jones/arnie zane dance company with his partner, arnie zane, who died in 1988. based in new york city, the ten-member company tours extensively, performing its repertoire of more than 50 works for audiences of approximately 100,000 each year in america and abroad. jones is the recipient, individually and with zane, of numerous awards, including two bessies, choreographic fellowships from the national endowment for the arts, and in 1994, a macarthur fellowship. his company's work is often described as a fusion of dance and theater. jones says his work deals with the fear of difference. his work is also about the joy of movement and the issues of survival and triumph. as jones has said, "living and dying is not the big issue. "the big issue is what you're going to do with your time while you're here." his memoir, last night on earth, whose title was taken from one of his performances, was published in 1995. last year, bill t. jones joined the naacp protest against the flying of the confederate battle flag over the south carolina state house by boycotting the spole

arnie is our cameraman. arnie, go ahead and do a 360 turn and just look around at this. now, this isn't just one isolated neighborhood in joplin. there's neighborhood after neighborhood after neighborhood that looks exactly like this. in other words, you pull down a street, you stop and everywhere you look is devastation. then again, maybe the best way to see it is from the air. a path of destruction miles long and half a mile wide. it looks down below like a war was raged here sunday night. somehow, this storm basically came through and carpet bombed an entire section of this city. it looks like the tornado literally strafed through there with all of its firepower and ruined everything in sight. and as in war there are the wounded, like scott. >> we grabbed our son and threw him in the bathtub, she got on top of him, i grabbed a mattress and got on top of them. then we did the "i love you" business and then you feel the house start to shake. >> reporter: scott is bruised and hurt, alive and grateful. how lucky are you to be alive? >> i consider myself real lucky. i mean

cnn education contributor steve perry talks to arnie duncan about the effort to recruit more minoritieschers like this are rarely found in classrooms around the country. >> less than 2%, 1 in 50 of our teachers around the country today are african-american men. >> reporter: i sat down with education secretary arnie duncan to find out how he plans to get more minority teachers in the classroom. >> i'm traveling around the country, appealing to this next generation of great leaders to come to the nation's classroom to make a difference. >> reporter: are there a lot of men and women of color who want to go back, become teachers. what are some of the bold efforts you anticipate pushing to ensure that it's possible for them to do it in a reasonable way? >> we're trying to make it much easier. we've launched a website actually called teach.gov that folks can go on and find out about programs in their community. we're funding and putting different research behind alternative. i'm a big fan of mid-career changers. >> he was in the mortgage industry other resources. >> he gave him two 20-pound s

i like what arnie said. if we do nothing, what is the future going to be there? is it going to turn into a ghetto? are they going to piecemeal it off? i am concerned about those things. the city attorney convinced me about rent control. i think it is going to take affect, and we are going to be ok. i am in favor of the vision, thank you. >> hello, i am elizabeth keith. i have been at park merced for 17 years, and most of the people i know that are for this project, including me, have been there a long time. so that statement about us being short-term is not correct. these apartments are far from sound. they need constant maintenance. there is an incredible waste of space. the parks require hero water and maintenance than makes sense. the construction is three minutes away from me. i barely notice it. i don't think the people against this are going to be happy with the alternatives to this project because no one is going to want to pay or put money into fixing these apartments up as they are. i had the same experience as jeannie. when i went door to door, people w

arnie has his hands full right now. >>> well, this is quite the story, too. i guess if first you don't succeed, you try again. third time's the charm. >>> that dooms day preacher who said the world would end in 1994 and last saturday has a new date. harold camping says what happened saturday, oh, don't worry, it was a spiritual judgment day. he says god's judgment was completed then. now we have to wait until the fall for the actual end. >> it's a dry run. >> the whole world is under judgment day. and this is a -- a -- and it will continue right up until -- uhm, october 21, 2011. and at that time the whole world will be destroyed. [ laughter ] >> camping says since god has judged us all by now, there is need to continue to warn people about it. so his radio station will play christian music and programs until the end comes in october. so mark your calendars. >> do you think -- he probably has a dart board. did you see it back there? >> he paid all that money for billboards so now he can keep all the money he raised. >> how did he come up with that? >> i don't

my friend, arnie, is now an obama and john kerry supporter.d. now, since i left office, the next budget ends in the black. i balanced the budget every time. during my time as governor. >> you said about a month ago, president obama was in over his head on foreign policy. in the wake of the successful take on osama bin laden, do you care to revise or extend those remarks? >> i give credit to him and to the navy s.e.a.l.s, who took care of osama bin laden. and the people like president bush who did the hard work of developing the leads that led to getting osama bin laden. finding and killing bin laden is not the sum total of our foreign interests. he's made a lot of other bad decisions. i'll continue to be a critic on certain decisions. the treatment of israel and opening up the question of israel's security by specifically embracing the 1967 borders was another misstep, i thought, by him. and there's many in that regard. >> you're announcing today in iowa. is that state must-win for you? how worried are you that michelle bachmann could cause yo

a former republican governor of the state of minnesota, arnie carlson, had this to say about your time there and your fiscal responsibility. quote, i don't think any governor has left behind a se financial mess than he has. this is a republican saying that. how do you respond? >> well, actually arnie carlson had become an obama and john kerry supporter and said he'd left the republican party some years ago. it's not accurate. every time during my time as governor -- eight years, four budget cycles, i balanced the budget every time. the last one ends this summer and it will still end in the black. they are talking about a projected deficit down the road based on big spending increases i don't support and wouldn't allowed had i continued as governor. >> takes a lot of money to run for president, especially going against mitt romney who has a lot of money and can raise a lot. some of the thinking was donors may have been sitting on the sidelines waiting to hear what mitch daniels was going to do. he announced he won't run. i know you have reached out to those donors. what response are you

the arnie corp of engineers may open the spillway as early as tomorrow to lower the flood risk to batonans. >> our hearts go out to everybody downstream. this is monumental water. never been seen before. >> georgia gets a tough immigration law today modeled on the one that's adopted in arizona. with a handful of angry protesters outside, the governor signed the bill at georgia state capitol. that's happening this hour. this new law allows police to question certainly criminal sus secretaries about their immigration status. opponents now plan to sue. >>> libyan opposition leaders are due at the white house in just a few hours. the delegation had heed by this man -- mahmoud jabril, is scheduled to meet with president obama's national security advisor. the opposition wants the united states to recognize it as the legitimate government of libya. >>> more than 800 libyan war refugees arrived on an italian island today and more are coming. they may the dangerous journey knowing that hundreds of others have died trying. our cnn's ivan watson now. >> reporter: this is the third boat crammed wit

on education, you publicly commented that you like some of arnie duncan's comments. could you take a little bit about what you think the federal government's role is in education, a little bit more on what you just talked about and where there are some opportunities for both parties to work together collectively to get towards a solution. >> he is one of the most impressive members of the president's cabinet. he is an impressive guy. he clearly reaches across the aisle. that's noted because we don't see a lot of that these days. first of all, let's remember that most of the money is spent and raised at local and state government. the federal government is sort of a junior partner when it comes to k-12est. the federal government imposes a lot of regulations and unfounded mandates. iea is one of the most. they have to finance the unfounded mandate so they can go toward customizing education reform needed in the local school districts. charters, school choice, all of those innovative education ideas need to be tested. we should get washington out of the way which are pr

for disadvantaged children.dvocated he is publicly advocated thesesc programs on a nationwide scale arnie praise from conservatives. the director of the conservative goldwater institute referred to by my colleague senator boxertt- previously. i have known professor liu and his rating and influential law review article he co-authored h, goes onto say supporting school choice is the solution to the crisis of inner-city publicm tot education, i believe it took a p great deal of courage for him to take such a strongos public position and i find professor liu to exhibit independent thinking and honesty.ssor he closed in his letter byly saying professor liu clearly possesses the scholarly credentials and experience to serve with distinction on this important circuit court. professor liu has in my view made very clear that he understands the difference between being a law professor, a scholar, an advocate and a judge and has assured us during his nomination hearings before the a committee and again and personal comfort stations with me that he woulwod follow the court's precedentt if confirmed.i