he was part of randolph's team. and then, very sadly, randolph died very--out of all time, prematurely, and the--only two volumes of the biography were complete. and martin gilbert was chosen by the family trustees to take up the--the--the rest of the book. and he has continued magnificently. c-span: how many more volumes has he written? >> guest: well, there were--the whole biography is eight volumes, and up to date there are 15 companion volumes, which march with the volumes, which contain a great number of the original papers and letters from which martin wrote the book. and there are more to come. they are--they are gradually coming out, so that they--i suppose eventually there'll be about 22 companion volumes. it's a great work. c-span: here's a photograph of your mother and father in the rain, in the '30s, in the west essex constituency later named the--it is wansted? wanste... >> guest: wansted. wansted-woodford. it--that was the constituency i was talking about earlier, which he represented for--for--from '2

tavis: coming up next, a conversation with robert randolph. stay with us. rolling stone magazine named robert randolph one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time, playing one of the most difficult instrument there is, a pedal steel guitar. he perfected his artistry by way of the pentecostal church, the same church i grew up in. the in the church call it sacred steel. he is about to release his first studio album in three years, entitled "lickety split." let's take a look at a cut from that cd. wherever wearty go train on the track once we leave here, we ain't coming back down from the roof and dance in the street spin it around. it is a party wherever we go ♪ ♪ shout to that. >> me to. [laughter] tavis: how do you process that? every time i hear you play, i ray," wheree movie " he is in the club and they jump on him. stop playing that. a are in their dancing and cutting a step to it erie it" -- to it. .ay has the backbeat behind it how do you process that? >> i have not stopped hearing it at all. i have a bunch of old articles and on spec call me up, yo

>> in 1941 philip randolph mobilizing workers.he march on washington for jobs, and we scared the daylights out of him, and he begged randolph to call off the march. ,e finally band discrimination and that changed the whole country and the world. i said, that is what i am going to do with my life. >> for those who do not know the name, he was head of the corridors way back in the day. legend in chicago and in this country. since you mentioned randolph and the fear you put in the heart of fdr, fdr presided over a difficult time in this country economically. can you compare that difficult time with this difficult time under obama? >> i was a student during the , and i felt it was necessary to become a philosopher. why.not know i did not know what a -- asopher was area did philosopher was. the crises are more crises of humanity. what can we do? just interested in jobs so we can become? -- so we can be materialist? we have to grow our souls. the world needs us. tavis: i love you. you know that already. and philiped fdr randolph and the

randolph and mr.e, saying, we have to do something to not address each one of these cases of violence against african-americans -- we need to do something prospectively to give everybody an equal playing field. tavis: what is the lasting legacy of these soldiers, highlighted by what truman got to doing, that we need to appreciate today? >> the word that comes to mind is discipline. an extraordinary amount of discipline that it took. is synonymous with military service, but when you spokebout the anger he openly at the white house when he was awarded the medal of honor, the anger he had to live with that he was fighting for his country and being denied a glass of water at the red cross. cross for the colored is a mile down. to work with that angle and still do his duty is an extraordinary testimony to those men. tavis: the book is called "the trumanv, how harry desegregated america's military." you want to add this to your collection, as i have. >> thank you very much. tavis: coming up, a conversation

although randolph parker had been suspended earlier that day, he returns later and paces outside her door. >> obviously through his anger, he wanted to take out revenge, blamed her for the problems he had been having. so he set up a plan, obviously, to come back at the end of the day to attack her or to hit her. >> as this last period progresses, you can see randolph parker, walking up and down the hallway, waiting for the class to end. he puts on a red bandana over his face and signals to his cohort, 17-year-old dominic harris, to position himself on the other side of the hallway. according to police, harris' role was to get the assault on his cell phone camera. at one point parker even sends another student into the class to coax the teacher to come out into the hallway. >> there's no doubt mr. parker did plan the attack. he put a little bit of thought into it because he hit there right at the end of the day. >> it's 2:15 and class is letting out. unbeknownst to parker and harris, the school's surveillance cameras capture the entire incident. >> through the eye of the camera you'll

officer randolph i wanted to ask another question.e tornado is seemed to have subsided you have a lot of rain. you have possibility of flash flooding. where do you do things stand in terms of your response to situations that might be dire throughout oklahoma? >> what we'll have to do is z.probably tomorrow is have to go house by house, looking for victims that are trapped, hopefully finding people that have taken shelter with debris trapped them in there that. is the best bet. the thing we're hoping foremost. we're hoping that that fatality number doesn't increase and we are hoping against all hope that there are people that are just unable to communicate with loved ones to let them know they're okay what. we'll do is just assess the damage and hopefully get people to emergency facilities to get medical treatment if needed. >> as you know the last week in moore, oklahoma, there were 24 deaths as a result of one tornado there. >> right. >> people are ready and on edge. there is nervous feelings they probably just thought it's gone. bec

philip randolph. >> a dedicated man.ause]d >> seeking to bring about social change for the advancement of justice and freedom and human dignity. i have the pressure -- pleasure to present to you, dr. martin luther king. [applause] >> dr. martin luther king. ando join with you today what will go down in history -- in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation. [applause] years ago, a great american in whose symbolic shadow we stand today signed the emancipation proclamation. ass momentous decree came the light of hope for millions of negro slaves who had been seeared in the flames of withering injustice. to end thea daybreak long night of their captivity. , the negrors later still is not free. 100 years later, the life of the negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and chains of discrimination, 100 years later. the negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of imperial prosperity. [applause] 100 years later -- the neg

as betsy randolph said earlier, i-40 is complete chaos and a parking lot at this time. that is hindering the ambulances getting to our facility a little bit faster than we would like them to. but all of our trauma teams are staffed and ready to go waiting for those patients to come in. >> in terms of the number of people who may be injured or possibly even killed by this, the picture that betsy randolph, the state trooper, painted to me was a very, very wide-ranging and serious situation with many, many car crashes. what are you seeing coming in at the moment? >> right now, i don't have information on what we're seeing at the moment. i do know that several field operations have been set up to transport those patients to us, but i don't have any information of actual casualties that have come into the hospital at this time. >> are you anticipating having a lot of people in with a lot of injuries? >> absolutely. we have every single trauma team fully staffed and ready to go for our trauma one unit. >> thank you very much indeed for joining me. obviously you've got a busy

coming from highway patrol officer betsy randolph, our thanks.r reid timmer in el reno, oklahoma, and was swept up amidst the monster storm as it was bearing down earlier this evening. he's still tracking the swirling disaster and paints a vivid picture of the latest in a string of disastrous oklahoma twisters. >> in this you could tell it was going to be a monster supercell. it looked like a pancake, basically, all the ingredients in place for strong tornados. when that happens, the storms are very efficient at producing tornados. it develops a wall cloud, the lowering that hangs down below the base of the storm. started wrapping very rapidly and these suction vortices, miniature tornados that are spinning around like a cell and a multiple vortex tornado started developing very close to the vehicle. violent motion and it turned into a half mile wide tornado. we're driving after it, we have these armored vehicles called the dominators and they dropped to the ground with hydraulics and have spikes that go into the ground. we deployed and had our h

her name is bet si randolph. trooper randolph, what is the situation?t kind of reports are you getting? >> i'm sorry? >> trooper randolph, what's the situation on i-40. things are at a standoff and you have multiple vehicles overturned? >> we do. this stretches to interstate 35. we are desperately asking people to abandon the intersate at this time. this storm is moving east. if you're on interstate 40 going east, we ask you to get off of the interstate and go south, even further south than 240. we're asking folks to get off on 40 at this time. if you're on interstate 35, there's standstill traffic as welcoming into the metro. we ask folks to get off the interstate. the roads are treacherous injuries trying to get transportation for people who are injured to the hospital. so we're asking people please, get off the interstate and seek shelter at this time. if you are on the interstate, you're advising people to get off that road as soon as possible and head east of oklahoma city? >> that is correct. east and south. >> how easy it it for people right now

his colleague, louis morales with the randolph fire department is also on the scene. >> we saw a lot of smoke coming from the first floor and lot of smoke coming from the second floor, in the front of the house. >> morales learns a woman is trapped on the second floor. he and his team quickly assess the situation. >> when i arrived, i just saw the randolph fire department on scene establishing water supply and trying to get into the building to be able to make a rescue of the victim that was reportedly trapped. >> shortly after arriving, alan bell pulls out a brand new gadget, a helmet camera, giving a rare glimpse of what firefighting is like up close. >> i got it for christmas of 2009 so probably about six weeks before this fire. that was the first time i actually used the camera. >> because of a change in regulations, it's the first and only time bell will use his camera on scene. he turns it on and goes about his job for the day. >> we are initially what they called a rapid intervention team to extract firefighters if they get lost or hurt or injured. >> morales is part of anothe

>> trooper randolph, what's the situation on i-40? i understand things are stay standstill and you have multiple vehicles overturned? >> what we do, this stretches from tinker all the way back to el reno, the entire metropolitan area interstate 35 is at a standstill. we are desperately asking people to abandon interstate 40 at this time. the storm is moving east so if you are on interstate 40 east of the oklahoma city metro area, we ask you to get off of the interstate, go south, very far south, even further south than i-240, we're asking folks to get off i-40 at this time. if you're on interstate 35 you're in standstill traffic as well coming into the metro. that's from norman up to the dallas junction or i-40. we ask folks to get off the interstate, please pay attention. the weather is treacherous right now. the roads are treacherous. we've got multiple crashes on i-40, injuries, trying to get transportation for people that are injured to the hospital. we're asking people please get off the interstate and seek shelter at this time.

trooper randolph frankly i was surprised to see that. we saw last monday in moore that people would pay attention to the warnings this afternoon and stay off the freeways in the height of the storm but you they didn't. >> no, unfortunately. i'm afraid we are unable to reach some people especially those that are''t familiar with oklahoma and aren't familiar with the tornadoes that we do have here. if they are traveling, you know, i-40, i-35 is a huge corridor say cross the nation. >> shepard: of course. >> and if people aren't listeñing to radios as they are traveling they essentially drive in tornadoes and can be deadly. we know we haded a mother and a baby that were killed tonight during the tornadoes that touched down just west of the oklahoma city metro. it is so heartbreaking. >> shepard: trooper randolph, governor fallin is reporting of three other deaths. do you know of those? >> i do not know of those but we had so much tornadoes thate touched down through the metro. basically the tornadoes along interstate 40 through the oklahoma

. >> my name is james abram (sounds like) -- western region director of the -- randolph institute (sounds like). i appreciate being here. wanted to mention to the commission that i have is more concern about request that you may be moving forward -- the port's youth employment program. i want to bring that to your attention because i'm really hopeful that with the community like the -- hunters' point, that we will be more connected to opportunities that it seems that this particular opportunity will provide. i have talked to the director so that you all are aware that i am having a conversation prior. but i wanted to make sure that you all are aware that with the community that has unemployment for kids from 17 to 24, almost 60 percent, this is imperative that the port and the bay view hunters' point community are part of the process. this is a process that is a win-win; i know that the bids have gone out. we are not talking about trying to impede on the process that has already started or maybe having done the final road. but we are bringing this to your attention because we think that i

partnership and i think if we're going to have a one-size-fits-all that we expect to work for board and randolph we have to have a little bit of a different tweak to this. >> we absolutely agree we think they need to be tailored to the neighborhood. for the past year we've been working for custom missed program. we have in coordination with the city's communities. we want to make sure that the positions we have are in line with your ideas. we know that the board street would be a candidate for that >> let me say that the minnie program would be great on that site. this would be serious relationship building. i think that we can coordinate how we can work on the ground there would be fanatic. there are other parts of san francisco that are struggling economically and i want to be sure that we know where to reach out for at service >> i want to thank the staff for not only balancing the big economic issues but supporting the distressed neighborhoods. it's been a real help to the richmond district but the sf vacancy program is going to be helped hopefully, there will be better outreach so we know w

written as for william randolph hearst developed respiratory problems. william randolph hearst 7 out, go to the desert and just one example of all these people, these authors, famous photographers and writers and arthur's and painters who were here and they knew each other. was like a colony, an artists' colony. they were the next phase, from the respiratory phase. by this time too nellie kaufman and these people realizing they could appeal beyond the sanatorium and scratch that off. it attracted people from all walks of life, celebrities came out here just to enjoy the desert, what the desert had to offer and there were all the celebrities of the time, albert einstein was here and shirley temple land you name a celebrity and they were out there. they look at the next phase as kind of the celebrity face and we are only -- those people in hollywood need a place to unwind and kickback and they discovered palm springs and it became a haven for the movie says. it was . it was a lot of history about people, some were low key and came outet . it was a lot of h

joining us on the phone right now is betsy randolph. and i have some questions for you, betsy, but i want chad, who's on the road right now, who's trying to get to oklahoma city right now. it's an awful, awful situation. they're barely moving. go ahead and ask betsy a question. >> we're wondering whether the twitter is being updated >> we do have a facebook page. i haven't been able to update it in quite a while. we don't have a twitter account. part of that is something we are working on. we are working with our media folks here in the oklahoma city metro area to get the information out about what roadways are closed. we are discouraging all travel on interstate 40 and interstate 35 in the oklahoma city metro area. that includes interstate 40 east coming into oklahoma city. and then north on i-35 from norman coming north. in fact, we've asked people from the purcell area, we had our troopers out turning people away and telling them get off of the interstate and go back south on i-35 from purcell. because the roadways were so treacherou

you can see right tlrk the attorney randolph kincaid shrugged a man on burbank boulevard. kincaid walked back to his car and the other guy jumped him to keep kincaid from leaving. police took kincaid into custody. the other man says he didn't know what caused the incident but claims kincaid said to him you could have killed me. >> oh, my goodness, hard to believe. >> interest rate on government subsidized loans for students going to double july 1 unless congress does something about it. abc 7 reports an increase could make it difficult for many students to go to college. >> sarah is a sophomore at san francisco state. doubling the interest rate on her federal staffer -- stafford loan would be a burden. >> students don't have options besides grants and loans we're forced. >> government picks up a portion of the rate so that students can financial needs won't have to. if it goes up from the current 3.4%. it projects the government will make a profit. the republicans want a fixed rate. some think the president favored in the past. the democrat wants to freeze the rates for tw

and i would like to thank you, rhonda simmons for supporting the randolph institute and for the contract around construction services. to make sure that we can recruit experienced construction workers and not only experienced workers but young folks to enter in the construction trade. a lot of training and education comes through our office. and so far we have worked with over 400 clients that have signed up with city build to get employment throughout the city. but i would like to see continued support in that effort, and maybe see a broader spectrum of employment opportunities other than just construction. youth services is another area that we would like it see your continued support. there are great internships around this summer that we recruited for throughout the city. i would like to thank the puc for offering a multitude of internships, and our young folks with the offers from the city. and we have programs with youth works and as well as the san francisco rec and park have offered job opportunities as well. but we would like to see continued employment. maybe some internships t

and revitalization of the broad randolph street and mission street corridor. district 11 is unique, we have been an under-resourced district and we need more from the city. we are committed and organized and have capacity. we are willing to work with the city to improve our district. and are asking for a meeting with the mayor, and workforce development and other city departments to set a plan of action in place. we want to make district 11 equally inviting and welcoming part of san francisco as other districts are. so i don't want to take up too much time. that's briefly what we are here -- the omic would like to present to the panel today. thank you. rrn fors fo they told me to stand in one place, i am use this mic. before i bring up eric mcdonald from the united way. raise your hands if you have comment cards, we will give you one more opportunity get those collected. now we will hear from eric mcdonald from united way and the summer job plus success in 2012. >> good evening, mayor and supervisors and department heads, eric mcdonald. summer jobs plus, brief