thank you to everyone at peabody. [applause] >> george peabody students, let's show our visitors what a great job we do in the morning walking into our class. >> good morning, everyone. thank you for coming out today. we are going to get going. before we start, i want to thank the principal for hosting us here today. i think he is already getting to work, but i want to thank him for letting us come here and either disrupt or enhance the morning drop off, and -- depending on your perspective. i am the director of transportation here in san francisco. happy to be here for a very important reason. my tenure here stretches all the way back to monday when i had my first day as the head of the municipal transportation agency. although i have only been here for four days, i have been with the city for four years, and from the different perspectives i have served the city, i have been able to see and work on the issue that we are here to talk about today, which is pedestrian safety. particularly, safety for kids. kids need to

agreement with the president of peru that he would take these artifacts from machu picchu up to the peabody museum at yale and bring them back whenever peru asked for them. peru started asking for them a few years ago and yale basically said, you know, we've had this stuff in our basement for a long time. you're going to ask for it back now. >> jon: they're not even displaying it. it's in their basement. >> most of it is in their basement. they're studying it. most of it is pottery fragments and human remains. >> jon: most of it is the ancestors of the people requesting it. >> but it's not king tut's treasure. but because it is that stuff, it was a big deal for peruians to get it back. yale agreed to send it back in november of last year. >> jon: it should be noted that the gentleman who did find it before him, this burns fellow.... >> he was basically just there to steal artifacts as quickly as he could. we don't know if he was successful or not. >> jon: he was there 40 years before. >> 1867. >> jon: he also probably found the cocoa leaves i would manage. >> he also probably found cocoa le

with my peabody and my emmy.applause) what was it like in the '80s being a rock band somehow influential was reagan on your music? (laughter) for some reason it was a good time for us so i almost didn't mind reagan at the time. i figured that's why it was good, i don't know. maybe he suppressed everyone and it caused a social scene and it was the punks and the new wavers and to me it was a much more exciting time than now. >> stephen: see, i didn't care for that. the punks and new wavers seemed related to an art movement or social movement. >> that's what i think, yes. >> stephen: but shouldn't it just be about cash? because that's how you know who's successful. who has the gold albums. >> well, that's the way it is today. >> stephen: the "new york times" said on your show "they look no dorkier now than they did at their peak." (laughter) does that please you or are you disappointed that you haven't achieved greater dorkdom in the last 24 years? (laughter) >> well i thought it would be a little more dorky but i g

you're about to present the second installment of your peabody award-winning series "wonders of the universejuly 27th, 9:00 p.m. on the science channel. it has a companion book called "wonders of the universe." >> yes. i'll settle for that introduction. thank you. >> stephen: what kind of wonders of the universe are you talking about? is this like the sequence describing the shape of a sunflower and the shape of a galaxy or like ufos painted the mona lisa? what kind? >> neither of those. >> stephen: this is basic cable we're talking about. >> it's a history of the universe really, a history of what we know of the universe. >> stephen: a short book. just one volume? it must be in sonnet form. >> it's only been around for 13.73 plus or minus 0.12 billion years. >> stephen: who's counting. >> that tiny bit. >> but also the future of the universe. >> stephen: how can you write the future? >> we know roughly how the universe has evolved to this point. you can send that off into the future and you can predict how it's going to go, but the number in the series, which is the oldest thing we can imag

mayor ed lee joined other officials this morning to make the announcement at george peabody elementary school. they are lowering the speed limit from 25 miles an hour to 15 miles per hour. >> the police will be out there enforcing this. they will start out by telling people and educating them not just throwing out a citation and a fine right away. educating first so that people know gotta drive slower around the schoolles. >> schoolles -- around the schools. >>> president obama will spend the next week and a half on vacation. he's headed to martha's vineyard for some family time and a few rounds of golf. critics say he should not take time off with the state of the economy. but he promises to have a new jobs plan after his break. aides ad he's meeting with -- add he's meeting with economic advisers today before leaving for his vacation. >>> as advertised, the clouds clearing back to the coast. looking out a beautiful scene over san francisco bay. currently san francisco in the lower 60s. a little bit of haze out there. today, it will be warmer than yesterday. these are all minor change

energy group peabody and the world's biggest steel maker. the largest maker of pulverized coal, a raw material used in making steel. peabody has made a bid for macarthur last may, but that was rejected. bank of america is selling half of its stake in china construction bank. the deal is expected to help boa -- the stock up. the shares of china construction banks. reports say that singapore's sovereign fund may buy a part of the l.a.'s former state in the chinese bank. charles? >> overall, a solid day of trading in the united states with the stock markets recording significant gaps by the closing bell. surprising in a way because of the impact hurricane irene and making it difficult to get to wall street even. stocks rose off the news of that greek bank deal as mentioned. also we had that improved domestic consumer spending. closing numbers, a powerful rally. up by 3 and a third percent in the case of the nasdaq. equally 2 and three quarters for the s&p 500. the blue chips up by 2.25% at the dow. however, there is a however, some of those gai

the city officials announced the change this morning at george peabody elementary. they are letting drivers know that officers will be out enforcing that new limit. >>> a windmill in golden gate park is about to start turning again. they will provide the city -- they will not provide the city with power but the makeover including an eye-catching centerpiece. >> 9 years after it was stripped down to the bear bones this 106-year-old windmill is getting a new lease on life. >> it is really exciting at the moment. it is one of two. both were originally used to pump in fresh water from deep under ground to irrigate park plants. decades of deterioration prompted the park officials to dismandel it in 2002 and ship the major parts to the netherlands for repair. >> the sides and the slate siding was coming off of the sides. >> the $4 million in donations and city and state funding the windmill is almost ready to turn again. >> i remember this when i was growing up as a kid. and it will be nice to see it working again and spinning. crews already installed thousands of slate t

i spent years going through museum collections and opening up drawers in the basement of the peabody and the american museum of natural history where you are going through masses of artifacts, the striking black on white pottery of the anastazi, what is in this place? but the granary was not mine to open, it was left by other people, a stockpile waiting for their return. as i understand more of the anastazi, it is hard to say they ever truly vanished. the more i track them, it more it seems they are right in front of me until i can feel body heat in their foot steps. it is not unthinkable that somebody might return to this granary, maybe a century from now, relieved to find a sign of ancestry deep in this river gorge. i climbed down to this granary and laid my hand on its stone, feeling the grit of sand and the hardness of rock. a person could be found here in a thousand years, a person kneeling in the moment of decision. i climbed out and went back to my career, the obsidian night closing around me. i climbed into the canoe and swept the paddle across the water, setting a wake acros

today's visit took us to del rio botanical farm in yolo county, where suzanne peabody ashworth was keen to get restaurants to start trying the fresh fava beans and greens she's growing. >> so we'll take some of these greens into a couple of restaurants this morning and see what the chefs want to do with them. in sacramento, there's been an explosion of restaurants over the past 4 or 5 years in our capital. again, sacramento, california, agriculture, fruits and vegetables--there's a very bice link there and the interest that my customers have in this produce. >> we call at 5:30 in the morning and get the normal order, a then, along about 7:30, we get the emergency orders. and if the phone doesn't ring between 7:30 and 8:30, it's a really wonderful day. but if it rings around 7:30 or 7:45, we then have to hustle around and make sure that we have enough for jim, who's always early and picking it up and geing out to the restaurants real quick. [indistinct talking] >> so we've got salad greens today, fava greens. >> her fava beans and boxes of her braise mix were eagerly received at the magp

wage so it was stable pass a law that a law that disallows a city from increasing the minimum wage peabody coal and coke past and i climate legislation all of these corporations work together to pass anti voting rights laws because that helps them across the board elect more corporate friendly candidates and even tonight tonight as i mentioned there is a time warner cable party going on just how to plug away from my hotel and alec members have been given legislation to basically banned municipal broadband and you know alec bills itself and this is from its website as a jeffersonian organization devoted to individual liberty and democracy i don't see how banning it will grant broadband so that companies like time warner and cox communications have no competitors i don't think that has anything to do with what thomas jefferson had in mind mr everson is rolling in his grave how does the you just to lay this out for our viewers who may be unfamiliar with this how exactly does the alec process work. sure there are a core legislative staff in d.c. that helps coordinate everything they put out on

of what's happening in europe stock markets there are lower with banks leading to the kleins being peabody felt supercenter after reporting a one point one percent rise in second quarter profits swiss banks are also lower with credit suisse group all four point five percent and london shares xstrata tumbled two point two percent after the miner said first half net profit more than doubled. and there's a similar picture and moscow where both the indices are in negative territory the r.t.s. is down over one percent while the my sex is losing point seven percent there the second look at some individual moves on the my sex energy majors and banking stocks are way down the indices gas from n.b.c. b. are down about one percent there meanwhile russia's air carrier air flight is supported by positive results the company has almost doubled its that profit in the first half of the year reaching two hundred forty three million dollars. russian internet investment group d.s.t. global has bought five percent off social network twitter for four hundred million dollars that's according to the financial t

a the cultural affectation sometimes people just want to be able to go and learn and not have an peabody have any idea that that's where they went and if you know some of this is the holdovers from the days were if you did go to one of these events somebody might be keeping track of who you were i you know that doesn't really happen anymore but there's just a lot of history behind it but sell a lot of the reports will tell you that as i mentioned earlier the department of defense that department of homeland security that the n.s.a. that nasa always descend on these conferences because they're always looking for new recruits and i think that's especially true now that i say for example i know is planning on hiring fifteen hundred more people by the end of this fiscal year in september they want fifteen hundred people more for next year can you tell who these people are when you're at the conference. sometimes you can now if you can there's actually what's known as the spot that contests and you can win a t. shirt so you actually find a staff member you bring event on stage you explain why

the city installing the first 15 miles an hour sign outside of peabodyy elementary skaod today -- peabodymentary school today. each of the 200 schools will have three to four signs. >> the speeds and routes around our schools are dangerous. they need to be slowed down. >> the city reviewed studies from as far away from london to reduce accidents near schools. they are hoping to reduce pedestrian accidents by 50% citywide by 2020. >>> a massive makeover is underway. david stevenson is live at golden gate park where he went inside of the historic dutch windmill, daveid? >> reporter: that is right. we got an exclusive tour today as construction workers got this historic windmill ready to turn again. nine years after it was stripped down to its bones this golden gate park windmill is getting a new lease on life. >> really exciting at this moment. >> reporter: the windmill is one of two built just across from ocean beach in the early 1900s. both were originally used to pump in freshwater from deep under ground to irrigate park plants. decades of deteariation prompted the park officials to dism

and his sister elizabeth peabody worked with bronson at the temple's school.hat died out because of the scandal. what else do i want to tell you? there is so much to say. >> what about she didn't know before, something that was oh, really caught you by surprise and gained insight into her that you weren't expecting? >> that she was a runner kind of surprised me. i knew she had written these thrillers. some of her religious ideas at the end of her life she said she believed in reincarnation. when you look back at her other writings you can see she was a i wish i was a horse in a former state. i love to move so much. i found her very admirable. she really stuck it out with her family. i was surprised how talented she was at an actress and how serious she was about acting. she was a professional level actors and performed in the amateur stage a great deal. after she became famous she was asked to perform an impression of a character from dickens, a cockney kind of character and wax museum and was very pretentious and funny. she would perform this and raise thousa

. -- peabody. >> i guess my question, the time that you guys are the lowest.s there a memory of a personal belief system that you guys turn to? what was it that brought new hope to start again? >> a person i could turn to. >> in other words, what was the thing that could be -- whenever it was, what kept you hanging on in bringing you back to each other? at your lowest. >> i just knew if i would have called and he was going to be there. i knew it. >> you have fedex i had faith. when i called him he was going to be there for me. at it and want to, but i did. he was there. i was scared to call him. i did, and i knew he would be there. >> care to call him, talking about when you got off charge cards yes, when i got from selling drugs. yes. i was like, man, i don't know. i know he got beat. i called him. i need to talk to you. i never call him like that. >> would you say that knowing he had your back was what kept you going? >> yes he never just me. he didn't care what i did. he never said nothing mean, never treated this mean. the exact same way when we do as litt

hawthorne was a talented artist and her sister elizabeth peabody all worked with bronson at the temple it died out because of the scandals. what else do i want to tell you cut there is so much to say. [inaudible] either you didn't know before, something that was like oh, really caught you by surprise they you were not expecting? >> well, that she was a runner kind of surprised me. that i knew that she had written these trailers, but some of her religious ideas at the end of her life she said she believed in reincarnation. and when you look back on some of her other writings, you can see she is saying, think i was a horse in some form or stay. i love to move so much. i found her very admirable. she really stuck it out with her family. i was surprised how talented she was as an actress and how serious she was about acting. she was really a professional level actress, and performed in the amateur stage a great deal. after she became famous she was asked to perform this impression of mrs. george lee from dickens a hop in a kind of character who works at a wax museum and is very pretentious

>> peabody, bet -- >> they're both very important. >> if i could just follow up on that. it's really difficult with a big network. and, you know, as someone who was fairly young in the business, it was extremely difficult to fight the corporate overlords. i mean, especially when it gets into race and something that's controversial, i mean, what sponsors want to see is a racial -- least is a racial controversy around the show. so it was, i mean, i have to say it was extremely difficult, and i have -- i mean, what really bothered me was how so many of the kind of corporate media tv execs, they really underestimate the black audience. i had a top executive sit me down and say verbatim, that's not ready. and it was just really disheartening to think that they have it in their minds that we can only digest this kind of information and we're not smart enough, particularly young people, to get the irony or the sarcasm. they won't understand, they're going to be offended. and t really disheartening. i would go speak to colleges and everybody got it, they loved it, they thought it

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when we talk about quality we talked about peabody awards, in emmy awards.k is top notch and there is nothing there on tv. there's nobody there at this, nobody knows this industry better than sean and he's in a position that just presents would defer the issue is in the community colleges if it is investors in california, if it is like the school sleuth it's wonderful talking about how to find a good school and all the obvious things are brought up. there are things like how many cars are in the parking lot after 8:30, and it's that in-depth kind of look with no blinders come out of the box and learning matters has been there all these years and all the revenue by the way from what this goes to learning matters. he is donating 100% of the loyalties from this. this is not a book to lend to your friends. this is a book for you to buy and encourage your friends to go on amazon dhaka, and buy it. so all the revenues all of the royalties will go to learning matters. that being said, it is an incredible pleasure i recognize my good friend of, john merrow. [applaus

china's companies may be in bid for the company that would put it at competition with peabody. >> whenhis began six months ago or whenever it was, the price of oil jumped because everyone said uncertainty. now it is coming to an end, is the price coming down? >> yes. basically that is what is happening. analysts are seeing it as the end game in libya. if that is true it means more peaceful for the country as it picks up the pieces. the price of oil is trading at $185.81 a barrel. earlier today i spoke with an oil analyst named neil beverage. he said we could expect prices to fallower for the rest of the year and that the added supply from a more peaceful libya will impact the price. the slowing global economy will also bring the price down because of the data from the u.s., europe as well as a slowing china. >> thank you so much. >>> again, we are continuing to monitor the shrewd situation in libya. right now let's check on the other stories which are making news around the world. syria's president bashar al-assad said in an interview on state-run tv that elections in his country could