hey had to take a ferry across to manhattan. but electrification meant they could build a tunnel under the hudson river. and they did that and then they built a tunnel under the east river to connect to the long island railroad. that was yet another reason that the new york central realized it had to build a giant majestic, grand central terminal in the middle of manhattan. in 2011, metro-north became the nation's busiest in your railroad. might not think of it as that but it surpassed the long island. and this book is not just about a building. it's sort of a biography of grand central if you will. it's about people. it's william, the chief engineer who came up with this ingenious plan to build grand central. brian hendricks on a metro cop who befriended the homeless come either johnson who feels customers complaints in the information booth, the most frequent, guess what, where is the restroom? [laughter] second, is how do i get out of here because they're so many passageways. and the third, attribute to good taste i guess is

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. >>> autoridades de nueva york confirmaron que una pieza hallada en dos edificios del bajo manhattan es igual al modelo de un boeing que usaron los terroristas de la red de al qaeda en los atentados de septiembre del 2001 no se descarta la posibilidad que el objeto fuera colocado a propÓsito en el sector. >>> la pieza del tren de aterrizaje atrÁs del edificio en bajo manhattan, coincide con la parte del mismo modelo del boeing utilizados en el acto de septiembre del 2011. >>> tantos aÑos que pasÓ, y que encuentren en este aÑo una parte del aviÓn de pieza, es increÍble. >>> reaccionan naban asÍ. mÁs de diez luego los investigadores estÁn investigando. es el mismo local que alberga una mezquita que causÓ controversia a ser abierta a cuadras de la zona cero. el objeto estÁ entre dos edificios el diagrama muestra la ubicaciÓn exacta donde los edificios, el 50 de la murray, y el 51, detectives contactaron a la empresa boeing, es un aviÓn 767 el mismo que fue usado para destruir las torres gemelas, no se confirma si fue parte de los aviones del atentado, el dueÑo del lÓcal

that just change the entire face of manhattan. and their preservation will go into that later and this paul goldberger said, became the poster building for every landmark in the united states. it's a legal principle enshrined at grant central terminal. one of the things i learned is the terminal sorted pecan by accident in 1902. coming out of the park avenue tunnel in the fog, snow, rain, set in senders couldn't see a light in front of that that crashed into another train, killing two dozen people. "new york times" wrote is slowly the harvest reaped in the hole under the new york streets is being garnered in the homes of new rochelle, tom is dead and maimed are beginning to ask each other on how this occurred, but why and the y was quite simple. engineers could not be throughout the site in and the coal burning locomotive generated in that tunnel. the railroad was terrified it and its officers throughout criminally liable if not for this accident, then for the next one be inevitable. so they decided to let her fry the railroad by

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mayor bloomberg coming out yesterday and saying there's no known threat to manhattan but this is a city that absolutely knows that it is in the cross hairs of terrorist, people that want to harm new yorkers. we've had 16 known plots since september of 2001 all directed at new york, sometimes square 2010, the un detonadetonated de the car. in 2006, threats where i'm standing right now, the new york stock exchange. all of this affects security. about 1,000 extra counterterrorism officers have been dispatched by the mayor today. you're going to see more dogs at train stations, bomb sniffing dogs, bags can be searched at union station, at penn station and then also there's a larger side of this. fox business is outside today to cover wall street's reaction to what happened. the unfortunate events happened in boston late last evening at the marathon because these traders know very well that terrorism or an attack of some kind, whether it's homegrown or international can strike at any moment. that's one of the reasons we saw stocks drop yesterday. you had especially in the last hour of traini

but they were talking about manhattan, possibly going to times square. eel very certain they were on their way to times square to detonate ten more explosive devices in new york. >> heather: joining me now is anchor chris wallace. ten additional explosives potentially, putting them off in new york city. what additionally did you learn new? >> that was interesting because there have been some talk. we knew and it was announced this week by new york mayor bloombe and police commissioner kelly there had been this talk about the younger brother, the suspect dzhokar tsarnaev about going to manhattan. chairman mccall, he is the head of homeland security committee talked about with it a lot more certainty. the other couple things he talked about, he said he still firmly believes there is a foreign connection here and there are people of interest either overseas or in this country who were involved in some way. he thinks that the weapon was used, these bombs were too sophisticated to have just been picked up over the internet. he thinks there was training going

also they became wary of the commuting if they really wanted to be in manhattan to have offices in manhattan it would take too long to get back and forth to the suburbs the even dislike commuting from manhattan to queens so they were more acclimated to the needs of the inner city than the suburbs and the new yorkers were very skillful to invest so much in renovating the world's fair grounds building that they could say we have invested these millions of dollars so we should stay here and they manage to beat up the sign that says welcome to new york. [laughter] so step by step as the suburbs pushed the un now then yorkers were ready to catch them. so they were willing to look at sam and cisco now there were willing to look at philadelphia and boston and finally they ended up but it was the guest that made that particular location in midtown manhattan. >> i could not help but notice most of the boosters were white men did any city use the fact it had eight firsts population and multi-cultural as a selling point*? >> most were white men that they did use multinational populations as a selling p

>>la madre lo reconoce, dice que era creyente, un buen hombre >>luego de las revelaciones de que manhattan seria un nuevo objetivo, la autoridad desplazo a la policía al lugar ante la preocupacion de la poblacion >>y si viaja por aire, preparese para llamar y avisar que no llegara a tiempo. las demoras en aeropuerto han trastornados los viajes a cientos de miles. por qué? la agencia federal de aviacion tuvo que eliminar millones de dólares de su presupuesto. blanca rosa vilches fue a uno de los aeropuertos más golpeados por la crisis >esto lleva a muchos pasajeros a sentirse en medio de fuego cruzado entre la casa blanca y el capitolio, el secuestro, esto lleva a cortar un dia a la semana a los controladores >>si uno no tiene culpa, debieran acomodar el sistmea >>republicanos y democratas se acusaron mutuamente de los hechos. >>esto significa que las líneas de seguridad van a crecer, tendremos un impacto en los aeropuerto, más filas y retrasos. >>los republicanos acusan a barack obama de forzar los permisos de salidas impagos de los controladores aereos. >>los democratas por su parte

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they're up in manhattan. looks like this will continue throughout the country for the foreseeable future. one of the challenges is sustaining this momentum. while prices may be rising, while buyer numbers may be rising one of the key challenges is supply. the housing supply right now is mo the lowest numbers in 10 years. jenna: we had the opposite problem during the recession, didn't we? there was just so much supply, there was such a big boom that was a big problem for housing. so how are we so quickly on the other side of that? >> what happened all of that available product as they call it, all of that available supply was snapped up by buyers who had the money or could get financing during that period. more importantly, there has been a big lull in new housing projects coming on, coming on the market. even though we're seeing problem projects in development. those will take some time. jenna: who exactly are these magical buyers out there? are they your average family who is thinking this will be our new ho

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manhattan, they all have video surveillance. so, if you think you're not being watched and you're walking around the streets, the bottom line is, when you're on the streets of new york city, you have no expectation of privacy, period. you know what, i don't have a problem with that. >> yeah, i know some people say big brother, but, you know, it certainly helps when you have nut jobs out there trying to blow up places like times square. >> you got that right. >> mike brooks, thank you. jason carroll, my thanks to you, as well, here. >>> i want to switch gears to our next big story. major developments when it comes to syria. a civil war that has now claimed the lives of some 70,000 people just got a whole lot more dangerous. this is what the world has long been fearing, the u.s. says it now has evidence that the syrian government has, in fact, used chemical weapons against its own people. >> the u.s. intelligence community assesses with some degree of varying confidence that the syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small s

" or heard something that fa noen phonetically sound like manhattan. so the details on this, wolf, remain pretty vague. >> that could be a huge question if in fact the two were planning on taking whatever explosives they may have had heading toward manhattan or new york. that would have been obviously a horrendous potential situation. we obviously don't know about that. >> right. >> if you had to answer one question, tom, what's the biggest unanswered question you would like answered right now? >> is this the end of it? are there any other plots to do an additional attack that they know of that are still out there? any other terrorists that may carry out an additional attack that we're not aware of? or is this it? with bringing one of the two brothers to the hospital and the other one now deceased, is that the end of it? were they all by themselves in this country doing this attack? >> better believe we all want the answer to that question. it's a critical question. guys, thanks very much. >>> when we come 0 back, a moment-by-moment account of that hor

free from his alchemist's captive vit, he would go listen to cuban music at the park plaza hotel in manhattan. those were happy times and years later became a happy tomic with me, convinced early on that my father inhabited a magic world. a few years ago, while listening to a recording of cuban blues by chico, i remembered in new york in those stories of the 40's that chico and my father met at club cuba in manhattan and again in havana in the mid-50's. the sessions of chico's house in our neighborhood became so famous that even my father, not particularly fond of cuban jazz, couldn't resist dropping in once in a while at the much-talked about terrace. i listened to the rumba of chico's suite, then i would imagine chico back in new york doing arrangements for count bassie and ringo starr and i see myself turning into a big fan during my teenage years in havana. so that gives you a little idea about all these connections. i was born in havana in the mid-50's and my memory have many sounds. my history of my family has given me a variety of experiences and languages. my memory is like an orgy of

and he thought he heard the word "manhattan." but he wasn't sure about it. you know, people i've talked to today say they don't quite know what to make of that. you know, i guess you have to ask yourself, do mont people say when they're going to new york, i'm going to manhattan. or do they say, i'm going to new york. so that's very difficult to tell if that's indeed where they were going. they clearly wanted to get away. but whether they had any destination in mind or not, i think they have no idea and that's one of the questions they'll ultimately get around to asking the surviving suspect. >> the manhattan piece would seem to be sort of a critical part of denying him his miranda rights, right? the idea is there's some sort of public threat that may be out there. if the threat, potential bomb plan was located in new york city, that would seem to at least justify as the administration would call it, the public safety exemption. >> well i don't think they need to justify the public safety exception right now. the court rulings are fairly clear on this. it sta

i want to thank the folks of manhattan construction. as well as all the workers who built a fine facility that will stand the test of time. i thank the fantastic team at the george w. bush center, headed by mark langdale and jim glassman and my long-time pal, donny evans. much to the delight, much to the delight of the folks who worked on this project, we have raised enough money to pay our bills. >> we have -- we have over 300,000 contributors from all 50 states, and laura and i thank you from the bottom of our hearts. this is the first time in american history that parents have seen their son's presidential library. mother, i promise to keep my area clean. barbara bush taught me to live life to the fullest, to laugh a lot and to speak my mind. a trait that sometimes got us both into trouble. dad taught me how to be a president. before that, he showed me how to be a man. and 41, it is awesome that you are here today. >> i welcome, i welcome my dear brothers and sister, as well as in-laws, cousins, nephews, nieces, uncles -- all of you

manhattan is cheap compared to london and compared to moscow and many other major cities. we're a value and the rest of the world especially in europe while things are heading in a different direction, we're doing quite well. so i see, new york especially representative of the united states in many good ways doing exceptionally well for foreign investors coming here to look at our properties. liz: right. and there is a very large russian community. but i don't think that the oligarchs want to go down to coney island and hang out in brooklyn. they're here to be at the top of the penthouse world. you being of russian descent are somebody they come to. you have handled most of the biggest or many of the biggest russian deals. what did they tell you a and when did they start to plow money this? they were also putting money in cypriot banks and then we had a problem in cyprus. were they moving money earlierer than the cyprus bank problem and was it into u.s. real estate? >> many have been looking to the united states as a way to diversify their portfolio but we have seen quite

that committee would then assemble in the manhattan project. now as i read einstein, he's very careful to say i didn't do any of at. he didn't. he wasn't involved in the project directly but he planted the seeds in roosevelt to get with it and get on with atom power for military use because others were gonna do it. >> he was afraid -- >> isn't that true? >> yes. >> he was afraid the germans might be able to develop a weon, but i don't think he knew exactly what kind of a@ >> one thing he did not understand and he says that. he did not understand the chain reaction. chain reaction was brought into being bythe four scientists who werewho? >> talking abt oppenheimer, salard. this was then transferred to los alamos. >> the original four were fermie, text ellah and they form roosevelt's committee. then they participated with oppenheimer, did the9 not on the manhattan project? >> certainly salard did not. risk. was considered a security so he was kept out@of los alamos. feramie was heavily involved. if i could@just say one thing about what you just s

>> stephanie gosk in lower manhattan. stephanie, thanks. >>> turning now to boston and the latest on the investigation into the marathon bombings. there is new information on exactly how the bombs were made and a gripping new account of the night it all ended from the man who was carjacked by these two accused bombers. also a big piece of evidence was moved today. our nbc news national investigative correspondent michael isikoff reports. >> reporter: dzhokhar tsarnaev is now being held at fort devins, a special medical prison outside boston. u.s. marshalls moved him overnight after a week at beth israel hospital. more details of his hospital bed hearing on monday. tsarnaev, bandaged and unable to speak, but the judge ruled he was alert and mentally competent. when told he could face the death penalty he showed no emotion, a source tells nbc news. today federal agents searched this new bedford landfill looking for tsarnaev's laptop and fireworks receipts and the boat where he hid out the night of his capture was hauled awa

they ever did make it to manhattan. i'm brian schachtman. this is "way too early." >>> also, crossing the so-called red line in syria. the white house says the assad regime is using chemical weapons. the question is how will the united states respond? by the way, you got any weekend travel plans? congress actually does. the deadline pushing lawmakers to end the air traffic controller furloughs by the end of the day. first let's get to our top story here at 5:30 a.m. at 30 rock in new york city. >>> we begin with chilling details behind the tsarnaev brothers alleged plot to attack the heart of new york city after, of course, causing so much damage in boston. according to city officials, the two marathon bombing suspects discussed driving to new york to detonate their remaining explosives in a spontaneous assault on times square. at the time their arsenal included five pipe bombs, one pressure cooker bomb, similar to that one, of course, and the two used in last monday's deadly attack. police say the young brother had visited times square at l

the manhattan d.a. tried the case. when the 1993 bombing took place, one of the demands of the bombers was he be released from jail. they went back to review all material they had taken from his home and saw jihadi material. they also look at the amateur video taken the night khanaa was shot and saw the bombers from 1993 had been in the hall in 1990 when he was murdered. it was obviously not the lone act of lone gunman. >> eric: do you see parallels with this and the brothers? >> i do. i don't believe they could have done what they did without techfy call assistance in building the bomb and without spiritual encouragement to keep them on focus. this is a suicide mission. they saw it as ma martyrdom. they look it as glorious. they would be killed one way or another. to keep someone focused on someone that used to be wisdom in latch sources. we wouldn't have it. there is no way to keep somebody on track. >> eric: well, that theory is now out the window. and you believe others are involved? >> i the. the bombs could not h

and here in midtown manhattan dozens have gathered to protest washington's use of drones for targeted assassinations overseas and domestic surveillance here at home organizers say the a.t.m. the goal of this month long campaign is to bring the widest possible public attention to the ways in which drones they say are being used to violate sovereignty due process privacy and freedom of assembly how dare they even talk a bad dreams on a domestic gas they were being reassured constantly that oh it's surgical precision bombing it's not that's an outright lie it's supposed to target terrorists but sadly too many civilians have been killed by bestrode says well and that includes children and women we need to come to peace and you can't bomb the world to peace the u.s. has a reported one hundred drone basing sites and critics say the biggest problem is a lack of transparency campaign received an unexpected boost last month when washington's drone campaign came into question with john brennan's nomination for cia director reporting from new york marina r.t. . so the drone strike campaign is an

a giant piece of a plane found more than a decade later in a tiny alley in manhattan. many ask how did it go unnoticed all these years and how did it really get there? >>> comedian in chief, washington preparing for presidential punch lines. >> four years ago i looked like this. today i look like this. four years from now i will look like this. >> just as we learn whose coming to dinner this year, gloria from modern family, kerry from homeland, plus the name no one saw or heard coming. >> good even on this saturday night. we begin with breaking news tonight. authorities here in washington following the fast moving developments in the case of the boston bombers. this evening a major new development. abc news learned that russian authorities might have recorded a conversation between one of the bombers and their mother. a conversation that concerned authorities, they passed that information now to american investigators here. abc gio benitez leads us off from boston tonight. good evening. >> reporter: good evening, david. that wire tap conversation happening in 2011, the

settled in queens, took the 7 train to manhattan. that generation, new people coming on the 7 train to manhattan. also if you take the seven train to queens. every stop changes. it is irish. it is indian, it is pakistani, bangladeshi, korean, chinese. it's just amazing. go around the world on the number seven train. in 40 minutes see everything. of course at the end, the temple. the home of the new york mets. the beleaguered new york mets, my favorite team, citi-field, right at the end of the seven line. that's why i picked the seven line. >> a smelly line in the summertime. >> most people think, are you nuts? one of your favorite things about new york, the seven train. it really is. all right. let's talk about restaurants. they asked to pick a favorite restaurant. how do you do that in new york with a million of them. what is one i go to all the time on a regular basis, rosa mexicano. down the block. from abc here. a great place. a lot of locations, but the one by lincoln center. like to stroll down there. they make pomegranate froz

those of you who have been to the shake shack know what i am talking about it is for all of those in manhattan and those to take an afternoon break. and the one in san francisco, is the highlight on one's run or the walk to the golden gate bridge. >> in is a picture where you have the concerts and gathers and so with the park along the water front, we were able to create a great space and one that will have the great deal of visibility and the great view and serve as a great amenity for the three buildings that front it and not only will the buildings have great water front views but be on the park itself. now, in the middle of the site, is mission rock square. and in this square is the square is very important because the buildings in the interior site need to have an address as well. they are not on the water with dramatic views but we are on a park and that creates a great environment for the people who can live and work in this location, it feels like an urban campus environment and again, there say great precedence with washington square and jackson square and the best in new york with br

el atacante que sobrevivió dijo que el próximo objetivo era nueva york, dijo que también hablaron de manhattan. >> Él y su hermano decidieron que el times square era el próximo objetivo, pero que ese día murió el mayor de los tsarnaev. ,>> dijo que él y su hermano iban a ir a nueva york, los hermanos tenían en su poder 5 bomberos caseras, las noticias generó mucha preocupación. >> eso no puede ser, es que van a seguir muriendo montones de gente. >> es que me parece horrible, esta ciudad es congestionada. >> las autoridades establecieron que el menor de los hermanos visitó dos veces nueva york. >> ellos vinieron aquí para ver la posibilidad de dónde hacerlo. >> este taxista llevó a los hermanos tsarnaev que cargaban mochilas con explosivos adentro, pues dijo que pesaban muchos. >> cuando yo iba a arrancar, los escuché gritar y estaban furiosos, recurda. >> la madre de los hermanos tsarnaev está incluida como sospechosa también, rusia lo había advertido, cuando el f.b.i. investigó al mayor de los tsarnaev, también lo hicieron con la madre. >> gracias y ahora vamos a hablar de i

it's manhattan. >> reporter: manhattan? yes. reporter: did it seem like they were going there? >> it seemed like they were going to new york. they asked me a lot of questions. >> reporter: en route to a gas station, danny's phone rang. it was his roommate who wondered why he wasn't home. tamerlan pulled a gun out. >> if you don't want me to pick up the phone i won't pick it up. i won't say anything. he told me that you have to answer the phone. but if you use any single word in chinese, i will kill you. >> reporter: so when your roommate hears you speaking in english, does he answer in english? >> he answered in chinese. reporter: saying what? it was like why? why are you speaking in english? are you okay? is everything okay? i just told him i'm going to sleepover at a friend's place tonight. >> reporter: what happens then? so after i hang up the phone, tamerlan was very happy. he said good job. good boy. >> reporter: so at some point you start thinking, i need an exit strategy here. >> yes. i need to figure out a way, you know, to save myself. i have to unlock the door. i have

manhattan not out and nine program for young teens who are behind the wheel. alas this gap to added as an not a bit hot here that we have facing lot houses of people are been injured because contest acted this package added. teams will get and a drop cloth and gather around the track taxpaying capacity @ dry and the golf cart to show how distracted driving and is causing to guarantee a seventh thought this class please call on line but that step. police are on the look out for a redwood city man who escaped from a patrol car. this man juan carlos valencia was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend in unincorporated san mateo county thursday night just before 9 p-m. valencia was handcuffed and placed in the back seat of a patrol car. as deputies were completing valencia managed to escape from the patrol car. sheriff's searched the area for several hours, but were unable to find him. dangerous. oakland police have identified the woman who was gunned down in front of her her name is donitra forward. at oakland tech where she hard to care for her young son. offeri

rockefeller junior made a gifted $8.5 million to purchase a site in midtown, manhattan, which at that point was a slaughterhouse district. parceled together by real estate developer with the idea of building some e-mail along the lines of rockefeller center. there is option on the property and john d. rockefeller made the gift. because of that, that that is now the united nations headquarters. it's maybe not the capital of the world of everyone's dreams. the planner who supervised the architectural work referred to it as a workshop for peace. so it's not so grand. it is a workaday place. i want to read a little pet projects and a feeling of how the story of the end of world war ii and the beginning of peace. it's a panorama of the area, but touches deeply into some chords in american culture because today capital the world survives is the slogan for new york city rather than a place of dreams. while traveling through darkness and connecticut, the search for the capital of the world could've been a movie. or perhaps it should have inspired a broadway show with tab dancing civic booster

response of the united states district court in manhattan while acknowledging that her decision quote might be on expected granted the bank's motion to dismiss federal antitrust claims and partly dismissed the plaintiff claims of commodities manipulation she also dismissed the racketeering and state law claims and she dismissed the rico case because she said quote rico cannot be used in cases involving securities based on a provision of the private securities litigation reform act adopted in one nine hundred ninety five to curb abuse of lawsuits abuse of lawsuits against banks brought down that one of these laws were passed after the same as a loan of the eighty's that whole scam where they stole billions from savings and loans they changed the laws so that when they did the same thing they couldn't be prosecuted and that's an example of it the most surprising thing about the statement is that a she said something to the effect of people would be surprised at the outcome of my ruling that that's not a surprise baby here's twenty pounds do something illegal because you're cheap prostit