she came back, and told dr. seuss that he had a phone call. dr. seuss went to take the phone call, and it was lbj at the -- on the other end for donating all the artwork for his new book to the white house. outside of the collection outside of san diego i believe we have the largest collection of book related artwork that is not in san diego. [laughter] the next story i want to tell is about the connection between heavyweight champion of the world george foreman and lbj. george foreman started out box ing while he was in the job corps. a program that lbj started. while he was in the job corps, he won a spot on the 1968 olympic team in boxing. he went on to mexico city that summer, won a gold medal, and after he defeated -- after the medal round, he held up a small american flag that he was waving around the ring. lbj heard about this and personally invited for me to come to the white house so he could congratulate him on his victory. so years later in 1973, george foreman was fighting smoking joe frazier for the heavyweight title of the world in ki

netflix is adding dr. seuss to its list of tv series. up with ellen degeneres and warner bros. tv for a 13 episode animated series they'll be adapted to children's books. the deal took more than a year to put together. john: she did it in the form of green eggs and ham. betty: you ghosts -- you guys talk while i find it. matt: they say you can stream it on a phone, you can stream it on your own, you can stream it on tv, you can stream it globally. i spend a lot of time in spain and you can't stream netflix there. russia, no. the entire continent of africa. when they say globally, they just mean here. john: they could not find anything to rhyme with international rights. [laughter] john: studios did not want to give up that back end. it is interesting that warner bros. did so. matt: jesse jackson has done the best version ever of green eggs and ham and that was only in five minutes. 12 episodes is going to be tough. betty: number five, the mayweather/pacquiao fight of the century from the boxers themselves to the tv broadcasters, there's

. >> one of the things you're known for is teaching the dr. seuss book. tell us about that?'s about how we separate people by anything. race, class, gender anything. and that story is one that anybody from kindergarten up through adult learners they can really relate to and it really gives that message in an interesting way and like all of dr. seuss, it really stays with you and makes you think. >> what do you think of the common corps initiative? >> in texas we're not a common corps state but the standarded are kind of what we want for all of our kids which is critical thinking, high-level reading and writing and those skills as we know it, regardless of technology kids are going to need to be able to do that read and write at a high level. >> on wednesday you're going to the white house. the president will introduce you. >> yes. >> you're going pull him aside and say what? ? >> first of all i'm grateful for him to have the program there. that's amazing. teachers don't get thanking enough. >> i wanted to ask you about that. do they not get thanked enough and do we not appre

if you graduate the places you'll go dr. seuss book, it's all you, you, you.s to a lack of humility. and we talk to them about career career, career. >> the effect if anybody's ever been around teenagers knows that their whole lives center around this hand held machine. so rather than going out in nature and maybe having a conversation, developing then selves in a number of different areas they're on this machine where they're talking about, which you just said, themselves. when you text it's about i'm doing this. i'm wearing that. jane did this or harvey did that. it's all contained. so it's got to have a dell tearous effect. >> you're broadcasting a highlight reel of your life. career culture, they haven't been given categories to think about their life. >> let me challenge that. the reason these things are down is because the kids are infull traited on how not to get pregnant and what to do and what not to do. as far as the view of justice and good samaritanism and things like that it's almost non-existent even in the private school. my book is based on two

together making a television show on a classic dr. seuss. expensive animated program ever produced. you have to take a look at these markets right now. it is going to be a big final hour of trading for sure. let's check in with cheryl casone. >> everyone is talking about the big five. the record breaking fight. we have two big guest to give us a preview. joining us from las vegas. a lot of property interests. interest. a lot of business interest in las vegas. he has money on the fight. also the mayor of los angeles will be joining us. she will be talking about the economic impact of the big fight this saturday. a lot of other good stuff coming up as well. charlie gasparino will be coming up in the 3:00 p.m. hour with a big interview. he will have one of the chairman's joining us. we will be talking about security regulation and the latest things that are happening. it is an exclusive interview. coming up on "countdown to the closing bell." >> thank you so much. a battle brewing in california. here he comes. what it means for california's dir

leon: a storyteller dressed as a dr. seuss character is at school to read to the children in head start and prekindergarten classes. she is a member of the prince george's county chapter of the continental societies. their volunteers work with schools bringing programs focusing on everything from dental hygiene to culinary arts. >> there's such a limited amount of instructional time left in the school day. we feel like we can fill in that void, if you will. leon: a key focus for the younger grades is reading and she uses a little bit of magic to make the books come alive. >> i learn to become a storyteller. i felt if they had some magic that they would maybe become lifelong readers and love reading. wow! leon: definitely made an impact on this young audience. >> funniest part in my brain that i keep on trying to hold is that she let us do some magic. leon: and left them understanding why reading is important. >> because that way, you get to learn. >> and you're going to read many many books, right? >> yeah! leon: the volunteer

it was originally planned for march 2nd which was the date dr. seuss would be 111.so national read across america day. allyson? >>> not too bad weather today. 74 degrees and a good mix of sun and clouds and couple more showers will push on through later on this afternoon. grab the umbrella. and tomorrow, i think i'll find myself outside doing something. it's going to be 79 degrees and so enjoy your weekend. and by sunday, it's dry as well. just a little bit cooler 66- degrees and showers arrive when the sun sets and carrying on into monday. monday's rain looks more significant than it does today. >>> the trains on schedule and same goes for vre. university and colesville road where we had one person transported by ambulance. police activity at a jerry's subs there this morning. we'll let you no we're not seeing any major delays on university or colesville road but you want to stay away from the area as we've seen a number of police officers as well as firefighters go to the scene. we'll continue to update you with with more information. >> for the cat in the hat hat

beautiful mind, frost, nixon, da vinci code, rush, american gangster inside man, friday night lights, dr. seussour show. thank you. >> rose: brian grazer, the book is called "a curious mind: the secret to a bigger life." thank you for joining us. see you next time. for more about this program and earlier episodes visit us online at pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: the coca cola company supporting this program since 2002. >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. announcer: a kqed television production. man: it's like holy mother of comfort food. kastner: throw it down. it's noodle crack. patel: you have to be ready for the heart attack on a platter. crowell: okay, i'm the bacon guy. man: oh, i just did a jig every time i dipped into it. man #2: it just completely blew my mind. woman: it felt like i had a mouthful of raw vegetables and dry dough. sbrocco: oh,

beautiful mind, frost, nixon, da vinci code, rush, american gangster inside man, friday night lights, dr. seussour show. thank you. >> rose: brian grazer, the book is called "a curious mind: the secret to a bigger life." thank you for joining us. see you next time. for more about this program and earlier episodes visit us online at pbs.org and charlierose.com. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by: the coca cola company supporting this program since 2002. >> rose: additional funding provided by: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. >>> this is "nightly business re sue herera. >>> general electric plans to sell off most of its ge capital unit. what does it mean for the new ge and investors in one of the most widely held stocks anywhere? >>> no stone unturned. how black stone, the private equity giant is becoming a real estate behemoth as well and a little la. our market monitor has some of the best names to own, the ones investor

his name was dr. seuss. >> dr. seuss. wow. >> i'll just finish the one thing. considers were horrible by any standards. they were worse than prisoner of war camps oregon -- camps, on the other hand, the americans deal with problems we, by moving on, and we did move on, and there's no doubt in my mind that brown v. topeka which was written by the same earl warren desegregating public facilities in the south, was a direct effect redemption, of the incarceration. in his oral history berkeley does gigantic oral histories of california governors. in the sixth day of questioning amelia frye, the woman doing the questioning, at berkeley, finally said to warren, after talking about all his triumphs and i want to talk now about 19 -- what happenin' 1942. warren broke into tears walked out of the room and never came back. >> richard reeves. [applause] >> we'll have a lance to come back to this in the question period. i would have thought it was impossible at this point to come up with a new store about abraham lincoln and the civil war. but scott martelle has succeeded.