>> and a new era begins for the los angeles clippers. in the aftermath of the donald sterling scandal, steve ballmer fires up the fans as they takes control of the team. this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, august 19th, 2014. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. good to be with you, i'm anne-marie green. well it was another night of tension and violence in ferguson, missouri. here's the latest overnight, police used tear gas against those protesting the shooting of michael brown. police say they came under heavy gunfire. 31 arrests were made and police treat fwod people who have been shot. an autopsy shows brown was shot six times. to determine if darren wilson should be charged in brown's death. and president obama is sending attorney general eric holder to missouri tomorrow. yesterday, the president said he understands the anger and frustration. >> let me call once again to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. let's seek to heal, rather than to wound each other. >> susan mcginnis is in ferguson.

>> and a new era begins for the los angeles clippers. in the aftermath of the donald sterling scandal, steve ballmer fires up the fans as they takes control of the team. this is the "cbs morning news" control of the team. this is the "cbs morning news" for tuesday, august 19th, 2014. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. good to be with you, i'm anne-marie green. well, it was another night of tension and violence in ferguson, missouri. here's the latest, overnight, police used tear gas against those protesting the shooting of michael brown. police say they came under heavy gunfire. 31 arrests were made and police treated two people who have been shot. a private and state autopsy found that brown was shot at least six times. results of the federal autopsy will not be released. a grand jury could begin hearing evidence tomorrow to determine if officer darren wilson should be charged in brown's death. and president obama is sending attorney general eric holder to missouri tomorrow. to meet fbi and other officials carrying out the invest

that is the answer to your question. violent crime in los angeles tennis to be gang-related. certainly in the past the majority of homicides in los angeles were in gang territories and believed to be gang-related. >> host: i just saw on the news they triple murder in van nuys. i did not see any details. could that be a gang activity? >> first of all, talked about in the media, i sure have learned to listen with the third year. they will sell the media, we are trying to rule whether or not it is being related. there are also signs that suggest it may be gang-related. number one, if it is in a gang territory where gangs are known to function and possibly to work, that is number one. number two, if it does involve young men will it continue to be the greatest perpetrators but the greatest target in violent crime perry of the elderly. so i tend to look at to it and falls, someone who is middle aged or someone who is 21. this is somebody, is there some sign of violence? and also, might there be a sign that it is black on black, black and brown, brown and black. involved in some way

[sprawling symphony music] ♪ next to it, the home of the los angeles opera, the museum of contemporaryhigh 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

and the los angeles clippers then. >> thank you so much, trish regan. e shares of king digital are getting crushed in after-hours trading today. missed second quarter sales estimates. the company cut their 2014 outlook. joining me now is bloomberg intelligence internet and media , providing context on a variety of industries. what can you tell us about candy crush and king digital? >> the takeaway are two things. two things internet investors look for. revenue and users. both have been disappointing. you saw the company guiding to lower bookings. a very alarming sign in the decline of daily active users. >> how does this use to facebook ? >> the company has moved much towards mobile games. story is as the candy crÈche game matures, the less people play, the less people that spend money on that game, they should be able to offset that with the new games coming through and we've seen that they haven't monetized as well. >> does this mean they will have to go on the acquisition trail to acquire better and more popular games? >> that is what they've done, th

discusses her book, "the contested murder of latasha harlins" about in 1891 killing of the african-american girl and los angeles. professor stevenson argues this event in the outcome of the trial that followed acted as a catalyst from the 1992 los angeles riots. this 25 minute interview as part of booktv college series. >> the book is called "the contested murder of latasha harlins" justice, gender, origins of the l.a. riot published by oxford university press. the author is ucla history professor, brenda stevenson. brenda stevenson, who was latasha harlins? >> guest: and african-american girl who lived in south-central los angeles issue is that it was her grandmother, aunts, cousins. she was a freshman in high school and she was killed on march 16, 1991 in a store at figaro street in south los angeles. by the shopkeeper. >> host: why was she killed? >> guest: she was killed because there was a struggle over a bottle of orange juice that cost $1.79. latasha had entered the store and we can see all this on the video camera within a story. she entered the store at nine dirty a.m. she goes to the refrigerated case

yesterday more than two weeks after the police shooting of ford, an unarmed mentally ill man in south los angeles, the los angeles police department released the name of the two officers he involved in the shooting. the appoint of a special prosecutor to investigate the third who was shot and killed by police while holding a bb gun. and in new iberia, west of new orleans, the family of victor white iii is awaiting the final results of the louisiana state police investigation into their son's death. a carer in's report ruled it a suicide saying he shot himself in the front while in the back after police cruiser with his hands cuffed behind his back. the report contradicts the account released by the louisiana state police who said he shot himself in the back. the family has retained a lawyer. for real? >> a hugh doudini. very talented. >> there just comes a point for me that is just -- because i am willing to acknowledge we have made progress and a lot of what happens is implicit bias and fear rather than atactive attempts to take lives and then, no, that just looks like old-fashioned bad actions.

>> it is really interesting in the evolution of los angeles. 9 to 2014, it was a time of education and organization. what you see now, once they have learned the playbook of venture capital, we lived in a town of storytellers. so los angeles is probably the best place in the world to tell a narrative. what's happening now, you see a lot of entrepreneurs getting money and trying to execute. what will happen next, a lot of them will fail, and that is ok. some of them will sell for $30 million, $50 million, and what is important about snapchat and what it teaches entrepreneurs, is what was a $200 million exit a year ago would have been everybody high-fiving and saying, that is incredible. i was in san francisco on wednesday with a venture capitalist, and an entrepreneur was almost apologetic that he had just sold his company for a few hundred million dollars and moved on. in l.a. you have a $50 million win and the person gets rich by the employees don't, and the venture capitalists don't see a return. what you see in los angeles in the next chapter

the model of 20 years ago. that is a big focus in los angeles. tion is, are they going to settle for a couple hundred million dollars or build multibillion-dollar companies? that is where the jury is out in terms of media companies. even fox is worth less than google or apple, so tech versus media valuations are the question right now. the question is, can you make next-generation media companies out of these youtube networks? i think you can. >> adam thanks a lot. adam lilling joining us from los angeles. coming up, amazon betting big on india. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." amazon is making a big bet in india. the e-commerce giant announced lands to invest $2 billion in indian operations, just hours after indian rival flipkart received $1 billion in investing. just how smart is amazon's push into india? back with us again, cory johnson, and joining us via p of business at forrester. clearly there is an e-commerce landgrab in india right now. how high are the stakes? >> i think it is absolutely a bubble right now. the indian e-commerce ma

according to the los angeles times, republican california senator jim nielsen told his colleagues, colleagues, there are some who will use every tragedy to take guns away from law-abiding citizens. let's not release into our community without treatment of thousands of mentally ill individuals. your reaction to that? >> he was referring to criminals. if we look at the shooters, the shooter in tucson, the shooter in aurora, the shooter in isla vista, none of them thad a criminal background. we know that very charged emotional events. you can be fired, very depressed have a bad breakup, can cause a person to act in a way that's irrational and maybe to be in that circumstance for a couple of months. this gives a tool for people that aren't criminals but people that are in a temporary state of just irrationality, that mixed with the gun can create lethal consequences. >> if someone has a gun taken away from them, is there a time frame after which or during which they're able to get that gun back and is there a test or

that is the answer to your question. violent crime in los angeles tennis to be gang-related. certainly in the past the majority of homicides in los angeles were in gang territories and believed to be gang-related. >> host: i just saw on the news they triple murder in van nuys. i did not see any details. could that be a gang activity? >> first of all, talked about in the media, i sure have learned to listen with the third year. they will sell the media, we are trying to rule whether or not it is being related. there are also signs that suggest it may be gang-related. number one, if it is in a gang territory where gangs are known to function and possibly to work, that is number one. number two, if it does involve young men will it continue to be the greatest perpetrators but the greatest target in violent crime perry of the elderly. so i tend to look at to it and falls, someone who is middle aged or someone who is 21. this is somebody, is there some sign of violence? and also, might there be a sign that it is black on black, black and brown, brown and black. involved in some way

and then what happens with the donations that the los angeles kings are set to match whatever donations are made here. so the line right now is out the door. a lot of folks out here just very happy to see the cup and also to support the city recovery. wanted to mention, though, that one of the city leaders did say that 95% of the restaurants are open. there's damage but not necessarily in all the areas where tourists would go. so the message they are saying is napa is back. reporting live in napa, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >> thank you so much. thank you, los angeles kings. sharks fans, don't yell at me. you understand. our coverage of the south napa earthquake continues online at nbcbayarea.com. we'll be posting the latest updates throughout the weekend. you can also watch an interview with the mondavi families about the damage to local wineries. >>> it's been called the most significant attack on the national grid. there was an insistent at an pg&e substation. here's tony kovaleski. >> this is a serious attack. this was a debacle. it was compromised from the start. >> reporte

and we also looked at the option of contracting of the composting, and the county of los angeles which is just finishing the construction of a large composting site, and it has far more capacity than they need and has expressed interest if we were to go this route to contract with them for our composting and our concerns not only that the transportation from here down to the county and across to the environmental impacts, but also, the long term cost and why we might be able to lock in a ten or a 15 year contract with the la county, what would those costs look like, 15 years on. and it was more unknown, and so we also saw this option as viable, but more sensitive, than some of the alternatives that we considered, which i will explain further. >> alternative three, is the temperature, phased anaerobic digestion, process, and it is a process, where you basically go through the digestion process and then goes through a second digestion process and this is similar to what the los angeles plant does and so they run through a single batch, and send it through a secondary batch and then the s

don't do that too often but i was 'osi director for richards reardon, the former mayor of los angeles when he ran for governor, unsuccessfully, against gray davis in 2002. but then i was a senior policy adviser for arnold schwarzenegger when he ran successfully against mr. davis the following year in the re-call election. so that -- and involved also with things in the los angeles area as well. >> host: has prop 13 over the long haul been successful? >> guest: well, if you poll it today, it has the same two to one support it had in 1978 when it passed. it did the main thing it intended to, kept people in their homes, from being taxed out of their homes and put controls on the tax structure. now you can talk to particular interests in california who will say it is not a good thing, but we asked the voters, the pollsters ask the voters. people who want to do away with it ask volters constantly whether they into go fur with a ballot measure but people are happy with what it did. >> host: has the proposition ballot infrastructure in california gotten out of hand? >> guest: well, it's cert

the 23% in los angeles. by the way, los angeles is about the middle.n urban america, we have lower turnouts in some cities like dallas and, obviously, only those cities where you have the election those who do go out to vote don't oftentimes know what the issues are. beyond mayor they don't know what else they're voting. we have a system right now where the majority of voters have no idea why they voted for a particular judge or a particular initiative. >> thanks for getting up and joining us this morning, we appreciate that. >>> we have reported this morning that three mobile homes have been destroyed following this morning's 6.1 earthquake. the old county courthouse has been damaged and moderate injuries reported. stay here with msnbc for more developments as we get them. be right back. "fire' by firenze" "sir?" start your search online with over 35,000 carmax quality certified used cars. carmax. start here. hello! three grams daily of beta-glucan... a soluable fiber from whole grain oat foods like cheerios can help lower cholesterol. thank you! ever

. >> the los angeles county's sheriff's department review the circumstances led to a deputy accidentallying a homeowner during a standoff. >> they were looking for a parolee friday. and a deputy mistook the home for a parolee and opened fire. >> the 54-year-old homeowner was months away from the retirement. they ended the standoff when members stormed the house and shot and killed the suspect. >>> they are receiving an average rating from the patients. for medicare and medicaid. >> the hospital ranked below the 50th percentile in six of main categories. >> they include come mondaymation with doctors. >> and despite the rating. >> the scores are an improvement from the previous year. >> police in south san francisco are warning people about a telephone scam involving microsoft. >> a man who goes by mike johnson is calling people. >> he happens to be a microsoft employee. >> his computer had been hacked and needed access to the computer. >> he needed personal information. >> mike crow soft said it did he say not contact customers by phone. >> shareholders could pay the price if pg&e are fo

you think about the programs you are watching. 202-626-3400 or comments@ cspan.org. >> now from the los angeles times festival of books a discussion on feminism. it is little more than an hour. [inaudible discussions] >> my clock says 12:30. let's get started. welcome to the los angeles times book festival. i am a

. >> 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 a minute 30 seconds. >> the state of readiness when doing that drill was intense. there was tension in the air. a couple weeks pry or, someone was put in a coma from a pretty bad beating. no one was killed. >> 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, 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. ♪ >> almost half of our jail population is street gang members and they are probably responsible for 70 to 80% of the crime that occurs in our jail. and nearly all of our murders have been gang related in one way or another. >> the gang bangers get younger every year. >> you are i

it delivers industrial supplies to the los angeles and san diego coastal areas. r dam also controls floods. farther downstream the diversion dam sends water to the palo verde irrigation district. oldest irrigation development on the colorado river. at imperial dam, colorado river water enters river size canals to irrigate farmlands in california and arizona. the all american canal system carries part of the colorado's flow westward to the yuma, imperial valley. when water reaches its farthest point on this canal system it's traveled nearly 500 miles after leaving hoover dam and has required ten days to make the trip. the gravity main canal takes water from imperial dam south and east to valley and

>> i think the major outstanding issue i guess is that in its form that it is in the los angeles superior court said it was unconstitutionally board no one took the challenge further so that's the one legal precedent we have to go on. >> we're not talking abouty adapting it but looking at if there's anything that is useful for san francisco that would be draft to be not unconstitutional and is that - or have we tried that. >> not that i'm aware of. >> is there any reason not to do it heights not rhetorical. >> there's no reason not to look at prop j it does speak to something that prop a e was passed and prop j passed it is a bit odd going back 10 years to revisit the issue i certainly wouldn't want- i think it would be advisable to look at that but in terms of what is effective to our campaign lobbying laws not to limit ourselves quite frankly campaign laws have changed and supreme court rulings have changed. i certainly know t think it is great to inform our decision making but not limited to prop j itself that's my $0.02 and commissioner keane >> we wouldn't have to limit ourselves i p

as provided as was provided by proposition j it sets the thing up for an attack in regard to the los angeles court decision 14 or fierceness year ago bused the general notation we should agree with them that as to that finding that apple pie and motherhood finding and agree that the board of supervisors should attempt to set up something in corners with that citizens right of action. i'm not all that converging with the particular reasons why j was struck down because of having something like that or other things in that but tang taking out the language that we're you're going prop j as part of the solution we ought to agree with that >> i think what the court held is that the sharing of penalties with the filer may not be legal. i know there are chisel blowers that provide those kinds of things but anyway, when you say asking the board of supervisors to enhance a right of of action is there a general right of action at the present time for someone unless they she show personal injury >> i have no idea but if the board of supervisors were to see fit to take a shot anothers passing something

this delivers visible in industrial supplies to the los angeles and san diego coastal areas. rker dam also controls floods. -- fartherr dam, downstream, the diversion dams since water to the irrigation district, oldest irrigation development on the colorado river. at imperial dam, 300 miles downstream from hoover, colorado river water interest riverside canals -- enters riverside canals to irrigate farmland in california and arizona. the all-american canal system carries part of the colorado west to the yuma, imperial and coachella valleys. and water reaches its farthest point on this canal system, it has traveled 500 miles after leaving hoover dam and has required 10 days to make the trip. the main canal takes water from imperial dam, south and east to valley and mesa lands of the auxiliary projects. mexico share of the colorado river water passes imperial dam and most of it is in dirt -- is diverted into the alamo canal. the non-surplus food and forage crops grown on lands nourished by water from hoover dam find ready markets throughout the nation. idle,overed lands lie wint

>> the "los angeles times" reports that the hit will play in 400 theaters august 21.subsequent rated social media track weapon it debuted last week. good news this is no commercials in the movie theaters but you cannot go back and forth to watch the scenes again and again. >> we want to tell you about an earthquake we are learning 3.2 earthquake in the napa area that hit this morning three miles southwest of napa. we have not received phone calls yet but we could and we will bring you that news. >> mel history could be a huge open book. the insurance giants creates a massive database for patient reports. oprah like you have never seen: in spandex. >> right now a picture at san francisco international airport with a new way to keep you updated. this is the new abc7 news now with weather and traffic degree the commercial break so you do the commercial break so you do no ithe part of us that a littwants to play,on. wants to be mischievous, wants to run free, all you have to do is let it out. find your inner minion only at the despicable me minion mayhem ride at universal

davis the following year that -- and involved with things in the los angeles area as well. >> host: has brought 13 of a lot of that successful? >> well, it has the same two to one supported add in 1978 when it passed. it did what it was intended to do. it put some controls on the tax structure. now, you can talk to a particular interest in california will say this not a good thing, but we asked the voters principles as asked the voters constantly. the people who want to do away with it ask the voters constantly. they don't see that kind of support. the people look pretty happy with what it did what has the proposition dollar infrastructure in california gotten out of hand? >> it is certainly being used. people think that if you have all the money in the world you can change the law you can qualify measure if you have money. there is no question you can get enough signatures. the way the system works as you gather a certain amount of signatures with and one under 50 days. depends on how many people voted for governor. if you gather the signatures your on the ballot and you have your camp

is official, steve ballmer is the new owner of the los angeles clippers. car company that protects colorado's marijuana industry. ♪ to our viewers here in the united states, and to those of you joining us from around the world, welcome. we have full coverage of the stocks and stories making headlines today. alix steel examines a new study on lithium battery safety. iraq is being remapped as the crisis there continues. phil mattingly is monitoring the very latest on the political stalemate in baghdad. those stories and more. first on this today, let's get the latest on the death of robin williams. the coroner's office is scheduled to bring a news conference this hour. williams was found dead in his home on monday in the san francisco bay area, he was 63. officials say a preliminary investigation determined the cause of death was suicide due to a asphyxiation. he has struggled for years with substance abuse and depression. last month he announced he was returning to a 12 step treatment program, he said he needed it after 18 months of nonstop work. williams ta

georges of the los angeles fire department and the rest of his ariel rescue team are standing by to fieldrgency calls at a helipad just west of the los angeles river. >> it's a man made tributary or channel designed and built specifically to move massive amounts of water rapidly. on a normal sunny day, it's just another area. but certainly once the rains begin, it's a much different animal. >> soon after arriving at the helipad, pilot scott bowman and the team get an unusual emergency call. >> the dog was in the water. when they gave a location, i realized we could almost see where he was from sitting on top of the helipad. >> rescues from nearby walls and under the bridge are already under way. so far the germany shepherd mix was evading capture. >> a number were involved in the rescue operation but they weren't able to get to the dog for a variety of reasons. we really were the only option. >> within minutes pilot bowman and the team are hovering above the river but they need to work fast. >> the incident commander was telling us they were getting heavy rains at their location, which is

. >>> the los angeles clippers have finally changed hand. steve ballmer now the owner of the nba team. los angeles judge confirmed the $2 billion sale. ballmer takes over ownership from donald sterling, who unsuccessfully fought his estranged wife over the sale. >>> the nba by the way banned donald sterling of course for life after he made racist comments, that were recorded. >>> now, more than ever tablets are becoming an essential school supply. >> notebooks, etch a sketch? >> handy for reading, light weight enough to car any your backpack all day. in this morning's tech minute, kara tsuboi tell us about the tablets that will give you your best bang for your buck. >> for students, a tablet that seems to cover the basic needs, the samsung galaxy note. feature can run programs time sane justly, great for studying and working on projects. ideal for jotting down notes. the 10.1 starts around $300. 800-dollar microsoft surface pro three, the work horse of the tablet category also bodes laptop functionality. fold back up for easy portable. for th

i work part-time now for two law firms in the los angeles area. one of the two firms i do worm representing taxpayers and property assessments. the counties i work for are orange and los angeles and san diego. i don't have any cases, haven't had, would not take any cases representing taxpayers in this jurisdiction. so those are my background qualifications and interest in the job. thank you for inviting me and i'm pleased and honored. >> supervisor tang? >>supervisor katy tang: thank you. i appreciate your interest. i don't question your background. my question is your living in southern california, your ability to attend the hearings and i just wanted to confirm that you are able to attend all the meetings. >> i anticipate the jobs at the hearing office would require, 5 or 6 days a month in san francisco and i can certainly do that. >> i guess continuing that line of thought in terms of questions, why would you want to come up here and do this rather than trying to do that in los angeles? >> why would i? >> yeah. >> i have a connection to the city

the head coach for the los angeles clippers is sticking with the team for five years. we are going to get doc rivers take in an exclusive interview this morning. >>> a fourth grader with street smarts well beyond his years. >> it's quite a story to tell. we want to get to the top story. britain is on edge after officials raised the threat level to severe, meaning an attack is highly likely. we are in london with the latest. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: lester, good morning. british officials say there's no evidence or intelligence to suggest there's a specific or imminent attack. with 500 citizens traveling to syria and iraq to join isis and 200 now back, the threat, they say, is real. britain awoke to a new fear splashed on every headline. terror alert high, the highest since 2011. a terrorist attack, the government warned is highly likely. >> what we are facing in iraq with isis is a greater and deeper threat than we have known before. >> reporter: isis has the world's attention and they are using it, posting yet another violent disturbing video. this time a kur

pigs and helter skelter written in blood. >> they found no evidence of robbery, no motive. >> the los angeles police department assigned almost 20 investigators. with seven people viciously murdered and no good leads people started to blame the victims. rumors filled the newspapers. were the killings drug deals going bad or a jealous husband? >> people needed evil. they needed victims to be evil because this didn't happen to normal god fearing people. >> after rushing back to the states a dazed and grieving polanski faced the press. >> all of you know how beautiful she was and very often i read and heard statements that she was one of the most beautiful if not the most beautiful women of the world. only few of you know how good she was. >> police had no idea who killed sharon tate and the others and answers were slow to come. >> two separate teams of detectives who worked in the same room were doing the investigations. they didn't get along. they weren't cooperating. if only they talked to each other they could have put everything together. >> turns out the police had the killers under survei

to the lead story -- formal microsoft ceo steve ballmer has a new team -- the los angeles clippers. he is the official owner of the team and paying a record $2 billion. this sale was completed after a california court ruled that former owner donald sterling's wife at the 30 -- have the authority to sell the team without his consent. joining me is trish regan who spoke with steve balmer and was following this story all day long. 3.5 months after this whole situation erupted, steve ballmer is now the proud owner of the los angeles clippers. he was extremely excited when i spoke with him on the phone. we all know he is very excited. you have to think about that clip we played over and over again with him screaming developers, developers, developers. he is certainly excited and thrilled to be the owner of this team. he told me i am thrilled and he will figure out how to support the team and take it to the next level. you have to keep pushing and pushing and pushing to take it to that next level. i will enthusiastically support this team. i also said ok to dick parsons who was here live o

." >> the opportunity to be in the presence of bring los angeles, you're lucky when that happens, and the fact he was willing to do that much, it was very important. >> reporter: they focused on sobriety and finished a string of prmgts. she started alongside williams. >> we hear the roots of comedy are in pain. was that true with robin williams? >> he could come back and finish strong, working with the pressure, and along with the pressure came maybe this sort of depression of the highs and lows. after winning big like he did, there's nowhere else to go. >> reporter: the sheriff's department refuse to say whether there was a note, and the final corn's reports will not be released until final toxicology reports are in. that could take two to six weeks. >> coming up, more reaction to robin williams' death. a powerful earthquake hit mexico, it hit late last night, centered 150 miles south of acapulco. there's no reports of serious damage. the threat of heavy rain and flash floods continue in the northeast, and a slow moving storm system is dumping records amounts of rain on the eastern s

i want to bring in matt pierce, a reporter with the los angeles times. tt, you spoke with the ferguson police chief right after ryan's arrest. what did he tell you? >> that's right. i was actually not near where ryan was at. i stepped into my car to charge my phone and i was looking at twitter and i saw that they had been arrested. so i couldn't quite believe that because i had just seen them earlier in the day conducting interviews so i called the ferguson police chief tom jackson and i told him what i had heard. he just told me, oh, god. and so he said he was going to make some phone calls. so i talked to him again about ten minutes later and he said that he called over to the st. louis county police who were running last night's crowd control and he said, i've told them to release them and said that they had probably been arrested by somebody who didn't know better. >> and you've been traveling to there, speaking with senator claire mccaskill, you are starting to see the elected officials weigh in. the senator says that she's working on demilitarizing

steve ballmer is off to a rousing start as the owner of the los angeles clippers, holding a pep rally as only steve ballmer can. we've got an exclusive interview with him where he tells us how he justifies the record to billion dollar purchase of the club and what he thinks of the controversial move by his replacement. and we have some ridiculous steve ballmer video clips. hackers in the community health centers feeling data on 4.5 million patients. the cyber attack is believed to have come from china. 10 years ago today, google started trading as a public empathy on the nasdaq, selling 19 million shares at $85 apiece. wasn't your everyday ipo. i remember covering it quite well. the whole deal got interrupted because of a playboy interview published during the quiet time. the filing started with the word google is not a conventional company. when google went public, it went public through an interesting dutch auction at the time, pricing lower than expected. stop,ter that unusual shares never fell below the ipo price. 600,, they are at following a split last year. emily chang has a lo

. >>> a run away reptile spotted wandering very slowly around the streets of the los angeles suburbs.took officers officers to pick up the 150 pound tortoise. their pet somehow escaped their house while they were at a baseball game. clark wanted to go to the game. >> it is time for your monday motivator. a new jersey community going above and beyond to help a 9-year-old little boy. >> logan phelps spent most of last week selling lemonade to help raise money for hearing aids that he needs. they cost $6,000. his family covers only a small portion. he set up a lemonade stand and raised nearly $4,000. on the last day of sales a local company had hearing aids for free. >> i am crying. i am tearing up. i just want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart. >> without these hearing aids i wouldn't be able to hear anything. and i just like to hear. >> logan's family they are going to donate the money raised to a little girl in a nearby town who has a similar situation. >> sweet story. >> 25 minutes after the top of the hour. what do we know about the illegals crossing the border. he says t

the fact 26-year-old marilyn hartman got on a flight from san jose international airport to los angeles afternoon monday without a dick debt seems nearly impossible. >> i am shocked. they scene us so thoroughly. you are patted down for the houston little thing. i cannot imagine someone else scraping and get on a plane. >>> southwest ails conducted a hold count after in the air and police say she had no confirmed reservation in the system and in proof she purchased a ticket and was arrested in los angeles. this is not her first instance at the airport the she has tried six times to get past security at sfo and one time she made it on a plan but was arrested before take off. hartman is banned from sfo without a dick debt. san jose airport security toll the local congressman how she did it, bipat the document checker on monday while he was examining a family's boarding pass. she went through screening and she did a similar tinge to get beyond the gate agent on the plane. san jose airport officials say hartman was not a threat. >> the passenger was screened bit t.s.a. public safety was not

>> mayhem in the streets of los angeles. ne 2010. 19-year-old student and part-time graphic designer jun gatuna ducks into a downtown bar to watch the last moments of the nba finals. the los angeles lakers versus the boston celtics. >> i just wanted to see what was going on, see if the lakers won or not. and if they did win, i just wanted to see how the victory celebration went. >> we won, baby! >> the final score, lakers 83, celtics 79. in game seven, the lakers clinched the title, and gatuna heads toward the arena. >> the atmosphere was very energetic. a lot of people were shouting celtics suck, lakers won, lakers won. i headed to staples center because i heard from a lot of friends that that's where a lot of crowds were forming. and once the lakers won, you know, a lot of people got excited, and i just decided to head home. >> but on his way home, gatuna encounters an unruly mob. >> i caught a bunch of people surrounding a taxi, and it seemed kind of interesting because they were pushing the taxi back and forth, and so i d

to understand history, and i know that i'm not the only one that has that belief was i was at the "los angeles times" festival of books over the weekend, selling my book, and a young lady came up who had a student in middle school and she said, i want my student to understand hoyt, and i think the pest way to do it is to get them involved in an adventure around history, and she asked me about my books and actually both my books, and that gratified me because i think that is what i would like to do. i used to love the old movies based in history. and hoping that i add a little bit to that with my books. >> host: his webs is joelfox.com. what is fox and hounds. >> guest: a blog that i created here in california, dealing with business and politics. i'm the fox, obviously. my hundreds are my other writers. not just me. we have different perspectives on there. unlike political blogs. i lean in one direction but certainly have people who are opposed to me inch fact, in some of the ballot proposition campaigns we discussed earlier on the ballot, when i was actually a visible advocate for one side i w