like many, elliott did not listen to his parents. one of his biggest challenges was getting the vote. some fraternities would not let him in to campaign. his banners were taken down in night. >> i had friends who were out of state telling me, you know, honestly, elliott, it's racist. racist. >> yes. >> reporter: home grown racist attitudes are being diluted by the arrival of out of state students who make up nearly half of the student body. spillers believes it had an impact on his getting elected. >> right now we are in a new era at the university of alabama. we are moving forward, progressing. and our campus culture is shifting. it's because of that that i was elected. >> reporter: the journey has been long and painful. for decades sororities were engaged in racial segregation. that changed when traditionally all-white sororities anticipated 28 black girls as pledges. one was elliott's girl who voters. >> we are moving forward, we cannot continue the same way, in the last fully years we as a student body fought. >> reporter: on the

i will start, elliott, what is the scene on the ground there? elliott: maturin he -- tweeted that she had good news, along the lines solutions onto perimeters of the iran nuclear case reached, drafting and start immediately, which in all in all translates as it seems like we have a deal, so after eight days of negotiation we are expecting them to announce a deal. we are also expecting the general statements around what the deal entails, but the actual details to be enshrined in some sort of secret annan's, which they will work on over the next few months. cory: elliott, be seen in lausanne seems crazy with the russian diplomat leaving and coming back, the french tip of my leaving and coming back. is there a sign that when both of these guys returned things got serious and a deal might happen, or is that leaving itself about show? elliott: we have been expecting a deal for the last three days, so surrogate lover of left the day -- sergey lavrov left before the deal, then he left, he came back, then he left again. another way back yesterday and re

elliott. >> dave elliott lewis in addition to the collaborative i'm a 31 year resident of san francisco so over half my life 9 years in the tenderloin 9 years living by the corner of larkin and feel street it is a ground zero for the community problems we've talking about with the map and for me the issue of coping that boundary on larkin versus moving it to polk or van ness it is an issue of laekt we'll have 3 homicides related to the hondurans that sell crack cocaine and herein they dropped a body i had to step in front of you took a photo i regret taking that the fact i had to see that both captains in the northern and tenderloin are aware of the going on problem it is true the dealers play cat and mouse with the boundary and moving the western boundary of the tenderloin precinct i would hope van ness or polk even the fingers will help in enforcement and provide for safety for the community remembered right across the street in the playground that are children playing in the park and seeing you have drug dealing next to a playground we have a chance finally one in a 10 year opportuni

francine: elliott, thank you so much. elliott will be keeping on top of these developments. guy: we will as well. now, the oil markets. a deal is likely to put prices lower. for more on this, let's bring in unicredit's chief global economist, eric nielsen. back in the states, which is good timing. what is your sense of what lower oil prices would mean from here? do you get another push down? eric: it is good. the importers are the europeans and the americans. that is good for consumers. it is a boost to domestic demand in part of the world that has been struggling a bit. francine: we talk about a lot of this oil coming to the market. we know that iran has between 7 million and 35 million barrels stockpiled. it would be very gradual. what kind of price movement can we expect? erik: our forecast is quite flat from here. it is very difficult to square this sort of recovery in the world we have now which is in relative terms, more european more energy efficient per gdp unit. but supplies are huge. it is difficult to see oil prices spike higher unless you have a serious supply sh

thank you elliott.ner the better, the words of angela merkel and francois hollande to. the country has yet to come up with a reform plan leaving its bank reliant on ecb loans for emergency cash to avoid greece's default. lenders are feeling the pain -- they lost deposit for six months in a row. outflows reach 28 billion euros through march. it extended its biggest quarterly slight since its inception in 1999. hans nichols has been following the developments. good morning. what does the timeline look like? hans: good morning. does not look very likely they will have a deal before the easter holiday. that was the line from donald cusk, the president of the eu council. you saw hollande and merkel saying to speed things up. merkel this saying the saying that talks in brussels was a start but they are not there yet. mr. hollande was a little more critical. as i said several days ago, we lost too much time. merkel said she was not bothered by the plan to visit moscow. she said it is not really mean anything a

elliott, good morning. what is the latest? elliott: the talks literally broke up about an hour ago. that is accruing to a tweet from a state department spokesperson. they are getting rest. we have gone full circle from yesterday's optimism. and then some thinly veiled threats from the white house, saying all options are on the table. and also from the iranian suggesting there may not be another chance. now we are back on the optimistic track as the talks broke up over an hour ago. the iranian foreign minister saying the talks with them we are moving in the right direction. the french foreign minister saying they are tens of meters from the arrival and those are often the most difficult. we are two days beyond the initial deadline set. one would assume that even diplomats want to get back to their families for the holidays. one would hope this would be the last day of talks. mark come a we thought we would be close to a deal a couple of days ago. there is still no agreement. we really do not know. mark: i see a swirl of claims and counterclaims. on the main point, do we seem to be in

elliott declined to comment on the firm's plans.lackrock's ceo says low interest policies by central banks around the world are threatening insurance companies and pension funds. he was speaking at a conference in singapore and added that policy makers need to think broadly about the long-term impact of their decisions. elizabeth warren, out franken and four other u.s. senators asking federal regulators to block comcast's proposed purchase of time warner cable. lawmakers say the merger would lead to higher prices and fewer choices for consumers. we got less than an hour until the close of trading. want to get right to the breaking news desk where scarlet fu was looking at two names reporting after the close. a lot of names trickling out. scarlet: keeping an eye on yum which is as much a china play as it is on -- a bet on casual dining. it is expected to report another double-digit percentage drop in earnings. the consensus is for earnings per share to fall. revenue, meantime, seen all in for a third straight quarter while comparable

elliott: we didn't even have an offer. this is brinkmanship and mylan is playing. hardball but there is not even a to play with. we are at an early stage. the deal is being prepared and have a is using barclays as a main advisor. this could be tabled as early as today but we do not know the evaluation. mylan was valued about 33 billion dollars at close of trading last week. a pretty big marshall to swallow if teva tables this bid. things seem to be aligning to suggest this is going to happen sooner rather than later. how big it will be we do not know. francine: elliott gotkine in tel aviv. guy: that is it for "the pulse," keep it here on bloomberg. for u.s. viewers, "surveillance" is live from new york. for those on the side of the atlantic bloomberg's politics show. we ask whether policies that spur growth outside of london matter to business. looking at the absence of a late surge favoring the conservative party. that is what the bookies are looking at. fran is more interested in the fact that the royal baby could be cal

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elliott, deal or no deal? they are still talking.iott: i guess it is slightly less clear than it was yesterday. the fact they are still talking believes they believe they can get 1 -- indicates they believe they can get one. if you want some shreds of optimism to grab hold of, they do seem to be inching toward an agreement. the french prefer the metric system. francois hollande said they are several tens of meters from the arrival of getting a deal but they are often the most difficult. the iranian foreign minister says we're moving presumably in the right direction. the talks have gone on so long now that according to one u.s. historian this could be the longest talks for any secretary of state since camp david in 1978 between egypt and israel. this could be the longest set of negotiations for a top u.s. diplomat on foreign soil since the end of world war i. for the germans is feeling like hotel california when you can check in any time but you cannot leave. francine: they will have to check out at some point. sounds like a fruitful

elliott: that's right. when any new person comes in to lead a company or country, they will want -- we had some of that back in january and now we have another reshuffle. you mentioned the big move -- and these are massive changes. he has replaced his brother, the crown prince, with his nephew. not only is he the first grandson of the founder to be put next in line, he is also better known as the counterterrorism. that is the importance that saudi arabia lends to the fight against terrorism. he also named his own son who has been named deputy crown prince. other major moves -- we saw the foreign minister. he has been foreign minister since the year i was born 1975. he is by some accounts the world's longest serving foreign minister. he is also being replaced by the current ambassador to the united states. he will take over as foreign minister. one final note -- we saw the long-standing oil minister being replaced as chairman of the states oil company. the replacement is already a foreign minister and health

. >> greetings madam chair and chief suhr david elliott losing with the city and county of san francisco mental health board and advocate for the sro collaborative i'm here to talk about the crisis interference training i sits on the oversight committee and trainer as well in the march 167 training the board training i taught a couple of modules but i attended the 40 hour training as a community member to see how it is going i want to commend the lieutenant for doing an outstanding job if the commissioners are interested i'll be happy to report back on the observation of training what is working well, it is a very effective training let me say that we have a great collaboration of some police officer trainers that are helping the officers to understand how to zeal with smoking gun someone suffering a mental health country and talking about down rather than threatening them this is a work in progress we have a ways to go but with lieutenant magdalene's leadership we made good progress and again, if the commissioners are interested i'll be happy to report more fully with the crisis interve

elliott. >> we'll have another time for the c l people to come before the commission good evening to all of you. >> my name is a carol i'm a longed resident of san francisco a mother, grandmother and great grandmother an aunt of african-american males in the city and i mean no disrespect to anyone certainly not to you chief suhr and the police department but you have had a discussion on a number of occasions with other african-american women and i want to tell you today that there is such a distrust of the police department that there are many things for which i will call the police but if there was an alteration and in my home between african-american males i would reluctant and won't call the police because i'm not sure that one of them moistened up dead that dialog needs to happen i think you need to know that this distrust exists as a woman in san francisco black woman wouldn't call the police for an alteration with african-american males in my home >> thank you, ms. tatum (clapping.) >> next speaker. >> good evening welcome. >> hi my name is ms. clay the vice president of the po

since the pearls were in an oyster that she ordered, toni elliott gets to keep them all. no word on what they might be worth. not bad. >> pearls would look good on you. >> i'm glad a tooth didn't come out! >> actually happened to me one, bit into a sandwich, cracked a tooth, no pearls. >>> at least the oakland a's as we segue to baseball, their roster is set. the giants tomorrow for the 2015 season. and we >>> college basketball up top. men's final four saturday. we got one in the books. here we go. big crowd indianapolis duke and michigan state in the familiar green. quick start spartans. raining four three balls from the jump. valentine 14-6. not even four minutes in. but duke woke up and shook it off with vengeance. he threw it down and the blue devils got the lead by two. first half duke up 8. look at the ball movement. jones side pocket 3 ball. yeah. it's 33-22. if it was a car, duke put it in cruise control. turnover, quinn cook easy lay- in duke up 15. feeling like number one, 90 seconds later you want the dagger shot in here it is. jones ahead, the tomahawk januar

elliott lewis.next speaker, please. >> testifier: my name is cw johnson did, person lived in the tenderloin committee for 30 years off and on. also a community organizer. the -- have worked with you guys on redistricting and we know there's a necessary evil. so one of the things that we think we both work together and that's what we've done. so what we really hope that you listen to us and that you will -- thank you and have a good evening >> president: thank you so much mr. johnson. next speaker, please. good evening welcome. >> testifier: my name is kevin saul. i'm actually here with the rest of the central city collaborative in support of the redistricting lines, actually here to talk about the high-speed chase over the weekend that killed the poor defenseless woman who should not have been killed at all. there's too much people driving in the city that don't even care about the human life and about anything those people are just trying to exist in the city without having to worry about their liv

elliott. >> dave elliott lewis in addition to the collaborative i'm a 31 year resident of san francisco so over half my life 9 years in the tenderloin 9 years living

four students abroad, from allentown, muhlenburg college including allie elliott are save. heil posted on facebook his patties block but he is staying in the village nearby. elliott's a mother tell us her daughter skirt one of the worst hit area have of nepal by just a few hours. >> she had done her research. she was finish. she wanted to go back to katmandu. we said go. she won't up going back to her home state family and she told us this morning that she heard that the lodge where she is staying near the national park, and the village there was totally destroyed. the so she got out, just in time. >> reporter: and good news for those muhlenburg college students. we have learn from their parents that the school program they are with down there is working on an evacuation plan but it could still take days. a as for bandita, she does tell us they are putting together some sort of fundraiser or vigil they hope to have friday night. we will have details for it once they put it together on the web site at six abc.com. reporting live from the satellite center, annie mccormack for

. >> is this your line in the ice or the line in the water of elliott bay?>> it's a line in the water of elliott bay. >> the company's plans for staging and loading in seattle remain unchanged writing for over 35 years alaska's oil has come back to the state of washington in the form of energy and of course the form of hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue directly realized by taxes refineries and workers' wages. addressing environmental concerns he says, we put in place the most environmentally sensitive plan for drilling in offshore alaska. but assurances like that mean little to ki-activists. clearly spoiling for a fight and hoping for a big turnout. >> can you stop this rig with kayaks? >> we can stop this rig and we are going to stop the rig with kayaks. they come to seattle, they're going to stay in seattle. >> you're going to blockade them in? >> absolutely. >> told of those plans the shell spokesman replied we respect the rights of individuals and organizations to express their opinions related to our arctic drilling aspirations. we only ask tha

elliott got 10 is in -- elliott gotkine is in tel aviv. >> that is what we understand. have been speculators with the giants of the generic industry drugmakers. they are pushing it in the past week or 10 days. what seems to be the trigger is the unsolicited bid for an over-the-counter drug manufacturer that is in ireland. it happens to be here in israel and we can see the impact this morning and it may come as early as today. we have seen shares rising and the markets like the deal and seem to like many of the deals in the industry. it was the subject of the unsolicited bid. many investors think this would be the biggest pharmaceutical deal of the year and it would be the biggest deal they have ever done. just under $9 billion so far and currently worth $33 billion. jonathan: it is being rejected before it has been tabled. >> interesting strategy. you either have the offer and you politely decline and they could have the offer and the executive chairman says they have been looking at it for some time and it is clear that the organization is about sound industrial logic.

elliott: yes, quite an unusual move from island. -- from mylan. not something that was totally unexpected. in a statement put out last week by the executive chairman, he said we have studied the potential combination of mylan and teva for some time and we believe it is clear that such a combination is without sound industrial logic or cultural fit. he was referring to many overlaps between the two companies. the more you overlap, the more opportunity there is for cost reduction. teva wants to be the undisputed champion generic, to boost profits and it is also mindful that it's biggest selling drug a treatment for multiple sclerosis, that is facing generic competition as early as this year. coincidentally, just last week the u.s. announced the first generic competitor to teva's's drug. mark: greece moving public funds to its central bank to meet imf debt repayment deadlines. ♪ . mark: welcome back to "countdown ." time to sell says japan. the dollar-yen and the yen is higher. the surprise rally just is another reason to sell. the end stages of one

. >> reporter: this is elliott bay at seattle's waterfront and it's about to become a battle fooled in an environmental war, over something that could happen later this year a couple of thousand miles north of here. this is where a flotilla of small boats will met shell oil's arctic trilling rigs and support fleet and stage a water borne protest. this is the bolla explorer that will be here. this is where the flotilla will met the rig. they call themselves kayakivists. here is one of them. stephanie, i'm curious, when the rig comes into elliott bay, how many people and boats were you expecting. >> we are hoping several thousand. with the inspection at least a few hundred. >> that is the beginning. several groups are getting together to host a 3-day festival of protests and demonstrations in the middle of may. people a company spokesman with shell tells me they have no intention of making plans. seattle has been a good business partner and they expect that to continue. >> small boats and big oil headed for a collision in elliott bay. >> you can watch the report tonight at 8:00 eastern >

elliott management had a stake, bmc at the time of that deal. maybe bmc software was the prototype for all these later transactions. after informat ica investors have begun to circle the group like vultures. the fact is if you want to be an lbo, this is the moment to pounce. given that interest rates are at low levels but will likely rise at least sometime sometime in the near future because the fed decides to tighten. in other words, the window for cheap borrowing could be closing. which makes more likely one of those infrastructure lbos will happen sooner rather than later. in the wake of the deal who else is likely to get snapped up? credit where credit is due. the deal pipe line identified informat cumight be play. two months later we learned management had taken a part of the company. now we know it's being taken private. it's worth noting you can read about which companies could be next. nobody is going to hold this possible byout candidates. the provider of remote access and mobility 70 ware at the top. if citrus were to get the same eval

anybody know joe elliott from def leppard. >> jimmy: def leppard.n high school? >> because i did have a band. i did have a band, yeah. >> jimmy: what was the name of the band? >> just a garage band. >> jimmy: no, no. every band has a name. tell me the name, what was the name of your band? >> it was hot ice. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: you can't make that up. you can't make that up. that is an awful name for a a band. >> you know, def leppard, led zeppelin, hot ice, man. come on. i think it's great. hot ice, rising to the together top was the name of our first album. >> jimmy: and where did you play? >> in our garage, man. [ laughter ] we played once at my cousin tehog -- his name is tehog, don't ask on that, at his wedding we played that's like our one gig. the best thing about -- >> jimmy: his wedding, that's a a big gig. why didn't he just get a real band? >> it wasn't at the wedding. in the backyard with everybody drinking and cooking hot dogs. >> jimmy: and no one knew hot ice would show up. >> you got hot ice is there rocking. [ laughte

elliott. >> next speaker. >> good evening welcome. >> good evening commissioners and chief i'm gail a tenant organizer at the elk hotel that's on eddy between polk and larkin i'm here to say i hope you support moving the boundary to polk and i want to thank you all for listening. >> thank you. next speaker. welcome. >> good evening commissioner and chief i work at central city and i thank you very much working with this i'm hoping next week you'll be looking at more in the future i want to appreciate the effort you're putting. >> thank you, very much. and for your effort. >> next speaker. >> hello commissioners and chief. >> i want to thank you guys for considering us as a neighborhood we we're not all dope addicts and crimes some of us work and having police protection is very important to you was talking with commissioner wong and he said it won't be too bad having the malls in the tenderloin district so i'm kind of settled with that now you've got to give something to get something i appreciate our hard work and look forward to the progress we're making a thank you so much. >> ms.

for george elliott she was so emotionally needy.he great civil rights leader, he willed an ego. dwightizeen-hour it was a temper. dorothy day, just fragmentation. and they all overcame it. they identified their core sin, what was weakest in themselves, and they did spiritual exercises and activities that turned their weakness into a strength. and by middle age they had achieved remarkable depth, remarkable goodness and really a tranquility. so i wanted to see people who transformed themselves inside. of course they achieved great things outside but it was more important than what they did, but who they were is so inspiring. it's nice to have that sort of community of friends and inspiration. >> woodruff: if you could boil it down to one thing in a very simplistic way we all need to be... just think less about ourselves to be more self-effacing? >> humility is what they all have. some people think humility is thinking lowly of yourself. some people think it's not thinking about yourself. but to me the best definition of humility is r

. >> reporter: thissel -- elliott bay, and it is about to become a battlefield.s is where a flotilla of small boats will meet shell oil's arctic drilling rig. this is the polar explorer which will be here for refitting and rigging. this is where the flotilla will meet that rig. they are calling themselves kayak kayakavists. here is one of them. how many boats are you hoping for? >> we're hoping for a few thousand but with the expectation of a few hundred. >> reporter: it will be a three-day festival of demonstrations. that will be in may. meanwhile a company spokesmen with shell tells me they have no intention of changing plans at this point. seattle has been a good business partner in the past and they expect to that continue. >>> and you can watch, alan schauffler's full respondent tonight. >>> thanks for watching i'm stephanie sy in new york. you can always get the latest reporting on our website, aljazeera.com. have a great day. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. >>> hello from al jazeera ease headquarters in doha. this is the news hour. coming up in the nex

we're grateful to the mayors staff and here i'd be remiss if i didn't thank the deputy of staff jason elliott and director of the strategy partnerships and our director of hope bev their efforts in guiding us to the government together we can meet the projects many sensitive guidelines deadlines and i'm permanently indebted to the chair as the the executive committee and the interfaith board of directors many of whom have joined us height to get with the human resources agencies when we received the call they k37b9d the leadership in embracing n this collaboration and do everything we can to make sure we met and exceeded the fiduciary responsibility of a nonprofit so our partnerships partners can be met allow me to end pro effective voices of faith tloit throughout the aged remind us that history will just the greatness of society to the regress e degree it takes care of the people in needs no doubt we'll smile to the countless souls that will be helped thank you (clapping.) >> as the mayor indicated every member of the board of supervisors that visited this site before we opened we're incred

. >> testifier: david elliott lewis. good evening.i think i actually think you have a difficult job and i think you're doing the best in a difficult situation. i think as a pd has a difficult job. they're doing the best they can get that doesn't mean every officer is assuming that a lot of other cities i think we have a lot of great officers in the city. but i'm here to talk about my remaining minute and a half his crisis intervention. namely the upcoming award ceremony. on may 12 and i want to thank -- keeps her for making a donation to our think some of the commissioners for supporting it. i think it's a really important event. for some ever we've ever done anything like this. recognizing police officers done outstanding work in handling a mental health crisis issue with de-escalation not

shem ira woods elliott from the chester upper school district won a scholarship. she will used that scholarship from the bill and mel linda scholarship to a attend xavier university. she had outstanding achievement in and out of the classroom. she's support student from the chester up land school district to win that scholarship since 2013. my gosh, the smile on her face and excitement. >> i'm telling you. >> congratulations. >> well done. >> great job. >>> still a ahead this morning on "eyewitness news" we are live in baltimore as overnight curfew in the city business to expire. >>> also amazing survival stories in nepal now we are getting new video of survivors pull from the ruble including a young baby saved days after the devastating earthquake. >>> and teacher risk his life to stop a student armed with the gun and now that teacher explains what was going through his mind during those frantic moments. we are back at the top of the ho >>> keeping the peace, in baltimore, the cities mandatory curfew business to expire in just a matter of seconds but it hasn't ex

wood elliott is one of only a thousand students nationwide who will receive it, and she was chosen because of her outstanding academic achievement, community service and leadership qualities. >> i know i can get this scholarship, all i have to do is work hard be driven and focused i know i can get it. especially one of the scholars is a friend of mine, i know you can get this. i necessity you got there. stay focused and really put your all into it. >> you got this. good luck to you. sheila tend xavier university in louisiana this coming fall. >>> here's a fun lesson in the science of weather that is meteorologist justin drabick on stage for franklin institute's cbs-3 weather show. in the audience today third graders from philadelphia academy charter school, justin helped to show them the weather to the extreme was with experiments like cloud making and showing students what causes air to rise in the atmosphere. >> look at that, very cool. >> wow, love that balloon experiment. >> that is a favorite. >> a lot of smiles, good day for field trip to be out and about in the city. >> and tomorrow

. >> reporter: neighboring jewelry store manager elliott oaks says he has known the the woman for two decade. >> very nice lady very friendly. never hurt anybody. never bothered anybody. >> reporter: oaks says it is so upsetting because of what happened, next. police say that the woman was then bound beaten and shot with the taser some seven times all for the the stores key and safe pass code while the men drove around for an hour finally, she's dumped in this darby township cemetery nearly 10 miles away. moments later the men take her again, this time she's beaten for pin number to her atm card. when she's dropped off for a second time in the same place, a passing driver calls for help. monday her boss who was with her just moments before the abduction says he is thankful that she's alive. >> relieved that she's okay. very, very releaped. >> reporter: woman was taken to the hospital getting checked out the for a concussion on top of multiple contusions, cuts and bruises buzz woman's boss does confirm she's at home resting and is expect to make a full recovery. we are live in center c

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