george davis can be said about kathy davis (clapping) as we all knows kathy is unstoppable and unflapable in.com building you don't want to get between kathy davis and her vision. when she whacks the traffic at the capita the traffic parts as if missouri's was in the building (laughter) and she reminded me in putting the financing together one of the loose pieces was $20 million that redevelopment agencies in the past recollection is dollars we had to go to the difgdz those were owed and due and the governor was not going to use them to use for other purposes but to use on this project so contacting thank you for a carrying on the vision and keeping up the fight and doing it with a spirit and style of elegance i've never seen so from the state to you dr. georges memory (clapping.) >> okay. we want to get to groundbreaking and nancy pelosi has to get somewhere else. >> do you have time>> of course, i have time i want to recognize supervisor william kennedy's work. >> okay (clapping.) i can relax a little bit. while we thank supervisor dr. kennedy are in the house and she was our fourth pre

george davis can be said about kathy davis (clapping) as we all knows kathy is unstoppable and unflapable in.com building you don't want to get between

davies. but i didn't know the davies. i didn't know they had money.t know they shopped at allied coins. >> and under oath, virgil seemed hesitant to implicate gloria. prosecutor kit cleland also called grace davies to the stand wanting the widow to identify gloria as the suspicious woman who came to the door. >> grace davies was 80 years old with a bullet in her head. she had five or six times been unable to identify gloria as the woman who came to the door. and i think she finally said, well, it could be. >> despite these struggles, cleland did not call joanne masse to implicate gloria. she was suspected of committing similar robberies with her husband. the case came down to the star witness. gary masse. >> gloria is almost relieved. they're not going to take the word of a career criminal over me. that would make no sense. >> the jurors are instructed, they don't have to believe gary masse. and they listened and they found him to be credible. >> masse testified that he met gloria at niva snyder's house and she recruited him to rob the davies. >> gary

davis would want me to say how the seniors can get in it. bouquet it the day to take a maker i went to denny's when something big happened but we'll have to go to denny's. the first time popcorn i'm going to introduce is dr. william walker the longtime advocate when people didn't bother with us he's the chair of directors and he would help us. (clapping.) >> distinguished and honorable persons on the platform may i mention one or two names this is the honorable and distinguished nancy pelosi we all love (clapping) and honorable mayor of the city of st. louis mayor ed lee would you give him a nice round of clause. to my brothers and sisters who are here san francisco is a world-class city you can't have a world-class city without a world-class clark class neighborhood like the bayview service center is a world-class center. (clapping.) >>. and today, we came not to just talk and give out information but to celebrate. i remember sophie maxwell i was in her office she said pastor walker we need a visible momentum in bayview that will represent

he was inspired by david davis's wisdom and culture. his work them clues to pbs documentary on the life and work of the -- coproduced with museum of art and award-winning children's book on the civil rights movement and body and a book on the history of rendition published by yale university press. edition is written for the "washington post" "wall street journal" and "the new york times". dr. king was formally at harvard is the executive director of the w. e. pete dubois museum of african-american research. he serves as executive director at the yale school of public health. he is named the co-recipient of a grant from darpa is part of the white house research and development institute and is developing tools to combat money laundering through the department treasury. john stauffer's profession or of english at african-american studies at harvard university. he lectures on the civil war era and social protest movements and photography and is author and editor of lenin books with 60 articles including two books that are national as sell

wendy davis wants to turn it blue. can the tea party help her. >>> we start with ukraine. in particular, the u.s. response not just to russian troops but vladimir putin claims that there are no russian troops in crimea. this morning the russian leader held court, stunning the world with a claim that russian troops do not occupy crimea. rather, those armed troops that people see in front of them and on their tvs, those are pro russian local forces of self-defense. president obama appearing at a function had this to say regarding putin's claim. >> there is a strong belief that russia's action is violating international law. i know president putin seems to have a different set of lawyers making a different set of interpretations, but i don't think that's fooling anybody. >>

. >> we met adoll foe davis on this program. we find out why an illinois supreme court ruling may change your his destiny. >> and later the balance of the californian giants, the great red woods versus the fine red wines. why in these vast vistas, there may not be enough room for both. >> a decision from the illinois supreme court aims to right a great wrong. juveniles, many just children, were given mandatory life sentences without the chance of parole, judges with no discretion to consider outside factors. this ruling vacates the mandatory sentences and orders new sentencing hearings. more than 100 people get a second chance to make their case. there's more to it. in an exclusive prison interview, the man whose case interviewed. >> in october 1, 9903, members of chicago's gangster disciples set out to settle a score. the youngest, two months past davis. >> a lot of people say "the gangs, gangs, gangs", my destiny was written when i was born into a chaotic family. being born into it, like many others every day, our life is writ

i tried to hand it to him, he wouldn't take it. >> davis initially denied any involvement.told of the fingerprint evidence, he confessed. >> i'm sorry that it happened. and i've cried and i've prayed what i did wrong. >> he had been out of prison five days when he killed diane. and his life was a lifetime of crime. >> after more than 30 years, the mystery was finally solved. >> well, my father was ecstatic. it just was a huge boost for him, you know, that they knew who it was. >> i've worked scores or hundreds of murders. and they're all important to me. but it's not very often that you're personally touched by them. >> davis said his primary motive was robbery. when he saw diane get out of her car, he abducted her at knifepoint and took her to the wooden shack. he admitted robbing her, but denied sexually assaulting her, although the evidence clearly showed that he did. then he stabbed her to death and stole her car. he abandoned the mustang across town and left his fingerprint and a palm print. although it took almost 35 years to find him, his fingerprints on file had not

. >> we met adoll foe davis on this program. we find out why an illinois supreme court ruling may change your his destiny. >> and later the balance of the californian giants, the great red woods versus the fine red wines. why in these vast vistas, there may not be enough room for both. consider this: the news of the day plus so much more. >> we begin with the government shutdown. >> answers to the questions no one else will ask. >> it seems like they can't agree to anything in washington no matter what. >> antonio mora, award winning and hard hitting. >> we've heard you talk about the history of suicide in your family. >> there's no status quo, just the bottom line. >> but, what about buying shares in a professional athlete? real perspective, consider this on al jazeera america >> a decision from the illinois supreme court aims to right a great wrong. juveniles, many just children, were given mandatory life sentences without the chance of parole, judges with no discretion to consider outside factors. this ruling vacates the mand

lincoln police had just arrested a man named mars davis on a drug possession charge, and davis offered said he was willing to provide information about an unsolved murder in des moines in return for leniency on his drug charge. >> i felt tremendously guilty for a long time. i didn't want to think about it anymore. it bothered me every time i closed my eyes. >> unfortunately, davis didn't know the name of the victim. he did, however, remember the neighborhood where he lived. >> he only knows that he lives at a house someplace off of harding road. he knows it's by a convenience store. he knows there's a couple car washes nearby, knows the guy works for a tv station, knows that he went to the outer limits and knows that he's killed in his house. >> mars davis was describing pat mcrae's murder, and the details he provided were so bizarre, it was hard for investigators to believe. >> it's not a story that you expect to hear every day in the news. >> mars davis said that five years earlier, he was involved with a 24-year-old stripper named andrea morris. andrea was working at the outer limit

and abbott continues to beat davis in the polls.ecent poll from the university of texas and the texas tribune puts abbott 11 points ahead of davis. >> is a think that greg abbott will beat wendy davis maybe by high single digits. over the last 20 years even competitive democrats have lost by 12 to 16 points, so when i say that davis is likely to lose by 7, 8, 9 that means she is running more pest till. >> alcompetitively. >> all of you deserve to have your voices heard. >> reporter: democrats appreciate supporting a candidate who they see as having a fighting chance in a state that hasn't elect ahead i democrat as governor since ann richards in 1990. brandon, al jazerra dallas. >>> coming up ahead it's hollywood's big day. a sneak peek at the preparation for the academy awards coming up next. >> talk to al jazeera only on al jazeera america >> oh my... >>> welcome back to al jazerra america, i am morgan radford live in new york city. russian troops have surrounded a ukrainian military base in crimea, the ukrainian prime minister cal

she encourages her supporters to write to the governor asking him to veto davis' parole. >> if davis is released from prison, his attorney says his client is looking at transitional living homes in l.a. or right here in san francisco. >>> time now is 4:48. there's only 10 of them left in the world. why a bay area city is threatening to chop down this endangered tree. >> a picture can be worth 1,000 words but one photo project out of california was enough to get the white house's attention. what it will mean for california's majestic coastline. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> a little change in the big direction, big change in the weather. temperatures cooling down near the coastline patchy fog inside the bay. we'll find plenty of sunshine 70s mountain view. 75 campbell. 75 san jose. 76 degrees in gilroy. east bay temperatures very nice against this afternoon. about 73 livermore, 76 brentwood, 72 degrees in danville. inside the bay, we'll feel a little bit of a sea breeze kicking in, still about 71 degrees in berkeley. and a beautiful afternoon in the north bay, 73 degrees in santa rosa, the sea

davis and the such together. we all herald a great deal. i want to thank michelle summers from the publishers, as well as leslie from the gilder lehrman institute for their help and cooperation and arranging this evening. i also would like to very much welcome and recognize members of the board of trustees who have taken the time to cover this evening as well. thank you for that. a few brief words of introduction from my part. one of the reasons that i was so glad i'd jump at this opportunity was because the work of professor davis been such a great deal to us. personally my own work has drawn upon and benefit from some of professor davis' writings, years ago when i was researching and comparing anti-semitism and anti-catholicism online. to get a sense of the breadth of professor davis' work, that didn't even for slavery which is what we here to talk about tonight, and yet was landmark in its own right on those areas as well. and we are greatly indebted to professor davidson scourge in confronting anti-semitism, particularly again a few dec

. >> i think greg abbott will beat wendy davis by maybe high single digits. even, when i say davis is likely to lose by seven, eight, nine, that means he's running more competitively. >> and all of you deserve to have your voices heard. >> jilson says democrats appreciate supporting a candidate in a state that hasn't elected a democrat as governor since 1990. >>> many consider brazil's celebration the greatest show on hurt. flooded a park for traditional block party, carnival in rio is famous for hundreds of parties across the city. >>> in venice hundreds of thousands attended a carnival ball, many events on a two week calendar. traced back to the year 1162. the celebrations rake in an average of $70 million over 20 days. >>> and when it comes to the wild week of carnival, new orleans is not to be outdone. visitors are pouring into the city this weekend and many will pour a few too many drings. ben lemoney lemoine reports. >> you can buy it and bounce from bar to bar. but after all the parades and parties -- good oh yeah, i'm hurting a little bit. >> we had b