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family. a boag 737 landed at the wrong place yesterday, stranded on a very small runway, the faa investigates, substitute pilots flew the plane away today. west virginia governor says water is safe again in his state. officials say the chemicals still in the water but diluted to federal safety levels in most areas. those are the headlines. i'm john siegenthaler, america tonight is up next on al jazeera america. remember you can always get the latest news on are aljazeera.com and i will see you back here tomorrow night.

>> th welcome back to inside story. i'm ray suarez. we're talking about the president's ability to make nominations when the senate is at recess. in the nlrb and many other departments were of longstanding but unable to either get a hearing or unable to pass the relevant committee. the question is had the advice and consent power been used to make the nlrb non-functioning as an agency of government? >> i think that was the plan. there was, the nlrb, the supreme court previously held unless the agency has a quorum, three members, they're not able to

junction, and they dip below that. they are not able to decide matters properly before them. and notwithstanding that the senate was refusing to take nominees before them. this was a case of holding up nominees was very much by design, intended to slow or halt functioning of the agency. >> and it was defeated because ultimately the president did nominate and the senate confirmed the full roster of nlrb commissioners and they're moving on. if these particular rulings were invalley, the new board that is

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>> th welcome back to inside story. i'm ray suarez. we're talking about the president's ability to make nominations when the senate is at recess. in the nlrb and many other departments were of longstanding but unable to either get a hearing or unable to pass the relevant committee. the question is had the advice and consent power been used to make the nlrb non-functioning as an agency of government? >> i think that was the plan.

there was, the nlrb, the supreme court previously held unless the agency has a quorum, three members, they're not able to junction, and they dip below that. they are not able to decide matters properly before them. and notwithstanding that the senate was refusing to take nominees before them. this was a case of holding up nominees was very much by design, intended to slow or halt functioning of the agency. >> and it was defeated because ultimately the president did nominate and the senate confirmed the full roster of nlrb commissioners and they're moving on. if these particular rulings were invalley, the new board that is

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>> th welcome back to inside story. i'm ray suarez. we're talking about the president's ability to make nominations when the senate is at recess. in the nlrb and many other departments were of longstanding but unable to either get a hearing or unable to pass the relevant committee. the question is had the advice and consent power been used to make the nlrb non-functioning as an agency of government? >> i think that was the plan. there was, the nlrb, the supreme

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the national series and spin off series. in 1991, 62 teenage girls out of 1,000 gave birth. by the time 16 and pregnant first aired in 2009, that rate had fallen to 39 out of every 1,000. since then, the rate has fallen to 29 out of 1,000 in 2012. the researchers think that 16 and pregnant could have contributed to the decline. >> i don't feel so grown up. in my life, i don't come first anymore, and joe realizes that he doesn't either. we're so tressed. neither has slept in days. >> if you don't get up first. >> a crying newborn is the new

soundtrack to our lives, and both of our patience is starting to lessen. [ crying ] [ crying ] >> it's definitely taking a toll on us. >> the milk out again. what? no, joe. >> the power of television. can a popular show like 16 and pregnant help reverse a trend like teen pregnancy? we're joined now by phillip levine, a social economist. and mr. levine, thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> in a nutshell, i'm really

curious. how did you do this study? >> well, the youth, they took two main forms. first, we used a lot of birthdays. and we focused on teen births and the locations in which they occurred. it the timing and introduction of 16 and pregnant, and the locations in which the show was more popular had a bigger affect on the teen birth rate. and we found it did. we use a lot of data from global trends, which describes search activity on the internet, and tweets on twitter, and what we see in those days, people search and tweet onbortion considerably more, like the day that the show was on the air, and that's a

mechanism for what was happening. >> we're going to study whether or not there was a correlation between this show and the lower numbers of teen pregnancy. >> it's really a very interesting question. it would have never occurred to us in the first place, but the teen birth ratings are falling very precipitously in 2009 and 2010, and most of the explanations didn't work for us, and we figured that the labor market, it was in a huge recession, and we also read sarah brown talking about the potential influence of 16 and pregnant. and we wondered if maybe there was something there, and that is what led us to start the study. >> do you have any fear, as you put the study out that you're making false coral easies here? it could very well be that the

teens watching it, those teens from a relationship with their parents where the parents feel they're responsible enough to watch this in the first place. so they may not be the type of children who are prone to go out and get pregnant in about first place. >> the vast majority of the paper to talk about the correlation, and so the relationship that you described, it has not changed. in the locations that the show was more popular at the time that the show began, we show a changing rate. and it's not just about the people, but the changing rate of behavior that seems to be taking place at that time. >> teens are very susceptible.

all you have to do is look at nancy reagan's just say no campaign in the 1980s. and what makes you think that the media has a pull on the young people. >> this is very different than the nancy reagan telling young people just to say no. here you have a media company, the bread and butter interests of the young people. and they're very happy doing that. and they have a considerable outlook, the message of teen childbearing, and the young women themselves. these are actually happening to them. the message that they get across, the relationship with their boyfriend, the lack of sleep, the difficulty they have with their other friends, and they tend to lose and the

difficulty continuing on with their education, and they focus on it in the show. and they do that in a way that a public service campaign can't match. >> i have to stop you there. professor at wells college. very interesting study much. >> thank you. >> missy, a teen mom who was featured on the first season of 16 is about pregnant, joins us now through skype. were you surprised, macy, by the conclusions of the study? >> not really. i had always gotten my own feedback from the audience and people that i meet, and i had always hoped and heard from the girls watching the show what impact it was having on them, and i think by the study kind of proving it, it made it more worth it for me. it made the whole experience

much more of an accomplishment. >> what is it about the show that makes it so affective reaching out to teens? >> i think it's the girls being able to actually put a face on a problem or conversation that's going on. something that you always think about, but they don't know anyone who has actually gone through it, or actually heard a story being told by someone who actually went through it, i think. really being able to put a face to the struggle and to the issue at hand really hits home for girls, especially when we are their peers and the same age as them. >> when you hear about teenage pregnancies, the image that the public has about young girls who get themselves pregnant is a pretty negative one, and what's it about your story that you

relate to in. >> that's what it was in the past. girls who became pregnant as teenagers were always viewed as promiscuous or in trouble a lot. and that was not the case. there were girls all the time very involved in school, very involved in sports, and had a lot of friends, and never got in trouble. and that's how i was in high school. this was happening to them. but as soon as they got pregnant, they would drop out of school and kind of disappear. so girls really relate it that, because i'm telling them that i thought this would never happen. i thought i was too good to be pregnant as a teenager, and i wanted to show them, it doesn't matter if you're good and what you have going on, if you don't protect yourself, it could very well be you too, and it could happen to anybody. >> what are the blessings of

being a parent -- i'm sure you figured this out by now, is being in a position so your children don't make the same mistakes as you did. so given the study and your appearing on the show, would you make sure that your children watch the show? or the very least, old episodes of it? >> definitely. it's a very good, educational way to open the conversation. i get feedback from moms all the time who have teenage sons and daughters, and they say thank you for the show. because if it wasn't for your show, i wouldn't be able to sit down every monday or tuesday night and talk to my kids about sex. it makes it easier for parents to use us as subjects and talk about it. and i won't be ail be to show my

children what i went through, and help them understand ways to prevent them from being in the same situation. >> macy, we have about 10 seconds. are you glad now that you did the show? is it everything that you thought it would be when you first decided to do it? >> absolutely, i always said, you know, if i could just prevent one pregnancy from happening and one child from going through what my son is going to have to go through, i've accomplished something, and i'm very very glad. >> macy, thank you for joining us and telling us your story. thank you very much. >> yep, thank you. >> and now our final thoughts this evening. from classics to politics, we'll take you inside of a museum where cartoons are treated like masterpieces.

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mohammed out raged much of the muslim world. now they're seen as art. how the museum preserves the world's largest collection of cartoons. perched atop ohio's urban landscape,s this a new temple for cartoons. >> this is from 198. it's a cartoon called presidential, it features a fight in congress. >> the ohio cartoon library and museum treats cartoons the way that library of congress treats jefferson and chaucer. >> they can give them to ohio state. and they will be preserved and made acceptable for researchers. >> from classic comics to political cartoons. >> here's a classic frank line

roosevelt. and them a richard nixon. >> it's one part mew see, and one part cartoon university, where they come from around the world. >> there's so much scholarship, and this is the material that everybody had in their hand. they're visual artifacts of an era that need to be taken seriously >> and you came all the way from hamburg this. >> all the way. >> 40,000 books of cartoons, and 67,000 journals. the largest collection of cartoons. the first modern use of the word, cartoon. there's the original cal calvind hobbs. >> i like the peanuts, i really

do. it's timeless. the way ta it's drawn, and the captioning. it's just timeless. >> in chester gould's original dick tracy. >> the collection canes 3,000 original works of art. the originals were often tossed out after they were photographed for the newspaper. so now a standard original by charles m. shultz might be worth tens of thousands of dollars. an early like this one from 1951, is priceless. >> they have stereotypes. >> you can see that there's a sensibility in how we depict minorities. >> now they're in a new home of their own. columbus, ohio. >> tazz it for us here on america tonight. we'll have more america tonight tomorrow.

>> this is aljazeera america. i'm thomas drayed in new york with the stop stories at this area. in new york, two police officers beena equitied in the death of a homeless man of the at the died after a struggle with several officers. chris christie facing several questions today. authorities are looking to see if the new jersey governor misused hurricane sandy relief money on television commercials for his family. christie will give a state of the state address on tuesday afternoon. a