welcome to a very chilly new york city. on friday, january 3rd. we are live out on columbus circle in the heart of new york city. i'm sure you can see behind me something you don't often see, big drifts of snow. hello from our tower cam. that's a pretty picture. it's nice from the bird's eye. central park couldn't look cleaner and more beautiful for a walk in the park. but trust me, the new york city skyline is lovely. it's what's in between all of those buildings that is problematic. there are 1700 plows working it. 5,000 sanitation workers working it. trying to clear all of this with 7,000 tons of salt to try to melt all of this snow. i had to check it. 7,000 tons of salt just to try to get new york city back up and running. but guess what? it's just not good enough. all that stuff not good to get the kids to school. so 1.1 millions kids in this city not going to school. the entire school system shut down by the brand new mayor. gez what the brand new mayor was doing this morning? he was out shoveling his walk on day three of the tenure of new yo

welcome to new york city. it is the morning after the night before. i know you all saw it. times square was rocking last night. and some of these people might just be waking up this morning. it's officially 2014, and it's january 1st, in case you missed it. there's a lot going on all around the country and right here in new york city, where it's 26 degrees. that's not bad considering where we're going. there's a lot of cold weather on the way for people all up and down. not only on the eastern seaboard but also in the midwest. i'll tell you what's on the way. i wans to get you up to speed on a brand new mayor sworn in in the big apple and why it means something to you even if you're in nebraska or california or hey, north dakota, warp up. we've got a big conversation come. first let's go to minneapolis where there's breaking news that happened in the last couple of hours. intense pictures of a building fire. this following a reported explosion. and here is what's so significant about this. several people as the

trees in new york city. ason new york city.wth in demand, ibm is moving from westminster not far from our project in the east village to open their watson computing center for cloud computing. just anyou say -- even example of what i just mentioned with greenwich village and the amount of demand. some peopleside, might say this is why i am worried about moving to manhattan or being in new york. i might get squeezed out by everybody who has more money than me. beauty of this city. what the mayor has done in the last 12 years and the new mayor will focus on in the future, creating opportunities in other boroughs. look at brooklyn. took over 2000 feet for manufacturing. the power of this city is diverse marketplace. you have the high-end, medium and, and the low-cost alternatives for companies. a company that has grown to almost one million feet of space with shared workspace for entrepreneurs. that is the dynamics in the city. >> there are many competitive cities. we have had many entrepreneurs on who are all trying to lure compa

we do this show on the upper west side of new york city. side of the new york city. well, something is opening up in the upper west side you may be interested in. apparently local residents will have a cure for hangovers. >> hallelujah. >> just a few blocks away. >> perfect. >> an iv, apparently. >> okay. >> it comes with a care center opening up on broadway between 102nd and 103rd. treat everything medical related. but one of the services they will offer is ivs for anyone who feels dehydrated or just under the weather or just hung over. >> don't have to down a bottle of coca-cola in the morning. >> and it doesn't do the trick. >> get yourself a bagel and iv. you're back on your feet. >> i love it. i may start utilizing that service. >>> so, olympics coming up. one of the must-see things we're hearing is norway's men's curling team. >> i heard about these. >> if you don't know what curling is, we'll show you video and get you -- oh, wow. are you a curler if you're into curling? >> works for me. >> not only are they doing this unique sort of

new york city could get anywhere from 6-12 inches of snow. it would be the first test for the new mayor who was sworn and just wednesday. to the east of new york city, long island is under a blizzard warning until friday afternoon. that is where will he is breathing ailments. how cold is it for you? >> good morning. the story, i think, is the cold. the colder temperatures. we have several inches of snow on the ground and as you can see, it blows the snow around. they can be occasional wind gusts which necessitate the blizzard warning. it is about how frigid it feels. in many cases these are temperatures people have not felt in many years and that is across many different states affected by the storm. that is why this storm bills different from so many others. that is why it is harder for so many of the road crews and the officials who are trying to keep up with the storm. behind this is the long island expressway. nothing out there because it is officially shut down. that went into effect midnight local time and will stay in effect for several

a trifecta of ladies from new york city. awesome. >> the weather has been atrocious over the past three or four days. a lot of tourists in town. busiest most record-breaking tourist weekend of the year. we have had soupy rain for days and days, but fortunately the skies are dry tonight. come with me, steve. this is the crowd, 300 bucks a pop to get in to this party. unless you have one of these a cabanas over here. these are 40 grand, 50 grand. the party is getting started. it's not even peaking yet because miami is a late-night crowd. the party goes on until 7 a.m. here at the fountain blue. back to you bill and elisabeth. >> rubbing it in, phil. >> that's right. >> nicely done. >> i think it warmed us up a little bit to see that. we so appreciate that. >> thank you, phil. as we close in on are joined by a grammy award-winning group that went to stardom with this winning hit. the hit "run around." >> it is awesome to be here by the way than the next song is called "run around" and we hope you like it. ♪ ♪ once upon a midnigh

of new york. >> and the charter of the city of new york. >> and the charter of the city of new york. >> that i will faithfully discharge. >> and that i will faithfully discharge. >> the duties of the office of mayor of the city of fork. >> the duties of the office of the mayor of the city of new york. >> according to the best of my ability. >> according to the best of my ability. >> so help me god. >> so help me god. . [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you, president clinton for your kind and generous words. it was an honor to serve in your administration, and we're all honored by your presence here today. and i have to note that over 20 years ago, when a conservative philosophy seemed dominant in our nation, you broke through and told us to still believe in a place called hope. thank you, mr. president. thank you secretary secretary clinton. i was so inspired by the time i spent on your first campaign. your ground breaking commitment to nurturing our children and families manifested itself in a phrase that is now a part of our american culture

for organizers who have been working in new york city real estate for decades, a lot is at stake in the wake of the recent housing bubble. the boom in new york city real estate grew out of a time in the 1970s and 1980s when the city lost nearly a million residents, and large portions of the city were deserted. >> so what it looked like in the 70s and 80s was that you could stand on some corners in the south bronx or the west bronx, uh, turn around, and not see an occupied, multi family building. see for basically blocks and blocks, buildings that had been vacant and abandoned. >> shultz worries that the mistakes of the past could be repeated during the new recession. >> one or two bad buildings can have a very bad effect on surrounding buildings and on a neighborhood. you don't want to have all the investment that's been made by both the city and private entities to improve many of these neighborhoods to, in effect, be wasted because people did stupid things like over mortgaging their buildings. >> predatory equity deals aren't inevitable. when the bank forecloses, the court sometimes a

now crews celebrating over the big apple in new york city. there a magnet for business, an amazing feat. what do we hear this inauguration day? the chaplain calling the city a plantation while hillary looks on smiling. we remember the dead city, test subjects that died in left wing labs. we let another dr. frankenstein get his hands on our healthy patients. they'll call this progress and move on to another victim. >> well happen -- well happy new year. >> i was gone a week. >> did you watch the inauguration? >> yes. >> bob did a great job with you and had to walk home at 5:00 a.m. because there was nobody to pick you up. couldn't get a cab. >> it cost $4 a minute. >> that's what happens when de blasio took over. >> first guy heard is you, the rich. >> wasn't it nypd cop that recognized you? >> police were helpful. kimberly did a terrific job. it was complicated. believe me when i tell you. the dump all over government -- it's funny. nobody likes government unless they need it or use it. if you ask people who are fa farmers if they want the sub

we hate you. >> guys want to take that again. >> it's always a treat to be back here in new york city greatest city -- greatest -- >> i can't do this with the honking. what's great about new york is you can go just about anywhere and take in some culture. >> yeah. we have some great exhibits right now at the met like the american west in bronze and [ bleep ] for your bias against the yankees. >> do you even know that super bowl xlviii was here this week. >> i don't say english. i know only [ bleep ] you. >> joe buck. >> new york hates you, joe buck. >> we hate you joe buck. >> it's always a treat because -- >> a lot of work into hating. >> new york city, the food, the sights. >> are you [ bleep ] kidding me? a whole pizza! >> pizza gets all over his outfit there. bill. >> that was well done. >> joe buck -- >> have you heard about that. the joe buck bias before that. i had never heard that. >> i had kind of heard about that. that's a funny video. >> well done. do you have a prediction? >> i like the broncos. i like peyton manning and my sister-in-law is a big peyton manning fan. i will

[applause] new york city's 2014 youth poet laureate ramya ramana read a reading her poem entitled "newcity." when we come back, an exclusive, the return of lynn stewart. by a judgeermined for compassionate release. we will be back in a moment. ♪ ♪ >> silence of a candle or again. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez with a national broadcast exclusive. >> we turn to longtime civil rights lawyer lynne stewart released from prison. stewart, 74 years old and dying from late stage breast cancer. a federal judge granted her compassionate release on new year's eve. she returned home on new year's day. the judge wrote that her terminal medical condition and limited life expectancy positive extraordinary and compelling reasons that want to request a reduction of her sentence. >> viewed by many as a political prisoner, she was jailed for distributing press releases on behalf of her client, an egyptian american who is convicted of conspiring to blow up to blow up the u.n. and other landmarks in new york city. we will talk more about her case yle, but lawyer bob bo first, we were at the airport whe

you see the heavy snow stretching from boston, across new york city, into d.c. elphia. more or less done for you with the significant snow. new york city, boston, through the morning, going to be coming down heavily. with this storm, it is downright cold out there. rare to see temperatures this low when it's snowing this heavily. it's minus 9 in burlington. only 1 this hour in boston. snow coming down heavily this hour. we're in the worst of it. we improve as we head through the morning. the storm moving its way out to the east/northeast. hold on to snow through the morning, cape cod, the coast of maine. outside of that, we improve headed forward. >> thank you. meteorologist jim dickey, live accu-weather. thanks again. >>> with all the flight cancelations and businesses closing, this morning in new york, i ventured into the snowy streets of manhattan a while ago basically into that -- what you're seeing now. tourists who were stranded and locals hunkering down. still seem to be in good spirits. do you want to see the difference? this sidewalk has been freshly sho

this is new york city, of course. the ceremonial inauguration of the new mayor bill deblasio. we just saw moments ago the whole family came out there at the steps of city hall. the mayor, his wife chirlane as well as his two children. earlier today, we also got pictures. they took the subway in from their brooklyn home to get to the ceremony. earlier today. you see that there. they ran into the outgoing mayor michael bloomberg there. he actually tweeted something well wishes earlier this morning. mike bloomberg tweeting best of luck to the deblasio administration. may the best days for our city be ahead of us. we're going to be taking you live to that ceremony, the former president bill clinton is there as well as former secretary of state and new york state senator hillary clinton. they are both there, as well. you can see the color guard and the choir getting ready to kick off the ceremony. as soon as it begins in earnest, we'll take you back live. here are also some stories making news around the world right to you.

new york under the new mayor bill de blasio. what happened? >> as i said yesterday at the new york city council, the last piece of the puzzle in the transformation of new york city politics occurred when the city , 51 members members of the city council, voted unanimously to choose the east from a south bronx councilwoman as their next speaker, the second most powerful post in new york city government after the mayor. mark-viverito victims of first latina to hold a major citywide post -- becomes the first latina woman to hold a major citywide post. all of the major posts in new york city government are held by progressive liberals, democrats. it is unprecedented in the modern history of the city. it has been such a populous government. melissa was up against five or six different candidates. the last standing one was another democratic moderate liberal but much more favored by the business and real estate community who feel they have now no representative in the city government that they can depend on to respond to their needs. so we will see what will happen. the first thing she spoke

>> no, ma'am. >> very cold. >> new york city is always a prime target for terrorist attacks. freeze to watch a ball drop down in another year. >> oh, my god, we've got a party here! happy new year to you guys! >> i'm not big on that. >> i'm not big on that. >> happy 2014. >> happy new year! >> this is how our bodies feel. we're so cold but it's so much fun! >> i can't believe how cold it is, but we're here. and, listen -- >> let me explain -- >> i'd like to take this opportunity to say, happy new year, mom and dad, because they're probably watching fox news. >> what is the coolest thing that you've seen so far in new york city on this trip? >> well, everything's pretty much amazing. so i can't really decide. >> you know what, i think you're absolutely right about that. everything is pretty amazing. well said. aid. >>> hello and welcome to apologies, "red eye's" mildly amusing 2013 new year's' special taped july 2012. tonight -- >> coming up, a look back at the year in news no one covered including the world's most dedicated dog refusing to stop jumping rope until obamacare ge

al jazeera, new york. >> new york city's new mayor, pledged to fix the inequality he says has turned new york into the tail of two cities that has caused the homeless population to raise, is joining me to discuss this, the executive director at homeless services united. good to meet you before we sat down here. from your perspective, i know you are kind of excited aability what you heard from the new mayor in his speech yesterday, and members of the team as well, tell me why you are an ped about what is possible? >> i was heartened to be at the inauguration, and hear our three city wide officials talk about homelessness and poverty, in a very public way. >> it had been addressed before? >> certainly not on the first day of his election or inauguration, and certainly not in the level of players that we have who are committing in a very public way from day one of their job. >> yeah. >> to take this on, and to solve it. >> what did you hear specifically that heartened you? >> i think just the example that our new public advocate, proud this on -- coats up there to the platform with her,

they're stationed up there in northern new jersey and just outside of new york city. already has a lot of the capabilities on this, but, you know, with a big event like this, the fbi was -- made sure they brought in some extra support just to be able to handle something like this. and as you know, as lou mention, these things happen. hangings out in d.c., going with the fbi, you hear how often they respond to these types of threatening letters and suspicious packages that come in. it's all too common. they have a procedure they go through. they don't freak out in the beginning. they make sure they know exactly what it is they're dealing with before trying to decide whether or not it's of imminent danger. obviously they had to evacuate the hotels. you never know if it's something that gets into the air system of the hotel, that could make people sick, if, in deed, it is something bad, they have a procedure to go through and right now you can't -- you can't imagine a place that has more feds, more local authorities that are experts in handling these types of scenes than

today marks the first full day of the bill de blasio era in new york city. y by former president bill clinton. de blasio spoke about a fresh start for new york city bringing a progressive message to the democratic party. >> we recognize government's first duties. our city government's first responsibilities. to keep our neighborhoods safe. to keep our streets clean. ensure that those who live here and those who visit can get where they need to go in every borough. but we know that our mission reaches deeper. we are called to put an end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. our march towards a fairer, more just, more progressive place. our march to keep the promise of new york alive for the next generation. it begins today. >> and some say de blasio's election along with the popularity of say senator elizabeth warren just to think of one, don't you roll your eyes brian sullivan. did you just roll your eyes? >> no, i did not. i was looking at pictures of my rescue dog. >> are you sure? mark my words elizabeth warren will

this is a look at new york's long island expressway, which effectively has been shut down until later this morning. along with the new york state throughway, which reaches from new york city all the way up north to albany. while those highways are closed, plows and salt spreaders are working to clear a path for commuters. new york city is expecting six to eight inches of snow, with up to a foot in the suburbs. >>> amtrak is running reduced schedules today between boston and washington. but service in pennsylvania and maine should be all right. >> and of course, it's also not a good day to fly, either. nearly 1,300 flights have already been canceled today. and another 200 or so are delayed. >> over 700 of those flights canceled were at chicago's o'hare airport, creating a travel nightmare at the end of the christmas holiday break. it's not just the weather in chicago. it's also the weather at the destinations in the east. but flights canceled from o'hare caused problems even where the weather is good. passengers at o'hare are frustrated. >> just canceled us. we're supposed to fly this morning. and then, got canceled again. >> now, we're supposed to fly at 3:20. we're waiti

new york city's new mayor bill dough blass yo calling for new tax hikes.l the pinch no matter you may feel the pinch no matter where you live. there's a new form of innovation taking shape. at a company that's bringing media and technology together. next is every second of nbcuniversal's coverage 0f the 2014 olympic winter games. it's connecting over one million low-income americans to broadband internet at home. it's a place named one america's most veteran friendly employers. next is information and entertainment in ways you never thought possible. welcome to what's next. comcastnbcuniversal. >>> those earning between $500,000 and a million dollars a yearen, for instance, would see their taxes increase by an average of $973 a year. that's less than three buck a day. about the cost of a small soy latte at your local starbucks. we do not ask more of the wealthy to punish success. we do it to create more success stories. >> yeah, that's some story. the new mayor of new york city calling to spread the wealth but charlie, i wonder ifs this redistribution actu

. >> new york city is hosting the super bowl. >> new york. >> new york city. >> reporter: but there's one small problem. actually the game won't even be played in new york, but instead about eight miles west of the big apple in new jersey. >> oh, yeah, new jersey, same thing. >> not if you ask new jersey senator bob menendez. >> peyton manning isn't going to be scoring in central park. it's going to be happening here in new jersey. >> you wouldn't necessarily know it if you looked at the hype around the game. the nfl's epicenter, the super bowl boulevard is in the heart of times square. super bowl tickets and official material, the vince lombardi trophy is imposed on the new york city skyline with new jersey barely noticeable. >> how do you feel about all the attention being given to new york but the game is actually held in new jersey? >> that's not fair. >> reporter: while the nfl insists the shoupe bowl is shared between the two states, this is about much more than bragging rights. >> it would have been great if the giants or the jets were the ones playing. having the p

i am proud to announce today the city of new york is taking a major step toward resolving the years long legal battle over stop and frisk, and that we have reached accord with the plaintiffs in the landmark floyd versus city of new york case. we are doing it through a theective amendment to fix problem. the agreement we're announcing today accepts the fax and the roadmap laid out in last august landmark federal court ruling. those points include, one, a joint an ongoing reform process with direct police community dialogue, ensuring the policies which are driving them apart our race through direct line of communication with the police leadership. yearshere'll be for three a court-appointed monitor to ensure the police department's compliance with the united states constitution. and that limited time of oversight is contingent upon us meeting our obligations. three, i want to emphasize, this is a shorter window of monitoring that is customary and that is in part because our administration's explicit commitment to reform including installation of an independent in wikipedia inspector genera

prosecutors in new york city call it the most lucrative insider trading scheme in u.s. story. >>> more fraud allegations involving civil servants. more than 100 consider rent and former new york city workers including dozens of policemen and firefighters have been charged with faking psychiatric problems in order to get social security disability benefits. officials say the scam dates back more than two decades for some of those take noon custody today. >>> still ahead, legislation to renew jobless benefits clears a senate hurdle. but what are the odds a real deal gets done? ♪ >>> ford's ceo allan malaly subject of numerous reports he was leaving to run microsoft will take at the automaker at least through the end of this year. in an interview with the associated press, he said he wanted to end all of that microsoft speculation. >>> the federal trade commission is throwing its weight around today, cracking down on bogus claims from companies pushing weight loss products. the agency is fining four companies for using deceptive advertising to sell dubious diet aids. a comp

it is hoovering around zero degrees in new york city and that is a record set in 1896 and it was 4 degrees back then and 6 degrees then and 4 degrees today. yesterday in new york, in the 50s. so temperatures plunged nearly 60 degrees in just 24 hours and that is causing a massive amount of problems because that major plunge in temperatures. amtrak is saying that earlier today that the temperatures the causing problems with the equipment and seeing a number of numbers in the northeast corridor. the lines are down and having problems with the electricity and the components and dozens of delays and cancellations and northern illinois three amtrak trains stuck in the snow overnight and affected 500 passengers that slept overnight on board the trains. >> after we left, we got stuck in five feet of a snow drift and we had stopped so many times before then, we thought just another stop. now it was nine hours. >> now, amtrak brought in buses to rescue the passengers and brought them into chicago after spending the night on board the trains stuck in the snow. major delays at the airports, 3,000 fli

embraces the new new york city mayor's vision for a more equal new york. what does it mean for hillary in 2016? >>> pot day two in colorado where 37 stores across the states are selling pot and it's legal. which states are watching closely to see if this experiment brings in a windfall for taxes or goes up in smoke. >>> thousands of minority children lost their schools in 2013. were closures and consolidations a mistake that will come back to haunt educators and governments in 2014? very good morning to you i'm richard lui in for chris jansing. a winter wallop taking aim at the midwest and northeast. almost 3 million people are under advisory. people are stocking up on rock salt. they also have shovels and grocery staples all trying to get prepared ahead of the storm. bill cairns is tracking the wintry weather. bill, it is hitting the east as well as the midwest. >> and the ohio valley got hit harder than they were expecting this morning. many accidents. they got a glaze of ice with snow on top of it and these are the pictures coming in from cincinnati, oh

the numbers are on the rice in new york city. ooking to change that trend. >> on a normal night, thousands of people sleep on a the streets of new york. >> i can't sit back and wait for the city to do anything for me. that i already snow my situation, i'm homeless. >> as new york braces for temperatures in the single digits, high winds and heavy snow, the city and non-profit organizations are scrambling to provide shelter and warm clothes for the homeless. according to the coalition for the homeless, 60,000 people have no place to stay on a given night in new york. the fastest growing segment of the homeless population is children. >> there will be at least 22,000 children who will sleep in shutters, about 10,000 homeless families in the system today. every day, anywhere from 100-150 families show up at the in take center at the new york city center seeking shelter, so it's a problem that's been growing over the last several years and certainly is not diminishing, it's only growing. >> this storm is a storm within a storm. >> orga

you can see trouble in new york city. we already got i-84 closed to traffic from midnight to 5:00 a.m. the long island expressway, trouble. traffic into and out of manhattan. look at the northeast and in new england. massachusetts and new hampshire, vermont, trouble there. along i-90 along the top of the country, upper new york and into the midwest delays there as well. now to the air. and a realtime live radar image of all the planes in the air at this moment. not nearly as many as we normally see this time of day. that's because already more than 8,000 flights delayed or canceled so far today. live picture now. jfk in new york. some arriving flights delayed by five hours there. we're coming over to the flight aware misery map. so far for the new york city airports, we've got a total of about 81 canceled flights, 111 delays. look at how it spreads across the country. that's the impact. orange and red are not good. detroit, same story. about three cancellations so far. 37 delays, but chicago o'hare now, a big problem. 82 c

centers that's why in the eighty's hundreds everyone fled the cities because they were filthy new york city now it's like an amusement park it's a wonderful it's great the prices are through the roof i mean and name your city in the country d.c. the same way l.a. the same way providence rhode island cleveland ohio this is happening everywhere. but then the other cities the other things are happening that's happening is there is a real demographic story happening and that is that our birth rate is falling our family size is shrinking single person households are the fastest growing household size and we have built our whole country full of you know four bedroom homes for nuclear families and the biggest home builders know this they say somebody from one of the biggest home building companies said to me at the traditional nuclear family is really going to be the minority and so that is a complete reversal from what we're used to the leave it to beaver era the wonder years era is gone and i mean it's still going to be a part of our society but we are looking at just you know instead of one ame

new york city's mayor michael bloomberg is leaving, too, after more than a decade at city hall. >> nework city has never been stronger than it is today, and i think it's fair to say that our future has never been brighter. >> reporter: in the final speech of the term, he said his city today is drastically different from the one he took glover i think it's safe to say that it's clear that the golden age of the suburb is over, and it is being replaced by a new urban renaissance redefining the future. >> reporter: violence, governmental dysfunction, decay. in the 1970s new york lost more than 10% of its population. it was a center of a growing trend of cities around the country where middle class residents were fleeing fast to the suburbs. >> if you want to change the world, run for mayor. >> i, michael r. bloomberg do solemnly swear... >> ly after the september 11th attacks he took over investing . it would be his legacy and inspiration to other metropolitan areas around the country. today crime is way down in new york. perhaps in part due to a tough and controversial policing policy cal

this is upstate new york, where as many as 14 inches may fall. new york city could get nine inches of snow with winds at least 35 miles per hour. boston could get as many as 11 inches with temperatures that will probably fall below the level you keep your freezer at. cnn has correspondents all over the storm zone and it is a wide one as we said, encompassing nearly a third of the u.s. population. i want to start with frederick pleitgen. the worst is apparently yet to come in boston. >> reporter: yeah, absolutely right. it is already snowing quite heavily, as you can see. there has already been accumulation as well. i would say it's about three, three and a half inches of snow that's already fallen. as you say, it's going to get much, much worse. you can see a snow plow that's going past here right now. the streets are actually still pretty much okay. a lot of them have been pretreated with salt, with salt spreaders, so right now it's slushy there. the traffic is moving. but again, it's going to get worse. the snow is going to increase considerably, the wind is

>> you know, in new york and new york city that was effective. sadly, that's now being reversed. and actually you saw the body mass index actually going down because from having cokes or sodas this large, they were reducing sizes or taxes. i don't like to -- i'm not a thor tarean in the way i think about things but at the same time we are a society, health insurance is a huge issue. it has to do with how competitive this economy is and if we don't ramp down our costs, not to mention improve the quality of our citizens' life, we're all in trouble. >> how about the sedentary lifestyle that we have? >> look, we're all sitting around more because we're glued to our computers or tvs or something, you know, our work is much more sedentary. and if you look at what's happened at least in the united states, a lot less sidewalks have been built in some of the new developments and actually the number of sidewalks correlates with the body mass index of people. so hopefully one of the silver linings, if you will, of a recession is that with less, especially cars, maybe people will move around

new york state. andrew cuomo, though, is getting ready to allow limited use of medical marijuana for patients here in new york city>>> the planet jupiter is making a rare appearance in the skies over earth. when the sun sets in the west, jupiter is rising in the east. the brightest star visible, we're told, without a telescope. sharing the spotlight with these amazing images, the first pictures of the aurora borealis for the new year captured in norway tonight. >>> and in china, a shimmering city of ice tonight. all the spectacular skuple sures made totally out of blocks of ice. that's stung to see. the artists have been working on these creations around the clock for the past two weeks. looks like america tonight. >>> when we come back on "world news," the tweets you send me, surviving the cold this sunday. and the one that made us laugh -- sort of. it's hard to describe, because you have a numbness, but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point i knew i had to do something. once i started taking the lyrica the pain started subsidi

stuart: new york city plantation.ext election? crystal right is editor of the blog of conservative black check and is here for this. i say democrats are playing the race card and you say what? >> democrats continue to play the race card and down across the united states, sideways, up and down, you name it but what i want to know is when are black americans going to reject this victimization kind of name-calling? we are always on the plantation, poor little slaves that can't seem to make it and get ahead like everybody else. the reality is what is so ironic about the invocation that was given before bill deblasio's speech was over the last 20 years under republican mayors blacks of the well, graduation rates of increase, crime is down, charter schools are thriving. all these things help black americans in new york city. that doesn't look like a plantation to me. stuart: what do you make a mockery of the black grandchild of mitt romney? i was appalled at this. they mocked the man because he has got a black grandchild. t

but going back to new york city's new mayor, bill de blasio sworn in just a few moments after midnight on new year's day, already his first major test. and it's very interesting because you might remember when he was city advocate back in 2010, he was highly critical of then mayor bloomberg, of his response to a storm then, saying that the plows did not get to some of the outer boroughs quickly enough, some of the outer suburbs quickly enough. lots of folks keeping a close eye on de blasio's response to this major snowstorm. he held a news conference just a few moments ago. take a listen. >> if you want safe, clear streets, stay home and let these good folks at sanitation do their job to clear the streets. obviously the other reason to stay home is for safety. it's very slick out there. it's hard to drive out there. the wind, the ice, there's a lot of blowing snow still. >> the winds have died down considerably over the past two or three hours, but we still get the occasional gusts. the temperature, though, i heard from richard there a few moments ago, it's pretty much the same here. i

new york city, the 8-inch mark shuts the transportation. it will be a mess tomorrow morning. back to you. >> we'll keep tracking it. >> on new year's day there were violent clashes in two of egypt's largest cities. two students died when supporters of ousted president mohamed morsi clashed with police. police say they used tear gas and accused the protesters of using guns. two people were killed and several officers hurt in similar protests in the northern city of alexandria. three al jazeera journalists are under arrest. mohamed fadel fahmy and baher mohamed are held in tyra fouds of cairo. mohamed fadel fahmy has been moved to the prison hospital. correspondent peter greste is held at the cairo police station. al jazeera is demanding the release of these journalists. >> the spiralling violence in south sudan sparked a crisis. hundreds of thousands have been displaced. representatives from the warring parties are set to begin talks in ethiopia. the u.n. is stopping short of calling it a breakthrough. they hope negotiations break-in an end to the violence that kill 1,000 peopl

windchill temperature at zero in the upper midwest and even into new england. 7 degrees below zero in new york city. the cold air is pro cueing lake-effect snow. it is still snowing out there. like i mentioned a warm-up expected. in new york city well above average saturday. high temperatures in the 50's. expect to continue to see the warm-up. here's a look at the forecast what we can expect. more warm-ups not just in new york city but around the northeast and also into the midwest. >> always love it when you are sharing good news. think ahead. >> such extremes. to show you how cold it is outside i bundled up and did a little experiment of my own on "the sean hannity show." . >> this bucket is full of water. this is the tos nukes t-shirt here. it is going to freeze. >> is that the one? >> that's the same t-shirt. >> where is the other t-shirt to prove it to everybody. >> can you show the other t-shirt. >> is that really the t-shirt. >> i know why you kept shaking it. you knew that would happen. >> scientist ainsley earhardt. >> a tire warning for drivers to tell you about. urging people to be on al

end to economic and social inequalities that threaten to unravel the city we love. >> and the new year also marks a new era for new yorky. and according to some progressives, aggressive liberalism for the democratic party because of bill de blasio, a brooklyn politician sworn in yesterday by bill clinton as the new mayor of new york city. de blasio managed to do something that has eluded new york democrats like bill thompson, mark greene, he won the mayorship on a democratic line ending the giuliani/bloomberg era. the theme of the day was economic populism subpoeand agge politics. >> we have to have a city of shared opportunities, shared prosperity, shared responsibilities. we are inner dependent. look around. we can't get away from each other. >> this is new york. we will no longer stay silent to this classism. no more brown stones and brown skin playing tug of war. >> let the plantation called new york city be the city of god, a city set upon the hill, a light shining in darkness. >> and big cities are, of course, a key laboratory of big policy ideas. many liberals think de blasio -- to explore whether new york can b

that's a reality for tens of thousands of people living in new york city alone. this cold overnight, many new york city shelters are working overtime, including one shelter just steps away from time square here that helps young people find a warm bed and get off of the cold streets. and for many of these kids their wish for the new year is for a new hope for a new life. >> if you really knew me, then you would know that i'm a daddy's girl. >> reporter: she loved her father, he died when she was 16 years old, and she took it so hard she had to leave her home in the bronx. >> i would be on the streets from time to time. in the subway, sleeping in restaurants. and i would wonder where i would sleep after i got out of school. >> reporter: she found a shelter for homeless youths between 18 and 21. >> i can go to work and come home to a bed, to a shower, to food, so i was really excited that i could actually calm down and think about what is my next step in life. >> reporter: she hopes that next step comes in the new year. >> to save enough money so i can move on. >> r

it's interesting to see how this new mayor, bill de blasio, just elected here in new york city, just how he's going to do. he campaigned as a man of the people, and that message was also made clear during his inauguration ceremony. new york's populist new mayor bill de blasio and his family got to his inauguration ceremony the way millions of new yorkers get to work every day. on the subway. before emerging, even running into his predecessor, former mayor michael bloomberg. in his speech, signaling a reversal of policies that saw business boom under bloomberg, some say at the expense of the poor and working class. >> when i said i would take dead aim at the tale of two cities, i meant it. >> reporter: citing liberal leaders of the past century, de blasio promising to even the economic playing field, including taxing those who make more than $500,000 a year to pay for universal pre-k and after-school programs. telling the wealthy, don't worry. >> -- see their taxes increase by an average of $973 a year. that's less than three bucks a day, about the cost of a small soy latte at your loc

in the meantime, say this about new york city's new mayor. doing exactly what he said he would. no wonder people are calling him, deblasio, oh, no, and they won't be the only ones. hi, i'm terry and i have diabetic nerve pain. it's hard to describe, because you have a numbness, but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point i knew i had to do something. once i started taking the lyrica the pain started subsiding. [ male announcer ] it's known that diabetes damages nerves. lyrica is fda approved to treat diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is not for everyone. it may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new or worsening depression, or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing, rash, hives, blisters, changes in eyesight including blurry vision, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or skin sores from diabetes. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain an

now, traffic is moving in new york city. us circle last night when the snowfall was going, it was barren. we're going to show everybody a time lapse photography of what actually a very bustling circle in new york city was like when that snow came down. it was just barren. that is what happens to new york city in a time like this when the snow keeps going. people are told to stay home and that's exactly what they do. but you know, there's another issue that i want to show everybody. when you think of new york city, you think of taxis, especially on a day like this. look at this hill right here because if i want to get a taxi, i've got to climb up this hill and i've got to try to hail one. and you know what? i'm trying. but it's tough. and if i get one, i've got to go back over this little mountain here to get in the cab. so i'll keep trying to hail and john berman, back to you. >> that is commitment. jean casarez climbing a snow bank to hail a cab. i hope one stops for you soon. i really appreciate it. let's get a look at the

every year it helps thousands of new york city teens. >> there's a lot of things that i didn't understand that came to my attention that i just -- i never paid no mind to. >> tyriek has a new attitude about treating girlfriends with respect. he's now a rapp peer leader. >> you start dating when you're a teen, generally. so you need to start learning how to manage these relationships and understand what's healthy, what's not healthy. >> kids who join rapp learn about relationship rights, including the right to have your own opinion, the right to say no to getting physical, the right to have other friends, and the right to end the relationship. just because some movies and music videos make it seem okay to dominate your girlfriend or boyfriend, it's not okay. >> a lot of times the kids romanticize the unhealthy. it's like the arguing means you love them, the jealousy is a sign of affection that it's like we're really giving a platform to educate them as to how these things are warning signs. >> like so many other good organizations, rapp has to deal with budget cuts. every year they need to