platform in new york city was the new york city police department and its members, the public, the media, mayor giuliani, everybody felt a safer city was in it for them. so that shared platform was easy to create. los angeles more difficult the race tensions in that city his historically. so trying to get the african american community and the los angeles police department who had been at war with each other for 50 years to get on the same platform and see a safer l.a. was beneficial to both of them more difficult. it took seven years there instead of the two years here. >> rose: continue with the eight platform wes need to understand. >> well the platforms are the idea that one of the stories we tell is about the arab spring, the egyptian experience that the widely understood phenomenon through twitter, through the web how a platform was found where the government shut down most of the normal means of communication, the media, etc., they were able to find on that platform. the internet, twitter, where they could exchange ideas, where the rallies were going to be held and so there's an e

but at least there is a plaza which frankly is lard to come by in new york city. there isn't that much pedestrian states. >> take the next image, the oslo operahouse and tell me what as wltis this was built in 2008. what does this is a to us, victoria. >> will, well, the architect, one of the architects who was involved with this said if you can step on it, you feel you own it. and that's what he did here. i mean it's a monumental building but you can walk on the roof. i mean what we are looking at there is the roof. favoritebecome the promenade for os lo, it is extraordinary. i mean there are people there morning, noon and night. i was up there on that roof in a snowstorm at about 12 1:00 at night. >> and you felt like you owned it. >> i did. >> i felt as if i owned the city, not just the operahouse. >> i think one of the things that it also shows is that the placement of such a building, large building is no longer just in the center heart scape as you said. but it is on water, there are other qualities op 1 people want from such a large building. >> okay there

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: from classical athens to renaissance florence to 21st century new york, cities have produce the some of humanities best ideas and transformative movements. tonight we look at america cities with a distinguished group of mayors. we examine the great opportunities ahead as well as a considerable challenges in the soaring deficits and crushing debt, these men and women are working to find innovative ways to cut causes growing jobs and revitalizing their cultures. joining me is stephanie rawlings-blake, alvin brown and rahm emanuel, the mayor of chicago. i am please to do have each of them at this table. they're here because of bloomberg philanthropies is having a session of mayors talking about city problems and they're pleased to have a chances to talk to tell at the same time. i begin with the mayor of baltimore and the same question for each of you. how is this job different than you might have imagined even though you are on the city camp before you got there. -- city counci

york, and i was such a naive kid that i thought new york city -- and this is really true, i thought new york city was just time square, like it started at 42nd street and ended at 50th and i went any further north i would hit a mountain or fall in the water. so i ran around those eight or ten blocks, then i realized i had to get home on the bus before my parents missed me and i came around the corner and the limousine was coming towards me and out stepped marilyn monroe. >> rose: wow. >> at 1953, i was 15, she was probably 27 or so, she is the first story in the book and i say that it was the first time i looked at someone who was beyond my narrow little life in new jersey. i called it prison walls because i felt emotionally trapped in that world, and she stunned me, of course, with her beauty, but then she just turned and looked at this kid for a minute and went, hi, that's all she said. but she just sent me, you know, i just went to butter, and got on the bus and i thought, there are these creatures and then i went to school and my career started and 50 years later or more, i can'

>> from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin tonight with a news brief on stir, i can't the united nations security council question demanded today the syria cease its crack down, the regime accepted the kofi annan plan for a cease-fire and claims it has begun withdrawing troops but military operations in the civilian centers have continued and more far reaching action is urgently required. >> abuses continue to be reported daily. >> the military -- for his part, the government has written to me stating, troops continue to assault government forces, civilians and property. we must silence the tanks, helicopters, mortars, guns, and stop all other forms of violence too. sexual abuse, torture, executions, abduct shuns, destruction of homes forced displacement and other abuses, including the children. >> rose: also announced he would travel to iran, syria's only major ally in the region on april 11, questions are growing over whether there will or should be some form of international intervention in syria, the u.n. estimates at least 9,000 have died in the y

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: jonah lehrer is here at able 30, he's already a oij 30 he's already a best author he writes about neuro sciences and popular culture for "wall street journal." he's contributing editor at wire and writes for the new yorker magazine. his new book examines a phenomena that has fascinated humanity for ages, the mind's power to create. it is called the book image, a creativity works i'm please to do have him at this table for the worse time. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: you've had this really wonderful career. you were at columbia, you won a roadrhodes scholarship. at one point of your life you were studying science, studying neuroscience. >> i really wanted to be a neuroscientist. that was the narrative i carried around my entire life. >> rose: why, what introduced you to neuroscience. >> i think it was something about the mystery of the brain. i mean it's a very profound three pounds of meat inside our head, just tryin

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: we begin tonight with a phone hacking scandal engulfing news corp are you rupert murdoch today testified before the senate inquiry for the second day running, he apologized but insisted he and other executives were misled about the extent of the phone has beening at the now defunct news of the world tabloid. >> i have explained that i am guilty of not paying enough attention to the news world. at any time that i was in charge of it, certainly to say me around the world no. >> rose: he also faced questions about his political influence. >> has the sun got a large audience? yes. certainly. does -- do they -- do people follow everything we say? certainly not. we hope that by raising issues and so on we can have influence in things we believe in but it is not a political party as such. we try to -- our approach to public affairs is to take issues by issues. >> rose: james murdoch, the son of rupert murdoch testified earlier this week he also denied wrongdoing the long running sag