0 this week and this morning we can bring you new exclusive and startling information about top officials in chris christie oost administration. it attempts to link the chris ty administration to sandy funds. the project which happens to directly involve the law firm of the port authority chairman. that s a lot to absorb and we re going to take you through all of it in just a minute. we re going to hear directly from the mayor who says she was on the receiving end of this pressure campaign. she s been refusing media all week but she s here this mompg to tell her story and it s a story you have not seen anywhere in the press before right now. there are a lot of documents, a lot of names, a lot of complicated but necessary context. please, i m going to ask you, bear with us. we re going to take our time here and do our best to give you the clearest and accurate picture of what we know. and the best place to start this story then is probably five years ago. it was a famous day in new jer
make reference to that in interviews. we thought we would take a closer look and here is a closer story. this for decades, what you re looking at, was perhaps the most coveted slice of real estate in all of new jersey, a priceless patch of 16 empty acres situated at the edge of the george washington bridge, the gateway to new york city, smack in the middle of ft. lee. 16 acres of land that has a rich and tortured history. nearly 40 years ago a previous mayor of ft. lee, burt ross, pictured on the right on the screen there, he was approached by allegedly mob-linked developers and he was made an offer that was awfully hard to refu refuse. give them the rights to slap a high rise on that land, those 16 acres, and he would give them a million dollars. burt ross didn t want that money but he did wear a wire for the feds and those crooked developers went to jail. a book was even written about this called the bribe.
0 would be president of the united states by 2008. he made his big move in 2001. he ran for governor. he was an odd duck in the state republican party who put up their own candidate to oppose him and he won anyway. he was one step away from the governorship and from there that shot at the white house. it was all lining up for bret schundler and then, well, it didn t work out. he lost to a democrat named jim mcgreevey. you probably know his name. probably know his story. and schundler tried again in 2005. this time he didn t even make it out of the republican primary. he had been the great conservative hope that big career making breakthrough he needed was elusive. by the time 2009 rolled around, he d been eclipsed. chris christie by that point was the next big thing in new jersey republ republican politics. he made his name prosecuting crooked politicians and in 2009 the gop made him its candidate for governor and he won that fall which meant that as the new governor he had jobs to giv
before dawn this morning, violence broke out in the island kingdom of bahrain. thousands of protesters had camped out overnight in pearl square in central manama. but if they had hoped bahrainian security forces would leave them alone they were disappointed. 2:45 in the morning, local time, riot police approached the square from several directions. they began firing tear gas and buckshot and rubber bullets. witnesses said the tear gas was so thick, that many people were vomiting from its affects. abc reporting miguel marques in the crowd. he and his crew were attacked and had their familiar rattan away. journalists! journalists! he said no! he said no! he said no! ah! reporter: marquez managed to escape and refleked on what happened later. ahead of protests on friday. reporter: first light the square had been cleared and security forces unrolled razor wire to prevent the protesters from returning. some of the regimes are now facing opposition are likely to use extre
coloring could cause cancer. we ll tell you just how safe your soda really is early this thursday morning, february 17th, your soda really is early this thursday morning, february 17th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs welcome to the early show here on a thursday morning, i m chris wragge. and i m erica hill. good to have you with us this morning. we re going to begin this morning in the northeast, with exclusive photos and video obtained by cbs news. the pictures that you re seeing them here right now, they re believed to show hosni mubarak s departure from cairo last friday. that is, of course, the day he stepped down as president, finally conceding to the thousands of pro-democracy protesters. the images appear to show mubarak waving good-bye. before leaving by helicopter with his family for the resort city of sharm el sheikh in egypt. now that, of course, was just six days ago. the shockwaves, however, from that uprising continue to be felt and felt strongly across