Stocks Struggle; Helping East L.A. After Gang Life
HOLMES: All right. We're on day 67 here now of the Gulf oil disaster. And on this day, BP says the costs are climbing. Take a look here now. BP says it's costing them a pretty penny. Shooting up more than $300 million less than a week now totaling $2.3 billion that they've been paying out. This includes money for containment, relief well drilling, state grants, claims paid. So you can expect that number to go up even more. Also take a look here. We were telling you about this earlier. The president is now there for the G8, G-20 summits this weekend. They're happening around the Toronto area today. There's the president you're seeing there. The G8 summit begins today. That's going to be followed up by the G20 conference. It expands a bit over the weekend. Also, I want to take you over to London to the birds of London. You know what we just saw the other day, the longest match in the history of tennis at Wimbledon. Well, we went from that marathon to a sprint. A day after he won the longest tennis match ever, it was 11 hours, American John Isner, he hit the court again and he lost. Quickly. In an hour and fourteen minutes. That is the shortest match so far this year at Wimbledon. You can understand. Brother's probably a little tired. Well, Luis Rodriguez, grew up in Los Angeles. Teenage years filled with gangs and guns. Mike Galanos, now, introduces us this man who decided to return to his hometown years later to give back to that neighborhood.</s>LUIS RODRIGUEZ, GANG EXPERT & ACTIVIST: Do not turn over your whole life to anybody or anything. What I'm asking of you is to own your life.</s>MIKE GALANOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Luis Rodriguez encourages people to take control of their destiny.</s>RODRIGUEZ: I think they appreciate that I can be honest with them and also guide them.</s>GALANOS: Rodriguez is fulfilling a call to serve the community. But the plans for his life weren't always promising.</s>RODRIGUEZ: I was hooked on heroin, and I ended up just wanting to be in the street. I never thought of a future.</s>GALANOS: Rodriguez grew up in the gangs of east Los Angeles. By 13, he was heavily involved in drugs and a string of crimes. In the midst of this life, Rodriguez was introduced to activists in the Chicano movement who helped steer him in another direction.</s>RODRIGUEZ: They were the ones - part of the civil rights struggle. They were connected with the Black Panthers, but they were the Brown Berets. They taught me how to paint mural. And those were the beginnings of me changing my life.</s>GALANOS: Rodriguez's steps toward redemption came with setbacks.</s>RODRIGUEZ: When I was 18 years old, I was facing a six-year prison sentence for fighting with officers. I got out of the county jail when people wrote letters on my behalf, and by then 25 of my friends had been killed. That's when I made a decision to leave that life.</s>GALANOS: Rodriguez moved to Chicago, and eventually turned his life around. He continued working in the community, met his wife. Together, they decided to return to L.A. and give back.</s>RODRIGUEZ: When we got here, there was no movie houses, no culture spaces, no bookstores. And being in Chicago, I have to say, kind of opened up my idea of cafes, local cafes,</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As I listen to the wind blow, and the birds flutter without a sound.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tia Churcha's really is an outlet that is very unusual. It's about community, regardless of who you are. That's what reacted to me.</s>GALANOS: People have embraced the cafe and the culture.</s>RODRIGUEZ: We have our little store, which includes t-shirts made by the community. We have art from our local artists. And we feature them as -- like an art gallery would feature them. We also sell their music, their poetry. All of this is a package that we have created for the community to be engaged.</s>GALANOS: And bringing the neighborhood together is Rodriguez's ultimate goal.</s>RODRIGUEZ: I've kind of sentenced myself to a lifetime of community service. This is the price that I have to pay for the hurting that I've done.</s>GALANOS: Mike Galanos, CNN.