could affect new york city. we may go back to that meeting but authorities in germany have intercepted a bomb filled with explosives and shrapnel intercepted at the deutch bank branch office in germany and may have been en route to the united states, so, in reaction to that we have authorities in new york city that have tightened security at all the deutch banks. there are a number of them in new york city. the main branch is on wall street. the package was addressed to the c.e.o. and intercepted in frankfurt, germany, and it was on its way to new york city. the chief correspondent is also working this for us right now. do we have any idea, jonathan, what the line of transportation was for this package? >>jonathan: nothing yet, trace. we know it was intercepted in frankfurt but the announcement is coming out of u.s. law enforcement so it may have been on its way here. obviously, deutch bank has major offices here in new york. the package which was packed with explosives and shrapnel obviously very dangerous inde

the women of new york city. first up, jesse. >> i had to say hi to you. do you mind if i sit with you? i'm really bored right now. >> reporter: three numbers in 40 minutes. did you think he was trying to pick you up or -- >> i thought he was trying to pick me up. >> reporter: you think he was cute? >> yeah. >> reporter: it didn't bother you that he was wearing a super mario costume? >> you don't ask questions in this city. you just don't. >> reporter: second up, kong. >> i can talk to you guys about jesus christ. i'm just kidding. i thought you guys were cute. i'm not about to marry you. geez. you just seem like a cool person. wait. i want to keep in contact, though. do you text? >> reporter: two numbers in 20 minutes. >> give me a hug. you're too cool. >> reporter: but then as jason common straits -- >> alyssa, jayson, nice to meet you. bye. >> reporter: it's not always as easy as it looks in their videos. >> class -- you don't have a name? love you. but this, jason says, is an important lesson. be prepared to fail. >> we should exchange numbers. >> that

york city with regards the way bts treatment of the press colleagues that i know of here in new york city that were trying to cover the protests last night were you know treated as if they were spies or something traded the police were trying to keep them away from the area when they identified themselves as journalists they were shoot a way i attended protests here earlier in the week a cuny university where i saw a reporter for a new york fairly mainstream publication here in the city struck by a police officer when he simply tried to the reporter tried to step out of the area where the protesters were and onto the sidewalk he was hit in the side with baton so you know it might be the case that some officers are making an effort but we are seeing some of the same problematic behavior that was laid out in that letter that you mentioned let's talk about this sort of new chapter that's going on about occupy protesters targeting events in this case of the president i know occupy d.c. has plans to protest outside of nancy pelosi or that coming up in the next few days i know that occupy

welcome to new york city department of corrections. >> my name is officer p. hunt, 9865. i'm a member of the k-9 unit, narcotics unit. today we're going to do a narcotics search. we board the bus and look for any type of illegal substance. crack, cocaine, marijuana. if you have it, now is the time to throw it on the floor or deposit it in that box over there. >> when leaving the bus to enter the jail facility, visitors are not only given a blunt warning about contraband, they're handed a number to correspond with their seat. then a drug-sniffing dog boards the bus. >> so my dog boards that bus and starts scratching seat number three, i'm going to look over and say that's who we have to search. >> right here, we found two empty balloons. we found two empty balloons. now, a lot of people what they like to do is stuff either the marijuana, the crack cocaine inside these balloons. right here you have seat number 10 and 11, so right now i'm going to request for the officers to search whoever was sitting at seat number 10 and 11. they may still have something on them. >> an off

as we go through the afternoon new york city will see rain. hartford, boston, it won't be until after the sun sets when the rain moves into your direction. all of these big cities, it's an all rain forecast. no snow at all. only areas that will see snow eventually as we go through western new york, pittsburgh, erie, cleveland and back up into western portions of new york state so, veronica, maybe a little snow for the kids to play but most of us plain old rain. >> sounds good. who is getting married? who had a baby and who is fighting over a dog. plus a new lawsuit against lady gaga makes her sound not the greatest person to work for. your first look at entertainment straight ahead. you're watching "first look." other makeup can sit on your skin, so it looks like...makeup. but trublend has skin twin technology to actually merge with your skin. how easy breezy beautiful is that? trublend...from covergirl. nick, what are you doing? oh, there's still a few more days of chevy's giving more. got to stay loose. how do you do it? i have my little hel

. >> not even new york city? >> new york city also had outer boroughs that had republican dominance, which is stilt case in staten island. but in but in pockets of queens as well. >> social security? >> the issue on social security is something that smith had tried to implement in new york state when it came to widows and orphans' pensions. he tried to experiment with health insurance for industrial workers and also tried to do all kinds of social security issues when it came to trying to support those that were downtrodden, make-work projects were something that he had experimented with and it might have been one of those programs he would have carried into the new deal had he won. >> i just wanted to address one other aspect that came up, which is about the south. one of the strange things that emerges, so was anti- catholicism more powerful in the south than in the midwest? that's a hard question to answer. but we've been talking about democrats versus republicans here. one of the things that were very difficu

york city with terry moran. >> giving new life a chance at long life. that's one of the most basic desires of every human community, taking good care of new mothers and their babies. in the united states, the infant mortality rate is about 6, for every 1,000 newborns. that in other places, the babies face much darker prospects and they need help, which sometimes comes from a world away. here's abc's juju chang. >> reporter: dr. sigrid hahn and her baby girl are about to embark on a mission, thousands of miles away from new york city. thousands of miles away from mt. sinai hospital where she and dr. natasha are both professors. for two years now, this dynamic duo has been traveling back and forth to remote mozambiqumozamb. ♪ because far too many women and children die here needlessly. >> just telling me that the number of woman who give birth alone with absolutely nobody is 6%. alone, nobody. >> reporter: incredible. so, they're working with local health care workers to train village midwives how to deal with complications in childbirth, which kills 1

in new york city, this is "nightline," december 30th, 2011. >>> good evening, all, i'm bill weir. for american troops serving in afghanistan, one killer has surpassed all others. the improvised explosive device. they have either taken the lives or shattered the bolds of more than 8,000 u.s. service members of that war. and they are such a relens lent scourge because they are so easy to make, with a couple of ingredients that end up being disturbingly easy to buy. here's nick schifrin with our series, "nightline investigates." >> reporter: down every rutted road in afghanistan, nothing scares u.s. troops more than this. an ied, just blew up beneath this truck. >> is everyone okay? >> reporter: ieds are the u.s.'s enemy number one in afghanistan. >> oh, my ears. >> reporter: they killed or wounded more than 8,000 american troops. and the numbers are getting worse. >> [ bleep ]. this is close as we get to the source of all our problems. ieds. >> reporter: meet this sar jet. he's an explosives technician, better known as a member of the bomb squad. >> it's like playing a game. who get

, down outside of new york city, philadelphia and d.c. so be careful driving with that. there's no wind chill at all for the east coast. so enjoy it, probably a day or two more of this. temperatures, 80s in florida, 70s up through the carolinas, 60s from d.c. new york city near 60. the cold air entrenched, minneapolis to chicago. down in areas of texas today. that's where the transition is. thunderstorms in houston and new orleans, but colder and chilly back in dallas, so aditi, very interesting things going on so far. winter looks to take more of a grip around the country by the weekend. >> we'll brace for it, thank you, bill. >>> all eyes on europe this week. stocks to watch on wall street and even for italian politics, right now things are pretty confused. your first look at this morning's business headlines are straight ahead. >>> coming up, the bcs title game is set, tiger finally wins and a coach ices his own kicker. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. >>> welcome back to "first look," i'm aditi roy, here's some of the top storie

we work with the fbi here in new york city. this is, we have 120 of our detectives assigned to the fbi's joint terrorism task force. they'll have their own operation center activated. we will, as well. we have, you know, our officers in their command center and they have agents in our command center. so, a lot of communication. a lot of cross powerization. >> you will be in times square for new year's eve and the celebration. i think when we talk about all the security people tend to forget we are talking about a party and talk a little bit about that, just being down there. i mean, for people who haven't made it down to times square. it's one extraordinary event, isn't it? >> kind of a once in a lifetime deal. you have to do it once. it is a party. there is a level of excitement that starts at about 6:00 and people are really pumped up for it. now, we have other events going on in the city. we have the midnight run in central park with fireworks and a midnight run in prospect park in brooklyn with fireworks. fireworks on liber

beck joins us now from his lavish new york city studios. he is, of course, the author of the big new best seller "being george washington." so, gingrich a progressive? really? >> yes. he says the best president, the most effective president of the 20th century, every conservative would say that's ronald reagan. he says it's fdr. 14 different times we have him on tape saying it and explaining because is he a progressive in the good times and he knows how to get things done in the bad times. he was on my program, questioned him extensively about teddy roosevelt. he started the progressive party. he says when it comes to -- when it comes to foreign policy, is he positively will sownian, woodrow wilson. >> to you woodrow wilson that's not good. this is a bad move. >> bill: you know teddy roosevelt progressive party is a lot different than the progressive party of today,. >> no it's not, bill. it's the other side of barack obama. >> bill: no, no, no. >> yes, it is. >> bill: if you look at the other side of teddy roosevelt. >> i'm not going to ar

south. 51 in new york city. so that will support rain. the snow will stay closer to the lakes as we get into monday, around the u.p. of michigan. quiet west of the rockies. on tuesday, lingering snow showers here in the northeast, down the spine of the appalachians. 44 in atlanta. watching cold air which will drop in east of the mississippi. that's going to be a change we haven't felt. tune into the weather channel every morning at 6:00 a.m. goat your latest forecast with stephanie and a.m. that's "wake up with al." ♪ like so many great pioneers before me, guided only by a dream. i'm embarking on a journey of epic proportion. i will travel, from sea to shining sea, through amber waves of grain, and i won't stop until i've helped every driver in america save hundreds on car insurance. well i'm out of the parking lot. that's a good start. geico, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent, or more on car insurance. >>> it is time for today's "countdown to the new year" with great getaways for 2012. >> after r

new york city is considering a fee reduction. loss angeles has a $7 minimum and it is the only city that did. most of the city's contacted did not require back seat monitors. they left it as a business decision to the taxi companies. it is required in boston and new york city, and half of the city's require a electronic reporting. in every case, it was statistical information being reported to the regulatory body and not personal income. our recommendations. the first, i have to preface this by saying that one of the things that the taxi services and staff said, require credit card usage, we need to make sure that the costs associated with that are minimized to the greatest extent possible. the way to do that, you can pick a fee, a 3% fee and see who

north of new york city, one to three. philadelphia, boston, new york city, maybe flurries here and there. the ground is still warm from the temperatures the past few days. >> folks in florida are chuckling but it has to get here eventually. always a pleasure. >>> it was 70 years ago today that nearly 2,400 meramericans d when japan attacked pearl harbor which drew the u.s. into world war ii. defense secretary leon panetta laid a wreath in washington, d.c. while in hawaii, the dwindling number of pearl harbor survivors gathered to remember those who were lost that day, and it was lost on no one. this will likely be their last such large gathering. nbc's george lewis is there for us tonight. george, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it's been a day of remembrances, nostalgia, some tears and a lot of war stories from a band of brothers who lived through a pivotal moment in american history. ♪ >> reporter: at 7:55 this morning, the exact time the japanese attack began a in 1941, u.s. air force and national gua

he. >> bill: is the new york city undermining parental authority? hoover, let me outlining this to the audience. we are not going to tell you guy what is they're going to teach because some of it is very, very graphic. it doesn't have to do with just man/woman. it's everything you can imagine. this is sixth grade we are talking about. these are 10, 11, 12-year-old kids. >> 12. 13, 14. sixth through 12th grades. sixth graders are 12 years old. >> bill: the younger edge of this. so the parents in new york city many of them can't afford to go to private school which i always recommend if you can afford to go to private school please do so because you don't have to deal with this craziness. they have no choice. even if they don't want their kids hearing about alternative situations, they have to. something wrong, this disturbs me. >> i appreciate that on one hand. on the other hand, bill, we spend a lot of time in this show in this segment talking about how parents these days are advocating their duties as parents being active in their kids' life and te

kelly ordered it read to all 34,500 new york city police officers. it says, members of the service who unreasonably interfere with media access to incidents or who intentionally prevent or obstruct the photographing or videotaping of news in public places will be subject to disciplinary action. members of the service will not interfere with the videotaping or photographing of incidents in public places. intentional interference constitutes censorship. the media will be given access as close to the activity as possible with a clear line of sight. and within hearing range of the incident. ray kelly reissued the order only after being deluged with protests from new york media outlets specifying violations of this policy that reporters have suffered. there are three kinds of cops in new york. and in every big city police department concerning this kind of rule. the first and largest group are the cops who know the rule about not interfering with the press, understand the constitutional basis for it, and whether they like it or not, libby it. even in stre

this year in new york city, it's the most wonderful time. the year. everyone is in the holiday spirit. it's festive. a lot of couples will be spending their first christmas together as husband and wife. we are looking at all the big celebrity weddings of 2011 including the wedding across the pond. chris? >> was there a wedding in london? of course i'm kidding. the royal wedding. it was a huge year for i dos and one ceremony captured the hearts of the entire world. >> that incredible kiss. about 2 billion saw that moment of prince william and kate middleton's wedding. >> will and kate just arrived in a vintage ason martin. what a cool car. >> i was there as the prince prove his bribe with a "just wed" license plate and later, at the reception. the beatle and his bride. paul mccarney and nancy with a five carat ring for the i dos. >> i'm feeling married. >> the couple wed at a town hall in london. the same place he married linda eastman in 1969. >> nick lachey and vanessa m manillo exchanged vows. >> he got down on both knees. >> both knees. >> i figure

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

and happy new year's to you. it's 50 degrees in new york city. you know it's going to be a busy one. it's the year 12. a 12-foot crystal ball. and the switch, i get to turn it on this morning. let's see what it looks like, just to give you a little preview. beautiful colors coming out of that gorgeous ball that will start you off right on 2012. now, we're not quite sure who is going to do the official switch of the -- switch this evening. but we do hear that beyonce's going to be around. we'll have to wait on that one. what we do know about is weather. weather-wise, we're looking good in new york city. at midnight, temperatures will be in the mid, even upper-40s. look at the rest of the nation and find your place. fair skies and relatively dry almost everywhere. we'll look at the start to 2012. i think you need to know this. a cold blast of air to start you out in 2012. that means that your january, with windchills below zero. that's for new england, other parts of the northeast. spots that really have been very mild, about to get that change. ol

a new york city driver takes parallel parking to the next level. captioning funded by cbs >>> this is the "cbs morning news" for friday, december 9th, 2011. good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm randall pinkston. >>> early this morning, ballistic tests officially linked two fatal shootings on the virginia tech campus. yesterday's shooting was a haunting reminder of the blood bath five years that took the lives of 32 victims. a police officer army veteran deriek crouse was shot and killed during a routine traffic stop. the campus was locked down and on high alert for more than four hours as s.w.a.t. team and heavily armed police searched for the shooter. the unidentified gunman fled after the shooting and apparently turned the weapon on himself. drew levinson is at the virginia campus in blacksburg with the latest. good morning, drew. >> good morning to you, randall. >> reporter: stunned would be a good way to describe the feeling here on the campus of virginia tech university. it's been five years since the mass killings here and now the student

in new york city, this is "nightline," december 21st , 2011. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. it's a move many perfect this time of year. the old credit card swipe. turning over a mountain of financial details with a flick of a wrist. and to keep you swiping, and their bottom line growing, credit card companies have to maintain your trust. trust that they are smarter than any hacker, fisher or sketchy clerk. and to that end, visa gave us an unprecedented glimpse into their fortress of security. and a few tips to stay one step away of the crooks. here's abc's cecilia vega. >> reporter: tis the season for credit card fraud. for all kinds of people, to find all kinds of ways to steal your credit and spend it. last year, about 8 million americans were victims. almost half of those due to stolen credit information. and it doesn't end there. you might not realize it, but one of the cards most vulnerable to credit threat are those gift cards everyone loves to give and get. thieves find them easy to steal and it is entirely possible that when the recipient goes to use the gift card yo

for those of you from new york city, you know dave change, t -- chang, the star chef out of new york city. you wrote something that i thought was really interesting. before he opened his third restaurant, he went to paris or he went to france and eight at one of those three-star restaurants, and what he said about his experience there i found very interesting. he said what they cooked anyone could cut, but it is so hard to do. what he said was that they could very simple dishes, but everything was done inaccurately. the service, the way they pratt, how they could it, but you know, it still just roast beef and potatoes, something that anyone can make. i found that really inspiring for a campaign. when people talk about electoral politics, especially now with the internet and all of that, people are looking for the new way of reaching voters. what i actually found is that not much has changed in terms of campaign. it is still old-fashioned meeting people. meeting people does so much more than sending out e-mail and doing trendy different last month, which i still think our effective. i

a new york city as the clock ticks towards the celebration. stay with us for your forecast including a look at the holiday weekend. eyewitness news at noon will be right back. >> complete coverage continues with don scott, jessica kartalija, and first warning weather with marty bass and meteorologist tim williams, ,,,, >>> maryland's healthcare commission is calling for tougher monitoring of cardiac stint surgeries at the state's 23 hospitals. investigators say hundreds of patients may have been implanted with unnecessary stints but he insists they were necessary. the commission wants it suspended if new standards are not met. >>> the state is getting more money after it met a goal for improving access to medicaid and children's health insurance programs. >>> kids across the country are on break and several theme parks in florida are hitting capacity. universal orlando's islands of adventure, legoland and three out of 4 disney theme parks were so packed they were all forced to close temporarily. disneyland in california was also forced to stop

in new york city, this is "nightline," december 29th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm bill weir. it is a startling fact. tens of thousands of preschoolers in this country are on anti-psychotic medications. and the number has doubled in the last decade. but most of these drugs in question have not been tested on children. and doctors have no idea what their affect may be on the developing brain. tonight, we meet a family faced with a profoundly difficult choice. and here is my co-anchor, cynthia mcfadden. >> reporter: for this little boy, what you're seeing is not just a mow men tear tantrum, but the stuff of every day life. >> that hurt. >> reporter: day in and day out, cole eva vold's parents, jennifer and chris, have had to cope with his thrashing, banging and screaming. it's certainly not what they thought life would be like when they adopted him as a newborn seven years ago. >> i guess he really was fussy. he cried and needed to be held a lot and he never slept. i thought, he's a baby and maybe he's a little colicky. >> reporter: he wasn't. by two months, there were problems

of new york. he's out there roughly 20 hours a week, keeping track of law enforcement and government officials, catching them on camera. >> what is your problem? >> here's a traffic agent, parking in front of a fire hydrant. she goes into the store to get some food, and while she's ordering, sirens, flashing lights, fire trucks pull up. and jimmy justice is hot under the collar. >> you're a traffic enforcement agent, and you parked your official vehicle blocking a fire pump, and there's a fire outside with firemen out there and they have no access to the pump? you ought to be ashamed of yourself! while you're in the store, you don't hear the sirens? what's the matter with you? and fire engines were coming from every direction. and the nerve of this woman just to stay there on line and order her food and not come out and move her vehicle. that was just a little too over the top for me, and i lost my cool. >> have a good day. >> what's the matter with you? >> jimmy often gets aggressive in his video

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destroying in new york city are being places are continually disrupted this sense to do it. and it doesn't have to do anything to the occupiers geographical or any ways in which they were infringing on the rights of others. can we just talk about that message of course the movement has been criticized for lacking focus on what is real goal and issues are apparently now they're saying that they want to establish more specific goals what are those going to be how will they overcome this and amount of confusion and lack of focus. i think people around the country understand that. which is why just. over four weeks inspired by cairo and chinese medicine are the places where people go great things in the public sphere trying to reclaim once the lost their. homes or their homes or just capitalism deborah let me just quickly ask you briefly we saw the emergence of the tea party of course political element there i know that the the occupy wall street has a very different political message but do you think this could be the start of a political movement do you think politicians will

weather-wise, we're looking good in new york city. at midnight, temperatures will be in the mid, even upper-40s. look at the rest of the nation and find your place. fair skies and relatively dry almost everywhere. we'll look at the start to 2012. i think you need to know this. a cold blast of air to start you out in 2012. that means that your january, with windchills below zero. that's for new england, other parts of the northeast. spots that really have been very mild, about to get that change. old man winter coming in, right as we begin the new year. that's a look at the big >> you learn so much being up here on a platform like this. this switch, when i turned it on, that's not somebody just flipping it. this thing actually works. so, very cool that i get to be here. so much coming up on the show. and of course, a look at our rockin' new year's eve, as well. back to you all. >> the big switch. >>> we have some breaking news this morning out of san francisco. a monkey mystery. there's a squirrel monkey named, wait for it, banana sam.

captioning funded by cbs >>> saturday in new york city. welcome. i'm rebecca jarvis. >> i'm russ mitchell. rebecca jarvis is up, up, up today! >> up, up, baby. >> what is in that coffee cup? >> it's the holidays, i think. >>> a deal has been reached in washington to extend jobless benefits and social security payroll tax cut but only for two months. nancy cordes will fill us in a bit. >>> we will talk to actress claire danes on the thriller "homeland." and named for a global award nominee for her role in the show. >>> who doesn't remember the music "rent"? the first musical i ever saw. it won practically every single award including a pulitzer prize. before it closed three years ago, obviously, that was a hard time for some people, but guess what? it is now back and better than ever. this morning, the cast will perform two of the songs that made "rent" an instant classic. >> it's a cast of thousands too. >> it is really great! >>> first, to the latest on the tentative deal in the senate that could extend a payroll tax cut and help struggling americ