so far the baristas here are testing the water. not all of them are using stickers.tore is very busy and not sure they want to get in a deep conversation, hold up the line and upset people. online, though, there was one starbucks executive that got so many angry tweet that is he actually had to delete his account because of this. we did speak with one gentlemen who didn't want to appear on camera. we asked him what he thought of the stickers and he said off camera he thought it was a bunch of bologna, so it depends on who you ask. >> thank you. it is a hot topic. >> with a hot cup of coffee. >> with a hot cup of coffee. exactly! >>> well, let's see if traffic is heating up a little bit. >> as i said yesterday dave, tori, you are good in transition. >> i am doing my best. >> good morning, everybody. i wonder if ross is up! good morning, everyone. [ laughing ] a thousand jokes come to mind but let's do the little traffic sting thing we do. i love it. love it! out to the live pictures we go. i-880 north and southbound looking good. no major delays at the airport, by the

the coffee chain is encouraging baristas to get customers talking about race relations. shares at starbucks up 1.5%. race together is to stimulate conversation but is it smart business? jane wells reports fro >> reporter: starbucks always puts on a good show for its investors but this year's annual meeting seemed to show the company less about coffee more about change. >> this meeting is going to be a little bit different because we are going to tackle a subject that is making its rounds throughout america and tearing up so many lives and so many people and so many families. >> reporter: the subject is race and starbucks hopes to get people talking about it by encouraging baristas to write, race together on coffee cups. the social media backlash was brulgt with tweets like breaking all will serve atop a high horse but shareholders began lining up before dawn like the concept. >> starbucks seems to promote, you know socially progressive things and i think that's a terrific thing. >> i'm mixed on that. i don't know how baristas are going to have time to have conversations.

yeah, bring that one up south carolina baristas. that'll go over well. "here's your coffee, bobby joe. by the way, did you know there's a 5% chance you have some negro blood?" "race together, y'all. (applause) you know 5% goes on your tab, right? silver lining!" look, it's not like this is the first time a company has publicly talked about social issues in their marketing campaigns. the gap also had the red campaign to fight aids. and it's been successful, but they don't force you to talk about the issue while shopping in their stores. "sir, here are the new khakis in the relaxed fit. you know what's not relaxing? aids. it would be the opposite of relaxing. still want these? no. so obviously, starbucks felt that coffee and awkward conversations are meant to go together. if you're having coughy, you ought to be having an awkward conversations right? so we sent our own contributors ricky velez and mike yard to find coffee drinkers and strike up awkward conversations with them. take a look. >> what kind of coffee do you have there? >> medium roast. i love t

hiring a barista that has to change anything?n the stock are more concerned and excited about that app, because that's cool you can order and delivery but now order show up and that's waiting there on the pickup line. i think that's pretty cool. >> i thought that one lady's comments, do they have time to do this? is a really good one actually. >> i wonder if their productivity is going to go down. up next, a major announcement from biogen coming this week and what could be one of the biggest news making events this year. and the lock-up exploratioexplo. stock ending on double the average volume. is this the ultimate buy sign for baba? stay tuned. be asked is question that needso "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do. >>> time for unusual activity. go to pete for tha

. >>> so the idea of starbucks baristas writing messages about race has some customers seeing the cups when abc's david wright tries to join the conversation? >> reporter: file under the heading, seemed like a good idea at the time. a corporate ceo trying to tackle one of america's thorniest issues. >> we are in this issue for the long-term, trying to make a positive difference. >> reporter: race relations. the head of starbucks hoped to spark conversation about race by having every barista write two words on your coffee cup. >> this is an issue facing the country and facing our people. we're trying to do some good. >> reporter: social media has been percolating for days. some calling the campaign feel-good liberalism at its worst. others noting the coffee is $4.25, the lecture is free. new drink suggestions. how about a malcolm x-presso. or a stop and frisk frappuccino. parodies too. >> one latte, and you people are offensive. >> reporter: including this one. >> what's up my brother? we've been representing #racetogether. can i get an amen? >> reporter: oddly, today when we went to s

one woman who used to be a barista tweeted, being a barista is hard enough.ce together with a woman in lulu lemon pants is hard enough. and one executive deleted his account because he said he felt personally attacked. he's back on today. there are a few supporters like jackie's daughter, who tweeted, hat's off to the ceo of starbucks. there should be conversation and i'm glad someone outside of our community has initiated race together. many took a humorous approach. honest to god, if you start to engage me in a race conversation before i've had my morning coffee it will not end well. amen, gwen. so jokes aside, what does your gut tell you. do you think starbucks' race together campaign is a good idea? go to newsnation.msnbc.com to cast that vote and take a look at what the news nation is saying about yesterday's gut check. 24-year-old linebacker for the san francisco 49ers chris borland has decided to retire because of concerns over long-term brain injury. he says he wants to do what's best for his health. so we asked, do you think his decision will spark o

the head of starbucks hoped to spark conversation about race by having every barista write two wordss an issue facing the country and facing our people. we're trying to do some good. >> reporter: social media has been percolating for days. some calling the campaign feel-good liberalism at its worst. others noting the coffee is $4.25, the lecture is free. new drink suggestions. how about a malcolm x-presso. or a stop and frisk frappuccino. parodies too. >> one latte, and you people are offensive. >> reporter: including this one. >> what's up my brother? we've been representing #racetogether. can i get an amen? >> reporter: oddly, today when we went to starbucks for an afternoon fix, the manager shut us down faster than you can say grande doppio mochachino. >> you guys are having the conversation from baristas right? nothing written on the cup at all. as soon as they saw the camera they shut the conversation down telling us we had to call a number in seattle. there, we just had to leave a voice mail. >> reporter: cafe society in corporate america has obvious limits. that said, the idea

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the baristas are not required to put this on the cup.sten the point that schultz is trying to make here is he says this is an opportunity to begin to re-examine how we can create a more empathetic and inclusive society one conversation at a time. but, know -- then you've got those who are positive saying we're happy to see starbucks is doing something good. >> it is interesting because it really starts with the barista. they put that on. they're asking people to write it on their own cups. you're walking around the city your office whatever it is. people will say, what's that? >> it's the baristas writing it. >> my producer was going to get a cup of coffee. she was going to starbucks. this wasn't on the cup. she asked why not. the baris tta said no one knows about it. so i really question how effective the campaign's going to be if even just one person, one example of walking into a starbucks and not getting it on there. >> in a rush they could forget to slap it on. it's an interesting effort certainly on schultz's part. >> yes. >> appre

seriously, do we really expect some poor barista to handle a conversation on racial politics? that's a lot of pressure. who are they going to get, cornel west? [laughter] i mean no offense professor west, i know you can handle a delicate race conversation but i don't know if you can handle the delicate ins and outs of my quad grande non-fat extra hot carmel upside down macchiato. which i just made, starbucks. turning now to our top story tonight. we've got to talk about that jesus jet. >> i took a blood sworn oath. this is atlanta based mega church in the firing line after urging its mechanics to fund a new gulfstream jet for its controversial leader, pastor creflo dollar. [laughter] >> a new jet, i don't know if i should be more shocked at a new jetter whose name is creflo dollar. i mean seriously. it just seems so on the nose you know. it would be like a serial killer was named jack knife. or a bank robber named philip z. bag. you come up with some with the hashtag on the nose name. but lets get back to that jesus jet. >> project asking people to donate $300 or more. >> that

they have pulled the plug, and baristas will merely go back to misspelling your name. you'll have to talk about race on your own time. flat white can be the name of a drink, rather than an observation about a boring caucasian. thanks for joining us on this edition of "inside story". get in touch on facebook, twitter. tomorrow - yemen - the u.s.'s strategically located alley on the brink of full-blown war. we'll talk about that next time. in the meantime, i'm ray suarez. >> the united states is in the midst of the worst drug addiction epidemic in its history. but it's not a crisis of illegal drugs. it's one of prescription painkillers - oxycodone, hydrocodone, and other legal narcotics, all related to opium. collectively they are called opioids. >> these are the opioid painkillers. and prescriptions for drugs like these have more than quadrupled over the last 15 years - to the extent that the us now consumes more than 80 percent

they have pulled the plug, and baristas will merely go back to misspelling your name. you'll have to talk about race on your own time. flat white can be the name of a drink, rather than an observation about a boring caucasian. thanks for joining us on this edition of "inside story". get in touch on facebook, twitter. tomorrow - yemen - the u.s.'s strategically located alley on the brink of full-blown war. we'll talk about that next time. in the meantime, i'm ray suarez. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello and welcome to the news hour, and i'm in doha with the top stories on al jazeera, saudi-led air strikes target in yemen as questions are raised about the possible use of ground forces. russia's foreign minister leaves iran talks as world powers try to reach agreement on tehran's nuclear program. counting votes in nigeria people wait to

a plan with baristas that has people criticizing the coffee company. company. >> and what is causing the kraft macaroni and cheese recall tonight. >>> and what is an app tracking your every move and saving you money at the same time? >>> and i'm jeff ranieri, and other than a few clouds over the area, we will talk about the increased sunshine, and yes, hotter in/*temperatures, and when we will reach the upper 70s in a few minutes. >>> check your pantry, because you may have to throw away the mac and cheese. kraft is pulling more than 240,000 cases of mac and cheese off of the shelves. the boxes may contain metal pieces. it is limited to a 7.2 ounce boxes, and kraft said it has received eight complaints so far, but no injuries. you can get more information on the specific boxes on bayarea.com, and search kraft recalls. >>> and another recall at trader joe's, and look for the are raw walnuts which have the potential that is potential salmonella. the recalled walnuts were distributed to trader joes. throw them away for return for a refund. >> and a new qu

they have pulled the plug and baristas will merely go back to misspelling your name. you'll have to talk about race on your own time. flat white can be the name of a drink, rather than an observation about a boring caucasian. thanks for joining us on this edition of "inside story". get in touch on facebook twitter. tomorrow - yemen - the u.s.'s strategically located alley on the brink of full-blown war. we'll talk about that next time. in the meantime, i'm ray suarez. >>> u.n. brokered talks to resolve the crisis in yemen to be held in doha. >>> hello, i'm here from doha. also ahead - binyamin netanyahu apologises. the israeli prime minister says he regrets remarks about israeli palestinians. >>> returning - no progress on greece's bailout as the prime minister meets with the german chancellor. plus, the death penalty in the u.s. utah reintroduces the

. >> john, a lot of the baristas said they are not forced to have this conversation if a customer wants it they'll have it and they also pointed out they're not going to hold up their coffee sales wayne will be glad to know. if there's time to do or t. or a place to do it, otherwise they're going to make the coffee. >> eric, there is no discussion needed on race. i resent this idea that america is this racist country that we somehow interest to remedy through chitchat at starbucks. people are individuals. it's their ideas, its their philosophy that matters not their skin color. we see that every week here on the show. stop identifying by your race, you're not responsible for things that came before you and you're not entitled to things that came before you. there's no discussion needed on race in this country and the wants to want the discussion -- >> i think there is a discussion that needs to go on. i think there are too many examples of violence in fact, kareem abdul jabbar who is pro howard schultz say this may backfire, he thinks some violence may occur because of this. >> wow. so

they have pulled the plug, and baristas will merely go back to misspelling your name. you'll have to talk about race on your own time. flat white can be the name of a drink, rather than an observation about a boring caucasian. thanks for joining us on this edition of "inside story". get in touch on facebook, twitter. tomorrow - yemen - the u.s.'s strategically located alley on the brink of full-blown war. we'll talk about that next time. in the meantime, i'm ray suarez. >> i'm amanda burrell. i'm a documentary filmmaker. for the last three years i've worked with al jazeera in turkey. that's the longest i've settled in any job. before this i was freelance, making films around the world -

as of yesterday, baristas will no longer write race together on customers' coffee cups. this is not because of customer backlash. they say this is not the appropriate way to discuss racial inequality. the coffee giant said it planned to end the cup writing campaign but will continue the effort in other ways. >>> it is wine week in philadelphia. the festival kicked off last night with the opening gala in center city. the guests of the fine arts were able to sample a variety of wine there is and many of the bars and restaurants will be hosting events throughout the week. philly wine week wraps up next sunday. >>> you want to wrap yourself in something warm this, mo morning. it is 29 degrees this morning. good morning, christine. >>> no major problems to report. i'll look at the roads in your neighborhood when we come back. >>> plus get ready for takeoff. the upgrade to take flight today at a local military base. >>> we are live on the scene as philadelphia investigators are looking into car break-ins to cause the owners thousands of dollars. >>> and the latest republican i

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you think about what these baristas are doing on a daily basis.y have to prepare food and make drinks and take orders and the line is, you know it's getting longer and longer. they don't have any time to step aside and really have conversations with customers much less have a debate on racial tension in this country. >> i was thinking the same thing, hayley. when it happened i thought my gosh, the lines are long enough. are you kidding me? and then we're going to talk about this? >> but at least, hayley like good traders, they know when to cut their losses right? whether they intended to do this on march 22 nd or not, they did, we're out of it and we move on. >> but it's a shame that this part of the program is the thing that is overshadowed. i think there are more substantive actions they've taken such as the hiring plan where they're going to be reaching out to what he calls disenfranchised youth and try to bring use of color into the starbucks job, an opportunity to many of them couldn't have. it's a shame that part of the program didn't get as

is this a form of barista torture?le to keep your professional self to yourself and not air your personal views about something. you're just trying to get through your day. it seems a little mean to the baristas. >> they will >> >>> after dominating last season, chris borland announces he is quitting football. from what i have experienced, i don't think it's worth the risk. congratulations to chris. he's making the right decision. why are we still watching football? >> i don't watch football. with head trauma and concussions, i'm just not interested. i have a friend who played for the university of virginia. he suffered from concussions. >> it is a very real problem. >> it is a very real problem. he has to engage in a number of cognitive exercises to make sure his brain is thoroughly working. that's just playing on the college level. can you imagine playing on the professional nfl level? i'm sure this gentleman looked in the mirror and said the money is not worth my health at all. >> there are mothers and fathers acros

one barista is wearing a sticker that says race together on it. she says if somebody asked her about it, then she will go in and explain more about it. >> it is kind of like an opt in instead of opt out option i guess you could say. >> yes. >>> it is 6:36. police are searching for suspects in what was apparently a random attack at man at a convenience store at university square shopping her center on schneider lane. a witness called police to report a man was on the ground being kicked in the parking lot. he is identified as 32-year-old adam martin. doctors say his neck was broken and he was badly hurt, but he does not recall the attack. police have not been able to come one a motive. >>> a woman in richmond is going public about fearing out of control violence in her neighborhood and says she is moving out, at least for now. >> it hurts to see the children of this community feed on each other. >> that is ann cyrus. she says she was home tuesday night when someone started firing shots just outside her door at her 18-year-old son. she thinks he was

about race, asking employees to write "race together" on the side of customers' cups to inspire baristas to talk to customers about race relations. >> we have serious problems in this country. we have a void of ldership on a number o areas and all we're trying to do as a company is make a positive difference. >> reporter: and now some think encouraging a conversation about race over their morning cup of joe is over the top. with otweeting "this is going to make my usual order of a black americano all that more eventful." and another "not sure what starbucks was thinking. i don't have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you and still make my train." >> starbucks is not necessarily the best place or the most interesting place to have a conversation about race. >> i'm not sure that systemic change is going to happen by talking to your barista at starbucks. >> reporter: schultz himself seemed to anticipate this might not exactly go down smooth for all his customers. starbucks is not backing down. this new campaign has officially launched nationwide. david? >> linsey thank you. >>> and

starbucks ceo asking baristas to write on the coffee cups. >> what if p we were to write #racetogethercks cup and that facilitated a conversation between you and our customers. >> i personally don't want to see it on my coffee cup. >> you don't? >> no. >> it's just a conversation. not driving it towards any direction. that sounds like a good idea to me. >> reporter: starbucks has never shied away from controversial issues like gun control, and this time this is boiling over. people who are had the time and training to facilitate discussions about race but they're not starbucks baristas. the vp for communications deleting his own twitter account, feeling he felt personally attacked. he knew the idea could land the company in hot water. >> some people said howard this is not a subject we can touch. i reject that completely. >> a daily show comedian tweeting before they where race together on cups, can starbucks just spell my name correctly. >> the company wants to make it clear that baristas are not required to write #racetogether on the cups. in los angeles for abc news. >>> american ex

ceo howard schultz announcing baristas will no longer be writing "race together" on coffee cups.initiative launched earlier this month to spark national conversations on race. >> i think we knew going in, this is a highly emotional issue that divides many people across the country when you talk about race and racial inequality. >> reporter: the program is ending as planned. in a memo to employees, shultz writing, "we believed that starting this dialogue is what matters most." after receiving harsh criticism online, comments like "i don't have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you and still make my train." the backlash so strong, a company executive temporarily deleted his twitter account, saying he felt personally attacked. but some customers we spoke to thought generating conversation is not a half-brewed idea. >> it's cool that they've decided to do something. most places do nothing. >> reporter: now the company says it will move forward with other initiatives, including opening more stores in urban communities and providing job opportunities for 10,000 young people ov

this week ceo howard shultz asked baristas to write about race. social media complaining that the company overstepped its boundaries. some asked whether young baristas should start these conversations with customers. you went to the man and asked the question, why oh, why? you spoke with howard shultz. >> i think that people pretty high up advised him not to do this and he said, i reject that idea. i'm doing if anyways. he made his opinion in starbucks position on gay marriage, on guns and money on politics very well known. this is clearly the most hot button topic. listen to what howard schultz told me about why he made this move. >> certainly there were people and friends of mine and certain people at starbucks that felt this was not an issue that we should engage in and i rejected that. i rejected that because if we all individually and collectively continue to by a bystander on something that is dividing the nation, where is this headed? and i think we are better than this as a country. i don't think we've made as much progress as we need to.

starbucks is asking baristas to write the words race together on their customers' coffee cups or put this sticker on the cups. the point of doing what is so the barista can strike up a conversation about race relations with the customers. they say they don't want to hold up the line and they say this is an offensive topic. the concept hasn't been getting warm fuzzy reviews online either. there has been backlash on the campaign started by starbucks' county howard schultz. one starbucks executive received so many mean tweets that he deleted it's twitter account. schultz says he didn't want to be a silent bystander and thinks by having baristas openly engaged in conversation with customers, it would be helpful. here's what one customer had to say this morning. >> i think it's great. i should have got one on my cup. >> reporter: some were saying they are a little uncomfortable having to answer questions about that. >> i don't think it's a big deal. i think it's something that they should be more educated on for the customer base so they can get it on there. fanned we have questions, they

to encourage discussions about race baristas are writing the phrase "race together" on cups. starbucks ceo said if a barista doesn't want to write it or a customer doesn't want to talk about it they don't have to. it's the subject of our nbc washington flash survey. do you think writing "race together" on cups is a good idea. here are the results so far. 5% say yes. 76% say no. and 19% say right conversation coffee shop wrong place. >>> fairfax county schools could be changing to a uniform grading policy. deputy superintendent steven lockhart wants to change the scoring on an f grade from 0 to 50% so it doesn't drag down a student's gpa. it also calls for a separate grading for effort and achievement. it would be for middle and high school students. he's looking for teacher and community input. >>> next an amtrak passenger picks up the wrong backpack which leads to a drug bust across state lines. >>> fairfax county police logging on to keep your children safe online. the warning for parents tonight. >> you have to keep an eye on what they >>> local police are leading a new in

a barista trying to have this conversation with somebody and their response is offensive. you've got an employee who's upset and a customer who's uncomfortable. it could happen and probably will. >> a good read is kareem abdul jabbaar, in awe the company is trying it and shocked they think it's going to work but the stock, ipoed in 1992, henry, never been higher than right now. >> incredible. >> yeah. >> maybe they could sell addictive drugs. >> starbucks there and have people talk about that. maybe it will work. >> jane wells was at the shareholder meeting yesterday and interviewed a lot of shareholders who were in line, waiting to go into the meeting, and they actually all applauded the company for doing this and said that they would be happy to talk to their barista about those issues. >> you make me that much money i will be happy to talk about it too. >> when we come back, yahoo! officially closing all of its operation this is china, laying off about 300 workers, shutting down its research center in beijing, the latest in a series of layoffs at home and abroad aimed t

kennedy: you went to college of -- you were a barista?t in a ridge ringer this. kennedy: i did. >> i had a lot of racial conservations with the guests, it ended up getting me fired. kennedy: recent speaking of the washington bureau chief of daily beast. article by unnamed surgeon, among other things that surgeons are secretly horrified they might leave a pair of scissors in your ribs, they listen to japanese blue grass while you are out cold, and find more bidly obese people more difficult to operate on. i am intrigued by field of surgery. i did research today, i asked my friends when are the stranger things that you do that we don't know about, high friend who is -- me friend said we see everyone naked. that is not the best part of the job, surgeon and daily beast article said we don't judge. but she said we do judge. we mock. >> really? well, i believe daily beast more than your mean friend. i do have a friend who is ay is joha --surgeon he never said hew somebody naked but he does have on his phone, x-rays of what things have inserted.

i have to say, i was a starbucks barista, one of my many high school summer jobs, i cannot imagine aingle scenario where it would be appropriate to sort of broach that line of customer service and have that conversation. people are in a hurry, they have their personal barriers up. i can't even imagine a single scenario. >> i would say the only problem is i wish they would stop talking when ordering coffee because i want to get in and get out. that's who i am. >> kayla and i will be talking about race during the commercial break. i have some thoughts on rep per ragss. >> see. >> entitlement and i think we'll have a good two minutes to get into that. >> service times aside, i think -- i don't see a problem with the company at least being willing to address the obvious debate in the country and 499 other s&p 500s out there protective of their bottom line and not going to risk it. it's a risk. >> it's a good thought. reminds me of that mcdonald's pay with lovin' thing. there's a time and a place for these sorts of things. i'm not sure the minute and a half i have when grabbing my coffee

. >> i admire his stance but i don't want my barista taking three to five minutes out for customer toout having a dream where the plight of the native americans because there is such a high probability that that person is going to screw up my coffee. if we are going to start talking about there's, why not life begins at conception. >> i think you're going exceptionally far. i just don't think that they are correlated. it's beginning a conversation that needs to be had. we have seen terrible things. what happened this week and the list goes on. so if howard told has a platform like there's, why shouldn't he be using this? >> we are talking about coffee shops and people making coffee. we may have back race relations and financial inequality in this country. and we do have people that disagree about women's rights. but when i go to starbucks i don't need a forced conversation >> why is and that somewhere that we can start that conversation? you're not going to finish it there. but why can't you started their? >> why not at the beginning of your morning? >> because i'm cranky in the morni

the barista i talked to just got to work. not a lot of people having the conversation or inquiring about it. it's going to start showing up on your cup. this was the georgia avenue location. nobody making a lot of comments. some of the listeners i've spoken to are certainly happy about the fact that starbucks is making this move. it's a bold one and takes the entire community participating in this conversation. that includes the corporate world, too. oftentimes they are left behind. i spoke to stephanie. she is not all that happy about the extra addition to her coffee cup. >> my initial reaction was the whole starbucks thing this morning wiseas wow. pretty surprising. i think corporate has to be careful how they push having the conversation about race. i understand the whole coffee shop concept and barber shop concept and beauty shop salon. it has to happen at people's own comfort level and initiative and not feel forced by a corporate entity. >> people thinking is this going to make a contextual conversation about race happe

you can't go for your morning coffee now without a discussion with a barista about race relations.sometimes i go into a place and people want to talk presidential elections. i said hold on i am having my green juice. there has to be a time and place where you are not talking politics. >> it is even worse now because in new york starbucks just started delivering. now you will have someone show up at your front door and want to have a conversation with you. >> i will be like, puerto ricans? jojo, is the starbucks not the place for this conversation? not the place, not the venue? >> it is not. >> then where can we have this conversation? "red eye"? >> exactly. please keep watching. i understand why they want to do this, but this discussion is the cheapest option for them. that's why they are doing it. if they wanted to improve the climate of the country they could be doing something like for every purchase of your coffee would you like to donate a dollar to the civil rights organization or racial equality group? then people have the option to get involved or not. it seems like they ar

a conversation about race asking employees to write race together on the side of cups to inspire baristaso talk to customers about rails race relations. >> we have serious problems in this country. we have a void of leadership on a number of areas. all we're trying to do as a company is make a positive difference. >> reporter: now some say encouraging a conversation about race over a morning cup of joe is over the top. with one person tweeting this is going to make my usual order of a black americana that more eventful and another not sure what starbucks was thinking. i don't have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you and still make my train. >> starbucks is not the best or most interesting place to have a conversation about race. >> i'm not sure that systemic change will happy talking to a barista at starbucks. >> reporter: he seemed to anticipate it may not go down smooth for all customers. >> we anticipated an emotional reaction because this is a seriously, emotionally charged yirn. >> reporter: despite the social media firestorm, starbucks is not backing down. the national ca

are supposed to have with the barista but this is a take away.k? >> it's great the starbucks is trying to save the world but this is not the way to do it. i go to starbucks at 6:45 in the morning to get my caffeine to get me through the rest of the day, not to talk about -- neil: do what is feel the same way? come on, just want my -- >> i didn't see anyone else with the paper. i don't know if it is because they handed it to the blonde girl at 6:45 in the morning and said she would be the first one that could fill this out and have this conversation. neil: he was hitting a new. >> it was a female. neil: bottom line you wanted your coffee. >> i did is they didn't put hash tag race together on my cup. they gave me my coffee and if they want to talk about it that is fine. and it may be mean. neil: was the early in the morning? >> i have to go in end it's a tight ship here. neil: the producer -- misplaced. hello. and wants to remind you others -- the race campaign what was it going through? >> i think it was unnecessary. this is self indulgent nonsens

baristas are no longer writing the words race together on their cups.oal was to encourage conversations between employees and customers but it was widely panned on social media. starbucks will continue with other aspects, including newspaper inserts. >>> a >>> good morning everyone. it is 5:52 on this monday. march 23rd. we are looking at the san rafael richmond bridge. sure looks sloppy out there. let's confirm the rain. right there with hi def doppler radar. off the san rafael richmond bridge. rain how long it will last. how much to expect, still straight ahead. >>> even a few drops of rain can cause problems on the roads. on the altemont pass westbound 580 at grant line. the metering lights were just switched on over at the bay bridge toll plaza. it is all coming up. >>> a medical emergency led to a coast guard rescue aboard a carnival cruise ship near san diego. the coast guard had to airlift a 56-year-old man after he suffered a heart attack. the crew hoisted him from the dock and transported him to the hospital. >>> why did the mountain lion cross

too many people with graduate degrees working as a barista right? >> a barista is a great job. >> it is. i am not talking about bar sigh tas. they wasted time in school. devore, you probably loved colleges because he are incubators -- they are incubators. >> i sort of agree with you. there should be other alternatives, vocational schools. there should be a party that values entrepreneurialism. >> how about the republican party? >> and give small business loans to a teenager or people in their 20s to start small businesses. i don't know what party could do that, but they should offer that as an idea. >> andy is it -- it is no mystery as to why all of these top men of industry like cuban they are all from the libertarian school. they know what it takes to be successful, right? >> wrong. are the loans leading to the higher tuition leading to more loans and leading to higher tuition. >> so you think it is a bubble? >> i don't know if i agree that it is burst yet. one college going out of business will equal a bubble bursting. but at some point the game

baristas will have an option to start of a conversation b. writing "race together" on customers' coffee cubs. it tracked to three different starbucks here in midtown, and eventually given this cup with a sticker on it. the race together initiative is part of a larger campaign supplemented by a recent ad in "new york times," which "shall we overcome?" later this week some decisional reading will be made available, packets to be districted in store will offer up confers starters, including a fill in the blanks question. as "fortune" reports, 40% of the are part minority racial group, and a hiring push focused the idea was sparked by a mean in look at that crowd. and he shared news of the initiative last week via video message. is what if we were to write on every cup and that facilitated a conversation. the company has come out in marriage of marriage equality, asked customers to keep firearms out of the stores, ein stays with open carry laws, and not the first time they used cups to get a message -- and asking d.c. area to write "come together

. >>> baristas at starbucks will no longer write the phrase "race together" on coffee cups. we've been following reaction to this since last week when starbucks first announced the initiative. the company's goal was to spark conversation with customers about race relations, but the campaign has been heavily criticized so now starbucks is apparently looking for other ways to raise awareness about this sensitive issue. alexandra peterye writes the compost blog for "the washington post" and she joins us live right now. >> alexandra, this did not last long. you've been pretty opinionated about why this whole concept was a bad one. how did you see this coming so early? >> well i just think it was so xhit exciting to hear, oh, the ceo of a major company has realized racism is an issue in america. the next after that was we're going to write a phrase or marker on our cups and he was thinking how can i possibly generate the worst situation to have a national conversation about race when people haven't had coffee when people who think pumpkin spiced lattes and the second coming of th

the baristas will no longer be writing "race together" on coffee cups.it was meant to stir a debate on race in the country, but starbucks faced a social media backlash. laura: not to mention a little bit annoying. delano: it is all right if they want to start the campaign, but this is a company run by mainly white men. laura: true. moving on, we will find out what has people clicking. it is time for our daily dose of web news. ♪ >> welcome to web news. coming up on today show, a canadian teenager with asp burgers gets a birthday to remember. -- aspergers if a birthday to remember. last week, a canadian mom posted a message to facebook asking social networkers to send her son a message on his birthday. he has aspergers and when he sent out invites to his 13th birthday party, no one rsvp. thousands of canadians posted messages and photos to social networks last friday. it began trending across the country. they were wishing him many happy returns and voicing their support to let the young man know he was not on his own. a massive show of solidarity. the pe

starbucks baristas will stop writing race together a week after the campaign was launched it was aimed at sparking conversations with customers about racial issues in america. it was criticized by the public and employees. starbucks plans several other initiatives including expanding into urban neighborhoods. >>> futures are lower ahead of the opening bell this morning. the markets come off a positive week, the nasdaq at its third highest close ever friday above 5,000. investor also continue to digest the fed's signal that it will raise interest rates gradually and get economic reports on housing, inflation and gdp. friday the dow rising to 18127 and the nasdaq up 34 to 5026. sam, back over to you. >> trying to keep that positive momentum going. thank you very much, landon. >>> it is 4:47 right now. we want to look at that forecast, which is a rainy one this morning. good morning, christina. >> good morning. lot of this came down while you were sleeping, but the good news is, we picked up some significant totals, happy to tell about you about that this morning obviously, if you have th