what's up, bobby? >> what's up? >> you been doing okay? >> hanging in there. sweating a little bit. >> you was doing all well until march 27th of 2007 when you had a disciplinary citation for insubordination. >> citation. >> citation. what was that all about? >> i had a disagreement with the mail lady. >> mail lady? >> mail that was rejected. i don't even see where it was. i talked to warden culliver but i wrote him about it. he understands the situation. i rather be written disciplinary so i at least had a hearing on it. i didn't get no say in the citation. you know how that works. >> my assessment at this time due to this recent infraction, i can't make a recommendation for a transfer per your progress review here. >> he just wants to get closer to home, his family traveling. i think he said his mom or someone ill, but if i complete the paperwork here and send it in to central review board, they would not go along with the transfer. just due to that infraction. you okay? >> no, i ain't. >> all right.

bobby flay. flay says being a chef wasn't cool when he went to the french culinary institute, but he changed all that in the early-1990's, between his first restaurant and becoming a food network star. >> nerves are ok. utilize those nerves the best way. >> flay is still not afraid of hard work, even eyeing a run for office. rounding out the group, tom colicchio. to colicchio, cooking isn't just an art, it is a craft. >> the chicken liver mousse was really well seasoned. >> he uses his success to help others, whether giving young chefs a chance -- >> the winning chef is kristen. >> or helping the world's hungry find a place at the table. welcome to "titans at the table." thank you so much for joining us. let's have a cheers before we begin. >> [all] cheers. >> let me start with this question. p.j. clarke's has been around since the 1800's, well over a hundred years old establishment. i think it was an irish immigrant who came here, decided this was a great restaurant, bought it, and then expanded

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moments later, whitney's daughter approached him. >> here comes bobbi kristina. uncle sam!before i could say anything, this guy literally pulling her away. from me. >> a moment that haunts moore to this day. >> she was one of the greatest voices. ♪ and i >> and you knew what she was doing. well, why you didn't help save that voice? she could have had a legacy. but where is it? it died with these people. that's the legacy. ♪ what does an apron have to do with car insurance? an apron is hard work. an apron is pride in what you do. an apron is not quitting until you've made something a little better. what does an apron have to do with car insurance? for us, everything. we'll be here at lifelock doing our thing: you do your swipe from anywhere thing, watching out for your identity, data breach or not. get lifelock protection and live life free. >>> this is the story of one man, one chef, and a city. also it's about france and a lot of other chefs. and a culinary tradition that grew up to change the world of gastronomy. it's about a family tree, about the trunk from which many b

. >> he said when he pulled up, bobby singh.had tears in his eyes. he said he couldn't get he out but he tried. so he brought him over to see me and saw me in the driveway and started to cry. >> the fire department later determines the cause to be improper disposal of smoking materials. >> he demonstrated an act of courage and bravery. >> a few weeks later wayne's son paul presents a resolution to the council honoring bobby singh. >> you have to pause and put yourself in his shoes and ask, would you have done what he did? really would you? his son is with his him here. and also his dad dpod give me the strength to save somebody. >> yes, i can bobby to be a hero and my hero. >> coming up, bike thieves go to work in broad daylight. >> my bike was stolen from right in front of my apartment. >> when "caught on camera: what would you do?" returns. cannot . don't worry! the united states postal service will get it there on time z. >>> bold thieves prowl the crowded streets of manhattan, brazenly breaking bike locks in front of dozens

is bobbie still here? >> bobbie is still here. we really wanted to take a relaxing trip to florida.u know? just to unwind. but we can only afford one trip this year, and his high school reunion is coming up in seattle. everyone's going. then we heard about hotwire... and realized we could actually afford to take both trips. [woman] see, when really nice hotels have unsold rooms, they use hotwire to fill them. so we got our 4-star hotels for half price. i should have been voted "most likely to travel." ♪ h-o-t-w-i-r-e ♪ hotwire.com save big on car rentals too, from $11.95 a day. athis is paul's office. for those who believe a serious job doesn't have to feel so serious. one a day men's vitacraves with key nutrients like b-vitamins. all the fun of a gummy that's a complete multivitamin. >>> while it may seem like our favorite celebrities have been blessed naturally with high cheekbones and perfect noses, the truth is many of them or their makeup artists have mastered the art of contour. >> i like this. "today" style editor and bobbie.com's bobbie thomas is back. the before and after l

. >> the first time we met bobby ray gilbert we knew he would be an unforgettable inmate. he was serving life for two murders at the holman correctional center in alabama. one of the murders was committed on the outside and the other in prison. he told us both involved disputes over money. >> i killed somebody because i felt like they were taking something from me, and then i come from a world where everybody thinks they can take something from me. so, you know, you got a convergence of forces here. >> during our original 2006 shoot at holman, gilbert was battling the warden for a transfer closer to a prison near his elderly mother's home. >> you the man. you run this place. >> i follow the regs. >> that's what i'm saying, that's your decision. >> i follow the regs. >> gilbert was denied the transfer for various infractions. when we shot our "extended stay" series at holman a year later, gilbert was still trying to get his transfer. >> bobby had a very close relationship with his mother. for her to visit him, it took a lot. it took money. it took time. none of which she ha

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in addition to the business bay crossing and bobby's folks are involved in the local community. last year they took the lead no installing the beloved sign at the ferry building this is for deputies and children to see what the ferry building was and is in the 21st century. colleagues a few years ago the legislation was to build courts near the ferry buildings working in papering with the force.com and the rec and park department bobby and others took it upon themselves to launch an incredibly popular botch i didn't league in the plaza. there's been 40 teams competing and a wait list of other folks if you want to put together a bofrn ball team you're going to have to beat district 3. bobby thank you and give you an opportunity to say a few words >> (clapping) >> thank you, very much president chiu it's kind to recognize the ferry building public service we're proud to be associated with the bofrn team you yourself might have a team and recognize john who heads up the hard working young people that do the work of the body of information. thank you very much we're deeply honored.

jackson next to him, bobby smith, billy henderson and myself on the end on the left side.that time our name was domingos, and bobby came up with spinners, from a cadillac hub cap. we knew we weren't going to college. we made a pact that we would take this and make up a career out of it. if we make it, we make it. [ singing ] >> they came up with a song "that's what girls are made for", it went to top 40. mo town for us was a very, very good college. they taught you how to use a microphone, they taught you how to sit on a stool, they taught you everything. >> the spinners album - this is the first album on atlantic records. they released the first record. a disc jockey in buffalo new york turned the record over and played "i would be around." that record took off. it was so, so fast. it sold so fast. [ singing ] >> we kept on doing it. it was five or so records. this was the star on the hollywood walk of fame. we were the second black group to get a star. the first was the mills brothers. we tested it at the time. we sold a million copies. and it was a great hit for us. [ s

first an excerpt that tells the story of bobby henline. he suffered burns on 40% of his body when he was by an ied. >> in those years, bobby discovered a talent. he can find the comedy if his wounds. his humor could break the tension people felt when they met him. now telling jokes is bobby's calling. >> he's known as the well done comedian. >> i am a wounded warrior. i was in the army. i did four tours in iraq. thank you. got to say like most soldiers, i love my job. had a great time, but seriously folks that last tour was a real blast. >> wes moore, welcome. >> thank you. great to be here. >> we meet throughout the source of these documentary films a number of veterans and their families. how did you decide who to chose and what stories did you decide to tell? >> the two things i wanted to find is one, were they willing to be transparent. were they willing to let us into their lives during the good times and the bad times because we really wanted to give a fair understanding to the audience of what this transition is like. we wanted peop

are telling me i have to pick bobby kennedy.re was a time when they look down on me like i was some sort of country bunk and -- bumkin. >> where is your ambition? what is it that bryan cranston wants to do or needs to do? >> rest. i need to rest. i go pretty hard at it. it is so much fun. i'm having a great time. but i think, when this is over, when i finally leave the stage for the last time, i'm going to collapse. [laughter] your body has a tendency to hold on, hold on, hold on. it is physically and emotionally demanding. i love putting it all out there. i think i want to relax for a while and let it rest. see what happens next. >> thank you for doing this. >> i so appreciated. -- i so appreciate it. >> they show up at school hungry because most have not had breakfast. but they were so on fire to learn. it made you feel good. but thereould, day -- would come a day when i would see the light in the eyes die, because i discovered the world hated them because of the color of their skin. as a southerner, i have had to bite my tong

first an excerpt that tells the story of bobby henline. he suffered burns on 40% of his body when he was by an ied. >> in those years, bobby discovered a talent. he can find the comedy if his wounds. his humor could break the tension people felt when they met him. now telling jokes is bobby's calling. >> he's known as the well done comedian. >> i am a wounded warrior. i was in the army. i did four tours in iraq. thank you. got to say like most soldiers, i love my job. had a great time, but seriously folks that last tour was a real blast. >> wes moore, welcome. >> thank you. great to be here. >> we meet throughout the source of these documentary films a number of veterans and their families. how did you decide who to chose and what stories did you decide to tell? >> the two things i wanted to find is one, were they willing to be transparent. were they willing to let us into their lives during the good times and the bad times because we really wanted to give a fair understanding to the audience of what this transition is like. we wanted peop

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hello, everybody. [ cheers ] >> jam packed show tonight including governor bobby jindal. the chairman and that's not all because phil robertson will join us for an exclusive interview. he addressed the conference, brought the house down, can't miss that. one on one just minutes away. we hope you'll stay with us. kicking off things for us tonight is our surprise guest speaker, the one and only former alaska governor sarah palin. governor, good to see you. how are you? [ cheers ] >> thank you. >> we got a lot going on right now. i know how much the issue of the veterans issues matter. president has given three speeches in three days on the military, and i don't get the sense of urgency, where is the 1800 number to say you're a vet and need help. do you feel a lack of urgency? >> i think there is a lack of understanding on our commander in chief part. what the mission of the military is and why it is that we owe gratitude that's manifested in benefits paid to those who already earned them when it comes to what our military is all about and you know, that was really evident i

. >> thanks bobby and for your hard work it it concludes our speakers so. anyone any public comment on that item? please step forward everyone will have 2 minutes >> my name is ann dra drew yep the chinese for american citizens and the answer there is no answer frankly speaking no solution final solution forbid the homeless issue for the people with disabilities e.r. the veteran or the seniors the best testimony search warrant is for the mayor and the supervisors just to resolve the problem building a massive building that can accommodate all those folks just try our best. thank you >> thank you very much. next speaker. . i have cards dr. espanola jackson and (calling names) >> thank you. my name is michael i'm the director of plowshares and want to appreciate take the opportunity to speak i want to resist the temptation to brag about a what we're doing we're doing a lot but being part of the community we don't do it alone but i'll you say our impact we've been around since 1974 but we're a veteran's rights organization and most recently operating 2 hundred

i'm bobby the transition coordinator my territory i coordinator for northern nevada and to bakersfield and the fun part hawaii and guatemala so we have a small territory so when i start out by saying thank you to all the folks here it's a great team effort i say that because i go to a lot of community cares around the country we're lucky we we have a partnership. i don't know if you know that but the va has been in the homeless business since 1987 and san francisco was one of the first sites there was about thirty everything we do in the va is a pilot project so in 1987 we hired folks to see about the vets and in our year we had our first contract of social serves michael and i have been doing this awhile. when we first started to keep track of vets it was 2 hundred and 50 thousand. the number now is down to 57 thousand 8 hundred and 49 in 2013 still way over it should be zero. at the stated in november of 2009 secretary that announced a competitive plan no veteran should remain on the streets. he stated that we needed to work on medical, mental health, substance abuse, jobs and depres

from honeywell. >>> it is time for -- >> "bobbie's buzz". >> bobbie thomas is here to update your manny you have funky things going. >> trying to convince this one that a french manicure is awesome, but let's flip it around. >> i haven't had french in a long time now. i moved on. >> what should we do? >> i love this new modern moon manicure. this happens to be a sample, a paint box, brand-new, nails here in new york. celebrities are raving about this creative artist has come up with a new adult way of doing nail art. it is minimal, geometric. this is a metallic take on, you know, look a cool way that you don't have to look like you're getting hello kitty on your nails. >> okay. >> you can do this very easy at home with these reinforcement labels from this office supply store. >> no polish. >> just use a sticker in between your coats and get the same look. also, nail tape is something you can find on amazon. and this creates a really interesting foil, i can diy nail art right now. >> good luck. >> if i know how to stick it. anyway, you can have something really pretty and modern, $1.60 o

bobby jindal loves you. palin loves you. >> somebody asked me one time, do you feel rich and famous yet? not yet. when does it come, ms. kay? when do you start feeling like your rich and famous? she said phil, you're the type that you were so content with being poor -- >> it doesn't matter. you're happy. >> she said, phil, i've been full with you and rich with you. rich is way better. >> you're making fun of me -- there's no a lot of duck hunting in new york. >> upstate new york though. >> it's like a six hour drive. did you bring me a duck call? >> here's the training. this is all in tongue control. >> tongue control. >> look. a call. watch. >> i'm in trouble. >> you got about five notes. >> i'm there, right? >> look. >> i'll go back to mine. look. phil robertson, good to see you my friend. give it up for phil. >>> coming up, stay with us we'll find out his game plan as we continue to broadcast live from new orleans and the republican leadership conference straight ahead. i make a lot of purchases for my bu

we will hear from governor bobby governor louisiana, patrick of massachusetts, and representative messer of indiana. earlier this month, louisiana governor bobby jindal gave the commencement address at liberty university. the republican governor explained his conversion to christianity as he addressed an audience of 40,000 people at the g, virginia campus. this is 30 minutes. [applause] >> thank you for that very generous introduction. congratulations to the class of 2014. let's give them another round of applause for this wonderful congressman. [applause] -- this wonderful accomplishment. [applause] i have got to warn you in advance i have done a number of these graduations. you will bear with your parents today. you might witness them shedding a tear or two. when you see that come you might think they are replaying the years in their minds. you might think a remember when he first learned how to ride a bike when you took your first steps. you think they will be wondering where all those years have gone by. but you would be wrong about that. those tears you see are tears of joy. from kn

about that and i indicated to my walter jenkins, i go no, i talked to bobby about that, indicating i have no idea what i talked to him about if i did, and it just got a laugh so -- >> rose: so this is a great -- >> yes. you are constantly allowing it to stay alive, you know. i don't think i ever really want it to set in concrete to where no matter what happens, no matter what audience you have at any given time you are doing the same performance night after night. with the same words but a different feeling to it. sometimes people talk about actors may give a different performance because they are feeling different that night. >> very true. yes. i mean, i think it is important to be honest about that and if you are not feeling well, you may have to augment your natural performance and maybe play it under a little bit, hopefully with the same intensity or the same intention at those places but maybe not with the same volume or -- >> what does the audience do for you? >> oh, it is wonderful to be able to feel the immediate response, even subtle gasps or pushbacks in their seat when the

actually, we are going to bobby first, from urbana, illinois.s far as the war on drugs, the police are always looking for drug offenders in the black neighborhood, but they never go into the white neighborhoods. there is like zero affect. want to have a war on drugs? go ahead and have -- there is a friend of mine that i know personally, they got them on a felony. he could not even get a job. for over a year he tried to get a job. he could not get a job because he had a felony. every job application, they always look at the person's record. deny him a job. this is not fair. the war on drugs is not working, it has never worked. it is a war on black people. the call.k you for agree or disagree? have we lost the war touch and mark that is our question this morning. steve, oklahoma, independent line, thank you for waiting. morning.ood i disagree with bobby. he is making it a race issue. what is going to happen? is this the job, slinging dope? what will happen when they legalize it? according to bobby, that is the only job he can get. host: thank you

. >> one of holman's most notorious inmates, bobby gilbert, is serving multiple sentences for crimestted inside prison. >> i'm serving a life without parole sentence, two life sentences, two 99-year sentences, a 40-year sentence, a 20-year sentence and a 10-year sentence. all together. >> gilbert has attacked several prisoners and stabbed one man to death at another prison during an argument. >> everybody wants to talk about, you know, i killed somebody over a carton of cigarettes. it's not a carton of cigarettes. that may be the catalyst that leads to something, but if somebody owes me a soda pop, and they come to me and say, "hey man, i need to get that soda pop you owe me," i'll spit in their face and talk to them like they're a bitch or something and then i kill them, whose fault is it? it wasn't about the soda pop no more. you on the street, yeah, you call the police and put a stop to it. what do you do in here? i tell you what you do. you go get you a knife, and you stab that son of a bitch, and you say, "you ain't taking nothing else." that's the end of that. here's what happe

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asking our committee mark farrell to ask the poor veterans because our money is good and i believe bobby roman field can help to establish that for conveniences so we don't have to be back on the streets and go through the shells. i also oppose is negative stigma of veterans{mentally unstable we're stable >> thank you very much. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good morning members i'm dale i'm a member of the city of san francisco corresponding board but this morning i'm here hasn't to represent the formerly homeless and veterans. sometimes, i feel that the homeless situation in san francisco is becoming an industry much like our prisons have become industry where the online only people with benefits are the people running the program i'm going to stop that from happening we're homeless veterans when you ask us to go fight four for our country when we slept and he didn't don't play with us. we couldn't find room let's house our prisoners from another county we don't have room for our homeless in the city you don't fit we've got a size 9 foot into a size 7 shoe why can't he hours o

what about bobby jindal.proclaimed yesterday that he's a aristocrat and at a moment when this party is trying to move away from the fringes of the extreme religious rite, bobby jindal forces the party back to an uncomfortable position but you can't completely write him off in terms of being a national candidate. >> you're right, alex. he's the one guy in what you call the clown category. he thinks he can bridge the gap. partly because of his immigrant heritage. because i think his thinking is that he can tack to the right as the cristocrat, and that's language headed directly for the iowa cause kasss. the cristrocrats are. because of his heritage and ivy league background and his sort of technocrattic appeal to some people that he can some tact back to the middle and general election. that's clearly what he's up to and that's clearly why this was called the republican leadership conference. not just southern. because jindal thinktion he can appeal to the whole country, eventually, we'll see. the problem is, t

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i knew that bobby bobby fighter its members and our business is done with a pretty full chain and it is a good guy the operation began in the western province of babylon staff. mendes to rescue said the attack by that i live on in about a song written for them friday this is the first major strike by the sentence but vowed to disrupt the president of the roots of the best donations getting off of the runoff election yet i happened to me don't trust enough to suicide car bomb lead to kidney to his explosives at the checkpoint is simply not have guns but she said eighty five miles from that in . the skin into its exclusive stations and six construction workers that the need to get ministry official said. he had this to our team said it meets the ocean. i've gone back to the un spokesperson said the lead on the docket in palm beach had all attended the opening sentence in the journey to the piece was like she is a promise from without the antitrust lawsuits. this was it was deadly strike but the incidence of ninety six and commissioned into the office to confront the knot in the present