l.a. is not baltimore and cincinnati.they deserve their own singular examination. >> reporter: these days, many of us are focused on that sort of re-examination of the past. 28 years ago, i was a young reporter sent to cover the l.a. riots. can this part of l.a. be restored, race relations improved? over the years, i find myself in places like ferguson. like my hometown of baltimore. how is the family holding up? just last week in houston, asking the same questions. we're all brothers here. and we've all seen videotape of brothers dying in the hands of police. but now, as the country enters a third week of protests, there seems to be cautious optimism that the country is moving forward in a positive direction. >> we're finally getting our voices heard. i can tell, i can feel that change is happening. >> reporter: perhaps in the future, we'll be having different conversations. >> i hope that we can say we had such a horrific problem with race in 2020. and a movement began that caught fire around the world. we finally reali

not so l.a.and van nuys. 350 arrested including 46 for felony theft or looting, if you will, which has meant a new reality for small businesses. smoke shops, liquor stores, groceries. they've had to use the second amendment, firearms as a deterrent. this is one of them. they had private security with ar-15s this morning. because of what you saw at the other shop in santa monica, which was burned and looted on sunday. because that was unprotected. now, just down the street from that location was a liquor store. that was looted and smashed and they were basically ready to clean out the place when a neighbor showed up with a long gun and said not here. literally came to the rescue before they took everything. >> just basic community policing. >> absolutely. i'm just fortunate enough to live in a nice community. the people here care a lot. >> happened yesterday in van nuys where owners of a liquor store were protecting it with their long firearms when a half a dozen looters showed up and tried to hit

there's one here in l.a. who made that comment, that a lot of these schools are not full, and they're not fully advertising the open seats. one of the key things we did is as a certain point we started looking at the analogy between this policies and the redlining practices, as we said the video, of the 1930s in which certain neighborhoods were discriminated against and it's all -- this is not a racial issue. there are people of all races living in those neighborhoods, and who are being kept out of these schools and if you look at -- it was a big, big moment when i said, okay, let by try to look at this old, old map and try to superimpose the redline -- the current attendant zone for ivanhoe elementary in silver lake. superimpose that on the red lining map from the 30s and just surprising, those patterns still exist in many places. brooklyn, dallas, seattle, indianapolis, a couple schools in l.a., and you just see these patterns where these zone lines really seem to exclude areas that are -- that's have highe

this is from the "l.a. times" tonight. quote, l.a. county's health chief says, quote, we are seeing an increase in transmission. we are seeing more people get sick and go into the hospital. this is very much a change in the trajectory of the epidemic over the past several days. it is a change for the worse and a cause for concern. this is from the director of the covid demand modeling unit for l.a. county, who says if the rate of transmission in l.a. county stays where it is right now, quote, we are at risk of running out of hospital beds within the next two to three weeks. again, that's the biostatistician who runs the modeling unit for l.a. county. he also chairs the emergency department at harbor-ucla medical center. l.a. county, two to three weeks away from running out of hospital beds? i mean l.a. county is the most populous county in the entire country. as a county, they just announced nearly 3,000 new infections in 24 hours, just for one county. health officials in l.a. are basically freaking out right now about how badly thing

both l.a. and san francisco seemed to be responding to demands from protestors to divert funding from police departments. today the san francisco police officers association reacted. >> right now i guess it might be the thing to do. let's take into account and put the brakes on. everybody take a breath. we need our police officers. at the end of the day, crime is happening. >> when the 1996 charter was enacted it said the police force in san francisco shall at all times consistent of not fewer than 1,971 full duty officers. so what other areas within the police department could be cut? >> doint want to jump the gun and say this area or that area. i'll really take a deep look and a deep dive. >> the plan to redirect funds from the police department will require the input of san francisco communities and the human rights commission. >> after a week of protests against police brutality. governor called for restrictions on crowd control technique. including the choke hold. >> that is designed to st

a lot of l.a.ing gyms, museum, recreation areas and fim film and tv video can continue. public gatherings are also still on hold. l.a. county recorded 61 new deaths yesterday. >>> well, today b.a.r.t. will update its plan to install brand-new fare gates across the entire transportation system. >> prevent riders from sneaking past entrances without paying and that is really a problem b.a.r.t. says costs them millions of dollars each year. with ridership now down dramatically because of the pan t pandemic, will b.a.r.t. be able to afford the new gate. >> this certainly is not the b.a.r.t. many are used to. face masks are now a must and the number of riders here is down about 90%. ridership helps fund about 60% of b.a.r.t.'s budget so revenue is way down. last september b.a.r.t.'s board approved a plan to replace each of its 600 fare gates with larger swing-style gates like this. a move b.a.r.t. originally said would cost around $150 million. the goal is to prevent scenes like these. riders who skip o

clinton as author best selling books spent nearly 30 years producing award winning journalism for the l.a. times and the san francisco chronicle and his various radio shows have been syndicated around the globe he also founded and headed the award winning site truthdig and later in the show now only mcgill will also show us the hidden history of the pledge of allegiance but 1st here's my talk with legendary journalist robert scheer robert scheer it's an honor to have you on the show great to be here you are truly legendary career as a journalist ramparts magazine in the l.a. times the nation true dig radio shows things have changed a lot over the years in some ways they're actually fewer gate keepers then when you started and you know anyone can post articles online and ostensibly get them seen by the world but on the other hand the mainstream media is now owned by just a handful of massive corporations how do you feel journalism and news media have changed over the course of your career is it better or worse. we should not under our underestimate the worse at least there used to be somet

i remember years ago when i was a l.a.nd the riots, and the apartment just disappeared from florence normative. the mob took over. it's hard being in it a l.a.p.d. officer at the time and that heltrue to me for so many years. we support peaceful protesting. it's one thing to get overwhelmed, but we are going to support the protesters who are peaceful. but i got to tell you, i'm excited about the successes we have had. i know were not out of the wind yet. certainly more out there and certainly i can't credit the detroit police department, just the speed of the execution is just amazing. >> tucker: it may i ask you a question, chief? you took a pretty tough position on disorder, disorder, lawlessness day one. did you get any glow back from politicians there? >> i didn't get any blowback and probably because detroit has a history of violence. the good news about detroit today, and the people who live in detroit, let's face it, tucker, like all the cities, there's a lot of outsiders coming in and creating havoc. detroiters are

l.a. restaurants coming under fire for ignoring new coronavirus restrictions. >>> hold the phone. the mystery behind the major outage that up-ended service for unof the largest cell phone carriers for hours. >>> and really strange behavior on the stock market. weird numbers yesterday. we expect some weird numbers today as well. >>> and our tribute to the class of 2020 continues, many going without an official ceremony. we want to honor you. this morning in our great grads segment congratulations to these six high school students. we'd love to see candids of your graduates. you can find me or marcus on facebook laura garcia nbc bay area or marcus washington nbc bay area. a lot more news ahead. we're all doing our part by staying at home. that could mean an increase in energy bills. you can save by using a fan to cool off... unplugging and turning off devices when not in use... or closing your shades during the day. stay well and keep it golden. you say that customers maklet's talk data.s. o

shell when you hit the ground in l.a. what do you do in procedural surrey would tell me some of the shows and tell me some of the players you worked with him made a dent on you when you 1st get out there. i fortunately he's had spent one of those naked cities filming in l.a. and we threw a few people and came up with my agent very good agent named jack feels he. has special deal was trying to get blacklisted actors jobs in the industry that were still suffering from the blacklist. and he got to work immediately and he got me jobs. what did he get me i carry member of the 1st jobs. mr novak time to suffer. yeah the game's franciscus yeah another route 66 here there. there was a calvin lockhart he got me. a movie with. who's like room 222 who. but he uses for her covering her car was his words so he's never been heard from since. you know what'd you get him can i can i take a 2nd and ask you when you talk about route 66 i obviously know maris and milner when you talk about mr novak james franciscus when you say calvin lockh

when the l.a. riots occurred president then president george h.w. bush. delivered an awful an oval office address to the nation a trump is not known for his empathy but do you think he should deliver an oval office address to the nation. you know i wouldn't trust that if he delivered an oval office address that it would be one with empathy and compassion one that understood. why people are still so angry and hurt. with what's happened in minneapolis and it and in cities across the country let's be clear it happens again and again and again and it's happened you know for a very very long time now we have cell phones and people can take pictures and videos we didn't have that before but we know it happened you know i grew up on the east side of los angeles and i can tell you as a young boy we were often is terrified of law enforcement as we were of the gangs now a lot is changed and the vast majority of our law enforcement officers understand nobody is above the law not a politician not a priest or a police officer and i think what we all have to say coming

l.a. is showing up to march, which is encouraging. people to walk in l.a.? in l.a., activism usually means wearing a lapel pin to the nickelodeon kids choice awards.

all of them for calf you violations or for refusing to dispossess correspondent rob reynolds is in l.a. when we can speak to him right now rob i know there has been issues of pollution and vandalism but it doesn't quite quiet that tell us exactly where you are and what's been happening on the streets around you. well. yes this us here we are we're in the hollywood area and behind me you can see this bus with the county of los angeles sheriff's department written on it and you were talking a moment ago about the arrest for curfew violations well just a few minutes ago police herded maybe 2 dozen people on board this bus they have been arrested for the misdemeanor of her. a few violations it was all quite peaceful in fact some of the people who were getting on the bus with their wrists bound by those white plastic handcuffs were actually joking with the officers as they as they were helped on board the bus so they will be taken to the jail and processed it's not a serious charge curfew violation but it is a legal method for police to clear people off the streets and it appears to have be

l.a.'ef sparking outrage after suggesting looters were as responsible for george floyd's death as those fired police officers. >> we have people mourning the death of this man, george floyd. we had people capitalizing. his death is on their hands as much as it is those officers. >> reporter: the chief later apologizing, calling his own apologizing, calling his own words terribly offensive. l.a. officers kneeling with protesters at a faith-based march. in new york, the police chief also taking a knee. >> let new york show the country how this is done! >> reporter: in detroit, 16-year-old organizer stephen perez has been urging fellow demonstrators to abide by the city's curfew. >> they aren't safe. they don't got rubber bullets, they don't got tear gas, they're not dead. >> reporter: the mayor calling to thank him. >> when i saw your leadership, i had tears in my eyes. you are everything that is special about this city. we are going to fight injustice because of you. >> reporter: the curfew

the cofounder of black lives matter l.a. told "los angeles times," we want to go to places of white affluence so the pain and outrage that we feel can be put right in their faces. the question, is this the best way to communicate our message of racial justice and equality? >> i don't think that's the way to explain it because i already feel their pain, we are immigrants, we worked really hard to build up this business, 30 years and for me watching what they dead it was not acceptable we are that the victim here, we are a small business, how are we going to recover from this? i don't even know. >> we have a lot of patience, as a pharmacy, saving people's lives and there's people out there, any kind of group trying to interfere with saving other people's lives, that's just not right. >> the store has been there for 75 years and think of all the other mom-and-pop stores that got destroyed. so no, violence is never the answer, i don't know what their answer is and my heart goes out to all the people who have major discrimination

it and now they're actually lowering their rent by anywhere from 10 to 15 percent in areas such as l.a. new york because everybody wants to move out of the city because they don't want to live in a city anymore given that a lot of people now can work from home so they're moving further out where they don't have to pay exorbitant rents and things like that so the good news is you're renting now is a great time because especially you might even want to move out where you are and strike a new deal with the new order go to your landlord and say i'm going to move out you need to lower my rent because everybody else is lower in rent around you so that's one way that maybe you can save some money but they're very different generation than all of us were not good not bad just different in their goals. do you think working from home and this is just stanek doto on my part i don't see it and since studies are that i was wondering if we'd be able to keep up whatever whatever rubric we use the judge or our. productivity do you think we can be as productive out of our own home as we can on an offic

. >> laura: l.a. city council president mary martinez one of the many proponents of stripping that money from that l.a.p.d. budget. for the details, let's go live to our west coast newsroom where trace gallagher is standing by. >> it gets worse because the union representing l.a.p.d. was infuriated that l.a. mayor eric garcetti was not only planning to defund to the l.a.p.d. by $250 million but later called police "killers" which is odd considering he has private security detail of l.a. police officers protecting him and his family at a significant cost to the police budget. but there's more, l.a. city council president martinez filed a motion to cut $150 milllion from the police budget, she has a round-the-clock protection unit of los angeles police officer standing outside her home, her security detail has apparently been there since april. here is the director of the police union, watch. >> i'd be outraged that she saying, hey, i'm going to have my security so i'm safe but i'm going to take resourc

on friday in l.a., they opened museums and gyms. which makes no sense to me. of all, who needs to go to a museum? if i don't see a woolly mammoth statue stuck in sludge, am i gonna go nuts? and secondly who would go to the gym now? i'm not going to the gym during a pandemic. or after a pandemic. i'm just not going to the gym ever again. donald trump had quite a weekend. he put on a bigly presentation at west point on saturday, where he showed up to give a commencement speech whether the graduates wanted it or not. the cadets at west point were sent home in march because of the virus. but then trump decided he wanted to give a speech in person and so all the cadets were ordered to return to campus and stay in quarantine for two weeks. they were literally a captive audience. so our commander in beef could pretend he's in charge of the military. and of course some of the cadets wound up testing positive for the virus, but what is most important is that donald trump had an audience for what turned out to be a historic speech. no president in the history of this co

l.a. county health director says we are not out of the woods. rather, we are still in the midst of those woods but she knows how desperate the situation is right now. therefore a lot of l.a. quentin tarantino is reopening, gyms can resume under restrictions. bars and nail salons are among businesses that will remain closed along with theme parks and theaters. public gatherings still on hold. l.a. county recorded 61 new deaths yesterday. >>> new at 11:00 for you, barr receiving a big donation to help the stop of the spread of the coronavirus. the shanghai metro donated 10,000 disposable masks to its employees. the masks will be given to transit workers and any rider who needs one. >>> the bay area has more than 16,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. the map you see showing you the newest one-day increase by county. 478 people have died. the u.s. now has surpassed 2 million confirmed cases and new hot spots emerge. more than 112,000 americans have now died. >>> a live look for you this m

from l.a. to new york, mayors and city councils are looking to strip funds away from police and then to reallocate them to communities of color. presumably, they think that communities of color don't need protection from criminals of all colors and ethnicities, or is it that they don't deserve protection in order for guilt ridden liberals to feel superior? i don't know. it baffles the mind. this lunacy is even getting support in chicago, which over the past two weeks since the killing of george floyd has had at least 48 murders and even more shootings. the overwhelming share of the victims were african-american. when we did our two town halls in chicago, we found that the people there wanted more police presence, not less. >> won't that make people feel like them or under siege, or you're saying it will make them feel safer? >> it will make them feel safer. >> we need programs that we used to have on the police department-like officer friendly, the explorer scouts. take the youth, give them som

l.a. is showing up to march, which is encouraging. do you know how hard it is to get people to walk in l.a.? in l.a., activism usually means wearing a lapel pin to the nickelodeon kids choice awards. these protests are like the president's suits, they just keep getting bigger and bigger. they had a moment of silence at a nascar event this weekend. which was remarkable. and there are demonstrations all over the world. in bristol, england, they tore down this statue of a slave trader named edward colston. posed like he's worried someone may notice there's a statue of a slave trader in town. this is what happened to edward this weekend, he got thrown in the river. there were protests in london, paris, australia. and this was very interesting, a message of, i'm not sure if you'd call it, "support" but this was the message during a meeting of parliament in iran. [ speaking foreign language ] [ speaking foreign language ] >> jimmy: um, thank you? i guess, it's the thought that counts. hey, you know who was out there yesterday, marching with

got my own senator from california applauding the l.a.

there's several things going on right 1st of all across the united states and particularly in l.a. county in california the coded a pandemic has not really been brought under control i mean the numbers are the highest of all counties in california and here in los angeles we're not as far away as long as in europe and so people are dealing with social distancing measures a lockdown measures for that in addition to the curfew measures to keep like a double lockdown and edition to the frustration that tens of millions of americans across the country are unemployed and the latest information we have is that about a 3rd of people who applied for unemployment has not received their checks yet and it's been a few months into this pandemic period the numbers are huge unemployment was 5500000 it's now at about 36000000 let's talk about the other codes. the mare of new york is under pressure for his handling of the protests there and that comes as 1000000 people are talking about unemployment in new york have now lost their jobs over the past few months and homelessness in new york is explod

next special more special so i had a chance to do specials i shot one in sweden i shot a couple in l.a. but this was d.c. and i love d.c. and you you and i you know i think we're both of the same mind when it comes to where you know we're we're like we like politics and so i wanted to be there in the heart of it and i love d.c. in that sense because you can do any joke you do if you make a reference to political reference they get it you don't have to go out of your way to explain what you're trying to talk about so it was it was definitely a highlight of my career and i'm happy it brother while hope you have me back when you get your kennedy center honors down there you'll be all be back there getting your or your might try you know or. your lips to god's ears like i had a last. look but cast tell me about a back to school with maz jobrani what's the premise here brother. so that came about because having kids my love when you're old my 9 year old they would always ask the questions that i did happy answers for i had to keep going with it to google you know what was going on and so fi

were years i mean i got stories of one time down in i think it was newport or something we lived in l.a. down in an hour drive in newport somebody was running a room to go listen you come down and you get 15 minutes and you get a salmon dinner and i was like the best you want to go it's like let's go up and it's a we're driving along and i kid man we're driving along and are on the way there a car almost like he runs into us and we like we came close to death like i was almost at the car that sebastian menace cough that would have died if boat but we made it we got our we got our salmon dinner we got our 15 minutes or more importantly but back then so this axis of evil comedy tour we actually haven't toured since 2008 with that tour that was a tour that missy shore who was the owner of the comedy store she put us together in the year 2000 this is when like they were doing the kings of comedy and all that you know the you know those tours with the 4 comics so she put us together because she said you know missy was jewish but was watching the news and there was a latest intifada in 2000 b

l.a. is one of them. a number are even making some changes. as we mentioned, l.a. mayor eric garcetti announced he plans to cut the budget for the lapd by more than $100 million. in minneapolis, police officers are forbidden from using chokeholds or strangleholds. officers now have a duty to intervene and report any use of unauthorized force. in seattle, they are going back to restricting tear gas deployment only to the s.w.a.t. team, not to other officers. a civilian oversight group will issue recommendations to improve seattle's crowd control procedures within 30 days. and in denver, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order limiting how denver police use projectiles and chemicals to break up crowds. among other things, a captain or other high-ranking supervisor must witness a specific act of violence or property destruction that justifies using force. >>> joining us now is andrea richie, a police misconduct activist and attorney. we're also joined by alyssa richardson, an assistant professor of journalism at usc's school of communication and journalis

a record high. >> we don't like the trend line >> reporter: a trend line that just prompted l.a. county officials to close down their beaches for the holiday weekend. in south carolina, frontline workers taken aback by their young patients. >> i remember taking care of one patient in particular, not but three years older than i am, no medical problems, healthy, and watching this patient struggle to breathe, gasping for air. because of covid it's scary >> reporter: now the covid surge dealing a crushing setback to businesses here in miami beach on famed ocean drive restaurants and hotels just got the beaches back, only to see them shut down again for the crucial holiday weekend. >> our hotel guests come to go to the beach. so now, you know, most of our hotel guests have cancelled their reservations. >> reporter: there's no choice, says miami-dade mayor carlos jimenez when aren't 15% of people in florida are testing positive. >> what concerns you more, 10,000 in a day or percent of people testing positive. >> the state of florida was running around 5% positive, and now much higher.

the abrupt about-face coming just one week after l.a. bars reopened from the lockdown. >> we're seeing more younger patients who are getting admitted to the hospital. people are not wearing masks as much as they were before. >> reporter: california is joining a growing list of at least 13 states pausing or reversing their reopening plans. white house officials tonight sounding the alarm. >> the window is closing. we have to act and people as individuals have to act responsibly. we need to social distance. we need to wear our face coverings. >> reporter: the coronavirus pandemic hitting two grim new milestones. 10 million people infected and 500,000 deaths worldwide. seven states shattering new case records this weekend, including florida. thousands waitetes the state seeing nearly 9,000 new infections today. today, broward county joining miami-dade, closing beaches for the upcoming fourth of july weekend. bar owners across the sunshine state are outraged, forced to close just weeks after reopening. >> we burned through 90% of our savings

here in l.a. county taking the drastic measure, ayman, to effectively cancel fourth of july celebrations for the weekend. this and other beaches across the county will be closed, fireworks prohibited as authorities try and get the situation here under control. the numbers are not looking good across the state. here in l.a. county, the mayor pointing to six out of seven metrics he says are moving in the wrong direction. the death rate is holding but that's a delayed lagging indicator in all of this when it comes to the fight of covid-19. so he said that is expected to rise as well. you had the grim statistic that one out of 140 angelinas has the virus. that's an estimate, he says, in stark terms what that means for the county of los angeles, take a listen. >> today, the county shared that it is estimated that 1 in 140 people in los angeles county is currently infectious with covid-19. over the coming week, it is estimated that will fall to 1 out of 100 or even 1 out of 70 residents of l.a. county.

the folks in l.a. that we just heard from. >>> as we keep an eye on the images out of maryland, there have been rolling protests throughout the day, professor, let me note this tidbit. they have been looking at the way that activists have affected the national media landscape, the way that news organizations like ours are covering events like this. among other things, the article asserts, incidents of violence are increasing. we just hear about them more. do you see the shift in coverage, the evolution in coverage as a good thing? >> i think one of the things is the impact that african american witnesses have made throughout history and how that impact is being accelerated. in the bookie talk about three overlapping eras from slavery which led to lynching to what we have now, police brutality. in each of the eras, we've had black witnesses use the technology to bear witness to what they saw. it's only fitting that last month ida b wells, one of the foremost witness toss lynching posthumously won a puli