. >> hi i am jermaine jackson with the [inaudible] organization and can you help us reopen our park. we have been growing up with it closed the last seven years and now i walk my daughter to school there is broken glass, broken everything. there is hazardous stuff and by reopening it you could bring us to the park and kids play, more job training programs. help it not be a hazardous place for the community and we need your help to do all that and make it possible for more kids coming up in the future. thank you. >> thank you. >> rodney hampton and we help with the [inaudible] organization and as one of the youth was saying the hunter's point park has been blighted for over the last decade or more and we are looking at title 6 here and i will speak on both sides and i am here to support them as well and as a representative of the wop we are looking to restore that park and we need your help to do that movement and like mr. jackson said there is glass all over the place and children walking in the area and we are looking for help and just having a open space and putting grass down beca

now they're the jacksons, they're away from motown, they're still working together-- the brothers, and... a slightly different lineup because jermaine had left and stayed at motown. and so i met him as an 18-year-old at our home in san francisco for a tv show. we decided to have a different location than the usual backstage or hotel room. and so they all emerged out of a long stretch limo on buchanan street in japantown in san francisco, and popped into our apartment-- dianne and mine-- and sat there for an interview for television. michael was extremely shy, a little awkward. i mean, he was kind of tall and gangly, wore a black sweater, white shirt, big afro, and... but whenever he sat down or when it was his turn to talk, he would talk quite earnestly and quite articulately-- unlike me-- and... >> hinojosa: ( laughing ) >> ...and said some very interesting things. >> hinojosa: you're doing good, you're doing good. but let me ask you this. you know, there is a sense that these rock stars are, you know-- we all know this, they're larger than life. you know, they end up on magazine covers, huge concerts... you're with them in their m

christ where ferguson mayor james knowles the third and chief jackson are expected to be on hand to answer questions. joining me now is jermaine. what's the feeling and vibe and senation on the ground right now? >> i was in another town, sanford florida in the wake of a killing of an unarmed black man. tension had been boiling over for years. it is not dissimilar from some situation. this is a collection of small communities under the thumb of what they allege is police abuses and long history of disrust within the community. michael brown's killing tipped it over and lifted the lid off the pot. young people disaffected are upset. it spilled over into violence. the thing now where do they go from here? we talk about resources and talk about issues in the schools, it's no different than detroit or chicago or camden, new jersey. here in this town of st. louis that does not have a history of allowing violence to unif you recall in response to these issues, we see it here. people are still angry and now it's where do they go from here. >> is it fair for people -- and we heard the reverend al sharpton talk about violence would be s