try rx for brown skin. i know you're going to love it as much as i do -- and how it makes you look and feel. >> female announcer: introducing rx for brown skin. developed by world-renowned dermatologist dr. susan taylor, it's the first and only skin-care line developed by a woman of color specifically for women of color. and beauty experts are raving about rx for brown skin. ebony calls it "the brown girl's solution for hyperpigmentation." and elle magazine awarded dr. taylor its prestigious genius award. if you have uneven skin tone, dark marks from sun damage or acne, hyperpigmentation, or dull, dry, rough skin, then rx for brown skin was created for you. >> i had a lot of acne and hyperpigmentation along these areas. >> dryness across my t-zone, ashiness on my chin, sunspots around my cheeks. >> female announcer: yet normal over-the-counter skin-care systems aren't formulated for people with darker tones and can leave your skin feeling dried out, oily, and even increase acne breakouts. now, thanks to dr.

let's cheer brown on. >> ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown >> hey! i'm allergic to needles. i can't give no blood. i'm not doing that. >> ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown >> uh, now what? >> uh, one pint. >> get him up. >> get your hands out of my pockets. no, madea, i don't want you to kiss me. no! >> mr. brown. >> no, don't kiss me. please. aah! >> mr. brown. >> cora. cora, is that you? >> yes. >> ooh, i just so -- i'm so disney. i just felt like i died and went to heaven. >> hello, brown. >> ah, who left the gate open? >> oh, shut up before i take another pint of blood out of you. >> cora, how much did they take, cora? felt like they cut off my arm. help me. >> okay. all right. here you go. here you are, mr. brown. >> what's this? >> that's the results from the dna test. sasha ran the test when you passed out. >> oh. cora, am i your daddy? >> mr. brown... >> cora, don't tell me. i don't wanna know! if i'm not your daddy, who's gonna love me? who's gonna love me like you? >> mr. brown! >> nobody. >>

you richard brown. it's good to see you and thank you dr. parkel. that's all i got. i could listen to him talk all day. that was fantastic. >> christina, would you like to come up again? >> thank you. we have a few special thank yous that we want to wrap the ceremony up with. if vernal, elsie and deanna if you can please come up. we would really appreciate it. and so behalf on the mayor's office we would like to say thank you deeply for your contribution for making these services such a success. >> thank you. >> they are beautiful. >> for you. we have certificates of honor on behalf of the mayor's services. we are good at making certificates of honor. >> thank you. >> okay. and thank you to everybody for your contribution, your time and commitment to showing up today. the sponsors, we appreciate your support. now that concludes our ceremony. please enjoy the reception. thank you.

brown! >> uncle brown! uncle brown! >> mr. brown. >> ooh. are you okay? >> yeah, cora. just having a hard time trying to balance the department's budget. what are those? >> this is for mr. brown. ever since he bumped his head, he been asking for the weirdest things, like scones and books and tea. what is that about? >> mr. brown's been asking for scones? >> yes! >> well, i guess that's a step up from tuna fish and sweet tea. >> [ laughing ] guess so. >> well, the neurologist said his tests came back normal, so... >> well, i don't know how normal he is, but this morning, he came in and offered to take out the trash. i thought it was a trick, so i punched him. [ laughter ] >> i don't know. i mean, i-i like the new mr. brown. >> really? >> mm-hmm. i never thought i'd see the day that mr. brown would be helpful and interesting to talk to. >> evening. [ chuckles ] sasha, cora, william. >> uncle brown? is...that you? >> who else could it be? >> tiger woods? >> [ laughs ] cora! tiger woods the golf guy! [ laughs ] so funny! well, uh, i was looking in my closet this morning, an

brown. brown. slide the "b" down your face. brown crayon. chocolate ice cream is brown. brown. sign "brown." [ croak! ] [ gasps ] silver. touch your ear like you're pointing to a silver earring, then make an "s" for silver and twist it down. silver. try it. touch your ear, "s." that's "silver." silver. point to your earring and shake "s." sign "silver." he's signing "silver." shiny silver. sign "silver." gold. touch your ear like you're pointing to a gold earring, then sign "yellow" all the way down. you sign "yellow" because gold is a yellowish color. try it. touch your ear, "yellow." that's the sign for "gold." gold. touch your ear and bring the "y" down. gold shoes. gold! sign "gold." wow. now we know black, brown, gold, and silver. let's put them into our song. [ up-tempo music playing ] ♪ i need a box of crayons ♪ i need a box of crayons ♪ i'm looking in a drawer ♪ i'm looking in a drawer ♪ a brand-new box of crayons ♪ a brand-new box of crayons ♪ it's what i'm hoping for ♪ it's what i'm hoping for ♪ 1, 2, 3, 4 ♪ i found a box of crayons ♪ i have blac

let's cheer brown on. >> ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown >> hey! i'm allergic to needles. i can't give no blood. i'm not doing that. >> ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown ♪ go brown, go brown >> uh, now what? >> uh, one pint. >> get him up. >> get your hands out of my pockets. no, madea, i don't want you to kiss me. no! >> mr. brown. >> no, don't kiss me. please. aah! >> mr. brown. >> cora. cora, is that you? >> yes. >> ooh, i just so -- i'm so disney. i just felt like i died and went to heaven. >> hello, brown. >> ah, who left the gate open? >> oh, shut up before i take another pint of blood out of you. >> cora, how much did they take, cora? felt like they cut off my arm. help me. >> okay. all right. here you go. here you are, mr. brown. >> what's this? >> that's the results from the dna test. sasha ran the test when you passed out. >> oh. cora, am i your daddy? >> mr. brown... >> cora, don't tell me. i don't wanna know! if i'm not your daddy, who's gonna love me? who's gonna love me like you? >> mr. brown! >> nobody. >>

mayor brown, has done all of it. and he has paid attention to every detail and i am still catching up to learn, but it is. even to be close to what he has been trying to do and of course, especially this year with the trials and tribulations of i suppose any mayor in their first elected year goes through, you know, i take a lot of things personally and i must always go back and say, willie, did this happen to you? >> and, of course, getting the great advice that is absolutely necessary, because, when you sit in this seat, and you have the enormous responsibilities and you don't have the 30 years of experience that mayor brown did, but you similarly appreciate what it takes to run the city, to ask for help, and now i am getting a lot of free help from willie and i appreciate that. and it is, it really is, something that he has given time and time again with my predecessor nuwsom who leaned a lot on him and i am doing the same thing and if we get things done, it is a lot to do with making sure that we don't make costly

in concerts throughout the country. ♪ take a train and go back home ♪ >> brown: >> brown: online you can watch more of my conversation with audra mcdonald, where she discusses the stamina required to play "bess," and how hard it was to "leave her" at the theater. >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day. the u.s. supreme court struck down a key provision of the voting rights act, effectively blocking enforcement of the landmark civil rights measure. president obama announced executive action to force reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, especially from coal- fired power plants. and russian president putin rejected u.s. appeals to hand over edward snowden, the man who leaked news of secret surveillance programs. he apparently remained at a moscow airport. >> brown: also online today, journalists and members of congress come to blows, all for a good cause. hari sreenivasan has more. >> sreenivasan: the annual congressional women's softball game pits members of the d.c. press corps against members of congress, and playing right field for the "bad news babes" is newshour's o

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the newshour tonight, we explore the legal and other issues surrounding the u.s. policy. >> ifill: then, federal and state governments sue a credit ratings agency it says gave good ratings to bad mortgage investments. >> brown: ray suarez looks at president obama's use of campaign-style events to push his legislative agenda. >> ifill: hari sreenivsan examines a million-dollar match fixing scandal shaking the world of international soccer. >> brown: and playing with the enemy: we have the story of an orchestra of israelis and arabs coming together for music, and maybe more. >> the only way that we can achieve anything that is remotely related to peace is if we sit together and talk or if we at least try to. >> ifill: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> sailing through the heart of historic landscapes you see things differently. you get close to iconic landmarks, to local life, to cultural treasures. it's a feeling th

willie brown is a game changer. a brief look at his career corroborates that. as an attorney in san francisco at a time when there were few black attorneys this man routinely defended the defenseless and taking on cases the most prominent lawyers refuse to take on. mario, on his first disobedience arrests and then he became involved in civil rights movement to protect housing discrimination after a local real estate office refused to work with him because he was black. then there were a very significant first. first african american elected to san francisco in the california state assembly. the first african american speaker of the california state assembly. and as we all know the first african mayor of san francisco [ applause ] >> first, the first, the first. and a speaker of the assembly he would also become the first and the only politicians to hold that position for 15 years. longer than any other individual so much so that a new paradigm was created with prop 140 which instituted term limits. had that not happ

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: a state of emergency has been declared, plunging egypt under a virtual martial law. we get the latest from cairo. explore how the six-week standoff devolved to bloodshed. >> woodruff: then, in a rare rebuke of wall street, two former j.p. morgan employees face criminal charges for reckless trading. we examine the growing legal woes for the banking giant. >> brown: the common core standards in education push students to think critically, speak persuasively and collaborate. john merrow reports on the challenge of testing these advanced skills. >> you're not going to be asked questions like: what did you think about the thing you read? you're going to be asked to say: "what did the author think? find evidence in the text to make that broader point." >> woodruff: 50 years later, the march on washington remains a seminal moment in american history. tonight, we kick off a series of discussions to mark the anniversary. >> we've forgotten most of the >> brown: and r

we get more now with david brown of the "washington post." david brown, welcome to the program. explain in short hand what was this study designed to do? >> well, it was designed to answer a question that has been unanswered and that people have been trying to answer since the 1950s when it was discovered that oxygen at high oncentration giveno premature infants can cause serious eye damage and lead to blindness. the problem was that when oxygen was limited to many of these premature infants their brain didn't get enough oxygen to develop, many seemed to develop retardation, some of them died. so there has been a real problem for literally half a century to determine what the right amount of oxygen is to sort of balance these two bad outcomes-- on the one hand death and brain damage and on the other hand blindness. >> woodruff: and what was the outcome of this study? >> well, this study showed that as previous studies had hinted if you limit the oxygen that premature infants are getting-- this is all supplementary oxygen this is more oxygen than you get from breathing air-- but

thank you. >> brown: what are th >> brown: and what are the great expectations of the american public for the president in his second term? hari sreenivasan was on the national mall yesterday. on the rundown online, you can hear what issues people hope to see addressed. >> ifill: and to the other news of the day. house republicans forged ahead with a plan to raise the nation's debt ceiling through may 19. that vote is set for tomorrow. congressman paul ryan, last year's republican vice presidential nominee, said today republicans want to shift the focus to enacting a budget, with major spending cuts. the senate is going on four years now for not having passed a budget. we think this gives us the time we need in this nation to have a good, thorough vigorous and honest debate about what it takes to get our fiscal house in order and about how to budget. families budget. businesses budget. our federal government should budget. >> ifill: the bill also says if lawmakers don't enact a budget with spending cuts, they won't be paid. in the senate, democratic majority leader harry reid declined

i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we get reaction to the president's proposal to ban assault weapons and institute universal background checks from two local law enforcement officials. >> brown: then, we have the story of a navy seal, a sniper in the iraq war and best-selling author who was gunned down by a fellow vetan aa shooting range in texas. >> ifill: margaret warner looks at how ancient manuscripts in mali were saved, hidden from destruction during the conflict with islamist rebels. >> brown: what makes a great teacher? hari sreenivasan reports on a charter school in connecticut that uses a checklist to evaluate and keep the best of them in the classroom. >> we have parents, students, peer and principal surveys, so the teachers are really getting a whole 360 take on what they are doing well and what they need to improve. >> ill: the 500-year-old bones unearth in a parking lot in england are those of king richard iii. john burns of the "new york times" fills us in. >> brown: and we close

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: we discuss the options-- and the consequences of whatever action is or isn't taken-- with two members of congress who were briefed on the evidence by the white house. >> woodruff: and we get the perspectives of "newshour" analysts mark shields and david brooks. >> brown: then, the race to save the centuries-old sequoias at yosemite national park, threatened by wildfires burning just miles away. we have a report from the scene. >> woodruff: we wrap up our look at the legacy of the march on washington, 50 years on. tonight, the long journey of the civil rights movement, and its unfinished business. >> we have this, in my view, race-based partisan gridlock that denies the possibilities that america can do what we proved we could do in the 60s, which is tackle our toughest problem. >> brown: and we remember seamus heaney-- the nobel-prize winning poet who died today in his native ireland. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." >> major funding fo

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. >> hey, hey, hey, brown, brown, brown, hold it! listen, i'm not gonna allow you to stand here and talk to my fiancée like this! >> what? >> did you say "fiancée"? >> did i say "fiancée"? >> yeah, you said "fiancée." >> you know what? in latin, that means "edna, pack your stuff and get out." just walk this way. come on this way, edna. come on, come on. >> i do miss you, edna. >> i miss you, too, colonel. [ chuckles ] >> y'all gonna make me throw up if y'all keep on with this. >> edna, please come back home. >> oh, you ain't got to say it twice. >> you better be glad he asked you once. hey, colonel, get her leash and walk her home. >> oh, come on, brown! >> mr. brown! >> go now. >> stop it. they haven't even eaten dinner yet. >> yes, they have. leave. bye. here. put it a dog bowl. >> i despise you, brown. >> well, i despite you, too. why don't you despite me at home?! >> hey, listen, you... [ indistinct shouting ] now, look, i'm not gonna stand here and watch you talk to my woman like that, because it's gonna seriously jeopardize

>> brown: and that's the "newshour" for tonight. on friday robert macneil and jim lehrer look back 40 years to the story that brought them together in our special report, "covering watergate." i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening with mark shields and david brooks, among others. thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> support also comes from carnegie corporation of new york, a foundation created to do what andrew carnegie called "real and permanent good." celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie.org. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.or

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight: as egyptians regroup after a wave of bloodshed and chaos, pockets of violence still persist. we get an on-the-ground report from cairo and debate options for the u.s. >> woodruff: then, the u.s. defense department rolled out its plan to curb sexual assaults in the military. we dig into the details and discuss whether more needs to be done. >> brown: the maker of the painkiller oxycontin refuses to disclose a full list of doctors who may over-prescribe the addictive drug. we have the latest on an investigation by the los angeles times and new pressure from lawmakers. >> woodruff: the nation of myanmar is home to one of the world's most persecuted minorities-- the rohinga. we have the harrowing tale of what happens when this group of muslims try to flee to safety. >> it looks like a cross between a teddy bear and a house cat. >> brown: and say hello to the olinguito-- the newly-discovered mammal species. we talk to the scientist who helped find the furry creat

try rx for brown skin. i know you're going to love it as much as i do and how it makes you look and feel. >> announcer: introducing rx for brown skin. developed by world-renowned dermatologist, dr. susan taylor, it's the first and only skincare line developed by a woman of color specifically for women of color. and beauty experts are raving about rx for brown skin. ebony calls it "the brown girl's solution for hyperpigmentation," and elle magazine awarded dr. taylor its prestigious genius award. if you have uneven skin tone, dark marks from sun damage or acne, hyperpigmentation, or dull, dry, rough skin, then rx for brown skin was created for you. >> i had a lot of acne and hyperpigmentation along these areas. >> dryness across my t-zone, ashiness on my chin, sunspots around my cheeks. >> announcer: yet normal over-the-counter skincare systems aren't formulated for people with darker tones and can leave your skin feeling dried-out, oily and even increase acne breakouts. now, thanks to dr. taylor and the sci

i'm ray suarez. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thanks for joining us. good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> rose: welcome to the program. tonight a look at the world of private equity with steve schwarzman the cofounder and ceo of the blackstone group. >> what we're doing at blackstone is we're committed to hire 50,000 veterans over the next five years. i feel really -- >> rose: 50,000. >> 50,000. we have quite a large operation in terms of one of our seven business lines which happens to be private equity. we own about 80 companies w

>>brown: right. and while if not in open sources, the fact of the matter is those are largely small arms. it's unclear as a result of this meeting today if the arms are going to be the kind of weapon systems the opposition forces want which is any air -- antiaircraft and antitank system. >>brown: you've written against military action, why? >> well what are we going to do strike with tomahawks? we did in 1998. didn't stop the taliban from supporting al qaeda nine years later, it was a disaster. sudan didn't make much difference there. if it's going to be anything like general keene is talking about that's not a one day shot. that's going to be multiple attacks. we're going ohave to see how much damage we have actually done, battle damage assessment. our record is spotty on that. will we get everything we're targeting? maybe not. a lot of the aircraft, in fact the aircraft that seem to be more effective, l-29 trainers, dumpy little things but they don't have to fly off air fields. but what if we hit t

scott brown called her professor. you could see he wanted to call her "four eyes," but he can't on tv. so he called her professor. so it turned out the guys on the bar schools who loved that, were like wicked out numbered by the thoughtful people of massachusetts who don't think that the word "professor" is an insult. scott brown is not a senator anymore, and everybody assumes he will run for senator again. everybody except me. you should remember you heard it here first because last week i told you you heard it here first. and you heard it here first, which is to say you're hearing it right now. scott brown probably wouldn't even run against ed markey. scott brown would be much happier running for governor when duval patrick leaves office next year, a race scott brown has a much better chance of winning, and a job he would love, love, according to my sources, he doesn't really like it. political readers who missed last tuesday's edition are only five days behind on this story, because they ran this story, why scott b

i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, we get reaction to the president's proposal to ban assault weapons and institute universal background checks from two local law enforcement officials. >> brown: then, we have the story of a navy seal, a sniper in the iraq war and best-selling author who was gunned down by a fellow veteran at a shooting range in texas. >> ifill: margaret warner looks at how ancient manuscripts in mali were saved, hidden from destruction during the conflict with islamist rebels. >> brown: what makes a great teacher? hari sreenivasan reports on a charter school in connecticut that uses a checklist to evaluate and keep the best of them in the classroom. >> we have parents, students peer and principal surveys, so the teachers are really getting a whole 360 take on what they are doing well and what they need to improve. >> ifill: the 500-year-old bones unearthed in a parking lot in england are those of king richard iii. john burns of the "new york times" fills us in. >> brown: and w

. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown. on the "newshour" tonight, we have extended excerpts of today's hearing: the partisan jousting and the push to learn what happened and who was responsible. >> woodruff: then, margaret warner reports on the pentagon's moves to deal with the growing outrage over sexual assaults in the military-- a problem the secretary of defense said today he will do everything necessary to fix. >> brn: mk shields and dad brooks analyze the week's news. plus, a special report with our own macneil and lehrer on covering the watergate hearings. >> good evening from washington. in a few moments, we're going to bring you the entire proceedings in the first day of the senate watergate hearings. >> we are running it all each day because we think these hearings are important. we are doing this as an experiment to give you the whole story, however many hours it may take. >> woodruff: 40 years after the scandal that brought down an american president. robert macneil and jim lehrer rlect owateate's legacy and th

everyday he makes his way to mother brown's. hose in the hospital right now my feet are swollen so i can't landed in a bed. we have people who came to mother brown's maybe two or three months. i cannot see us having no beds. i'm grateful to mother brown's. a thousand times. i'm 41 years old i don't have any disabilities at all nothing. i graduated with an aa degree i had no problems. there's people that way, way more dependant. i'm able to stand before you and say people need those beds. it hurts. it hurts everyday i walk up to mother brown's and say wow. that's how they trait us. and everybody else people bringing stuff out of their cars and house to spending their extra money to put food in their stomachs. so, please we need those beds >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon, supervisors arrest i'm david. and i have 8 plus years of the resident roughly 15 years over envy 24 years of living in the bayview. i've seen the bayview emerge into an even increasing vibrate area. considering the beds are not at capability

try rx for brown skin. i know you're going to love it as much as i do and how it makes you look and feel. >> announcer: introducing rx for brown skin. developed by world-renowned dermatologist, dr. susan taylor, it's the first and only skincare line developed by a woman of color specifically for women of color. and beauty experts are raving about rx for brown skin. ebony calls it "the brown girl's solution for hyperpigmentation," and elle magazine awarded dr. taylor its prestigious genius award. if you have uneven skin tone, dark marks from sun damage or acne, hyperpigmentation, or dull, dry, rough skin, then rx for brown skin was created for you. >> i had a lot of acne and hyperpigmentation along these areas. >> dryness across my t-zone, ashiness on my chin, sunspots around my cheeks. >> announcer: yet normal over-the-counter skincare systems aren't formulated for people with darker tones and can leave your skin feeling dried-out, oily and even increase acne breakouts. now, thanks to dr. taylor and the sci

brown. cora, continue your story. >> and then they snatched my purse. >> cor-- cor-- cora, did he get the white purse or the black purse? you know that white purse is your church purse. >> uncle brown. >> mr. brown. >> i'm trying to get the facts. >> cora, did you get a good look at this guy? >> no, i didn't 'cause by the time i -- when i turned around, he was gone. he was running away. >> cora, was he running fast or slow? 'cause if he was black, he was running fast. if he was white, he was running slow, cora. take me to that atm machine 'cause they'll come back to the scene of the crime, and when they do, they gonna withdraw my foot out of their -- >> mr. brown! that's the last thing we need, is more violence! >> i want more violence 'cause i'm walking short. >> cora, are you sure you're not hurt? >> no, i'm just shaken up a little bit. i'm okay. >> all right, well, what did the police have to say? >> well, i told them everything i could, but they say crimes like this nor-- they usually go