. >> andrea powell runs fair girls, a national organization dedicated to rescuing trafficked women. >k it is really important to understand for these victims held inside these illicit massage parlors, that every minute is being raped or waiting for the next man who will rape them. >> she said many are actually victim of a bait-and-switch scheme that turns american dreams into a nightmare. >> so our typical victim from a foreign country is approached by someone they know who says, i can offer you a job. you can work in this restaurant. life is going to be great. you're going to make thousands and thousands of dollars. you can come home and support your community. support your mom, support your family and life will be great. they get over here and they're told, you know what? actually, we paid a lot of money to bring you over hear and you're going to pay it back. the only way you're going to pay it back is involved in prostitution. if you run interesting police will catch you. if you run, you'll be arrested. you'll be in jail and you'll be deported and you'll be shamed forever and your

and colin powell -- it was like, "man, if i can get colin powell."ie foxx." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he wouldn't even look -- >> "i don't want any part of that molasses." [ laughter ] "i don't want any part of that basketball or whatever you guys are doing up there." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: basketball. that's not what it's called. >> "you're happy eating chicken. i don't want any of that." [ laughter ] "happy listening to hip-hop and all of that kind of stuff." [ laughter ] "you know, jamie foxx is a pin head get away from me, jamie foxx." [ laughter ] >> jimmy: no, he's kidding. say you're kidding. >> i'm kidding! that's what i said. i'm kidding. i'm kidding. i love bill o'reilly. i'm joking, man. i'm kidding. >> jimmy: i know. i know. you're a comedian. >> i have a movie over at fox. >> jimmy: i know. please. [ laughter ] >> i do. i have a movie. "rio." "rio 2" is on fox. >> jimmy: that's right. >> so, you know, it's all connected. >> jimmy: it's all connected somehow. but you know what i have to say. you're just a very talented guy. i know you know t

let's talk about this with patricia powell, founder and ceo of the powell financial group. 192,000 jobso push unemployment down. you are not going to do that unless you have economic growth of 3% and 4%. >> yes. these jobs numbers have been lackluster at best. how do we know that? we compare that to other recoveries. you want to look at a horrible recession, go back to the early '80s. you look when we hit that recovery after having double digit unemployment, we start ed creating 700,000 jobs a month. 192,000 and people celebrating, they're insane. >> that was economic growth in the reagan years. >> when it goes going. we have this lackluster recovery. >> let me show you this graph courtesy of the "wall street journal." this is the employment participation rate. look at that. it's down at an abysmal rate of 63.2%. hasn't been that bad since 1977. the employment number's more revealing, 58.9%. while unemployment has gone down, the labor rate has not recovered. >> this is serious. this is important and serious. >> can you blame the obama administration, their policies are just not working?

get in there. >> powell says he doesn't remember pointing his gun, only drawing it.oats say he pointed it, first at tamisha, then at ryan. while tamisha goes in, ryan decides it's best to stay outside, hoping the officer will understand their situation. >> r are you serious right now? >> you ran a red light. >> we went back and forth for a little bit. and then i realized that i was talking to a wall. i mean, he wasn't going to listen. he didn't care. >> did i not stop at the red light? did i not -- >> you stopped and then you blew through it. >> i waved the traffic off. >> it was still red. >> and then i turned. >> shut your mouth and listen. >> shut my mouth and listen? that's how you talk to me, dude? >> shut your mouth and listen. >> he was just, like, i can take you to jail, i can tow your car. shut your mouth. all this different stuff that i was thinking that wasn't appropriate for a cop to say to anybody. >> it's decision time for ryan. he knows if he stays he'll probably miss his opportunity to say good-bye and to be there for his wife. >> i was thinking i did

. >> the cooke county task force also includes crisis counselors like brenda powell, a former prostitute, who now works the other side of the street reaching out and offering guidance to girls and young women trapped in the life. >> in the 25 years i was in prostitution i've been shot five times, stabbed 13 times, beat, kidnapped, held against my will. all those things happen when you're in prostitution. every time you go out there and somebody puts a gun to your head, your chances get lessened, you know what i mean? i understand where they came from, who they are. who better to send in and talk to them than somebody who has been through it. that's what i do. >> it's a little after 1:00 p.m. when the task force sets up in the hotel near o'hare airport. this strip of hotels and motels is a well-known hot spot of the business of sex for sale in cooke county. male under covers in one room begin to make contact with women advertising sex for sell on backpage.com. >> hi, i'm looking at your add and hoping you're available sometime today. would you be able to come to me? i'm at a hotel in schi

the reaction of both o'neill and powell is startled.ummed it up, bush basically saying i want to overthrow saddam, find me a way to do it, not if, how. >> saddam hussein's past use of chemical and biological weapons and the prospect of him developing a nuclear weapon make him a prime target. as does the liberation of what iraq has under the ground. >> in the first meeting, rumsfeld says, imagine, imagine if iraq was essentially a client state of the united states. imagine how that would look. if they were a friendly state. if we had primacy and access and maybe control of their oil fields. and rumsfeld is pointed about this in the first meeting, in fact, oil fields. oil fields that will be essentially our oil fields. >> as the national security council trains its focus on iraq, president bush directs vice president cheney to head up a high-level energy task force. its operations are run out of vice president cheney's office. >> it was a highly secret operation and it was arranged to be that way. they tasked these people to hide away in

the reaction of both o'neill and powell is startled.ll summed it up, bush basically saying i want to overthrow saddam, find me a way to do it, not if, how. >> saddam hussein's past use of chemical and biological weapons and the prospect of him developing a nuclear weapon make him a prime target. as does the liberation of what iraq has under the ground. >> in the first meeting, rumsfeld says, imagine, imagine if iraq was essentially a client state of the united states. imagine how that would look. if they were a friendly state. if we had primacy and access and maybe control of their oil fields. and rumsfeld is pointed about this in the first meeting, in fact, oil fields. oil fields that will be essentially our oil fields. >> as the national security council trains its focus on iraq, president bush directs vice president cheney to head up a high-level energy task force. its operations are run out of vice president cheney's office. >> it was a highly secret operation and it was arranged to be that way. they tasked these people to hide away

back to emeryville, this is our drive at the oakland maze at powell street we had a stalled vehicle and c.h.p. came in, did a traffic break, moved the car to the side and traffic is slowing up to 580 and at the bay bridge toll plaza there is heavy traffic because the metering lights show quite a few commuters on the roads. >> in san jose there was a two-alarm fire this morning. it happened at a commercial building at 3:20 this morning with several businesses and billings but officials say the fire break out at a landscaping company there with crews knocking down the fire at 4:00. they are staying on the scene and you can see there are many of them to make sure there are no flare-ups. >> in san francisco, police are investigating another fatal pedestrian accident that happened at 11:00 last night at van ness and golden gate avenue. a truck was traveling north and hit the pedestrian not in the crosswalk. this is the seventh deadly accident in san francisco this year. >> san francisco police are investigating a case car tipping overnight. van vandals flipped several vehicles. but there is

are moving eastbound but they are not stopping at powell or montgomery station. the issue is at the montgomery station in san francisco. b.a.r.t. is saying there is a person under a train at mark sanchez. this is affecting the -- at the montgomery station, this is effecting all the lines coming in. major delays on b.a.r.t. because of a problem at the montgomery station. we are trying trying to find out how long this will last. when we have new information we will bring it to you hear. >>> investigators worked today to sort out how the deadly bus and truck collision happened last week in orland. a report is not expected for about a month. investigators from the national transportation safety board plan to remain for 5 to 10 more days and then they will goo elos angeles to -- go to los angeles to interview survivors. ktvu's rob roth talked to a friend of the woman who was driving the bus. she was one of the 10 killed. >> reporter: former co-workers knew her, she was always smiling, always friendly. >> we work 12, 13 hours a day, and you would come in and see her, l

happen until the election is certificate filed and t certified and the winner announced. >> conor powell, thank you very much. >> keeping voters safe a massive undertaking. about 200,000 afghan observers monitoring the vote, roughly ten observers per polling station. and afghan authorities deployed some 352,000 forces to provide security during the vote. >>> and meanwhile pakistan says it will release 13 taliban prisoners, possibly more, in an effort to make peace with the taliban which has led an insurgency in pakistan killing thousands of people in recent years. pakistan officials say they hope the taliban will release some prisoners on their side, as well. more talks are set for next week which could result in even more taliban being set free. >>> we're learning more about the ft. hood shooting massacre. investigators believe an argument may have triggered the deadly rampage at the army post. the alleged shooter, ivan lopez, killing three, wounding 16 other, before turning the gun on himself. a short time ago, two texas congressmen speaking out about this will tragedy. rick levinthat

ambassador for the united states is speaking, samantha powell. about the escalating crisis in ukraine. >> you have heard these last weeks russia saying it was not innovating. you have heard it publicly and we heard it privately. unfortunately the fact it that the armed seizure of buildings in six eastern ukrainian towns yesterday and several today mirrors the tactic russian forces used in the early tames of the crimea inveilings. then, too, officials from the russian federation spoke originally on in the crisis, disclaiming intention of occupying or invading. in in the earlier crimean case, highly equipment forces wearing uniforms and gear without invoicing insignia moved in first to take control, before later being replaced by russian military forces. then. >>, russia said it was acting to protect minority's rights. but the whole world now those that they weren't, as the o.s.c.e. reported, minorities at risk in crimea are tatars and ukrainians. you have heard that there are no russian troops in eastern ukraine. but the fact is that many of the a

street into berkeley so from emeryville you could see the buildup of traffic coming up to powell and university avenue and it starts to dissipate westbound traffic, the drive and building ever-so-slightly but then it looks to be clear making it over to the maze and into the bay bridge toll plaza and southbound 880 at the express way in san jose, a car hit some flashing lights and the construction signing but it is not blocking lanes but there is a slow down southbound reaching 101. >>> parents and students at an east bay school district have been warned, someone is soliciting inappropriate photos in students. amy hollyfield is in pleasanton with the details. >>> school district officials are encouraging parents to talk to their kids about social media. this is happening on instagram and officials have sent a message out to parents, e-mailing them warning them that someone has sent several kids a message requesting the teens send inappropriate pictures of themselves. parents say this is upsetting but they feel confident about their kids' judgment. >> i am not too concerned but we will

westbound 80 at powell. we also have will the of overnight -- a lot of overnight roadwork in the south bay and tell you all about it coming up. >> did you watch the moon last night? >> no i didn't see it at all. in fact a spectacular sight in the night sigh overnight. the moon was glowing reddish orange this morning. >> if you're away from the fog you can see a total eclipse of the moon. kpix 5's brian hackney joins hundreds of people for that eclipse. >> reporter: it's an exciting thing. even bill nigh the science guy jets gush gets -- gets jazzed. >> you have a shadow of a planet. it's a big deal. you may not see it ever again in your life. >> reporter: at this moment the earth's shadow is taking a bigger and bigger bite out of the surface of the full moon until total eclipse which begins at 12:07 a.m. it is worth taking your kids out to watch? >> oh yes people this is an exciting thing. this is part of how the ancient greeks realized the earth was round. whenever the earth cast a shadow on the moon, it's

>> it charged at the powells. janice fired her pistol.er that the powells were not harmed they reported the incident but the game warden is investigating whether they were harassing the animal. judging from the video it was clear who was harasser and harassee. >> demand for e cigarettes is growing. fda making a move to control who uses them. >> a look at the fda plans. >> e cigarettes burst on to the market in 2006 the federal government has been scrambling to catch up. >> like wild, wild west in terms of what people are doing. products with no oversight. >> there are -- they are a battery-powered device the fda announced it's anticipated proposed regulations if approved the sales would be banned to people under age 18. a warning label placed on the devices. and e cigarette manufacturers would be required to tell the fda what is in the products. dorothy says she and her husband, an atikted tobacco smoker believe there is less harm than a traditional cigarette. >> there is something just pleasant about smoking the e cigarette. i can like b

in the meantime, powell had pushed them through. you know what happened after those 3 million people spoke, the senate voted twice -- u.s. senate, to overturn those rules. the house expressed its displeasure, and the courts and those back to the commission saying they were inadequate. that is what we need to do again right now. when i used to talk about media consolidation on radio and in television, i think a lot of folks said, well, the internet is somehow exempt from that. it is so dynamic that it is exempt from what happened to radio and television and cable with all of the consolidation and gatekeeper control. now people are beginning to realize, wait a minute, this is happening to this wonderful new transformative technology, too. we can afford to let it go down that same road. what a horrible denial of the opportunity creating potential the internet would be to cableize it. and who better to do that than the biggest cable company in the united states of america, comcast, as they seek to take over time warner cable and already

a month later, he became john paul ii. >> is john powell ii a saint? >> yes, he's definitely a saint. he was one even before becoming the pope. >> to become a roman click saint, a person must perform miracles. johnny says a miracle was performed on him. when he was 62, he help 80ed a disk. his life's work was at risk. doctors said he needed surgery. in the hospital, johnny said he saw a photo of john paul in black and white like this one that he took. he says the photo spoke to him and just a few days later, he was miraculously cured. >> when i went to the hospital, i could barely walk. i looked like an old man, but after five days, i checked out and i was running. >> the vatican never confirmed his recovery as a miracle, but polls of his customers all call john paul a saint. >> many young people including me approached the church thanks to him. it's a good reason to declare him a saint. he was very special. >> john paul has his critics. some say he shielded abusive priests. others argue it's too quick to canonize him. for johnny, it's simple. john pau

i already knew what was going on before the news, anybody. >> powell is equally as incensed at jamesy. >> james mallory, he gets out, you know, he want to tell on somebody and then turn around and you're going to take the life of an innocent -- that's two lives he's about to take probably. so i don't respect that. he know what he got coming. if he ever get caught he going to get a hell of an ass whooping. >> coming up -- >> mallory, if i had a gun right now, i would go kill him. >> another high-profile arrest puts the jail on alert. what are you doing? there's no dip in that bowl. they're new pringles tortillas. so good, they don't need dip. mmmm... not bad, right? i'll have some more! that's a double dip! you... double dipped... new pringles tortillas. you dip 'em or don't. pringles! so i can reach ally bank 24/7, but there ar24/7.branches? i'm sorry, i'm just really reluctant to try new things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? look! mommy's new vacuum! (cat screech) you feel that in your muscles? i do... drink water. it's a long story. well, not having branches let's us

. >> that was precisely true in powell v. mccormack.the sergeant at arms -- >> the sergeant at arms barred him from coming in. .. to the contrary. number one, the speech and debate clause does not apply to the vice president. he is the broadside in officer of -- >> he doesn't have a vote anyway. >> he does have the power to rule on points of order. is a role in the senate is unconstitutional he could into the exercise of that power. so declared an enforcer. he is a proper party. number two, and powell against mccormick, the precise argument was made, that is the speech and debate clause protected functionaries of the house who were acting under orders who did not make the decision not to seek power. the supreme court's answer is winninwhen an individual works e house under direction of the house, is carrying out an unconstitutional order, he is not immune from suit. and that is -- >> immunity when he's acting legally, is that the idea? i think powell has been overtaken by a series of cases, not the least of which is eastland -- other ca

colin powell is one and there were so many people i met who were helpful. i was a very lucky person. people say it's what you make of it. that's baloney. my brother was shot down in an airplane with 11 soldiers. he was the only one that survived. they sent them to the military combat and i was one of those two seem like the wind was at our backs when we started. but i have to tell you that all along the way i have been tours. they had been successful in their lives and have transform transformed. >> i have a thousand more questions tha but book there isa microphone somewhere. we always like someone to come up and start asking questions. so just designate the things that bernie has been talking about so that your own curiosity. yes, here. >> what are you the most bullish about and what are you the most concerned about? >> about the economy. i think that we have recovered very slowly from the situations in 2008, that we are recovering. we are recovering not what we are doing but from the general development. a fundamental improvement. i read in the paper the

this is video of the downtown camera which started on powell street. flames shot from the overhead ventilation system just to get outside. most of the damage, a baby bear was mysteriously dropped off in tahoe. the man called to say he was the one who dropped off that cub and he said he found the bear hugging his dead mother when the cub arrived, he was so cute, just ten weeks old, weighed only 5 and a half pounds and they are planning on releasing him to the wild. because he is going to get bigger and scarier. but right now super cute. >> okay, sal. what is happening. >> i was talking to one of the people in the back. >> got that. >> there you go. caught me in action. >>> there is a chase on oakland freeway fortunately and i was trying to get the people in the back who do all of the manager here at k. the vu which was coming on northbound and alameda county sheriff's are chasing somebody and i can see it on one of our cameras and we will try and field that for you. it is light, and interstate 880 traffic in potential directions are moving well, if you

will -- colin powell was the chief military adviser. he did say over and over again that genetic activity has the way to spin out-of-control you inherited a military machine that is very much on the march and watch that carefully. that was the animating idea really throughout his presidency so that is where it started. i will toss it back. >> we both recognize the danger and eisenhower warned us against the national security state or military industrial complex but we ended up with one it was well established. i would say he has tried to be careful about the nsa but with its growth of homeland security it has swelled immensely during his time. . . increase national security apparatus. >> eisenhower is fascinating because although he was a creature of the military, spent his life in the military serving as officer. he was very wary of the military. he fought wars, everything that could go wrong, you think of him as a great conquering hero he spent a lot of time disciplineing awol soldiers. at one point in world war ii he wanted to line u

. >> marie in moved into the mansion on powell street just five years ago. its galleries are housed in one of the very rare single family residences around union square. for the 100th anniversary of the mansion, meridian hosted a series of special events, including a world premiere reading by lawrence ferlinghetti. >> the birth of an american corporate fascism, the next to last free states radio, the next-to-last independent newspaper raising hell, the next-to-last independent bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie looking for obama nirvana. [laughter] the first day of the wall street occupation set forth upon this continent a new revolutionary nation. [applause] >> in addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for san francisco states well-known port trees center. recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. >> you can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time we're not turning

you were colin powell chief of staff during that time. paul o'neill who was george bush's secretary of the treasury. told sixty minutes steve kroft one of the guys at sixty minutes that and ron suskind wrote about it as book the price of loyalty that the very first cabinet meeting he was in the first topic that came up towards the fact of the first topic that came up was the iraq war here's here's paul o'neill's. the very beginning there was their conviction that saddam hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go he says that going after saddam hussein was topic eight ten days after the inauguration eight months before september eleventh but that is that your experience as well as my experience in terms of the research i've done since i left office my first inclination of the focus on iraq was one richard haass then ambassador richard haass director of policy planning at state. i was a staff member came into his office and said i just talked to condi we're going to war with iraq and all of us you know picked our jaws up off the tabl

amy powell. abc7 news. in south los angeles. >> crash survivors rookies left this thank you poster at the red cross chapter on thursday. it thanked the workers who helped with the accident. one said i can't imagine if we didn't have your help. >> three people are recovering from injuries after a fight led to a stabbing in san jose. it happened 9:15 last night. police say two officers found two men, who were believe to be victims, suffering from stab wounds and a third man, believed to be a suspect, was found a short time later. he was also injured. all three were taken to the hospital. no word on their conditions. police say the fight does not appear to be gang related. >>> new this morning, two cars were destroyed following an early morning fire in san jose. the fire was reported in a detached garage. crews were able to get the fire under control just before 1:00 but not before the fire damaged a second garage. no homes were destroyed and there were no injuries. no word on what started the fire, but firefi

we heard earlier from samantha powell as the u.s. ambassador to the u.n., it's not the first time we heard samantha powell's on the involvement of russia. what more did she say? >> she said on television in the united states pretty much echoing what secretary of state john kerry delivered to his russian counterpardon saturday. that there'd -- counterpart saturday that if russia did not de-escalate and move troops from the border. she made no bones about the american accusation, that moscow is behind it all, as the ukraine government says. >> it is professional, coordinated, there's nothing grass roots seeming about it. the forces are doing in each of the six or seven cities that they are active in, the same thing. it bears the telltale signs of moscow's involvement. >> now, all the american authoritiesies have been talking about are ratcheting up the sanctions with the russian got. on friday the department added to sanctions much several crimean individuals, power against additional sanctions as outlined in an order that president ob

conner powell reporting in afghanistan. thanks. >>> investigators now say they may never know why a fort hood soldier went on a deadly shooting rampage. specialist ivan lopez killed three and wounded 16 of his fellow soldiers before taking his own life on wednesday. army officials have said a fight may have sparked the rampage, but the military has not established a concrete motive. we are learning more about the victims of the shooting. rick leventhal live now from fort hood with more. first, it's been three days and we understand that they're still processing the crime scene, right? >> reporter: absolutely, arthel. it's a meticulous and very difficult task for the investigators who are inside the gates of fort hood right now continuing to process the crime scene, photograph, document and collect evidence from that sprawling scene which covers the size of two city blocks. the army criminal investigation division, texas rangers and the f.b.i.'s evidence response team are still on post there carefully documenting and mapping

correspondent connor powell has details tonight from jerusalem. >> in what has become a common occurrence in afghanistan, a security guard opened fire on western aid workers he was hired to protect. the attack at the hospital which specializes in child and maternity care left three american doctors dead and at least one american nurse injured. among those killed were a father and son medical team volunteering in kabul from the united states. also dead, chicago-based doctor who has been working in afghanistan for nearly a decade. the shooter was injured and ironically received medical care at the very hospital he just attacked. >> arrested that attacker, as well. so we'll investigate to find out the motive behind this attack. >> afghan officials are increasingly trying to understand the motives behind attacks like today's, which are sometimes carried out at the taliban but not connected to insurgents at all. earlier this month, a police officer shot and killed an "associated press" journalist while wounding another in an attack that appeared random and unconnected to the taliban. as u.s. t

. >> under the same item under david pill powell i think it's not out reached but outreach. >> thank you. duly noted. >> commissioner moore. >> move to approve with the items corrected. >> on that motion to adapt the minutes as corrected. commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner hillis. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner fong and commissioner president wu. so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 7 to zero and places you on item 6 commissioners >> i glanced at the wall street journal what city lost the highest percentage and number of jobs in the last two or three years i forgot the time period they think it's detroit and st. louis they named a bunch of them and the answer was about a large percentage los angeles lost 3 percent of their jobs see pointed out most of its even worse in the low income areas in los angeles sometimes that was 10 to 12 to 15 percent and the causes were employment laws and regulation fees and the ones that gained the most were houston and san antonio and among the jobs created they 0 had a lot of entry-level

general colon powell was there.out it. >> you know how it was, man, everyone was in there and colan powell, try to get bill o'reilly on there. [ laughter ] >> get away from me, jamie foxx. [ laughter ] >> he wouldn't even -- >> i don't want any part of that basketball or whatever you guys are doing up there. >> basketball. that's not what it's called. >> happy eating chicken, i don't want any of that. [ laughter ] >> listening to hip-hop and all of that kind -- jamie foxx is a pen head. get away from him. [ laughter ] >> i'm kidding. i love bill o'reilly. i'm joking, man. >> i know. >> i don't know if i'm feeling the love, but i like foxx. he's a funny guy and good actor and i take no offense he mornck me on fallon. he makes a mistake. "daily beast" o'reilly basically misinterpreted beyonce's song. when it comes to bill o'reilly, he's playing a char actor so i'm like okay, man, you're fooling your people and getting your check. i didn't misinterpret any lyrics, i played them for you. i don't play a character. this i

but you point out in your article in the daily beast, you quote michael powell as noting new york city is progressive as long as everything is functioning. i think the reverse is true, too. if it's not functioning then we tend to abandon that. >> and michael powell, a very different discussion but the same discussion a plies. in new york city, as long as things are going well, bille de blasio got that lesson with the snowstorms. he got elected on that idea, but if the streets aren't plowed, you could have a lot of trouble. soap when it comes to public safety, no other city deals with that as regularly as new york city does. it was here that they saw what happened on september 11th. it's here that they get repeatedly bombarded with the threat whatever happens around the country there's some remnant of that sentiment in new york city. nypd made an effort to map new york city and their communities to take a temperature of what was happening on the street and what goldman at the ap reporting out in their books and the stories even having that penetration, it wasn't producing the kind of re

business people he's worked with, colin powell said he had as much integrity as any contractor at the pentagon that they dealt with, president clinton, secretary of state clinton, a remarkable group of people. and it has to do with human qualities that he has learned in his life. growing up, as he would say, and the kind of life he's had knowing heads of state around the world. so i want to begin with understanding this life he has lived and at the same time understanding his own analysis of people and also his assessment of where this country is today, in march of 2014. clearly, he has ideas about america's infrastructure, how to create jobs and all those things from a lifetime in public and private sector. i want to, also, each of you to know that this will work best if what he says resonates and you have sort of yes, but questions or you have things that you would like to say vis-a-vis to him, with him and the lessons learned. let me just begin with the thing that interests me also is negotiation. he's been a superb negotiator, and how do you do that? is the secret simply being abl

amy powell. abc7 news. >> crash survivors rookies thursday in thank you poster at the red cross poster. it thanked the workers who helped with the accident. one said i can't imagine if we didn't have your help. >> three people are recovering from injuries after a fight led to a stabbing in san jose. it happened 9:15 last night. two men, who were believe to be victims, suffering from stab wounds and a third man, believed to be a suspect, was found a short time later. all three were taken to the hospital. the fight does not appear to be gang related. >>> new this morning, two cars were destroyed following an early morning fire in san jose. the car was in an attached garage. crews were able to get the fire under control just before 1:00 but not before the fire damaged a second garage. no homes were destroyed and there were no injuries. no word on what started the fire, but firefighters believe it maybe accidental. >>> a robber in antioch has been shot and killed during an attempted jewelry hike. pol

. >> reporter: this terrifying run-in with a moose was caught on camera by janice and bob powell duringn maine. just moments after sharing the trail with the couple, look at this, the one-ton beast comes to a sharp halt. >> his fur was standing up, his ears were back, his head went low. >> reporter: the powells say wild animals, a common sight on these trails, generally keep their distance. but this time was different. watch as the moose stomps toward bob. forcing him to duck behind his snowmobile. >> the only thing i could think of is what i had to put between myself and the moose. and unfortunately, that was just the snowmobile. >> reporter: the moose charges again. and bob makes a break for his wife's machine. nearly missing a head butt from the moose. not taking any chances, janice fires a warning shot. >> i knew what size gun i had and that i might make it even more angry. >> reporter: at first, nothing. soon enough, a retreat. no one, human or moose, was injured in the standoff. >>> oh, my god. we both have a new appreciation for moose, wildlife in general, and we'll definitely be

little bit farther to the north at powell street, eastbound side of 80.right now we know it is at the maze. eastbound side is a spun-out car. be careful of hydroplaning this morning. plenty of water is resting on the sides of the road. >>> police on the scene in oakland where a large tree has fallen and is blocking lanes near the zoo. we have video in. it doesn't appear to have caused any damage to anything around it. so far we don't have any reports of power outages but certainly you can see if you drove up on that, you definitely want to be careful and not crash into that. police are waiting for city krew crews to come and cut the tree apart. >>> residents after berkeley neighbor will be looking for contractors this morning after a redwood tree hit by lightning exploded. the 75-foot tall tree is now about 20 feet high. it was during yesterday afternoon's thunderstorms that a lightning bolt struck the tree. debris scattered over three blocks. one neighbor happened to be looking at the tree when mother nature paid a visit. >> it was like an explosion. it

race card and race baiting, colin powell, one of the greatest men who served our country was called a race baiter because he said some of the criticism of the president is racist. i don't think anyone thinks secretary powell is a crazy liberal activist. >> you have to agree with bill o'reilly. he's making sense when we saw on the clip that he said, that people didn't decide to go after the black guy today. they decided to go after the attorney general. i think that the controversies that we cover, the controversies as we call them, are ginned up, because people don't like what eric holder or anybody else who's a person of color has to say. it automatically becomes this race issue in the media which then explodes. >> if eric holder wanted to be a hero to republicans, he could look into solyndra and benghazi, for example. he won't do it for some strange reason. >> i'm not saying he shouldn't be criticized but to go back to your first answer, it seems like cat nip, everybody pounces on it and the argument itself fuels cable ratings. >>> i want to turn to a slightly lighter topic but one

his head went low. >> reporter: the powells say wild animals, a common sight on these trails, generallyr distance but this time was different. watch as the moose stomps toward bob, forcing him to duck behind his snowmobile. >> the only thing i could think of is what i had to put myself between myself and the moose and unfortunately, that was just the snowmobile. >> reporter: the moose charges again and bob makes a break for his wife's machine, nearly missing a head-butt from the moose. not taking any chances janice fires a warning shot. >> i knew what kind of time i had and that i might make it even more angry. >> reporter: at first, nothing. but soon enough, a retreat. no one, human or moose, was injured in the standoff. >> oh, my god. >> we both have a new appreciation for moose and wildlife in general, and we'll definitely be keeping more of a distance. >> absolutely. and the couple says this may be their last snowboarding trip after that, dan. >> i wonder why. >> no surprise. >> was she rolling the whole time her husband was being chased by a giant moose? >> you know, the moose don'

. >> thank you powell's books and thank you for being here. normally i have a more formal presentation. i have a reading i show at readings. but tonight is a special night so i am going to do something different. and i want to tell stories a little bit more and, of course, i will do some readings. it is special we are at powell's books, we are in oregon, astoria is nearby and we are also here with c-span so we have a national and oregon audience. i will tell stories and you may know some of them and may not some of the others. but i will start with how i came to this story. and actually, what is surprising about it is how this story was very-well known in its day. in 1836, when washington irving was commissioned by john john jacob astor to write these, irving's book also called "astoria" was a best seller in 1926. they have been forgotten now. i think some of you know about them. but in the national consciousness they are largely forgotten except along historians and people that follow western history. it is a really important story. it is his