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they are coming back, to new york. so they come back to new york city and he knows he can't face them or beat them head-to-head so he has to use espionage and guerrilla warfare and he's got to be smarter than that and he's got to be able to anticipate them so it's only logic that would bring you to welcome he needs a spy for scum he needs his own cia. then you find out he's got this huge espionage background. he is noted from the french indian war. he went out of his way to brush up on those skills so he tells talmadge and others and general scott brigadier general space come here's what we need, here's what we are going to need to do. reza find these people to help me out. >> host: to fill in the background, tell us briefly what he did in the french and indian war. >> guest: well i know -- i don't say the were extensively, but i know he was an officer where he had a chance to work with the french and had a chance to find out what were they thinking here and there and of course what he's able to pick up working with the british and they also made mistakes. he was way too aggressive as

when they come back to new york. they come back to new york city and he knows he cannot be to them so he has to use espionage a and a guerrilla warfare agent be smarter than that and to anticipate them so it is the logic that he needs a spy for sale of his own cia. then you find out he has the huge the espionage background. from the event:dash french and indian war so he tells others that this is where we meet we have to find these people to help me out. >> host: so just to fill in the brat -- background tell us what he did in the friendships and indian war. >> guest: i did not study it extensively but he was an officer to work with the french and find out what were they thinking here or there? and he also made mistakes. he was way too aggressive as a colonel at that point and he learned from that. that is something else it is fantastic about washington. he who could do nothing wrong made mistakes agent he learned from it and he wrote it down and chronicled everything. my goal was to bring washington to live and to let average ordinary people go from this generation what they're capab

new york. so they come back to new york city and he says you can't face them. you can' can to be can't beat td so he has to use espionage and the guerrilla warfare. he has to be smarter bandanna. so it's only logical that we bring it to he needs a spy force, he needs his own cia and then you find out that he has a huge espionage background. he is noted from the french and indian war. to brush up on those skills so he tells the others this is what we are going to need to do. we need to find these people to help me out. >> host: to fill in the background tell us briefly what he did in the french and indian war. >> guest: i know that he was an officer where he had a chance to work with the french and find out what were they thinking here and there. he was able to pick up working with the british and they also made mistakes. he was a aggressive as a colonel at that point and he learned from that. that is another thing which i found fantastic about george washington who was on the side of a mountain. you would think no mistakes, he owned up to it and he learned for it right before our

people are dead after a commuter train goes off the tracks in new york city. we're also following the outpouring of grief in hollywood and beyond after a fiery car crash claims the life of "fast and furious" actor paul walker. "reliable sources" will return next sunday as new host cnn's senior media correspondent brian stelter. let's beginning in new york where emergency crews are on the scene of a deadly commuter crash. a number of cars went off the tracks near the spuyten duyvil station. >> i just heard a screeching noise, you know. i happened to be by the window. i'm on top of the hill. i heard a screeching noise. and then within seconds the ambulance and fire trucks started coming past my window. i knew something big happened. there had to be 50 or 60 trucks coming by. >> for more, let's go to cnn's alexander field in the bronx at the scene of that derailment. alexandria? >> reporter: we know that seven cars derailed at the tail end of this holiday weekend. two cars turned on their sides and that's where four people were killed. 11 people are in critical condition. estimate is the

times square where thousands are gathering to watch the ball drop. when it does, new york city's new mayor, bill deblasio, will be sworn in, and charlie gas parrino says you may pay the price no matter what city you live in. >> charlie, i know you're -- you're not a bill deblasio fan but a record for everybody everywhere? >> he wave had 20 years under rudy giuliani and mike bloomberg and we became the city of urban renewal. and this guy said new york city is a horrible place, dicken sewnan hell hole, tale of two cities, a place that is -- turn back the clock to upton sinclair. that's how the described new york city. that's not true and these are the policies he is going to bring in barack obama came in as president as among the most liberal u.s. senator. this guy is far to the left of barack obama. and if you're a new yorker you have to be scared. the bottom line is this. bill deblasio was elected, won by 75-25%, big -- allegedly a big mandate, yet, yet, the won with 17% of the electorate. this is a very complacent electorate. the kids that move here from iowa and illinois and wherev

new york city that de-railed on its way to manhattan. at least four people are dead, 63 more hurt of those, at least 11 are in critical condition tonight. al jazeera kimberly dukehardt has the latest from the bronx. >> fire fighters, police and the ntsb could not working through the night, checking the tracks, the actual train cars, mechanical equipment, communication equipment, to try to figure out what went horrible wrong. the holiday weekend ended in tragedy and chaos for those on board this suburban commuter train in northern new york city. the crash happened early sunday morning. >> incidentally, we have reco recovered the event recorder and downloaded the data off of the locomotive. we haven't had a chance to analyze it or verify it at this point. >> officials say the train was carrying about 150 passengers and heading to new york's granted central terminal. >> there was screaming and people trying out to god and asking for their families. it was pretty gruesome. >> it de-railed on a curved section near the spiton divell station. >> the injuries were consistent with broken bone

deadly train derailment in new york city, as we have been reporting here at fox news. authorities say four passengers have been killed in that early morning train derailment that happened in the bronx, new york, right next to the spuyten duyvel station in the southern part of the bronx. happening this morning, dozens more have been injured. you're looking at the aerial video of the scene. we're told four train cars of the train flew off the track as it was going into the curve. that was just a few hundred yards from the station. the train from poughkeepsie going south to new york city this morning. hello, everyone. i'm eric shawn. welcome to america's news headquarters on this sunday. >> i'm jamie colby. there are numerous emergency crews on the scene. we'll stay on the story and let you know if the numbers change. the map will show you exactly where the crash happened. for those of you who don't live in new york, it's in the bronx. basically, it was about to pull into the station, a time where you would expect the train to be slowing down. instead, it was going so fast that it litera

, patchhook is 60 miles from new york city, and this situation was going on so near -- actually between new york city and the hamptons, and maybe not so many loss, but so many people from new york drive to the hamptons every weekends that maybe they don't look sideways and think, you know, this is going on here. these people are our neighbors, and it's happening right next door to us. that's the second reason i was attracted to the story, and the third reason, because as you know, i'm an immigrant myself. i came from cuba when i was 16 years old, a boarded a boat named manana, and i wrote a book about it called "finding manana," and i felt connected to the story. those of us who came from cuba in 1980 came to be known because the boat lift, and it became a derogatory term, but one i like and use with pride, but it became derogatory, no question about it. i see countries of labels, and what that means, what how much they request hurt, how much they can contain an entire group of people. they, at a certain point, criminality or criminals and it's close, and that label of illegalit

>> this is al jazeera america. live from new york city. i'm stephanie sy with a look at today's top stories. in beirut a car bomb has killed lebanon's finance adviser and he had also been lebanon's ambassador to the u.s. he was an outspoken critic of syria and hezbollah. >>> there was heavy fighting across the country. three people were killed and 250 have been arrested. the clashes come days after the interim government declared the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization. >>> a federal judge in new york city has ruled that the national security agency's bulk collection of telephone records is legal. the ruling comes juster after a week when the program violates the u.s. constitution. >>> connecticut state police have released thousands of documents relate together mass shooting at sandy hook elementary. 26 people were killed, including 20 children. >>> the u.s. and japan have settled their dispute over a marine base in okinawa. they'll move the base to a remote part of the island. you can always head to our website at www.aljazeera.com. >> america's cities are a mixed bag. som

perhaps the greatest snapshot of that is new york city where poverty has just reached its highest level since the great depression of the one nine hundred thirty s. now take a look at this this is data out by the department of homeless services and it shows the number of people in new york city who sleep in shelters every night as you can see that number has steadily increased since one thousand nine hundred three and in fact as of september of two thousand and thirteen there were about fifty two thousand four hundred people in shelters that's a sixty nine percent increase since just in january of two thousand and two but perhaps what's most unfortunate is that a large number of those falling under the poverty line are now children as you can see the number of children on the streets of new york is now exceeded twenty two thousand it's a shocking number that was explored recently in an in-depth new york times story that followed the daily life of one eleven year old homeless girl named i was doing two earlier by artie's on a stasi a church cannot discuss this a little bit more i f

derailment in new york city. at least 63 others have been injured. as you can see from these live pictures, it happened earlier this morning in the bronx. looking at the aerial video. we're told that four of the cars at least ran off the tracks as this train which was traveling from poughkeepsie new york to grand central terminal in manhattan flew off the curve just a few miles from the spuyten duyvel station. they're searching for victims, but again, the death toll now sadly sits at four. >> just to give you more details on this. there are police dogs on scene looking to see if anybody else needs to be removed from these trains. dangerously close to the water. there were police crews also in the water. it's an all hands on deck situation, including new york governor andrew cuomo, who was on scene along with new york city police commissioner ray kelly. they're asking that we just allow the investigators to do their job. the ntsb will listen to the black box and determine how fast the train was going. at least one passenger who took the train every sunday, he said, felt it was goin

insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. >> pelley: today they started spreading the news. new york city said it will require children who go to preschool or day care to be vaccinated so they'll stop spreading the flu. here's elaine quijano. >> reporter: 150,000 children at new york city-run preschools and day care centers will be required to get a flu shot. dr. jay varma is with new york city's department of health. >> we expect that this requirement will save tens of thousands of kids, maybe up to as many as 25,000 kids from getting severely ill. >> reporter: young children are among the most likely to be hospitalized or die from flu complications. last flu season, 169 children died, four of them in new york city. vaccine reqwrxents for measles, mumps and rubella are common in many cities and states but only connecticut, new jersey, and now new york city require the flu shot. new york city elementary school principal carol schafenberg says some parents have expressed concerns about safety. >> parents are very scared. i think they should have their choice whether they want to vaccinate their

when it begins to warm-up. new york city 40 today and washington, d.c. 48. d.c. tomorrow 54 and new york city 54 a nice warm-up. look at this by sunday. zero the high in minneapolis and well below zero for the low. detroit about 10. chicago, 8. toronto 15. it's those last straggling people. if you are one person with a power line that is going to put up three more houses that is the last power line. the triage, if one line can get up 50 homes, they are going to do that line first before they do the one that can only get three or four houses back up. by wednesday, new year's day, 30 in new york city and thinking somewhere around 24 for the ball drop here in new york city itself. the air is fairly dry across the country and this right now, is a static cling alert. you have to wear natural fibers today because if you wear po polyester you will get static cling all day today with the dry air. >> was that an official static cling alert? >> it was. >> noted. >>> post-christmas shopping is in full swing. a new figure suggests it was a very busy and merry holiday shopping season. >> this ac

revelers from around the globe are expected to pack new york city's times square to ring in 2014 with the dropping of the iconic crystal ball. and as usual, the nypd is taking no chances. nbc's sarah dallof is live for us this morning in times square with details. sarah, good morning. how big a police presence can we expect? >> reporter: well, just a huge police presence expected here tonight, veronica, and some things, like the bomb-sniffing dogs, the security sweeps, rooftop patrols, those are going to be very visible to the people here, but other things, like plain-clothed detectives with radiation detectors in their palms will blend right in with the 1 million people expected here tonight. one of the world's biggest and most well-known parties. >> love it, just amazing atmosphere. >> reporter: times square, counting down the last few minutes of 2013. those who will brave the crowds will also brave the cold, temperatures expected to be in the 20s. earlier, a final dress rehearsal with the times square ball. it's a sparkling centerpiece featuring more than 2,600 crystals with u

the new york governor cuomo following a deadly train derailment as passengers head to new york city. this on the busiest travel weekend of the year. four people were killed. dozens of others were injured this morning. seven cars ran off the track. it was entering a curve in the bronx. they are scouring the waters below after passengers reportedly were thrown from the train. emergency crews had to use saws and cranes to cut those cars apart in the continuing search for survivors. amtrak has resumed service on the hudson line. the ntsb investigators have arrived at the scene to gather the black box to see if it was going too fast around the curve. in the meantime in massachusetts another accident, this time on the roads. a massive 70-car pile up being blamed on icy road conditions overnight near worcester. the tractor-trailers are colliding with smaller vehicles which slid under their cargo. 30 people injured. no reports of any fatalities. road crews quickly moved to clean up the crash site and the highway is now back open. police still caution everybody, drive carefully. >>> meanwhile in w

traveled from all over the world to celebrate here in new york city. u.s. supreme court justice a sonia sotomayor will lead the count down. >> how cold will it be for those packed in times square tonight. >> what can we expect? >> it will be a chilly night coming up tonight if you are heading to new york city. we think the temperature at about midnight should be about 25 degrees. that's the actual temperature. there's going to be a little bit of a breeze. of course in between the buildings in new york city that funnels through so expect the windchills to possibly be in the teens coming up tonight. bundle up if you are braving the cold and standing out there for hours. many people do that in new york city. we will be down there and live from the crystal ball for the ball drop coming up in new york city. catch that soon coming up in 30 minutes. windchills are chilly in the 20's. further west cleveland single dig get wind chills as we head out the door. colder in places like chicago and minneapolis before it feels like above zero temperatures out there. everyone wants to know what the weat

don't know if you've ever been there but it's about 60 miles from new york city and this kind of situation was going on so near its actually between new york city and the hamptons and so many -- maybe not so many of us but people in new york dr. there every weekend but maybe they look sideways and think this is going on here, these people are our neighbors and it is happening right next door to us so that is the second reason that i was attracted to the story and the third reason is because as many of you know i'm from new england myself. i came from cuba when i was 16 years on a boat and i had a book about the boat so i felt somehow connected to the story. those of us who came from cuba in 1980 came to be known because the boat was called to the boat left. the term that i like and use with pride, but it became with no question about it. i've always been conscious of labels and what that means and how much they can hurt and contained an entire group of people. the label meant at a certain point commonality or criminals, it's not a criminality but it's close and that has haunted s

news alert on the horrific train derailment in new york city this morning. >>> at least four people now confirmed dead after several train cars fly off the tracks on a metro north line that was heading into manhattan. good morning to all of you, i'm jaime colby. >> i'm eric shaun, it is a holiday tragedy today that is still ongoing, the national transportation board sending it's team of investigators that are here now. that is the train hit a bend known as the spinning devil curve, some passengers claim that the train was just going too fast. that will all be part of the investigation. new york city police commissioner raymond kelly talked about the continuing search for any more possible victims that could be trapped underneath those overturned cars. >> we have used our dogs, right on too mup of the train, we don want to discount it totally at this time, as it is most unlikely, but i can't say with absolute certainty that there isn't. >> it is a shocking and sad scene, and laura ingle is there live. >> this incident happened just after 7:00 a.m. this morning on the southbound hudson li

for the motor city new year's eve "d" drop will feel temperatures in the teens. chicagoans face frigid temps. just 17 degrees. last year here in new york city, they were wearing bathing suits in times square, it was so warm. not this time around. 34 will be the temperature. and teens for the windchills when the ball drops in new york city. we're looking at teens and 20s across the area. big rains coming up the east coast today. we'll talk about that and bitter cold for next week and a big snowstorm next week in the northeast. bianna. >> those were the good old days. last new year's, it was warm. thank you. >>> now, to the race against time to free a cruise ship frozen in ice in antarctica. extreme conditions ended the first two rescue missions. new hope that the third time will be the charm for the dozens of passengers stranded at sea since christmas eve. abc's gio benitez has the very latest. i can imagine they don't want to be celebrating new year's eve there. >> reporter: i would not want to be there. good morning to you, bianna. dan, good morning. that powerful australian icebreaker could be reaching that stranded ship at any moment. th

this first weekend of winter is feeling like spring in some partings. in new york city, wealther records are being shattered. am exander field joining me with that t shirt on. people are taking advantage of this warm weather. >> i certainly am. we won't see this for a while. but, at this rate, you never know. the average techture in new york city in desz are in the 40s. we reached 70 degrees here in new york city today. well, well above nose average temperatures. if e if you came to new york city to visit, you might have been hoping for chillier weather. well, you will not get that opportunity. >> we packed really warm clothes. and now it's too warm. i'm here in a t-shirt. i have mid sweater, i have jacket, i have too much stuff. but it's nice. >> i brought boots to walk through snow. i have a heavy parka and i was so warm yesterday that i had to buy a t-shirt so that i could come out. >> if you were in new york city this weekend and you had some holiday shopping to do, you had no excuse for staying home. not only did it reach 70 today, it reached 65 degrees yesterday, which is a

new york. they come back to new york city, and he knows he can't face them. he knows he can't beat them head-to-head, so he uses espionage, guerrilla warfare, anticipates them. only logic that brings you to, well, he needs a spy force. he needs his own cia. then you find out he's got this huge espionage background, a spy in the french-indian war, brushed up on the skills, and he tells general scott, hey, brigadier general scott, this is what we need to do, find people to help me out. >> host: okay, just to fill in the background, what did he do in the french and indian war? >> guest: i didn't say the war extepeesively, but i know he was an officer there where he had a chance to work with the french, see what were they thinking here and there, and pick up working with the british, able to pick up things, and made mistakes. he was too aggressive as, i believe, a colonel at that point, and he learned from that. and that's another thing which i found fantastic with george washington on the side of the mountain. that guy who couldn't do anything wrong meads mistakes, owned up to it, and

event. i heard his teeth chattering a bit. brian, live in new york city with more. how bad is it now? >> temperature is 32 in midtown new york, that's cold enough here. it feels colder than that. in some parts of the nation it's definitely below freezing. the winter storm wreaked havoc in and around areas of dallas, texas, little rock, arkansas, memphis, tennessee. it's bringing dangerous winter mix of rain, sleet, snow to cities on the east coast and mid-atlantic states. new york city, boston, baltimore, philadelphia, and washington, d.c. will be dealing with the storm throughout the day. going into monday morning, if dallas, texas, is any indication, this storm's major threat is ice. the winter storm or friday and saturday causing dangerous icy conditions in dallas leading to power outages, flight cancellations, traffic accidents and tree damage. ice up to four inches thick was reported on one interstate. at one point there was as many as left without power in frigid temperatures. that number wording to encore power and light there was down to about 40,000 this morning. this mornin

recently by the typhoon. >> the daughter of new york city mayor elect bill de blasio has revealed a long-term struggle with clinical depression and substance abuse. she said she's come forward to encourage people in need to seek help. >> getting sober is always a and it's notg, easy. i know means is it easy. it's the hardest thing i've ever done. but it is so worth it. i wanted to speak out because people are suffering from this disease and dying from this disease every day. we really can't do anything as a society to out those people until we start talking about it. nobody can do sobriety on their own. >> deblasio takes office as new york city mayor on january 1. the u.s. will sub lower edward snowden has released a new video statement urging concerned citizens to unite against unfettered surveillance. address,stmas day snowden said mass spying is undermining basic rights to privacy. >> recently, we learned our government is working in concert and has created a system of worldwide mass surveillance, watching everything we do. great britain's george orwell warned us of the danger of

long time ago in a faraway land when i was a reporter for the times, "the new york times," i wrote a story about a study that two sociologists had released from university, state university at albany in which they said that immigrants were no longer going to the city. they were, in fact, bypassing the cities and moving to suburbia. and this was happening all over the country and not just with hispanic immigrants, but all immigrants. and so i wrote a story about that, and and what they said to professors was that this would have consequences, that it would have consequences in terms of politics, in terms of elections, but also -- and we've seen that -- but also in terms of tension and all kinds of things. so i wrote a story then in 1996 and made a mental note to follow be up. -- follow up. i never did. it's one of those things reporters up -- you know, reporters just kind of move on to the next story. so when i heard about marcelo lucero, i thought this was in many ways, sadly, the perfect follow-up. because everything that they said would happen in suburbia had, in fact, happened this suffolk county. i don't know if you've ever been there, but suffolk county is about 60 miles from new york city. and this kind of situation was going on so near, it's actu

new york city. it's the temperatures, on friday morning, we're talking 14 to 15 in new york, boston friday morning at sunrise about 12 or 13 degrees. so there's going to be a big enough factor in the snowfall. this will move on out and some of the coldest air in years moves in. subzero cold on saturday morning in boston and in new york city, look for lows saturday morning in the park in the single numbers. we'll keep you updated at the weather channel. count on cancellations and flight delays. back to you. >> thank you. gold heading for its first annual loss in 13 years and its biggest annual loss in 30 years. what traders are saying about it in 2014, that's next. plus, are quotes from the pope criticizing capitalism hurting donations? michele spoke to timothy dolan exclusively. >> the pope made critical comments and capitalism and the wealthy. the catholic church in new york is trying to raise money from the capital lists and the wealthy. how is that working out? next on "power lunch." is also enough to keep your smartphone running for how long? 30 days? 300 days? 3,000 days? the a

northeast tonight with as much as a foot of snow. nbc's kristen dahlgren is north of new york city in scarsdale, new york. kristen, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. yeah, we're beginning to see some people slipping and sliding around here. take a look. you can probably see the snow piling up on the roads faster than the plows can get to it. we're just north of the city. there's a winter storm warning in effect until 6:00 a.m. for an awful lot of people, there's a lot more of this ahead tonight. from missouri to maine, the massive storm dumped snow. 1,000-mile swath stretching through 23 state, more than 100 million people in the storm's path. for some, it turned deadly. car crashes in missouri claimed three lives and dozens of accidents were reported across several other states. in indiana, state police issued a travel warning. near indianapolis, firefighters had to rescue the driver trapped in this multivehicle crash. this car was stopped at a light as the first two cars collided. >> they hit each other in the intersection and spun out. one hit us and the other one went behin

this is al jazeera america live from new york city i'm johnathan betz were a look at today's top stories. >> a train journey into disaster at the edge of the harlem river in new york. killing four people aboard. >> by the time i looked up it was completely going off it's track and there was the rubble from under the track just flying at my face. now safety investigators try to understand what happened. protestors in bangkok confront police using tear gas and water cannons. >> and world aids day is marked around the globe as the struggle to prevent and cure the deadly disease moves forward. ♪ >> an early morning train ride into new york turned into a nightmare today. a passenger train derailed narrowly missing the harlem river. seven cars in the metro north train came off the tracks just outside of the station in new york city. four people are dead and dozens more are hurt. they were heading south to grant central terminal in manhattan. right now the fire department says there are 63 reported injuries and 11 are in transit call conditions and six injuries are reported serious. >

>> this is al jazeera america live from new york city. i'm jonathan betz. investigators searching for what went wrong after a deadly train derailment in new york. the city's first in decades. >> we lost four new yorkers this morning. we have 11 critically injured, in hospitals. i ask all new yorkers to remember them in your prayers tonight. >> in the ukraine - protesters are taking over buildings in the capital, demanding the president step down. >> a set back for gay rights. the european union's newest member votes to ban same-sex marriages. >> tonight rescuers worried more victims could be trapped under cars after a new york train accident. crews will turn them upright. it derailed in the bronx on its way to manhattan. here are the latest numbers. four are dead, 63 confirmed injuries. of those 11 are listed in critical condition. kilmeny duchardt is live at the scene of the accident at the bronx with the latest on the investigation. what can you tell us? . >> the ntsd just spoke to the press not too long ago. we know that they arrived on the scene at 12:30 today. for hours their

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 energy-consum

while the number of homeless people dropped in 2013 compared to 2012, they did not drop in new york city. critics say outgoing three-term mayor michael bloomberg is partly to blame but the city is spending more than it ever has on shelters. >> reporter: you new mayor bill deblasio, who will be sworn in tomorrow, will be targeting homelessness. the number of homeless is the largest it has been since the great depression. 62,000 live in shelters. 22,000 are children. >> raising small children would be tough for any single mom. daniel is doing it without a home. >> when your hom homeless, it ps on 20 times more pressure. >> this is where they're standing with 90 other families, a city in th shelter in the bro. >> it's infested and not well-kept. >> reporter: the number of homeless people in new york city has risen 20%: advocates blame the recession. >> do you agree or disagree with me-- >> reporter: and outgoing mayor michael bloomberg. >> there is literally no permanent housing assistance to help homeless children and families move from shelters into their own homes. >> reporter: critics say he aba

. >>> two breaking news stories this morning, a deadly train derailment in new york city and an announcement moments away on the state of the troubled obama care website. today, times up. >> the website will work much better on november 30th, december 1st, than it worked certainly on october 1st. >> at this hour, administration officials are briefing reporters on the two-month rehab of the obama care website. howard dean and rick santorum weigh in on that. >>> then, capitol hill's top intelligence committee members with the 50,000 foot world view of terrorism. >> the fatalities are way up, the numbers are way up. >> the threat is higher today and probably less safe. >> a candid conversation with the chairs of the house intelligence committees, dianne feinstein and mike rodgers. and our political panel holds forth on who should decide the size of your paycheck, and the president's continued push for immigration reform. >>> this is "state of the union." good morning from washington, i'm candy crowley. two stories we're following this hour. one is that train derailment in new york

these kind of investments. we are halfway there. there is the new york city systems have invested in infrastructure. health warning systems have done the same thing. we have also done retraining for the jobs of tomorrow. we have also done a whole bunch of work in terms of energy investments. there are a lot of things you can do with this patient capital in terms of reinvesting in the infrastructure. >> we are going next to sean higgins. >> one of the issues that has up in the detroit bankruptcy issues is a collection that is valued in the billions. some people have suggested selling that off. as an educator, do you support that, or what are your thoughts on that? >> let me just say that the educators in the city have been under a different kind of emergency manager for a long time. the governor had the first emergency management statute, but it was done in a much more it was done of a lot of conversation back and forth in terms of the educators. frankly, our members in detroit have hugely sacrificed in the last two contracts in terms of taking pay cuts and other things amounting to r

middle 30s on monday. i tuesday in the lower 40s. if you travel plans to new york city, six inches of snow on the ground. heavy thunder snow. imagine that. >> stay with us. extras next. >> this is abc seven news, saturday news extra, on your side. >> we are a week away from the start of winter. it has looks like winter for weeks now. the storm left people in the midwest and east digging out of several inches of snow. >> to storms converge along the east coast. >> it is a question of what mother nature is going to throw at us. >> roadways are treacherous. >> they think they can go anywhere. it is not so. away,h christmas a week shoppers battle the bad weather anyway to wrap up guest lists. >> we know what we are buying. >> retailers worried that it could help -- hurt sales. >> i am headed home. >> merry christmas. spirit didn't dampen the of santa con, a pub crawl that tracks thousands of revelers. much of the northeast, it is business as usual. across the globe, a once-in-a- lifetime site area and the for snowfall in more than 100 years. to roussell with a foot of snow. inspiring c

. that's where you get that freezing rain. but in new york city, 61. matching that in philadelphia and washington, d.c., too. but it won't last that much longer. you see all this rain out ahead of a cold front that will cool us back down into the 30s right in time for christmas. now, we do have some snow. mostly lake-effect snow through the western great lakes and even back through parts of nebraska and kansas. it won't be that much, but it's still enough out there to make things a little slippery if you're out and about early this morning. we're looking at about three inches of rain in parts of virginia and north carolina and it is going to end up being a pretty mild day eventually. but we are looking at very cold temperature, especially back through minneapolis. it's 1 and it feels like 17 below. it will only top out in the -- oh, here we go. even though it's 60 degrees out and i'm already sweating in here. we are back in action. now i can go back to bed, right? day's over? bedtime? >> you need the chain outside the jacket. there you go. >> we are in full effect now. all right. that'

central and northern new england. it runs into some warmer air and it looks like in boston or new york city rain mixing with snow. most areas in the northeast one to three inches. we have lighter snow and freezing rain. it is quick and not going to accumulate all that much. it could be slippery near south dakota. on the west coast we have a couple of weather alerts. we have a red flag warning near los angeles because humidity is going to drop to about 5% to 15% so any fires could spread rapidly. in the northwest we have air stagnation alert. not much wind going on and that could create ground level air pollution. anyone who suffers from asthma could have issues. that alert is going to last until about saturday. there could be bans on burning for the pellett stoves and fires. my brother is affected because he can't burn his stove for christmas. that's a look at the weather across the country. now here's a peek out your window. >>> boston about 40 degrees. 33 in pittsburgh today. we will see a snow shower or two and should see increasing sunshine and cincinnati high of 35. >>> so that snow in the

auckland's sky tower. and here in new york city, an estimated 1 million revelers from around the globe are expected to show up. nbc's sarah dallof is live this morning with details. how big of a police presence are we talking? >> reporter: there's going to be a very big security presence here, veronica. they want everyone to have a fun new year's eve but a safe one that includes visible elements like rooftop patrols but also includes things like undercover officers with palm-size radiation detectors who are going to blend in with that 1 million person crowd expected to gather here tonight. one of the world east biggest and most well-known parties. >> love it. just amazing atmosphere. >> reporter: times square, counting down the last few minutes of 2013. those who will brave the crowds will also brave the cold. temperatures expected to be in the 20s. earlier, a final dress rehearsal with the times square ball. it's a sparkling center piece featuring more than 2600 crystals with updated designs for this year's celebration. >> three, two, one -- >> reporter: and a test confetti drop. >> t

square in new york city, a live shot right now. welcome to america's news headquarters on this snowy saturday in new york city. hello, i'm greg. this storm forcing airports to cancel nearly 1,000 flights between philadelphia and ohio. there you see philadelphia on the left. cleveland on the right. the national weather service now predicting anywhere between 6 to 14 inches of snow over sections of new england. the howling winds and bitter cold, making things harder for road and utility crews on high alert to clear the highways and restore electricity to a great many homes. we have our meteorologist standing by. >> it's been a really cold december. i think by the time this is done we might be dealing with one of the coldest decembers we've seen in decades across the u.s. it gives you an idea of the temps cold across the northern at least new england and much of new york. and pennsylvania. that's going to change, though. there's going to be warmer air coming in as we develop this coastal low that will start to bring warmer air in from the south. wind direction change. right now, snow do

you in chicago and also new york city. early this morning it will be impacting portions of the great lakes and pennsylvania and new jersey. it will will race eastward. by tomorrow morning the storm has gone out of the northeast and also portions of new england. in terms of snowfall accumulation the more significant accumulations that could go across eastern maine not too bad in new york city. forecasting 1.2 inches of snow. it is dry across the northeast through out the day today. you will have cold company temperatures and some snow. >> my only request is it hold off until i finish my christmas p shoing. >> good luck with that. what are you buying me? >> we will see. >> a man convicted of master mining a scam to a navy veteran's charity will spend 28 years in prison. he called himself bobby thompson. authorities say his real name is john donald cody a harvard trained attorney. in addition to the prison sentence he was ordered to pay back $6 million in fines. new york serving top cop has a new job. nypd commissioner ray kelly will serve as a public speaker after he leaves the departm

everyone. glad you're with us. i'm gregg jarrett. >> i'm arthel neville. snowy new york city. the national weather service predicting anywhere between 6 to 14 inches of snow in new england, forcing airlines to cancel almost 1,000 flights. that is indeed a nightmare. the storm system exiting missouri, leaving a slick mess on the roads. now the northeast here is in the cross hairs. let's go to chief meteorologist in the fox extreme weather center. so what's coming down? >> it's kind of two stories with this storm. the first one was a storm across parts of the plains. some heavy snow falling, parts of indiana and ohio. the roads very dangerous across that area, some 7 to 9 inches in a few spots. we'll see this storm move off shore and become a bit of a coastal storm eventually. i'll show you that in a second. here's the latest satellite imagery. it's very heavy rain down to the south. a little bit of severe weather possible today across parts of florida. be alert. potentially a tornado, strong winds. snow about to end here in chicago. still snowing across northern indiana and ohio. now we're

conditions across washington, d.c. to new york city are alley deteriorating. look at the traffic cam right now. the roadways empty. they should be empty. look at that snow piled up on the roadways. that's the scene in washington, d.c. very different scene in new york city. cloudy skies for sure. don't worry, the snow and the sleet is on the way, and temperatures are going to plummet as we track on into the evening hours. take a look at the map here behind me. as a matter of fact, this is i-70 just east of i-270 right outside of frederick, maryland. the roads are looking horrible right now. so folks are highly advised to use caution on the roadways. temperatures right now, mostly below freezing from pittsburgh to philadelphia, washington, d.c., richmond around 33 where we saw a great deal of snow. i-81 is targeted as we track into tonight really into tomorrow. we look at snow, sleet, freezing rain as we track into tonight and tomorrow. this is a very impressive band producing snow across central portions of pennsylvania. this is the band that already produced the snow across washington, d.c

reliability of fedex. ♪ cheryl: the sun is beginning to set on times square right here in new york city. a live picture, a million people expected. david: and two bathrooms. yeah. stand in line, but. cheryl: let's not go there. it's true. no alcohol is permitted. a billion people will be3 watching on television around the world. this is the epitome and the year's eve. times square and both of us will be out of here after the show. the dow and s&p posting record highs. the sticker look at what got us there. top performing sectors, consumer discretionary rallied 40%, the health care sector rallied 30%, and the industrials up 37%. boeing, this is a company that rallied more than 80 percent followed by american express was rose 57%. disney, nike, three am rounding of your top five. ibm was the only stock in the dow that ended the year lower. on the s&p netflix led the pack of 297%, 2nd best performer was micron. best buy, delta, e trailer and yet your top five. david: what a year. after the 2008 financial meltdown government regulators set out to limit the number of too big to fail banks and l

following two breaking news stories today. first, that deadly train derailment in new york city. these are live pictures of a metro north commuter train that went off the tracks at the spuyten duyvil station. 11 people are in serious condition. the law enforcement that is familiar with the situation says the train's operator says he applied brakes to the train but it did not slow down. new york governor cuomo has visited the site. we will continue to update you throughout this hour. >>> here in washington today was the self-imposed deadline for the obama administration's health care.com website to be working. i want to bring in tory dunnan. so is it all fixed? >> i think the safe answer is going to be we'll see. they've met the goal of a system that will work smoothly for the vast majority of users. let's take a listen to what jeff seenz had to say earlier. >> it is night and day from where it was on october 1. >> we really won't know for sure until users try to get on that website. but officials pointed to what they call dramatic response time. they say they've decreased the error rat