it is really an incredible moment at garfield high school. a car filled high school has a proud tradition of teaching the -- garfield high school has a

jimi hendrix and quincy jones went to garfield. a long tradition of teaching our kids to think creatively. quincy jones ended up producing the conlin "thriller," so i am so glad he did not have to be subjected to this map test and have his confidence killed an opera is one of the greatest albums of all time. i think it is that tradition of creativity and teaching kids to think critically that has led our school take his bold stance for the teachers voted unanimously with only three abstentions refused to give this district-required test because we feel this is a civil rights issue. this is a test that was brought to seattle and to complete scandal. -- under complete scandal. the board of the company that produced the test and did not disclose that when the seattle public schools purchased the map tests for over $4 million. it is not me who has a problem with that, it is the state auditor of washington state that came and found that was "an ethics violation" and "conflict of interest." that is the best part of the map test. this tes

teachers at garfield high school voted to stop administering map tests, calling them wasteful and unfairlyused to grow their performance. teachers and other seattle schools have pledged their support for the boycott, and both the national education association and the american federation of teachers, have also given their endorsement. observers say the garfield boycott could mark a significant revolt to date against the obama administration's embrace of standardized testing. those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. and dramatic film portraying the last day of oscar grant's life won top honors at the sundance film festival. directed by first-time filmmaker, 26-year-old ryan coogler, "fruitvale" tells the story of oscar grant, the 22- year-old bay area resident who was shot to death by a bay area rapid transit police officer. the film begins with real cellphone footage of the police shooting and then dramatically retells the last hours of his life. this is a clip from the film when grant speaks with his mother abo

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

reform agenda and are standing up against standardized testing nearly entire teaching faculty at garfield high school announced they will not teach or administer a new standardized test for ninth graders known as the map measures of academic progress teachers say such standardized testing is a waste of time and money second school is even expected to join the boycott and it is in a statement about their decision the teachers said after this there are review we have all come to the conclusion that we cannot in good conscience subject our students to this test again under george w. bush the use of standardized testing to judge progress in our schools exploded despite little to no evidence that these tests are actually good measures of how well a student is learning in reale. the all these tests do is enrich corporate executives like george w. bush's brother neil who sell these standardized tests to schools so our teachers in seattle now is showing us the way to fight back against the profiteers who want to turn our school kids in a profit tools joining me now is chris mcbride academic dean

and let me just say that teachers at garfield high school are not against accountability.ability. and we want to be able to show our student growth. it's just that this is not a tool we can use to show student growth because it's not properly aligned to our curriculum. we want to replace this test -- some of my colleagues want to replace the test with a better standardized test. but many of us like myself think we have too many tests and we should move towards things like portfolio based assignments where you gather data over time and then you're actually showing the skills that are being taught in your very class room. >> thank you so much for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >>> talk back question today. can lance armstrong redeem himself? your responses next. etes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. i had[ designer ]eeling

during garfield's election, i love to bring this up, during james garfield's election, the state of californialmost, you know, was teetering on the edge over the issue of illegal chinese immigration. we go through this as a society. we have these issues, but every imgraget population that's come to the united states has come here for the same reason, looking for work. that's all. >> the chinese were the most crime-free community in history. they don't cause anybody any trouble. thank you, chuck todd. let's turn to somebody who knows he's a member of congress from that part of the country right down near the warder, joaquin castro, democrat from texas. this is "hardball" and we're talking about whether they will get a bill that passes both houses, the one controlled by the senate and one by the house. do you think the majority led by people like, well, john boehner and cantor are actually going to put their fingers on an immigration bill and pass it? >> i think they will, chris, and i hope they will. i think especially with the november election, the american penal made it clear i believe that

. >> 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,

elementary. the francisco middle school pto. states peter and paul school. john parker elementary and garfield elementary and thank you victoria pastry cake donated the cake and make sure you eat some cake and join us for our campaign in north beach. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, scott. we're almost there. oh, former commissioner lonnie chen. thank you lonnie for being here [ applause ] we're almost there. one more individual. she has already been mentioned. it's a perfect tribute, a capstone, julie christiansen. >> thank you >> can i get my team up here? i have been fielding all the thanks, but it doesn't really belong to me. it belongs to all of these people. who else is here from our group? come on up. who am i missing? >> the whole village, come on up. >> so we have a couple of city folks. where is greg scott? gret get up here. greg, get up here. i want to point out jill, karen. jill is the deputy chief librarian and karen, these two women are the fairy godmothers of this project. we would not be here without all the people that you heard from, but we would not be here without them

. >> today the greater washington urban league joins dozens of volunteers at garfield elementary foriteracy. joining us is the president of the national urban league. good morning. >> good morning. >> tell us what you have planned for today. >> the national urban league and our affiliate here in washington, the greater metropolitan washington league, are participating in the day of service. we'll be working with our young professionals at a number of schools with an important focus on literacy. dr. king said everyone can be great because everyone can serve. i think the president's idea about tying the martin luther king holiday to service really at a time when we remember the 50-year anniversary of the great march on washington where dr. king made his speech is especially timely. so there will be a focus on working with kids. my hope is that this day of service inspires others to serve throughout the year. the national urban league, our affiliate in washington, and our other 95 affiliates across the country do this type of work every day, 365 days a year. it's great to see so many am

. >>> teachers are boycotting a standardized test at a seattle high school. 19 teachers at garfield high school refused to give the measures of academic progress test after seattle's school district decided to factor the exam into teachers' evaluations. the teachers say the test is flawed. >> i'm happy to have anyone come in and look at my work, it's just that i don't think they should be tested by this test. >> they adopted it for $4 million. why would they adopt a test they haven't vetted, they haven't made sure it alliance to oigns curriculum? >> the test is not needed in seattle state. they have not commented on the uproar. noted school principal, author, tv host steve perry is joining us live via skype from hartford, connecticut. steve, do the teachers have a point? >> no, they don't have a point. what they are trying to do and they're trying to skirt the responsibility of accountability. this examination, like so many others, probably has some flaws, as most examinations do, as the examinations they give in their own classrooms do. in fact, if you look at some of the real data we f

james garfield was the first to view the parade from a stand built in front of the white house in 1881d the first televised inaugural ceremony was for president truman in 1949.  >>> well, beyonce and katy perry won't be the only big stars performing during inauguration festivities a person familiar with the events says lady ga ga will perform at tuesday's ball for white house staffers. the staff ball is typically a private affair. during president obama's last inauguration, jay-z reportedly performed. >>> several comedians are joining forces for president obama through a new documentary film. michael collier is a comedian who tells us what to expect from the upcoming project. >> well, you know, i just wanted to show a love letter to our president because we love the accomplishments of mr. obama, that he even won this thing the very first time. that's how it started. but then as we start really looking at him closer, we realize how much we dug him and there was so many people who want to say things that weren't flattering that we want to put together a document

lincoln and garfield and teddy roosevelt shot at. luckily to be saved. truman was attacked.oosevelt was shot at. kennedy was killed. reagan was almost killed. it's not a joke. >> what this goes to is the big and growing difference between the nra's rank and file who are pretty normal people. >> do they know that the idea of talking about assassinating or endangering the lives of a presidential family hurts the process. then to say let's talk about this daughters. >> there's a lot of nra members who don't like this kind of stuff. they're not talking to their rank and file. they're talking to a hard core base right now. i don't know that's a winning strategy for them over the long haul. >> what is going on? lapierre used to seem his head was screwed on a couple years ago. maybe many years ago. why are they sending him out with this absolute rejectionist position? we're not doing anything on gun clips or background checks. why don't say they you know what? there's common ground here. >> we know that their membership supports what we're talking about. background checks on all gu

the shrouded cruiser and motorcycle sit outside the garfield district station in woodbridge. >> these are memorials that the public can come and leave flowers if they like and cards if they would like. it is a way of showing we are mourning. >> reporter: he knew officer yung well. >> one of the best guys on the department. he always had a smile. and always had a very optimistic point of view on everything. >> reporter: it has been more than 20 years since prince william county lost an officer in the line of duty. they are finding it hard to cope. >> a very, very emotional day to say the least. and -- you know, we are struggling. >> reporter: officer yung's family is deeply connected to the department. his wife is a former officer. and his brother and sister-in-law are still on the force. tonight in this shopping center, the super target shopping center on nokesville road, there will be a candlelight vigil at 7:30 to remember the life of officer yung. come and bring your own candles. ahead at 6:00, we will have more on the coverage of officer young's death, including how folks from acr

outside the garfield eastern district a shroud police car and motorcycle. he knew his fallen colleague well. >> one of the best guys on the department. >> reporter: which is why the officer is not surprised to see the outpring of is port on social media and around the nation. >> i mean, we heard from agencies from california to florida. you know. law enforcement is a tight-mitt family and -- you know, no matter where you are in the country or in the world, you know, you lose an officer, it is losing a brother, sister. >> reporter: tonight at 7:30 there will be a candlelight vigil for officer young. we see police officers out here in the parking lot of the super target. they set out yellow tape where they will holding the candlelight vigil. they are telling folks to bring your own candles. live in bristow, virginia, i'm david culver, news4. >>> it is an historic day in maryland. same-sex couples are legally allowed to marry for the first time. baltimore's mayor pressieded over one of the first weddings in the state today. it was a dream come true for the new

a unanimous decision that is like the the first of its kind in the nation, teachers at garfield highhool said the math tests are a waste of time, money, and resources that are then unfairly used to grade their performance. >> today is not just about testing in general. it is about a particularly flawed test. >> i just see no use for it at all. so i am not going to do it. >> riding on her website, former bush assistant secretary of education diane ravitch said the vote could have national ramifications for showing teachers -- nominations for the 85th academy awards were unveiled thursday. the documentary category features three films featured on "democracy now!" "the invisible war," "how to survive a plate," and "five broken cameras." those are some of the headlines. this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> welcome to all our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. president obama is facing criticism for nominating another former wall street executive to become treasury secretary. thursday,

changed after garfield who was assassinated but the ranks have really closed around the presidency, reallyo him. has that had an affect on the role of the president over the past century? >> that's a great question. first of all, the white house itself was open. up until the of world war ii in europe, people could have picnics on the white house lawn. >> right. >> before then people would stroll into the white house. the president would bump into someone at the white house. people would come and ask the president for jobs. after pearl harbor, that's when the security apparatus goes up around the president. but the other thing to mention is what we're using right now, the power of television. what he will vision has done is in one sense made it more intimate with the president but also created a certain distance as well. >> you know, steve, with he talk about george washington, abraham lincoln, i always put grant in the underappreciated category. there were a lot of clunkers in that time, too, the franklin pierces and filmores. whatever you think of woodrow wilson's legacy, teddy roosevelt

. >> garfield's assassin and mckinley's assassins were anarchists. >> mckinley was a complete an arkist job. >> that's really the wrong way to go. >> sometimes that's an anarch anarchist. >> read the book. >> life advice. >> the book is "the fifth assassin." >> it sounds great. amaze. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. >> congratulations. will you sign mine? >> i will sign it. >> we will be right back with "business before the bell." i've always kept my eye on her... but with so much health care noise, i didn't always watch out for myself. with unitedhealthcare, i get personalized information and rewards for addressing my health risks. but she's still going to give me a heart attack. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. iimagine living your life withss less chronic low back pain.. imagine you with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidep

-- >> how was garfield? >> he was a pretty good guy, joe. >> what could have been. baseball had not been invented yet. >> this president more than any presidents in our lifetime is a solo act. he is a solo act. he always has been, remains to be a solo act. i'm listening to the editorials and reading some of the editorials that were referenced here today with sort of a sense of be musement. there were no surprises in what he said yesterday. people ascribing the speech as excessively partisan or excessively progressive, how is that? what did he say? i am not going to dismantle social security, i am not going to strip medicare and medicaid from poor people, i am going to ask us to think of "we" rather than "you." i am going to ask politicians to think of the nation that you swear the oath to, not to the district that you're represented -- that you represent. what is the surprise here? there's no surprise, i think, to most people. the references to stonewall, well, you just referenced it. you talk to any under t

. >> second favorite "garfield." >> linsanity the movie, a project that began before the phenomenon.g, it's the whole journey up to this point. all of the things that had to happen to make this perfect. >> reporter: a former vice president in the spotlight. "the world according to dick cheney." >> dick cheney, love him or hate him, agree with him or disagree with him, certainly one of the most significant nonpresidential political figures this country has ever known. >> thank you for coming here. >> reporter: "the 99%." a unique production of over 100 filmmakers. >> this is about capturing a moment in the collective contemporary american history that we didn't feel had necessary really been explored. >> reporter: documentaries not typically in the spotlight, but here at sundance, they are among the stars. so you know, john, i'm really excited about the "linsanity" documentary. another one i'm very excited merial hemingway, she documents the history of mental illness in her family. i'm really looking forward to sit down with mother and daughter later. >> sounds like an important time

east and west garfield park is known for a high homicide rate.ake everybody who has been killed in the last five years. look at who they have been arrested with and look at who they are arrested with. my colleague andrew and i call it two degrees of kevin bacon. you look at that network of people and the homicide rate among that group is an astonishing 300 per 100,000. take that group out of the community and the homicide rate of everybody else is less than three per 100,000. >> to be part of that network makes a difference to a gun violence problem than the moment of whether you have access to the weapon. >> these programs are so crucial to this conversation. cease-fire chicago, i love my life in southeast jamaica queens. these folks, they are heroes. they are going in the middle of a battle and trying to stop violence every single day. if any politician or any funder is watching this program on tuesday afternoon when the vice president makes his recommendation, make sure we fund these programs. put adequate funding into these programs or else f

. >> second favorite is garfield. >> reporter: "linsanity," the movie, a project that began long before >> everyone knows how he reacted. the story, it's not the ending, the journey. >> if you want to be loved, go be a movie star. >> reporter: a former vice president is also in the spotlight. dick cheney. >> love him or hate him, he is one of the most influential nonpresidential figure the country has ever know. >> "the 99%" from the collaboration of 100 filmmakers. >> we're not activist activists filmmakers, this is about capturing a moment we didn't feel had necessarily been really explored. >> reporter: documentaries not typically in the spotlight, but here at sundance, they are among the stars. >> soledad, i want to share some of the interviews i will be conducting. we'll stick with documentaries, muriel hemingway, her film "running from crazy," we sit down with her and her daughter, langley hemingway. a history of depression and mental illness in her family, and she is trying to make sure this never happens in her family. shia labeouf and evan rachel wood, and we have january jones

president chester arthur added them on to his inaugural oath upon the death of james garfield. so he added "so help me god." since then, it has been used. it only started in fairly recent history the supreme court justice, whoever it is, whether it is the chief justice or one of the associate justices, adds it themselves. so the president repeats that occasionally "so help me god" or "so help me god" but it has been said for years. it would be a controversial thing for any president to drop it. >> jennifer: oh, my god, could you imagine if somebody dropped "so help me god," it would be as bad as what happened at the democratic convention. >> john: it is worth noting that not mentioning the almighty is the conservative point of view. that's how it was originally done. much like how under god was added to our pledge of allegiance. >> jennifer: tom daschle coming in with his wife. tom daschle is a behind the scenes very close ally of pete rouse who is in the white house making selections right now about cabinet members. tom is an official outside adviser. got a lot of influence in

host: it was in 1881 that james garfield was the first president to watch the inaugural parade in front of the white house. in 1921, warren g. harding was the first president to actually travel to the capital and backed in an automobile. that is union station that you're seeing on your screen. people writing from the metro. this is pennsylvania avenue. this is the parade route you can see the stands are still empty. that is not start until two -- 2:45. pennsylvania avenue has been shut down for about two days, getting ready for this inaugural. there, you can see the national mall. the view that you're seeing is from the capital, looking down pennsylvania avenue, looking west, some of the museum's -- museums. the national museum of art on the left there. you can see a lot of police presence. in 2005, approximately 13,000 police and security officials were on hand for george gabi bush kos second inaugural -- george w. bush's second inaugural, because of 9/11. emilie tweeted this -- again, president obama is only the 17th a call on our independ. you are on c-span. caller: thank you so much

and they have garfield's killer's brain.ding a jar with a brain in it; that's a cool day at work. >>steve: that's some museum i've never been to. i've never held a brain before in a museum. you started there, at that museum, and then you wind up with the idea for your new novel. but did you some real research. and the four assassins who killed american presidents do have some things in common, don't they? >> they don't do drugs. they're barely drinkers. they're all meticulously neat, of all things. and they are all four men with a cause. that's why they're so successful. when you look at the four assassins together, there are two things they have in common more than anything else. one of them, that cause they just are committed to. two -- this is the interesting part -- they can be divided into two categories: hunters and howellers. howellers -- howlers make a lot of noise. the good news is they rarely take action. hunters are different. they plan, plot and execute. hunters are not interested in howling and howlers are not i

. >> not andrew garfield. >> right. >> no, that's the actor. >> no.is ready for -- winkelvye. they're too good looking to be billionaires. >> i think they have several hundred million dollars. >> i know they do. what are you going to do with several hundred million? >> yeah, nerd. all right. if you have comments -- >> how about the picture i've seen with you with your moustache? >> that's bad. >> i know. keep it up. i'm going to show it. >> don't show many without my hair. comments, questions about anything you see here on squawk, e-mail us, squawk@cnbc.com. >>> coming up, our next guest manages billions of dollars and advises the new york fed. find out why garth cease opportunities in the markets. that's next. what are you doing? nothing. are you stealing our daughter's school supplies and taking them to work? no, i was just looking for my stapler and my... this thing. i save money by using fedex ground and buy my own supplies. that's a great idea. i'm going to go... we got clients in today. [ male announcer ] save on ground shipping at fedex office.

one source just told me, the only thing going on right now is a man in a tree at garfield circle.e some kind of political statement. >> that is wonderful to hear. and again, we're watching, we're looking straight through the foyer there, the marble foyer in the white house. and we can see straight through. i believe that's the blue room, george, looking right out on the majestic south lawn. >> that, of course, where the president was formally sworn in yesterday by chief justice john roberts. we saw chief justice john roberts with the oath in his hand. he was sworn in for the third time yesterday. he will be sworn in for a fourth time in about an hour. >> it's one of the human details. we'll see if he holds it again when he appears on the platform. it was about his prodigious memory four years ago. >> but the moments going in for the supreme court justices can be tough ones. it shows the division of government and the court having tremendous power in this system. and this president and this chief justice are not on the same page. we've seen that throughout our history, starting wit