good afternoon. great to have you with us today. i'm thomas roberts. we'll have all the the stories. but first we begin with president today putting the spotlight on the nation's community colleges at a white house summit joined by jill biden, the wife of joe biden and a lifelong teacher. the president stressed the importance of community colleges in educating and training future worker ls. he also said continued funding for education will be critical. >> i so strongly disagree with the economic plan released by the republican leaders in congress, which would actually cut education by 20%. china isn't slashing education by 20% right now. we are in a fight for the future. a fight that depends on education. >> nbc chief white house correspondent chuck todd joins me live from washington. chuck, the president made it clear there's a political component to this. based on the long list of high level people in attendance. >> sure. >> the white house is really taking this seriously.

especially when a lot of people would say the community colleges have been undervalued in the past. >> that's right. what they're being viewed at, and you heard this conversation yesterday. when we had the meeting of business leaders. he calls this economic recovery board. the community colleges in each community can serve as your job retraining centers. it's the fastest way to go and get a skill that you may not need. you don't need the extra degree. people are hesitant to take on the extra debt that would mean to get a full degree. but this is the fastest way if somebody in their 50s needs to learn a specific computer skill, the community college is the best place to do that. that's the motivation here. clearly there's a job retraining issue that is going on with the unemployed and underemployed. it's not like you want to build

news centers. >> so the white house is hoping, though, by obviously hosting this event, they have a goal of 2020. explain that to all of us. >> what it is is president obama is hoping that the u.s. is sort of getting the lead again in having a college degrees. whether two-year degrees or four-year degrees and get the world's lead again by 2020. and community colleges are the more affordable way to speed up th that, particularly for immigrants. first families with children going to college for the first time in their own families. things like that. but there's a reality here that wasn't talked about -- it was talked about a little bit today, but not much. a lot of the community colleges are state funded. right now states are in acrisis when it comes to the budget. okay, where are they going to get the extra money? one of the other things we're

trying to do today was also get more corporations to be willing to have partnerships with the community colleges to get private money to fill in the gaps from the lack of taxpayer dollars they'll be getting. the state budgets are getting squeezed like it's nobody's business. >> also family budgets like it's nobody's business. this is pivotal for a lot of families considering sending their kids or those of us later in life considering going back to school. chuck todd, thanks. great to see you, buddy. so why choose community college? a lot of people have different reasons for this. teds kerry is president of the american student association for community colleges. he joins me now live from the white house, where he participated in today's big event. ted, it's great to have you with us. we were a little surprised when we looked up your bio. you're 40 years old. you served five years and six months as a medic in the persian gulf. you work three part time jobs

and you do get financial aid. you're going to graduate with as much as $50,000 in the hole in college loans. so why are you such a good example of the kind of student that attends community college in 2010? >> well, no matter what age you are, whether a high school graduate or a 50 or 60-year-old, community colleges are affordable. they offer a high quality education. just as a four-year college does. >> when we talk about choosing to attend a community college, it's often because of cost. i was talking about that with chuck todd. he's saying state budgets are in crisis. but a lot of american families are in financial crisis. so a traditional four year college out of financial reach for a lot of families hout there. was that part of the reason why you choose community college? >> well, definitely. my college, monroe community college is consistently in the top 20 academically in the nation, and also one of 19 on

the league of innovation. first semester they charged $1,500. so that's $3,000 a year. and i'm not including any student life fees or textbook costs or what have you. one of our four-year colleges in rochester, for one credit hour is over $1,000. for a three-credit course, it will cost you more than going to monroe community college for a whole year. >> ted, for a lot of people out there, they would consider community college as an option. but they would also there they might be a stigma attached to community college. not providing a topnotch education. when you go out for job interviews, do you feel like people are looking at your education differently? >> the thing that community colleges have is people think of it as 13th grade. which is not true at all. at least not at mcc. we are lucky enough to have our

credits transferred to almost anywhere. that is one of our priorities. we are trying to get at a state level to have community college credits to four-year state university. we applaud governor schwarzenegger for assigning legislation last week in california. making it ease wrer to transfer community college credits to any and all community colleges. i even thought it was 13th grade at first. ty admit, i was wrong. there's so many opportunities out there for anybody at community colleges. >> you know, when we talk about the economy, the facts are the downturn has led to a 17% increase in enrollment in the academic years of 2007 and 2009. in your work through what you do with the title that you have with the community colleges, do you find that people who start out at these colleges stay the

whole way through? or is this a jumping off point to get onto the four-year education? >> unfortunately, less than half of community college students do obtain their two-year degree or go onto a four-year institution. as far as my leadership team, we are going to go onto four-year institutions. everybody else who is on the leadership team in years past has done the same thing. in fact, my predecessor wendy hamilton is a student at a four-year college in florida. >> did your mind just explode when you heard about the summit and they wanted you to be a part of it? and you're going to meet the president and all the powerful people in the country that want to take advantage of your knowledge? >> well, you know, there's nothing about a community college. you never know where it's going to lead you to. i was told by our main advocate

who is the publicity director for the association college. he told me to keep watching me e-mail two weeks ago today. a little bit after 6:00 he called me. he's like, how you doing? i'm line fine. he's like, did you get your e-mail. check it again. i checked it again. nothing. then the e-mail popped up. invitation to the white house. i think i blew out his eardrum. >> well, you are standing in front of the white house. it's a beautiful shot. we appreciate you taking time to join us today. ted kerry, thanks so much. >> thank you. and hello to everyone at mcc. see you tomorrow. >> take care. >> thank you. earlier today faisal shahzad was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to set off a car bomb. describing himself as a muslim shoulder, he pleaded guilty in june to terrorism and weapons charges. he was arrested two days after he pack ad homemade bomb in the back of an suv and left it

parked in times square. prosecutors played this dramatic video tape of the fbi simulating what would have happened if that bomb had gone off. it's absolutely amazing. prosecutors say dozens of people could have been killed. the global effort continues today to uncover and stop the suspected terrorist plots that have europe and an entire contine continent including three men linked to recruiting fighters for afghanistan. and in pakistan, an american missile strike reportedly killed several german militants. there is a growing problem within the ranks of the u.s. military we need to talk about today. in the last five years more than 1,000 people have committed suicide. can you believe that? up next, we'll talk to a military psychiatrist about what needs to be done to protect our military servicemen and women. was gathered together in one place.

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the u.s. military is fighting a psychological war within its own ranks. the apparent murder-suicide of a ft. hood soldier and his wife is the latest in a string of 14 confirmed suicides and six more suspected suicides at the military camp where the disturbing trend has never been higher. nationwide the number of soldiers taking their own lives have increased steadily over the past five years. the national average is 11 suicides per 100,000 people. the rate among the armed forces is higher. last year averaged 12 out of 100 troops. paul reagan now works with the vanderbilt school of medicine and joins us to talk about this. these are men and women who faced death in the face of war. now they come back home to live their lives from your perspective, as someone who served in the military, what's going on right now?

>> well, think think what's happening in ft. hood is a microcosm for what's going on in the military at large. something you just mentioned really pertains. when you face death. when you've almost been killed yourself. when the difference between your buddy dying and you is a couple centimeters, there's a lot of survivor guilt sometimes. but multiple factors. there's a real conspiracy of events here as far as the multiple deployments, not enough down time between the deployments. developing ptsd after the first or second deployment, which gets aggravated after the third, fourth and fifth deployment. we know that at least one of the suicides has had four deployments at ft. hood. so i think a very vulnerable

demographic. we forget that 15 to 24-year-olds, suicide is the third leading cause of death. that's on the civilian side. you teach them how to kill and expose them to death, then you see what we have. >> well, i want to point out to everybody this may be a new issue. but this isn't to the military. recently, the emergency issue for me is a decide issue. it's a very difficult problem. so how can the military deal with this problem when they've trained their men and women to take things on the chin? to be tough about what they're facing. how do they bring them home and say we need you to open up and talk about anything you're facing mentally. >> very, very tough. and in terms of military trains, where they're trained to suppress their emotion in the change of fire to suddenly then reverse that. i think the military has a very

difficult road ahead. the problem will get worse before it gets better. one of the key factors is by the time people have committed suicide, you're too far downstream. you have to look upstream. the best treatment for suicide is prevention. to do that you need a larger military, less deployments. a lot f it will be outside the military's control? >> let's talk about when you come back. as being a former service member and also having studied this, do you think mandatory s psychological counseling for everybody that comes back to know they have a person they can reach out and talk to about the difficulties they're having as you brought up with survivor guilt or re-entry into the every day mundaneness of their lives. >> it is very hard to make

something work in mental health if the individual is not motivated. i think a better approach would be to do outreach. to make sources easily available. and there's a certain privacy. well, now we're going to have the suicide lecture. we're going to screen you for suicide. we're not going to let you go home on leave. you have to approach it in a different way. you have to come in under the radar, make it available where people can avail themselves of it, maintain their privacy. i think we probably don't have enough state side counselors and psychologists and psychiatrists who have had military experience themselves,that can relate to some of these individuals.

i think outreach is very important for them. >> just a statistic, the military suicide rate of vietnam vets up to five years after discharge was 16 per 100,000 troops. my dad served in vietnam. he rarely talks about the things he faced there. and i think he does suffer from some survivor guilt because he lost so many good friends. as we enter this new age, how do we convince soldiers their careers won't be at risk, they won what is the best thing the military can do now that it has their attention to save the military men and women coming home? >> it's going to take a large change within military culture. you lose your weapon, it's going to be hard to convince.

there was a major general at a base in colorado who had one son die from an i.e.d., another son commit suicide. his leadership, when he says it takes strength to ask for help. when there's more and more modeling of that sort of thing, and then the other thing is where within the military are there models of people who have had ptsd who have gotten treatment and been able to resume their careers? where's the proof of the pudding, so to speak? so, i think that they've got a long way to go. but i think changing the culture so you can get help and continue your career. >> yay, i think this is a big road for the military to take. i think for the civilians, we need to make sure when they do come home, they're respected, valued and honored for their service. they know how much they've been appreciated. dr. paul reagay ragan, thank yo >> thank you, thomas. >> startling new information out

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here's what's happening in the news now. a verdict is in. steven hayes has been named guilty in 16 of the 17 charges in connections with the murders of three people during a home invasion in 2007. he now faces the death penalty six times over we'll bring you a live report from connecticut later in the hour from jeff rossen. a colorado man is missing after his wife said he was

attacked by a group of suspected mexican pirates. they are riding jet skis. david's wife, sister and his parents were on the "today show" asking for help to find him. and fifny gave an emotional account of what happened. >> i turned around and jumped off my jet ski, and i had to turn him over because he was face down in the water, and turned him over, and he was shot in the head. and that's when a boat came up, one of the boats came up to me and had a gun pointed at me, trying to decide what to do with me. and then they left. >> a truck carrying oil to nato troops in afghanistan was hit by a small bomb in pakistan earlier today. supply conveys have become easy targets as they try to make their way to the border crossing into afghanistan. the latest attack was the fifth in less than a week, raising

tensions even higher. and solar power, it's coming to the country's most famous house. the obama administration is planning to install solar panels atop the white house's living quarters. they will heat water for the first family and supply electricity. solar systems have been used during the administrations of jimmy carter and george w. bush. >> coming up next, a controversial new look at life in the womb. the impact those precious months may have on your future. ♪

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here's a look at how stocks are doing today. a widespread rally across the board. the dow jones industrial is up 210 points. the s&p 500 is up 25 and the nasdaq is up 57. a survey of 9,000 americans on the retirement plans say they'll work three more years than originally planned.

59% confirmed say they plan to delay retiring to keep health care coverage. 56% said they'll work longer because of a decline in the value of their retirement plan. retailers and brands are set to join a new program to allow online shoppers two-day shipping and returns and rival amazon.com's membership program. shop runner's website says a slew of others will be joining the brand. including barnes & noble and calvin klein. the same as the prime shipping program from amazon.com. that's it for cnbc. thomas, back to you. >> thank you very much, jackie. families and rescue workers in chile are anxiously awaiting the moment when 33 trapped minerscan be pulled to safety. it's be two months now since the mine collapsed. each hour drilling teams inch a

little bit closer, increasing hope those men will be set free. kerry, give us the date. there are varying reports on when they expect to get the men out. what's the very latest on that? >> reporter: well, if you want the official date, it's not going to come. but if you listen to what the families are anticipating, it looks like it may be as early as sunday. there's a lot of excitement. the families gathered up on the hill overlooking the mine. the collapsed mine, and they held some prayers and they started to chant, and to a "t", everyone has been told that something is likely to happen because things are coalescing into place. the second hole being drilled looks like it will be done very soon. maybe by friday. then the next question is to start pulling the guys out. >> let's talk about how they're going to do this. what, do you know, how are they going to pick who gets to go first? are they worried about people

with medical conditions that need to go up first? what are the concerns on who will be coming out of the mind in that first ride? >> reporter: yeah, and that's a great question. and we do have some limited answers. first of all let's look at the triage units that arrived today. even though it looks like everybody down below is in good shape and nobody has a serious medical concern, they're going to put those triage units in place because the pod, a capsule is going to go down the hole. they're going to send it down empty, bring it up empty. then they're going to send two people from the surface down. a medical doctor and an engineering leader. and they're going to go down. now they're leaving it up to the men below to determine who comes up first, who comes up last. they're going to let them sort it out. very democratic. the doctor will be there in the event that he sees a serious medical concern. but it's not a matter of getting into a chair and going up. they're being taught now a very

special way to stand. not to keep their arms here, but have their arms here. how to flex their hands like this and to crinkle their toes to keep the blood flowing. coming up in the hole there in the capsule, it could take 15 or 20 minutes. they're not sure how long it will take. they're concerned about what will happen medically to those being brought up. i got off the phone with the doctors a short time ago. the dprs was telling us he has heart monitors. he wants to know what's going on. they're going to say, yes, everything is okay. but they want to know physically everything is okay as well. >> the backup plan was what, in case there was a problem with the tube going down on the first run? >> well, the backup plan will be determined. here's one of the ideas. and this is where you have different engineering approaches here. they built that capsule, the phoenix, as everybody rises like

the phoenix. they also have talked about maybe scrapping the use of the capsule. because the hole that goes down is not a straight shot. it does have curves. so they have on rubber wheels that they think can negotiate the turns. one is maybe dropping ropes down and bringing the miners up. miners have experience going into areas with ropes. of course, this would be far different because it's such a long drop, one of the things they're concerned about, of course, is air on the capsule. they have 90 minutes of compressed air. if they need to breathe they'll have it there. a lot of the stuff will be decided as they're doing it. they have options, but they don't have answers yet. >> kerry sanders, live in chile. thanks very much. parents, listen up. there's new information for the septemb centers for disease control that you'll want to hear about.

one in four high school students reports binge drinking. and two in every three high school students who report drinking alcohol report binge drinking. the cdc is raising the alarm and warning it can be deadly. explain to us, the cdc report is breaking it down for men and for women. and it's finding that men are more than twice as likely to binge drink than women. what are the findings, and what are the reasons mind this? >> whole use, and especially binge drinking is a big problem. it causes lots of health and social problems. just to get clear what we're talking about, if you're a woman, four drinks or more. if you're a man, five drinks or more is considered binge drinkin drinking. >> what period of time? >> at one setting. over a few hours.

>> so it's in this capsulated three or four hour time period. >> most of the people who binge drink are not alcoholic. but they are drinking at a harmful level. and the harms it causes are many. so fatal car crashes, bad decisions about sexual behavior, leading to sexually transmitted infections or unintended pregnancies. problems with heart attacks or strokes. problems with other infectious diseases. lots of health and social harms from binge drinking. and not just kids. but adults as well. >> the report is showing 33 million adults have reported they have been binge drinking before. i think for a lot of parents out

there that have been through college or high school know the pressure their children can face when it comes to alcohol use. from your perspective, what can parents do? beall know what happens in in high school and college. kids do what is taboo, and that is drink alcohol. through your findings they are binging. so what can parents do on an educational level to have open discussions with their children about what to avoid and also what to be afraid of? because there are consequences. >> one issue is to be clear about their own behavior. so we can talk to our kids all we want. but what we do sends a louder message. with smoking, we know that kids of parents that smoke are twice as likely to smoke themselves. so parents shouldn't be binge drinking. your kids will know. that's one thing. second is to be very clear about the rules. no ambiguity. underage drinking is illegal,

it's wrong and harmful. don't do it. there's a wink and a nod and it's not a good approach to making sure that your kid is not engaging in harmful behavior. >> i think a lot of parents out there will have a discussion with their kids tonight, or we hope so. the findings are interesting. people can find out more on your website. thank you, sir, appreciate your time. >> thank you. nature or nurture, the age old argument about hour dna and our experiences shape us may never be the same. a new book suggests the nine months we spend in the womb may say more about our life than ever thought possible. it all has an impact on us before we take our first breath. the book is titled origins how the nine months before birth shape the rest of our lives. a journalist who writes about

biological and social sciences. more importantly, she's a mother. that makes you very important for this topic. since you are a mom, is this a book that it's okay to blame the mom scenario? >> no, this is not a book about blaming your mother. >> good. my mother is watching. she would be really mad. >> in fact, it's quite the opposite. it's about how we need to recr n reconceptualize to make sure they have the support and the resources they need to have the healthiest pregnancies possible. >> annie, i think for a lot of part-time o people the science known as this is relatively new. so explain what's involved in that. >> about 20 years ago a pioneering zr named david barker noticed that babies who were born at low birth weights many

years ago were more likely to get heart disease in middle age. this was not a finding that anyone had expected. we were used to hearing it's about jeans or lifestyle choices made in adulthood. like a sedentary lifestyle or a fatty indict. but so at first his findings were completely dismissed by other doctors. but over time, his studies were replicated and the findings were confirmed, and now we're seeing that you can look in the literature and see articles about the prenatal origins of cancer, diabetes, the womb, the nine months of gestation is the latest target, the most promising target that mid sin has for preventing public health problems. >> let's talk about your findings. in your book you cite examples of women near ground zero when the 9/11 attacks occurred.

what did you find about them? >> that's right. so the fetus were exposed via the stress hormones their mothers generated in reaction to experiencing 9/11. when the mothers got ptsd, followinging, 9/11, the babies, too, had a aus susceptibility. in a way they were passing on trauma to the fetus. what can be done, anything, to change the predetermined conditions after birth? is there something that can be done? >> yes, in fact, i wouldn't call it predetermined. i would say that our fetal life, our nine mons in the womb may set us on a course, but if we know what conditions we experienced in the womb. if we know, for example, that a woman is diabetic and gives birth to a baby, we can

intervene with the child to make sure that they don't go onto develop diabetes themselves. >> let's talk about women out there that may be curious of in vitro fertilization and the impacts in your book. what are they in comparison to women who have become pregnant? >> that's not something i cover in my book. it's interesting. the man who invented ivf won the nobel prize. initially there was a worry that babies produced by ivf would grow up to be abnormal. >> i like this. this is stump the author on tv. do you see think new information that you found in your book as having an impact on how women are going to treat their pregnancies? and how they're going to treat the experience of pregnancy, and what they allow to come into

their lives, the stres ssors th allow into their lives. >> i was pregnant while i researched and reportd this book. what i learned really changed the way i thought about pregnancy and treated my own pregnancy. in practical and kron crete ways but also in how i thought about the experience of being pregnant. oo lot of women find it an anxiety producing experience now. they're getting messages for the news media, from the guide books, from their mothers, their doctors. i hope i put all these findings in a context in a way that helps women understand the they're shaping and molding their children before they're even born. that can be a very positive and proactive process. >> hey, it's something we've all gone through. nine months in the womb. we should all want to read your book. the title is "origins: how the nine months before birth shape the rest of our lives."

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welcome back. guilty is the verdict a jury came back with in the trial of

steven hayes. the same jury will now decide if hayes will get the death penalty for the murder of jennifer hawk-petit and her two young daughters. after the verdict was read, a shaken dr. william petit thanked the jury and offered his thoughts on their verdict. >> there's some relief, but my family -- my family is still gone. it doesn't bring them back. it doesn't bring back the home that we had. but certainly a guilty verdict is a much better sense of relief than a verdict of not guilty. >> nbc's jeff rossen has been covering the trial from the beginning. just watching dr. petit there, it's just heartbreaking. most of us felt the verdict was a fore gone conclusion.

so what happens next? >> so this jury that decided that steven hayes is guilty on 16 of 17 felons. that includes six capital charges that do carry the death penalty, this jury goes home for a couple weeks. on october 18th they come back to the courthouse. the same people who today decided that steven hayes is guilty of terrorizing, torturing and killing his family, jennifer petit and her two daughters, 11 and 17, they come back and will decide if he's put to death by lethal injection or if he gets life in prison. the defense has said, yes, my client did these crimes. but they tried to put all the blame on the other accomplice, saying he was the master mind. this was simply a robbery gone bad. steven hayes had gone in to rob the family. then it was the other man's idea, the man on the right side of your screen, to really set the house on fire, to tie them up. and to tie the girls up, to

sexually assault jennifer hawk-petit along with one of the girls. now the jury that figured out that steven hayes is guilty needs to figure out in he'll be put to death. >> and what about the accomplice? where does it stand with him? >> reporter: right, he gets an entirely separate trial. this starts all over again when he goes on trial. it's unclear. william petit came to see steven hayes in court every single day. made a point of saying to me, i said why do you do this? you're really putting yourself through hell here looking at gruesome evidence photos, hearing the awful details, he says i have to be here for my family. it will be interesting if he puts himself through that again in the name of this family in the next trial? >> it's absolutely unimaginablu. coming up, why the government is making it harder for cars to get good ratings on the crash tests.

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