darryn told me that the l.a. food bank is short eleven million pounds of food every year if the entire country throws out ninety six billion pounds of food every year what about just los angeles county i'm going to use this whipped cream i got out of the dumpster the other night to do the math to see how much food l.a. county throws away every year every year in l.a. county we throw away twenty four billion pounds of trash. according to the e.p.a. twelve percent of that is food waste that means we throw away two billion eight hundred eighteen million pounds of food saving just one percent of valets food waste would equal nearly thirty million pounds of food that's almost triple what the food bank is short every year. food waste happens on all levels of production and consumption on farms in transit in the making of highly produced foods in grocery stores in restaurants and in our homes or grocery stores are the obvious choice for redirecting wasted food to hungry people. i decided to go to the trader joe's headqu

it's an unusual night in l.a. because it's it's freezing outside freezing for l.a. so i think it's you know forty three to forty five degrees which is good because it keeps all the meats and stuff cold and down. there's. no antibiotics ever no added hormones ever free range good me all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked in even get all over the other ones just thrown all the way is what they're doing with everything they have bags of of a coddles one goes bad they threw the entire bag of all because out apples oranges everything is tossed in it for no good reason are all good these are all good aches like not and cheese from the german alps. much better out of the dumps than i ever have for her it started two years ago and we have clearly like the upper class makes me crazy. now i'm taking some stuff but i only take stuff it's double bagged oh it doesn't really only makes you stronger. and getting me for my own consumption at home for my baby shower tomorrow from the dumpster at one am this morning. at three pm this afternoon on the grill. i think

journalistically, the "l.a. times" coming from a scandal we turn to that paper around.esou w it was winning pulitzer prize right and left under the leadership.ging people would despair's "the chicago t tribune" praising the editors of the "l.a. times." >> for sure the book details no shortage of friction between some factions in chicago and our counterparts in los angeles which is a way word western empire bed to move fast that possibility of scores saddling. fast or to the core of the book the deal from hell and tell us what was going on in the industry and the company in the economy to prompt a defacto auction of themedi famous media powerhouse in t bring into the limelight adust man named sam zell. >> the us tensions were who will get it? everybody fights for the reputation.ne and who was asked to go to "the los angeles times" in going against them numerous times john carroll left and a good friend of mine left and i went out to take over the "l.a. times" of first data walked in and the door of the security g

journal lis tickly, the l.a. too manies was wheeling from a scandal, and we turned that paper around, and it was winning pulitzer prizes right and left under the leadership. people were disparaging the chicago tribune, they were praising the editors put in charge. >> for sure, the book details no shortage of frictions fairly quickly between some factions in chicago, us folks in the newsroom, and our counterparts in los angeles which increasingly, you know, seemed to us sort of this, you know, wayward western empire doing what they wanted to do, but let's past all of those, the original responsibility, the score settling which i love to do now, but i won't. i'll take the higher road. let's fast forward to the core of the book, the second big deal, the deal from hell, and tell us what was going on in the industry, at the company, in the economy, and the period around 2006-2007 that prompt a de facto onyx of this faye -- auction of the famous media pour house and brings into the spotlight a gentleman named sam zel.

what we have seen is that, right here in l.a.r in san francisco, many of these neighborhoods that are more affluent neighborhoods are attracted to these folks in china and they want their kids to come here for high school and make sure that their spouses can stay here so that, in case -- you know, in a very volatile environment in china, if something happens, they always look at america as a safe place for them. tavis: should future of american homeowners be concerned? i have a number of people who work for me. i have a program where, if you work with me long enough and you qualify, i will help you become a homeowner. i think happy employees make better employees. you're on the right track and needed to requirements, i have made that happen for a number of my employees. over the last couple of years, it has been difficult to help my employees get into homes because they are being outbid by these folks who are coming here with cash. they pick it up, flipped it, and then sell it for much more. you have people who are getting boxed

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andrew blankstein is covering this for the "l.a. times."f the lines here that really struck me as part of these documents from prosecutors, and i know you're intimately familiar with. when stow's head hit the ground, witnesses heard his head impact the concrete and saw it bounce. this is horrendous. >> well, when you look at the details, it reads out as something that's just a total escalation of violence and just completely brutal. you can understand, given those details how horrific these injuries were. why he's been in and out of a coma. and this has been -- you know, when you look at these details, it shows kind of why this case has sparked so much attention, not only in los angeles, but nationally. >> when we saw this attack happened in two parts, can you explain what happened? >> well, first, they would talk about obviously what was going on in the stadium. and then harassment behavior, throwing a soda on a woman, picking fights there. and then there out in the parking lot, you know, basically following this group that included stow a

he fired standard and poor's after the ratings firm downgraded l.a.'s $7 billion investment portfolio from triple "a" to double "a." >> we balanced this budget in the face of the toughest times in our city's history. and so in the face of all of the skeptics that thought it wouldn't be possible. so we are cutting our relationship with s&p. >> reporter: los angeles isn't alone. standard and poor's downgraded the investments of 14 states, cities and counties, two others joined l.a. and fired the firm. >> they have no credibility with regards to how they decide to rate. i think that that is very questionable. >> reporter: state and local governments hire ratings agencies to grade their fiscal health, a kind of seal of approval to attract investors. s&p said it made the recent downgrades because the cities and counties had significant exposures to u.s. government securities. that means they were heavily invested in u.s. treasury bonds. when s&p took the controversial step to downgrade the u.s. government's rating, the trickle down effect was to lower the v

tavis: on my first flight to l.a., long before tv, long before tom bradley, my first flight to l.a., i was flying from indiana all the way to l.a. and new -- i am on the airplane, and there is a woman in front of me who got downright and drugs, and she stood up in the seat at 38,000 square feet and insisted on performing for the entire airplane. she took off her top. >> she is sick. tavis: they had to shut that thing down. that is how i got introduced to that song. you tweak it a little bit. now it is a "solid as the rock." >> it started here. we were doing a concert, and during the song, i put the microphone of to the audience, and expecting them to say, solid as a rock, and you have 3000 people saying it. >> when we went back to new york, the guy from "the new york times" road about 6, and saturday night live thicket of -- wrote about it, and saturday night live skit it up. -- takes it up. it is now on itunes. it can be your ring tone. >> when you buy the cd and could it -- put it on your computer, you can also have it. >> i appreciate more than anything else not just your gift of

so i quit, and then moved to l.a. >> jimmy: now, how was l.a.? >> l.a. was good.e it all the way to l.a. >> jimmy: cool. >> and, uh -- [ laughter ] really? i mean, come on. >> jimmy: sorry, sorry. sorry. i'm sorry. i apologize. >> i, uh -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: i was picturing you in a jeep. it's pretty cool, man. >> yeah, no. it was a malibu barbie jeep. it was incredible, man. hot pink. >> jimmy: you're action figures -- what color was the jeep? >> it was black -- >> jimmy: cool. [ light laughter ] >> i pulled it up to my -- >> jimmy: thank you, no. sorry. >> i pulled it up to my little motel that i was staying in, which was -- i swear to god, it was the most disgusting place you've ever seen. i was staying there. the furniture was made of old congealed fluids and stuff. [ laughter ] thick buttress of couch. i'm not sitting on that without a latex unitard. [ laughter ] but i pulled up, i dropped my bags off and i went back outside, and somebody stole my jeep. my cool jeep. >> jimmy: what? [ laughter ] >> yes. it was gone. and i found it a block and a half away.

but one of the shows that i really enjoyed was "l.a. law." the reason i liked "l.a. law" was that it was about the kind of business of law. you know? a lot of it was about the real, you know, business. you have to work hard in that context to get drama. it's harder to write a show like "l.a. law" because you have to find drama almost in the ordinary practice of law. to my way of thinking, you know, doing a crime show or even a criminal defense show, that's the easy stuff to do. you know? there's drama that's inherent in it. the hard stuff to do is say, like "the paper chase" where they're going to the library. really. so you've got to figure out a way to make that interesting. we did a show called "scavenger hunt," a massive search through all the libraries. and it's actually a very exciting show. but when we went to the network, they said, what are you shooting? we said we're shooting an episode with seven libraries. and they were like, we got to cancel this. how did osborn get here? you know? that's the hard kind of stuff for television. i'd like to see more of tha

saying there were these why flo dean touching down in l.a. it sampled and he has signed a two year deal with the m.l.s. side it's believed that those who want to overland around for mentalist this season l.a. fans hope will be doubling as a link up with david beckham on the landon donovan can lead the californian team to their best american title since two thousand and five. kind of staying with the go to as well player of the year old senior has returned to the brazilian school for only the second time since missing out on the spot well that's why it's an finals manager monem in naming the flamengo attacker in his school for a friendly against gone the next month missing the world cup last summer in south africa was a major blow for an old denio had been a samba boy since one thousand nine hundred ninety november's one meal to feed dogs into you know the sole occasion before my boss and milan man have been summoned in the past. and it's my dish out of is marching on the in her quest to become the fourth different russian to win in cincinnati

.," the revital ilingse -- revitalize apings e founded after the unrest in l.a. in 199 2. he influenced investments by bringing grocery stores, small businesses, loan funds, all of these in the heart of the inner city. prior to this tenure at r.l.a., mr. kinsey also enjoyed a remarkable 20-year career with the xerox corpts -- corporation, and here he ways trail blazer making sure that he broke down barriers in corporate america. through his leadership in der -- xerox it led to the hireb of literally thousands of women and people of color. bernard is also highly sought after as an international business consultant and has counseled governments all cross the world from south africa, germany, england, france in economic development and he's also a celebrity in his own right. he's got numerous radio and television programs including the macneil-lehrer rorkts the "nbc nightly news," cnn and national public radio. he's lace family fan. -- also a family man. married to his wife shirley for 44 years, they are one of the most admired and respected couples in l.a. and the

he said the "l.a. times" is a shell of what it was ten years ago.om an awe bankruptly unemployed media columnist. >>> t"the huffington post" had o back down after getting into a scrap with conservative activist andrew breitbart. he was charged with doctoring a clip showing cbs's news new white house correspondent nora o'donnell saying this about the debt crisis. >> tough choices made by both sides in that potential agreement that was not reached, and we did not get that done. >> okay. it gave them everything they wanted and we got nothing. >> some people couldn't hear the first part of what o'donnell said, but you have democrats saying that thought o'donnell was expressing her personal opinion about the situation. well, breitbart, who once helped hu huffington create the site, asked her, you want a war, dolly? she didn't. huff took down the article and apologized to him. that mistake aside, "the huffington post" reached a milestone this week. readers have posted 100 million comments on its stories. the way in which arianna's site, now owned by aol,

. >>> because of this rapper named the game, l.a.county sheriff's department says the sheriff's department says it has coined a new term and it's not happy about it. the term flash calls. flash calls. and because of them, officials says public safety was compromised. they say the game, that's his name, his real name is jays keyon taylor tweeted out the public number for the sheriff's station in compton. within minutes hundreds of calls overwhelmed dispatch operators delaying help for people who really needed for 2 1/2 hours. that's what the sheriff's officials are saying there. okay, now the sheriff is going to charge the rapper with a crime. joining me right now is captain mike parker from the l.a. keep the sheriff's department. captain, you actually made a tweet plea asking the game top please delete number. tell us first what kind of situations were impacts by all these flash calls. >> well, it started at 5:23 p.m. on friday night when our compton sheriff's station desk was inundated with every single phone line lit up and they we

to have a live report from l.a. on what we can expect in court. >>> time to travel today, we have mostly sunny skies, 70 degrees at sfo as we head in toward the afternoon. and it looks like a good flight across the country. there are some storms in the midsection of the country but into chicago, we are looking good, 76 degrees, partly cloudy skies there. yesterday very strong thunderstorms rumbling through new york. they had as much as 2" of rainfall there. it looks like today things are beginning to calm down. as a matter of fact, it looks nice. partly cloudy skies and temperatures running as high as 88 degrees. the rest of your forecast is coming up. ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, giants fan bryan stow are due in court today. kirk hawkins is live in los angeles. kirk, what will happen today? nt >>> two suspects in the beating of giants fan bryan stow are back in court today. >> kirk hawkins is live in los angeles and kirk what can we expect today? >> reporter: we were here a few days ago when this was all supposed to hap

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i do not want to make it look like a retrofit of l.a. >> i fully support this use. the building has been sitting there vacant for years. i live on fulton and it does need to be opened up. i am glad that the cafe will activate ground for use. i sometimes wonder, i am sure that target has their own model for the cafe. when we talk about not wanting to duplicate or replicate what they do in l.a., i wonder if there might be a more interesting way they might bring that cafe into use. i do not know if that would be a local prop.. it is usually pizza hut or something. at least the one in coma is formula retail stuff. i wonder if there is a way to make it less of that plastic feel is what i am hearing from the other commissioners. in relation to the passat of the building. i am glad that they will be greening. it does feel like a fortress. it is not very walkable. it is good that will be included as well. i think that there are places in the city that are appropriate for formula retail. this is definitely one of them. there is no argument from me as relates to that issue, e

and the clouds are going to be stubborn in san francisco, though, and l.a. where temperatures will be on the cool side. that's aers and thunderstorms and even a thunderstorm in arizona and new mexico late this afternoon. >>> weekend forecast coming up and a warm saturday, too. >> bill, thanks so much. >>> and how global stocks are reacting to wall street's nosedive. gold prices shine and another bank sends out pink slips, your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, a remake of conan the barbarian. >>> coming up, what happens when a goodwill tour goes bad. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here are your top headlines this morning. >>> in afghanistan there have been twin suicide attacks on a british compound in kabul. at least ten people have been killed. one bomber made it inside the compound, triggering a five-hour gun battle with afghan security forces. >>> meanwhile, in pakistan, a bomb exploded in a mosque, as hundreds gathered for friday prayers. at least 40 people

their republic of ireland captain and the country's record goalscorer heading west from told him to l.a. galaxy keane seen their way these wives club team touching down at l.a.x. and. signed a two year deal with the m.l.s. side it's believed the thirty one year old will earn their around four million dollars for the season l.a. founds hopeful the dubliners link up with david back home in london donovan can leave the californian side to their first american title since two thousand and five. and in the news twice well player of the year on all dean who has returned to the brazilian school for only the second time since missing out on the spot for the it's wednesday time finals manager monem and there's this naming the flamenco attacker in his school for you from league gone out next month missing the world cup last summer in south africa was a major blow for a new who had been as some but man since one thousand nine hundred nine november's one in law staunching to know this sole occasion the former boss and owner and milan man had been someone day in the last two yeahs. over to tennis no

l.a. is 55 to start the morning. a weak storm system is heading up now to southern canada dragging the cold front down through idaho. there's still moisture here, so we'll see a lot of sunshine. just coastal clouds to burn off this morning in areas near southern california. eventually it will warm into the 70s interior, but once you are in the valleys, nice and popped up in new mexico yesterday. a few in arizona, but most areas remain dry. >> thank you, bill. >>> one company that despite yesterday's lows ended up the day's big winner. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, speaking of winning, who is the highest paid tv actor? >>> coming up, the yankees have a rookie and a wild finish you have got to see. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. in syria activists say government forces have killed 15 civilians normal a western city despite international calls for an end to its bloo

. >> i just hope it all works out because my family moved out to l.a.e and i want to be able to, you know, buy a house for my parents and i want my sister -- i am going to choke up. i'm sorry. >> reporter: she gets emotional in part because she's still refreshingly candid. but also perhaps because there's a lot of pressure on a career that began at the age of 8 with a national commercial. >> ovaltine's amazing. >> i was watching tv and a kid came on the tv and i started yelling, mom, i want to try that. >> reporter: victoria is half irish, half puerto rican. marketers call her wide-ranging appeal multiethnic, nonspecific. >> i had done over 30 commercials. i modeled for a bunch of different people. which was really cool. but at that point i was getting older anani was, like, i want to do tv and film. i want to move out to l.a. i want to go for it. >> reporter: i want to be an actor? >> i want to be an actor. >> reporter: today, she had nickelodeon star maker dan schneider to thanks, the man who created i-carly, zoey 101 and drake and josh. >> victoria i

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