greenwood is the director of the economic development. he points to the new 28 million city hall project of one example of the relative wealth his community enjoys. >> we have a 30% budget surplus, one of the few cities to have that. we kept the permit counter open. >> greenwood credits taxes from the store streets of brentwood shopping center, which is 95% leased. there is revenue generated by new companies that recently moved to town. like tactical command industries. the company which makes head sets for police and the military brought with it 50 new jobs. jobner health has 110,000 square foot outpatient campus in brentwood with more than 300 employees. brentwood has had the share of struggles, too. city wide, commercial vacancy rate is 20%. the current budget surplus can be attributed at least in part to the dismissal three years ago of 30 employees. or 13% of city staff. 9.8% brentwood unemployment rate is lower than contra costa county as a whole. but its foreclosure rate, one in 76 homes in june of this year is higher than surround

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alex greenwood is the director of economic development.the new $28 million city hall project that's one example of the relatively wealth his community enjoys. >> we have a 30% budget surplus, we've kept our permit counter open 45 hours per week. we have no cuts in services as far as police and public safety. and that resonates with the business community. >> greenwood credits taxes from the 80 stores streets of brentwood shopping center, which is 90% leased. and there's revenue generated by new companies that have recently moved to town like tactical command industries. they make headsets for the police and military and brought with it 50 new jobs. >> the city is a pro business city. they want business to come to brentwood and they are very, very supportive if that process. >> john also has a 110,000 square foot outpatient campus in brentwood with more than 300 employees. >> the dynamics in brentwood are perfect for our population. >> but brentwood has had its share of struggles, too. city-wide the commercial vacancy rate is about 20% and

in florida in august of 1952,s' his body was flown back to fort worth, texas, and he is buried in greenwood cemetery, not far from where d. e. chips is buried as well. a little interesting closure to the story. anybody else with a question? >> how does carter figure in this? >> a famous name, what the publisher of the fort worth star telegram. was the president of the fort worth club. it was a big place for the shakers and movers of ft. worth. he was one of the pallbearers at the funeral of d. e. chips, friend of chips. he managed -- he was a pretty wise person. he managed not to allow himself to get baited and sort of drawn in to j. frank norris' web, but i deal with him an awful lot in the book and he is a fascinating character, and after mayor meacham died. mayor meacham's daughter married amon carter, and they were a very big power couple until carter died. >> when was that? >> probably in the early 1930s. and they were married when he died in the middle 1950s. that was his wife, and the daughter over mayor meacham, and to this day their papers are together at university of texas at arl

i know you were in greenwood and mississippi has a real character. >> yes. >> right. >> i feel like for let's play a little clip here because what it's about is crossing racial and class barriers. the black maids there, the white families that they work for, and so they decide to write a book about their experiences and some of the maids don't want to do it because it's going to really change their lives and with nicki minaj just 24 hours your character, missy, minnie was very reluctant. was very reluctant. here's a clip right now of "the help." >> all right. i'm going to do it. but i need to make sure she understands this ain't no game we playing here. face me. i need to see you square on at all times. i got to come up with the questions too? >> oh. >> there had to be real trust between the maids to do that because they were really putting their lives on the line, weren't they, viola? >> absolutely, absolutely. there had to be real trust, but there was also extraordinary need, you know. i mean i think that we got to the point where we felt like the only thing left was to tell our stori

. >> reporter: greenwood got its taxes from the 80 store streets of brentwood shopping center which isased and revenues generated by new companies that have recently moved to town big tactical command infantry. the company brought with it 50 new jobs. >> the city is obviously a probusiness city. they want businesses to come to brentwood. very, very supportive in the process. >> john also has a 110,000 square foot outpatient campus in brentwood with more than 300 employees. >> the dynamics in brentwood are perfect for our population. >> but brentwood has had its share of struggles, too. citywide the commercial vacancy rate is about 20% and the current budget surplus can be attributed at least in part to the dismissal three years ago of 30 employees or 13% of city staff. >> it was a painful move in the short-term but today is paying off dividends. >> at 9.8% the unemployment rate is lower than contra costa county as a whole but its foreclosure rate one in 76 homes in june of this year is much higher than surrounding communities like antioch. >> we are looking at families where both spous

. >> in greenwood. >> jimmy: a lot of kids hang out in walmart. >> yeah.laughter ] no. but, i remember doing -- >> hooligans. >> jimmy: i remember hooligans, hanging out there. yeah. but, i did some standup at a college and i said "what do you guys do for fun?" they go, "we go to walmart." [ laughter ] i'm like, "really?" >> well, there's so much to do at walmart. they have everything you need. >> jimmy: super fun time. >> i mean, i don't need to advertise walmart but -- walmart. >> jimmy: yeah, exactly. >> you know? >> jimmy: that's it. one word. simple as that. walmart. >> simple as that. >> jimmy: "the help." do you want to set up what the movie is about? >> oh. all right. it's a story -- it takes place in 1963, in jackson, mississippi. and skeeter, who i play, is a journalist that just graduated from ole miss, and she kind of gets an idea to write a book detailing a story of the maids in jackson, mississippi at that time. aibileen, viola davis' character, really takes this whole thing to the next level. >> jimmy: yeah, it's amazing. so, these maids tel

you at greenwood cemetery, not the other. you had a whole bunch of cemeteries, where people would walk around and picnic in the shade of a mausoleum. that's part of a made central park and prospect part extraordinary. so these further spaces, design flow spaces that would cemeteries, what other paddocks and squares. >> did you want to know also about one of the questions that came out of that was there is a contest for central part or did they often to enter contracts to get these design things? and a prospect park totally not. >> actually the only other context, they might've been others, but often not a contest for the various first part that olmstead designed for came to be known as the back bay fans. and they held a contest. the bad defense is a swamp, or by studying for her winker. the winner of the contest had a simple plan. bush's slave flower bed on top of the song. very naÏve design. they quickly disenchanted with it, so this guy won the contest, paid the designer $500 for his floral park system in pdm to come in. he

the main thing you had in america in that era for perambulator and relaxing for cemeteries is greenwood cemetery and mount auburn and a bunch of cemeteries for people who would go and walk around and pick the shade of a mausoleum. that was what was available to the public in that era and that is part of what made central park and prospect park extraordinary. these were large spaces designed dissolve were not cemeteries and were not paddocks and squares. .. come in and do a real tough full design. he took a look and said this used to be -- this looks to me like a really decrepit so marked -- salt marsh. he came up with this elaborate heavy engineering plan to return to a salt marsh. so that was the only other contest i can think of that he was in some fashion involved. >> i wonder if you could comment on and mary, his sister-in-law, and then wife and the role that she played in his life. a partner for him in terms of the short hand. can you fix this design can't do this, whether it was a marriage of convenience love or some combination of the two. >> short. mary's brother died of tubercu

a bus carrying 38 students from clarksdale and greenwood, mississippi was the first to appear. the students got off the bus and started singing. then a bus from little rock, arkansas showed up with 36 marchers on board. lines of shuttle buses stood at the curb to transport passengers by train. there were we'll have more police officers than demonstrators on the washington monument at half past morning. only six buzzeds had passed on the ellipse and few gatherers gathered at the monument. they started to warrior that it was going to flop. mr. rustin, it's past 6:00 said one of them you promised a march of near the 100,000. where are all the people? rustin looked carefully at a yellow pad on his hand. gentlemen, everything is going exactly as planned. standing beside him one of his deputies noticed the pad he was looking at was blank. from a suite at the willard hotel martin luther king, jr., looked down at the mostly empty lawn. he got gotten to washington the night before and he spent the five days before in new york working on a speech and book manuscript in atlanta checking o

yeah, you had greenwood cemetery, mount auburn, you had a whole bunch of cemeteries where people would go, and they would walk around, and they would, you know, they would picnic in the shade of a mausoleum. that was what, that was what was available to the public in that era. and so that's part of what made central park and prospect park and these other things extraordinary. these were large spaces, designful spaces that, you know, weren't cemeteries and weren't little paddocks and squares in the middle of cities. uh-huh. >> and did you want to know, also, about, um, one of the questions i thought that kim out of that was -- came out of that was there was a contest for central park. did they often have to enter contests to get these designs. >> actually, very rarely. there might have been others, boston held a contest for the very first park that olmsted ended up designing. they held a contest, and it was a swamp where bostonians were throwing garbage. so the winner of the contest had a simple plan, let's just lay an ornamental flower bed on top of a swamp. the boston park commissione

i worked in fact, in greenwood, mississippi, where some of the movie was shot, which is weird.here? >> i know how you did it there, that's why i wanted to bring this and introduce it to you. >> a mint jewulep would have be nice, too. >> you being, you're in the heat and you're with all of these wonderful people in greenwood, who opened their homes to us and we had this and sat there and listened to them talk all day long. >> the great stories and great story-tellers. >> they are. >> cheers to you÷n and it is su a great, great movie. >> you can catch it right now in theaters this minute. >>> right next, we've got three, two, one, live, with sarah. hi, mom. how was school today? [ girls ] good. ♪ ♪ thank you! ♪ phew! [ ernie ] we make our cookies the way only keebler elves can: with a little something extra. so every bite can be uncommonly good. with a little something extra. revlon launches growluscious plumping mascara. the new mascara with a conditioning formula that helps strengthen and plump lashes up to 200%... instantly. for maximum volume... and a killer look. new revlon

>> los angeles, greenwood, mississippi. there's help today. >> everybody's help. i'm help. >> the new help is defined by mexicans and guatemalans and we see it all the time. we see it in new york city with the nannies pushing the carts in central park west and park avenue. it's just the way it is. >> i'm going to write my stories down and read them to you. they're no different than writing down my prayers. >> let's talk about the evolution of ms. skeeter and abilene. describe that relationship and how it evolved through the film. >> i think that i really start beginning to trust skeeter when she asked me if i ever dreamt about being anything else. >> did you know as a girl growing up that one day you would be a maid? >> yes, ma'am, i did. >> do you ever dream of being something else? >> my father passed away an he groomed and trained horses for 25 years and he hated it. i never asked him what his dreams were, ever. >> do you regret that? >> absolutely. and i think that when skeeter asked abilene, who is 51 years old, born in 1911, the granddaughter of a house slav

. >> middle of the night and the bonfire was going and at that time, greenwood had that song "proud toan american," and she was just singing that song just as loud. that was the kind of person, she just enjoyed life. >> and in the last couple of years, she discovered boys. >> all i remember is she used to come home from school and write boys' names like 50 times. i love scott or i love dave. >> the boys' names she was writing the most that spring, filling notebooks, was scott. theresa olechowski, cindy's best friend since the second grade, like sisters in their matching too-cool-for-school white boots with buckles -- >> we wore those shoes everywhere. >> -- was at the mall the day cindy's crush on scott began. >> scott had a couple of friends with him and we passed by, we started talking to them. they started talking to us. and i think they had a lot of the same interests. >> cathy was cindy's other great friend from school and sleep overs. >> she was really, really head over heels in love with him, but it wasn't anything like a long, deep relationship. >> just puppy love infatuation?

greenwood, south carolina. caller: i have two words -- "term limits." when it comes to the budget deficit, you were talking about you were talking about -- people getting into social security for disability, even if it was just a bogus claim, or illegal immigrants being on the medicaid rolls. some 20 years later, those people are expanding into that group, creating a higher need. the democrats stand back and say what is happening? i think it is the the party people. this is almost comical to stand back and create that, and then stand there and blame someone else. blaming a lack of revenues when people are paying, what, 2% for fica 20 or 30 years ago, and now we're paying 8%? these taxes have gone up because the democrats keep adding to these programs. host: we know where you are in taxes. should we have the super committee and should they hold public meetings? caller: it is terrible to have the super committee because congress should have these meetings and they will not. they are afraid to lay it on the line, and they should make these decisions. we ha