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the knife found under quincy brown's hand, the one used to kill elise makdessi, didn't contain brown'singerprints, and his shirt didn't have elise's blood. >> how in the world could he have done this and not had any of elise's blood on him? >> and on the night before her murder, elise makdessi bought the gun used to kill quincy brown in a sporting goods store in virginia. >> then i started suspecting, something is amiss. this may be all a setup. >> but who wanted both elise makdessi and quincy brown dead, and why? can a business have a mind? a subconscious. a knack for predicting the future. reflexes faster than the speed of thought. can a business have a spirit? can a business have a soul? can a business be...alive? that's amazing. it's amazing. this is amazing. that's amazing! real people are discovering surprising things at chevy. we're sold. it's so pretty. they're good-looking cars. it feels great. perfect. this is not what i would expect from a chevy at all. get more than you expect, for less than you imagined at the chevy 72 hour sale. now, get zero percent financing for seventy
the knife found under quincy brown's hand, the one used to kill elise makdessi, didn't contain brown'singerprints, and his shirt didn't have elise's blood. >> how in the world could he have done this and not had any of elise's blood on him? >> and on the night before her murder, elise makdessi bought the gun used to kill quincy brown in a sporting goods store in virginia. >> then i started suspecting, something is amiss. this may be all a setup. >> but who wanted both...
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brown said it was her cousin who committed the murder. private times before the come of her daughter. >> i'm nine months and nine days so she can come any day. yes, i'm way bigger. you can see my belly. i want to give a message to my child. i just want you to know that no matter what happens in life, i love you and your dad loves you and life is not going to be a box of chocolate. you're not going to be perfect. because nobody's perfect. you're going to make mistakes because everybody makes mistakes. i made a mistake and it caused me to be where i am. it's a lesson that mommy has to learn. i'm in here for something that -- not that i done but -- i don't know. i know i'm in here for a reason, whatever the reason is. i know that i'm in here for a reason, and i just want to you always keep your head up. you have to know what's right and what's wrong. i don't want you to end up in place like this because it's not place for anybody to be. >> when brown goes into labor, she will leave the jail to give birth in the hospital. she will be allowed
brown said it was her cousin who committed the murder. private times before the come of her daughter. >> i'm nine months and nine days so she can come any day. yes, i'm way bigger. you can see my belly. i want to give a message to my child. i just want you to know that no matter what happens in life, i love you and your dad loves you and life is not going to be a box of chocolate. you're not going to be perfect. because nobody's perfect. you're going to make mistakes because everybody...
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inmate brown went to medical because she was in labor.y, she'll be out there for probably about 48 hours. once she has the baby, a relative will come and get the baby, and she'll come back here and be housed in medical until she's well enough to come back up to the unit. >> it makes me cry because i'm not going to be able to enjoy the most special part of my child's life. i won't be able to hold her, i won't be able to hear her cry. i won't be able to get up in the middle of the night when she needs me. somebody else is doing something i should be doing. that hurts. that hurts. >>> coming up -- >> i cried. the whole time i cried. i held her because i knew that i had to leave. >> la'quan brown gives birth and says good-bye to her baby. >>> and -- >> kind of a somber day. you work with them for 30 days and they get to leave. >> it's test day in the dog program. we live in a pick and choose world. choose, choose, choose. but at bedtime? ...why settle for this? enter sleep number...right now all beds on sale! sleepiq technology tells you how
inmate brown went to medical because she was in labor.y, she'll be out there for probably about 48 hours. once she has the baby, a relative will come and get the baby, and she'll come back here and be housed in medical until she's well enough to come back up to the unit. >> it makes me cry because i'm not going to be able to enjoy the most special part of my child's life. i won't be able to hold her, i won't be able to hear her cry. i won't be able to get up in the middle of the night...
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- mike brown! we are! - mike brown! we are! - mike brown! a phenomenon that extends well outside of st louis. in mid-october, thousands descended on ferguson to bring attention to the number of african americans being killed by police on a national level. in the last 6 months, there has been eric garner, kaijeme powell, john crawford, akai gurley, tamir rice, tanesha anderson, darrien hunt, and ezell ford. that's just this year - many more names fill the mouths of protestors here on the streets: sean bell...oscar grant...rekia boyd...aiyana stanley jones. [crowd chanting] you can't stop the revolution! you can't stop the revolution! you can't stop the revolution! >> this is the new civil rights movement that's happening right now. and ground zero is the policing of black communities. there's no question about it. people are drawing connections that we drew 50 years ago in the civil rights movement that this is a societal problem. this is not just a police department problem. and it's not just a county problem and it's not just a sheriff prob
- mike brown! we are! - mike brown! we are! - mike brown! a phenomenon that extends well outside of st louis. in mid-october, thousands descended on ferguson to bring attention to the number of african americans being killed by police on a national level. in the last 6 months, there has been eric garner, kaijeme powell, john crawford, akai gurley, tamir rice, tanesha anderson, darrien hunt, and ezell ford. that's just this year - many more names fill the mouths of protestors here on the...
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willie brown, jr.. mayor, my former seatmate jackie speier and david chiu, essential district i represented for so many years, to the members of the school board now and then and then and then and i'm talk about only about gene (laughter) let me say to all of you i am indeed honored beyond belief so honored something i've salesmen immensely do so they don't need security because some of the things i do generates hostile situations most of you have you could a know i have a family because they fear they'll be the victims but they sound-proofed they come i sound-proofed they come for the occasion of this school and i want to have them stand as if they were part of your team dem trust and part of the decades and the heartache group or whatever they really constitute the foundation for everything that i've done and all the years and for whatever adherence that's bestowed on me it should be bestowed on willie brown family and it begins with blanching (clapping.) susan who occurred more time (clapping.) robi
willie brown, jr.. mayor, my former seatmate jackie speier and david chiu, essential district i represented for so many years, to the members of the school board now and then and then and then and i'm talk about only about gene (laughter) let me say to all of you i am indeed honored beyond belief so honored something i've salesmen immensely do so they don't need security because some of the things i do generates hostile situations most of you have you could a know i have a family because they...
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willie brown, jr. (clapping.) a >> mr. mayor, my former seatmate jackie speier and david chiu, essential district i represented for so many years, to the members of the school board now and then and then and then and i'm talk about only about gene (laughter) let me say to all of you i am indeed honored beyond belief so honored something i've salesmen immensely do so they don't need security because some of the things i do generates hostile situations most of you have you could a know i have a family because they fear they'll be the victims but they sound-proofed they come i sound-proofed they come for the occasion of this school and i want to have them stand as if they were part of your team dem trust and part of the decades and the heartache group or whatever they really constitute the foundation for everything that i've done and all the years and for whatever adherence that's bestowed on me it should be bestowed on willie brown family and it begins with blanching (clapping.) susan who occurred more t
willie brown, jr. (clapping.) a >> mr. mayor, my former seatmate jackie speier and david chiu, essential district i represented for so many years, to the members of the school board now and then and then and then and i'm talk about only about gene (laughter) let me say to all of you i am indeed honored beyond belief so honored something i've salesmen immensely do so they don't need security because some of the things i do generates hostile situations most of you have you could a know i...
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willie brown, jr. mayor, my former seatmate jackie speier and david chiu, essential district i represented for so many years, to the members of the school board now and then and then and then and i'm talk about only about gene (laughter) let me say to all of you i am indeed honored beyond belief so honored something i've salesmen immensely do so they don't need security because some of the things i do generates hostile situations most of you have you could a know i have a family because they fear they'll be the victims but they sound-proofed they come i sound-proofed they come for the occasion of this school and i want to have them stand as if they were part of your team dem trust and part of the decades and the heartache group or whatever they really constitute the foundation for everything that i've done and all the years and for whatever adherence that's bestowed on me it should be bestowed on willie brown family and it begins with blanching (clapping.) susan who occurred more time (clapping.) robin
willie brown, jr. mayor, my former seatmate jackie speier and david chiu, essential district i represented for so many years, to the members of the school board now and then and then and then and i'm talk about only about gene (laughter) let me say to all of you i am indeed honored beyond belief so honored something i've salesmen immensely do so they don't need security because some of the things i do generates hostile situations most of you have you could a know i have a family because they...
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and get up to speed at willie brown the parents at willie brown this year to actually talk to their friends and their yoga partners and the people in the cubicle carrots the office from them and share the windfall things happening added willie brown i couldn't be more 24r50i68d in the heart of the city in the bayview in the form of willie brown middle school what's happening at willie brown and i'll tell you as a preview of coming attractions many of the wealthy of work that is being implemented is what is coming for the rest of the school district watch their, their doing we'll not say after this year everywhere we've not side that the faculty will show you we're doing it and having great success having a communities that is saying we expect this in everyone of our schools and students that are well prepared and be able to talk shop at a high-level when they get to high school high school better being paying attention those can i see will come in really, really well-informed of their future i know you probably want me to say a few words i could speak all nights of the efforts and w
and get up to speed at willie brown the parents at willie brown this year to actually talk to their friends and their yoga partners and the people in the cubicle carrots the office from them and share the windfall things happening added willie brown i couldn't be more 24r50i68d in the heart of the city in the bayview in the form of willie brown middle school what's happening at willie brown and i'll tell you as a preview of coming attractions many of the wealthy of work that is being...
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a brown bear. the foundation's agency has rushed to the scene. >> reporter: securing safety of tourists is an important mission. that was a flash bang. they succeeded in driving the bear away without anyone getting injured. but that evening, a brown bear appeared again. this time it's close to a residential area. tourists cars are parked, too. and even when people draw near, the bear shows no sign of run away. flash bang shots again. to secure safety, bears have to be driven away. >> translator: the best way to find bears is to look for crowds of people because people gather around bears. that's because tourists who come here want to see the bears, and we cannot change that. >> reporter: the shiretoko nature foundation is worried a contingency may occur at any time. the foundation is making efforts to have tourists understand brown bears better. >> translator: hello, everyone. welcome to shiretoko. this is a nature class for families visiting shiretoko. >> reporter: this day's class is about feedin
a brown bear. the foundation's agency has rushed to the scene. >> reporter: securing safety of tourists is an important mission. that was a flash bang. they succeeded in driving the bear away without anyone getting injured. but that evening, a brown bear appeared again. this time it's close to a residential area. tourists cars are parked, too. and even when people draw near, the bear shows no sign of run away. flash bang shots again. to secure safety, bears have to be driven away....
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jeffrey brown has our story from the newshour bookshelf. >> brown: in salman rushdie's new novel, the genies or gin are out of the bottle and on the loose in new york, entering through a crack in the world, wringing on a time of what's called the strangenesses. >> it was dark, a time the start attacking the city. one of them has a tendency to turn into a sea monster, and he just rises up. >> brown: it's a world in some ways like our on, reason battedling extremism, a rising city where great towers suddenly disappear, a beautiful day on the water, but a police boat keeping watch. in the novel, fear is in the air, but so is magic. these are genies, after all. >> the book uses comic devices, but it's of course talking about something serious, abattack on the city. >> brown: mixing magic and reality, myth and history, it's what salman rushdie has been doing in his writing for decades. his new book is titled. "two years eight months and twenty-eight nights." which just happens to add up to 10001, and like the classic 1001 arabian night, rushdie told me when we met at the waverly inn, one o
jeffrey brown has our story from the newshour bookshelf. >> brown: in salman rushdie's new novel, the genies or gin are out of the bottle and on the loose in new york, entering through a crack in the world, wringing on a time of what's called the strangenesses. >> it was dark, a time the start attacking the city. one of them has a tendency to turn into a sea monster, and he just rises up. >> brown: it's a world in some ways like our on, reason battedling extremism, a rising...
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>> brown: l.a. art critic christopher knight applauds that kind of long-term commitment, but wishes the overall collection reached beyond so- called "blue-chip" art and deeper into what's been produced in los angeles. >> the primary limitation of the collection is that it's a market driven collection, which is a very narrow sliver of the very active art world of the last 30 years. i wish it had a greater representation of art that has been produced in los angeles. it's 2015. l.a.'s widely regarded as one of the most important centers for the production of new art in the world. and yet there is still today, even though there are five major museums in town, there is nowhere to go where one can see the evolution of the development of art in los angeles. there isn't and there should be. >> brown: broad, though, is obsessed with developing l.a. as a leading capital of the art world. the new building is part of an arts district he's helped create, stretching along grand avenue in downtown los angeles, and
>> brown: l.a. art critic christopher knight applauds that kind of long-term commitment, but wishes the overall collection reached beyond so- called "blue-chip" art and deeper into what's been produced in los angeles. >> the primary limitation of the collection is that it's a market driven collection, which is a very narrow sliver of the very active art world of the last 30 years. i wish it had a greater representation of art that has been produced in los angeles. it's...
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the assignment was to study issues exposed by the death of michael brown on august 9th, 2014.he underlying issues and social conditions that led to that incident here in our region. and to recognise that it had to do with immediate issues of lawen force: racial equity, but it had to do with other issues, including inequities in transportation, education, urban and community stability, all of these things had to be assessed at some level. we accepted the charge, not just on what was in executive order, that created the commission, but the community's charge to have a deliberative and transparent process to make sure they were included in every step, and produce a report that this specific policy recommendations that were unflinching, transformative, and that have -- if instituted, would put us on a path closer to racial equity. we have done that with the document, with the process which we believe was part of the product as well. and now we can see the work towards implementation and translation into community policy, and partnership with all of the neighbours. >> you say that
the assignment was to study issues exposed by the death of michael brown on august 9th, 2014.he underlying issues and social conditions that led to that incident here in our region. and to recognise that it had to do with immediate issues of lawen force: racial equity, but it had to do with other issues, including inequities in transportation, education, urban and community stability, all of these things had to be assessed at some level. we accepted the charge, not just on what was in executive...
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jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: the bones were found in a deep cave 30 miles west of johannesburghe way they were found and gathered is another incredible part of the story. all 1500 fossil remains were brought up and contained remains of 15 individuals of all different ages. scientists created this rendering. the quest is chronicled in the new issue of national geographic and in a special documentary airing on nova next week called the dawn of humanity. here's a short clip. >> as the analysis goes on, the bones from the rising star cave are finally ready to be presented to the world. >> we've got a new species of early humans in the genus, and that's exciting. we've never had anything in that transition period up to the earliest members of our genus in abundance and, boy, we have it in abundance now. >> to members of the team, the fossils suggest a creature unlike anything ever found before. >> we are looking at creatures that are human-like in their hands and human-like in their teeth. everything that interacts directly with the environment is homo, and everything that's sort of
jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: the bones were found in a deep cave 30 miles west of johannesburghe way they were found and gathered is another incredible part of the story. all 1500 fossil remains were brought up and contained remains of 15 individuals of all different ages. scientists created this rendering. the quest is chronicled in the new issue of national geographic and in a special documentary airing on nova next week called the dawn of humanity. here's a short clip....
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adrian brown joins us. xi jinping is using this event to send some powerful messages and made a marriage statement about the size of china's army. >> antonio, indeed president xi jinping appeared before the president today, not so much president or general secretary of the communist party but as the commander in chief of the people's liberation army. today at this military parade his first military parade since becoming leader of this country, he announced a 15% reduction in the size of the people's liberation army. this is something that has been speculated on during the past of few weeks but i don't know if many people were expecting a cut of this size. xi jinping wants to focus more on the affairs and the navy and that of course has implications for the current disputes in the south china and east china seas where china has been busy asserting its sovereignty claims. a cut in his first major military prayed as president. >> china is the largest of any cub in the world. many western leaders decided to shu
adrian brown joins us. xi jinping is using this event to send some powerful messages and made a marriage statement about the size of china's army. >> antonio, indeed president xi jinping appeared before the president today, not so much president or general secretary of the communist party but as the commander in chief of the people's liberation army. today at this military parade his first military parade since becoming leader of this country, he announced a 15% reduction in the size of...
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it's different. >> brown: as she visited her childhood neighborhood on the city's west side. >> brown: a former neighbor, sheila wiggins, who taught smith how to dance the twist, was stunned to see her. >> oh my goodness! how are you? nice to see you. >> brown: smith showed us the cemetery behind her house where she and friends would play and pick berries. >> we used to play in this alley, hopscotch. >> brown: today, she sees enormous problems in her hometown, but also something more. >> the young people in particular who i'm talking to really show great vulnerability. they are not masked with language or jargon and i'm very moved by that. there's a kind of grace here in baltimore that i miss. >> brown: in this project, she says she wants to take a more activist approach than in the past, pushing local communities to engage and look for solutions. >> right now people are just falling off the radar. they are just dying. how can that continue? i think the only way it's gonna turn around is by what i call this spark of moral imagination of a more empathic community and that's one thing a
it's different. >> brown: as she visited her childhood neighborhood on the city's west side. >> brown: a former neighbor, sheila wiggins, who taught smith how to dance the twist, was stunned to see her. >> oh my goodness! how are you? nice to see you. >> brown: smith showed us the cemetery behind her house where she and friends would play and pick berries. >> we used to play in this alley, hopscotch. >> brown: today, she sees enormous problems in her...
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it was known as brown envelope journalism.he money is given to travel a journalists travel costs and expenses, the money affects the way a story is reported. that's what happened with the hostile last year. it's easy to condemn journalists, but the reality is that there's complex dis involved. journalists are among the worst paid reporters. in a country where corruption is from the top down, rooting it out of single institutions such as the news media is easier said than done. "the listening post"'s nick muir howed from lagos, a populous country. >> reporter: september 2014, nigerian journalists raced to the scene of a collapsed hostile. more than 100 worshippers came there to see a best-known evangelist. they now were dead beneath the rubble. eager for details. said something. they weren't going to say anything. possibly playing it between about the tragedy. >> every journalist was leaving. they were handed an envelope. which out of 50,000 is about 200 $300 roughly. >> i was aghast. when he mentioned money. it changed. they w
it was known as brown envelope journalism.he money is given to travel a journalists travel costs and expenses, the money affects the way a story is reported. that's what happened with the hostile last year. it's easy to condemn journalists, but the reality is that there's complex dis involved. journalists are among the worst paid reporters. in a country where corruption is from the top down, rooting it out of single institutions such as the news media is easier said than done. "the...
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it was very heartbreaking. >> the crime occurred when brown was 16 years old.s now serving two 50-year sentences for the murders of his mother and stepfather. >> aaron brown bewilders me. he sat in wait with a shotgun until his parents came home one night, and as his mom walked through the door, he blasted her with the shotgun, shot at his stepfather, missed, and ended up chasing his stepfather around the house shooting at him until he finally killed him. and i wanted to know why. >> weeks earlier before he grew out his hair and beard, we interviewed brown about the murders. >> i just remember when i woke up like the first thing i said that day was, today is the day. i had myself convinced and for whatever reason there was nothing wrong with it in my mind. i didn't see any other way. >> any other way than what? >> there was no other way for me to escape that environment. it wasn't -- i didn't get abused physically or sexually or any other way, but i did not love my parents then, i did not feel like i was loved, and i just did not feel i could be there anymore.
it was very heartbreaking. >> the crime occurred when brown was 16 years old.s now serving two 50-year sentences for the murders of his mother and stepfather. >> aaron brown bewilders me. he sat in wait with a shotgun until his parents came home one night, and as his mom walked through the door, he blasted her with the shotgun, shot at his stepfather, missed, and ended up chasing his stepfather around the house shooting at him until he finally killed him. and i wanted to know why....
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jeffrey brown has more. >> brown: the egyptian government says that an apache helicopter crew mistook the tourists for a group of islamic militants. an investigation is ongoing. egypt is one of the largest recipients of u.s. military aid in the world, receiving $1.3 billion annually. and even before sunday's incident, there's been friction between washington and cairo over how the egyptian military uses american hardware. i'm joined now by michele dunne, senior associate at the carnegie endowment for international peace. welcome to you. >> thank you. >> brown: what more do we know about this incident on sunday? >> we know there was a group of tourists. they had an egyptian police escort and apparently had the proper permits that were touring near an oasis in the western desert, and the convoy was attacked obviously by mistake by an egyptian military helicopter. 12 people were killed. seven of those seemed to have been mexican tourists. there were others who were injured, including one person who is a dual mexican-u.s. citizen. >> brown: now, the helicopter and these other weapons are
jeffrey brown has more. >> brown: the egyptian government says that an apache helicopter crew mistook the tourists for a group of islamic militants. an investigation is ongoing. egypt is one of the largest recipients of u.s. military aid in the world, receiving $1.3 billion annually. and even before sunday's incident, there's been friction between washington and cairo over how the egyptian military uses american hardware. i'm joined now by michele dunne, senior associate at the carnegie...
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willie brown, jr.. mayor, my former seatmate jackie speier and david chiu, essential district i represented for so many years, to the members of the school board now and then and then and then and i'm talk about only about gene (laughter) let me say to all of you i am indeed honored beyond belief so honored something i've salesmen immensely do so they don't need security because some of the things i do generates hostile situations most of you have you could a know i have a family because they fear they'll be the victims but they sound-proofed they come i sound-proofed they come for the occasion of this school and i want to have them stand as if they were part of your team dem trust and part of the decades and the heartache group or whatever they really constitute the foundation for everything that i've done and all the years and for whatever adherence that's bestowed on me it should be bestowed on willie brown family and it begins with blanching (clapping.) susan who occurred more time (clapping.) robi
willie brown, jr.. mayor, my former seatmate jackie speier and david chiu, essential district i represented for so many years, to the members of the school board now and then and then and then and i'm talk about only about gene (laughter) let me say to all of you i am indeed honored beyond belief so honored something i've salesmen immensely do so they don't need security because some of the things i do generates hostile situations most of you have you could a know i have a family because they...
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>> in this case, i'm the catcher. >> brown: and you're the?round. >> brown: yuja wang took her first piano lesson at age six. soon after, she was accepted at the central conservatory of music in beijing. at 14, she left china-- without her parents-- to study classical music, first in calgary and then at the prestigious curtis school of music in philadelphia, from which she graduated at age 21. these days, when not on the road, wang lives in new york-- as addicted as the next 20- something to her digital devices. when you put on the headphones, you're listening to? >> it really depends on my mood. today i feel like brahms or today i feel like eminem. >> brown: brahms and eminem right? they go together. yeah. her fiery youthful style and sheer talent quickly attracted attention in traditional classic music circles and beyond. youtube videos, like this one of rimsky-korsakov's "flight of the bumble-bee" on the medici tv site have gained millions of views. for his part, michael tilson thomas was himself a classical music prodigy. in los angeles, h
>> in this case, i'm the catcher. >> brown: and you're the?round. >> brown: yuja wang took her first piano lesson at age six. soon after, she was accepted at the central conservatory of music in beijing. at 14, she left china-- without her parents-- to study classical music, first in calgary and then at the prestigious curtis school of music in philadelphia, from which she graduated at age 21. these days, when not on the road, wang lives in new york-- as addicted as the next...
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brown says 82% of her students graduate from high school. in latasha hunter was the first student to get a college degree. hunter is now a manager at enterprise rental company in charge of 40 employees. >> i just want to make her proud because now i was the person, the first person to show that oh ms. brown your dreams have come, everything has processed through all the hard work and dedication. >> reporter: nearly 30 years after she made her original promise brown has now inspired and paid for 80 students to graduate from college. 17 more are currently enrolled. she does take donations. and there is financial aid. devon lyons is part of her newest class. even as a youngster he was worried about his family' famils ability to send him to college. >> she's a great teacher. it's life moments and it's like heart-stop-beating moment. >> reporter: there are frustrations. one of her original students was killed by a stray bullet but she focuses on the positives. >> it's been 27 years. i've never missed a payment for college. >> she make sure everyt
brown says 82% of her students graduate from high school. in latasha hunter was the first student to get a college degree. hunter is now a manager at enterprise rental company in charge of 40 employees. >> i just want to make her proud because now i was the person, the first person to show that oh ms. brown your dreams have come, everything has processed through all the hard work and dedication. >> reporter: nearly 30 years after she made her original promise brown has now inspired...
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jeffrey brown has our labor day look. >> brown: this summer has been a big one for the movement. angeles officials agreed to raise minimum-wage from $9 an hour to $15. mayors of eight other cities including san joseeÉ are going o resume a similar plan and new york is $15 for all fast food workers. $15 has been signed into law in other cities including seattle with wages liked gradually depending on the city green 2017 and 2021. we look at the movement's success and questions about impact. robert reich, professor at university of california, berkley, former labor secretary under president clinton. he wrote "saving capitalism for the many not the few." and michael r. strain is an economist who studies labor market and wages, a scholar at the american enterprise institute. welcome both of you. we start with you. overview. is it fair to see if movement as taking hold and why do you think it picked up so much momentum? >> i think it is taking hold. i think it's picked up momentum because, for one thing, the minimum-wage in real terms adjusted for inflation keeps on dropping. if we had
jeffrey brown has our labor day look. >> brown: this summer has been a big one for the movement. angeles officials agreed to raise minimum-wage from $9 an hour to $15. mayors of eight other cities including san joseeÉ are going o resume a similar plan and new york is $15 for all fast food workers. $15 has been signed into law in other cities including seattle with wages liked gradually depending on the city green 2017 and 2021. we look at the movement's success and questions about...
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. >> brown: you became a psychiatrist. why? >> i never thought i would become a psychiatrist, but as i got toward the end of medical school, i took one location on a fly, and i enjoyed it. the patients told my supervisors that i had a way of relaxing people and getting them to talk to me. i had a way of connecting with people. so that really made me think about psychiatry. there is this huge issue as an african american. the mental health community is really a big deal because often black people will be resistant to mental health care or feel like it's something that's not for them. there is a huge stigma that we deal, with so as a psychiatrist, i'm one of the few black psychiatrist. so there's a huge deal there, as well. >> brown: this is something important you've written a lot about, the dearth of the black doctors generally. you're pointing that as one of the important factors of why blacks fair so poorly in the medical system. why? why is it important to have more black doctors? >> african americans make up about 13% of th
. >> brown: you became a psychiatrist. why? >> i never thought i would become a psychiatrist, but as i got toward the end of medical school, i took one location on a fly, and i enjoyed it. the patients told my supervisors that i had a way of relaxing people and getting them to talk to me. i had a way of connecting with people. so that really made me think about psychiatry. there is this huge issue as an african american. the mental health community is really a big deal because often...
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michael brown was the son of ron brown. he ended up humiliating himself and his creasing his family name. and harry thomas. all three council members. all three should have been the leaders of the city even now have a paid attention to the job instead of the money that they could make on the side. brian: have there been accusations of the current mayor? tom: mayor bowser who won on a platform of clean politics. it is a very small city. 600 50,000 people. 68 square miles. its budget is $13 billion a year. just like other cities, we have had a tremendous explosion in economic growth. we have 100,000 new people in town. there is a lot of money. she said herself. we have to be very careful in how we do all of these contracts. brian: did you follow the mayor of baltimore, the one before now, sheila dixon where she had to step down because she was taking these gift cards that were supposed to go to people in poverty? she has already announced that she will run again. tom: again, i wish we could just say that you have the robe of
michael brown was the son of ron brown. he ended up humiliating himself and his creasing his family name. and harry thomas. all three council members. all three should have been the leaders of the city even now have a paid attention to the job instead of the money that they could make on the side. brian: have there been accusations of the current mayor? tom: mayor bowser who won on a platform of clean politics. it is a very small city. 600 50,000 people. 68 square miles. its budget is $13...
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jeffrey brown has that. >> brown: is it man against or with machines? do machines help, hurt us?are seeping into more and more of our lives burks how much are their value and impact understood and accounted for? such questions are part part of a new book that looks at the last decades of artificial intelligence and robotics, entitled "machines of loving grace." author john markoff is a long-time science and technology reporter for the "new york times." welcome. >> thank you. >> brown: "machines of loving grace," sounds great, right? a little bit original, a little human love but more complicated. >> right, and i might have put a question mark after it. >> brown: okay. ecause i think we can go down and probably will go down both paths. my point is it's a human choice at this point. these machines are not evolving by themselves. they're hume designers. >> brown: you're making a distinction. you're coming up as a reporter and making a distinction between machines that are replacing humans and those that are sort of helping us. >> yes. >> brown: give me an example of why that's impor
jeffrey brown has that. >> brown: is it man against or with machines? do machines help, hurt us?are seeping into more and more of our lives burks how much are their value and impact understood and accounted for? such questions are part part of a new book that looks at the last decades of artificial intelligence and robotics, entitled "machines of loving grace." author john markoff is a long-time science and technology reporter for the "new york times." welcome....