after my conversation with timothy jones i went to the l.a. food bank the second largest of its kind in the country since nearly all donated food from grocery stores goes through the food bank i hope to get a better understanding of the situation. located in the heart of downtown l.a. near one of the largest concentrations of homeless people in the world the infamous skid row i couldn't help thinking about all this wasted food in relationship to hungry people in my own city los angeles county population of ten million people about one in every ten people are at risk of hunger los angeles has 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 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 we're not reaching so that's that's i think a promise here even if we bank

i was attempting to educate myself and kept running into a name in almost every article i read timothy jones dr jones was former head of the garbage project at the university of arizona and probably one of the world's most knowledgeable people on waste and his sixteen years with the project dr jones found that what we throw out and it's nearly unrestricted quantity in variety reveals a lot about us as a society i gave him a call the next part of the country where the commercial although there is really the media try. to bluff if not even a conference just about what you think a lot and i'm not even down to put faith in god the whole thought is there if you're not careful. would you. do it for the life because quite to be able to create it and we've lost but it's more prestigious a property to flog that automobile you know fifty percent of all the food gets up a credit card will never make it to somebody if you waste half that all of the production that went into it this way right so all that to transport. the fertilizers the increased taxation for performing that everything else that if we w

timothy geithner says s&p showed terrible judgment when they downgraded america's rating and called for him to tep down. geithner said he is staying at his post. now back to "witness at jonestown." >>> jim jonesd his footholds in redwood valley, san francisco and los angeles, jones negotiated the lease of nearly 4,000 acres of virgin jungle in the south american country of guyana. >> the beautiful promised land. see they made progress on the road and leveled it. >> he sent down a small advance crew from the temple to carve out a settlement they called jonestown. >> clearing it for five miles. going over the piggery now and the chicken area. also the grazing -- >> to wake up in jonestown was a breathtaking experience. it was just so overwhelmingly beautiful looking into the jungle. the sun rising, the howler monkeys calling from the jungle. it was just beautiful. >> i fell totally in love with guyana. it's the most spectacular country. so when i got to go, i was delighted. >> it will be an egalitarian society. but there won't be this aggression that's here in the u.s. >> jonestown would be peoples temple's future. jones had these movies made to inspire the folks back home. >> every moment i co