when one of my friends told me about this opportunity to work at the carver center to teach kids the instrument that i play and that the kids were very eager and willing to learn, then i really wanted to be a part of this program in order to give back to my community by using the skills that i've learned. >> start from middle "c." and then if we go up an... >> you could say this instructor has the perfect name for teaching music. her name is melody! >> yeah, a lot of people say that. [ chuckles ] i started playing piano at the age of 5, so i've been playing for a total of 10 years now, and it's been a really great journey, i think. and i think after giving concerts and things like that, i think it's great to be able to reach out to the community and share my love of my instrument with everyone. >> two of the instructors are chase's younger brothers. alex teaches guitar. >> good job. and now over here. as soon as i heard that my brother was doing this, i wanted to join. >> it's a really fulfilling experience, and you really get to develop a relationship with these kids through music,

meetings where you're going to have and they're on racial >> you racial equities one at el dorado and carver and i'm trying to remember the other one. >> if i could get the locations and times from you i feel like i can do outreach as well. >> thank you. >> president fewer. >> yes. commissioner wynns. i we've had request from c s b.a. that went out to the board of directors to get the school districts to forward to them the bullet points or the outreach we're doing so they can through their policy department put out links to what people have and the best practices trying to help other people to do the things i'm requesting we do that particularly not only because we're doing a wonderful job i know you are but really we have this kind of infrastructure and pattern of working with partners even sort of inside and outside partners to help us to lead this because what we hear from other school districts is things they've never done but not as effective as the strategies we use like holding the public meetings so far the parents to come to the hearings so if we could whoever you want me to get in

that's a big block of wood and he is apparently one of the world's best chainsaw carvers and he is creating something pretty spectacular with that piece of wood. >> oh, i'm seeing it now. >> and you're wondering that block of wood, what do they all have to do with real estate? apparently this tease was commissioned by phil and leah to place in their apartment in the u.k. very close to st. giles church so people could see it from their apartment. it would raise the allure of their apartment so they could sell it. >> somebody commissioned this just to sell their apartment? >> yeah, you know your listing is sitting out there for awhile. what do we need? a wooden batman sculpture. >> it's not that terrible of an idea. they wanted to use social media to get the word out about their apartment. it started getting a lot of attention in social media. so people now know that there's a really cool statue of the dark knight in the apartment next to this church. cool. >> it's an awesome piece of work. it's just funny that that's what it was made for. >> right? >> it's all about thinking out of the box.

we started the carver academy in san antonio. taking four and five-year-olds and teach them how to work and stay focused so the and they get to college age, they are prepared to go to the most academically challenging institution and be the leaders of that next generation. some really great kids. we started as a private school and now we joined up with a charter school organization which started down in south texas and has 15,000 students now. we will help them build schools in san antonio. >> thank you, david. [applause] toia, we have had a chance see you on television talking about some of your passions and interests around the issues of women and girls. and how that impacts our lives and how we can impact the lives of women and girls. tell us a little bit about that. >> i came here to honor president johnson's legacy. i live in california, so it's kind of close but not that close. i wanted to come here. my father worked for and in johnson and started the war on poverty. lyndon johnson appointed him ambassador to france and the

the transformation happened at george washington carver elementary school. 80% of the students are on the school lunch program. studies show people who have access to a good play area will have a better experience throughout the day. >> creating new hopscotch courts, redoing wall ball areas and making the playground more colorful and more inviting so more kids feel like they belong. >>> volunteers from four rotary clubs and the sfpd made the paint fly and drew the four squares. >> still ahead, how a wild california party has led to calls for change from state lawmakers. >>> people blame a music festival for bringing instaff gram down today. what the company actually blames. >>> a one-day opportunity for anybody to purchase google glass. >> i'm abc7 news meteorologist. i'll have your sunday forecast i'll have your sunday forecast coming up. i gotta go deposit a check, transfer some money. so it's your uncle's turn. what? wait, wait, wait... no, no, no, wait, wait. (baby crying) so you can deposit a check... with the touch of a finger. so you can arrange a transfer in the blink of an ey

the transformation happened at george washington carver elementary school. 80% of the students are on the school lunch program. studies show people who have access to a good play area will have a better experience throughout the day. >> creating new hopscotch courts, redoing wall ball areas and making the playground more colorful and more inviting so more kids feel like they belong. >>> volunteers from four rotary clubs and the sfpd made the paint fly and drew the four squares. >> still ahead, how a wild california party has led to calls for change from state lawmakers. >>> people blame a music festival for bringing instaff gram down today. what the company actually blames. >>> a one-day opportunity for anybody to purchase google glass. >> i'm abc7 news meteorologist. i'll have your sunday forecast coming up. >>> the university of california is giving prospective students more time to work on applications for the 2015 school year. students will be allowed to view the applications beginning all 1st. two months earlier than previous years. it gives students more time to work on their ap

playground on monday after grownups spent the morning painting and cleaning at gorge washington car carverppier place to play. >>> next week, san francisco's exploratorium celebrates one full year at its new building on the city waterfront. it's been a year filled with record attendance and groundbreaking exhibits. abc7 is the museum's official tv partner. tomorrow dan ashley hosts an inside look at the huge range of cool stuff they have going on and what's coming up in the future. you'll see new exhibits they're testing out. special events, including wearable technology, and how the new building is helping the exploratorium take science beyond its walls. all that and more when abc presents "more to explore" tomorrow night. >> a crocodile abandoned in a shopping center is now in san francisco. the four-foot croc will spend the next two weeks undergoing medical evaluations at san francisco's aquarium. in the meantime, the search is on for a zoo or other facility to permanently house the crocodile. police said someone had abandoned it in a container outside a reptile business in roseville, w

so there's also a nature appreciation because i mentioned george washington carver.n't want to leave that out. some areas i wanted to cover. the practical diaspora and echo theology, africa to the united states, african spirituality and africaism and to a nascent revolt. we'll talk about how it's seen through nat turner, linda brent, and clementine hunter. so let's start off with some beginnings. going to start back in africa. and what i'm going to pull from is -- it's a reflection, a fiction of what sort of encompasses what might have happened to an individual who was pulled from the land in africa. so let me begin. comes out of rooted in the earth. the gaitkeeper is menka, a young man a few years beyond his initiation into manhood. he stands with his head wrapped and his body draped in white before the entrance of his village's earth shrine in ghana. he guards a place of worship where community members offer animal sacrifices for increased fertility, bury their dead and venerate their ancestors, all practices with many veriation youth west africa. while men from a

for deciding whether this is a person who we really want to angle out more than george washington carver order to the roosevelt or someone else. and it was because mcdonald and finally helms took the position that they did. they made it untenable for people to oppose the holiday. you just didn't get it loaded in the paper if you talked about the cost and the importance of the passage of time for judging historical significance. we got into the headlines which others gladly quoted and emphasize and reemphasize was with paranoid unseemly unsportsmanlike character assassination tactic. squaring off ted kennedy versus jesse helms i need to all the people, even conservative republicans in many cases would not be associated with that unseemly line. they came over to work the holiday and that is really why we had it in its reproduction of the same type of, which i think isn't nearly about our hearts and minds, but about providing public opinion and isolating the bull connors and the sheriff hearts in the 1960s and putting people like jesse helms and larry mcdonald and john ashcroft into the spo

chemiste carver, now a at tuskegee university. he first introduced me to the mysteries of fertilization. he spent a good many years breeding corn. deepened myst appreciation of plants in a way that i can never forget, superior ability is not the exclusive possession of any one race or any one class, provided men are given the right opportunities. but democratic party bosses feared wallace's views, mistrusting his devotion to principle over politics. it looked like the wallace nomination would go up in flames when roosevelt, angry and frustrated, wrote a remarkable letter to the assembled delegates when he turned down the presidential nomination. >> the democratic party has failed when it has fallen to the control of those who think in terms of dollars instead of human values. arty shakesmocratic off the shackles of controlled fastened upon the by the forces of conservatism, reaction, and appeasement, it will not continue its march to victory. face in bothnot directions at the same time. therefore, i decline the honor of the nomina

it's a wood prized by collectors and wood carvers. the slow nation of the growth produces a unique and interesting pattern. the park is doing a number of things. law enforcement is proactive. we are learning about finding the routes into the forest tham some of the poachers are dayinging. >> the thing to keep in mind are in blahs to protect the valuable resources, the critical ecosystems that are more rare than we would want them to be. the people of california, of the country have not trusted those that work in part not just for our gern augusts, but general eightses to come. when people enter the park and take away pieces of the legacy, they steel not just from the parks, but from all of us. >> that was jeff deny. there are legal ways to cut burls from private property, but dealers are not rurd to disclose where their burls come from. >> picture of the day next. and a conversation with comic maysoon zayid. she says cerebral palsy is one of her 99 problems. she joins us live. >> a tropical depression crossed the solomon islands days

. >> george washington carver elementary school got a makeover today thanks to four san francisco rotaryayground sprucing it up for students. studies show students who have access to a safe and welcoming play area at recess are more likely to have a better school experience. tomorrow looks like a great day to play. meteorologist sandhya patel is here with our accuweather forecast. >> a great day to take the kids to the park tomorrow. morning might not be such a great idea because it will be pretty h

you're a master wood carver. >> i didn't get as many -- >> jimmy: yes, you did. we have a spot? >> can i -- i had an idea. i just had a vision for it. you tell me, we can put it anywhere. >> jimmy: this is so nice. bradley, i didn't know that you carved wood. wow! [ cheering and applause ] >> jimmy: that's really, really nice. >> you like it? >> jimmy: yeah, it looks like it was meant to be there. >> thanks. >> jimmy: almost looks like it was there from the beginning of the show. unbelievable. >> no, no, no. >> jimmy: yeah, let's just put that box away. and you made that as well, didn't you. >> i did yeah, yeah, yeah. no, i didn't make the ribbing. >> jimmy: "american hustle," man. i gotta to say. man, you did great. [ cheers and applause ] >> thanks, man. >> jimmy: i like it going in, because i am a big fan of yours. but everybody in the movie crushed. david o'russell the director, amazing. he is actually here tonight somewhere. >> yes, he is. [ cheering and applause ] >> jimmy: that is what i'm talking about. that is the combination right there. that is the sco

george washington carver elementary school got a makeover yesterday thanks to four san francisco rotaryubs and the san francisco police department. volunteers painted the playground, sprucing it up for students. studies show students who had access to a save and welcoming play area are more likely to have a better school experience. we see a lot of -- we see some clouds and blue skies in that video there. today we have to fight through some clouds to get to the blue skies, right? >> today will be one of the warmer days we have. in fact, with the marine layer so deep it willty time. 53 trees san francisco. yesterday you were in the low 60s. going for the upper 60s today. so as much as ten degrees warmer. i will have all the details and a look at the upcoming work week when we return. >> lisa, it was sunny in seattle for the a's, and that proved to be the difference. rick kwan has the highlights of the a's win hey! have you ever tried honey nut cheerios? love 'em. neat! now you on the other hand... you need some help. why? look atchya. what is that? you mean my honey wand? [ shouting ] [

the first shot was fired in nevada, captured on home video, dick carver, a county supervisor, reopened a road in the national forest. two federal rangers said they were threatened. it was the fourth of july, and it became a declaration of independence for a new rebellion. this time, from the feds. >> on the one hand, it is sort of funny, right? this little county in nevada, this one county commissioner, bulldozing his way across the national forest, saying, this land is mine. this is ours! the u.s. government doesn't exist here. on the one hand, it's funny, except for the fact that this was happening in the context of bombs that kept going off in federal government offices, all over that part of the country. now, that bulldozing was july 4th. it was independence day in 1995. in march of 1995, a u.s. forest service employee named guy pence had had a pipe bomb set off in his office at the u.s. forest service. five months later, another pipe bomb blew up in a van that was parked outside his house. his wife and his daughter were home at the time, but thankfully they were not injured. on ja

loved art so much, he heard about these people on the southwest coast of asmat who were spectacular carversnd collect art and bring it home to the museum. >> reporter: just 23, michael traveled village to village in what was then a dutch colony. he took hundreds of photographs and collected a stunning array of artifacts including the ceremonial beach poles, canoes and other pieces still on display in the wing named for him at new york's metropolitan new york of art. ♪ but on november 18, 1961, he was traveling in an open boat with dutch anthropologist reneÉ wassing when tragedy struck. >> it was a beautiful day. that was the thing. it wasn't a storm. the sun was shining, but they hit these waves. so they hit the waves and the boat -- a wave swamped the inogen with no power. they flipped over. >> reporter: do you remember what your father said to you? >> i can remember the telegram that he held up, and he said, i have very troubling news. >> reporter: it is a memory that is long -- has long haunted mary morgan, born mary rockefeller, she is michael's twin sister. when your father first walke

and wasn't until really the early 1 00's, that the era of plant scientists, george washington carver,whole new era of plant scientists emerged. so the patent process for plants was very critical in america and internationally. host: make sure to tune into book tv and american history tv this weekend as we feature the history and literary life of fort myers florida, and to watch videos from all the cities we visited, go to c-span.org/localcontent. we continue our focus on the u.s. economy today with daniel kutslaben. last week it was indicated u.s. banks might need to hold additional capital to be prepared for additional stress. explain what are the rules today for how much capital banks have to hold to protect against losses in the future? >> right. ok. so what janet yellon and a couple bank regulators said this week is a new rule would say there's a thing called the enhanced leverage ratio. banks will have to hold 5% as opposed to 3% of capital and reserve. capital is just assets minus liabilities. it's cash, it's assets, it's what you have lying around. it's sort of to hold in reser

knowing that the legislative calendar was short, house and senate sponsored work with senator carver and senator coburn to preconference a process that ensured the bill would be taken up by the full senate and which anticipates our passage here today. we also were able to bring to the table those reformers in the administration, both political appointees and career civil servants, to offer technical improvements to the bill and they're incorporated in this legislation. while the bill does not contain all reforms the house advanced in its two previous votes on the data act, the bill before us today does contain the core elements of the two prior versions of the bill and maintains the most important step, common data standard and recipient reporting. the data act is more than just better tools to fight waste and fraud. requires agencies to report their financial information in standard formats program by program. the data act gives policymakers in congress and in the executive branch better information to make better decisions. more importantly, we give the american people better infor

for deciding whether this is a person who we really want to angle out more than george washington carver order to the roosevelt or someone else. and it was because mcdonald and finally helms took the position that they did. they made it untenable for people to oppose the holiday. you just didn't get it loaded in the paper if you talked about the cost and the importance of the passage of time for judging historical significance. we got into the headlines which others gladly quoted and emphasize and reemphasize was with paranoid unseemly unsportsmanlike character assassination tactic. squaring off ted kennedy versus jesse helms i need to all the people, even conservative republicans in many cases would not be associated with that unseemly line. they came over to work the holiday and that is really why we had it in its reproduction of the same type of, which i think isn't nearly about our hearts and minds, but about providing public opinion and isolating the bull connors and the sheriff hearts in the 1960s and putting people like jesse helms and larry mcdonald and john ashcroft into the spo