soccer is the most popular sport in the world but many inner-city youths don't get a chance to play.trying to change all that. ♪ >>> every time i chase the ball, every time i attempted to score it was just -- i felt so much joy in playing. >> she started playing soccer as a child in south carolina. the only girl on a youth team. >> of course it made me a lot tougher and it forced me to develop my abilities, running and keeping up with the boys. >> that toughness has helped her make her mark in the sport. as a global soccer ambassador. >> the company's mission is to introduce to underexposed communities the sport of soccer and also inspire participants of soccer and fans of the game. >> martin began her career in a law firm in atlanta. >> there was a great opportunity and position with a secure paycheck and a predictable schedule. however, my heart yearn to go towards my dream as aspiring to play soccer in the olympics. >> at the start there was some tough times, particularly in south america. >> it was a hard experience because of the preconceived notions that people have of american

this is the inner city of amsterdam, and the rest of the city are the suburbs. the whole city, there are 2.2 million people, but the real city of amsterdam, there are less than 800,000, which i think is about the same as san francisco. i will also pass around a few sheets. the important thing is that amsterdam is one of the five major economic central's -- economic centers in europe, and we want to stay that way, and we are an attractive city for international business, like the american and asian companies that like to have business in amsterdam. it is a real nice place to stay. experts like to live in amsterdam, and is accessible from all parts of the world. it is also very important case of cycling. what irony said, 2.2 million and happens, but the last line may be the most important, about 120 kilometers per day traffic jams. that is qu7?) a lot. this distance is not more than 25k. we have a real problem. that is not good for business. for us, it is active transport, really important as a solution for being accessible. ok, does it work? yes. this is the city

why would someone want to open a business in the inner city communitys?le are terrified of the inner city? >> the security aspect has to be a part of it. the same as if you are in a combat zone. you can't have nation building until you have a secure environment. that is the first step. when you provide those capital gains incentives for individuals that want to go and see a good return on investment, that is how the company got started. we help them mitigate the risk with the investment. >> greta: do you think people in the lower class, typically african-american in urban areas are they better off now than they were four year ago, eight years ago? just the same? >> no, i think they are not. i think you look at statistics it shows when you look at the unemployment rate it's adversely affected in the community and hispanic communities. not just something endemic to african-american community. we vo to look at how do we refocus there and make sure we can get people to be part of the american dream, but we have to break cycle of dependency and poverty. >> gre

in return, they agree to teach in an inner city school here for four years. the program is faith-based. >> what we're doing here we're doing within a christian context. we believe in god's word a revealed in scripture, and that faith informs how you think about students. it informs your efficacy. it informs your belief that every child can learn. >> reporter: there is something about this work that draws people of faith. erin, for example, planned a career as a hospital pharmacist until her faith made her decide otherwise. >> i feel like this is absolutely where god wants me to be. i had much different ambitions for my life and much different aspirations. but i feel like the lord kept putting this in my path. >> remember what this page is called? what's this page called? >> reporter: katelyn also sees what she is doing in the classroom as a kind of ministry. >> how i want to live out my faith in the classroom is by constantly looking at the lord and looking at how he deals with the world and reflect that in my classroom. if i treat them with that respect and

[applause] [applause] gerald is at inner-city youth where he incurred as other people to be leaders. gerald is also praised for his perseverance and compassionate speaking out against violence. he recently completed the program at city college where he focused on green technology and will soon transferred to louisiana state university. he will be missed. [applause] [applause] lauren dangerfield, 16, has led the forefront of campaigns for people winning in time of rights. -- employment rights. she also institutionalized ethnic studies. she is working to build more awareness on working to bridge the gap between ecology, race, and community. [applause] [applause] lucky fisher travis, 17, is a youth supervisor with new ideas. he strives for greatness and also pushes and support this project leaders to envision britain is in themselves. -- greatness in themselves. [applause] [applause] michellechu, 17, is a committed youth board member and on the youth empowerment advisory board. she is a college-bound ambassador in march from mentor school, where she is a wonderful model tutor. michelle

we take kids from inner-city and take them to places they would not ordinarily see. are there any questions regarding this? hearing none, is there any public comment for the donation to take children camping? is this about camping? come on up. >> being a girl scout, i survived camping. jackie bryson -- jackee pryson. take the money and say thank you. and ask the girl scouts for money. president mazzucco: public comment is now closed. >> i move that we approve. president mazzucco: unanimous. please call line item number two, general public comment. >> reserve three minutes for your public comment. >> you have to recess this. >> i will do best. >> i am very honest. >> it was three seconds ago. >> this is jackeekee bryson, left-handed person. i am the girl jakkee. i do not ride bart. i am here to think the san francisco police department for rounding them up and hurting them in, them out of state felons. it has been a long time coming, but we have a change in leadership. thank you, chief surh. -- suhr. there was a time when i send that person is an out-of-state felon. w

[applause] [applause] gerald is at inner-city youth where he incurred as other people to be leaders. rald is also praised for his perseverance and compassionate speaking out against violence. he recently completed the program at city college where he focused on green technology and will soon transferred to louisiana state university. he will be missed. [applause] [applause] lauren dangerfield, 16, has

center for crime prevention and control recounts the development and execution of his plan to curb inner city violence in boston in the 1990s. boston's youth murders were cut by two-thirds after installation of the program. and it's now in place in over 70 cities including chicago, washington, dc, and baltimore. this is about an hour. >> good evening, everyone. my name is rachel cass and on behalf of harvard bookstore i'm very pleased to welcome to you this evening's event with david kennedy, author of the new book "don't shoot, one man a street fellowship and the end of violence in inner city america." tonight's event is just one of many author talks that harvard bookstore is hosting this fall. we have another book talk on jeffery sacks who is director of the earth institute and his new book is "the price of civilization." he'll be speaking at 6:00 pm on friday evening. we also still have tickets on sale for later in the fall for events with newsman jim lehrer and tom brokaw and joan didion among other events so for more information about our fall event series you can email us at harvardbook

economic policy, essentially, were particularly people trapped in inner cities. generally speaking throughout our history, people as economic flows have changed, people have been free to move and follow jobs, but because race is so pernicious, because segregation is still very real, because of the red lining by the fha that went straight into the 1980s, we did not see that flow. then we haven't seen the kind of commitment to evening out the pockets of privation in our country we need to see to have a strong middle class diverse that is america. >> how do you have a new social contract if we don't have a sense of community? >> i think that is the great question of our time. because if you look at this sort of hostility and anxiety around public solutions at its root, it's anxiety around who the public is. i think that that's happened because of the real explosion in diversity, but i think it's something that there is an answer to. it takes leadership. you have to think about the same system that allows people based on their physical appearance to be valued so diff

it was before not after crack began to ravage inner city communities and become a media sensation. richard nixon was the first to coin the term a war on drugs. but president ronald reagan turned that from a declared war into a literal one. why declare a war on drugs? from the outset it had relatively little to do with genuine concern about drug addiction and abuse and nearly everything to do with politics, racial politics. numerous historians have documented that the war on drugs was part of that grand republican party strategy known as the southern strategy of using racially coded get tough appeals on issues of crime and welfare to appeal to poor and working class whites, particularly in the south who are anxious about and resentful of many of the gains of african-americans in the civil rights movement. when president ronald reagan declared a drug war was was to get tough on a group of people not so subtly defined by race. >> i would like you to respond to -- hearing that i think that tracks with the way i think of the politics of this but it also is the case that we had this rema

has miscallaneous records of all sorts and let me just, a lon the length of letting you into the inner city secrets of records being kept. this is the unreenforced masonry building survey. we have people here on the third -- second floor that do upgrade work and we surveyed all the buildings and there's photographs and descriptions and some of it made it to the building department of records and we have soils reports. maybe very valuable if there's a voils report of your neighborhood. i bought my house and thought it was in ma great location. but the earthquake turns out shook our neighborhood really badly. the soils reports would have shown me that and will show you that and we have maybe tens of thousands by block and lot number here on the second floor that building department. on the six floor is the housing inspection division. they have their own separate records, what they call street files for buildings three or more units and sometimes fewer occasionally if their stuck away in there they have inspection records of all the multi-family buildings in san francisco and they're suppose

. >> what we confirm so far is that in the inner city of kabul, often individual opened fire on the -- opened fire on the members of the international security assistance source. we can confirm that two personnel were killed in this incident. >> u.s. officials say a manhunt is underway for the gunman. two afghan officials say the shooting did not involve any afghans. the commander every u.s. and nato forces has recalled coalition military personnel working in afghan ministries in the capital for their protection. at least 28 people killed and hundreds wounded since tuesday, when it was first reported that korans and other religious materials will not thrown into a fire pit used to burn garbage at the airfield. >>> turn on our weather it's been a very windy day with chilly temperatures. annie is on the weather patio. >> if you had dinner plans tonight definitely bundle up. with the windchills it feels like 20s and 30s, winds are diminishing tonight through overnight. here the peak wind gusts from today. pretty impressive this is here. montgomery, virginia the highest, 67 miles an hour.

you know, i'm from the inner city, but a good part of the inner city, mostly middle-class families. >who was involved with credit card fraud and drugs. >> she was an ex-girlfriend of mine, but we still lived together at the time. what i was doing started infringing on her life and she started getting scared and she tried to stop me and didn't listen. and it's been a discrepancy now if she was going to the police to talk or not or if she was telling anybody what i was doing or who i was, more than anything, involved with. and it led to her -- i can't even phrase it. it shouldn't have happened. what happened to her shouldn't have happened to her. >> though armstrong wasn't the actual hitman in the murder, he's the only one serving time for the crime. >> sometimes i could see the victim in my case when i'm walking. you know what i'm saying? it's like a demon that never goes away. i have dreams about it. >> in the hope of making a difference, both men serve prison by serving other inmates. >> he said if it was an issue that we'd be able to obtain access to a legal library on "a" or "b" ya

phase two will connect regional and inner-city high-speed rail systems within california. the san francisco high-speed rail working group was established two years ago, primarily to respond to challenges that were identified within the alternative analysis report that was released by the authority, calling for the construction of various options for high-speed rail within the states, specifically within the peninsula. the city has identified a number of concerns, with alternatives at the time identified specifically as the analysis that included options other than trans bag. the plan, as presented, provided significant impact at mission bay boulevard, with likely impacts to the mission bay redevelopment area. providing reduced assets -- reduced aspects to mission bay itself, further impacting the stations at bay shore, because a planned maintenance facilities in the area. the high-speed rail working groups also served as a way of bringing multiple agencies within the city together to address issues and develop a coordinated city position, providing a venue for city agencie

your mom is a teacher, my mom has been working in the inner city for 50 years. i know how hard this work is. we treated everybody the same. we haven't recognized excellence. we haven't awarded it. we haven't learned from it i have been very public we should significantly increase teacher salaries. no one goes into it for the money but you shouldn't have to take the vow of poverty. >> jon: no, i think you mostly go into if forth money. the people i meet with their toyotas, i have seen-- i have seen some things. >> we need, we have a baby booming generation retiring. we're going to need a until new grade teachers. >> jon: i love what you are saying, but isn't race to the top the exact thing that demorallized them even further than no child left behind because that is the issue, isn't i think intention, because it seems the intention of if i were in education or the president, the rhetoric you hear is absolutely wonderful. but it does seem that the methodology that they have employed has not had that effect. and maybe is this not the best use of the federal governm

i'm going to allocate half of the donation to the first tee, the work that they do with inner city childrenbringing them to the game of golf is incredible. i'm also going to doe mate the other half to the levin children's hospital in my hometown of charlotte, north carolina. the work they do caring for kids is also incredible. thank you very much. >> johnson, that's terrific. and avis is thrilled to support such great charities, and most importantly, a player that embodies the we try harder spirit. congratulations. >> thank you, john. who work to understand your goals and help you achieve them. as one of the nation's largest wealth managers, northern trust's goals-based investment strategies are tailored to your needs. ♪ and overseen by experts who seek to maximize opportunities while minimizing risk. ♪ expertise matters. find it at northern trust. jim: we are back with a huge throng gathered here around the 18th at riviera country club. the northern trust open, the history of the tournament dates back to 1926 when they had 251 entrants in the first los angeles open. it was billed as a golf

i'm going to allocate half of the donation to the first tee, the work that they do with inner city childrenbringing them to the game of golf is incredible. i'm also going to doe mate the other half to the levin children's hospital in my hometown of charlotte, north carolina. the work they do caring for kids is also incredible. thank you very much. >> johnson, that's terrific. and avis is thrilled to support such great charities, and most importantly, a player that embodies the we try harder spirit. congratulations. >> thank you, john. who work to understand your goals and help you achieve them. as one of the nation's largest wealth managers, northern trust's goals-based investment strategies are tailored to your needs. ♪ and overseen by experts who seek to maximize opportunities while minimizing risk. ♪ expertise matters. find it at northern trust. jim: we are back with a huge throng gathered here around the 18th at riviera country club. the northern trust open, the history of the tournament dates back to 1926 when they had 251 entrants in the first los angeles open. it was billed as a golf

investments by bringing grocery stores, small businesses, loan funds, all of these in the heart of the inner cityr to this tenure at r.l.a., mr. kinsey also enjoyed a remarkable 20-year career with the xerox corpts -- corporation, and here he ways trail blazer making sure that he broke down barriers in corporate america. through his leadership in der -- xerox it led to the hireb of literally thousands of women and people of color. bernard is also highly sought after as an international business consultant and has counseled governments all cross the world from south africa, germany, england, france in economic development and he's also a celebrity in his own right. he's got numerous radio and television programs including the macneil-lehrer rorkts the "nbc nightly news," cnn and national public radio. he's lace family fan. -- also a family man. married to his wife shirley for 44 years, they are one of the most admired and respected couples in l.a. and the proud parents of their son khalil. their partnership represents and alliance based on love, respect, family and friends. and they're also very g

. >> what we confirm so far is that in the inner city of kab o u, they opened fire on members of the international security assistance source. we can confirm that two personnel were killed in this incident. >> tonight, u.s. officials say a man hunt is underway for that gunman. also, the commander of u.s. and nato forces has recalled coalition military personnel working in afghan ministries. meantime, 22-year-old corporal, p.j. conradt is among the dozens killed since tuesday when it was first reported that koran's and other religious materials had been thrown into a fire pit used to burn garbage at the airfield. >>> a local marine is among those killed in a deadliest military training aviation incident in years. captain quinn was among seven marines who died in wednesday's crash near the california, arizona border. it happened when two helicopters collided in midair during a training exercise. the 28-year-old marine was the pilot of a chopper that collided with a cobra helicopter. quinn joined the marines in 2006. he twice received the navy and marine corps achievement medal as well

is it the new asians who are often are found in the inner city marketplace? against who? the blacks or the whites or -- if you're going to reconcile, the first thing to understand is who you're reconciling. this is increasingly a multicultural, multinational conference and not that black country and not a black and white country. this is not the country of the civil war. and we better get used to it. already hispanics outnumber blacks. for most of my lifetime i talked about being a member of the largest minority group in the country. we are being left in the dust. and if that's all we had to be proud of, maybe we should have been. i'm intrigued, very intrigued by the growth of this bilingual minority in our country that is growing so fast. and will change the country in every conceivable way and may for the first time make us speak something other than just english, bless their hearts. yes, there's a role for national leaders, particularly for the president of the united states who alone can set the tone as no other leader or group of leaders can. he is often in a positio