this is less than the year after the demonstration and l.a. -- in l.a. trip.s a much later came away with in writing this book is a deep appreciation and respect for the personal integrity and commitment of these three activists. they faced many ups and downs and victories and defeats, but political and personal but continued to struggle in one form or another. ideologues but practical activists who wanted to improve their community. they epitomize the best of the chicano generation. some have tried to disparage the movement. it was too sectarian, to sexist.ist, too one of the reasons i wanted to do a study of the movement was precisely to put a human face to a social movement. -- reals that are also people. it was a major historical struggle in chicano history where men and women made history in helping empower not only the it madegeneration -- latinos into political actors for the first time. opportunities,w as i mentioned earlier. -latinous of chicano background oh a debt to the -- owe a debt to the chicano movement. such historical figures like munoz

the first was l.a., the l.a. of your upbringing. the family stuff was fascinating. great grandmother who sold patterns up and down the coast, right? your grandmother, your parents, your dad at ucla. you at the ucla lab school. the stuff with your brother, which is so moving and interesting and ultimately important to understanding your story. but l.a. as a character in this book is really great. can you talk a little bit about the importance of l.a. to you? >> well, first of all, i tried to think of ways not to write about myself, or -- yeah, i wanted it to be a portrait of l.a. at a certain time, the '60s and '70s. and, i don't know. i just think that's something that you can't get off the internet or you can't get a sense of the context or -- you know, i think that's why memoirs and books are so important. but it's such a strong feeling about l.a. during that time that i just carry it around still. >> right. and it was consequential in terms of how it and how what you saw there and did there influenced your art and your music later, right? it was -- it wasn't just

. >> the thunder in l.a. tonight facing the clippers. l.a. trailed by 17 in the fourth, but it was a minute and 15 left. deandre jordan. crawford ices it and two of his 12. a 26-5 run. they pull off their largest come back win of the year. warriors face 5 ticked off thunder squad tomorrow at oracle. giants first spring training game of the year and it allows

and seizing houses given to l.a.' homeless, and violated them, and why they are being taken away. that's going on, not just in this country, but around the world. getting the news from the people who are affected. >> people need to demand reform... >> ali velshi on target. >>> an important hearing in the freddy gray case, at issue whether an officer involved in gray's death should we forced to testify against his fellow officers. paul beban reports. >> it's a question that could decide the fate of the baltimore's police officers on trial in the freddie gray case, can officer william porter be both a deft and a witness >> they want to have their cake and eat it two. >> reporter: porter is the first of six officers charged in connection with gray's death in 2014 to have gone on trial. he was not involved in gray's rast and was not driving the police van where gray suffered fatal injuries. nevertheless prosecutors charged him with manslaughter, saying he could have put a salt belt on grey. in december porter's trial ende

>> we were the l.a. gun slingers. and it was called the l.a. gunslingers, because every guy on the team had guns. >> seth: right, yeah. [ laughter ] >> and the rival team was the long beach all-stars, which was owned, part owned by snoop, who also played in the games. snoop dogg. >> seth: he played in the games? >> yeah, he put himself in, in the red zone. which is, you know, right when you are going to score a touchdown. and snoop would come in. 'cause if he scored, he could put his hands behind his back. 'cause his moves are so nasty, they should be illegal. [ laughter ] >> seth: that was his touchdown celebration? >> yeah, just getting arrested. [ laughter ] there was a huge fight that broke out. you wouldn't have been in the stands at this game because you were at the staples center by yourself. the gun slingers played the long beach all-stars. the team started fighting. field during the game? >> a fight on the field during the game. i didn't know what to do. i looked at the ref, i said, what are we gonna do? the ref said, "there's going to

a guy home they'r immediately, like, once they leave my brothers are, limm-mm. >> and she's dating l.a. c deandre jordan. >> he's a great friend. and he's the one that texts me, i miss yourbros. >> we party with him and he's the nicest dude ever. the tallest guy in the room. >> he met with studio city sound, and her upcoming album "thank you." >> i keep listening to it, pretending i'm strangers in the world listening to it. that meghan trainor girl is spicy and sassy. >> yes, she is. one of the many reasons why we love her. she's dancing in it more than she's ever danced in her entire life. every word is a different dance word. you've got meghan. >> speaking of dancing, take a look at image of ronald and nancy reagan. isn't that the kind of love we all want to have in our lives? president reagan spent decades writingglove letters to his wife. ronald and nancy's eternal love. >> march 4, 1981. dear first lady, you have made one man, me, the most happiest man in the world ffr my 29 years. he can't find the words to tell >> never shy of pda, ronald wrote more than 700 love letters to the

i was inside l.a. glass. you could feel it. there was smoke and fire, and a piece of shrapnel threw all the way above the parking garage and landed directly in front of the front door of l.a. fitness right where i was standing two seconds before. >> reporter: i just talked to the westlake fire chief. he told me that the state fire marshall is here and he has taken over this investigation. >> certainly very unnerving for a lot of people here in the crocker park area. this explosion really has a ripple effect across the area. people as far away as port clinton could feel the explosion. our team coverage continues with kristin volk. so, kristin, how are the businesses dealing with today's explosion? >> reporter: well, chris, it workers here along crocker road until they felt the ground shake and they heard a very loud, unusual noise. they ran outside, fearing something terrible had happened. one of them capturing what you are about to see on his cell phone. >> it was extremely loud. all the construction crews and firefighters star

so that it's just a visit to the l.a. county gaol is no longer a life threatening experience. >>> next here - a look ahead, with a rare visit inside a ward where some of america's greatest microscope. [ ♪ ] "america tonight". the miracles of modern medicine lead us to believe doctors can gix anything. there are medical mysteries that the best physicians cannot unravel. lisa fletcher had a look inside the one treatment center in america where doctors are faced with answering the unanswerable questions about diseases with no known cure. >> reporter: this is building 10, a surprisingly generic name for the facility at the epic center for research for rare, unidentified and untreatable diseases. it is here where scientists are scrambling to find a cure for a fatal condition called mean and pick. destroying memory, motor skills and the lives of kids like 15-year-old julia cane. how does it make you feel. what is it doing to you. >> it burns up cholesterol. causes me to not memorize like other people memorize. and it causes me

bag and tool box for the next 15 >> the owner of the construction company just told "the l.a. times." i think it's a crew. one on my crew knows anything. why wouldn't you bring it in and look at it just in case. marcia clark spoke to exclusively and so did carl douglas, part of o.j.'s dream team portrayed on fx's american crime story. he said the media story on this is overblown. >> i thought it was ridiculous. if the show hadn't reawakened the curiosity of so many i doubt it would have this level of involvement andattention. >> the actual item is described as a kn >> when the news did break on friday we unearthed this. >> the murder weapon, the kn >> in 1995 we brought a psychic detective to o.j.'s rockingham property. he sensed something near the southeastern section of the >> maybe we can come into where the weapon is buried. so certain that there weapon, john wanted a closer look. >> if could hop thatfence. >> he even wanted to ask neighbor's gate. i can't go talk to them? >> realizing he couldn't gain access to the property, gen, john assured our producers of his hunch of

a year later, the four officers were acquitted and minutes later, south l.a. started to burn. the rioting lasted five days, and left 52 people dead and thousands injured. but tenancy not just the beating of king by the officers that caused the uprising. it's that the beating was caught on tape. >> they couldn't deny the violence and the injustice of that. >> it was the first viral video during a time when smart phones didn't even exist. 25 years later, more and more instances of police beats are caught on camera. on new york's staten island, eric garner died after the police put him in a choke withhold while trying to arrest him. in south carolina, walter scott was shot and killed by the police, following a traffic stop. and here in l.a., a black homeless man was shot and killed by the police after they tried to question him. at cal state l.a., a cofounder of black lives matter, the violence caught on camera is what many blacks experience in one way or another every day. >> every single one of us has been rodney king at some time in our lives, and this is captured on video. an

welcome to l.a., guys. they said it was, quote, rude and immature. >> and a newspaper called it plain mean. they caused an uproar last november for a billboard showing mostly nude women. the new billboard has already been taken down. >> but it produced the desired result. >> they are on tv. >> i mean, come on. not a big deal. >> take it easy. >> there are other things to worry about. >> name one. >> we can name a few. >> are the sharks ever gonna make the playoffs? stop me if you heard this one before. all the sharks had to do was win one game to make the post season, one! after being denied three previous times. would tonight be the night they beat l.a. and get in? sports is next. >> the abc7 news app, on the go on your schedule. news that lives >>> abc sports is is brought to you by riverwalk casino. >> after being denied and denied and denied yet again, the sharks took care of business. they needed a win to clinch a playoff spot and finally got it done against the first place kings. martin jones is is fa

. >>> warriors move into l.a., easy win in staples center. >> should have been.t raining 3s. 4-30, not going to get you -- if you predicted this you should be out buying lottery tickets root now but a the vaunted warriors stroll into the staples center and got steamrolled by one of the worst teams in the league, the lakers, kobe bryant facing steph curry for the final time in his career. first quarter no, really big signs of trouble. the pass to curry and everything seems fine. then draymond green and steph goes back door, larry nance, jr., promising future. with authority. 22-21 lakers after one. the warriors had 20 turnovers in the game. look at this touch pass here to brandon bass for the throwdown. lakers up 11. warriors, they're going to wake up, right? tomorrow, maybe. draymond and curry down 12. kobe's final game against the dubs. final second third quarter, curry air-balls a 3. ruff kidding? barbosa beats the buzzer but 4-30 shooting on 3s is horrid. fourth quarter when they call done nick young starts feeling it, you got problems. jack nicholson with the

. >>> warriors move into l.a., easy win in staples center. >> should have been.t raining 3s. 4-30, not going to get you -- if you predicted this you should be out buying lottery tickets root now but a the vaunted warriors stroll into the staples center and got steamrolled by one of the worst teams in the league, the lakers, kobe bryant facing steph curry for the final time in his career. first quarter no, really big signs of trouble. the pass to curry and everything seems fine. then draymond green and steph goes back door, larry nance, jr., promising future. with authority. 22-21 lakers after one. the warriors had 20 turnovers in the game. look at this touch pass here to brandon bass for the throwdown. lakers up 11. warriors, they're going to wake up, right? tomorrow, maybe. draymond and curry down 12. kobe's final game against the dubs. final second third quarter, curry air-balls a 3. ruff kidding? barbosa beats the buzzer but 4-30 shooting on 3s is horrid. fourth quarter when they call done nick young starts feeling it, you got problems. jack nicholson with the

welcome to l.a., guys. they said it was, quote, rude and immature. >> and a newspaper called it plain mean. they caused an uproar last november for a billboard showing mostly nude women. the new billboard has already been taken down. >> but it produced the desired result. >> they are on tv. >> i mean, come on. not a big deal. >> take it easy. >> there are other things to worry about. >> name one. >> we can name a few. >> are the sharks ever gonna make the playoffs? stop me if you heard this one before. all the sharks had to do was win one game to make the post season, one! after being denied three previous times. would tonight be the night they beat l.a. and get in? sports is next. >> the abc7 news app, on the go on your schedule. news that lives to you by riverwalk casino. >> after being denied and denied and denied yet again, the sharks took care of business. they needed a win to clinch a playoff spot and finally got it done against the first place kings. martin jones is is facing his old team in the tank

a scandal within the l.a. lakers, the secret recordings blowing up sports talk radio. >>> new at noon, five members of the u.s. women's soccer team today filed a federal lawsuit against the league for alleged wage discrimination. the world cup champs say the men can make more than twice what the women do. even though the women's team generated 20 million dollars more in revenue. the players union and the soccer league are already dispute over the terms of the players contract, which includes compensation. in a statement, the u.s. soccer federation said, quote, we are committed to and engaged in negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement. to take effects when the current cba. >>> the l.a. lakers are dealing with the aftermath of an embarrassing video. recorded a private conversation with nick young, about young's a fars with women. young is engaged to iggy azalea. the video popped up on a celebrity gossip site last week and the team has shunned him ever seen. i see deangelo russell is trending, i liked h

moved to l.a., pay taxes in l.a., and i'm thinking i have a little cashola in my pocket. why wouldn't i get season tickets. dodger stadium is 12 minutes from my house. >> audience: don't move! >> people from kansas city and people from l.a. can't understand i can route for both teams. it's the american team and the time it's in conflict is when they play each other in the world series, and then i would root for kansas city because that's where i'm from. oh, my god, when i go on twitter and people give me crap i block them, done. i post a picture of me in a k.c.'s hat. oh, i thought you were a dodger's fan. and i post a picture of myself in a dodger hat. i thought you were a royals fan. leave me alone! >> stephen: don't you have to pick? >> no! >> stephen: just because they only meet in the world series it's like saying, obviously, i'm married to my wife in new york but she's not my wife in chicago. i have a wife in chicago. >> no. >> stephen: and it's only going to be a problem if my two wives meet each other. >> all right, that is a fair analogy. that is a fair analogy,

>> first time in l.a. was for the premiere of "the count of monte cristo." >> jimmy: how old were you at that time? >> i was 18. 17, 18. >> jimmy: oh, wow. so you flew out here. you came by yourself? >> i came with a couple of friends of mine. if i remember correctly, it was about a week before the premiere.

you had cool jazz in l.a.now, there was many things happening from so many different places. but new york is the place where we all kind of commune and show what we do. charlie: how close are you to kendrick lamar? kamasi: i met kendrick recently. i had known kendrick's music for a very long time from a very close friend, terrence martin, who had been working with kendrick. he introduced me to his music in 2008. and he told me back then that kendrick was going to be the john coltrain of hip hop. charlie: amazing. kamasi: yeah. because kendrick is such a pure artist. that's what they have him in connection -- john coltrain's music is so pure, so untainted with the world. it's like really from a different place. kendrick is, too. he does stuff like go on tv and play the song and only play it that one time. you know, he's a real, true artist. charlie: he was magnificent at the grammys. kamasi: unbelievable. one of the most amazing performances i've ever seen. charlie: you call kendrick's album this generation's t

. >> the l.a.y department of public works, which has paid half a million dollars to a cloud seeding contractor promising to make more rain. >> when you say the term cloud seeding, a lot of people think it is just hocus-pocus. >> this actually comes with a lot of science. >> cloud seeding works with silver iodide particles sprayed into a saturated cloud and act like a nucleus that is water vapor that freezes into ice. once the ice is heavy enough it falls and melts to become rain. is it wishful thinking. >> it is wishful thinking. >> gram stevens studies clouds and weather system for nasa. >> does cloud seeding work? >> it has been shown under certain circumstances it works very marginal way. difficult to prove how much increase has occurred. >> l.a. county officials insist they can get up to 15% more rainfall with no health risks. >> do people have to worry that their water systems may be contaminated from cloud seeding? >> absolutely not. cloud seeding is safe. >> how much more water do you think

that -- and so one of the reasons he headquartered scientology in l.a. was to have access --. >> access to that world. >> to that celebrity. >> but i think the fact of paul haggis, and then of course more famously, and we'll come to them in a moment, the fact of tom cruise and john travolta being scientologists has a kind of consumer-facing aspect to this story that draws probably more people in who might not otherwise be interested in this story. >> no doubt. >> right? and helps with the book and, frankly, helps with the film because when you see the film, if you have not seen the film, john travolta and tom cruise are not the whole story, but there's a significant component where each is featured in there and their relationship to the church is discussed. >> yep. >> and it does really widen the aperture for a lot of people. >> there's no doubt. i mean, and actually if you ask anybody on the street, we could ask the members of the audience here, i mean, what do you know about scientology? oh, isn't that that tom cruise religion? >> tom cruise. they're g

reese went out to the l.a. club with 200 her closest friends but just knowing that taking the stage to perform, out of fear missing out, ittjust haapened. but thanks to snap chat, our exclusive shots of all the stars that showed up. kind of like we were there. what was it lik >> but are you wondering how reese and taylor even know e other? they met in 2011 at the acms, we're pretty sure they bon over this guy, yes, both of them used to date jake gyllenhaal and probably some great stories. uh-huh, haters going to hate. >> we grew up together, we get to do it all the time, there's nothing better. >> the only guest who seemed to not get the memo to wear black were matthew and camilla. they were the last to leave and how ab this, paparazzi prefers elizabeth banks for rachel mcadams. >> how was the party? >> but the best most revealing moment of the night may be this one.& kate put on bl as she and erin foster ta >> so perception is not always reality. another superstar was at the party and that's chris martin. she

. >>> in l.a. you'll be able to slide down partially that is. a helicopter delivered the sky slide to the u.s. bank tower. so, this is all part of the renovation to the tallest building west of the mississippi. riders will glide 45 feet between the 70th floor and 69th floor in glass two. when you get off, you'll be at observation deck with the view from l.a. to the mountains, to the ocean. the sky slide opens in june. >>> and cherry blossom trees in washington d.c. are blooming. low temperatures did not stop people from walking the park at the title basin, or keep them from paddle boating. peak bloom period begins wednesday. an extra note, the cherry blossom festival surround way >>> coming up in the next half-hour of wral's morning news, president obama's historic visit to cuba takes another step forwarded it with a meeting that could lead to more avenues of agreement between the two nations. >> another member of donald trump's family receives a threat. out who it's from . >>> president obama continues his trip in cuba today. who he seeing so f

i would love to go to l.a. but i'll take two and a half over four and a half. things make more sense to me to go south than to go west, but i'll go because i want to. >> after lebron met with the media he sent out another tweet,"can't replace being around friends that reciprocate the same energy back to you in all facets of life" referring to dwyane wade. >>> the wizards tomorrow night. 23 games left to go in the regular season. last year this time the cavs started a clip. this year they are not clicking. erving was asked why. >> some teams fine the fine the last games at the playoffs. for us we just want to play baseball and throw yourself into the teamand live with the results. >> should there be reason for a concern? >> the cavs are 47-42. tonight they play the wizards. they have lost the last three of the five games. >> spring training the indians played the reds -- you're right. and they played them again and it looks as though they are bored. we go out to arizona. danny salazar. twice and make the lead 3-0. wallicick wallicick. shaw did not get out of one

teachers in l.a. have been trying to raise supply forth computers, musical instruments, sports equipment, chemistry supplies, all the stuff schools are supposed to have but don't wide receiver rehave a camera at their school, they do not know this is first of all mr. weiss, he teaches eighth grade physical science, and mr. boynton, they can't hear me, we tolducers are from the website donors choose to help teachers raise money for classroom products. they don't know we're watch organize that they're on the show right now. they're about to start. we'll tell them to start. let's listen in on them. >> all right, here we go, guys, you ready? boynton. >> hi. i'm mr. boynton. i teach seventh grade math. >> and i'm mr. weiss, i teach eighth grade science.ur classrooms need your help. >> jimmy: they're right, our classrooms need your help. they're right. >> all >> our students need tools for the science lab, art supplies and musical instruments. >> they need computers and tools to educate our kids.ing them a