dr. maya angelou will be dedicated at the african burial ground in month. hosting the event, the ebony society of philatelic events and reflections, or esper. it's an organization that promotes the collecting of stamps that focus on people and events related to the african diaspora. elizabeth rankin-fulcher is a member of the board of esper, and she is joining us today. thank you so much for being with us. >> it's my joy. >> i -- stamp collecting. i always thought of it as a kid, but it is really a popular hobby >> absolutely. >> and you guys focus specifically on those stamps that relate to people of color, essentially. >> yes. about? >> oh, there are lots and lots of them. >> mm-hmm. >> we focus on not only the black heritage series stamp, which is exclusively african-american, but we also -- we collect from around the country. >> mm-hmm. >> for instance, usually when i go to another country, i go to the post office. and i seek out a stamp there, a stamp of color. and so when i went to china, i got a stamp of mr. obama. >> mm-hmm. in china? >> in china. >

dr. may. neil from los angeles. how are you doing, neil? you have a question? >> yes, doctor, you know, i've been having these symptoms that you've been describing for many years now, and you know, i've tried a lot of things. why don't i just have the prostate removed? >> that's a good question. >> neil, your body is not like a car. you can't just change the oil filter. you may be trading a bad problem for a worse one. if you have your prostate removed, you run the risk of damaging the nerves and winding up incontinent, impotent. it is not the treatment of choice. it is truly your last resort. >> now, we only have a couple of minutes left. is there anything else that you want to add? >> the problem of an enlarged prostate is inevitable. it's going to happen to every man listening out there today. so far it's been a silent epidemic. don't be afraid to talk about it. don't be embarrassed. don't wait until the problems overtake your life. if you have a family history of prostate problems or have any symptoms such as frequent urination, urgency, hesitancy, getting

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dr. dre making a major apology. abc's aditi roy is in our los angeles bureau with more. good morning, aditi. >> reporter: good morning, cecilia. dr. dre, the rapper, entrepreneur and media mogul is getting some tough questions over the n.w.a. biopic he co-produced accused of ignoring abuse allegations against dre and this morning, some of those alleged victims are speaking out. this morning, the man behind the $56 million blockbuster biopic "straight outta compton" -- >> just hit that first beat hard. you're cruising down the street. >> reporter: -- is apologize inging in "the new york times," hip-hop mogul and beats headphone founder dr. dre issuing a statement to the paper saying, "25 years ago i was a young man, drinking too much and in over my head with no real structure in my life. however, none of this is an excuse for what i did." adding, "i apologize to the women i've hurt". the decades old allegations now resurfacing on social media centered on three women accusing dr. dre of physical violence. hip-hop journalist dee barnes, singer and dr. dre's former girlfriend

and joining us now from los angeles is dr. jennifer ashton.so help us further explain this stage zero cancer. is it technically cancer? >> well, first you have to understand the range of pathology results for this type of breast cancer and it's really a spectrum that goes from normal through a couple of stages to atypical cells to dcis to invasive ductal breast cancer and the key here and the controversy really is in those middle stages, the atypical cell, the dcis and how best to treat them or should they be treated at all? that's where the controversy is. >> right, so if the recommendation is to do nothing that emotionally has to be frightening to hear as a patient? >> oh, it's not only frightening, this concept of watchful waiting is challenging for the medical community, for doctors and for patients alike. we're already seeing that occur in other types of cancers, for example, in cervical cancer, today we're watching and following certain types of abnormal pap smears where ten years ago those women would have had surgery on their cervix so

angels. [applause] dr. little: thank you for having me here today. it is an honor and a is you just think with you. this is one of the best archival facilities in the entire world. i researched in many different places around the world. i think it has no finer staff and their professionalism, the courtesy, and their interest in historical research. they are unmatched unparalleled. thank you for incubating at facilitating and making historians job, sometimes tedious, a thorough enjoyable process. have you ever wondered when the idea emerged that in the middle of a war, natural disaster, the humanitarian aid would be forthcoming? a flurry of organizations from around the world would rush to save lives? we expect such things today. this is not always so. when did this humanitarian wakening begin? over a decade ago i became interested in these questions by stumbling across humanitarian aid is a project and looking specifically at the way in which america does this. this is the story i had never heard before, and are emitted captivated still. the individu

joining me now onset in los angeles is dr. reese halter conservation biologist.see you. especially in person. >> yeah. >> let's talk about this. the i'll canning of lions is really sparked this big debate about big game and trophy hunting as we have seen through the adventures of walter palmer. but the u.s. government is it proper to call on a ban for the import of lions that are killed as trophies in big game hunting? >> absolutely thomas. welcome to the six great mass extinction. human beings are driving this. we've got -- there's a bill introduced that is going to bring an end to this. in the meantime in the senate we have a bill that is looking at killing elephants to promote ivory. so the deal is here that america is the second biggest consumer of ivory. and we got to nip this in the bud because every 15 minutes, 24/7/365 el facts sephants die. >> we're looking at losing these majestic species. let's talk about from the other perspective because we have these two avid hunters from idaho drawing backlash. and they appealed on the "today" show to talk about it

dr. david agus is in los angeles. >> good morning. >> in the context of 90 years old and the cancer history in the family, what do we know about the expectations and the cancer? >> met static cancer, cancer that's spread is not curable. we don't know if it started in the liver or colon, lung or elsewhere. but therapy can lengthen life and hopefully make life better by reducing e ining sumptoe ini. >> what are his options for therapy? >> chemotherapy, molecular therapy or immunotherapy. we really need to know the details. the biopsy was a week ago so they know the details. i'm sure they'll announce it next week with hopefully the game plan. >> he has a family history of pancreatic cancer. he wrote, i've had regular x-rays, c.a.t. scans or blood analyses with hope of early detection if i develop the same symptoms. here we are now. how might that diligence affect his outcome? >> he has a greater than 50 times risk of average of pancreatic cancer because he had four first degree family members with this disease. he's very high risk. he said in a recent interview that he stopped the screenings s

dr. david agus is in los angeles. good morning. >> good morning. >> reporter: you're outraged by this?ounding. no transparency, these three university professors say not what you eat but how much you exercise is responsible for obesity and diabetes and they are funded by coca-cola and it wasn't even stated on their website until last week that coca-cola was behind all of this. >> in fact, doctor, listen to one of the leading scientists from this nonprofit group in this video. >> most of the folks in the popular media and in the scientific press, is although they are eating too much, eating too much, eating too much and blaming fast food and blaming sugary drinks and so on. there is really virtually no compelling evidence that that is in fact, the cause. >> is that true there is no compelling evidence that is the cause? >> come on. the. the scientific and media world are against coca-cola and a push to drink coke in this country. the data is the opposite. to lose weight you have to do, both. exercise and reduce the calories in. that data are very clear. it's also very clear that drinkin

dr. christian head, m.d. associate director, chief of staff, legal and quality assurance for the greater los angeles va health care system. dr. marilyn hooker, m.d., neurologist and president of afge local 342. at the wilmington, va, medical center. and mr. richard tremaine, associate director of the va central alabama health care system. all of your complete written statements will be made part of the hearing record. miss flanz, you are now recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman coffman, ranking member kuster, and members of the committee. i appreciate the invitation today to prevent -- to present an update on the department's activities related to whistle-blower protection. va exists to serve veterans. that service takes place through interactions between veterans and front-line va employees. doctors and nurses, claims processors, sem stare workers and countless others upon whom va depends to serve veterans with the dignity, compassion and dedication they deserve. we depend those same employees to have the moral courage to help us serve veterans and taxpayers better by helping to make our proce

dr. patrick soon-shiong. he just flew in from los angeles .e has published over 100 scientific papers and has over 95 issued patents on groundbreaking advancements in a myriad of fields. finally, i delighted to introduce mark boutin, who i have known for a long time. mark is the chief executive officer for the national health council, a really amazing organization. it brings together over -- it provides a unified force for more than 133 million people in our country -- patients and individuals, those who are sick, and those who have disabilities. i'm sorry that our third advisory committee member, mark who serves as the senior fellow and director of health care innovation and value initiatives at the center for health policy at the brookings institution could not be with us in person today. i'm going to move over here so we can get into the panel discussion. >> [indiscernible] ms. marchibroda: there we go. for the first question, folks have just seen the executive summary. the longer letter is on our website, it is about 80 pages. i wonder if

the streets of south los angeles, that unforgettable summer in 1965, 34 people had lost their lives and more than a thousand were injured. 50 years ago, those seeds of protest dr. king referenced spread to life on a wednesday just after 7:00 o'clock right on the corner of avalon boulevard and 16th street. it was a hot summer day and that night residents were still milling about the streets when a white highway patrol officer pulled over a black motorist. he believed the driver was driving drunk and stopped him a few blocks from his home. before long the crowd had become an angry mob. they had just witness what had they believed was an all-too-common occurrence there, use of excessive force by police. decades of rage and frustration finally exploded. more than 46 square miles of south los angeles would be under siege with rampant looting, violence, and arson. six days of rioting left behin scenes of war torn cities. burn baby burn was the cry in the unrelenting wave of unrest. regina jones has tried to forget it. born and raised in watts, she has not been back in years. >> i grew up playing on the watts towers. i had cousins that lived across the street and we

dr. patrick jung, juice now from from los angeles, physician, surgeon, and scientist and has pioneered diabetes and cancer, published over 100 scientific papers and has over 95 issued patents on groundbreaking advancements spanning myriad fields. and then finally i'm delighted on my left to introduce mark bouton who i have known a long time. hi is a chief executive officer of the national health council, a really amazing organization. brings together over -- provides a unified voice for more than 133 million people in our country, patients and individuals. those who are sick, and those who have disabilities, and has been a real strong support for medical innovation, and i'm sorry our third advisory member, mark mcclellan, who this senior fellow and director of healthcare innovation and value initiative ted center for health policy at the brookings institution, couldn't be with news person today. so, i'm going to move over here so we can get into the panel discussion. >> like to ask senator frist -- there we go. our first question, i thought, senator, folks have just seen the executive summary,

dr. dre's ground breaking group amid the crack and hip hop epidemic in los angeles.ompton" is produced by the same parent company as msnbc. >> let us do our job. >> sir stay right there. we're try cog check those bangers and make sure they're clean. >> these are not bangers. these are artists. >> what kind of artists. >> rappers and they are working with me in the studio right now. >> rap is not an art. and who are you? >> i'm the manager. >> joining me is someone who new the members very intimately. front run effort to hip hop group jj fad one of the first groups signed to n.w.a's label. this movie is breaking records. really resonating with americans. why do you think the movie has been such a major hit? >> i think because so much of what they were rapping about is happening today with the police brutality and the stereotyping of police against african americans and i think that they were talking about that way back when and to see it happening again now, people are like wow, they knew something early on. so i think that is one of the big draws. >> and i i understa

dr. ramsey: we eventually shifted over to the plutonium model. >> this required science and engineering that when an angel -- that would enable the explosive material of plutonium. the plutonium weapon would have to be tested. it would be many months before the material would be delivered. the four that could happen, there were many questions which came down to the central problem, how to make the uraniumble serial of 235 or the plutonium 239 to release their energy efficiently in a casing that an airplane could deliver? one of the biggest problems of p-238 was u-235 or another location. thousands of miles of piping was remove the metal from the uranium-rich gas. method was used to produce and refine the material. required thousands of workers. there was also a method for extracting plutonium. hanford, washington was selected for the location of refining the plutonium. dr. seaborg: we had been working with what you called tracer amounts, invisible amounts detected by its radioactivity, but we couldn't deduce the properties with certainty that way. we needed to work with actual w eighable amounts, and that

angeles matt libman. former speech writer for vice president biden and here in the city dr.nne zane where am i going wrong, professor. >> i don't think you are necessarily going wrong on this. i do think that hillary clinton is suffering from real fatigue this summer. people are really frustrated and fed up. the most shocking moment in this campaign so far is when josh earnst came out and made that statement yesterday. to imagining that obama would send that signal on purpose is amazing. so i i think that could really change the tide. i was saying biden wasn't going to run about a month ago. now i think he may very well make a go of it. it's going to be uphill battle for him though. >> you know him, having worked for him, i said monica crowley predicted this last week. i said you know what? i think president obama is going to sit it out not go one way or the other because of john podesta who is a vicious, as you know, infighter. he did work for president obama, now he is running hillary clinton's campaign. so, if obama tilted, podesta could hurt obama. he knows a lot of stuf

angeles matt libman. former speech writer for vice president biden and here in the city dr.nne zane where am i going wrong, professor. >> i don't think you are necessarily going wrong on this. i do think that hillary clinton is suffering from real fatigue this summer. people are really frustrated and fed up. the most shocking moment in this campaign so far is when josh earnst came out and made that statement yesterday. to imagining that obama would send that signal on purpose is amazing. so i i think that could really change the tide. i was saying biden wasn't going to run about a month ago. now i think he may very well make a go of it. it's going to be uphill battle for him though. >> you know him, having worked for him, i said monica crowley predicted this last week. i said you know what? i think president obama is going to sit it out not go one way or the other because of john podesta who is a vicious, as you know, infighter. he did work for president obama, now he is running hillary clinton's campaign. so, if obama tilted, podesta could hurt obama. he knows a lot of stuf

dr. dre. i got to tell you, you are witnessing history. >> ♪ straight outta compton. >> reporter: they were n.w.a., five guys from inner city los angeles whon 1988 released a eaoundbreaking album, "straight outta compton." >> ♪ [no audio] the police coming straight from the underground ♪ a young [no audio] got it bad 'cause i'm brown. ♪ >> reporter: the album was labeled gangsta rap. it aired an unflinching look at urban america and police brutality. >> you can't come down here and arrest people just because of what they look like. what, are you crazy? .hat's police harassment! ♪ >> reporter: hip-hop icon and former member of n.w.a., ice cube, helped produce the film. >> we started to have these... these people coming from all directions to try to discredit us and try to really stop us, you know, from the f.b.i. to the police. he ♪ and not the other color so police think o they have the authority to kill a minority. ♪ >> reporter: "l.a." times writer lorraine ali says "straight out a compton" hits at issues still relevant today. >> i mean, we're talking about police brutality, unarmed black men getting killed by police across the country.

angeles, the day the deadry riot was soup arrested. by the time calm returned. 34 people lost their lives, and more than 1,000 were injured. >> 50 years ago the seeds of protests dring referenced sprang to life. it had been in the '80s, that hot summer day, that cunt residents milled about the streets. the officer believed the motorist was driving drunk. he stopped him:. >> before long, the crowd of onlookers became an angry mod, and they witnessed an alternate occurrence, use of force by the police, during a racially motivated arrest. years of pent-up rage and frustration exploded. more than 40 miles would be under siege. >> six days of rioting in los angeles, left behind scenes reminiscens of war-torn cities. >> reporter: byrne, baby, burn was the rallying cried. seared into the memories of an unrelenting wave of unrest. born and raised in watts, she had not been back in years, before joining us for a ride back to the old neighbourhood. >> i grew up playing on the watts towers. i had cousins that lived across the street. we would go over and climb them. >> regina was a young mother of five when the chaos consumed her neighbourhood. the home where she raised her

he died surrounded by loved ones at his los angeles home, he was 76-year-old. >>> and neurologist dr. oliver sacksicize being remembered this morning. in february heel sulfured he had a rare eye cancer that spread to his liver. he died at his home in manhattan that age of 82. >>> california hiker weak and exhausted but thankful to be alive after a story of survival. the 62-year-old was found a live a week after she vanished in the cierra nevada. she was reduced arch using a whistle. she has broken bones, but okay. her rescue was a huge relief for her waiting family. >> beyond excited. they-- couldn't stop screaming and crying and -- yelling amongst themselves. their way up here. >> the search was hammered by thick smoke from a wildfire. she crawled for two days to reach water in a creek bed. morning. will wall street stay in the week? >> good morning, chris. investigators are hoping this ended. the dow jones ended up gaining 179 points for the week. and the nasdaq higher, 121 points higher. the chairman is open to the possibility of raising interest rates in september. speaking at an

dr. linda .d lopez with mea today is pushingi forwarsd a different way of ere looking at how we servewa the d people who are residents of losi angeles. cities for citizenship initiative is something i started with the big three mayors.in emanual and de blasio, looking to integrate those folks that aredent legal permanent residenp and get them to become citizens. so the first group, the 9 million people, no matter the fight over daca or executive action, we have an obligation to help citizens in the united states. this programram reaches across state lines and the best way to strengthen theth city is to heli all of the cities and it is nowi across not three but 18 cities across the united states. and we share best practices.in in los angeles we've targeted 3000 for residency.we we were recently honored by theh white house for the national medal for libraries because we are turned our libraries into citizenship centers with a grant from city bank and others, we have in all 72 libraries in los angeles, both librarians trained on and information available to help folks come to the local ai library and geton to the pathwal to legalp stat

dr. linda lopez who is with me today, is pushing forward a different way of looking at how we serve the people who are residents of los angeles. the cities for citizenship initiative is something i started with the big three mayors. with mayor emanuel and de blasio, where we started an initiative that looked at trying to integrate those folks who are legal permanent residents and to get them to become citizens. so, that first group that i mentioned, the 9 million people, that no matter what happens in the midst of the fights that i'll get to in a moment over daca and executive action, we have an obligation to try to help become citizens in the united states. this is a program that reaches across state lines. the best way to strengthen our city is to strengthen all cities. it's a collaboration of 18 cities now, not just three, we pledge naturalization resources, share best practices. in los angeles we've targeted 3,000 ang leinos for residency. we were recently honored by the white house for the national medal for libraries because we turned our libraries into citizenship centers. with a grant from citibank and others, we rais

dr. moore acted on quickly and what if that person had been discovered in a part of los angeles where the immunization rate is 60 or 70% instead of 90 or 95%? describe the number of people and the multiplying of people that would have to be contacted to make certain that the disease didn't spread. >> well, i can share the experience we had in san diego in 2008 which was our last outbreak. we had 12 cases in over 800 people were exposed to those 12. is so it quickly goes up expo then shael the number of people you have to track and millions public health is there to track those people and keep them quarantined it could easily get out of control. >> you had 800 people but then each of them might have infected someone else, right? >> exactly. in that outbreak we had close to 100 people were quarantined for three weeks just to prevent that next wave. we are all crossing our fingers with this disneyland outbreak that maybe we are near the end but i notice that the case number went up by 20 just this last week so i'm not sure we're done with this yet. >> when you say flies through the air we ha

angeles. >>> of it was such a big movie that a lot of people were excited to see and then this controversy sort of came forward and drdre also saying he knows -- he announces he knows this has forever impacted all of their lives. dee barnes says she suffers from headaches she didn't have before. >> more coming up after the break. >> i'm alex trebek. if you're age 50 to 85, this is an important message. so please, write down the number on your screen. the lock i want to talk to you about isn't the one on your door. it's a rate lock for your life insurance that guarantees your rate can never go up at any time, for any reason. but be careful. many policies you see do not have one, but you can get a lifetime rate lock through the colonial penn program. call this number to learn more. this plan was designed with a rate lock for people on a fixed income who want affordable life insurance that's simple to get. coverage options for just $9.95 a month, less than 35 cents a day. act now and your rate will be locked in for life. it will never increase. your coverage can never be cancelled as long as you pay your premiums, and y

angel soft. >>> in our "morning rounds," the diet debate -- low carb or low fat? a system put them head to head to try to settle the argument once and for all. dr. holly phillips has a breakdown. good morning. >> good morning. >> a lot of people listening with both ears. it is the $64 million question. the answer is -- >> absolutely. well, it was a neck-in-neck race to the finish line, but ultimately the low-fat diet was better than the low-carb diet for losing body fat. >> did that surprise you? >> you know, it doesn't really surprise me. one of the things people focus on is the benefits of low-carb i do nets that they cut -- diets in that they cut insulin levels which in theory helps your body to lose stored fat. now the researchers found even though this is true, cutting down how much fat you eat makes a much bigger difference in losing body fat overall. >> how do they test this? was it a real-world scenario that could apply? >> right. this was a unique study in that it was incredibly precise. they asked 19 people who were overweight to stay in a lab for two different two-week periods during which everything was monitored. during the first s

think the dr requesters diagram you're looking at down from the lynch alley the solar panel from the door on the roof it shows the building bigger than if i were stan on the additional so the angelsricky i think that when we're looking i think a lot of the issue is on lynch alley it is a intimate alley a 10 feet widest private property i property line i think that is rezoning was done which the development happened it was respectful of alleys my issue is around the alley not to have a setback interest if we squash the property we have an issue with square footage it is a small lot but it is a sun access plain is a bit tight and issues with safety i hate to disdain buildings around an issue but i get it planning code minimum calls for 7 foot 6 inch setback the zion is 15 feet i think that i would support some type of a set back between the two numbers the commercial space on the ground floor is kind of strange i'm not sure how it takes two or three stems up to get to it if you're looking at the renderings from lynch windows those are residential not commercial we need to look at those windows they certainly don't fit request the scale of lynch alley that all being said the dr requ