. -- mimi -- muni the money that it needs. >> of like to talk to you about an important issue regarding the tax industry. from the latest issue of "the new yorker" here is an advertisement. ibm has developed a program to find traffic jams before they happen. boksburg the open access program would do that for cabdrivers and passengers. currently the program is off the table because they said it would ruin their business. the truth is, john [unintelligible] has been reticent about developing that aspect of his business for some years. with open taxi access, every person in san francisco with a hand-held device would be able to see all of the cabs in san francisco. all of the people meandering around would be able to find their cab within a few blocks. touch the screen, speak to the driver nearby, just to pick them up. they would be able to say yes, that is me waving. i cannot imagine a better program. something that would empower the people more. it would make every person into their own dispatcher. it would be the google map of dispatch. service has nothing to do with the number of cabs

my name is mimi. my son's been going to the asian human resource center for a couple of years.he family workshop is very important for all the families, whether it's for the kids, nutritional, or talk about what the discipline. so i want the city to consider to extend the budget for us. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is gloria. i represent the asian resources center. i'm here to speak of two priorities. one would be the importance of preserving affordable housing. the past two months i've had the challenging project of trying to relocate 23 of my women to find a relocation units in chinatown because of upcoming construction in our building. and it's been one challenging project of trying to find clean, affordable and safe housing in chinatown neighborhood. my second prior would be helping families to continue family support programs. many families, asian immigrant families, and they need the support from nonprofit, of helping them to be able to stay here in the city of san francisco for their children to be able to go to will school here, for them to be supported knowing

mimi really made choices that worked for her career. >> real housewives of atlanta, kind of reality tv. >> there is a genre of tv that has really blown up in recent years. it is sort of that bad girl mentality, that ghetto fabulous head moving, fingers pointing, loud, boisterous, that television has really blown up. >> yes. >> but what i decided is, african-american women have that reputation in the majority media. they like to highlight that. we don't have the opportunity to show the opposite side. the majority has the opportunity to show the opposite side. >> right. >> in all genres of television. so when we are given a platform, you have to make a choice. do you play to the lowest common denominator or do you elevate? i chose to elevate. >> is it hard, while you are staying elevated, to see what's going on on td ground when people are still talking about you on the road, after the show is over? people are saying things. >> i really was disheartened as i watched the season unfold. you have to understand, we never heard what a contestant would say about us that was not in our presence

get more thoughts on this resolution and also the syrian situation let's bring the conversation to mimi to talk to a bit more of this he's the director of the institute of islamic political thought is in london tonight. to be a very good evening to phone to be with us so the france and britain are pushing for this u.n. resolution to condemn the syrian government's crackdown on protesters is not exactly early intervention in libya started. well this really poses a real dilemma because i mean verbal condemnation will not help the syrian people much while at the same time effective intervention in syria would not be a positive sign because we've seen this happen in libya and the quagmire that libya has turned into. and out without doubt the syrian people need to rid themselves of redeem that has persecuted them for many years but i don't think that foreign intervention is going to help resolve the problem for the syrian people let's talk about this resolution is being put forward it doesn't include is it any sanctions or military action do you think people are opposing this or trying to ge

way, i'd be-- been meeting people like tom paxton and eric andersen and bob dylan and joan baez and mimi farina, who became a very good buddy of mine. and peter, paul, and mary, before they were peter, paul, and mary-- when they were peter yarrow and mary travers and noel stookey. but we all felt, as i did at that early time, that we could make a difference and that music would change the world. and i believe it did. mary always says, "yes, we thought it would change the world, and it did change the world." certainly there were a lot of taboos that were broken, a lot of things from the '50s that changed-- the illusions about america's invulnerability. the war went on for far too long. but perhaps if there hadn't been all those voices behind the peace movement, it would have gone on longer. who knows? i can only say that the-- the passion and the music were a great and driving force. and i've always felt that it was a privilege to be a part of that journey, even though it was difficult to make at the time. you never made a conscious decision to be an artist versus being an activist. you--

we played sha raids with donald trump and littlejohn and mimi leaks. >> anything interesting happen inat's the fun part of having a talk show. so littlejohn is clearly doing a woman giving birth. he's doing a baby. baby talk was the thing. he was going like this. and he's going -- and his legs are up and donald trump is going, round boobs. beautiful boobs. beautiful, beautiful 24 karat, marble boobs. it's like, no, he's clearly giving birth. he never played sha raids. you have kids. >> donald trump when he came on here we had a live awe yens. at the end he turned to me and everyone could hear him and he went, by the way, don't worry. the ratings are going to be great [ laughter ] >> and you know what? they were. >> no. he was hosting "saturday night live." god bless him he's the nicest dude. we wrote in a sketch, a bunch of comedians sitting around a table at a meeting going over the sketch, reading the sketch. he'd tell some joke about how his kaen's fail his is a see know's failing in atlantic city. he says mika see know is failing in atlantic city. he takes off his glasses and goes

since he had complained earlier about in digestion, mimi gave her husband milk of magnesia. at 2:54 she called the president's physician who rushed into the white house. schneider put out the word that this was a digestion upset when he knew it was a massive heart attack. he waited until midafternoon that day before transporting the president's to the hospital and even then had a cakewalk to his car instead of calling an ambulance. if you want more details on the mismanagement of this situation you have got to read the book. don't have time tonight. eisenhower was in the hospital for six weeks. in those days the gold standard for the treatment of heart attacks was total bed rest. ike's doctors would not permit him to read the newspaper, watch a movie, listened to a football game on a radio little and do much serious presidential business. he did not take a step across his room for months. this was an incredibly active man. he felt like a caged animal. so at the very moment the soviet union attempted to change the balance of power in the middle east eisenhower was out of comm

i want to say hi to my girls and my son, skyler, mcclay, mimi, william, i love you, jess. >> you got> i'm going to do it. >> all right. we've got a lot more coming up, including some of the best barbecue from big bob's barbecue. chris lily is here. he's going to be cooking up some great stuff as well. so big bob gibson barbecue, and more from houston, texas. savannah, natalie, back to you guys. >> sounds good. >> al, thanks. we'll check back with you in a minute. >>> still ahead, how to get a bikini ready body. you can look like a star, though, after your local news and weather. [ groans ] [ marge ] psst. constipated? phillips' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief of constipation without cramps. thanks. good morning, students. today we're gonna continue... >>> good morning to you. i'm laura garcia-cannon. firefighters say arsonists torched an elementary school just days before a wrecking crew was set to tear the building down. although the building was set to be destroyed to make way for a new sc