for the truth ♪ i am, i am, i am ♪ i am, i am, i am ♪ i am, i am, i am worth it ♪ oh, oh, oh ♪ oh, oh i say i am ♪ ♪ i am thankful for the truth ♪ i am worth it ♪, i am, i am, i am what i say i am ♪ ♪ i am blessed beyond belief ♪ i am worth it ♪ i am, i am, i am what i say i am ♪ ♪ what i say i am >> wow. what a great song david. thank you so much. thank you everybody. don't go anywhere everybody. we've got unbelievable surprises next. >> first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> we're back with nfl players mark and randall cob as well as elijah williams and his mother. and tyson and his mother nicole. >> we've got a couple of big surprises from you. sandra moore from gmc is here. >> she is? >> >> we have surprises. hi there. thank you. >> you're going to announce some gifts? >> i am. so on behalf of gmc and characters unite, we want to celebrate everything you have done. never say never attitude and perseverance. we want to surprise you with a couple of things. so randall? >> nicole, we know that you've been having car trouble. we want to do what we can to help you out. on behalf of gmc and

i am definitely paying attention and i am definitely participating. . and what we will bring to the voters and what they will support and i am not refuting the science, and i think that what we have done speaks for itself and how we care about kids and how, they they live and breathe in our cities and schools with our family and i am grateful that there is a discussion about doing something about that even beyond the school system but we are really talking to the people in their communities and what we can do to help. but again, i am not going to be supporting this tonight, but i am not divorcing myself from the conversation and passion participation in the conversation and i need a lot more information about how we go about the process. >> so i want to thank everybody that came out as well and i have a tremendous amount of respect for all of the supporters that came out and share their thoughts and opinions about why this is so important and i agree, it is extremely important and i think that the research and issues related to the sugary beverage is al

i am paying for it now.t of the credit to i did come along sondheimime when the and all these amazing people created all of these, and as your grandfather said, i was ready, and i was chosen. myselfhosen, so i give credit for continuing and doing to the best of my ability to help make these shows hit, but they created them. they made them happen, and i was here to receive it. it's a mixture of all of them. life is a mixture of all of them. tavis: i am glad you chose the theater and you blessed us with this genius ofours, and yet the flipside of that is, and any artist watching will say amen -- you don't get rich by staying in the theater. i just had angela lance perry on here, and she was clear -- the primary reason she took murder she wrote is she needed to make some money. . >> i love had that your devotion to the theater. that is a lot of money to leave on the table. >> it is, but what you don't have you don't miss. what you have got you cherish. your very best. you have responsibility to yourself. when y

i am alumni from the school, and first off, i am just happy to say that this is finally being where it is right now and so as far as progress and i want to say that we don't need the police handling the school matters and the police should handle the police matters and what happens at school happens at school. the police have the big roles and the community to cover when i was two i had my family torn apart by police and by having that happen it has had a negative impact on my life, and as far as having relationships with the police officers and so i feel like when you have police? school, it puts the fear in children that have had something traumatic like that happen to them and the students should not have to face the police and the police are here to protect in the service and we should not be scared to come to them to the things that we need. and the mlu needs to be mandated. mandatoried and not recommended. thank you. >> good evening. >> i am here to speak about the mlu between the san francisco and the san francisco police department, this mlu has been the youth commission's prio

i am here, and i am a low income, parent. and i am here to support the affordable housing. i leave at tenderloin with my husband and my two sons, we live in the small studio, because we cannot afford to rent even one bedroom apartment. so, i am here to ask you to support the affordable housing, thank you. >> good evening, everyone, and i am the director of the south of market community action network. and as you know the district six has seen the massive development in all of san francisco. and fortunately those developments are not helping sustain families and are not helping diversify our city. and so we are here, and we are really happy and excited to be in support of seeing you vote for more family housing in san francisco, it is definitely a need, and we need it more, in san francisco, and we hope that this is one of the stepping stones to actually get more families and sustain more families in san francisco, and a lot of the members that we have in some can live in the single room occupancy or doubled up or tripped up, and happening in the south of market in the tende

there are moments when i am frustrated. there are moments when i am disappointed.here are moments when i go, how come i didn't know about that? say, are moments when i that such a great opportunity, but i am never angry, because i go back to my faith, and that is a part that allows me to go, it was just her turn. it was just his turn. i have seen people come and go. the most amazing part of all this is i am still here. age,rted at such a young and i am only 25. i reinvented myself and morphed myself into many characters, but i am still standing, so i look forward to the next age of my career. gets tove a child who come with me. if i fail i know there is someone to pick me back up. i don't have any regrets. i have a few, but i don't have anything that makes me feel like i blew it on that one. to do whatare going you want to do. >> everybody knows that. i don't know why everybody knows that about me. tavis: you say you have some regrets. we all do. we make mistakes. we have regrets, but when you say you have regrets, are they regrets on roles taken, roles sense down,

am i right? or am i wrong? it is about waking up, and you know what? the gentleman from the union who got up here and i am a union man and i work for him in the united farm workers and i am a union man and i support the teachers and the union and i say that today, you should after this motion, consider making a motion to take all of the land that you are not using and convert it immediately into housing, for teachers, in this city. why wait? you don't need another consultant, you don't need another study. you don't need a real estate, it is simple math. you need housing for teachers. and just like we need housing for families. and we started our mission with no eviction, back in october, we thought that maybe a 50 people will come out, and hundreds of people came out. and we had our second action for (inaudible) and thousands of people came out. and we thought that this was only happening in the mission, it is happening all over the city. and we are getting calls from the gay community from the castle and we have gone to the meetings there and the gay

that's where i am. i am emptying my box. i am not doing it as well as i would like to. i still go back to old habits and i still look for affirmation in ways i no longer really do need it or want it. but what i am trying to do now is say look at all the things i dill and needed and used in order to call myself a man. i don't need any of them. i now just to be a man on the planet and as i am getting closer to the end i would like to be able to not be so burdened so thank you for it ting. that is part of what i do in the beginning is bring him in with this burden and in spite of himself as one more cash i mean, this man rails for a very long time, rails and rails and rails. he can't even hear the truth when it is being spoken to him. he can't hear it. and then suddenly there is a point in the play when he begins to realize i have taken too little care of this, as i said, you know, and he decides to basically become a human being and the greatest of all tragedy happens which is the one creature who loved him for himself died in his arms. >> rose: queue know who was fascina

and i am not sure of the size of the house and i am not sure that the $600,000, was correct. >> and i am interesting in looking at that. >> and so i am really concerned, about the fact that a permit was issued with such a low cost for such a big job. >> and john from the city attorney's office and it is the inquiries to staff and so maybe i can suggest, that you request that the staff come back at the next month's meeting and report on how the report for the evaluation for different kinds of projects >> and i can tell. >> and i am trying to pult it on the next report and which is going to include how we are going to save this house. one report that i am hearing is that the emergency demo will be performed and another one working on trying to salvage and save the house and the house came down the hill here and i am really as a builder and developer somebody has been around this and i am curious as to how you are going to save this and who is doing that analysis, as far as... >> commissioner, first of all, like i mentioned, i want them to come up with the report and what is the cost, an

no i am just... >> no. >> i am teasing you. this is the calendar that we sat down together and we came out with, and we understand that there was concern about the thanksgiving holiday and we are committed to going back and looking at that again for this year. for the coming year. thank you mr. kelley. >> comments from the board or the superintendent? >> commissioner murase? >> yes, i know that historically we have gone to the part advisory committee could you tell us a little bit about who the others have seen? >> yes. the group that was involved with this from the parents' side was the pac group and so we had a representative at the meetings and basically just discussed a number of different options. you had about three or four different time frames or, calendar and we came to the agreement on the present one that i am presenting tonight. >> okay. >> did you use the phrase, the board adopt? >> i may have, i will reread it to say that. that would be great. >> for the record. thank you. >> for the record. >> so i was in trouble

now at this age, at 13 and she is going through the student process for high schools right now and i am as nervous as many parents are but she is also a target as ad adolesent and the decades of the environment caused by many of the big corporations that have preyed on our kids and have led to significant health disparties that the resolution addresses and i am not going to go into the details of what this measure that we hope to be on the november ballot, alongside of the reauthorization of the children's fund and the public education of richmond fund to support the children first and support our kids coalition in our city but i will just say that scott weiner and avalos and cohen and i have been building with the great parent leaders and the health access and grassroots organizations from a lot of different coalitions that have provided the support from the various community coalition -but we are building a strong community for hel and this food access and faout turf our children. and i also want to say that the coalition that we are building, will hopefully in november, and beyond, s

i am very proud of them. i would like to be very proud of you too, to see if you move this school next week to 135 van ness avenue. and it has been a dream for a lot of people for a long time. and you can look like a bunch of heroes to the whole world when you see what comes out of the school of the arts when they have the opportunity to mix with people like dominp go . >> i actually left the loyal high school after my freshman year because the school of the arts was opening up and from the school of the arts, i was encour

>> i sure am not. i really am not. you can say drugs really took me there. >> orosco faces three possible outcomes from the hearing, reinstatement of his parole allowing him to go home, a return to prison for up to 2 1/2 more years, or something in between. he could be sent to an intermediate sanction facility or isf, a halfway house which holes parole violators in custody but allows them to work at outside jobs. >> it's another form of a prison. they do a lot of counseling there. they have classes. i'm thinking that's where i will go. hopefully not. i'm trying to get reinstated because they're playing with my life here. >> coming up -- >> i am never going home again. that's what they're telling me. i got a lot to think about. this place is a think-tank. >> tim gaffney and ex-gang members attempt to make peace with the past. >>> and -- joey rhodes creates a new life in a housing unit for straight men. [ crickets chirping ] but did you know that the lack of saliva can also lead to tooth decay and bad breath? [ exhales d

because i am who i am. but i am not a bully. what i will tell you is that the folks who have worked with me over a long period of time would, i believe, tell you that i'm tough. but i've shown over the last four years and the tone we have set here that i'm willing to compromise, that i'm willing to work with others. and the campaign showed with all of the folks who came from the other side of the aisle to support us, if we weren't willing to have relationships with those folks, it never would have happened that way. i don't believe that, kelly, and i don't believe the body of work in the last four years displayed that. now, in this instance the language used and the conduct displayed in those emails is unacceptable to me. and i will not tolerate it. but the best can i do is when i see stuff like that to end it. and i know that won't satisfy everybody, but i'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. i'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor. michael. >> governor, you stated you're going to i

i am sorry. is that better? >> still it worked for a second but it cut out. >> sorry, guys. >> now you are good. >> i pill wul it closer, thanks, guys. >> to the targeted out reach efforts we hope to hear from between 150 and 200 family participants in conversations between ten and 15 schools for community centers. we will be holding these community conversations between february and april of this year. and when they are completed and we will share our findings from the conversations with all of you and present any recommendations to the board of education to district staff and to the community. by the end of this school year. as i said, we will have the conversations between february and april of this year. and the format of these discussions and the format of the discussion questions will be to provide a restorative approach that will allow parents the opportunity to share their experiences, to equity and identify solution to strengthen the work of the district to address these issues and to improve out comes

i am going to... >> no there was no, yeah. and okay, so i am going to do the quick ones first and then there are several that we are going to ask for the votes to sus spend the rules. so, may i hear a motion and a second on in support of a surgery befrage tax in san francisco? >> may i hear a motion and a second for in support of a sugary beverage tax in san francisco? co-sponsors? >> so moved. >> thank you. >> yes, he did. >> and with a little prodding he did. okay. and then, what committee will that go to? >> it is not going to the committee, it is coming back to the full board for action. >> all right, and then may i hear a motion and a second on establishment of a safe and supportive schools policy in the san francisco unified school district? >> so moved. >> second. >> i do have a number of speaker cards on thit em, and also the previous one. and mr. lauterborn would you like to make a one minute of comment on the sugarry budget tax and we will give the balance of the four minutes to the other speakers? >> hi, and i know

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17 years old and i am a senior, and i am also the mayoral appointee, and a member of the commission's youth justice committee. i am here before you to talk to you about the memo of understanding between the sfpd and the sfusd that you have before you. on the basic form, the mlu is a real book between the two agencies. and this book will have a big. impact on the students and the youth from sfusc. this is my second year in the youth commission. and the mlu has been a top priority and even before i was on the commission. there are various youth that for whatever reason seem to be against sfpd or the youth in general and this can stem from the various amounts of reasons. and from negative experiences on campus, to a negative portrayal of the police on and through the media. and one of being influenced by persons or experiences,vy never got nontrouble with the police and i have never had a negative experience, i have had great experiences with the police and i am familiar with the policy and why they react in certain situations the way that they do. compared to the youth who is not famili

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from los angeles, i am tavis smiley. tonight, a conversation with jazz great wayne shorter who is on a celebration of his 80th birthday with friend and collaborator herbie hancock. he will debut his latest composition at disney hall in l.a. written for grammy winner esperance a spaulding. he has released a cd titled "without a net. he is also about to receive the lifetime achievement award from thelonious monk institute. better thanet much wayne shorter. we are delighted to have a conversation with him coming up right now. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. tavis: when wayne shorter was studying music back in the 50s, he first confused and then impressed his professors by combining classical music with jazz. musical barriers were meant to be broken. both with his own recordings and in the rock fusion group weather report. there are so many clips i could share with you tonight about his career, but i decided to take this one from 1967. ♪ tavis: congrats on the's 80 years, for sta

i am on the internet looking. and i am thinking someone knows what i am doing research on now. because part of their protocol is if someone is spending 20 minutes online looking for 50 pounds or more of calcium amm i ammonia nitrate they must be sus suspicio suspicious. and there is one company in milton that sells it. it is a seed company. and the top hundred hits on google if you type in calcium m ammonia nitrate purpose are w . www.alibaba.c www.alibaba.com. i am not kidding. okay? because it is sold in the middle east. and china. you can go to amazon and buy it from a chinese company. only $6.95 for 50 pounds to be shipped to the united states. okay. get it? it is just tiny little part of the world. okay. how many restricted people are there? 296 of 45,000 people who have play applied for the jobs, 296 since 9-11 have been found to be restricted. 296. and of those 296 people, 200 were disqualified because they had felony convictions of one your or more. and 20% were disqualified for using an illegal substance. okay? no one was disqualified because they were associated with

i am ben. we love in new jersey with two kids and one on the way. george is 5, and luiza is 3, and we are expecting another little boy in about a month who is as yet nameless. >> sharky the kids call it. don't know why. >> it? him. i work at a non-profit charter school network in harlem in new york. >> and i am a stay-at-home dad. i stay home with the kids, send them off to school in the morning, pick them up from school, hang out with the moms, play dates, do the laundry, cooking. that suits me because i am a writer and i can be home, and i can work. it's a small house to begin with, and my office is now the new baby's room. the desk was moved out and the crip moved in. -- and the crib moved in. >> i wrote to george to help ben be rescued, to give ben his space back and create some space for our kids as well to really play and enjoy this great house and this great space. >> what's up? how are you? >> i am great. thank you. whoo! oh, my gosh. >> you guys are being rescued. >> no way! >> what's

if i am looking, sorry president. fewer. >> and in looking at the version that i had at home, which is about all of my notes on it. and in this section, 16, which is the arrests on school campuses. and quite a bit of a language, would which looks to me like maybe the section that sfpd puts in because it talks about the penal code and i am talking considering as sort of their general orders because it is no longer here. >> there are two paragraphs that are taken out saying that you should when you are arresting a student, you should not basically pull them from class. unless there is an imminent threat and you have to do that and in the event that you do have to, violate that rule, or go against the prescribed orders, that you justify why did you have to do it that way? and so in your report, and in your arrest you would say the reason that this happened, we had a situation actually recently where a student was actually where the police informed a school that tomorrow we will be arresting a student on campus, but we ha

i am not monday morning quarterbacking.t are we getting out of iraq for that blood and treasure? >> what we gain and my concern then and today, biggest threat we face is possibility of terrorist groups like al-qaeda equipped with weapons of mass destruction with nubbings or gas. when we took down sated sated we eliminated the source of. that >> al-qaeda and they are back. >> they wouldn't be if they followed the policies and let me finish, in terms of what we got down. saddam hussein was a major source attacking down. and kha d da fi announced he would give up his stock of weapons and then we tock down the major supplier. and the father of the pakistan program running a black operation and got rid of three major sources of potential of weapons of mass destruction. >> but right now, iraq looks to me and the headline in the washington post. ir is in a deepening security crisis as a al-qaeda wages relentless wage of attacks. i don't know if the suffering and blood was worth with. >> we have a major problem in that part of the

i am funny when i am stoned. you have a whole generation of people who think they are seth rogan and for the most that is part they are right. >> that is the problem. if this spreads you think about the problems like young people in america have. they are lazy. they are kind of lost at looking at themselves. >> your generation specifically. >> i am talking about me specifically. these are all sidey ficts of -- side effects of pot. if it does increase the amount of marijuana and removes the stigma we have attached to it, it can't help things make the country lazer. >> it is a coaching point i disagree with. weed to me, all substances are fascinating. the fact that sub staps can have an -- the substance can have an effect on you. i drink lots of wine. i hate wine drinkers. >> there are different varieties of pot. that's so cool. there is bubble gum one was called and african queen. >> it is an adult drug. >> people will start to, you know, maybe use it like wine. they will do it for taste and for flavor. >> that's

i am not opposed to women having access to it. i am opposed to democrats treating women as though they somehow are incapable of being able to function unless the democrats, and particularly the government comes in to rescue them. if people listen to what i have said, which by the way it was exactly what i said, exact words i said on television show a week ago. >> the words were a little different a week ago. what you said on the radio wasn't controversial. you said it better on the radio show than you did at the convention. >> i said libido. >> you put it in terms of having to control, that democrats believe women need the government in order to control their libidos. that sounded to many like you were placing a judgment on it. first of all you vast majority of people in this country have libidos and act on them. the vast majority use birth control when they do not desire to have a baby as a result of those libido instinct. >> no arguments. >> the use of birth control are you passing judgment by couples having inter course who are

you are going to put this on the while i am reading it, i am thinking that i am in a back brace, that mother had recently passed away, that the record company had said they were not going to renew my contract, and i am thinking this is the answer to my prayer. this is it. this is the answer, and this song is not only something that i can relate to but a song that others can relate to. it is a timeless lyrica, so i really thought this was god's answer to my prayer and that it would be something that would go on for as long as people would play it. tavis: i always love hearing that story because it is instructive, it is informative, it is inspiring to know that you're on the eve of being dropped by your record company, and you basically record the song in a brace on a wheelchair, and they put the song out on the b side, a throwaway basically, at on the a side, and it is blockbuster all of these years later. let me move now to the book. give me some sense of how you started to collect these stories from persons around the globe who, in fact, have used the song to help them survive their

i am very proud of them. i would like to be very proud of you too, to see if you move this school next week to 135 van ness avenue. and it has been a dream for a lot of people for a long time. and you can look like a bunch of heroes to the whole world when you see what comes out of the school of the arts when they have the opportunity to mix with people like dominp go . >> i actually left the loyal high school after my freshman year because the school of the arts was opening up and from the school of the arts, i was encouraged to go to act, the summer training congress where i saw professional talent, and after i graduated from college, i auditioned for act and became an act graduate, and started my own theater company. and even to this day, we actually when we are called upon, we go and support school of the arts. and having a center at civic center is essential to the training because you need that energy and the collaboration and the students need to see the professional artists do what they do to in order

i can't, i am busy, we have a lot of things on the burner. and you know, this just is not part of what needs to happen right now. and i just truly appreciate that. during such difficult times on your end also. and i also want to deeply thank maralee and the former superintendent and current superintendent carranza for their dedication to working together on so many fronts and for taking this chance on making this happen. and sandy, i don't know if you recall, us sitting in mayor lee's office with the superintendent and david and others and the door kind of being swung open to work together. and to take advantage of what the city has to offer. and that as a school district, we are, this is not our forte, educating the kids are the forte that we should not be in the business of development and we should not feel like we are alone in all of this. and it took a lot of courage for us to come together and which makes me want to just mostly thank young and david and joe for not letting go of this and for allowing me to push on many real estate issue

>> i am not kidding. i worked in a video store in connecticut and their nanny came in and said do you duplicate tapes here? we said yeah. it turns out the tape she wanted duplicated was the daughter preparing testimony for connecticut state authorities, and the next day a woman from the show "a current affair" came in and said" we heard you have the woody allen testifying tape and we will give you $20,000 for the tape." i didn't know where it was. and not only that, the nanny acted like she wanted guitar lessons. she was only using me to get her vhs tape duplicated. >> that's hilarious. you were used. >> i am the real victim in this case. >> used by the nanny. remi, what do you make of this whole situation with woody allen? >> with woody allen? the golden globes? they said this is the event of the year where everybody lets their hair down and they are themselves. it seemed that way this year. everyone, not just the actors and the ago -- actresses from the people putting up the writing on e! news and the c

if anyone is tuning in i am referencing an earlier segment. i am not really meaning this. clarify for me. is this because the 49er fans happen to be a little bit different? >> i don't know. >> or is this just to keep out the crowd and try to create -- >> they are letting all of these other people in except the fans. i think they are worried about violence or cheap wine. >> so it is a violence thing. interesting strategy. i think it sucks for the fans. >> it does. buck you seem purterbed or drugged. >> both. i am purterbed because i blame this on president obama and here is y. it is the national football league. they were of onerring tech cets to canadians -- were offering tickets to canadians ahead of the bay area. what sort of marxist plot that the national football league is going north of the border to canadians? clearly he is trying to get with the queen of england and i am done. >> what about thechem trails and the fluoride in the water, what is going? >> do you have mercury fillings? >> i have mercury feelings. >> have i freddy mercury feelings. >> who doesn't? if he

i am sea sick and i am not at sea.an you imagine if i saw "perfect storm." >> or "captain philips." >> i heard that was good. >> i didn't see "captain philips." >> how about the movie? >> no. and i saw "12 years a slave" and surprised it wasn't nominated. you have to nominate some because you say was he not slavey enough? >> a very graphic film. >> probably the best movie of the year. >> really? >> yeah. the only problem with it is it means anytime it is talked about on the oscars you can't make jokes. >> you can't. >> it kills ellen do generous and those of us on twitter who spend four hours tweeting jokes. you can't make fun of 12 hours a slave,. >> maybe that's racist. >> here is a movie. i talked about this movie, a movie not nominated. "done john." itit is the only film ever about how pornography is bad. don john. directed by who? >> he is a chronic masterbater. that's all he does. >> and then he made the movie. i don't know what the movie is about, but it is a fun fact fnlt . >> it is a fun fact. >> joaquin phoen