applause ] >> i want to give a big thanks, i want to do a couple big thanks and one is to my friend alvin padilla who showed up here 3 years ago and i have to say that he's been an inspiration to me and all of us have touched hands with alvin and the tenderloin economic development project. so, it's all of us working together, the non-profit housing group, the arts community, that we should be as our show is titled the whole pie. thank you. [ applause ] thank you very much, joe. before we bring up our final speaker, i want you to know the whole pie is a function of our people. i want to thank amy cohen, our staff from economic enforcement and to the san francisco police department, especially captain for all the extraordinary work they do. to laurie from the luggage store. laurie, at work and jackie from the hospitality house and director to ensure the programming is available here for folks. to mary' from the california community loan fund and of course to the godmother of the arts kerry schulman and the san francisco arts commission tom mccaneey. now our final speaker, i would like to m

game still has teamed up with a double sink is that what these twenty somethings on field play at the alvin and eighty eight com afford to pay for heating or the family stopping to feed the kids and they consider it the responsibility to make things better when so few of them. they're proud of when they come from here in new jersey. adam ellie was born here. he works for his parents moving company. but today the twenty seven year old ace in transporting furniture the fruit which he and his team have collected often when people move house they leave behind cans or other package too. shares of forty percent of the last twenty years. people just roll it and it's even more so when people are relocating the last thing that people think that i went into been thinking about making sure that their furniture in their tv either dvd player gets a new one piece. what's in and says is often the last thing thought about. the two drops of what he's collected today here foodstuffs are distributed to soup kitchens or directly to poor families in new jersey. i still own right. thank you so much that i feel.

the situation in syria now these reports are absolutely harrowing eighty people killed burned in alvin's used as human shields you have contacts on the ground in syria is the situation as bad as it sounds yes it very much is as bad as it sounds what we are seeing is as the syrian army enjoys increasing success on the ground against the rebels and taking back a series of towns in particular surrounding damascus the main high read connecting damascus to attack here in the north the rebels are growing ever more desperate for wearing a scorched earth policy which lays bare the objective of turning the country into a graveyard for both muslim and non muslim alike vests oversea makes all the more imperative that they defeat it and i didn't wait to this particular atrocity is the announcement just recently made by the british and u.s. governments that they have ceased the describers known lethal lead to diffuse sitting on me this is a clear acknowledgement that what we are seeing is no of revolution in any meaningful sense this is an invasion by islamists and sunni fundamentalists sponsored don

now people put in alvin's entire families kidnapped christians and executed these horrifying reports come to r.t. from the town of north of the syrian capital which has been occupied by islamist rebel groups at least eighty people are said to have been massacred by the rebels but as a syrian army continues to liberate the city that number is expected to rise our crew spoke to some of the survivors. when dawn was breaking over address the al nusra front and the army of islam gave a signal for their fighters to attack they came in hundreds making use of bad weather and the element of surprise over government forces you to say yeah after fierce fighting with the syrian army the rebel factions achieve their objectives with the city soon falling into the hands of those who the residents of the city have dubbed the decapitated hours that. their friend of mine told me that he claimed he was insane in order to save his life and avoid the militants they believe just story and let him go he also said his children have been emotionally scarred from the savage acts they have seen on the road bet

the boat we're now in chalice alvin gerhardt is speaking out now against the t.s.a. after agents snapped his rare cello in to the cello was a one of a kind heinrich's pumps prosecutors were looking for a lengthy jail sentence after sixteen year old ethan couch got there in the will the pickup truck with a point two four blood alcohol level three times the legal limit in value in his bloodstream for pedestrians killing them including a mother and her daughter but instead couch got probation because his lawyer basically argued the couch was suffering from affluenza i spoke to a member of the secret service asked him why the extra security he said that this is in response to the tragedy that happened today in boston and even just walking around the city you can get a sense i saw members of law enforcement with bomb sniffing dogs so clearly a heightened sense of security here and this is this tradition is very much for having guns and having a position that is a type. and i think that they do this because it's a knee jerk reaction to having to deal with the reality that

police confirmed 51-year-old alvin oliver frazier had been a patient at the facility and complained abouted 2010 surgery. he killed one doctor and injured another before killing himself. >>> san francisco health officials have issued an alert to people who ate or drank at the com stock saloon in north beach. a food handler there diagnosed with help stiet -- hepatitis a, on the 12, 15th and 19th. the risk of exposure is low, but they're asking people who ate there on those dates to get tested, just to be on the safe side. >>> a san francisco man charged with murder in a 2012 stabbing has been acquitted of all charged. the jury found 47-year-old howard frazier acted in self-defense. the jury says his attacker, 54-year-old luther robinson iii had previously bullied and threatened him before the fatal stabbing. this is based on six weeks before the confrontation, when robinson chased assaulted frazier with a club, threatening to kill him. frazier testified he tried to diffuse the conflict by talking to his brother, but to no avail. frazier stabbed robinson once with a pocket knife. >>> the ka

a judge denied bail for 27-year-old conrad alvin barrett because of how vicious it was.is victim is a 79-year-old black man whose name has not been released. he cap you are toured the insurance -- he captured the incident on his cell phone camera. james rosen has more. >> at least 25 times in the last two years cowardly urban thugs have snuck up on innocent vehicle times and knocked them unconscious with a single blow and fled the scene. now for the first time the knockout game, a sadistic crime with no sporting element to it, has seen charges by federal and not local authorities and for the first time under a hate crime statute out. the justice department said conrad barrett made several videos in the cell phone where he identified himself and used a racial slur on african-americans and stated his intent to victimize a black man in this fashion to receive national media attention. the doj alleges that on november 24 in the town of katy barrett recorded moment he attacked an african-american man and fracturing his jaw in two places. >> maybe there are those who say the i

his name is conrad alvin barrett. they've charged him with a federal hate crime.ay he punched a 79-year-old african-american man back in late november right in the jaw. so hard, don, that it fractured his jaw. he had to have metal plates put in two places. he allegedly laughed knockout and then fled to his vehicle, fled the scene them charged him with one count of violating the hate crimes prevention act. the xlanlt says that he allegedly record himself committing this act but also some other videos. i want to read you a complaint. it reads on the video described by the offduty investigator, he states, the plan is to see if write to hit a black person, would this be nationally televised? the question is why? where does race fit in here and why would he say something like that? i've spoken through the day extensively with his employer. he wouldn't comment on the issue of race but he said, his client has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, that he is on medicine and he said, quote, mental health issues definitely played a part in anything that occurred but he woul

narrater, writer of documentaries, '68, '72, '75, '76, '82. 1980, dancer, singer, dancing with alvinstudent of pearl rye miss, 1954 and '58. yes, author of eight biographies, 1969 to this year, to '13. poet, ten collections of poetry. 1971, 1995. professor, wake forest university reynolds professor of american studies. i left out much. children's stories, essays, recordings and albums. but anyone or two of these accomplishments could account for the esteem in which maya angelou is held. but all of them, the list is truly humbling. in spite of a childhood of wounds and obstacles that would break or paralyze many of us, suffering energized and strengthened her. and along with good counsel, determination and resistance, her creative impulse struck like bolts of lightning. her example is not one of survival, it truly is one of triumph. dr. maya angelou, you improve our world by drawing from us, forcing from us our better selves. thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ >> old folks say it takes one to know one. [laughter] thank you, my diamond. to see tony morrison -- toni morrison greet

. >> alvin espenal who works at the music store nearby he is falso startled by the sound the impact.e heard off. instruments that we had in the front just kind of like shook so right away my manager and i, we came to the front. >> john is street vender felix johnny torya. >> talking to this guy, this lady came too fast and got no time to press the brakes. she almost go inside of the store. >> the scene outside shocks the store workers. >> when i walked out from the back, the car was on the sidewalk already. it was like right in front of where johnny's things were at. and it was just there, like, stop. and it was smoking. >> the suv is badly damaged. and johnny is severely injured. >> i remember him on the ground. he said his leg, his leg was like really messed up. >> i was lucky they pushed me inside. it doesn't push me to the side, i don't be here talking to you. i called the guy from the next door. the guy gave me a hands and i was bleeding in my leg. >> he was on the ground. he was trying to lean on things. when he came asking for help he actually started leaning on this part -- t

conrad alvin barrett of texas. the first to be arrested over this knockout game.e crime. and his unduing may have been what he said in a video of the attack that was posted online. cnn's margaret conley joining me. before we get to the video, what exactly is barrett accused of doing to his victim, exactly. >> kyra, knocking him out cold. there's a hearing happening right now in houston, texas. 27-year-old conrad barrett has been charged with a knockout hate crime, assaulting a 79-year-old man. this is a federal charge. and the first federal charge we have seen for these knockout assaults. i have spoken to attorneys on both sides, the attorney for barrett and the victim's attorney. he said he's going to argue this is not a federal case. he said it's unconstitutional for it to be federal and it should go to the state. he's also going to say his client has been diagnosed as bipolar and he was off his meds the day the assault happened on november 24th. he says his client is extremely depressed right now. that's the defense. the victim's attorney and the victim does no

board, oil and gas company antero resources celebrating its recent ipo and over at the nasdaq, the alvince theater celebrating their new performance season. >> you were talking about the ebay downgrade even during the break. >> david was so right. now all downgrades are created equal. ever knows evercore does quality work. this reads like a quintessential be careful. two weeks ago they were not talking about earnings, they were talking about -- this is too intelligent of a downgrade to stay in it if i owned ebay. >> for the last 20 years i've given a lot of hard times to analysts, for good reason. there was no wall between banking and research and it was a free for all but even now there are many analysts who are not particularly good, who are young or sometimes you pay attention about what they say not about a price target about a buy or sell or simply the information but there are actually some who can do a good job. >> and this guy -- this downgrade worries me. i would not own the stock. >> dow is down 40. this will be four days down. again, since last september is the last time we ha

alvin and the chipmunks, that's like a big fox franchise.hink in terms of the pipeline who has a big fat pipeline, big fat hits which are going to work. it's disney right now. and more so a function of the acquisitions. the marvel acquisition was a massive game changer. and thor was a big movie to see. two three years ago, anybody thought of it as a big franchise? >> what's your take on sony? and i ask given the fact that dan lobe has been out trying to push them to spin that unit off. >> here's my thought. again, the research we've done on the studio business. you know what the most revealing element of the studio business is? if you have a successful television business, it is a far bigger driver of stability and lack of volatility over time than the movie business. sony actually has a pretty good tv business embedded in it. i think there's some legitimacy for a drive to greater efficiency. therest a great studio there. i do think they're probably going to do some restructuring to make it more efficient. >> you want to say nice things abou

. >> no it was the people that did alvin and the chuipmunks.ir kids mouths. i found myself asking my friend ifs they would do that. >> how did that go over? lots of friends in the process. >> i don't have any. >> walking with dinosaurs opens friday nationwide. >> yes. >> have a great holiday. >> thank you. >> mr. roker, how about a check of the weather. >> let's show you what we've got going on. first of all -- >> whoa. >> how are you. >> what's going on. >> wow. >> how are you? >> how are you. >> how are you? >> my goodness. >> how are you. >> i love it. >> no matter what the weather, you still wear the same outfit. >> what are you doing here? >> just on morning joe doing a little promotion and the new season is on netflix. >> fantastic. >> rock and roll all of fame. musical excellence. urpasses ch million cho case. on february 7th the olympic torch will enter olympic stadium for opening ceremony. the completion of a 40,000 mile journey. the longest in history that brought the flame from the north pole to outer space. a sleepy coastal resort t