. >> we teasingly call this the hamptons. >> one will be expelled for good. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> grand rapids, michigan, ranks highly in most quality of life categories, but the occupants of a fenced-in brick fortress near downtown might disagree. this is the kent county jail. temporary home to about a thousand men and women most of whom are accused of crimes and are awaiting trial at the resolution of the cases. >> i can't do anything that i want to when i want to. i have to ask everybody. i hate asking for anything. >> food sucks. there ain't no sugar coating it. the food sucks. >> don't ever come here. >> one of the jail's minimum security housing units. >> we teasingly call this the hamptons because they're up here with no cells. they have freedom of movement. as long as they listen and that's kind of their punishment is the thought of having to go live behind doors again. >> most of the inmates in there are pretty compliant. they're easy going and a lot of them are in there for minor crimes. so we really don't have to stay on them that much. >> but you do still have to supervise it. >> i

and i stayed at hampton transitional housing. and i have two daughters and i had a daughter in college. and and i chose to take care of my children to make sure that they stayed in school and my daughter stayed in college. and i did not choose to take care of myself. so the baby who they do have supportive housing in there with a case manager and i am very glad to have had that when i arrived there that it took time before i got to know my case manager and stuff like that. but when people are homeless and stuff, we go through a lot of stuff. and my children have to go through all of that trauma stuff, and being to choose to take care of my children well and a lot of you know me from the western edition and being involved with the children and stuff and i chose to take care of my children and i dependant take care of myself. so, i am just saying that mothers need to support in these programs when they leave from being in homeless and coming from the transitional housing because it is very hard and it is hard to come back. and espe

i live in 1260 golden gate in hampton shelter. i have a five-year-old daughter and a 2-month-old baby. i would like to ask for you guys to open the waiting list for public housing because i have a maximum stay of 6 months in that place and to be quite honest i am not sure where i am going after it. i feel depressed because i am not sure where i am going to be moving with my kids after six months stay is over. >> my daughter is experiencing a lot of anxiety because we don't have a stable housing where we are moving from one place to another from one shelter to another resulting in a lot of anxiety to her. >> and that is the reason why i am asking for you guys to open the waiting list, to provide us with and give us an opportunity for housing. >> that is all, thank you so much. >> thank you very much. next speaker, please? >> [ speaking in a foreign language ] >> good morning, everybody. god bless you. and i am here to request more housing opportunities. i am a victim of violence and crime. and even cps has been involved in my housi

and being at hampton, has just been a real help and allowed us to have enough time to find housing. and many of the shelters here, you are only allowed to stay for so long and finding housing in the greater bay area is really hard. not just specifically in san francisco. right now the only way that my family can stay in san francisco is if we get into a place like mersy housing, and that is stable subsidy. and so there is a lot of challenges that are faced in it and i wish that there were more programs that were transitional like hampton. >> thanks. >> okay. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> hi. i am cami and this is charlie. say hi, charlie. the family is all good and we are all concerned. but you know there are very little talk of the women up here. so what are women supposed to do? are they supposed to stay on the street? supposed to stay in abusive relationships to have the roof over their heads. or are they supposed to excuse me for being crass, you know, go and live with a guy until a guy kicks them out. just to have a roof over their head. that is it. >> okay, thank yo

and being at hampton, has just been a real help and allowed us to have enough time to find housing. and many of the shelters here, you are only allowed to stay for so long and finding housing in the greater bay area is really hard. not just specifically in san francisco. right now the only way that my family can stay in san francisco is if we get into a place like mersy housing, and that is stable subsidy. and so there is a lot of challenges that are faced in it and i wish that there were more programs that were transitional like hampton. >> thanks. >> okay. thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> hi. i am cami and this is charlie. say hi, charlie. the family is all good and we are all concerned. but you know there are very little talk of the women up here. so what are women supposed to do? are they supposed to stay on the street? supposed to stay in abusive relationships to have the roof over their heads. or are they supposed to

in the hamptons, and barry rosenstein, excuse me, bought this. it's 18 acres, it's got a garden and a pond, it was part of an estate fight, if you will, never went out on the open market, brokers are furious, of course, in the hamptons because they didn't get any type of commission which would have been over $7 million. we don't have interior pictures, but it's a beautiful piece of acreage. your neighbors are people like jerry seinfeld, and this breaks a record that we just had set nationally two weeks ago up in greenwich, connecticut. stuart: well, that tells me it's a bubble in ultra expensive property. it's spiking as we speak. would you go along with that? >> let me show you this map of the hamptons versus new york city. this is why i disagree with you on the this point, because the hamptons is the place to be if you're in new york city. and as the new york financial community begins to bring back all those bonuses, going from new york to the hamptons to spend this kind of money actually is, i think, within reasonable range. and i think you a

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at the fcc, i'm hampton pearson for "nightly business report." >>> and we should note that comcast, one of the companies that hampton mentioned in his report is the parent company of cnbc which produces this program. >>> also today, another important vote from the fcc, in a story we told you about yesterday the agency voted to limit how much wireless spectrum space giant telecomes like verizon and at&t will be able to bid for valuable air waves slated to take place next year. the idea is to prevent the companies from stopping the low band spectrum while allowing smaller competitors and newer ones valuable access to air space. >>> and more from berkshire hathaway. berkshire hathaway disclosed a stake of more than half a billion dollars or about 11 shares in the tell-- telecom giant. shares were slightly off at $47.96. >>> shares of j.c. penny off after revenue that beat estimates. same store sales were a little higher marking the second straight quarterly gain after nine straight declines. the retailer also announced they obtained a larger credit facility to strengthen its balance sheet.

hampton pearson talks about the landscape for the class of 2014. >> reporter: for the class of 2014, the job market is getting better, sort of. unemployment among college graduates last year was 11%, down from 13% in 2012. that's nearly double the current unemployment rate of 6.3%. job placement experts say the sluggish recovery continues to delay graduates finding jobs or if hired, they are often taking less pay. >> unfortunately, today is college is yesterday's high school. you just have to accept that. but you have to be strategic. you want to target the industries and the companies that you would have an interest in and find people that work in those industries and those companies. >> reporter: but graduate spirits remains high. 84% of this year's graduating class expect to find jobs in their chosen field, according to a brand-new survey. 22-year-old laura schwartz, who just graduated from george washington university, began her job search more than a month ago. she's determined to get a job in social media and marketing. part of the new economy but already seeing stiff competiti

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hampton, enjoy our you did a great job. it looks good! ...then fuel up with double points or double miles on your next getaway. make every stay more rewarding and feel the hamptonality >>> this is where i love to speak my mind on this campaign, can you imagine if i did that? mississippi is chock full of [ bleep ] i don't trust the chinese. i don't think i'll be able to pass any type of legislation that makes any difference in your life. so what you is that for your platform? >> the one and only, julie dreyfuss, and frank rich is back with me, we hope they talk like that in private. or maybe they shouldn't. i think it is the way it is. >> the way it is. >> this past week we had a little video, with joe biden to cooperate with. the cast who lives in los angeles, came there for the dinner and it was so funny to watch. >> here is what you're talking about. >> so where are we headed next? >> going to the real seat of power. >> the real seat of power? where is that? >> we can write any headline we want? >> knock yourself out. go to it. ♪ ♪

hampton, enjoy our you did a great job. it looks good! ...then fuel up with double points or double miles on your next getaway. make every stay more rewarding and feel the hamptonality >>> based on statements from two eyewitnesss baton rouge police were searching for a white male driving a white pick up truck in connection with five unsolved murders. with little to lose, investigators joined forces with a molecular biologist to per form a new test on the killer's dna. >> it's brand new technology. a lot of these people are unaware of what it can to. we have to go into the human genome and screen through large numbers of people in order to find these positions of dna so we can harness their power and use them for the purposes that we are using them. >> to test the doctor's claims. investigators sent him 20 dna samples and asked them to identify the race of each one. >> he nailed them to a t on everybody even to the percentages of white, black, indian, whatever you had in it. when he passed that test he went to work on the killer's dna. the

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hampton, enjoy our you did a great job. it looks good! ...then fuel up with double points or double miles on your next getaway. make every stay more rewarding and feel the hamptonality >>> tomorrow is the day of retribution. a day in which i will have my revenge against humanity. >> that was 22-year-old elliot rodger the man who police say killed six people in southern california before taking his own life. rodger posted that video to youtube the day before the rampage. >> a manifesto, 141 pages rodger left behind. we heard he sent that manifesto to law enforcement. these are pictures by the way from rodger's facebook page. >> let's bring in clinical psychologist dr. jeff gardere. we spoke the last hour about some of the signs, and i want to speak about something specifically mentioned in this manifesto. the video game "world of war craft" he mentions it 41 times by name and he says at age 1 when his mom moved to another apartment i'll read from it "i was able to play "world of war craft" along with "halo ii" on x-box live. the ability to

hampton, enjoy our you did a great job. it looks good! ...then fuel up with double points or double miles on your next getaway. make every stay more rewarding and feel the hamptonality >>> welcome back, everyone. we have been talking about the case of jacob lavoro who faces a possible life sentence for pot brownies. in colorado that could be considered a business plan. 36 miles away across the texas border where jacob lives it would land you in prison for life. is there something wrong here? joining me now, ben cort, david evans a special adviser to the drug free america foundation and criminal defense attorney. neil franklin, retired police major and executive director of law enforcement against prohibition. back with us, jack holmes who is representing jacob. thank you, everyone, for swrojog us. neil, we heard about a teen who could theoretically face life in prison for pot brownies. does this potential punishment fit the crime? >> absolutely not. this is absolutely ridiculous. at a time when the administration of this country is moving

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hampton, enjoy our you did a great job. it looks good! ...then fuel up with double points or double miles on your next getaway. make every stay more rewarding and feel the hamptonality >>> welcome back, everyone. it's easy to fight for free speech when you're protecting the underdog. it's a different battle when you're fighting for a billion area-alleged racist. but are donald sterling's rights being violated? joining me is the president of the national work rights institute and former director of the aclu national task force, and michael hiltzig is a columnist from the l.a. times. i'll start with louis. you wrote a piece entitled "defending donald sterling's right to be a racist." you said, quote, no matter how socially repellent holding unpopular opinions is not illegal. everybody enjoys the right to be wrong, stupid or just plain vile. why do you think donald sterling is getting a raw deal? >> he's getting a raw deal for losing his job for saying something in private. we all have opinions that our bosses don't like, and if you can fire

they go everywhere, so probably certainly southampton, all throughout the hamptons, most people want to go to east hampton, because that's the drive that takes a long time in the summertime. >> fun stuff, robert. >> thanks. >> three hours is generous. i had a near-death experience on my honeymoon. the wedding wasn't the near-death experience. i stay off helicopters. >>> thank you very much. i was going to say something, but. >>> final trades up next. >>> plus your tweets on the world's most valuable brands, next. passion... became your business. at&t can help simplify how you manage it. so you can focus on what you love most. when everyone and everything works together, business just sings. i got more advice than i knew what to do with. what i needed was information i could trust on how to take care of me and my baby. luckily, unitedhealthcare has a simple program that helps moms stay on track with their doctors and get the right care and guidance-before and after the baby is born. simple is good right now. (anncr vo) innovations that work for you. that's health in numbers. unitedhea

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hampton pearson with more on what may be in friday's non-farm payroll and why some economists are more cautious than others. >> reporter: optimism for a friday jobs report above 200,000 in april comes on the heels of the mixed economic data in the last twori#Ñ3Ñ3%qs$ó> i think we'll find out that momentum is pretty good here. >> but unemployment claims rose since late february, mixed news for an economy that appears to be gaining momentum and the reason leading economists are cautious about what friday's jobs report will tell us. >> looks to me like the economy will continue to heal, that we're shaking off the0m4qji eff the bad weather we had over the winter. we're getting some mixed signals but i think the direction is continuing to point towards expansion of the economy and i expect we'll see solid job growth. >> the consensus calls for a slight drop in the unemployment rate last month. for that trend to continue we'll need job growth at or above 250,000 per month in the days and weeks ahead. for "nightly business report," i'm hampton pearson in washington. >>> and stocks

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for "nightly business report," i'm hampton pearson in washington. >> here's a man with quite a story to tell. ben bernanke, the former chairman of the federal reserve. he sealed a book deal. the book currently untitled will be published by ww norton and will tell the story of how he guided the central bank and the economy through the financial crisis. no terms disclosed just yet. the book is scowled to be released next 84. >>> and finelily tonight, a dubious anniversary to note on wall street today. one that introduced a lot of people to high frequency trading and the flaws it exposed in the markets. on this day in 2010, the new york stock exchange became known as the flash crash. the dow suddenly plunged a thousand points late in the trading day losing 9% of its total value in minutes. by the end of that session, stocks recovered most of those losses, the debate of pros and cons of super fast automated program rages on. >> it was a frightening day. you felt everything was out of control. of course the computers were controlling it. >> the whole fat finger. >> procter & gamble shares

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can i see doing it for east hampton, not for the kwog, if you go to east hampton, it's another hour-and-a-half. >> it just gets sunday night, it's even the basic getting out to kwog is really tough. you look at nantucket, vegas to l.a. $500 a. special party with friends. >> that's a cool way to go. >> i'll put it in perspective for a house renting in august for $25,000 a week. $500 is not that bad to get out there. >> if it gives you an extra two hours there. two hours back. >> we are back to the oldest expression in the world the rich aren't like us. >> they can boy time. this is the one thing that money can boy that's great by is time. >> who said that the rich aren't like us? >> we will tell you later about their mazmazearati. >> it's cheaper. seaplane is cheaper, it's like $350. >> you have to swim in. >> so the flight characteristic osf a helicopter are better than that of a c-plane? >> i'm more comfortable in a helicopter than a c-plane. i don't like heights. so. >> really? 1234r when we come back, we will talk target. >>> let's get down to the new york stock exchange, where jim cramer j

hampton pearson has more. >> reporter: the annual mcdonald's shareholder meeting has been the target of nationwide protests in support of a $15 an hour minimum wage. >> mcdonald's should not have to wait on the government to raise minimum wage. >> reporter: over a thousand demonstrators marched outside chicago in the last two days targ targeting the world's biggest fast food chain as the first step on the road for organizing the entire industry. >> these organizers are not fighting to raise the minimum wage, they're sitting down to negotiate a pay raise and re-write a union contract. >> inside the unit, a lot were not happy about what was on the menu, the top managers were accused of targeting the children with predatory-like enthusiasm. ceo thompson answered the critics. >> at mcdonald's, we were not as mentioned predatory, we do have values at mcdonald's. >> reporter: but the majority of shareholders are concerned about losing ground to the competitors in the multi-billion dollar fast food industry. >> this is a long-term investment. i want to see it in another 30 years and not ano

hampton pearson has more. >> optimism among small business owners was at a post-recession high in april. but there is no sign small businesses nationwide are ready to take off. the closely watched optimism index from the national federation of independent businesses went above 95 last month. for the first time since the fall of 2007. but nfib chief says that it is just a modest gain in a still slow growth economy. >> it is not much of a breakout as we pointed out. the average of the index going into the recession was -- and that is over 40 years, was 100. so we're still five points below that mark. but progress is progress. >> among the success stories, z burger, its six locations in the greater washington, d.c. area has gross sales of more than two and a half million dollars a year. more locations are under way and just this week it added a brand-new solid and sandwich to its flagship d.c. location. >> we have a lot of mothers and fathers that come here and get a solid and sandwich and then go over there and get a burger and drink for their families. >> the expansion here follows over

hampton pearson has more. >> reporter: president obama chose the construction site of the new tappanzee bridge, a major crossing point over the hudson river, getting a billion dollar overhaul to make the point the infrastructure is falling apart and the federal government is running out of money to fix the problem. >> america doesn't stand still, there is work ready to be done. there are workers ready to do it. not just rebuild one bridge but i want us to rebuild every bridge. >> reporter: a few hundred miles away, vice president joe biden in cleveland, making a stand for mass transit to boost the economy. >> america remains the most dominant economic force in the world and we'll continue to be the most dominant economic force if we invest, if we invest in the future. if we invest in infrastructure. >> reporter: two separate funding crises are on the horizon. the highway trust fund which financing more than $50 billion a year in major projects is running out of money just as city and states begin the annual repairs that come with warmer weather. the department of transportation predicts

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hampton pearson has more on the job jobs report, including where the jobs are and the long-term unemployment issues. >> reporter: the increase of jobs at the fastest pace in more than two and a half years. and the unemployment rate fell to a five and a half year low. with upward revisions for february and march, job growth for the last three months has averaged 238,000. with the conversation with german chancellor angela merkel, he said there is more to be done. >> all told, our business has now created 9.2 million jobs over 50 consecutive months of job growth. the grit and the determination of the american people, they are moving forward. but we have to keep a focus on the jobs and create opportunities for working families. april employment gains were broad-based. the private sector generated 273,000 jobs including 75,000 in professional and business services, which traditionally are among the better paying jobs, among the small business success stories, trump club, a chicago-based men's clothing service. the four-year-old start-up had the best in 2014. the top growth. >> when you sign up,