. >> reporter: lunchtime at ps 55 in south bronx.itz's class, salad five days a week. salad grown and prepared by students. >> what's beautiful. the borough that gave life to funky beats. >> reporter: they grow vegetables and strawberries. >> too much acid is no good. >> no good. >> right here is a tower garden. here you see five varieties of gourmet lettuce, grown from seed, 28 days old. it starts right there with propagating seed. right here groceries or fresh vegetables are going to go home with kids. >> reporter: since 2005 his students have grown 35,000 pound of vegetables and a leap in attendance and 50% reduction in behavioral incidents. one of the motivating factors for integrating farming was that students had limited access to hl healthy fresh food. the south bronx is the poorest congressional district in america. >> combating obesity. closest food is mcdonald's, pizza shop, white castle. bringing a whole new urban farming into the school system. they donated vegetables to the needy and learned the business of selling produ

. >> reporter: for young alfredo james pacino growing up poor in the south bronx, raised by his mothered him to the movies. >> we would go to the movies and then the next day she'd go off to work i'd be in the house, i'd remember the movie and enact all the parts. >> quite a deal to get into this place. >> reporter: a high school dropout, his passion truly became his profession when he enrolled in new york's legendary the actors studio. >> we had montgomery clift, marlon brando james dean, paul newman marilyn monroe. i can't stop name-dropping. >> reporter: he didn't seem a likely candidate. his audition, disaster. >> they said, nope don't want you. >> yeah, they usually do that, by the way. because they want to see sometimes if you have incentive. >> reporter: after several nominations, pacino finally won the academy award's best actor in "scent of a woman." this deliciously gifted actor, a near-mythic figure to fans and peers, is surprisingly small in stature. >> they said you know you're shorter than i thought. the other person said, i didn't say that. he said you should see him whe

. >> we're on our way to the south bronx - to new york's only intake center for homeless families. more than seventy percent of people in the city's shelters are families with children. >> homelessness is so complicated. it's not just this guy on the street with that shopping cart. it isn't just this one person who made the wrong choice or had bad luck. >> to apply for shelter, a family must first come to this building known as path. journalists are not allowed inside. >> we've been here just a few hours, and there's been dozens of families coming in. it's been really shocking. it's a lot of young children and a lot of working parents trying to make it. >> what's it like in there? >> it's not what people think. people in there are you know everyday people. i don't judge people because you never know the situation you'll be in. >> i have four kids. my salary? i get paid $9 dollars an hour. so you do the math. >> how did you know about the path center? >> i googled it. i googled 'family shelters.' [yes baby] i googled it. >> was this your first time in the shelter system? >> yeah. >>

. >> yes, lived in the south bronx. >> rose: regis philbin. >> yes, great personality. >> rose: mary lark. >> i love from mary higgins clark said. the bronx. people just don't get it. there are three places in the world that have a the in front of their names. the vatican, the hague and the bronx. and then she goes on to say that all the talent that comes from the bronx and the booth owe of the bronx. >> rose: what happens you go back to mickey and you realize there are stories here. >> there are stories. they are interesting, they're very interesting stories some of them are very dark in terms of things that were not pleasants.p7÷ some of them very surprising. i was very surprised to here that my friend david yarnell who is a documentary filmmaker that david grew pot in the bronx park in the 1940's. now go figure. i didn't -- >> rose: his own pot. >> he was selling it. >> rose: he was a dealer. >> he went toi didn't know. >> rose: do you know -- >> this is in the cat skills, yes. there were a lot of surprising things that came up. and pacino was very clear, what it was like on the ro

indeed, the man who drafted the united states constitution and owned the south bronx, his father's will provided any amount of money necessary to educate him anywhere in the world except for the colony of connecticut, where the people hide behind god, but are really abolitionist criminals. he did not use the word criminals, but it was that kind of prejudice. you can imagine the attitude that new englanders had towards southerners and southerners had toward new england. what held the united states together after 1783? it was very fragile, believe me. a national debt. $25 million. a common language. and the pride in having defeated the strongest military, and especially naval, power in the world. well, from where was congress going to govern this country? we had a constitution. it was called the articles of confederation. it may be states supreme over the federal government. it was ratified in 1781. it granted the united states of america power over foreign affairs, war, and a post office . that was it. if congress wanted money, which of course it needed, it had to requisition it from the

i was -- i went to the emergency room in the south bronx, and i had a two-week stint there, and late one night i was asked to drain the fluid out of the belly of a woman with alcoholic cirrhosis. her belly was full of fluid, and it's a very brute force procedure. you put a needle in, hook it up to a tour, put the tube in a bucket and drain the fluid. so i went ins' and introduced myself and said, i'm here to drain the fluid out of your belly. and she said okay, sure, go ahead. and she still had alcohol on her breath. so, i said, okay. i cleaned up her belly with iodine soap and i put in the catheter the needle to the catheter, and put the tube into a bucket, and i started filling the bucket and i said, look, if you move and this comes out i'm not putting it back in. and she says oh, okay sure. so i'm just there watching the fluid drain and a nurse comes in and says doctor you just got paged. she was carrying my beeper. i said, oh, okay. well, can you keep an eye on her while i go out and answer my page. she said sure. and i remind my patient, you move and the catheter comes out i'm n

i live in the south bronx and was committed to sending her to a public school, want to send her to our neighborhood zoned school which is right down the block, a beautiful idea send your kid, walk with him to school. when i went put her in the school, i was to say the least super disappointed because basically our first school experience was basically one of massive amounts of homework, sitting at a desk listening to teacher talk at the front for 15 minutes block of time. no recess. if they were good at the end of the day they would get to do choice time which to me was what most of the school day should've consisted of which is playing which is i think our kids come young kids actually learn. so was not a great experience for her part perch she was super sad. she would wake up every morning and say that her stomach hurt that she felt sick. it was clear to me there was something going on that are needed to address. and i think what i came to understand was that it wasn't just her classroom our particular teacher. they were really, really lovely. her teacher was super sweet but felt lik

south america that's right. emigrated here when i was 8 as a young boy, grew up in the bronx and new york city, so a proud new yorker although i move today new jersey when i was in high school. >> host: keith wailoo, "pain of political history," is the title of his book, and here is the cover. >> is there a nonfiction author or book kwr0u like to see -- you'd like to see featured on c-span? >> even from the beginning we understand that our vision of of war is, for most of us, is not having been to war, but having heard about war having seen about war, having read about war. we're playing images of war. i think sometimes of the myth about athena's shield. pester yous needed to defeat -- [inaudible] but anybody who looked directly at gorgon would turn to stone. iowa teen ya gave him the shield, he was able to look in the shield and see the reflection and then he could outwit and defeat him. that's what we do when we go to movies. movies are a kind of mirror. they mirror reality. in the beginning, most films -- we're talking about now the beginning of cinema itself, 1895 is the first recorded films and they really ran

bronx." arlene alda. ♪ john: i'm john heilemann. mark: and i'm mark halperin. and with all due -- lindsey: whoa, yankee boy. i'm lindsey graham from southina. and with all due respect to my south carolina friends, get your butt to new hampshire, i need your help. ♪ mark: a granite state greeting and top of the evening to you from manchester, new hampshire. on the show tonight, budget cuts. jeb bush's struts. and lindsey graham's guts. but first, it is tuesday, it is election day in israel. we will not know for a while if prime minister benjamin “goes by b.b.” netanyahu will retain his title.