to new york and from new york to other cities. such networks would become vitally important as mechanisms for political mobilization. the same routes news and gossip and information are traveling, these are the same routes political news and propaganda are going to travel as the revolutionary movement unfolds. if you are in power as part of the imperial government, provincial government, or local government, how could you impose order on hundreds of taverns scattered throughout the city? new york government's past two types of laws regarding alcohol. one, those that sought to profit from alcohol and those that sought to prohibit from certain groups. the first made sure duties and fees were collected and licensed caverns kept in order the house according to the law. the mayors had the power to limit the number of establishments, this was not their goal. they raised revenues by encouraging drinking in new york city. the second type of law tried to curb disorder. you could not serve hard liquor to service. they could not take clothin

people go out to the sign, new york/new jersey. they come out, shake hands with manhattan people, how you doing, mac? okay, this is one of my heroes, swiss born. he designed every modern bridge in new york city. most daring fete about this bridge is its really thin deck. very slender and not many people thought it would hold the kind of traffic it needed to hold. probably the most pleasing aesthetic feature to a lot of industrial archaeologists is the crisscross. he wanted to cover it over. he thought the steel should be in concrete and decorated. the port authority didn't have the money to do it. it's 1932. so, later, he kind of got this accidental artwork. all his later bridges are unsheathed like this. the french architect called it the most beautiful bridge in the world. this increases congestion, but also creates suburbs. a lot of the cars poured into new york, crossed the tunnel and down the new west side highway into hell's kitchen area before they cut a left and went into manhattan. at this point, death avenue, as it was ca

york daily news" to hit the money trail. they found corporations llcs affiliated with extell development had donated $100,000 to governor andrew cuomo's campaign two days before he signed the bill. other real estate investors sweetened the pot. and when a commission appointed by the governor to investigate corruption got too close to the real estate industry, he blocked it. then he pulled the plug. a feat of wondrous political engineering. >> the real estate industry here in new york city is like the oil industry in texas. they outspend everybody. they often have a much better relationship with elected officials than everyday new yorkers do. while there was affordable housing built in the last 12 years under mayor bloomberg, that affordable housing was not built for certain people. for example, if you were a family of four that earned between $26,000 a year and $42,000 a year. so think of a single mom with three kids who works as an administrative assistant. there were basically no affordable apartments constructed over the

york and new jersey. this is a super bowl of a lot of firsts. this is the first time it is being hosted by two teams, the jets and the giants. the first time it is being hosted by two states and one big city. the first time the game is being played in a northern city in a building without a roof. >> bringing the super bowl to the new york region has been a decade-long effort for tisch. it began after 9/11 when he began pitching the idea to nfl and local politicians as a way to jumpstart the stuttering economy. it was not until the metlife stadium was built in 2010 that idea caught on. >> the nfl owners liked to bring the game to some of the newer stadiums to highlight them. they wanted the world to see this great facility. >> millions of people around the world will be watching super bowl xlviii. perhaps no venue is better prepared or staffed for an event like this. 20 times a season, metlife undergoes a transformation. a staff of about 20 takes two days to change it from one team to the other -- from jet

>> the biggest was certainly the new york herald and the new york tribune. dailyot close to 100,000 during the civil war. greeley had a national edition that went all the way to the west. that is how abraham lincoln got to know -- and even before the presidency -- distrust horace greeley. win as wanted douglas to a rebuke of the democratic presidents. it is complicated. those are the biggest. but the reach spread exponentially not only from national edition's but from the fact that newspapers around the country picked up the reports of the times, the tribune and the herald. one person wrote, or more than one person wrote, all of the news from this country seems to flow west and south from new york. you never see newspapers arriving in new york from other cities. new york became the great exporter of news and it was all political news. >> do you have another lincoln book? >> not really. i am thinking of getting my story in order to tell the tale of this book around the century for a year. i am waiting for that invitation and inspiration that i talked about at

while at the new york military the new york times, he was pulitzernominated for a prize. books, "i pledge allegiance," it was turned into a great miniseries on cbs. perhaps some of you watched it in the past. "gangland," how the fbi broke 1993.b, in "the eve of destruction," the of the war in to 2003. "american lightning: terror, mystery, the birth of hollywood, century,"ime of the truefloor of heaven: a tale of the last frontier and the yukon gold rush." i should also mention that warner brothers is preparing a film of "dark invasion," starring bradley cooper as the the book. please welcome howard blum! [applause] >> pick up a newspaper and just headlines.he check out the internet and read post. any there's news about terrorism anywhere, and it's all very frightening. at night.ep you up one day, they're saying new york city is a target. chicago.day, it's then las vegas. even the air force academy. the president tells us that we have to worry, isis is not going to attack the homeland yet. then a republican presidential candidate comes out and says, do have to worry. our b

foggy day in new york. there's some precipitation. how does this play into this and as you look at pictures on the right, we see movement in the scaffolding. what do you make of that? >> that's the 10 to 15 miles an hour we were talking about. obviously the higher you get on the building, the higher -- >> i think you can see the workers actually inside of the apparatus, which we weren't seeing before. >> you can see them moving around. >> it's the wind that's shift ing scaffolding away. >> it was foggy in new york city. you don't get fog like that unless winds are calm. a perfect day for men to be on that building. a very calm day. as the day goes on you get mixing in the atmosphere -- >> chad, i'm sorry to interrupt you. i just want to talk to you about this. as we understand actually, we said they scrapped plan a. they have been able to cut through the glass and that's what we're seeing right now i believe. is that correct? we're seeing the men escaping -- is that correct? did we confirm that? we are told authorities inside the buil

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the new york times and daily news prospered even as the herald tribune expired. we asked richard gill why. here was a shifting of both the business demand curves and the union-determined supply curve in the newspaper industry. for a prosperous paper its situation before the settlements would appear like this. its demand curve is strongly affected by the printers' productivity. the supply curve is really the union-determined wage. we have equilibrium at this wage with this number of printers. now two things happen. unions demanded higher wages. so the supply curve of labor shifted up here. but also the times introduced more highly automated typesetting machinery. this greatly raised the productivity of printers. since the demand curve for labor reflects printers' productivity, the new demand curve might look like this. here's the final situation. the times is basically ok. wages are higher. employment is lower. but the productivity increase made possible by automation leaves the firm profitable. when it came to relatively unprofitable papers like the herald tribun

miguel marquez is in new york. miguel, people are out early and there are a lot of them. >> reporter: there are a lot of them and there are separate groups tonight. that spark that was sparked off in ferguson is now burning here new york city. this is 14th street, if you know the city, we're walking west on 14th. and they have completely shut it down. we're walking now on the opposite way that traffic is flowing. it's not clear where this crowd is going to go tonight. several hundred people out here, hands in the air, protesting police brutality. it has been peaceful so far, and what nypd is doing is being extraordinary patient so far. same as they did last night. we walked about eight miles last night, all the way up to harlem. nypd only clearing the way for them, make sugar the protesters were safe and that traffic didn't get out of control. the only time they stepped in is when the protesters tried to shut down bridges or tunnels, like today. they tried to take the lincoln tunnel and shut that down. that's when

new york has always been my home. i haven't really thought about the library other than as a place i grew up in that i hadn't thought about it as something that might be a place for me, i'm not a library and by training. but the more i thought about it after they came to see if i was interested the more i thought wow free public access to ideas of the largest possible scale. what could be more powerful in this moment in history when we are driven by information, drowning in it and driven by it what could be more powerful than that and the very fact that the world of information is changing means that libraries have to change. we have to preserve what we have always done and people will rely on us and the collections were quiet and expertise but we can't sit still. for someone in my line of work that makes us an interesting, exciting and worthwhile job. it doesn't make us easy but it is easy. >> host: what is your phd in? >> guest: political science. my first work was on south african politics. i lived in south africa

new york political campaigns, for the mayor of new york. how government relates to the press was always part of my life. still is at the metropolitan museum. we work with government relations as well as press relations. just the idea percolated up in my head about how different it might have been in the 19th century both in terms of press culture and in terms of lincoln, almost imagining someone i would have worked for. what would he have required? would he have been as difficult, demanding, i should say? >> he owned a german newspaper? [laughter] >> you have to imagine a press culture in which politics and journalism was interlocking. they were part of the same power culture. newspapers were party organizations through and through. lincoln had political newspapers that favored him in illinois, the surrounding area. this was pre-presidential. so he wants to be president by , 1859. german immigrants are flooding into the west, voting eligible german immigrants. they have their own german language newspapers. lincoln found out that this fello

not from new york city. 1 from new york city. it's just about over there, but it really is just still winding up for portland into maine, and also into upstate new york and vermont, new hampshire. it still has a ways to go yet. probably another 4 to 5 more hours. here's where all the snow has fallen, from west virginia up to maine. some spots over a foot of snow. and still a few more inches to go. up into maine, nova scotia, you'll pick up another foot. >> okay. i will ask you my personal question after this. so, it is keeping people from getting to see their loved ones. and eat their pumpkin pie. so, how much longer really, is this horrible weather going to be around. its everyone out -- is everyone in the clear tomorrow? can they get back this weekend? >> yeah, i think we are done probably by 3:00 a.m., for new york. most of new england. not yet for maine. that probably won't stop until 7:00. by the time you wake up to go watch the, macy's day parade. it will be 37 degrees with a dugs dusting of snow. all done. >> so, i have a

because everything, everything in new york is bigger. we've got the tallest buildings, the richest bankers, the racist-est cabbies. in no other city to the drivers even know the proper ethnic slur for people from malta. ( laughter ) it's featherhead, by the way. there's one thing about new york that is not as big as we thought. >> it appears particular demographic in new york has been expoinencely overestimated-- the rat population. common lore states there are as many rats as humans in new york city, in the neighborhood of eight million. however a statistician from columbia university says there are really just two million rats in the big apple. >> stephen: new york has only two million rats? i mean, that's like finding out new york only has two million original ray's pizzas. ( laughter ) some columbia university brainiac arrived at this estimate by extrapolating the number of rat-occupied lots in the city using complaints from the public about rat sightings. apparently, some new yorkers are still unjaded enough to alert someone when th

that's why i had to take a new york city policeman. that's why i had to take tom tuny and appoint him to protect this &Ñcity. after 9/11, ray kelly, former new york city cop, former marine, he takes the job and he has the same reaction. he says, it's all doom and gloom and we can't count on the feds to protect us. he makes his own intelligence network. he takes a former director of operations from the cia, brings him to new york city and then has him set up agencies representing new york in various capitols, all different capitols around the world so that new york will get the information it needs right away without having to rely on the federal gover'2q9 marathon ke again raises the issue. the fbi knew about these two brothers. why didn't they pass it on to the police? so, here we have this same concern, the same concern that was bothering police chief woods, captain tuny is now bothering the people in charge of new york city and other cities today. intelligence is only valuable if it's shared. we have all the eyes and ears in the wo

this is a building owned by the port authority of new york and new jersey. actually, i think we might have lost stephanie. nick, staying with you just for a moment, this is a publicly owned building. a lot of people would wonder in 2014, this is an extremely dangerous way to clean a building. is this something that you've seen in your history as a fire department fairly frequently happen with these kinds of window watchers? >> well, scaffold collapses are not totally rare. they do happen and the fire department responds to every one of them. so that -- without seeing what the commanders are seeing, i wouldn't be able to go beyond that. >> indeed. earlier stephanie gosk was saying at this point police and fire officials are not clearing the ground below. how long do you think a situation like that will continue before police and fire officials would want to completely clear the area below? as you said, the scaffold is not just a threat to the men who are on it? also potentially a threat to the people on the ground. >> sure. that's a judgment how much space th

upstate, new york, is half the vote, sean. new york city's expected to be a lower turnout. he has a lot of problems on the left where democrats are not endorsing him or voting for him. it's the suburbs that are going to making the big difference. we can win this race, it's going to be a huge win on tuesday, a big statement, gun own verse to come out to vote -- owners have to come out to vote. off lot of big issues where people may not normally vote for republicans, but they will this time. >> we have to say good-bye. thank you rob, we'll watch closely. four days to go. thanks for being with us. >>> when we come back, the question of the day, it's about halloween, straight ahead. why dodododododo want to know how hard it can be... ...to breathe with copd? it can feel like this. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva is a once-daily inhaled... ...copd maintenance treatment... ...that helps open my airways for a full 24 hours. you know, spiriva helps me breathe easier. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace rescue inhalers for

out of new york. they had dug tunnels under the railroad before. but cleaning out the poisonous exhaust fumes of cars and trucks, nobody had a problem like that before. they built a tunnel in pittsburgh, threw cars in there for three weeks and a couple of people died of carbon monoxide poisoning. holland does this. he creates four immense wind factories. here they are. they still stand. industrial architecture. two at each end of the tunnel, one in the river, one on land. they capture the wind, like venetian blinds. they capture the wind and they have 80 or 90 gigantic winds and shoot it into the tunnel. not straight through the tunnel. because if you had a fire it would go like a cyclone through the tunnel. but pull it in gradually, at hubcap level, and the air comes in at your hubcap level, and the bad air is pushed out of the roof of the tunnel. any tunnel in the world that handles cars is built like this. without this groundbreaking ventilation system, the tunnel would be a poisonous gas chamber.

new york, los angeles. protesters in large numbers particularly in new york just, just moving through the city without really a plan that has been announced. without permits or anything. obviously for law enforcement this is a very delicate balance. >> absolutely. and the best thing they could do in a peaceful protest like this, this could easily go to a d disobedience if the police walken front of them and tell them to stop right now. we close our roads every day in america, because of wrecks. let these people walk. let them talk. as long as they're nonviolent, because if the police tell them to stop now, because they want them off the road, because the police said so, then you are going to go disobedience. because they're disobeying civil order from the police. so i think what you are seeing on television right now, let it work itself out. let people demonstrate. because as soon as the police tell them to stop. and the demonstrators want to continue to move. it goats to cives to civil diso. >> lieutenant

new york city. this does not include their american-born children. it is 25%, 28% of people born in ireland. if you throw when their kids, in their kids, you're talking 40%, 50% of the population. and do not forget one thing in that statistic -- these are not just irish people. they are mostly irish catholics. this is a double set of fears there. i just threw this image in, too, to show you the other connections with other groups. this is from 1882. you see the caption at the bottom. "the dream of the jews realized." the cartoonist showing new york city completely taken over by jewish immigrants and they are taking down the sign that says john smith's drygoods. good american-born name, john smith. that is coming down and epstein and sons is being placed up there. the new herald is "the new jerusalem herald." you see stereotypes of jewish people lording over the city. the funny thing is this is 1882 and the cartoonist is worried that there are too many jews in new york and it is just at this moment t

light rain here in new york. look at how close that snow line is coming in to us and then boston light rain but, again, mixing over to snow we think in the later hours of the afternoon and into the evening. delays at the airport big time, especially across newark. three hour delays. over an hour at laguardia, philadelphia and boston as well. so, man, it's a tough go across the airports and if you live across the northeast, this is a big deal, but over the rest of the country as well because that ripple effect. if you've got delays in the northeast you have delays in the midwest and the other parts of the country. so there's your forecast snowfall total. west of d.c., west of philadelphia, west of the new york area, that's where we could see 6 to 12, even 18 inches of snow, jon scott. >> it looks like this thing is moving pretty quickly though. how long until it moves out? >> you are very good at looking at the radar satellite picture. because he's a pilot. that's why. it should be out of the way by wednesday nigh

there are 3.5 million people expected to be here in new york. of course, there will be warm and toasty inside the living rooms of 50 million people watching inside their living rooms at home. dara, we'll send it back to you. >>> this morning al roker and savannah guthrie will bring you team coverage of the macy's day parade, including balloons and spectacular performances beginning at 9:00 a.m. only on nbc. >>> it is time to get down to business on this thanksgiving morning. today is all about family, football and turkey, and now shopping. americans are getting ready to spend big with consumer sentiment at its highest level thanks to the job market and lower gas prices. some are having a holiday. electronics chain p.c. richard says stay home on thanksgiving. stop louis vuitton caught on tape. that's up next. ring ring!... progresso! it's ok that your soup tastes like my homemade. it's our slow simmered vegetables and tender white meat chicken. apology accepted. i'm watching you soup people. make it progresso or make it yourself ay... sometimes t

cuomo's new york. andrew cuomo's poms have new york last in too many categories. and no amount of taxpayer ads will change that. >> new york has a proud history of fighting discrimination, that's why it's shocking rob astorino has violated antidiscrimination laws for years. he's the only county executive in the nation mo refuses to comply. the "new york times" on as treen oh, die-hard resistance to civil rights laws didn't work out for the south and it won't work now. rob as screen oh, so far right, he's wrong for new york. >> on the next "washington journal," final predictionings for the mid term electionings. you can join the conversation with calls calls and comments on facebook and twitter. today a discussion on the technologist and biomedical research to create an h.i.v. vaccine and other treatments. dr. fauci, director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases takes part in an event hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. live coverage at 2:00 p.m. eastern, here on c-span. >> throughout campaign 2014, c-span has broug

"nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. you see it right there on the big board. and if you're expecting someone on this thanksgiving eve and if they are caught in the web of this big weather system we are covering, then as they say allow extra time. this one started in the gulf of mexico, churned north. it's making a mess. 650 flights have been canceled tonight. over 3,000 flights delayed. these are the flights currently aloft over much of the u.s. and outside of this weather if you're with us from scottsdale or sacramento or sarasota wondering what the big deal is, you may also be waiting for loved ones to arrive. they may well be affected by the transportation pileup this weather is causing with so many people on the move. it is where we begin tonight. tom costello covers transportation for us, and so he's got a lot to cover tonight. hey, tom, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. it's been a real mess on the road, in the air. you mentioned those numbers, those numbers ar

i'm thomas drayton in new york. let's get you caught up on the top stories of this hour - war leaders of wrapping up a g202-day economic summit in australia. climate change and russia and ukraine were high on the agenda. >> a doctor who contracted ebola in sierra leone has been airlasted to nebraska >>> darren wilson is causing controversy - as the grand jury decides whether or not to indict the officer in the death of michael brown >>> da >>> obama care's 2015 enrolment started today. we look at the affordable care act's future >>> it's day two of the g20 summit in australia. russian president vladimir putin is leaving brisbane before the official ending of the summit. a spokesman said that was the plan and his departure, as you see, is not in response to tensions with other world leaders. on day 1 vladimir putin was condemned for russian support of separatists in ukraine. climate change made headlines with president obama urging leaders to commit to global warming. andrew thomas has the latest from brisbane. >> th

gio benitez, abc news, new york. >>> now the countdown to tuesday's election. two days left, the vote on who controls the senate. here is that magic number u 6. and how many seats republicans need to come out on top. and jonathan karl joins us now. and all eyes on the battle ground states. >> you have 16 states with competitive battle ground races. and they are all no seats controlled by democrats. if you want to know, watch the three states. colorado, kansas and iowa. first, iowa, and colorado, those are two big obama states. he won them big twice. and right now there are clear signs that republicans are trailing. if republicans win iowa and colorado, they will almost certainly win control of the senate. but kansas is the wild card. the republican senator pat roberts is in a tough battle. he has run a horrible campaign. >> the one face that is largely absence in it. the president, is he out there now? is he helping more than hurting? hurting more than helping? >> he is hurting. he was in connecticut today, and his favorable rate is always high. and now it's ju

you just walked in new york's fashion week, one of the biggest events that goes down in new york city. jason: right. allie: what was that like for you preparing for that? jason: first i was, you know, i was kind of nervous doing it, you know, because, you know, i'm -- really, when i know fashion -- when it comes to fashion people, it's all crazy. it's crazy stuff. allie: any comparisons to when you walked out on the stage in front of a huge crowd, the nerves, the excitement, to when you walk out on the football field in front of your fans? jason: it was like cameras flashing like the super bowl. you know, the super bowl, you came out, all those cameras just flashing. that's how it felt. i went with it, and i did it, and everybody loved it, and we walking the runway was crazy. i did little dances and stuff to make everybody laugh, and i -- and i got through it. allie: fashion shows are just part of the perks that come with playing in new york, and jpp has embraced the spotlight in the big city and the fans that come with it. jason: because here in new york, you know, i feel like if you

it shouldn't be that new york is in a different new york is mrs. and businesses in idaho or new hampshire. it's important to raise the minimum wage because new york's wage is different and not create some level playing field. the federal wages for a concentrate. katko: i don't think every problem can be solved in the federal government. if you impose the same in new york as new york city, they can observe it as well. taking a look from the state standpoint and a regional basis isn't a bad idea. the cost of living is extraordinary. there is a difference. >> moderator: thank you very much. we move on to a national security issue. in light of the one person in canada, should the country be taken steps to better secure the northern border and what should those steps take? katko: i've been trying to secure the border. it's one of the least recognize threats to national security. it is scary. in new york state alone we have a reservation which straddles both sides of st. lawrence. it is a prime smuggling route. i've had countless smuggling cases through

this is the front page of the new york times today. a protester in front of police vehicles with his hands up, hands up, don't shoot is cometed to be the rallying cry for protesters up set by the decision. >> the l.a. times led with this full color photo. this was the page of the boston globe today. this was usa today, this morning, front page the moment just after the grand jury announcement was made last night when protesters rocked and then smashed the windows of a st. louis county police car. >> the headlines show it is a matter of intense concern. ef enbecause of a matter of intensity or the destructiveness that has been vented to that response to the police shooting, it's a national story because this has been a touch tone for national anger and dispair and frustration and organizing around race and policing and this ancient question in our country of whether or not black commune tiffs in this country are protected by america's police officers. or whether actually black communities need to be protected from america's police offic

in 1979, schneider was a new york city employee working in what had been the new york life building in lower manhattan. he knew the clock had been abandoned for decades and was in desperate need of repair. >> everything looked dilapidated, and i thought it would reflect very poorly on the city to have this kind of clock not working. >> axelrod: schneider, who loved watches since he was a kid, immersed himself in the study of clocks and watches and successfully lobbied the city to let him get the clocks back on time. so every week for the past 34 weeks, schneider-- now the official clock master of new york city and his trusty assistant forest merkowitz, have kept the gears greased and used this old-fashioned crank to wind this 19th century clock in lower manhattan, one of only a hand full left of its kind. >> what we're trying to do is to preserve this clock for posterity, so that new yorkers and visitors can appreciate what this is all about. >> axelrod: but marvin and forest are dealing with the distinct possibility that time may notob their side. earlier this year, a developer bought

today we take a look at the new york music industry. new york is music. in a coalition of 120 businesses and organizations throughout the state, their mission is to grow the music industry. cofounder and ceo of downtown music funding with us. welcome. maybe because i am 40, but i already think of new york as music. isn't electric lady land here? isn't this where the best come to record? >> for 100 years it has been a global music industry capital. andy facet is represented whether you go back to the age and here in new york over the past 10 years a number of factors have resulted in the largest studios closing. there has been huge shifts in the number of artists and producers. >> i was wondering, obviously, they have a small music history as well. is it so much that people are moving out? >> it does -- it is no question that technology helps people to record, even without the traditional studio. what we are seeing is in termsnt investment of the billboard or the billboard 200, few if any are being reported in those traditional home studios. music also has

it went up to new york and held hearings. and then it came down here to washington and held the very first major hearing. it was held in this room was the -- on the sinking of the titanic. a huge crowd showed up. because this was a big event because so many aristocrats in england and the united states had gone down on this ship. they mobbed into the room. they frightened the senators. the next hearing was in a smaller committee room. they didn't want to have a big show in this room. it certainly drew a lot of attention to the issue. the hearings are fascinating. when the movie came out, they actually reprinted the excerpts from the hearings. they make fascinating reading. they have influenced the way hollywood depicts many of the scenes and movies about the titanic. the senate and house have had standing committees since 1816. the way in which committees gather information is to take testimony. and so all through the 19th century and early 20th century, there were hearings being held in which senators, represents would integr

"new york times" columnist john tear in joins us. gratitu gratitude, it's a grade word. >> there's a ton of evidence that giving thanks, being thankful is good for you. it makes you happier, more optimistic, kinder to other people and imimproves your physical health. it's weird the more you count your blessings toshd the more you'll have in the future. it almost seems like a ponzi scheme but iltd works. >> let's talk about this. is there science behind this? >> yes. some people keep gratitude journal. five thinks they're greatatefulr once a week. they're having less physical problems, exercising more, feeling better about life in gener general. >> it can have impacts on relationships, doesn't it? >> it's an emotion that takes you outside yourself and makes you think ink about relationships with other people. as a result, they beenk nicing. they've done experiments where th they've done gratitude. when they're aggressive, they don't retaliate quite as strongly. that could be a big help at the thanksgiving table. >> i want to know is h

"nightly news" begins now. >>> from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. >>> good evening. the people of buffalo, new york, don't scare easily. president mckinley was assassinated there and they have moved on. they've loved their buffalo bills through the good years and bad and not only given the world tim russert. and while buffalo is a tough town, they may have finally met their match. a relentless snowstorm has dropped nearly six feet of snow coming in right off the lake with upwards of two more feet on the way. daily life has simply come to a halt for many across a big area and the storm has already cost several lives. it's officially a state of emergency tonight across a whole region. it's where we begin our coverage tonight with nbc's lester holt. lester, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening. it's a jaw dropping amount of snow. people can't get in and out of their neighborhoods. here in cheektowaga, 65 inches have fallen. i can touch the sign here. as you said it's been deadly. at least seven deaths attributed to this

for the first time, europe looked to new york. abstract expressionism-- abstract art-- is part of western tradition. it evolves out of it. it's part of it. it remains part of it. it's not oriental. it's not a new tradition. clement greenberg, critic and promoter of the new york school, became their spokesman and a friend of the leading abstract expressionist, jackson pollock. i first met jackson pollock in 1942. came down the sidewalk, and there was lee krasner, whom i'd known of old, and she was with a very respectable-looking gentleman. and, uh...i saw this rather nice-looking guy, and lee said to me, "this fellow's going to be a great painter." i went, "well, ok." what finally hit me in pollock's art was the portable mural he did for the apartment house in which peggy guggenheim lived. that hit me. it was the first time i saw him go all over, repeat this way. i thought that was a great painting, and i began to follow pollock assiduously, you could say, after that. raised in the american southwest, pollock was influenced by indi

. >> on a recent trip to new york city, booktv visited the new york public library where we thought what the library's president and ceo, it anthony marx about the history of the institution as well as its current operations and future. >> host: tony marx, let's start with some numbers. how big is the new york public library? how many employees, budget, et cetera? >> guest: the new york public library circulates the largest in america. 88 branches in every neighborhood diversely serve as well as for important research libraries, this one being the crown jewel at the center of the system, but also the schaumburg center in harlem, library for performing arts at lincoln center and science industry and is this library. we have about 2100 employees. we have a budget of about $280 million a year operating about half comes from the city of new york, largely to pay for the circulating library system in all the neighborhoods. the other half comes from return on the billion dollars endowment of the private foundation that employs me, the lenox aster until contrasts. and then, weaver is somewhere b

in our signature segment, new york tries out a new plan to eliminate traffic fatalities. it's worked in sweden. can it work here? and, st. louis on edge as it awaits a grand jury decision whether to indict the police officer who killed michael brown. next on pbs newshour weekend additional support is provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios in lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening. thanks for joining us. after months and months of negotiations, the deadline for the world's major powers to strike a permanent deal with iran to curb its nuclear program is tomorrow. and the two sides are still said to be some distance apart. in an interview broadcast this morning with abc's george stephanopoulos, president obama said the interim deal reached last november had slowed iran's nuclear program. >> the good news is that the interim deal that we entered into has definitely stopped iran's nuclear program from advancing. so it's

>> reporter: stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >> good thing it was out there in new york because temperatures across the country are dropping. the weather channel is calling it an arctic outbreak. snow is coming down in some areas, large parts of the planes, midwest and possibly the northeast could see snow this weekend and in some areas temperatures are 20 to 40 degrees below normal. in 24 hours, the temps drop from the 80s to the 40s in brownsville, texas. in jackson, mississippi, from 79 degrees to 45. in charleston, west virginia, 75 down to 41. that's the 34-degree difference. nbc meteorologist bill karins is here with the wintry forecast for this thursday morning. here is the thing. not talking about a couple of days here. >> no. this is going to go on for another ten days. and yesterday was a peek in the negative temperatures. not warm this morning. we're at negative 13 in denver. negative 12 in casper. snowed in little rock, arkansas. right now having light snow in memphis, tennessee. very early in the season. but we have cold air mass, unusual weather is going to happen. that's what

i worked in all of the black commitments in new york, and -- communities in new york, and i've picked up children that were shot, black on black crimes and people that were shot. the fact of the matter is 93% is black-on-black crime, yes. also 98% of all the gun assaults in new york is black and hispanic. you can't take away from the numbers. these are not make believe numbers. this is the facts. so in reality that's the communities that young children are being killed, and it's anything with that tragedy with the child which was shot by this man loading his gun. as far as what happened with that officer going down the stairs with that gun going off, his finger should not have been on the trigger there. and i'm not going to second guess it, but you want to know something? this is not a racial thing. he couldn't even say who it was, so it wasn't a racial assault. >> a lot of the people watching this right now may be familiar with that story, i know it's more local, and you're very emotional about this. we appreciate you sharing your thoughts on this. this story is going to break at som

attorney for eastern new york, known for tough convictions like the new york police officer who assaulted abner louima. >> loretta might be the only lawyer in america who battles monsters and terrorists and still has the reputation for being a charming people person. >> reporter: the daughter of a librarian and minister, lynch is a wife and stepmother, harvard educated. and if confirmed would be the first african-american woman to hold the post. significant to civil rights leaders since the next attorney general will oversee federal investigations, including the one in ferguson, missouri. >> i think loretta lynch certainly satisfies all of us that she will continue in the same vein that eric holder had began. >> reporter: while the president urged a speedy confirmation, republicans may not be as quick to push lynch through a lame duck congress. senator charles grassley saying he ekt ed lynch to get a fair but thorough vetting. while presumptive senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said her nomination should be considered in the new congress. what could be a high power partisan battle sh

and new york reflect new patterns in urban hatchery -- in urban history. and exploring contemporary developments of that define these cities of color or majority minority urban spaces. it is the first step. we need to connect migration patters and gentrification of urban spaces to consider the forces that make these changes possible. basicallyeles, where a little south of l.a.. for those of you who understand in. history, l.a. is unique immigration history. as late as 1960 l.a. was what it had been for the 20th century. ofity largely made up midwesterners who migrated to the sunbelt. the mexican presence never disappeared from l.a.. the majority was native born. after 1965 the population changed quickly and strikingly. the act removed immigration quotas. hart cellar had far-reaching effect on immigration to the u.s.. in initiated significant democrat big ships and gradual changes. as a result, the foreign-born population blew up in l.a.. no one else had in urban areas foreign population grow so exponentially. 9% of the population in 1962 35% . this has rec

the new york post says amazon will unveil a new video streaming service early next year. it will be supported by ads. sources say the service will be separate from amazon prime, which includes video. some people believe it could be a net flicks killer. all right, new york's daily news shows you what not to wear if are you an american reporter covering the duke and duchess of cambridge. prince dumb william and kate will be in walk next month. buckingham pam las is reminding the press of the proper dress code. >> that means, no jeans, no sneakers. if you are a man, you must wear a jacket. you think they are worried about how the americans will show up? >> can we undress our shirts? >> make sure you have on your jacket. >>> nfl player jack johnson, his parents say he squanderred his money. he has made $18 million in his career. he will make $5 million. the parents managed his money. if paper says johnson's mother borrowed $15 million in his name. >> his mother? >> apparently. >> letting mom and dad have it. >>> tom hanks' films grossed $8 billion with a b world wide. now, th

york city and new england. where it's cold enough, parts of upstate new york, new england, parts of pennsylvania, you will be seeing that snow coming down quite heavily and that's why we do have winter storm warnings in effect for a very widespread area with some people expecting more than a foot of snow across portions of new england. otherwise across the rest of the country, expecting some snow and very cold temperatures across parts of the midwest. travel issues there expected. and also across northern rockies. let's head back inside. >> all right. thank you very much. live report just outside the door where it is lousy. >> maybe there are some snow angels for thanksgiving will be upon us. >> for those who like to use thanksgiving to put up christmas lights, you might have to put that on pause. it's time to hit play and push that on ainsley. >> never know what you're going to say. let's tell you what's happening in the news. while you are spending thanksgiving with your family, a group of military members ar

i grew up in central new york. i was born and raised here, went to public schools, graduated from nottingham high school, and in college i worked at my family's plant just down the road here on burnet avenue, and i saw the struggle firsthand to run a small business, to raise a family, to get to the middle class, and to stay in the middle class. that is why i have dedicated myself and focused to creating jobs, making sure that small businesses can succeed, and to bettering the middle class, because if the middle-class succeeds, then central new york will succeed. i believe that we do have challenges, but we can face those challenges together, and that central new york is the best place to live and work and raise a family, and as congressman, my job is to keep it that way. >> congressman, thank you. mr. katko. >> good evening, and thank you, seth, liz, and bill, for having me here, and the thank you, time warner. this is my first go round in a debate and i'm very honored to be here. i am excited to take part in this

years with a new york public relations firm called ketchup. the bahrainis went to d.c. for help from a pr outfit called policy impact communications. from placing op-eds in newspapers to recruiting analysts and writers, to magging accounts for governments, pr firms are hidden behind more bilines and twitter handles than you realise. in the era of 24 hours news, government have to work harder to promote and protect their brands, and always have a bunch of pr brands vying for that business. more now on relationships between pr companies, and those that need their help and how they use the media to work. >> september 11th, 2013 - the debate in washington is about syria, and whether the obama administration should intervene and launch air strikes as president bashar al-assad's forces. the "new york times" publishes an op-ed piece, making headlines because the biloans belongs to the bashar al-assad's government powerful ali, vladimir putin. the police was arranged by an american public relations firm, hired by the kremlin. itted the op ed came at a

we in new york city are proud to have dr. spencer as a citizen and he is part of the medical community of this city and we have the finest medical community in the entire nation, the finest public health system anywhere in the world here in new york city. [ cheers and applause ] i want to thank everyone who works here at bellevue and everyone who represents them. we're joined by jill feral low and frank from the doctors council, we thank them for their leadership and support of everyone here. and i have to tell you, the members of our city administration out did themselves with their focus and preparation, they were led constantly day and night by our first ten di mayor tony shores who did an extraordinary job as the general of this army. and you're going to hear from some of the key leaders of the city's effort that worked so well. let's also think about how everyday new yorkers responded and i think dr. spencer was an example to us all. he stayed cool, he stayed calm, he kept his sense so humor, he kept his focus and positi