of los angeles. the financial crisis has hit hard here record amounts of foreclosures have bangs turfing people out of their property case and on to the streets the city of angels is fast becoming a city of homeless joshua's among them two years ago he lost his job and while his income came to an average hold the bills certainly didn't well i was working as assistant manager. part store and. i just. left the ledge and there i don't have a new worlds to go and a recent report by the national coalition for the homeless of range los angeles as the meanest city in the country when it comes to dealing with the problem a world. where the homeless are poor treated under by law enforcement probably in this country has been a criminal a very poor. general dogan lives in the streets of skid row he says the police have worked out a solution for dealing with the homeless and arrest them for. any minor infraction strategy that's winning the applause of the business community and real estate developers their job is to move all knowing common home as well out of the great that we community what they want to do is run all of poor folks out so that the bell of will pu

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debt have seen the city's homeless community expand a little government help available the situation is only expected to worsen artie's many coaching of a has more. the city of angels the promise land of and this opportunities has become a living nightmare for some los angeles is a mirage. people believe that they're coming to see hollywood august stars are here. this beautiful beaches and the girls with the welcome take a look at skid row you can compare it to third world countries this treat is an informal border between shiny downtown l.a. and skid row behind me in the shadow of the down valley skyline stray some fifty blocks with the largest concentration of homeless people in the entire country for many it's not just the place it's the way it's life and at last resorts in the off and on few main underbelly up los angeles. the financial crisis has hit hard here record amounts of foreclosures have bangs turfing people out of their properties and on to the streets the safety of angels is fast becoming a city of home this joe sure is among them two years ago he lost his job and while his income came to an after upholds the bill certainly didn't well i was working

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you know where to go the city of angels homeless community is growing while the government may be turning a blind eye more on that in a few minutes. but first political prisoners a term associated with a dark chapter of soviet history when millions were locked up in forced labor camps known as gulags in a bid to make sure the horrors of the past are forgotten russia has converted one of the remaining gulags into a museum or he peer over visited and spoke with one of the former inmates. hidden away in the ural mountains hundreds of kilometers from the nearest city is perm thirty six where the soviet government sent its dissidents now though it's a museum dedicated to making sure that part of twentieth century history is never forgotten. people wanted to understand the causes of those reprisals name all the victims and pass the knowledge of what happened here on to future generations. so you video of was an inmate at the perm camp in one thousand nine hundred eighty four he was sentenced to seven years for agitation and anti soviet propaganda now in his eighty's he still remembers life on t

so it is showtime again in the city of angels. the lady terrapins congratulations on a terrific season. they lost to notre dame. here is tim brant core. it's one of the biggest of the games in a long time last night. the capitals and the sabres. buffalo beat the capitals. washington had costly turnovers, careless moves. buffalo just kept pounding and scoring. second period, down three points. on the power play, look at this. ovechkin falls in the chase. a short-handed goal. 4-1, buffalo. the sabres beat the capitals the third time this year. >> you have to forget about it. we need to win in boston. you put it behind you. it is always hard. tomorrow morning we will get back to work a. >> the capitals lose. florida has increased their lead in the southeast division after winning. >> the news continues at 5:30 on good morning washington. the latest on the investigation into the death of trayvon martin. details on a local event tonight that will recognize the teenager. >> i am steve rudin in the belfort furniture weather center looking

i do my work in the city of los angeles and as you know, most people think of it as ground zero for gangs. one out of every gang member in the united states of america resides in los angeles, so i have a lot of people to observe and a lot of people that i spend my time with, who i talk with, who i live with, who are my sisters and brothers, my god children and they are my guides. i've interviewed and done life histories on over 300 gang members and i think it's very important, we've heard a lot of stories here today and we're going to hear a lot of stories here today, but i wanted to mention a group that hasn't been mentioned, which are women and young girls. i'm looking at some of your faces knowing that your sisters are a part of gangs or at risk for joining gangs in our country as well as transnationally right now. now, as i've listened to these voices that we rarely hear and we're so lucky to hear them today, as i listen, there's a young man who was 18 years old. one month past his 18th birthday, he was facing life in prison without the possibility of parol. precisely like mr. hill ha

this tuesday we're premiering my new song, "city of angels." so check that out. >> good luck to you. and as always, you can check out all of our music mondays, all of our interviews. just go to my blog, cnn.com/brooke. also, give me a tweet. if you like this music monday, if you want to see someone else, give me a tweet at brooke@cnn. >>> all right, back here top of the hour. live from the cnn grill in austin, texas here at south by southwest. we're going to talk about that in just a moment here, but i want to begin with a story that is just absolutely heart wrenching. this american soldier is being held this hour in afghanistan. he allegedly left his base in the middle of the night. he walked to two nearby villages, broke down doors, shot, stabbed and burned afghan civilians. in total, the number we have is 16. 16 people are dead. that includes nine children. it's a horrible turn of events in afghanistan and sarah is live for us in the city of kabul. sarah, i know this massacre happened near kandahar. tell us what happened. >> reporter: we're

bad bill the los angeles city council los angeles city council's become the first city in the country to approve a resolution to censor radio and t.v. the resolution urges the management of radio and television stations in los angeles to do everything in their power to ensure that their on air hosts do not use and promote racist and sexist words over the public airwaves in the city of los angeles now i'm usually on the same side as liberals and i'm just as offended as anybody a racist and sexist comments like those made recently by limbaugh and other right wingers but when we give the government the power to determine what's considered offensive political speech it's a slippery slope for example how long would it be before they come after me for calling george w. bush a war criminal. and the very very ugly senator john thune in the wake of the trayvon martin tragedy senator thune and his republican colleagues are trying to turn america into the wild wild west along with twenty eight other republican senators thune introduced a bill yes. it would allow people authorized to carry a concealed weapon in their home state to carry it all other concealed carry states it would b

. >> los angeles is one of the most vulnerable cities for an earthquake. in the 2010 red cross report, 7.2 magnitude earthquake were to strike l.a., 564,000 people would need to be sheltered and additional 2.5 million would require food and water. and unfortunately the l.a. metro area has only 341 shelter facilities with only 84,000 beds. can you tell me what progress has been made since that report? >> gentlemen. working with the emergency manager for the city, our region nine works with state of california. you point out again, if l.a. has this earthquake, they're not going to have enough shelters. the question is, are the shelters even survivable in the earthquake? we know we're going to have to depend upon nonimpacted communities to shelter that population. we work very closely with california emergency management agency on their plans and our ability to support literally having to get people to shelter outside that area versus what we can bring in to provide temporary shelters. so the plan is safety first and life sustaining activities and then lookin

and if you're a port like we are, which is also associated with the city, the city of los angeles, we have federal requirements, procurement, environmental, historical. we have state requirements, procurement and environmental and historical. we have city requirements we have to deal with. you're making it so difficult to execute that i think that's got to be fixed. and when you fix that, people will be spending the money in the -- as it's given to you, and you won't have this lag where there -- it seems like there is this big pot of money left over that people don't need. it's not that they don't need it, it's just that it's very difficult to use it. >> the question going between '12 and '13, i think it's very commendable what congress did this year in the y '12 budget, giving $974 million of budget to the department to allocate the funding based upon which programs met the national need. and i think that's commendable. and i think that the department went about that in a very professional and organized way. the 2013 proposal, as i mention in my brief oral statement, like i said, has

of our nation the biggest cities and as president kerwin's that we're talking about 2.5 million school children, a mix of the best and brightest and most of the problems that we face. we have los angeles mayor antonio villaraigosa, new york city mayor michael bloomberg and chicago mayor rahm emanuel. and education secretary arne duncan. in a few minutes we will be joined by the superintendent from all of these school districts to talk about how they are dealing with the bureaucratic and hierarchical problems some of them have inherited as well. education is at the forefront of all of the problems we face in the nation. every social and political problem comes together at the crossroads of our school system. it is the core of the crisis of unemployment and wagging behind in global competitiveness. today's conversation will address how each of our mayors are addressing these challenges and what their successes are and what they're continuing challenges are. this is a work in progress so we are going to address all of that. we are looking forward to a thoughtful conversation to engage you in questions and answers as well as the superintendent very shortly. first you, mayor villaraigosa.

rob hayes reports on all the excitement in the city of angels. >> reporter: from nba all-star and lakerbusinessman, earvin "magic" johnson has made the transition smoothly. but can he make the switch now to baseball? that question is downright radioactive. >> we as dodger fans can be excited about this, but there's -- we also have to give this group some time. >> reporter: l.a.'s radio waves were buzzing with talk about the sale of the dodgers to magic's group. and the ownership's odds of succeeding. >> frank mccourt, a guy who came here from boston and purchased the team for $430 million that he borrowed leaves with $2 billion and half -- a 50% share of all the land around the stadium. >> reporter: getting the public to forget about mccourt will be johnson's task. magic is clearly an l.a. sports hero as well as a business leader and community advocate. while he appears to be the face of the new owners, johnson is just one of several partners in the group buying the team. >> i was a little shocked and surprised, but, you know, i think it's a happy day for everybody in l.a. and for the d

but this is a very good example of why only looking at what the city of los angeles gets for funding doesn't really tell the story. because they could not shelter if they end up with that many people that are homeless looking for a place to stay. we're not going to be able to shelter them in that area with that impact. we have to move them to surrounding communities. we also have to bring a lot of resources from outside that area in to support that response. this goes back to national preparedness. there are scenarios that are so big for any jurisdiction to be prepared for it is impossible, how do you leverage those capabilities across, not just within a state but across state lines and in some cases nationally. so the work there that we work with cal-u is looking at that type of catastrophic planning. focus on how do we get to folks? life safety, looking at shelter needs and the fact that we're going to probably have to use a lot of capability outside the immediate area and then look at what it would take to stabilize to even set the stage for getting people back in and repopulating

city in the world to have that kind of data available. >> other cities can take elements of sfpark and implement it in the cities. los angeles is working on it. berkeley is working on a project. washington, d.c. is, too. cities are looking at parking management differently than the have in the past. >> later this year, we are gathering all the data we need to evaluate rigorously all our expectations of how this can reduce greenhouse gas emissions, congestion, improve transit speed, reliability, reduc. [applause] >> good evening. i'm the director of transportation. for me, this is not the academy awards. this is the all-star game. the folks sitting over here are truly the all stars of the city. i've had an opportunity to work with ed, harlan, and jocelyn. behalf of all of us. we are also very lucky to have a bunch of people from sfmta, many of them are here. my job is to introduce the awardees. please join me and give a hand for jay primus, george reynolds, steven lee, and lorraine fuqua. >> thank you. this is a tremendous honor. it really does feel fabulous to be recognized. one of the relief fund things about this project i

one of the persons i worked with in the city of los angeles, college educated fell for it and so the challenge is getting people -- it can happen to anyone. we try to let people know that. >> in addition to law enforcement, there is educational component to all this. we want to talk about the educational efforts being made. >> first of all the federal trade commission web site is the place i would recommend consumers start. look on their website, ftc.gov at business opportunity fraud and check with the state attorney general. the maryland attorney general is here. you can find their address on your state websites. the national consumers league is here. they have a site, fraud.org which is helpful to consumers. i would really advise people to not pay attention to the information from the people that are working possibly in fraud with the frogs there but to consider talking to their friends below quote consumer groups and consider giving someone i don't know $20,000 to make a lot of running. what do you think? consider hiring an attorney for one hour of consultation. there are a lot of

because there is a will in a city of los angeles, and chicago and new york to tie reform to more money, to do the kind of things, to get the kind of flexibility that we need to innovate and set the highest standards. >> that is good news. this has to be come before you wanted next speed is secretaries duncan has made a point step we will now on our own be able to put our performance, our reform, our changes with an idea towards a set of results, a small thing to do, the whole concept of race to the top. so giving our chance, at least are three cities, a chance to finally -- know, but to get the resources. here's are changes compared the reforms, it are candidly, here's the results we want and not be tied to what goes on at the state level is going to be a senator can change but and it's a change long two and welcomed by all of us. >> let me just -- >> he deserves and applause, go ahead. [applause] >> otherwise on the car ride home he might have a second thought. >> is about to some of the mayor bloomberg said, almost in passing. you pointed out the other point rate for college graduate

wake up and pay attention to the possibilities of urban violence in black sections of cities in 1965 with los angeles. which hershall, he made reference to it. violence spreads throughout the watts section of los angeles in 1965 for six days. again, in response to an altercation between an african-american citizen and a police officer. six days of violence that results in 34 dead people, 1,032 injured, 3,400 arrested. the national guard is called in. and over 970 buildings be damaged and destroyed estimated at $40 million in property loss. that's los angeles 1965. 1967 is a long hot summer in the language of the 1960s, insofar as there are multiple moments of violence in cities throughout the country. the two largest concentrating in detroit and newark. again, both tied to altercations, misunderstandings, moments of violent exchange between african-americans and police officers. july 12th through 17th, 1967, newark erupts into disorder. that results in 26 people dead, 725 injured, 1,500 arrested, and property damage is estimated at over $10 million. detroit, after a police raid of an after-hours -- i

from the univision offices there in mexico city where they filmed outside and you can see the central statue, one of the central statues in mexico city of an angelis is that video. there you see it. it's an angel statue in mexico city. you can see it just shaking slightly and then you see images of people, evacuating people on the streets. i want to bring viewers up-to-date on video that we showed earlier and well known video of the bus that was cracked in half. according to televisa they interviewed one of the officials there who said that there was a concrete barrier that fell about ten feet. this was in the district of oscapozalco in mexico city. the mayor said there were no accidents, but this was a concrete barrier that fell ten feet on to a minibus there. televisa is reporting that service is interrupted in parts of mexico city subway because of deform eggs of railway. that's information we're getting about infrastructure. buildings in mexico city and cities nearby have been retrofitted utsch in like the buildings on the west coast of the united states and elsewhere where there's seismic activity. they've been retrofitted to withstand this

of representatives. >> a city in los angeles that was almost disincorporated because of corruption scandals is now being investigated for possible voter fraud. an investigator is looking in to complaints about a surge of registered voters. at one small home there are 9 registered voters with 6 different last names. the complaint comes a week before the first election. just a few fraudulent voters could change an election. >>> actress lindsey lohan won her freedom today after a judge ended her probation. >> you know what you need to do. you need to live your life in a more mature way, stop the night clubbing and focus on your work. >> lohan smiled when the drug told her she would be on her own self imposed leash. lohan no longer must appear in court or report to a probation officer. the actress has performed community service and was jailed three times. today she appeared relieve today have the 5-year ordeal behind her. >> i just want to say thank you, your honor, for being fair, and it's really opened a lot of doors for me so i really appreciate it. >> lohan remains on informal probation for taking a ne