on your posting on facebook. it's a great way to put up wallpaper, but doesn't drive transactions. it goes back to deeply understanding your customers and what they want to achieve. and how does social play a role in that? if you buy a product like a new crib because you're a new parent. how can facebook help you understand how to do that well and how does that social data they've shared about purchasing the crib give them information? >> that's where you're determining a crib got bought and we should do this with that data? >> absolutely. what should we do with the data and what clues can we give to the retailer or merchant for that data. it's hard for a merchant to keep track of millions of orders per month. >> what's the most effective social media platform, is there a certain brand or product that's more effective than others? >> here's a great example of someone who's done social well, nike. nike made the decision we want to interact with our consumers every day. they could do that for some degree on twitter

you are not going to have facebook plus amazon and single malt scotch.com. you will have one thing up. if that is facebook and that person can spend more time on facebook that is more opportunity to monetize. >> think about the four inch smart phone devices. they are keeping you on their app. you are not going to go to amazon's app. it is the right step for a company that hasn't given a lot of plans about how they plan to make money. >> here is the gift that keeps giving, the supply of stock that is for sale. that is really the head wind that you also have to pay attention to regardless of how you handicap the success they might have. >> i think people will still go to amazon to compare prices if nothing else. >> 1.2 billion shares come into market in november. when you are bullish on facebook is this a very short term and a long term? what is this? >> i think it is so bad that at some point between now and the end of the year the stock is going to bottom. i think there could be a dogs in the down sort of play as fresh investors take a look at it. you have to be cognizant of

or you can type "prius" on facebook and get personal advice about it from your friends. are you trying to turn everything we do on the web into a social function? >> i think what we've found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. i think that we're really gonna see this huge shift where a lot of industry is--and products are just gonna get remade to be social. >> so you're out here in silicon valley. can you feel a tectonic plates... >> yes. >> shifting over? >> well you can see the talent shift over... >> right. >> you know, there's been a big war about talent and payments, millions of dollars to keep people, engineers at google. >> mark's number two, sheryl sandberg, defected from google. he recently wooed over the inventor of google maps, and he even poached google's cafeteria chef. there's kind of a talent brain drain from them to you, something like 200 people who work for you, 10%... >> i do think it's clear... >> are former googlers, right? >> there are areas where the compan

facebook. we do have one -- we do have some facebook representative in the audience. >> can you reveal yourself, please? all your data. everything about you. can we have a time line? >> there is a bit of hypocrisy on your part. you listed on your blog where you're going to be every day, almost every hour. put your twitter screenname on the cover of your book. you're writing by your trips to london and your experiences there. isn't this exhibition is dinist? >> i grew up a in england. i wrote the book against social networking. particularly against facebook. i gave google the benefit of the doubt in this book. what we did at the publishers, we thought let's have some fun. an anti-facebook book but let's put my twitter handle on the front because it would annoy guys like you. my book, it is not against technology. it is not saying we should not be on this network. in the first chapter, i struggle with the issue many of us a struggle with. i have to be on twitter. it built lybrand, it provided to events like this. -- it builds my brand, it proves -- eventso eventslike like this. let me explain. i

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i see a hand up. >> i am not on facebook. i made a conscious effort. i was a sermon predetermined not to fall into that trap with this book. yvette facebook. -- i am a facebook the center. i gave up facebook. and it dramatically improved my life. i never read about people who irritated me who i did not like. the reality of facebook is the only ever read about people we do not like. will france and the post of facebook. -- real friends do not post on facebook. [laughter] >> your definition of who decreed a class this might be a bit wrong for silicon valley. -- who the creative across -- whose creative class is. my view would be there is no silicon left in silicon valley and that the real crisis. you're not manufacturing things there because it is a hostile place to make things. if you look at where the creed of class is, they get their capital in silicon valley but have to go elsewhere to develop it. i am wondering when you think about that. >> my idea of accretive class is narrower than that. >> my idea of accretive class is narrower than that. i'm talk

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he wrote on facebook, he couldn't take it anymore, and i'm done.se attorney holly hughes is here, now holly, nobody got hurt. that is good news, didn't really make any demands. criminal suspects have called family and friends before during a crime. but this is a conversation we could all see. it is interesting, so what? i don't know, is this conversation protected on line? can it -- >> no, it is not legally protected. it is out there, it is public. and you know i read this story and i read it a couple of times, don, because i wanted to make sure, i got all the facts. and it sounds to me like this man just really wanted to be caught. he did what he did publicly. so it was not just, oh, there is witnesses in the building. he then goes on to facebook, which is not protected and admits what he is doing and putting it all out there. >> okay, this defense team, he has to go to court obviously. can they use it, and say look what he was posting at the time? >> well, they're going to have to try to spin it. both sides will use it. because the state will say

back, brave in the dangers of the war to bring a compelling human story. >> follow second look on facebook and twitter. >>> on a second look tonight the career of our soon to be retired chief photographer, john makenzie. ba in 1996 he was in the boznian city when a young boy thought he recognized him walking down the street. >> who does he look like? >> chuck norris. >> what can i say? they still say i look like chuck norris. >> he brought us the story of yesmina. a woman returning to her home for the first time since the war. what he didn't think about was the danger buried beneath the ground. listen closely to what she says as she sees john across the yard. >> aren't they afraid it's mined? let's use this road over here. >> i don't know. i hope it's not. this is a lot. i hope god will take care of it. >> i think god wants us to be here. >> yasmina and her husband live with their three children on the upper two floors. the first floor was their business. a grocery store. >> this is what's left of my --. >> oh, honey. come on. >> this is this here used to have so many green plants. when yo

. >> there are great pictures on facebook. >> thanks to even who responded throughout the cows course of last week. >> i tried to give you good weather to bring the bundle of joy home. take the jackets out today, 40s and 50s this morning, we have a few clouds and this morning, those will get out of here as we head in to the afternoon. this is this bel air this morning, if these clouds weren't out there, this temperature oh would be colder this morning. we might deal with a frost advisory in western maryland. dew point dry, looking at 43 for a dew point. dew point of 45 davidsonville. clarksville, temperature around 47 degrees, dew point of 45 degrees. last stop this morning is kept island, 57, where it's warmer getting the water influence. temperatures not as cold. 46 degrees for a dew point. we are going to be in the thick of things in terms of the chilly air as we look at the most powerful radar, maryland is dry, dealing with showers, the further to the north you go. gettysburg, fairfield this is crossing i-85. if your travels are taking you in that direction, be prepared for that.

a lot of you weighed in on facebook. you have some great money saving tips. we will share it. >> i look forward to that. >>> later, it turns out, heidi klum is getting cozy with the help. new revelations about her divorce and relationship with her bodyguard in "the skinny." she divulged that on katie's new show. >> all right, let's get right to it. >>> first off, a u.s. destroyer now off the coast of libya and a second is on the way in response to that deadly attack on americans. an elite group of marines sent to tripoli to reinforce security at the u.s. embassy. >> intelligence officials are now saying the attack may have been timed more to coincide with the 9/11 anniversary rather than in response to the anti-muslim film. >> the film was the reason for protests in egypt where anti-american protestors are out in the streets of cairo again this morning. police vehicles deployed tear gas and troops armed with guns and sticks charged at the crowd near the embassy. this was nothing like the previous day when protestors stormed the embassy. and destroyed that ame

the syrian people as well as with the out like the the outside world came from postings he made on facebook -- as well as with the outside world. demonstrating atrocities by the assad regime. with the state department actually published that content was over facebook. >> alec ross, in a recent article for cnn, you wrote that the 21st century is a terrible time to be a control freak. and it is. we live in a time where the kind of control that a ceo or secretary of state might have had 15, 20, 25 years ago -- the kind of control that that leader had then is gone, and it is not coming back. it used to be the case that most people got their news from the one newspaper that they read in the morning and the one tv news broadcast they watched at night. if you were able to effectively in a gauge that one newspaper or that one news broadcaster, then your message was out there and it was fine -- effectively engage. today, we live in a new cycle. our ability to control the information environment is gone, and how a government response to that -- either by fighting it or by understanding the universe o

shared both with the syrian people as well as with the outside world came from posting he made on facebook. even things like satellite photos demonstrating atrocity by the assad regime the way the state department published the comment was over facebook. >> host: you wrote that the 21ist seize i have a terrible time to be a control freak. >> guest: it is. we live in a time where the kind of control that a ceo or secretary of at a time might have had fifteen, twenty, twentd five years ago, that kind of control that leader had then is gone, and it's not coming back. it used to be the case that the most people got their news from the one newspaper they read in the morning and the one tv news broadcast they watched at night, and if you were able to effectively engage that one newspaper or that one news broadcast, your message was out there. it was fine. today we truly live in a 24/7 media cycle. our ability to control our information environment is gone. and how a government response that either by fighting it, or by understanding that universal connectiveness and the loss of control commute,

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so we posted it on facebook. many have sounded off. mind if i rest here for while. very cute and diana saying best pillow ever. and diana saying okay, i think we have got this ying yang thing down to the art. very cute. keep your comments coming. we are enjoying them and if you have a caption this photo idea, e-mail it to pix pix at wmar.com. >> you love those and are getting a lot of them. you're traffic reporter so you have to check this out. a high speed cross county chase happening in south florida ended with a dramatic crash. two women were hurt. but the injuries were not very severe. they say the car slammed into the back of them three suspects taken into custody. police say those suspects have actually burglarized two homes earlier in the day. a laptop computer and jewelry were found inside the car. but some pretty heart stopping moments caught on camera with the crash. >>> another crash to show you caught on camera. look at this. police security video captured this. a motorcyclist crashing into a utility pole in columbia. that's where they say that this man

everybody is talking about the multiple on facebook being so expensive. k for the rally on this news. a stock trading 30 times earnings there are a lot of companies that trade at much higher multiples than that. not everybody will trade like that. >> julie i want to go to you. we are saying here how investors are so excited that this might invigorate people. what was the mood there on the floor? >> reporter: i think the mood is very positive. you can hear there is a lot of talk as people exit the auditorium. i feel like we are hearing a fundamental shift in the way zuckerberg is talking aboutt the business. he was talking about his mission and how he wanted to change the world. this is really the first time we have heard zuckerberg talk about how making money is part of his job. he is paying attention to share holders and saying he relates to employees and their frustration. >> continuing to monitor the stock in the after hours session. can it hold this pop? we have a lot of other stories to cover including apple. could this be the new ipad? we are taking

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on press here. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm scott mcgrew. if you use facebook to find old friends and linkedin to find new jobs, what do you use to find a copy of the great gatsby at 10:00 at night the night before the book report is due? you can run from house to house asking the neighbors or do the very same thing on your computer using a new social network called neck door. it's kind of a craigslist meets facebook, a social network of neighborhoods. membership in nextdoor is restricted to people who can prove they live in your neighborhood. which means the conversations are ultra local. discussions about the new principal at the school or questions about why they're tearing up the streets and often warnings of a break-in that you'd never hear about on television or read about in the newspaper. >> both successful, occasionally controversial. he's the founder of next door, which is less than one year old and is growing quickly joined by tim mcnicholas of fortune, as well. let me start with this idea that i think facebook is vulnerable here. there is -- you can

sharing a picture from instagram appears the same as if he shared a photo on facebook. one of the things i like to do, i'd like to know our developer is personally and what to get to know the people doing great stuff on top of our platform. i spent a lot of time with kevin. over the course of our discussions, we build a road map of all the things we can do together but then the tensions started. they were starting to get a lot of distribution from facebook and for them, there was this question of how much do they want to bet on one company providing a huge amount of the distribution? on the flip side for us, there's this question of how much of a prayer as the kings. we have a slick of cool things we can do -- we have this list o all these cool things we can do. events in the i just bought up the india, maybe we should join in the one company. -- eventually i just bought up the idea, maybe we should join the same company. we want to help our users out with whatever we can. we have no agenda and terms of mechanics go into our ever structure. -- into our infrastructure. a

first of all, what are those people doing on facebook?ldn't happen on facebook. a public forum. the kind of stuff you should be doing face-to-face. the day before they said there were working an agreement and everything was working in the right direction. they didn't like with the imf was doing. unlike the conditions. >> behind closed doors. >> the presidential election on facebook. [laughter] >> why not? melissa: i guess one not. i'm wondering if this is real. i feel like there's something more. some aid is on facebook doing something or some -- i can't believe that real, serious people live there. >> we discussed this before we came out. major international monetary decisions on facebook. melissa: all right. thanks to both of you. >> thank you. melissa: the final stretch of the 2012 campaign is underway. fox business says president obama hopes it the election does not consent and the gas. >> coming up on the fourth anniversary of the milk down on wall street. the mccain obama race was fairly close until the financial of cricket. her

and in a bizarre twist, the suspect's emotional turmoil plaid out on facebook. thaxton posted, this life i'm living right now, i don't want anymore. i've lost everything. and i ain't getting it back. the post prompted others to send messages of hope, including one woman who wrote, there's always a storm before a blessing. it's never as bad as it seems. >> it is showing that people are concerned about his well-being. >> reporter: even thaxton's mother was baffled by the incident. >> i don't know. like i said, i want my son -- >> reporter: the drama eventually ended peacefully and without injury, as thaxton, a former army private, surrendered to police. according to published reports, the young man has a criminal background and a history of mental troubles. police eventually took down thaxton's facebook page, calling the posts distractions, as negotiators tried to coax the man back from the breaking point. >> it's a blessing that no one was injured. no life was taken. >> reporter: during the standoff, more than 700 of thaxton's friends responded to his posts, which

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you are on facebook. john, on facebook.on twitter as well. >> i look twitter the. >> you have more followers on twitter than we do. >> better on twitter than facebook. >> celebrating 60,000 fans. some of the things we post on facebook, "the skinny," "the mix," nfl competition that we just kicked off yesterday, we're looping in our fans as well. you can definitely ent ainterac vote. participate, the whole point of this page. >> we have been asking people to tweet pictures and let us know why you are up in the middle of the night. want to show some of the photos. major, tweeted this photo. he works on his fitness getting his life in order early in the morning. >> love this one. spackle watches "world news now," with his cats, while rocking the insomnia. >> and vulker, nice name, has a 4-year-old daughter sage, the whole family tunes in. >> curlysue. beats insomnia watching, "world news now" with a cold beer the. >> if people want to send in their photos what do they do. a use the hash tag wnnfans. >> send it to abc on twit te

facebook. we do have one -- we do have some facebook representative in the audience. >> can you reveal yourself, please? all your data. everything about you. can we have a time line? >> there is a bit of hypocrisy on your part. you listed on your blog where you're going to be every day, almost every hour. put your twitter screenname on the cover of your book. you're writing by your trips to london and your experiences there. isn't this exhibitionist? >> i grew up a in england. i wrote the book against social networking. particularly against facebook. i gave google the benefit of the doubt in this book. what we did at the publishers, we thought let's have some fun. an anti-facebook book but let's put my twitter handle on the front because it would annoy guys like you. my book, it is not against technology. it is not saying we should not be on this network. in the first chapter, i struggle with the issue many of us a struggle with. i have to be on twitter. it built lybrand, it provided to events like this. -- it builds my brand, it provides me to eventslike -- events like this. let me explain. i

mark zucker work on a feature of facebook. then offer an internet occupy nor andrew keen on the status social media. after that, and look at some of the 9/11 more gills held this week. -- memorials held this week. mark zuckerberg says his social network of stock performance has been disappointing. he sat down to talk about the future of baseball -- of facebok book. and this is about 35 minutes. >> please join me in welcoming to the stage facebook founder mark zuckerberg and techcrunch founder michael arrington. [applause] they already yelling. >> what is that? did i mess up already? there are a few more people in here. i think they want to hear what you have to say. welcome to techcrunch. >> thank you for having me perplexed and this venue probably looks familiar. -- thank you for having me. >>this venue look probably looked familiar. >> you get more people in here that we do. >> are you ready? a few questions to start. he went public on may 18th and the stock has lost half its value roughly. >> just get right into it. [laughte

the suspect was posting updates on his facebook page where his friends tried to intervene. abc's rob nelson is here with more on this bizarre story. rob? >> reporter: it is bizarre. good morning, guys. it was a mix of terror and technology in that building yesterday, as a former military man seemingly snapped, leaving a trail of disturbing status updates along the way. outside this downtown pittsburgh office building, a routine friday morning suddenly turned into chaos. panicked employees evacuated, streets closed, and an army of police cars out front. >> one girl was crying. some man was in there, thinking they were getting robbed. you know how there was just pandemonium. >> reporter: inside this man, 22-year-old klein michael thaxton, had walked in about 8:00 a.m., claiming to have a bomb and a gun, and taking a company ceo hostage. the incident triggered a six-hour ordeal, with negotiators trying to talk thaxton down. and in a bizarre twist, the suspect's emotional turmoil during the standoff played out on facebook. in one message shortly after entering the building, thax

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please follow me with social media on twitter and you can also find be on facebook. let's check on traffic with angela. >> we have problems. on the inner loop, george washington parkway, b-w parkway the ramp is completely closed with an accident. -- gw parkway. folks making the drive on river road, an earlier crash causing tieups for folks trying to exit to the inner loop from river road. if you are squeezing by the accident scene. that will cause slowdowns for you. the cautious. and the earlier crash this morning on 270 is still causing a major jam southbound from urbana down throughout124. you are on the brakes. the crash is on the side of the road as you pass 118. back to you. >> thank you. the nfl replacement referees. >> there's encouraging news on that. and we're watching housing reports. >> good morning. home prices keep heading higher. steady increases in 20 big cities. prices were up 1.2% in july compared to a year ago. the housing numbers are helping fuel consumer confidence. confidence is at its highest level since february. consumer spending drives 70% of

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on his facebook page a siberian tiger like the one crushing his ankle and biting his body. >> he has some fascination with tigers. it is on his facebook page. >> indeed a former classmate informed of his odd behavior. >> recently i saw some stuff he wrote on facebook and it seemed strange. >> he faced most of the serious injuries from the fall rather than the tiger. he collapse the a lung on impact. he did succeed in be coming one with the die ger but zoo officials say the tiger didn't want him dead or he would have been. >> hehe used a fire extinguisher. they told him to rollover the electrified fence and role under the fence up. >> he also told police "everyone in life makes choices. this choice nearly killed him." >> now maryland's most accurate forecast. >> let's take you here. amend of sunshine and clouds for most of the air noon and temperatures struggling to get to 70 for daytime highs. we'll see these fall back rapidly into the 40s and 50s for tonight. here is the shot downtown as the sun sets. we sit at 66 degrees. that what is bringing in the cool air over canada at this ho

. >>> have you sent a personal message on facebook you wouldn't want others to see? be honest? in just a minute the glitch that could be making some of those private conversations very public. >> and on the wmar app now for the i-phone and android. laurel 45 degrees, this is the radar showing scattered showers and colorado but that may be a problem by wednesday. your full forecast coming up. >> and an investigation into a moving company accused of holding the customer's possessions hostage. those and more when we come back. . >>> some facebook users thought they found a glitch on the site claiming published some of their private messages on timelines. face bike said that's not the case. the reports started in france where people saw old posts being feature. facebook said it pulled them from the old public comments and didn't publish private messages. this is a hot topic and make us wonder, how embarrassed would you be if your private messages on facebook were posted? leave your thoughts on our facebook page, at abc 2news.com/facebook. >>> a major step forward in the fight agains

when you send a facebook message to the friend you expect them tonight only one goat it. some international facebook users fear a bug he can posed their private messages to public users. they reported the messages were showing up on their timelines. facebook says this is not the case. messages in question were actually old wall posts from before the facebook timeline interfaced was used in the first place. >>> look for extra cash for the holiday season, toys r us are hiring. the toy company is hiring 5,000 more holiday workers this year compared to last year. they plan to add 45,000 temporary employees nationwide. toys r us says the extra help will be around through new years and possibly lead to full- time employment. >>> this is not something that you expect to see floating in the water. stay with us this morning. we will tell you why 150 pound of marijuana was in the ocean and how beachgoers got involved getting the water clean again. plan d known -- plan b called the morning after pill. a district causes controversy this morning for anding ute out without the okay the

facebook page. we post six, seven, eight things a day on our facebook page. case you don't use facebook, here's something we posted this week about former governor tim pawlenty quitting the romney campaign to become a bank lobbyist. look at this line here, that's the anyone of people who liked that post, who clicked the thumbs up and told their facebook friend that they liked what we post good tim pawlenty. this number here, that's the number of people who have commented on the post. anybody can comment on anything we post, and we really do read the comments. look at this. right there. that is the number of times people shared this thing about tim pawlenty with their friends. that means they essentially reposted what we posted on their own facebook pages. so the post go from living on our page to living on your page with just a click of that "share" button. that's an important metric. these are all important metrics about how much people are interested in something, how valuable they think it is to know that thing. as you see, the tim pawlenty quitting the ro

if you like us on facebook, click the win $49,000 button on the page, and like facebook.com at abc-7ews. >> alan: we'll announce the winner right after the san francisco 49ers take on the seattle seahawks, right here on abc-7. >> ama: all right. a lot of excitement in the sports world tonight. we love or giants. >> mike: we do. a little bit of everything. the champagne was on ice and the g men to had to win to clinch the national league west, and how sweet it is, the giants win their second n.l. west title in the last three years. that brings back memories. hi >> mike: the giants clinched their second national league west title with a win over the padres at at&t park. with buster posey the only remaining player not on the mound. sandoval, seals it. look out. flips over the fence. it's worth another luck. still has time to blow a bubble. that's a lot of pablo landing in your lap. bottom four, scutaro, what a pickup he has been. shines a single to center. the two brandons score, belt and crawford. giants have a 5-cushion. eight inning of, bab don belts to opposite field. giants up 8-4,

you can play games all the time, and you'll get mentioned on facebook. the other thing. lem we get to is, are any of these real? are there guerrilla marketing campaigns going on making these things happen? we never know when we see likes on facebook. it's hard to think the things on facebook are anything other than a culture of the very young. >> what is the most surprising retail story so far this year? >> wow! the most surprising retail story has to be the huge things going on at jcpenney, right? i was down there yesterday. completely renovated company. the most change ever in the history of retailing. >> and it's going to be good for the stock? >> no. it's not going to be good for the stock. it's still the most change in the history of retailing. >> as we saw earlier. the stock is down by 10% right now on some comments from the ceo. always good to have you on the show. >>> next, a most awesome end to the show. it is the beer milk shake. it is here, and it will be devoured. up. a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back

in facebook, let's move on. shutterfly. we'll have a new camera in the iphone and new photo sharing feature. that may not necessarily be good news for shutterfly. see the immediate move to the downside but it's since moved back up to just about where it was prior to the announcement being made. finally one i'm still curious about is yelp. maybe brian can tell us if anything's going on. yelp is supposed to be part of that new apple map feature that's in there. it is supposed to be prominently featured. the stock has moved down in the last few minutes. maybe we can get some clarification on what's going on there. finally want to show you something independently. abercrombie & fitch was briefly halted. there was a volatility trading clause here at the new york stock exchange. you can see now it moved up and it is still moving on the up side. we understand there were reports out that they have hired goldman sachs in response to pressure from activist advisors. that's moving that stock up rather notably here about 6%. >> i'm gla

of our children i know chris can take full responsibility for his actions. >>> faking and death on facebook and the supposed victim as 7 year old boy reporter michelle g. lee on what may have been the motive >>> i dunno why they have feel bad for them >>> a cruel individual to great eight separate facebook pages and clamed a little fulton boy killed in an accident when he is a life. it has happened to have the air ramirez. i met his distraught mother at the fullerton police department she showed as page after page of condolence on facebook for the second grader. thousands of responses as well as pictures posted including a video of the dancing boy. she does not on a computer and has no idea who would have done this. >>> i'm still like why my son, he's only 7 years old, he does not understand, he told me yesterday mom i'm going to die? he is scared >>> she says in one of the posts a plea for donations which has been taken down. >>> somebody out there utilizing a tragic situation that never occurred to play on the emotions and get a financial gain we take it seriously and investigate. >>> he

it's a post on facebook and twitter. and it's made a big difference. have found several of the children. >> you have actually found children from this? >> absolutely. >> this has to be one of the most rewarding parts you do. >> when i think about this in ret retrospect once my career is over, finding the children when i know the show directly contributed to it, it's a special moment. >> and this speaks to the role of black media in terms of leadership. >> yeah. >> people actually looking to you and to offer advice and insight and leadership on these issues. how do you feel about that relationship? >> this whole process started with me years ago when i was driving trains on the south side of chicago. all the things you see happening with trayvon and others, the seeds were planted long ago. you plant the seeds now you'll be surprised what manifests later. >> how do you make sense of this? in so many ways your story doesn't make sense. about somebody who was an unpaid intern and now suddenly you have eight, nine million listeners all over the world. >> i