i'd like to now open this up starting with reverend ames brown followed by low gordon, terry anders. i have some cards i'll read off for folks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. supervisor cohen, and others assembled, i'm aim yes, sir brown, president of the san francisco naacp. and i just want to simply say that, number one, the issue of incarceration in this nation will be at the top of the agenda at the naacp national convention in los angeles next week. number two, as we think about the topic, realignment, as it pertains to those inmates who are incarcerated from the state to the county, might i suggest that maybe he would do ourselves a favor by first having a realignment of our thinking. i want to recommend that everybody gets this book and reads it. chairman mirkarimi: "the new jim crow" right? great book. great book. >> my by she will alexander dealing with the mass incarceration in the age of so-called colorblindness. if we read it, it just might help our thinking on this issue. thirdly, i wish to say that we appreciate all of the data that has been given and all the representatio

i'd like to now open this up starting with reverend ames brown followed by low gordon, terry anders. i have some cards i'll read off for folks. >> thank you, mr. chairman. supervisor cohen, and others assembled, i'm aim yes, sir brown, president of the san francisco naacp. and i just want to simply say that, number one, the issue of incarceration in this nation will be at the top of the agenda at the naacp national convention in los angeles next week. number two, as we think about the topic, realignment, as it pertains to those inmates who are incarcerated from the state to the county, might i suggest that maybe he would do ourselves a favorby

. >> hello, i am taylor brown and i'm a client with larkin street. i know freckspeerns -- from experience, i'm part of the youth youth initiative program, and i know because i have a place to go to it serves as great base of operations, and because i'm able to get all my stuff done, go out, finds employment and get everything together. and, as has been said previously many times, and i'm sure will be in the future, there's just a lot of kids who wish they could be doing the same but aren't able to, because there's no openings in the programs. and the fact that you do have to show initiative. you can't just be like, oh, i want to be in this and being bam, you're in it. you have to get an interview, second-round interview, do this. i know this place is a very good idea because it's going to work. and, yeah, there might be people partying in their rooms, but it's only when they have time, because people are going to focus on what they need to do to become productive members of society and do what they need to do. so i'm saying please, this is a very goo

[applause] >> welcome to the brown bag lunch, i am lawrence cornfield. we are here at beverly prior's law office. we are going to look at one of the greenest business office spaces in san francisco. you just celebrated the first anniversary of your green office space >> there are many elements. what we're celebrating, what you say it's one of the greenest office buildings. it's the contribution methodology. the materials mechanical systems that we look at. we are using recycles materials. how off gases. >> all focussed toward the goal of reducing impacts? >> exactly. we are using materials that are rapidly renewable. there's another aspect. there are many aspects to being green >> what lead you to this green office? >> it's an interesting story. these kinds of thing start with gee, it's time to find a new office of our idea has evolved over time. how do we work together? what kind of space do we want that will support what we want? we have very ambitious goals. all those things started to factor in. we had a brain storm session and made it clear, it's no

i am carlton brown, the president of atlantic university, obviously in atlanta, georgia. we are very pleased to be a part of this session today. we are at convert -- research with a number of disciplines and holdings that connect us directly to the harlem book fair in that we have degree programs up to the doctor degree in african-american studies and the africana women's studies and a significant program in english and language arts. we have a number of people with us today and i want to get right down to our business here. so i want you to join me in welcoming our colleagues here. i am going to begin with broadcast personality and social commentator, sabrina lamb. she is the -- go ahead and clap for her. [applause] she is the author of a kettle full of cultures left to beak marks on my forehead. well some of you may recall her antics as a stand-up comedian on girls night out, her cover articles from essence magazine, her wit and obvious knack for satire have repelled her into the front row of up-and-coming novelist and i'm still struck by this idea of vultures leaving b

am not sad to do this. this is a solo expedition. i dark brown blob of slim e falls out. the mucous plug has to fall out. it's the mucous plug. i am in awe of dana. 1:30 a.m. i am naked. i modified downward dog. i think of the view everyone is getting. no one cares. 4:00 a.m., i am nine centimeters. i am pruned and exhausted. you are doing great dana says, i am not interested in being great. it's still nine centimeters. it's not time yet. she says me to blow out with my mouth. i say i might barf. 5:45 a.m. still nine, i hate dana. dana breaks my water. after 15 hours it's time to push. when you are this desperate, it's almost over. push, your pushes are excellent. 7:17. i can feel the baby's hair. you see your baby's head. 7:40. i do what she says. we rehearse. dana is guiding my baby's head. this is called ring of fire. okay. push hard. i moan like a walrus. my vagina tears to my ass. but i don't care. dana puts the baby on my chest. the cord is still attached. i am still shaking. the baby's eyes are wide open. i cry, the baby cries. i have a baby. it's a girl. [applause] that was wonderful. that was rea

am i treating a disease or am i treating a patient? >> brown: a lot of famous names and people move through this story. was there someone who surprised you or grabbed in a way you hadn't expected? >> yes, several including some who were minor characters but also some major characters. among the majors would be george healey who was a young irish boy from boston, street kid who had talent to draw and paint and who knew no one in france, knew no french, had no money, but he went because he was determined "to be the best i could be", as he said. and i loved his line, he said, "i had a great stock of courage and of inexperience." he said that's all a big help. and there are now seven healey portraits in our white house. there are 17 healey portraits in the national portrait gallery. he became one of the most prominent portrait painters ever and certainly the most prominent portrait painter of his time. >> brown: you know, the art of finding or digging through archives for material is... is an art? what have you learned after all these years of look

that said, i have a tremendous amount of respect for the very difficult position governor brown finds himself in. i am not as familiar with the state budget as the local budget. i think the state budget to any casual observer is absolutely broken. it will take radical changes like what the governor is proposing. when the state government gets fixed, whether it is redevelopment or some other local important piece, san francisco will get hurt. there is no way to fix that problem without hurting san francisco and every other city and county in the state. the state has been far outspending what it should. it will come home to roost in the next couple of years. >> was talk about the city's economic development and whether we are on the right track. if we are not, let's talk about the right steps to take. >> i think we're on the right track. the key is recognizing it. san francisco decades ago was home to the fantastic manufacturing industry and specialized service industry. we have to think of san francisco 30 years from now and try to prepare ourselves for the new economies. i do think biotech will be a k

am i hearing from the department head brown that this is something we should correct on the $10,000? >> it would be our desire to have that restored if possible. i defer to director katz for how she thinks it is most efficient to run her department, and i am sympathetic to the 24/7 demands put on the employees of for department. thank you to the budget analyst, and this is a fairly negligible amount -- it would be my request that you restore that if possible. supervisor chu: thank you, supervisor. we have heard from the budget analyst and the department on this item. the budget analyst has recommended $215,000 worth of cuts, and the department is requesting that the $10,000 not be taken. if we are in agreement with the department, we would still be taking to a hundred $5,000 worth of cuts. is this committee ready to act on this item? supervisor mirkarimi? supervisor mirkarimi: i am sympathetic to what director katz has said. i think animal welfare has been taking a number of hits over the past few years. i would be more than happy to be the dissenting voice on this recommendation. su

i am here with patty anne brown. he knows laughs like i know crafts. i would like to welcome a first-time guest, sean donely. probably not irish. and even his hook worms have hook worms. it is bill shultz. and if insightful commentary was a beauty pageant i would enter him wearing a tierra. it is our fox news contributor and editor and chief in "the daily column." and he is a mess from the printing press. good to see you, pinch. >> today in some section i have never heard of called on-line, they are reading questions about the summer movies. why can't tinseltown make moving pictures like they did back in the golden age of film. it isingong the lients -- lines of breaking. basically anything will do. >> those were the days. >> they certainly were. >> were you into break dancing? >> i did. i wore zuubos and we did it on a cardboard box, but we flattened the box to do head spins and whatnot. >> i did not know. >> i do an amazing robot. i have no appendages. all the news that is fit to boogie. >> don't look at it anymore. >>> does working for the fed only

i am a brown farmer.ause] i put emphasis on those things because agriculture is so far from our mind. we all eat food. it has become a lost art for it to work. even recently, there are discussions around how we grow our food with the organic food movement. even suited justice which is a way of saying, everyone should have a fair slice of the food movement pie. there is still this niche of the voices not being heard. there are old issues that make people uncomfortable, like racism. when we're talking about fair food distribution, who was access to the farmers' market, who is getting the loans? all of these issues are sitting in the dark. if you really want to follow your food, it is important to go to the root of the food system, our farming tradition. practices that were here way before the movement picked up. women farmers who make up 80% of farmers worldwide. and brown farmers, people of color, who hold a dual titles of being in the majority of farmers worldwide but also having the shittiest end of this

i am here with patty anne brown, the pab. well, she is unfunny, sharp and decisive. we have joe devito. and his new show called "the one" will feature malone in a cardboard box under theover pass. it is my repulsive sidekick, bill shultz. stop improving, greg. it is not working. if good looks were sand he would be the mojave desert. sitting next to me is the hideous, hideous actor sean canin. and our "new york times" correspondent, good to see you pinch. >> day two of my press tour to promote the documentary, page one inside the "new york times." doing leno tomorrow. on tuesday, david carr and i will be taping a sex scene for sin gnaw max. you would never believe where i get a paper cut. >> i don't want to know. >> i think you do want to know. >> i don't. >> i think you are a dirty freak and are dying to know. say are you a dirty little freak and dying to know. >> the puppet made you talk. >> black and down and up is white. i don't know where i am. more drugs please. >> are those with a sweet tooth destined for the fat booth? or does loading up on treats make for sma

michael brown recalls his lead of the agency during hurricane katrina, about an hour and 15 minutes. >> side. i guess we are ready to begin. the evening. welcome to the national press club. i am on the book and other committee, and we are so honored tonight to have as our guest, michael brown. he will be speaking to you all about his book, "deadly indifference." copies of the book are available for purchase over there were nicola setting. each sale benefits the national journalism library. no outside buds will be allowed. and mr. brown will be signing your copy after he gives his little talk year. you will be happy to do that for you. before i begin please turn your cell phones off which means i have to turn-2. ahead. there are two events coming up at the national press club that i want to announce. jane 23rd, thursday night, we will have neil damon. he has his book. this will be of all relevant. on august 1st we will have senator bob gramm. he will be discussing his keys to the kingdom in the conference from. i am sure you all know that our guest, 89, served as the first under secretary of homeland security for president george w. bush from 2003-2005. he was also director, d

i am a brown farmer. [laughter] [applause] thanks. i put emphasis on those things because agriculture is so lost, so distant, so far from our minds. even though we all eat food, it's become a lost art. it's become a lost place of work. even recently there are discussions taking up speed about how we grow our food, with the organic food movement, local food movement. even food justice which is a fancy way of saying everyone should have a fair slice of the food movement pie. even within all of these movements they're still this niche of voices that are not being heard. there's still very old issues within the food system that makes people uncomfortable. like racism and food system when we talk about fair food distribution, we are talking about who has access to farmers market, who is getting the loans, the same long as their neighbor farmer. all of these issues are sitting in the dark and if you really want to follow your food, i feel it's important to go right to the root of our food system. our ancestral farming traditions of our peop

brown university? you want to go to america. >> i am curious of their conception of the american peers and have you got to succeed in education. the use see them as lazy with too many options or are you more focused? -- do you see them as lazy. >> we talked to people in middle schools. they are creative but less intelligent. tavis: i hear your point. when you say that they are more creative but less intelligent, what do you mean by that? >> intelligence in studying. tavis: they don't steady as hard? >> no, in my opinion. >> that has more to do with their habits. >> do you interpret the value of your degree the same way or differently? >> i think that this is just to get jobs and that is all. knowledge is not. maybe with more knowledge, you can earn more money. knowledge is a part of your system. this knowledge, i think that your mind is stronger than all of the others. we can gain wisdom. money can never give you that. tavis: you are right about that. >> i really appreciate the way of higher education and high education in america. the -- education of china is very great and it should not be so many pe

i am confident that the leaders--. >> brown: you are? >> every leader has said, democrat and republican, they will not let the-- a default occur. and so you've got to take them all at their word. >> brown:-- >> i think as we get-- the president laid out, the president in his plan in april that he laid out a $4 trillion plan that gets us to a sounder fiscal situation so that the possibilities of economic growth increase, not only are we trying to get past this debt ceiling. we should be more concerned about actually dealing with the deficit that will impede real growth in the economy as we go further into this century. so-- so i think what the president-- there is some level of frustration, no doubt about it. and that's, i think, are very reflective of where the american people are. >> brown: well, the reaction, of course was quick. we heard from senator john barraso, and senator boehner said the president's remarks ignore the economic reality. as you said, the stakes are high. august 2 isn't that far. you said you think things will get d

am adam may. a dramatic testimony, prosecutors have one last chance tomorrow. karen brown reports. >> reporter: casey anthony's defense spend its final hours in front of the jury trying to convince them there is not enough evidence to convict her of murder. >> the reason you don't have that evidence is because it's an unpluvable case. >> they tried to discredit the state's charge that she suffocated her daughter caylee anthony with chloroform and duct tape. then they pointed the finger at casey anthony father, saying he covered up a accidental drowning. the -- >> i don't think anybody can justify her actions. but they do not cobsitute murder. >> reporter: many of the jury appeared tired as the day wore on. they have been sequestered for six weeks and are expected to begin deliberating on monday. but first the prosecution will have their final word. prosecutors detailed how casey anthony spent the month after her disappearance supply parling with her boyfriend. >> we can hope the chloroform was applied first. >> the prosecution claims she killed her daughter because she did

i think that, frankly, i am the best person to clean this up. >> brown: once the murdochs were done, another central figure in the scandal-- rebekah brooks-- appeared before the committee. she was editor of the now- defunct "news of the world" during the phone hacking, and later became chief executive at the tabloid's british parent firm news international before resigning last week. brooks said she only recently learned that the phone of the young murder victim, milly dowler, had been targeted. >> it seems incredible that you, as the editor, were so unaware of such fundamental issues to do with this investigation. >> i just.. i think... in some ways, just the opposite-- i don't know anyone in their right mind who would authorize, know, sanction, approve of anyone listening to the voice mails of milly dowler in those circumstances. >> brown: brooks was arrested on sunday, and she repeatedly said today there were things she could not discuss due to the ongoing investigation. but she did say she has lasting regrets that everything did not come out long ago. >> of course, i have regrets