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these were the times when new york city was in very dark financial shape. the leaders of the city at the time came together to talk about how to save new york city. >> and they did it right here? >> will because, everyday they would say, where should we meet? my father said, it is a bit selfish on my part because all i have to do is take an elevator, but let's meet at the regency. [laughter] that is literally where the term -- in the mid-70's, where the term power breakfast started. we will re-establish the regency as the home of the power breakfast, the place where people want to come to see and be seen. >> coming up, what kind of hotel room does $100 million buy? what is the most expensive part of this room? >> the bathroom. the bathrooms are very, very expensive. ♪ >> just before it reopened, jonathan tisch, chairman of loews hotels, gave me a tour of the newly renovated loews regency in east midtown manhattan. >> here we go, betty. after you. >> all right. newly renovated rooms. >> 1920 of the regency hotel. >> you have designed pretty much -- or you

anyway, back to new york, the greatest city in the world. (cheers and applause) >> larry: absolutely true. you know what they say about new york -- if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. or as the saying has been shortened to nowadays -- you can't make it here. seriously, man, try austin ." as long as you keep it weird. in new york, income inequality has gotten so out of hand that 46% of new yorkers live near the poverty line. a record high 59,000 people are currently homeless, and the top 5% earns 88 times the lowest 20%. so the income gap between rich and poor isn't so much a gap as it is a prada. (laughter) perhaps the most troubling in the last two years, new york city mayors have seen their net worth drop by nearly $35.7 billion. (cheers and applause) that's horrible! cover your ears, mr. mayor. new york's gone to hell in a knockoff hand basket. it used to be that the biggest issues new yorkers faced were crime, rodents and crime-fighting rodents. but the latest problem facing new yorkers... >> manspreading the lay-it-all-ou

in new york city, is adds up to many millions. in philadelphia, $40 million, batt more - $12 million. that's over four years. los angeles, $54 million in the year 2011. in chicago, 450 million over a decade, and that is something that police departments like the one in richmond california want to avoid. >> what you are about to see could make the difference between life and death. >> drop the gun, richmond police, drop the gun, do it now. >> stop moving. put your hands by your head. >> do it now. >> i don't care if you shoot me. i'll kill you. >> don't move. >> drop to your knees. >>> this time it's a training exercise. next time it could be a real confrontation. that's when the challenge will be to keep an encounter like this from becoming lethal. >> i notice you use good cover, utilizing the car. i would probably talk about your approach first, perhaps maybe parking a little further back and making the approach on foot fight have given more time. >>> with the deaths of michael brown in missouri, and eric garner in new york. ques

new york city has 100,000 hotel rooms. according to the london visitors bureau, the 16 million visitors to new york city a year pale in comparison to 56 million visitors a year in new york city. if you build it, they will come. moxy will just go to the highly urban areas like seattle, san francisco, miami, london. it is not for -- betty: it is not motel 6. i get it. on average, though, when you get out of new york city and san francisco and los angeles and miami, how do you bring the revenue up? >> right now, it is not taking much of an effort because after the great recession, banks stopped lending for hotel construction. occupancy this year will be up 25%. construction and new supplies up 5%. doesn't take a genius to realize 25% increase in occupancy and 5% increase in construction -- there will be a gap there. occupancy today in the hotel industry across the united states is at 65%, which is the highest it has ever been since the hotel index has been in place. betty: sounds like we are certainly traveling more and stayi

of course it is new york city. during the revolution, new york was occupied by the british. the british offered freedom to any slaves of the petrie at who got to their lives in several thousand waves got to new york city. when the war was over george washington came out to negotiate the evacuation of new york. would like all the slaves back in general clinton the british commander said unfortunately i can't give you the slaves back because it would be dishonorable. we promise these people and they would be dishonorable to turn them back into slavery. clinton was on abolitionists. slavery in the west indies. he wasn't trying to abolish slavery they said the king keeps his promises. somewhere about 3000 slaves left with the british, including a couple of george washington's own slaves. by the way, keep an eye out for a couple of my slaves. now they scattered all over the place. some ended up in canada, some britain, some in sierra leone. some of them were sold back into slavery by the british and ended up in the west indies. they have their own very interesting stories. the 30

. >> new york new york. eight point four million people call this city home. >> twenty-four degrees snowing hard in central park going down to twenty in midtown. snowfall one to two feet. so they're now saying we could have snow falling as rapidly as five inches an hour. >> this has been the coldest winter here in eighty-one years. and it coincides with a grim reality. more people in new york city are homeless today than at any point since the 1930s. >> it's really difficult especially to just find ways to get through day to day from you know finding clothing to finding shelter to finding you know where you're going to eat. >> tonight it's pretty hectic because of the snow outside and there's not a lot of places for us to sleep now, so everybody's kind of coming in. >> in just a decade, the number of people living in new york's homeless shelters has nearly doubled reaching 60 thousand a night last year. it's a homelessness crisis unprecedented in any american city. >> what we see today the homeless that we s

eric foner, new york state, you focus on new york city, he was kidnapped in new york state. >> as i said, this was not in common particularly in the 1820's and 1830's. a little later because of the vigilance committee, because of the free black community, became more and more no realized against kidnapping -- mobilized against kidnapping. this was certainly an order -- known process to black people in new york. amy: i want you to read from "gateway to freedom" but first we're going to take a break. our guest is eric foner, renowned, prize-winning u.s. historian. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman and juan gonzalez. our guest is eric foner, author of "gateway to freedom: the hidden history of the underground railroad." he is a dewitt clinton professor of history at columbia university. his book "the fiery trial" won the pulitzer prize. can you tell us or read a section from your book? >> this is about henry brown, as you'll see in a minute, becomes known as henry box brown. equally dramatic was the tale of

deblasio's fighting to save new york city's middle class. all twelve of them. we'll also discuss the mayor's relationship with the nypd, which has more beef than a new york city hot dog. i'm in a new york state of mind. it's the "the nightly show"! captioning sponsored by comedy central (cheers and applause) ♪ >> larry: thank you very much! welcome to the "the nightly show"! i appreciate it. i'm larry wilmore. tonight, i'm so excited. i'm sitting down with mayor deblasio. (cheers and applause) appreciate the mayor coming by. as someone who's lived in new york for, gosh... six months now, i feel like there's no bigger authority on new york city than moi. for instance, did you know the subway runs 24 hours a day? knowledge!

more "action news" when we come back, but the latest on the breaking news out of new york city we have just learned that 12 people in total are injured and three critical after an explosion in the east village section of 2nd avenue at east 7th street. >> 12 injured, three critically. we are told we are looking to see if there are evacuations as well as injures. the scene here is from lower manhattan and the latest. ? the sight of a wild lynx in a shopping center would inspire people to run but one woman did the opposite. >> what is up buddy come here. come here. >> beth ann col burg followed it and documented it on her cell phone at one point the big cat turned and stared directly at beth the bold approach ended when the animal wandered into the woods and no one was hurt. >> that happened in canada and it would not happen here. health check at 4:00, simple patience could mean getting fewer calories when eating rice, they found that adding a tea spoon of coconut oil and refrigerating it for 12 hours cuts the calories and starch in half and the calories don't increase if you reheat it. >

light guy in the car and went to new york one of the classic art deco buildings of new york city. and he turned out to be the enchanting character. he looks like a babbitt and talks like a basket. but he is selling real-estate in great numbers to ordinary americans like they are buying stocks in his construction company. after he built the skyscraper he discovers on 42nd street and says i will build affordable for the middle class and he does it. he is a titanic figure of the '20s. and there is a lot of these people in new york city. just go around the cluster to start with the chrysler building. everybody knows chrysler but my editor did not know there was a person called walter chrysler. that was kind of embarrassing to them. he came from the kansas plains he was an oil boy and got a job with general motors and the new age and in 1928 after he introduces the first car in his name the chrysler six he decides to build the tallest building in the world and everybody is watching. the same day he makes that announcement a group of speculators come downtown to build the building that

. >> while new york city is the safest large city in america, and crime has been going down, one of the reasons that crime is going down is because the police do make a lot of arrests, and everybody who gets arrested and who doesn't get bailed out comes to us. >> get arrested in the big apple, and you're almost assured of a trip to rikers island, a 400-acre penal colony on the east river, directly under the flight path of laguardia airport. connected to the mainland by a narrow two-lane bridge, the island is home to an average of 14,000 inmates in ten different facilities. >> every criminal who has committed the worst act -- >> bring all your property with you. >> -- is coming through here if they come from new york city. >> they come off of the streets. they are tired. they're dirty. they're hungry. and you saw everything there, whether it was somebody who was from wall street who was charged with traud fraud or whether it was the lowest of the low of the drug dealers. >> get between 80, 90 admission a day. around the clock, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. >> what size

you'd see your name in banners and billboards across new york city. i once gave a talk on this with my publishers in the front, and they dent believe in advertising. so i don't know if i got them too excited about this. oops wrong tv. okay. >> hi. i'm really looking forward to reading your book. two questions. first is, you're so enthusiastic about your characters that you call them how do you edit because you could go on and on forever. i'm a former new yorker. and second if you were having a dinner party, which three of them would you have for dinner because you seem so -- they seem to alive and they're so exciting. two questions. >> yeah. i would definitely have horace liveright, and just because it would be such a crazy juxtaposition. and david sarnov who is sober and strong and serious and worried about his rivaly paley, because paley date gentile women and that was wrong, and even though sarnov has a mistress himself. having sarnov in the room would be great. the guy started as a telegraph boy, winninger errands and taking flowers and candy to m

actually published in new york city said new york city depends on slavery as much a strauss and thus. the economy of the city was very closely tied to that of the south which led to ramifications. business interests wanted to appease the south. politicians were pro- southern in their attitudes on the sectional conflict. the abolitionist movement was quite small and weak compared to other places. on places. on the other hand, new york at a vigorous free black committee. people who are willing to take to the streets to protest the apprehension of fugitive slaves. so in a sense new york is a little epitome of the sectional conflict, a house divided just like the nation itself. >> your.is well taken that there is a a vibrant free black community in new york. they are very much involved in supporting these fugitives who are arriving. but free black people have a prominent role to play in the underground railroad and what happens to people who are fugitives when they arrive in new york. why have we not like very much about that? >> that is absolutely right and i do try to emphasize that my

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. >> camera you are in new york city chasing a story of an explosion that rocked the new york neighborhood yesterday. wait until you see the video of an explosion. look at that. tamara heuer standing on a rooftop in front of what is the remains of the buildings that collapsed after this his conclusion. >> i'm on a rooftop on seventh street and second avenue. now you can see buildings that went down. they are continuing to do search-and-rescue and pouring water on it so there is no fire. but though i want to tell you about my night last night. with everybody else i worried about my friends in new york city so i went on facebook and saw a post of my friend holding a picture saying thank god we are okay. i reached out to her immediately and she's fine but she is two friends that were evacuated and they were spending the night. i asked them about how they were handling everything and what happened and how close were they to the explosion. >> i knew was signed of -- some kind of an explosion. i assumed it was nearby. i walked by it 20 minutes before on the way home. >> they immediately jumped o

city -- population of new york city actually declined. several thousand black people free or fugitive, left for canada. some of them went to england to avoid the danger posed by the fugitive slave laws. so it affected the whole black community, not just the fugitive slaves. >> host: you mention the fact that women are sometimes fleeing as well. often with children in tow. and it's a story that we don't hear very much about. it is very difficult for women to do that. but women in the north are very much involved in helping these fugitives when they arrive in these cities as well. can you -- >> guest: oh absolutely. >> host: -- tell me a little bit about what they're doing. >> guest: black and white women as i said, in southern pennsylvania you had these quaker families including women, one of whom i wrote about very colorful interesting person, grace anna lewis. she wrote in a memoir part of the quaker rural family that helped fugitives how she and other women had a sewing circle where they just made clothing for fugitives because fugitive

, the fire and explosion in new york city. it happens in lower manhattan at 3:00 this afternoon and the fire quickly reached five alarms and four people are reported to be in critical condition a five story building in the east village, part of building collapsed and witnesses reported hearing an explosion. >>> wegmans is hanging out the help wanted sign at its newest store. and it's still under construction set to open in november. wegman says 75 full-time positions are open now they range from customer service to emergency management, applicants can apply online go to 6abc.com. >>> a consulting firm in wilmington opened their new headquarters its located in wood lawn avenue it's open to fitness studios and it's all made possible thanks to funds with the small business administration and officials from sba delaware were on hand for a big check presentation and they talked about the affect on the state and local economies. >>> a $40 million power ball ticket was told in north jersey it was born in teaneck, berbegan county. you

i know we are in new york city but -- >> a couple of years ago the state of new jersey ordered trenton to evaluate its own parking system. guess what? the results are in and the verdict the parking system is one big fatal. this is half on the red and half on the green. what does that mean? on this side it says lol j.. you might think the city would have its parking system functioning at least in its most high-profile places in trenton. it's probably the statehouse. you would be wrong. state street in front of trenton city hall eight or 10 cars parked along here. no money in the meters. a car and a space no money in the meter. a car and a space no money in the meters. not a parking ticket anywhere to be seen. car and space no money in the meter. car and space no money in the meter, no ticket on the windshield. there's a dude sitting in the car. inside of this one it says free. at least he's honest. a car and a space no money in the meter. the meter is broken. here's the meter with no signs whatsoever. let's drop a quarter in and see what happens in and see the number pops up. nothing. t

of course the book of negroes is new york city during the revolution new york was occupied by the british. they offered freedom to any patriots not available in the list that of a patriot who got to the lines in several thousand slaves got to new york city to gain the freedom and when it was over george washington came up to new york to negotiate a surrender and he said we would like them back and the commander said unfortunately i can't give them back because it would be dishonorable. we promised these people their freedom. clinton wasn't in abolitionist. the repricing at this time in the west indies. he said we have promised freedom and he keeps his promises. so somewhere above 3000 slaves left with the british including george washington's own slaves i would like you to keep an eye out for a couple of my slaves. they scattered all over the place i've been in canada, britain, sierra leone. some of them were sold back into slavery by the british and the west indies so they had their own interesting stories but the fact that 3000 or so african-americans gained their liberty in the british

. >>> coming up the mayor of "the new york times" -- new york city says they will observe two muslim holidays this for the first time. >> proud to say this makes new york city the largest school district in the nation to take this action. this is a historic moment for our country as well. >> coming up i get reaction from a leading arab american activist. >>> today, jeb bush makes his first visit to iowa in three years, this as a dozen presidential contenders speak to voters at a sold out summit this weekend. how the hillary clinton e-mail scandal could impact the republican race. the question i get the most is probably do you feel fear? what's the closest you've ever come to death? they're boring. i have a website because i need a way to put myself forward in my own way. this is my story and this is how i want to share it with people. i'm alex honnold and this is my squarespace. oh yea, that's coming down let's get some rocks, man. health can change in a minute. so cvs health is changing healthcare. making it more accessible and affordable with walk-in medical care, no appointments n

so praedz report for everybody, but why are there so many of them in new york city? i tonight get that. if somebody from-- you have the st. patrick's day parade. the macy's day parade. gay pride parade, do dominican day parade. hold on a second. here's my problems with those three praedz-- puerto rico and the dominican republic are both in the caribbean. that's a parade double dip, people. ( laughter ) it is. it's like having a macy's parade and a macy's husky boys department parade right? ( laughter ) i'll let you decide who is the husky boy in that scenario. ( laughter ) but as parades go, new york's st. paddy's day's celebration is the irish mother of them all. it's a five-hour extravaganza down 5 health avenue. it's fup for everyone, not everyone. >> organizers for the annual st. patrick's day parade have banned l.g.b.t. groups from marching. >> larry: are you serious? is this-- is this still a thing? i mean, people, this is a parade whose mascot is an effete little man in a green velvet suit and sparkly shoes who flies down rainbows while playing a harp. ( laugh

just a remarkable stunt they pulled off in new york city. and the guns rights groups are freaking out about this. they're calling for a criminal investigation saying the guns in that store looked illegal to them. they say they want people arrested. people would gun licenses were handling guns and that was a felony. people were breaking the law. but the group that pulled this off knew what i that were doing. they're called states united to present gun violence. they were realistic fakes. they say they followed all of the laws. they had someone from the nypd watching all of the time. they set it up as an experience. so they would not run afoul of taping people without their consent, they didn't let people randomly walk in off of the street. they recruited people who were interested in buying a gun. they were part of a marketing experience. but they were real reactions. >> it made me think twice and i would not buy one. >> state's united to prevent gun violence posted this three days ago. nearly two million people have posted it online already.

and it was going to be new york city. and it was going to stay in new york until it made up its mind. let me picture new york for you as it was four years later in 1789. this time, richard henry, the men that proposed the resolution for independence originally in 1776, senator from virginia hated new york city. he wrote a letter to his wife. some of the things i'm going to say are not in the letter but are in other letters of the same time. lee hated new york city because of what? crime, pollution, traffic. [laughter] the traffic was the water. there was no water system. all of the water was brought into the city in carts and barrels. the pollution was in large part the result of the horses pulling the wagons. there was horse manure everywhere. he found a solution. he wrote his wife i have found a room in a farmhouse in the wonderful village a mile and a half north of the city. it is called greenwich. a mile and a half north of new york city. well, that resolution in december of 1784 to move to new york city also containe

call now. >>> we are following breaking news out of new york city, a plane skidded off the runway and into a fence upon landing at la guardia airport. the flight was coming in from atlantic an hour and a half ago no word of serious injuries but passengers were evacuated on to a snowy runway emergency crews are on the scene checking for fuel leaks la guardia is closed until 7:00 tonight. we'll have updates on 6abc.com. >>> emergency operations have been underway in delaware since 4:00 this morning delaware governor jack markell spoke 90 minutes ago we brought it live to you here on 6 abc he says a state of emergency has not been declared right now because crews are keeping up with conditions and people are voluntarily staying off the roads the del/dot officials say it's important if are you out and about especially as this day goes on. as the temperatures get lower the salt is less effective, it's more difficult for us to clean up, even if you are out on the road we are plowing, they are more susceptible to be icy people need to be careful people shouldn't be out if they don't need to

have you started your own walking tour of new york city? >> fred: i did. [ laughter ] and it starts in penn station, and the tour is really -- it's within three feet. [ laughter ] so, it's right dead center, and you walk in circles. but there's a lot of explaining throughout. so i talk a lot about new york and its history. and, you know, how it got started and everything. but we walk in this three-foot radius. >> seth: so, that seems counterintuitive, because if you're talking about new york, you're in new york, wouldn't people rather walk around and see the things you're talking about instead of walking in a tight circle in what many say is the worst building in the city? >> fred: all the other buildings are distractions. they won't be listening to what i'm saying. so if we do this, at least, you know, they can really focus on the words that i'm saying about new york city. >> seth: are they wearing headphones or are you talking out loud for them to hear? >> fred: a combination of the two. it's headphones, but it's like a microphone connect

york city. towards the end of his life, he had to stop performing after suffering a series of strokes. there are many different stories about his death and what exactly happened. the most commonly accepted version is that he passed away in hoboken, new jersey in 1908. there are two grave sites associated with tom, one in hoboken, and one your -- one near his original birth pace -- birthplace in columbus. we hope the visitors come away with a greater appreciation for the rich history and heritage and culture that columbus has had throughout his life. economically, socially culturally, and so many different facets. we want our local residents to really take pride in where they are living and appreciate what has come from here and made an impact on the world stage. we hope the visitors from out of town begin to recognize such as columbus's rich history when they are here, but also when they return home and they go about their daily lives, they may see something that reminds them of a person, place,

york city police office. >> i understand from the new jersey department of game and wildlife there will be an additional bear hunt next year? >> 'would be an area, in place by 2016, say the counts just approved plan on tuesday the bear hunt occurs for 6 days in december while the bears are hibernateing, the new plan wants an additional 6 days in october bears are not in hibernation they will roam more, kind of like this video of a bear roaming on route road 6. we have done stories on bear sightings in populated areas. and the tragic story of the rut rutger student who was hikes last year, and killed by a bear. the number of hunters has diminished to 272 bear kills last year. the i spoke with dan a hunter and a board member of new jersey fish and wildlife. >> the bear numbers are up now. and we want to try to get harvest down so we have less problems. >> after that we went to his brother robert's house he saw something awesome his brother hunted a 500 pound bear. >> so we're looking for bears and how about that? 8 feet tall. >> he was a big bear. >> also, i spoke with jeff, president of

. >> new york new york. eight point four million people call this city home. >> twenty-four degrees snowing hard in central park going down to twenty in midtown. snowfall one to two feet. so they're now saying we could have snow falling as rapidly as five inches an hour. >> this has been the coldest winter here in eighty-one years. and it coincides with a grim reality. more people in new york city are homeless today than at any point since the 1930s.

six days later on october 29th, mark chapman flies to new york city. armed with the gun he bought in hawaii, he stakes out the dakota, waiting for his chance to take revenge on the hero he believes has betrayed him. but john lennon is not the only potential victim, chapman, it seems, has backups. >> so he brought the gun with him, came to new york. had planned to kill someone who was a celebrity to bring attention to himself. >> lennon wasn't his only target. he had a list of substitutes, if you will. if he couldn't get to lennon, he would have attempted to kill walter cronkite, johnny carson, george c. scott, jackie kennedy onassis or marlon brando. any of these people were his potential targets, after lennon. lennon was his first choice. >> even show, chapman's agenda included a wild scheme to kill scott while the actor was on stage at a broadway show. >> the defendant said he had front row seats, and his plan was to stand up in the middle of the show and fire into the body of george c. scott. it -- when he went to the gun store to buy bullets to hav

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up into new york city. bring the big umbrella with you. this afternoon the rain will be gone by theeg the exception from boston cape cod. in florida a line of showers and thunderstorms in the fort myers area. nothing too severe. anywhere on the east coast, temperatures not too bad near 50 degrees. the cold stuff, chicago only 30 degrees with sun in late march. that's almost impossible and look how warm the west is. we're going to see record highs with 24 record highs yesterday. many more this entire weekend. 97 in phoenix on saturday. sunday in the northeast warms up. but the situation out west is beyond dire at this point. there's no snow as we're ending the snow season and now we have record heat every day. >> dealing with a lot of drought issues. >> for who knows how long. >> thanks bill. prosecutors in the boston bombing trial are preparing to rest their case. they presented evidence that showed how the bombs were made but it's still a mystery as to where they were constructed. on monday lawyers for the defense will start to present th

no charges were filed. >>> new york city police are stepping up security at new york city's most popular museums. gunman dressed in military style uniforms opened fire at the people in the museum in tunis. authorities are searching for up to three more accomplices. isis made threats against tunisia but it is believed another terror group was behind the attack. >>> gps made all the difference in the search for a woman from new jersey. eric crippen has found in sykesville maryland. she was found taped up with electrical wire around her hands, nick and feet and duct tape over her mouth. >> my reaction, my soul left my body listening to how they found her. >> my sister was remarkable. she cared she was a good mother. she was intelligent. >> earlier this week, police charged crosby's mother with helping her son hide crippen's remains. >>> march madness against tonight for nova and laugh yet. losing to lafayette would make history since the tournament's expansion a 16 seed never beat a number one seed. tipoff is tonight at 6:50. however it goes, it is an honor to show how talented you are to m

late today here in new york city. a building suddenly exploded sending off an inferno and causing it to collapse. there are critical injuries and hundreds of firefighters on the scene tonight. nbc's rehema ellis is in manhattan's east village with more. rehema. >> reporter: good evening, lester. firefighters say at least 12 people were hurt three of them critically injured. the mayor says it doesn't appear that anyone is injured -- or i should say that anyone is missing. but the scene is still very active. a frightening scene in manhattan's east village. firefighters were called to a two-alarm fire late this afternoon, but the situation quickly escalated. that two-alarm fire turned into a seven-alarm. >> we thought it was a bomb something and then my manager actually ran into the restaurant. >> i saw the whole store front just on the street. >> reporter: more than 250 firefighters from at least 50 fdny units were on scene trying to control the inferno, but it was too late. the five-story building was quickly engulfed

airport here in new york city. we're just getting pictures in of a plane, an md-80 that skidded off the runway there. you can see that still image there from the local news station, cbs 2 in new york. you can see the plane kidded off the runway. it seems to me that the rear landing gear is not deployed although it's far away and hard to see from that picture. an md-80 skidded off the runway at laguardia airport. we understand the passengers have been evacuated. no word yet on injuries. that's according to the fire department here in new york city. we do not have anymore information on this right now. but you can see that picture. we can put the picture back up again because i think it is very telling. you see that plane in the snow off the runway here in new york at laguardia airport. the conditions today, the flying conditions, b travel conditions are terrible. we are in the midst of a giant ice and snowstorm. more than 2,000 flights have been canceled today, that's across the east from texas all the way to massac

in new york city, $428 million in four years philadelphia, and baltimore almost 12 million in a four year period. in los angeles 54 million just in the year 2011. in chicago $450 million over a decade. and that is something that police departments like the one in richmond, california, want to avoid. what you're about to see could make the difference between life and death. >> drop the gun richmond police drop the gun do it now. stop moving. >> go ahead and kill me. >> do it now. >> i don't care if you shoot me. >> drop to your knees. >> i don't care if you kill me. >> don't move. >> stop. >> this time it's a training exercise but next time it could be a real confrontation. that's when the challenge will be to keep an encounter like this from becoming lethal for a violent suspect. >> so i notice you use good cover here utilizing your car. i would probably talk about your approach first. perhaps maybe parking a little further back and making your approach on foot might have given you a little bit more time. >> with the deaths of michael brown in ferguson missouri and eric garner in new