st. john's. and i was met where i was with all of my moral intellectual and personal defects and offered really on a kind of trust the awesome responsibility for a serious and free inquiry. and for a life of that kind. as a source of my gratitude. now st. john's like many colleges operate in a kind of tradition of a democratic liberal arts through the great books and one of the benefits about a hundred years old draws on older traditions. one of the benefits of the tradition is that an individual does not need to rely on his or her talents to reinvent the wheel in each classroom were speaking at each conference. but to rely on the habits and structures that are passed on from those who have taught and learned before us. in these brief foot marks and i will be pretty brief i want to try to articulate as best i can the type of learning that i think is currently threatened with something like extinction. and to be clear i think there is a general way in which liberal education is being shunted into

lindsay alan started her career at st. johns college. chris williamson caught up with her parents.>>reporter: lindsay wasn't your girly girl. >> she would have a tantrum when her mom would try to put belligerent receipts in her hair. >> she loved all sports at a young age, specifically baseball. >> she started in the basement on a small plastic rim. >> this hoop outside the adams driveway is where lindsay would perfect her craft. >> someone wanted her on their team and everybody -- she >> alan's basketball ethic in -- at st. johns the point guard helped the team win two -- >> every single drill, every single lay-up, every single free throw was as if it was the last one she was going to take. >> that type of focus helped alan start all four years of at norte dam. she was the career leader. the wnba came calling. >> it has been a dream of hers. we wanted to make sure the wnba would exist by the time she got out of college. >> thankfully it did. her parents get to see -- >> she's got a full time job with no benefits and no living expenses. >> liberty has a great flow when lindsay is o

decided to do more to help and so they formed the st john ambulance because. of the game was to provide first aid ambulance. for the general public but in one nine hundred forty eight the u.k. labor government decided to compete with private charities explicitly telling the british people that a new universal health care system would not be a charity it would in effect be socialism what do we owe to socialism in this country. every single one of you in this room at some point his benefit. from the principles of the national health service free at the point of use as a human right. the free market capitalist economy the united states has forty million people without access to health care and the rest have to pay a great deal for it where did those ideas come from did they come from some benign very wealthy person or worth a yes the dreams of people who saw their mothers dying in poverty saw their wives dying in childbirth or saw other coming to you. or saw others suffering grievously because they could not afford medical care no wonder so prime minister tourism

. >> bonnie st. john on why she thinks your business will flourish if it's more inclusive. grow fast, work smart coming up next on "your business". >>> high everyone, i'm j.j. ram sberg welcome to your business. the show dedicate today helping your growing business. what do you get when you combine a baseball game and a circus? you get the savannah bananas. an own erbreaking all the rules. changing the game into a show that cannot be missed. it's a steamy thursday evening in savannah georgia. and that crazy guy in the yellow tuxedo is gearing up to entertain a sold-out crowd of baseball fans. >> we're about the show. if i'm going to be on the field i need to look like a showman. i looked online found bright colored tuxedo.com found the yellow one, now i have five of them. >> he didn't plan on sbefr taning, he planned on pitching in the major leagues. a shoulder injury ended that career. >> i took the internship is and had a lot of fun with it. at 23 i got offered the job of general manager in gas tone ya grizzlies. >> thefrp one of the worst teams in the organization. they

decided that they need to do more to help and so they formed the st john ambulance. job of the brigade was to provide first aid ambulance. for the general public but in one nine hundred forty eight the u.k. labor government decided to compete with private charities explicitly telling the british people that a new universal health care system would not be a charity it would in effect be socialism what do we owe to socialism in this country. every single one of you in this room at some point has benefited from the principles of the national health service free point of use as a human rights. the free market capitalist economy of the united states has forty million people without access to health care and the rest have to pay a great deal for it where did those ideas come from did they come from some benign very wealthy person or were they. yes the dreams of people who saw their mothers dying in poverty saw their wives dying in childbirth or saw other coming to you. or saw others suffering grievously because they could not afford medical care no wonder so prime minister

that was kristoff st. john getting emotionalle after talking about his son.und dead in a facility years ago. now they're talking about the lawsuit just settled over his death and the surveillance that captured it. >> when you see the surveillance and no one checks on your child, knowing why you brought him there, does it still infur rate you to this day? >> i'm still angry. i watched it the first time. i will never watch it again. >> when i watch that video and i saw my son talking to me on the phone and he hung up the pay phone and went into his room and they didn't check on him, and just time went by, i couldn't help but think, my son was dying at that moment. >> jewelian, who battled mental illness and drug abuse was supposed to be on suicide watch in the facility, instead, he was found face down with a plastic bag on his head in his room. >> that call was the worst call i ever had in my life. i knew -- i knew that julian had died. >> the couple filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the facility claiming, quote, widespread and pervasive negligence. all ch

st. john's. you have to do that and when you grow up on a ranch like i did and watch my brothers, they run the ranch and having brothers and four sisters you kind of have to get along. and if you don't do the work nobody does it and i think that's how the city council's work and state legislatures usually have to work because they can't borrow money and put off decisions they should have to make now. so i think that we can get away sometimes in congress we shouldn't but he get awa we geth behavior that wouldn't be tolerated but we can paper over differences by spending more money and having a bigger deficit. it's a good credo for politicians when you are looking at the other side. it can bring some unexpected allegiances. can conservatives and liberals find common cause is right now. it will be added to the debt every year at some points the markets are going to respond, but not in a good way and then we become like greece or japan we will be digging out for decades if not generations. i don't wa

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now 36 years later you can revisit lady diana spencer and prince charles exchange vows inside of st. johns cathedral in london. they have all been restored and released in 4 k on youtube. the 25 minutes of footage comes from the archives of british movie tone the only company allowed to film the wedding. >>> there is more ahead in the next half hour of "action news" at noon. we are talking about a film about a pennsylvania woman looking to make it big on social media. it's about to hit the big screen and an investigation is underway following a discovery at a playground in delaware. >>> "action news" continues. >>> hello again here are stories we are following for you on "action news" at 12:30, emergency preparations are underway in texas at this hour. as hurricane harvey barrels towards the lone star state and shots fired and cars stolen and police chase ended in a crash overnight in the city's german town section and what president trump wants from congress as he threatens a government shut down. the texas coast first though. bracing for hurricane harvey expected to make a landfall as a

st. john's river. fort caroline national memorial and went to the outer banks of north carolina, worked at our nation's first national sea shore. cape hatteras national sea shore. i moved to north to new york city and i've been working here at the statue of liberty at ellis island for seven years now. i've got a great job. we want to protect these special places, not only for today, we want to leave them unimpaired for future generations. here we are at the statue of liberty, our nation's most famous national monument. a gift from the people of france. given to us, the people of the united states. in 1886. to commemorate our friendship, to commemorate our democracy. you folks know the statue has become much more than a gift of groirp. today she's the most recognized symbol in the world. freedom, hope, liberty, change. the idea of what the statue represents, it grows, it evolves, it changes. folks you're a big part of what she's become today. she's all over the place. you've seen her on tv. you've seen

here outside of st john's episcopal church in brooklyn there was a monument commemorating confederate general robert e. lee it was affixed to this maple tree and it was here for over one hundred years now in light of the violence in charlottesville related to a statue of robert e. lee it's been removed all across the country activists are demanding that symbols honoring a related to slavery or honoring the people who fought for it be taken down perhaps this is sensible after all slavery is a barbaric practice millions of people died coming to the united states millions more worked to death on plantations however getting rid of the symbols related to slavery might not be as easy as it sounds. this is new york city's madison avenue it's named after u.s. president james madison now james madison owned over one hundred slaves and in his personal letters he said some pretty reprehensible things about black people do you feel like there's a little hypocrisy that we're changing things in the south but not changing things here absolutely which changes every way i think if he represents you kn

they were fishing near st john when this humpback whale left out of the water — it is clear that it caughtg up, so don't go away. within the last12— within the last 12— 18 hours we have a dramatic weather across the uk. look at this short, looking apocalyptic, really, two waterspouts, the marine equivalent ofa waterspouts, the marine equivalent of a tornado off the essex coast, and thunderstorms around as well, here is one on southend—on—sea links to this nasty weather around the uk. note that london got away with it. very, very lucky indeed. wednesday morning, outbreaks across central pa rt morning, outbreaks across central part of the uk. let's see the weather through the early hours across the midlands. lincolnshire, down into wales and the south—west, this is where we will see some heavy rain and this will be slowly sinking southwards. very different story in the north of england, scotland and northern ireland. here you are heading to a fine start to the day with some sunshine. right from the word go in belfast, glasgow, aberdeen, everything is sunny. cabbage is fresh in rural areas ——

i went to college in queens, i went to st. johns, to study finance. i grew up in queens, in where near president trump's neighborhood but i also am a native of queens. >> queens is a large boro and certain parts of the queens that are affluent and other parts that are not. very diverse neighborhood. >> yes. >> very cool. >> one of the most diverse neighborhoods, they say country but i have even heard the world. >> i didn't know we had this in common, hanna, it explains why we're always so, ear to ear, eye to eye. >> thanks, hanna. >> yes. >>> if you have served our country, thank you. if you are looking for a job, stop by lincoln financial field for veterans job fair at 11:00 a.m. and end at 3:00. more than 50 potential employers will be there at free hiring event, opened to veterans, military spouses, guard man and reservists. if you are interested check out my facebook page where i have posted the full details. >>> good news you still have a chance of winning power ball. >> yeah, be in hit all six numbers last night which means jackpot is going up a

ambulances today marks one hundred forty years since the formation of the st john's ambulance charity in the days before socialized ambulances paid by taxes in one thousand nine hundred.

here outside of st john's episcopal church in brooklyn there was a monument commemorating confederate general robert e. lee it was affixed to this maple tree and it was here for over one hundred years now in light of the violence in charlottesville related to a statue of robert e. lee it's been removed all across the country activists are demanding that symbols honoring a related to slavery or honoring the people who fought for it be taken down perhaps this is sensible after all slavery is a barbaric practice millions of people died coming to the united states millions more were worked to death on plantations however getting rid of the symbols related to slavery might not be as easy as it sounds. this is new york city's madison avenue it's named after u.s. president james madison now james madison owned over one hundred slaves and in his personal letters he said some pretty reprehensible things about black people do you feel like there's a little hypocrisy that we're changing things in the south but not changing things here absolutely watching a change in every way i think that he rep

it doesn't feel like it's me it's the zone the st john to no never never know when i wrote him a note never is great is because i'm blonde at the moment and and also i don't really live a life where are that would have i don't i don't know are i i don't know make sure i don't really yeah i don't really go out to all sorts of things or anything like that it's all to do with work release and the british a little different to bird flu more of the what do you mean they're bit different about fame long run up to you on the street and. they're more polite i would think what i think yeah i mean in london especially people have got stuff going on so they're not really expecting to see like just you know. all famous person on the tube so people don't you don't really everyone's very much kind of like focused on what they're doing especially because we have got cold weather here and so people bundle up and it's not so much it's not like l.a. where it's a kind of celebrity town. but i don't i don't really know to be honest i have never really experienced it i think celebrity culture is something

bonnie st. john is the first african-american to win medals in downhill skiing.he is a leadership consultant and ceo of the blue circle leadership institute. she co-authored the new book "micro-resilience," focus in drive and energy. so good to see you. >> thank you. great to be here. >> i should tell everyone, the reason you're here is i saw you speak and i was inspired by you. i called my team here and said immediately, book her. she's fantastic. so i'm happy to share all your wisdom with our audience. >>ter ri >>terrific. i've had my own company, as well, for 20 years. >> i know. inclusion is then making sure employees succeed, right? >> most companies now, big companies, all think about dni, diversity and inclusion. the inclusion piece is are they thriving? are they coming to work and feeling like they can make a major contribution? are they getting mentors and sponsors and developing? are they getting promotions? otherwise, you can have a mixture of people but they're not really thriving. they're not really contributing. they're just going to leave. you're w

st. john's, where the udall family comes from, mostly dim -- democrats and they modeled behavior. as rural lawmaker you have to do that. when you grow up on a ranch is a did and watched my father and his brothers run the ranch and my seven brothers and four sisters you leave to get along, and there's no -- if you don't do the work, nobody does it. and i think that's how city councils work, all over the country. that's how state legislators usually have to work because they can't borrow money and put off decisions that they should have to make now. we just haven't been able to do it here, and i think we can get away sometimes in congress -- we shouldn't but we do get away with behavior that wouldn't be tolerated at any other level of government, but because we can just paper over our difference biz spending more money and having a bigger deficit than putting off decision wes should be making now, it's just not the example i grew up with. my parents -- i always mention my mother on temperature fridge she had for as long as i can remember the phrase, assume the best, look for the goo

st. john's where the udall family counseling, mostly democrats. but they modeled behavior and to think as a role on the you have to do that. when you grow up on a ranch as i did and watched my brothers, my father and his brothers run the ranch and my seven brothers and four sisters, you kind of have to get along. if you don't do the work, nobody does it. i think that tells, how city councils were all over the country. that's our state legislature to have to work because they can't borrow money and put on decisions they should have to make now. we just haven't been able to do it here. i think we can get away sometimes in congress, we shouldn't but we do get away with behavior that wouldn't be tolerated at any other level of government. but because we can just paper over our differences by spending more money and having a bigger deficit and putting up decisions that we should be making now, it's just, it's not the example that i grew up with. my parents, i was mention my mother on our fridge, she had for as long as i can remember the phrase, assume

snowflake was speaker of the house well beloved by both sides and he teamed up with jack around from st. johns and where the udall family comes from mostly democrats but they model behavior and as arra lawmaker yet to do that. when you grow up on a ranch as i did and i watched my father and his brothers around a ranch in my seven brothers and four sisters, you have to get along and if you don't do the work nobody does it. i think that's how city councils work all over the country and its house state legislators usually have to work because we can't borrow money and put off decisions that we have to make now. we haven't been able to do it here so i think we can get away sometimes in congress, we shouldn't but we do get away with behavior that wouldn't be tolerated at any other level of government but because we can paper over our differences by spending more money and having a bigger deficit and putting off decisions we should be making now is not the example that i grew up with. i mentioned my mother. on her fridge she had a phrase assume the best, look for the good and i think that's a good c

st. john's street and is followed by more of the festival. that looks fun. much more ahead on "today in the bay" including the end of an epic showdown. was the mcgregor/mayweather fight all it was hyped up to be? we're going to take a look next in sports. when you make a pb&j with smucker's, that's the difference between ordinary everyday and exquisitely delicious in an everyday sort of way. because with a name like smucker's, it has to be good. >>> it was one of the most anticipated fights in years. ufc superstar connor mcgregor going toe to toe with undefeated boxing champ floyd mayweather. did the fight live up to the hype. conor mcgregor entered the flag draped in his native flag. mayweather wore a mask like he's robbing somebody. i don't get it. floyd came in a huge favorite. mcgregor hung in there about nine rounds. in the tenth mayweather wore him out and the ref stopped the fight after a flurry of floyd punches, winning by technical knockout. a great show of respect as floyd mayweather remains undefeated at 50-0. after the fight he said he's done for

st. john s. mccain. then i want to add a tweet from nor mccain. this vessel was named after his far it and grand far it. both of them were admirals. he said cindy and i are keeping america's sailors aboard the u.s.s. john s. mccain in our prayers tonight. we appreciate the work of the search and rescue crews. they are echoing our sentiments here at home, that we are concerned about the search and rescue crews. but do that point, lucas, what can the families do in reach out and find out what's going on with their loved ones on board u.s.s. john s. mccain? another navy set up a hotline for families and friends of the u.s.s. john s. mccain. there is a number to call for families both inside japan where the ship is based, and there is also an international number as well. i'm not sure if you have that up on the screen. kelly: it's in the loesch third. >> just aboard this vessel the u.s.s. john s. mccain was in guam. one more point to make, kelly, and that's where the impact occurred. from the sing for navy there is a hole in the rear of the ship. it's

sheriff's deputies say it was hanging outside this black church, st. john primitive baptist.ember found the noose after bible study. nothing else was damaged. the case has been turned over to the fbi. >>> and there are serious concerns of possible violence in boston. >> thousands of people are expected to attend a free speech rally and protests of the event are planned. we're joined now by polo sand vol. how are they preparing? are we seeing differences as we saw the preparations last week in charlottesville? >> reporter: yeah, it's a good question. it's important to point out that this event has been previously scheduled. the so-called free speech event, however the events of last week definitely has led to really more interest and even more security in light of what took place there and i can tell you that the organizing group has maintained that they are basically inviting, quote, anybody who enjoys the right of free speech. the concern though is that that could be seen as an open invitation for some of these groups, the kkk, the group saying that they are aware of quote,

. >> what always struck me was like jake and jack brown a democrat from st. john a great udall boy and thighs republicans and democrats got along well. in fact i mentioned in the book, i talk about how the flakes were mostly democrat. in the late 1800s the mor church was concerned there would be too many republicans or too many democrats and when a new administration would come in it might favor the other party and the church obviously had been concerned about things like that after the extermination order from missouri and that was fresh in their minds. the church said you on the left pews are democrats and you on the right are republicans in snowflake the ones east of main street were democrat and west were republicans. the flakes were east of main street so we were democrats really until this generation. >> charlie: while he was alive, marlo marlon brando use to communicate with me because the program was on late and would always describe things as snowflake. where we leave it how is congressman scalise doing today? because after the shooting and went to the ho

st. john's episcopal church removed two blacks for robert e.is man, 300,000 americans were killed. >> at some point, you've got to move on and you can't do stuff like this. this is crazy. >> reporter: earlier in the week in durham, north carolina, demonstrators toppled the statue of a confederate soldier. seven protesters were arrested. in arizona, state and local officials woke up thursday to an extensively damaged confederate monument. >> that's my family there. >> reporter: people like david mccallister are trying to protect memorials like this one. he leads a group called save southern heritage. >> our agenda is cherishing american history. >> reporter: elected officials in new orleans removed several confederate monuments. >> these monuments celebrate a ti fictionalized confederacy, ignoring the death and slavery it stood for. >> reporter: last week's violence in charlottesville, virginia magnified it again. and the president's comments seemed to only widen the gap. >> i wonder, is it george washington next week and is it thomas jefferson

it would stand at north 4th and st. john streets near the san jose state campus. one planning consultant estimates the city planning commission could hear the proposal in october with a city council vote by the end of the year. >>> google's town hall meeting to discuss a harsh anti- diversity manifesto is canceled. the reason? threats against google employees. kpix 5's maria medina at the campus in mountain view. what happened? >> reporter: well, you know, google employees say that they were in fear of their safety because some of their names and even the questions that they wanted to ask during the town hall meeting were being posted online mostly on "alt right" websites. the ceo of google wanted to hold a town hall meeting today at 4:00 to address the controversial memo written by tech engineer james damore. now, damore was fired earlier this week for that memo in which he said that it was because of biological reasons that there are more successful men than women in tech. well, today thousands of employees were set to meet with the ceo today but again, that mee

in 2013 a unit for the study of personality in politics at st. johnniversity said that its initial assessment was that jong-un is, quote, agreeable, charming with a need for external approval which is inconsistent with north korea's continued belligerent fl the most recent assessment shows at worse jong-un only has a moderate redisposition to aggressive behavior. president trump says he hopes that kim is rational but doesn't know for sure. c. ia director mike mom pe owe, rex tillerson and susan rice all believe that jong-un is rational. former homeland security secretary and current white house chief of staff john kelly says he's unsure but thinks the korean leader is probably rational. others warn that trying to decipher the behavior of such an enigmatic figure is like reading tea leaves. >> president says he's locked and loaded but can he take action without congress? chris, what does the constitution tell us about the president's war powers? i understand they're quite broad. >> the president has the constitutional authority to do anything, really,

if you want to see the parade, it starts at 10:00 this morning at st. johnnd market. >>> also happening today, thousands of runners will take to the streets of san francisco for the eighth annual giant race. runners will start in front of at&t park at 7:00 this morning. there's a half marathon, 10k, 5k and family relay down the embarcadero. the giant race benefits the san francisco based nonprofits probable open hand, the leukemia team and training program and the pro sid o. about 20,000 runners are expected. meteorologist lisa argen is here. and it's a good thing that race is in the morning instead of the afternoon with the heat-up. >> even by 10:00, it's too hot. so really, if you want to get out, you know, the time to get out is now, the next hour or so. we're looking at an excessive heat advisory for our inland valleys. a heat warning, actually. and we have upgraded our heat advisory. even the san francisco shoreline will be on the warm side today. so it is 63 in hayward. good morning to you. we're well into the 60s in our inland east bay. still cool in

st.'s john's episcopal church in brooklyn more than 100 years >> he must be remembered not celebrated especiallystreets of our community. we called on the dioceses to remove the sign >> you don't change history >> officials they say removed the plaques in response to the events in charlottesville. >>> three mower protesters arrested today for in the vandalism of a confederate statue in durham north carolina. identified at dante stab ino, peter gilbert. thompson was arrest yesterday for participating in a riot they tore the confederate down monday. >>> new tonight, attorney general jeff sessions continued to condemn so-called sanctuary cities during an event in miami point the add chicago as an example of a city where crime spiked as a result of sanctuary policies. he claimed chicago politicians are putting their own politics before the safety and well-being of their constituents. >> we cannot continue giving taxpayer money to cities that actively undermine the safety and efficacy of federal law enforcement. and actively foot pursuit efforts to reduce crime in their own cities. so if the people i

joining me by phone is st. john barnard smith, houston chronicle, law enforcement reporter.t's it looking like to you? is this much greater than people expected? >> reporter: certainly very surprising. pretty incredible. i was just walking around in my neighborhood to get to my car and got swamped out and there are just cars everywhere that are flooded and very high water. >> what is -- you just heard what bill was saying, police are saying don't call 911 if your first floor is flooded. you heard stephanie gosk saying a lot of people went to bed last night thinking houston may have dodged the worst of it and now waking up to the worth of it. >> >> reporter: you're absolutely right. full on missile right into houston. >> what happens now? it school is back in session in texas, but obviously delayed that. not school on monday but when you look at the type of flooding we're seeing, there may not be commercial activity or personal activity in hughes to be for efl days. >> i think it could be much more than several days. with all this extra rain that's going to come down i think

st. louis johns's church removed two flakz. they were expected to be relocated to a church museum.. >> because of this man, 300,000 americans were killed. >> at some point you got to move on and you can't do stuff like this. this is crazy. >> reporter: earlier in the week, in durham, north carolina, demonstrators toppled the statue of a confederate soldier. seven protesters were arrested. out west in arizona, state and local officials woke up thursday to an extensively damaged confederate monument along the jefferson davis memorial highway. >> that's my family there. >> reporter: people like david mcallister are trying to protect monuments like this one. he leads the group called save southern heritage. mayor mitch landreau thinks those who support them endorse oppression. >> these monuments celebrate a confederacy ignoring the death and the enslavement and ignoring the terror that it actually stood for. >> reporter: last week's deadly violence in charlottesville, virginia, magnified the issue again and in the wake of it all, the president's comments seem to only widen the gap betw

it is really remarkable, jen, we know from reporting that the new white house xhoochief of st retired general john kelly, was among the staffers, urging him, you need to fix this, go out there and condemn nazis and the ku klux klan and white supremacists, who every civilized human being in the world would agree have evil thoughts and are bad people that should not be tolerated or people shouldn't try to appeal to them. he did so. he read from the prompter. obviously, somewhere inside of him, he resented it. he wanted to say what he really felt. there it is. >> this is a pattern we have seen over and over and over again. if you want to know what donald trump thinks, ask him. he will tell you exactly what he thinks. it doesn't matter if it is controversial, racist, sexist. that may be what he actually thinks. what shouldn't be a surprise is this is exactly who he was when he ran for president. this is exactly how he talked when he ran for president. this brought me back, as i have been reflecting, as many of us have over the last couple of days, to the day after the election when we were in the whit