. >> yes, cher and cyndi lauper. >> that is.also have a heartwarming story from the heart of christmas tree country. how one little nursery from north carolina would grow the tree that is now set to find pride of place inside the white house. so cool. here's justin berger from our station in asheville. >> the story of how the first seeds were planted is easy to take in. ellen was 16 and klein 18 when his father re fenced the cattle farm to allow room for a passion project. >> farming christmas trees. >> we had to learn as we went. >> the couple planted their first fraser firs in the mid 70 was harvesting cabbage and pull beans to make ends meet while they waited nearly a decade for that first seedling to fully mature were still selling to several of the nurseries they peddled to back in the day business at klein church nursery has boomed in the decades since, but now it's the second generation running the show. growing up hiding and playing in the christmas trees and i could get lost like 20 rows back in the trees and they would

. >> great, good evening, i'm cyndy comeford, climate program manager. and here to discuss the climate action plan. if you develop the word cloud for all the feed babsinger the word trees and green spaces were ten times larger than anything else. this is a very important topic to our resident sxz department. we know that green space sxz nature, help climate change through carbon c is hequestration. we've had a lot of momentum in this area. which inspires leader, and have nature fall cities. additional, some of you may have read in the chronicle over the last week, san francisco just received 14 million dollars to augment tree planting in the city over the next five years. so there is a lot more accomplishments and challenges. and i'm going to turn it over to our senior biodiversity coordinate er peter to present this evening. >> all right, thank you, cindy. thanks for having me. great to be here. good to be back. so i'll just introduce myself, peter brasstow, i've been with the department since 2012, i came out of decades old long, ecological restoration

name checked, or democratic leader hakeem jeffries to people across the culture like robert de niro, cyndihese being recurring guests which includes like harlem artist dave east who talked with us from everything from police reform to what really marks a strong person to how his music has come to reflect on his life being the father of two daughters. >> i feel like people are more into power than love. you know what i mean? >> the nypd need to fall back this week. it's happening everywhere, but i'm from new york city, so it bothers me that the cops that police me and my family, you know what i'm saying, is killing innocent people. >> dave, sometimes people act more certain than they are to appear strong. you see that? >> i believe that. i feel like it's losing 90% of the time. you may do that more to seem more certain. >> i agree with that. any strength over you becomes a liability. >> you had this line, we would go hustle so eagerly, watch what i say now because my daughter repeating me. >> she's repeating me. i'm mature now, a father now. now i have to watch my every move, what i say, wh

. >> that passage where she is running through bergdorf's, that's something cyndi lauper would have done bucked convention. and not just because in one of them streisand soft shoes with penguins. >> to be 23 years old and have an hour hng-long special in net television in those days and to not have any guests, no one to kind of buffer you, she could have called in, i don't know, bob hope or somebody to come in there. someone she could lean on. she didn't do that. >> no. she didn't. she knew how powerful she was. ♪ so i say it to you ♪ ♪ like the french people do ♪ >> reporter: stephen holden is a retired "new york times" music and film critic who wrote about streisand for decades. >> there was no one else like there, isn't there isn't now. >> reporter: in the earl performances, it doesn't seem like she is asking for the audience's approval. >> no. she is demanding it. ♪ and any place i hang my hat is home ♪ >> reporter: the specials were ratings hits. >> emmy award presented to barbra streisand! >> reporter: her first won five emmys. >> i couldn't believe the amount of people that watch