>> on "america tonight": michelle phan since 2002 she has gone from obscure blogger to entrepreneur. >> i was always creating. i was creating doing comic books, i made my own universe. my own story. >> also tonight? >> i didn't see anybody with my heart running. >> as these candidates make their last rounds before ferguson votes, the topics are unavoidable. >> what changes do you plan on making? >> not much, i think it's a pretty cool town the way it is. >> thanks for joining us i'm joie chen. the world knows ferguson missouri as a flash point for racial tensions since last year, when a police officer killed a 81 unarmed black man. even in the first days of the crisis the community recognized it was on them to repair their community's identity. the test comes in a few days as ferguson residents have a chance, days before the election, "america tonight"'s christof putzel sees there's a great divide in the two face he of ferguson. >> in streets once filled with unrest, a community slowly picks up the charred pieces of their city. >> i'm adrian hawkins i'm running for our city council f

. >> reporter: mommy blogger and clinical psychologist says sh is one way social media is transforming an easy way to stay connected with people an see their kids grow up and what they are doing. people don't have that much time in their day between working parenting, your marriage, whatever to stay in constant contact with friends. >> reporter: she posts photos of her three kids daily to thousands of followers on facebook, instagram and twitter. >> i don't think very deeply before i post anything as long as it is just a cute picture of my child. i figure i can just upload it. i try not to do 20 in a row. i don't think it issed bad. even if someone post s 25 pictures a day of their kids. if somebody doesn't want to see it, they don't want to see sglit blare says she doesn't want to see it and she shouldn't have to. >> i have seen everything you can pick, pictorials of childbirth, 25 pictures of a c-section. >> reporter: the anti-oversharenting crusader started a blog after she got fed up with her friends' constant update. >> her feed was 13 wrup a day of baby getting up or going down a

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three years ago. >> you're a blogger, what are people saying in cyber world about the elections, and what is important to them? >> really and truly the biggest battle has been won, and the process finishes on 29 may 2015. the presidential race is important. now it's all about much more smaller interests. people are interested in what is happening in their state. and in river state there is a lot of desperation. that happened during the presidential elections. all the shenanigans prompted the u.s. and the u.k. governments to release the statements. now, it's more different, because whatever conduct - there is no effect. lagos is so serious. the president of nigeria is currently making strikes, trying to see what happens in as much as possible. you'd understand why the p.d. p would be interested in winning lagos, they lost for the first time in 16 years. lagos looked like a crush part of the coming back. i don't know if nigeria has been thinking about that. the general results would reflect almost exactly what happened with the presidential. the p.d. p will lose its stronghold on the f

tonight": michelle phan since 2002 she has gone from obscure blogger to entrepreneur. >> i was always creating. i was creating doing comic books, i made my own universe. my own story. >> also tonight? >> i didn't see anybody with my heart running. >> as these candidates make their last rounds before

. >> talking with a blogger monitoring the situation from nairobi. thanks for bringing us up to date to the situation on the ground. >>> it's still early, and we're gathering information. let's bring in ntv's dennis okari from nairobi. what can you tell us about what's unfolded and the status of the students and attackers this hour? >> reporter: it's around 5:30 in the morning. after the monitor in the campus, the military surrounded the compound. the area has been cordoned off. to bring you up to speed, several more casualties have been brought up including one military officers. i've spoken to red cross officials who were telling me that most of the casualties have been evacuated. they are still trying to disclose where they could be hiding. the number could be between six and ten. we're not sure yet. we've been trying to monitor al shabaab. we understand the counselor is holed up inside the campus. >> we're looking at the map of where garissa university is located. it looks relatively well developed. we heard the last reporter there say that secur

tell us who it is, and he would not go there, and they feel like it is a twitter firestorm, and bloggers and basically activists from the left that created all of this and if it wasn't for that, everything would just be fine don. >> and miguel, tonight, another state who is one step closer to passing a law similar to indiana's, and where do they stand? >> that is arkansas, and the house has passed a amended version of the senate version of a law that is very similar to what is in indiana right now, and not exactly a exact copy but similar enough to where the concerns of businesses who have deeply religious beliefs could deny the gay couples if they come for floral arrangements or the bakers or cakes or photographers especially for the gay weddings, and the governor of arkansas said ta as soon as it is on his desk, they will sign it, and they will have an answer when they sign it for sure don. >> and live from indianapolis, miguel marquez. >> and the first openly gay episcopal bishop for the american center of gay council joining us and also bishop robinson, good evening, and this is goin

. >> zach crockett is a local blogger who happened by on his bicycle when fire swept the building. he got upset that gawkers were filming instead of helping. he started the go fund me drive and donations poured in. suddenly he had $180,000. >> it blew my mind. i never realized the power of just on-line fundraising. >> he also didn't realize the responsibility. potential donors peppered him with questions. >> i have people e-mailing me asking for my credentials and who am i? what do i do? why am i doing this? at a certain point it was so overwhelming i thought look, these people's concerns are valid. >> the platform is so new that there is no meaningful body or auditor looking at where this money actually goes. >> consumer actions says to one in government is watching what happens to billions of dollars raised on-line. crowd funding generated $16 billion last year and it is expected to double to $35 billion this year. >> it is a little bit of donor beware. >> donors may not realize the sites make a profit off their gifts. go fund me takes 5% of each donation. the payment processor t

>>> this is jeffrey stewart, he's a blogger along with his wife and new daughter.his was part of his blog. he's originalsly from palmdale california now lives in ames iowa. he doesn't know exactly what to do here. >> my gosh, what do you do? hole crap. >> wow, this is scary. >> and you can hear the hail. it sounds almost like bullets hitting your car. >> as a native californian, we do have hail is there. pull over duck under something. >> he's on his way to work. >> what am i supposed to do? [ laughter ] >> not exactly what i was expecting to see. i'm sorry. i judged his voice, and his fear level, and did not expect to see the big, bald tattooed -- >> my gosh his freakout level hits 10 by this point. >> this is terrifying! it's like the sky is made of ice and it's [ bleep ] me right now. >> and then he starts singing a song as a tribute to his old home. ♪ california ♪ ♪ i freakin' miss you ♪ >>> it appears that someone is doing something nice for someone else. there's a guy getting into his vehicle. you see two traffic wardens lifting that chain to let that driver

. >> zach crockett is a local blogger who happened by on his bicycle when fire swept the building. he got upset that gawkers were filming instead of helping. he started the go fund me drive and donations poured in. suddenly he had $180,000. >> it blew my mind. i never realized the power of just on-line fundraising. >> he also didn't realize the responsibility. potential donors peppered him with questions. >> i have people e-mailing me asking for my credentials and who am i? what do i do? why am i doing this? at a certain point it was so overwhelming i thought look, these people's concerns are valid. >> the platform is so new that there is no meaningful body or auditor looking at where this money actually goes. >> consumer actions says to one in government is watching what happens to billions of dollars raised on-line. crowd funding generated $16 billion last year and it is expected to double to $35 billion this year. >> it is a little bit of donor beware. >> donors may not realize the sites make a profit off their gifts. go fund me takes 5% of each donation. the payment processor t

. >> he has gone from blogger to youtube sensation to happily exhausted enpre preppure. >> do you sleep? >> i sleep 5 hours a day. >> who has time to sleep when you are building an empire. she is the hands-on beauty and break-ins behind a number of centers much including ipp si a subscription service she founded. >> we have 100 people at the country and ship out a million ipp si glam bags. >> she has a book her own cosmetic line and soon to be launched lifestyle network. >> reporter: you had a unique journey, this is not something you were handed a silver spoon, you earnt every minute of what you have done. >> i grew up in tampa florida. we didn't have a lot of money. >> reporter: michelle's family came to the united states from vietnam. you describe your mother as your hero. >> yes, i looked at what little she could do. she had less than $20, and came out after the vietnam war. her country was in wreck. she had to come here and rebuild everything from the ground up. >> michelle's father moved the family across the country more than once before planting roots in florida. he was a compul

. >> on "america tonight": michelle phan since 2002 she has gone from obscure blogger to entrepreneur. >> i was always creating. i was creating doing comic books, i made my own universe. my own story. >> also tonight? >> i didn't see anybody with my heart running. >> as these candidates make their last rounds before ferguson votes, the topics are

. >> the reason i bring it up the internet and bloggers are going nuts this morning about some generalanges that have been coming down in 2015 about what you are allowed to use the legal tender for in terms of cash paper. i know that in the cleveland area stories today pointing to chase in march making it so they don't take cash in things like mortgage payments auto loans. restrictions putting cash potentially in safety deposit boxes. does any of this scare you or should we live in a paperless society? >> it's alarming. it's a free market. if people don't want to use a credit card they want to pay cash they should have that choice rather than it being dictated by a government or bank. >> thank you very much peter. simon hobbs, shaken not stirred, back to you. >>> even in today's tight housing market nearly 3/4 of homes for sale are considered stale. in other words, they've been on the market for more than 30 days. why is that so bad? diana olick is live on the streets of d.c. with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, simon. i often stand in front of random houses to give my h

. >>> let's hear from a human rights activist and blogger as well as a member of yemeni. she left her home in aden because of the fighting and the situation is deteriorating. >> conditions are devastating. we have random shellings on houthis. there's no electricity, water. i feel like the humanitarian crisis is word while, and we wish that there was cooperation between houthis to pass by with medical supplies and necessity for the civilians. >> egypt's president abdul fatah al-sisi says the read sea off the coast of yemen should be a top priority. abdul fatah al-sisi says that the strait is strategically and egypt is part of the saudi led coalition. three have been killed in an explosion, the bomb exploding on a bridge in an upscale district. the health ministry said a victim is a policeman. they destroyed a car. they are a journalist based in cairo. police said that one policeman was filled. the bomb was placed under the small ky of course near the down ramp of the bridge. we have seen the targetting of forces that claimed hundreds of lives, more than a year and a half s

. >> once it has a map of all the things you have said, and your blog, anyone has email with a blogger who doesn't know it, right, so it is basically mapped all that stuff, and now you have a tip of the tongue experience, a word you want to get out, your digital twin can wees whenever in your ear and 80% of the time lit be right. >> we asked our online community about this, we asked them what chores would you want outsourced nothing but monitoring social media. schedules appointments nothing replaces personal relationship building, burn says updating social media, the replying to emails we would love that. but check this out, pizza hut has released what it call as subconscious menu, give this a look this amazing gadget can tell you by gazing and a few tiny tiny milliseconds your pizza is revealed you mentioned the concerns and this is the point of the part of the show where i can be a geek and lisa looks at me lie a geek. and hall 9,000. >> you can't see me. >> and she stairs at me like i am crazy. this is all the cool stuff we talk about, about our digital self, but will this somehow

. >> zach crockett is a local blogger who happened by on his bicycle when fire swept the building. he got upset that gawkers were filming instead of helping. he started the go fund me drive and donations poured in. suddenly he had $180,000. >> it blew my mind. i never realized the power of just on-line fundraising. >> he also didn't realize the responsibility. potential donors peppered him with questions. >> i have people e-mailing me asking for my credentials and who am i? what do i do? why am i doing this? at a certain point it was so overwhelming i thought look, these people's concerns are valid. >> the platform is so new that there is no meaningful body or auditor looking at where this money actually goes. >> consumer actions says to one in government is watching what happens to billions of dollars raised on-line. crowd funding generated $16 billion last year and it is expected to double to $35 billion this year. >> it is a little bit of donor beware. >> donors may not realize the sites make a profit off their gifts. go fund me takes 5% of each donation. the payment processor t

. >> that's on the saudi blogger and activist was put behind bars and sentenced to 1000 lashes for insulting islam. the conviction has sparked outrage across the west. >> he has paid a high price for expressing his opinion. he has already suffered if the of the 1000 lashes he has been sentenced to. his blog calling for a secular labial -- secular, liberal saudi arabia is no longer online, but the texts have been published in book one. amnesty international is calling for his release. they say he is a prisoner of conscience. his only crime was to set up a website inviting public discussion. >> the tech -- the text showed this is a form of legitimate expression, which also has to be respected in a state like saudi arabia. not something someone should be locked up for or sentenced to a dreadful punishment such as flogging. that contravenes all the human rights standards that we advocate. >> he was arrested back in 2012. hundreds of spectators watched the first flogging in january outside a mosque. subsequent rounds of punishment were postponed for medical reasons. the anthology of his writings

wars" podcast and writer on "inside amy schumer," kurt metzger. ( cheers and applause ) education blogger of "generation debt," anya kamenetz. ( cheers and applause ) and author of "in defense of a liberal education" and host of "fareed zakaria gps" on cnn, fareed zakaria. ( cheers and applause ). >> larry: i think this is one of those issues i think everybody can relate on this thing. but i was shocked by the statistic since 19 1978 the cost of college tuition has risen 1,120%. that's staggering. if you want to send your kid to a decent school it's at least 30,000, probably 50,000. i think we all agree, we can all agree we don't need no thought control, right? can we all degree we don't need no education? is college really worth it, fareed? >> the simple answer, larry, is yes. the truth of the matter is, if you look at the data-- forget anec doats here and there-- it is absolutely clear that people who go to college, people who go to a four-year college make substantially more money over the course of their lifetime. the new york fed has done a big study. david leonard of the "new york t

>> my co-founder, lynn chen, is a very successful food blogger. one of the things that anybody who has founded any sort of ventures before will realize that coming up with a name and getting that address is the hardest part so she came up with a list of names that had to do with food and thick dumpling skin when it popped up, we just felt that it was the right thing. dumplings are something that's asian-american and it's also about what's on the inside that counts. so when i read it, i was like we have to go with this one, it works. >> i'm thinking body texture, you know. but okay, i love it. that's perfect. so tell me about the motive for doing all this, because obviously there was a need inside you and your friend. >> the interesting thing is that it started with me writing an article in a magazine, an asian-american publication that i was a part of. in sharing my own story, you know, having gone through this personal journey of perfection and what that is, i shared the story, but did not realize at all that it would resonate with so many people

. >>> a viral video continues to gain traction and clicks as a fitness blogger is shaming her body shaming critics. kathy ho created this video after getting a slew of negative comments. she strips down and digitally alters her body to fit into the societal ideal of the perfect body. her point is how far is enough? the video has received nearly 3 million hits on youtube. on this photo shopped instagram post, ho wrote what worries me is people still think it's not good enough. >>> girl scout cookie love letters soon be able to make the sweet treats the home. can't get further away from what we just saw girl scout cookies. >> the girl scouts coming out with a bake it yourself cookie oven. now i can win unthin minutes and other cookie favorites the home, year round, but there are some catches. >> the oven only comes with one cookie pack, refills have to be bought separately. the only cookie flavors are thin mints, tree pills to and chocolate peanut butter. the girl scout oven will be sold at wall bhart target and toys are us starting this summer. >> what? they should have the girls sell those

aisha curry and a food blogger and celebrity chef and tyler florence were on hand to help out, as wells was part of the team's get fit time out program. >>> dozens of tiny feet pounded the pavement in san francisco today. about 200 children joined parents and teachers in the fifth annual walk around the block at city hall. the group is calling for fair wages for the early child care educators who on average make $32,000 a year. >> as we all know the housing issues in san francisco, the living expenses in san francisco, it just piles on top to make it really impossible for early childhood educators to live work and commute into the city. >> the group is also asking the city to fund the minimum wage increase passed by those in november. stay away from golden gate park on monday for counter culture holiday known as 420. thousands are expected to crowd the park that celebrates marijuana. this is how the area looked today from sky 7 hd more than 15,000 people packed the area last year causing some pretty serious traffic problems. >> we just want to make sure that trafficy facilitied and ped

brendan: this is what bloggers do.articular argument about secular stagnation, i wonder why larry summers gets to own it. matt: secular stagnation? which is? brendan: growth is going to stop, there's nothing we can do. it is cyclical and you can only get growth through population growth or innovation. there is some population growth. maybe the innovation is over. maybe the internet is not what it was cracked up to be good indoor plumbing hugely innovative -- i got dinged for saying "indoor plumbing." the internet possibly not as good for productivity. internet it -- ben bernanke says that is hogwash. matt: i got halfway through the story and i was bored to tears. number three, weeding out the competition crapkraft foods and model -- mondeliz? it came during the breakup of the former kraft food and model these? what a horrible name for it. brendan: it doesn't mean anything dirty in anything which. matt: is it like global cheese? brendan: they look through to make sure you have not said anything deeply offensive in danis

a food blogger, she started a petition on change.org to bully them to change their beloved concoctionere to some fussy booze was standards. it's not even the market for his, it's a bunch of uppity note also think that you cannot eat for yourselves. and as you may have heard on south park [inaudible] >> it's been a long day. >> prepare to be nervous, it's never going to be the same, secondly, the reemergence of an annoying player, tim tebow. i have to say that my brother has turned me around on the guy and unlike his disgraced heisman winners, tim tebow has never been to rehab taken bribes or killed his wife. and he never went to usc. end key may be an annoying person but he has never beat his kids or his wife. he has his own pretzel crafted in this righteous image. and lastly, i'm watching hillary clinton. "clintonia" is a rabid place. she found herself as the media caught wind of a new book about a suitable foreign donations to the foundation. >> we are back into the political season, therefore will we will be subjected to distraction and attacks and i'm ready for that. kennedy: we a

he's an author, blogger and cultural critic, now in his sixth year as an op-ed columnist for "the new the youngest such columnist in the paper's history. he's ross douthat. this is overheard. [applause]. >> actually, there are two sides to every issue. >> so i guess we can't fire him now. >> i guess we can't fire him now. [laughter].

there's duk, writer and food blogger, lon, art collector, jean-francois uber and phillipe. >> your homele work. >> she also cooks, magnificently from a repertoire of imperial hue era dishes numbering over 100. back in dynastic times, the emperors demanded variety in wives of sometimes they would have over 100, and in food. the menus of the 19th century imperial palaces boasted new dishes every night. small, flavorful, and beautifully presented. and that culinary tradition which gave hue the reputation of a food capital continues today. how much of that persists? those imperial roots, that need for variety? [ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: yes, the tradition has stayed and it will stay forever here to cook all these different things all the time. >> we start with bird's nest soup. a delicacy to which i am usually immune. this one is unusually flavorful. these are swallow's nests from high up on cliffs. near natrang. they're soaked in water, cooked in chicken stock, and served with crab meat. lotus seeds, a symbol of purity, nobility and patience from a nearby lake steamed.

notably, we launched our creators network in q1 which lets brands find incredible tumblr artists and bloggerso commission unique content. we saw immediate traction with more than 35 rand spending on creators to date. emily: she has been making major acquisitions in this area. it's a key part of her strategy to get the company moving again in this post alibaba era. joining me in the studio is bryan womack, who covers yahoo! and paul sweeney of bloomberg intelligence. she is telling investors to be patient. how patient should they be? guest: you do have something interesting going on, it's just more of the same. the rates in growth are actually declining and when you look at the print, the core business is a big disappointment. you saw the stock selloff right away on that. emily: would you go that? big disappointment? paul: investors, as we move past the alibaba monetization issue, which quite frankly, the management team and advisers did a great job coming up with an elegant structure for that asset which will be positive for shareholders. but as we move past that investors are focusing on the

he's an author, blogger and cultural critic, now in his sixth year as an op-ed columnist for "the new york times," the youngest such columnist in the paper's history. he's ross douthat. this is overheard. [applause]. >> actually, there are two sides to every issue. >> so i guess we can't fire him now. >> i guess we can't fire him now. [laughter]. >> the night they win the emmy. >> being on the supreme court was an improbable dream. it's hard work, and it's controversial. >> so without information, there is no freedom, and it's journalist who provides that information. >> window rolls down and this guy says, "hey, he goes until 11." [laughter]. [music]. >> ross douthat, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> nice to see you. you wrote a book that i loved at the time and have thought back on fondly in 2008 called "grand new party," about the republican party, and you had aspirations for the party to become something else or to expand its parameters to include more people. how did that work out for you? >> not -- i like to tell people it was a fantasy novel. >> fan fiction. >> it was fan f

the blogger the column that it was community. but each committee at a.of view. so commentary had one point of view, dissent at another.of view a famous woody allen joke and so these were communities. probably the happiest professional sound of my life, the weekly standard. and i do think you change history in groups, not so much as individuals. and then secondly longer is better. this is when i read to get my awards that i give out a chair six of them. so i am running out. the magazine article command when it comes to reading longer is better. better than blogs, blogs are blogspot blogs about the books. yet the mind runs downhill. you have to push yourself a pill. c-span: i read that you said you really cannot right. >> guest: that is my natural length. my natural length the atlantic and new yorker and that was my natural length. a newspaper column, 868 words. c-span: 806. >> 806. >> guest: that is my exact word count. c-span: was that everybody? y? >> guest: the space on the page. you are going down one length of column. so that is what you do. the writing of t

mark: what do you think of the rise of fashion bloggers? do they have too much influence?t is the future. we cannot ignore the way things are shifting and moving in technology has become such an integral part of how it is -- others have a website and have no garlic -- have no knowledge of the history or reference collection. they are able to say this works because of this. but it's a democratic world. everyone is a reviewer and a critic. mark: the book is part and parcel of the interviews you have been doing since 1997. why do these fashion icons open up to you in a way that leaves them so vulnerable? fern: thank you for saying that. i think it is because i know most of them very well. mark: you ask them blunt questions. fern: i do a lot of research and homework and i warm them up about their astrology signs. then their parents, families and what their bedroom looks like what their house looks like. you are already into this warm and cozy story of their lives and they are comfortable. i'm not asking them something that they are going to look at bingo wide you ask that? mar

spearheaded by those two bloggers, who posted a photo of themselves in bikinis next to the ad with thedies. >> that's something to be celebrated. >> reporter: blogger and mom of three rachel was shocked by the outpouring of support after posting this photo showing her post baby stretch marks front and center. in just an hour, the picture got 1,000 likes. >> we're shifting the perception of what a beautiful woman looks like. >> reporter: and model chrissy teigen getting props after showing off her very real stretch marks and vowing not to photo-shop them away. >> society is taking a turn. women are trying to embrace who they are the way they are. >> reporter: and that controversial ad is coming down this morning. the company is standing by the campaign and saying it's not coming down because of the backlash. simply because the ad campaign expired. but love your lines. fat is not a failing. all across the globe in the u.s. and australia. i love it. >> we're launching "gma's" brand-new campaign this morning. #gmabodyproud. to celebrate real bodies. we're here with women doing just that. t

. >> reporter: zach crocker is a local blogger who happened by on his bike, he got upset that they wereof helping so he started the go fund me drive. so his surprise the donations poured in. and suddenly he had $180,000. >> it blew my mind i guess i never realized the power of on-line fundraising. >> reporter: he also didn't realize the responsibility. potential donors peppered him with questions. >> i had people e-mailing me asking me for my credentials, who am i? what am i doing? why am i doing this? at a certain point it got so overwhelming, that i realized look, these concerns are totally valid. >> on-line funding platforms are so new that there is no mediateor or body looking at what actually goes on. >> reporter: the consumer reports shows that there is no over sight of what is going on. an estimated $16 billion was raised last year and that is expected to double to $35 billion next year. donors also may not realize the sites make a profit off their gifts. go fund me takes 5% of each donation, its payment processer takes 2.9%. together, they took $16,000 of the donations intended