the harlem globetrotters are here. their message to inspiring athletes. >>> chief meteorologist bill martin is tracking wet weather. he will tell us how soon it will arrive. >> 15,000 homes are without power in massachusetts as part of the east coast deals with heavy snow and frigid temperatures. the snow trapped tree limbs and power lines. a utility crew is working to make repairs. >>> here in the bay area, bill martin is here to talk about whether that could impact the commute tomorrow. >> we are looking at showers in the bay area forecasts. some afternoon commute showers, mainly central bay. if it amounts to one hundreds of an inch, we will be lucky. increasing clouds tonight. valley fog still in the forecast because the system is not strong enough. i think we will see patches of valley fog with light winds. chance of showers in tomorrow's forecasts. that is widely scattered, my showers. if you are north of san rafael you may get some windshield wiper action on low or medium. it will be one of those intermittent sta

. >>> still ahead -- the harlem globetrotters are in town. this morning one of the cars was visiting some kids who may be future cars. >>> stocks rising after a successful bond auction in portugal eased worries about europe's debt crisis. financial stocks jumped on hopes the banks would raise dividends. >>> the harlem globetrotters are in the bay area to play in a benefit game in santa rosa. >> you have to be good in basketball, great personality, great character and nice legs. [ laughter ] >> hot shot branch and curly n eal met with kids today and talked about how they like p laying basketball and going around to areas to see children. >> to teach them responsibility. >> the team will play against long-time generals at santa rosa junior college tonight. a portion of the proceeds will go to the want lettic d epartment. >>> we have new -- will go to the athletic department. >>> we have new information on the dead -- on the dead birds found dead another the highway. they probably -- near the highway. they probably were hit by a truck, investiga

she was taken to hospital by her parents in harlem.hey had given the baby to a woman who had dressed as a nurse. when the parents returned to the hospital in harlem, the baby was gone. there were appeals from the parents to sort out that mysterious woman that they never found. the parents had all but given up hope until now. just this past weekend, an emotional weekend after she traced her own birth mother. what happened is that ms. white was raised in the neighboring state of connecticut by a woman who is not her mother and to visit suspected of being a woman who took her from that hospital -- and who is suspected of being a woman a ticker from that hospital. she became suspicious over time that this was not real mother. ms. white lived in connecticut under a different name. she asked for birth certificates. she wanted to get her driving license. the woman who said she was her mother did not have those documents. at that point, ms. white became suspicious about her identity. >> dna tests have proved her true identity. she is described

he wanted to know everything, experience different thing, and so he goes to harlem one sunday morning in probably september of 1930 to visit this church. what he experiences there simply staggers him. he had never seen anything like this before. he sees, first of all, a gigantic congregation, literally the largest church in america, thousands of people in this church. he sees people worshiping god in a way that was incredibly vibrant, never saw this in the dispassionate religious negative sense lutheran circles which he traveled in germany and new york city. mainline white christianity was in some ways depressing to him like people are going through the motions, but it didn't seem real to me. now he goes to this baptist church and sees an african-american congregation that is alive and seems actually to be worshiping the living god. the songs were captivating. he was fascinated by the music and went to the record shops to get copies to take them back to germany which he did, but he was fascinated by the level of faith. obviously,-a congregation of suffering. african-americans in new y

core configuration and lesson planning, which was used to turn around frederick douglass academy in harlem. i have used if previously in turning around the school, and so has my executive director, and we found the schools did use it, but we are implementing it and monitoring it, so we can ensure a lesson planning is occurring, and it creates a spirit of transparency so whomever walks in the classroom can see what is going on. it can be monitored by the students, by the administration, by anyone that comes into the classroom. the second one is that it-driven decision and instruction. we feel using data to drive instruction is a prescriptive way to make change in our schools. in general, that is our way of making decisions. one example is a program out of standard. it is called -- out of stanford. it is called epgy. it tended to raise the level of thought, processes, and it is being used that almost all of our schools, and the schools we do not have it at, we are getting it as soon as possible. we use that weekly report given to the principals who give it to the teachers about how it is bei

escucha lo que te digo, sólo en harlem todosos quieren. (música).. ahora estás lleno de oro. >>> sí, hermano, hay que mantenerse. >>> sí. los hermanos lo hacen en todo el mundo y tú decidiste hacerlo en el barrio. >>> ven, vamos a caminar. >>> bien. >>> ya regreso. >>> espérenme un minuto >>> sabes que puedo manejarlo. tú sabes cómo yo era. >>> pero tú caíste un tiempo viejo. escucha, este lado va a caer. te vamos a dar una buena esquina, ¿comprendes lo que te estoy diciendo? pero pondré un hombre a trabajar, así que todo lo que tienes que hacer, calvin, a estar tranquilo. y hacer dinero. >>> vamos, sabes que no acepto ayuda, sabes que no sirvo para eso, escúcha lo que te digo, esto es... >>> ¿me comprendes? >>> vamos, junior. >>> ace. llámame ace. >>> estás por har que te parta la cabeza en dos. >>> no te muevas de aquí. >>> hola, hermano, ¿pasa algo? >>> ¿conoces a ese hombre? >>> sí. ¿qué sucede hermano? >>está tratando de engañarte hermano. >>> vamos hemos. >>> hey. traigan a ese imbécil aquí. >>> ¿estaba tratando de engañarme? >>> ¿qué pasa con

to riverdale late 1961 and i eight immediately began worked with one of the top labor leaders of harlem for chrome and defective was the number office of the leadership conference was the fund-raising arm. >> and interestingly, both jack and stanley had organized of left-wing background that are members of the communist party. stanley and his brother, identical twins members of the communist party up until 1956 i believe. i know. and they broke with the party. and severed all relationships. i have often thought that the civil rights movement and their relationship with martin came became the substitute for stanley that some of lowered -- severed all relationship and martin came became with the communist party had been to him most of the nonprofessional working time but. >> but too close for some people. >> guest: as a result we begin to work greatly with a large part of the cachet or the credibility those that i earned on my own and relationship, a large part was also from the fact that would consistently comment in my presence even when i was not around, consistently referred to me as

. >> the harlem globetrotters are an american tradition in basketball with laughs. h. p.ilion in san jose and oakland marina in oakland. ♪ >> a san francisco institution. 11th year at pier 29. the new show is likely to be through thursday. >> it's not written in pencil mark. >> blu-ray and dvd, the year's most talked about film, the social network. won the critics choice award or the golden globes this weekend. i'm don sanchez, abc 7 news. >> popping in a dvd might not be a bad way to spend the afternoon. >> definitely. rain out there. live doppler 7 hd. moving through the heart of the bay but out of here the next four to five hours and then an extended period of dry weather starting tomorrow to the middle part of next week. >> enjoy it. thanks for joining us on abc 7 news. >> see you later, bye. were prese >>

the harlem globetrotters the special guests.ents and students in one school district are not about to accept school closures without a rallying call to fight back. and intel announces semifinalists today. which bay area schools they attend and check in on a former win he to see how she's putting her science expertise to use with a local company after getting degrees from harvard and stanford. those stories at 5:00. finally we are getting our first public pictures of the newest member of the travolta family. meet baby benjamin. the travolta family son the cover of the newest issue of "people magazine." john travolta and wife kellie preston say it's nothing less than a miracle. it was two years ago their teenager son jett died from a seizure during a family vacation in the bahamas. travolta says the new baby has given their home a new spirit and purpose. what has been their best moments so far? benjamin's first smile. and those poopy diapers, i bet they don't mind it one bit. congratulations to them. >> really. >> that's going to

. >> reporter: one of every three residents in harlem, northern manhattan, comes from a household with an income lower than about $22,000 a year. figure skating is not a sport that one would expect to be popular here, but many local girls between the ages of 6 to 18 are taking figure skating lessons at the local ice rink. >> it makes me feel like i'm jumping in the air and doing lots of fun things. >> reporter: there are 135 girls in this program. it costs $375 per year to participate. a fraction of the normal cost. scholarships are given to students in need. the program is run by a local non-profit organization. its director, sharon cohen, once skated in competitions. she hopes skating will help the girls build their feeling of self worth and confidence. >> you see girls that when they don't have things to do to keep them occupied after school, the teen pregnancy rate is high, the rates of violence are higher. you don't necessarily have to be the most talented, but if you stick at something and work hard, you'll see the results. and that's what we want them to find in themselves. >> r

the harlem globetrotters the special guests.nd students in one school district are not about to accept school closures without a rallying call to fight back. and intel announces semifinalists today. which bay area schools they attend and check in on a former win he to see how she's putting her science expertise to use with a local company after getting degrees from harvard and stanford. those stories at 5:00. finally we are getting our first public pictures of the newest member of the travolta family. meet baby benjamin. the travolta family son the cover of the newest issue of "people magazine." john travolta and wife kellie preston say it's nothing less than a miracle. it was two years ago their teenager son jett died from a seizure during a family vacation in the bahamas. travolta says the new baby has given their home a new spirit and purpose. what has been their best moments so far? benjamin's first smile. and those poopy diapers, i bet they don't mind it one bit. congratulations to them. >> really. >> that's going to do it

i caught up with her at harlem's famous bookstore to discuss her career, new book, and life after divorceterry mcmillan, always good to see you. thank you so much for joining us today. talk to me a little bit about this new book. it's exciting. you decided to revisit "waiting to exhale" and bringing back to the lives of those four women. what's that like? >> it was like revisiting old friends, even though they weren't real. basically, i just had to get to know them again as real grownups and not as youthful women. >> so many of us remember not so much the book, but the movie and it had this happy ending, people felt rlly good and empowered. now we're returning more to the book style. did you have any struggle about that? >> no, but i wanted to make sure that people didn't think it was "waiting to exhale 2." a lot of those women that were preoccupied with back then don't seem to move them now. now they're learning how to start their lives over, reinvent themselves, re-evaluate their lives and how far they've come and what's left to do. i don't think 20 years ago they were thinking in those

one of the top labor leaders in harlem. in a philip randolph and stanley. but particularly with stanley, defacto. the north. the defacto north office of the southern christian conference which was in effect the fund-raising arm. jack cadel. >> host: jack cadel. >> guest: now, interesting, both jack and stanley had organized left wing. when i say organized a man they were members of the communist party. stanley and his brother, identical twins, members of the communist party up until 1956. not i believe, i know. they broke with the party over the soviet invasion of laundry. and i mean, severed all relationships. i have often thought that the civil-rights movement and the relationship with martin king became the substitute for stanley. stanley was such an intense organized person. he severed all relationships. martin came became what the communist party had been to him. he devoted most of his nonprofessional working time to martin, but they developed a close working relationship. >> host: to close for some people. >> guest: oh, yes. no. and as a result i and

court papers filed today say that pettway suffered several miscarriages before taking the baby from harlem hospital to her home in connecticut. >> in what seemed like a topic right of her own show, oprah revealed she has a half sister named patricia. my sister, patricia, is here. come on out -- >> she called it a bombshell family secret quote that left me speechless. she said her mother had kept the pregnancy a secret and had given the baby up for adoption when she was 9 years old. patricia spent years tracing her roots. she has known since 2007, but wasn't ready to reveal the secret. oprah herself found out just before thanksgiving and wanted to tell the world instead of letting the tabloids reveal the secret. >> as oprah shows go, that was a good one -- >> i wish i had been oprah's sister. >> i don't think that's going to work. we'll be right back with the movies and actors nominated f f this year's razzi awards. or >>> the folks behind the razzy awards disliked the last air bender so much, they made a special category for it. worst misuse of 3-d. it tied with eclipse for the most razzie

. >> the harlem globetrotters are an american tradition in basketball with laughs. h. p.n in san jose and oakland marina in oakland. ♪ >> a san francisco institution. 11th year at pier 29. the new show is likely to be through thursday. >> it's not written in pencil mark. >> blu-ray and dvd, the year's most talked about film, the social network. won the critics choice award or the golden globes this weekend. i'm don sanchez, abc 7 news. >> popping in a dvd might not be a bad way to spend the afternoon. >> definitely. rain out there. live doppler 7 hd. moving through the heart of the bay but out of here the next four to five hours and then an extended period of dry weather starting tomorrow to the middle part of next week. >> enjoy it. thanks for joining us on abc 7 news. >> see you later, bye. [ female announcer ] why settle for plain bread when you can have pillsbury grands! flaky layers biscuits? the warm, light delicate lays are like nothing else. add a layer of excitement to your next meal. ♪ and these are the ones you'll love on a friday. pillsbury crescent pizza pock

>> i think there was a party in harlem. i just started doing it.reaming and everybody started to react and, like, you know, real excited. i said, yo, i think i got something. >> reporter: he was right. are you getting it into right now? >> i'm just kind of like -- i'm already in it. i'm always in it. >> reporter: so you taught wolf. see what you can do with me. >> okay, you ready for this? i'm going to roll up my sleeves for you. i can see, you know, you got a little swaggy swag. you see, the dougie, you got to put your unique twist into it, okay? >> reporter: there's part with your head, too, right? >> they putting a double time in there. and then they go -- >> reporter: right, right. >> right. >> reporter: i look really stiff, right? i look like wolf doing it. ♪ >> reporter: that's his trademark. simply smoothing his hair back. a little move, a monumental dance. >> bring it back a little bit. >> reporter: i'm linsey davis for "nightline" in new york. >> i think you've got it. sure looks like fun and i will be practicing in private. when we come b

harlem known for it. you keep reservations after 8:00? >> so the neighbors can really come in. weeks booked up to march. the only way the neighbors get in, is really, they can come in after 8:00 and walk in. >> dedicated man. we're neighbors. you know, i'm there. in fact, i hear there's a gospel brunch this sunday. look out. do you have other favorite comfort foods? never had marcus' chicken, coconut milk. amazing. fried chicken. more collards, mac and cheese and then -- >> apple pie with a little cheddar cheese. >> always a little surprise. what's your ultimate comfort food, my friend? >> i would say, this is good. swedish meatballs. i grew up with that. >> your grandmother's swedish meatballs on the menu? >> yes. >> i don't know why no one else is coming to eat this food, except i'm happy we got so much for ourselves. >> in now. >> i don't have a plate. >> get your own plate. >> i'm thinking -- right here. >> you can find these recipes, of course, on our website, "early show."cbsnews.com. stay with us. we'll be right back. ,, ÷? honey...? [ mom ] yes. honey, i can't find my i

earlier today, at hp pavilion, the harlem globetrotters were in action.he events crew had to come in and replace the hardwood with ice as the sharks will be in action tonight against st. louis. boy, do the sharks need help. they've lost six in a row. to make matters worse, the sharks will be without ryan due to injury. no word on ryan's injury. hockey teams like to keep that injury stuff hush-hush. but the sharks do get logan back who missed thursday's game because of injury. they're happy to get their leading scorer back in the lineup tonight. >>> this is a little strange. that's what many are calling oregon's new basketball court. the university unveiled the new floor of the newly arena. many say the glare on the court is a little distracting. the court is framed on all sides by a forest of fir trees, paying tribute to the pacific northwest and the school's 1939 national team nickname the tall firs. diane, what do you think? >> it looks like they threw mud on the edges of it. >> that's the ugliest thing that i've seen. but this is oregon, they do it wit

carlina was taken at this harlem hospital. growing up, carlina suspected something was wrong.ntly searched for herself online. remarkably finding this photo on a children's website. >> i just always believed she would find me. that was something i always believed myself. >> reporter: but so many questions remain about pettway who carlina claim as bussed her. for now, carlina's family wants to see justice done. what would you say to this person who kidnapped carlina? >> you're going to jail. >> she need help. she need help for her to take someone's child and make that person suffer like that. >> reporter: andrea canning, abc news, new york. >>> the international search for five americans lost at sea is over. they are safe this morning in the philippines. a coast guard ship escorted their ship to port after it was spotted by a plane the previous day. the 38-foot catamaran reportedly had engine trouble in rough seas. >>> and take a look at this close call from canada. a driver with a camera on his dashboard captured a new collision with an out-of-control trailer packed with 30 to

andrea canning, abc news, harlem. >> what a great ending. and that's not all. because of carlina's case, hospitals all across the country introduced new security measures like wrist bracelets that have basically eliminated infant abductions. >>> and coming up, proof that no one's above jury duty. >>> another powerful snowstorm is marching across the country tonight, moving east and south. 27 states from minnesota to maine and as far south as georgia are facing winter weather warnings and advisories tonight through tomorrow. >>> and, the next time you think about squirming out of jury duty, remember this picture. take a close look at the jury pool in d.c. superior court. that is elena kagan, the newest supreme court justice. proving that even the most powerful are citizens first. kagan wasn't picked for a jury and she left court without collecting the $4 reimbursement that everyone is offered for transportation. >>> and, those potential jurors weren't the only ones who got a surprise today in washington. check out the reactions of the white house guests who got

you've had serious shows and shows like "harlem heights" that didn't necessarily do well for b.e.t.nd other networks. they've run their course. there is a variety of shows out there. we just have to watch the good stuff so they can stay on the air. >> it seems the stuff that sticks the most is the bad stuff. "flavor of love" had three seasons? >> i think five. >> i saw that. >> i saw "i love new york." i say -- >> you. >> i am the problem. i am that part that makes it up. why are we so attracted to these kind of image sms. >> i think it's who we are as people. you know, it's the same question, why is, you know, when there's a wreck, does everybody slow down and watch it on the highway? we enjoy for whatever reason watching other people's tragedies. i think it's escapism in some respect. but exactly what you said. i'm very guilty. i'm a reality television addict probably much more than i care to admit, but it's exactly that. when you look at the ratings and look at the numbers, you know, it's usually the stories that make us want to close our eyes. >> i keep thinking about these recu

parents migrated when he was 5 years old from north carolina to harlem. the opportunity and a luxury would have been possible. to spend hours upon hours to get music lessons. and the farmland of small-town north carolina. and john coal train migrated at 17 from north carolina to philadelphia where believe it or not he got his first, where would janice b.. he got the opportunity to go to the hall of music in philadelphia and to practice so much that people in his apartment building complained. the nerve of complaining because john cold rain, he is playing it all -- at all hours of the night. they complained about john cold frame playing his out those acts. he played so much that he complained to a minister who gave him the keys to the church. one of the unknown things about this migration is each dream will be beautiful translation of the southern state from which it derives. from texas to louisiana those people are very different. the culture is different. all kinds of food by was not accustomed to because of the music and language were totally different.

. >>> i'm curly neil of the world famous harlem globetrotters.ou're watching "sports sunday" with raj. >>> hello, everybody, welcome to "sports sunday" and thanks for joining us tonight. i'm raj mathai. we are coming to you tonight from our temporary studio x here at nbc bay area. next sunday we'll anybody our new studio. or so they tell us. a lot of things happening on this holiday weekend. the latest twist with the raiders, are you hearing this? if it's true, it's just a reminder of how continually baffling this franchise is. our guest tonight, hello, herschel. al davis was pursuing him back in the day. could you imagine herschel walker in silver and black? the former football star and ballet star, bobsledder, and current mma fighter is in studio with us. the road to the super bowl now, head over heels for the jets. tom brady might be back in san mateo sooner than expected. who's the favorite now? the early betting lines are in. and the struggling

at just 19 days old, carlina white was taken from the harlem hospital, reportedly by a woman disguised as a nurse who had just lost her own baby. growing up, carlina suspected something was wrong, and recently searched for herself online, remarkably discovering this photo and composite of herself on a missing children website. >> i just always believed that she would find me. that was something that i always believed in, myself. >> reporter: but so many questions still remain about pettway, who carlina claims abused her. for now, carlina's family just wants to make up for lost time and see justice done. what would you say to this person who kidnapped carlina? >> you're going to jail. >> she needs help. she needs help, for her to take someone's child and make that person suffer like that. >> reporter: andrea canning, abc news, new york. >> and pettway will be in federal court tomorrow. >>> this is going to be another dangerously cold night for millions of people in this country. temperatures were below zero in 25 states today. it was 37 below in northern minnesota. and the worst of this

. >> reporter: prayers answered for the family of a missing woman, kidnapped as a baby from harlem hospitaldes ago. 24 years later that baby, carlina white, has come home, reunited with her biological mother joy white who spoke to cbs 2 news as a 16-year-old pleading with the kidnappers. >> just give me my baby back, please. i just want her back. >> reporter: it became one of the nypd's most baffling cases. the only known kidnapping from a new york hospital. police immediately suspecting a mysterious woman who'd been hanging around acting like a nurse. carlina was eventually raised by another family in connecticut but always wondered about her true identity and started looking. with the help of the center for missing and exploited children, carlina found her way home. but questions linger over carlina's decades-old kidnapping. the fbi investigated, and family members rejoiced. >> we never gave up hope. we always, you know, were saying one day that she would come back. >> reporter: mother and daughter have not yet returned to the family's apartment here in the bronx. they're waiting to go pu

authorities have charged her with kidnapping infant carlina white, the 3-week-old who was snatched from harlem hospital in 1987. >> apparently, she had turned herself into them out in the town of connecticut. >> reporter: pettway was on the run, also wanted for breaking probation in north carolina. she disappeared after news broke her daughter, 23-year-old nedra nance, was really carlina white. pettway was spotted yesterday in bridgeport, her hometown, trying to pawn items for cash. >> she was recognized by the clerk at the time. he then made a call to us and when detectives responded to the incident location, they were able to confirm the fact it was her. >> reporter: pettway's mother, who spoke to us behind a closed door, told us she never saw her daughter give birth to nedra. >> i want my baby. she didn't have to do that to me. >> reporter: for more than two decades, the white family has suffered. that all changed last week when police say dna confirmed nedra's true identity. the 23-year-old had long suspected pettway wasn't her real mother. she searched online and found a photo of a missin

morning's today in harlem says once again flared up. saying these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today. welcome back to the kaiser report i'm max kaiser time to go back to chile and talk with gonzalo lira one of the regulars here on the kaiser report why because in chile and chile and brazil are like the only countries that are doing well these days gonzalo welcome back to the kaiser report it's a pleasure being on max thanks for having me on all right now gonzalo apparently chile's central bank has joined the other insane central banks around the world bloomberg reports that chile central bank has to buy twelve billion dollars to stem the peso region beating rally this looks like another chapter in the currency war what's going on you know exactly it's another part of the race to the bottom the problem for chile is that chile has an economy of about one hundred sixty three billion dollars of two thousand and nine numbers and twelve billion as you can tell is that you know

now with a black president in the white house new york's harlem neighborhood is one of the places that celebrated the most when barack obama stepped into the white house for two years into the presidency the cracks in the dream for life have become too wide to hide extreme unemployment with resulting poverty has created a pandemic of millions who need to be helped with in black america has been a. nightmare looking for work study say a year ago one in six african-americans were without jobs. today so for. a lot of people even for myself china find a job in this economy it's really hard it's really hard to there's no health centers and there's no opportunities that there's like we just stay at one like an economic level like a. low income level poverty many see racial profiling continues to be a major obstacle to winning in the job market literally hundreds of studies have shown. without doubt repeatedly that for example a white man with a prison record who applies for a job is more likely to get a callback for that job interview for that job than a black man with a college education ex

crits-- put -- exhibits include those by harvey milk. >>> two members of the harlem globetrotters areead of a benefit show tonight. hot shot branch got together at the boys' gymnasium and he talked about what it is like to be on a team like this and what it takes to be a member. >> you have to be good at basketball, great personality, great character and nice legs. [ laughter ] >> all right. curly was also there in san francisco. he had a few comments about the basketball talents of our own dave clark. >> oh, yeah. dave clark. oh, man, i tell you, we have to put him through some lessons, fundamentals, shoot the jump start maybe shoot from h alf- court. but he's a good man. >> the team will play against the washington general at santa rosa junior college tonight. a portion. proceeds go to the school's athletic department. >> curly kneel is one of the -- kneel is one of the greatest ball players who ever lived. i can't do any of those moves. it won't work. >>> hey, sal, we can did better with the commute, can't we? >> yes, a triple-double for dave clark! woohoo! let's take a look at the

first experience, i think about 1977, and the artist was eddie cheeba, and it was charles gallery in harlem. for those people who didn't know the culture-- don't know the culture of the era-- what was different about that music you heard than what they might have heard from r&b acts or from motown or tamla? well, at that time, motown and tamla and those labels were not so successful. what was big then was disco, and especially in new york. so the big records on the radio were-- like, patrick juvet had a song called i love america. the village people had y.m.c.a., and there was a record pool, which i remember was the most influential in terms of getting records on the radio and from the disco, communicating the needs of the public, and that disco pool-- record pool-- was made up of 25 jocks who played in gay clubs, and-- you know, larry levan, larry patterson, and tee scott. i mean, it was all these popular disco deejays, and they were doing what-- the leader of that pool, judy weinstein, said that disco was black music made easy for white people to dance to. and that became-- the most impor

she was just 19 days old when she was taken from the harlem hospital. >> last year's oil spill in the gulf may be affecting those who collect or eat crab from that coast. a group tested a dozen gulf coast residents and found four have extremely high levels of benzinn their blood. they were all crabbers from a coastal town. the youngest a 10-year-old has breathing problems blamed on chemical exposure. it's a toxic chemical found in oil and is linked to disorders and cancer. >> its been two weeks since the tucson shooting. how people are helping the dozens of victims of that. >> and it sparked outrage when it happened. today there was a key ruling on the deadly israeli raid on an aid flotilla to gaza. senate man accused of shooting and wounding gabreille giffords set to make his second court appearance tomorrow. >> reporter: the 22-year-old suspect will be arraigned on three counts of assassination and three counts of attempted murder. he is expected to be back in court tomorrow afternoon. he is a accused of shooting and killing six people in front of a tucson market on january 8th. he

she's charged with kidnapping carlina white from a harlem hospital.ntly reunited with her biological family. >>> doctors treating congresswoman gabby giffords say she is improving every day but she's not ready for rehab just yet. clayton sandell is in houston with the details. good morning. >> reporter: hi. one member of the medical team tells us they are going to delay her transfer from the intensive care unit to the rehabilitation center right behind me. one of the reasons that they are concerned is fluid buildup around the congresswoman's brain. last week in tucson surgeons installed a tube to help drain some fluid away. her medical team does not want to move her until it is removed. they're worried about infection. as for how big a setback this is, right now we don't know. doctors tell us, it is fairly common for fluid like this to build up and a drain to be needed after a major head trauma and surgery. it's also important to know where the drain is installed and where the fluid is building up. right now, those are details the medical team has not

harlem globe trotter curly neil in the house to see a very competitive game. warios with 10 steals on the night. this one david lee passing to monta ellis. ellis with 38 points. warriors with the upper hand most of the game. inbound play as wright finds lee. high water mark for golden state was a 14-point lead. but then kobe bryant kicked it in. bryant scored 17 of his 39 points in the game's final six minutes. two there. plus the foul. and then with less than a minute to play the warriors are down three and they need to stop. kobe drains a long three with nothing but nets. how many times have we seen it? the lakers have won 12 straight over the warriors outscoring them by 11 in the 4th quarter. >>> four more nfl games this weekend with an interesting quarterback match up in the nfc game on saturday. green bay packers practicing incures around that's appropriate because they will be in the georgia dome on saturday night against the falcons. that game will be here on channel 2 at 5. former cal star aaron rogers against third year quarterback matt ryan. ryan has

government infrastructure, i think you'll see neighborhood gangs clashing, the upper east sides fights harlem. east side wouldn't do very well, probably. [laughter] i'm from there, so i know. iraq was unique. we see what happens even in the u.s. in the aftermath of katrina when you remove the state, all hell breaks lose, and when people are scared, they turn to violence, to militias. it's what happened in iraq. the americans won the war in april of 2003, but lost the war because militias take over. overnight, they were formed and forming on the basis of secretary identity, formed around surrounding mosques, tribal groups, ethnic groups. you weren't going to have a secular noneducated militia. it didn't make sense. the guys who used to be in gangs very quickly became the militiamen. the americans came in with the notion that the party was like the nazi party. we had to elevate to fighting is a new nazi. they were the nazi in the eyes of the american planners, but it was a sunni. the army was majority shiites. they imimposed the identities on geographic regions. you had the shiite south and you

he didn't make the bowling team but he was drafted by the harlem globetrotters so he should be fine.ootball for a moment. the new york jets upset the indianapolis colts on saturday. it was quite a game. came down to the last seconds. jets won it 17-16. which was good news for rex ryan who talked a lot of trash. even guaranteed a super bowl win before the season started. the win helped him avoid putting his foot in his mouth which for rex ryan was bittersweet. and then yesterday the -- oh, you didn't see that video? look it up. the eagles were on the losing end of a close game with the packers. which means michael vick will not make it to the super bowl. or the puppy bowl. and he threw an interception to end the game. after the game, vick told reporters the interception was the biggest mistake of his life. which -- that's debatable i think. i mean -- i think there may have been one that was bigger. i don't know if michael vick is ever going to be able to put his dog fighting past behind him. after the game, the focus was squarely on football. >> it was a great season. but the ultimate

the harlem globetrotters are going into the bay area and today in the bay. we will have one visit, coming up. >> the giants fans provided a lot of drama in the world series run, but now they can get their own tv show. a live report is coming up next. >> welcome back. live look outside. a beautiful bay bridge. looks like traffic is pick up a bit. we will check the commute with mike. highs and lows. should be nice. 59 degrees in palo alto. it's 6:15 >> you might see the san francisco giants on tv next season. we are talking a lot more than game day coverage. they may get their prime time series. bob redell has the details on that. bob? >> good morning to you. you thought you didn't get enough of the giants as they took on and won the world series? mostly happened on the field. now the bay area and the rest of the country, there is a shot they can get a play by play of what happens off the field as well. entertainment weekly is reporting that the show time cable network is considering featuring the team in a reality series. it will be no surprise considering th

the harlem globetrotters, basketball with laughs. this weekend at h. p.ilion in san jose and oracle arena in oakland. ♪ >> a san francisco institution. its 11th year at 29. through thursday. >> it's not written in pencil mark. it's written in ink. >> the social network. who would win the critic's choice award. i'm don sanchez, abc 7 news. >> coming up, bridging the language barrier instantly. >> the new ects mary! hey! wow, you look great! thanks! it's this new wish yourself thin program. i just wish it and it happens. it's probably those fiber one bars you're eating. i know they help me stick to my diet. the bars are 90 calories and the fiber helps you feel full. 90 calories and high fiber. so that's why this diet thing is working. but it's weird because my wish for lorenzo came true. [ male announcer ] fiber one 90 calorie bars. hungry no. results yes. >>> welcome back. it's 6:24 now. google wants to turn your smart phone into a translator. the bay area based companies translate app is getting an experimental conversation mode which translates speech ou

. >>> willy mayes took a sentiment al adjournly and he went back to cold and snowy harlem where he lived 60 years ago when he was a rook ski. he talked to 300 schools from the public school which now sits adjacent to the old ballpark, the same street that he used to play stick ball with neighborhood kids. maize took the san francisco giants new world series trophy with him as he talked about baseball and education. >>> and tonight two former boston teammates joined tampa bay. 39-year-old manny ramirez signed a one year deal worth a reported $2 million. moody manny managed just two rbis with the dodgers and white sox. he is expected to be their dh. outfielder damon signs a one year deal with the same rate for more than $5 million. >>> la angels pick up a high priced outfielder vernon wells in a trade for catcher mike napolitano and his contract with the boston angels is $86 million over the next four years. needed some pump in the lineup but this trade smells of desperation. the fourth seeded venus williams lasted just seven points in her third round match of the australia open against an

>> this event was hosted by the new york public library center for research and black culture in harlem, new york. for more information please will visit and why deal.org/locations/schaumburg. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2. here is our prime time lineup tonight. starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern, liberal class has been corrupted by what he terms the corporate state. at 8:30 driven west, about andrew jackson and the trail of tears. at 10:00 afterwards with peter bergen, author of the longest war. >> former governor of virginia george allen. former senator from virginia george allen. what can washington learn from sports? >> a great deal. i learned a lot growing up on the sidelines of the training camp playing sports myself. the overarching thing washington can learn from the world of sports is that in sports where someone is from, race or religion or ethnicity doesn't matter. what matters is can you help the team win? it is a meritocracy where everyone has equal opportunity to compete and succeed. that is where our country was built on. you have ever seen the washington operates, red

carlina white was 19 days old when she was abducted 22 years ago from a harlem hospital. her mother distraught. >> give me my baby back, please. i just want her back. >> turns out carlina was in connecticut and all the time suspicious of the family raising her and she spotted a girl of a photo of a missing girl that looked like her and this week she reached out to our b biological family. >> we hoped she would come back. i never thought she was dead or anything. >> on tuesday, police dna tests confirmed that she was the baby kidnapped in 1987. she had a private reunion with her biological family over the weekend and saw them again last night. her kidnapper might still face federal charges although no arrests have been made. >>> in calhoun, georgia, a snowy surprise for a plow driver. he was clearing this out and look. suddenly, a giant sink hole opened up there! the truck turned over and tipped. the driver is okay and was not hurt and may not be getting back in the snowplow any time soon, though. >>> 7:16 coming up on right now. it's because of that snow that we check in

what i am seeing is a new harlem renaissance. recall that harlem renaissance 2.0.ve this great migration of african-americans coming from the city's with a new level of education. you see the emergence of really interesting and progressive, politically and socially, african-americans like langston years, duke ellington, josephine baker, i did the wells -- ida b . wells that only changed african-american society but american society for good. i think we are living in a similar time where we have across many different disciplines, art, science, literature, politics, music, you name it. rigid dynamism. this is not only of interest to african-americans but to a wider selection. when you speak to blockers like 50%r the route, you'll find of our readership is non-african american. there are a lot of people who are not african-american who are also interested in the work we're doing. it is an exciting time. i love speaking at universities like this. i love being able to talk to students. i get a lot of emails and requests from students to talk to them and help them with t

and i immediately began working off with cleveland robinson but one of the top leader leaders in harlem, philip randolph, and stanley but particularly with stanley, the stanley defacto was the defacto northern office of the southern leadership conference, which was the fund-raising arm. >> host: and jack odell -- >> guest: now interesting both jack and stanley had an organized left wing background and i say organized i mean they were members of the communist party. okay? stanley and his brother identical twins were a member of the communist party until 1956i believe, not i believe, i know and they broke with the party, and i mean they severed all relationships. i have often fought the civil rights movement and the relationship with martin king became a substitute for stanley. stanley was an organized person he severed all relationships with the communist party, and martin king and the southern christian conference and movement began with the conference can to him. he was devoted most of his nonprofessional working time to martin but they developed a close working relationship. >> host:

and the first is when i arrived from greenwich village, a little bit full of myself from the harlem organizing, he said very seriously, faith, i want you to learn how to drive. i felt like i was 19. i felt like i had better things to do with my life as an organizer that learn to drive a car. and he said every soldier in my army must drive a car. now that actually didn't come to pass. that was because of segregation. that's another story. he also insisted that -- and this i appreciate a little bit you are seeing some of the benefits tonight. he insisted that i learn to speak publicly in front of a crowd. because every soldier in the army, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera whether she's a women or not must learn to speak in public. but the culmination of that particular story is that probably the second or third month that i was in southwest georgia was the first anniversary of the albany, georgia movement which is the first time that hundreds of people had gone to jail in the fight against segregation. and there were so many people in jail in albany in november of 1961 that they had to ship peopl

. >>> willy mayes took a sentiment al adjournly and he went back to cold and snowy harlem where he lived 60 years ago when he was a rook ski. he talked to 300 schools from the public school which now sits adjacent to the old ballpark, the same street that he used to play stick ball with neighborhood kids. maize took the san francisco giants new world series trophy with him as he talked about baseball and education. >>> and tonight two former boston teammates joined tampa bay. 39-year-old manny ramirez signed a one year deal worth a reported $2 million. moody manny managed just two rbis with the dodgers and white sox. he is expected to be their dh. outfielder damon signs a one year deal with the same rate for more than $5 million. >>> la angels pick up a high priced outfielder vernon wells in a trade for catcher mike napolitano and his contract with the boston angels is $86 million over the next four years. needed some pump in the lineup but this trade smells of desperation. the fourth seeded venus williams lasted just seven points in her third round match of the australia open against an

yesterday he went to harlem where he lived 60 years ago when he was a rookie with the new york giants. the kid talked to 300 students from the public school that now sits across, adjacent from the old polo grounds ballpark where the giants played. mays shared his views about heros. >> the sports guys and the guys playing guys, basketball, football, whatever, they are your heros and i said, no. i said the mothers d the fathers are the kids' heros. >> mays even had a special treat for the kids. there it is. he brought along the giants 2010 world series trophy which is on display this weekend in new york city. >>> 49 head coach jim harbaugh is getting ready for the nfl draft and in preparation he is putting the final touches onsta he announced after doing expensive -- extensive research he will retain four coaches from singletary's staff. harbaugh says the team does need a top flight quarterback in order to have a successful offense. he did not rule out quarterback alec smith. >>> the warriors monte ellis knocked down a jumper to send the game into overtime and from there the warriors ro

] [applause] >> this event was hosted by the new york public library center for research in block harlem new york. for more information visit nypl.org/locations/schomburg. >> former senator george allen, senator george allen, "what can washington learn from sports." >> a great deal. i learned a lot on the sidelines and training camp. probably the most important thing that washington can learn from the world of sports, in sports where someone is from their race, religion, ethnicity doesn't matter. can you help the team win? it's americatocracy. everyone has the opportunity to compete and succeed, not equal resulted, but equal opportunity. which is what our country was built on. you would never see the way that washington operates redistributing from the winners to those who are not winners. if we are up to washington, they take one the steelers six super bowl trophies and say the poor detroit lions. they've never made it to a super bowl. let's give them a trophy. no, you have to earn it in sports. there's accountability. there's measurement. you know who's winning and losing. there's also

harlem globetrotters played earlier. events crew getting the ice ready. dany heatley had two goals. here's one of them. it was off the deflection, sharks were up 3-2. jamie mcginn hasn't scored all season. what great timing for him to snap out of his funk. here with the score and his dad is on hand to see him score that goal as the sharks win it 4-2 and they snap their sixth game losing streak. >>> according to league sources the raiders have parted ways with defensive coordinator john marshall, choosing not to renew his contract. many reports stating that offensive coordinator hugh jackson is expected to be named the raiders new head coach no later than tuesday. let's get to the playoff action. falcons taking on the green bay packers. green bay battle tested having won three elimination games coming into this one. former bay area players shined. second quarter, former call product aaron rogers hooking up with james jones for the touchdown. rogers had a fantastic game, completing 31 of 36 passes for 366 yards and three tds. this one by himself. number 6 packers stunned top seeded at

although that is not what we lived together, and high school i was very active with something called the harlem brotherhood group which was connected with a student, the national conference for christians and jews. i think i saw ivanhoe comment. ivan also had experience at in cc jay. be bell let me -- so, for christmas of 1961i was at school that barnard. i received a phone call. i went in the eastern store maryland. one of the people who was arrested with me is also here tonight, reggie robinson. in the book, one of the people also who was arrested. and angela butler as well. there are three of us that were arrested in that relatively small group, all from are in the book. at the age of 19 in the autumn of 1962 and went south to register voters in southwest georgia and is there for a year. i returned partly because the items in connection with the stay in the jail in albany, georgia i caught hepatitis. what i like to say is that the experience from the south really altered many things for me, among other things it altered my blood chemistry. it was pretty serious. have going to read just a lit

. >> you know, there's the apollo in harlem, and then it ends.so the only time we'd be on the news is if there was a crime. there's just no coverage. and washington heights is home to more small businesses than any other part of new york city. there's 3,000 small businesses there. >> hinojosa: this is a statistic i did not know. >> so the fact that we can't tell a story about, you know, stores struggling to get by and stay up on their rents? that's another economic reality that unfortunately, thanks to our recession, i think, is more relevant to our audience than i think even when we first came out. but you know, the story of crime and drugs, that's all over new york, so you know, why can't... why aren't we allowed to tell those stories and why is it unrealistic to tell the stories of the other 23 and a half hours of the day when there isn't a crime taking place? >> hinojosa: so the media, again, becomes this way in which we somehow envision these places, and the media again, it focuses on all this negativity. you are now something of a major pla

so he left florida for harlem in 1945. and the final character or robe. he was a surgeon, gamblers, love life he left monreal louisianan in the 1950's because he could practice medicine in the army where he had been a captain but couldn't practice and his own home town hospital in monroe, louisiana. so he set out across the desert by himself to get to california but he was not able to stop past the state of texas as he had expected he would be able to do and he had to drive the full length of multiple states without rest because nobody told him that jim crow was not just in the south but was also in the west. it was a journey that i attempted to recreate in order to experience what he had experienced. this is all part of the research that i did for this book. you can begin to see why it took 15 years to get this done. i wanted to know what was like to drive through the desert along the same route he had taken to have your fingers swell up, you're eyelids grew heavy from exhaustion in the pitch black of night. mike pence road with me. it was all my father