betty? >> speaking of russia, i want to get back to that phone call between president obama and putin, because jay carney also spoke about snowden yesterday. how has the white house been addressing this entire snowden issue? >> reporter: well, let's talk about the phone call. first of all, based on the press release after the phone call, it really didn't seem like it went very well. just a very short statement about the two men discussing a wide range of bilateral issues, including snowden, but there was no apparent breakthrough. the white house spokesman, jay carney, on the other hand, seems to be the hatchet man, if i dare use the term, for jay meanwhile, because he's had very tough words for putin consistently, saying that snowden may think of himself as a human rights activist, but, in fact, he's an alleged felon. a fugitive from justice, and snowden's appearance yesterday, he said, was nothing more than a propaganda platform. so you've got really two competing narratives here, betty. sn

back to you, betty. >> the clock is ticking. thank you, ayman. >>> the texas state capitol was packed with demonstrators on both sides of the controversial abortion bill. state senator wendy davis who rose to the national spotlight last week during the 11-hour filibuster thanked the crowd for their enthusiasm and support. >>> texas isn't the only state in a fight over abortion. ohio governor john kasich filed a bill into law for anyone seeking an abortion. pro-life groups are calling the bill historic while state democrats say it's controversial uh-uh popular. >>> former arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords fired a gun for the first time since she was shot in the head more than two years ago. giffords and her husband, both long-time gun owners, are currently asking for extended background checks for gun purchases. >>> the man involved in a brutal home invasion is to be arraigned today. he faces attempted robbery, burglary and child endangerment. it was captured on a hidden nanny cam in the victim's home. that is just hard to

the pennant race is on, betty. richer matt moore adding to tampa's surge with his first career shut out. 3-0 over boston. it's their 18th win in the last 20 games. pulling from fourth to second place in the american league east. >>> try waiting eight days, 6 hours and 23 minutes and then this. miami's giancarlo. lucas with the score there. the 37-inning scoreless streak ends. and the longest scoreless streak in 28 years for them. wow. don't want to beat that record. >>> training camp will be different. player blood samples taken to create a benchmark for growth hormone undetermined still. the specific test procedure and discipline process if it's found. they are working that out. >>> let's talk chest hair. >> looking at that, let's not. >> a pittsburgh pirate's fan chest with this let's go bucs. it looks similar to a pittsburgh penguin fan with his chest reading, let's go pens. >> both of them are missing an apostro apostrophe. >>> brady hoch was glad that grant beat michigan and even gave his family tickets to the

>> clever, though, betty. clever.eeks of waiting and she went like that. >> who is in the room and the line of succession. i read that in the 1930s was the last time -- there used to be an interior minister that used to be in the room when the birth happened just to make sure the line of succession. how do they make sure and keep track of the baby? any mark put on the baby, any pictures? it's an important thing, right? >> actually, you hit the nail on the head. the last actual child to be born in the presence of what they call the home secretary in england was in fact, the queen. if you saw our latest home secretary, teresa may, i don't think it would do kate any good sort of hanging over the bed looking away. but there's no mark on the baby. there's no nothing. there's a lot more trust in that. and it wasn't that it was a trust thing before. these were historical facts that had to be done. sort of moved by the rules. as we now have seen, we've seen a very much more modern royal family. the fact that prince william wi

i'm betty ngyuen. this is "early today." we hope it's just your first stop of the day on nbc. >>> leading the news from the associated press -- wave of tax increases for sandy hit communities. when the tide of federal aid recedes, they could face higher taxes to pay off rebuilding projects. >>> in "the washington post," stinky corpse flower set to reach full bloom at u.s. botanic garden in d.c. >>> want to get you some pictures of this rare plant which will bloom for only 24 to 48 hours. it emits a scent of rotting flesh. >> i don't know what that smells like. >> i don't either but i'm kind of interested to go and check it out. >> you are? >> i am. i don't know why. something sick about me, right? apparently it's a deadly smell. >>> topping our news, though, voter i.d. laws, the strict pennsylvania law that would require photo i.d.s in court today. at issue whether it should be enforced or unconstitutional. a state judge suspended the law before the 2012 elections. amid concerns it could disenfranchise voters. >>> an autopsy

betty nguyen will have all the highlights coming up. >>> it's time for sports and my colleague, betty nguyen is here with all the headlines. good morning. >> good morning. did you catch the all-star game last night? >> i missed that one. >> it's a good thing i'm here because the best players of the american and national league faced off at new york's citi field. matt harvey of the mets started for the national league. one pitch, though, hit the yankee's robinson cano. oh, no. yeah, he wasn't seriously hurt, but he did leave the game. in the fourth inning, detroit's miguel cabrera smacked the standup double and later scored. >> in the eighth inning, the fans and players saluted the best closer in baseball history. mariano rivera in his last game before retirement. he quickly got three outs. and in the bottom of the ninth inning -- >> the 3-2 pitch. popped up, ended. out behind the second base position. kitmus is there and the american league wins it, 3-0. >> that's it, folks. the american league team will get the home field advantage in the world series this fall. and to almost no one'

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i'm betty ngyuen. we begin with a developing and tragic story out of the southwest 19 firefighters were killed while battling an out-of-control wildfire in yarnell, arizona. the "arizona republic" with a compelling front page as they grasp what happened. flames are being fueled by high winds and triple-digit temperatures. names and ages of the 19 fallen firefighters have not been released just yet but all were men and members of an elite crew from nearby prescot. erica elliott has more. >> reporter: the wildfire began about 85 miles northwest of phoenix on friday with the lightning strike. because of dry grass and gusting winds it quickly spiraled out of control. forcing families out of their homes with little notice. >> the house is on fire when we left. everything was there, but it was on fire. so it's gone. >> reporter: an elite team of firefighters went in to set up a barrier to stop the fire from marching toward homes and people but they were caught in the middle of the inferno. >> our entire crew

i'm betty ngyuen. protests in the wake of george zimmerman's acquittal turned violent overnight in los angeles. check out this video. in the third straight night of rallies since saturday's verdict was announced, several hundred mostly peaceful protesters gathered chanting, praying and singing. but a smaller group of about 150 broke off and began blocking traffic and breaking windows in the crenshaw area. at one point, at least one of the protesters raided a walmart store. los angeles mayor eric garcetti responded with a tweet saying we should respect martin's family calling for peace. unlawful assembly declared. police are clearing the area. >>> the lapd arrested at least 13 people. a local tv reporter and his cameraman were also attacked. and one person was taken to the hospital. >>> a jur northat case is speaking out, revealing more about what happened during deliberations, including exactly how the jury of six women reached their not guilty verdict. and a revelation the juror told cnn's anderson co

i'm betty nguyen. okay. as you may well know, it's hot, very hot. parts of nearly every single state hit the 09-degree mark for tuesday. today won't be any better. stephanie gosk has more on the summer spike of temperatures. >> reporter: searing, sweating summer. how are you guys holding up in this heat? >> it's really warm. >> you look like you're really warm. >> i'm melting, actually. >> reporter: heat advisories and warnings were issued in about a dozen states increasing dangerous conditions for days to come. in philadelphia, the largest senior center is extending its hours. >> our main concern is that a lot of our older adults are dealing with health issues. and they could be compromised as a result of the heat. >> reporter: especially when there is no chance to cool down, not even at night. low temperatures in some cities aren't even dipping below 80, putting a tax on people and infrastructure. >> the cities hold on to the heat because of the asphalt in the buildings and concrete. and so the tempe

i'm betty ngyuen. we begin with the searing heat wave that's gripping the nation as some 130 million americans continue to bake in some of the hottest temperatures of the year. while the heat wave may be more than half over, misery, yeah, has plenty of company on wednesday. nbc's tom costello starts us off. >> reporter: 'tis the season but boy, is it hot outside. add in the humidity and the heat indices are at or near 100. from the lakeshores of chicago to minneapolis. from the carolinas to new england. >> i come out thinking i'm going to run as far as i usually do, but then i hit the heat and think, let me scale that down a little bit. >> reporter: in new york two children and nine firefighters were taken to area hospitals after a fire in suffocating temperatures last night. >> it has vapor barriers that keep the heat in so we have to relieve quite often and make sure we hydrate them. >> we have this dome of high pressure which means this air is sinking. >> reporter: 45 states experiencing temperature

betty, good morning to you. >>> good morning, happy monday, venezuela. all right, top sprinters they actually failed drug tests including tyson gay who is pulling out of the championships next month in moscow. jamaican sprinter mustafa powell and sherone simpson also tested positive for banned substances. yankees a-rod moves up and the may be talking a deal with major league baseball. the new york daily news that a-rod could be given a 150-game suspension for connection to the investigation. >>> and chris davis hit his 37th home run to the reggie jackson record actually beat that. davis will be on the american league team tonight for the home run derby. maybe he'll do it again. >>> in cleveland, one fan had a very lucky day, catching foul balls for each of the three kids he was sitting with. then another foul ball. he got that one, too. he tossed it to another fan. very generous. >>> and on the 5th hole of the pga john deere classic 19-year-old jordan spieth made it for the win. the first teenager on the tour since 1931. >>> and a playoff at the scottish

betty yeah she stole my grammy i am. no pun intended deathly afraid of it you you say you don't believe in it death. when you say you don't believe it i don't idle i'm afraid of it how do you feel about i don't believe in death well i mean i believe well if you just look at it physically for a moment we are we are literally physically one thing if you just pull back physically and look at the planet earth we're part of one organism this is how i see the physical world and i accept that there are things in the physical world that that are not as we perceive them we all know since einstein on the things are you know to quote shakespeare there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so that how you look at it physical fact affects the facts it's relative einstein's concept it's a relative thought so this is a metaphysical thought as well that the people they do believe are of standing at that same precipice and they have this knowledge where the mysteries of life line up they give them comfort to feel like they'

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i'm joined by betty nguyen and bill karins. first a little bit of pandamonium. the giant panda has given birth to twins. it's very hard to breed pandas in captivity. first panda twins born in the u.s. since 1987. what's interesting is twins, panda twins in the wild rarely survive because the mother will choose one to take care of and abandon the other one. the zoo will swap them out. give her one to care for and when that one got all the tlc they will bring the other one in. >> you don't think she will figure it out? >> they are hard to breed. you have another fish tale. >> if this is true it's amazing. this guy is on a fishing boat, adrian. happens to see an endangered whale. he has a knife and undercamera. he jumps in the water and frees the whale and cuts it off and pretty amazing because then as the whale gets free he dives at the same time as this guy surfaces and gets to wave good-bye with the tail. >> that's cool. >> it appears to be perfect. >> truth is stranger than focus. who knows. disney will buy the rights and we'll see it as a movie. >> betty if yo

. >>> well, it's time for sports and betty nguyen is here with all the headlines. >>> big excitementncinnati with the first no hitter of the season. homer bailey got to the ninth inn, no hits by giants batters and only one walk. he fielded a bouncer back to the mound for the first out and got his ninth strikeout and finally the historic third out. >> a strike away and out away is homer bailey. ground ball to third. raise your glove, throw to first and homer bailey for the second time in his major league career has tossed a no-hitter. >> oh, yeah. rushing to the mound for that. the reds, they beat the giants, 3-0. bailey pitched baseball's last no hitter in 2012. he is only the sixth pitcher on baseball's no-hit list consecutively. >> they should call him no homers. >> exactly. >>> yankees third baseman a-rod played his first minor league game last night and grounded for the first at-bat. he struck out, but said he is just happy to be back playing. >>> nike has started using a temporary remember soccer fan etched out in lasers. right now it's available in a few places. they will be ou

tavis: i love betty white. >> everybody does. would you like to see betty white and mark twain go at it? tavis: speaking of fighting. the n word. i hate saying "the n word." takes awaying it the animus and the sting and meaning. for the sake of this conversation, i will say that. you raise an issue still being hotly debated to this day. there are still debates on whether he should be read. some school districts are not down with it, some libraries don't. you have a sense of what you feel about this debate, the n word 200 times? >> i don't think it is hotly debated, i think it is foolish we debated. language is about in tension. samuel clemens was raised in a object,y where it meant as property. i have an ex-slave say it. , auntthe title of a guy polly's slave. he brings it up. maybe i will explain that in my play, mark twain is dead and he knows he is dead. which is something that he wrote about very humorously, but he is talking today. quentin tarantino used it in django unchained, i use it in huckleberry finn. you use it so oft

>> betty, there were no changes to the security plan nor to the schedule.he pope is still scheduled to leave by helicopter in about two hours from now heading to a city 200 miles from here. hundreds of policemen were always meant to be deployed into the town to look after the pope and the pilgrims. but, of course, there will be a more vigilant after that pipebomb was found. it will be interesting to see whether security there will be weary of what happened on monday when the crowd almost knocked the pope. it will be interesting to see whether they'll allow them to get so close to the pope, even if he says he enjoys the latin american welcome. >> that is a close welcome. up close and personal. okay. thank you. >>> stories making news this morning. mob boss was called a pedophile in court tuesday. the accusation came during the cross-examination of stephen "the rifleman" fleming who claims bulger also strangled two young women. >>> a natural gas well 55 miles off the coast of louisiana is burning out of control after it caught fire late tuesday. 44 workers ev

i'm betty ngyuen. thanks for watching "early today." have a fantastic fourth of july. >>> despite another round of intense negotiations, we are now entering day four of the b.a.r.t. strike. talks called off late last night but they will be back in the bargaining table later this morning. we will have all the details coming up next. >>> even though the trains are running, there are plenty of ways to get to your fourth of july celebrations today. your other options for getting around the bay. >>> anticipating smooth sailing for most of the day on the holiday. a live look outside at the bay bridge toll plaza. congratulations. you made it to thursday. happy fourth of july. this is with the today in the bay." >>> it is 4:30. good independence day. good morning to everybody. thanks for

i would be afraid to even look down below that cliff. >> you and me both, betty. see you soon, thanks. >>> in the wake of george zimmerman's acquittal, protests are popping up nationwide. joining me on the phone is "washington post" reporter, david nakamura. good morning to you. >> hi, there. >> with mounting pressure on the department of justice, including a petition circulating from the naacp, what do you think attorney general eric holder will do and when? >> i think it's a difficult question. there's a high bar to have a race-based case on the federal level. and i think the holder department will look at this very closely. the ability for them to take it to a case with a real chance of winning would require determining if george zimmerman had, over years, some sort of prerequisite to go after afri n african-american men. the naacp chairman said that zimmerman did make a number of phone calls on his neighborhood watch that could show as a motive there. it's an interesting case. but the sooner they make a decision on this, probably the better. >> you know, david

. >>> also, betty rollin reports on doctors performing bloodless surgery on jehovah's witnesses whose religion forbids blood transfusions. many say that's just good medicine. >> if there is any way to avoid getting a blood transfusion one is better off in general if they can avoid it. >>> and, lucky severson on the phenomenal popularity of the poems of kahlil gibran. popularity and biting criticism. >>> maim funding for "religion & ethics" is provided by the lilian endowment, and dedicated to the founders in religion, community development and education. additional funding also provided by mutual of america. designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. and the corporation for public broadcasting. >>> welcome. i'm bob abernethy. it's good to have you with us. muslims around the world this week began their month-long observance of ramadan, when they fast from sunrise to sunset. in egypt, the holiday falls amid continued unrest after the military's removal from power of former president mohamed morsi. morsi's political party, th

betty yeah she stole my grammy. well pun intended deathly afraid of it you you say you don't believe in it death. when you say you don't believe it i don't i will i'm afraid of it how do you feel about i don't believe in death well i mean i believe well if we just look at it physically for a moment we are we are literally physically one thing if you just pull back physically and look at the planet earth we're part of one organism this is how we see the physical world and i accept that there are things in the physical world that that are not as we perceive them we all know since einstein on the things are you know to quote shakespeare there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so the how you look at it physical fact affects the facts it's relative einstein's concept it's a relative thought so this is a metaphysical thought as well that the people they do believe are of standing at that same precipice and they have this knowledge where. the mysteries of life line up they give them comfort to feel like t

betty sue especially loves to tag along while ali is shooting live big.she did when ali made a surprise follow up visit to carmen martinez. since ali came two weeks ago is there something you would be doing on saturday but now no way yea definitely probably would have gone out for breakfast, rather than making breakfast. when ali shot an episode on how to party without going overboard on the calories mom was there. love you especially. get these two together and there is always something to talk and joke about. i always tell people, because they always ask how's your mom, how is your mom? i tell them you're always complaining you have no butt anymore. and being a good daughter that i am got you the booty panties. i ordered you the booty pop panties. i picked them up in bed bath and beyond, but they were thin so the bumps spread like this, so i have wide hips. so you don't wear them anymore. no i ordered a new pair, from wal-mart, but now it goes like bump and then bump. and then there is the conversation about ali's trip to new york for the triathlon. new

she did a show, and she'll say that, i'm using a betty line. she did that 5 1/2 hours a day, six days a week. >> she would sing, she was a consummate performer. but kindness is what stands out the most. >> to most people that meet her, she's so kind and giving and lovely. she's just full of grace. >> when you walk into a room with that cast and you look around, is it a struggle to find that kind of -- not chemistry, but coherency. >> chemistry doesn't just happen. you can't make chemistry. you can't get it out of nothing. it has to just be there. it really is the least diva set i've ever been on, and i'm talking about with men, too. sometimes men can be more of a diva than women. >> of course. >> i'm not looking at you. we all just want to be heard. we want to be liked, some of us do. more importantly, we want to feel like we are being heard. that we're here because we're meant to be here and meant to put a mark on another person or to do something good with our lives. >> in your art, do you look for the opportunity to be that, to do that? >> e

look what happened to betty ford about her daughter, when she was frank. ?ery positive and usually if you're on the right side it's going to come out ok but you have to be able to deal with it and it's very tough. >> ford was such a success because she told the truth and that's so extraordinary in politics, it is so rare that everybody here liked her immediately because she came out and said and they knew it was the truth. >> but she also did something else which was very successful and susan and sheila having both worked for her and that is she had it both ways in the sense that she was able to speak out on equal rights amendment and abortion and use hot button issues and at the same time present the image of a devoted quote/unquote traditional wife and mother, a woman who has her husband's concerns and children's concerns, who liked to entertain, was involved in the menus, still playing the expected old-fashioned role and yet maybe the press gave her the leeway because she did that. >> one of the best social secretaries ever and i really do, i think you we

i'm joined by betty nguyen and todd santos.ign language. >> nice. >> this woman made a huge impact this year. seeing some of the video that's what it looks like. >> she had the moves too. >> language isn't just the words. she interprets. they did a few with killer mike where he's free styling and she's keep pg up with him. >> think of how much work to listen to the lyrics. >> that looks like a workout. >> and betty, i guess dolphins have wingmen too. >> dolphins have formed a bromance. the university of north florida discovered that this bromance allows these male dolphins to create a wingman. they go and hunt the lovely ladies. on top of trying to hook a woman, these dolphins what they will do is make sure that the lady stays with her mate. it's so amazing. they are so much like humans. so much so, if they get closer, they will start a dating website. >> match.com for dolphins. thanks, guys. >>> this is "first look." stay tuned. "way too early" starts right now. >>> i do think if the situation is going to e resolve itself for

betty, back to you. >> thank you. >>> and some other stories making news this morning. to "the new york times," president obama is considering a faster pullout of afghanistan than originally planned. one that would leave no american troops there after 2014. this possible change, of course, comes after recent frustrations with president hamid karzai specifically regarding stalled peace talks with taliban last month. >>> pakistani report details the life of osama bin laden after the september 11th attacks and the failure of the pakistani failure community. and it even has reports of him being pulled over for speeding and let go. >>> the death toll of the train disaster in quebec has reached 14 with dozens still unaccounted for. more information is coming to light how that accident happened. the ntsb says the tankers involved have a history of puncturing after accidents. >>> a federal judge in wisconsin blocked enforcement of a new line signed by governor walker who allows doctors lacking privileges for performing abortions. the judge said it had troubling lack and set a n

. >>> let's get the latest in sports from betty nguyen.do you think of that. >> that what is crazy. i don't know if i was treated for diaper rash at that age. my parents were like forget about it, you'll be okay. >>> the youth invasion has begun in beantown. the boston celtics have hired butler university's brad stevens to be their head coach. the 36-year-old fills the vacancy left by doc rivers' departure to the l.a. clippers. >>> manny ramirez is heading back to the big leagues sporting a brand new do. here's his old hair do right here. long locks. the texas rangers signed a 41-year -- the 41-year-old to a minor league contract and says he will cut his famous locks to comply with the team's policy on hair length. let's hope it doesn't change his game. >>> the minnesota twins celebrated yankee mariana rivera's final season, oh, yeah, presenting him, the relief pitcher, with a rocking chair of all things, kind of fitting, since the twins gift is made of shattered bats, some caused by rivera's famous fastball. >>> rapper jay-z continuing to

i hope they would take courage from betty ford and elinor roosevelt. i hope they would take words from laura bush -- i'll go take courage from laura bush and mary todd lincoln, who was not crazy. >> she was difficult. >> i don't care. i don't care. wait. wait. difficult is not crazy. let's just say that john wilkes booth shot the wrong link n. -- lincol c-span, turn up the camera. richard i want to put you in the middle of afghanistan. i'm serious. i want you to have no anesthesia. i want you to see body parts. i want you to hold an arm while a medic with a saw cuts off the 's elbow.oldier >> your indignation has been registered. >> she is not crazy. she is flirtatious. the two most powerful political men in the united states of both parties asked her to marry her. -- them. i rest my case. >> the drama for the lincoln- douglas debates were personal. >> i feel like i am in the blitz. i want to offer a different example. i really do. posed was,n that was as bettyeone come ford did. wasthing that came to mind hillary clinton's speech on human rights. many

come out of it and not be hateful to anybody. >> the driver of the pt cruiser, betty haislip, was chargedey're just happy to be alive. >> i was alive, and that was enough for me. >> i'm lucky to be here. i thank the lord every day. i really do. >> scott sees himself as one of the luckiest men alive. and despite his injuries, he's trying to move forward with his life. >>> if you have a video you'd like to send to us you can logon to our website caughtoncamera.msnbc.com. i'm contessa brewer. that's all for this edition of "caught on camera." a cop, getting a mouthful from this great grandma. but what will he do? and a nfl player and his wife desperately trying to make it to the hospital detained by an unsympathetic cop. >> you ran a red light. >> my woman is

i hope they would take courage from betty ford. i hope they would take courage from eleanor roosevelt. i hope they will take courage from laura bush. i hope they take courage from hillary clinton. i hope they will take courage from mary todd lincoln who was not crazy. >> but she was damn difficult. >> i don't care. wait! i don't care difficult is not crazy. >> that's true. >> let's just say john wilkes booth shot the wrong lincoln? >> c-span turn off the cameras. richard i want to send you right now, i want to put you in the middle of afghanistan. no, i'm serious. >> i feel like i'm there. >> i want to put you in the middle of a medical camp. i want you to have no anesthesia. i want you to have body part descendents. i want you to hold an arm while a medic with a saw cuts off the wounded soldier's elbow. >> your indignation has been registered. >> she is not crazy. >> she also lost three of her four sons. >> and was so flirtatious that the two most powerful political men in the united states both parties asked her to marry them. i

betty ford energizes them and bill and hillary. >> i think that is basically true. before that you had individual women. in lincoln's circle one was credited with the campaign, and she was recognized as someone in that position. when the war was over and she tried to get compensated by congress she failed. >> the timing of some of these things and the second wave of feminism in the 70s and all that, who is the first election, who is the vice presidential candidate? this new phenomenon of women voting, how is that going to play out? franklin also put the first woman in his cabinet, frances perkins. this is the 19th amendment thing. we are not yet talking about the other possible president clinton, although we might be in a few years. we will have to talk a little bit about the gubernatorial level post-19th amendment. you get women succeeding their husbands, nellie ross in wyoming, ferguson. right after the amendment, talking about boggs in the house of representatives and lots of others good it is very interesting, these pairings that are made possible. some even fat

see how was -- import was betty friedan's book "the feminine mystique"? >> that came out the year is point. i have zero knowledge of that. my mother read it but i don't think it affected her life in any huge way because she was in retrospect a schoolteacher and very vivacious and is still very vivacious so i did not read betty friedan. i didn't read it in college and i really have only rated much later in life and was in fact quite shocked to see ,-com,-com ma first of all to brilliant book how relevant it is in the sense that i think although women have one legal rights workplace rights in great numbers since 1960 3a lot of the problems she points to our problems we are dealing with today. >> debora l. spar you started by saying ever since he you took the job as president of barnard college you have become a die-hard feminists. why? >> i think to be a little clearer i started becoming a feminist although i wouldn't have used those words earlier in my life when i was at harvard business school. i have seen this happen to so many women my age is that as we

i'm betty tillman a retired san francisco unified school district teacher. i moved into a new building that's located on golden gate and a franklin. i moved in that believe in march. i have been harassed and tortured and a sod missed i have hiv. everybody knows my story. it seems like i'm a senior citizen on a hit list, however, because of my christian religion jesus protects me obviously. all the things that have happened to me i wouldn't be able to stand her before you. i believe that i am not going to be demissed i need help. i want my life back. they stole my life. there is no reason i have worked very hard. i'm an honest person integrity there is no reason that every night i go to sleep that during my sleep i'm sexually assaulted. i was supposed be teaching overseas. i was supposed to be a teacher helping other teachers around the nation something happened with that. things have happened to me i want to stopped. >> thank you. next speaker, please >> that's devastating news in the western edition mayor rogers building i'll talk to that lady. that's it re

i'm betty i couldn't help but come down and speak out for marcus bookstore. as a teacher at a school that was a multiple culture school a lot of white students doesn't know a lot of the black history from 1985 to 2003. the history book was excellent when i taught on black history. i said why don't you go to marcus bookstore there's a wealth of information you can find all types of stories of present-day authenticity. and my students white and asian went to marcus bookstore and said teacher i didn't know there was so much information about black people here in america. and they showed me the books they bought and i want to say marcus bookstore would you get rid of a gold mine. it's beneficial to all people. i bought my first black. and so they have a little library. thank you for supporting this bookstore don't get rid of it >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> how is it going. this bookstore has been part of the history of san francisco it's part of the history of the filing more community it runs after school programs. it's hosted events with speakers like

is there a second for that motion >> i make a motion we fill the seats with jean and seat two with betty and the third with the third lady and the motion is move forward. >> thank you very much for your willingness to serve and keep on making it simple. madam clerk can you call item number 5. term ending 2018 to the police commission there's one seat and two applicants >> okay. i believe the candidates are here mr. frank are you here? >> good afternoon supervisors. i'm a retired city paramedic worked 25 years in the streets of san francisco and 8 years before that in the streets of new york. we i want to put one little notation i want to thank the folks on the committee when i came here from new york i was flabbergasted. i was one of the first paramedics created trained out of nothing they made us out of clay in new york and we were made teachers to train others i remained a teacher and a mentor and instructor both working and bringing other paramedics into the field. i also started doing union work in new york for safety. when i came in here i guess it was a slippery slope and i went ba

mike bettis is in for al. >> i'll embarrass my wife. i'll ask her what's the first concert you ever went to and she said the spice girls. so shout out to the spice girls and shout out to alaska. it is your birthday today. what are you doing special for your birthday. >> i'm on the "today" show for my birthday. >> we feel very honored then. happy birthday. let's show you what is going on with tropical storm chantal. we don't get tropical storms in alaska but we do get them down here in the caribbean. this is a place we're going to watch. it's going to be the dominican republic and haiti. tropical storm warnings right now. it weakened a little bit. not as strong as yesterday. 45 miles per hour winds and quick westerly movement around 29 miles per hour. there's the track as it takes it through cuba and by late week, early next weekend it will pair >> will start out with some scattered light rain showers to start the day. a few thunderstorms are possible this afternoon. >>> some folks joining us from ohio today. >> ohio. >> what exactly did

. >>> now let's get the latest in sports from betty nguyen. >> felt like the baked apple yesterday, but that didn't stop the all-star game. baseballs were flying. prince fielder hit the longest dinger of the night, flying 483 feet. oakland's yoenis cespedes hit 17 homers in the first round to take a huge lead to make it to the final. and he was competing against harper of the nationals. then it was cespedes' turn once again. >> oh, and he wins whit a bomb. back, back, back, back, back, gone! yoenis cespedes has won the home run derby. >> yes, he has. only in his second major league season, the outfielder from cuba is the first players left out of the all-star game to win the home run derby. >>> the american league starting pitcher for tonight's game will be max scherzer of the detroit tigers. the national leelg starter is matt harvey of the mets. since harvey is in his first full season, jimmy fallon sent harvey out himself to talk about, well, matt harvey. >> do you think anything about matt harvey? >> who is matt harvey? >> who is your favorite player? >> oh, dude, harvey, man. >> rea

ñ=÷ñÑ happened to betty ford=?frank. >> controversy, if you can stand it, it's very positive and usually if you're on the right come out oking to5? dealou have to be able to=-ñ? with it and it's very tough. ford was such a success because she told the truth and extraordinary in politics, it is so rare that everybody here liked her immediately because she came out and said and they knew it was the truth. >> but she also did something was very successful and susan and sheila having both is shefor her and that had it both ways in the sense to speak outable on equal rights amendment and buttonn and use hot issues and at the same time a devotede image of quote/unquote traditional what -- wife and mother, a woman who has her husband's concerns children's concerns, who liked to entertain, was involved in the menus, still playing the fashioned role and yet maybe the press gave her the that. because she did >> one of the best social reallyries ever and i do, i think you were great, nancy. you should hold your hand up and

that we maintain no-fly zones in north and south iraq to keep saddam hussein under wraps and betty times they shot targets on the ground that were considered its radar sites locked on to the american aircraft. there was a feeling that we tried a lot of things plebiscite on hussein was breaking at of the containment and sanctions are violated even a period where the united states stopped commercial air flights going into baghdad and that was violated cuban chavez native big issues to go to baghdad and he broke the airlock by his presence in the other arab states were anchored by his intervention in kuwait. he was on the road to restoration's a there is a feeling that he had broken out to but it would not be too long before they fall apart plus he was adept at keeping the sanctions the front or the harm done to his own people and people start, a lot of desperate conditions among the four particularly in baghdad said he was very adept so it was a feeling among many people that they were breaking down. the bush administration felt that. >>host: did you support the war to thousand three? >> n

i do it because betty cooper lost two sons in the bay view to violence. it still remains unsolved. in 1996, when my son was killed, 96 homicides in san francisco. everybody seemed to think that it was just another day in my community. no one knew the pain i was suffering. no one knew when i was going through. no one knew how this affected my family, my children, my community. no one seemed to care. i do it because what happened in columbine should have happened in my neighborhood, and it did not. there was no one there for me when this happened to me. [applause] there were no counselors, and nobody come into my house to ask me questions about what happened. the already labeled my son in the papers as a gang member. they labeled him as a drug dealer. no be had came to me -- no media came to me to ask me about my child. the people in my community seamen visible -- seemed invisible, and that seems unfair. i do because i want to see justice. i want to look at the person who killed my son and asked him why. why did you kill my son? what was so -- what did he do that allow you to shoot h