this in every single river every single creek everest single stream and los angeles behind me is compton creek it's one of the many streams that drains the los angeles area now this stream will go into the los angeles river and then out to the pacific ocean the purpose of this boat is to to get attention and get politicians get other schoolteachers get the public to look at us and listen to our story. listening to marcus and his story is like being in most of the planet's seas and taking the time to look. in the mediterranean alone there are three million tons of garbage drifting around and eighty percent of it is plastic. we don't think about it but the sea bed wasn't always covered with these or from an identifiable drifting object. we're really the third generation to make massive use of plastics. all this is the result of sixty years of consumption. we've let plastic colonize the sea. on the surface. a few meters down. and at the depths of one thousand meters. with all of this material will be down here for ages especially where it's really data there's much less oxygen and no light

parent revolution organized parents in compton. they were the first to use california's parent trigger law to try to convert a low performing school into a charter. >> two years ago, will started as a grass roots movement of parents looking around and basically saying to themselves if we're going to give our kids the education they deserve, there is nobody coming to our rescue. it's got to be us. >> reporter: the compton school board challenged the parents' petition, but it became national news in the concept of parent unions is spreading. panelists from acrossed country talked about the movement. he admits mistakes were made and they're thousand doing things differently. s . >> we're helping parents to form parent union chapters. they have elected leadership, they file papers with the secretary of state and they commit to advocating for the education of their own children. >> reporter: parent revolution is funded by several private foundations. day sat down with melinda gates to talk about ways parents can become more involved. >>

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

serena williams, 29 years of age, born in saginaw, grew up on the public courts of compton, californiakes her home in florida, home beach gardens. and just has come back with a roar this summer feeling very comfortable and in terrific shape and just beating up on her opponents. there they are. mary: she only lost a couple of games through the first couple of rounds. then she had to play azarenka. that second set got very interested. she panicked but still got through it in straits. then she beat champion ivanovitch and pavlyuchenkova in straight sets as well. it has been very impressive. dick: only woman not drop a sess. wozniacki, she's the youngest at 21. her parents moved from poland. her father was a soccer star. and she has won more matches and more titles than any woman, 58 matches and six titles this year including new haven. and there's her road. john: well, she also started off with some pretty easy wins but that fourth round that's where it got a whole lot tougher for wozniacki. a set and and 4-1 down. that was tough for her to hang on and get to this opportunity to play sere

ann compton was in the room for abc news. >> everything was so relaxed. this was not a big pressure event. the kids were kind of bewildered by all the fuss around them. >> reporter: what few people in the room knew was that a plane had crashed into the world trade center. for now, the event at the school continued. >> and we were following our normal pattern of reading and the pettoat just happened to be the next story. >> reporter: the pet goat. it was while they were picking their books up that someone came in the room. >> yeah, it was like a transition time. >> the minute i saw andy card walk into that classroom, leaea over and whisper to the president, i knew something was direly wrong. nobody interrupted the president. not even in front of a classroom of second graders. >> reporter: what did you see on the president's face? >> he looked anxious. he was looking at the camera, at the walls. >> very seriously concerned. >> he left the room. mentally, he was gone. >> reporter: you could see it? >> i could see it and i could feel it. he was gone. >> so, w

and you ended up going to compton, one of the toughest districts in the country. >> right.was such a stark contrast from being in the investment banking world for two years. where you're working long hours with the expectation of, you know, large bonuses, and sort of an accelerated path in the finance world. and to do a 180 degree shirt, and to get sent out to compton, and to teach second grade for two years was a 180 degree perspective change. and i loved every minute of it. >> how did it change you? >> i think for me, in several ways. i think one of the things before, i'd see interesting thing and be, that would be really cool to do. but then, i'd be like, one day, maybe i'll do that. and in terms of my perspective changed in a sense that i was like, you know what? let's just go out and do it. when can i do it? especially when you're trying new things. i think it made me a more patient person. a more calm person as well that nothing really stresses me out anymore. so i think it had meaningful impact. >> and how did it change you? >> like i said before, i think it's just a

then what "newsweek," of course now with the pbs news hour and andrea mitchell with nbc news and ann compton with nbc news. the three panelists, the three women said wait a minute. we think that question. they tried to talk him out of it and at least not use her name. and he was adamant he was going to ask the question and he asked the question. and i, just in doing some old fashioned reporting about the meeting and how it all came about discovered that there is hard feelings that exist to this day about the fact that these three panelists tried to talk him out of asking the question in the first place and there was back talk about somebody knew the question ahead of time and the word leaked out, look at any rate, it left -- and i say this in the book, it is a good lesson all of us in journalism including the the two of us, gloria, that all of the frailties of human kind exist among journalists as they do among lawyers and preachers and bus drivers and everybody else and in this case and honest i believe honest disagreement of what each one heard and each one believed and there were not any

andrea mitchell with nbc news and anne compton with abc news.he three panelists, three women said to bernie, hey, wait a minute, we think that question -- they tried to talk him out of it and at least not use her name, that they thought -- and bernie was adamant to ask the question, and he asked the question, and i in just doing reporting, old fashioned reporting about the meeting and how it all came about and discovered that there is hard feelings that exist to this day about the fact that these three panelists tried to talk him out of asking the question. there's back talk about whether somebody knew the question ahead of time and the word leeked out. there's no evidence that it did leak out, but at any rate -- i'll tell you what, and i say it in the book, it's a good lesson for all of us in journalism, including the two of us, gloria, that all the frailties of human kind exist among journalists as they do among politicians and lawyers and preachers and bus drivers, and everybody else, and in this case, there was an honest, i believe, honest d

lapse and a new wave of global recession and sasha malia she found the commission of north trees in compton from queens to the sublime. new cancer europe all doing america has been a. great power has been through the palestinian statehood bid we showed president mahmoud abbas has within the last week the us that is rather being blamed for schooling and historic period of. time now to check in literally just what was used in the caves. a lot of thank you for joining me for the latest sports news and here's what's coming up. tracking the army midfield assault on small church and alexander could return as injury hit taste go and get set to host italian giants into well on in the champions league. one million dollars short american bill haas wins the fed ex cop in atlanta beating until may and in a dramatic play off the top championship. outs of a cop car has to start playing the first trophy of the new russian basketball season as they look like. even more static. but will first slow and there's one game taking place in the russian premier league this monday night as big spending that's aching

. >> >> a popular children's park in compton, being investigated. 33-year-old employee christopher hull arrested on wednesday. he was one of the sons of the park's employees. he had pornography on his computer there is no evidence that illicit behavior in the park. still, some parents want the park closed. >> i do believe it should be shut down or suspended. >> i want there to be a transparentsy that it's safe. >> reporter: the mayor said howell passed a background check. because of that, the mayor said the park did nothing wrong. . >>> in libya, rebels moved closer to gaddafi's hometown. military commanders say they hoped gaddafi supporters will surrender peacefully, but they want to be ready in case of an assault. the rebels have pushed back a deadline for the loyalists to surrender until september 10th. gaddafi, himself, was not heard from and his whereabouts are unknown. . u.n. agencies began to deliver 11 million bottles of water, today, libyan capital has been without running water for a week. rebels say gaddafi forces sabotaged the city's water pumps. the u.n. plans to distribute

. >> >> a popular children's park in compton, being investigated. 33-year-old employee christopher hullted on wednesday. he was one of the sons of the park's employees. he had pornography on his computer there is no evidence that illicit behavior in the park. still, some parents want the park closed. >> i do believe it should be shut down or suspended. >> i want there to be a transparentsy that it's safe. >> reporter: the mayor said howell passed a background check. because of that, the mayor said the park did nothing wrong. . >>> in libya, rebels moved closer to gaddafi's hometown. military commanders say they hoped gaddafi supporters will surrender peacefully, but they want to be ready in case of an assault. the rebels have pushed back a deadline for the loyalists to surrender until september 10th. gaddafi, himself, was not heard from and his whereabouts are unknown. . u.n. agencies began to deliver 11 million bottles of water, today, libyan capital has been without running water for a week. rebels say gaddafi forces sabotaged the city's water pumps. the u.n. plans to distribute anoth

format, one moderator, three panelists and the three panelists, margaret warner now the newshour, ann compton, still with abc news and andrea mitchell still with nbc news. and they were opposed to bernie using kitty dukakis's name. they thought... it was a mistake and they couldn't talk him out of it and he's still annoyed about it frankly, that they even tried to talk him out of it. >> rose: bernie is. how about dukakis? >> well, dukakis... dukakis told me at least at my interview a few yes later he said, hey, look, maybe it was a mistake the way i... the question he... the issue here wasreally in the final analysis it was dukakis's answer not bernie's questn. if dukakis had said "i'd want to kill him. i'd grab him." but george h.w. bush said that's what he should have said. but if dukakis had done that well, then the issue nobody would even probably have remembered the question. they certainly wouldn't have remembered it as a negative. david broder said right after that "dukakis has had it" because he started... he turned it into a treatise on capital punishment. >> rose: and that plus the

it was with "newsweek," of course now with the pds newshour, andrea mitchell of nbc news, and ann compton with abc news, the three panelists, the women said wait a minute, rethink that question and at least not use her name that the thought and bernie was adamant and she was going to ask the question and he asked the question, and i just in doing some old fashioned reporting live at the meeting and how little can about discovered that there is some hard feelings that exist to this day about the fact that the three panelists tried to talk about asking the questions and they're some back talk about whether somebody knew the question ahead of time and the word leaked out there is no evidence the fed did leak out but at any rate, it left -- and i tell you what i see it in the bucket is a good lesson for all of us in journalism including the two of us that all of the frailties of human kind exists among the journalists as they do among politicians and lawyers and preachers and bus drivers and everybody else, and in this case there was an honest, i believe honest disagreement of what each one h

. -- saw ann compton in the press pool. the teacher was speaking to the class. up?there was a break in the compensation in the front of the class. -- conversation in front of the class. i whispered into the president's year. a second plane hit the world trade center. america is under attack. >> i will stop him. the president did not tell those words until months after the incident. andy, what i want to know is, before you walk in there, did you exert any authority? did you say, get air force one ready? did you start anything? >> i did not. i focused on getting the word to be president. i did not stay in the classroom long. i stood back from the president. i thought he reacted in the right way. he did nothing to demonstrate here to the press corps, who would have translated it to the satisfaction of terrorists around the world. i left, and then i moved into operational mode. i said, get lines of communication open to the fbi director in the situation room, condoleezza rice, the secretary of defense. we have to get some remarks written for the president. we have to ge

we are pleased that and compton of abc is the news has been here to moderate the program. we hope to wrap up around 11:45. it is my honor to introduce governor cane and mr. hamilton need no introduction. together, they were the cochairs of the 9/11 commission and co- chair the national security prepared this group. welcome them now. [applause] >> this is a very special occasion for us. this is the first time in a long time so many of us on the commission have been together and we established not only a good working relationship, but a pretty darn good friendship. it is special to have you all back. thank you again for an amazing job. september 11th was that day when violent islamic extremists hijacked four of our commercial planes and turned them into weapons, killing nearly 3000 people and the world changed. these attacks exacted a devastating toll on many, many families. our government, the private- sector and our daily lives are now very different since that day. indeed, it is difficult to comprehend all the ways our nation has changed. the most visible reminder of thos

black caucus has been going around the country, hosting job fairs, 20,000 people attended an event in comptonrday, and a frustrated cry went out from that event, that this president is not doing enough to tackle head-on a crisis among his most loyal constituents. martha. martha: that situation -- tough situation to be sure, thank you very much. bill: look at those lines. >>> will new e-mail evidence field questions about the box running scandal -- guns running scandal known as fast and furious? >> where do you go to find a busess backed by the superguarantee®? only& suonline.s®. on your phone. or in the book. go to superpages®. and let the good guys save the day. at exxon and mobil, we engineer smart gasoline that works at the molecular level to help your engine run more smoothly by helping remove deposits and cleaning up intake valves. so when you fill up at an exxon or mobil station, you can rest assured we help your engine run more smoothly while leaving behind cleaner emissions. it's how we make gasoline work harder for you. exxon and mobil. the best approach to food is tkeep it whole for

get their thoughts on what has been achieved and what remains to be done we are pleased that and compton of abc news has agreed to be our moderator. we hope to wrap up around 1145 -- eleven o'clock 45. it is my honor to introduce governor came and congressman hamilton. together, they were the cochairs of the 9/11 commission and now co-chair the national security prepared this group. please welcome them. [applause] >> i am leading off. lee will follow. this is a very special occasion for us. this is the first time in a long time that so many of us from the commission have been together. we established a good working relationship and good friend chships. it is special to have you all back. thank you, again, for an amazing job. september 11 was that day when violent islamic extremists hijacked four of our commercial planes, turn them into weapons, killing nearly 3000 people. the world changed. these attacks exacted a devastating toll on many families, our government, the private sector, and our daily lives are very different since that day. indeed, it is difficult to comprehend all the ways

we are pleased that and compton will be our moderator. we will then call on you for questions. we hope to wrap up around 11:45 a.m. and now i will introduce tom kean and lee hamilton. together, they were the cochairs of the 9/11 commission. please welcome them. [applause] >> this is a very special occasion for us. this is the first time in a long time so many of us have been together. we established a good working relationship and darn good friendships. it is special to date have you all back. thank you again for an amazing, amazing job. 9/11 was a day when violent islamist extremist hijacked four commercial planes turning them into weapons killing nearly 9000 people and the world changed. these attacks exacted devastating toll on the many families, the families of 9/11, tarp government, the private sector, and our daily lives. -- our government, the private sector, and our lives. it is difficult to comprehend all of the ways that our lives has changed it. the most visible are the airport screening protocols come up being asked to report suspicious activity, drone strikes, in t