>> when i first got l.a., i lived in high land park in northeast los angeles. it was predominantly latino community. >> mostly illegal? >> i think it was a combination, yeah. there were a lot of immigrant families, but, you know, that were also the legal and illegal families. >> how did the legals view the illegals? >> i'm not too sure about that because as a child, i don't think i was too aware of that kind of response from the adults, but what i do remember the most is being shot when i got to school that most of the kids in my classroom were dark skin and they got just look like me and they had last names like garcia and hernandez. they could speak a language i couldn't speak. that was shocking to me because they looked dpactly like me, and yet they weren't and but i would say that was probably the first time i was really aware of the fact that there were latinos but they were different from me. >> you were in esl classes? english as a second language classes? >> yes. was that a second class citizens type thing? >> yeah. definitely. being an esl student, tha

i lived in highland park which is in northeast los angeles. and it was predominantly latino community. >> mostly illegal? >> i think it was a combination. yeah, there were a lot of immigrant families but, you know, there were also the legal and illegal families. >> how did the legals view the illegals? >> i'm not too sure about that, because as a child i don't think i was too aware of that kind of response from the adults. but what i do remember the most is being shocked to school that most of the kids in my classroom were dark skinned and they looked just like me and they had last names like garcia and gonzÁlez and they could speak in language i couldn't speak. and that was really shocking to me, because they looked, they looked exactly like me and yet they weren't. but i would say that was probably the first time i was really aware of the fact that there were latinos but they were different from me. >> you are in the ls classes? was that, was that a second class citizen type thing speak with yes. being a transfer student, that's who you are

>> i lived in highland park which is northeast of los angeles. it was a latino community. >> host: was a mostly illegal community? >> guest: what i remember as being shocked when i got to school is that the kids have last names like me like gonzÁlez and fernandez then they could speak a language i couldn't speak -- and that was really shocking to me. because they look exactly like me. yet, they were not. i would say that that was probably the first time that i was really aware of the fact that there were latinos but they were different from maine. .. i do remember wanting to fit in it not been able to because i was esl student. i worked very hard at trying to finish my esl processing get out of that program. by the time i was in eighth grade, i was enrolled in regular eighth-grade english. >> host: reyna grande, there is a picture we are going to show on the air with you with a saxophone. tell us that story. >> guest: the saxophone was something i discovered when i said burbank junior high school in seventh grade. my counselor and rolled man band

in the 60s for california, for parts of los angeles, and san francisco, northeast, a little bit on the cool side. not too bad this time of year. 48 in new york city right now. >> arthel: that snow out west is good news-bad news. >> and also good news because we actually were pretty dry out there over the last couple of months. again, getting needed moisture. good news for skiers. not for traveling. >> arthel: thank you. >> rick: fox news confirming a major security breach at u.s. airports. the flaw may allow bad guys to avoid critical security checks. >> arthel: president obama is expected to sit down with congressional leaders in the coming weeks for talks over the looming fiscal cliff. but which ideas are more likely to help get the nation's debt under control? we'll debate that next. >> we understand that it has to be about cuts. it has to be about revenue. it has to be about growth. it has to be about the future. >> rick: back to up with of our top stories on this saturday. president obama met yesterday and will be meeting again with congressional leaders from both parties. the nex

. >> if there were to be a storm in chicago or northeast could you count on mass chaos that does not look like the case. >> reporter: in los angeles, a major airport worker protest will delay travelers there. passengers at l.a.x. are advised to give themselves a three hour cushion and extra 90 anyone's to get there. not everyone will be traveling by air, 39 million are expected to drive. millions of people will be riding the rails today, amtrak adding extra trains on its most crowded corridors borrowing some from canada to handle the holiday crush. problems linger from hurricane sandy including a shortage of rental cars in the northeast the few left are going for hundreds of dollars a day. rob nelson, abc news, new york. >>> 26-year-old murder suspect scheduled to be in court today in san jose believed to be involved in a violent crime spree. jonathan wilbanks was arrested last friday an officer suffered minor injuries in a shootout. wilbanks and another suspect still on the loose are suspected of killing a 22-year-old during an attempted carjacking. wilbanks is being held without bail. $20,000 reward offered for the capture of hi

los angeles. not looking at much wet weather across the northeast. front has pushed eastward cool air moving in behind it. you will see a return to sunshine in the southeast not much going on right now but a storm will be developing later on. >>> brew on this question of the day responses earlier in the show we told you that more americans are planning to drive to their thanksgiving destination than fly. we are on top of that. we are spending 10 percent less than last year all of that attributed to the current economy. >> one said: >> it is now 24 minutes before the hour. >> are you really picky about what you eat so picky you can't eat off of a plate with a design on it? he will determine if that is normal or not. >> what happens when they get what they want? jessie waters went to a bill maher show to find out. it was hysterical. >> really excited to see obama carol out. >> paso bam ma care premiums went up. >> put it over on me that time. >> we will have more from waters world next. you don't want to miss this one. with a-awe >> it is 43 after the

los angeles getting up to 29 degrees on tuesday. finally let's go over to europe. severe weather in the baltic states. it will be moving ai away toward the northeast. showers will remain. any slight amount of rain could trigger further flooding as well as land slides and a big storm system is moving in from the north. that's going to affect central europe as well add much of the scandanavian peninsula. very warm in athens getting up to 27. here is the extended forecast. >>> our top story this hour, finance leaders from around the world have wrapped up another meeting with yet another pledge about the economy. representatives from the group of 20 industrial merging nations say they will do everything necessary to achieve global growth. the finance ministers put out a joint statement following two days of meetings in mexico city. they say growth is modest and downside risks are necessary. they are flagging the approaching fiscal cliff many the u.s. deep spending cuts in the new year will kick in at the same time as the end of some tax breaks. the finance chief caution extreme belt tightening could trigger a slowdown. they mention the japanese govern

northeast, you could count on mass chaos. but that does not look like it's going to be the case at all. >> reporter: in los angeles, not weather but a major airport worker protest will delay travelers there. passengers at l.a.x. are advised to give themselves a three-hour cushion at the airport. and an extra 90 minutes to get there. >> this is part of the fun of it all. to go fight the fight. fight the crowds. >> reporter: some important tricks for fliers this year. some airlines will allow you to avoid the baggage counter by tagging and checking your own bags, giving you a chance to, well, lose your own luggage. additionally, the tsa has a new precheck program this year. sign up and you pass through a separate security line, with your laptop and your bag and your shoes right there on your feet. not everyone will be traveling by air. 39 million people are expected to drive to their thanksgiving dinner. aaa is advising them to hit the road before 7:00 this morning because by 5:00 p.m. the roads will be jammed. be sure to dial 511 for the latest traffic and road closures in your state. millions of people will also be riding the

los angeles to san francisco. >> mostly 50s in the pacific northwest, central rockies and great plains. 30 in fargo. 40s in the midwest into the northeast. 81 in miami. >> we can only dream. >>> when we come back, bp gets ready to big deep and pay up for that gulf oil spill. a big announcement is expected today. >>> then, this morning, fears about 5-hour energy. the megashot of caffeine could be linked to more than a dozen deaths. >>> and he shoots, he doesn't score. and doesn't score again. and still doesn't score. the player who looks like he needs a gps to find the hoop. >>> welcome back, everybody. well, oil giant bp is expected to plead guilty, today, for its role in the massive 2010 oil spill off the gulf coast. stice department sources tell reuters that bp would admit criminal misconduct and pay what could be the largest penalty in u.s. history, probably in the billions of dollars. in exchange, the company would be exempt from future prosecution. >>> and there are big safety questions this morning about those little shots of 5-hour energy. the fda is looking into reports that the supercaffeinated drinks could be linked to 13 deat

northeast. all eyes on the nor'easter. showers a possibility in chicago, st. louis and minneapolis. >> coldest air of the season pours into new england, boston barely breaking 40. omaha, kansas city, 50. los angeles, 86 down from the record high of yesterday. >>> firefighters are finally making head way with a wildfire that forced a shutdown of a major highway between southern california. santa ana wind spread the fire to both side of the interstate. 15 in cajun pass, backing up traffic for hours. fire crews managed to keep the flames spreading from nearby homes. >>> we'll lighten the mood with what is no doubt one of our "favorite stories of the day. "check out my saints. yes, indeed. boys in black and gold. defensive back, patrick robinson. he returns an interception, 99 yards. for a touchdown. last night against the eagles. there in the dome. >> drew brees, threw two touchdown passes. the eagles are pretty much toast. let rob save the best part. >> saints win. saints win. at this point, every win is at least, is -- a moral victory. >> all three of them. way to go. >> whatever. long way off to the playoffs. don't count them out yet. coming up next, we'll turn our attention to clean-up along the

northeast with increasing clouds around dinnertime. of course, all eyes on the nor'easter that could potentially hit tomorrow. showers through seattle and portland. >> such a good weatherman, rob. los angelescord-setting heat yesterday. new york city, baltimore, 15 degrees colder than usual. honolulu and phoenix in the mid to upper 80s. >>> and in the aftermath of sandy, the issue of long-term housing for victims has fast become the top priority. in very few places is it more evident than in the hard-hit community of rockaway beach, queens. look at this, a helicopter flight over that neighborhood yesterday showed just how widespread that destruction truly is. it's heartbreaking. and the randomness of the damage is truly remarkable. >> reporter: you can see what was once a kitchen, and if you look inside those kitchen cabinets, all the plates and cups stacked up as if nothing happened here. it looks like this picture can't be real. and that's what strikes you when you look at these pictures. you look at them and say this couldn't possibly be real. >> yeah. more than 1.3 million homes and businesses across the storm zone still without power. now a full week after the storm hit, sandy is bein

northeast i think they have hurricanes now the furthest profound people are going to live there are actually true when you talk about that all the time i was joe i'm joking because one of the los angeles where there's not hurricanes just earthquakes. and they've been saying the big one was coming for a long time in california i should know i've lived there and we're talking about domes and i was in the volcano movie there was a volcano you i don't know of a movie reference for everything i told you that was one of his troopers of all. and i don't think that's probably enough but let's move on to an actual story that we do know about we all know in these economic times the middle class is hurting college students are hurting they faced staggering numbers of student debt took. one in ten families that has student loan debt now owes nearly sixty two thousand dollars seven thousand dollars more than just three years earlier total u.s. student loan debt has surpassed one trillion dollars. that's those are some staggering statistics what might be contributing to them we know that tuitions costs have gone up we know that states have cut funding and so it's schools have to charge more in cash

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los angeles, barely a delay, at least when it comes to the weather. hopefully a few less head aches for you. lots of 30 this is the northeast. philadelphia 36 degrees. lots of 20s here. new england starting to feel like winter is around, or at the very least, late autumn. temperatures running below average. thursday, we stay cool across the southeast, look at columbia, 54 degrees. 18 degrees below average for you. for the end of the week, still looking at the chill here all across the northeast, boston, new york running just a little bit below average. we'll also be tracking some rain break out across georgia for this afternoon and tonight. >> in sports news, the los angeles lakers dropping an 84-82 decision by san antonio. the lakers are waiting for mike d'antoni to take over. he's recovering from knee surgery, but is expected to join the lakers this week. in other nba news -- does nbc cover the nba? >> no. >> no, not at all. but we could someday. >> abc disney family. >> it's hard for me to get excited about early season action in the nba. got to get to the playoffs. i can't wait for college hoops to start and i like that, but man, nba is tough. >

northeast winds five to ten miles an hour. if you're doing some traveling, the east coast is great. tampa's going to be some skaerted clouds at 78 degrees. seattle and vancouver down around los angeleset into the mountains and west you're traveling, that's the unsettled weather. jet stream. colorful map. follows the dividing line between the oranges and blues and green. taking a big dip over the west coast. we have a little dip out here. that stormy weather, too. we advance the thanksgiving day. we still have stormy weather out west especially the pacific northwest. we have a feature off the east coast. that's what we're going to be watching to see how close to the coast that will be. but as we're being optimistic. looks dry for the next seven days including thanksgiving. we might run into a few clouds into monday. little fog monday morning. >>> ray rice helped stuff a bus. several buses. could benefit the maryland food bank. they were stuffing empty buses full of nonperishable food items. the 19th annual event continues today from 9 until 5. some of the needed items include peanut butter, infant formula, diapers and pasta. if you have chance, head over there. >>> speaks of the rave

northeast. now, the troublesome weather over the next week is going to be all located on the west coast. just had some rain move through los angeles, which is always a big deal. that will continue through the ho morning. some of that rain in the bay throughout your morning rush ho hour. here's the l.a. forecast, one of the worst in the nation, a chance of rain three days in a row. very rare in southern california. let me take you through the next three days. your entire weekend forecast. friday will look like saturday and saturday like sunday. there's really no changes. the wet weather remains on the west coast. and on saturday, we should get a lot more sunshine than today in areas of the northeast. and sunday is more or less the same. so no complaints. we're getting a break from mother nature after she was very cruel to us over the last two weeks, especially on the eastern seaboard. nice shot there, looks like some partial sunshine for areas around new york city this morning. you're watching "morning joe." we're brewed by starbucks. [ male announcer ] families grow up but some things never get old... marie callender's dutch apple

and we came to live with him and my stepmother, and it was -- los angeles, there's a small community called highland park, which is in northeastt it's predominantly latino, but there was a lot of culture shock in the sense even though a lot of the kids in the class looked like me, latino, black hair, brown eyes, brown skin, last names that i was familiar with, but they all spoke english, a language i couldn't speak, and that's when i realized, you know, sometimes there is a difference between being a child of an imgrant and being a child immigrant, and that's what i was. i was a child immigrant who didn't speak a word of english when she came to the u.s.. >> host: 202 is the area code if you want to talk with the author about her memoir, accident the distance between us," and 585 in the central in the eastern time zones. reyna grande, what is and was your father like when you were growing up? >> guest: well, i don't know what my father was like in mexico because he left when i was two years old, and when i saw him next, i was going on ten so i'm not quite sure, like, what kind of man he was in mexico, what kind of father he wa

northeast and in chicago. otherwise the overall report looks very good. >> can you just try to figure out what the leverage here is? i see phoenix up big. los angeles up big. las vegas up big. i don't see great employment in those areas. is that because the banks have worked off their inventory? i don't understand why some areas are doing better than others given there's not employment growth in the areas that are doing better. >> first of all, i'm not sure that employment growth area by area is the key item. consumer confidence is also a big factor. it spins off growth. you can't target city by city that way. second of all, the pattern of foreclosures when they came through and how they hit makes a huge difference. we saw atlanta get beaten up for the last six or seven months while the rest of the country was rebounding. a huge swell of foreclosures came through that. phoenix seems to have gotten over a wave of foreclosures and is rapidly recovering. so is las vegas. both of those cities apparently have a shortage of supply. you're talking about two, three month supply of unsold homes compared to five or six nationally and some cities probably sev