[sprawling symphony music] ♪ next to it, the home of the los angeles opera, the museum of contemporaryh school for the performing arts, and the school of music. in greater los angeles, three scientific research centers, a theater, an art center, and another contemporary art museum. he puts his name on almost all of them. you said that your sense of being a wealthy man actually increased the more you gave money away. >> i think it's true. i don't feel i'm here to just maintain the status quo. i'm here to make things better or different. >> and you want the world to know about it by putting your name on all the things you do support. >> i don't keep it a secret, that's for sure, >> broad took us to grand avenue... this is quite a vista. which he plans to transform into a vibrant city center, rivaling new york's museum mile. disney hall, designed by frank gehry, almost did not get built. broad rescued the project by putting up his own money and putting the squeeze on fellow plutocrats. >> it's really become the symbol of our city. >> and then there's his own museum, the broad. this is a r

in los angeles during the late 1980's and early 1990's, there were 1000 homicides per year in the cityangeles, not the county, the city. now, we have between 203 hundred homicides per year. people talk about the gang problem having been addressed. i want to share with you, what i experienced, what i have learned, i am not a typical academic. i will not quote statistics to you or talk about theories. i will talk with you about practicality. pragmatic approaches, and i will talk about reality. san francisco, like los angeles learned, will never saw or deal with its gang problems effectively unless there is true collaboration. i will talk to you about what this looks like and feels like. i will speak to you about the lessons that we have learned as law enforcement had to come off of the high perch, in los angeles, law enforcement learned, to their great fortune, that collaboration is the answer. i am going to talk to you about some of the lessons that were learned. i can tell you first that the people -- we have learned lessons from have been gang members themselves my research is engaged

and he is a man who lifted off from the los angeles olympics. we catch up with him. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and elsewhere around the world. there is a fierce battle in syria. they are battling rebels for control. according to the united nations, 30 civilians are reported to have died there today alone. many more have already fled. our correspondent in cameraman were trapped there and sent this report, which contains graphic images of the casualties. >> the battle for aleppo is raging, and parts of this vast, ancient city are now at war. which means the ranks of the dead and wounded are growing. eight-year-old muhammed is peppered with shrapnel wounds from a government shell. his older cousins leg was torn apart in the attack, and the pain was too much. next to him is mohammad brother. he has just been pronounced dead. victims of a war with no end in sight. as you can get out of the city are, desperate to escape the shelling that does not discriminate between soldier and civilian. but notice how many of them are women and children. the men had stayed t

the bike for speeding. it ended almost an hour later in los angeles. when a highway patrol officer forced the rider to stop. no one was injured. >>> the los angeles county, the los angeles city council voted to ban medical marijuana dispensaries in the nation's second largest city. the move could affect more than 1 million pot clubs. today's action eliminating store fronts but allows patients and care givers to grow marijuana for medical use. >>> san jose's move to shut down a homeless camp at kelly park solved one problem but it may have shifted some of the trouble to another neighborhood. >> reporter: a walk down trails and through brush brings you to a homeless incampment below k street. but many who did not get housing vouchers headed to key street. raul hernandez is worried how the city will react. >> they might just you know over all kick us out because there's too many people to handle here. >> reporter: hernandez says the influx of strangers is also causing tension. >> we had to just hope for the best that nobody comes in and destroys our place.

as a result, the city of los angeles, in order to protect future flooding in the city, they decided to take the los angeles river and make it a flood control channel. they concreted the walls of the river in order for water to get to ocean much faster. narrator: cities throughout southern california converted natural rivers to these concrete channels, part of their storm drain systems. this allowed expanding development without the need for large flood plains. kharaghani: the los angeles river is approximately 51 miles. concrete reduces the size of the river that you need to carry the water because it speeds up the flow of water. if you'd like to remove all the concrete and to have natural system to carry the water to protect you from flooding, you need to have almost one mile on each side of the river set aside for transport of rain. so in order for the city to have use of those lands around the river, concrete made it possible to have minimum land so the water can be carried to the ocean in the fastest possible way. but, unfortunately, because of population growth and poor housekeepi

the "los angeles times" reports some lawmakers are calling on the house to pass a bill that would requirehe government to purchase american flags made only in the usa. most us flags these days are made in china. >>> in los angeles, the spokesman for iowa's republican governor, terry branstad, says he is doing fine after a brief hospital visit after he choked on a carrot during a ceremony for the rededication of the "uss iowa" ship. >>> mitt romney marched in a parade and senator kelly ayotte marched with him, a contender for the vice presidential nomination on the ticket. >> another potential v.p. candidate, new jersey governor, chris christie, had it both ways when he talked to fox news about the health care individual mandate. he said it is both a penalty and a tax. >>> republican congressional candidate chris collins of new york state said, quote, people now don't die from prostate cancer, breast cancer and some of the other things but the american cancer society estimates more than half a million americans will die from cancer this year. >>> in a statement, mitch's governor, rick snyd

guns are undergoing quite the transformation for this art project in los angeles. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. there were no illusions that forming a new government would be easy, but today the growing pains continued in egypt. the newly elected president ordered parliament to reconvene despite the previous ruling by the supreme constitutional court. today the court shot back with this ruling still standing, setting up a potential showdown. from cairo, john reports. at a military ceremony today, it was remarkably amicable. if they are headed for confrontation, there was no sign of that. it has been barely one week since he was sworn in. they are already jostling for power. the president wants parliament to reconvene, despite an order by the military dissolving the assembly. the military has actually reduced the guard on parliament, allowing in mps for the first time since it was dissolved. seems to be opening a way for the parliament to compromise where they can resume briefly before dissolving for new elections. one more element in

from exotic cars to extravagant fashion the rich and famous give los angeles a reputation of opulent prosperity but just around the corner from this glamour is the los angeles of utter despair here on skid row the homeless live in third world conditions and things they say are only getting worse and feel there is no hope for them they're afraid of the place l.a. remains the homeless capital of the u.s. with more than fifty one thousand people living in shelters cars or in homeless encampments like these staying in the shelter you know getting better every day having scars and scratching and it's really bad i would i would just rather be very well mary and her neighbors sleep on tattered blankets just a short drive away are some of the wealthiest neighborhoods in america in this city of extremes the celebrities in the super rich enjoy pampered living in the late show hillside mansions homes like this help give los angeles an image of glitz and glamour behind these fences lies a more teen million dollar home complete with a swimming pool and even a suite for a maid the wealthiest rest s

really being impacted by the los angeles riots, when that occurred, put me on the path toward publicicy and understanding what it meant to have opportunities and not have opportunities in our various communities. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? supervisor chu: i came to the area to pursue a master's degree in public policy at the uc- berkeley school. ever since then, i fell in love with what a wonderful area the bay area is. >> what motivated your interest in politics? supervisor chu: to be frank, i never saw myself in an elected position at all. i had grown up in southern california, and during the first day of the los angeles riots, my parents had their cars stolen at gunpoint. they were left out and had to pay someone $100 to get back to chinatown. it really influenced me. we had a restaurant at the time, and at the time, we were always worried, watching the news, to see whether or not the restaurant would be looted, whether or not it would go up in fire. that was something that was a big concern and worry for my family at the time. i remember thinking even at that

. >> so when we visited the los angeles county jail, it was no surprise that our cameras captured one of the many drills that test the readiness of those charged with maintaining order. >> okay. good job, guys. excellent. had a lockdown in about a minute and 30 seconds. that's a record. >> the state of readiness when they were doing at that drill was pretty intense. there was definitely tension in the air because a couple weeks prior, there was a significant riot that lasted about 45 minutes and no one was killed, but someone was put in a coma from a pretty bad beating. >> jail is completely different than what it was 30 years ago. for one thing, we have much more violence-prone inmates in our system. in the past, that was never a problem. we did not have major riots and the disturbances. we did not have the races fighting against one another in the jail system. >> l.a. county jail officials told us most of that violence stems from one source. >> [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> almost half of our jail population is street gang members and they are probably responsible for 70 to 80% of the cri

according to the los angeles times at least 12 people have been arrested. but tense on the streets of los angeles tonight. >> also delevoping news in new york where a delta airline jet on the way to madrid with two 06 passengers on board returned to jfk international few hours ago after sky marshall saw suspicious wiring in a restroo restroom. a bomb squad evacuated the plane when it landed. male female passenger questioned then relessed. no explosive found. >> back here east bay jail filling up fast but the expansion plans unfailed officially tomorrow to make room for the i hope creasing number of new inmates met with resistance. prison that's might have gone to state prison are being sent instead to the west contra costa county detention facility in richmond. lillian is there live to explain the plan and lillian why some don't like it. >>reporter: sheriff's department says simply running out of room at this yale but former inmate we talk to say expanding it isn't the answer. >> jail never worked for me. never has. >>reporter: sam has been in and out of jai

about one in every ten people are at risk of hunger in los angeles county roughly just over a million people los angeles county at some time during the year are at risk of hunger not knowing where their next meal is going to come from so the los angeles regional food bank through a network of about nine hundred charitable agency sites we reach about six hundred seventy four thousand of those people so there are still you know over a third of those people that were not reaching so that's that's how big the problem is here even if we bank of our size hundred thousand square foot facility distributing thirty four thirty five million pounds a year still not reaching the demand here in l.a. county it's a big problem here in america where you do have all that kind of food and resources available that you still have people talking through the cracks and that should happen in this country we export billions of pounds of food to other countries to on top of what we keep here and we're still not making food available to everybody here in america which is. the sad state of affairs is that. these vast empires of food be part of the solution. man

according to the los angeles times at least 12 people have been arrested. e on the streets of los angeles tonight. >> also delevoping news in new york where a delta airline jet on the way to madrid with two 06 passengers on board returned to jfk international few hours ago after sky marshall saw suspicious wiring in a restroo restroom. a bomb squad evacuated the plane when it landed. male female passenger questioned then relessed. no explosive found. >> back here east bay jail filling up fast but the expansion plans unfailed officially tomorrow to make room for the i hope creasing number of new inmates met with resistance. prison that's might have gone to state prison are being sent instead to the west contra costa county detention facility in richmond. lillian is there live to explain the plan and lillian why some don't like it. >>reporter: sheriff's department says simply running out of room at this yale but former inmate we talk to say expanding it isn't the answer. >> jail never worked for me. never has. >>reporter: sam has been in and out of jail and pr

the los angeles unified school district teacher was wanted on allegations of committing lewd acts with minor, who was a former student. police tried to question him in his car near his home. >> stopped the car, made contact with him at the window of the car and he said, i know why you're here and put the car in drive and took off. >> arnold headed west toward the pacific with police in pursuit. a patrol car got close enough to bump the pickup forcing it to slam into a tractor-trailer. the chase appeared to be over but he was able to get the truck unstuck and fled once again. a short time later, the suspect took this turn off the highway and suddenly swerved off the road and went airborne. the truck flew over the embankment and crashed into a tree below. rescue crews worked about an hour to free arnold, who was then taken to a nearby hospital. >> he seemed pretty stable. >> the l.a. school district is cooperating with investigators on the lewd acts case. teresa garcia, cbs news, los angeles. >>> up next on a wednesday morning, your weather forecast. in sports, the national leaguers show

. >> this is all that's left of the pickup truck involved in a dramatic chase through the highways around los angelesa chase that ended with the driver veering off the road, smashing through a guardrail and soaring into the air. the spectacular crash captured by a cbs news helicopter. the suspect is physical education teacher kip arnold. the los angeles unified school district teacher was wanted on allegations of committing lewd acts with a minor, who was a former student. police tried to question him in his car near his lakewood, california, home >> stopped the car, made contact with him at the window of the car and he said, i know why you're here and put the car in drive and took off. >> arnold headed west toward the pacific with police in pursuit. a patrol car got close enough to bump the pickup forcing it to slam into a tractor-trailer. the chase appeared to be over but he was able to get the truck unstuck and fled once again. a short time later, the suspect took this turn off the highway and suddenly swerved off the road and went airborne. the truck flew over the embankment and crashed into a tr

according to the los angeles times at least 12 people have been arrested. but tense on the streets of los angeles tonight. >> also delevoping news in new york where a delta airline jet on the way to madrid with two 06 passengers on board returned to jfk international few hours ago after sky marshall saw suspicious wiring in a restroo restroom. a bomb squad evacuated the plane when it landed. male female passenger questioned then relessed. no explosive found. >> back here east bay jail filling up fast but the expansion plans unfailed officially tomorrow to make room for the i hope creasing number of new inmates met with resistance. prison that's might have gone to state prison are being sent instead to the west contra costa county detention facility in richmond. lillian is there live to explain the plan and lillian why some don't like it. >>reporter: sheriff's department says simply running out of room at this yale but former inmate we talk to say expanding it isn't the answer. >> jail never worked for me. never has. >>reporter: sam has been in and out of jai