we were piedmonts on the river -- piedmont, west virginia, is on the potomac river, two hours west of washington, so there's a whole marine mentality there, and so i became "the skipper." c-span: before we go back and talk about the past, what are you doing now? >> guest: i'm the chairman of afro-american studies at harvard and a professor of english. c-span: and how long have you been doing that? >> guest: this is the beginning of my fourth year. c-span: you write to your daughters in the beginning and you suggest that, eventually, after going through all the different names, they may get back someday to calling people of african-american descent or whatever colored. do you really think so? >> guest: yeah, it could well be. i mean, stranger things have happened. you see, most people don't realize that we called ourselves african in this country in the 18th and throughout the 19th century. i mean, not african-american, but african. for example, the african methodist episcopal church, which was formed in the late 18th century, has that name to describe black people. so the names have a

in 1967, mary schulte's father is at the helm of a piedmont airlines boeing 727, which collides with over north carolina, killing 82 people. >> two pilots show up at the front door, ring the doorbell, and inform my mother that my father's plane had crashed. and i told him that couldn't be true, because he was the best pilot. >> the outgrowth of it was a very strong commitment by piedmont airlines to be involved in to the traffic collision avoidance system, and some years later they were one of the first frk, if not the first, airlines to fly with an active tcas system on board. >> six years later, betty barrett is on board a charter jet when it collides with a dc-9 over france. all 68 on the dc-9 perish. everyone on betty's plane survives. >> my father was sitting in the aisle seat, and i was sitting on the right-hand side, and i turned around and he's very british and very stoic, and i said, daddy, do you think we're going to make it? and he said, i rather doubt it, darling, and pointed to the other wing. somebody sent me this picture of when we landed. and as you can see, the tires

piedmont, reports of rain there. not heavy yet. orinda light rain.rd, more light showers there. san jose area, right, this is about the north bay, looking at dry conditions. san jose right now, no reports of sprinkles yet. they should start to light up. most of the showers will be north of the san francisco airport. this system as it moves in tonight will bring scattered showers, rain totals from a half inch to quarter inch. hills maybe an inch. wednesday night system number 2, very weak, different than last week. not weak. not a widespread storm. stays north again. san jose, monterey, you will be on the south end of this. you will get some. 11:00 p.m. tonight, winding down. tomorrow morning, morning commute should be dry. afternoon commute should be dry. wednesday look goods in the morning. towards the afternoon clouds thicken up and over night wednesday into thursday morning it rains again. so this creates egg as for thursday -- issues for thursday morning. that is not a massive system. how much rain? well, computer model estimates, you are close o

that's basically including fairfax, prince william, louden, all your counties downtown into the piedmontand throughout charles county. so laplata, wall dorph. the further north you go, that is because an area of high pressure. enjoy your sunday and make any necessary treks. it's going to be treacherous to travel monday morning, so if you can stay indoors, do that. even just visibility is going to be really nasty during the day on monday and the snow will continue until we get into the evening. >>> currently we are dropping below freezing in gaithersburg. overnight tonight not too bad. the winds are light. you can see on satellite and radar, this is the actorraicra -- arctic front. this is thes is that's going to bring us the colder area. overnight tonight we're just going to be partly cloudy. not too terribly cold either. light winds out of the south. tomorrow morning, 30s 30s and 40s. it will be fairly pleasant. southeast winds at 5 to 10. more clouds in the afternoon. rain showers about 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon for most of us. we're going to watch that wintry mix move in during th

heaviest rain right now has been showing up on the peninsula, san francisco, marin county, piedmont, oakland. everybody getting wet. clayton and danville. livermore as well. dublin. rain showers showing up. back it out you can see that the temperatures are on am mild side. a warm storm. the afternoon commute is getting hit. this isn't a major storm but -- major storm but it will bring uta quarter inch of rain. -- bring us a quarter inch of rain. beyond that there is another storm system that will come in. we will see you back here. >>> 2 investigates tonight the long list of potential problems involving the eastern span of the bay bridge before the state takes ownership it wants to make sure nothing on the list will cause problems in the future and we are getting a look at what still needs to be done. ktvu's tom vacar joins us now, live in the news room where he  is pouring through the paper work. >> reporter: it is plenty of paper work. thousands of items. >> reporter: the bridge that was open labor day meets all requirements but it is not done. punch lists is 8 different lists, 14

the hotspot right around the piedmont. little snow out in the higher elevations. well, this low will continue that in the morning. maybe d.c. seeing that morning commute with a little wintry mix, but the low goes offshore. that's all we need to know. things are improving, guys. and then, of course, the temperatures look so good into the southeast. keep in mind. northeast is going well up as well. midwest, temperatures going up for just about a day. that's good, right? 40s, 50s, have you heard that in a while? >> very good. thank you very much. >>> stocks at record highs ahead of the jobs report at 8:30. asian markets ending the week higher, stocks in europe a little weak so far. and in the early going, it looks like stocks here will open mixed. this has been a wild week for the markets, two days of record highs for the s&p. yet, major concerns over the ukraine/russia crisis. an average investor might be wondering, what do you do? >> the best thing that investors can do are three things. first off, develop a portfolio of we

we can see it out to mount diablo and berkeley and oakland and piedmont and emeryville and kensington, all basking in the shine. concord right now, 71. you are tied with livermore. oakland, all checking in at 70. and check you out san francisco. 68 degrees. not that much farther behind as we are getting in many areas, a light offshore wind. this has been indicative of the entire month. our temperatures are running 4 to 6 degrees above average. that's a big deal when you're talking about the entire month. santa rosa, 5 1/2 degrees above average and san jose 4 degrees above average. and the hits will keep on coming. it's cool in the morning if you're walking the kids to school. lower 40s for you. there's santa rosa. san jose tomorrow morning 46 degrees. but it has been and will be all about this big ridge of high pressure. it is very active out in the eastern pacific, but none of this will make it here because that ridge will block any significant rainmaker. we will have a weak front passing by to the north on friday, but high pressure will be at its strongest tomorrow and thursday. tem

and freezing rain and big time rain just east of raleigh, but a mixture from greensboro through piedmont zoom in. notice how we're seeing a little echo along i-81. i'm concerned a little about i- 81 tomorrow because of the upslope and the winds blown up the mountains. if you are south of this line, that's where you got to be concerned. north of this line i think you'll be fine into montgomery and loudoun county. we'll zoom in again. you can see a little precipitation along i-81. if there's any problems, it's going to be between i-81 south and south of i-66. yellow alert friday, wintery mix for rain, mix and rain actually. a.m. mix mainly south and west along i-81 and in the afternoon the precip is mainly south of i-66 and route 50 and then by afternoon it's just wet with some rain primarily east of i- 95. that's going to be light activity. i think it's going to be dry gaithersburg and leesburg north. here's a look at our futurecast. look at this carefully. by 5:00 in the morning a little mix south and east of town and by noon it's still just barely into southern maryland. it's not to the

the green and blue, blue may be puddling and ponding in the hills off piedmont as well. no major concern. there is the some debris on the approach to the bay bridge. as you saw we had a light flow of traffic. the rest of the bay not even green butdy see a couple of damp patches. no big concerns for the rest of the south bay and the north bay we see damp roads through san rafael. where the truck is stopping you see the puddling. back to you. >> thanks so much. now on to developing news, state senator lee land yee is out on bail following his arrest and one of the biggest political scandals in recent bay area history. yee returned home last night looking tired following an appearance in federal court and posting $500,000 bail. the fbi says yee was part of an illegal weapons deal. christie smith live in san francisco sun set district with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. senator leland yee has returned home. there are reporters outside of his home. when he did return home he didn't have a lot to say but he did speak quite a bit to undercover agent

the idea that the good guy to kentucky to the state is a key to be good to me it was good in the piedmont. i just east of politics have become the hallmark of the ep. so my juniors to an atp spokesman on two screens that actions like these unconstitutional means of protest. when getting on the casino. he complimented each other the home of the bike beyond incredible. it is that the record on that. the deacons to die. they eat. he has given the indian political scene a shakeup in recent months. beginning as an anti corruption movement the party is keen to make a mistake in fact in the upcoming ten elections. with opinion polls pointing to the ruling congress party having a bad showing at the post that he is the nukes to be the only county seat is determined to get bt his own gun. it was still going to be shipping out and he is donning shelter from a job a deep that it needs to follow government on me pretty fast twenty fourteen. it needs the support of other political parties may indeed be on the other hand maybe the expected that could upset calculations father b j d smith of the crash si

my kids today in the piedmont of a thirty seven and climbed on a thirty eight thirty. our business i said thank you very much. now as you might expect syria is one of the most dangerous countries the people from the media in the world right now. nicholas hummus trim from sweden was one of two journalists abducted and held captive for six weeks torches and then released back into. this has chosen one of his speeches as to what the top of the year we were hoping to guide and george attention to the park attendant was suffering as it is out of the conflict there eleven year old daniel was playing outside in the syrian city of aleppo. when she was hit by shrapnel. swedish company has promised room to discuss the innocence and the suffering of the syrian youngsters deprived of childhood stolen. up to three years of conflict. photos like these remind the world of a war to remains largely unseen. the new nurse on jimmy's first lady is a unicef ambassador. she's just returned from visiting assyrian refugee camp in jordan. millions of children have been caught up in the complex

two days of snow, sleet, and ice knocked out power in the central part of the state, the piedmont. it should take until wednesday to restore power to everyone there. for the second year in a row, conservatives at the cpac conference outside of washington picked kentucky senator rand paul as their choice for president in this afternoon's straw poll. paul came in at 31%, followed by texas senator ted cruz, and dr. ben carson. new jersey governor chris christie came in fourth. in the past three cpacs, winners have gone on to claim the republican nomination. this weekend has brought a break in the murder trial of oscar pistorius. the double amputee sprinter, known as, "the blade runner," who is accused of killing his girlfriend. the first week of testimony included witnesses who said pistorius had a dangerous history with guns. here's deborah patta. >> reporter: it was a week of dramatic and compelling testimony that began and ended much the same way, with oscar pistorius running against media gauntlet to get to and from court. neighbors of pistorius took to the stand to detail how the

you can't love everyone wait no somebody can't love everyone but you gotta wait in love yourself piedmontr readers as bad as everyone says. when angelo is coming after that harcourt is as bad guess but note mark davis that made some signings wait a week here. of given a chance. right a little look too good will see. >> : sector is running and tired legs what about you. yes i think he played a lot early season miss. his quandary. was to get the playoffs your guess see is less. >> : or one-sided and some of us are a little ignorant to hockey. once the playoffs, will be there. richard when they will not be as funny as you think you are. i can't believe that. that may be coming it may soon richer but this for very much for watching and apparently hitting. don't be a hater. >> : back to miss more. coming up a house of the original rivers will be recognized for their work and world war two + newborn girl undergoes very seamanlike surgery as the zoo in san diego. find out how she's doing tonight. >> : big story is police are investigating several reports of sex thing between middle schoolers at

orinda, piedmont, in that area. wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour. even 55 miles per hour.continue strong wind throughout the night. that's going to be the windiest location. the reason for the wind is the high pressure building in. high pressure is also setting us up with the warmth. tomorrow warmer than today which will be warmer than the next day as we head into thursday and friday. this high pressure is the reason we're dry. it's the reason we're windy as well. low pressure gets close to it. the two try to balance each other out. the winds start going this way. normally the winds go this way. they're going this way now. gives you an offshore flow. because you're sinking and warming. and also sets us up with the funnels. this wind as well as you're coming off 24, pretty gusty and it will blow your car around. 60 currently in san jose. pretty warm out there. 72 tomorrow in fairfield. 71 in vallejo. 70 in richmond. we head into your bay area wednesday and they're not very winter like. if you have hay fever or bothered by these kind of things. next couple of days with the w

lets go to piedmont, guess who is putting in overtime today. talk to fifth graders. drizzle, 56, heading home, students, about 64. we're going to have some fun. get ready. have some great questions and we'll learn a lot about weather. speaking of oakland, lets look at next week. look at this roller coaster. today 56, still above average, 70s over the weekend. chance of rain monday morning, back into the 70s next week. temperatures well above average. traveling around the state, southern sierra, that's where the showers and snow showers are. those are going to fall apart. a few showers around tahoe today, in fact rain right now, 45 at lake level. up to 47, mid-50s through chico and sacramento, 73 in los angeles. thankfully things are starting to calm down a little bit if you're traveling. staying here at home, here is sue. >> thanks, mike. fyi, if you're headed to tahoe, no chains required there. we've got an accident -- well, actually the accident is gone but residual back-up from the earlier accident in emeryville, a live look outside. those h

orinda, piedmont, in that area. wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour. even 55 miles per hour.continue strong wind throughout the night. that's going to be the windiest location. the reason for the wind is the high pressure building in. high pressure is also setting us up with the warmth. tomorrow warmer than today which will be warmer than the next day as we head into thursday and friday. this high pressure is the reason we're dry. it's the reason we're windy as well. low pressure gets close to it. the two try to balance each other out. the winds start going this way. normally the winds go this way. they're going this way now. gives you an offshore flow. because you're sinking and warming. and also sets us up with the funnels. this wind as well as you're coming off 24, pretty gusty and it will blow your car around. 60 currently in san jose. pretty warm out there. 72 tomorrow in fairfield. 71 in vallejo. 70 in richmond. we head into your bay area wednesday and they're not very winter like. if you have hay fever or bothered by these kind of things. next couple of days with the w

david micoff a brand awareness and marketing expert who owns piedmont avenue consulting in oakland says users will definitely owe sponsors something. their information. yahoo! hosts the event and even though the registration is closed right now, they've already signed up a chunk of 15 million players who didn't have yahoo! accounts previously. >> yahoo! is definitely going to gain from this, they're going to gain market share and get people excited about it and they'll start saying, hey, baseball is starting. you should do baseball. >> reporter: meanwhile the event's main sponsor quicken loans is getting you to fill out these forms on your home status and current mortgage rate 15 million people, can you say quicken loans says it's only looking to aggregate info to learn more about consumer trends and yahoo! has not yet responded to our interview request. one thing is clear while these companies have a rock solid guarantee of collecting crucial data, we'll all be at home calculating our odds of winning the big prize and survey says -- >> not so good. >> doesn't take a genius to figure th

fifth grade over in piedmont. beach elementary. talk to the fifth graders there. there they are. great kids. they had great questions. every time we go speak it seems like these kids get smarter and smarter at an earlier age. want to thank ms. med dris for inviting me. ms. sprague and misvalva. i had a great time. you have some great students. have them e-mail me if we didn't answer any of the questions. fun talk with those kids. thank you very much. hope you guys had a great time as much as i did. here's a look at what high pressure does on live doppler. light and variable the winds are this morning. look at the beautiful sunrise from the explore ra tore yum. nice to see it glistening off the ever so gently moving bay waters this morning. dry and warmer. light rain possible sunday evening. the north bay, the rest of it monday morning. extended warmth and dry weather through next week after we get through next monday. high pressure during the overnight hour, that's what will bring us the quiet conditions. high clouds, sure, they'll rome over it from time to time but notice where

up toward piedmont looking now where it was sunny with highs in the low 70s today.ere's a look at the beach now. it was cooler for you at the beach. you will get some fog tomorrow morning. highs there only around 60. 63 in downtown san francisco, fremont 66. san jose 68. concord 69. 70 livermore. san rafael 75 degrees. clear skies lead to chilly overnight temperatures. santa rosa in the 30s tomorrow morning, napa and fairfield 42. redwood city 45. san jose 46 degrees your low tonight. the ridge is back. you can kind of see -- even if i took away the h and arrows, you can see what's happening. all this moisture is coming up from hawaii like it did when it rained here a few days ago except this time it's not moving here. it's kicked up to the north by that ridge of high pressure. so you can see all of that moisture being deflected away from us now because the ridge is closer and stronger. it hangs out tomorrow. so if you couldn't get outside today, saturday is going to be equally as nice if not a couple of degrees warmer. then the ridge slides to the south. a subtle c

. >> reporter: a brand awareness and marketing expert who owned piedmont avenue consulting in oaklandays ewers will definitely owe sponsors something, their information. yahoo! hosts the events. even though the registration is closed right now, they have signed up a chunk of 15 million play whose didn't have yahoo! accounts previously. >> yahoo! is definitely going to gain. they will gain market share. they will get people exciteded about it and they'll start saying don't forget, basketball just ended but baseball is starting. you should do baseball. >> reporter: the event's main sponsor quicken loans is getting to you fill out these forms on your home status and current mortgage rate. again, that's 15 million people. can you say -- quicken loans says it's only looking to aggregate info to learn more about consumer trends and yahoo! has not responded to our interview request. one thing is clear, while these companies have a rock solid guarantee of collecting crucial data, we'll all be home calculating our odds of winning the big prize and survey says -- >> not so good. >> now, all hop

all the way from piedmont down through alameda, some pretty heavy rainfall.ou'll see this located over the greater bay area. give yourself extra time. this moved through the north bay and san francisco though it's clearing out right now. starting to press into south bay. we have wet conditions everywhere. you don't want to race out the front door with conditions like this. it could be a slower than normal drive. throughout the day, though, we're going to lose showers by about 1:00 p.m. in the north bay, clear conditions and 69 degrees. 65 in san francisco, 68 degrees in the south bay. clear by about 3:00 p.m. with clouds. and i want to show you how helpful this rainfall has been. so this is morgan hill. i shot this picture from a wedding at the end of january. so yesterday i returned to morgan hill and look at the difference. just absolutely beautiful out there. you're getting the same green hills, dublin, livermore, and it's nice to see this. as we head throughout the next couple days a warming trend. you'll notice that on the seven-day forecast. headed to t

rainfall already today approaching one inch in portions of the oakland hills and piedmont. ben lomond nearly an inch of rainfall. san francisco downtown more than half inch. petaluma more than half inch, san jose 1/10 of one inch. widespread steady rainfall gone for a while but these scattered heavier showers will continue with the wettest day in my forecast still to come. that's coming up in the seven- day forecast and right now, we actually have a tornado warning just north of the city of sacramento. details on that and when that wettest day for us is going to be coming up in a few minutes. >>> thank you. a big potential change at airport checkpoints. why the tsa wants armed guards there as you pass through. >> thousands of california teachers and students among big name entertainers. how community service is bringing them together in the bay area. ,, ,,,,,, ,, female announcer: through sunday at sleep train's big gift event get a $200 best buy gift card with purchase of selected mattress sets. or, get 24-months interest-free financing. sleep train's big gift event ends s

precious natural resources, from the great smoky mountains in the west to the national forest in the piedmont to cape hatteras national seashore in the east. and like so many north carolinians, my family and i love spending time together outdoors, whether it's hiking, fishing, biking or just enjoying the views and being outside. visitors from across the country travel to north carolina to experience the blue ridge parkway in the fall or to take a vacation in the outer bank in the summer, and tourism is an important part of our state's economy, generating $25 billion in economic activity and supporting over 390,000 jobs in my state. however, rising temperatures and extreme weather is putting those landmarks and resources at risk. in 2012, north carolina experienced a total of 40 broken heat records, four broken snow records, 13 broken precipitation records and 19 large wildfires. since 2000, north carolina has issued 14 disaster declarations from severe storms and flooding. this extreme weather doesn't just jeopardize the beauty of our coastline or put our forest at risk of wildfires. it also

now 26 pleasing settlement money to get back for the rest of his left piedmont long term of as a resultion will change from >> : his in support for the protestors and not doing anything illegal when news shot in the head with a beanbag projectile armed with high-powered rifle. he say that action went past that caught crowd control situation. >> : the mayor says that they regret the injuries in the wake of that incident they reforms and trained officers. >> : i hope this brings closure for all involved. >> : we're happy to attend a put this chapter behind us. city attorneys of multimillion dollar payout will actually save taxpayers money from drought. which could also result her and a much higher burdick. >> : coming up tonight at six federal agents involved in the fire investigation and south bay details ahead local officials get the government involved. >> : plus street closures get people parts recent end oakland. oakland running festival. the show you where to find on and which areas to avoid them gay community making way for by offering everyone a chance to take part and gay pride p

. >> i live in piedmont, you live in the apple.fancy cars around their once in a while. >> ok. >> but a tesla is a dime a dozen in the bay area? >> they are. >> the u.k., looking for $15 million in aid. >> catching on fire. >> today's top headlines brought to you by bdo. ♪ this is "bloomberg surveillance." i am here with tom keene and cory johnson. we have company news headlines right now, the winner among asian carmakers last month, they put a 16% jump in sales in february, whereas sales at honda slid seven percent and toyota's u.s. sales tumbled four percent. all to much, heading to pass the camera a this year. not even warren buffett can avoid the decline of newspapers. his newspaper properties saw bailey circulation drop according to their annual report. leadership fell at 26 of the publications that he owned. unilever has scrapped plans to force new jersey to embrace its reputation as the armpit of america. are you kidding? >> it was for dove products designed to show that armpits can be beautiful. new jersey residents made di

. >> the first pick is cado's ale house on piedmont avenue.nd it's family friendly which i think is important to point out. you want to bring the kids in too, enjoy baseball from a young age. >> good looking burgers. >> exactly. i think it's a local of fun, it's not only great stadiums but bars have a great reputation of really bringing fans together. >> one thing that you mentioned that if you're expecting big screens, not so much at cado's right? >> it's more of a laid back place to sit back with the family enjoy the game and get together. >> let's move to the easy lounge. >> another unsuspecting place. really high quality food here, so you know you aren't going to be eating just playing hot dogs and it's higher end and family friendly. i think that's always important to point out when it comes to baseball of course. >> of course, take the kids to the game. so tell us a little bit more about the easy lounge and what stands out about it? >> it's good for groups. i think that's important when you talk about sports, you don't want to show up al

notice around the piedmont, a little bit of wintery mix. this is that low that was in the gulf just a few days ago climbing up the coastline. d.c. looking for the wintery mix around commute time, but it is going offshore. temperatures will be allowed to improve. in the southeast, talking about 70s over the weekend. of course, this one cools you off for the first half of the weekend. everyone rebounds there after. by the middle of next week, there is still a chance -- there's a chance we could have another storm by the middle of next week. >> a misuse of our favorite "dumb & dumber" quote. >> i always agree with berman, so i got to go with that. >> he started it. i'm going there. >> now we know what the teams are. we'll settle this in the break. you ready? loosen up the sholders. >>> coming up on "new day," good news, bad news for chris christie. the bad news, a new poll suggests it may not matter. most republicans not behind christie for 2016. >>> pistorius' ex-girlfriend breaking down. we're going to take you live to south africa ahead. [