david porter's executive director of the walk -- walter kaitz foundation. thanks for being with us at the cable show for 2011. the new head of the national cable television association has suggested that cable hasn't told his stories very well and how much good work it is done. the walter kaitz foundation is one of those good stories. tell me about it. >> guest: the walter kaitz foundation was formed 30 years ago for our workforce, for programming content, for our supplier, and it really represents the commitment of the industry that the ceo's of most of the major company server and our board of trustees and it allowed us over the years to create a number of programs and activities and provide funding for organizations within the industry to continue to advance the work of diversity across the entire industry. >> host: how does it work? give me an example of a major program that you do. >> guest: we find leadership development programs for senior executives are women of color sponsored by the national association of -- communication. we found a large progra

. >> host: david porter is the executive director of the walter case foundation. thanks for being with us at the chicago cable show, 2011. the new head of the national cable television association has suggested that cable hasn't told its stories very well and how much good work it actually has done. walter cates foundation is one of those good stories. tell me what it does. >> guest: the foundation was founded over 30 years ago with the idea of increasing diversity across the entire cable industry for our work force, for our programming content, for our suppliers, and it really represents the commitment of the industry that the ceos of most of the major companies serve with our board of trustees and have allowed us over the years to create programs and activities to provide funding for be organizations within the industry to continue to advance the work of diversity across the entire industry. >> host: how does it work? give me an example of a major program that you do. >> guest: well, um, we fund leadership development programs for senior executives of women and

edward hines had another son, a brother of duncan hines huji david jon porter and john porter hines was the grandfather of the wonderful lady to provide it with a photograph that you see on the dust jacket and so many of the manuscript is that i used to describe john porter and his family. so it is a very interesting crowd of people, and they are all still in evidence from kentucky. they don't move away from here very much. >> how long did it take you to put this together? >> i suppose the manuscript was given to me about 1995. infantry 1995 those and when this book was finally released in february of this year, i published a number of other books and so it's not as though i took all that time. i published a book called the retreat from gettysburg in 2005 and from really 2005 and four were to begin working in earnest on this and what i did was, again, i corrected manuscript so that it is readable and -- but you still have the flavor of john porter and then what i did is i annotated it so that when it john porter is mentioning any of these people come and there are hundreds of people tha

david fisher shot some video and put it on youtube. the media ate it up. >> i'm overwhelmed. >> reporter: now passersby are singing along. ♪ porter grabbedhe noon concert seemed stunned to see a construction foreman crooning. ♪ mac in town >> reporter: his singing has been mostly confined to karaoke in the shower. he said he just wants to make folks smile. i feel like i'm with the village people. it takes a village to build a subway.

david fischer shot video and put it on youtube. the media ate it up. >> i'm overwhelmed. >> reporter: now passersby are singing along. porterho stumble on the noon concert seem stunned to see a construction foreman crooning. he says he just wants to make folks smile.

david fisher shot some video and put it on youtube, the media ate it up. >> i'm overwhelmed. >> reporter: now passers by are singing along. porterpeople who stumble on the noon concert seem stunned to see a construction foreman crooning. until now gary's singing has been mostly confined to karaoke in the shower. he says he just wants to make folks smile. i feel like i'm with the village people. it takes a village to build a subway, who could imagine the second avenue sinatra would blow into town. ♪ and the winter winds ♪ they have come and gone ♪ new york new york >>> it's 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. on the west coast. >>> we're watching wall street t dow plunged 266 points yesterday for its eighth contest loss. so far right now, dow industrials down 14 points. congress takes a break, thousands of workers lose their paychecks a new crisis face the faa and the air travellers who rely on it. >>> and a trial for former president hosni mubarak. he could face execution if convicted in the death of protesters. >>> our nation's reputation is tarnished and we're all likely to pay one way or another. brianna keeler has the bi