say apartments occupied by neighbours have been rented out for days or weeks at a time. observed? >> we serve suitcases. it's transient. instead of people living here and committing to the building

university of new york. she's also on the faculties of the mccauley honors college and the program at the graduate center. cindy earned a ba from tufts university and a ph.d. where she wrote a brilliant dissertation in u.s. history from the graduate center kuny. her first book, urban appetites: food and culture in 19th century new york, was released in april 2014 by the university of chicago press. the manuscript for "urban appetites," not surprisingly, won the dixon ryan fox prize for the best manuscript that year on new york history. lobel has published in the winchester portfolio, in common place and in history now. her current research includes this biography of catherine beecher to be published soon by westview press and the american, lives of american women series. and her next book will be a biography of 19th century new york african-american oyster man thomas downing. i have questions for all of them to start things off, and i will make sure that they keep their answers brief enough that you will have time to ask questions too. first i want to ask all of them very briefly to tell

york. back with another hour of new, 11:00p.m. eastern, 8:00 pacific. "america tonight" starts now. >>> on the weekend edition of "america tonight", vegas, baby. the power behind who comes and who goes on the strip. >> they have a control over that just because they have so many connections over the period of time that they have been here. families have been in charge of some of these different companies for years and years generations, three generations in some cases. >> "america tonight"s michael oku takes a ride and gets an insider's view of las vegas's showdown. will it bring travellers to a stand still? also tonight - behind bars and behind belief. the gang leader who proclaimed i am the law. >> one woman was fixing home cooked meals, one smuggling him other matters. >> that is the tip of the iceberg. a rare look behind bars, and why baltimore prisoners may not be the oig mate running -- inmates running things on the inside. good evening, thank you for joining us. i'm saying in for joie chen. after the death of a suspect injured in police custody, it's turmoil. it's the latest

. >> this is aljazeera america live from new york zee and i'm tony harris, taking to the streets, thousands of protesters in baltimore and other cities now. police practices another curfew is hours away and we'll talk to another key player in the after nath. >>> help for napal remote areas in the earthquake region. and more help is needed. and method of execution. arguments over one state's use lethal injections. >> large crowds have gathered again in baltimore and now in other cities for another night of protests over the death of freddie gray. from baltimore where hundreds of people have gathered outside of penn station. the latest demonstrations are taking place as baltimore tries to return to normal. but the tensions that led to this week's riots remain. let's go to paul, and paul, can we agree that the stage is being set right now for another long tense night in baltimore city? >> reporter: well, tony, i certainly hope that it's not going to be another long, hostile night. there's tension in air and i'm here in pennsylvania, watching over the last several days, traffic is fl

sprint sort of thing? and what is unique about this happening for new york-based company? which often sell out before they go public? >> if you read my shareholder letter in the s 1 i talk a lot about etsy being about long-term thinking, building for the long-term, planning and building for the long-term. this is what we told investors on the road show. this is an important day in etsy's history. we're excited about being here with the sellers. i'm super excited to go back to the office. but my message to the employees has really been, you know we're building a long-term business and this is a great start. but it's really just the beginning. as far as new york tech, you know i came to new york seven years ago. after spending ten years in silicon valley. i really believe that we built a first-class tech ecosystem in new york city. i'm really proud of what we've done at etsy and i'm proud of the entire new york tech community and the community that we've all built over the past two decades. really. >> this makes you a very important, today makes you a very important voice in new york te

the story just breakingoff the over the "new york times" from 35 applicants ago that we'll get to right now. this just keeps going and going. >> why didn't we try and break this it's a huge article, but let's break it down as carefully as we can. there is more information from this upcoming new book called clinton cash which looks into foreign donations to the clinton foundation. politico reports that one of the book's chapters alleges that a canadian tone nor who pledged over $100 million to the foundation influenced hillary clinton's stance on a colombia trade deal at the state department. both clinton and then senator obama opposed it during the 2008 campaign. but by 2009 clinton supported the deal as did the white house. meanwhile, this "new york times" story claims the foundation received millions of dollars as russia pushed for control of a canadian uranium company. canadian records are cited to show that the chairman of uranium one made more than $2 million in donations which the clinton foundation reportedly did not disclose and it's alleged other people connected to the c

figure and how instrumental he was to fugitives arrive in new york? >> guest: he was one of the most important figures and unknown. i studied the 19th century. i had heard of william jay, john jay, i knew about william still. when i start looking through this document the record of fugitives, gay will say napoleon took into the station, or isa napoleon, who was this napoleon? well, eventually turns out louis napoleon, a black man born in new york in 1800 which meant a lot have been passed in 1799 for gradual emancipation, sea goose board, not a slave exactly what he deserved and friendship of like 21 years to his owner until he became fully free and to do that so in the 1820s he finally becomes free. but basically by the 1840s napoleon is working in the office of sidney howard gay what they call the anti-slavery office with this newspaper is published by this main job is to go in the fugitive slave. he scours the docs, after looking for those hidden on both the win william steele since people by train from philadelphia to new york louis napoleon goes and meets them at the train depot

lincoln is dead. this exhibit has a tight focus on seven editions of the new york herald which was the most widely circulated newspaper at the time that were published in the 18 hours immediately following lincoln's assassination. it is the minute by minute story of the news as it happened about the assassination of lincoln. one of the ways that we hope people understand not just time but place is through this great map on the floor in the center of the gallery. because we are almost in this building at the epicenter of things. the museum is on the site of the national hotel which is the hotel where booth stated before he committed the horrible crime. you can take a look on the floor of this room after you read through the newspapers and place yourself in all the different spots that are being restaurants, from the national hotel, the ford's theater, the hotel where lincoln was taken after he was shot. it's right across street. it is the spot where he ultimately died, to the telegraph offices in newspaper row where the new york herald office work, to the white house. you can place your

about how freddie gray may have been injured. good morning. i'm christine romans in new york. >> i'm john berman. 4:00 a.m. in the east. in baltimore this morning, in front of city hall where i'm standing a few hours ago, there was a large and very peaceful demonstration. this park around me was filled with people. they were serving food and they were gathered together in a peaceful way. it was nice to see. the crowds disbursed from the streets without incident. a calmer transition into the curfew period in baltimore. small handful of people here. as quiet as it was in baltimore, thousands of people on the streets across the country calling for justice in the death of freddie gray. now this is coming as we learn more. new information this morning about what may have caused gray's fatal spinal injury in police custody. we will get to that. a new report this morning in "the washington post." i want to bring in cnn's athena jones. athena you have been out the past few days in the peaceful demonstrations during the day and evening. last night the transition what a difference. >> another

in wild wild west new york where politics has turned pretty ugly again. >> not much knew here. the campaign and political infighting has been a staple for years. counting down to the last days. take a look at this wire. racist, homophobic data messages. in the letters box. there it since then a strong reaction. >> have you seen anything this bad? the neighbors are worried about it too. they told me what they observed from this flyer. >> you can tell. it obviously was not just printed out and copied off. i had to go. i met with the mayor. no knowledge of the flyer. >> it's childish. i would not put it past them to have this made up. >> actually, thinks it could be his putting it out there because it is so cartoonishly bad it makes them look more desperate. it might be a ploy to go over the top and jill support. bill: you can look at the other side. silly juvenile. it has not gone to that level. a a sick twisted message on a flyer. very juvenile. whatever that is, bring the men. >> you can see, this is our studio. actually depicted in this flyer. bill: is this par for the course? >>

assassination. the new york herald special editions published on april 14 and 15, 1860 five show how the news unfolded after the first associated press report that the president had been shot. carrie: i and the curator and director of collections here at the museum. and we are in our new lincoln exhibit called president lincoln's dead. this exhibit has a tight focus on seven editions of the new york herald which was the most widely circulated newspaper at the time that were published in the 18 hours immediately following lincoln's assassination. it is the minute by minute story of the news as it happened about the assassination of lincoln. one of the ways that we hope people understand not just time but place is through this great map on the floor in the center of the gallery. because we are almost in this building at the epicenter of things. the museum is on the site of the national hotel which is the hotel where booth stated before he committed the horrible crime. you can take a look on the floor of this room after you read through the newspapers and place yourself in all the different spot

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conspiracy? should "the new york times," "the washington post," abc and fox news have cut exclusive deals with the publisher? >>> diane sawyer's much balancehyped interview about bruce genre changing his gender. >> are you a woman in. >> yes. for all intents and purposes i am a woman. >> was it sensitive or sensational? >> she almost quit the bush white house before becoming the president's spokeswoman and says she was too nice and polite. a conversation with dana perino. and ben affleck whose ancestors included a slave owner apologizes for a pbs cover-up. i'm howard kurtz and this is "mediabuzz." >> hadn't read the book "clinton cash" when "the new york times" questioned whether hillary clinton did favors for big conors to her husband's global foundation yet the media turned the book into the week's top political story. >> the appearance of impropriety is staggering. the defense is paltry to say the least. >> is this a serious story of how top politicians use power or is the candidate herself argues merely a distraction? >> what is not par for the course. what is surprising is that

publishing over a century the prestigious new york herald tribune closed during a strike. did the union kill the herald tribune? for 40 years, united auto worker presidents walter reuther, leonard woodcock and douglas fraser won higher pay for their members. why in 1979 would fraser agree to take less? employers and labor unions like buyers and sellers, try to make the best deal for themselves. labor and management: how do they come to terms? with economic analyst richard gill we'll examine that question on this edition of economics usa. i'm david schoumacher. fewer than 1/3 of american workers are covered by union contract. but organized labor's strength at the economy's pressure points-- the big smokestack industries, the arteries of transportation and communication-- make them a force to be reckoned with. for more than 75 years labor unions have been a fact of american economic l how did they get pow? we are childn ofmmigrants. the largest number came here around the turn of the century. millions, most of them jewish or italian, unskilled and uneducated settled in new york city's crowded

, you are a former new york times reporter and the author of fortune cookie chronicles: adventures in the world of chinese food. and lets just start with that first statistic of if you look at the number of mcdonald's, burger kings, kentucky fried chickens, and wendy's combined, you still have more chinese food restaurants. >> more chinese restaurants. more than 45,000, and growing every year, about ten percent. >> hinojosa: so how is that possible? because people think, you know what? you have fast food everywhere in the united states. or there's an image. so the truth is that in fact chinese food is... >> more pervasive, yeah. >> hinojosa: more a part of who we are, in a way. >> exactly, exactly. because, you know, as i like to say, you know, if our benchmark for americanness is apple pie, you should ask yourself, when was the last time you ate apple pie versus when was the last time you ate chinese food? i think for the vast, vast majority of people, they will have eaten chinese food, whether it's general gau's chicken, or beef with broccoli, or, you know, fried rice more recently.

"money clip." from bloomberg world headquarters in new york i am mart krumpton. -- mark: from bloomberg world headquarters in new york, i am mark crumpton. to our viewers in the united states and to those of you joining from around the world, welcome. we have full coverage of the stockton stories making headlines on this monday. janet lauren has the room picture for student loan repayment. commodities reporter su keenan has why commodity reporters are the most bullish on oil in the past eight months. the interview with the energy secretary. first, to the top stories we are following. u.s. dots rebounded from the worst light in three weeks, and there is a rally underway in technology shares. the s&p 500 index down -- it is of nearly a full percent at 2100 . dow jones industrial is up over 1%. the nasdaq composite index rising as well. it is up 1.25% at 49.92. it may be a sign of growing this ration agrees. the greek government has issued a decree that folk -- forces local governments to transfer all cash balances to the central bank. this could raise more than $2 million -- $2