i call it a slam dunk too, kareem., choir and panic at the disco on calling for health care for everyone. ♪ show the world we care jimmy, jimmy. ♪ all of us together ♪ difference and won't you join me and jimmy in calling for health care for all. >> jimmy: oh, yeah. [ applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> i think -- >> jimmy: i don't know what happened there. >> i think some one feels a lot better now. >> jimmy: you know you are right. >> i think we got some one to stop thinking ab ing ing about second and everyone out there. it made a difference. that's what it is all about. >> jimmy: owen wilson. very thoughtful. we will be right back with the clippers. ♪ ♪ ♪ show the world we care ♪ ♪ . start using olay fresh effects. a fresh collection of skin care. cleanse with s'wipe out wetcloths... and perfect with bb cream. with skin this fresh, you'll need no filter. get fresh effects by olay. and then a 3:15 with my guilt. [ female announcer ] special k cracker chips. 27 crispy chips. 110 delicious calories. same time tomorr

joining us today kareem, founder of math alicious.on plan that teaches standard math for real world topics. gabriel benn, director of arts, at lucy high school and founder of the hip hop literacy program a lesson plan that uses hip hop to teach wide-ranging topics. a youth program assistant at d.c. bilingual public charter school where he was once a students. and yolanda long a former student at the washington middle school for girls, she's now a teacher. in the dc public school system. today on vocal point, meeting students where they are. ♪ ♪ >> the good news about education is that america's graduation rate is on the rise for the 20092010 school year, graduation rights each 72.8% the highest since 1974, the bad news, our nation's back, native american, and latino students are still graduating at far lower levels than their white and asian counterparts. and washington, d.c. public schools have some of the lowest graduation rates in the country. this means that our nongraduating students are more likely to become unemployed or end up

and i love that there is this emphasis or out reach effort, kareem, to really draw in girls. because for so many years, girls were told, you know, math and science, engineering, that's for the guys. that's a boy thing. but now we are not doing that so much anymore. but we have to bring in and reel in our minority girls to make it much more interesting. >> right. >> and how do we start? >> well, i think that's a great question. you know, i think a lot of it goes back to sort of how we have come to define what math is. >> uh-huh. >> you and i were talking earlier, i remember -- i was in eighth grade and i certainly thought of math as a bunch of random skills to memorize and regurgitate. this series of steps that i was supposed to go through. that's not what math s what mathematics is is it's a tool that we have create today make sense of the world and answer interesting questions. and that word interesting is i think very apropos because the world is actually an interesting place. right? what are the odds of finding life on other planets? should nike charge by weight? should yo

which i've already done once. >> cadet kareem mallard has even a greater challenge, he missed four timesd must now be perfect to avoid retaking the course. >> take your time for me, all right? here we go. >> police, don't move. >> don't move! gun! >> all right. in front of your target. >> i don't know. >> got it. >> thanks. >> all right. >> means i can carry a gun for the suffolk county sheriff department, right? >> but mallard was not quite as accurate. he only landed two out of the four shots in the target. >> wednesday, you'll be coming back, okay? >> very frustrating. very frustrating. >> two out of two. little things that make this, i guess, perfection. you know what i mean? it's little pieces that you've got to get right. and one little thing, if you screw it up, this is where you end up. i got one more next time. i'll keep trying. get better and better every time. >>> coming up -- >> and behold all things have become new. >> sherman badgett seeks renewal inside the suffolk county jail. >> and of the son and of the holy ghost. >>> as new inmates flow in and out of the suffolk count

reporter mohamed kareem medrani was reportedly filming at a market when they were shot and killed. they were reporting for al shakia, getting repeated death threats against its staff. it's known for its ded torl stance against the shia government. the investigation is underway and he said the attack was aimed to muzzle the voice of the people. mosl is iraq that the government may not have the capacity to fully investigate each one. however starting today it must do a better job. so far not one successful prosecution has been brought. plenty of critics accuse the mainstream media, fox news is trying to prove them wrong. >> we call it the fox news deck. >> put down your ipad and get a load of these bats or give them their full name big area touch screens. they're working at the fox news deck. they use the screens to swipe and scroll through the latest social media output to keep viewers interested. >> you'll see on the left-hand side of this, what we have news worthy this hour. >> shepherd smith gets to geek out too with a toy of his own. >> this we're calling a remote. it has a tech

joining us today kareem, founder of math alicious.esson plan that teaches standard math for real world topics. gabriel benn, director of arts, at lucy high school and founder of the hip hop literacy program a lesson plan that uses hip hop to teach wide-ranging topics. a youth program assistant at d.c. bilingual public charter school where he was once a students. and yolanda long a former student at the washington middle school for girls, she's now a teacher. in the dc public school system. today on vocal point, meeting students where they are. ♪ ♪ >> the good news about education is that america's graduation rate is on the rise for the 20092010 school year, graduation rights each 72.8% the highest since 1974, the bad news, our nation's back, native american, and latino students are still graduating at far lower levels than their white and asian counterparts. and washington, d.c. public schools have some of the lowest graduation rates in the country. this means that our nongraduating students are more likely to become unemployed or end

israeli born kareem designed the albatross an unmanned aircraft able to fly for fifty six hours straight and as soon as the u.s. military learned about this early stage drone they put darpa funding behind it eventually drones were used for surveillance eighteen soldiers on the ground in bosnia in the ninety's and then in two thousand and one the cia decided to mount weapons on the now infamous predator drone and in a rush response to nine eleven the cia put together a program that would allow the agency to kill al qaeda operatives almost anywhere in the world this was the birth of targeted assassination by way of drones and while george w. bush did use drones the program was still fairly secretive it wasn't until president obama the drones really took off in fact than a c. blair a former white house official explained the shift from capture to kill when he said quote the steady refrain in the white house was this is the only game in town right by two thousand and ten we learned about the weekly counterterrorism meetings held every terror tuesday where obama would personally approve the n

israeli born kareem designed the albatross an unmanned aircraft able to fly for fifty six hours straight and as soon as the u.s. military learned about this early stage drone they put darpa funding behind it eventually drones were used for surveillance eighteen soldiers on the ground in bosnia in the ninety's and then in two thousand and one the cia decided to mount weapons on the now infamous predator drone and in a rush response to nine eleven the cia put together a program that would allow the agency to kill al qaeda operatives almost anywhere in the world this was the birth of targeted assassination by way of drones and while george w. bush did use drones the program was still fairly secretive it wasn't until president obama the drones really took off in fact than a c. blair a former white house official explained the shift from capture to kill when he said quote the steady refrain in the white house was this is the only game in town right by two thousand and ten we learned about the weekly counterterrorism meetings held every terror tuesday where obama would personally approve the n

. >>> hey for so many years, even back to the days, jerry west, through magic, kareem, the lakers havewned the warriors. maybe the worm has finally tuned. kobe had to watch the warriors version of show time, and that it was. career high 38 for thompson. warriors up after 1. steph curry, kind of a contributor tonight. he rested a lot in the 4th quarter. the play of the night, the newcomer, andre iguodala. what a contribution he will make all year, behind the back for david lee. give it back, and flips it in. this thing was a rout start to finish. the crowd electrified. blowout final. >>> the sharks had to deal with a different situation in their l.a. story. logan couturier. the kings on a power play of their own. kopitar will end it. 2:32 in. 4-3 final. a rare sharks loss. that's the sporting life. seems like the kings have the sharks number. but not the lakers. >> that was a great way to start their season. >>> thank you for choosing ktvu, channel 2 news. if you missed any of tonight's newscast, you >> today on "tmz" -- >> guy fieri was broing down with his hairdresser and things got o

. >>> hey for so many years, even back to the days, jerry west, through magic, kareem, the lakers haveed the warriors. maybe the worm has finally tuned. kobe had to watch the warriors version of show time, and that it was. career high 38 for thompson. warriors up after 1. steph curry, kind of a contributor tonight. he rested a lot in the 4th quarter. the play of the night, the newcomer, andre iguodala. what a contribution he will make all year, behind the back for david lee. give it back, and flips it in. this thing was a rout start to finish. the crowd electrified. blowout final. >>> the sharks had to deal with a different situation in their l.a. story. logan couturier. the kings on a power play of their own. kopitar will end it. 2:32 in. 4-3 final. a rare sharks loss. that's the sporting life. seems like the kings have the sharks number. but not the lakers. >> that was a great way to start their season. >>> thank you for choosing ktvu, channel 2 news. if you missed any of tonight's newscast, you can catch the rebroadcast right now over on tv 32. >> the ktvu morning news starts at 4:3

day care centers run for people like kareem. >> for many years, i've had 40 years of mental health and i've seen the difference. now it's get out there, do stuff, positive, whatever your situation is. >> he makes the obvious point that better funding for such a large problem would actually save money. >> there are a significant people who fall out of work because of mental health problems, sickness absence as a result of mental health problems is the biggest cause. >> problems they run like i.t. courses to help mentally ill people back to work. >> if we lose funding, then our service will close and they will have to find other services in the area. >> they say if politicians could see what goes on inside the minds, then none of these problems would arise. certainly mental illness in prisons, a cell is no place to put them. >> compounding all this as well as the funding i guess the stigma here still attached to mental health. today's halloween by coincidence a day when people wear scary outfits, two of britains biggest super markets were forced to withdraw outfits for sale, because they

came to john wood or come to me or these type of coaches i mean john wood certainly didn't teach kareem abdul how to play basketball but you talk to how his players and learned how to tie the shoelaces right and just look at the process of the process of performance, which is all these little minute steps that are going to lead up to, and in some way, some want to tell me about every shot, others don't want to hear me talk for two hours. so just there, really sometimes it is a sounding board and sometimes we are really getting in there. >> rose: you mentioned phil jackson and john wood. they told you, they taught you what? to know what they did? one, you just mentioned with john wood. what did phil jackson teach you? >> it is different in golf because i am managing trying to help the manage an individual so i am not trying to manage, you know -- he knows these two players can't be on the court at the same time or not exclusively, zoo it is a little different in team coaching, because he is calling the plays and doing those certain things, but when i hear players talk about those guys, t