and so, when you're in the ghetto, and you're listening to y.m.c.a. or i love america by patrick juvet on your black radio station, there's a disconnect, and what always happens when culture, you know, rises above the masses or rises to a different aspiration than what the masses have, then the masses create new, and whether it was, you know, from the jazz to blues to rock and roll or to rap music, it was that they had to create their own, and rap music was a return to funky-- even rock and roll, but funky beats-- and a return to artists who looked like and spoke to the needs and the minds of the people, and that's what t rappers were at that time. early on, you worked with kurtis blow. my first artist was kurtis blow. that's correct, and he made christmas rap in 1979, and i remember that when the record came out, it was successful in amsterdam, and he and i got on a plane-- and i had never been on a plane-- and went to amsterdam, and the record execs took us out and bought us drugs, and it was like-- it was the most amazing thing that ever happened t

tuesday marks 40 years since the former german chancellor knelt at a monument of the jewish ghetto in warsaw. the gesture was known as a turning point between the two countries. >> it was an image that touched e world. 40 years ago on december 7, he knelt in front of a monument to the victims of the warsaw ghetto uprising. the gesture was seen as a turning point in german-polish relations. in berlin, his former state secretary recalled speaking with him about the move. >> it took an effort. it was hard for me to even tell him that what i thought he did -- that i thought what he did was really great. when he responded, he told me he had suddenly had a feeling that laying a wreath on the monument was not enough. it was a spontaneous decision. >> of the current leader of germany's social democrat party said the legacy is still important today. >> we share a common and painful past. we can draw strength from that relationship. poland and germany can be worked friends within the eu and nato and push for closer ties with russia. >> chancellor angela merkel received polish prime minister don

commissioner o'conner: i personally live half a block away from laguna inside the ghetto zone, this box thing. so when i drive my daughter to school in the morning north of panhandle i have -- i will have to pay -- i get a 50% discount to leave the ghetto? is that the idea? >> so if you are on the edge of the zone, as i said, what's been done in cities that have implemented congestion pricing is they have established a sort of buffer around the congestion zone for people on either side, recognizing that they are right on the edge of the zone, to keep neighborhoods whole they will -- they've relaxed the detection of those types of families and it has also applied to businesses in the case of london, for example. commissioner o'conner: so is the question i get a 50% discount or i don't pay? >> in your particular case, this is something that would need to be analyzed going forward but we would say it would not be part of the -- it would be part of the edge movement and should not be charged or have the 50% discount. it would need to be determined. commissioner o'conner: i don't have a lot

tuesday marks 40 years since the former german chancellor knelt at a monument of the jewish ghetto in warsaw. the gesture was known as a turning point between the two countries. >> it was an image that touched the world. 40 years ago on december 7, he knelt in front of a monument to the victims of the warsaw ghetto uprising. the gesture was seen as a turning point in german-polish relations. in berlin, his former state secretary recalled speaking with him about the move. >> it took an effort. it was hard for me to even tell him that what i thought he did -- that i thought what he did was really great. when he responded, he told me he had suddenly had a feeling that laying a wreath on the monument was not enough. it was a spontaneous decision. >> of the current leader of germany's social democrat party said the legacy is still important today. >> we share a common and painful past. we can draw strength from that relationship. poland and germany can be worked friends within the eu and nato and push for closer ties with russia. >> chancellor angela merkel received polish prime minister d

>> it has been referred to as a ghetto. [unintelligible] in this place, three times a week, we offered free medical care to all who can access this. international peacekeepers have an important role to play here. small it will have to look after its own security in the long term. that is where these men come into play. these are young volunteers who want to fight. they have been trained here on the beach. some of them have been to uganda where the e.u. ihas a training program. they are not only able to reinforce the front lines but eventually to take over entirely. somalia will have a stable future, it is possible these men could play a central role. >> more of the main news for you. t google is accused of abusing its position, giving preference to its own. a report from the pentagon has concluded the ban on openly gay people serving in the u.s. military could be lifted even in times of war without harming military readiness. the defense secretary has urged congress to repeal the policy of don't ask, don't tell. most soldie

earlier incidents happened around the gourmet ghetto. neighbors certainly are on alert. >> someone posted a sign on the telephone pole outside the house saying there has been robberies in the neighborhood. >> that's one reason why berkeley residents are on alert. some people on foot are being robbed at gunpoint in the north berkeley area. >> no reason to panic. we often out for ourselves and our neighbors. >> eyes open for people committing a crime of opportunity, one of the latest happened at martin luther king and hurst avenue. one of the first happened on actor and cedar in september. >> we are used to property crimes, but not with weapons. >> the city councilwoman said that's what police are dealing with these days. the community wants to fight back. >> we have trees that are buzzing back and forth. i expect people will have a lot of questions and they want a lot of details and they also want to know the strategy and they want to be participants and be there to help. >> one way to help is to let people know where the robberies are ha

earlier incidents happened at the popular gourmet ghetto. cheryl heard is here with more in berkeley. >> reporter: i'm live here at the berkeley bart station because the latest armed robbery happened here at the berkeley bart station as somebody was getting off the train and heading home. there have been several armed robberies in this area, many of them happening in the month of november until now. >> someone posted a sign on the telephone pole outside our house saying that there has been some robberies in the neighborhood. >> reporter: and that's one reason why some berkeley residents are on alert. some people on foot are being robbed at gunpoint in the north berkeley area. >> no reason to panic. we're just watching out for ourselves and for our neighbors, keep our eyes open. >> reporter: eyes open for people committing a crime of opportunity. one of the latest stick-up robberies happened at martin luther king and hurst avenue. one of the first happened on acton and cedar back in november. berkeley city councilwoman linda miles says that's

i can be ghetto when i want to be. i grew up with the black panthers doing peace and freedom benefits for them. so on the one hand i like the softness of spirituel the day, but i also like the energy that you need to be a warrior where you need to be. i love martin luther king, but also malcolm x, sometimes you have to really hold your ground. compassion, kindness, education. rather than more killing. >> when you graduated in 1965, it was the height of the civil- rights movement. you just alluded to the environment that you were growing up in. as a young musician, what was it like for you in san francisco at the time? >> it was heaven on earth. we would go down to the fillmore and see these great band, the doors, and jimi hendrix, cream, and then go down to the grove to see other music. you could go to the mission district to hear mexican. everywhere i went there was this multi dimensional color and i felt like it was on necessary for me to do just one. like baskin-robbins, i want all the flavors. you cannot just be a

cemented by nato bombs the serbians who remain live in fear of their lives they are literally living in ghettos they're unable to get out and the only reason they still survive in kosovo and are not fed to the all good in trade that the albanians have fed so many serbians to in the past is because nato likes to keep living serbs in kosovo as good publicity there they are there just as a publicity to create the impression across what is a multi-ethnic society isn't it a mono ethnic society which has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and the leadership in kosovo consists of criminals who have moved into politicians as western intelligence agencies have said themselves so everyone knows what's going on in kosovo but the idea is to. lie about what's going on cos or to a bigger world audience. with the onset of winter is bitter cold life is bleak for the homeless in moscow hundreds are expected to freeze to death as temperatures plunge to minus thirty centigrade in the coming weeks but as artie's tom barton reports a group of dedicated volunteers is working hard offering a helpi

thousand and eight events they succeeded to find some money to build what can be called otherwise than ghetto because it's impossible to call this place normally suitable for residents and the refugees who had appeared before the saakashvili rule are simply addicted and left homeless to change the topic slightly how would you describe the current relations between our two streets russia and georgia. the holes in the globe could not be worse i guess it could have been worse only during the august events during the war indeed it was a tragic phase in tragic days not only for georgia i think today relations between russia and georgia can be described as very bad and far from normal i think the situation will hardly change for the better as long as president saakashvili is in power for a simple reason in the west the you has been trying to prove his indispensability through fighting against russia on the one hand he says yes it is nessus. a way to have a dialogue with russia but on the other hand his steps and even statements invalidate any normal or politically correct proposals i am absolutely

you know, i'm a student of the holocaust in the ghetto, the uprising. it's still so hard. the resistance, the bravery. can you say these people, their top by their mother, their father and the things that were done it so hard to get through this to read about stroup and the liquidation of the ghetto. it's just heartbreaking to me. for the marches, afterwards in the war is almost over. it seems the world of the historians was probably in my opinion the worst of genghis khan, was the most evil. and sometimes i wonder if it was a hard time for having us. we have forgotten this. it's gotten in the way a little bit for religion. but again, take the baby, but then i have to take it and smashed the brain and everything. very, very hard to get through all this stuff. >> this is to me what is so fascinating. anybody who doesn't believe in god or doesn't believe in good or evil, who's to say what he though quite faulty with people. smashing the baby's brains against the lawless evil. if you can't say that evil. to be intellectually honest can't say it's evil because the category of

cemented by nato bombs the serbians who remain live in fear of their lives they are live they live in ghettos they're unable to get out and the only reason they still survive in kosovo and are not fed to the all good in trade is that the albanians have failed so many serbians too in the past is because nato likes to keep living serbs in kosovo as good publicity but they're there they are there just as a publicity to create the impression that cost of war is a multiethnic society course or isn't it a mono ethnic society which has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and the leadership in kosovo consists of criminals who have moved into politicians as western intelligence agencies have said themselves so everyone knows what's going on in kosovo but the idea is to. lie about what's going on cos or to a bigger world audience. the european union has back to moscow's bid to join the world trade organization in twenty eleven after almost eighty years and initiations in voiced its support of russia in the summit in brussels this week or president get of was that the talks were to a

cemented by nato bombs the serbians who remain live in fear of their lives they are lit they live in ghettos they're unable to get out and the only reason they still survive in kosovo and are not fed to the organ trade that the albanians have fed so many serbians to in the past is because nato likes to keep living serbs in kosovo as good publicity but they're there they are there just as a publicity to create the impression that cross what is a multiethnic society cause or isn't is a mono ethnic society which has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands of people and the leadership of kosovo consists of criminals who have moved into politicians as western intelligence agencies have said themselves so everyone knows what's going on in kosovo but the idea is to. lie about what's going on cos or to a bigger world audience. well we have more for you this hour here on our table we asked if it was scored for russia it's not the little heart of the country promo video bid and his football playing dream house but that champ the host of the twenty eight world cup. but first british police have la

leadership terry terry jones and fred phelps demonstrate is a kind of get out of the raises called abusive ghetto well cheri let me ask you this surely let me ask you this surely first of all when you scream too loud your sound goes out just to let you know but i in this press release that you wrote today you wrote god hates america have got it's america why do you live here well we're almost through with our testimony to this country and when we are god will take us out of this country you understand all roads lead to the united states supreme court when that when that supreme court upholds the rule of law and says that we have done exactly what we were entitled to do under the law this nation's going to throw such a fit what is that what is that i have to clarify what is. if the supreme court is going to validate here a lot the last time i was on your program was over that snyder case and it's coming up on october the sixth this cream court's going to rule on whether or not we have a first amendment or dots and when and what they're going to do is uphold the rule of law because what they're goi

he laid a wreath at a monument to the vic warsaw ghetto. on the same day, 40 years ago, the german chancellor famously dropped to his knees as a gesture of contrition for not see crimes. although he was appointed to the end of the war, the german president -- although he was born at the end of the war, the german president feels responsible for the war atrocities. we will now look at how the visit was received. >> in a very relaxed way, this is very interesting to compare this with the russian president's came here. i talked to people about the german president's visit. they said, all, he is here again. he has only been the president for six months and he has met the polish president and no more than four times. that shows how very routine and close the relationship has become. this year for the very first time in the two countries' history, children and both countries at school will be learning the history of the two countries from the same textbook. >> let's go back over to steve. >> your opinion has formally backed russia's bid to join t

earlier incidents happened around the gourmet ghetto. robbers are using weapons and taking valuables from people on foot. the councilwoman is hosting so people can get informed. >> we have e-mail trees buzzing back and forth. i expect tomorrow people will have a lot of questions, but they want to know what the strategy is and want to be participants and be there with the police to help. >> the meeting will take place at the lutheran church in the 17 human helped block of university avenue at 7:00 tonight. >> san jose police are putting the brakes on a policy expected to stop impounding cars when unlicensed drivers are pulled over for minor traffic violations. instead police are considering letting a licensed driver pick up the car on the spot, saving thousands of dollars in impound fees. the ban will last about a month. >>> mountain lions are on the move. the number of sightings has more than doubled since last year. 35 mountain lion sightings have been reported kroogsz the coufr county. that's up from 14 last year. they were reported in

earlier incidents happened around the popular gourmet ghetto. police are on the look out for robbers who are taking valuables from people on foot. the meeting is hosted and meant to get the word out to robbers. it starts at 7:00 at the church on the 1700 block of university avenue tonight. >> the dream act moves to the senate and the house moved in offering green cards to undocumented high school graduates who come to the u.s. before they were 16. they must have lived here for five years and have no criminal record and be headed to college or the military. president obama supports the bill, but it's expected to have a tough time passing through the senate. >>> the president has a big or fight on his hands. the tax deal with republicans has proven to be very unpopular with democrats. it's expected to come up for a vote. democrats made it clear they could stall a vote until next year. that would mean your taxes will go up as schedule in a republican-controlled house will have to deal with it. >> let them tell the middle class it won't give them a

i think that just because, i mean, richmond and oakland and all considered the ghetto. but it e's the people. >> san jose had 20 homicide in 2010 compared to 28 last year. the department attributes the reduction in homicide for the fourth straight year to proper medical services, technology, and better police policies. san francisco's numbers are up slightly. they went from 45 homicide in 2009 to 49 in 2010. >> here in richmond, the deputy chief says they are looking forward, looking to reorganize again next year. but he says a very biggest difference has been merchants and residents who have become the eyes and the ears for police here who have really stepped up and take an more active role in crime fighting. >> the results speak for themselves. thank you, kimberly. now to a developing story. and it is a police shooting in san francisco's neighborhood this afternoon. left a man hospitalized with life threatening injuries. officers responded to reports of a stabbing and a home on bacon street. inside the house, officers encounter add man with a knife. a police spokesper

you see a man confined to a ghetto, you see a man who loves his daughter, his only daughter and the loneliness of that. and in a way you see this gradation of abuse and that was what i related to. a kind of persecution that ultimately explodes because to me he's just... he's reached his limit when they take his daughter. and how that's how he feels about it. and that's how i saw him. >> rose: there's no limits for him, right? >> well, that i don't know. jury's out on that one. that's something we could always talk about is to whether the pound of flesh and what what that means. but i did feel that he was able to maintain a lot of dignity in terms of his work. he was quite good at it and he was proud of it. >> rose: this is what makes theater great, isn't it? how he seize the character. and then he comes to you and he's been thinking about it. >> exactly. >> rose: i've done other things since i did this... whatever. >> yeah, yeah. and i think that, you know, it is a different performance in the play. it's more playful, he's not a victim from the beginning of the play. he's someone who is very s