[music playing in background],iha chi. iha chi! the samurai is calling me. i wonder what is wrong. did you call me? yes,iha chi! i'm sorry. next door being noisy. sorry i will go and tell them to be quiet. very, very sorry. [loud party noises] come on in. excuse me. sorry. can you keep the noise down please? be a little bit quieter. huh? be quiet. look at this. three young men on holiday. three beautiful geishas and all this expensive saki we ordered from you and you tell us to be quiet. actually we don't mind but someone next door complained. someone complained? about us? tell them to come here and complain to our faces. no. no. wait! i understand. they're just jealous. we're here having a good time and they're all alone, right? that's it. they're just jealous. maybe so but actually it's not just an ordinary person that complains. what do you mean not an ordinary person? someone with three heads, six legs? a ghost? very funny, sir, but actually it's a samurai. samurai? next door? why didn't you tell us. we don't like samurais? sometimes they just kill people by mistakes. sorry abo

because,iha chi i just wanted a quiet night! [applause] [musi >> in conjunction with an an exhi bigz we had ann an exhi bigz we had ann anan tholl have the same title. it's my pleasure to introduce some of the writers from this book. i will give you an introduction of each of them as i introduce them for their speaking turn. first up we have debbie yee. debbie yee is an attorney and poet and supporter and organizer of the nonprofit asian american arts community. she's received her undergraduate and law degrees from uc berkeley and bolt. born and raised in sacramento, california. she continues to call northern california her home. and now lives in san francisco. so, with that i'd like to introduce debbie yee as our first speaker. >> this is called jasper john's wagon. >> i have an idea of how the fifth star was killed dear empire not by gunfire at close range, not in the study with the pen knife, not by the umbrella, crushed by the revolving door not jostled or hemorrhaged the narrow drain. we caught the tar and the bullet we cam

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like the university of phoenix that operates a community college component called axia college which ihas seen a number of problems with fraud. it is the lower cost institutions primarily but not exclusively -- >> can you tell me why that is? you have so many more dollars and its programs going to one set of institutions and less going to the others. what is the distinction? >> it is not just a function of dollars. i agree with that said -- with the statistics. it is all about what comes back to the so-called student. when you sign up online, you have and visibility to your institution. they sign up for classes and apply for student aid and then the community college or will take back from the title 4 dig -- if they receive a pell grant of $5,000 because i put zero , my application -- the community college will take $600 for a semester of classes and remit the rest to you for room and board and books and other expenses related to education. the problem we see for distance education is, why are we finding room and board and those kind of circumstances? that grew up in brick and mortar scho

and one thing i did try to do which a lot of american authors haven't done, frankly, is iha spent a lot of time talking to the iraqis, prime minister maliki, the head of the kurdishi reerkz the sunnis, insurgents, and trying to weave their perspective into it, because everybody forgets about them.ca >> rose: let's talk about the war in terms of how we divide if into sections.i first there is the lead-up. then there's the invasion. then there's the immediate aftermath of the invasion. then there's part a huge sectarian conflict between sunni and shi'a and al qaeda. then there is the sirnlg, and then there is the end of the war, and then the ramifications from the war. fair? >> fair. >> rose: leading up to the war. why did we go?ai >> well, the principal reason, i believe, is that the bushev administration really did believe that saddam was pursuing weapons of mass destruction. so did the c.i.a. and their view is that the sanctions that had been hemming him in were beginning to fray.ee and you know there's been a lot of journalism saying the intelligence was concocted. it was actually wor

martin savr ihas more on the record-breaking snowfall. >> gone, but not forgotten. spring storm that dumped snow from the colorado rockies to the memory.shore is now a melting but not before crushing snowfall records in parts of the midwest. in places like st. louis apeori, illinois. records were buried beneath the foot to foot and a half of snow. springfield, illinois, got 17 inches, the most ever in a single day. according to noaa, snow on the ground monday in half of the lower 48 states. compare that to less than 8% a year ago. and the storm system had wide reaching effects, making roads a mess. keeping airlines grounded and delivering powerful thunderstorms, high winds, and cold air to the sunny south. in most areas, the snow only added up to a few inches, but it quickly turned into thick, heavy slush. in pittsburgh, even the plow has problems. >> it is slippery underneath. a very heavy snow. even though the trucks are heavy, pushing the trucks around a lot. >> reporter: snow blowers, bogged down. >> wet, heavy. that was surprising. that shocked me. i didn't thi

why they took of boat is being questioned and how much damage ihas been done to the boat. >> the owner of the vote was watching tv and saw the report of the boat stuck off of linda mar beach. a strange case. here at bay marine boat works in richmond we are waiting to find out how much work needs to be done and how long it is expected to be here. >> and bizarre story jackie. a lot of questions it to be answered. the suspect for not being recorded? >> that is the case now obviously that was last night. the last word we heard. that will have some sort of arraignment within 24-48 hours. we may see them in court as early as today. >> thank you jackie. the vote was pulled up at 530 this morning have you seen the owner? >> we saw one crew member mostly the people here at the bay marine boat works are the one working on the boat. they got it out of power wafted going over its to see what kind of damage they are looking at. we have not seen the owner yet. >> very good jackie. as got to learn as the story develops. >> getting word from the san jose police department about a registered sex offend