we made the brooklyn burger. it's a brand-new item. e conception of it was from-- some of the prime meat products that we don't get the top dollar for, make an excellent hamburger. >> so it something you sell to butcher shops or restaurants? how does it--how does it work? >> we sell it to the sports stadiums. we're the official hamburger of the new york yankees, the new york mets... >> oh. >> the brooklyn nets. >> and how does that work? you have, like--like, a marketing arrangement or-- >> uh, corporate sponsorship agreement with the teams. >> and how much does that cost a year? >> about 400,000 a year. >> oh, wow. 400,000 is a lot of money to spend marketing one product, especially only three locations. i'm gonna have to take a look at these contracts and make sure i know what we're getting for that. what i'd like to see is how the brooklyn burger is made. >> cut the meat here. now i don't know if you wanted to try cutting a piece of meat. >> well, i'd like to try it. i wanna learn. i'll stand over here, okay? and break it up into wha

and you love the brooklyn dodgers that the personality of that whole brooklyn dodger team was the great jackie robinson. i am wondering if you would think of that subject but i think you would be the person to do that. >> no question he was like you are on the brooklyn dodgers. i would like to believe it was because i was a young civil rights advocate but i think it was more when i was five or six years old that he would get on race and steal second and then he would steal third and steal home and completely rattled the other pitchers. he was such an exciting vital player. in fact all of my childhood i kept wanting to get his autograph. i never could get it. you guys get them at the park in those days. you could pay for them but you had to wait in lines in his line would be long. finally when i was in all awesome -- adolescent i brought my autograph book for him. in those days women will remember we have these stupid autograph books where it was say i will love you until niagara falls or cherish you until rubber tires. if he signed a book you would look like on

also welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. some of you know we are the only law school in brooklyn but you know we are the best law school in the largest and most vibrant borough and the greatest city in the leading state in the most wonderful countries that we have got that working for us. it's pretty good. yesterday marla and i returned from a short trip to russia where i was speaking to scholars and students about why study law and last night on my way to the festival gala eyes on the wall of 25j street and inscription by alexander hamilton that in just a few words captured everything i was trying to say. it read, the instruments by which government enacts or the laws. the first is destroyed then the latter must be used and if the latter becomes ordinary then that's the end of liberty. now this is the borough of immigrants. it's a borough of churches but it's also very much the borough of books. in true brooklyn style we don't just read them. we think about them. we talk about them. we share them. we devour them like all tha

the acoustics are really good. and of course brooklyn hot all over the world, whether it is music, art, dance, food. hasink all of that together made the barclays center a tremendous success. >> by the way, the people who do mention brooklyn, not just the traffic, they have also said that brooklyn is to bank hip, urban.l, too ohio, and if you look at brooklyn -- i would venture to say that almost every delegate will have either a friend or cousin or some relative who lives in brooklyn. anyone who has young children has friends and so on who live in oakland. me, iis not too hip for love brooklyn and i fit in. >> i know you are a vocal supporter of the democratic party. you have worked in government before in your prior career. we had george a tacky on yesterday -- george pataki on yesterday. >> we went to law school in the 1960's. we sat next to each other, pataki, ratner. we joke. way,mes a little bit this i come from this way, and we always wind up in the same place. i think everyone appreciates him for that. >> i want to play something

and as we look at the beautiful back drop of the brooklyn bridge. police commissioner bratton said tonight they have no information of any threats to new york city in the days leading up to the anniversary of 9/11. erin. >> thank you. our next guest's father was convicted of the trade bombing. zack, it is really good to have you on and very perfect timing, we talk about what this week and the significance of this week. your father was convicted of planning the 1993 attack on the world trade center. you heard susan candiotti reporting these landmarks are major terror targets. that doesn't surprise you, does it? >> well i think -- well, one, i'm not a terrorism analyst, but it is unfortunate that after all of these years this is something we still have to deal with. as someone who has lived in the shadow of terrorism for a long time, it makes me somewhat fearful and a bit sad. but i think that is why the message in my book is so important about empathy, about being able to look at those around us in our community and just try to be more empathetic towa

also, welcome to the best law school in brooklyn. some of you know we're the only law school in brooklyn. [laughter] but, you know, we are the best law school in the largest and most vibrant borough in the greatest city in the leading state in the most wonderful country. so we have that working force. it's pretty good. yesterday, marla and i returned from a short trip to russia where i was speaking to scholars and students about why study law, why come to america to study law? and last night on the way to the festival gala i saw on the wall on 25 j street and description by alexander hamilton debt in just a few words captured everything i was trying to say. it read, the instruments by which government must act are the laws, or force but it's the first -- if the first is destroyed, then the latter must be used. and if the latter becomes ordinary, and that's the end of liberty. now, this is the borough of churches, but it's also very much the borough of books. and in true brooklyn style, we don't just read them. we think about them. we

narrator: in three months, more than 3,500 people were exposed to the measles virus in the brooklyn area. 58 were infected, including two pregnant women. one miscarried. all were confirmed as unvaccinated at the time of infection. measles was declared eliminated back in 2000, and so this was the largest outbreak since elimination. fensterszaub: it's like telling me, "look, we found smallpox." smallpox is eradicated. i mean, no one sees measles. who sees measles? yeah, you'll see measles in third world countries, in other countries. this is new york! we don't see measles in new york. narrator: around the world, pockets of low vaccination are appearing, often in affluent, mainstream communities. anthropologist heidi larson studies why people do or don't place trust in vaccines. larson: there isn't just a world polarized between pro- and anti-vaccine populations. there's 80-plus percent in the middle who it's either just a social norm, it's good for our children and for our public health, others that are starting to question, and a certain amount of questioning is healthy. and then there's

a jury found the brooklyn born man guilty in 2007 of supporting al qaeda and of terrorism conspiracy. >> aftermath of speculation, ,pple unveiled two new iphone's the iphone 6 at iphone 6 plus. they feature curved edges and better screens measuring 4.7 and 5.5 inches. $199 for cost around the iphone 6, and the plus will be $299. preorders begin this friday. >> you may begin to use your smart phone to pay for metro services. re allows you to pay a new variety of ways. >> a security breach at home depot. what the store is doing to keep your identity safe. >> some rain to watch out for as well. >> new information about a security breach at home depot. cyber security experts report this could be the largest breach in history. the home-improvement chain has not announced how many cards have been compromised it says the heck has gone back to april to april.es back in to clean ups the environment. two of the counting numbers one to ban styrofoam. order usually comes in elastic foam containers -- plastic foam containers. /and could change that for montgomery county restaurants. they want to f

it's high noon here at the brooklyn law school and today we are opening with a discussion of nelson mandela who we will talk more about in a minute and also to engage your ideas and thoughts about one of the people who is referred to certainly is one of the greatest men of his age and of his time. my name is danny schecter. i'm known as the news dissector. i'm an author of a book "madiba a to z." as a filmmaker and made six films with nelson mandela including a sound that was showcased his visit to brooklyn in 1990 when he came out of jfk into brooklyn that was then boys and girls high to an incredible reception from the streets from every kid in town en masse welcome of the kind he was not prepared for. i have been following this story for many years and i will tell you a bit more about that. first of all before we begin the program i would like to let you know that books by authors in this program can be purchased by books on call nyc downstairs just outside the entrance to the building. immediately following this program authors will be signing at that location as well. you are in for a

their building was over the brooklyn bridge. i never visited her for security reasons. rked in the building for 13 years. the first time in my life i got angry, delivered from a near-dead experience. you would think i was a happy man. i got angry and looked around for somebody or something to get to where she works. i saw a man driving a 4 by 4 pick-up. i looked at the man and said one word, you are dead, drive. me reached to the dashboard, picked up a cigarette and said "smoke", i said "i had enough smoke for a day." he laughed. he is looking fearful, reaches the ramp by the brooklyn brim, i jumped out, thank you, i was gone, pushing people, get out, and i bump into a big guy. if i imagine him now, he would take a swing. he took compassion and said "where do you want to go?", to metro text center. i live behind that building. what is that chance. this man lived right there. he navigated it, us, we got there, and the security guard... >> wouldn't let you in. >> no, you are not coming in. he was the guard. albert is making so much noise that the person behind the desk hea

would be a nightmare for the delegates. brooklyn has become the locust of hardship youth culture, if you're trying to get young millennials involved in the political process and recruit them as active democrats that might not be a bad political play. >> pennsylvania is a swing state and new york is not. inside story comes bac >> the nude photo celebrity controversy. some people are saying it's the fault of the celebrities. the fbi has been trying to find who plucked private photos from jennifer lawrence and kate upton and others did it. i'll read what ricky gervais said. he caught heat for this. ful a lot of people thought he was being insensitive. on the on the other hand, a lot of people told us, why are people taking these photographers. and putting them in the cloud, is this the celebrities fault. >> it's like saying blame the victim. you could fight credit card frawght e -- fraud by not having a credit card. there's good reason for carrying a credit card and not a good reason for posting the photos in the cloud. >> there's no s

. >> the brooklyn native is spent nearly 50 years is sharing her caustic comedy with the world. dog.was such a to get me down the aisle, they threw a bone. >> she joked about everything, including how she wanted this day to be. funeral to be over-the-top with lights, camera, and action. >> she got the glitz and glamour she wanted at a temple in new york city, with famous guests, from whoopi goldberg to donald trump, a performance by hugh jackman, and lots of raunchy jokes kicked off by howard stern. >> she was in reverent. off-color. it was just like joan's humor. >> humor and tears for the 81-year-old who died after having a cardiac arrest after undergoing surgery on her vocal cords. melissa, waster, saying goodbye before this perfect tribute to a woman who lived to make others laugh. joan would want to go out. >> a remarkable life. >> the city examiner is continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding her death. and former republican presidential candidate mitt romney is opening up about politics in an interview with chris wallace on "fox news sunday." he said there i

the brooklyn dodgers don't exist any longer, so she has shifted her allegiance to the boston red sox.[cheers and applause] she was the first woman to going to the boston red dots locker room. she is a graduate of colby college, phi beta kappa naturally, magna laude. later won a white house fellowship and is a white house fellow was assigned to the white house and work with president johnson directly. after she left, she went to harvard, finisher teaching assignment air. she got her phd at harvard as well and that she began her career after teaching of writing extraordinary books. i think to start by asking you this. you've written books about some presidency obviously couldn't know. franklin roosevelt. if you had a chance to have dinner, who would you want to have dinner with. i keep knowing that people say to you, you could have dinner with one of you guys. i know i should ask abraham lincoln, what would you attend different about instruction had he lived? but i know i wouldn't ask you not. i would say mr. lincoln, would you tell me a story and if he started telling me a story, his w

. >> the brooklyn native spent more than 50 years sharing her caustic comedy with the world. >> joking about agency, including how she wanted this day to be. >> want my funeral to be a huge show biz affair with lyings and cameras and action. >> she got the hollywood glitz and glamor she dreamed of in new york city, with famous guests, a performance by hugh jackman, and lots of raunchy jokes, kicked off by howard stern. >> a bundle of laughs i have to say. irreverent, offcolor, just like joan's humor. >> humor and tears for the 81-year-old who died thursday after going into cardache arrest during a routine procedure on her vocal chords, he daughter melissa saying her own private goodbye ahead of today's star-studded service. friends say it was the perfect tribute to a woman who lived to make others laugh. >> this is how she would want to go out. >> celebrating a remarkable life as the state health department and city medical examiner continue investigating the circumstances of her death. abc news, new york. >> the president outlines his plan to deal with the growing global threat of isi

i guess we've go over the brooklyn bridge all the time. >> the bay bridge, the san francisco bridge -idge and the bay bridge are very old bridges, but keep them well kept for now. >>> today marks the 227th anniversary of the signing of the u.s. constitution. on september 17, 1787, 38 of 41 delegates at the constitutional convention in philadelphia put their names on what would become the supreme law of the united states. today a naturalization ceremony will be held in jamaica, queens, new york. happen by birthday to nascar champion jimmie johnson. still a young guy. >>> kyle chandler from friday night lights is 49. comedienne rita rutter in is 61. i'm richard lui along with bill karins. the entire "early today" team, thanks for watching us. >>> from nbc bay area, this is "today in the bay." >>> what a good wednesday morning to you, it's 4:30, i'm sam brock. >> and i'm laura garcia-cannon. lots to get to this morning, let's check the forecast, rob may yay da in for christina, good morning. >> calm in the area, just seeing high clouds on the coast. again, climbing into the 80s today for

recipe for success 13 years ago, then editor and chief of "essence" magazine, she came home to the brooklyn breakfast she ran on the side to realize she was jealous of her guests. >> what they were doing for themselves, i wasn't doing for me. and you cannot give if you have an empty cup. >> reporter: greenwood chose inn keeping. >> these hands are making breakfast. these hands may be making beds. these hands are writing bills. >> reporter: today there are more than 9 million women-owned businesses, a number that's tripled in 30 years. >> a longer, financially more responsible life. if you're not in charge of it, it's going to be pretty rough. >> reporter: what's the toughest thing about going out on your own? >> getting over a fear of failure. >> reporter: it hasn't all been success, but today greenwood and her husband own four inns. and thinking about what's next. >> every day when i make a decision there's a little bit of something i learned in the past. look at that. >> reporter: all to secure her future. anne thompson, nbc news, brooklyn. >>> and that is our broadcast for a thursday nig

up to the team, the brooklyn dodgers. he said this -- the moment robinson puts on a dodgers uniform, you can begin counting the days to the deaf of the negro leagues. there were a few many negro league players who were questioning what integration might mean in terms of his negative impact on their livelihood. in one of my interviews, the last interview with 2005, he died the following year in 2006 at the age of 94, he said this, we should have, in fact, supported our ne gechlt ro leagues and they should have taken whole teams into the majors or at least make the negro leagues part of the farm system of the majors. but i want you to hear just three minutes of what he also said in my interview with him. it starts off with me saying stuff. i think you can recognize my voice even back then. but then there's buck o'neill because he takes it a step further. so, listen up. >> our own people rather than being in an environment we control rather than over here and they see this as the big time. i think that's the integration. >> t

the burgers? >> jimmy: i'm going buy burgers for your crew. at "brooklyns on. but -- do i have to get it for everyone on your show? >> jimmy: just play the game! [ laughter ] are you doing the math in your head? you're like, "there's a lot of roots. there's at least eight roots." yeah, yeah, yeah. >> that's some skrilla scratch, jimmy. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: "i'm a newlywed man. we're saving up." >> all right, here we go. [ sigh ] i'm in the cheerios! [ buzzer ] >> jimmy: honey nut cheerios? i'm in the cheerios. "honey, i shrunk the kids"! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ >> jimmy: the winner, andy samberg! i buying burgers for the crew. [ cheers and applause ] that was great, "brooklyn nine-nine" airs sundays at 8:30 on fox. we'll be right back with kevin durant! ♪ ♪ how do commercials work? you need a team, working together, doing all kinds of jobs. see these people? they're not acting. they're real professionals. and we hired them all on the site where more people get jobs than anywhere else. indeed. the world's #1 job site. ♪ you have the most amazing hair

his topics have ranged from the brooklyn bridge to baseball, from mark twain to jazz, from prohibitionthe national parks. remarkably, his works never become outdated. as we commemorate the 150th anniversary of the civil war this pbs series on that war remains as relevant today as it was when it debuted in 1950. burns captures the historic moments of american life with archival materials like personal letters, diaries and newspapers. his use of still photographs have been revolutionary. he has called photographs the dna of everything he has done and his evocative scans have transformed his subjects into a cinematic experience. the slow-moving the slow motion scanning technique is now even called the ken burns' effect. his new seven-part pbs series, the roosevelts premiered last night. and i have reliable information that the ratings were extremely high and that they are soaring. the series will be broadcast every night this week. in this film, he focuses on the towering but flawed figures who, before they were history were family. he was able to draw on news reel footage, radio broadcas

handsome rides the train, alone, into brooklyn. yeah. he calls up his crew, tells them which station to wait at. they meet up, do the robbery, and handsome fades away again. we've been hunting him all over flatbush 'cause that's where he hits, that's where his boys keep getting collared, but he could be anywhere in the city. an north of 42nd street, anyway. after that video, he's got to know we got the two train covered. i mean, there's no way he's going to hit there tonight, is there? yeah, but there's no way he's not going to hit somewhere. 26 lines, 468 subway stations.e i read it somewhere; it stuck. let's attack this from a erent angle. danny: handsome's also got a farebeat arrest in april on west 4th street and a discon summons in june diff at 31st street and northern boulevard. is that all? that's it. every police contact, every known associate and relative home and work address for handsome for the past six months. now we have to find a pattern to his movements. so, what do we got? manhattan, queens, brooklyn-- he's all over the p

. >> reporter: the brooklyn bridge is one of new york's most popular tourist spots. this summer, new water faucets were installed here. they proved popular with both adults and children. and, of course, with dogs. the faucets were part of a two-month campaign to promote drinking water. they were set up in places around the city creating oasis for city dwellers. >> tastes fresh. >> it tastes fresh. >> reporter: americans are not known for drinking tap water. so why is it suddenly becoming so popular? one reason is the growing awareness of the environmental impact. the old used for creating plastic bottles each year could produce 100,000 cars. new york wants to cut down on plastic bottle use by promoting tap water. attitude toward health are also changing. in a country where half of the population is considered to be obese, people are beginning to accept that water is healthier. there has been an image change, too. the city has a sampling station to test the water quality. samples are taken and analyzed for around 50 different components to check that water is potable.

. >> thank you very much ladies and gentlemen, congratulations on the groundbreaking for brooklyn in her street i'm the president and ceo. the industries is a long business plan two years ago which we call innovation and it highlights the importance of all the about his so we've been there it's out for real and by being more active in government business in the united states especially in san francisco we mark toy as an initial step our long-term goals i want to express my gratitude and appreciation. i would first like to thank our partner s c s thank you very much for making this venture happening and thank you to the architectures not only for the design but also engineering energy and the downtown product thank you. and i also want to thank mayor ed lee and supervisor kim and san francisco government and the neighboring resident for supporting a new relationship to the community. thank you very much. we are extremely fortunate in the stage of this project they've chosen here as their headquarters and with all of this in place the success on brooklyn no one is a success with our con

. >> i look out the window and it overlooks the brooklyn bridge. millions of people working across the bridge. and i say to bob, i am going too go downstairs. i didn't say w2" >> hi everybody. >> and they follow me as i walk towards the brooklyn.eu bridge. and as i get on to the bridge it was like something took over and i started to yell, keep walking, keep walking over the bridge, we are not going to let these bastards bring us to our knees. >> thank you. >> i really appreciate your coming to work today. >> this is ridiculous, i have to go to work at yonkers. >> 286çjo street. what is the single biggest factor to go more smoothly at sicsth. >> it is a different mayor, firstly. >> we are not going to take this. from a couple of whack goes. >> new york zazi not just broke, it was depressed. >> and here comes koch who real cheerleader for the city. of, you know, you don't have to just roll over and play dead. this i is the big apple. this is new york. >> don't -- don't stop or i will have to give you a ticket. okay? >> am i doing all right? thank yo

county fast food restaurant. 47-year-old luzviminda monreal of laurel was found in the stockroom of the brooklyn park popeye's by a manager. michelle richie reports investigators are searching for her killer and a motive. >> reporter: crime scene tape around popeye's restaurant on richie low where a woman was found dead. >> she -- ritchie highway where a woman was found dead. >> she was a woman in her 40s found dead. >> reporter: those who live close by are shocked and frightened. >> i was going there today. that's why i come up here. >> reporter: then when you saw the tape, what did you think was going on? >> i said somebody was probably killed in there. >> reporter: the woman's body was found sunday morning around 8:00 by a manager in a back stockroom severely beaten. >> we have yet to determine whether this was a robbery or some other type of altercation that went bad and turned into this murder. >> reporter: the restaurant is closed for now as the investigation continues. some say not knowing if this was a random or targeted murder is unnerving. >> i live down the road and won't come out of

today we bring you the 2014 brooklyn book festival from new york. coverage includes panels on city planning, politics, nelson mandela, voting rights and public education. on "after words," the story of a tragic car accident due to texting and the effect technological distractions have on society. steve almond takes a critical look at football from the brutality of the sport to the financial privileges it provides. calls books about the -- also books about women in the civil war, the drafting of the emancipation problem proclamatid intelligent machines. for more information, visit us online at booktv.org. >> i'm the executive art director for the simon & schuster or imprint. >> host: and what does that mean? >> guest: well, i oversee and design the simon & schuster imprint, and there are many different imprints of simon and schuster, scrivener, touchstone, gallery. there's all different art directors for those, but i solely do the simon & schuster imprint. >> host: so you do the covers of books. >> guest: yeah. >> host: what goes into a cover of a boo

known for he had making arrests and getting convictions in the crime-scared brooklyn. in 1995, the year moses was charged with murder the city's violent crimes took a nose drive attributed to new aggressive policing. the murder of four year olds shimone johnson outraged the community and sunday moses was the crime are you suspect. >> so that point, you know, my minds kind of went in to survival mode. >> did you feel that your life was in danger? >> yes, yes, i did, because at that point, they weren't acting like detectives. they were actually acting like a gang. and i am saying that they wouldn't accept anything outside of a confession and now that i am realizing that, so that, with not knowing the law, of course, i said, well, i'll tell them what they want to hear and i can prove that that was a lie. >> detectives wrote up a confession for moses with their versions of events. to put an end to his nightmare, moses signed it. i have to ask the question, why in the world would you confess to a crime you didn't do? a murder, no less. >> because i never thought that i would

first no one knew what to say last july when a huge all i american flags over night appeared on the brooklyndge. " what terrace with a calling card we don't take these things lightly or as a joke or as art. within the realm of speech these are issues of trespass and put themselves in danger put others in danger that's why we investigated >> : tune the german artist caught an architect or control march unclear whether charges will be filed. should any where be relieved they climbed the top of the bridge without being detected >> : where one response to it is really. terror analyst >> : put so much resources into thinking about who might be a terrorist and a half on the individual confession old-fashioned law enforcement particular bridge tolls and the marks of the city. a little more emphasis there. it was a wake-up call the lines tonight at 6:00 president addressing the nation on details of his strategy against isis better just to you live a first of 545 slightly tart with political analyst michael luckey about what we can expect from the president >> : to the carrot and the warmup third as

live to see his son omplete the building of the greatest engineering feat of the 9th century, the brooklyn bridge. uh' caller: i want to thank you and give you kudos for the film. civil ughly enjoyed the war. but your depiction of the dust bowl in that time, it just me to my knees because the war showed what is. thank you for the live in media age in which we're drowning in information. it, but little understanding. it's great to have c-span, and that takes the time to dive deep, to listen to all of the voices and to represent all of voices. do.t is what we're trying to we had superficial ideas about the dust bowl and the roosevelts. they're very -- must have conventional wisdom. one bad storm. 100 storms didn't just kill crops and your children. these are important things that tease out in the films that we've done. in the case of the roosevelts, beginning of he the program, we tend to segregate them because theodore republican, a progressive republican, and franklin was a democrat. progressive democrat. they are much more alike than different. intricate why the family drama that we told

one of the most popular comedies right here on fox, "brooklyn 99", the stars >> brooklyn nine nine is to sit down with some of the stars. >> what's it like when you have these serious characters. i love watching your face and what you think and what you reflect and then you have -- what you give in a small look or a gesture. and then you have this role, which i didn't realize how funny this show is. it's really funny and you're the guy, you're not supposed to smile too much. or you do and it gives away a little bit. >> comedians need straight men. knowing that one person is still pretending to be a policeman. that's my job. when i look out at andy and chelsea and joe, they're all kites and they need strings. my job is to be the string for these beautiful kites. >> kooky kites is a lot more like it. >> you got it. i want my money! >> reporter: terry loves having his comfort zone challenged. >> here -- andre, everyone is nervous when we act with andre. because he is the julliard trained -- but he is so funny. everyone had him boxed in, you are the dramatic guy and all of a sudden he goe

and in 2003 an al qaeda operative was convicted of slicing the cables on the brooklyn bridge. efore the 9/11 anniversary in between the fbi stopped a man that was trained by al qaeda from bombing the subway. >> it's part of a private room pass the photos and artifacts from ground zero. >> they truly are a part of this this special place. when they come to this museum they remember where they were on this day. >> now tonight the museum will close to the public and open only only to first responders and relatives of those that lost their lives in the 2001 and 1993 world trade center attacks. >>> time is 5:15. let's check in with sal as we get you moving. how is highway 24? >> dave, i'm glad you ask the that question. pam you didn't ask, but i'm going to tell you any way. highway 24 looks pretty good. your drive time is eight minutes between pleasant hill road which we can see in this picture to the tunnel. there are no major problems there. the traffic continues to look very good all the way through. and there are no major problems on 24 on the oakland side as you drive down to 5

that's the way they boycotted. brooklyndodgers. >> do you have any record of anthony kansas in the monarchs? >> sure. >> my dad played for anthony about 90 years ago. if there's some way you could -- i would appreciate it. it's been a long time since i even knew -- my dad has been gone 50 years. >> i tell you what. they did play anthony kansas. as i was coming down the freeway today, i'm driving past all these places that i know the monarchs appeared. i know they played at fort riley, at junction city, they were at manhattan, clay center. i can go out west. practically any city that was a city had a baseball team, and they had a kansas league that they would play in. they played all the those cities of not one year, different years. i would do research. i will get your name. i will be happy to supply that information. >> about 1959, satchel spent the summer and pitched for salina blue jays. unfortunately, we still, as a team, suffered under the discrimination scenarios. they didn't spent many nights overnight. but they trav

today we bring you the 2014 brooklyn book festival from new york. coverage includes panels on city planning, politics, nelson mandela, voting rights and public education. on "after words," matt ricket el tells the story of a tragic car accident due to texting and the effect technological distractions have on society. steve almond and gregg easterbrook take a critical look at football. also books about political power of the super rich, women in the civil war, the drafting of the emancipation proclamation and intelligent machines. for more information on this weekend's schedule, visit us online at booktv.org. >> here's a look at some of the best selling nonfiction books according to "the washington post": >> that's this week's list of nonfiction bestsellers according to the washington post. >> host: and as booktv continues its tour of the new york public library, we are now joined by the curator of the library. how did you get to that position? >> guest: well, i worked in the library, the new york public library, in the past. i've been in the rare boo

the nypd always is watching potential targets like behind me, the brooklyn bridge, all of the tunnels. the subway system here. they have 7,000 plus cameras just in lower manhattan alone. you cannot drive in and out of new york city without your license plate being monitored and recorded. they have 1,000 plus nypd officers solely on the anti-terrorism division. that gives you a sense of what they're looking at. this morning when i spoke with bill bratton, head of nypd, we talked about how the city is prepared for today and what they're facing. listen. >> well, there's multiple potential threats certainly from al qaeda and now new and growing potential threat with isis and the nypd and our federal colleagues have to be constantly vigilant against potential of an attack. there's nothing that we are aware of today that is specifically targeting this city on this significant day. the nature of terrorism is that you have to be constantly vigilant to try to prevent it. >> reporter: one thing that he said that really stood out to me is we're vigilant working to keep up with what the terrorist

>> i worked in the brooklyn district attorney's office. rict attorney formed the first domestic violence bureau in the united states of america and you know what it all comes down to? and i know this is going to sound simplestic but it works. education. there was a systemic issue forever. it was okay to hate your woman. it was okay. it was acceptable. the same way we'll talk about it with your child. and so that needs to be on every team, a woman like lisa can talk about, she's not just a prosecutor. she knows all of the ramifications of domestic violence. she knows the complexities, the inter woven complexities where ray rice's wife is like i love him. leave us alone. and you just need -- these are young kids playing football. they're 21-year-old men. they need education. >> players union executives applaud roger goodell on this announcement. they say it gives them an opportunity for due process with their people within the organization. so let's move on to the next part of this, though, which is an interesting thing. they like this, they