louisiana representative a booker t graduate was stunned to learn the recovery oversees most schools was planning to rebuild the school after removing some soil. >> it should be a crime to put schools there, when we know the toxic matters are there. >> reporter: there's no law on building schools on a land fix or known toxic site. toxins at the school site including lead for example, were found 24 times higher than e.p.a. standards for playgrounds. the school district plans to remove the top three feet of contaminated soil. then install a barrier and lay down 6 feet of clean soil. >> this is not a risk elimination plan it's risk reduction plan. >> they are familiar with soil and the school distribute's plan will eliminate rivals. >> i have 14 grandchildren. they have no reservations tending at school. the site for the school is identified rebuilding at the old location is maintaining the school's legacy serving as a popular meeting space for new orleans's black community in the '60s. >> if you move it they'll loss the identity. opponents say there'll be 12 feet of contaminated soil i

. >>> shortness for one of the most prestigious awards and the booker prize aside from $95,000 prizegives the winner a chance to reach new readers and profiles some of those in the running. >> one of the most coveted awards in literature. >> you slipped it. >> reporter: the international man booker prize is given to authors whose words transcend borders and boundaries. >> for here i would leave this earth. >> reporter: many of the finalists are relatively unknown outside their own countries but not any more. >> twist her spine into an elm tree. >> reporter: for the first time four out of ten short listed authors are from africa with themes of colonialism and conflict and migration. the prize is awarded every two years to writers publishing fiction in english or works translated into english. previous winners include celebrated nigerian author giniwa and the prize has drawn less attention than the counterpart the booker award from the uk and common wealth hoping growing interest in the prize will promote foreign writers within the english-speaking world but it's a difficult challenge

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senator booker asked them, quote, what's the payoff? before we throw money at the problem, we should find out if we're getting a return on our investment. the hearing is about two hours. >>> this hearing will come to order. our ranking member is still a few minutes out, so we'll get under way here. when he gets here, i will express again the fact that we're very glad that senator carper's stop was in wilmington. he was on the train that derailed and, of course, our thoughts and prayers are with the family and victims of that tragedy. our thoughts and prayers are also with all of our law enforcement officials that, you know, step out of their door stop every day and risk their lives for our public safety. and rather than me say it, i can't say it better than what secretary jeh johnson said in the letter. i would like to read this. dear colleagues, this is national police week. this week we honor the sacrifice and commitment of the men and women in law enforcement. we pay special tribute to those who have given their lives in the line of

some call me booker. some call me john. some call me jim. some call me nigger.you're crying on the inside. i'm not going to tip that nigger. you don't look for no tips. yes, sir, thank you. what did you say? thank you, sir. that's what you have to go through here. but remember, you have to keep that smile. >> telling the truth was still risky business in 1966 mississippi, and booker wright was not rewarded for his candor. it was not a good experience for him. it did not make him a star. >> not within the white community. but even the stokely carmichael maybe first chanted black power here, that was less important to the black community here than what booker said on the nbc news. >> yeah. the private dining rooms at lusco's are still here. the menu, much the same. steaks, fish, the famous broiled shrimp, the lusco special salad with the house italian vinaigrette dressing and a healthy dose of anchovy. onion rings. >> salad makes me happy. >> yeah, me, too. >> mostly the anchovies make me happy. >> yeah, yeah, love those. catfish for mr. edge, the famous pompano f

washington. >> booker t. washington is spinning in his grave like a, if you ever read up from slavery, that is one of the greatest men to ever live in america. >> it's the opposite of everything he stood for and believed and advocated. >> glenn beck was joined in his teaching about history. american thinker charged that america's race-baiting flotus knows nothing about booker t. washington and the headline about michelle obama's disregard for tuskegee's university founder, booker t. washington. personal account racial misrecognition of insufficient understanding as the american thinker claimed this week, stirring up racial animosity is an approach washington shunned and perhaps mrs. obama's critics should read more deeply into washington's ideology. born into slavery and rose to such prominence as an educator and thought leader that u.s. presidents sought his advice was an advocate of self-help as the key to advancement for formerly enslaved people. believed they could earn gradually by dedicating to vocation

josh hartnett from msnbc's "morning joe," mika brzezinski and joe scarborough music from benjamin bookerturing the 8g band. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] and now, here he is, seth meyers! ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: good evening everybody. i'm seth meyers. this is "late night." how's everybody doing tonight? [ cheers and applause ] good to hear. good to hear. i have a little bit of bad news. every now and then you hear something a little scary about the government. a defense department audit has found that a number of pentagon credit cars -- credit cards, excuse me, were used to gamble and pay for pornography. that is unbelievable. who pays for pornography? [ laughter ] in this day and age, if we've accomplished anything, it's that we don't have to pay for our pornography. a new poll finds that the majority of gop voters say they can't see themselves supporting chris christie. the trick is to lift with your legs -- [ laughter ] -- not with your back. [ applause ] you don't want to lift with your back. your instinct will be to lift with your back. don't lift with your back. now, onto i

. >> reporter: the international man booker prize is given to those that words transcends borders andies. >> for here i would leave this earth. >> reporter: many of this year's final assists are relatively unknown outside their own countries, but not anymore. for the first time four out of 10 short listed authors are from africa. with themes of colonial immaterial, conflict and migration figuring highly. the prize is awarded every two years for writers publishing fiction in english or works translateed in to english previous winners including celebrated nigerian author. while the prize has drawn less attention than its counterpart the man booker prize award today authors from the u.k. and commonwealth. it's hoped growing interest in the international prize will grow interest. but it's a difficult challenge for writers and publishers alike. >> if it's a hard enough to sella thors nationally within big markets like the u.k. for example, how do you sell them in translation in marks like that it's absurdly difficult. even if to get translateed in to english and get published in the u.k. i

it's also known as home to the high school booker t. washington. there are many in the community who want the high school to come back but now we know that the soil beneath is highly toxic. can you remediate the soil and rebuild or is that even safe? >> just beyond the footprint two ruined buildings remain from the city's booker t. washington high school. shuttered by hurricane katrina the site is surrounded by a locked fence and now controversy. >> i want it rebuilt absolutely. >> there are plans to rebuild the school here on what tests he from the last three years reveal is highly toxic soil. >> it's bizarre amazing frustrateing anguishing. >> the high school was built in 1942 on land that had been used as a giant landfill known as the silver city dump. the recent tests done by research firms hired by school officials found that in are dangerous levels of lead arsenic, zinc and other contaminants in the soil as far as 15 feet down. that's as far as samples were taken. >> joseph booey, a booker t washington graduate himself said that he was stunne

i'm joined by corey booker of new jersey. senator booker welcome back to "meet the press." >> good to be here. thank you. >> i want to start with the isis raid then infrastructure, which i know you've been focused on with the amtrak derailment. what you have heard about the raid, do you feel, a, it's a success from what you understand about it now and, b, the overall campaign against isis is more successful than failure? >> certainly, this raid looks like it was a success. a lot of the information we pulled out could be very, very valuable. the computers and other data that was recovered that is now beingage analyzed. this is going to be a long effort. isis is a terrible threat in that region as well as american security. we are going to be involved in a many month, if not longer effort. we have seen some gains from the recruitment of foreign fighters going down and their territory. then we see things like this week, where we end up losing some ground. i'm encouraged by the progress, but we have more work to do to eliminate t

. >> find out who won this year's prestigious man booker international prize. [beeping] ooo come on everybody, i think this is my grandson. [lip syncing] ♪little girl you look so lonesome oh my goodness. ♪i see you are feeling blue ♪come on over to my place ♪hey girl ♪we're having a party happy birthday, grandma! ♪we'll be swinging ♪dancing and singing ♪baby come on over tonight >> a reminder of the stop stories on al jazeera. protestors deplanned that burundi's president trop his bid for a third term clashing on the streets. iraq security forces sent back to ramadi ahead of a planned offensive to retake the city from isil. >> a three day conference in ramadi involving yemeni political and tribal figures has called for the creation of a giants arab force to secure the city against houthi rebels. >> rebels in south sudan say they captured a refinery near a major oil field. they've taken control of oil installations as a way to force the government to shut down. the south sudan's information minister told al jazeera there are no refineries in the area. he explain

while the prize has drown less attention than the man booker prize awarded in the u.k.h it's hold growing interest in the international prize will help writers. it is a difficult challenge for writers and publishers. >> it is hard enough to sell authors within the u.k., how do you sell international translations in markets like that? it's absurdly difficult. even to get translated into english and get published in the u.k. if you are outside the u.k. is hard. to get taken notice of is another game entirely. that's where these prizes become important. >> publishers count on the prize to forecast fiction. what readers see on the front cover of books short lifted or winner of the prize it's a sure sign they're about to embark on something rather special. for winners of the international award, they are immediately catapulted on to the global stage. like this finalist, writing a claimed fiction in hungary for 30 years. >> people are still the same all over the world and the readers can read my books actually in the same way. >> in an increasingly globalized world, for an au

tragedies because of a crumbling infrastructure that we have not made a commitment to invest in. >> booker says the u.s. has gone from number one country in the quality of infrastructure to number 18. he says we cannot pass on a failing infrastructure to the next generation. joining us to talk about the ongoing fund deg bait the chuck todd moderator of "meet the press." we have to start with the recent decision by congress to cut funding to amtrak one day after this deadly crash and the response from booker. >> it's a reminder that we sometimes wonder how do the two parties differ. sometimes we so put them in their places of blue and red, we forget there's true philosophical differents between the two. amtrak is a perfect illustration. democrats view amtrak as sort of part of public transportation system and public transportation in every city in america is subsidized by government. fares -- they don't fully fund them. it has to be subsidized. i think the republican party views amtrak as something the government should betaining the rail but it should be privatized and shouldn't be involve

chairman, thank you very much. >> thank you senator booker. there's an obvious piece of legislation we need start working on, already directed staff. we invented the internet, the social network sites we have hollywood. we have the camables to -- capabilities to blows the guys out of the water on communications. so we need work an that quickly. senator ayotte. >> i want to thank the chairman and appreciate senator booker's comments as well, and it strikes me though, in hearing your answers, makes sense that this isn't going to just be a government function, because government isn't particularly well at some of these updated use of technology, and so i think engaging the private sector engaging ngos and others to help us to that, and we can provide the support for that but that would be great to establish the partnerships to make that happen. i was interested in reading in your testimony especially mr. bergen, about women that -- they're there seems to be an attraction for young women that they're recruiting with more than i think a historical

senator booker: my colleagues' comments have been strong and salient. i have nothing to add and only to echo. therefore i'd like to open it up to questions for any of my colleagues here. >> right after the train event, some of your republican colleagues were saying there's understandable reluctance to give money to amtrak because of mismanagement, poor purchasing decisions and yen need to reform financially. how do you address those concerns? >> the bottom line is amtrak is profitable. senator schumer: ridership is up. the on-time record is improved. it's a chicken and egg. if they're not going to give it the money, they're not -- it's not going to do everything it needs. but with the limited resources it has while it has problems and needs improvement, it's done a good job compared to most other railroads. >> let me just add, the way to do body building is not starvation. amtrak is profitable in the northeast, it's the only part of amtrak that's profitable. but the reason why people ride the rails is, the reason they purchase anything is they have trus

i'm joined by senator booker of new jersey. welcome back to "meet the press." >> good to be here. >> i want to start with the isis raid and turn to infrastructure which is what you were have been focused on all this week with the derail men. what do you feel about the raid? kufl it was a success from what you understand of it now. and that b the campaign against isis is so far more successful than failure? >> certainly this raid looks like it was a success a. lot of the information we pulled out of there could be very value, the computers and other data that was recovered that's now being analyzed. this is going to be a long effort. isis is a terrible threat in that region as well as to american security. and we are going to be involved in a many-month if not longer effort. so we've seen some gains from the recruitment of foreign fighters going down and their territory. but then we see things like this week where we end up losing some ground. i'm encouraged by some of the progress we are making but we have a lot more work to do

here's new jersey senator, cory booker. >> you know, i know something about memes, to get memes to go fancy memes compared to what we're not doing. [ laughter ] >> seth: first of all, is there anything sadder than hearing an adult say, "i know something about memes." [ laughter ] it sounds like what an undercover cop would say to a high schooler. "i know something about memes. also, you guys know where i could score some molly drugs?" [ laughter ] second of all, while booker criticized what we're not doing, he also criticized the government's current online efforts to combat terrorism recruitment as laughable. citing the state department's anti-jihad think again turn away twitter account, which tweets among other things quotes from john kerry such as, "kerry commends remarkable commitment and sacrifice of amisom's troop contributing companies in somalia." i'm sorry, senator booker, but if you think quotes from john kerry don't connect with kids, why don't you tell that to his two retweets and two favs. [ laughter and applause ] he doubled up. he doubled up. senator ron johnson in wisc

chairman. >> thank you senator booker., i'm very serious we need to work on this, and i certainly want to engage the members of the panel and other experts you can put us in touch with in terms of how do we do this, how do we set up a center of excellence. is it inside government outside government? do you fund it? whatever. >> i suspect it's both. >> i would agree. but, again it's urgent, like you said. >> yeah. >> one thing i do like to do is provide the witnesses a final bite at the apple here. if there's something that you want to get off your chest final statement, i'd start with mr. bergen. >> looking forward, we have a chance to not have a hearing like this five years from now about afghanistan if we, you know, the idea that we're going to turn off the lights of our presence there in december 31 2016 merely because the obama administration's going to be shortly out of office is crazy. and the afghans want us to stay. and we were attacked from there obviously, on 9/11. it's in our interests to stay, and i think it's

we're trying to lay out the reality and i think senator booker will agree with me. it's not a pleasant reality. it's an enormously difficult problem. in terms of illegal immigration, in terms of drug trafficking, the biggest problem is no doubt about it, it's on the southern border. as my ranking member says repeatedly, and i completely agree, we really need to analyze the root cause of the problem. we had an extremely good meeting with general kelly yesterday just discussing the problems in central america. and the problems with the border security and the drug trafficking. and looking for that root cause, you know, we were discussing, it's really america's demand for drugs and how that demand has created these drug cartels that have really corroded, been so harmful to the societies in central america. we bear some responsibility for that. these are not going to be easy problems so solve. i come from a manufacturing background. nothing is ever perfect. you have to continuously improve. the purpose of this hearing is to get the people watching admitting we have the

the international man booker prize is given to authors whose words transcend borders and boundaries.'s finalists of relatively unknown outside their own countries but not anymore. for the first time, four out of 10 short listed authors are from africa with themes are conflict, and migration. the prize is awarded to writers published in english or translated into english. nigerian author was celebrated. the prize has drown less attention than the man booker prize, it's hoped growing interest in the international prize will promote foreign writers within the english speaking word. it's a difficult challenge for writers and publishers alike. >> if it's hard to sell authors nationally, how do you sell international interest in translation in markets like that? it's absurdly difficult. even to get translated into english and published in the u.k. if you're outside the u.k. is already hard. to then get taken notice of is another game entirely. that's where these prizes become very important. >> publishers rely on the price to market fiction. when readers see on the front cover of books sho

good afternoon, chairman johnson and senator booker. thank you for this opportunity to testify along with my colleagues from border protection with whom we work closely. the science and technology directorates mission is to deliver effective and innovative insight, methods and solutions for the critical needs of the homeland security enterprise under the leadership of undersecretary broaders, we have direction and defined our visionary goals, which are driven by the 2014 quadrennial homeland security review, white house policy, congressional guidance, and secretary johnson's unity of effort initiative. these goals are screening that matches the pace of life, a trusted cyberfuture, protecting privacy, commerce and community, enable the decisionmaker actionable information at a speed of thought, responder of the future, protected, connected and fully aware. and resilient communities, disaster proofing society. three of these goals are relevant to border security. screening at speed, enable the decisionmaker, and responder of the future. a

president luther foster got rid of the trades, which was something booker t. washington felt strongly was the best way for blacks to secure their destiny. my other concern is what dr. julian malveaux said on the panel panel, with the panel of others whom i don't recall their names. i wanted to know how you feel about police being more trained than just two months at a police academy. but having a two-year associate's degree or a four-year college degree would make a difference. >> we'll have lester spence respond respond. >> i think police training is up for -- is a significant issue, contention. from the data i have, baltimore spends for example, 57 times more on swat team than on police community relations. that's something that's really important. from what i understand police as far as training their training on how to deal with violence, they're trained consistently to be punitive as opposed to non-violent approaches. there are a whole sweep of policies that we can implement in order to make police act more humanely. as far as booker t. washington i'd pus

. >> al jazeera speaks to the newly crowned winner of the man booker international prize. >> in sport, more than 50 people arrested in a football match fixing investigation. we will have the details later. [baseball crowd noise] ♪ ♪ [x1 chime] ♪ ♪ [crowd cheers] oh! i can't believe it! [cheering] hi, grandma! ♪ >> welcome back. protestors demanding that bur rub di's president drop his bid for a third term have clashed on the streets. >> iraq's security forces have been sent back towards ramadi ahead of a planned offensive to retake the city from the islamic state of iraq and the levant. >> u.s. regulators say the japanese company takata has agreed to repair 38 million vehicles defective with air bag inflators, believed to be the largest consumer recall in u.s. history. >> environmentalists have been targeting shell. hundreds of protestors in the u.s. are continuing a worn borne demonstration against shell's plan to drill for oil in the arctic. activists took their message to the company's annual general meeting. our reporter reports from the hague. >> it was the moment for shell share

bob menendez and corey booker will hold a press conference at a train station in newark. a house appropriations committee voted to cut the amtrak budget. john boehner argued that this week's crash was not connected to a lack of federal funds. >> fire forced four people from a house in camden county. the action cam was on the unit block of hidden acres drive in voorhees township. firefighters had a tough time gettinged ladder around trees to the attic where the flames broke out. they do not know what started. >> a jury cleared 6 former drug squad officers in a corruption case they were accused of stealing $400,000 in drug money and beating suspects, the defense lawyers attacked the credibility of a drug dealers and disgraced former squad member. the former officers will begin arbitration to get their jobs back. >> turning to accuweather it's a lot of warmer that were yesterday. >> reporter: we're heading for a nice low humidity afternoon things change for the weekend though. storm tracker 6 live double scan shows us we're dry as you wake you mean on a friday morning. as we

senators bob menendez and corey booker will hold a press conference in newark. on wednesday a house appropriations committee voted to cut the amtrak budget. john boehner said this week's crash was not caused by a lack of federal funds. our coverage of the train derailment continues online at 6abc.com follow the the latest on the ntsb investigation and read about the victims of the tragedy. >> fire forced four people out of their home, the action cam was in voorhees township. the fire is under control. crews do not know what started it. >> we have brand new details on a shooting in philadelphia. police told "action news" overnight that it was a deadly ambush. it happened in olney last night. witnesses tell police the 50-year-old victim was sitting on the front steps of the neighbor's house the suspect ran out and fired three shots at close range. the man died at the hospital overnight. police do not know who shot him. >>> 6 drug officers were cleared in a corruption case. they are cooled of stealing drug money and beating suspects. the defense lawyers attacked th

but we have people like dick durbin, pat leahy, cory booker and others that are willing to join in this effort. and we recognize something that i explained in the book, which is that when we follow the constitution's directive on federalism and the idea that not every power is given to the federal government and in fact the default that it's supposed to be, most of the power remains close to the people at the local level, more americans actually get what they want out of government and less of what they want out of government. and this does create some alliances among people at opposite ends of the political spectrum. when they realize that everybody can get more of the government they want if we just respect the constitution. but for reasons i have explained in the book, we have her in neglected federalism by explaining that there's nothing they can do. it's wrong and it needs to change. surely there are bipartisan support that helps to rule that down. >> it's encouraging to see that across the spectrum and i think that has everything to do with the upside of the internet and i still t

bob menendez and corey booker will hold a press conference at a train station in newark. house appropriations committee voted to cutting amtrak's budget. john boehner argued that this week's crash is not connected by a lack of federal funds. >> new this morning a fire forced four people from the house in camden county. the action cam was on the unit block of hidden acres drive in voorhees township. firefighters had a tough time getting their ladders around the trees to the attic where the fire broke out. crews do not know what started. >>> a gunman carried out a deadly ambush in a philadelphia neighborhood in olney. witnesses say the 50-year-old victim was sitting on the front steps of the neighbor's house the gunman ran out of a rear driveway and fired three shots at the victim at close range. police do not know who shot him. >>> 6 drug officers were acquitted in a corruption case they are accused of stealing money and beating suspects and lying. family and friends of the officers cheered outside the federal court house after hearing the not guilty verdict yesterday. >>

three retweets two retweets. >> senator cory booker he knows social media, he's very active on social media. there's a problem here isn't there? >> it's twofold. one is what is the message you're putting out there. the u.s. government is not designed to put out messages to 20-year-olds in iraq and syria. the question is not going to be whether the u.s. government leads it. the question is what it enabled individuals, what mubin has mentioned earlier today. the second the second problem with this how then you collect this stuff on the back end. people in my old business are very cautious about going to twitter online when you're working in a cia office or fbi office and say, hey, i'm going to follow somebody. that's american information from american companies about an american individual. that still makes people nervous. >> the fbi i assume it does as well right? >> absolutely same thing. >> what's the solution here? >> good question. i think the solution is when you do get cooperation from the community and they suggest an individual has become radicalized and maybe should be watched

we have pat leahy, cory booker others willing to join in the answer. we recognize something that i explained in the book which is when we follow the constitution's direct on federalism the idea said not every powers given to the federal government. the default is most of the power remains close to the people at the state and local level. more americans get more of what they want none of government must do what they don't want in government. this does create some great alliance on people at opposite ends of the political spectrum. when they realized everybody can get more government that they want if we respect the constitution. for reasons in the boat with neglect of the principle of federalism by assuming there's nothing congress can do. it is wrong and not the change and fortunately there's bipartisan support to roll that back. >> it is encouraging to see across the partisan spectrum and not as everything to do with the outside of the internet. young people are learning about the constitution in grade school, high school, probably not high school --

hundreds of thousands of bookers and spectators gathered sunday for the ride for freedom to honor military, those missing in action. >>> also in washington the vietnam veterans memorial 4 million people visit it every year, but there's also an exact half-size replica that has been traveling the country for the past 30 years. this weekend it was inside southern california. danielle nottingham reports. >> reporter: it's called simply the moving wall. not just because the 58,000 names travel from city to city but the moving experience. >> there's a story to every name. >> her father franklin picking was killed in 1969. >> as a child i felt like i'd lost my world and that my best friend was gone. >> but his name lives on here and since 1984 on more than 1,300 stops across the u.s. an idea began when vietnam veteran john dev its saw the permanent wall and replicated it far and wide. >> gentlemen anytime's father is buried at arlington national cemetery but most of her family lives in southern california. >> there are a lot of people that can't make it to washington, d.c. this brings it to the p

myself and cory booker from new jersey have created a bill on apprenticeship programs. earn while you learn. we can provide open opportunity in communities by helping folks get a better education which may include school choice and skills for the work force. there's this growing middle skills need in the work force where you need more than a high school education, less than a college degree and you can earn a very strong income providing resources and opportunities in middle skill opportunity area. >> you have seen bipartisan calls for criminal justice reform. more drug treatment. hillary clinton called for the end of the era of mass incarceration this week. can you sign on to that? >> i have been a part of the working group from bobby scott in the house, to cory booker. lindsey graham and the senate. we have been working for the last several months on different proposals. i'm engaged in studying the patterns of who we incarcerate and why and what we can do about it. we're open to it and the governors have done a fabulous job according to folks on the left leading the w

cory booker may say the government effort is pathetic. i like cory a lot, but this can't be a government effort. if the government effort that's countering a call for violence that's clothed in religion is coming from the government, it's already poisoned. this needs to come from credible voices in the community. what's isis using? they're using apple computers, director's final cut software, the same stuff that every other 19 and 22-year-old who has creativity can use to send out powerful messages and we need to see those counter messages coming now. >> john, i want to move to general chiarelli on this. general chiarelli, you spent a lot of time as ft. hood and as we mentioned you were vice chief of the staff at the army at the time of the massacre at ft. hood. what will this raised alert level really accomplish? >> well, of course it will be tougher to get on posts. it will take a little extra time. ft. hood is a large, large land mass and it's really difficult to do the kind of security when you have 40,000 soldiers. i would worry abou