into it but so can occupy wall street here in israel has been translated into occupied child boulevard boulevard being the street where for nearly three months protesters pitched tents in defiance against this country's socio economic policies earlier this month those tents did come down after an extensive court battle between the television minister palate and the demonstrators society here in israel we're witnessing people very much part of this global movement you need to remember that the last few months have seen the largest demonstrations in this country's sixty three year old history with nearly a million people taking to the streets policia r.t. television. minute with our correspondents covering the protests on their twitter feeds the is the latest from lucy cavanagh's that live feed from new york she is reporting on what's happening on the ground including how the crowd are being cattle to behind railings with one officer even telling the crowd that if they don't clear the area then if someone is going to get hurt. two other news in this hour with over three thousand people killed in s

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but so can occupy wall street here in israel has been translated into occupied what's child boulevard boulevard been a street with for nearly three months protesters pitch tents in defiance against this country's socio economic policies earlier this month those tents did come down after an extended court battle between a television municipality and the demonstrators society here in israel we witnessing people very much part of this global movement you need to remember that the last few months have seen the largest demonstrations in this country's sixty three year old history with nearly a million people taking to the streets policy r.t. television. correspondents will be keeping you updated all the developments from the occupied together rallies in europe and the u.s. as they happen and we can stay with r.t. for our special coverage. to other news this hour after seven months of the regime demonstrations and over three thousand killed in crackdowns the u.n. has warned that syria is heading for a full blown civil war and with rumors of army defectors joining your position the go between the two

boulevard. university boulevard to be exact. the schools may be close, but this game wasn't. on the kickoff a short kickoff. runs it all the way back 70 yards to the house for the score. they would add a two point conversion to lead 8-0. just 18 seconds into the game. and then on blair's first possession, the snap goes over the punter's head. it would get a lot worse. a pass to the corner to brent for the score. northwood led 15-0 and they would go on to win 42-0. >> we had a great senior group. they have never beaten blair since they've been here. and they showed up tonight and got the job done. >> stay ng montgomery county, dcc taking on whitman. barons with the ball. gets picked off by whitman. turning the ball over. and then later on, michael flack with the play action fake and the rollout. he finds steven warner

the slogan occupy wall street here in israel has been translated into occupied child boulevard rothschild boulevard being the street where for nearly three months protesters pitched tents in defiance against this country's socio economic policies earlier this month those tents did come down after an extended court battle between the television minister palate and the demonstrators society here in israel we're witnessing people very much part of this global movement you need to remember that the last few months have seen the a largest demonstrations in this country's sixty three year old history with nearly a million people taking to the streets policia r.t. television. of course our correspondents will be keeping you updated on all of the developments from the occupy together rallies in europe and the u.s. as they happen to authority for our special coverage. on to other news this hour u.n. reports say that over three thousand people have been killed in syria since anti regime demonstrations began seven months ago and the unrest is showing no sign of waning as people in the capital are calling for

boulevard in south foothill boulevard. that is where the shooting took place, the cement company is a little bit further down the road and this year is just where the police have cordoned off the area. this is where that investigation is happening, that is where you saw of this what cars and police cars and the police activity right here on the corner of stevens creek boulevard and south foothill boulevard in cupertino. we want to go now to georgia who is in the traffic center to the us know what drivers can expect in this area with this investigation that is going on. >> this to the west end of the valley in the west in of stevens creek boulevard at foothill. so, when we heard that will say the intersection here is close, and that there were a number of trucks backed up is because of the trucks heading westbound on stevens creek crossing foot hill to get into the canyon into the cement plant there. and that is why the intersection has been shut down in order to allow for the investigation so we are seeing here are a truck stop along, now this is a commercial route. it is not a major commute but the heaviest traffic will be concentrated right here at 85 and stevens creek and 280 stevens creek dubose critical intersections for traffic to and from the freeways. but it appears that this is far enough west that it will not have a big impact on the commute. also,

. >> i have 1485 bayshore boulevards and 2011 bayshore boulevards which is half a mile away. both are existing macros sites? i don't know if that corresponds -- >> it is hard to describe other than what i am looking at here. >> we have 13 alternative sites. we looked at five very carefully that have macro's sites. >> with respect to the citing of this particular facility and the locations you are looking at, i assume you do not need to go any further east because that's

boulevards and 2011 bayshore boulevards which is half a mile away. both are existing macros sites? i don't know if that corresponds -- >> it is hard to describe other than what i am looking at here. >> we have 13 alternative sites. we looked at five very carefully that have macro's sites. >> with respect to the citing of this particular facility and the locations you are looking at, i assume you do not need to go any further east because that's already looks to be fairly well covered. you are looking to go west, north, and south, more or less. >> we do have a site on tunnel road, just for the record. commissioner sugaya: since there has already been approved development plans through the redevelopment agency for right across the bay shore boulevard, would at&t ever consider this to be an interim site pending new development across the way which might, to which you might locate this particular antenna facility? >> i think we could definitely look at that. we are in the process of upgrading a lot of our facilities and we could definitely look at it if it becomes available if redevelopment would be able to least to us and it meets the radio frequency requirements in that area. >> i don't know when the development will start. given the economy, it will be a number of years away, i suspect. given that it is new development, there might be an opportunity and that might make the rest of the community happy. although i warn you that development is highly residential. maybe if it is there, you might have a different reaction. in any case, if you could keep that in mind. >> yes. commissioner antonini: i have a few questions and the translator might want to translate the answers for the benefit of the public. i want to ask about recology.

they were all in the same area north of cutting boulevard near arlington boulevard. in a couple of cases homeowners left doors or windows unlocked. >>> memorials to apple cofounder steve jobs are popping up all across the bay area. and apple with a bite out of it sits among the bouquets of flowers left on the corner outside of job's home in palo alto. he leaves leaves behind a wife and four children. ken pritchett is live with the legacy that jobs left behind. >> reporter: you can see the number of bouquets that have doubled in the last hour. this apple store in palo alto is very special. when a new iphone came out steve jobs would be here to greet customers. i saw him on the i pad launch date and it was then on the long line of latest invasions associated with steve jobs. >> that white print on black is what the computers looked like. >> reporter: you can see the first apple ever made a 1979 1979 created of circuits. it led to the consumer friendly apple 2 years later. >> let's have it hook up to a regular television and have people use it. >> reporter: christopher

boulevard, the center lane is blocked at wilson boulevard. we'll take a live look at 66 inside the beltway here at leesburg pike. no problems as you head to the roosevelt bridge. let's head back out to the map. we'll zoom into 95. the yellow cars indicate slow traffic from newington into springfield. we'll take a live look at 395 at shirlington. no problems up to the 14th street bridge. now, your travel times. on the inbound side of i-66, 7100 to the beltway, 12 minutes. the beltway, 95 to 270 northside is 12 minutes right now. in my next report, we'll update you on the bw parkway at 6:12. mike and andrea? >> at the top of the hour, let's get a check on some of the stories happening today that we'll be following for you. congresswoman gabrielle giffords will be here in washington. the arizona democrat will attend a retirement ceremony for her husband, nasa astronaut mark kelley. she won't take care of any business on capitol hill. giffords was wounded in an assassination attempt last january. >>> maryland governor martin o'malley is hosting an antibullying forum today. the event at arundel high school kicks off a month-long event raising awareness of bullying, especially the problem of cyberbullying. >> former d.c. mayor adrian fenty is wading back into city politics, at least for one night. "the washington post" reports he will host a fund-raiser for city councilman jack evans. evans was one of fenty's biggest supporters in his 2006 mayoral campaign. >>> protestors already number in the thousands in new york city. you can see them here. and it is growing. the occupy wall street rally day by day. >> it is spreading here to washington. a group called october 2011. it is calling for a nonviolent occupation of freedom plaza. >> surae chinn is there live to tell us what this protest is all about. surae, good morning. >> good morning. it is quiet. it is dark out. but we do see the red tents set up. we also see the stage is ready to go here at freedom plaza. what we're seeing in new york seems to be catching on here in the district. the numbers are not as grand as scenes in the big apple but demonstrators showed up at mcpherson square for a rally sponsored by the group move on.org. some camps out as the occupy wall street enters its third week. some unions and lawmakers are getting involved. >> if you remember how we got out there and fought for labor rights in wisconsin, you know that this thing is on the move. we are not going to stop. we are going to get the justice we deserve. >> this is virtually a leaderless movement with not one focus. protestors are proud of that though and the grassroots movement that has taken shape. protestors have been asked to come here around 9:00 this morning. things really get started around noon today with a concert and a rally. mike? >> thank you, surae. surae chinn live at freedom plaza in northwest washington now. >> women taking metro, watch your back! especially at metro's suitland station. prince george's county police say two women were sexually assaulted just days apart. both around this time of the morning. the first attack happened september 27th. authorities say another woman was attacked early tuesday morning. police suggest women travel in pairs when it is dark but if you can't... >> be on the phone talking to someone who can respond if you need help. >> police are not convinced it is the same attacker in both cases. >>> now for the latest from the presidential campaign and another no go. sarah palin will not seek the g.o.p. nomination. the former alaska governor and vice presidential nominee says she's better suited to be an outside force in the campaign. >> i believe that i can be more effective and i can be more aggressive in this mission in a supportive role of getting the right people elected. i need to be able to say what i want to say and hold both sides of the aisle accountable. >> palin added she made her decision after discussing it with her family. recent polls showed many republicans did not want her getting into the race. >>> cbs news poll show him slipping among voters. but texas governor rick perry isn't slipping among donors. in the first seven weeks as an official candidate for the republican nomination, perry raised more than $17 million. nearly half of governor perry's donors came from his home state of texas. >>> look around, just about everywhere, it is hard not to see the legacy left by steve jobs. just look on your commute. you'll see people listening to theireyewitness eye -- ipods. steve jobs died last night at the age of 56. here is a live look at the apple store in arlington. if you look close in the center of the apple, it says thanks. a few miles from here, the first ever apple store, jobs personally opened the first one at tysons corner center in may of 2001. and there are tributes and condolences coming in from around the world. you can see impromptu memorials. we'll have more on remembering steve jobs coming up at 6:30. >>> at 6:06, time for a special "your money" report. who wants to spend their money just to use their money? some of the biggest banks are starting to pile on new fees but as jessica doyle explains, there are some simple things you can do to avoid those extra charges. >>> paying more money to use your money. new fees from big banks have some consumers fired up but here's the good news. you do have options. >> it is going to take a little research to avoid these fees. >> citi is the latest to charge more for checking, up to $20 a month. bankrate.com says the average minimum balance for free checking is getting higher. one way to avoid fees, keep your checking and savings accounts in the same place. >> new debit card fees from places like bank of america are another flash point. americans started to ween themselves off of credit cards after the financial crisis but now consider one with a small credit limit for everyday expenses. just be sure to pay the bill off every month. >> if atm fees make you mad, let your smart phone help you find your bank's nearest branch. >> smart phones are great tools to avoid atm fees because a lot of banks, apps, have atm locator function or you can just kind of google your bank and find a branch near. >> also, consider an online bank. many offer free interest- bearing checking accounts that let you use any atm and reimburse all of those atm fees. jessica doyle, 9news now. >>> jessica says another option is a credit union. some pay you to use a debit card. a few credit unions saw a jump in new accounts as more bank fees were rolled out. >>> in five minutes, a preview of this year's taste of d.c. event. this weekend, it is for the first time, a big chili eating contest. >> up next, howard has our thursday forecast. it is another winner. your weather first when 9news now returns. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? 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[ male announcer ] get to a better state. state farm. >>> it is:11 on this thursday morning. sunshine, wall to wall today. it is 6:11. a good-looking friday eve. just a little cool early. but a beautiful afternoon. i'll be back in a few minutes with a look at a grit weekend forecast. right now, here's monika with more on troubles this morning. >> thank you so much, howard. i've been on the phone with park police this morning getting information on this accident that you're looking at now from sky 9 on the northbound side of the bw parkway. it is after 197 but before route 198 in the laurel area. you can see that only the right lane is getting by. with authorities on the scene. i'll keep you posted. your last chance to exit is 197. coming up, roadways at 6:18. >>> the man accused of killing three people at a southern california quarry remains on the loose this morning. it is one of the stories making news now at 6:12. >>> police say 47-year-old shareef allman opened fire at the quarry in cupertino. he killed three coworkers and injured seven other people. police aren't saying anything about a motive or where alman might be. >>> the reverend fred l. shuttlesworth has died. he survived a bombing in 1956 and assault in 1957 and numerous arrests and beatings by police. reverend shuttlesworth was 89 years old. >>> england's prince harry is visiting the united states. he's training in the southwest to learn maneuvers in an attack helicopter. the prince is a captain in the british army. mike? >> thanks, andrea. howard says we're going to have a fantastic weekend weatherwise. why not get out and check out the taste of d.c. in downtown. one of the big events this year, a chili eating contest. we're joined by taste of d.c. ceo. and we have a representative from berne's chili bowl. we love ben's chili bowl. >> obviously, we have our -- all of our restaurants. we have over 85 vendors this year. >> that's a lot. >> 100 wines. 40 plus beers and of course, our concert series. we've got big and rich. rusted root and live and then, of course, the major league eating competition with ben's chili bowl. >> we love ben's chili bowl. it is one of our favorites here at the tv station. where is the chili eating contest going to be set up? do you still need people to be a part of it? >> it will be on the maybe stage. the backdrop will be beautiful, the capitol right there on pennsylvania avenue. it will be beautiful weather. the taste of d.c. we've got 12 to 15 people. we've got an amateur competition on saturday. all of the big pros are coming. >> joey the jaw chestnut, the number one world ranked eater. >> here's video of them doing their thing. isn't it hysterical how the people are skinny and they can eat more than anybody. >> i've never seen anything like it. >> the big guys are coming and the big guys. it will be fabulous. we've got amateurs and locals. everything going on at the taste. it will be a fantastic event. >> for people who have never been, when you go to taste of d.c., do you buy tickets and move your way along the venues? >> for some of the programming like the concerts, you have to prepurchase your tickets online at the taste of d.c..org. you can also prepurchase food and beverage tickets on sale before you get to the actual event. >> does that give you a discount if you prepurchase them? >> if you purchase online, you're saving $5. >> wow. >> taste of d.c. let's go over it. saturday, sunday, monday. it is along pennsylvania avenue between 9th and 15th in northwest. look for the big stage, the music and get your eat on, so to speak. >> make sure you take metro. >> good call. >> stewart, good to see you. we have great weather. howard and andrea, over to you. >>> we know chili goes well on hot smokes. we know that from yesterday. just the best birthday ever thanks to my crew and ben's chili bowl. >> lots of great stuff at taste of d.c. >> folks last weekend who had their events. >> they said they had a good time but yeah, it was a little damp. no problems this weekend. in fact, we start with the allergy update. this might be the one that's not so great. mold spores in the high category. everything else was low. and mold, record year for mold. your momslikeme.com bus stop forecast, it is clear and chilly this morning. we've got 40s and 50s. you might need a little jacket early sunrise at 7:08. the rest of the day looks really, really good. low 50s here at 8:00. low 60s by noon. as we get to the afternoon, we'll be in the upper 60s to near 70. 69 will be the high for today. by 8:00 p.m., we're down to 62. with light wind, a very nice evening out here. you want to go grab a bite outside. eat outside, should be good for that. look at williamsport in the 30s. we've got 40s and 50s. 60 in norfolk this morning. locally, we're down to 45 in gaithersburg. 50 in the shenandoah valley with 54 in fredericksburg and tappahannock. 55 at the pax river air station. 54. north wind at 8 miles per hour. the dew point nice and low. 41. the humidity levels are nice and down. winds are going to be light. with a ridge of high pressure in the middle of the country, pretty warm air here. that's what will be moving in toward the weekend into early next week. the west coast, you saw the video from squaw valley if you were with us earlier, there is know out there in the sierras. they may be skiing here in the next couple of weeks. it will be building in toward us with the big storm we had earlier in the week and last weekend now pushing farther and farther away from us. front slips through. that will continue to slip south during the day. high pressure builds in from ontario through northern pennsylvania this afternoon. near us tonight. tonight's wind, tomorrow, fairly light out of the southeast. as we head into saturday, here we are friday evening. we head into saturday. the high continues to pull away. the winds turn more south and southerly. that will bring warmer air in here to finish out the weekend and to go right through columbus day. as we look at the forecast, today, near 70. tonight, 40s and low 50s. winds will be light. tomorrow, sunny. nice, 72. for saturday, a warmer day. 77. sunday and monday, columbus day, even better in the low 80s finally by tuesday, we may see a shower later on. high around 80. wednesday, a better chance for showers and storms. highs back in the 70s. monika, the next five, six days looking sweet. >> something to look forward to. thank you so much, howard. unfortunately, i don't have the same news as howard on the northbound side of the bw parkway here as you're looking from sky 9 down at this accident scene before route 198 but north of route 197, a two- car accident. i just got off the phone with park police. officer whiteman told me it was not a major accident. minor injuries but they're waiting on a couple of tow trucks. that's what's taking so long. it looks much bigger than it actually is. it is causing that delay a couple miles northbound side of the parkway. southbound, the lanes have remained open for the rush hour flow. we'll keep you posted as the information comes in. i hope it won't be too much longer. let's take a look at our graphics on the beltway, everything is fine. here's what it looks like on the outer loop. you've got your normal rush hour flow leaving 95 heading toward silver spring. a live look at connecticut avenue. up ahead, word of an accident closer to route 355. could be the flashing lights here. we'll keep you posted on that situation as well. take a live look at 270. slow traffic, route 80 to 121 going about 27 miles per hour. 16 minute ride there. then you're ok here in rockville down to the point where the lanes divide. i'll keep you posted on the bw parkway at 6:25. >> 6:19. next in sports, who stole the spotlight in yesterday's baseball playoff games? it wasn't a player. it was a rodent. >>> we asked one about the guys earlier this week. it is time for the ladies. what is the number one thing women say they want to change about their husband or boyfriend? is it... >> our facebook friend, claudette is emphatic. b, b, b! i'm not the maid! clean up after yourself. >> keep the guesses coming to your facebook page. we'll have the real answer at 6:54. everybody knows the best place for a good time is mississippi. and that's only until they visited us in louisiana. which is a distant second to sunny florida. for beautiful vacation, nothing beats alabama. ok, we'll never agree on who's best. but we can all agree on one thing. the gulf's the worlds number one vacation spot. and we've gone all out to make this year the best ever. mississippi has wonderful people, great music, and the beautiful outdoors. louisiana's the best seafood you'll ever eat. shrimp gumbo, crab cakes, etouffee. florida means beautiful beaches and sugar white sands. actually experts agree that the best beaches are here in alabama. which can't compare to a good time on the gulf in mississippi. louisiana fresh catch. florida beaches. alabama beauty. mississippi outdoors. the gulf is the world's goodtime headquarters. and we are 100% open for business. i'm glad we got that settled. >>> welcome back this thursday morning. you may need a little jacket early otherwise it is going to be a good day today. slightly cooler than yesterday. yesterday, we were 74. today, we'll be lucky to be 70. looking at the day planner, you'll see temperatures climbing through the 50s this morning to 60 at 11:00. lots of sunshine. light winds northeast to southeast 5 miles per hour or less. highs near the 70 degree mark. mike? >> thanks, howard. the baseball playoffs, a deciding game five between the yankees and the tigers. the winner moves on to face the texas rangers. >> both series in the national league are tied at two games apiece. the brewers and diamondbacks combined, they had five home runs last night in phoenix. four of them belong to the d backs. chris young hit a pair of long balls. diamondbacks topped the brewers 10-6. the series moves now to milwaukee tomorrow night. >>> the other national league series will also go to a deciding fifth game. the cardinals david drove in four runs yesterday including a pair on this home run in the eighth. st. louis tops philadelphia 5- 3. game five is tomorrow back in philly which has the hottest bullpen, supposedly. >> they say. >> in the game. >> that game yesterday, in st. louis, had a scene-stealer. it had nothing to do with the players. check out the rodents! watch the bottom of the screen as the squirrel runs across home plate. into the stands, just as the phillies pitcher was in his windup. it was called a ball. he argued it should have been no pitch but the ump disagreed. look at this. >> yikes! >> funny. >> thank goodness it was a squirrel and not a rat. >> more on the death of steve jobs and the legacy of the man behind the mac, the iphone and so much more. >> is it a revolution in computers? learn about this tablet going on sale for $35. >> right now, monika has a quick check on traffic. >> thank you so much, andrea. we're taking a look live from sky 9 on the northbound side of the bw parkway. accident cleanup moved to the left shoulder but the damage is done. at least a couple miles back up northbound, i'll have more on this and other area roadways coming up next. you're watching 9news now. we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ oh, won't you be good to yourself? ♪ ♪ and don't you feel like coming home? ♪ ♪ ♪ it'll be like coming home [ male announcer ] some rooms feel like a fish bowl. but in our roomy suites, you can spread out and live a little. with breakfast, dinner, and drinks included, you'll feel right at home. ♪ la la-la-la-la la la la ♪ you need the patch. (announcer) icy hot patches. targeted no-mess relief. icy to dull pain. hot to relax it away. pain's no match for the icy hot patch. >>> 6:29. this is the place you always get your weather first. let's take a live look down pennsylvania avenue at the u.s. capitol. beautiful shot. mostly clear skies over d.c. right now. 52 degrees. >> it looks like a painting. >> it does. beautiful. >> thanks for joining us. we're glad you're starting your day with us here at 9news now. i'm mike hydeck. >> i'm andrea roane. howard bernstein has a jacket on. it is cool. >> a little chilly. temps in the low to mid-50s. some in the upper 40s. bus stop in a little while or taking a walk, you probably need a sweatshirt or something but a great day ahead. check out our day planner. we're looking at temperatures by noon into the low 60s. a tad cooler than yesterday with highs only approaching 70 give or take a couple. right now, 54 at reagan national. with clear skies. you're not seeing anything on the satellite and radar. there is a touch of fog out toward petersburg. they're 45. it is 47 in la plata. 50 in martinsburg and culpepper. the naval academy checking in at 55 and a brisk 46 in easton. we're looking at highs later today in the upper 60s, low 70s. another beautiful day ahead. we'll talk about the weekend next time i see you. let's talk to smom getting busy. >> it has been getting busy. we'll take a live look at the bw parkway, the right side of your screen is the northbound side of the bw parkway. the accident has been here for awhile. north of route 197 in the laurel area. park police tell me it was only two cars involved with minor injuries and a tow truck literally just arrived. i saw it pull in at about 6:29. it is going to take a couple of minutes before they can clear it out. a couple of miles of back-up northbound on the bw parkway with that right lane getting by. southbound is not affected by the accident. we're going to take you over to some maps now. first of all, the beltway north of town, slow stuff into silver spring as you can see there. we'll zoom into arlington and clarendon where there has been a water main break on washington boulevardrd. center lane is blocked there in clarendon. let's go live now over to 95. we've got about a 22-minute ride from dale city into newington. then you'll be ok into springfield here. let's go back out to the beltway. and this time, we're going to zoom into the other side of town. the beltway north of town is taking a live look here at new hampshire avenue. that is your slow traffic. trying to get into silver spring but the lanes are open until you get to connecticut avenue where i'm getting word of an accident. no lane information given on that as of yet. now, before i go, i have a commuter alert for everyone driving through d.c. a big step forward on the new 11th street bridge project. the new flyover ramp for southbound 295 will open this weekend. southbound 295 will open this weekend. that's the big gray ramp on the left side of this picture. expect some closures. you see that, andrea? the straight one there. you can expect some closures and delays this weekend as crews shift the lan

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boulevard and open about highway 13 near the science center, and you can see some of the damage done by last night's storm. this the tree that had fallen across skyline boulevard is to be a pine tree and it just kind of gave way on a hillside in a completely has block skyline boulevardskyline boulevard shutdown right now basically at the science center, you can see that saturated ground and the wind combined knocking this tree down. i can also tell you that the crews from oakland have shown up and they just one by me about 10 minutes ago. it looks like they have the tree removal crew and place and they're going to go out there with the chain saws and start cutting it down. with a high wind and the rain last night this may be seen that will be repeated around the bay area. >> thank you for that update, as well to the weather center in check-in. >> change in a great picture as to how this was a fast mover, a lot of people may be waking up wondering where is the storm but it was here. >> that is right, and you can watch that. from 2:00 a.m., we see it dumping a lot of rain. i want to zoom in here in the south they could that and we still see some rain falling right now. gilroy was under does about 10 minutes tonight and see the line finally clearing, gilroy in some par

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[captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: alfredo quinones- hinojosa is a renowned neurosurgeon and director of the pituitary tumor center at johns hopkins. his remarkable path from mexico to the united states is the subject of a new memoir, "becoming dr. q: my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon." an honor to have you on this program. i just want to touch this hand. >> i am honored to be here with you. tavis: it is my delight. let me jump into it. i was thinking that if herman cain had his way, you would have been electrocuted, trying to halt the fence from mexico to the united states. let us deal with this now. what is your sense of the immigration debate? you have to be the poster tough for what happens in america when we treat with disney -- with dignity and america -- dignity and respect the people who come to america. >> i read the newspaper today. it breaks my heart when i hear things like that. i look back at my life, my history, when i first came in the mid to late 80's. i was welcomed. this country opened its arms. it said, "the immigrant farm worker, pay your taxes, and you will eventually become a u.s. citizen." now, even in my own life as a brain surgeon, i hear, and sometimes -- i hear comments sometimes about how i should not be here, how it took someone else's spot. it breaks my heart, because the united states was built on the backs of immigrants. we all came into the country with a dream, and i believe that dream. it breaks my heart. there is nothing i can do to change it. i can do my job as a brain surgeon and a researcher. i try to make it better every day for my patients, their families, my family, and the future generations of our country. tavis: i heard that at various points in my career as well, that you took someone else's spot. it does not matter what your contributions are to the country. there is always somebody who complained to took someone spot, never mind that there are so few of us and so many of them. when you hear you took somebody's spot at harvard medical school or john hopkins university, what do you hear when you hear that comment? >> i hear hate. i hear people who clearly do not have a great understanding of the american dream. the american dream is based on hard work, on dedication, determination, men wore ship, help, and love for each other. i hear that we are suffering, that we are going to a difficult time in our country. no question about it. but we are making the same mistake we have made through hundreds of years. we say, "who can we blame today for the fact that we have a high unemployment rate?" it breaks my heart to hear those comments, to hear the hate people have in the united states nowadays. it is disheartening. however, i still have hope that we have not reached the pinnacle. that is the reason i decided to write this story of adventure, brushes with death. as you remember, the last tuckers of my book is about what i do with my patients, how they inspire me and how they are battling some of the most incredible diseases that affect the human body. tavis: i said i want to touch your hands, because they are obviously gifted. it is quite a story, four hands as gifted as yours are, to start out as a migrant worker in the field. you become a welder. eventually, you become a brain surgeon, a neurosurgeon, using the same hands. tell me about these hands. >> do you know how in sports, baseball players hit home runs? football players, they throw and scored touchdowns. i get to do something very few people get to do. i get to touch the human brain. every day, i get to hit home runs, scored touchdowns. the greatest gratification i get from my work is that when i go to the waiting room and talk to the families of my patients, i get standing ovations and tears. they looked at me as a super hero. no amount of money or anything can ever compare to that feeling, to know that the same hands used to do things to put food on the table we eat today. i am just a regular guy. i embody the true american dream. i worked hard. i went to school. i am not a genius. i just worked really hard. i want our children to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams. tavis: what the make of the debate about the dream act? >> i live in california. what i make of it is the fact that we are trying. i think we are trying to implement smart loss that will allow us -- laws that will allow us to keep good people and promote growth, no different than what ronald reagan did in the late 80's with me when i first came to the united states. it gives me hope that there are good people thinking of how we can do with the situation now. i do not have a solution. i am not a politician or economist. i am a simple brain surgeon and scientist, trying to do my best. but there are people thinking very hard about this, and i congratulate them. tavis: i will go back to the beginning. at 19, you made your way here. you did not go over the fence. you made your way here. tell me how you got here and what you were coming here for in the first place. >> it was simple. when i first came here, as i recollect in my book, this was still the only country where people died to try to come in and filled the american dream. one of my uncles never made it back, my mother's brother. that was in the back of my mind. i was willing to risk my life. all i wanted to do was go back to my mother and father and put food on the table, because we did not have anything to eat, literally. so when i first came i got sent back, and i made it again in my early years, growing up from a humble background. i ended up not far away from here, and started working in the fields. eventually, i went from picking tomatoes to driving some sophisticated stuff. what is different from picking tomatoes and driving incredible machines where i got to set like an astronaut? i used to dream as a kid. i watch "star trek." i used to think about this. the famous skills that i used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are serious skills i am using today as a brain surgeon. if you look at me in the operating room, i sit in the chair and control the microscope with my mouth. my hands are working. my feet are controlling things. everything is connected, just like working in the field. a lot of those skills have become useful. very few people realize that. you have to have passion for everything you do. you have to look the positive side. it does not matter, the job you are doing today. if you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future. tavis: you have to admit the brain is a little more sensitive than a tomato. you can smash a tomato and get another one. a little bit different with the human brain. >> i tell you, a lot of the things we take for granted every single day are the things that make us who we are today. i have funny stories in my book. overall, i think of myself as a funny guy, a regular guy. i like to sit with my students. i like to be in the laboratory on friday night. i have passion for life. i love what i do. tavis: again, it is all the killed in the book, but tell me how you eventually got on the track to become the researcher, to become a neurosurgeon you are. how did you get on the education track? >> i tried to learn english in community college. i got mentor ship from people based on something i needed. by the time i ended up at uc- berkeley, i had the opportunity to work in a laboratory. one of my first mentors, and joe martinez, said to me, "i will take you to my laboratory, but you are here to explore the universe of the brain." he tied it back to my dreams of being an astronaut when i was a little kid. i got to do this early in my career at uc-berkeley. i used to go into the brains of small animals and study the way their brains were connected. how little did i know that one day that was coined to be my future, exploring the universe of the brain, holding it in my hands, looking at cells migrating. my laboratory is one of the few in the world where we can see human cells migrating in the human brain. we take tissue from the operating room. instead of throwing it away, i make my patience part of history. i tell them, "you are going to be part of history, and you are fighting an incredible disease, brain cancer." it does not matter how much money you have. we all die one day. unfortunately, patients with brain cancer die sooner. i give them hope. tavis: how much progress, thanks to work of people like you, are we going to be making on illnesses that attacks the brain? >> in my opinion, over the next 20 to 30 years, we will see real solutions for problems like alzheimer's, parkinson's, and brain cancer, thanks to the work of several groups around the world. tavis: the poster child for immigration reform around the country. he is a wonderful neurosurgeon at johns hopkins. his name is alfredo quinones- hinojosa, the turnaround for the rest of us as dr. q. the book is "becoming dr. q: my journey from migrant farm worker to brain surgeon." i am honored to touch your hands one more time. good to have you here. up next, speaking of "star trek ," spock here to talk about another project. zachary quinto. stay with us. zachary quinto is a talented actor whose credits include "he rose -- heroes." his latest project is called "margin call." it opens in theaters around the country this weekend. >> what does your model say that means for us here? >> that is where it becomes a projection, but -- >> you are speaking with me, mr. solomon. >> sir, if those assets decrease by just 25% and remain on our books, that loss would be greater than the current market capitalization of this entire company. >> so, what you are telling me is that the music is about to stop. >> -- tavis: that is the best you could do for your film -- jeremy irons, kevin spacey? >> it does not get any better than that. stanley tucci, paul betony -- bettany. it is an incredible group of people. tavis: since you just ran that list, that is an all-star cast. what is it about this project that allowed you, as producer, to pull all of those folks to gather around this story line? >> i think it was the material, the caliber of the material, the way the material was written, which is a different point of entry than a lot of stories that deal with the subject matter have been. there is really no effort to cast judgment or break anybody over the coals, or lionize anybody as a hero against this kind of corruption. it is just examining the human side of the impact this catastrophe have on the people who were forced to make the decisions that ultimately led to it, because all of them were complicit in that decision making. tavis: we are talking around what the film is. let us go inside after i ask this question. the timing for this project is propitious. i have been reading for this conversation. people have been telling you the timing of this project is bad. but to my mind, the timing could not be any better with that setup. tell me why the timing is good. >> the movie takes place in 2008, at the very beginning of the collapse of the financial system. when we were raising money for the movie, it was just before "wall street 2" about to go into production, just after the crisis happened. people were a little bit squirrely about whether or not they wanted to invest in a movie that had to deal with this, whether it would be topical when it came out, whether it would still be relevant. it could not be more relevant now. occupy wall street is spreading throughout the country and the world. we could never have anticipated that, or imagined that. we're certainly grateful. tavis: to your other point of not lionizing, but not demonizing, trying to get to the humanity of what these persons found themselves doing in this 36-hour period -- why not lionize or demonized? certainly, the occupied protesters you mentioned earlier have issues with wall street. >> they have valid issues not only with wall street, but with the government, our culture, and our society. tavis: when not demonize them? >> i feel that cycle is where we have been as a country. it is where we continue to go, in a lot of ways. there is a divisiveness in it that i think does not really facilitate any kind of progress. it actually keeps us in a very narrow minded and limited perspective on the fact that ultimately we are all in this together as a society. it goes beyond ideals. it goes beyond right or wrong or good or bad, or liberal and conservative. it goes to where are we taking ourselves as a species, as a race. for me to make a movie that drops a pebble in the pond and allows the ripple to generate a dialogue among the audience, that requires something from the audience -- it does not take them for granted. it asks them to participate. it is a reflection back at them, their degree of comprehension and awareness of what is going on and how this is affecting them. tavis: i love projects that get to the humanity of the characters. i think that is how we as moviegoers and film lovers get turned on by projects. something about the project speaks to the humanity and the character, and we feel that. the thing that concerned me about the project is by not -- i do not even want to say demonizing. by not telling the truth, by not putting these guys on the hot seat, i wonder whether there is an empathy that we develop for the characters but they do not deserve. i am trying not to give too much away, but these guys did some pretty big mistakes. you're getting into the humanity of who they are, the dying dog. i am trying to figure out whether we do not develop -- we do develop an empathy they don't deserve. >> when you step back and look at how this played out, there were a handful of people who were aware of an complicit in the decisions that led to all of this, but there were thousands of people who were affected by this, and the only choice they had to make was whether or not they accepted the job they took at the firm the worked in. from that point until all this stuff again in 2008, that was the only choice they had, because there were part of something much bigger, something that was going to unfold in one way or another, regardless of their awareness and willingness to participate. that is what we are really looking at with some of these characters. they are making decisions, but there are a host of them -- my character represents that. my character is a trained mit graduate, a trained rocket scientist, an engineer. he represents this whole swath of people who were recruited by these firms, making exorbitant amounts of money, utilizing information that is highly focused on other much more honorable pursuits, but able to make a lot more money. they left these jobs. they came into these firms. they were minor players in this machination. when it all blew up, they were left with not only nothing in their own regards financially, or in terms of a career, but imagine the contributions they could have made to culture, to society, to the arts, to science. i guess maybe not the arts, but to science. alyssum and i talked a lot about with the director in terms of my relationship to my character. we are not celebrating anything. we are just painting a picture and allow in the audience to determine the grade they see in response. tavis: the patrons had money to give. you are right about the fact -- a respect this about the film. it does, by not proselytizing, put us in a position of deciding for ourselves what we make of these characters, the right, the wrong, the moral issues at play. i assume you wanted it that way, because one of the things we have to decide when we see this is what we think of people who know better but do not do better. >> that is a good point. i think that is the point we are at right now as a society. we are clearly seeing better now than we did three years ago, five years ago, but what are we going to do about it? what is our action going to be? i think occupy wall street has a lot of validity, a lot of momentum. i am interested in watching how they define themselves, how they find the clarity, and how they expect to facilitate the change that are asking for. it is one thing to demand change. it is another thing to recognize the enormous work required to generate that change. people have to ask themselves what they are willing to risk. tavis: it is fair to acknowledge that they are not responsible for writing legislation. >> of course. but in terms of their relationships and a larger question of our two-party system -- it is a domino effect, where we are right now. this is a starting point, these conversations. but how we forge relationships with the government that allowed us to reconfigure its structure to a degree we can all participate more? it is obviously very complicated. we are at a crossroads that could go one way or another. i think the decisions people are making and the sacrifices and risks that are willing to take will determine a lot of that. tavis: there is obviously a lot of power in this industry. films can make a difference. films can launch investigations and a lot of other things. the think these occupiers you referenced earlier -- do you think that in the anthem and will come of this, or is this just something that is a bunch of noise? >> it is hard to say. it is a big political year we're going into. it is about how people are having these conversations. for every protestor, there is a two-party member there -- tea party member there to invalidate and undermined. the level of conversation needs to shift. if this movement confined send clear of the -- can find some clarity and depth, maybe we can have some conversations that are more effective. it remains to be seen. i am watching closely to see how it unfolds. tavis: as are we all. the film is "margin call," produced by and starring zachary quinto. until next time, thank you for watching, and keep the faith. >> for more information on at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with comedian and actor billy gardell and his popular role on ." -- on "mike and molly." >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. 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[captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: it is shaping up to a busy year for dave stewart, the acclaimed musician has a just released a new solo project called "the blackbird diaries." next month, you can pick up a copy of his newly formed super group called super heavy. how was this car an all-star lineup? mick jagger, and damien marley, here is some of the recording sessions for "the blackbird diaries." >> he was getting ready to spend a week making an album. we were spending a year. he would go for a week. we are like, yeah. he is getting ready to go. she says i have a condo. you can stay there. i say, that would be cheap. it does not cost anything. cheaper than free. dave and i looked at each other and went -- ♪what is cheaper than free tavis: 25 in time to go to the bathroom? >> i have making a film. you see me writing lyrics in the bathroom. [laughter] you hit the nail on the head. tavis: why so much activity at this time? is there something happening bringing this creativity? >> i have no idea. i started certain projects a few years before. for some reason they started coming out in the same few months even though super heavy we started two years ago. for some reason, between march and september of this year, there is a bombardment of everything. we just found out the news a call i have been writing opened in london -- the musical i have been renting opened in london on broadway. that is very soon because usually there is a break. it seems like it's going to be non-stop. tavis: that you're going to broadway. don't you hate people like that? some guys have all of belloc. -- luck. super heavy, it is impressive. how did a group like super heavy happen? >> like anything that happens in my universe or in my head, it is triggered by, i was up in the hills of jamaica where i co-own a house with a friend of mine and his family. in jamaica, the sound systems are important. every village has a sound system. there was a moment where all three neighboring villages were playing music but different stuff. they started to sink together. -- sync together. then there was the heavy dub bass. i thought it would be interesting to fuse together blues with jamaican music and some eastern influence. that is how it started. i called nick dagger. -- mick jagger. we thought it would be a good experiment. we said, who should we get to work with us? they all start toi called it j'. the and the last part of the puzzle was damian marley. and we wanted to have this jamaican feeling but with somebody who is a great lyricist and a thinking person and that would fit with all of this experimental music. damian is great at it fermenting with different sounds like "welcome to jamrock." here is a brilliant lyricists. tavis: what makes you know or believe that, you could throw stuff in a pot in college gumbo. how do you know it is going to work? >> the roots of all lot of these sounds, there has to be a common denominator. blues is often a common denominator. in asian music, it can sound similar to blues music. then the feeling of jamaican rhythms can also work with a blues feeling on top. i have done experiments in the past where i made a rhythmic track and then played blues on top of it. so i knew there was a rough semblance of possibilities that might work. as my old solicitor and used to say, when i got well check could not believe it. i said, are you sure kumbaya car? he would say you have reason for cautious celebration. [laughter] how do you cautiously celebrate? i had reason for celebration when i met -- imagined this sound. tavis: are you happy with the way it came together? >> i love that. we worked furiously to gather on mike 30 songs. we ended up choosing 16 and mixing them and then we shot videos and films. we ought amazing artwork -- got amazing our work. everything about the project, i am happy with. tavis: let me shift gears to "the blackbird diaries," i was blown away the fine to believe what i read of how fast you wrote the songs and a number of days. >> i wrote the songs, about 12 songs, wrote them in five days and recorded them in five days. it was in the middle of the chaos when we were doing super heavy and working on this tv next album -- stevie nicks album. i was in english or -- england when the volcanic ash spewed out. can you pronounced the name of the volcano? tavis: no. >> i can. it has every letter in the alphabet. i was stuck in london and i used to have a guitar so i went to buy a guitar because it did not know how long i was going to be there. i saw this guitar that was unusual. i ask to see that one. i bought it. inside there was all of the artifacts of this artist called red river dave. there are pictures of him playing it. the next day i got a phone call saying he couldn't beat martina mcbride in national. -- nashville. i had never done anything apart from play with a curious mix. it became this weird odyssey. i did not have black bird and studios in had a feeling -- ended up at black bird studios and had a feeling i should make an album. great, it is going to be great. i had not written anything. i was going to go there anyway. the nynex to me was like, what is this guy doing? i arrived at the studio and pretended that it was all worked out. i would say to them, i would play a bit and i would say that is exactly it. i would quickly go and write to the words. after the first today, we laid down four songs. i said i am from england. i do not make country music but one thing i am good at is making a vodka martini. every time i go there, they are always looking at their watch like when is that shaker coming out? i have been three times since. we've bonded. we have made three albums a. it became -- we played them live in the room together. tavis: somebody told me that serendipity tends to reward the prepared. obviously you spent your whole life preparing for moments like that. >> that is the wise comment and a brilliant thing for people to analyze. my whole thing, how you do so many things at once? my whole thing is based on that the truth you just said. i am going to let the universe bring to me whenever. i'm going to be open to receive it but i am also going to be prepared to change direction and go this way for a second and not be closed and try to control every moment of the day. if you do that, you can end up in the most amazing situations. like the road less traveled. tavis: the reason i ask is defense something has to be going on to be open to receive this. how can i believe you write the 13 songs in five days? i'm supposed to believe this is good stuff? there really is good stuff. >> john lennon was more and more excited about putting the stuff out immediately. there is a great song "instant karma." he was in the studio on sunday. my friend was a trying to get people to come into scene at the end. back in those days. i think they had an out two days later. if you can capture the essence of what your feeling at that moment and you have brilliant people around you, the victory is having brilliant people to work with. relinquishing control to geniuses is a wise move. i'm not going to tell the drummer what to play. i am saying the song goes like this and then the band starts tinkering and planning. by the time we got to the end, it was finished. the genius engineer had recorded us. he knew that something might happen. we did not do it again. tavis: i was here a little bit ago when the band was rehearsing their got to play for you in just a moment. i'm wise enough to know the time has come for me to relinquish to the genius. you're about to see a stage full of them. i will relinquish than the rest of the time we have in the show when you can judge how talented and gifted he is to have written some many songs in just a moment -- a matter of days. super heavy will be out and that is him and mick jagger and damian marlene's. you will want to check that out. now you can get the new one, "the blackbird diaries." a special performance from that album. not one but a rare thing, two songs. thank you for coming. can you zoom in on this? i love this jacket. that you can see the leaves and the stones. that is nice. you can take that off before you leave if he wants to. dave stewart in demand. -- and the band. from his new cd, and here is dave stewart and his band performing two songs. enjoy. ♪ i was feeling colder than a stone i looked around the house all day looking for a stone picked up my mother's wedding rings, the one she tried to use she went looking for clues to find a magic. i left a note. i hitched a ride i woke up feeling blue. searching for magic in and the blues. ♪ i made it down to london town. i did not have a time. someone said they found a grappa i knew that she was mine when i saw her through the window, she acted so confused but i could tell she knew if we became each other's muse that we would hit the news making magic in the blues ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] ♪ ♪ we were playing in the roman ruins. she says plrley-vous franca is? then we headed to the coliseum. ♪ the night was hot and dangerous like a forest fire. there is just the gypsy girl and me. oh, gypsy girl oh, gypsy girl she did not speak a word of english but she followed me to the grand hotel she kissed me with her eyes tight shot i could not help but stair her face was like a renoir she even had red hair gypsy girl oooh, gypsy girl and me well we stayed in each other's arms tumbling through the night her skin like porcelain lit by the pale moonlight we made love in every way yes we set each other free we did not stop until the morning me gypsy girl and gypsy girl gypsy girl ooohh gypsy girl and me i colder we had to leave. we were playing in marseille she smiled and kissed me i laid by the window to try to catch some air the sun was slowly rising casting shadows from the trees i could hear the people talking about the gypsy graaff and me -- girl and me ♪ she brought a friend to see the show she was a gypsy, to we laughed together all night long she showed me her tattoo recovered her from head to tell in religious imagery on the back of her arms was the gypsy girl and me ♪ ♪ [applause] >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at see you then. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevarde all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where wal-mart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to ene er conversation at a time. >> and bcontributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. 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on the west side inner loop, about 15 minutes' drive time there from southwestern boulevard to security boulevard. and the north side outer loop, also struggling there from york road to the harrisburg expressway. average speed in that direction, about 40 miles an hour. let's take a live look. you can see that's a look at the west side, wilkens avenue. not a bad drive in that direction. bill's has it all for you. you can always call them at 1- 877-75-bills. >> well, gas prices are the lowest they have been in months. so how low will they go? and how long will the drop last? monique griego has the answers. >> reporter: pumped up recently? you might get a pleasant surprise. >> well, if the gas prices were a little bit lower, $3.31. >> reporter: the price for gas is the lowest it's been in seven months. >> great, great. and beautiful. [ laughter ] >> reporter: the national average dropped 17 cents in the past month to $3.45 a gallon. >> reporter: for drivers in baltimore, pumping up was even less painful, with drivers taking advantage of prices around $3.30 a gallon. >> yeah, i just filled up my tank

and owings mills boulevard at lakeside boulevard. taking a look at travel times, if you're traveling 895 north, from 95 south to the 95 northbound side, 38 miles an hour average, and 23 minutes to get through. let's now take a live look. as you can see, things look back to normal. 895 at potee street. this is brought to you by navy federal credit union, serving the military for over 75 years. if you're in the army, navy, marine corps, department of defense, they are happy to serve you and your family. back over to you. >> beginning tomorrow, baltimore will celebrate all things beer. charm city has a rich history of beer making and what we probably call the land of pleasant living. ron matz has more on what's brewing for baltimore beer week. >> national beer, national beer ♪ we'll pour out the story of national beer. >> nothing says baltimore, more than national beer. it's just part of our rich brewing history. and mr. bo will be beaming down, on the third annual baltimore beer week. >> so we have a really deep culture. first period h

boulevard at washington boulevard. now, taking the beltway, still seeing some of the cones on the right-hand side as you make your way on the inner loop. this is a look at connecticut avenue. inn inner loop in virginia, clear. excellent time read now, 55 miles per hour. and on the rail, had an earlier delay on the marks. that looks to be gone. so far, metro mart is all running on schedule. >>> tonight, the nhl hits the ice for the opening nice of the 2011-2012 season. there are three games on tonight's schedule. tomorrow, four teams will play in sweden and finland as part of the nhl premier. the capitals begin their march for lord stanley's cup when they open up at home. >> that's right. they're beginning a grueling 82-game schedule. but they did take time-out to kickback and have a little fun with season ticket holders. >>> and nearly 4,000 hung out with the players at six flags america in prince georges county. most of the players say they love riding roller coasters. some, though, not so much. >> if there's young boys and girls in front of you that are braver than you, so you have to put on a brave face. i had my eyes shut on the first one. i'm not the best at these. but our community relations person is a friend of mine and she got me to go on the last two rides. no matter what, they're pretty scary, but they're pretty fun. yes, indeed. let's hope their season is nothing like these up and down rides. >> they're so tough, you never expect any of them would be fearful. >> exactly. the cardinals and the phillies play a winner take all game five tomorrow night in philadelphia. and st. louis is hoping to bring b its new unofficial mascot for the ride. last night, a squirrel ran across home plate during a cardinals at-bat. and it's the second straight game where a squirrel has appeared on the field. this one has become extremely popular. we he assume it's the same one. he has a twitter page and more than 7,000 followers. >>> being from st. louis, i say whatever it takes. >> whatever. >> bring the girl along. this morning, we're getting a look at a skrash between a dump truck and a train. amazing video. >> yeah. this happened earlier this weekend. houston, texas, the security camera video shows passengers being tosd to the floor after the truck ran a red light. the truckdriver was cited on tuesday during the collision. 15 people were injured in this crash. everyone involved was taken to the hospital and they're all expected to fully recover from their injuries, thankfully. >>> time right now is 5:26. coming up, president obama coming to a town near you. >> also, one neighborhood's chemical worries. >>> and the my tech tributes to [ male announcer ] do you know how you will react when someone changes lanes without warning? or when you're distracted? when you're falling asleep at the wheel? do you know how you'll react? lexus can now precisely test the most unpredictable variable in a car -- the driver. when you pursue perfection, you don't just engineer the world's most advanced driving simulator. you engineer amazing. ♪ >>> remember b steve jobs, the apple visionary died yesterday. this morning, memorials are popping up at apple stores worldwide and people are using the very devices he created to pay tribute to him. good morning. >> welcome to news 4 today on this thursday morning. >> beautiful day out there right now. we have some -- well, we have clear skies mainly. and you can see some stars, actually. >> and the moon woke him up last night. the moonlight was so bright. knock on your window. >> i thought there was a train headed for my window. >>> and today is filled with a lot of sunshine. for the people who do the shift work, a hard time sleeping, i guess. we're going to be stuck in another weather pattern here and we're still at the beginning of it. so good news for us. we're at 55 degrees right now, again, under clear skies, so lots of stars. a light wind at 12 miles per hour. i don't think we're going to have to deal with the wind today like we did the last two days with breezy conditions light into cleveland park. 55 degrees over in prince georges county. cooler and ft. washington in adelle phi coming in at 50 degrees. leesburg, you're at 54. 9:00 a.m., around 60 degrees. by lunchtime today, mid 60s to 66. i think we'll max out today at 70 degrees. so just a little cooler than what we were yesterday, but i like the fact, too, that we're going to need sunglasses today. and then as we drop tonight into the mid 50s by 11:00, skies should be clear. >> good morning. i'm seeing your central lane taken away at washington boulevardue to the water main break in that area. taking 395 at duke street, clear and make your way across the 14th street bridge, i'm not seeing any issues for you during your morning commute. at 270, this is the view aft clarksburg. so far in both directions on 270, no incidents so report. joe, back to you. >> danella, thanks very much. >>> right now, the world is mourning the death of steve jobs. the apple co-founder died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. apple stores across the country are becoming places of mourning and so is the house that jobs built. noel is live outside right now. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you, joe. i read the news about steve jobs' death on my mac and i've been getting updates about it on my iphone. if steve jobs didn't change the world, he certainly did change the way we see it and learn about it and communicate in it. today, here in apple headquarters, there is a memorial going on and we've seen people stop by to visit that, but also, as

we're now looking at a 20- minute delay from southwestern boulevard to security boulevard.orthbound 95 also heavy there, from 216 to 175. as far as 70 westbound goes, no relief in sight there. still heavy from 29 to marriottsville road. and several new accidents out there. 543 at 95 in the harford county area. pulaski highway, at rosedale, and also in baltimore city. comet street at colvin avenue. let's take a live look. as you can see, a lot of congestion on the eastern shore. that's 50 eastbound, at sandy point. we're looking at about a 15- minute delay. and we'll take another live look. as you can see, an easy drive there, 895, south of 195. this traffic report is brought to you by bill's carpet, hardwood and laminate, too. bill's has it all for you. you can call them at 1-877-75- bills. back over to you. >> latinos are the fastest- growing group in the country and baltimore. but many of them are not getting the healthcare they need. in tonight's wjz healthwatch, andrea fujii explains how the city is trying to fix that problem. >> reporter: at baltimore's medical systems

boulevard where it meets up with north foothill boulevard that intersection is completely blocked off. again, we have a news crew on the scene so we'll be bringing you some live reports from there very shortly. highway 9 following this developing story, as well. reports of a downed tree partially blocking highway 9 so that stretch of highway is shut down between redwood gulch and highway 85. so watch out for that. avoid the area. that traffic alert has been in effect since about 3:30 this morning. so yeah, it is windy and it is wet for the start of your morning commute. here's a live look at the san mateo bridge san mateo. even though our carr camera is shaking, it's not as bad as it was earlier in the morning. they cancelled an earlier wind advisory for the san mateo bridge san mateo, richmond/san rafael bridge and the dumbarton bridge. so now just slick spots including if you are traveling near lucky drive in marin towards the golden gate bridge. you can see that ghostly effect that we always get when it rains in our golden gate bridge camera. there were flooding records past the plaza where the lanes merge. at the bay bridge we are so far doing okay. no metering lights yet. traffic okay heading into san francisco across the upper deck. we do, however, still have that wind advisory just one now just for the bay bridge and if you want to use mass transit, we have been checking in with bart all morning. they have 43 trains all running on time. so to get the very latest traffic conditions once you hit the roads, remember kcbs once you do hit the roads. they're our radio partners. and you can find them at 740-am and 106.9-fm. >>> we have breaking news. this out o cupertino. several people have been shot at a quarry. we just spoke to the santa clara county fire department and they are helping transport victims at this time. now, there are conflicting reports on just how many people have been shot. our photographer who is on the scene right now tells us that he saw two ambulances drive right past them. he also tells us that the road is blocked off at foothill boulevardens creek boulevard. we'll have more information about this shooting in cupertino as we get it this morning. >>> let's check the other top stories this morning on this wednesday, as well. one current and one former san jose police officer facing grand theft charges. these are the two men arrested yesterday accused of embezzling a combined $120,000 from a charity. >>> today jurors from dr. conrad murray's manslaughter trial will hear from investigators and detectives. prosecutors are expected to play an interview with the doctor, charged in connection with michael jackson's death. >>> a deadly helicopter crash in new york is now the focus of a federal investigation. this is the east river near manhattan. a woman was killed, four others were injured yesterday, when the helicopter went down in that river just after take-off. >>> wall street hoping to continue the rally. european stocks rose sharply. u.s. stocks finished strongly yesterday. the dow erased a 250-point plunge to close up 153

. >>> an accident on greenmont boulevard and calverton boulevard.river lost control while trying to catch up to another car and crashed into the home. they are describing it as a minor domestic disturbance. the driver went to the home with minor injuries. >>> a woman accused of stabbing a woman outside a target store in maryland yesterday has been charged with a similar unprovoked attack before. this surveillance video from the shopper's warehouse in bowie. this shows antoinette sharp attempting to buy knives and walking out with them after her credit card was declined. moments later she stabbed a woman in the neck and shoulder outside a target store. it's eerily similar to an attack starks was charged with in 2005 when she stabbed two people outside a nordstrom's at montgomery mall. >> certainly it's disturbing we have the same individual involved in a similar crime. >> police used a taser gun on starks in order to arrest her because, they say, she wouldn't put the knives down. starks was released from the clifton-perkins mental hospital just 60 da

the shootings happened in the 1300 block of macarthur boulevard near park boulevard.estigators are releasing few details, and there is in information right now about two men who were killed. we have yet to get descriptions of the suspects from police. >>> the occupy wall street movement has gone global. yesterday, it was on the streets of oakland. about 2,000 people marched to speak out against corporate greed, joblessness, and cuts to social programs. not far away, governor jerry brown was at a fundraiser. he had a different take on what's going on. >> well, i like to communicate my own message. i'm speaking to you, and i'll tell you what i think. i do think that the unemployment and the foreclosures are directly caused by the people who extended mortgages improperly, fraudulently, and in many cases illegally. >> also leading the charge yesterday was actor danny glover. the march was organized by moveon.org, but dozens of laboring community groups also participated. >>> today is steve jobs' day in california as declared by governor jerry brown. a memorial service wil

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[captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: even before the name -- numbers came out, we decided to spend some time getting to know the people behind the pottering -- poverty statistics. cornel west joined us. in tonight's episode, we call this one suffering, we look at what motivated us to take this for and the personal face of an american tragedy. >> most of those people do not know where they are. >> there is a new and poor in america right now. i want them to come together. >> the corporations get away again. the banks got away again. this entire legislation is on the back of the poor. >> well adapted to indifference. we want great leaders who love the people. tavis: the more i see what people are going through, all people of all colors and creeds, that is why i left the studio. that is why i give up my vacation time and called doctor we we hit the road. it is the telling the truth that allows suffering to speak. this is a nation of great abundance and great people. somehow, great inequality and great suffering. 43 years after the death of martin luther king, our nation has prosperity for a handful while huge swaths of the citizenry are asked to do more with less. to bring the focus to the suffering, my team and i travel 3,000 miles across this country, over a week's time. i shared it with my friend doctor cornel west. we must -- and that those struggling on education -- met those struggling on education, housing, food access, we met with labor, veterans, -- we met with groups taking unprecedented action. we met with organizers trying to continue the legacy of doctor king. >> this is ground and 04 poverty. >> we met with the homeless and the forgotten on the fringes of society. we held meetings with the thousands in attendance and faced the fire with those to disagree with us. -- who disagreed with us. [unintelligible] but we started where we should have, on a native american reservations. >> when i left my home i was 27 years old. even the little kids now. there is only about 100, maybe. maybe more. tavis: reservation surrounds the sacred body of water but even here there is disparity and the trampling of the native american culture and tradition. the choicest parts were taken by the government consults for million-dollar summer homes to the wealthy elite of the midwest. ancient burial mounds like the one seen here are now in the backyards of non-natives. >> because of the white man that took our land away, took our pride away. and our language. our ancestors were not going to speak their language. tavis: there is a new poor in america right now. as we will examine, the housing crisis has endangered the american dream. every family can own their own home. in chicago, we toward public housing in which doctor king and his family once lived. to bring attention to the issue. according to the chicago coalition for the homeless, there are more people on the waiting list in the city of chicago and there are available housing units in the state of illinois. entire blocks in the city remained abandoned. >> this is the second most unemployed community neighborhood in the country. only detroit beat said. tavis: groups like the anti conviction campaign have organized to meet -- match these people with people who need it most. >> it was born because of folks from different parts of the city, the black community, housing was leaving. our struggle relates to education cuts, labor, all of these struggles are intertwined. tavis: 43 years ago, doctor king was assassinated in memphis at this motel while standing in solidarity with the sanitation workers' union. we met with some of their original members. >> it hurt me when he got killed. that is what made me stand up to be a man. we had nothing. we were just a poor person. he help desk -- helped us. he came to enlargen us, he died for us. tavis: workers face a decline of rights and benefits and a system that seems to trample the poor, the old and the unorganized. louis laren. >> human rights violations. it is not one place, it is not one employer or manager. it is a systemic issue that we confront. >> poor people are demonized. [unintelligible] tavis: is this a system of disparity? a system designed to create poverty? house -- has the housing crisis led to a new form of poverty? what will it take for our country to understand the situation we find ourselves in? can the system change to help the people? or do the people in need to change the system? so each night we will bring you a new installment of our property toward. we will -- this was put together by the media mobilizing project. we chose them because some of the men and women who work on the projects like the one you just saw come from the ranks of the poor themselves. disenfranchised and even homeless. we thank them for their work and dedication to this cause to run our report. we were honored to be drawn -- joined by cornel west who serves on my radio program. it is always a blessing to have you in this studio. >> i am blessed to be here. tavis: let me start with a simple question, why a poverty for four years? i ask because there has been a debate about this heritage foundation report that suggests the issue of poverty may be is not as important as people want to make it. there is debate about the poor in this country. why do it for about it? >> i want to salute you for coming up with the idea of the poverty tour. i go back to the discussion there in the family room of my mom's house. i am so glad i was blessed to be there with you because i think anybody can see who is concerned about the precious humanity of poor brothers and sisters and the rich resiliency. their ability to fight back to circumstances can see this is not just a crisis, it is a catastrophe. when i hear the heritage foundation trying to trivialize the suffering, i say they are part of a bygone era. this movement, we are moving into a new era. we're tired of the indifference to poor people. the legacy of martin luther king jr., miles, cesar chavis, it is now coming back. it is about what connecting catastrophe with courage and compassion, standing up and having the courage to tell the truth. as you said, let us be attuned to the suffering and lettuce have compassion. it is no longer fashionable to be assessed with the lives of the rich and famous that we overlook the impact that 42% of children live in or near poverty. tavis: when you see that clip, doctor king gave his life fighting for sanitation workers. this war on poverty. people are now calling for a new pop -- war on poverty. you look at those years from his debt until now, there has not been any appreciable gain on the notion of eradicate in poverty in america. >> part of it is that with the advent of reagan, you had markets on least, a deregulated, unfettered. they generated about -- unbelievable innovation but it went hand-in-hand with not just an increase in wealth and equality, but also the callousness toward the catastrophe of poverty, of working people. in the last 25 years, 82% has gone to the top 1%. i think that is unjust. it is unfair. in the last 10 years, a 100% net income growth has gone to the top 10%. that is the level of inequality. it is getting so far out of control that the very future of american democracy is at stake. we are living in one of the most critical moments in the history of this nation and the world. tavis: some would suggest that is a hyperbolic claims on your part at the future of the democracy is predicated on this moment and what we do? we have had a poor people as long as the country has been here. how is the future of the democracy predicated on what we do about poverty? >> when% of the population owns 41% of the wealth and 25% of the income, no democracy can survive. democracy is about common good and its relation to its citizens, especially its weak and vulnerable citizens. when you have corporate greed and the prison industrial complex, in the military industrial complex, in the corporate multiplex of mass media, then on the financial sector, what does it do? it generates a dog eat dog attitude. new democracy can survive without notions of compassion, public service, what are our obligations to our fellow citizens? uni are much better off than most americans but we know our destiny is interwoven with not just our poor brothers and sisters but those in the prisons. our children. the elderly. your friend. our working people ensorcell -- so forth. when you lose that spirit, you end up with a culture of superficial spectacle, narcissism, hedonism. everyone is concerned about not getting caught. tavis: what about the numbers growing because of the women and children joining the ranks of the poor. what does that say about our nation and our priorities when women and children are the fastest group joining the ranks of the port? >> i was at an event a couple of weeks ago. one of the great profits of our day spoke with tears in her eyes. she said, to live in a nation or the younger you are the more likely you are to be poor, something is wrong with that. that is a warped priority. when martin luther king talked about a revolution of priorities, somehow we have to turn that around and say, our future rests in the quality of the thinking, a loving, laughing, among our precious people of all colors. that is why occupied wall street is in place. young people are saying, you older folks have been avaricious and greedy. especially those at the top. it affects all of us. as a christian, when we talk about wall street oligarchs and -- we're not in demonizing individuals. all individuals have the same value. they're made in the image and likeness of god. we're not demonizing their rich. the greed of the rich -- >> it is true that over the years, the gap, the gulf between what workers make and what ceos make -- >> absolutely. 1975, $24 to every $1. that is the corporate greed. i believe that all of us have gangster proclivities and greedy orientation's any accountability. that is why democracies are necessary. we have to have institutions to try to curtail the use of arbitrary power so that our greedy orientations and gangster-like proclivities' do not get out of hand. the poor people can be greedy to. we need the shaping of the souls as well as our institutions. it is not a lack of focus for funding, the poor are to blame for their station in life. millions, billions, have been spent going back to the johnson administration and his war on poverty trying to lift out the poor. to those who say we have spent money, we are still spending money on all kinds of programs, what is the -- what should we do? >> we have to ensure we are not wasting any of of the administrative programs. that is true in education and housing. but we know that where you have priorities were you are willing to spend trillions of dollars on wars in iraq and afghanistan without billing the -- been willing to pay for it, will spend $300 billion since 1980 in the prisons. we do not have extra money for education or housing. we do not have money for jobs. we just spend money on jails and prisons and for the criminal justice system. it is a matter of our priorities. where is the love? who really loves poor and working people? when you love people, you give them a priority. you have a surge -- sense of urgency. there has been an attempt to banish any empathy poor poor people. to marginalized. . tavis: since you and i were on this tour, every step of the way for those 3,000 miles, up one or two things that struck you, that hit you with regard to what you saw. >> part of it was there was a perception among some many poor people that they were going to fight but that our political system was so paralyzed. the republican party is -- has mean-spirited ideas. the departure -- democrat party is better but still tied to oligarchs and plutocrats. this unprecedented moment in u.s. television. tavis: what ought to be the response, the senate taking out the jobs bill this week, what ought to be their response to the protests and the jobs bill, to the notion of lifting up the poor in this country? >> barack obama is beginning the year with the kind of pressure we have put -- put on him in terms of jobs. he has to fight for it. every job cannot use tax policy as a jobs policy. do not use the irs as a mechanism. we have to talk about mortgage relief, serious public education, and not just regulating the banks, we need to talk about decentralizing the banks so that no longer having the investment banks and commercial banks merged together so that trading and lending overlapped and wall street ends up more a casino rather than a source of generating capital for entrepreneurs -- >tavis: by to have you here. a quick word about the library in peace activist who was on this program. she joined us with a conversation on the work on behalf of women in africa. two days prior to being named recipient of this year's nobel peace prize. what a deserving honor. if you miss that conversation, you want to access it by visiting our conversation by visiting pbs.org. thank you for watching and keeps the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. oin me next time for part two of our poverty tore and the growing number of children. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where wal-mart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, glad to help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> brought to my the aarp foundation. -- you by the found foundation. >> wk kellogg foundation, engaging communities to improve the lives of vulnerable children. learn more at wkkf.org. >> the anne e. casey foundation, helping to build better futures for america's kids and families. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. 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>> because when you compare it to other things that have gone up, in a relative term, it has gone up much more than other things have. >> the national average is actually flat. it's $3.46 a gallon today. maryland has gone up about two cents. we're at $3.41 today, and that is up two cents over last week. >> analysts say high crude oil prices and the eurozone debt crisis have contributed to the trend. but we may see some relief at the pump now with the death of muammar gaddafi. now that the dictator is gone, experts say there's less chance for violence to get in the way of libya's oil production. >> once their economy and sort of their government becomes a little more stable and we can see some production coming out of libya, we could certainly expect to see gas prices decline. >> until that happens, drivers like tommy moody are looking for ways to save however they can. >> i keep my rpm's at -- i try to keep it at three grand. i'll just put a new air filter in and sometimes i put octane booster in. that seems to help a little. >> to find the cheapest gas prices in your neighborhood, visit our website, wbaltv.com. kim dacey, wbal-tv 11 news. >> thank you. testimony resumed in the trial that baltimore county man being the triggerman in a murder for hire scheme. were opening statements last week. they say william porter's wife carla try to have him killed and used various family members to set up the hit. 24-year-old vitaly davydov had been held after being charged with the murder of his roommate, a 22-year-old david rico-noyola. comes 13 months after another patient was charged in the death of a fellow patient. >> school hours of runnerslac -- scores of runnersr took part in a variety of events, including the 5-k run. >> he never played an inning, but brooks robinson is now a permanent fixture at oriole park at camden yards. a large crowd was on hand for the unveiling of the brooks robinson statue on the plaza near russell street. it features brooks and his golden gloves as he prepares to make one of its signature throws to first base. was on hand for the celebration -- he was on hand for the celebration. >> i am amazed. detail is real life -- every detail is real life. i want you to know that i have always considered to my friends, more than anything else,. and i think is so much for the way you treated me over this many years. >> one of the things that makes ks great.eaoopks played his entire career at memorial stadium. >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> time to check your morning commute. there are some problems to watch for. 543, we had an accident and some debris in the road on white marsh boulevard. an accident at milford mill road. 18 miles per hour approaching 795. so far so good on the harrisburg expressway. let's take a live view of traffic and will start with the west side. there is your delay and the pace of things until you get to 70. this is traffic near chesaco avenue on the east side of the beltway. tunnel traffic looking good on 95 and 895. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> we are off to an ok start on this monday morning. 44 degrees at the airport. take a light jacket with you. we will make it into the mid 60's this afternoon. 30% chance of rain this afternoon and this evening. dry this morning. tuesday it looks like a good day. 50's on thursday and friday. only in the 40's by saturday next weekend. the next couple of days will probably be the warmest days of the week. >> 45 degrees on tv hill. talk about a markup on a dress. wait to hear how much this dress sold for at auction. >> we are still taking your answers to our water cooler question of the day. wha

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[captioning made possible by kcet public television] >tavis: michael lewis is an author whose previous ? includes "moneyball" and "the big short." could to have you on this program. let me start with the news of days ago. angela merkel and nicolas sarkozy have said that by the end of the month and they are going to put forward a plan to do something with the debt crisis in europe. >> i am a little skeptical. the government has been trying to put out this fire for a long time. they make these announcements and to calm the financial markets. so there are now runs on banks. they do not have a specific plan. any plan they put together is going to involve german people paying on the periphery of europe. the german people have made it clear they do not want to do that. you have this friction right now. the elected leaders say they want to further integrate europe, to create a united states of europe. the people do not want to go there. something has to give. towasn't the euros supposed prevent problems like these? >> it was designed -- the subtext of the euro was we're going to yoke germany so cannot evade anybody. we are going to make -- it is going to be one big happy family. the problem is if you have a currency without a fiscal union , without a central taxing, and if the countries to pursue different policies, greece was not competitive, it becomes unsustainable. greece accumulates a lot of debt. at some hat -- at some point they cannot do it. if mississippi is less productive than indiana, people leave mississippi. the dublin -- the federal government can subsidize in mississippi. we have a mechanism for dealing with this. when they designed the euro, what they thought was there is going to be a crisis but it will be 20 or 30 years from now. meanwhile we will become so in integrated there will have an incentive. i about to jump out of my seat, new picked the states. i am born in mississippi and grew up in indiana. [laughter] that is debatable. of all the states, you picked those. i love that. i'd did myow well research. what are we to make of what is happening in greece? how bad is the situation? >> very bad. part of the story is how whole societies were left in the darker or the last decade. -- dark over the last decade. if we had a housing bauble. the greek government took the money and spent it on productively on more government. it hired people who were not doing anything. not only do they have an inefficient private sector, they have a culture of not paying taxes. you talk to a tax collector and the biggest way to get fired is to collect taxes. if you agree -- get aggressive. they have a society that is not functioning. the people do not see any reason to change. the greek people, even though they owe the money, the act of trying to restructure the society -- they have riots on the streets. we have elites that what to bring countries close together but people are pulling europe apart. tavis: is austerity overrated? >> yes. the things they're doing is counterproductive. the imf and and other officials say what you need to do is a drop 100,000 employees and raise taxes in the private sector to try to cover these debts. the effect of that is a depressed economic activity. it is the opposite of what it greece needs. so they create a permanent repression environment. the thing that the outside authorities are doing -- to kick in the money and we will make these people change. the greek people do not want to change. in medicine they're being asked to swallow is killing them. something has got to give. the way the officials are handling it is making pronouncements about having a solution without having the population on board. tavis: we did a tour about poverty in america. we went to 11 states, 18 cities, documented all of this travel, talking to people of all races about poverty, what it is doing to everyday people. i want to ask you, what he's austerity measures are going to do -- these austerity measures are going to do to the people. in terms of creating new poor? >> it is going to be a growth industry, creating poor people to rea. mervyn king, the head of the bank of england has said we've experienced the worst financial crisis in the history of man. there are these periods of slow, and no growth. added to this, we have of ideology at the government level stood is preventing the government from doing the most it can to alleviate the problem. we're not doing that. as a result, unemployment is up and will stay up. when that happens, poverty goes up. what you see happening is poverty being normalized in some way. you see people who thought of themselves as playing by the rules all the sudden poor. this is not a replication of the depression but it rhymes with depression. that is going to create political change. tavis: i do live in germany or france, what does any of this have to do with me? >> in the short-run, the stock market is going up and down every day because the u.s. market is afraid that if greece defaults on its debt, which sounds like it has nothing to do with you. they do not payback banks money that they owe. those banks then possibly fail. our banks have all kind of interaction with their banks. so our banks either starts to fail or get its act in the stock market. then we have a reprisal of the financial crisis of 2008 or the financial system is paralyzed. i think what you are watching is act ii of the same financial crisis. act one was all of these bad states that accumulated. government is everywhere. now the question is, our governments not credible texts that creat? that creates a fragile environment. your ability to do what you do for a living is premised on a basic level of economic activity. it is going to decline and harder. tavis: before you became a writer and before your books and were optioned as movies, you worked on wall street. your thoughts about these protests there growing every day in this country and around the world, this movement? >> i think it could be a big deal. the movement has not articulated what it wants but generally you can see what it wants and has justice on its side. we're gone through this a time where people who were paid the most, the release of the society -- elites in the society or destructive to society. the result was this financial crisis. they were saved by taxpayer dollars. all of these firms would have been out of business. so the taxpayer does that and in response restored the strength and health of the financial institutions. they insert their money into the political process. it is outrageous. it is like a system of government protection for police -- elites. it seems so unfair. i think the outrage is at the root of this movement. the thing that creates momentum is the pain it has been caused among the young. people who are my age -- unemployment -- they are angry. they create the energy for change. tavis: as was the case during the vietnam protests, they were demonized by many in the larger society. now we see this new narrative being created where these protesters are starting to be demonized. they are anti-capitalist. it is class warfare. what do you make of the mayor -- narrative that they are out of sorts? >> that is inevitable. you can see the movement could create a change in the people who would be changed to do not want it. it is a sign of a how the movement might be that there are people trying to craft a narrative that defeats it. tavis: we just scrap -- touched the surface of this new book, "boomerang: travels in the new third world." good to have you on the program. up next, stockard channing. stay with us. tavis: i am pleased to welcome stockard channing to this program. she now headlines the stage play "other desert cities." it opens in new york city on november 3. here is a senior from "other desert cities -- scene from "other desert cities." >> if you violated the trust of the family, and a family that has been valued discretion and its good name over three decades, you would still be my daughter. the meaning of that would change. you needed us. a year of our lives, i thought of nothing but your well-being and your recovery. that is who i am. i know who i am. you would lose us. >> tavis: taviouch. it sounds like somebody is on the precipice of doing something. >> i cannot explain all of the play because it is a mystery. there are five characters in the play and i would say four out of those of five have the secrets, they are not what the scene, including mom. tavis: how would you describe it without giving it away? >> it is a family living in palm springs. the father is a retired actor. they are friends of the reagans. my character is a retired screen -- screenwriter, right wing in a reagan republican way. they have three children. the eldest was implicated in a bombing of a recruiting center who was a wild kid, a young man who left behind other siblings. the youngest is now a tv producer. he is in his late 20s's. the middle sister was a novelist, very successful and screwed up, especially after her older brother's debt. both children are more left wing and the parents. it is a family place. the daughter comes home on christmas eve to tell me she has written a memoir which will exorcise the ghost of her older brother. which brings up all of these issues of privacy. the most fascinating thing about the play as every member of the audience changes their mind about these characters and who they are. no one is to they seem with the exception of the daughter who has had a nervous breakdown for five years. she represents the telling of everything. that is the issue, of the peace. tavis: that was nicely done without giving it away. i am glad you're here to do it. you do a lot of broadway. you like a place. what was it about this particular script to attracted you to this character? >> to be honest, i got the play about a year and a half ago and i wanted to have a reading. i did not think i could do it justice. the character is far away from what i am and who i believe in. it was not until we sat down and read it out loud that i realized that there is power and power -- how moving it is. the complexity of my own character, i did not realize when i read on the page. it was only when it was performed in front of an audience and i saw what was happening in the audience that i made the decision. any time you sign onto something, you do not know what the end result is going to be. tavis: i assume you're talking about the political ideology. tell me why you think that makes it difficult to play as opposed to the challenge of doing something that is far away from who they are. >> it was a challenge. it was not until i sat down and opened my mouth and said those of first words out loud and played with the other actors that it started to left, i realized it was not just me trying to do something that might be a challenge. it was going to work. you could feel it in the room. tavis: when you get this point in your career, are there things you are looking for that really do challenge you as an actor? things that you wanted to do? looking for that challenge? >> i do not think it is a question of a challenge as an actor. i was looking for something that is bogue -- a. big. if the production is not up to it and the actors and director, it is just a waste of time. deciding theseou days whether or not your time is better still bent on the stage, on the big screen, how're you deciding what is not a waste of your time? >> anything that feels good. now we are going to come back and do it again on broadway with two different cast members. it is a challenge. even if you are on screen or in a play, it is always a group effort. it is not just of the actors, it is the editor, etc. you go into something saying out work tucson going to continue that. when they said they wanted to bring it to broadway, i said yes. i did not hesitate. it was so solid before. tavis: is there certain pressure you feel that -- or a certain joy in taking something to broadway? >> sure. it is great to have another chance at something. i was sad about this particular production that we were a quintet. -- always said about this particular production that we were a quintet. when it is tight, it is like being an athlete and being in the zone. that is alluring. that gives you a couple of hours that are really good. the chance to open it to a broader audience is irresistible. tavis: "the west wing," still in reruns everywhere. as you look back, what to think about the work on that show? >> if i'd won frustration, i was not in it enough's. . i will never forget -- every time lows on the set, i was knocked out by everyone around me. if you're going to be in a popular thing on television, it is great to be on one day you respect. all of the people i worked with were -- the caliber was just up there. tavis: since you open this door, i am going to go in. you mentioned the conversation about the character being different from you politically. what do you make of the state of things, the state of affairs in our country right now? i do not want to color it anymore than that. >> i think that there are works in progress. one has to be patient. that is my feeling. i am sort of, as a citizen i am appalled by the lack of progress in our senate in the house of representatives. i hope that the american public understands that we have three levels of government. there is the executive, legislative, and the judicial. i wished the legislative would do their job. all i can do is vote. that is it. we have to take the broadest picture possible and understand -- that character of mine and not play, she says to her daughter, there are consequences to our actions. a founder of mind -- friend of mine, she said that is the best thing you can say to your child. the point is, there are consequences and you have to go slow and steady through those consequences. everybody has to calm down and look at what is going on. if someone feels strongly that -- a tea party person or republican, they should vote to they want to. what pains me is people who are miffed because they did not get what they wanted in a situation that is so complicated. that kind of thinking disturbs me. that is not a positive action. that kind of attitude should be examined. tavis: we go from the theater to the real world and back to the theatre. back to the plate. nicely done. the producers are happy about that. the play is called "other desert cities." stockard channing, good to have you on the program. that is our show for the night. thank you for watching and as always, keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with antonio banderas in the critically acclaimed film the skin i live in. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.

boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy re d oanveclmobstaes to bs economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. @p tavis: i am pleased to have jerry west on this program. he went on to win a gold medal back in 1960. he is known as the eye contact -- iconic logo. an honor to have you on this program. let me start by -- i know there are things that you can say and cannot say of all the work stoppage. i want to go back to your book. back to your life and your career to draw a parallel between what you would -- what you and george. these are your words, page 101. i remember the 1964 all-star game in boston. the first one ever televised. it had been snowing heavily all day. it was uncertain if everybody would make it by game time. there was another problem, too. the players have decided they would boycott the game, as all the team's owners came up with an acceptable pension plan. the players also wanted their own trainers to travel with the teams. no team should have to play a sunday afternoon game. i have never been more nervous or scared in my life. this was my livelihood. he got around a security guard and shouting for the wall the -- shouting through the wall. he would make sure that we never played again. it was my fourth season and i was coming into my own. i did not know what to do. before we talk about the nba today, take me back to that game. >> when you are young and the thing he most aspire to be, to do something special in your life. to live my childhood day -- a dream as a professional athlete. those were days when i was just getting started. i was starting to learn. when an owner comes into your locker room and wants to talk, i thought it was pretty ironic -- i was never sure what i would say if someone would ever said, you will not play anymore. i do recall it very vividly. the game was delayed for a long time. it was the first national televised nba all-star game. i do remember looking him in the eye, and say, i will never play again. it took a bunch of guys to start the ball rolling. and with all the rights that the players have. that was a watershed day for a lot of us. we did stand up to the owners. they did agree to it. that was the first step in making this league what it is today. >> it is fascinating to read that because it reminds us that the players association and the owners have always had these issues from time to time. there is not a whole lot that you can say, but what are your thoughts about the situation that fans have to endure right now? >> in is to hope that both sides can find something acceptable. the players have really prospered. the league has had some losses. this is something that people do our lot smarter than me -- i am sure there will be a season. i think it is something that both parties have to feel comfortable with it. tavis: beyond the work stoppage, talk to me about how you think the fans are impacted when they are denied what they love so much. i was just reading a story of how does this morning. in some parts of the country, they are bracing for crime to go up. talk to me about the impact it has on the fans. >> fans will want to take sides. that is part of it. i would hate to think that a game that has been so great to all of us would have a problem with not having the game around for a while. i would hate to think that someone would do something that was beyond reasonable in terms of committing crimes. that does not sound like -- tavis: i want to talk to you about your own basketball career. i was originally struck by the fact that this really is not a basketball book. the book is not about basketball. why write a book about your life revealing all the stuff that you revealed? you could have taken the other route and wrote a book about basketball. >> it may be difficult for people to do. this -- look, i am not the only one was done this. i did not write this book for people to feel sorry for me. i just want to help other young kids that face the same problem. maybe to find a way to overcome things that are not acceptable. it is a very reflective period in my life. i am not a conventional person. i love people, i love what i did, competition was everything. i love the fans. when people come up and say hello to you i think that is a compliment. i have written this book to talk about some of the demons i faced in my life, and i faced a lot of them. i still do today. they are not always comfortable to deal with or pleasant to talk about. i saw it as an accurate -- there are no lies in this book. i am way past that. i am in the years of my life for a think it helps to talk about problems and how to get through them. just tallinn port id is for one or two people to pay attention -- just how important it is for one or two people to pay attention. self-esteem, depression, a major factors in my life. tavis: you have rsed the word three times, competition. when i first moved out here with -- to los angeles, i lived with one of your heroes. jim brown put me up for a year before i got on my own feet. jim brown was the most competitive person i've ever met. in college, i spent some time with michael jordan. then i read your book, and you are competing with bill russell can o gto sleep the fastest. everything you do is competitive. >> i do not know where it comes from. the thing that you see when you are small, the stories that you tell yourself when you're growing up. those are the things that i did to myself. i did not want to go home. i was afraid to go home. i spent a lot of time by myself. i loved the forest, i loved climbing. trying to findetom shing that i could look at. those were fun things. going fishing, fish and all day from daylight to dark. then i picked up this basketball, which changed my life forever. i think of the imaginary games i have played in my mind. i have a very vivid imagination. in some ways, i was setting goals for myself. goals were the primary reason we get to where we want to get. i wanted to be something different than what i was seeing every day. i wanted to be someone that would always try to help give and to be nice to people. i did not grow up in a house like that at all. tavis: tell the understand how a guy that had that kind of an imagination can end up wrestling with self awareness and battling depression. >> depression can happen to anyone. it is not something that is fun to deal with. when i grow up, i was an isolated child because of what i saw in my house. it is really about self-esteem. if you feel good about yourself, you'll be able to accomplish a lot more than you ever dreamed possible. when i was out there playing all these mind games all by myself, i would never not let myself make the basketball shot at the end of the game. i was the coach, i was the official, i was a broadcaster. if people would have seen me out there, talking about all of these things that were going through my head, i just think that when i played, that is what i would not get depressed. when i would have an opportunity to sit around and think about things, little things, it would set me off. tavis: you talk about your tormented life. it is hard to talk about that without addressing how you navigated loss of your brother. >> this is probably one of the worst periods of our life. he was the beacon of our family. he was such a wonderful person. i would always have hoped that could be like him because everyone loved him. he was deeply religious and growing up in a house like that, you can see the respect for certain kids. they do not mean to play favorites, but there is always someone who stands out. i remember the day he went into the army. i also remember the date we found out he was dead. it was the most terrific day of my life. -- horrific day of my life. in my mind, he will be 21 forever. to read those letters were he was talking about going to church and getting involved in church and always mentioning -- i think to this day, i just would have hoped that he would have an opportunity to see me play. it never happened. those were like hunting and tormented times. on a cold and -- haunting and tormented times. on a cold day in december and january when we buried him, one of the most horrible sounds i've ever heard in my life were taps. people always talk about folks. i was reading a newspaper this morning and i saw these two young kids from california who would gotten killed in afghanistan. for those families, it is devastating. it is absolutely devastating. in our family, at that house changed forever. tavis: in the book, you talk about the fact that you could have run for governor of west virginia. when you lose your brother, i could see the emotion come over you. i see how that is still impacting you. did losing your brother change your view of war? you and i both know about this country is engaged in the long the store of this country. how has it impacted due politically? >> a lot of people came to meet and said, would you be interested in running for governor? it is not something -- i love the state, i love the people, it is a big part of the why man. it was a wash in natural resources. a lot of multinational companies came in there. places where they could go, people to help them with their studies, pay attention to them. they paid the people and they left. i vote for who i think is the best candidate. people talk about raising tax dollars, i would be all for raising tax dollars. that is very important. i think wars are hell. one of the great books i read was on the korean war. i will forever -- he was a great soldier, but for his arrogance to get thousands of young american men killed. i lost all respect for him. i went to the 60th anniversary of the korean war and was invited by a man from south korea. i went over there not knowing what to expect and not knowing what my emotions are going to be. i went to the place for my brother got killed. -- i went to the place where my brother got killed. to see what separates north korea and south korea. it is pretty stark. i was amazed at the city. the love that they have for the americans. what democracy has done for that country is amazing. the cleanest city, the and the structure is beautiful. you cannot see a graffiti mark, you cannot see a piece of paper on the ground anywhere on the ground of a dare. if you look at the people in north korea, they are getting smaller. in south korea, they're getting bigger. there is a reason why, it is because of nutrition. it is a remarkable success story. to see what has happened over there. at the cost of millions of lives, by the way. 2.5 million south korean citizens were killed. i went into this war museum and a very prominent displayed are the people that were killed. there was an american side. from each state, my brother's name was mentioned on that. when i looked through this museum, the thing that was so interesting to me was how many people that were killed there, innocent people who got killed. was it worth it? i would say -- a lot of people sacrificed their lives for what they think is better. i see afghanistan, iraq, i see all the unrest in the middle east. it is scary because we do not fight wars conventionally anymore. we are sitting in las vegas killing people in other countries. it almost looks like a video thing. these people are fighting for something they believe in very strongly. for the americans families to lose loved ones, i know what it feels like. tavis: the flip side of the pain brought on by the loss of your brother, the one guy who you have felt unconditional love. tell me about willie. >> we were competitors in high school. there was one particular time when i was a high-school junior. i had an incredible year. because of my personality, i was so quiet and so shy, i never did anything draw attention to myself. i was the only unanimous pick for the all conference team. these were my private thoughts. when the allstate team that came out and i saw two guys for this conference and i made honorable mention. it was probably one of the lowest days of my life. basketball gave me some self- esteem. all the sudden, it was taken away because people did not think i was good enough. that summer, i was a very good student in high school. i had an opportunity to go to states. i will never forget we were out there playing and in the process of playing, i was the last one selected. after that, i was the first one selected. i walked away from their send to myself, i am better than these people. even though i would not admit it to anybody. i did not wait until my senior season started. i did a lot of things that were extraordinary for a young kid in high school. we won the state championship and this little community where the high school was it was my first brush with fame. that was pretty special. it really was. little did i know that my life would change because of this sport. given a chance to go all out to -- to almost any college. being recorded on the west coast. -- being recruited on the west coast. i was only going to west virginia. it was the best decision i ever made in my life. west virginia means a lot to me and it is a charity of my choice, and always will be. tavis: chaldea contextualize your career? a lot has been said about you. how did you contextualize your career? >> it is something that i love to do. the late beloved announcer of the lakers -- i am not sure any of us were worthy of what he said. the way the city of los angeles has treated me has been remarkable. i am flattered that people feel so good about you. i see a lot of your players walking around today with bodyguards and stuff and i say to myself, no one would even know you if you walked the streets. why would you have a bodyguard? it is a feel-good thing. as you get older, you appreciate the fact that people respect you. that is what life is really about, if they respect you. i am not a perfect person. the one thing i always will do until i die is i will always have time for people. tavis: the new book by jerry west is called "the west by west." courageous of them to put some much of this personal narrative on the pages of this new book. i think you'll enjoy the read. good to have you on the program. that is our show for tonight. thank you for watching. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with novelist jackie collins. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide 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[captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: i am pleased to welcome, nile rodgers to this program. he helped define music in the 1970's with a string of classic hits. his life has been defined by some incredible moments and numerous twists and turns. his new memoir is called "le freak." i apologize in advance that i did not have enough time to do justice to your life. you have lived such an incredible life. you have done so many things. i'm glad you are here. >> i am thrilled to be here. you have no idea. tavis: let me start, when you have done so many things it is hard to know where to start. but i want to start with the music. behind every song there is a story. rescissory family television, it is a great story for how the song freak out came to be. tell the story of how it came to be a hit. >> i will tell you how it came into existence. grace jones had picked up on our early songs and she had decided that she wanted my partner and myself to produce her new album. she says, she has a weird? sen. come through the back door and tell them that your personal guests of mind. you need to see my shows you can understand who i am. we go when we knock on her door and say we are personal guests of a grace and jones. the guy slams the door in our faces. he says f off. we thought, maybe she left our names at the front door. we swam through this massive sea of humanity and get the guys attention and tell him we are personal friends. we realize it was an exercise in futility. i lived around the corner. music is our recreation and livelihood's so we started jamming on a groove. we started this anger -- saying "f studio 54." my partner pulled this number on me -- you know this "sh" is happening. and we know we could not have that. so we changed the title to "freak off" thinking it was a good euphemism. i was like, when you and take acid. bernard had no concept of what i was talking about. i said you know the new dance of the freak. his kids were doing that. he said you're freaking out having a good time. that is what happened. >> freak out is the result of being told to f off. believe it or not, because of the facebook, the gentleman who did this six months ago when i was turning in the book. he called me and apologized. he said i was the kid. i knew he was telling the truth is. i said, ok, it is cool. had we gotten in, the song would not have happened. tavis: he did not ask for royalties, did he? >> of course not. in our business -- tavis: you know how the business works. it is not just the stuff we know you did. what blows me away is the stuff you wrote or produced and i did not know that you did. let's dance, and david bowie. >> that was my lifeline back into the music business. when the disco sucks phenomenon hit, we put out our last hit which was "good times." right after that we followed up with diana ross's "i'm coming out." after that, i had six flops in a row. then i met and david bowie and a club and we started talking. i knew he was friends with looser vandross -- luther vandross. he told me how much she liked jazz. it rescued my career. after that i did inxs, madonna. tavis: you produced like a virgin. >> the biggest album of my life. tavis: for a guy who is classically trained, what to you make of the different john norris -- genres you have succeeded in? >> what story make of them? i love music in general. when i was younger, i was not certain what kind of music i was going to go into. it was my partner bernard edwards who helped me developed my funky jazz style. i started out with sesame street. that was my first gig at of high school. tavis: these pbs stories kill me. >> this was the second here. the stars of sesame street were bob and susan on camera. peter -- was a manager at the apollo theater. they had something like 30 axinite. i addition from sesame street. that led me to new york city and bernard edwards and the rest of my career. tavis: you are only hearing today on michael lot of folks who were taken out by trucks. you're here because of an incident in an elevator this saved your life. >> i lived in a building york city across from lincoln center. one night i was out partying all night which is what i did every night back in those days. but somehow i pushed the number 14 instead of 28. it was one of those buildings it went from 12th to 14th. my heart stopped. i had fallen at of the elevator and basically i was dead. the staff, the way they empty the garbage is to start at the top and work their way down. had i got into the 20th floor, i would have fallen down dead on my landing. i fell on the 14th floor just as the janitors were coming by. i do not think they did not amount but they were able to revive me enough for the paramedics. that is for the hospital was. the revived me but my heart stopped eight times in one night. once it would start it would not continue beating. finally they were filling out the death certificate. they had given up. my heart started going again. the orderly said we have a live one over here. they took me into the hallway and kept the monitoring machine on me. the doctor told me the story. tavis: this is a strange to segue, but given that you were were thosees, there who said you were killing diana ross's career. he said this is going to be the death of her career. if you let them and the to this kind of thing, this song. motown does not want to put it out. they sit on that for a while. eventually something happens. it put it out. the >> back in the day, all of the music in the underground germinated in these clubs. one of the coolest was a transvestite club. when they happen to go into there and i was in the bathroom and i happen to notice on either side of me there were diana ross impersonators. i could not laugh because i did not want to offend anybody. i said to my partner, i am in the bathroom doing my thing and there are a bunch of diana ross impersonators. since we are aware of the way the gay community feels about her, what if we did a song where dan acknowledge turf alignment with the gay community? he said that was a great idea. we wrote the song "i'm coming out." he happen to be the number one d j all throughout america. she played the record for him. he was rather worldly so when he heard the lyrics, and he knew that was a catch phrase. he told diana and she came back to the studio almost in tears and nastiest why we or trying to ruin her career. she says, are people going to think i am gay? this is the only time my advice to an artist. i looked for in the face and said order you talking about? -- looked her in the face and said, what are you talking about? i said you are the black queen. who could think such a thing? eventually the record shot to number one along with upside down. the biggest record of her career. last night at my book signing, one of the greatest feelings of accomplishment was one i saw suzanne in the crowd. it was suzanne who singlehandedly took care of us throughout the whole ordeal. the entire motown company was against the record. we tried to explain to them that it was not her last record but her next record. that is what we do. we do the next record. this is the logical step for this woman to make because of all she has done. this encapsulates her whole career. i am an independent woman. i am leaving low temp. -- motown. that allowed her to go to rca. tavis: not only does it bring diana back, becoming her biggest record, it is hot enough that years later a guy named biggie smalls and puff and that sapling it. >> i was on an airplane. did john singleton and brett me.er put headphones on and i hear "i don't know what they --" they said it was puff's new record. i thought it was a genius. and i thought ca-ching! i love it. ever since rapper's delight, people were worried they would be sued. the only problem we had was a they took our music well before -- it was the first with sampling on them. for the television audience, when we did good times, the sugar hill gang sampled are strings but they also use our baselines. it was an interpretation of the thing. we sued them because it was a copyright infringement. i cannot stick your show and put it on my network. [laughter] what happened, all we wanted to do was ask permission. dow iraq crystal light was only available on 12 inch -- rapper's delight was only available on 12 pence. inch. tavis: how was an interpretation -- interpreted my people in the industry? there were a lot of people in the process of samplings who did not get the respect for the money until people started putting their foot down. as one of the early guys, how did you get impacted? >> it was a little bit tough because we were suing powerful guys. we had to go it alone. the fact that i am sitting here talking and i do not have broken legs, which went up against tough people. at the end of the day, i think that cooler heads prevailed and it was the type of thing where the record was so profitable. no one had seen profit like that. i am sure the first royalty checks word $3 million in the days were $3 million was a lot of money. it is not like now where young artists spend $3 million on this and that. in those days, that was like having a $15 million. at the end of the day, everybody realized it was the right thing to do. it was a new paradigm we were starting to discover. it has now become the bedrock of our and the music. -- r & b music. tavis: we were talking about our mutual friend quincy jones. your name came up in conversation. he sends his regards. he said he gave you some advice that you did not take. if it is connected to the sound score for one of my favorite films of all time, everybody knows that i love "coming to america." and you did the music for it. tell me what to quincy told you. >> he said, whatever you do, the score is cool. make sure you get all of the songs. what do you mean? that is where the money is. if you produce a few hits, it will be great. i wrote songs that were comedic in the film. "just let your soul glow." eddie and arsenio were dying to make that into a single. i had to look eddie -- he probably still has not forgiven me. they nailed to those parts so well. imagine if we had a music video with and singing that song. i was taking myself so seriously because i had a chance to do a symphony orchestra. some of the greatest african and latin percussionists and all of the other people i brought on. i was standing with like 150 people. don't destroy my sound track. it was a muted -- musical comedy. for a black man to get that kind of responsibility was incredible to me. and did not want to cheapen my song by having you guys make a joke out of it. it would have been brilliant. and what would i have gotten paid. oh, man. tavis: you did the score for the film. i'm sure you have seen in countless times. what tune make of what they did? >> i think it is truly one of the greatest performances ever put together on the screen. arsenio does not get the crops. even when they are in the barbershop. semi is a great role. it wants to go to the waldorf- astoria when the king is going to punish them. and bathe him. [laughter] it was a brilliant film. what was interesting that many people do not know, it was a difficult film to make. eddie had seen -- this is the way the story goes. eddie had seen the orson welles film or he narrates the quatrains of nostra thomas and predicts the end of the world. the way that i scored the movie, and i was living on the paramount lot of scoring and dailies. they would shoot them, develop them and send them to me and i would have to do it right adam the can. because he wanted to leave before the great earthquake. john landis had to know they were in the camps. i had scored that movie -- it was like watching a cartoon. i would reach over and go -- because i did not know what the theme as. they just gave me the film and i would say okay, like when the dog -- i had to look at the film in a holistic way. it was impossible. it put it together in the editing room. they had all this stuff going on. tavis: i would be remiss if i did not in the two minutes i have left give you an opportunity to share what is a moving story for all of us who are fans, the story of bernard passed away. >> we were in japan doing a concert. i was being honored as the producer of the year in april 1996. in japan a company -- smoking is not as taboo resident was in america. it is a 90 minute television special and i bring in different artists. do alled concerts' to the blocking and all of the shots and figure out that it may be a 20 camera shoot. the third night, it is the final night. the one that is televised. nard was very ill and a doctor examined him and said to have to cancel the show. how can we do that? he said give me a vitamin be shot. he gets it together and somehow we pull through. you can see him pass out on stage. at the end of the night we go to our hotel room. he is supposed to wake up a 6:00 a.m. because he is leaving for america. i knock on the door and he had passed away earlier that night. a powerful part about the story is that at about -- somewhere in the middle of the night had been thrown out of my bed. i thought was another earthquake. i wound up on the floor and i looked at the clock. it was so terrifying i did not want to go back to sleep. in the dream i had been thrown off the bed. i was holding onto a person's hand. it was like he was then a him -- helium balloon. i let go and he which drifting off. the next day after we discovered his body, i'd reenact the story of what happened. i give him the time that i had this dream of holding this person. he was filling out the death certificate and says, really? he changed the estimated time of death to the time that coincided with my story. he said that was your friend is saying goodbye to you. the doctor said that. the time of death and, one a m -- 1 a.m. tavis: there are some great stories in this book by nile rodgers. "le freak." it is a fascinating read about the lies -- life and legacy of one of the great producers and artists of our time. i have been delighted to have him on the program. >> it is a pleasure to be with you. tavis: until next time, keep the faith. ♪ freak out >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with anita hill. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevardit's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you.

boulevard. it's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. >> and by viewers like you. if thank you. kcet public television] tavis: pleased to welcome martin sheen and emilio west of as to the program. the way, a movie written and directed by emilio, here are some scenes from "the way." >> are they going to change your life? >> something like that. ♪ >> i am so sorry, i had no idea. >> those are smart, confident, stubborn. >> a lot like you. tavis: take me back when you started writing the project and you know you are writing this specifically for your father. what is that process like? >> i wanted to write something that explored who he is as a man and as an actor. he would throw all of us kids in the back of a country squire station wagon and we would drive across the country, landing in some location. for every badlands' or every apocalypse now that we had to travel to, there were 10 f-15 not of good movies that people who had seen. [laughter] he had four kids and wife to feed. i knew that when he was not working, it was up to his standards. i wanted to write something that would remind us what an extraordinary talent he is. as i sat down to write, would he do this? the only thing he objected to, i think -- and the roof came up. >> i am practicing, i keep practicing until we get it right. tavis: i want you to unpacked something you just said, you wanted to remind us how great an actor he really is. what is that about his gift? >> when you look at his filmography, he is not a military assassin like he was an apocalypse now, he is not the president of the united states although sometimes he likes to think that he is. the is this gifted, talented, sensitive guy. my father does things for other people, reaches out when there are no cameras. that is a measure of how big his heart is. almost generous to a fault. this film is an expression of his heart and his generosity. >> i said a moment ago -- tavis: i said a moment ago, practicing catholic and trying to get it right. how do you put a project on the screen about spirituality and let that message get through without proselytizing? >> that is a credit to emilio. he composed it so so that we weren't hitting anyone over the head with what we believed. if you want to take this journey, come with us. it is uplifting and healing at a lot of fun along the way. never hitting anyone over the head of with religion or spiritual odyssey -- spirituality. tavis: you read what he put in front of you, were you ok with everything that you read? i assume not. how do you say, thank you for writing this for me, but i need to make some cosmetic changes here. but dad, i wrote this for you. >> i wept with joy, i was so brief -- deeply grateful. it is the best part i have had in 30 years. it was the first role that i had to carry the picture. the only anxiety was that i would not live up to his expectations. >> at my mother said she has not seen him as disciplined or worked as hard since he was a struggling actor in the early 60's in new york. >> or work for as little money. [laughter] tavis: but to his point, i wonder whether or not you processed it the way that your dad did, that bad has to carry it. it is a wonderful love letter. but you have to carry this film. >> i knew he had it in him. growing up and watching his work, i knew that he had not been given the shots. tavis: i don't want to give too much away, but what about describing what it really is. >> it's homage to homer's odyssey or the canterbury tales of the wizard of oz. i am sort of the fifth pilgrim, i am in e box. it starts and those 500 miles across the north. and in san -- it ends where the apostles are buried. tavis: film on location? >> entirely. tavis: what is it like to make a movie about faith and spirituality, doing it in that space? >> there were moments and a miracle that happened throughout we shot this film in 30 days. it was the time and money that we had. we shot very low impact, super 16, dressed as pilgrims and moved like a group of pilgrims ourselves. i like to say, and my mom likes to say that i may work in progress in terms of my spiritual path. she met this guy, and he was raised a devout catholic. i heard nothing but arguments about religion or spirituality. as a young kid, you get very confused about it. i like to say that the proof is not just in the pudding, it is in the eating of the pudding. you get an idea of where i am at in terms of my past. tavis: did anything happen to you, were there any revelations or experiences that the advance you on your personal journey? >> every day, there was some measure of a miracle, so we stopped calling them coincidences. just be open. we are doing exactly what we are supposed to be doing. tavis: you are doing a project about faith and your literally taking a journey that persons of faith take for thousands of years, what is that experience like? >> it was a reflection of who we were and where we were headed in our own lives. all of us, trying to unite the will of the spirit to the work of the flesh. the pilgrimage gives each person an opportunity to explore the possibility of transcendence. you pack your stuff and you begin your journey, you have a destination. the reason you start off is not always the reason you end. you start getting rid of the things you have over pact. you begin to open up the cells and let things go the of the hanging on to, events that you have been blaming for holding you back. that is the truth of the message. -- true pilgrimage. that is a real memory of a pilgrimage. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: how have you remained a person of faith through these years? just from what i know of your life, i could suggest to you that there were moments along the way where your faith was tested and yet, for all these years, you have remained a person of faith. >> i sincerely believe that everything is grace. and you have to stick around long enough to see it through. i am a very optimistic person. if i were told that this was the last the day, i would still give thanks and praise, it has been wonderful. i could not have asked for more love for support or compassion. it has been an extraordinary life. i give thanks and praise every day. it is a mystery that i embrace. if you want to talk about god, we don't know what god is, do we? it is a question that advised of history, we don't know. the more explanations we give, the more we realize how little we know. we are limited, we are so finding. i am president of the mystery of just being alive, every single day. tavis: i am not being comical and asking of this question, i am serious. i want to preface, i am not trying to be funny. i am serious about the business , being a long-distance runner, how does that emboldened your faith or challenger faith? >> the only way that i got the old when i fell or was lifted up was with my faith. the business and was not there to lift me up, but my faith always was. i was lucky enough to be married to this young man posing another for 50 years, and she was the one person in my life that told me the truth, nothing but the truth, and she told it to me all the time. she made it possible for me to live an honest life. tavis: a lot of people have a difficult time, if ever, getting to that pace. >> it is true. he always says, go higher, brother. that is what the movie celebrates. the low hanging fruit is a cynicism and pessimism. if you want to go a little higher, the fruit is a lot sweeter. and the view is certainly a lot better. in this pessimistic or cynical culture, i am interested in pushing back against that. tavis: is the film may push back on that? >> is, indeed. it is a look at where we are at not only in our faith, but the sort of film's live like to see more often. tavis: this will be a tricky term, is this a message movie or a message film? or do you think that is something that is an powering and entertaining? >> i think it is entertaining. the people in this film, the characters are wonderfully broken. i prefer to say themes rather than messages. at the end of the day, it is about being a ok with exactly who you are. this culture that we live then, take this bill and be happy, go on as diet, get your teeth whitened, but there's no message out there to say hey, being ok -- you're ok exactly who you are. tavis: i have said a million times, analysis of what is wrong with our culture today, the decay of our civilization. what i have said is that people would rather see a sermon that here a sermon. -- than hear a sermon. what ever struggles that we have in the faith walk, you have always been the kind of humanist that we should all expire -- to aspire to be. you have been on the front lines with protests, you have been arrested more times than i can count. my friend dr. west just got out, thank god. tavis: in new york. you have been such a soldier in that way. where did it come from? >> i have to say that they came from my catholic faith. i came back to its 30 years ago, and it is a much different faith that what i was raised in. the octet for the poor, they had taken a stand for the marginalized and the voiceless. it was about compassion, it was about the works of mercy to feed the hungry, to house the homeless. that made a great sense to me. by the fruits, you will allow them. do these works of mercy, and it is going to cost you something. if it doesn't, you are left to question the value. this guy shows up and asked me to let him in. st. peter says, show us your scars. he says, i have no scars. what a pity, was there nothing worth fighting for? we have to fight for something. it has to cost us our lives, our faith. we are left to question its value. tavis: has it cost you in hollywood? >> hollywood would have to answer that. have you lost jobs because of your commitment? >> i don't know. if it is true, i am sure it is equally true that there are those that reached out to me. >> are you watching tv? turn on channel 7. he got arrested again. someone will get him. tavis: your being funny about this now. it is true, and it is funny. and you have been raised at a house with a guy that you admirer and revere as your father, admire and revere as a great has been -- thespian. also a guy who, agian, my -- again, my word, put pressure on you and your siblings about how you should go and live your life. >> of the confrontation we got into was about my name and not changing my name. it was 1979 when i decided that this was something i wanted to do and i got my first head shot done. i used emilio sheen. it looked terrible. he railed. don't do it. don't make the same mistake i did. honor your name, honor your heritage, are where we came from. that was a big lesson for me. that was the beginning of it. tavis: have you ever regretted that decision? >> never. >> i regret it mine. my father's one disappointment. all my official documents were born and baptize under that name, my passport, driver's license. i invented the character because i did not want to feel the prejudice against the border region community -- the puerto rican community. i thought i will scoot around this issue. tavis: how you process living a life by her own admission that it is the one thing that you sorely disappointed your father in? how do you process your way through that? >> i had to accept it as a astake of use, it was lighke choice i made. i would haveounsel, thought differently. i did it solely on my own. it was the advice of a manager, i didn't have one at that time. i faced where i was against to i was and i opted for a smoother path appea. tavis: your father, it led to the decision of coming the martin sheen. you took your father's advice and stayed true to your roots. you come out the gate and you come out the box fast. you are a star, and just a kid, basically. how have you navigated past that kind of expectation? >> it is a very different world in terms of the media. i am not sure i would have survived the kind of scrutiny that actors are under now. frankly, i look to these kids that are coming up through the ranks and it is scary. you don't know what they will be able to handle the kind of pressure. i always had my family to be there and certainly, the many years he spent in the business, he was always a voice i could go back to and say, this is the film i have been offered, or this is the agent i am thinking about going with and i was able to bounce a lot of stuff off of him. it was a great advantage that a lot of my contemporaries did not have. tavis: what was the family business before you changed it? >> my father, he had his own vineyard as a young man in spain. he had his own vegetables and animals. it's get degeneration, and this guy is living that same kind of life. he is more spanish than i ever imagined i would be. >> i have a farm, i raise chickens and peas and worms. it is a 1 acre plot, and we're using all of it to grow food. i am definitely tapped into the whole spanish revival. tavis: what does it feel like when your heritage comes full circle? >> is made more extraordinary by the fact that my son lives in spain. he is 27 years old. he met a girl working as my dad assistant on the west wing. between season 3 and 4, they went to spain to check it out. off they went, my son and he and a full actor who, they go to the town about two hours north of madrid. her mother's name means miracle in spanish. he has been living there, married a couple of years. that is the first miracle on this journey, but the movie is inspired by a grandson and dedicated to a grandfather. we're doing all the work. tavis: i am curious why you called this a "away. >> is short for the way of saint james. going to call it something else but that might have caused confusion in how to practice. tavis: we are arch to have you on. it is special to see this kind of father-son relationship. every father-son should want this kind of bond. the project directed, written by, and he's got acting in it himself, emilio estevez. the father, martins heen. - - mart -- martin sheen. see you next time on pbs. thanks for watching and as always, keep the faith. >> who knows about these kind of things? anyway, they say that miracles -- >> do you believe in miracles, father? >> i am a priest. it is kind of my job. >> i don't practice anymore. mass at christmas, easter, just about it. >> take it. loud and catholics out here, kid. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with renowned neurosurgeon, also known as the doctor q. >> every community has a martin luther king boulevardit's the cornerstone we all know. it's not just a street or boulevard, but a place where walmart stands together with your community to make every day better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and every answer, nationwide insurance is proud to join tavis in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions by viewers like you. thank you. 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