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Award giving for canadians living abroad. the wardrobe fail compared to the 2005 the northwestern university women's lacrosse team visited the white house. several players wore flip-flops. following outcry the women explained they planned to auction off the flip-flops to for a fund with a little girl for a brain tumor. we'll see if the beebs considers a similar gesture. a shocking discovery at the macy's thanksgiving day parade when a college student finds what appears to be confidential personal information including social security numbers on the strips of confetti being distributed to the...

Wabc's report has the details. >> reporter: 5:30 p.m., horror on the city's upper westside. [ sirens blaring ] in the middle of the evening rush, a frantic dash to save lives and to figure out what happened in this luxury apartment building on west 75th street. >> i just saw people rushing to the streets right here and, you know, personnel coming, people, and i thought maybe it was like something exciting going on. >> reporter: it was murder on the second floor in an apartment. a woman comes home to find two of her children murdered in a bathtub, the nanny on the floor, a kitchen knife nearby....

Wabc's reporter has the details. >> reporter: 5:30 p.m., horror on the city's upper westside. [ sirens blaring ] in the middle of the evening rush, a frantic dash to save lives and to figure out what happened in this luxury apartment building on west 75th street. >> i just saw people rushing to the streets right here and, you know, personnel coming, people, and i thought maybe it was like something exciting going on. >> reporter: it was murder on the second floor in an apartment. a woman comes home to find two of her children murdered in a bathtub, the nanny on the floor, a kitchen knife nearb...

Megyn: new york city phone booths are disappearing. they used to be as common as starbucks. while cell phones are stealing their business, it's not the only reason the iconic booths are going extinct. hey, rick? >> reporter: you blew my cover. i'm running out of places to change. this is one of four free-standing phone booths left on the streets of new york city. not in mid-town. but only on the upper westside. they have been disappearing because of cell phones and less use of these freestanding phone booths. but they are parts of american history. a lot of people may not even know what they a...

It will include classes, and, job counseling and food programs for the program, but he did not respond to our request for a comment about either the project near ground zero or the latest project. martha: or the other project and what else have we learned about him. eric: he's got an interesting background, reportedly rising from being a waiter, at several trendy restaurants, 8 years ago to having a real estate portfolio and, dining at the mansion with mayor bloomberg you see here and plunked down $5 million in cash to buy the abandoned building two blocks from ground zero that he wants to tur...