jones is doing good work.attacking. >> the truth of the matter is that the leadership of san francisco at the time wasn't going to touch it with a ten-foot pole because jim jones had become one of them. >> he was sitting on an explosive story with nowhere to tell it, until "new west" magazine grabbed hold of it. the article would shine fierce light into the temple's darkest shadows, and jones knew it. the walls would soon come tumbling down, and he wasn't about to wait around for the crash. >> it came out. jim basically called people saying, "pack up your stuff, you're leaving today." people went out with one day's notice they were leaving the country forever. >> we knew we weren't coming back to the u.s. ever. ♪ >> by summer's end, hundreds of members had descended on jonestown, the jungle was now home to peoples temple. >> to jim the mass exodus to guyana was about running away. but to the people in the congregation, they thought they were going to the promised land. >> jonestown in a lot of ways offered peo

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jones. warrants were obtained. investigators searched jones' home, twice, actually.ained from those warrants? >> certainly nothing that gets us where we need to be at this point. there are enormous amounts of evidence, though, that have been submitted to our state crime lab that have yet to come back. >> i assume he's denied any responsibility? that would be a fair assumption? >> very fair, yes. >> reporter: a background check revealed a criminal record. >> includes some violence against his spouse. >> including a five-year sentence for assault and kidnapping involving his ex-wife and shooting but missing her male friend. most of his troubles have begun with jealousy, aggression and women. but at work, said his customers, he seemed perfectly fine. >> he was a friendly person to be around. when he worked on my car he was professional. he fixed what needed to be fixed. >> a detective named david duncan had once actually hired jones as a mechanic. >> it was kind of a shocker to me, because ralph was -- i'll say was -- i don't know what he's like today, but was a pleasan

nebraska army national guard sergeant omar jones of maywood, nebraska. sergeant jones served as an electrician in the 623rd engineer company, nebraska army national guard out of wahoo, nebraska. sergeant jones died at a military base in afghanistan on july 18, 2011. omar grew up in mississippi. he lived in bogota, colombia, for many years. he graduated from high school in colorado and chose to enter the army instead of pursuing a college athletic scholarship. he served two tours in iraq, one as an infantry naan the active duty army and one with the nebraska army national guard. his love of country compelled him to seek an assignment in afghanistan. he volunteered and even changed units and developed new skills for this opportunity. in october, 2010, he deployed to afghanistan with the 623rd engineering company. it was a tough decision to deploy again because his wife ava and two children had become the center of his life. but it was for their freedom he chose to serve again overseas. his commanders and his fellow soldiers recall sergeant jones as a kind,

an honor and pleasure to welcome van jones to our conversations with great minds and welcome. to be here thank you great to have you with us i want to get into some detail about your new project rebuild the dream but first i would like to learn a little bit more about jones what has informed you or inspired you throughout your life. well you know i was born in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight that is the year they really tried to assassinate hope in america they killed bobby kennedy killed dr king they beat up a bunch of young people who were at the democratic convention in chicago and they really tried to kill hope. and i remember being in kindergarten nineteen i guess seventy two and one of my classmates asking my kindergarten teacher who was bobby kennedy. and mrs brown starts across you choked up trying to explain who he was and. i've never seen a grown person cry of lisa had a didn't didn't register with me but it really hit me that something bad had happened here i was born so i've always been interested but really my father probably was a person who maybe really aw

we talked to jim jones jr. by phone tonight about the fbi documents and his father's alleged terror plot. >> i have not seen them, so i challenge the validity of them. it's time for people to move on. a tragic event in history. i hope many of us have learned from this. >> reporter: that book will be out in october. live in san francisco, i'm cheryl hurd, nbc bay area news. >> very interesting. thanks, cheryl. >>> we have new developments tonight involving that deadly pit bull attack in pacifica yesterday. the victim's grieving mother arrived at the house this evening and police returned to collect specific evidence. city leaders are now considering changes to pacifica's pet regulations. jean elle is live in san mateo with the latest tonight. jean? >> reporter: experts here at the humane society performed a necropsy on the pit bull. pacifica police carried boxes of evidence out of greg and darla's home. a day after their male pit bull mauled darla to death, a department served a search warrant. >> we're taking s

the dow jones industrials. you talk about what that means, and we're talking at least $1 trillion, maybe $2 trillion in equity, and that's investments that simly have gone away. >> i hope my friend, alv velshi is correct. ali is right, it's not just about the impact. the president said job growth is modest and unemployment rate is high, and there are 16 million americans out there unemployed or under employed, and the president has been the leader of the country for 2 1/2 years for which the economy is treading water or worse, and then he gets the horrible tragic news in afghanistan, and there's a funk in the country right now, and it's reflected in our new poll. the economy is still in a downturn and are conditions getting worse. 60% said it's getting worse. how are things going in the country today? in may, 60% of america said badly, and now it's 75% say badly. and i don't think ali will disagree, it's a consumer spending driven economy. if consumers think things are going badly, they save their money and tha

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alex jones alex jones or i will carol see if we can if we can get in right now. i'm glad i want to say congratulations again i'm really grateful for the help support the show but you know you're really right we have not done an adequate draw of addressing the issue of monsanto so i want to thank you for for bringing it to our attention making sure that we've covered tonight. i'll send a thank you so much people the good war and thanks for promoting adam vs the man really appreciate it don thank you all right let me let me just look some something up here. let's see here. monsanto monsanto ok i got i got to type something up here and then the second once oh wow. ok i sent it e-mail this to my my my my good friend the teleprompter over there and well all right just let's see now it doesn't and yet can we can we get can we get alex jones on for tonight we do that we get it all right yeah excellent excellent. ladies and gentlemen i present to you a john rizzo and adam vs the men l.l.c. production the history of one center monsanto is a beast with a trail of blood and

cult leader jim jones had much more planned than just the massacre of his own people. there are new details of a planned attack on san francisco. >>> where is she? pinning down one of the most wanted women in the u.s. why casey anthony could be coming out of hiding. >>> and here's a unique social experiment. one man wants to give you free starbucks. you can access his offer right now, but there's a twist. see what you would do. >>> all right, good afternoon, i'm40 chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. on this friday, not a bad day in the east bay. look at this -- 85 now for those of you in livermore, and 82 in santa rosa. for tonight, we will see cooler air filtering in and temperatures in the 50s. >>> chilling details about a controversial bay area cult leader. 25 years before the september 11 attacks, jim jones planned a similar terror attack by airplane, and the target was san francisco. that's some of the information coming out in october when a new book is released about jones and the church he founded called the people's temple. "the new york times" reports a trusted

after my conversation with timothy jones i went to the l.a. food than the second largest of its kind in the country since nearly all donated food from grocery stores goes through the food bank i hope to get a better understanding of the situation. located in the heart of downtown l.a. near one of the largest concentrations of homeless people in the world the infamous skid row i couldn't help thinking about all this wasted food in relationship to hungry people in my own city los angeles county i will population of ten million people one in every ten people are at risk of hunger los angeles has roughly just over a million people los angeles county at some time during the year are at risk of hunger not knowing where their next meal's going to come from so los angeles regional food bank through a network of about nine hundred travel agency sites we reach about six hundred seventy four thousand of those people so they're still you know over a third of those people were not reaching so that's that's how big a problem is here even if we back our size

markets join the rest of the global economy and the dow jones is hovering between two and three percent it's the first reaction to the great degree america's credit rating over the week the eurozone crisis is also speaking investors. sort of the story from new york things are heading south in the first minute of trading the dow opened down more than two hundred points within an hour it was down more than three point two percent now that number is going up and down and changing but clearly it indicates a climate of uncertainty in this climate of uncertainty isn't just here in the u.s. but it is all over the world and of course this is this comes after the. downgraded the u.s. credit from aaa to friday evening this is the first time in history the country of the world's largest economy was kicked out of this triple a club and to sum it up he says syria of course says that the u.s. government needs to get its fiscal house in order following all the drama surrounding the debt deal the credit agency believes that enough has not been done by u.s. lawmakers to to balance its books in addition

and jim jones was aware this article was about to be published. somebody actually broke into the offices of "new west" magazine and rifled the files trying to destroy the article before it could be published. and then when it was clear it was going to be published, that was when jim jones left. so it was very much connected. and george moscone and i'll willie brown defended jim jones until the day he died. history is tragedy, not mello drama. >> what about tommy norman and joe after the trial? was that the end of their careers, or did they -- what happened to them? >> well, i mean, joe had no political future at all. he was through, and he left politics. tom norman went on prosecuting cases. um, doug schmidt and steve scherr who beat tommy norman in this trial liked tommy norman. i wasn't particularly friendly toward tommy norman. i didn't describe his style, but if you could imagine -- remember stanley tucci sort of slithering through the devil wore prada? that was kind of tommy's -- tommy would never say "said" if he could say "aver." he was a p

jones execution left scars on his lawyer steve price and. steve still lives in the little town of norman near oklahoma city. specializing in final appeals of the condemned he has lost eleven of the men he has defended and succeeded in saving only two of them are. going to be. here so many people who support the death penalty say well it's part of our system we have it well the only reason that we have it in this part is of the system is because they won't act to change it and they they support the system and it's wrong and they don't know why it's so they don't know first hand. or even second hand what. a horrible. process it is. i don't know when told one of their own family members has to go through it and suddenly there. they see everything wrong. with that case and others that shawn's because i was pretty close to. destroyed my faith in the american legal system before doing death row it says i had the highest confidence in our courts and our law enforcement because i was a cop for ten years. and i practiced civil law and i worked in the

so that's where i met alex jones. he did a good job. he rebuilt that church, and i think it's good that that church is rebuilt. c-span: why? >> guest: because i think that the branch davidians and the weaver family were victims of a government that on both occasions became slightly out of control and messed up and did wrong. and i believe -- and i could be wrong, but i believe that neither the weavers nor the branch davidians really were doing anything wrong. i think they were innocent parties. c-span: alex jones is what kind of a guy, what -- how do you explain him? >> guest: he's 26 years old and looks 10 years older. he's a hero to the militias. he's a burgeoning new hero. on one hand, he's kind of like texe marrs, you know, a popular underground radio talk show host. but he's also much more than somebody like texe marrs. he's an activist. so he rebuilt david koresh's church. he... c-span: where can you hear him? >> guest: infowars. com is his web site. and he broadcasts in, like, 40 cities across america. and he broadcasts in, like,

one of the men arrested was 23 year-old derrick jones. his brother was killed in a shooting on that very same street last month. there is the brother in the center of the picture. jones was arrested on suspicion of numerous narcotics and firearms violations. belmont police have arrested two people that believe are responsible for hundreds of burglaries in san mateo county. travis hostage and nose and hygienic montaney recovered purses, wallets, cell phones and backpacks. >> we will be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. we are checking conditions of round the bay, here are conditions of the golden gate bridge. navigating today's real estate market is complicated. you've seen the signs. that's why having the right real estate agent is more important than ever. at remax.com, you can find experts in short sales or bank-owned properties or commercial real estate, agents who can help speed up the process, no matter how intricate. and that's good news, whether you're trying to sell or hoping to buy. because the only sign you really

jones. on a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the cfpb's outreach on the mortgage disclosure forms that they are currently in the process of revising? >> thank you, chairman coffman. i would rate them at a six or seven and especially compared to previous regulatory form changes. i think they really have reached out and provided an opportunity for our members and members of the mortgage lending community to comment on those forms. >> thank you. with your 40 years of mortgage lending experience, can you tell me what happens if an entity is seen by its customers as being abusive? >> i think -- if an entity is seen by its customers as abusive, basically they stop using the lender. i think good businesses, our business, and any business have to be close to the customers, and that, i think, is one of the real benefits of being a small business and being located with your customers in the same town, going to the same functions and churches. it's critical to have good cues mefer relationships. >> mr

. >> still ahead at 6:00 -- new revelations about the san francisco cult leader, jim jones, the terror plot he apparently planned here in the bay area, similar to the september 11th attacks. >> also ahead -- your mail always ends up in your mailbox. do you ever think about who is getting it there? coming up, the bay area mail carriers joining an exclusive club today. >> lights, camera -- dmv. would you believe a new reality tv show about the department of motor vehicles. would you watch? >> sure to be interesting. good evening, i'm chief meteorologist jeff ranieri. the good old san francisco fog starting to roll in right now. temperatures dropping. let's get a look at where we were for high tuesday. san jose, 78. san francisco, 66. oakland. 72. we will talk about your weekend forecast coming right up. [ female announcer ] at jcpenney, all your back to school favorites are on sale! so get in extra early for 5 hour steals saturday, like $14.99 city streets denim, 55% off kids' school uniforms, and $8.99 guys' st. john's bay polos! bras are just $14.99, too! plus, with jcp cash, earn $10

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. >> we're watching wall street, the dow jones is down 108.. the futures are dowredoubt at one point, 166. gary schlossberg for walls capital management is joining us. things are not as bad as it is today. >> same old same old in terms of what is driving it. >> we talked about how there was an unnamed bank in europe that had to go get money from the european central banks, 500 million, because it could not get a loan. there are 7000 of banks in europe. just one thing having to do this, is that fear or was that actually legitimate? >> the market is of course on edge. any news on like that, by the way a statement from the swedish official said the things there have to be on their toes. there is concern here. a front- page article on the wall street journal about of of your scrutinizing foreign banks. haugh hot >> what is using to take to calm investors? do we have to get the u.s. deal done in something in europe? some >> the first has to be done in europe. they have to get out in front of the problem. to keep falling behind. paul was a common tod

the dow jones industrial average is currently up 45 at 11430. nasdaq is down 22 and s&p 500 is up about a third of a point. on the trading floor of the new york stock exchange, joining us live to let us know the focus for this final hour of trading, alley? >> reporter: you can hear the phones ringing, you can hear people screaming, the same stuff you would see on any given day. it has been a mixed bag, much like the economy itself. >> reporter: the july jobs report gave the market a boost after the morning bell. they added 117,000 jobs last months. unemployment nudged down slightly. >> that is good but you see less people are actually looking for work so that is a pause for concern. >> reporter: analysts say investors are not sure if the good news in the economy outweighs the bad. >> everybody is hypersensitive because everybody company is doing great the last three years. >> quarter earnings are up and you see 9% unemployment... >> the reality is there are millions of americans still looking for work. >> yes, two years in a finance industry. co

jones from public utilities commission is here. stewart. from the public library.col -- hollins and camille dawkins. camille is over here. without camille and tannish rkt , none of this happens. so let's give them a round of applause for their wonderful effort. the society's primary mission is to enlighten, to inform, to inspire and to empower. we achieve that mission in a variety of ways. almost always in partnership with others. through our current partnership that trevor spoke to with the finance -- kinsey foundation shall the san francisco public library, and the california council of the humanities, we are now hosting an incredible exhibition of art and artifacts from the kinsey collection, the kron -- that chronicles the story of people of frick desnent america. if you haven't done so you owe it to yourself and particularly to your children to visit and see this important exhibit which is at our library in the frake american -- african-american art and culture complex at 762 bolton street. the posters you see here are examples of elements in that exhibit. the

. >> and jim jones was part of the coalition -- >> welcome yes. in fact the reason jim jones fled is tracie and marshall killed off were preparing an article in which they had gone to members of peoples temple and said, a disaffected of people's temple who claimed jones was feeding them and stealing their money and sleeping with their wives or husbands or so on. and they were preparing this article which was going to blow the lid off of who jim jones really was and keep in mind he was an ally because he could throw out the people temple to the precincts. the petit jury disciplined country of the precinct and jim jones was aware of the article and it was about to be published. somebody actually broke into the office of the new west magazine and rifled the files to destroy the article before it could be published and then when it was clear that it was going to be published, that was in jim jones left so very much connected and george moscone and willie brown defended jim jones until the day that he died. history is tragedy, not melodrama. >> what ab

will be on hand of this weekend's dedication professor jones welcome back to appropriately thank you very good to see you very very nice to see you thank you for joining us again in in our conversation you were one of our conversations with great minds your over the website conversations of great minds are grown and it was fascinating conversation you talked about helping reverend dr martin luther game put together if that spoilage though you look at some of this career and i'm wondering. your thoughts on the state of the dream that he expressed in that speech where. you know that's. the dream the dr king was the prophetic. hope. and his belief that america could be the best that it could be. his dream essentially was that. america would be able to see the glaring contradictions. between the way in which he treated some twelve percent of the population grows african-americans and the precepts and principles enshrined in the declaration of independence. and and and the validity of his dream. still has merit it has merit because. he has such a belief in the put and the actual and poten

the dow jones fell to 10,809. it was the first time for the dow to slip more than 600 points since december, 2008 in the aftermath of the lehman shock. stock prices showed no signs of bottoming out. they also say investors are eyeing possible changes in policy from the federal reserve boards open market committee meeting on tuesday. the sharp drop in prices drove investors to gold and bonds. gold hit a record high of $1700 an ounce. bonds from the u.s., italy, and spain also roads. the dollar fell to the middle 77 yen level on the new york exchange as they bought back the currency in the perceived safety of the yen. >>> tuesday marks the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of nagasaki. the mayor will reference the nuclear accident in his peace speech calling for a surge to safer power generation. the ceremony will take place at the peace park near the center of the explosion. participants will observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. local time, the precise time the bomb was dropped in 1945. >> >> representati

the dow jones fell to 10,809. it was the first time for the dow to slip more than 600 points since december, 2008 in the aftermath of the lehman shock. stock prices showed no signs of bottoming out. they also say investors are eyeing possible changes in policy from the federal reserve boards open market committee meeting on tuesday. the sharp drop in prices drove investors to gold and bonds. gold hit a record high of $1700 an ounce. bonds from the u.s., italy, and spain also roads. the dollar fell to the middle 77 yen level on the new york exchange as they bought back the currency in the perceived safety of the yen. >>> tuesday marks the 66th anniversary of the atomic bombing of nagasaki. the mayor will reference the nuclear accident in his peace speech calling for a surge to safer power generation. the ceremony will take place at the peace park near the center of the explosion. participants will observe a moment of silence at 11:02 a.m. local time, the precise time the bomb was dropped in 1945. >> >> representati

pointing to a much lower only and i am just updating my screen right now and it looks like the dow jones industrial average could open at as much as 200 points after gaining 400 and losing 500 so we had quite a volatile week. we will show you that opening bell live and watch it as it heads probably lower. we have included how they rank. >>> time now 60 7:00 more cause for congress to end its -- 6:07 more cause for congress to end its vacation and do something about the economy. coming up, why some say the lawmakers left town without finishing the job. >>> also we are now learning only about half of the new airline protection passenger rules will kick in as scheduled august 23rd. now the airlines and travel agents need more time. the transportation department agreed to delay some of the charges until next year. it requires airlines to disclose the full cost of flights in advertising both online and in print. these new rules were triggered bypass jersey who complained about spending hours with broken toilets and not enough food to eat. >> you don't want to be stuck on the tarmac with me. >

>> raja jones. >> what has raja been up to?t a year ago october. >> you're watching a professional shoplifter go to work. here he is at fry's electronics store. surveillance cameras pick him up and follow him as he heads down the aisle looking like a regular shopper. stopping and browsing. soon, he makes his move. watch as he takes $139 amplifier out of the box, shoves it down his pants, and then covers it up with his shirt. feeling the squeeze, he takes off his belt, and ditches it. he heads to the checkout and pays for a different item in his cart. all looks normal as he exits the store. but security isn't fooled. and they move in for the arrest, tackling him. raja was charged with a misdemeanor and released. you'd think that arrest would have scared him. not raja. one month later, he enters this convenience store. he thinks the coast is clear and walks into the back room, seconds later, he comes out with cartons of cigarettes, hides in an aisle, stuffs them in his coat and walks out. raja was arrested and this time charged w

the dow jones is of over to the points but now down to 184. we will give you the latest throughout the morning as we check out our with the conditions. sunshine and breezy. traffic is moving fairly smoothly on 101 northbound and southbound. >> the dow jones is not up to 10,933. up close to 2%. just to remind you, to show you where we have been over the last three weeks, back on july 20th at the dow was at 12,007 the 24. by last friday we had dropped over 1000 points. yesterday the dow was down 520. the dow has been down 2000 points in three weeks. >> one of the most popular smart phone applications is coming to it x boxes near you. gabe slate explains in this morning's tech report. >> proved ninja, the popular smart phone game for the iphone and android phones that many of us are addicted to his coming to the big leagues. it is now available for the x box 360, x box connects motion control game. it is really >> you have two players began one screen. >> we can expect to see more games from phone applications to move up in the near future. freak

say look at the opening figures for the dow jones and the nasdaq down jones finally over eleven thousand points it's up almost two percent that's also a quite common situation after a massive drop that happened on monday with the dow jones well foreign office the nasdaq six point six percent. european markets of also slightly recovered we did see massive losses before during the day footsie is now how powerful percent the dax however is still down eight percent and gold has calmed down slightly from record highs it's at the seven hundred forty dollars silver is also coming down and so actually we percent loan others are. still looking mixed light sweet down thirty cents brant up eleven cents on uncertainty of course as to what will happen to the largest economy in the world largest consumer of crude oil and what will be happening to demand for crude oil therefore we have seen come down fifteen percent since the beginning of august. russian ruble is reflecting what's happening in the oil markets fall into a seven month low versus the dollar hovering around thirty ruble so it all just belo

the dow jones has also notched up losses of around 5%. the markets are taking a beating, but have so far avoided panic. the dow jones index opened down 1.6%, and kept falling as trading continued. that is wall street's response to standard and poor's downgrading of the u.s. credit rating from aaa to aa plus. some economists are very critical of that decision. >> the markets were already very nervous. this was just another slap in the face to the global recovery. it made markets more nervous and spreading a web of panic. >> the other issue is eurozone debt. in a bid to calm markets, the ec be has begun buying bonds of heavily indebted eurozone countries. that caused yields on italian and spanish bonds to drop immediately. european stocks plunged on monday, with the dax closing down 5%. >> the falls had been expected after the u.s. credit rating downgrade at the end of last week. but there are other factors at play. our wall street correspondent has more. >> there was a lot of uncertainty going on. the s&p cut the aaa rating on one side, bu

in britain, the ftse lost 3% of its value, and here in the u.s., the dow jones are -- the dow jones fell 300 points. >> it did not last long. the gains from tuesday's rally evaporated as u.s. stock markets followed europe's leloir. the catalyst -- fiers on at the new york stock exchange. for most of the day, the dow jones industrial was down 300 points. >> so much is based on psychology and human emotion, and people are pulling the trigger first and thinking about it. they are nervous and scared. >> with the federal reserve of's and tim -- with the federal reserve's dam outlook on the economy rattling wall street, it was concerns -- dim outlook on the economy rattling wall street, it was concerns over europe there really sent the market lower. there are concerns that french debt will be downgraded. the nation's second-largest bank became the focus of much anxiety. shares fell and close at 14 percent down for the day. >> it is a question of whether in three months' time it will be downgraded. there are other problems in the economy. i do think there is a major crisis in the euro zone. >>

five other trading day in the dow jones/industrials history saw a steeper point drop. with congress and the white house deadlocked how to wake the sleepwalking u.s. economy, they may look again to federal reserve to act. the fed open market committee meets tomorrow. the dow jones/industrials average shed 1200 point since then. >> bret: many investors fleeing the stock market went to gold. price of gold eclipsed $1700 an ounce. gold was up $66 to settle at $1718 an ounce. the gold price doubled since the start of 2009. president obama today tried to walk the nervous investors from the brink with an early afternoon pep talk. it did not work. >> three days after being informed of a downgrade, the president spoke out. he didn't offer new or take much responsibility for the exploding debt. the plan for now is stay the course. >> despite the stocks diving as he spoke, president obama dismissed the downgrade and market gyrations that have a nation on edge. >> the markets will rise and fall. but this is the united states of america no matter what some agency may say, we've alw

we're here with star jones. and we're talking about now her new book "satan's sisters." now what i heard about this book, it's a fictional account of some women on a daytime talk show. that sounds awful familiar. >> why did you say "fictional"? it's a fictional account of a daytime talk show. >> fictional. "fictional." >> let me tell you this, whenever you're embarking on a new journey, which is writing fiction for me. i've written two best-selling nonfiction books. >> right. >> but i had never written fiction before. i knew there was a story inside of me but i had never explored that side. >> yeah. >> you really write what you know. i didn't need to stretch myself. i had the most soap opera-like life in the world. >> right. >> so if i think just play off my life, i could write a book of fiction. this book, "satan's sisters," has every plot line or character -- i should say every plot line and character is based on someone i worked with, worked for, interviewed, was interviewed by, or prosecuted. >> wow. >> and think about all of those people that i have encountered, i -

the dow jones is now 32 points. we are back as the kron 4 morning news continues. been, who may open if if adhered dakhma of when an unborn civil been done danforth half fineman tough dot, then dick cotton i >> thousands of riders were stranded as bart stations were closed yesterday during yesterday's rush hour. about 50 activists gathered to protest a decision by bart to as they were trying to disrupt a planned protest sparked by the fatal shooting of 89 pulled in transient. police shut down powell street, montgomery street. here is video of those demonstrators. so phone service was not cut off and there were no arrests made. will tran is joining us live >> bart is catching a lot of heat with the the decision to cut off so phone service. however the protesters are catching heat this morning from writers. >> i do not think the best way to raise awareness for your cost is to interrupt people trying to get >> home> do you agree with bart cutting off so full- service yesterday? >> sometimes it has to be protected, but other people. >> a lot of people this morning were

the dow jones closed 500 points down today, altogether a loss of 16% in less than three weeks. the causes are many, but the prevailing concern is the risky debt in greece, portugal, ireland, spain and italy. and then today just like the u.s., rumors france may lose its triple-a credit rating. for the third straight day, the dow jones industrial average moved more than 400 points, and this time it went back down. the dow hasn't had a three-day run like this since november 2008 as the recession took hold. >> it is not a full blown panic yet. it could get there. they are not throwing things out the window quite yet, but they are not far from it if this keeps up. >> this time concerns about europe. rumors spread that france could lose its triple-a credit rating like the u.s. did. >> it reacts not only to factual aspects and fundamental aspects, but rumors. >> it cost $2.3 trillion in lost wealth in the last month alone. >> i am hoping it will come back. >> i am too scared to look at it. it is a grim time. >> it is indeed. from you wondering what to do, here is something to consider

host alex jones thanks for going on now in place. speaking of rights. what about your right to eat the food you want drink the milk you want well how do they play out let's what do you get when you combine say iran organic farm whole fresh food raw milk telling the buyers that no they're getting it you know is that great help people you know you get a swat style rain coming to your farm arresting you charging of conspiring to distribute raw milk and that's what happened remember lando has a fall out. welcome to america. federal agents and fully armed local police teamed up for a major raid in bennett's california but it wasn't drugs they were looking for what they perceived to do was take about eight hundred gallons of raw milk and fourth down the kitchen sink this week's rain is the latest battle between ross and boots on the canned food co-op and health officials the food and drug administration says that they are protecting people from the health risks of drinking unpasteurized milk but members of rossum sign a waiver saying they'

to tell our interview british author owen jones talks about the problems in society the recent unrest in england has exposed. we've. i'm joined by owen jones author of a book called the demonization of the working classes thanks for talking to r.t. the demonization of the working classes what do you mean by that have to do with the riots i think there's been this myth which the political establishment and journalists alike embrace basically everybody in britain is middle class and all that remains of the old working class is a sort of problematic fact plus in the class what we saw with these riots complicate i think linked to the sense because it helps reinforce this are there is this travel in the class which is waiting you know which is not only lazy in fact with but also violent which is how the government and lightning commentators have been portraying it why is there this myth about the working classes how is it created and why the riots being blamed on them why i think what we saw in the 1980's in this country was an attack on a lot the pillars of working class britain industrie