because we have to make sure those challenges don't turn into future crises. will you have with us this year will you try if not to try to save the euro and in the currency but at least try to try to have the speculations that have been very powerful recently. talks about that the euro will collapse do you believe the euro will survive these troubles. well i mean two things i think one is. there are major challenges but actually with the right approach in and the right collaborative approach many of these challenges can be addressed before they become major crises they had like to say those who spent the last few minutes talking about the problems but actually there's tremendous opportunities in the world today i says are higher because actually incomes are higher across the world and there's more people who actually have money to buy food and that's one of the reasons that food prices are going up the same thing with fuel prices so what we want to focus on dealing with just challenges and risks because we want to avoid crisis we also should look at them as op

with those challenges. and i think the great strength of the american political system is it has always risen to the challenge. sometimes it takes a little time. it's always a bit messy. it's never perfect. but america will act and always does act ago and even if you think about just the last two years, and even if you-- if you try to put in context that underlying concern that i began with about whether washington will really move soon enough on these long-term things, i mean, washington at a time of crisis and with a very divided country, did do exceptionally important things over the last two years, you know not just in financial reform or even in health care reform. but in terms of starting i think the most promising set of reforms of education in the united states we've seen over a long period of time, and beginning to see a very substantial increase in investment in basic science and research. and those were changes in reforms -- you know, i know they're messy, but reforms that were necessary, and it

nancy and i are daneed to the core over the tragedy of the challenger. we know we share this pain with all of the people of our country. this is truly a national loss. 19 years ago almost to the day we lost three astronauts in a terrible accident on the ground. but we've never lost an astronaut in flight. we've never had a tragedy like this. and perhaps we forgotten the courage it took for the crew of the shuttle. but they the challenger seven were aware of the dangerous but overcame them and did their jobs brilliantly. we mourn seven heros. smith, cobey, resmick, mcnair. amisuca, hervis and aminuca. the families of the seven, we cannot bare like you do this tragedy. but we feel the loss and we're thinking about you very much. your loved ones were daring and brave and they had that special spirit that says give me a challenge and i will meet it with joy. they had a hunger to explore the universe and discover it's truths. they wished to serve and they did. they served all of us. we've grown used to wonders in this century, it's hard to dazzle us. but for

to the challenges you see up challenges on thoseim mags. we don't have trials like what happened with katrina. so many of you that have been sparks of hope and imagination, people that are engaged we have someone that will talk about how she has sparked the imagination and engagement of a city that was ready to abandon, not just her but the entire broadmoore community. in fact, the mayor who is a friend, this is not a critique, put together after the challenges in katrina, put together a diverse group of what we say the best and the brightest. came up with a bad idea. we don't always get it right. they said broadmoore had been wiped out. they said, it ain't worth bringing back. we are going to make it open space. and the speaker i will introduce in a moment she like many of you said, wait that's my community. that's my neighborhood. you made that decision without us in mind. the community was forced to leave. they were not part of this discussion. and she said, like so many of you said to me and others, no that's not the way it's going to b

>> there are a lot of challenges in community media right now. i have been trying to get our local station to work with us to figure out how to work together to get things going in the community. one of the challenges right now that the media landscape has is that it has been remade for lot of the other stations. these folks that are doing educational government television right now are rooted in ratings in a lot of cases. anyone can be broadcaster and no one wants access to the channel anymore. really, we are just at the beginning of this. for example, i no longer have cable. i get all of my television of the web. that is not on the -- that is not an unusual situation. >> [unintelligible] first of all, back to the question of diversity, the fact that we even have to talk about diversity and employing people who represent that range of diversity, in this day and age, is incredible to me. after 50 years of struggle we are still talking about how many women and minorities are in the workplace. that is insanity writ large. to the question posed by m

i go to a challenger center to see children doing what our beloved challenger space crew love so mucheach year, more than 400,000 school students visit one of our centers and experience the thrills and excitement of space exploration. with our new chairman, i think that number will double in no time. in the past 25 years, which averaged more than four million children. we have strong partnerships with nasa and other federal agencies, numerous universities and aerospace contractors who helped us keep our curriculum current throughout ongoing evaluation and consultation. leadership on our board of directors has laid a solid foundation for growth in numerous directions. so you see? challenger was not the final chapter in the book of space exploration. just a transition chapter. nor is space shuttle the final chapter. as i wrote, and like any good schoolteacher, and i brought my propped along, as i wrote, we are not a nation of naysayers. we are a nation of believers. we are innovators and problem solvers, and yes, risk takers, with a pioneering spirit that began with our forefathers who

- where do you think your challenge was in getting this going?ou started off really good, then it got kind of tied up there at about the 40-second range. - i know. there were just those last few glasses. i couldn't hear the difference--the next note. i was singing it in my head, and i couldn't hear the next one. i was tapping all of them, and it didn't seem to match in my head. so i-- i couldn't figure it out. [laughs] so frustrating. - it's all good. you got it. - are you ready to go after $50,000? - yes, i'm ready. - all right, lindsey, go get 'em. - okay. - i love you. get 'em. - here we go. this is christmas jingle. you've gotta get 11 glasses in order so you can play the tune to jingle bells. you have 70 seconds to win it. good luck. - let's go! - come on, lindsey! female announcer: the game begins in three, two, one... [air horn blows] - christmas jingle. now she's gotta arrange 11 glasses that are filled with water at all different levels. tap on the glasses and play the notes to jingle bells. she does this correctly in 60 seconds she's go

as we tackle challenges. number two, we need to increase communication and coordination and number three, we need to respect and accommodate each other's interests and concerns. i am convinced that as long as our two sides continue to act in this spirit and as long as we continue to work together with other countries concerned, we will be able to engage in court -- cooperation in a broader range of areas to the benefit of world peace and development. >> everybody, thank you so much for your patience. due to the technical difficulties. president hu, once again, we appreciate your visit and we appreciate the dialogue and we are looking forward to having dinner with you later this evening. >> [chinese translation] >> thank you, everybody. >> thank you, everybody. >> that was president of obama and chinese president hu jintao talking to reporters at a news conference yesterday. last night, the white house held a state dinner for the chinese leader where president obama and president hu made brief remarks. >> on b

a challenge for the international institutions, a challenge for the european union, and a challenge for our own domestic governments. the first is the challenge for the international institutions. i think that the challenge is this. can these institutions be as relevant in the economic recovery as they were in the recession? it is not so straightforward. not all countries need to do the same thing at the moment. that is a challenge for coordination. there is a second challenge we are familiar with, which is these institutions created after the second world war in a world dominated by western victor of the war don't necessarily reflect the world as it is today. steps are being taken to change that. but i welcome the fact that france is directly addressing these questions at the beginning of its presidency of the g-20. we should not forget quite substantial progress has been made. two years ago if one said will it be possible for the world to agree that new banking regulations and the basel accord in 24 months people would have doubted that. of course the challenge now is to get the count

this is a very serious challenge for both industry and government been seen on these challenges, we have to make necessary adjustments. we think we need to approach this from six suspects. first, we have to move to science-based energy production and energy consumption. second, we have to move coal-based energy can function to green diversified and low carbon energy development. third, we have to move from our overdependence domestic energy to a balanced dependence on both domestic and international markets. and fourth, we have to protect the environment and we cannot sacrifice environment for the development of the economy. and first we have to move from energy dependence of open model to innovation and science driven development model. physics is we have to develop a diversified portfolio of energy supply. [speaking in chinese] >> translator: . point. some of our visions for china's energies and energy. we can't step on the same path of this high-energy consumption of the developing countries. we have to stay below the average of the developing countries but we are modernizing china. r

after lift off from kennedy space center. >> challenger go with throttle up. >> challenger go with throttle >> those are the final words from the crew. the challenger carried seven people, including krista mccall live, the first teacher in space but she never made it. at a memorial in florida this morning the widow of the commander says every member of the challenger crew was a teacher. >> if we didn't somehow continue challenger's mission of education, then our loved ones would have died in vain and certainly that entire crew -- >> the families of the challenger crew created a living tribute by reaching to children through the challenger centers. there are now 48 centers in the u.s., canada, uk and south korea, where children can climb aboard a small scale shuttle to see what astronauts do and conduct experiments. so far 4 million children and adults have learned more about space and science at those living memorials. >>> you can go to kt v.com for more on the anniversary of the challenger disaster, click on the u.s. and world news tab. ♪ [ music ] >> hello to you. in time for the weekend

that is the challenge. the challenge is for us to create an environment where jobs are created and people can sustain their lives. >> hades problem is a lack of basic systems and institutions. of infrastructure, of resources. there is still an immense task ahead. >> members of the vietnamese communist party are meeting in hanoi to select a new leadership. during the course of nine days, party delegates will be discussing future developments. the ruling party is facing an uphill task to continue reforming the economy. our corresponded is outside the conference hall and said it is is an important time for the country. >> this is the morrimost importt political event. it has been -- 1004 delegates are meeting. the leadership of the party will be the leadership of the country. they will map out the direction for development within -- for the country for the next 10 years. >> as far as the public, how interested are they in what is taking place and what will it mean to them? >> the interest is mainly focusing on

meeting the challenge of news in its traditional, communal role. it cannot just be about the obama health care plan. government does not have the foggiest clue what is happening amongst governments. that is what i am worried about. technology is such that widens the gap. we know less about each other in this fragmented media landscape. >> the audience is now welcome to ask a question. if you have one, please line up over here. right here on the fourth row. perfect. let's take a question. ok. >> two quick questions, mr. eldon. publishers of old media do not desire diverse viewpoints. i knew that the panel would consist of whites and a couple of token black females before i left my apartment. my workplace, there are more eyeballs every time "the new york times" and "the wall street journal" combine over a 24 hour time period. you are biased as well. do not say that times are bad. i hear that around the world. russia, bangladesh. do you? >> radical web sites supporting puppets. >> let's address diversity. a thank-you. he mentioned, i guess, paraphrasi

, go with throttle up. >> challenger going with throttle up. >> i was a 17-year-old student. at that time thinking what did i just see? we weren't sure what we just saw. >> reporter: mikayla pond, now a teacher, was watching the launch at concord high school in new hampshire. the school where christa mcauliffe was teaching when she was selected to be the first teacher in space. instead for mikayla and thousands of kids across the country, "challenger" became a lesson in loss and grief. >> a shock of our teacher is no longer with us. >> reporter: today at the kennedy space center, a solemn tribute. >> we who remain on the ground and asked them to fly failed them that day as we would fail the crew of "columbia" 17 years later and as we failed the crew of "apollo 1" 19 years before. >> this is our wedding picture. >> reporter: commander dick scobee's widow, june, has carried on the mission, founding the challenger learning center to inspire the next generation of teachers and explorers. >> we didn't want the "challenger" to be the end of the chapter in space exploration. we saw

so the challenge is that haiti faces pre-earthquake were overwhelming challenges. obviously at 4:53 on january 12th those challenges were made considerably more severe in terms of having institutions of government that were strong, even having the people, as sean penn said, to respond to those issues. nonetheless, i do think it is important to recognize some of the challenges. the last year of haiti has been a tragedy upon a tragedy upon a tragedy but there have been some things that -- where we can look back and think that some things did go right. you think again immediately after the earthquake with large numbers of people displaced, the largest urban displacement in history. initially 1.8 million people. the number has moved over time but the international community's immediate fear was widespread disease, malaria, all sorts of diseases. there was a tremendous international effort to vaccinate 1 million people, to distribute 800,000 mosquito nets. and that effort has largely been success. . we have not seen an outbreak of any of those diseases in haiti. we were

those were challenging days. we were on not getting along. it was challenging. lorna always stood out as someone trying to bridge those gaps, try to work for all those challenges. she has done some amazing work with an organization that only does good work, focuses on best practices, mckinsey, a great think tank. we have talked a lot about how great she would be. she has been an advocate for women's rights, advocate for girls. we thought it was appropriate to appoint her to the commission on women. thank you for your willingness to serve. [applause] finally, i see francesca, our first department of the environment. there was an opening at the department of the environment and there wasn't a young guy that has driven a lot of us crazy because he is eager, enthusiastic, engage, and he plays above his weight, figuratively, not literally. that is jason elliott, whom i am honored to have served on the commission of the environment. he has been my policy guide. i am just going to -- at peril of being judged -- to be bragadotious. i will put up our record that we have

one of the still most remaining challenges in the process of the economy is the challenges europe is facing but i'll give you my personal view. i do spend a lot of time talking to my counterparts in europe about the choices they face and how to get ahead of this problem. it is my view that they have made decision that they will do whatever is necessary to prevent this crisis from escalating beyond the countries that were the initially were the focus of so much pressure. there is no doubt that they have the ability to do that financially and economically. and i think they've chosen to do so and if you listen carefully to what the leaders and germany and france and the others are saying, they made it clear they're going to do it. and what they're engaged in now is a complicated discussion of how best to do that. what scale of financial support and support of what set of reforms to help the banking system through this, help the weaker sovereigns to do this. and they have the capacity to do it and i think they recognize that if you get behind the fundamental forces driving this process,

the tremendous challenges and experiences they had here is just something that i don't. i can't imagine any of us ever going through. the super independent and i said, sadly, some things haven't changed. in different parts of the world, different cultures. i'm really honored to learn more and with the prif leblgs would be great for all of us. thank you. no other comments, roll call, please. congratulations and thank you. >> item f, the board members report. seeing none. i do want to just again congratulate everyone swoern in this past weekend. we all can probably dot oath off the top of our head, the swaering in the new board member, welcome to the board. we hope you come back. we had a district attorney swoern in on sunday and new mayor swoern in this afternoon. we'll have a city assessor swoern in tomorrow. a lot of new officers and leaders coming in to san francisco. i just want to remind all of our leaders the efforts we have been making to continue to build a really strok pant nership. i look forward to meeting with leaders to ensure san francisco has a fair base at

these are our challenges.ty imperative because our strength as a nation depends on the ability of our political system to move quickly enough to put in place solutions to our long-term problems. our economy as a country has been our openness to ideas and talent, our capacity to innovate, excellence in higher education, willingness to invest public resources strategically and scientific research and discovery and political will to confront challenges with speed and wisdom and force. if we preserve and build on those strengths and if china successfully continues on its path to a more open, modern market economy than both our countries and the world economy will be in a stronger position. the president recently said we should feel confident about our ability to compete but we are going to have to step up our game. china's rise offers us the opportunity of dramatic growth and demand for things americans create and produce but it will also force us to raise our game. we should welcome both the opportunity and the c

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. >>> and the legacy, 25 years after "challenger," carrying on >>> and the legacy, 25 years after "challenger," carrying on a beloved teacher's mission. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. in most parts of the country, january is not supposed to be a picnic. on the other hand, this winter is testing even the heartiest among us. tonight, the arctic cold wave that has been gripping the country's midsection has swept into the northeast, sending temperatures in a freefall, with overnight lows expected to plunge well below zero in places and that dangerous cold is teeing up yet another major snowstorm for midweek. nbc's jeff rossen is in new york's times square where the thermometer is expected to drop down to 6 later tonight. jeff? >> reporter: boy, thanks for the good news, lester. good evening to you. if you think it is bad right now, and it is in many spots in the country, it is about to get even worse here in the east, as you mentioned, with windchills in some places overnight into early tomorrow morning reaching 40 even 50 degrees below zero. football fans thumbin

definitely it is a challenge.inally, i come to the question i think which is a very serious question, and the issue of the islamists. and i agree with you, it's not the uniform block and not a lot of deep understanding to the issues of sudan. people tend to think of ncp, south sudan. but if you want to really understand you have to go deeper into the islamic movement, then you'll understand why the cpa, it happened during the discussions, or maybe do a little, when there's possibility of fear agenda of sudan was lost and it was lost during the agreement. when the islamists didn't go on the agreement. that was the theory, for real united sudan, after the regime. islamists did want to go. then it was a transition come into the was an election. all forces in sudan agreed to postpone the elections, but a constitutional conference to discuss about the constitution of sudan. the nature of the sudan a state and to abolish the september laws which is the sharia laws when they joined bashir. islamists refused, and when, im

challenges. united states should step up communication and coordination in international affairs, work together to counter the global challenges and make a greater contribution to world peace and the development. [speaking in chinese] [speaking in chinese] >> translator: our cooperation as partners should be based on the extensive involvement of the people, the chinese and american people cherish deep friendship towards each other. and they fought side by side at defining moments in history when the future and the destiny of mankind here at the stake. the two peoples should expand exchanges and enhance friendship. this will offer an exhaustible driving force for the growth of our relations. [speaking in chinese] [speaking in chinese] [speaking in chinese] >> translator: ladies and gentlemen, our world today is undergoing major development, major changes, and major adjustments to pursue peace, development, and cooperation is the irresistible trend of our time. let us seize the opportunity to forge

these are our challenges.our strength as a nation depends on the ability of our political system to move quickly enough to put in place solutions to our long-term problems. our economy as a country has been our openness to ideas and talent, our capacity to innovate, excellence in higher education, willingness to invest public resources strategically and scientific research and discovery and political will to confront challenges with speed and wisdom and force. if we preserve and build on those strengths and if china successfully continues on its path to a more open, modern market economy than both our countries and the world economy will be in a stronger position. the president recently said we should feel confident about our ability to compete but we are going to have to step up our game. china's rise offers us the opportunity of dramatic growth and demand for things americans create and produce but it will also force us to raise our game. we should welcome both the opportunity and the challenge. i would be h

community challenge grant. [inaudible]. >> her question, she's really overwhelmed how big it is the question is one of tyiming and phasing. how do you look at the scope of the project and the timing and apply for one or 2 grants and how do you break it up for your community to chew. >> there are 3 things our project had fit. it was limited in scale. as far as need to meet neighbor a -- create and meet with a core group of neighbors. the other was autoaccuratically initiated. we have the idead and the talent an art tech and developer in this building that could whip something up on paper and make it nice. also with the resources of asking the contractor what would the material cost so we could fill out the application with a fair amount -- the things with a large grant is past experience. we didn't have past experience. we couple the credibility and knowledge and filled it in with confidence. au autocatically started is take ideas and not a big deal to sit down at lunch or after work and meet with neighbors much

and it's a real challenge. it's not a competitiveness issue that's going to solve it of without activity on our part. this gets down ultimately to questions that things like performance measures. how fast should freight moved? what should be performance on a highway if they're different intermodal cities? what is the role of the federal and state governments on all of this? how should we organize or should we organize? how should we manage these things? at the thing we're trying to do is capture not just of valuable views of the operators of the modes of transportation, but also catch the views of the shippers, who compete in global markets with their products via the systems. that is just terrific and i think were going to get a lot more people engaged in this as we go forward. a couple other things we are working on this. i mentioned an advisory committee to where we're hoping to advise to announce that will house a formally organized advisory committee and supply-chain competitiveness issues very soon. we re

a challenge for the international institutions, a challenge for the european union, and a challenge for our own domestic government. the first is the challenge for the international institutions. and i think the challenge is this, can these institutions can as relevant in the economic recovery as they were in the recession. it's not the straightforward, it's not all countries need to do the same thing at the moment. and that is a challenge for international coordination, and there's a second challenge which we are all very familiar with which is these institutions created after the second world war in a world dominated by western victors of that war. don't necessarily reflect the world as it is today. now steps are being taken to change that. but i welcome the fact that france is directly addressing these questions at the beginning of it's presidency of the g20. we shouldn't forget that quite substantial progress has been made if one had stood here two years ago and said will it be possible for the world to agree new banking regulations and new accord in the space of 24 months, people w

as we tackle challenges. number two, we need to increase our communication and coordination and number three, we need to respect and accommodate each other's interests and concerns. i am convinced that as long as our two sides continue to act in this spirit and as long as we continue to work together with other countries concerned, we will be able to engage in cooperation in an even broader range of areas to the benefit of world peace and the development. >> alright everybody, thank you so much for your patience. technicale difficulties. president hu, we appreciate your visit and we appreciate the dialogue and we look forward to having dinner with you later this evening. >> [chinese translation] >> thank you, everybody. >> our coverage of chinese president hu jintao's visit continues with his remarks at a u.s.-china business council. the chinese president is introduced by former secretary of state, henry kissinger. this is about half an hour. >> a excuse me, please join me in welcoming the president of the pe

her original book about challenger in titled silver linings, the triumph of the challenger, was trulybase crisis, about motivating young people to study science technology, engineering and math, and her most recent book, an update of silver linings, and really her autobiography which is just out is also inspirational and really something for all of us to admire. she also was founding chairman of the challenger center for space science education. she earns a ph.d degree from texas and indiana university, and has taught every grade level from kindergarten through college. she has been interviewed on 60 minutes, "the o'reilly factor," the oprah winfrey show, good morning america, and untold, untold additional shows. she has too many awards for me to be able to mentioned this morning, but it is a pleasure to introduce our keynote speaker, doctor june scobee rodgers. [applause] >> thank you very much, for those nice words. it makes me feel like i am somebody. and it wasn't even of my own funeral. well, it's a nice cool, brisk morning here. chamber of commerce didn't get the message to make

it is a real challenge for leadership. you have to feel good about the opportunity that the citizens elected you to solve these problems be bold and te the initiative. you have the bully pulpit. explain it challenges you face, explain what you will do to meet the challenges, and by and large, americans understand the mistake perspective, the national debate about the deficit, the benefit of that debate goes to republican and democratic governors making tough choices. i think the american public understands this. over the years, republicans and democrats have automatically raised the annual budget up to 7%. we have compound interest and compound principle. budgets naturally growing, tha era has ended. host: governor christie says he wants to cut corporate taxes and governor cuomo in new york says he will not increase taxes. governor corporate says he will not raise taxes but governor clinton in illinois is raing taxes to try to overlook -- president -- gotquinn in illinois is raising taxes guest: . we will see wh works. i c

project is a response to a completely different challenge a challenge of the market and integration of the russian economy into the global innovative technology system i'll say it time and time again that the technological market is always global by definition and it always serves the needs of a particular individual a consumer and people's needs are very similar worldwide as people are very similar around the world cellphones are a classic example of the up to date innovation product the entire world has been using the same cell phones any attempt to develop a national cell phone would be in saying this is the globalization of technological business that had never been seen in previous forms of business several years ago one often saw a sticker saying made in the usa or even earlier made in the u.s.s.r. recently we've been seeing more and more sticker saying made in china but on the latest technological products the sticker looses its meaning the back of an i phone reads designed by apple in california assembled in china which means the product was developed in the u.s. and assembled