berg about ted cruz.hat i know he was born in canada, and i was under the impression that in the , in order to qualify to run for president, you have to be born in this country, and i know that he was quoted as saying he was going to fix that. and people talk about him running as if he, you know, there's no problem. i'm kind of confused about that, and i wondered if you could confirm that for me. thank you. guest: it can be confusing. ted cruz was born in canada as an american citizen, but canadian law states that if you were born in canada, even as a citizen of another country, you have dual citizenship. so ted cruz discovered recently that he was a dual citizen of canada and the united states and has been working to actually rescind his canadian citizenship. but he is still technically partner an american, an american citizen, and would be eligible to run for president. host: mark is up next, texas, our line for republicans. mark, good morning. caller: is this me? host: yes, mark, you're on the "washing

she was referred to professor pat berg for counseling, the wife of jim berg, the former dean of studentsounseled katy landry. she was told the repeated rapes were her own fault. >> she talked about my sin regarding it. one example would be she would repeatedly say that if i had ever experienced pleasure at any point while he was doing this to me, that that was sin that i needed to repent of. i remember her looking at me, and saying "you know that the nightmares are your own fault. because you're choosing to replay pornographic thoughts in your mind." >> during the investigation grace reviewed a number of materials including court documents and e-mails from pat berg calling the former student to call her rapist and ask for forgiveness. >> you being advised i think it would be best to say to him that since you have been at bju this year god has been working in your heart. god has shown you that you were wrong, not to forgive him, as christ has forgiven you. >> i had to ask to forgive him. >> forgive you for what? >> because i had surveilled for not asking him to forgive me. >> she had to c

berg. >> most americans give in the ways they're used to giving. the wealthy give less in aggregate and they tend to give to institutions that benefit themselves and their families. such as big hospitals big cultural institutions big museums. that's our message that charity isn't the answer, higher wages more equitable tax system like the wealth and middle class and habit also tells us that if you give to the organizations you have given to in the past and if you give to an effective coalition like mine new york city coalition against hunger, don't know whether it's effective or not. >> it's the brand name syndrome. about how and why we give do most americans do their research before they give? >> no, in fact the social science research which you're citing shows that the average american puts in exactly zero hours and zero minutes. as joel says he's exactly right, people give out of habit. they give to the brand names, they give to the charities that their friends or family recommends. they don't do it based upon effectiveness research. >> and mr.

joel berg, and ken stern, author of "with charities for all." thanks for joining us on "the wee ahead." >> before we go let's look at other events. on monday u.n. climate change talks begin in lima, peru. tuesday the french national assembly will vote on recognizing the state of palestine following a similar vote in the european parliament. on wednesday president barack obama will host the tribal nations conference in washington, d.c. leaders from more than 500 tribes will send their representatives. >>> up next, nasa prepares for a big test of the newest spacecraft. looking ahead, the hurdles overcome for humans to survive on mars. >> a conflict that started 100 year ago, some say, never ended... revealing... untold stories of the valor... >> they opened fire on the english officers... >> sacrifice... >> i order you to die... >> and ultimate betrayal... drawing lines in the sand that would shape the middle east and frame the conflict today >> world war one: through arab eyes only on al jazeera america >>> on thursday nasa's newest spaceship get

officer berg credits his police training but also his military service. eight years as an army inn fan free man including two years combined in iraq and afghanist afghanistan. his calm handling of this volatile situation assured not only he could go home to his wife and three-year-old daughter but that mr. barnes and all of those innocent bystanders were also unharm. iain? >> bruce, thank you. >>> boston marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev was back in court today for the first time since july of 2013. tsarnaev walked into a courtroom full of police officers survivors and family members at his final pretrial hearing got underway today. jury selection for his federal trial begins january 5th. he's facing the possibility of death penalty if convicted in that april 2013 bombings -- april 2013. three people lost their lives and more than 260 others were hurt during that attack. >> temperatures are dropping in your fox 29 weather authority. here's a life look at blue mount fenn from our pocono mountains cam a it's even colder. you can skies out there. >>

. ♪ >> this week on "q&a" our guest is kenneth fine berg, from the victim compensation fund and authorf the book "what is the life worth? the unprecedented effort to compensate the victims of 9/11". >> kenneth fineberg, why did you call the book that you just wrote "what is life worth"? >> because congress in setting up this program after 9/11 delegated to me and really to me alone the requirement -- the obligation to try and calculate what each death caused by 9/11 or each physical injury should be paid out of public funds. >> what were you called? >> i was called -- a rather judicial term -- a special master. that connotes in the law somebody who is sort of delegated authority. usually by a court. to act as some administrative arm of the court to administer or design a settlement and then to allocate the proceeds of the settlement. >> how many people did you award money to and how much? >> i awarded 7 billion dollars of taxpayer funds, all public funds, to approximately 5300 people. 3,000, roughly, 2,900 families who lost a loved one on 9/11 and the remaining claims were physical inj

. >> reporter: berg was gunned down in the parking lot of a miami strip club in june of 2012.was unarmed, sitting in a pickup truck when he was shot and killed by an armed security guard. this is that guard. being brought into court, now charged with murder. and facing a father who can't understand why his son has been taken away from him. >> you murdered my son, man, for nothing. he was trying to get away from you. he was trying to get away from you, man. you kept shooting him. you kept shooting him in his back. >> lucas shane kendall has a history of alcohol abuse, a dui conviction. he was kicked out of the navy. after the shooting, the jail psychiatrist diagnosed him with anti-social personality disorder. and a recent diagnosis by court-ordered psychiatrists of unspecified schizophrenia spectrum, and other psychotic disorder. yet on the day donald bird's son was shot and killed, lucas kendall was fully licensed by the state of florida to hold a badge, and a gun. >> when you've got a young security guard, they get any opportunity to use their weapon. it's there. >> reporter:

a vigil was held in gate erring berg. >> the video is hard to watch. but what happened inside this house is even harder to comprehend. thirty-six year old marie gemmel, her three year olson, infant son dover and, all died after private plane crashed into their maryland home monday. >> it is hard to believe that it was somebody that i have known for so long, somebody that was so sweet, kind and generous. >> amy was marie's high school friends from brick, new jersey, that's where marie agree up, and her old friends and classmate met in brick friday night at the river okay restaurant, to raise money for the gymmel family. organized the funds raiser. >> she was kinds, kinds soul, she had a beautiful heart, beautiful family, beautiful children, she was something special. >> friends from maryland set up on line gofundsme page, also dedicated to the gemmel. friends, family, complete strange he is, donated half million dollars. >> but in addition to the go fun me page, all proceeds from inside the restaurant will go into a separate fund for housing, and clothi

i think you're probably up or down 10%. >> david see berg? >> i agree.king for a 35 or 40% gain at all. i think it's -- applepay will be an interesting transition. they're not making money from a transaction perspective. they're making money from dice sales that will force the people to buy the product. it's the security aspect of it. it's a massive coup for them. you know, they've had, what is it 800 million i tune subscribers? they're subscribers for a reason. people trust giving their credit card for apple. they're going to be a conversion from that perspective. i think that's going to be huge for them. the watch, i don't think the street has anything baked into the watch, but it could lead into something that would 'loy them to monetize it. the biggest thing is i look at the ipad and say that's been left for dead, right? we've had that conversation, but i really think that they can transition themselves differently, and they're looking into the opportunity to maybe a larger spring, maybe a keyboard, so you can run them -- through the different operat

taliban released american bringing nerve bo berg doll, the us military launched investigation whetherergdahl deserted his post before the tal began captured him. >>> islamic state began major offensive, capturing huge areas of eastern syria and northern iraq. the american-led coalition launched air strikes against isis targets, and the us said thousands of so-called military advisors to the grounds in iraq. but president obama insists he will not sends us combat troops. >>> israel invaded the gaza strip over the summer. the conflict fueled by the killing of three israelis teenagers by palestinian millitant. the fighting ended with a cease-fire. in the town of ferguson, missouri, it turned violent after shooting of unarmed teen acre michael brown. grand jury decided not to bring charges against officer. that spark new violence in ferguson, and protests all across our country. >>> in august robin williams took his own life at the age of 63. his suicide put a new spotlight on depression and mental health. >> in pennsylvania, a huge manhunt for eric matthew frein, 31 year old survival lis

and they're just the tip of the pollination identity berg because there are all kinds of species outour suit there,. >> cotton. >> it is cotton that, made by bees, bees were involved in every fiber pollinating those cotton plants. >> einstein i think famously said that if bees disappeared, humanity would be dead in four years because we wouldn't have anything to eat. >> the mass agriculture that we need we absolutely require bees. we require a lot of these species. many of the tropical fruits require bats and other kinds. >> it is big animals. >> that is the fun thing about this story. i work with a group called the pollinater partnership to come back with all kinds of great new things that people probably haven't seen before like lemmers in madagascar that pollinate plants. there are all kinds of gecoes and even a slug can pollinate a plant so many of these species out there are working all the time for us and to keep the environment safe and keep it active and growing and -- >> you have this thing called pollinater .org, what is that. >> that's, scientists working on pollination th

cents berg. this is the most recent picture of him.sed by officials last night, authority say stone shot and killed six people and seriously injured a seventh person. all people with family ties, including his ex-wife. the first shooting happened around 3:30 monday morning here in souderton. the montgomery county district attorney says stone killed his former sister-in-law, her husband, their 14 year old daughter and seriously injured the couple's 17 year old son. then stone went to this house, shot former mother-in-law, grandmother in law. finally, showed up here in lower salford at the apartment of his ex-wife. thirty-three year old nicole stone. killed her, and took the couple's two daughters, a neighbor recalls the frightening scene to our steve patterson. >>> i heard four gunshots i owned my window, was everything okay? he looked at me and said she's hurt, hurt pretty bad. we got to go, we got to go. >> at approximately 5:00 a.m. shortly thereafter, mr. stone delivered his two daughters to neighbor in pennsburg and this glues the

consistent, non-stop. >> reporter: berg arrived on the scene to find a matter identified as 35-year-oldc barnes holding the ar15. there were lots of people arou around. though they were giving the gunman wide berth. >> he doesn't see me at this time. i start to proceed towards him. i announce myself as police. order him to drop the weapon. he looks back in my direction. i believe realizes i've got the beat on him. and just drops the weapon. >> reporter: barnes was taken into custody. police learned he had fired nearly 30 shots. a check of the ar15 showed he had taped together ammunition clips to give him additional quick fire power. search of his home nearby turned up a glock semi-automatic handgun. the situation that could have ended in a deadly shootout, instead ended without a shot fired. >> there was fortunate for everyone that just my mirror presence was enough to deter this individual from a iteming to fire at anybody else or anything. >> reporter: police commissioner charles ramsay notes that police involved shootings and fatal shootings are down this year. >> these are the stori

and turn around of balboa high school i'm honored by somehow a little more by your practice and just berg to do this for you tonight eric i'd like to thank you and please come up and say a few words that would be great (clapping) a autopsy yeah. >> oh, thank you so much y wow, i get a certificate too thank you everybody i'm honored and understated and happy to be here happy to see you folks he support the studies class. >> yeah. (clapping.) i love teaching at balboa park and san francisco and literature coming to work i like to coordinate with you all i saw i love you guys and happy to get the award and happy to get 5 thousands to distribute as i see fit thank you (clapping.) >> eric. >> why did he do? oh, i get a picture. >> yeah. (clapping.) thank you very much so while we're doing recognizes and accommodations it is only appropriate that at this moment i announce it is the last former meeting of board of education in which commissioner kim tree will be participating at this point we've prepared a short slide show which we will continue to have looping as board makes comments so, please

berg and his friend were already sitting in their pick-up truck in the parking lot.ld police he thought they were rolling marijuana. he approached the truck and claims the two were looking menacing. one of the men threatened him, he says. and both car doors opened. kendall claims he felt his life was in danger and believed one of the men had a weapon. he fires at least 12 shots, hitting byrd eight times, including four shots in the back as byrd crawled under the truck. the shooting left byrd dead and michael smathers paralyzed. police say no gun, no weapon was found in that truck. kendall calmly called 911. >> there was a shooting at club rol-lexx. >> was anyone shot? >> yes. >> where is the gunman now? >> i'm the gunman. i'm a security officer. >> reporter: by and large, many security guards don't have arrest powers and don't report to the public. an investigation by cnn and the center for investigative reporting finds the armed security guard industry is kind of like the wild west when it comes to oversight. you can become an armed guard in 15 states with no firear

. >> seeing none, questions or comments commissioner bridges and proof mind berg and i picking back on the report so i'll pack take the privilege i want to make a comment on the transition in the deferred ploy on the transition to mccain it's been a great pleasure working with her and you managed that i want to comment think that it is going well and karen thank you for your work on the process thank you very much and thank you karen for all her hard work and bottom more than a spare time. >> i know how much time she's spent. >> i appreciate your mentioning that. >> commissioner melberger. >> i have a few questions maybe a request this dovetails other than the comments regarding communications responsiveness mr. williams asked in terms of the response and the answer we gave is no i'll suggest the claurntd items that deal with the inquires of the members of the public regarding minutes which is what dave's comments was for example, the compensation plans and questions on the annual report people wanted to know before the annual report and hedge few minutes letters around hedge funds and

[ ♪ theme ] >>> hello i'm richard giz berg, and you are at "listening post".ere are some of the stories we've been covering. one of the biggest is from sydney. did it merit the news merit is received. the latest is the show down. a tabloid reporters revenge. a film with journalist behaving badly. a blackout that never happened and a light show we seldom see >>> breaking news and live reporting often do not sit well together. when news of the hostage taking in sydney broke, reporters were scrambling for the scratch. they heeded requests to hold back some of the information. one exception was the daily telegraph. and screamed that the country would never be the same. it's opened by australia's rupert murdoch. the siege in sydney and the coverage echoed what happened in ottawa about six weeks before. both stories were about one-armed men acting alone as opposed it a wider conspiracy, and both accompanied by news coverage disproportionate in editorial tone and volume. that's what happens when the gunman is a muslim and the islamic terror narrative kicks. in. our s

joel berg, who heads the new york coalition against hunger says, as the city gets wealthier, demand at000 plus food kitchens he represents is only increasing. >> well when neighborhoods gentrify, the demand goes up because rent is the single greatest cost that low income people face and if they can't afford to pay rent, they can't afford to buy food. >> and with less government aid for food, the strain is on charities to fill the void and depend on donations to keep feeding new york's hungry. ♪ >>> we have heard a lot of crazy things tonight. colonizing mars, mining asteroids, 3-d printing entire moon towns. but this is the time to set big goals and yes, even dream of it. we still don't know what the push into commercial space is going to look like even a hundred years from now. believe. >> we know we with connected to the cosmos. we don't always know why. >> it is that space calls to us. we're fascinated with these big questions. is there life elsewhere. >> 20, 30 years down the road we have the ability to not have to send humans on what today seems like a camping trip, you can send p

blooms berg taking on concord. fourth down under 2 minutes to go. one last chance. tim kelly's pass. bloomsberg loses 32-26. former eagle john run to check out his son for st. joe's prep today. prep all over pencebry. prep wins 37-7. they go to hershey to play for a state title. palboro beats to win the title. i'm john clark at comcast sportsnet. denise, let's send it back to you. >> john, thanks so much and a last check on our weather and we're not trying to get the weather to let us down but pretty much a washout for today. >> pretty much a washout. showers don't taper until 10:00 or 11:00 at night. tomorrow, we see actually colder conditions so the mild air is going with the rainfall. windy conditions settle in for our. we see plenty of sunshine and as we take a look at what's going to happen into next week, we track the potential for a nor'easter and how close it's going to be to our shore or stay offshore. that determines what kind of precip we get. it's a messy start to your workweek. rain moves in overnight and temperatures stay down below average. 48 degrees

about three or 4 months before this process started, the 90-year-old late aunt or nieces of rue gold berg passed away. if we had been able to get an oral report that would have given us more ground. >> thank you. >> next speaker? >> good afternoon, commissioners, beverly upton. i'm so happy to be here thop -- on this day. thank you very much. i hope to advance your approval for our hope for the status of the building. i wanted to thank you for your wonderful report and this love for our building. i want to thank jackie for all of her hard work and jennifer george. for bringing rue's memory alive to all of us. to london breed, our supervisor and valley brown who told us how to get to the planning commission. and of course the man himself rue goldberg, we learned so much about him and we are honored to live in his building for 25 years. >> is there any additional public comment? seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner pearlman? >> are you okay? >> i was in a meeting yesterday and three times during the meeting someone in the meeting referred to rue goldberg devices they had crea

rebecca berg with the washington examiner, and ari, i don't know if they really have the wherewithal to stop the president's new policy in its tracks, but they intend to make it uncomfortable, don't they? >> look, i think they'll come back, homeland security issue will come up. they'll probably go right to the deadline. look, i think they'll have to deal with a number of republican members who want something, and they're going to have to figure out something to satiate that. i don't know what that is, but the president is not going to back down on his executive order. he'll itch for the fight. he'll want republicans out there on this, and i think republican leadership won't want the fight as much. i'll tell you who else won't want the fight. this is where it gets interesting. people talk about ted cruzs. people don't talk about rob portman, the seven republican senators who have to run in states in 2016 who will likely be carried by a democratic candidate. philadelphia, maine, new ha new hampshire, this will put up how they will deal with those seven senators and ted cruz and his cau

the details of a december 16 -- 1916 memorandum from the chief of german admiralty staff to hidden berg urging unrestricted warfare that gave a lot of insights into german strategic thinking. had he submitted a lengthy report on the food situation in germany and a variety of military tidbits including a german inside account of the lucitania, german estimates of allied shipping tonnage sunk every month. in february 1918 -- you okay? in february 1918 he reported the german chancellor -- shall we pause? we'll carry on. and in june of 1918 he reported that nine submarines left the german port pound for the american coast and gave the names of some of the captains. mcnally was, however, despite the information he was providing really hard to work with. he was disgruntled. not surprisingly his rank did not correspond with his contributions to national security. in august he boasted no country has ever entered the war with a detailed knowledge of an enemy fighting branch as ours due to my work, end quote. president wilson was rather sympathetic to this and urged action on secretary lansing wh

joel berg, who heads the new york coalition against hunger says, as the city gets wealthier, demand at the 1000 plus food kitchens he represents is only increasing. >> well when neighborhoods gentrify, the demand goes up because rent is the single greatest cost that low income people face and if they can't afford to pay rent, they can't afford to buy food. >> and with less government aid for food, the strain is on charities to fill the void and depend on donations to keep feeding new york's hungry. >> >>> beji caid essebsi claims victory in tunisia's presidential run-off. his opponents say it's too early to say who's won >>> hello, welcome to al jazeera america, live interest doha. i'm elizabeth prahran am, also ahead. a city divided - new york's police officer says it's in a state of war after the killing of two officers. >>> going nowhere, heavy fog triggers travel chaos in india's capital. >>> plus, a tide of anger rises in nicaragua, as

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joel berg, who heads the new york coalition against hunger says, as the city gets wealthier, demand at 1000 plus food kitchens he represents is only increasing. >> well when neighborhoods gentrify, the demand goes up because rent is the single greatest cost that low income people face and if they can't afford to pay rent, they can't afford to buy food. >> and with less government aid for food, the strain is on charities to fill the void and depend on donations to keep feeding new york's hungry.

20-year-old gives tours to both local people and foreigners around the parts of downtown johannes berg. he said he wants them to see for themselves how people live. his ultimate goal is to call attention to the problems residents face. >> a place where people come and have fun, just recreation. that's not what happened here. you've got so many bad things happening. >> reporter: frank belongs to a nongovernmental organization that provides children with safe places to play. he came to south africa from congo ten years ago with his parents. he first learned about mandela in high school. >> now it's us to carry on the legacy, you know. which is not going to be easy, but if we all come together as one, as the rainbow nation, then we'll definitely take on the legacy, yeah. >> reporter: since the end of apartheid, many blacks have moved up into the ranks of the middle class, but the economic gap between blacks and whites is still wide. for millions of south africans, every day is a struggle. this is the largest township in the country. this woman could not afford to go to university when she

okay, rebecca berg, i know you will be watching everything and we'll see you again. >> thank you. >>thank you. >>> thousands of protesters holding a march here in new york city as well as our nation's capital expressing their anger over several high-profile cases, including the eric garner and michael brown grand jury decisions and urging congress to african-americans from police violence. we are joined live from our new york city newsroom by brian. >> arthel, i'm actually over the phone right now marching with the protesters who have been going for the better part of 2 1/2 hours. they started at washington square park and match emarched street and now they're heading south into downtown to one point plaza which is the new york police department quarters. they have tons of posters. we're talking about tens of thousands of people that have taken up the better part of 15 or more blocks in the middle of downtown. the nypd has told us they have had no incidents or arrests thus far. they are marching for eric garner. they're marching for michael brown. they're marching also for the 12-yea

our joanne pileggi is live in pennsylvania berg with more on that. >> reporter: obviously a very tense situation. obviously people are scared. is bradley stone in his apartment here in pennsburg or has he fled? the swat team has been here all day and as you can imagine, the people in this community are very frighten. it's really crazy because i have kids that go to school and like i have family that live around here. it's just scar row. >> reporter: employees and residents in and around penns grove on edge all day as a swat team and police try to find bradley williams stone. the former marine who was suspected of killing six people in montgomery county. >> so close to home, you know, it's right down the street, but, um, there's so much violence. >> reporter: police using all available resources to try to find out if stone was barricaded in this home on west fourth street in pennsburg. >> i fear for people around here if he's around here, you know. >> reporter: at dunkin' donuts in town, they lock the doors allowing customers to use only the drive through. >> do you have a plan in case

gathered outside lincoln financial field about the same time a post was made on mary kate's blank ken berg's page: >> she helps me so much. she helps everyone with like colleges and college essays and stuff. >> the school district superintendent released a statement saying "we immediately began an investigation including verification of the source of the post and we will take appropriate action once we learn of all of the facts. >>> college students join together on the main line to express shared frustrations over grand jury decisions in ferguson and new york. chopper three overhead as students from bryn mawr haverford and swarthmore campuses and others walk to a die-in demonstration. they laid on the ground zero length for four and a half minutes representing the four and a half hours michael brown's body was on the ground. students told us why they felt compelled to get involved. >> the fact that so many instances like this have happened one after the other, people are starting to recognize that it's not an anomaly, it's something that's happening on a regular basis and enough is enough.

police officer colin berg confronted barnes and talk him into surrendering his weapon without a shot being fire. >> it all happened so quick. it's very rapid. training kicks in immediately. every year we go through our active shooter training. so i immediately responded as we've been trained to. >> this is one example of the kind of weapons they face on the treat. the kind of dangers they face. and i think that whereas the protests are legitimate we do have issues in policing much there's absolutely no question about that. but i think there needs to be some balance to it. don't paint every officer with the same brush. >> police later found a glock semi-automatic handgun in barnes' home nearby. he faces weapons charges. commissioner charles ramsay notes that fatal police involved shootings are down this year. >> a deal has come through to save the trump taj mahal for the moment. billionaire investor agreed to provide up to $20 million in financing to keep the casino open through bankruptcy proceeding. 3,000 employees would have lost their jobs. the taj mahal was set to close its doors