kari is the owner and designer of kari me away.'s the author of four books, a frequent contributor to sew beautiful magazine, and a teacher at the martha pullen school of art fashion. kari, welcome to the show. >> thank you for having me, martha. >> martha: this is the cutest petticoat. oh, tell us about it. >> it's a pettiskirt, and-- >> martha: oh, pettiskirt, okay. >> well, you know, what used to be underwear is now outerwear, so we have these adorable skirts that all the little girls are wearing, and they love them. it's actually two layers. it's made of nylon chiffon. it's super, super full, which you can see. >> martha: oh, is it ever. >> it's made with two colors. they're just too much fun to make, and you will be-- whoever is the receiver of this, you'll be their favorite person. >> martha: how many yards of nylon? >> precut ruffles, over 300 yards. >> martha: okay, well, it is adorable. show us how you do that. >> well, you know, it's so full, we need our ruffler foot, so i'm gonna talk about the ruffler foot first, and so

program is actually aiding and abetting diversity in order to justify increasing their budget >> i think kari is here would you like to address that issue? >> and just for a prospective of numbers this is data there's data that's been distributed in the arts around and i've not been able to follow up to determine it's accuracy but it looks pretty accurate about 1.3 million of the 1.8 million entrants only 1.3 million has been described to organizations of color and, of course, there's certain concerns about literary arts not necessarily being funded and a few other discrepancies. >> we talked about the challenges to make sure the city is setting an example on how we're supporting, you know, various communities on a fair basis and i found the data a little bit disturbing and wanted to make sure there's some - i wanted to make sure you had an opportunity to respond to it but also more importantly provided the committee with the data so we can clearly understand you know what this actually means and is it accurate. >> thank you so much. and thank you supervisor and thank you. i know you've been

i have one item today and it's with a heavy heart that i am doing a memorial of alicia ross kari she's been focused on historic education in 1983. an architect by trade she's been pioneered by use and was on the preservation board. she believed that historic preservation was is a key to a better life in our city because of the sense of history that the preservation can provided. in her firm she brought together addition and preservation planners who share her he unwaiver commitment to practices. based on in san francisco her firm body of work has expanded to include other states like i nevada and utah and wyoming and new hampshire. it's an award winning architecture firm that has won several award. alicia ross keri has had here violation to the rehabilitation of well known landmarks in this city including san francisco city hall this very building the pat as of fine arts and the opera house and the mar community building. she's vote and well known and active in the preservation community. she served on the board of supervisors of any historic organizations including the capital commiss

want you to take a look at the national forecast now with bill kari karins. when they bring out the national guard, it is serious business. >> and they do it for policing. a lot of people have to evacuate. they want to make sure their houses and homes are still protected. so as far as the today threat goes, it's a little bit south, just a little bit to where we just saw those pictures. the rolla area is right near where those flooding pictures were and most of the heavy, torrential rains have been just south of there over northern arkansas and extreme southern missouri. it's heading that way. rain is in the forecast for that reason and the flooding threat continues. missouri will have a lot of cleanup to do by the time this is all said and done. high pressure can dominate the four-corner region. temperatures continue to be warm, not crazy hot, but definitely on the warm side. there's a few showers up there in kind of near the portland area but it's very light. i don't think it's going to cause many travel issues. temperatures are still warm where they should

it has also been linked to lash kari tiber -- lashkar i e taiiba. perhaps cinema cannot change the world, but we know it can create a world. at the venice film festival, matt damon, nicolas cage, and george clooney are all competing for top prizes. the competition has a few surprises up its sleeve. >> it is the world's oldest international film festival. 11 days of movie madness in venice kicked off with a bang on wednesday thanks to the premiere of gravity =-- the 3d space drama, "gravity." it sees george clooney and sandra bullock as astronauts flung into deep space. >> i try to find really good scripts. if there is something i can do in them -- there were only to the parts. sandy had the other one. i fell like this was the only part i could get away with. i did like the character a lot. i thought it was fun to be able to play. >> 20 films are in competition for the prestigious golden lion. ayou will come face-to-face with real surprises, which i hope will be pleasant and also entertaining. >> the jury is headed up by an oscar-winning italian dire

i think kary williams, more confused in his statements and hurt in his statements would be more indicativethe eagles locker room. >> rush limbaugh, of course, jumped right on this story, criticizing the media response to cooper's rant. let's take a listen. >> the moral enforcers in the media are now demanding to know just how widespread this is and what should be done with all of these offenders. and how in the world can this be tolerated and what are we going to do about it. >> you know, what strikes me about that to the points evans was making, you think you know someone, then hear something like this. i think it is legitimate question, you go out on the field, count on someone to have your back, this is a fair question. this is not a moral overplay. >> yeah. we want to keep rush limbaugh out of any serious conversation, that's first and foremost. there are a lot of ways to look at this. on one hand we are at this interesting moment where there seems to be at least in terms of the pr push, a zero tolerance for these kinds of comments around race and racism. you saw what happened to paula