Pete King's Thoughts & Whereabouts: 4/7 - 4/8

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
7:45 a.m. - 10:15 a.m. - to Ground Zero to meet with Lee Ielpi at the Tribute WTC Visitor Center. Lee's son Jonathan (FDNY) died on 9/11. Lee had dedicated himself to the Visitor Center and it is extraordinary. Understated but very moving. (tributewtc.org)

3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. - meet with UJA Federation of NY/LI. They are doing outstanding in tough economic times.

6:15 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. - fundraiser at La Marmite in Mineola. Very good turnout. Terrific job by Robert MacBride. - - About 9:15 started receiving phone calls from homeland security staff on possible shoe bomb attempt on DC-Denver flight.

10:05 p.m. - 10:50 p.m. - numerous phone calls. End result is that a Qatar diplomat was smoking, made stupid reference to lighting his shoes and was held by federal air marchals.

11:00 p.m. - 11:02 p.m. - live interview on WNBC-TV (Ch. 4) with Jonathan Dienst on plane incident.

Thursday, April 9th
7:04 a.m. - 7:08 a.m. - live TV interview on Fox5-NY on plane incident. I say the diplomat should be deported from the country.

7:40 a.m. - 7:50 a.m. - live radio interview with John Gambling (WOR) on plane incident. (Listen here) 

10:30 a.m. - 10:40 a.m. - tape interview in office by telephone with Pete Williams (NBC) and Jonathan Dienst (WNBC) on plane bomb scare for tonight's national and local news. (Watch Here)

11:00 a.m. - 11:05 a.m. - phone interview with New York Post about plane scare. (Read Here)

12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. - tape interview in office with Marcia Kramer (WCBS-TV) on VAT (watch here) and plane scare (watch here).

8:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. - sparring with Chris Cardona at Bellmore Kickboxing.