joining me are lynnny mcallister, senior contributor to politics 365, marshall white, project managerultant, and guy regehr, senior vice president. thank you all so much for being here. lydia, i'm going to start with you. an interesting moment, not official yet, but mitt romney is for all intents and purposes the republican nominee for president. how does that make you feel? how do you feel about that nomination? >> it's a mix because romney wasn't necessarily saying the types of things that african-american republicans really liked on the primary process. if you look at some of the things that newt gingrich said or rick santorum, they stepped in some holes. they also tried to direct some of the issues that african-american voters needed to have addressed in regards to schools, in regards to jobs and the like. >> what are the things that republican voters, and particularly black republican voters, want? what are the issues that matter? and what kind of stance do you want your president to take on? >> what i'd like to see more out of mitt romney, particularly for the black community, i

white house. >> anita brickman caught up with marshall to see what motivated him to eat healthy. >> i snapped onee with it. >> we were pretty much eating anything possible out of a box, or fast food. $5 pizzas. > >> reporter: alex reid didn't realize how badly hurt that diet was affecting her son until he came to her with the novel idea. to execute the opposite of the movie super size me in which the character ate nothing but fast food for a month. portion size me turned into two video and his a book and changed his life dramatically. from their coach inc. then north carolina the reids demonstrate how easy it is to get kids involved in cooking. for instance new healthy lunches kids can take this fall. marshall gets a thumbs up for coolness when he pulls out this box. in these compartments, sweet bell peppers, tuna and almonds. >> in this one we have dried apricots, and portions which are perfectly portions of cheese. >> alex says the move away from sugary cereal was tough at first, but not now. >> yogurt and granola. >> you are finding a better balance instead of a whole plate of something that i

we want to go to the white house where the first introduced by a named marshall read, a former overweight that wrote a book called "portion-size me." it's the first state dinner for kids. kids invited who sent into the white house healthy recipes. let's listen in. >> i want to start by thanking all of the staff, everyone who helped put together this gorgeous room, the tablecloths, the chairs. this stuff isn't normally here. they brought this in for you. did you notice the centerpieces on the table? everything was thought out to the nth detail down to the little drink glasses and your programs. it's just so wonderful. i want to thank everyone who put so much time and effort into making this day special. again, he want to thank marshall for that very sweet introduction. he is an outstanding role model, truly, for kids in this country and we are so proud of him. we're so proud of his family, because again, you often can't do this alone. you need some kind of support for young people to get on the right track. so we're just grateful that he is now one of those leaders, has written a book and

white marsh. b.w.i. thurgood marshall at 71. downtown, 77 degrees. a lot of clouds building in.and bring clouds and rain chances as well. clouds continue to increase. highs in the upper eighties to low 90s. a little bit of a warmer day. looking at here seven-day forecast, cooler tomorrow. transfer rain at any point tomorrow. -- chance 4 rain at any point tomorrow. >> we will have another updateíñ ♪ >> 8:30 now on this friday morning august 24th, 2012. we are getting a jump-start on the weekend with a great concert in rockefeller plaza. train will take the stage for the full half hour just ahead. good morning. i'm savannah guthrie alongside matt lauer, al roker. >> as we get ready to head to the labor day weekend, matchbox 20 will take over the concert stage, a special holiday edition of our concert. september 18th, get ready, one of our favorites, pink will be here live in concert as well. batten down the hatches and mark your calendars. >> still to come, some of the hottest news why the world can't get enough of this korean rock star and his crazy dance. >> get him on our plaza

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marshall. and kimberly guilfoyle. all of this dirt, all of this slime from the white house is for one reason.e have fewer americans working and we have a president who gaveis $5 trillion in new debt to get here. that's what this is about. very few on your side have the moral courage to condemn it. why? >> i don't think that you need moral courage and i don't think this is condemnation. if you are going to talk about radical and say there are noney new ideas, i have haven't heard fresh ideas from mitt romney-- >>> wait a minute. repeal obamacare -- lower taxes. >> pro-life. >> sean: you are not listening. energy production in the country. eliminate health care. rein in -- >> not eliminate, replace it. with what? >> sean: repeal obamacare, let's not split hairs here. he has 7 points he's repeated over and over again. you don't want to hear them. but very different from the debt and the deficit this president's creating the thing he called bush unpatriotic for. >> look at his record. whether you look at his ideology or record, both are abysmal, fail him out and step him out of the white house. t

white man, between 5 feet 11 inches and 60 inches tall. it took a minute to get that under control. anyone with information is asked to call the fire marshal's office in belair. the anne arundel fard brenman is asking for help. the teenagers seen here entered a food line late last month and set off some type of fireworks which caused smoke to billow throughout the store. if you know the identity of the teens, you should call anne arundel fire investigators. >> two people were arrested during a demonstration at city hall. several people protested a variety of issues including public safety, jobs, and the anticipated closing of several city recreation centers. two demanded an immediate meeting and refuse to leave when they were told the meeting was not possible. there were then arrested. the demonstration was a peaceful one. >> more questions are being raised tonight about whether a shooting at a wisconsin warships center was a hate crime. it happened at a sikh temple where six people were killed, including the gunman. wade michael page entered as dozens prepared for sunday services. the fbi is investigating the case as an act of domestic terr

involved as a peacemaker in black/white issues, black/white -- there were some serious ones in the 1980s. became borough president and said she had a marshall plan. and her marshall plan, part of it was the queens assembly. and as she reminds you when you see her, the united nations when it was founded in 1945, it's first offices were in queens in these leftover pavilions from the world war -- world's fair of 1939-'40. and that's where the universal declaration of human rights was drafted x they still have some markers in the museums on it. so anyway, she had her marshall plan. and part of her marshall plan, and i think this is very interesting, is that she has a calendar every year of all the major religious national holidays of the various communities in queens. we asked her when we saw her, said, well, do you ever get surprised? she says, oh, yes. i didn't realize we had a significant polish community right near the border with brooklyn, and she said, i went there for a national day, and, you know, i used to like to dance, and pretty soon i was doing the polka. you get an idea feistiness is helen marshall's middle name, and when you see

thurgood marshall even said to have to be careful with that because a black snake can buy you just like a white and sometimes quicker. the political gain is electing individuals of your choice that will move your agenda. even if they are not african- american, they owe you their political reality. and they know that if they don't do right, you can change that reality. in north carolina, that's what we are in court now, they took 53% of african-american voters in north carolina and packed them into three congressional districts, thereby trying to remove our influence from nine of the congressional districts. they put 51% in 27 out of. 120 house of and 49% in 19 out of 50 senate districts. they gave an extra black in the house. and in house. but what they have done is removed our political power and they thought we would be happy with just having an extra black rather than having black influence throughout the whole general assembly. now we are having to sue them in state court. this is important. we're doing this using a law that our black and white fusionist brothers and sisters of the past had

sacks while follow-up, professor of law from thurgood marshall school of speaking on implicit law inspired towards an and finally doctors augustus white allen melvin gordon distinguished professor of medical education professor of orthopedic surgery from harvard map of school. he will speak on the patients neglected pain, what can we do? the first four presentations represent chapters in the book that we have all convene to discuss today edited by adjusted levinson and robert smith, recently published by cambridge university press in their final speaker dr. white's presentation will relate to his recent book seeing patients unconscious bias in health care. thank you very much for being here and i look forward to our panelist presentations in our discussion afterwards. so with that, i won't handed over to dorothy brown. >> thank you. good afternoon. let's try that again. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> i've got good news and i've got bad news. the good news is i'm only speaking for 10 minutes and the bad news is i'm talking about tax. i write about race, class and tax policy in my book chapters about stereotyping the earned incom

midst of his third stay at the white house received devastating news from north africa. 33,000 troops at britain's stronghold in libya had surrendered to field marshall'sand his face fell and roosevelt in a moment of absolute personal connection, famously cold, famously elusive says, what can we do to help? and churchill, always thinking, said i need 300 sherman tanksma. fdr called george marshall, said get him the tanks. churchill credited the victory at el alamain with that moment. >> that was a classic example of two great men coming along at the right time in their respective countries. tomorrow night at 8:00 eastern time at the opening of nbc's coverage of the olympics, for 40 minutes we're going to take you back to what we call their finest hour. i have spent more than a year and a half working on what it was like in this country in 1940 and '41. we'll take you into the war rooms, hear his speeches. we'll talk to a 93-year-old man who was a pilot in the battle of britain. another man who was in his mother's arms at coventry when she was hit by shrapnel and died. this is a remarkable testament to the courage of a country and its leadership. we are