born in ethiopia, adopted and growing up in sweden. his passion for food led him to open the famed restaurant in harlem called red rooster. his book is called "yes, chef: a memoir." you doing all right? >> i am so happy to be here. tavis: i am always on a plane. i was on a plane a few weeks ago, and i was transfixed by the story in "vogue" magazine and that you and your journey. i know your work as a chef. we have almost met half a dozen times. >> in chicago. tavis: and we have never quite met until today, but i remember reading that peace in "vogue" about the book, which i had not seen at the time, and i said to my staff, "i have to get the book." i did not know that much about marcus, and i am glad you're here to do the show today. i want to sit back and let you tell the story, but when i read about what your mother did to save your life and your sister -- >> we had tuberculosis in ethiopia, and we did not come from the capital. we came from a small place, and my mom, she walked for days with me and my sister to get to a hospital. sh

born in ethiopia, adopted and growing up in sweden. his passion for food led him to open the famed restaurant in harlem called red rooster.

. >> you grew up in ethiopia.e it. >> me, my mom and sister had teu ber cue lows a. she walked 75 miles. she passed away. and me and my sister survived. i always wonder when i go back to the hospital, i was like, how did my sister get us out of there. there's thousands of kids. when the worst thing happened like that, it also ended up being the best thing. that's how we got adopted to sweden. >> you were adopted by a swedish family. >> you were five and two at the time? >> we were small. i don't remember this. my sister remembers a little bit more. my sister was fluent and i spoke not that much. like a two-year-old. i learned swedish so fast. for me, i think the transition of coming to sweden is always a little bit easier than my sister. i was just a little kid. >> you say, if things had turned out differently, you would have been a star soccer player. you tell a great story in the book, when you didn't make a soccer team. >> you said you were good and didn't make it. then you turned to cooking. it gave you what?

he loved soccer and dreamed of returning to ethiopia to train and teach children. now his teammates and community wondering why someone would kill a young man. >> i cannot picture him doing anything wrong for someone to come after him like that. it's so sad. >> it's just unjust to take people like that away from you. >> reporter: the family plans to take his body back to ethiopai to bury him. police hope someone can turn in a tip to help catch this shooter and get this family some peace. jana katsuyama, ktvu news. >>> a ruling today at the state capital freezes $30 million in redevelopment funds meant for the new 49ers stadium in santa clara. a judge granted a temporary orlder to hold the disputed money in reserve -- temporary order to hold the disputed money in reserve. the county voted to use the money to improve schools instead. >>> one case out of california is slated to go before the ninth circuit court of appeals in september. but the obama administration wants to speed up the process saying it agrees with lower court rulings that found the act unconstitution

he loved soccer and dreamed of returning to ethiopia to train and teach children. now his teammates and community wondering why someone would kill a young man. >> i cannot picture him doing anything wrong for someone to come after him like that. it's so sad. >> it's just unjust to take people like that away from you. >> reporter: the family plans to take his body back to ethiopai to bury him. police hope someone can turn in a tip to help catch this shooter and get this family some peace. jana katsuyama, ktvu news. >>> a ruling today at the state capital freezes $30 million in redevelopment funds meant for the new 49ers stadium in santa clara. a judge granted a temporary orlder to hold the disputed money in reserve -- temporary order to hold the disputed money in reserve. the county voted to use the money to improve schools instead. >>> one case out of california is slated to go before the ninth circuit court of appeals in september. but the obama administration wants to speed up the process saying it agrees with lower court rulings that found the act unconstitution

. >> reporter: his mother says her son came to this country from ethiopia at the age of 10, got his citizenshipwas attending city college, and was just a day away from attending a soccer tournament in washington dc. >> i want the killer to be found and i want justice. >> reporter: police are hopeful, and the family is confident somebody saw something at this intersection. the family knows it won't bring him back, but they say an arrest will give the family some needed closure. >>> temperatures remained cool out there tonight. we're only in the low 50s close to the coastline. away from the coastline, temperatures dropping into the 50s too. fog returning to the coastline in the morning hours. fog and drizzle tomorrow morning. fog again thursday, but temperatures are going to warm slightly over the next few days as the fog becomes less extensive. fairly widespread fog out this tomorrow morning. patchy, chose to the coastline -- close to the coastline. by the 10:00 hour, fog is scaling back. and then additional clearing in the afternoon. temperatures are going to warm slightly tomorrow, back into t

back in the days of the dictator, the italian troops had occupied ethiopia. here in rome in a new postwar italy, -- would feel the olympic show. the race was run at night and in some places soldiers lined the route lighting the way with burning tortures and the ethiopian destroyed the field. he won sub-saharan africa first ever olympic gold medal and in his place, he danced with delight. >> now to fencing or tonight china's took home the gold in the men's individual. it was a disappointing for the u.s. fencer. he was kind enough to teach me a move or two. he was defeated in his first match. tonight, he joins me from our studios. i will start by saying congratulations, you are an olympian. >> thank you. >> you were up against someone who managed to fans better than you do today, did you have a feeling of what went wrong for you? >> it got really comfortable for me and i noticed that towards the end of it, he was making some nice touches and then i made a few mistakes of my own and he was able to capitalize on those. it is my faults. he was dancing amazingly. c

back in the days of the dictator, the italian troops had occupied ethiopia. here in rome in a new postwar italy, -- would feel the olympic show. the race was run at night and in some places soldiers lined the route lighting the way with burning tortures and the ethiopian destroyed the field. he won sub-saharan africa first ever olympic gold medal and in his place, he danced with delight. >> now to fencing or tonight china's took home the gold in the men's individual. it was a disappointing for the u.s. fencer. he was kind enough to teach me a move or two. he was defeated in his first match. tonight, he joins me from our studios. i will start by saying congratulations, you are an olympian. >> thank you. >> you were up against someone who managed to fans better than you do today, did you have a feeling of what went wrong for you? >> it got really comfortable for me and i noticed that towards the end of it, he was making some nice touches and then i made a few mistakes of my own and he was able to capitalize on those. it is my faults. he was dancing amazingly. c

it is still a very painful process and iran, but >> hircine came from ethiopia at the age of 10, he gotitizenship and was attending city college. he was just one day away from attending a soccer tournament in washington d.c.. >> i want the killer to be found. i want justice. >> police are hoping someone saw something at this intersection. they say an arrest will give the families as needed closure. >>catherine: and alameda county jury has ordered a convicted killer defaced children $60,000 for killing their mother. he has a 12 year-old son and 11 year-old daughter. he was convicted in to douse 6 of killing his wife. the couple's children were home at the time and now live with relatives in russia. it is unclear if they will be able to collect any money since he claimed he cannot even afford a defense attorney. there is a new development in the case of the man wanted in the mother of a father and his two sons in sentences go. as terisa estacio reports prosecutors are one step closer since agreeing him to justice. >> the suspect could be back in the city as soon as the end of the week. th

that was conducted by the pew research institute, an ictituon,in7 ntaf nt aa, tine ok sel, ghana, ethiopia, a bunch of countries and asked the africans, what do you think about the chinese? do you like them? do you hate them? artheyetteorors an wgitag ou7 ri the ovche. livehoods, and by the way, we think they're better than the americans. and i think that is rlly important, an important message get out. reon wthinise yo t esiaf, e general senment is pretty posive about the chinese being there. you go to places that are mo developed, the united stes whh received significant invementrom in , ou ,sh rg lr u isalre lth epsm a lor coern. i do think the relationship with the chinese is dynamic. brazil is a good example. a few decades ago the relaonship between china azas eic iu mofrre az u mealr, aot relatiship is dynamic in many different aspects, but i think it's really misplace today say people are-- mac t disiyoarfhe rica are being employed. especially i'm talking about africa in particular because this is where you hear a lot of these stories. in the book, a i won't go rougit he, av a er pc

. >> kasiay was a a student who come from ethiopia in 2002. now his soccer meat, family, and communitied on r left wonder why someone could would kill a young man. >> i can't picture him doing anything wrong for somebody to come up to halftime like that. >> life is unjust to take people like that away from you. >> reporter: the family plans to take his body back toth yep ya to bury him. police are hoping someone will call or send in a tip. it can be anonymous. to help catch the shooter and bring some peace. >>> we're hearing front a union city family shaken after a violent home invasion. 62-year-old alabamay rorwama was in her yard when three men approached her forced her inside the home and started ransacking the place. herson was home at time an he sprung into action. >> i was like this can't be happening. my adrenaline became, fight. i fought back. >> daniels says the robbers pistol whipped him and shot his mother in the abdomen. she is in stable condition. they got away with just cell phones and ipods. police looking for information. >>> t

july 23rd, 2012, rachel's mom samantha and her grandparents, richard and roseanne, all traveled to ethiopiato the area that had been helped by all the money rachel had raised. >> wow. >> this video is set to a beautiful song. it's music by sleeping at last. >> 6:00 in the morning. we're about to go see some of rachel's love. >> i am richard. i am rachel's grandfather. i really wish rachel could be here today. first of all, rachel would think that this is probably the neatest thing she'd ever seen in her entire life. >> in total, the amount of money that rachel and her family really were able to raise helped 60,000 people in 100 villages. they've always now got clean drinking water. >>> the shake weight is here. what i'm about to show you is, like, here. on the sexual innuendo sexually. >> yikes. ♪ >> what? >> are you kidding me? >> no, i'm not kidding you. >> i'm blushing. >> is this real? does this come with a bottle of lube? >> that looks like a lot of -- fun. >> that looks like it's from a soft core porn. >> he's all humping his wife in the kitchen. >> that's the worst one. >> yeah. >> j

he dreamt of returning to ethiopia to coach children on playing his favorite sport. soccer. >> he always brought that joy. he always brought brought that positiveness. >> the shooter remains at large. they denotable he was involved in any criminal activity. he was shot in the head execution style. >>> san francisco's latest crime statistics show a disturbing trend. in the first six months of this year there have been 39 homicides. that is compared to 50 of all of last year. there was 50 homicides in 2010 and 45 in 2009. >> reek feelings those are just some of the -- they file a lawsuit against the west con -- but the aclu says conditions are deplorable and students lack access to regular math and science teachers. >>> if you are a big fan of chucky cheese mascot get a good look at him now. tomorrow they will unvail a updated version of their star mouse. >>> the ipad could get a new look. apple isn't saying anything but there are reports the company will release a mini ipad before the enof the year. the new model will have a screen that is about two inches smaller tha

back in the days of the dictator loose lena, italian troops had occupied ethiopia, but here in rome in a new post-war italy, a -- he would steal the olympic show. the race was a runner's night in someplaces, soldiers lit the way with burning torches and the ethiopian destroyed the field. he broke the world record and won africa's first ever olympic gold medal. and in this place in the roman night, he danced with the light. those games will always be associated with his extraordinary barefoot run. >> this is "bbc news" live from london, the headlines. china's 16-year-old swimming prodigy ye shiwen denies she's used performance-enhancing drugs after an american coach calls her gold medal swim impossible. the electricity grid in india failed for a second day running, leaving 600 million people without power across the north and east of the country. now in syria, a battle to control the strategic city of aleppo is continuing. sources are reported to be bombarded the area. activists say more than 25 people died in aleppo on monday. joining me from beirut is our correspondent jim muir. i gav

my parents are from ethiopia. >> my parents are from poland. >> euna king lives in the shadow of the olympic park too. >> when i was growing up i was the only mixed race child in my class. >> reporter: she is the second black woman ever to be elected to parliament. >> we said if london wins, then the world wins, you know? because london has basically the whole world here. >> reporter: there are the jamaicans, the indians of brick lane, africans, asians, europeans, muslims, hindus, christians. this is not the london that tourists typically get to see. here the double dip recession has hit hard. unemployment is over 14%. >> that wealth doesn't trickle down anywhere, you know? they can see it. >> but they can't get it. >> but they can't get it. >> reporter: kingly's economic inequality was a driving force behind london's riots last year. for five days angry young people battled police, looted, and destroyed their own neighborhoods. the physical recovery from the riots has been slow. this pub still bears the scars. but the effort to improve lives is even more difficult. some hope the inv

that's what matters. >> you were born in ethiopia.american story. what's the story behind the title? >> in the kitchen, it is humbling. the only thing is yes, chef. no matter what she or he would ask you to do. i felt like it declare -- it is a great thing to call the book. when i had the opportunity to cook for president obama, the president thanked me for dinner. he said yes chef, and everybody starred to laugh. it has a double meaning. i always go back to i'm here because of others and my parents. and i am lucky to have a window to africa to harlem and america. it's really about a diverse background. you know, i feel privilege in that sense. >> what's the short version of the story of how a 2-year-old in ethiopia who has tuberculosis and whose mother dies now becomes a chef and turned on to cooking? >> every chef -- >> i thought it was -- >> it's a mix i haven't seen before. >> i don't know how my -- my mother walked from the village in ethiopia in the countryside into a hospital and there was a nurse that took care of us and said

i am a clinician in the hospital and i work in ethiopia and uganda. >> dr. chris olson was somebody that i met at a conference once. he's the type of technologist that can put together incubator out of car parts. >> am i taking one or two? >> hopefully two. >> great. what we're doing today is talking about how we solve problems to deliver health care to the world's most vulnerable people. >> maybe at this stage just getting a little bit more conservative and not doing 30 at a time but maybe doing 15. >> so jose's an integral part what have we're all trying to do together. >> then we have to use a much smaller space. >> there is not one single entity that is taking an idea, and then going to prototype and really working with end users and making sure it is the right device. >> chris is great because in the same way that i no longer am afraid to ask dumb questions about medicine, he's no longer afraid to ask silly questions about engineering an design. so in that back and forth we often come up with really good ideas. >> the guys already have all of the sensor

and even when you finally go back to ethiopia and discover the cuisine there. of food? >> it's for everything. first of all, coming from oo ethiopia was a struggle to begin with. but also finding my identity. i realize my first language is food. and you know, when i needed to add another chapter about myself, going back to ethiopia that added my love of spices. it gave me an understanding not just about my food but who i am as a man. >> and the success of a great restaurant you said is food and conversation. >> conversation. >> you do that well. >> people want to talk. >> mission accomplished. "yes, chef." >> congratulations. >> don't forget to visit r,,,,,, >> good morning. one man is dead after a shooting in the oakland hills. police say he was shot yesterday afternoon near mission boulevard. he somehow managed to drive about a mile after he was shot. police found him dead on sun kids drive. investigators say arson was the cause of a fire at a high school in east san jose. fire crews were called to independence high school. flames had burned a door on a theat

it was in these remote mountains that a group of monks from ethiopia first made a hermitage back in the 6th century a.d. >> you see this is one of the grottos of the ancient hermits in this mountain. now here we have formed this place in a chapel. >> back in 1982, this italian jesuit, then 28, was studying arabic in neighboring lebanon when he hiked up to this spot for a retreat, a retreat he had to extend because of a serious fall. >> there was no way out, so i stayed here one week with my broken leg. >> he did find the stamina to explore the area and ruins of the long-forgotten monastery. it had been used for centuries before being abandoned in the late 1800s. >> i have found really what i was looking for. >> dall'oglio was seeking a moon assic life and he got permission from the local church authorities to rebuild and revive this monastery. his first task was to put a roof on this church built in the 11th century itself on the ruins of a roman castle. >> i came at night. then i came inside this church. there was no roof so there was an incredible roof of stars. >> it took years and a

a simmering ethnic conflict over land rights and ethiopia has led to more than twenty thousand peoplefleeing to kenya over the last month renewed fighting involving the boron and garri communities broke out earlier this week with eight hundred killed and twelve more injured he'll be in government forces have stepped in in an attempt to stop the conflict. praised for free preaching freedom and reform the georgian leadership is cast as a democracy success story both by the western media and state channels at home some journalists who work in the country though see a different picture as artie's arena delusional reports. that's exactly what we're seeing in my culture the well you my part of the world you know you are leverage that you know energy by giving people more freedom freedom is the key word fine words from the georgian president some western officials like hillary clinton continuously praise me truly for his supposed program of reform but journalists in the country are less impressed and say talk of freedom doesn't extend to the media made at the new journalists is now a dangero

they have helped us in somalia, djibouti, and ethiopia. there's a long way to go. the infrastructure is not there to help grow the economy, but i encourage u.s. companies to be more engaged in africa. there's a growing middle class presented opportunities for us. africom will be essential. that is one piece in developing aid and they're making a critical difference in their region. in his capacity building, the capacity of the local nations to govern and grow. of these are very important relationships and i was more optimistic about our relationship there. >> a quick follow up? >> did you hear anything new about al qaeda in africa, some of these terrorist groups? are you can talk about all? and are you hearing more affirmation of their growing were becoming more formidable? >> the good news outweighs the bad during the good news is we have had considerable success in somalia and in yemen. we have been contained in the arabian peninsula, the more robust threat at the moment. they have really yielded some substantial help. the bad news is what happened in mali, the c

so the wars you read about, like the civil war in sudan, the war in ethiopia in the congo and iraq haveave seen their mom or grandmother get raped. >> eric, you're a defender. how are you supposed to... >> reporter: though safe in their adopted country, the children mostly poor, struggle to fit in. luma knew soccer could be the bridge. so with her own money, she rounded up the kids from 28 different countries and formed a team. calling it the fugees short for refugees. >> i remember the first year we played we didn't have uniforms. we had to buy white t-shirts. i'm haggling trying to get 20t-shirts for $5. >> reporter: the team gave the children a sense of belonging, but luma soon realized the children's needs extended far beyond the soccer field. >> you have a kid after practice say, coach, can you help me with my homework? the first couple times i'm like go get your mom to help you. i realize their mom can't read or write english. they're coming to me for it. i kept going for it. at no point did i say, all right, i can't do this anymore. >> reporter: before she knew it, she was all in

we landed in ethiopia five years ago to this day and we adopted and 8-year-old and a ten year old little boy and a little girl we showed up at an orphanage which is the capitol in ethiopia and the entire orphanage was smaller than this room, and we show up on on monday and all of fri have a going away party at the orphanage and the orphanage had about 30 kids. going away party in the orphanage, i don't know if any of you have experienced this but a going away party is actually kind of a pretty sad situation. so our flight that day is leaving at 5:00 and the going away party starts at 1:30. we are sitting around and having ethiopian coffee and they've made a little cake and there is a knock at the door of the orphanage and a tall woman shows up. she is dressed in white and i ask the director who is that at the door cracks and she said that is your new passan's mother. so went over and asked her first of all my first question was how did you get there? she lived three days away and told us she borrowed bus money and she slept in the basement of churches the last two nights to say goodbye t

southwest but also in places that can afford to pay for water although water is scarce in somalia and ethiopia discovering that there does it go in no good because the buyers can't afford to buy it the new golden sort of opportunity in water would be to be able to buy agricultural water in the american west and southwest and then be able to do what's called the fall of the water or use rural clay don't water for urban uses there has been limited amounts of that so far but the law with regards to water is law that was established fifty or sixty years ago when rural constituencies controlled the legislature and the farming interests had no had no way or ability to compete in the market with urban water users and so they put in place legal safeguards to themselves from having the free market water my suspicion although i can't know this to be true is that when we have another good drought in the west and we will the biological record tells us that that the urban voters will begin to put in place the ability for them to appropriate some of that were a water in california my last understanding was

. >> and the scenes from ethiopia and africa.he starving young children. >> the starving young children with the big bellies. he has always been giving to charities and things like that. he gave more than people knew. >> what do you think is the biggest misconception about michael for people who didn't know him? >> the things that were coming out in the media and people believing what they read. these were all terrible lies. >> like what? >> like he was molesting young boys and other things that he was doing. that he might have been on pain killers and things like that. as far as them trying to make him out to be a terrible person, he was not that. >> let's take a quick break and come back and talk further in a few minutes. >>> there have been many disgusting statements made recently concerning allegations of improper conduct on my part. i ask all of you to wait and hear the truth before you label or condemn me. don't treat me like a criminal because i am innocent. >> when you are his mother, you would know michael better than mo

. >> and the scenes from ethiopia and africa.ung children. >> the starving young children with the big bellies. he has always been giving to charities and things like that. he gave more than people knew. >> what do you think is the biggest misconception about michael for people who didn't know him? >> the things that were coming out in the media and people believing what they read. these were all terrible lies. >> like what? >> like he was molesting young boys and other things that he was doing. that he might have been on pain killers and things like that. as far as them trying to make him out to be a terrible person, he was not that. >> let's take a quick break and come back and talk further in a few minutes. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much, i appreciate it, i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally. ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense. syou know, i'v

last december, president bush and i traveled with barbara and jenna to tanzania, zambia, and ethiopia and we met a woman whose husband was h.i.v.- positive but she did not know it until she had contracted the disease. when he died, she was shunned by her own family. while they allowed her to stay with them, she was not allowed to sit with them or to meet with that. they even gave her her own plates and utensils. out of the mistaken belief that they could catch aids from her. then she was introduced to a faith-based organization that provided education and training for widows and orphans. they taught her how to make beautiful purses, a few of which we bought out of recycled materials so she could support herself and her children. as her finances improve, she moved on her on with her children and now, she supports the family that once shunned her. extending to them - [applause] her story is a powerful testament to why we must do more to promote the good health of women everywhere. the health of women affects families, communities, and whole country is. healthy mothers make healthy famil

he tended city college of san francisco and dreamt of returning to ethiopia to teach the children about>> i knew i was going to have a great time hanging out with him. it's sad to see it. >> they don't believe he was involved in any criminal activity. he was shot in the head. >>> san francisco's latest crime stafftistings show -- statistics show a disturbing trend in the first nine months of this year. there have been 39 homicides. that is compared to 50 of all of last year. there were also 50 homicides in 2010 and 45 in 2009. >>> this morning elected officials are demanding to know why it's taking so long to restore power after severe weekend storms in the midwest and mid atlantic. more than a million people are still in the dark and dealing with sweltering temperatures. at the height of the outage three million customers from indiana to washington, d.c. lost power. after the hurricane forced winds toppled trees on power lines. it may not come back to some communities until the end of the week at the earliest. >> turning now to the race for the white house for the first time since apri

. >> and the scenes from ethiopia and africa. the starving young children. >> the starving young children with the big bellies. he has always been giving to charities and things like that. he gave more than people knew. >> what do you think is the biggest misconception about michael for people who didn't know him? >> the things that were coming out in the media and people believing what they read. these were all terrible lies. >> like what? >> like he was molesting young boys and other things that he was doing. that he might have been on pain killers and things like that. as far as them trying to make him out to be a terrible person, he was not that. >> let's take a quick break and come back and talk further in a few minutes. [ female announcer ] so how long have you been living flake-free with head & shoulders? since before jeans were this skinny... since us three got a haircut. since my first twenty-ninth birthday. [ female announcer ] live flake-free with head & shoulders. it starts working from your first wash. with seven ben

he went to city college and dreamt of going back to ethiopia and teaching kids to play soccer. >> itsomething to look forward to. he always brought that joy. he always brought that positiveness. >> the shooter remains at large although police don't believe kassaye was involved in any criminal activity. he was shot in the head execution style last week. san francisco's latest crime statistics show a disturbing trend. in the last six months there have been 30 homicides. there were also 50 homicides in 2010 and 45 back in 2009. >>> leaky ceilings, rat droppings and rotting floors that have sprouted mushrooms. there are just some of the conditions that aclu claims exists at the community day school program in richmond. they have filed a lawsuit against the west contra corsica school district. the aclu says conditions are deplorable and students lack access to regular math and science teachers. >>> u.s. olympic committee says it will not make a bid to host the olympic games in 2022. the lake tahoe winter olympic committee has been exploring the possibility of making a bid to host the game