i spent three and a half years of my life in ponte city. 12 after doing a story on, what is this infamous landmark on the johannesburg skyline? ponte opened its doors in 1975. it was built for the top 1% of society. there were saunas, wine cellars. this actually was the first floor of a 3—storey apartment. berea, the specific suburb where this building finds itself, has always been very cosmopolitan. during apartheid the government didn't want black people to partake in certain sectors of the economy and imported a lot of skills. so what you had was a lot of german engineers mixing with portuguese artisans, anybody like immigrants, expats, coming here and just making a life for themselves. very, very diverse. what it resulted in was a lot of racial mixing as well. the foreign residents brought with them more liberal values and less regard for the apartheid laws. according to nickolaus, the government reacted by cutting off services to the building. as many white residents left for the suburbs, ponte‘s fortunes declined. no running water, no

i spent three and a half years of my life in ponte city. loor of a 3—storey apartment. berea, the specific suburb where this building finds itself, has always been very cosmopolitan. during apartheid the government didn't want black people to partake in certain sectors of the economy and imported a lot of skills. so what you had was a lot of german engineers mixing with portuguese artisans, anybody like immigrants, expats, coming here and just making a life for themselves. very, very diverse. what it resulted in was a lot of racial mixing as well. the foreign residents brought with them more liberal values and less regard for the apartheid laws. according to nickolaus, the government reacted by cutting off services to the building. as many white residents left for the suburbs, ponte's fortunes declined. no running water, no electricity. this is when you hear the really crazy stories that we were brought up on in johannesburg in the 80s and 90s, about this building being the place where angels fear to tread, you know? because quite literally,

working on is ane initiato generate zero waste in the city, and that's big because wh you put trash at landfills, it generates methane which is much more ponthan carbonmo oxide. other cities joined in that initiative to try to commit to zero waste which ey probably won't do anytime soon, but it's a very admirable goal. >> as a whole, do the local initiatives r enough? do they have quantifiable goals, many of them, orst are they j sort of, you know, paying lip service almost to the cause? >> well, it's definitely not lip service, but it's also not far enough. one of the real features of the summit was to learn from one city to the next. singapore does something really innovatn electric vehicles, having on-road charging for them, so you can pay y withr easy pass kind of thing. another city has a program to invest in urban infill agriculture. one place needs to learn from the other. that's what the summit is getting done. as california hasnd exceeded its goals -- in fact, california met its 2020 goal 3 1/2 years early. so california is now down to about 1.1% of global emissions. so this summit is really an effort to partner, and so i spent a l

teenager multiple times in twenty fourteen footage of instance pont massive protests john hendren has it all in the most violent major city in the u.s. the trial of a generation threatens to set a match to a racial tinderbox we had a young african-american male executed executed jason vandyke the case hinges on this video when sixteen shots it captures the racial tension of the most segregated city in the us propels the black lines matter movement and threatens to draw a bright new red line over which police cannot cross. most of chicago police officer jason van dyke's bullets landed in look kwan mcdonald's back she's. a toxicology report found macdonald had taken the drug p.c.p. he was carrying a knife later found closed but was clearly shown walking away vandyke was reloading when a fellow officer told him to hold fire now the jury's verdict resoundingly not just here in chicago but across the u.s. and perhaps around the world. the tape itself on review shows no imminent threat. to officer van dyke safety or to any of the other officers at the scene none of the other officers weapons were drawn although the other office