and images of little children among the tents and in those situations put a chill down my spine. shepard, they still have to sandblast in here. there is all sorts of graffiti and steam it down. plywood is covering up. some the city monuments has to be taken down as well, shepard. shepard: what is all of this going to cost. the mayor says before they did any of this already $150,000 to city taxpayers. the operation last night they haven t been able to tell how much that is going to cost. the clean up and having to replant the grass and replant all the plants, he says four or five. potentially 1 million for
broken families, little education, no future, no understanding of how they can if they want to fit in and become productive citizens and have a good life. i think racism and i ve used that term, exploit who they are. when i came into office i said that wasn t going to happen. we have raised teacher salaries in new york city by 105% over the last ten years whereas everybody else s salaries have only gone up 32% and education is the most important thing and they were not paying the ethic gap and the way that black and latinos score, we cut them in half and it s still there. we started this program. the city put in $22.5 million in city taxpayers, reverend
mosque, in fact the mayor s office says it treated the mosque developers the same as any other religious group seeking help. here now, a statement from the mayor s office, it says and i ll read it, you can see the text: the community affairs unit exists to help navigate city government and helping prepare for a papal visit to expediting approval of a temporary structure in a midtown hand mann park this is typical of its regular work and critics of the city argue that city taxpayers should not be used as advocates to develop this project. jamie? jamie: david lee miller, thanks. and in our new york city newsroom. gregg: iran is black listed when it comes to doing business with the united states or so we thought. shocking new report says that uncle sam may have been fooling himself. jamie: and south korea and the u.s. military conducting war games now, near the disputed north korean border. the provocative regime in po
cross-country looking at the alleged crimes and scandals of our elected officials now. and we start in atlanta, where a federal judge finds himself on the other side of the bench, accused of weapons and drug possession. judge jack camp is accused of having cocaine and marijuana. fbi agents say camp used drugs with an exotic dancer, and the two were having an affair. the judge s attorney says his client is innocent. next up, calumet county, wisconsin, and the resignation of district attorney ken kratz. he is the prosecutor embroiled in a texting scandal. kratz had sent personal messages to a woman who was the victim of domestic abuse of he sent the text while prosecuting her former boy friend. the d.a. had vowed not to resign, but apparently the pressure was just too strong. and a belle, california councilman has resigned. he is facing criminal charges following a salary scandal that allegedly cheated city taxpayers
been a big concern for officials. people who don t arouse suspicion when they go back home. and certainly there s various intelligence sources that tell us it could be several dozen of these people who are in that area and them moving across the border into afghanistan also moving back to western countries with the jihad training that they ve received in that area is a very big concern, john. fred pleitgen for us this morning with the latest on that. thanks so much. also new this morning, a belle, california, councilman has resigned facing criminal charges following a salary scandal that allegedly bilked city taxpayers out of millions of dollars. it s a story we ve been following closely here on american morning. now luis ortega is one of the city officials arrested last month accused of paying themselves six-figure salaries and benefit packages. the port of houston remains closed because of an electrical tower leaning over the ship