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Says con ed has nothing to do with this. hes speaking out about these new bus ads that if you live in the new york city area, you are going to see. look at this. theres a shot of the airplane going into the world trade center building on the left side there with huge lettering saying why there? there was a fight to get these billboards up in new york city and another thing that mayor bloomberg was against, he said through a spokesperson, people ought to be ashamed of themselves who are against t...

Imam behind the mosque. you know, it has been -- people want to know wheres the money coming from to pay for this thing? >> doesnt have it yet. >> yeah, i know. >> does he have all the land yet? apparently he has to get some of the land from con ed. >> con ed weighed in to say no problem. ill sell it to anybody. >> theres question whether theres got to be oversight. going back to the imam, he apparently is now going to trapse across the middle east on the dime of the u.s. department of state for...

Involved, because if coned owns one of these buildings and the public service commission has to approve that portion of the sale you already have the republican candidate for governor in new york saying if im elected i will appoint members who will be against the mosque and try to shut it down, so politics finding its way back into this controversy. should it? >> i think not. i do find it fascinating based on "the new york times" story i read this morning that this building is owned by coned and...

The act of terror perpetrated on 9/11. quite the contrary. what we find disheartening is that the muslim community in america and overseas has not spoken out strong enough against radical islam, thats a fact. megyn: we have a statement from con edison. they say, look we are in the process of selling our property, they say that the people who are becoming this months h-bg essentially -- mosque essentially have a purchase option on it coned will have to sell it if it is reasonable and approved by ...

And nick partchigan is also here. they say they seem to be operating under false circumstances and what else are they hiding. >> they pulled the wool over the eyes of people in new york city who green lighted the application. as an attorney, im an attorney too, many of the documents are signed under oath or notarized which means they are swearing to the accuracy of those documents. if they did that for a lot they dont own that is fraud. coned who is part owner of this property needs to approval ...

>> reporter: thank you commander. the well has been capped. the relief well will finish the job but obviously cleanup continues. megyn: indeed rick live and the seen down there. developers of the controversial mosque planned for new york city steps from ground zero are now accused of perpetrating a fraud. it turns out they do not own both of the buildings on the site where the mosque is planned as they had earlier represented. in fact the power come coned owns one of those buildings and that cou...

Right now, even without owning the building. thats what a spokesman for con-edison tells me. he says under the lease they have with the developmenter they can use it however they want. they dont need government approval or any other process to use the building con-edison owns as an islamic center. its been a controversial issue to try to turn two building into that islamic center. one is owned by that group. the other owned by con-ed. they say they are in the process of selling the property if t...

Are prepared for this heat wave, that they will be able to keep electricity going? >> i know con-ed has done as much as they could to prepare the system. this is going to be a stressful day. it was -- one of the main problems we will be looking for, the system failure. in other words, equipment failure, that can create major problems in different network. we look at every time a feed goers out in the city, we start monitoring it. con-ed is the expert in providing electric to our people. we will ...

Downtown toronto under extreme heat alert late last night. that was just start. a transformer fire left more than 250,000 people in the dark for four hours. hundreds of people were stuck on trains. the outage even stalled preparations for a state dinner held for queen elizabeth. the power company says electricity has been fully restored. the queen was so upset, she said, im ditching toronto and coming to new york where she said, they always keep the power on. just kidding. we are 78 days into ...

The information i gave you today. >> one of the other questions about this, tourists. also, people that work outside. your city workers will be out there throughout the day. what are you doing to make sure that people who are going to be out in the elements because they have no choice, because it is their job, or because they are visiting the city dont succumb to the heat? >> as you mentioned, water on the go is a nice idea. highlights new york city water and we are telling people to hydrate. th...