without my garfield id, i left havana in 1981 and went to zurich, switzerland, thanks to james joyce. my dancing there became walking through the silence of the city. instead of people looking at me like my family did when i was a child, people began to ask me, where are you from? i felt disoriented, exiled. the changing perception of nature, religious views, philosophical and political opinions, botanical knowledge and idiomatic sounds, everything new. i asked myself many times for a specific reason why my irish family went to cuba and began searching for missing pieces of my irish history in irish, cuban, and catalan archives to discover before me that i had a fascinating history of displacement and transformations in various geographic setings. my book, ticket it ride, is a personal journey towards the past and the present. there is no one but many places i belong to: havana, dublin, mahon, barcelona, and since the lay 80's, the bay area. so thank you very much. . >> i'm going to do this in about 5 parts. i hope you will bear with me. first of all, i want to thank cross roads for i

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you if it if it was just a civil resistance campaign how were they able to take a city like bin garfield say something seventy thousand people with a repressive regime and the organs of the relations are very much a result isn't this at seventeen yes you're sure that seventeenth of february the the armed conflict actually erupted the by the end of february mainly because there was defections within the regime of but that the you know they did minister the head of this special forces. the justice minister multiple diplomats throughout the world all of them saw the level off a question and they were amazed that level then you saw a series of defections which is. what led the situation to be armed because then you have been a pretty personnel saying that enough is enough we're not going to shoot on our own people and they were siding with people like what we saw similar situations in egypt in tunisia except that the army in egypt think uneasy acted as one unit so they decided. a point there was no deal if i could go to you i mean if he is that the west has chosen the side ok i didn't do goo

the military lindsay garfield artsy washington d.c. all right so from the average joe to president obama everyone in america seems to have an opinion on the budget crisis and the tea party is of course no exception an opinion on everything yesterday a small crowd of them gathered on capitol hill but won't hold the line against a deficit reduction compromise. meanwhile today a group of progressive featuring van jones and representative keith ellison also gathered on capitol hill to talk about their demands that congress not gut social security medicare and medicaid so what exactly is going on here are van jones and other progressive trying to start their own sort of tea party only on the left for more on our studio in los angeles we're going to go to richard s. count senior fellow at the campaign for america's future and they're right there i want to talk to you about this new progressive movement that we're seeing a little later and so far i would have to say a little less powerful than what we've seen the tea party do what is this pro

discussions >>the latest storm to blow to chicago has left behind more damage last night's hail pelted a garfield park conservatory and shattered its roof ... >>this is such a sad day for this natural oasis on the west side here we just learned that this storm get up to $5 million damage tear the roof of the conservatory is a loss and will remain closed indefinitely >>what was the glass roof over the firm on has been shattered damaging the permanent collection >>the show house production house and desert houses were affected with damages as well as that beloved fern room.. >>we will have special contractors' command to work on those glass panes >>the help of the plants is in jeopardy the tropical and the azaleas are out of reach ... >>we have not had a chance to go into those plant beds yet the safety of my employees is the highest priority until that can be secured we won't be going into those plant beds to assess damage but that will be next >>navarinos when conservatory will reopen talk is going toward months rather than weeks >>it's expensive undertaking money is scarce >>i'm having a hard ti

better undergraduate teaching done other than williamsne college and our only alumnus was james garfield who did not serve as president very long but did not mean that he was not widespread the one thing on guardian -- garfield one said was my definition of the bestn? education this mark hopkins on a log and the student on the other end and all i can say this by mark hopkins. [applause] >> the next day's experience an unparalleled to work with one of those great scholars williams college is one of the few places it ise possible. i thought i would talk aboutit how jim came to write rosee about the line and the box claiming his memory is not as good as his mind butt actually because he is very modest and does not like to talkke about himself i thought i would talk about how this has happened as he had told me and as the cleaned and from other sources.e bi perhaps to give some background, the jim camejim into a family in eastern massachusetts that was not rose -- a new deal family he had a father who was a dartmouth republican if iin remember, a very large arguments that the dinner and many

you have your assassinated presidents, your lincoln, your kennedy, garfield gets a little love.no love. the last guy in the trivia question. >> he had the misfortune of being followed by one of our most beloved and charismatic presidents, theodore rose vel, and mckinley, because he was assassinated, he didn't leave a lot of written record. his wife was an inhave a lid, she didn't survive to write very much. if you look at his five years in office from 1897 to 1901, they were filled with great drama, great excitement. he led the u.s. into war with spain. he took over cuba, puerto rico and... >> >> jon: china. >> small things like that. got into nasty war in the philippines. it was really a dramatic period in american history. >> jon: and battled terror at home. the fella whos as -- who assassinated him discovered an, aism a few years before. he was very upset about the conditions that americans labored under at this time in the latter part of 1900s. he was looking for a solution, and an, archism appealed to him. he went to a speech given by emmitt goldman in 1901, may 1901, where

. >>> and happy birthday to cartoonist and garfield creator jim davis who turns 66. >>> all day long you can stay on top of the very latest developments in those stories and others as they break on msnbc, and tonight be sure to watch brian williams with "nbc nightly news". and, finally, here's a look at what's coming up later this morning on the "today" show. house speaker john boehner's debt plan goes to a vote today as democrats move forward with their own proposals. brian williams takes us inside the heated debate. >>> and a woman jailed for seven months for armed robbery speaks out after police say she was framed by her ex. >>> now, keep it on this channel for continuing local news, weather, sports, and more. i'm amara sohn. thanks for watching "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. have a good one. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

roof work at garfield pool is complete. you had authorized a substantial amount of money to replace the deck at one property. the cost and scope of the project put that project into the ada realm. so it is now considered an alteration, rather than a repair. so we are removing this project and moving it back to rec and park planning to further address the ada requirements, the scope of that work, which may also require an accessible path of travel from the concert meadow to the deck. that money will fall to the contingency balance. balboa pool. the planning is complete. that work will start in september of this year when the poll closes for its annual maintenance. mayor llama clubhouse, the roofing is almost complete. a bit of a cost increase out of the contingency for hazmat and asbestos removal. union square. the replacement of the failed light fixtures in the pavement has been planned out. the department has, at the request of commissioner harrison, identified an alternative funding source. the downtown park fund can fund

. >> if you have problems, i see right here, we call garfield 7171 for service. member that is right. operators standing by. >> from here, we are going to look at those wonderful elevators that go of the outside of the high rise building that everyone wants to take a ride in. >> let's go do that. >> here we are in the most exciting elevator in the city of san francisco. this is the outside elevator that goes into the 32nd floor. tell us about this. >> we are in one of the tower elevators now. these were originally installed in 1972. 1,000 feet a minute, outside observation elevators, so a great view of the city. some of the most popular elevators in san francisco, as you mentioned, and these cars run a lot. they run about 2000 starts per day. about 700,000 starts per year for an elevator like this, and these are pretty hard working. >> must be hard to maintain these elevators. mechanical devices in the rain. >> this is much more difficult to maintain. normal elevator installation is all sealed from the elements, but in this case, it is all exposed to the outside,

also making an appearance, andrew garfield, the new spider spiderman. >> they are going to give it the full 360-degree here's what we expect from this movie now please love us and forget about the earlier movie. >> the convention is expected to attract more than 130,000 people. how many times can you reboot spider man? >> i don't know. eight legs, maybe. >> i was happy with the new old spider man. >> yeah. what about the older new spider man. >> that one not so much. >> this one, amazing from what i hear. out to the roadway, scott, we're looking at the peninsula where this accident reportedly cleared from the chp report. you might find a car out of lanes, a little activity remaining passing broadway. the other side eastbound 580, opposite the commute direction away from the maze, there is an accident clearing from the lanes at park boulevard. no injury there is, and a lot of look at oakland 880 t volume of traffic past the coliseum. the taillights north, no delays, scott. back to you. >> thank you. 4:56 a. life cut too short, a community gathers to remember the life of a san francisco

james garfield got shot shortly after taking office and so many doctors put their fingers in the wound to try to find out where the bullet went, that an infection developed and that is what actually killed him. it's thought if they'd just taken garfield back to the white house, put him in bed, gave him some water he probably would have recovered because the bullet was lodged harmlessly. >> could anything like this happen today? >> all i'll say is there is a fully equipped medical operating theater on air force one. if you took a long trip and didn't have a lot of turbulence, maybe. >> "the president is a sick man.". matthew algeo, thank you. >> thank you, ray. >> lehrer: again, the major developments of the day: house republicans passed a bill to raise the nation's debt limit and avert default. and senate democrats planned to move on their version. president obama appealed for compromise. and new economic data released by the commerce department showed u.s. growth is slowing considerably. that news-- combined with the debt ceiling debate in washington-- dragged down stocks on wall stre

it's garfield's odie. >> oh, yeah. jim davis. great. you're a garfield nut.and love lasagna. [ laughter ] >> "celebrity whispers." [ whispering ] >> hey, sorry i sat on your guinea pig earlier. it was an accident. it was pretty funny though, right? [ laughter ] >> mm-hmm. >> it's just that i think he was making fun of me the way he was looking at me. i don't take that kind of [ bleep ] from anybody. >> mm-hmm. >> hey, you know the name of that song, it goes, like -- [ singing ] ♪ yeah you want my body uh-huh, i want your body ♪ and the chorus is like -- [ scatting ] or something like that? >> yeah, that sounds familiar. >> man, i just love songs that get me on the dance floor, you know? >> totally. [ laughter ] >> celebrita! [ cheers and applause ] [ whispering ] >> hey, man, sorry about eating all your pretzels. >> mm-hmm. [ cheers and applause ] >> they were just sitting there, so i thought it would be okay. the bag was open. i didn't even know it was yours. [ laughter ] >> i'm peggy hess. i'll see you next time on "celebrity whispers." [ cheers and a]lae u

allowed nato to secure this no fly zone to stop president garfield from slowing his own people work. though the attempts to assassinate canarsie and. there have been a number of them and lately seems to be obsessed with that idea doesn't mean that the real real idea behind the campaign is regime change in the country well if you go back to from the nineteenth of march i'm words there's a real there's a great word in english which is backsliding there was a real backsliding and skidding into what began as a holding un resolution one thousand seventy three and really trying to protect civilians and the slaughter of civilians. for example you had b.h.l. not only livy and france really pushing this we got to see the civilians much in a sort of recalling rwanda and what happened in kosovo in bosnia. and so that was the real the real tension pushed forward the moment and then you backslide into well how are you going to do that do you need to remove gadhafi from power and in a sense you do so there was a real reticence to use the words regime change and change and then all of a sudden it s

if they will decide to go for peace to to work for a for for a treaty between garfield the rebels will feel that maybe years like like south africa for example or russia step in and try to to to to set up a little remains because this would this would describe the previous policy which was the variables i would think eventually i would think but i believe that that makes sense i know that. president zuma just got into sort of deep browed cameron in south africa over this matter. and you century great chess experts to negotiate a libya so i mean i think that that is what makes sense in terms of bringing in other members of the international community in their experiences of resolving conflicts. what do you think. libya's border means for the future of made to the the e.u. common difference project does it need rethinking is it in the in the in a rethinking process the moment a sign of things to come i think increasingly we will see coalitions of the willing like we saw in iraq. like we saw it like we're seeing in libya. i think what will happen within nato is you will see these coalitio

this is video of broken windows on the garfield park observatory. hailstones smashed hundreds of windows in the building built in 1908. no estimate on the cost of the damage or how long it will take to replace all that glass. >>> prince albert of monaco tied the knot with south african limp on. crowds were outside of the palace hoping to catch a glimpse of the two newlyweds. the couple will have a more elaborate religious ceremony this weekend. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it is a fantastic start to the holiday within. we could not ask for more. the sun is shining. great wes -- weather to fire up the grill. we'll show you how long the sunshine sticks around. tim has a look at the beach forecast. >> it is a good one. it is going to be a very, very nice one. it is warm. water is finally starting to get into a comfortable zone. we are looking at 86 degrees. 89 on sunday. 88 monday. water temperature starting to get to 70 degrees. a nice time to take dip. it is warm enough on the sand that it will be comfortable. tonight and tomorrow we go down to the mid 60s