to be honest with you, i feel sad and i get very angry. >> reporter: josephine says the thieves took off with nearly $800 in lasers. >> professional-type lights that i understand when i purchased them, that they are used in disneyland and disney world. so they are high-tech lights. they are not as seen on tv-type lights. >> reporter: the only laser left is mounted on the roof, out of reach. and josephine's husband michael moved most of their other decorations inside, because the three years ago. >> i felt, you know, we put out an effort and they stole our christmas from us. >> reporter: and it turns out three different families on the same block of jacques avenue got hit just this week. >> yeah, i would call them a >> reporter: and josephine holmes has one message for the christmas culprits who took her lights. >> i want them back. drop them in front of my house. they belong to me. you stole them. >> reporter: so if you have any of these laser lights shining on your home or in your trees, you may want to keep a very close eye on them. reporting from the new dorp section of staten isl

while learning about a pause for nats 03 josephine shaw told west des moines' crestview first graders what it was like to grow up in kenya. she focused on the important roles beads play in the country. then the students made their own necklaces...only with cereal... the students are studying different cultures in africa...so this fun presentation fit right in... 14:35:02-14:35:23 a lot of time when people talk about africa they don't know about the diversity...so kids could enjoy and marvel at what would seem like very basic things from kenya and i don't think they'll forget it now josephine shaw is an ambassador with a group called "culture-all". it's a local group that works to teach kids about all different world cultures. coming up... some metro kids are tough diagnosis. next... how they spruced up a space at a local brain injury rehabilitation center... plus it's new hope for some cancer patients... next, hear about research on a blood test that some say could help save ovarian cancer is one of the deadliest cancers .... killing about 60-percent of patients within 5 years of diag

and moved by jazz, by urban black expression, whether it was louie armstrong or duke ellington or josephineer or bessy smith. this was a moment when african american culture, modern african american culture really took people's imaginations so archibald moptly's art works really fit into that aesthetic milieu. >> rose: how was he influenced by chicago? he was born in new orleans and then moved to chicago. >> well, chicago was one of the w york, had this incredibleese infusion of folks from the mississippi delta. it also had infusions of folks from eastern europe and southern europe and so there was this huge, huge migration of peoples from all over the world, and it was a place where you had meat packing and industrial activity and business was full steam, and african americans were quite entrepreneurial during that time period as well. so this was a kind of a hot bed of modernist ideas and innovation and art as well. >> rose: tell me about the harlem renaissance and his place in it. >> when people think of the harlem renaissance they automatically zoom in on 25th and lexington and that nei

. >> reporter: josephine core and her family are getting a christmas they didn't think they would have i told them they was going to a gathering and they was going out to give out toys and they was excite. >> tonight they got dinner and gifts during a christmas celebration by chosen 300 an organization that helps the homeless and children. >> it helps a lot. it helps a lot. i mean i do what i can do. but every little bit more that go along with it. >> reporter: more than 100 people showed up for the gathering on lancaster avenue in mantua. they had a brief prayer service before volunteers put smiles on everyone's faces. brian jenkins is the expect stiff director. >> the children wake up in the morning there's no tree and no gifts to go under a tree. here at chose season 300 we want to make sure we impact these children's lives in a very significant way. >> jeff howard says chosen 300 helped him get on his feet. he just recently got a job and the organization presented him with their free month long transpass to get back and forth to work. >> there's hope. basically my job is somewhat g

>> absolutely there was a woman named josephine from youngstown ohio who served as a field director for the household technicians of america. she was a single mother and she raised her child and served as a full-time organizer with. trying to raise her child and live off of the wages of domestic labor. geraldine miller was another one in who was enormously power and confident and brilliant they have to think about intellectualism and the labor history i see these women as putting forth really complicated powerful theories about gender inequality and racial inequality and about social transformation. >> tell us about your own research with these women, do they tell you a story and do they repeat the stories they told each other. it was mostly secondhand. most passed away by the time. i didn't have a chance to meet any of them. i had the chance to have a number of phone conversations with the domestic worker organizer in the drive although she had just had a stroke and didn't want to be interviewed in person and she sadly passed away just as the book was being published. i was fortunate t

"josephine gay age 7,7, dylan hockley age six, madeline hsu, age 6."for the twenty six gunned down behind the walls of sandy hook elementary in newtown, connecticut three years ago. ago. "noah pozner, age 6. caroline previdi, age six. jessica rekos, age six."these are yoyr local gun control advocates standing in solidarity with cedar rapids metro highghtudents. students. "it's not just wanting to stop gun violence, but supporting the victims and the families of the victims." saturday afternoon - all they used was one microphone and one color - to ask for an end to gun violence. violence. "fronovember ninth to december 8th, there were 25 instances of mass shootings." shootings." "we tend to focus on the big events - colorado springs, san bernardino or newtown, but in this past month, there have been many mass shootings across the country."students say hearing about newtown again - "honestly scared that one day i'm going to be walking to school or something and that i'm going to get shot for no apparent reason."so to them - it's about honoring with actio

whether it was louis armstrong or duke ellington or josephine baker or bessie smith, this was a momenthen modern african-american culture took the imagination and the artwork fit in to the ascetic. charlie: how was he influenced by chicago? guest: chicago was one of the most exciting places in the early 20th century. i'm not just saying that because i was born there. unlike new york, it had infusions of people from the mississippi delta and people from eastern europe and southern europe. there was a huge migration of people from all over the world. it is a place where they had meatpacking and industrial activity, and business. african-americans were entrepreneurial during that time. this was kind of a hotbed of modernist ideas and innovation and art as well. charlie: his use of color is extraordinary. guest: it is extraordinary. when you look at these works, you wonder if they could have been painted in the 1920's or 1930's. he has a quality, when he is trying to invoke neon, where he creates a glow that circles the figures. i do not know any artist who does that. charlie: you say what

josephine was there with her family. >> i told them they was going to a gathering and they were going to get toys and see other people. >> when the children wake up in the morning there is no tree and there is no gifts to go under a tree. so here we want to make sure we impact these children's lives in a significant way. >> chosen 300 served 350,000 meals a year. >> a christmas like we've never seen here but one in the south people want to remember because of all the terrible conditions there. heavy rain brought flooding and mud slides at least 15 people have died in mississippi, tennessee and arkansas. nearly 20 tornadoes touched down across 10 states. >> i'm going to sit in my mom's house tonight and think about that. there's people who are not going to have a house to go to. >> some of those same weather systems are bringing more welcome weather to the west coast. the snow pack is higher than average for the first time in years which is huge and a big relief for people there who are still under severe water restrictions. >>> not a present, but an iou note. coming up, how some deliv

and the students -- charlotte bacon, daniel barden, olivia engel, josephine gay, dillon hochley, mad line sue, katherine hubbard, chase kowalsky, jesse lewis, anna marquez-green, james matiolli, grace mcdonald, emily parker, jack pinto -- it keeps going. noaa posner, caroline pervidi, jessica ricos, evial richmond, benjamin wheeler, allison wyatt. now, there are a hand full of hs that aren't on that list because there were children in victoria soto's classroom that were able to escape. likely, as investigators belie believe, when adam lanza had to reload his weapon to put another 30 bullets in it. and so three years later, as we grieve those 26, we are still having these awful, seering questions to ponder. what would have happened if lanza didn't have an assault rifle? would he even have had the perverse courage to walk into that school if not aided by the security of having a high-powered killing machine? would less kids have died? what if his cartridges had six or ten bullets instead of 30? would more kids be alive? would someone have been able to stop him while he fumbled with ano

he's like, josephine, this is jason. jason this -- and i was thinking, "oh, my god, he remembered my name." [ laughter ] it was amazing. like so cool. i mean, i love him and he's just like -- he's a mysterious man. and -- but every time he comes into your life, he changes it in some way. >> seth: you -- so you shot that special in just three days, yes? >> yes, just three days. >> seth: and it's a lot of music, it's a lot of musical performances. paul schaeffer was sort of the band leader and you got to -- you got to play drums in front of paul. >> yep. >> seth: was that exciting? >> yeah, it was amazing. i got to play drums with phoenix, paul shaffer, and david johansen of the new york dolls all together. and it was really frightening, because i play some drums and two of the things that i'm really not good at with drumming -- i mean, i'm not like amazing. the two things that i really struggle with are like shuffle time and when sometimes you'll see drummers holding a percussion instrument in one suck at that. and i was

inspired and moved by jazz, by urban black expression, whether louie armstrong or duke ellington or josephineaker or ell smith. this is where they took people's imaginations and archibald motley's artwork fit into that. >> rose: how was he influenced by chicago? he was born in new orleans and moved to chicago. >> chicago was one of the most exciting places in the early to century. i'm not just saying that because i was born there, but it was a place that, unlike new york, had this incredible infusion of folks from the mississippi delta. it also had infusions of folks from eastern europe and southern europe. so there was this huge, huge migration of peoples from all over the world, and it was a place where you had meat packing and industrial activity and business was full steam, and african-americans were quite entrepreneurial during that time period as well. so this was kind of a hot bed of modernist ideas and innovation and art as well. >> rose:ell me about the harlem renaissance and his place in it. >> well, when people think of the harlem renaissance, they automatically zoom in on 125t 125

josephine's got the first one on the left. >> my name is jay. and i'd like the panelists to opine vis-a-vis about the african-american community. they are edging out the after can american community in influence. what's the impact of x proposal on the african-american community. whether at that law has meant positively or negatively for that community. >> anyone? >> go ahead. >> well, it certainly shifted the demographics. african-americans are now 10% or 11% of the population, 12%, sorry, and latinos are 18%. i don't think it's diminished the role and the importance of after c african-americans in politics. i don't think that's been the effect. and i don't think that the argument that immigrants are taken jobs from black people holds up either. you can identify a very small number of sectors in the economy, but really, it's different job markets. you know, they're not competing for work in agriculture. they're not competing for work in, you know, a lot of the how long construction, a lot of the work that immigrants do, especially undocumented i

but the legendary josephine baker launched her career with the 1921 show which also featured a younge by the team of eubie blake and noble sissle including hits like "i'm just wild about harry." >> it was important for you to do this show, right? >> yes. this is a part of my history. and i didn't know it. >> that's just one of the reasons six-time tony winner audra mcdonald joined the cast well before wolfe had even finished the script. shuffle along will be his 18th broadway show. and he says, it doesn't get any easier. >> musicals are hateful. they're horrible, horrible to work on because they're just hard. >> particularly hard because wolfe is actually telling two stories. >> i got to fit all those words in that phrase. >> there's the original plot about a less than honest mayoral election in a place called jimtown, usa. and wolfe is also telling the behind the scenes story of the real life actors and writers whose lives changed because of the musical's success. >> ♪ swing along, children, swing along the lane ♪ >> in the months of workshops and rehearsals gearing up, wolfe and co

charlotte, daniel, olivia, josephine, and each time i learn the news, i react not as a president, butlse would as a parent. anna, dylan, madeleine. we mourn with you for the fallen. we join you in your grief. catheri catheri catherine, chase, jesse. this will not change until the politics changes and the behavior of elected officials changes. >> and so the white house now considering executive action on gun reform, something he has done before. joining us now, presidential histor advisor and an editor for politics magazine. julian, is there anything the president can do differently this time around? i remember so vividly, especially after new town, thinking something would be different and then nothing because, what do you think about where we are with this issue? >> the president is now talking about his executive power. i don't think the situation on capitol hill has changed. this is what he's constantly frustrated about, to the inability to enact gun control even in the aftermath of shootings like this. i think what he has done more of is explicitly saying he are will use the power

. >> well, julia's back with us today here in studio along with her mother, josephine, and her fatheree you. tell me how you're doing, sweetie. what is going on. >> i'm okay. on friday i got a pic line. >> yeah, that's some kind of little -- was it painful? >> yeah, a little painful but i handled it. >> i'm sure you did because you're a pretty stoic young lady. >> as i understand it, it allow s your antibiotics you need to be directly into your heart, am i right? >> yes. >> it's the most powerful way to get this stuff to you. so that's some sense of progress. let's talk, enrico, about the challenges. we all know that health insurance for so many is a nightmare, but in your case in particular you guys are having some pretty tremendous struggles. >> we are pretty much abandoned by our insurance company. they pretty much -- >> denied "uss. >> they denied us three times. we were told julia's treatment is considered experimental which for me experimental means that there is some process that requires experimenting. it indicates that there is a problem. we were told that basically julia did

josephine's got the first one on the left. >> my name is jay.nd i'd like the panelists to opine vis-a-vis about the african-american community. they are edging out the after can american community in influence. what's the impact of x proposal on the african-american community. whether at that law has meant positively or negatively for that community. >> anyone? >> go ahead. >> well, it certainly shifted the demographics. african-americans are now 10% or 11% of the population, 12%, sorry, and latinos are 18%. i don't think it's diminished the role and the importance of after c african-americans in politics. i don't think that's been the effect. and i don't think that the argument that immigrants are taken jobs from black people holds up either. you can identify a very small number of sectors in the economy, but really, it's different job markets. you know, they're not competing for work in agriculture. they're not competing for work in, you know, a lot of the how long construction, a lot of the work that immigrants do, especially undocumented imm