lead story was about how the manhattan project was in the and itirs of demolition was to save the manhattan project site. so it could not have been better. there was a dinner, we had -- at the senior center. it was all filmed, that was filmed by pac-8. out aoan foundation flew new york task to do a meeting of , and we had veterans and others on a panel discussing .t it was covered by the new york times, the washington post, we had a lot of good press from these events. .hen we had a swing band it was quite a weekend. next slide. that gave me the evidence to say i should get some staff. i did all those seven events with the help of the los alamos historical society and at the last minute, my niece came out, but that was it. started the foundation in 2002, and have been going ever since. to preserve and interpret the manhattan project. next slide. so, we decided we need to do some outreach in washington, d.c. and partnered with the carnegie institution of washington which ironically had the office offor scientific research and development during world war ii. a very important person overseein

. ♪ moving along the length of manhattan island, a traveler could easily see the efforts the new americans from europe had wrought. here was a melting pot, a mixture and blending of the building trades, carpenters from germany, stone cutters from italy, ironworkers from sweden and belgium, bricklayers from ireland. ♪ they labored over a century to build a city the likes of which the world has never known, and their descendents build and rebuild it to this day. ♪ at midtown manhattan, mrs. johnson received a bon voyage from two distinguished visitors. governor rockefeller, accompanied by mrs. rockefeller, and the new york city mayor. ♪ lawrence rockefeller, director of the new york counsel of parks and recreation, gave some background on a proposed park along the hudson side street to harlem river. the first four acres would cost nearly $1 million. national park service director george hartzog presented a plan for half the amount. matching the federal check with state funds and private donations, new york would start immediately to bring the plan to a reality. the hudson's deep waters

at midtown, manhattan, mrs. johnson received a bon voyage from two distinguished visitors. governor rockefeller accompanied by mrs. rockefeller and new york city's young mayor john lindsey and mrs. lindsey. lawrence rockefeller, director of the new york council of parks and outdoor recreation, gave some background on a proposed parka long the hudson side stream, the holland river. the first 400 acres would cost nearly a million dollars. national park service director george hartzog presented a federal grant for half the amount. a top of state funds and private donations, new york could start immediately to bring the plan to reality. the hudson's deep waters and long navigable stretches were important to open up the continent. soon settlers in mass migration moved up the hudson, following the sun throughout the western reaches of the mohawk valley to ohio and beyond. in exploring the hudson, mrs. johnson could have found no more knowledgeable guide than lawrence rockefeller. the rockefeller family has long been an active force in preserving the scenic and historic forces of

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they were passing information about the manhattan project back to him. week later on, in july 25th he goes into a lot more detail and he talks about how the weapon has to be used against the japanese which we now know on august 10th. those diary entries are very revealing as truman expands upon the information that he's been given by lieutenant groves. now, without we have two contrasting documents or two documents that one is a little misleading we're into that one second, i'm trying to keep them in chronological order if i can. this one is actually from the national archives which the truman library is part of. this is the closest you would get to the ordering of the use of the atomic bomb. this is a memo, from thomas hannity who is the acting chief of staff while marshall is at putts than with truman. he is writing to the general the commander general of the united states army of strategic air force. this is on the 25th of july. things are moving quickly as you can see. and you could see this, it's not super sharp but basically it's got four points on

so the first information that truman has about the manhattan project comes in april, just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12th. and this very famous letter, some of you are probably very familiar with, is when henry stimson, the secretary of war, writes to truman to tell him about this highly secret matter, as it mentions in that first paragraph. stimson mentioned this to truman on his inauguration on april 12th after fdr's death. tells him in passing and they need to talk about it in the future. two weeks later stimson sends this letter to truman telling him they need to get together quickly so he can tell him about this project. and you can see some interesting handwritten notes on here. at the bottom, the one i like to point out in harry truman's own handwriting he writes matt, put on list tomorrow, wednesday the 25th, hst. matt is matthew colony, his appointment secretary and he's obviously telling him to get henry stimson on his calendar for the next day. now, interestingly truman did come across the manhattan project when he was a senator in charge of the truman commit

evening on manhattan's upper east side aeons having dinner with his mentee james. is the 1st time they've met in person for a long time. james has great news that you got a job working at a grocery. store the doctor that i was great people and down they were able to offer me a full time opportunity despite everything going on right now looking towards the future things are certainly what was most certain they were 8 months ago. but i think that everyone kind of does their part and does the things that they're supposed to deal with everyone will be a better place i still do think it's a moment in time however i i had the same time feel like the crisis is much deeper and more than i did several months ago a lot more people are unemployed that means there's a lot less spending that affects other businesses so if it becomes a vicious circle. in the bronx the mood is growing tense. for me and the region is holed up in her apartment because it was since the start of the some of the number of shootings his can't drive. in august it was more than double the number in the p

and meanwhile, the commander of the manhattan project is snuck in through underground tunnels and one of the reasons was, ned' given this a lot of thought at the pentagon, if the two come in through the front door together. people are going to wonder, what are groves, who had built the pentagon, he was the big mission man, what's groves and stimpson were doing together. he snuck in and they gave truman a detailed document to read to explain the and mant project in historical and technical detail and truman complained. he said i don't like reading long documents like this and groves said, mr. president, it's-- we can't say it any more briefly if or suscinctly, it's a complicated project. that's how out of touch it was, in the ebbed the time when it counted, he knew he had mastered all of it. >> another remarkable fact i found from reading your book, chris, is 125,000 people, americans, working on this manhattan project and not a word gets out. that's amazing. >> well, you're exactly right. it's one of the things that astonished me, too. you know, people say to me, what was it you cover

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that gave washington time to escape from manhattan and fight another day. sectionforward to this of pennsylvania around the 22nd of december, glover marches into this area and he camps up the washington's headquarters are. --hington calls him into the into his headquarters and it tells him once in -- what he wants to do. glover mutters to washington, he says "your excellency, it is impossible." not askl glover, i did you to assess possibility, i asked if you could do it." marbleheaders can do it. that is when washington made the final decision to go ahead with his bold stroke, which did save the american revolution. a dozenpoint to maybe events that change the course of world history forever and one took lace on this ground where on this here -- place ground where we stand here. >> it is one of the three iconic parts of the u.s. revolutionary war. if you ask people, they will mention valley forge, washington crossing the delaware, and the bottle -- battle of yorktown. paintingknows of the of washington crossing the delaware. this river does freeze solid, bu

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he was planning to march across and trap washington in manhattan. glover once again with 700 men held off 4000 british and has yen troops -- and hessian troops. he took about 22 casualties. the british took between 700 and 800 casualties. that gave washington time to escape from manhattan and to fight another day. thiswe fast-forward to section of pennsylvania around the 22nd of december. glover marches into this area and he camps up the hill near where washington's headquarters were. has h and washington calls him o his headquarters and tells him what he wants to do -- cross 800 feet of a rocky, ice strewn river under the cover of darkness. and, by the way, the barometer is falling and we could be looking at some weather, and mutters to washington and says your , excellency, it is impossible. washington says to glover, colonel glover i did not ask you , to assess possibilities, i asked you if you could do it. colonel glover thinks for a second and says, general washington, my marbleheaders can do it. that is when legend tells us -- the legend is no

kind of the heart of manhattan always lit up. and speaking of new york city, it's battered real estate market seeing signs of life, showing big gains last month robert frank, he joins us now with much more on that good morning, robert. >> good morning, frank good to see you. new rentals in manhattan nearly doubling in december that's the biggest year over year increase in almost a decade the reason is lower rent prices, the median effective rent. that's what people pay after all the discounts. those are down 17%, an average of $2,800 a month. progressing right now, it's a combination of people returning to new york after being away, new renters moving to the city from the suburbs and other places for the first time, and locals who are using all of these lower prices to upgrade and get more space, but this is going to be a very long road to recovery for manhattan real estate there are nearly 14,000 unrented apartments that is close to the record, and since many holdings are holding back listings to make the market look better, the

>> this is great look at manhattan. we already have cranes and scaffolding falling on our head. having a drone would be a pleasant change. also i don't know if you've been in new york city any time in the past six months but these giant pop up packaging centers where they have hundreds of packages on the street, amazon guy is about to deliver them, we've got to get rid of it drones are a great solution. and there is no traffic in the sky in manhattan so bring it on >> unfortunately i was a few weeks ago. i had the final inside meal that week and they shut everything down robert frank, contessa brewer, michael santoli. contessa brewer takes that round. see you next time on "rapid fire." still ahead guggenheim tweeting earlier this week bitcoins rise in the near term may be unsustainable and it was vulnerable for a setback it did fall. now his repop. we'll talk about that and the d rel adlines from jay powel anmo incomparable design makes it beautiful. state of the art technology makes it brilliant. the visionary lexus nx, lease the 2021 nx 300 for $359 a month for 36 months. expe

frank acosta founded manhattan milk with her partner in 2006 bringing farm fresh milk and nostalgia to the streets of new york city, san francisco, london and los angeles. >> we have clients from every spectrum. kids, schools, senior homes, we were paired with rock nation during the pandemic helping them with feeding america. >> the usa estimates in 1963, 30% of the milk sold in the united states was home delivered. but that dropped to less than 1% in the 90s. yet somehow, frank has churned up a loyal client base, somehow. >> i'm not just talking about the milk here. how does kind of the sexy milkman persona figure into what you do every day? >> of course it does. i mean, we have to -- you know, milk does a body good. we put out that since day one. >> thank and matt heating up around 1:00 a.m. each morning, rain or shine or pandemic. >> everything came to a halt this year. it's crazy being in new york. how many small businesses, how many coffee shops of ours have gone out of business. >> this small business manage to go stay afloat and giving back all the while. manhattan milk has dona

above chinatown, manhattan's last l dappled the street in shadows. it proudly clung to cold stoves for heating it's old-fashioned waiting rooms. colored glass ornamented ancient windows and passengers paid a station agent who pushed a plunger to unlock a gate to let them in. the wooden train started with tired dignity. passengers sat and swayed and the track rolled on behind. the route was passed miles of tenements, giving passengers a glimpse into every window. all they got in return was a feeling of being close to the passing parade and lots of noise. the cars themselves were 50 years old and almost everybody agreed 3rd avenue would be better without the l that nearly touched the buildings, obstructed traffic, and blotted out the sun. a ride once cost a nickel. before electricity came, steam engines hauled the cars. showering red hot coals onto pedestrians, belching smoke on the housewife's wash. things change, and the l is at the end of the line. this is the last of the 3rd avenue l. bound for the scrapheap, it belongs to the past. in the mountain

. , you are double manhattan, i'm from queens, queens is a residential community. more residential community, manhattan is much more dense and famore public transportation, wy would -- what is the demographic explanation for higher infection rate in queens and the bronx and staten island and manhattan, it is the behavior, let's talk about the vaccine. there are two elements to understand the vaccine, one is the amount of supply we have is a nation inen a state and one ia distribution, two very different elements that have to be considered, the supply, the production by the drug companies, thehe purchasing by e federal government, that is all a national responsibility, how they can spur the drug companies to do more how they can wind up buying more from the drug companies, the entire supply is controlled by the federal government, we have been getting about 300,000 per week that is roughly one point to million per month vaccines the state needs 20 million people vaccinated, you have to do that twice, 40 million. obviously it's a very long timeline at the supply rate

but again, bronx, staten island, queens, you're double manhattan. you're double manhattan. i'm from queens. born in queens. queens is a residential community. more residential community. manhattan is much more dense, more multifamily, more public transportation. why would -- what is the demographic explanation for a higher infection rate in queens and the bronx and statin -- than staten island and manhattan? it's the behavior. et's talk about the vaccine. there are two elements to nled the vaccine. one is -- to understand the vaccine. one is the amount of supply we have as a nation, as a state, and then one is the distributions. two very different elements that have to be considered. the supply, the production by the drug companies, the purchasing by the federal government, that's all a national responsibility. how they can spur the drug companies to do more, how they can wind up buying more from the drug companies, the entire supply is controlled by the federal government. have been getting about 300,000 per week. that's roughly 1.2 million per month vaccines. ok? the stat

, this was an animating passion for trump to be a big manhattan real estate presence and now that is at risk. >> airbnb is canceling all bookings in washington, d.c. during inauguration week. this is in response to local and federal officials asking people not to travel to washington. it also says it is upholding the policy to bar any guests associated with hate groups or violent activity ahead of the inauguration. the political divisions in washington have reached every corner of the united states. some trump supporters say his incitement of the capitol riots was a step too far, while others argue impeaching the president creates more division. a reporter is in west virginia. >> the debate is consuming the country. americans, wondering how to bridge deep divisions without tearing apart their communities. a conversation morgan can't escape even with her customers. >> definitely, i said to brian earlier that six, seven years ago i wouldn't be in my business talking about politics. just behind the chair speaking about it. i don't want to sound extreme. i don't trust my government that

so no no country for small businesses here small factor brick and mortar retail meltdown in stunning manhattan style years before and now during the pandemic store rents had already plunged amid surging vacancies then in spring the market froze when a thawed rents dropped to 10 year lows 13 charts by quarter i'll just tell you that the area near trump tower so madison avenue 57th street a 472nd street and rents are down 54 percent so you know manhattan's famous for shopping right and it's because it doesn't have those huge malls it's all like boutique shops it's really interesting locations but it's rents are collapsing because the tenants are moving out they're going bankrupt right so i mean we've talked about this in the past in terms of being medieval islam and we have the church at that time who had a monopoly on heaven and would hand out these people indulgences for people who they deemed worthy and nobody could argue with that or else they would be crucified . and then we had the enlightenment and we had adam smith and we had free market capitalism and that was a short 200 year experimen

banks denying him business, new york city cutting off contracts, the manhattan district attorney investigating business and social media companies d platforming him. those are actions of people who fear someone. why would they go to those links if they weren't worried about him running for election. if president trump decides to run he could win the nomination in 2024, but i think that would be more of a question if this is something he wants to go through again, in light of all these terrible actions against him. [inaudible] it appears as though there are particular strain of trump arrangement syndrome. i do know this, president trump is not coming to florida for the active seniors bunko night. he's coming to lead a dynamic political movement and that is what he will do. i suspect he will try to shake the republican party in his image more and more. that means likely recruiting primary challengers for any senators that would vote against him in impeachment trial. i know he'll be active on the campaign trail against people like liz cheney who you mentioned didn't really stand with us and stand

yesterday we open the site at 125 wood street right here in the city hall area, lower manhattan. to date staten island the vanderbilt clinic on staten island open 24/7 on. again more sites coming in staten island. saturday the health and hospitals corona clinic in queens will go to 24/7. and obviously city fields be right behind that. we'll just keep building out building out capacity. and look, we are seeing the appointments of booking up really fast. we keep adding more appointments. so as long as we have doses we had more points every day. so keep coming back for there will be times when all of the opponents are taken up at a look at this week and next week, the vast majority of opponents have already been booked. but whenever their new points available they go up online print to keep going back to it. but look, the key thing here is we need more vaccines. as we have set up the system and finally won the battle for the freedom to vaccinate new yorkers, the inevitable has happened. tens of thousands of folks have come forward wanting the vaccine rightfully. we are going to prov

when manhattan went broke which at ford say to manhattan drop dead right now now is nobody jobs said all debts are maintained all debts are kept alive all citizens get free money so that's like very different from the 97 is this what i'm saying that at the top of the show i said history doesn't necessarily repeat but it rhymes so there aren't the exact same things we do have the unrest in the streets that we had in the late sixty's early seventy's we have different obviously it's a spun the wheel around and shook out the people who were protesting in the street in late sixty's and seventy's are now the authoritarian police state themselves they're the cointelpro they're they authoritarians they're the ones on the news parading the young people so you know there is a similarity but what yellen also went on to say in her testimony to the senate she said even though the amount of debt relative to the economy has risen the interest burden the amount the treasury pace to service the debt has not due to low interest rates she says she will watch that measure closely as the economy recovers

the multigenerational households and the poorer populations in manhattan and where we are you know and burdens the people that cannot socially distance burdens the people that are unable to work from home. i thanks for tuning in and it's may 8th 2020. to start off with i'll say that i had to file for unemployment yesterday did that because just crazy have never even considered that as being a possibility in my career as an emergency or physician that's the one they we joke about we say job security when somebody does anything stupid because the ironically that's true it's really interesting because i've devoted so much of my time to helping to educate patients and to understanding when they need to come to the emergency room when they don't and i pride myself on my focus i mean i'm proud that i have retained a lot of that from my training in canada and it's. been one week that has been turned upside down and now i'm realizing that i get paid by those people i get paid by the people who don't need to be in the emergency room. i get paid by the people who have a sore throat for months pe

>> reporter: he said he and his son, guests at the arlo hotel in manhattan, wer headed out for a meal saturday morning when the woman confronted them. >> i can't even come downstairs in new york city, prime new york city, and just go get brunch without being attacked and wrongfully accused of something. >> reporter: it's not clear what happened before or after what's captured on video. police say they know who the woman is, bu haven't publicly identified her and that her phone was rernedtu by an uber driver just after the incident investigators say the woman could be charged with assault, grand larceny, or attempte robbery. >> this has to end when someone does something like this, they have to suffer consequences. >> reporter: nbc news hasn't reached the woman. she spoke to cnn by phone saying she's the victim and that she firs asked to see the surveillance video, an asked another person in the lobby about her phone before confronting the harolds. the harold family also wants civil rights investigation into the hotel. >> it breaks my heart that this is happening to our son. this incid

laura: a new pandemic past time they are, how the rat race and manhattan has been placed by watching our feathery friends. before we go tonight, in egypt, you can quite literally have you vaccine and eat it too. that is because a baker in cairo is making coronavirus vaccine inspired takes to mark one year of the pending. the creation is made up vanilla sponge and raspberry cream after three days of baking and decorating, she delivered the cake to covid-19 patients at cairo hospital might and medical staff have received their first vaccine. a sweet treat for all. you can find much more on all of the day's news at our website and to see what we are working on anytime, check us out on twitter. i am @laura trevelyan. thank you so much for narrator: funding for presentation of this program is provided by.. the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum-kovler foundation. pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you, thank you. ♪ ♪ man: you're watching pbs. hilty: where do i begin about my love for pbs? having both of

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and so we're looking to the nypd and we're looking to the manhattan district attorney to say, are you going to join in the racial profiling? >> joining me now, the reverend al sharpton, president and founder of the national action network and host of "politicsnation" here on msnbc. thank you for joining me. happy new year. >> happy new year, alex. >> it is a happy new year here because we have a lot to get into before your thoughts on this particular issue. i want to ask you about the breaking news with 11 more senators adding to josh hawley saying they plan to join the effort to contest joe biden's election certification. rev, what's your reaction to that? >> this is outrageous by any measure because we are now talking about how you have members of congress that are actually questioning the whole electoral college process, a process that many of us feel is outdated, but it is the process. and for many of the states that they questioned to come back and validate the vote, many of them by republican state attorneys, then what is the basis of this other than they're passifying this pres

evening on manhattan's upper east side he is having dinner with his mentee janes. is the 1st time they've met in person for a long time. james has great news that you got a job working at a real estate or a. small developer but are a lot of great people and die they are able to offer me a full time opportunity despite everything going on right now looking towards a future things are certainly must must must certain when they were 8 months ago but i think that everyone kind of does their part and does the things that they're supposed to do what everyone will be a better place i still do think it's a moment in time however i i have the same time feel like the crisis is much deeper and more so than i did several months ago a lot more people are unemployed that means there's a lot less spending that affects other businesses so it it becomes a vicious circle. in the bronx the mood is growing tense. for me and the region is holed up in her apartment with allison since the start of the some of the number of shootings his camp tries in 1st in august it was more than double

>> well, it's, by the way, a a model of all of new york city, not just manhattan. so it is in queens i didn't even know about this thing. a friend of mine had gone recently, a few years ago. he told me about it, so we went and looked at it, and i thought, "this is a great thing for the city, it's a great thing. i cannot stress enough how people should go and see this. this is a wonderful, spectacular thing built by robert moses, who we all hate, because everything else he did was not miniature, but in miniature, the guy was perfect >> it's funny, because when she suggested it, i said, "where?" and i said, "no, we have all this stuff at the players club, you want a model of queens?" look, i was born in queens, flushing, so, i mean, okay but now, do you know what it takes to get there >> you know, marty acted like we were going to afghanistan "where is it how do we get there? i said, "marty, it's in queens." "it's far, right?" "it's pretty far." "how do we get there?" as if we were going in a a caravan of camels or we had to like row a little boat to get there. it is

on the phone was a colleague, jonathan king, the british pop impresario then living in manhattan. he told me he'd heard there'd been a shooting at the dakota and thatjohn lennon was possibly the victim. i moved quickly, leaving the apartment rapidly with a tape recorder, radio and notepad. i rushed to 8th avenue to get a cab uptown. can you take me to the dakota apartment building? the cab couldn't go fast enough. i loved lennon's music. beatlemania and john lennon were a big part of my youth. this is how i looked on my first official bbc id card in 1976. i had been a bit of a hippie, it shows. i was just the kind of person to have embraced john lennon and yoko ono. as i travelled up to the dakota, lennon's music was on my mind. he'd just made an album, double fantasy, after a 5—year break. siren wails. across town at the roosevelt hospital, where lennon had been taken after being shot, was wabc tv news producer alan weiss, who lay injured in the emergency room after a motorbike accident, opposite a room where doctors were working on lennon, trying to resuscitate him. the door w