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[applause] all right. welcome. wow, what a great day and a packed room. not surprisingly. good morning, everyone. i m mary beth albright, the food anchor here at the washington post. i m very pleased today to be joined by two of the food world s biggest names, undeniably, jose andres and alice waters. to those watching online or to those in the room, we will be taking questions for alice and jose on twitter. please tweet those questions to us using the #foodforthought, which you see right behind us. so alice waters is the author of this new memoir and it s called coming to my senses. but i think the book really is mesmerizing because of its subtitle which is the making of a counterculture cook. and we will talk a lot with the counterculture today and talk about food as a tool for change which both of our chefs here know a little bit about. and we ll talk about her 46-year-old restaurant in berkeley, california, which has been at the forefront of the organic and lo ....
the things that the occupy movement brought up, whether it means the affordability of college, right? the 1%. those things are still happening. i actually think the movement is still continuing. maybe it s just different. that is what s different about our generation. we re still the civil rights movement, unfortunately it still has to happen in our day and age. i m sure during lbj and martin luther king jr. s time, they would have never wanted us to continue to have to fight that. we see it today. through the eric garner stuff. i want to ask. i get asked by friends all the time, who are overseas, living in arab countries, they can t understand after the arab spring why young people don t stand up more and protest, and aren t out in the streets. if the situation is really that bad, why don t we speak up. is there something to this point that young people just engage differently when they want to make their voices heard and not maybe in the 60s sensibility of what it ....
all right. let s get started. obviously today we re going to talk act the 1960s. do you guys know about that song with by the way? buffalo springfield for what it s worth? steve stills wrote it when he was with buffalo springfield. he wrote the song after a protest. they put a law on how long people could be outside of bars in los angeles. and all of the young people protested, i don t want to go to bed at 10:00. i want to party at the whiskey a-go-go, right? the cops came, they beat some heads and there was a protest. stephen stills writes this song all about the contentious nature of the 1960s, right? and the thing about that song, it s a ski protest song, you guys know it all and it was written 50 years ago. the thing about that song is it s not so much a protest song i m right and you re wrong. but it is about look at what is happening to our society, right? field day for the heat. right? a thousand people on the street. all of them carrying signs mostly saying ho ....
stood tall during the anthem while his teammates stay out of sight. his coach was not happy with him. here is what we know. the nfl is heavily subsidized by taxpayers who make it a little annoyed at the players and owners who are biting the hand that feeds them. here is that we don t know. the impact of president trump s call for boycott but we look at the tv ratings soon. and then there s obamacare reform all but dead. six republican senators expected to vote no. i am looking for a silver lining. maybe the gop s ethics available for cs on tax reform. we have some leak details on the new lower tax rates now be discussed. it is monday morning in a divided america. varney & company is about to begin. stuart: monday morning, the dow closed friday at 23,000. 22,000 sorry. let s get up to speed. 22,349 will open ever so slightly lower this morning. of course we are still very close to an all-time record high. when stuck in particular pay attention to. we don t spend much t ....
and i m kristen sze, in for ama daetz. not official air show, just a practice but thrilled onlookers around the bay. awe inspiring. real show is tomorrow and not only event drawing attention and thousands to san francisco. l . you ctalking to local pilot. reporter: fleet week set up is under way and bay area will be well represented in the sky. half the team grew up around here, spoke with one pilot from fremont. that sound can only mean one thing, fleet week in san francisco. blue angels soared over the city for a site survey ahead of the big show. excited spectators watched and took pictures from the marina green like his and her three-year-old son. first couple of years, what is this? then gotten more exciting every year. reporter: took off from oakland just before 1:00. three of the six from the bay area. exhilarating, intense, requires extreme focus. reporter: spoke with navy lieutenant damon kroes. grew up in fremont. graduated from college in h ....