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the gang who was born and raised in compton said the tweet was an accident and said you can all track a tweet down, but can't solve murders. >> i found it very interesting. we aren't the ones that created a crisis. we are the ones trying to serve the public. we reduce homicides by over 50% in the last few years. >> these are some of the calls that did make it through. >> they involved two robberies, a missing person, spousal assault, and an auto theft. >> the sheriff's department believes there's a number of emergency calls that didn't make it through. they are trying to find those people who may have been adversely affected. reporting in compton, i'm susan, cbs 5. >>> wrapped up about an hour ago and as in past years, it's been a huge success with fans and at the box office. don knapp was in the middle of it earlier tonight and now he's trying to make his way out through the crowds. don, how is it going out there? >> outside proving once again that if you build it, or build six music stages, they will come. just like they always have and weather, cold weather, fog, no deterrant. outs

last several years, we've reduced homicides and serious crime in compton by over 50%.and so i think he's got his facts wrong on several counts. >> you all right. captain mike parker from the l.a. county sheriff's department. thank you, sir. appreciate it. >> sure. >>> it's official. rick perry has entered the gop race for president. we're going to replay his announcement and you'll hear it for yourself right after the break and you can hear where he stands on the big issues. looking into his record as texas governor. ♪ sing polly wolly doodle all the day ♪ ♪ hah >>> if rick perry or frankly anybody else on that is taken last night were our nominee i'd be working hard for them because any one of the people on that stage as well as pick perry would do a heck of a lot better job leading this country than the current president. >> mihm romney is in the race for president and that's his thoughts on texas governor rick perry entering the race today. romney considered by many to be the front-runner in this race so far. perry now official little arrival for romney and the othe

and it was expanded districtwide, and then it went to fresno, compton, and oakland. he was an english lerner himself, so he taught the class , and he had so much success it went through that metamorphosis, so they saw the scores were declining after two straight math scores, they decided to use to try this program. and so it's a program that teaches teachers to use a uniform approach to math instruction and good teaching practices. the teachers wanted help with teaching math, because many elementary teachers are good at english language arts and a lot of them shy away from the math so what this program does is it teaches them how to teach in a uniform way so that if something is taught in one class it's taught the same way vertically and laterally so that the children are seeing the same type of instruction every time they see it taught. i went and looked at it and as a former master teacher with a bachelor's in mathematics, i was overwhelmed with how well it was done, how well it was received by the students. and after a half year of using it they went up 7.5% profi

last several years, we've reduced homicides and serious crime in compton by over 50%. so i think he's got his facts wrong on several counts. >> you all right. captain mike parker from the l.a. county sheriff's department. thank you, sir. appreciate it. >> sure. >>> it's official. rick perry has entered the gop race for president. we're going to replay his announcement and you'll hear it for yourself right after the break and you can hear where he stands on the big issues. looking into his record as texas governor. in one place. ♪ the front-row tickets you never bought. the lucrative investment you never made. the exotic vacation you never took. but there's one opportunity that's too good to miss. the lexus golden opportunity sales event, with exceptional values on the lexus rx. but only until september 6th. see your lexus dealer. fiber one. uh, forgot jack's cereal. [ jack ] what's for breakfast? um... try the number one! [ jack ] yeah, this is pretty good. [ male announcer ] half a day's worth of fiber. fiber one. announcer: when life's this hard, it's no wonder 7,000

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after long beach it went to fresno. >> compton, garden grove, lennox and oakland. vice president yee: commissioner norton. commissioner norton: i just wanted to add that actually i'm bringing this to curriculum for the september meeting, that we're going to be talking about math instruction in the district and the curriculum we're using. so i just talked to mrs. desmond about it. i'm sure she'll get back to you about it. but people that want to hear more about this, we can do that in september. i appreciate that. commissioner fewer: i have one question. is it the very descriptive program because we've had that before with temporary results and were not able to sustain that. >> it is not really scripted, it is the approach. it teaches teachers how to teach. so that if the teachers are teaching the formula, there's some consistency in the way it's taught. there's still creative license to do some things but there's consistency so that all of the points that need to be touched so that the child has a complete understanding of it are used. >> just so the board -- i'm g

. >> reporter: 12-year-old crystal montes comes to this compton school five days a week for a free lunch. >> enjoy your meal. >> thank you. >> reporter: served by the nonprofit los angeles regional food bank to children in this neighborhood where 90% come from families with incomes below the poverty line. 23,350 dollars a year for a family of four. >> my uncle is busy and my mom is at work we come to lunch so that way we won't be hungry a lot. >> reporter: these children are the faces of the growing trend. based on markers such as infant mortality and teen births, the study found child poverty rose in 38 states between 2000 and 2009 where poverty hits children hardest-- one in four children and more-- a wide arc of states, mostly across the american south. the recession has made matters much worse, affecting kids like 14-year-old jose gallardo and his six siblings. his parents? >> sometime they don't have that much work. we don't have a lot of money. sometimes not enough money to pay the rent. >> reporter: nevada has the highest percentage of children whose parents are under- or unemploy

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traffic visit out -- travis out to compton, cut in half. here comes another system dropping down out of the gulf of alaska and patchy fog cool tonight by the coast, there is always a climate that gets the sun temperatures will be low-to- mid 80s and these are slightly below to near normal temperatures. a few are pushing upper 80s like antioch and we get into a better pattern late next week. >>> the victim speaks exclusively on k tv u and he says it is not the first time this patient has struck. >>> the resident cue -- rescue to help a dog left in a parked car after his own first left him locked in a parked car. >> we will have some troubled spots. . >>> welcome back to the morning news, it is now 4:44. japan is now on the mark for remembering tens of thousands of people killed august 1945. thousands of people were there. the bombing came three days after the u.s. dropped an atomic bomb in hiroshima ending world war ii. >>> he became the latest victim at that troubled facility. our news organization was the only organization to speak with th

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>> well, i admit that i was one of the guys who called the compton police station. >> did you get the internship? >> i did not. i am stuck with this job. can you believe it. coming up next from the x finity sports desk, playing in the first major of his career, we have a surprise leader after day three of the pga championship, and we will tell you who is sitting pretty heading into the final round. also, the green and gold, trevor cahill took a no hitter into the sixth inning in the oakland coliseum and would it be enough for the a's to get a win over the first-place rangers. and the giants trying to bounce back over another disappointing loss, and could tim lincecum stop the bleeding? that is coming up in sports. >> welcome back to nbc bay area. the giants rookie brandon belt has been on a roller coast ther season and the team's top prospect has gone up and down from the big leagues to the aaa's. he got the call back up after the giants placed andres torres on the 15-day dl after a lower leg contusion that was suffered last night when he fouled a ball off of his le

stories this hour up next with the russian compton who saved all the passengers of his plane when his engines failed in may to at. hello again to spotlight. today my guest is. six years ago two russian scientists. discovered a revolutionary material called. last week they were awarded a nobel prize in physics for what is likely to lucian ice. today. are packing their bags to collect their million pounds. is joining us. from england. born in russia he sent in the muscle of his father was an engineer while his mother was a teacher after graduating with honors from the moscow physical technical university. at a scientific research center in the in moscow two years later he moved to the netherlands way he met another russian scientist on drug game and whose guidance he continues to work the do physicists later moved to the university of manchester in the u.k. to continue their research six years ago game discovered graffiti for which they were awarded the euro physics prize there to receive the world's most prestigious scientific award the nobel prize for producing graphene which can riva

promising regions norway has its you know the physical share of the articles of how to compton size extremely valuable in other. arctic regions and we've seen that the russians are inviting not only or norway in but all sort of the countries inland we can companies are playing in. rows in different projects all saw it in russia. you can watch the full interview with the noise of state secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs that is coming up next hour here on r.t. . come september israel will be hoping for the best but preparing for the worst the military is training and also reportedly arming the west bank settlers as they expect violence with the u.n. to votes on recognizing the palestinian statehood next month but as artist paula slip reports it's the actions of the jewish state and not the ballot that could lead to a black church. the united nations might be meeting next month to declare a palestinian state before more than half a million is really sick as they couldn't care less there has been so many the sessions they cleared in the un that have absolutely no meaning and are basele

promising regions norway has its you know a physical share of the arctic it feels of how the compton star is extremely valuable in other. regions and we've seen that the russians are inviting not only or norway in but also off the countries in that we can companies are playing in. rows in different projects all saw it in russia. now you can watch the full interview with norway's state secretary to the ministry of foreign affairs later this hour here on r t and of course more details of the deal between ross and here for next on in our business section now stay with us to learn what the deal means for the energy sector that's coming up in about ten or twelve minutes time. come september israel will be hoping for the best preparing for the worst the military is training and also reportedly arming the west bank settlements as they expect violence when the u.n. votes on recognizing the palestinian statehood next month and. reports it's the actions of the jewish state not the ballot that could lead to bloodshed. the united nations might be meeting next month to declare a palestinian state

is listed in phone number for people to call it was not his number the phone number belong to the comptonice that received an overwhelming number of calls. this prompted the captain mike please delete off your walls, the game this is compromising public safety according to him, a friend hacked his account with the l.a. sheriff's department is still considering filing criminal charges against the rapper. gay rights groups or calling for pat and corolla to be pulled off the air have to he went on an anti l gb she tirade. >> when did everybody get lumped in with those that are gay. when do we start giving a crap about these people? what is it again? it has to be something that spells something like yuck? >> he said he was sorry his comments were hurtful, he is a comedian not a politician. rise of the plan of the eight held on to the top spot and the newcomer the help beat expectations in getting the second spot. >> now rob and is back to give us an update on what is happening with our weather. >> we had a nice day, and we will start off with coastal and they fog. but the afternoon will cling

i would like to see the president come here to compton to carson to long beach.ome to our community and help our community. >> there's nothing to be gained by doing that you would say what? >> i strongly disagree. the president, when you look at the african-americans who came out and voted and came out, not only they voted but they brought a lot of people with them. this is not just about african-americans, might i say. i represent a diverse community, large la tee owe and asian population. the president isn't just coming to communities of african-americans alone. he's helping many people. people are ready to go. they are certainly not fired up. he has to come back to his base to help them. how are people going to go all across the country to volunteer to sleep on cots if they can't afford to feed themselves. we have a problem and together we can fix it. >> earl, last question. does the president of the united states have a special obligation to employ blacks in the country? >> when you have a crisis in african-american communities and it's not the constituency o

the performer known as the game tweeted the phone number of a sheriff's station in compton to his 580,000 followers yesterday, telling fans to call the number if they wanted an internship with him. sheriff's officials say the phones started ringing off the hook just before 5:30 last night and the emergency system was overwhelmed for just about two hours. the rapper tweeted that his account was hacked. then later tweeted it was an accident. >>> at bay area airports and across state highways, an amber alert continues this morning for a missing today letter and her father. plus, living without water or power, why a petaluma family has decided to squat in a small camper. ñsxóxgñ >>> good morning. and welcome back. your time is 8:30. we have continuing coverage of the amber alert that has been issued for a two-year-old sacramento girl. the fbi believes she was kidnapped by her father. ali rasmus is live at san francisco international with why authorities believe he may be taking his daughter out of the country. ali. >> reporter: that's right, 49- year-old mourad samaan is a u.s. citizen born i

. >> reporter: the fight ended when georgetown coach john compton pulled his team off the court huddling in the locker room before asking but not getting a police escort back to their hotel. >> i couldn't believe it. i've been in this business for 20 years and i've never seen an ending like this. >> very rarely have a brawl. >> this was a complicating issue. a lot of things thrown in together that made the situation escalate. kind of a unique thing. if you know what i mean. >> reporter: but this brawl and the video spreading across the internet was inconveniently timed just as vice president joe biden arrived in china. it had been all smiles when biden stopped by to watch georgetown's first game on wednesday, and before the trip georgetown players recorded a series of playful videos like this one where players looking for chinese tea at a georgetown cafeteria. >> we are georgetown. >> but it's this image the trip is most likely to be remembered for. we learned today several players from the chinese team visited the americans in their hotel this morning to try to smooth things over. saw t

last week, the compton county sheriff's station was flooded with hundreds of calls causing the phoneystem to shut down. investigators traced the calls back to the rapper's twitter account. the rapper says the tweet was a prank gone wrong. the sheriff's department says the prank was no joke. >> the people who were calling through with important calls, to include two robberies, a spousal assault, missing person, hit and run. >> i spoke to game and the incident and here's what he said happened. >> it was hacked, but by my friend. my phone was laying around and when ever is phone is laying around, we tweet from each other's page. that's what happened. >> so, what's your response to the l.a. police which are saying some real legitimate calls didn't make it through because of this mishap? >> it's a real sensitive subject. i never want to be the source of anything happening wrong to anybody or anyone not being able to get through the help lines tat police station. but it was a ten-digit toll free number and you know, when people are in trouble, they call 911. that's not to take away from th

but i think that the metrics to use for rick perry as a successful candidate compared to fred compton four years ago, can he raise money, and can he do it while he simultaneously gets down on the ground in iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, et cetera. if he does that, i don't think iowans will mind that he skipped this. >> if you watch rick perry, he's a better actor, speaker than mitt romney and up in the reagan class of delivering the speech. >> it was a well-written speech. his delivery -- he's not always as good as he was today. that's rick perry, close to the vest. very strong on the teleprompter with the prepared text. with the prepared text -- i don't know in f he used a prompter -- if he used a prompter. they've focused on flaws in rick perry as a candidate. he's a strong presenter, as you suggested, compared to mitt romney. he didn't sign the health care law in massachusetts, an individual mandate. if he can raise the money, i think this could quickly become a two-person race nationally if perry performs the way he needs to, fundraising and campaigning. >> i've been told by

in the town of compton lakes, our partners to end waste deep water as they try to save a burning home>> it will still take days for the airline industry to get hundreds of thousands of stranded travelers to their >> in total, 31 flights were cancelled on monday this is one of the busier weeks for travel and many flights are already full. he was supposed to fly back saturday she would add to a friend's house and was lucky that she did have to spend a weekend at the airport. >> we had nothing to do but we have jobs and have to go back to work on monday >> officials are asking travelers not to look to their poor unless their flights have been confirmed. >> this is why travel troubles are so widespread, but have one right up the east coast hitting almost every major city along the way along the eastern seaboard fortunately the storm weekend and then speered most of the northeast especially new york city. its spirit than the devastation but everyone was not so lucky, dozens of people have died, this is a post a tropical storm before went down to post a tropical levels we have video out of

they had two major rivers the compton river and pose aiackriver.rn new jersey is draining down draining south and ends up piling up in fairea iel causing major flooding. i am with the mayor he will explain some of that why they are hfor.ing historic levels on the shore of the rivers going into the passaic. what's haheiening? >> whaneps happee ang is they a coming down and it comes close to the pose back. it is choking off the pose ba p. it left our community a long time itehere a the poms opin is stoheiing the passaic river turning it around and sending the water back into our community. the volnee is coming off -- the volume is rendering the pose aiacup itaat wsant c passing th to back up and homes that a or mile and a half of the river will be ia tndated with flo se waters. >> how many are affected? >> 300 homes. >> businesses. there are businesses commerct t investment that won't be able to come back to work monday and ts nsday. >> doesnred c take a hurricane flood the communities. >> this is our second storm this year in march 201nkwe also had

but i have been a participant in the compton drug court, south of los angeles, which judge deshaies areas well as the downtown drug court in los angeles and the bay area courts, including judge stevens who is here now -- i am sorry, stephen manley. he will never forgive me. i'm sorry. judge steven, i've been a great supporter as well as the berkeley and oakland situations. what i see so often are the drug courts focus on low income, fixed income, people on the short end of the ladder. very often they have a public defender. the across-the-board rule is they are very rarely represented by a lawyer that they have to pay. they are generally all awarded in the stated that point. so when they stand in front of a compassionate, understanding judge and they are offered a very fundamental choice, mr., i'm going to pitch in the state penitentiary for three years or i'm going to give you an opportunity to turn your life around and treatment, that you can start today. what is your choice? 99% of those defendants will say give me the treatment. and when you see them come in, day or break off their

here's live images of a house on fire in compton lakes, new jersey.. >> politicians across the east coast push into high gear in preparation and in response to hurricane irene? how did they do? former white house secretary dana perino is here live to grade them. >> colin powell goes after his former colleague dick cheney. >> i think it's a bit too far. i think dick overshot the runway with that kind of comment if that is how he plans to sell his book. >> what did the former vice president say that got colin powell so upset? we'll tell you about that and so much more. we're watching "fox and friends." good morning, folks, it's monday. >> good morning, folks. gretchen is coming back later this week and we got ali in the center square today with a lot of news. >> happy to be with you guys. breaking news right now, fox news alert. this is a flooded home that's on fire right now and it is right in the middle of a flooded neighborhood, as you can see, all of the water surrounding this house on fire. this is an area that was left heavily flooded by hurricane

you have a group of parents in compton, california, who were the first parents who decided to use a newmayor helped to put forth which is called the. trigger which means a 51% of parents sign a petition that they could force the restructuring of a school. in the last example is a mother in akron, ohio, who decided, that you to falsify her residency documents so that her kids could go to a safer, higher performing school. your three examples of parents, you know, they're trying to get involved. and look at what happened with each of these groups appeared. in the first case we say sorry, i know you want your kids to be in a great school but there's no room for them here. right? the second group of parents were threatened with deportation and harassment and everything else because of the decision that they made to pull the trigger. benefit lady we throw in jail. so i don't think that we are communicating to parents, that we want them to be involved are i think what we are communicating to them is would like to continue to blame you and so we are better off if you just, we don't want your i

. >> i have been a participant in the compton drug courts, south of los angeles, as well as the downtown drug court in los angeles and the bay area courts , including stephen manley. as well as the berkeley and oakland situations. what i see so often are the drug low income, aus on homeless, fixed income people on .he short end of the lattedder very often, they have public defenders. the across-the-board rule is they're very rarely represented by a lawyer they have to pay. they are generally all wards of the state at that point. when they stand in front of a compassionate, understanding judge and are offered a very fundamental choice of going to the penitentiary for three years or having an opportunity to turn their lives around in treatment that they can start today, 99% of those defendants will say treatment. in, they see them come o are still wearing the orange jumper and are in chains. then you come back over months and witness the gradual, a story change where a human being is emerging from this chaos, this baggage that has been discarded and thrown away. motivationo self- and were

i suggest that these people with graphs hop in a car, go to south bronx, compton, gary, indiana, see what happens, and i submit to you this, if i was making an observation as an alien and i look at statistics, large, predominantly black neighborhoods, non-white neighborhoods, i would see tremendous amounts of crime and violence. if i noticed areas of white neighborhoods, buhigher education and productivity to the biggest myth is that if people don't have money that leads to crime. we were poor white trash but we did not urinate on the streets -- host: what is your conclusion? caller: non-whites are more predisposed to crime. it is in the disposition. come out of your bubbles and look at reality, look at the cities. they are destroyed -- host: all right, you have had enough time to make your case. guest: i will not speak for director lynch, but i live in neighborhoods, too, and even those who do statistics for the living litigated a life. i would point out a few things to the colored -- bang. even those who do statistics for a living out of that day to day life. i would point out a fe