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The Book of Henry SHARE   March 1973 was a time of disarray. The Watergate scandal was engulfing the Nixon Administration and the last American troops were about to leave Vietnam. Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon had just been released, speaking to the sense of desolation taking hold of society. Meanwhile, the Russian lunar rover Lunokhod 2 began its third round of exploration around the actual moon’s surface, just as NASA ended its own manned missions, which had once seemed to signif...

South bend one of the nations ten dying cities. the new mayor had a plan to change that. >> first he always said, the basics should be easy, that is, we should be picking up the trash. >> mark neal served as the new mayors city controller. >> so youll see pete even today, he loves riding around in a garbage truck with the sanitation folks looking at what the newest technology is, right? >> from trash collection to traffic and sewers, mayor pete was on a mission to bring people back downtown and ...

The city controller. now, this homeless crisis isnt just contained to places like skid row. its spreading. including to the rich enclaves and its costing millions and millions of dollars. now facing no choice, residents decide theyre going to take matters to their own hands, and our own raymond arroyo found that ino venice beach. >> this is the iconic golds gym, the first golds gym here in venice beach. you can see outside of the backe door of the gym, there are really a string of homeless encam...

South bend one of the nations ten dying cities. the new mayor had a plan to change that. >> first he always said the basics should be easy, that is, we should be picking up the trash. >> mark neil served as the new mayors city controller. >> so youll see pete even today, he loves riding around in a garbage truck with the sanitation folks looking at what the newest technology is, right? >> from trash collection to traffic and sewers, mayor pete was on a mission to bring people back downtown and t...

In 2011, "newsweek" was calling south bend one of the ten dying cities. the new mayor had a plan to change that. >> first he said the basics should be easy. >> that is, we should be picking up the trash. >> mark neil served as the new mayor city controller. >> so you will see pete even today, he loves riding around in the garbage truck with the sanitation folks looking at what the newest technology is. right. >> from traffic and sewers, mayor pete was on a mission to bring people back downtown a...

Uber suspended car testing after a self-driving cars hit and killed a woman. the company is accused of compromising safety to catch up with competition. an accusation it denys. >> maybe now is the time to think about how uber works in the city. >> michael lamb is pittsburghs city controller. his city welcomed uber under the handshake perhaps of a partnership which he said is one sided. >> we opened the city to them. allowed them to test their vehicles here. they are collecting data. >> shouldnt ...

Taken more than nine years. it will photograph the icy surface while passing within 8,000 miles of it. those are some of our top stories on this tuesday, july 14th. >> announcer: from abc news this is "world news now" with t.j. holmes and reena ninan. and we start this half hour with a settlement in a case that triggered outrage and racially-charged protests across the country. >> new york city will pay nearly $6 million to the family of eric garner, a black man who died after he was placed in...

>> they were convicted because of the racial tension and paranoia in the city at that time. remember, this arose from a claim that black kids were wilding in central park and randomly attacking people, there was great racial fear, and people wanted to see them convicted. >> a judge still has to approve the citys settlement. do you see any problem with that? >> no, i dont. the federal judge has the case, the new mayor, unlike the old mayor did not want to settle the case, the new mayor did want t...

Use catch phrases, you say to the guy, "you were there, right?" "do i got it right?" and sometimes that language does make its way into confessions. thats not to say that the confession is false. >> sure. >> im not where joey is. >> part of the problem is that when they looked at some of these cases, they found that the language is too similar, the charges were too similar. >> thats a problem. >> the way they had been interrogated. one of the people we questioned was a, quote, crack addicted pro...

New yorkers are choosing their next mayoral candidates. voters have just about eight hours left before the polls close and the primary election in the biggest u.s. city. >> unclear at the moment whether the front-runner bill deblaiseio can avoid a runoff on his heels, the former city controller, bill thompson, the only black candidate in the race. >> the other main challengers are city council speaker christine quinn an open lesbian who would be new yorks first female mayor. former congressman a...