crackhead. ♪ roxbury crackhead cell phone ringer ♪ >> lieutenant medeiros has spent more than his shareh gomes over the past seven months. >> he tends to ramp himself up over a wide variety of things that seem very minor to us but seem big to him. >> there's no free come of speech in jail? >> he's already pulled several sprinkler heads and activated the heads and attempted several times to harm himself and he's been extremely verbally abusive and threatening to harm staff. >> no sooner does night shift commander come on duty then he spots gomes standing on his toilet reaching for a sprinkler head. >> what were you doing up there? i saw you up there. what were you doing up there? you don't have anything in your cell, do you? >> like what? >> anything. >> you searched me five times and you still can't find no [ bleep ] that i have. every time they leave i break out a bag of coffee or [ bleep ] peach kool-aid and have a sip. okay? they never get everything. i got [ bleep ] you'll never find. >> want me to try? >> turn around. back up to the door, put your hands through, sir. >> the captain

we were both born in roxbury, new york. i listen to his vision and story and his confidence.being bossy. i fell in love with him and where he was going. that was only when you could connect college to college. he had a about it and vision to take over the world, which you see him doing now. the combination would have been extraordinarily powerful and mark agreed to do it. the famous line, what is really cool is a billion. that was the offer. >> you got him to agree to sell facebook to yahoo! for $1 billion. he backed out. what is it like negotiating with mark zuckerberg? what is different today? think about these companies like instagram and whatsapp that are all negotiating to a certain extent with him. >> he has a charisma that most people who do not spend a lot of time with him don't understand, which is the power of the enormity of his vision and the confidence they will figure it out, his willingness to make a mistake and fix it. all of those things, he is relentless in what he believes in and that is why facebook is so powerful. you need somebody like that if you're goi

it ranged from back bay, beacon hill, the very, you know, affluent aspects of the city, to roxbury, the classic impoverished black--african-american community and i--pockets of middle-class irish. it was a fascinating experience, especially for a kid. c-span: what was your dad's profession? >> guest: he was a lawyer. c-span: is he still alive? >> guest: no. c-span: you have here a dedication in your book, who--we'll get a close-up of it in just a second, so people can see it. who are these two folks? >> guest: you just made my children famous: my daughters--and readers, i should say. c-span: and where are they? >> guest: one's in paris and one's in new york--city kids. c-span: doing what? >> guest: my older daughter is teaching and translating and doing some cross-cultural things in france. and my younger daughter is a lawyer with the--with women's issues. c-span: and what do they think of this book? have you talked to them about it? >> guest: oh, yes, they read it i'm lit--that's literally true because i--even from the time they were freshmen in college, i--i ran a lot of things by the

. >> reporter: visibly upset, they left roxbury where they had driven up to spend the only hour they'reed each week to see their own daughter. without seeing her. for violating a gag order. and while they aren't allowed to talk to the media, the look on mom's face said it all. >> they had been waiting over 45 minutes to see her and they were told that the meeting would not take place today. >> reporter: for a year, 15-year-old justina has been caught in the middle of a battle between the state of massachusetts and her parents. >> we're looking for the state to stop treating her as though she's a piece of property and rather as a person. >> reporter: it all started last february when justina was september to boston children's for a neurological disorder that runs in the family. instead, she was diagnosed with somatoform disorder, a psychiatric problem, and her parents lost custody. over the past year, the case has received national attention. reverend mahoney came up from d.c. to support the family. he helped form the free justina campaign. >> it just shows the reckless irresponsible and

lieutenant walsh lived in west roxbury. he came from a fire fighting family. both his father and you l were fire liewrts in nearby watertown, and had been with the boston fire department for nine and a half years and was stationed at engine 33, ladder 15, just blocks from the building where the fire occurred. lieutenant walsh and firefighter kennedy are american heroes. their memories will live on as examples of the extraordinary courage and dedication at the very heart of the boston fire department and in the hearts of firefighters everywhere. boston is strong because of heroes like lieutenant walsh and firefighter kennedy, who placed the safety of others before themselves. in this 9-alarm fishings there were zero civilian casualties. these two brave men put their lives on the line so that others could go on living. i offer my condol condolences. massachusetts has lost two of its finest sons and i grieve along were the rest of the commonwealth, with senator warren and with everyone for the loss that has been suffered. madam president, i doubt the presence of