welcome to the los angeles urban wild. woman: southern california is one of many hotspot areas around the globe which are areas of extraordinary biological diversity. man: if we just think about l.a. county, you're going from sea level to 10,064 feet when you get up to mt. san antoniowhen you t think about that elevation r range, which is thehe greatestst elevevational range ofof any coy in t the united stateses, ther'a diverse s suite of habitats inn there, , and that includess habitat that might be right along the busiest freeway in the country...but it also includes places where mountain lions live. i mean, it's just this place of absolutely incredible diversity when it comes toto thinking abot types of habitat anand types of species s that are thhriving he. man: hey, i thought i told you guys to get out of here. now, go. come on. get out of here. male reporter: we have a mom and her kids all going for a nice, refreshing swim all at the exact same time. woman: there is a hidden jungle in cities like los angeles, and a h

in urban districts and urban environments, you will continue the need to reach out for other leaders. to help you manage the concerns in your own district. turn to a question about children and focus on the teacher perspective. children come to school with their backpacks, and in their backpacks, they have pens, pencils, i am thinking of old backpacks, whatever they need. in urban areas, schools come with a second backpack. they are things you may not be able to see, one of my colleagues called the invisible backpack. it is filled with aces, adverse childhood experiences. parents are incarcerated, they are exposed to opioids in their home or community. early and unprotected sexual activity, mental health issues, whatever. wants tohat teachers do their very best for every student, but often, they do not have the time in the classroom to deal with the whole child. so, i would like for you to tell us what teachers need from the superintendence in terms of thatrt to address invisible backpack? what can school leaders do? i was a superintendence, but also principles. how can they help thos

for the urban superintendents academy, you're going to be in the urban superintendent academy, that's yeoman's work. you're doing the lord's work. it's very difficult, but it's very rewarding, but, let me remind you this, some people want to be superintendent, but they don't want to do superintendent. and there's a big difference. some people just want the title and the recognition, but some people don't want to make the crourageous decisions on behalf of students. be thinking about that asking along your journey. do you want to be superintendent or do superintendent? so be thinking about that. and of course, i have to keep all of my items factual. not because we are on c-span because all of these superintendents here know me. i've been a superintendent for 24 years and i can't get away with anything with all the gentlemen and ladies in the room that i've worked with, a that have been a great inspiration for me, that i give my energy off of other superintendents. it's really exciting. i have he worked with aasa for a few years as a coach and a teacher in the program and i get energize

because in urban districts, in urban environments, you're going to continually need to reach out to other leaders who are having similar experiences to manage the concerns in your own district. >> all right. thank you. i want to turn to a question about children and actually focus on the teacher perspective. you know, children come to school with their backpacks and in their backpacks, they have their pens and pencils, i'm they go of the old backpacks, technological gadgets, whatever they need to help them learn in the classroom. and often in urban areas, students come with a second backpack, and there are things that you may not be able to see and one of my colleagues calls it the invisible backpack, which is filled with aces, which is adverse childhood experiences. so, you know, parents are incarcerated. they're exposed to opioids in their homes or community or other substances. early and unprotected sexual activity, mental health issues, whatever. we know that teachers want to do their very best for every student, but often they don't have the time in the classroom to deal with the who

dallas is very urban.,000 students, 92% economically disadvantaged, you see the beautiful city of dallas, it's the construction crane. they have these beautiful buildings and then you've got the rest of the city and our kids are 92% economically disadvantaged. you heard the education department showed up briefly withq 44% english learner, we don't apologize for our demography. we are proud of our kids. i was one of those kids. someone helped change my trajectory and not flybe and urban america and that's why help restart the taxes urban council of superintendents and work closely with the council of great city schools because the urban superintendent is different than the suburban job. vince will tell you he's in san francisco. something crazy happens, they're looking for vents, wait a minute. dallas is the namesake city. anything that happens in north texas, they want to talk to me on booktv about it. if you're an urban district, katie is code for houston but houston is where the media goes all the time i

i've been an urban, the first time, getting an urban superintendent job is hard. one right you can go in and work and become a deputy and then hope that everyone else falls down and the board takes you. hope is not a strategy. but you can follow the route and that can help you, or you can go anlearn how to be a superintendent, work with boards and communities and go smaller districts and move your way up, learn and then eventually come back. when i would cite the first time superintendent of dallas they said it didn't have urban experience. i said wait a minute. i have urban experience from the eyes of the student and a teacher. not necessarily as the ceo but the perspective matters. i survived the busing, the integration, the fights, the trauma. i am aimlessly wandering the halls in 1975. i've got on afro. i've got friday night fever, saturday fever, sunday, give all the time. i'm just having a great time. my teacher asked me to come and assp to apply for scholarships r future teachers of america. and i said what? you think i can be teacher? so i have no idea wha

both as the urban forester and as a previous education coordinator for friend of the urban forests. allowing one large stature tree to be planted within a narrow sidewalk setting that is additionally impacted by two bay windows that extend above the sidewalk. the second point, allowing the planting of two medium sized trees at maturity to be planted just 14 feet apart measure down the center. tree spacing guidelines recommend 15 to 20 feet between small stature species, 20 to 25 for medium and 30 or medium for large stature species. third point, a willingness to consider many different species options that are medium sized trees at maturity. the fourth point, street light conflict. we can allow the planting of medium sized trees, but two platinous would mean that two trees are too close to the street light pole. the current basing is just 14 feet away. this is another argument for why two platinous or plain trees at this frontage is not feasible. planting two columbia just 14 feet apart in this section of cortland avenue is something we want to avoid in the public right of away even

that is what the urban league works on. host: we mentioned that criminal justice roundtable at the white house yesterday. were you invited to join that? guest: i don't believe i was invited to be a part of that. --i was -- i doubt if i was i could not have been there anyway. jared kushner, the president's son-in-law and a number of other the ideave lifted up of criminal justice reform and prison reform within the administration. i have had a number of conversations with him. we worked together with congressman hakeem jeffries and in november -- a number of republican members of the house to pass the first step act, a prison reform bill which is just a piece of criminal justice reform. we need broader reforms, sentencing reforms, bail reforms. we need more support for the public defender system in america. the first step act is something we have worked with, and we have also worked with them on the concept of expanding the commitment to reentry. notwithstanding the fact that i have got a deep disagreement with many of the ad

. >>> a new development into ohio state football coach urban meyer. investigators hired by the university speaking with the ex-wife of his former assistant coach, zach smith, who's accused of domestic abuse. espn's ryan smith is here, and ryan, investigators trying to determine what meyer knew and when? >> that's right, robin. zach smith is facing new allegations, this time that he faced other charges years ago but didn't tell his former boss. >> reporter: urban meyer one of the most successful coaches of all times. >> urban meyer with his third. >> reporter: but this morning, the investigation continues into the bombshell claims that have rocked college football, that meyer's former ohio state assistant coach, zach smith, abused his now ex-wife and that the famed head coach may have known about it but did nothing. >> he picked me up by my neck and threw me on the ground and screamed at me, look what you've turned me into. >> reporter: monday courtney smith had her day with investigators meeting with the

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urban circles that c.t.'s will find solutions to all the world's problems since it is not nation state is that they'll do that do you subscribe to that point of view so i don't think they care and i think cities have been far more innovative the national governments and i do think there's a sense in which cities are becoming politically more important and the ideas that are generated in the world are you know i think so much of our culture and ideas come from cities and the comes from just as one writer jane jacobs talked about the only place where you can see some stranger or other traveler by going to a city and so there's just so much going on ideas are generated and so cities are i think are a fulcrum of change like that but nevertheless central governments are still important very important in terms of addressing larger issues like income distribution and climate change you know what makes me concerned about this kind of discourse is that is the fact that they have long seen a gap but then politics and p

shelly meyer said she had to tell urban meyer. courtney said then please tell urban meyer.ltimately nothing happened. zach remained on the staff. she told me why she decided to come forward she left zach in 2015, officially separated in november, divorce was granted in 2016. she taught the ambiguous and harassment would shop when she left him. it did not it escalated. >> when did urban meyer then know about this and why didn't he do anything at the time? do you have an answer to that? >> i don't know specifically when he knew about it. i know the text messages were from 2015. he was investigated for domestic violence on october 25th, october 26th of 2015. also another charge on november 9th. it was in that period. also zach smith's attorney contacted courtney's attorney in early november and asked him how bad it is. her attorney said it's bad. i'm very confident in that time frame and based on the text messages i saw, urban was first aware of these domestic violence allegations sometime in the month of november 2015. >> wow. and kristen, what did courtney say about the fact

keith urbane will the stage in just a few. we can't wait. >> we can't. >>> top story, chilling new video of e so-called miracle in mexico. 65 americans were on that flight when it crashed shortly after takeoff. all of them -- everybody on board was able to survive. kerry sanders is in mexico with us for thelatest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, hodai als here say this morning 22 people remain hospitalized, but theact that most of those are with minor injuries and remarkably tha all 103 people on board survived this crash is nothing short of a miracle. this morning dramatic new video from flight 2431 outside the runway barely visible. inside as the plane violently slams into the groundef the lt engine bursting io flames. passengers terrified. >> and the airplane hit the ground and we began to bounce go. it was like we were in a box and somebody was shaking us. >> reporter: ashley garcia two took this video tweeted nothing cancribe how i felt in that moment. the crew members being prized for how theyandled the emergenc

urban meyer has been a man of upstanding character. the thought he knew and denied knowing and did nothing is really troubling. i think this could be a tipping point in the sport and in the college sports landscape for him to be put on paid leave while investigating what he knew and what he did not do. it will have an incredible back drop. >> and against the me too era, he could be in trouble. led us know what you think -- let us know what you think about it. >>> next, houston police believe a 20-year old grudge is the reason for the murder of the arrest cardiologist. the doctor was killed two weeks ago while riding his back. pappas has not been seen for two weeks and evidence in his home links him to the killing. >> he is very dangerous. we need to get him into custody. we think he is suicidal. we should assume he is armed. >> this man is dangerous. this man is capable. this man has some skills. >> cnn called a phone number for pappas' real estate company on wednesday, but it went to voice mail. that is also a number listed on the fir

urban cities are growing at the fastest rate, between 80% and 90% of people are moving into urban environments. that is where the demand comes from. the desire and need to have an outdoor experience in their life. it is one of the few industries that really touches role places rural places and the urban environment. it is a unique aspect in this industry. what i'm really proud of, in january, and colorado, governor and i kicked off from eight different states we had representatives show up that governors had appointed to advocate for watching out over this outdoor rec economy, doing what they could to encourage that and fuel that. since then two more governors , have acted and created this. there is a movement at a state level to recognize that this is one of these industries that if you fuel it, it creates win-win environments. it is 10 now. we are hoping to get to 13. we are going to start a revolution. we want to get the whole united states thing going. i do want to thank the governors that have taken that first leadership step to create these roles. i think it is really unique and it is a

urban meyer placed on leave. what he's saying today, thursday, august 2nd, 2018. >>> announcer: from nbc news this is "today" with is a vasav guthrie and hoda cot by. >>> thank you for joining us. >> you know what i love, i love a country concert in the heart of midtown manhattan. >> i do too. these folks are ready. keith urban we'll take center stage in just a few. >>> let's get to our top story. chilling new video of that so-called miracle in mexico. 65 americans were on that aeromexico flight when it crashed shortly after takeoff, all of them and everybody on board was able to survive. kerry sanders is in durango, mexico, with the very latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. officials here say 22 people remain hospitalized this morning, the fact that most of them have minor injuries and that all 103 on board survived the crash, nothing short of a miracle. this morning dramatic new video from aeromexico flight from 2431 outside the runway barely visible, inside as the plane violently slammed into the g

. >> urban meyer will win his third. >> reporter: but this morning, ohio state head coach urban meyer placed on paid administrative leave after the football powerhouse announced it's investigating claims he may have known of a domestic violence allegation against his former assistant coach zach smith in 2015, long before smith was terminated last month. courtney smith claims her ex-husband zach abused her on multiple occasions. >> it was out of control to the point that he picked me up by my neck and threw me down on the ground in our bathroom and screamed at me, look what you turned me into. >> reporter: smith claims she told meyer's wife shelley about the abuse suffered in 2015 and agreed to her telling her head coach husband. but smith claims no action was taken. >> when somebody is crying out

zach smith is the assistant coach under urban meyer.e zach smith has not been charged with domestic violence. but reportedly his wife shows the pictures of the abuse to urban meyer's wife rchts we. >> well, there were photographs and text messaging between urban meyer's wire and courtney smith. interestingly enough, urban meyer deleted all of his text messages prior to one year ago. so there is no way of knowing what he ever received. that was in the 23-page report that ohio state produced when evaluating what to give him as a penalty here. so it doesn't look great. at a minimum it looks like there was an attempt at a cover-up on urban meyer's part to delete those text messages. >> to you think if this was a lesser known coach, a less successful coach, if this were a coach of a football program at a d-3 school or something, would they have gotten the same punishment? how much of this is about being urban meyer at the oxford university, a national champion? >> there is no question the stakes are extremely high f financially for the unive

in the era of, you know, civil rights and urban disorder, philadelphia had its own urban riot in 1964. he came up kind of in relation to all of that promising law and ord he he was very fond of saying that the way to treat criminals was skop poe cop poe. it's an italian phrase he translated to cracker heads. heil this didn't lend him many favors among liberals or the african-american community, it made him incredibly popular among those blue-collar white ethnics that clamored for law and order. the same thing with the barry gold water was talking about, richard nixon was talking about, george wallace. rizzo was local paradigm of law and order and he used it. he used his popularity as police commissioner with all these people as a spring board to a broader political career. in 1971 he ran for mayor and he won. he he was a democrat but he still won on a platform of, you know, maintaining law and order. his campaign slogan wasries d r means business. it was a master stroke of political double meaning because it could mean he was going to bring prosperity but it also means he's going to d

that would be wonderful. >> i am with the urban forestry. one note is it could be a two by three basin or a two by four. in terms of -- we would want a three by three or three by four. but just for taxi purposes. i just wanted to put that out there. >> president fung: we can change that up. as long as there is a 40 inch pedestrian access. that would seemingly work. 6 inches, 2 feet, forefeet would give you that 40-inch pedestrian walkway. >> the subject property has a 6-foot sidewalk. it would be a two by four with a 4-foot passage. >> yeah. >> president fung: i do not have a problem with that. the only concerning issue would be that it would set a precedent and calls for further fallback for the department. but as members of the public testified, the department is handing out information that indicates that is a 6-foot six rather than a 7-foot at the new director's order. given that information, i would support that motion as well. >> on the basis for the motion? it is public safety and the lack of clarity currently with regard to the depar

we are trying to completely revitalize america's urban areas. when i first met president trump around seven years ago, he and i discussed the conditions existing in the urban communities. he said, i believe unemployment, underemployment, and these living conditions contribute to the decline in chaos the urban community encounters. if we can create better jobs and better living conditions, i believe it would go a long way toward solving some of the problems of the urban community. we are seeing this plan being implemented now don't you. >> steve: twenty think this is a perfect demonstration of the disconnect between the way some people focus on words and what they said and whether those are made in any particular moments. versus real actions. >> donald trump is not a politician, he's a businessman who became president. he's a project and goal oriented. he is blunt, brass and he gets the job done. as far as racist allegations against him it is nonsense. a common joke around this administration and the campaign is that you have an open door to the

connecticut is one of the two most urban states in the nation.d a funding problem maintaining our parks systems at a level that we were comfortable with, and we required good weather for good attendance in our summer park usage. what we did this past year was shift our support of parks to automobile fees, low ones, and we've seen an explosion of local -- in-state usage of the parks where we charge for parking. by the way, it encourages people to keep their registration in your state. and it's been a home run for us, and i know quite frankly you folks in state have been building off of that effort to get more people back into those particular parks, very high usage parks. but if you had to pay a parking fee day after day if you wanted to use it, it got a little expensive. it's been by all reports a home run, and it is a steadier source of funds. so we find ourselves extending hours of operation, seasons of operation because we know that it's budgeted ahead of time, because we can predict how many people are going to register their car or change th

and a flowering of a urban east coast. arguably a whole new lifestyle based on utopian - - of leisure, physical wellness and spiritual fulfillment. this combination of urban growth was unique and it proved to be uniquely effective. by 1930, los angeles emerged as a major city of over 1.2 million people. one with a distinctive identity as an obscenely wasteful but alluring garden in the desert as the focus of the entire worlds movie drains and often its moral center. and as a heliocentric mecca of spiritual seekers across the country. every city can be regarded as an artificial construct, and audacious projection of human will, imagination and vanity onto the natural landscape. but none was more artificial or audacious than this one. so that's the story i wanted to tell in this book. how los angeles pulls off his miraculous feet of self invention. but i wanted to give this history a human face. there are schools of history that tried to downplay the role of individuals in the making of history. and emphasize things like soc

are much denser urban areas.you don't see the same level of violence . one of the important things to keep in mind is that it is probably an overstatement to say that a majority, a significant majority, of the violence in chicago is driven by the drug trade. if you talk to some of the police on the ground, as i have, they will tell you a lot of the disputes are out of social media beefs and perceived slights, sexual jealousy -- two guys arguing over a grow, that sort of thing. it is a culture of violence and not entirely driven by the drug trade. host: after a series of shootings in chicago, chicago's mayor went before cameras giving his perspective on the matter. he particularly directed his comments to those who live in those communities. >> there are too many guns on the street. too many people with criminal records on the street. valuess a shortage of about what is right and what is wrong. what is acceptable, what is condoned, and what is condemned. we as a city, in every corner, have an accountability and responsibility. if you know who did this, be

alameda county said that urban shield would no longer look or feel like it has in the past. so it will be substantially changed and i don't see any controversy with this. san francisco receives about $23 million for the bay area annually through the funding. we fund 39 city employees through this. and i'm happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much. i am glad to see your amendments and i want to acknowledge that supervisor fewer has also circulated amendments and have you had a chance to review them? >> i have. >> supervisor cohen: are you in agreement? >> i am. >> supervisor cohen: what was the outcome of the committee that you joined? >> i'm sorry, could you repeat that. >> supervisor cohen: what was the outcome of the committee that you joined? >> so the outcome, there were 27 different recommendations that went forward and basically recommending that urban shield would no longer look like it had in the past. and that there would be more emphasis on emergency preparedness as opposed to militarization of the police departments which is the way t

during the inquiry urban meyer will be on paid administrative leave. the statement went o to say, we are focusedn supporting our players and getting to truth as exously as possible. meyer releasesed a statement which said being on leave during the inquiry will facilitate its completion. dan sheneman, nbc news. >> right w, ohio state officials are not saying when meyer core reayrn. the schs they're trying to get to the truth of what happened. >>> survivors thank iing a hair power after t miracle in mexico. >> jesus saved us. >> new details on the doomed plane that crashed just after takeoff. >> a valedictorian couldn't waid to atten georgetown university. why he fears his sexualor ntation could keep him out. >> the know what? no, what? i just switched to geico and got more. more? got a company i can trust. that's a heck of a lot more. over 75 years of great savings and service. you can't argue with more. why would ya? geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. >>> cell phone video gives us a look inside a plane as it crashes to the ground. >> you

in the urban jungle or south los angeles california the age old fight between city developers and the local community has come to a boil over a section of neighborhood that once was home to the largest urban from the united states develop back in one thousand nine hundred four in the aftermath of the l.a. riots this fourteen acre community farm brought not only healthy food and jobs into the community but a strong camaraderie as well until of course the land was deemed too valuable for urban farming and the city of victor the farmers in favor of industrial developers in two thousand and six but those farmers and their supporters would not go gently into the l.a. night and i've been fighting the city ever since recently winning an important court ruling that forced the city to reassess the environmental impact of developing. the land for industrial use our own john stone recently sat down with burchill the toa a member of the south central farmers' restoration committee who is fighting fighting to bring back this urban farm that his family helped tend to since he was just a boy take a

dot com coming up sean stone looks a byte over urban farming taking place and so some from last year the ladies gentlemen there has been a breakthrough in blood. and we want to check that out so stay tuned to watch your heart. i mean rate is down the labor participation rate. so this goes against all the doom mongers before the election to trump and and of course nobody in major media wants to focus on this because the lies there are conspiracy. in the urban jungle of south los angeles california the age old fight between city developers and the local community has come to a boil over a section of neighborhood that once was home to the largest urban from the united states to bella back in one thousand nine hundred four in the aftermath of the l.a. riots this fourteen acre community farm brought not only healthy food and jobs into the community but a strong camaraderie as well until of course the land was deemed too valuable for urban farming and the city of victim the farmers in favor of industrial developers in two thousand and six but those farmers and their supporters would not go

dot com coming up sean stone looks at the fight over urban farming taking place in south central los angeles and ladies and gentlemen there has been a breakthrough in blood. from we want to check that out so stay tuned to watch of the whole. thing. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics score business i'm show business i'll see you then. finally in a moment also the chickens in atlanta now hundreds of billions of dollars on the point. line and you feel you wouldn't be that easy to find and found that out in me. plus is that going to get the city to go home. but i thought it might have been my little bit of a wonder about our little bit that we are back at that out of money coming over much of the way for the market not to get it but a. good one because like lose. some boards of. to see. you can be no problem. in the urban jungle or south los angeles california the age old fight between city developers and the local community has come to a boil over a section of neighborhood that once was home to the largest urban from the

she was recently awarded an acip, lifetime award by urban land institute. land use policies and environmental impact reports are reviewed, and those can be 700 pages. mr. richards says it takes 20 to 30 hours a week to be an effective commissioner. i've observed ms. moore and mr. richards in planning commission meetings dealing with a variety of agenda items. they're always well prepared, ask insightful questions and lead to fair and logical conclusions. they comment on site bureaus they've had made and that demonstrates their personal commitment to understanding all neighborhood impacts of the project. the citizens of san francisco are fortunate to have able and committed individuals willing to serve. >> supervisor safai: thank you, sir. next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i'm ken hogart. i'm here to advocate for commissioners richards and moore being reappointed. i've personally met with mr. richards concerning an eviction that was going to take place. i can assure you, mr. richards is -- has utmost sensitivity for those who are vulnerable among