terrance, i don't know if you heard arguments that might make you pause in the rush to see the minimumage doubled, what do you think? >> i think the franchise say the cost of all funnel to the customers, it should be the parent customers working with the franchises to work on their prices and how is not to funnel cost to customers to give us a livable wage. neil: even if you do that, terrance, do you think there's enough switching on the top, you know, shifting things over, you know, as they pass along some of the savings to the franchises that that's going to be enough to pay for doubling minimum wage. >> caller: it's enough to pay workers better. neil: maybe better, i'll take a leap and say "maybe better," i don't know if it's better for companies longer term, but better is very different than 15 an hour, don't you think? >> caller: well, i tell you, $15 an hour is achievable, and we know that we need more money to survive dearly here. we can say drsh they can make all the arguments they run on thin margins, all of that, but i think it's all -- it's all bologna. they can pay us bette

for more we're joined by one of the workers, terrance wise, who works at both burger king and pizza huts a member of the standard kansas city. .e joins us from kcpt and here in new york, we're joined by josh eidelson like intruding writer at salon.com. his latest piece is, "fast food strikes intensify in seven cities." josh, talk about this expanding, massive protest that is taking place. far the largest right by fast food workers in the history of the united states, less than one year after the first big strike by fast food workers anywhere in the united states. it demonstrates a real escalation in this campaign. it is a dramatic showdown between and embattled labor movement and an industry that increasingly not only is prevalent in the u.s. economy, but really represents where jobs are going in the u.s. economy. organizers estimate somewhere between 2000 and 3000 workers at least have gone on strike this week. this is a mammoth industry, so it is not one that is going to concede quickly. we will see this continue to escalate. >> talk about who is organizing these protests. >> the most

is towson's fuel for this season's fire. . terrance west-last year we felt like we didn't get what we deserved. so this year we have to leave it up to the team and us that we can win it all. eric pike-we are feeding off of last year a lot, not being accepted into the playoffs and those seniors a part of last year's team didn't get that chance and to continue on. we left on a sour note and we are trying to make sure we do everything we can to put our best foot forward to make sure that doesn't happen again. morgan adsit-there's still one major task at hand before towson can start to prepare of next week's season opener. name a starting quarterback. that decision will come tomorrow and it's between connor frazier and peter athens. competing is nothing new for athens... he did it two seasons ago with grant enders. peter athens-i'm just blessed to be here another year. it's been hard but it's not really about me. it's about this team and what we are trying to do. rob ambrose-there's a confidence in him that's born through life experience. and it's showing on the football field. the real j

hate and my character, this is really how i personal feel and my character sitting on the sofa with terranceoward and says don't you call my son a nigger because he ain't a nigger, that's exactly how i feel about it. don't you use that word because that's what i am. >> do you see the difference people that use an a at the end of it as opposed to an r. >> uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh you're talking semantics. where i am and where i come from i don't use it. jay-z and we disagree. >> when you hear it in songs -- >> i'm not listening to those songs. you don't think i'm going around listening to the songs where it's being played all the time. i'm not. i just personally am not. >> a few other cultures took this word and use it as a term of endearment. i challenge them for us to see that occurring in other cultures, and i think we need to, you know, to make ourselves strong and whole. >> i can't imagine i don't know what the slang or the word was used by the notzis towards the jews but i can't imagine the jewish taking that and using it. it feels like it would be dishonorable to the people who made everyth

terrance moore is a sports contributor to cnn.com and a columnist. let's talk about this.ryone hates to see an umpire make a bad call but fans complain that baseball games are just too long. if this actually goes in to effect with the instant replays, what do you think? does it make the games longer? >> well, first of all, pam, this is a brutal idea. okay? and let's start with this. the world series has been played for more than 100 years. nobody can come up with more than two or three calls maybe that perhaps could have cost a team a world championship. by major league baseball's own statistics, one out of every five games with a blown call. so, you know, that's not an issue here and what's going on, the bottom line, this is the knee jerk society of america rearing its ugly head again and to get to your point, when the games start lasting the time to fly from here in atlanta to mars, the people will be screaming about instant replay. >> all right. we'll have to see about that but the league claims it can review a umpire's call in less than two minutes. do you think that's

and terrance howard is their next-door neighbor. talk about the movie and the movement. he is the first african-american producer of an oscar winning film, and a true hollywood groundbreaker. lee, we're so happy to have you on the show tonight. let me ask you, why did you want to make this movie? >> father and son story. father and son story. you know, when i got the script, my son was 13, and he said black, i say white, he say black. i say day, he say night. i say go to bed, he say hell no. and when does it stop. >> right. >> and it transcends, race, you know, the father and son story. and it wasn't until i started shooting the movie and we started seeing the atrocities that happened to these kids that i realized it was bigger than a father and son story. it was a movie about civil rights. it's a movie about heroes. >> and it was still a movie about father and son. i mean, how important was it to tell eugene allen's story to you? >> so important, because he was an unspoken hero. and there are so many of us out there that don't know

the next phase of this project terrance gores house is one of the few remaining in this cluster of blocks. gore started out just picking up trash-- now he works full time driving a tractor to combat the blight that surrounds him in brightmoor. he used to call the neighborhood the moor because he could not see anything bright about it. >> you're talking about this, every day smell. it stinks from the trash people and now just to wake up you can smell fresh air, you can look, and it's like, i'm amazed. it's a good feeling, it's like i can't really describe how it feels every day just to wake up to a cleaner neighborhood. >> reporter: he is hopeful that the bankruptcy is a chance to reset the deck for the whole city and that it will only bolster his neighborhood's efforts. >> i'm just seeing this as just a start. if we can get this done, while going to bankruptcy, what can we get done when we're financially stable? a whole lot more than this. >> reporter: it won't be easy. 40% of brightmoor's families live below the poverty line and in a single decade the neighborhood's population dropped by

at third defended, terrance anderson, 20 five, is scheduled to be prosecuted separately next month. >ng up on the kron 4 morning news. walnut creek police release new close to a crime at tiffany's. now they say that you can help them crack the case. >> football season has not even started yet and we are already getting word of what the conditions could be like for super bowl. we will explain that coming up. hñ female announcer: female announcer: when you see this truck, it means another neighbor is going to sleep better tonight because they went to sleep train's ticket to tempur-pedic event. choose from a huge selection of tempur-pedic models, including the new tempur-choice with head-to-toe customization. plus, get 36 months interest-free financing, two free pillows, and free same-day delivery. are you next? announcer: but don't wait. sleep train's ticket to tempur-pedic is ending soon. ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ federal and state efforts have curbed tobacco cells to minor, despite a slight rise in those cells between 20112012. a report by the substance abuse and menta

host: terrance, democrat line. caller: this is terrance. military.pported our i just think that as it relates to syria, if the united states andmerica is police, -- a is telling its own own, the united states and serves as a protective interest for the syrian people. they're basically being killed by chemical weapons. should we have a serious problem with that if that is proven? i think there should be some collaborative efforts in the middle east together, all the intelligence. i think that our other allies should basically stay with the other collaborative effort, because who knows, they might have something -- [indiscernible] to support them again. i truly believe in the negotiations to resolve that matter. at the same time, as it relates a war beinga war, watched by the united states of america, i am always concerned with american loss of lives, on american soil, but i don't think that is a superpower that we should stand by and just watch people being killed and slaughtered by the thousands. host: on twitter this morning next, chisholm

wrote the standards, the people pushing them through, the districts implementing them, teachers, terrance, all the way down the line, the strategies for six -- teachers, parents, all the way down the line, the strategies for success is unique for all of them. people don't understand testing. there needs to be a very strong effort to help people understand what these are and what they are not. because every step of the way it is confusing for a different reason. >> that is why the poll results are fascinating, because the poll results indicate that the public trust teachers. but the policy makers and they insist on do not trust teachers. unless we work that contradiction now -- >> i would say, first of all, i want to say, i think what mary said is right on, which is, somehow we have to get people to understand that all standards are is a legal representation of our expectations of our children, and if we do not figure out how to align our expectations to what life is really going to expect of them, we are going to see them pay the price. when we get that message out there, it resonates wit

it is an american idea to allow terrance choices for a school where their children can succeed.foro allow parents choices a school where their children can succeed. not rich children. they already have the choice. this is for folks who have been told that the ideas would hurt ideaswhen, in fact, those were being opposed because of special interests, not because of the interests of the children. you see states that recognize that less government and lower taxes will create a better economy and more jobs. you see texas with low income tax and florida with no income tax, and people are moving to these states, and it is not just about helping business. it is the families and getting the jobs and having a better life that we want to talk about all over the country. our ideas work, and we can show they work. when they passed tort reform to limit lawsuits, what happens? doctors, the best doctors move there. that is where they want to practice. the cost of health care goes down. [applause] right. we are it is not enough to be right. we need to make sure that every american understands t

[applause] i might just add, as i said out there, a poll was taken this last wednesday by the terrance group a republican polling group and they found that in this district, in this, congressman king's district, that 70% of republican voters, 70% of republican voters back a path to legal status. so, we would be glad to be open for questions. >> neither of you used word race cyst -- >> i'm sorry? >> neither of you have used the word racist, although one of the gentleman who was asking a question did. do you consider congressman king's comments racist? >> i don't know, kay, i don't know if i would do that. they're hurtful. they're denigrating comments about good people and as, dick said, they're not reflective of these dreamers at all. they're, these are just these are just really what did the speaker say, hateful words, and, we shouldn't have a place for those in our political discourse, especially around an issue like this. i don't know if you want to add anything. >> that's fine. >> senators, david young, a candidate for the u.s. senate here, has said that if it weren't mexico on our

wrote the standards, the people pushing them through, the districts implementing them, teachers, terrance, all the way down the line, the strategies for six -- teachers, parents, all the way down the line, the strategies all ofcess is unique for them. people don't understand testing. to be a very strong effort to help people understand what these are and what they are not. because every step of the way it is confusing for a different reason. >> that is why the poll results are fascinating, because the poll results indicate that the public trust teachers. but the policy makers and they insist on do not trust teachers. thats we work contradiction now -- >> i would say, first of all, i want to say, i think what mary said is right on, which is, somehow we have to get people to understand that all standards representation of our expectations of our children, and if we do not figure out how to align our expectations to what life is really going to expect of them, we are going to see them pay the price. when we get that message out there, it resonates with parents. i want to contrast the broad a