party almost literally any country on the face of the earth with the exception of a few south pacific islands vote for the united states no matter what with all due respect anybody would be a better mediator than the united states almost literally anybody because united states has shown such a degree of bias and is so closely connected to the israeli position on so many issues here is the message i would have been in the book for others i mean is this not a vital interest for europeans for russia for india for china they get their energy from the middle east this is a vital interest for them america doesn't get its energy from middle east and it's going to be energy efficient like russia very soon but the countries that. their energy from middle east have a vital interest in doing something about this and they have just but they've done very very little i think they have to push a lot harder for a little more fairness a little more even handedness in mediating this conflict dr rashid khalidi thank you very much for your time it was a pleasure thank you. oh . i think going down of the sun and

just for everyone that's here tonight my people the samoan the pacific islander or the lowest terms of achievement. you've advocated so long conspires and you. i was specifically hired because of that situation the needs for a bilingual. some of our other colleagues can talk about the reclarification but i was hired because of that. and my certain is how can you consider to layoff the last samoan of this tribe. we were told to serve the justice for all students. and gives me a question what do you weigh in terms of the needs of the students. but if the needs of the samoan is the lowest it's got nothing to do with that need or you're going to keep that particular person that can meet that need. you can't proof it by killing the chicken that lays the golden aid and i'm here to bring it to your consideration. consider the need of the deduct school districts. i'm very, very proud of my success in my school i reach the minority that can't be reached. here in the school district i've gained more african-american parents than any other school. my father passed away after 40 years of service.

pacific island of guam within their reach. the north koreans were reacting to new united nations sanctions and joint military drills between u.s. and south korean forces. >>> i think that we would certainly welcome any steps taken to back down from provocative stances that pyongyang has taken. >> she also has doubts about their weapons. >> we don't think they about the capable to deploy long-range missiles. >>> forces are conducting fire drills off the western coast of the korean peninsula. they say it's an attempt of tipping tensions to into an actual war. they said the drills began on sunday. they say they will retaliate if a single shell falls within their territory. they say there are no drills under way near the islands. >>> tokyo share prices surged on tuesday to their highest level in nearly five years. the nikkei index broke through the symbolic 14,000 mark. it regained the levels before u.s. investment bank lehman brothers went bankrupt and triggered a global financial crisis. the nikkei claimed 3.5% ending at 14,180.

thank you for your countless years of service to the san francisco public schools to the asian pacific islander community and the city of san francisco as a whole. thank you, mr. waung. [ applause ] >> hello, there. very new at this. they told me i only get one minute to say something. it will be one minute. let me get my notes here. [ laughter ] >> that's something as an introduction here and it's something i do at school here. i always start off with something that is funny, but i have to say that teaching is not a job. it's an adventure. besides every successful man, there is a great woman. and that's my wife, lynn. [ applause ] and i have to say the other side london breed. she was my asb vice-president 1992. i know, don't tell them, but she was great there. and i really appreciate principal mr. black shear to be here and also i have some of my associate student body officers here and i really do want to recognize norman yee because he graded from galileo and he's done a lot for our school here. that's something i want to pass off an i started student teaching at galileo about 1970. that's

what's the highest level of education he's completed or is he pacific islander or other? folks, the government, the government, listen to this, the government says census information is necessary for distributing government services, but the real plans for this information are anybody's guess. or everybody's guess. because according to reports published in the highly prestigious "the internet," census data could very well be used to make a database of gun owners for confiscation or the direct u.n. troops where to kick in your door or for something even more sinister, like tracking the corn harvest. terrifying. it's like that horror movie "aggregate yield of the children of the corn." besides... [cheering and applause] besides, we don't need to count corn. i'm pretty sure at this point monsanto has genetically engineered corn so much it can count itself. but some people out there are not so thrilled about defeating the info-nazis. >> imagine if suddenly these numbers disappeared. >> no unemployment rate, no gdp numbers, no economic data at all. >> this would make it almost

today we have a special roundtable discussion in celebration of asian-american and pacific islander heritage. kristen seading a conversation with local leaders about current issues that face our bay area community. >> eric: we do have a. >> kristen: each worked hard for a variety of causes and there is a real commitment to improving our communities in the bay area. we have billy wong, president and ceo bay tag a nonprofit media producer. welcome. and welcome as well is festival director for asian and american media that funds and distributes films and digital media. and also the director first of kind citywide campaign to fight chronic hepatitis, a disease that affects so many asian-americans. thank you all for coming. look forward to a fantastic conversation. let's start with you. a very successful festival, tell us about that. i know thousands of people attended. >> absolutely. thank you. it starts in march and 11 day festival here in san francisco, oakland and berkeley. we had about 3,000 people that attended. we played over hundred films, many of which were premieres. >> kristen: congr b

think were sharing a cabin -- they were sharing a cabin on a 10-day pacific island cruise. authorities believe they jumped or fell overboard. wow. >>> well, rescuing animals stuck in trees is not anything unusual for firefighters. >> plenty of cats and dogs have been saved, but how about a bird? check out this pelican trapped in a tall tree in florida. one of its wings appeared to be wrapped in a fishing line which then got snagged on a branch. firefighters on a ladder truck were able to free the bird. but it was a tricky process trying to get it out. think the bird will be okay, though. >> looks like it. gave them a helping hand. >>> how about traffic, liz? what's going on? >> reporter: let's go out to the bay bridge. they turned on the metering lights at 5:54. if you commute into san francisco every day you know that that's pretty early. usually they turn them on after 6:00. it turns out mobile 1 drove across the upper deck and there is a stall there. they are working to clear it right now. that's why they turned on the metering lights early, likely, and delays now to the

it is hispanic, pacific islanders, white, native americans, it is everybody. when they leave that room, they go back to their communities that are segregated. they, too, do not like it. it is a barrier that has to be torn down. i know it works. being in there for the last four years, we make it a point that everybody mixes up, even the seating. you do not just sit with a black person or a white person. it is about all of us, or none of us, and that is the bottom line. it has to be that mentality. >> it is a way to control the prisoners. it takes the pressure off the guards and everybody else. they say we want to stop violence, but you promote a violence by segregating. when an individual comes, the first in the asking, where are you from? what is your nationality? that is how to divide and conquer. that is the way the united states is made up. that is how you work. north and south vietnam, for instance. they divide people so that the pressure will not be on them. that is how i see the system. i see it in prison, how they divide inmates. it is scary if inmates

thank you for your countless years of service to the san francisco public schools to the asian pacific islander community and the city of san francisco as a whole. thank you, mr. waung. [ applause ] >> hello, there. very new at this. they told me i only get one minute to say something. it will be one minute. let me get

of which over 58% are asian or pacific islanders and 39% speak none or limited english. and over 30% of the seniors age 60 and older lives alone. the senior center located in district 1 and senior center located in district 4 serves over 200 seniors a day. in the past year with the budget cuts and nutrition program we have to limit our service. we had to turn away seniors who simply want to find a place to stay out of hunger, a place to hang out with friends, a place where they call their second home. besides our nutrition program, betop is another program for our seniors. three hours on the day of the press release, all of our places are filled and we have to generate a very long waiting list. we need the funding to provide the tech support, system maintenance in order to keep our seniors connected to the world to get roots and to their distant loved ones. on behalf of our seniors i would like to thank you, mayor lee, supervisor mar, supervisor tang, and [speaker not understood] for the engagement over the past years and future support in self-help nutrition programs an

after greeting people at the asian-american and pacific islander heritage month event mr. obama wound up with a lipstick smudge on his collar. >> i have to say i think i know the culprit. where's jessica sanchez? [ laughter ] >> jessica, it wasn't jessica. it was her aunt. where is she? [ laughter ] >> auntie, right there. look at this. look at this. [ laughter ] >> i just want everybody to witness. so -- i do not want to be in trouble with michelle. that's why i'm calling you out right in front of everybody. >> and he did call her out. earlier in the day, the president was in new jersey touring areas recovering from hurricane sandy with governor chris christie. >>> justin bieber in trouble again, why he was confronted by an nfl superstar. >> too cute for their own good. what's behind the bay area's sudden kitten crisis. >> the clock is ticking down. how you can get into the sf moma before it close. tell you about that when we come back. >>> let's check the microclimate forecast. fremont, we have sunshine coming your way after a few clouds this morning. 68 degrees. warmer

it was a trustee for several groups of islands in the south pacific. it eventually became three sovereign countries. these islands are located in strategic areas that are important to our national security. one of these islands is the closest island east of lomb where the united states has significant military assets. -- east of guam. united states operates the ronald reagan ballistic missile defense test site. because of the importance to the national security, when these three countries became sovereign the united states signed bilateral national security agreements with each country. these agreements give us an exclusive military rights to lmilitary bases on these islans but no other country can do so. these national security agreements are called a compact free association. for exclusive military rights the united states get the citizens the right to live and work in the united states for an unlimited amount of time and without need for a visa. have theseuntries privileges. there are only about 200 citizens and, and today about 50,000 of them live i

know a small town it's kind of rural city it's very multicultural full of you know a lot of pacific islanders aboriginal people macedonian people and so i feel like it's really important that this side of history. which is often not talked about or not represented a multicultural sort of i think it's important for me to speak about that as someone of a. an already background and it's sort of the same here you know because oftentimes you get fed one narrative and i think it's really important to complexity and different facets to the idea of a struggling identity absolutely and it seems that you embrace a lot of dark things about humanity and a lot of positive things about humanity especially a generation x. i mean our generation. with homes like my generation and also to slam poetry that you gave at the for ted at the sydney opera house really highlights kind of the darkest and best things how do you juggle the relationship between the two concepts of this person is an optimism that you see one of my favorite writers is a nigerian and he talks about how you can't deal with a lot unless you do

the mayor's office and pacific islander affairs is organizing the event. >>> today marks a big day for facebook. why mark zuckerberg and his company might be popping bottles. >>> today prince george's public schools are looking for bus drivers. there's a job fair happening at wise high school. job seekers must bring a copy of their driving record. the school will pay for training for new hires. the job fair runs until 1:00 this afternoon. >>> today marks one year since the world's biggest social networking site went public on wall street. facebook had its ipo a year ago today. many believed it it would be bigger than amazon, but the highest sale date was 23 cents higher than its sale on day one and has not been as high since. it's estimated at $63 billion, two-thirds of what it was a year ago. >> seems like it's been more than a year. >>> next a heads up on an event that might force you to take a detour today. >> history returns to the track. the preakness. how the annual race is putting a spin on preakness stakes today. >>> whether your horse is a mudder or not a mudder, they are goin

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last night he delivered some brief remarks at the white house celebrating asian american and pacific islanderle the president was in defensive mode again after spotting lipstick on his collar. >> a sign of the warmth is the lipstick on my collar. [ laughter ] i have to say i think i know the culprit. where is jessica sanchez? jessica, it wasn't jessica it was her aunt. where is she? auntie, right there, look at this. [ laughter ] look at this. i just want everybody to witness. i do not want to be in trouble with michelle. that's why i'm calling you out right in front of everybody. >> bret: the person missed big time. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. that is it for this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. "special report" online starts in five seconds. >> harris: this is the fox report. tonight, just released documents said to show exactly who signed off on the irs targeting conservative groups. and an american woman held in a mexican jail on drug charges. but, was she an innocent victim? mexican forces say they found nearly 12 pounds of marijuana under her bus seat. a

he was attended an asian- american and pacific islander heritage event when he wound up with lipstick on his collar. >> i think the -- i think i know the culprit. jessica san sanchez. it wasn't jessica. it was her aunt. auntie, look at this. [laughter] >> look at this. >> i just want everybody to witness. [laughter] >> i do not want to be in trouble with michelle. [laughter] >> jessica sanchez was the runner-up on "american idol" last year and was one of the performers at the white house last night. >>> two home invasion suspects are wanted for breaking into a woman's santa rosa home and tying her up in front of her 3- year-old. police it happened on inglewood drive around 12:40 yesterday afternoon. the women reported two women anput her child under a house blanket. then they robbed the house of cash and valuables. the woman was unable to untie herself and call 911. she and the child were not hurt. >>> 7:19. there's new report that shows mothers are the primary or even the only source of income for 40% of all income. more than 5 million hers are married mothers with higher incomes tha

here, celestial navigation is taught on a south pacific island. we begin to learn language and other symbolic systems at birth. in time, they become a part of who we are and how we perceive the world. still, it's difficult for those of us in one culture to fully understand the symbolic systems of another. for archaeologists, the task is even more complex. the cultures they study can no longer be directly observed. archaeologist david webster. webster: suppose i came into this stadium a week, or even a century, after all the people left. how would i figure out what happened here ? what this arena was used for ? this is the dilemma facing archaeologists. symbols are of fundamental importance in understanding any human culture because they're so laden with meaning. but they're not very durable, and even if we find them, often we can't decode them. in this case, though, i'm in luck because of this -- writing. writing is a set of graphic symbols that is directly or indirectly related to language. keach: we use writing to convey very specific informatio

a full million of the 11 million undocumented population is asian and pacific islander.o one is talking about that. >> so we're talking about lbgt and the is this something they won't agree o. upon? >> i think, again, right now the family provisions in terms of make being sure that we can sponsor right now our country looks the way that it does because a the lot of our asian american and pacific islander immigrants who became naturaled citizens were able to sponsor their siblings to come here. i come from a large filipino family. the bill we're saying that we care more about employment than we care about family. that's a big shift. and we're seeing asian american -- the api community trying to figure out, wait a second, like don't sell us out. to me it's an interesting timing when they could be working together. i personally would like to see more of that. >> before we go, just to give a sense of how many how many we're talking about, it's limited 40,000 couples would benefit, 900,000 lgbt immigrants. one third undocumented. what will you be watching in the coming week?

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those are asians and pacific islanders. >> got two. >> before you take it out, you have to check withrn it in you have to check again, let the officer check it again. they don't have to worry about what's missing and what's not. >> inmate minha tor a native of cambodia, only services the others, like fellow cambodians. >> i give haircut by inmates assigned to other slot. so he cut the other's hair. we are the minority of the prison. we're the smallest group in the prison. >> could a white barber cut your hair? could a black barber -- >> no. i mean, if you're really cool with the person, yeah. but i prefer to be cut by my own people. to be safe is better, stick to our own. >> safe. and well groomed. >> how is he as a barber? >> he's good because he did that as his profession on the street. so we got one real barber here in prison. >>> due to mature subject matter viewer discretion is advised. >>> msnbc takes you behind the walls of america's most notorious prisons. into a world of chaos and danger. now, the scenes you've never seen. "lockup raw." >>> inside every prison there's one que

president obama setting the record straight on where he got lipstick on his collar at an asian pacific islanderestival at the white house. michelle obama probably liked hear this. take a listen. >> a sign of the warmth is the lipstick on my collar. i have to say i think i know the culprit. where's jessica sanchez. jessica -- no, it wasn't jessica. it was her aunt. where is she? au auntie, right there, look at this. look at this. i just want everybody to witness. so i do not want to be in trouble with michelle. >> i'm sure the aunty doesn't mind getting lipstick on the president's collar there. speaking of michelle obama, the first lady is in boston. she's going to revisit some of the victims that she met with last month. >>> illinois may become the first state to approve marriage equality. they i've been pushing for a vote in the state assembly before they adjourn this summer. >>> ten members of congress are urging the congress to change the name. the name is considered offensive to many americans. schneider said that he will never change the name. >>> a historic new policy from the peace corps

obama had to clear things up last night when he spoke at a celebration for asian-american and pacific islander heritage people for the month honoring them. turns out the aunt of former "american idol" contestant jessica sanchez had put him in a bad spot. >> i want to thank everybody who's here, the incredible warmth of the reception. a sign of the warmth is the lipstick on my collar. i have to say, i think i know the culprit. where's jessica sanchez? jessica -- it wasn't jessica. it was her aunt. where is she? auntie, right there, look at this. look at this. i just want everybody to witness. so i do not want to be in trouble with michelle. that's why i'm calling you out. right in front of everybody. >> lucky he had witnesses for that. >>> next, who says congress doesn't do anything? you might not have been impressed with the work product of the last congress which passed just 240 bills in the last two years all together. but they could agree on one thing. post offices. 46 bills. nearly 20% of the post offices were naming local post office branches, according to the congressional research servi

. >> after greeting people at the asian-american and pacific islander heritage month event, mr. a lipstick smudge on his collar. >> itch to say i think i know the -- i have to say i think i know the culprit. where is jessica sanchez? no, it wasn't jessica, it was her aunt. where is she? [ laughter ] >> auntie, right there. look at this. i just want everybody to witness. so i do not want to be in trouble with michelle. that's why i'm calling you out. right in front of everybody. >> he called her out, all right. earlier there day the president was in new jersey touring areas recovering from hurricane sandy with governor chris christie. jessica sanchez, by the way, an "american idol" contestant. >> i think she was runner-up. cute gal, big voice. how do you kiss a guy right there, though? she missed the cheek. >> when you hug someone you accidentally smudge. >> there you go. >>> next half hour coming up a tea kettle controversy. why a california billboard is getting so much attention. >> and a train collision triggers a massive explosion. the damage and search for answers in a balti

had to do a little explaining after greeting people at the asian-american and pacific islanders heritage event. mr. obama wound up with a lipstick smudge on his collar. here's the president. >> i have to say i think i know the culprit. where's jessica sanchez? jessica, no, it wasn't her, it was her aunt. where is she? [ laughter ] >> auntie right there. look at this. look at this. i just want everybody to witness. [ laughter ] >> so i do not want to be in trouble with michelle. that's why i'm calling you out right in front of everybody. >> a little stand-up there, huh? >> michelle wasn't buying it. earlier in the day he was in new jersey touring areas hit by hurricane sandy with chris christie. >>> a check of your top stories coming up. >> if you are going to climb to the top of everest, why not just jump off? this guy did it. we'll tell you what happened coming up. ,,,,,, female narrator: sleep train challenged its manufacturers sleep train challenged its manufacturers to offer even lower prices. but the mattress price wars ends sunday. now it's posturepedic versus beautyrest with big s