, transforms margaret thatcher. it's truly, you know, i'm blessed this year to have meryl streep as margaret thatcher and michelle williams as marilyn monroe and you'll see a surprise performance by this woman. as wallace simpson in madonna's movie that she directed. margaret thatcher was probably the last subject matter i ever thought i would be involved with, yet it was incredibly fascinating, the journey of margaret thatcher. >> did you ever meet margaret thatcher? >> i never did. >> i met her a few times. >> as a liberal democrat i spent many years detesting her. >> i met her a few times. she used to take a boney fingers, they were quite long and boney and poke them hard into my chest. she really was the real deal. it was like meeting a sort of female mike tyson. >> piers, when you look at at some of those decisions she had some of the toughest in british history. you might not have agreed with the diplomacy, shall we say but my god when you look back in retrospect, those decisions turned out to be some of the b

conjures margaret thatcher, transforms margaret thatcher.you know, i'm blessed this year to have meryl streep as margaret thatcher and michelle williams as marilyn monroe and you will see a surprise performance by this woman andrea rice borough as wallace simpson in madonna's movie she directed. but margaret thatcher would probably be the last subject matter that i thought i would be involved with, and yet, it was incredibly fascinating journey of margaret that mucher. >> did you ever meet margaret thatcher? >> i never did, but as a liberal. >> i met her a few times. >> as a liberal democrat, i certainly spent many years detesting her. >> yeah, i wasn't too far removed from that. i met her a few times. she used to take her bony fingers and they were quite long and bony and actually poke them hard into my chest. i mean, she really was the real deal. it was like meeting a sort of female mike tyson. >> you know piers, when is you look back at some of those decisions she had some of the toughest in british history. and you might not have agreed

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margaret, jim, stick around.ers are doing it, walking away from the home they own and walking away from the debt that comes with it. is its right thing to do? we'll check it out next. >>> the mortgage bankers association says nearly 13% of all homeowners with mortgages are either behind on their payments or they're already in foreclosure. the stress of mortgages gone bad is leading to a new trend calling strategic defaults. these are people who can pay their mortgage, but they stopped because the value of the home is worth less than the loan. who are these people? you might be surprised. the credit bureau es peer yan tells us the average strategic defaulter has multiple mortgages, higher origination balances, a third almost live in california and expeeren found they have higher incomes, higher credit scores and higher financial literacy. is it okay to just walk away from the mortgage? david flores joins me now, a credit counselor at green path debt solutions. help me understand the two reasons why you say people

he said one time, he goes, you know what, margaret?nk the asian thing puts people off. >> you are self-deprecating, you do make fun culturally of a lot of things and then you do this hilarious impersonation of your mom. and i wonder, how did your mom embrace that? >> my mother kind of flipped out a little bit. she still talks about it. she calls me and leaves me these messages on my machine. [ laughter ] are you gay? well i think when you're an immigrant that the most simple thing to do is kind of make fun of your background, in order to separate yourself from it. and to sort of prove that you're not that. i mean, for asian american kids, i think it's a very common thing to make fun of your family and make fun of their accents because it's something you don't have. so you kind of -- you're like, i'm better than that. and so you make fun of them. and that's where that comes from. that's where my comedy comes from, that immigrant struggle. >> does that become difficult, too? >> i don't think so. to me, it's just a natural way of my sense

thank you margaret. doctor tom wenz, he's is an expert if anger management and substance abuse treatment and has worked with with many youth throughout his career. he came to me through george anderson who runs an anger management firm. they have taken the science of conflict mediation and made it into an accessible discipline for trainers, people who are working with young people throughout the state and throughout the county. do you know that there's only, i think now one state that mandates anger management in the school and it was texas. and it's only been within the last year. doctor wenz is an advocate. he's also a vietnam veteran who saw many people suffer from substance abuse in the wake of that war and conflict and has a tremendous amount of experience. he as a doctorate. a master's degree in working with children and works in his own consulting business as well. doctor tomas wenz. >> angela chan as worked with san francisco and community based organization in the area of violence reduction and

but none of them mentioned margaret marcus amerian jameel. none of them talk about him as a father or it has been for a brother or son. marion's letters were all about his household and the way it was run. there seemed to be of benefit instead of looking at this man is this powerful political leader, which is how the academic scholars have written about him was to look at the politics of his household, which were much more complicated and unexpected than you would as soon, given his writings. i mean, miriam would be upset because his wife didn't always coming in now, wasn't always an instant purdah. she would say, why didn't you wear your veil to meet her brother and not quite she said, doesn't your husband get upset at that? she said you know, my husband is such a saint. he is so much patience for me. basically she would get away with the things he was telling every popper he had to do in his own wife he couldn't actually live up to these ideas. >> the contradictions. the aspect of the book is a kind of watches us into looking at ourselves i

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as margaret said, in 1949 we came to the south bronx, which was an irish neighborhood, mostly. i was sort of a spaced-out kid, destined obviously to be a poet. i was this big at 13 and i was a good rollerskater and the kids were amazed and they befriended me. after a while, they recognized that i had some sort of athletic ability and because i was so spaced out, they mistook it for great courage and if they pushed me, i pushed them back. it was just like a game. so they took to me and asked me to join the shamrocks. i even changed my name from ed vega to ed mcveigh. and this is how they passed me off because most of the teams they played were other irish kids. this was a regular football team so, consequently, they listed me as eddie mcveigh. it was great fun and my friends were jimmy flynn, paddy o'connor. my siblings married the shenny's and i almost married a catherine finerin but it didn't work out. i have a nephew, sean patrick mcflynn. i always question myself because my writing about the irish is really my writing about myself coming to the united states and coming into

my name is margaret wilson. i have been a resident of san francisco for eight years. my husband and i bought a house. we did it with my daughter and her husband, and we share an old victorian with my husband, daughter, son-in-law, and their three children. since we bought the house, we have had a lot of maintenance just to repair damage and stuff. but we have been also very conscientiously trying to do environmental upgrades. and we had been a solar city customer. we put solar on our house two years ago and were able to do so with almost no out-of-pocket expense. and we have seen, you know, basically not a reduction in our energy bill, but flat on our energy bill, and we know that is from solar. so when i received a flier from solar city that announced the energy audits, i talked to my daughter and we decided that we would go and do that right away. so we replied and a requested the energy audit. we had a team of solar city people come into our house and go through the whole house, through the heating, you know, the windows, the drafting, how we used heating and stuff

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rehearsals, the rejection, all of that next >>> face to face with margaret cho. she's a comedian, an actress, activist and, yes, a dancer. cho strapped on her dancing shoes to participate in the hit show "dancing with the stars." in my face to face interview, she talks about the competition spotlight and the struggles. >> every now and then you surprise us and try something different. so "dancing with the stars". >> yes. >> you took a few steps in that. what was that experience like? it looks like every contestant loves it so much, so much fun that they're sad when it ends. >> yes. well, it is really hard. it is really fun, kind of terrifying. like being thrown into the olympics, really, you're competing. there is judges, numbers. there is like a minute and a half. >> millions of people watching. >> millions of people watching and for me, i am a dancer, so i come from dance, and i understand a lot about it and i feel like that is so -- it is such a powerful experience to do. it is a physically transformative experience. and i just -- i don't know. i loved it. it

. >> i would like to ask, thank you very much, margaret, that was great. i would like to ask principle dierck about an experience at his school when i young person saw another person being victimized and actually a group of young adults were stealing school binders and he was afraid she was going to be victimized. how do you work collaboratively with schools, >> i have 2 stories to relate. the first one, took place at washington high school. we had adopted a hot line many years ago before they were in vogue. this young man call about criminals victimizing kids on the 38 bus line. every day these guys were getting on the same stop and steal shoesing and pack backs from kids and get off the next stop. no one did anything about it. he didn't do anything about it until the guy in the row in front of him got victimized. the police were able to put up a sting operation and that they were able to catch them. another instance. somebody jumped on the bus and beat this boy up and jumped off the bus and the other students at our school have all our students have been

and i commend the mayor and margaret for help us out with those.

because margaret marcus, who became mary and jamaal is so >> i thought the respectful and interesting thing to do was begin with some of her words, so we're going to ask deborah baker to read for us. >> hi, thank you all for coming. it's great to be in chicago. i love the city so much, and especially on such a beautiful day. just a brief thing before i read from this -- this is a letter that maryann wrote to her parents on board this ship, a brief crater taking her from new york to pakistan, and from there she moved to lahor. this was the first of the letters i found at the new york public library, which was my introduction to margaret markus. may 1962, the torch. this was posted from egypt. after all our good-byes after you, mother, betty, and walter walked down the gangplank and drove off, i was overcome with dread. i stood at the deck rail for a long time stricken. the excitement. weeks leading to departure gone. when it pulled up, the lights of the city dimmed, it was a black ocean swallowing everything i had ever known. it took some time and many prayers before my fear began to s

and the third component is similar to what margaret was talking about. i irish american. i didn't know what a pure american was. none of my friends were pure americans. a lot of my friends were lebanese and from syria. i had yewish and irish american friends. all of our identities were mixed. my sense of being american was being in a mix of things. >> margaret could you also reflect in a prior conversation you talked about your father had a sense of where he came from and it was a little more difficult for your mom to articulate that? >> sure. mother's side is irish american my father come from a different heritage. he is a genealogy. he traced his family all the way back to the times when they moved from spain to a region of france. that's where his family came from as peasants in 1850. and for generations, his family members had been going back to this place to visit their distant cousins. they knew exactly where it was. i was thinking that was a year after my irish american family came here. why don't my irish american family know this information. i want to try to fin

grandmother lived in atlanta, and she knew margaret mitchell. who wrote "gone with the wind." i would go to the opera with her, and i would go over to granny's house, and i'll be able to do all the things i wanted to do. >> but you went to school in iowa. >> this is right. at the university?

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of course margaret, we want to see those lights on. my specific question is to the new superintendent, i am a representative of the new high school going to bay view, bay view school of social justice. my specific concern is the attendance on back page from the main topic. there's no professional development and it's not monitored by the district. now connect as a capacity of 4 hundred student s and only attendance of 202. thank you. >> you know, one of the problems with that system, i mentioned that people want to have access to go anywhere they k. they bus themselves out. that's really what happened here. when we review this type of system. we're breaking up neighborhoods without the intention of wanting to do that. the intention was good. we wanted to give everybody access to any school. but we now. it's time. years later to revisit that, wait a minute, what are we doing with this system? we are open to that discussion. as you will see in our new strategic plan. our plan is based upon one thing facing america. recently, a couple of

what's most stunning in your mind, margaret? figures are pretty high. >> for me what's shocking, laura, you have a generation of kids who what we are finding with the science is look, when i was in high school, college, really high school, this is about middle school and high schooler who's are drinking and abusing drugs, abusing cigarettes and alcohol, what we are finding is the percentage of them use it when they're young much higher percentage of becoming addicted and having real dependencies health issues and dependencies when they're older. these kids are wayward and they will straighten out when they get older. chances of straightening out are lower because they are exposing themselves to serious addiction behavior that will follow them into their adulthood. >> laura: the lesson here is the longer you can avoid this stuff the better off for you. put it off as long as possible. don't do it at all. >> this figures in culturally to our society right now. because there is a bunch of talk about legalizing marijuana. i think tha

margaret would know better than anyone. >> you are how old? >> 10. >> it gives middle schoolers a taste of software development. >> you are making video games. >> and making a falling blocks game. >> he and his classmates are de-bugging stages right now. but not without help from an instructor code named alladin. >> they are coming out with very original ideas. story driven characters. more scripted and more about the content and less about just beat them up type of game. >> some of kids have been to this camp before. at the end of the week they just don't take their apps home, they publish them. >> how many downloads do you think you can get for your game? >> i know i got more than 300. >> it's an extra thrill for these kids and maybe given them an appetite for more. >>> whoa. >> i know he is kidding but it's kind of their world, so why not what they create. >> absolutely. we grew up with building blocks, they grew up making may trix of building blocks. >> 4:45. the families of two u.c. berkeley grads in iranian or hoping their ordeal will be

margaret and washburn is clear and we shouldn't have to worry about that.t major interstates are okay. reisterstown starting off at 795 at cockeysville, very light traffic. no problems to report down to the beltway. 95 southbound after mountain road, we still have a disabled vehicle that we are dealing with. it's over on the shoulder. so be careful as you go by. back to you. >>> he came in with a young boy on it, and two women came running to him and grabbed him and hugging him. >> the boy is safe after -- from drowning after he was swept away from a sand bar. an eyewitness captured this emotional moment when the child was scooped up and embraced by a woman. that child was swept out to sea by a strong can't by lifeguards were able to grab -- current by lifeguards were able to grab him and pull him to safety. >>> day three since a punishing boat flipped stranding more than two fishermen and the crew. >> now mexican authorities face a decision. we will tell you what it is when we return. we are first and only at 4:30. >>> it's up to a jury to decide the fate

more face to face with margaret cho.lk about her show "drop dead diva," her eninfluential family, her comedy and the obstacles she overcame and she talks about sort of her open marriage, face to face with margaret cho next saturday. >>> yes, it is july, but the sweltering heat that is gripping much of the country right now is nothing to brush off. >> it's been bad. hot, hot. >> dangerously hot. that's louise dunlap of madison, wisconsin. she is 88. she is overheated because her air conditioner gave up on her when she needed it most. so she called her repairman, turns out the extreme heat is creating a mini economic boom for people who do exactly that kind of work. jacqui jeras in the weather center now. boy, this is like a broken record. it is so hot everywhere. there really is no escaping it. >> imagine being that air conditioning repairman. inside a hot attic trying to repair a new system or install a new system. it really is brutal. this is the third weekend in a row that i've been standing here with you. we have been

for more analysis on this tragedy and we go live to chicago where margaret from d.c.m. partner joins us live thanks for joining us here on our team now anders behring breivik claims it was a quote necessary attack on society and immigration policy do you think we're going to see more of these right wing attacks in the future yeah i absolutely think we will see in the next ten years i think we're really highlighting if you're changing and you're changing while it's been relatively economically stable influx integrated so you know if you're across the border in norway in particular pretty you know d.c. in two thousand to two thousand and ten what you're seeing now is with a decrease in living standards you know a lot more confusion particularly in the lower classes about job security you're going to see a lot more ok i'm going to play money immigrants maybe you're going to be you know pretty strong extremism. both ends of the spectrum a big you're going to see a lot more islamic extremism and i think you're going to see a lot more great breeding extremism particularly in

margaret's church. mourners recalled a woman who stayed true to herself no matter the circumstances. >> i'll move to the white house, do the west i can, and if they don't like it they can kick me out. but they can't make me be somebody i'm not. >> reporter: funny,feisty, and a above all, fearless. ford personalized the role of first lady. >> women no longer are ashamed of having mastectomies. >> reporter: america witnessed her courage as she battled breast cancer. her bravery continued upon leaving the white house. she admitted struggling with addiction and publicly discussed her treatment. later founding the betty ford clinic. >> today i am a very grateful recovering alcoholic. >> she was never afraid to speak the truth. even about the most sensitive subjects. including her own struggles with alcohol and painkillers. >> reporter: fellow former first lady roslyn carter fondly recalled their decades-long friendship. as three other first ladies -- michelle obama, hillary clinton, and nancy reagan -- liste