Sources are saying that Aaron Sorkin will be writing a movie about Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg, the Variety is reporting. Though not yet approved by Zuckerberg or Facebook, the story will be about of how Facebook was started. They story will take place during the time when Zuckerberg was in Harvard in 2004 and created Facebook as a school project; including the story of how Facebook is in legal trouble with ConnectU.Sorkin has written screenplays for “The West Wing.”If approved, Columbia pictures will film the production.

Another major accident on Sunrise Highway on Long Island at the Oakdale Connetquot merge. The vehicle involved with the accident is a tractor trailer, which overturned and knocked down a power line which supplied power to Oakdale and some parts of Bohemia. According to WRAJ Internet Radio, which has been keeping track of major accidents and road closures since 2005, says that this is the worst its seen this year, while reporting 32 accidents this year so far, which a few caused road closures.

This resulted in road closures and power failures. And for the fourth time this year, the eastbound and westbound was closed. The road was reopened sometime after 7pm but was closed again into the late night. At our 1:30am inspection of Sunrise Highway this morning, the highway is still closed from exit 46 to exit 49 eastbound and westbound, according to officials.

Vidgle’s and WRAJ Internet Radio’s offices lost power instantly after the crash at around 3:30pm Thursday. According to Maria O’Connell, WRAJ Internet Radio’s relations director, said that it caused the headquarters of WRAJ and Vidgle to have no power for over 7 hours. “The lightpole that was hit by the tractor trailer is only 10 poles down the street from us,” O’Connell added. The light pole that was hit is the lead pole for cables to cross the 8 lanes of traffic of Sunrise Highway. “The power company and Verizon also had to replace their cable from the lead pole.”

WRAJ Internet Radio also identified of what might be the location of the accident, as seen above. The location is the on-ramp from Pond Road to Sunrise Highway westbound. WRAJ Internet Radio reported similar accidents like this in the past when the light pole was hit in 2006 and 2007.  WRAJ Internet Radio is assuming, by previous similar accidents, that the tractor trailer was on the service road and lost control at the fork of the service road; in which one way leads to a stop sign to Pond Road South so drivers can get back onto Sunrise Highway or to go northbound onto Pond Road leading to Sycamore Avenue.

WRAJ Internet Rado is the sister website of Vidgle, which has been operating since 2002. Satellite image courtesy of Google Earth.

Today, we lost a well-known  journalist who want people to know what’s happening in politics, Tim Russert, host of NBC’s Meet the Press; has died at the age 58. Russert suffered a major heart attack while preparing his show at the NBC News Bureau in Washington D.C. Russert had just came back early from his family’s vacation to Italy so he can do this Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press.

The New York Times report that at 3:39pm, former NBC Nightly News Anchor Tom Brokaw announced to NBC News viewers that his colleague has died.

 “Our beloved colleague,” a grave Mr. Brokaw called him, one of the premier journalists of our time. He said this was one of the most important years in his life, with his deep engagement in the network’s political coverage, and that he “worked to the point of exhaustion.” Mr. Brokaw said Mr. Russert was a true child of Buffalo and always stayed in touch with his blue collar roots and “the ethos of that community.”

He said Mr. Russert had just moved his father, who is in his late 80s, from one facility to another in Buffalo. He said he loved his family, his Catholic faith, his country, politics, the Buffalo Bills, the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals.

“This news division will not be the same without his strong, clear voice,” Mr. Brokaw said.

Russert, the longest running moderator for Meet the Press, has been with the show since 1991. Since then, he has formed of what is today known as Sunday morning government affairs program

As his death happens days before Fathers Day, he had written two books about his father and became a best-seller. In 1995, the National Father’s Day Committee named him “Father of the Year,” and Parents magazine honored him as “Dream Dad” in 1998, and in 2001 the National Fatherhood Initiative also recognized him as Father of the Year.

NBC News has planned to air a tribute to Russert on “Dateline NBC” on Friday at 10 p.m. ET.

 Updated: May 13, 2008 at 4:10pm.

At 10:27pm Monday evening during a live teaser for the 11PM news on WNBC NY Channel 4, news anchor Sue Simmons slipped “a word that many people find offensive.” This happend on the same day as an old video of Bill O’Reilly, from the O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, turned up on the Internet showing O’Reilly angry during a recording of the “Inside Edition.”

After the incident occured, I wrote my reaction of what I thought happened.

“As an observer of WNBC News 4 New York for the past many years, I noticed something different about the teaser that was aired. After my observation of watching the clip online several times, it seems like it is not Simmon’s fault; it feels and looks like they were unaware that they are live. One hint during the teaser, Chuck Scarborough, the co-anchor of Simmons for the past 28 years, was not looking at the camera; something that Scarborough will never do during a live teaser. If in that case, the director in the studio did not tell Simmons and Scarborough that they are live; the audio and video was perfectly done just like the other live teasers at 10:30pm. But it is what Simmons said that outraged the audience. My prediction is that there was a similar situation just like in the O’Reilly video posted on Monday that might have been going on in Studio 6B; an argument between the anchor and the director. On the 11 o’clock newscast, she apologized to the audience.”

During the mid-day on Tuesday, the Daily News is reporting that she slipped on the word “heck” that caused her to say the F-word while teasing the first story when the video switched to a cruise-ship story.

It is expected that Simmons will not be on the air tomorrow during the 5 o’clock and 11 o’clock newscast if the situation is not resolved.

In my views, Simmons seems like she won’t be fired; Simmons and Scarborough is the anchor team that represents New York news. Simmons joined WNBC back in 1980 with Scarborough.

Because videos and links contains strong language, links were not posted.

Left image: snapshot of the May 12 live teaser, Right image: Sue Simmons in February 2007.

There are currently 1,341 reported customers without power this morning living in Ronkonkoma, Bohemia, Central Islip, Oakdale, East Islip, and Islip Terrace. The power outage is due to a short circuit break, according to LIPA. An additional 94 customers are without power in Oyster Bay due to weather related outages.

 New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer is stepping down. On Monday, he will be replaced by Lt. Governor David Paterson, who will be the first black and legally blind governor for the state. On Monday, Spitzer was caught in a federal investigation. In the investigation, he has spent $4,300 at a high-class Washington D.C. hotel on February 13; the public evidence that he in the area was that he was on an interview from Washington on the CNBC cable outlet.

According to the investigation, he has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars, and now the public will be ask “who did the money belong too?” For now, it is believed that it is personal assets, but the investigation will continue.

Spitzer is married to his wife and has three teenaged daughters.  

KNTV, or known as NBC 11 in San Jose, California, is the first television station to use Wind Power for electricity. This is part of GE’s move to going green, KNTV is owned and operated by NBC which is owned by General Electric. The station is using 3Degrees for purchasing and studying methods for the movement.

Former Arkansas governor Michael Huckabee is dropping out of the presidential republican party race, he announced his dropout in Irving, TX. This announcement comes after his low poll counts during March 4’s GOP votes.

Facebook, owned by 23-year old Mark Zuckerberg, successfully lured away one of Google’s top advertising executives. Sheryl Sandberg will begin as a Chief Operating Officer for the social network website on March 24. Sandberg played a huge role of building the Google empire to one of the world’s most prized companies.

There is a 90-minute delays for Metro North riders going in and out of Grand Central Station. Due to partial building collapse in Harlem, the service had to be suspended by the FDNY so that the building will not collapse by the vibration of the trains. Trains will also need to go at a speed of 15 miles per hour when passing by the building so that building won’t collapse and cause injuries to people on the ground.

The collapsed building had no one inside during the partial collapse and the attached building, which has many violations, was evacuated.