tavis: all right, please welcome david barber to the program, the noted author and furious at the center for the philanthropy and civil society at the university of new york. he is also the founder of interdependent state. it celebrates its 10th anniversary in l.a., and he joins us from new york. it is good to have you on the program. >> thank you, tavis. good to be here. tavis: the democrats in charlotte and republicans in tampa, where u.s. public policy is concerned, talk to me about what you have heard over these past two weeks and why not of it sounds to me like we are going to be working together over the next few months. >> well, i am afraid last week and particularly even this week, there is a lot about what america is going to do, but the reality is, we live in a world that it is not going to be the american century or the chinese century. it will be the global century altogether. we live in a world where the challenges are increasingly cross border and interdependent. we did not hear that last week. i am here to serve families. there will not be any families in 50 years if we do

tavis: all right, please welcome david barber to the program, the noted author and furious at the center for the philanthropy and civil society at the university of new york. he is also the founder of interdependent state. it celebrates its 10th anniversary in l.a., and he joins us from new york. it is good to have you on the program. >> thank you, tavis. good to be here. tavis: the democrats in charlotte and republicans in tampa, where u.s. public policy is concerned, talk to me about what you have heard over these past two weeks and why not of it sounds to me like we are going to be working together over the next few months. >> well, i am afraid last week and particularly even this week, there is a lot about what america is going to do, but the reality is, we live in a world that it is not going to be the american century or the chinese century. it will be the global century altogether. we live in a world where the challenges are increasingly cross border and interdependent. we did not hear that last week. i am here to serve families. there will not be any families in 50 years if we do

represents more than six million which his workers and secretary general brendan barber has accused the conservative prime minister david cameron and chancellor george osborne of knowing very little of the person beyond the wealthy west london districts where they live he also said that their insistence on austerity is not going to affect the wealthy in these areas but it's going to be the poor he pays the price now he also spoke stratospheric inequality between the rich and the poor in britain we've come to one of the wealthier areas in london where we've come to the local church now the church here provides a twice weekly feed banks service that's given a service to people who are struggling to afford even the bare essentials we come to meet the woman he once it does a bit more about this growing divide between the rich and the pool this is of vital importance people who are using the service if they weren't coming here they wouldn't have any food to put on their plate we have. community situations to them haven't eaten for days or longer but my clients are really feeling the pinch when it comes to food bills are risi

barber about this coming up in a few minutes. >>> no matter the age, chances are you know his work. ♪ what is the world needs now ♪ is love sweet love >> hal davide man behind the iconic tunes has died. he was best known for his partnership with burt bachrach. they say that david died in los angeles from complications of a stroke. he was 91. >>> now back to the locks at tammany parish. they are bursting at the seams from swollen flooding as a result of isaac. we hear that the parish opened up the valves last night in an effort to release some of the pressure, and you are getting new information from the parish president. >> randi, good morning. we are getting information that they are confident that they believe that some work they did will help tremendously to keep this river stable for the moment. i want the show you what we are looking at he. quite a beautiful scene quite frankly right off of the west pearl river, but you can also, if you see closely the current, and that current is moving quick ly, and people talk about how high this water has been before. i want to pan over to show you the water mark here. you can see right now where we are