mary frances berry, when did the u.s. civil rights commission began and why? >> guest: well, the civil rights commission started in 1957. president eisenhower had a lot of discussions with john foster dulles, secretary of state about the way the united states is seen around the world because of the racism going on, that people

mary frances berry, when did the u.s. civil rights commission began and why? >> guest: well, the civil rights commission started in 1957. president eisenhower had a lot of discussions with john foster dulles, secretary of state about the way the united states is seen around the world because of the racism going on, that people would hear about and read about and the fact that there seemed to be a lot of episodes that kept happening, whether as lynching or some discrimination taking place in the country. so the idea was eisenhower said he was going to ask congress to set up a civil rights commission, which would put the facts on top of the table. i'm told by one of the people who was at the meeting that he slammed the table and said there are the facts on top of the table. and commission says we know who do policy sometimes set up because there's a tough problem and people don't want to do anything about it. they get a report on it goes away. this commission was supposed to put the facts on top of the table and then its future would depend on what i found out,

government's failings in the war in thoroanistan. ...n w well-known face for c-span viewers mary frances berry professor at the university of pennsylvania also of the author of several books. we're at the university of pennsylvania to talk to her about and justice for all. the united states commission on civil rights in the continuing struggle for freedom in america quote. when did this all rights commission begin? >> 1957. president eisenhower had a lot of discussion with john foster dulles the secretary of state because of the races around the world people would hear about and read about and the fact there seemed to be episodes whether lynching or discrimination in the country. eisenhower said he would ask congress to set up a civil-rights commission to put the facts on the table and i am told by someone at the meeting he slammed the table and they will put the facts on the table. policy is sometimes said up because there is a tough problem is that the report then they go away but in the future would depend on what it found out and how aggressive it was in the public thought about it. >>host

i was happy when berry brought in gene. i stayed cause i love being on stage.hat i am doing something everything -- time i wake up, i am happy. i am a happy person. that is why i continued on hoping i could develop my talent and people would like me. now, to answer your question. let's talk about this. now i am doing things that i really love. i the supreme songs but i am -- she did the hits and that is what i am still going on. i have learned how to sing jazz. i say learned how to sing because this is what i do best. i do ballads. i believe in chasing dreams and placing bets ♪ and after all the learning i found my own niche as mary wilson and that is singing ballads. i produced this album, "the jazz show." i do this all over the world. tavis: you do pop and r&b all those years and you end up in a jazz. >> that is what i do. i was on line via the day and people talk about me like a dog. let me tell you. they say mary cannot sing or do this and i have found out what i know i can do. i am not like my favorite singer like to read the franklin -- lyn.ha franklh i w

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it's more of a dingle berry hanging off canada's -- (laughter). >> indiana's a great place to send jobsit's got the weather of north dakota and the racial harmony of mississippi! (laughter) >> indiana didn't take michigan's jobs, all right? michael moore ate them! (laughter) >> jon: now that both indiana and michigan have the exact same right to work laws, though, how are you going to differentiate yourselves? >> right to work? jon, come on, that is so 11 months ago. indiana's latest pro-business measure is the workplace safety act. any business that relocates here gets to dump whatever they want wherever they want for free. lakes, rivers, wetlands. they take all factories toxic slurry. >> jon: you call that workplace safety act. >> studies show poisoning the environments cuts workplace beaver bites down to zero. no more raccoon maulings or slipping on the o *d toad on a factory floor. dow chemical is very interesting. >> that's no match for michigan's latest pro-business measure. work force education. >> jon: yeah, i'm going to guess that's not really educating workers, is it? >> it's

i'm lynn berry. well, this week president obama put syrian leader bashar al assad on notice specifically about the use of chemical weapons, and now we know why. pentagon sources tell nbc news syria is preparing chemical weapons for their possible use against the syrian people in the form of aerial bombs. >> reporter: as the fighting grows more intense and syrian rebels close in on damascus, the syrian regime has turned increasingly desperate. u.s. officials tell nbc news the syrian military has now loaded the precursor chemicals for seron nerve gas into aerial bombs that could be dropped from dozens of syrian fighter bombers. this week u.s. intelligence detected a flurry of activity at chemical weapons site, like this one near homs. while u.s. officials confirmed the precursor chemicals are loaded and they must be mixed together to get the sarin gas. president obama and hillary clinton issued strong warning to syria's president bashar al assad. >> it's the point of no return. they're going to lose an

i'm lynn berry. we're going to start with breaking news out of japan. a strong 7.3 earthquake has struck off the country's northeast coast beneath the sea bed. it shook buildings as far as tokyo and warnings were issued for miyagi prefecture. there's no risk for a widespread tsunami. we'll bring you the very latest. >>> elsewhere, all eyes are on cairo this morning as turmoil has once again overtaken egypt's capitol, this time in response to a political explosive power grab by the president, mohammed morsi. right now army tanks surround the presidential palace as thousands of protesters shout topple the regime, the same chant heard during the regime of hosni mubarak. in a tv show morsi said absolute powers he granted himself will expire with a vote on december 15th but that did little to silence his opponents who plan a million man march in cairo's tahrir square. >>> at a university in dublin hillary clinton called for dialogue to ease the unrest in egypt. >> we call on all the stakeholders in egypt to settle their differences through discussion and deb

it takes up to 33 kilograms of raw coffee berries to produce 1 kilogram of black ivory coffee. this year, only 70 kilograms were produced. this entrepreneur has been developing the plan for the past nine years. he studied production of southeast asia's famous svette coffee using beans digested by small ma'ams. he honed his skills in indonesia but the spread of the sars virus forced him to rethink. >> what's an animal that will be large enough for production, safe enough for me to get close to, that's accessible and that has a single stomach so the beans aren't going to get destroyed. that's when i thought an elephant made sense. >> reporter: elephants are herbivores. they're able to ferment the coffee better, giving it a fruity taste. 8% of sales go towards caring for the ephants. the mahuts welcome the extra income. >> translator: making the coffee is easier than roaming the streets, performing for money. the elephants just have to do what comes naturally to make money now. >> there's always going to be an element of some humor to it but if i wanted this to be a joke, i would

[ laughter ] [ applause ] >> i would come home from school, and my mother would make blue berry pie.r ] [ applause ] >> and i would sneak some of the pie. she would say did you sneak the pie? and i said no i didn't sneak the pie, but i had blue berry all over my face. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> that's how i feel about republicans. oh, no we can't wreck the economy, but they got blue berry all over their face. [ laughter ] >> jennifer: that's awesome. was it hard to get so many great comics to participate so quickly, really? >> well i know a lot of these people. for the past 30 years we have been working at being hand-up comics. a lot of us started back in the day. i picked up the phone, not one person said no jon stewart, denis leary, susie essman, daryle hammond -- a lot of people just said yes, and i thought it was a great thing they did. >> jennifer: a totally great thing. you have a great big heart. i really appreciate you coming on to tell our current viewers about it. joy behar host of current tv's say anything. and you can catch her comics with benefits show with friday nigh

black berry 10 and otheryl 2 measures will get us there.i'm hopeful that in the near future, we'll be turning back profitibility. >> stocks took a big hit, lawmakers could not come to an agreement on the budget. the presz did say though, adl<Ñ few hours ago, he hopes they'll have a deal before the end of the year, your bloomberg silicon valley index also down. in san francisco, back to you guys. >> thank you so much, john. >> all right. let's move on to weather and just a ton of rain. looks like it's going to be that way for a while. >> yes. sog let's check out a live picture now. so much to talk about. and there is an ominous scene there. we do have sfo reporting over three hour delays. gusting winds now at 38 miles per hour out of the south. you'll see where the rain is falling. it's letting up in parts of the bay area, not as intense, but not everywhere. looking at napa highway 29 we're seeing moderate to heavy rain, third avenue, you can see here redwood road. towards east bay, out towards east bay, union city, niles boulevard, 84 there

(cantan) (aplausos) >>> y le explico por qué, porque es alejandro berry y nos parece very, very good.enfica, y está a punto de romper el record de gerd muller, pero afortunadamente parece que el golpe que tuvo con el arquero fue solamente eso. >>> ayer hizo trabajo de recuperación en la ciudad deportiva y dicen que no entrenará con el equipo hasta mañana sábado. >>e> l barcelona le quedan 4 partidos en la liga en este año para que lionel messi haga un gol y empate el record de muller. >>> lo que dicen que solamente sufrió una fuerte contusión con el portero el día miércoles en el partido de la champions league, ahora vamos a hablar de atlético madrid ante victoria. >>> claro que sí, porque se jugó la última ronda en la fase de la europa league, el atlético madrid ante el victoria plzen había que ver cuál era el primero y cuál el segundo, después de una gran jugada, vaclab prozcyaska así para el 1 a 0 y el atlético madrid que pierde y va como segundo, y esto implica que puede enfrentar a un rival de mucha jerarquía. >>> ahora vamos con napoles, señores. >>> así es, que recibió al psv d

i'm lynn berry. there is a renewed sense urgency in washington as house members returned to town today with just 21 days left to avert that so-called fiscal cliff, and if the framework for an agreement isn't reached by the end of the week, lawmakers could be spending christmas in d.c. tracie potts has those good morning. >>> the president sitting down with john boehner, the staff sitting behind closed door, but today republican members come back to capitol hill and boehner may have a problem. >> all these members are going to come back to town, and they're going to want to play a role in these negotiations. >> the house is back today. that means conservative republicans who insist the wealthy keep this year's tax breaks could put the squeeze on their own party. that's the one thing president obama refuses to bend on. otherwise he says he's flexible. >> i understand, you know, people have a lot of different views. i'm willing to compromise a little bit. >> so are some republicans to save tax breaks fo

reserve we're only sanitary logging of disease trees is allowed according to law and not a single berry can be picked the longest like this use their sanitary logging permit to cut down absolutely healthy trees and sell the profitable timber over the border in china we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy to forests or it's in our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dream but as soon as we find fall it tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off. anderson morning call has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers leadership so it's easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that they've twelve's the tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team s

i'm lynn berry. this week president obama puts syrian leader bahsar al assad on notice about the use of chemical weapons. and now we know why. pentagon sources tell nbc news that syria is preparing chemical weapons for the possible use against the military people in the form of aerial bombs. jim miklaszewski reports. >> reporter: as the fighting grows more intense and syrian rebels close in on damascus, the syrian regime has turned increasingly desperate. u.s. officials tell nbc news the syrian military loaded the precursor chemicals for sarn nerve gas into aerial bombs. that could be dropped from dozens of syrian fighter bombers. this week u.s. intelligence detected a flurry of activity at chemical weapons sites like this one. while u.s. officials confirm the precursor chemicals are loaded, they must still be mixed together to create the deadly sarin gas. the development shook the world. president obama and secretary of state hillary clinton issued strong warnings to syria's president assad that the

i'm lynn berry. and the hustle and bustle of the holiday season took a terrifying turn in portland, oregon, yesterday, when a masked gunman stormed into a busy shopping mall and opened fire, killing two people, injuring another before apparently turning the gun on himself. nbc's kirk gregory has the chilling details. >> reporter: a day of holiday shopping turned into a horrific afternoon of terror when a gunman opened fire inside a crowded suburban portland mall. >> we started receiving calls at 3:30, multiple 911 calls. we responded quickly. >> reporter: several store employees locked themselves in break rooms and bathrooms until police could arrive. >> many people locked in place, many people ran. those are the two most appropriate things to do in these circumstances. >> reporter: shaken family members waited anxiously for news as police worked to secure the mall and search for victims. >> i just want to hug her and i want her to get out. >> reporter: eyewitnesses describe a chaotic scene. >> i hea

i'm lynn berry and we start with breaking news out of japan. a strong 7.3-magnitude earthquake has struck off the country's northeastern coast. that's the same region hit by last year's massive earthquake and tsunami. well, this morning's quake shook buildings as far as tokyo, and there are reports of a three-foot tsunami in the miyagi prefecture. the u.s. geological survey says there's no risk of a widespread tsunami, and so far, there have been no news of injuries or damage. of course, we're going to keep an eye on any aftershocks that occur and we'll bring you the very latest. >>> well, elsewhere, all eyes are on cairo this morning as turmoil has once again overtaken egypt's capital. this time, it's in response to a politically explosive power grab by the democracy's president, mohamed morsi. right now, soldiers are setting up barricades as morsi's opponents plan a million man march in cairo's tahrir square later today. last night, army tanks surrounded the presidential palace as thousands of protesters waved flags and shouted "topple the re

ere can be other hearings in the future, also. >> and, congressman thorn berry, how about you?w there would will be a closed briefing for some members. also the pluck hearings do you think you will make progress this week? >> i think we will make progress. there are still a the of unanswered questions. some of those issues involve security preparations before the attack some of those questions involve who did what during the attack. some of those questions involve the political spin or the way it was portrayed after the attack. i think this week is really focused on the preparations before the attack. there is going to be report of a commission and they will tell us what they found. but at some point i think it's understandable that the foreign affairs committee and the house would want to hear from the secretary of state directly about diplomatic security generally and about the situation in libya in particular it. >> there are also along with the international issues that you were looking into, domestic issues as well, most notably the fiscal cliff that's coming. congressman,

berry's fiance.yers for the actress and gabriel aubry say they've reached an amicable agreement in their custody battle for nahla. aubry also dropped the restraining order against berry's fiance, olivier martinez. >>> and finally, a different kind of tree lighting this holiday season. check this out. a chinese artist set off a series of explosions inside a 40-foot pine tree on the national mall on friday. but it was a bit of a dud. you see there. shifting winding ruined the intended effect. >> it looked like it blew up. >> it's a long story. believe me. it will take the rest of this half hour to explain that one. it didn't work. >>> time, now, for the weather. over to ginger zee. >> i have maybe more holiday-appropriate pictures to start with. in atlantic city, the weather will be almost perfect. low-40s. this is from the city kicking off its holiday light show, called winter sweets. these pictures are a sneak peek of the show, that projects spectacular 3d holiday images on the boardwalk hall. the sh

[ male announcer ] dannon oikos berry flavors beat chobani 2 to 1 in a national taste test.reek yogurt. possibly the best yogurt in the world. this is america. we don't let frequent heartburn come between us and what we love. so if you're one of them people who gets heartburn and then treats day after day... block the acid with prilosec otc and don't get heartburn in the first place! [ male announcer ] one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. in a shopping cart that was rolling out of control down a hill in toward a highway. the incident happened in a store parking lot in wisconsin. this video captured it all from the dashboard camera of a wisconsin officer >> my immediate reaction was it was traveling fast so i knew there was no option to stop the cart but i had to do something to try to stop traffic >> the officer was able to stop trafficking and recover the baby had returned safely to its mother. police say she was putting her other child in the car when the shopping cart rolled away >> well -- we escaped the mayan apocalypse that was supposed to end the world yes

but i love these shots they have, the slo-mo of the water spraying, and the berries popping all overlace. >> yeah, it's a cool visual, the last place i would expect to see a wakeboarder. >> snow skis in vail, colorado. you're having a pretty weird day if you're skiing in vail and you see this -- look at this figure on the left, that's not a skier -- >> what is that? >> it's a bull. >> oh, a bull moose. i thought you were talking about somebody's cow that got out from down the road. that makes a little more sense. so a bull moose. >> it's funny to say. >> but that thing could send a skiier or snow border flying. >> that guy has to idea there's a 1,000 pound animal behind him. >> i think so, i think he was just trying to high tail it out of there. >>> kitty gets catnip. ♪ ♪ >>> cue the pomp and circumstance, it's commencement time in allendale. people usualliment to make it memorable, i haven't quite ever seen anything like this before. >> congratulations to kelly eli elise fricken' awesome. >> yeah! >> she is pumped up that she pulled off the prank, and the crowd loves it. >> i want t

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berry says honest conversations that are age appropriate will help ease your child's fears. younger children might have more trouble understanding. >> so for those children, it's really important to try and limit their exposure to these events you all the news coverage, and to more importantly to reassure to them the safety of their environment. >> reporter: older children are have a greater understanding and want to know more of the specifics. she says be open with them and stress the isolated nature of this event. >> this is a random isolated event and it could happen to anyone anywhere though it most likely will not. >> it's not a normal person that will go into an elementary school and shoot it up methodically. >> reporter: be calm and reassure your kids that there are a lot of people looking out to make sure they're safe. so listen to your kids tonight. let them talk about their feelings. keep in mind, they will be paying close attention to the moods of the adults around them. try to maintain a normal routine and reassure children that school is a safe place. some kids

. >> parent groups say this company has gone to far on a berry with "merry christmas" b word and a back in with what happens when you party tpha *eg naked and slang for captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org . >> stephen: tonight, a new threat from north korea. how will mach eye and klinger hand this will one? (laughter) then, can homosexuality be cured? and what will that mean for bravo's ratings? (laughter) plus, my guest, author malcolm gladwell wrote the forward the new yorker's "big book of dogs." i wonder if "dog fancy" has a "big book of gladwells." (laughter) it's now legal to carry a concealed weapon in all 50 states. so if you are in one of them, be careful. (laughter) this is "the colbert report" (cheers and applause) (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome, ladies and gentlemen! (audience chanting "stephen") (cheers and applause) >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the "report," folks, thank you for joining us. it's great to be me. nation, it's a special time of the year. we've been looking forward

. >> parent groups say this company has gone to far on a berry with "merry christmas" b word and a back in with what happens when you party tpha *eg naked and slang for captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ oh merry ♪ ♪ ♪ (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome to the report, thank you for joining us! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! (cheers and applause) thank you, ladies and gentlemen. thank you so much, folks. there is tons of excitement in the air tonight. it is the final night of hobbit week. (cheers and applause) i'm so excited, folks. i'm so excited about tonight's show, i have been camping outside my studio since 5 a.m. dressed as my favorite character. tonight's guest director peter jackson. (cheers and applause) who has requested that tonight's interview be broken into three parts and aired every december until 2014. you know, folks, it's just been a great week. and spending time wit

it's very blues, it's very, like, chuck berry-style, but a% lot of rock guys are using it now.s. >> there you go. that's all you need to know is that bass players can only handle four strings. i believe this is called the explorer. james hetfield -- that's that kind of stuff -- metallica. the sound of the guitar depends on the wood and how much -- how heavy it is, how much wood is involved in the guitar, and, yes, it does affect the tone. i prefer more wood. that's why i like the single cutaway of the les paul. now, this should never be used unless your name is jimmy page. if ever -- i do not want to see anyone that isn't jimmy page with this because this is the "stairway to heaven" guitar. if you buy one, put it at home, hang it on the wall, and look at it. acoustics are harder to play than the electrics because the action and the width of the neck is a different style. that's the acoustic room, but i -- i don't... >> brittany: okay. >> and that's the gibson beverly hills showroom, and i hope you learned something. >> brittany: thank you so much for all your time. it's been gr

kaffa's coffee berries grow wild in the dense forests of ethiopia which are also known for their striking widlife. but in the past decades, these forests have shrunk to only 3% of their original size. we now take a look at local efforts to preserve the environment and the traditional way of life in this coffee growing region. >> sometimes, the kafa region stays shrouded in mist all day. here in southwestern ethiopia, the forests provide locals with their livelihoods. growing wild here in the undergrowth is the region's main source of income -- coffee. right now it's harvest season -- aregash ago ambo and her sons are off to a part of the forest where they're allowed to pick coffee. it's such a precious resource, there are strict rules on who can harvest the coffee and exactly how much. >> if it weren't for the forest, the coffee plants would get sick and die. the forest also determines the weather. without the forest, there would be no rain. >> for years, mesfin tekle has been working on conservation projects that ensure the cloud forest can continue to thrive. >> the project's value for

. >>> the gobble melt, pot roast and bilbo's berry smoothie, all things found on the denny's "hobbit"enu that they created in honor of "the hobbit" movie. >> sometimes you need elevensies? >> ten items. somebody had to try to eat them all. that somebody, 36-year-old competitive eater, jamie the bear m dey' notice in the background he's got this ipad there. he actually forgot to hit the timer, but -- you see eventually he does. he's timing himself to consume 8,610 calories, 426 grams of fat in less than 20 minutes. >> oh. >> run down a couple thing on this menu. the shire sausage skillet, ring burger, dwarfs turkey and dressing dinner, gale rad gast puppies, cookie milk shake. it's drinks, it's heavy desserts. it's breakfast stuff, onion rings, it's everything, and this guy tries to eat it all. i do have to say we see a lot of these competitive eating videos but a lot of times there's cuts and edits. what i like about this guy, the clock is returning behind him. it's one continuous shot all of these -- looks like he saved some pancakes and part of that smoothie at the end to wash thing

berry says be open with them and stress that this is an isolated incident. to make note it's not just san francisco unified school district that will be offering services today. we know that other districts across the bay area will be having counselors on site, as well. we're live in san francisco. cate caugiran, cbs 5. >>> president obama told mourners the time has come to find ways to prevent such violent acts in the future. and, of course, gun control was a big issue in the early 1990s. when congress enacted a 10-year ban on assault weapons. now, that ban expired in 2004. some capitol hill democrats are calling for new gun control legislation and california senator dianne feinstein has a bill in the works. >> it will ban the sale, the transfer, the importation, and the possession not retroactively but prospectively and it will ban the same for big cliff drums or strips of more than 10 bullets. >> as for the weapons used in friday's shootings, they were legally purchased by adam lanza's mother, who was among the victims. >>> for continuing coverage of this