>> with crystal bridges, alice walton did not begin -- >> sam walton's daughter. >> yes. she did not begin with competitions or interviews. she began by traveling from museum to museum and studying the architecture -- >> around the world. >> around the world, in the united states, around the world. at some point, she said, "i want to make a museum which is a place of community as much as it is a museum. she was at the huntington library. and i said to her, "you should go see skirbil museum." she went there in cog neato. thereafter, i got a phone call, "will you come and spend the day with alice walton in bentonville in? and we -- >> did you say, "where's bentonville?" >> ah, well, i went to visit the wal-mart store because i'd never been to one. >> rose: that's the thing to do. >> and, you know, i arrived. we had dinner. the next day we went walking around the site. and i said to her as i was about to leave for the airport, "i guess you're beginning your architecture selection process." and she said, "no, i ended it today." >> rose: she decided on you. >> she decided on m

i would ask that anyone interested in speaking to please line up on the walton far side of the room. president goh will need to hear from you to know how many minutes to give to each speaker. president goh: two minutes. >> i would ask that you fill out a speaker card either before and after you speak. >> not to embarrass the son and daughter, i don't believe they will be able to speak. >> no, any family member cannot speak under public comments. >> they are not speaking. some neighbor couldn't be here at the last minute and asked them to read something. >> no, it is the time -- they cannot participate in public comments. >> ok. someone else will read. >> please step forward, first speaker. please step forward. >> i'm the neighbor that lives next door to jean and john. i understand that the city believes my house is the most affected by their changes. shadow or affect my privacy. i appreciate that the planning department has rules and regulations made to protect individuals and that they want to protect me and my property, but i haven't actually asked for that protection. jean and joh

jordan walton faked to third and caught curtis granderson at second. he took the bat away from teixeira. that was the ball game. yanks trail 6-4. the red sox beat the twins. check it out. tied at 3-3, in the second. david ortiz, a little roller down the baseline. but the pitcher lost his footing and everybody was safe. boston won it, 4-3. >>> there's the mariners visiting the rangers. bottom nine, tied at 6-6. josh hamlin slapped a walkoff single. they lead the angels by a game and a half. >>> now, to st. louis. cards and brewers needed ten to decide a winner. tied at 3-3, tracy mcgee to center field. milwaukee win 5-3. they lead st. louis by four in the n.l. central. you know the phrase, when you're on, you're on. dan uggla is a perfect example. he increased his hitting streak to 30, as he singled against the marlins. there's martin prado, who had a huge game. four for six and had an rbi single in the 11th. that's your first look at sports. >>> now, another quick look at the weather. here's bill karins. he has your weather channel forecast. >> i'm gue

i am with walton development. we own the property across from daggett place. we participated in over 100 meetings over the last six or seven years. at every single one of those meetings, amir or dan murphy has been there. their outrage efforts have been remarkable, probably setting a world record of some sort. we believe the project is well co asset to san francisco in general. the neighborhood in particular. we're looking forward to being neighbors with the project and we encourage you to support the project. thank you. >> good afternoon. tim colon on behalf of the act of housing coalition. we have been looking at this since 2006. it has been before us half a dozen times. it is hard to imagine a project that has had more community input and outrage. we watched the design which we love. the members that have watched this project love it. it is urbanistic and appropriate to the location. but there is something this hearing brings out. this was held back when dan murphy was working with us. with the understanding the eastern neighborhood was moving along and he

. >> reporter: rosalind walton served time for drug possession before shirley helped her pick the right side. >> she would walk in a room and everyone would stop and listen. she gave me inspiration and she empowered me to know that change was possible. >> reporter: san mateo county captain mark hanlon says rosalind is just one of many success stories. >> it's important to us because we have seen some other changes where we don't have as many of the revolving door inmates coming back, once they have been through this program. so this is one of the cells here where i lived. >> reporter: this former inmate shakes his head when he looks at his old cell. choice inspired him to go to college, find a job. he is now giving back as a counselor with the program. >> choices had taught me the value of decency. they taught me how to be accountable. >> my life is more than just being clean and social and staying off drugs. it's about making people understand what change looks like, what it takes, what it is. >> very good. >> reporter: so for helping inmates to see change and make positive choices, th

. >> reporter: in bayhead, new jersey, rising seawater filled the streets near nancy walton. >> we knew at 11:30, 12:00 we made a mistake by staying, but we couldn't go anywhere. we were stuck. >> reporter: new york city firefighters had to rescue more than 60 people, including three babies on staten island. >> when i looked out, my heart sank because all of the sudden the water was up to the level of the cars. >> reporter: despite water in some streets, 300,000 new yorkers were allowed back home. after the city's first ever evacuation of coastal neighborhoods. mayor michael bloomberg also closed the subways, the tunnels, the bridges. >> nobody likes to shut down the economy of the city. nobody likes to inconvenience people. but human lives are much more important. >> reporter: falling trees took the most lives. lots of close calls. >> just when we passed the site behind me, the tree just, like, toppled down. >> reporter: huge waves washed out a half mile of route 12, stranding residents on north carolina's outer banks. the biggest inconvenience is power outages, affecting hundreds of t

i see some of my community leaders in here, i say walton and vivian. wouldn't it be to see jackson on the mic saying ni hao ma. i think that would be wonderful for members in the community to be welcoming and this is the world -- the world is becoming smaller as we listen to the news and how technology connected us, and it's our humanism and it's our human compassion that connects us. and i'm looking forward to the culture exchange we will have, vivian. i will be looking for you to hold some dance classes here. i hope to see you next year -- doing the lion's dance next year. this is really the beginning of such a wonderful partnership. as our family continues to grow, i look forward to welcoming more businesses that are going to be thriving on the merchant quarter and i look forward to any nonprofit that wants to partner with the city. our arms are open and we're ready to work. thank you so much. [applause] >> thank you, supervisor cohen. and we will also like to have honorable assemblyman tom ammiano say a few words and make a few remarks. [applause]

olympics elsewhere two americans triumph in this once good world record holder you same boat sitting out walton takes blew away the field in the men's two hundred meters while commentator jeter was peerless in the women's one hundred meters which knocked out his second straight victory in a timely. moving on and with just over a month to go until the rugby world cup in new zealand down caught a kick fifteen points as the all blacks comfortably beat australia thirty points to fourteen in the trying to asians encounter northlands to retain the bledisloe cup the traditional had up before the game julie boosted the whole nation's merong group that's dominated from the offer deed in prague with a have not lost a test to australia since nineteen eighty six and new zealand were seventeen zero up at half time if it turns from one not they have been mail-o. meter and city of any city run to put the match beyond fourteen minutes into the second half they bring connecting with conrad smith for a spectacular run tonight twenty five seven to me i on me and rocky elsom did get on the scoreboard through all o

. >> reporter: nancy walton decided to ride out the storm with her husband. both were awakened by the crash of a tree falling outside their bedroom. >> we knew about it 11:30, 12:00 we made a mistake by staying. but we couldn't go anywhere. we were stuck. so we had sent our family out of harm's way, but we were stupid. >> reporter: more than 1 million people had been ordered to evacuate the jersey shore. that included residents and vacationers in spring lake where the damage today was evident. look at the boardwalk here in spring lake. it's a two-mile boardwalk. i am told about 1.5 of those miles of boardwalk have been destroyed by the waters that irene sent rushing up on to these shores. >> reporter: in asbury park, storm surge reached the famous boardwalk but didn't cause any major damage. the massive storm left more than 600,000 without power. due to heavy winds and downed trees. damage the governor says could have been worse. >> the fact that we were successful in evacuating over a million people from the most affected areas was a preemptive measure that

walton back to the big picture and charm are been coming up in this half hour another look at some of the big picture stories we've covered in recent months on this show that had you the viewer buzzing on our you tube pages in our blogs and over get to log on it's on arbonne dot com to find out about all the different ways you can send us your questions comments and rants about these stories and anything else that goes on here at the big picture or on my radio show. it looks like another republican has read the story of robin hood backwards and is stealing from the poor to give to the rich michigan residents are getting screwed over by their governor rick snyder yesterday republican snyder signed into law legislation that would cut six weeks from unemployment benefits every state in the country currently pays out twenty six weeks of benefits right now michigan will lead the way and ate out only twenty weeks and that's a state that's had higher than ten percent unemployment rate for longer than any other state in the country in other words the state with the worst unemployment numbers

. >> reporter: rosalind walton served time for drug possession before shirley helped her pick the right side. >> she would walk in a room and everyone would stop and listen. she gave me inspiration and she empowered me to know that change was possible. >> reporter: san mateo county captain mark hanlon says rosalind is just one of many success stories. >> it's important to us because we have seen some of the changes. we don't have as many of the revolving door inmates coming back once they have been through this program. >> so this is one of the cells here where i lived. >> reporter: this former inmate shakes his head when he looks at his old cell. choices inspired him to go to college and get a job. he is now giving back as a counselor with the program. >> choices taught me the value of decency. they taught me how to be accountable. >> life is more than just about staying clean and so bore off drugs. it's about really making people understand what change looks like, what it takes and what it is. >> reporter: so for helping inmates to see change and make positive choices, this weeks' jef

that we have right now in this country, a lot of it relates back to nafta and the facts that sam waltonied. all of the goods that wal-mart uses sell, 85% of them used to be made in the united states. now, who knows what. host: what does that mean for confidence in the obama economic team? caller: not much. i think that everyone in there should probably be voted out. it is not just him, but i do not know, it seems that money has collect -- corrupted everything to me. host: in other news, the aftermath of "hurricane irene" has made the news in most newspapers. host: that is the front page of "the burlington free press." here is "a star-ledger." host: we will be talking about the insurance situation, covering losses at 7:45 a.m. eastern time. in our last hour we will kick off a series looking at weather. today's topic and tracking weather is about disaster preparedness in response. two topics this morning. oakland, california, good morning. caller: i do have confidence in our present -- president. i did watch "roger and me" last night. to see the devastation of our auto industry, corporati