this is called, lament for a market place in babylon, by abdul karin al karid and it's a reference to a suicide bombing. this one and the next one are both translated by salim yusef. on this grave stone are angels and people weeping. what are people waiting for, their ship? here it comes, borne by the deluge. in a market place now frequented by money changers with beards and baggy trousers, who restores the limbs and who throws open the gates for hollow-eyed gods coming in from babylon with red chests and white furious hair? i wonder who? on the day of march 1st in the 5th year after the second millennium, a massacre took place in babylon. it's my pleasure it introduce the next poet, george evans. . >> first, i would like to read a poem by my dear friend and wife, daisy samora, who was to be here today but is in nicaragua, keeping in mind what michael said about jorge and casablanca, i will read it in her language or my spanish first, then in translation. it's a poem directly addressed to poets but certainly to activists as well. (speaking spanish) no man's land. we are a mine field o

and thank you, beach blanket babylon. what a wonderful performance. let's give her another hand.just fantastic. when i started being mayor of the city, i turned to our protocol officer and said, "you know, charlotte, we are going to do a lot of work this year, but these years forthcoming, as we work hard, i want to also have fun. isn't this fun? all right. [applause] this is our 50th anniversary of the wonderful song, "i left my heart in san francisco." tony, it is wonderful for you to be here and grace us and honor us with your presence. your 17 grammys are just so unprecedented. you just won two more this past week, and what a wonderful career. congratulations, tony. i want to thank our school of the arts. i want to thank our boys and girls choruses. thank you. wonderful performances. it is a fitting tribute that our boys and girls choruses and ouryouth -- our yout are here today to perform because they reflect tony's dedicated career to ensure the future of arts education. we have seen what he has done and seen what his support is, and he is encouraging youth to be leaders on

babylon, the whore, the harlot of babylon in revelation- if you haven't looked at the book, you kind of have to go back and look at some of these images- but that's corrupt, materialistic, secular humanism, multiculturalism, globalism, the whole mishmash that says everybody belongs. uh - uh. only good christians in that interpretation, but people who believe in the american way belong. you know, you get that feeling in militia groups. the messiah doesn't tend to be a single person, but more the messiah of self-survival- the community, the compound. remember ruby ridge? some of these christian identity movement compounds where they're hunkered down there- you know, you get your food, you get your guns, you hunker down, and self-survival becomes the way, and it becomes the way of redemption. so it's through that kind of self-survival that you see redemption. yeah, sure, susanna. >> i was just going to throw in that i think president kennedy said- and he may have been quoting thomas jefferson or benjamin franklin- i know franklin said that when you find yourselves choosing security over

cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the cast of steve silver's beach blanket babylon. [cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the san francisco 49ers -- >> [inaudible] >> woo. >> laughter. come on. the san francisco giants. [cheers and applause] that's better. the detroit tigers. and that can only happen in the greatest city in the world, san francisco! [cheers and applause] >> "san francisco, open your golden gate". (music). [cheers and applause] "san francisco, when i get home again i'm coming home". [cheers and applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome giants' announcer renel brooks moon. >> what's up everybody? hello san francisco giants fans. [cheers and applause] how are you doing? this is so nice. we had to do it twice; right? thank you all for coming out today. and ladies and gentlemen it is my honor to welcome you to the official city celebration honoring your 2012 world series champions san francisco giants. now, as we gather together as a community today to celebrate this joyous occasion we do want to take a moment first to recognize those im

the show was by beach blanket babylon and cast of about 1000."getting to know all about you" and you ended the show with your song, "i left my heart in san francisco." you have left it here, but please come back many times because your heart is waiting for you here, and so are we. much love. thank you. >> thank you. >> it has been the height of my career to welcome you here. >> so nice to have you with us again. >> ♪ your golden sun will shine for me ♪ [applause] >> 50 years of "i left my heart in san francisco." phenomenal. lot of san franciscans have left a big part of their hearts with you, and one of those is the man who leads our world champion san francisco giants. that is championships' problem -- championship bling right there. i want to bring up to the stage now my boss, the man who leads your san francisco giants, and your biggest fan, mr. larry bvaer -- baer. >>thanks renel.

convention platform and they want to force your servants to provide birth control to ther who of babylon(laughter) obama punishes the job creators. just imagine how he'll treat the job creators. it's time to send obama a message-- maybe a river of blood or locusts, or losing ohio. (laughter) because barack obama isn't just wrong for the nation, he's wrong for creation. so, god, remember. on november 6-- a day which you are already in and will always be in for a time of eternity-- vote mitt romney. but bring photo i.d. because they're really cracking down. i'm stephen colbert and i pray this message. we'll be right back. (cheers and applause) -xa''4!aa''4!a(<4 ):áxxd2h>ig,xx 4h$h (cheers and applause) >> stephen: welcome back, everybody, my guest tonight has written a new book which he describes as an existential detective story. he never tells you who did it because what's the point? please welcome jim holt! (cheers and applause) hey, what's going on there, mr. molt? nice to see you! is it mr. molt, dr. holt? >> mr. holt. >> stephen: okay, you're not one of those fancy doctors of thought

it's the babylon on the on the potomac they all live very well there the rest of us are being crushed and you know if we want to if we want to change we need we need to change what we do so we don't need a bomb or romney it's whoever not going to get ron paul i hear you on those points thank you so much lou rockwell for being on the show on our one year anniversary with a great analysis of the fadel iraq while president of the ludwig von mises institute . let's wrap up with loose change a special loose change because we're going to do some viewer feedback too so one of the more memorable exchanges in tuesday's presidential debates and for the talk and presidential election show was the back and forth over pension plans. mr president if you look at your pension have you looked at your pension. mr president you look at your pension you know i don't look at my friends as about as big as yours we're going to get. well maybe obama should have taken a look at his pension because as it turns out he holds shares it does of the las vegas sands corporation owned by sheldon adelson a major of ro

i know that it's going to start with a musical performance by beach blanket babylon and of course your favorites, giants president larry baer, bruce bochy, world series mvp pablo sandoval, ryan vogelsong and matt cain just a couple of the things that you can expect today but you can see they are already setting up. the barricades are set and we have seen a smattering of fans staking out their spots along market street so yes, the city has been working nonstop to set up the stage from market all the way to civic center plaza. the big challenge for fans will be getting here. as you look at the bay area transit groups, they say today they have all hands on deck. they are advising fans along with giants pride, patience will be eevention today. >> leave your car at home. walk, ride a bike, use public transit. >> reporter: if the celebration is anything like 2010's big celebration we can expect a million people to take part in the parade. the route starts at the foot of market street and go straight to city hall so you can see already that major stretch of traffic will be closed. mass transi

humvees and other vehicles responsibilitying from the national guard, from the state in the town of babylon responding to several working fires during this first surge at high tide earlier today. the flooding went up to montauk highway. very significant flooding. so we can expect to see that really intensify as the storm makes landfall. and high tide and storm's winds meet at the same time, really producing what we have been talking about for the last few days, and that is this incredibly dangerous storm. earlier today after the intensification of the storm, we were successful on a multiple agency level, including working with new york state assets, rescuing, evacuating additional people off of fire island. we understand now that those who have chosen to ride out the storm and made that decision on fire island, this is a life-threatening storm. we contacted people again and made additional efforts to evacuate people. we were successful in evacuating an additional 14 people off of fire island today. during that evacuation we lost one police vehicle, marine 3. but thanks to the assets that ha

. >> john did one of my first interviews back in 1978 when i did my first book "by the rivers of babylones on sale tuesday, by the way. >>> when we come back, paul thomas anderson. he gave us "boogie nights" and "there will be blood." it's his latest movie causing quite stir in hollywood. he's director of the movie called "the master." he joins us next righ what's that? when i take a picture of this check, it goes straight to the bank. oh. oh look the lion is out! no mommy no! don't worry honey, it only works on checks. deposit checks from your smartphone with chase quickdeposit. just snap a picture, hit send and done. take a step forward and chase what matters. >>> boogie nights established director paul thomas anderson an important name in hollywood. >>> "boggy >>> "the master" tells the story a tormented world war ii veteran. he stumbles upon a cult called the cause. it is led by philip seymour hoffman. >> i'm sorry i got out of hand last night. >> don't apologize. you're a scoundrel. and there's a scientists and a connoisseurs, i have no idea the contents of this remarkable potion. w

pretty much like wyndhamhurst are under water, babylon, really hit very, very hard. on long island more than 80% of the customers are without power. 1.1 million customers, over 900,000 have lost their power. it's probably devastating a hit as long island has ever taken. have to say that people in suffolk county are bearing the brunt of this. they and the first responders are doing a phenomenal job. but it was really very harrowing. through the night, and this morning, basically, they're still asking everyone to stay off the roads. just, again, it was just exceeded the worst expectations for long island. >> you know, we're looking at pictures from yesterday, as you're talking, and you can just see the floodwater and the damage there. we talked about the rescue workers helping people in to vehicles to get them out of there. so what are the expectations? i know the water is receding here where i am in manhattan. but, i know it's very hard this early on to give a number like how many days people will be without power. but is there an expectation, four days or a week or t

this is from babylon, new york, from becky bennett. look at the water, you know.with the transportation being a boat. she says she was without power for 12 hours and says she feels like one of the lucky ones. let me show you another one, jersey city, a lot of you can relate to this. look at the wind. this is from mike croix. he could not believe the wind damage, the brick, the gazebo, totally blown over. one more for you, this is from a town, settled back in the 17th century, a beautiful day 24 hours prior in new england. this is from john barnett. this tree gone, toppled over. quickly we love to get your pictures, real simple, go to cnn.com/open story. it is an open story. we cover it, you cover it, again, cnn.com/openstory. anderson, back to you. >> brooke, thank you very much. great that people send that stuff into us. the top of the hour, this is cnn special coverage of superstorm sandy, the destruction, the rescues, the early efforts to recover and most importantly to rebuild. we are going to rebuild. i'm live here in new york city from the balcony of the tim

she's part of the cast of "beach blanket babylon."'m totally going to give her a pass. i can't usually. with that hat, wow. >> i'm saying, take that to the derby. take that to the derby. people will love it. >>> all right. staying up to date with the latest smartphone, you spend a fortune trying to get the latest. you it can get pricey. hln money expert clark howard says there is an easier way now to sell that old cell phone to help you pay for the new one. >>> here we are in the midst of the shopping season, and people are santa for themselves and buy new cell phones. that's more intend this fall because of the new iphone 5 and the samsung galaxy 3. so if you're getting one of those new fancy-dancy cell phones, what happens to your old one? why don't you turn that old cell phone in to cash. if you have an old smartphone, it could be worth more than you realize. now there are atms popping up around the country called echo atms. you can actually take your cell phone to one and then they use digital photography and artificial intelligen