he is a university professor at harvard and he is joining us right now. thank you for joining us. >> good to be back with you maria. >> let's start with the job numbers on friday. 243,000 jobs created for the month. the unemployment rate falling to 8-1/3%. what do you think it says about the economy today? >> these were good numbers. the unemployment rate down, the job numbers you mentioned, the household survey, which has been showing relatively weak performance showed more than 600,000 jobs created. strength in the private sector across almost every sector of the private sector. these numbers suggest that the economy's got some momentum. it doesn't have as much momentum as we'd like but it has more momentum than it had six months ago by a significant margin. that's attributed to the policies we have put in place. it's very fortunate that president obama, a year ago, was able to persevere, insisting to have a payroll tax cut which made a big difference for middle-income families. we avoided a budget catastrophe with a potential default in august. the pre

parents work and the opportunities they gave me, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university. it was intense. i stayed there for college, for law school, and i also have a master's in public policy there. those are subjects i decided to study in part because i was very interested in public service and public policy issues and government. i ran for office in part because i wanted to serve the city and really protect all that is so special about what san francisco is. >> we've been talking for years about how important it is to build new neighborhoods, to develop affordable housing, make sure we have transit-oriented sustainable green development that really is worthy of a 21st century san francisco. what we're doing today -- and, frankly, what we're doing this year will have impacts on the city for decades to come. thank you all for being part of this, and i look forward to that mid-cutting. i moved to san francisco 15 years ago for all the reasons that we all love our city. our cable cars. our hills. the diversity of our neighborhoods. and have loved every minute of being her

. >> reporter: the world civilization forum was chaired by harvard university professor. the professor was born in india. he's a nobel laureate in economic science for his research into the mechanisms of poverty and his work in connecting economics and philosophy. >> what the fukushima daiichi disaster brings out with great force is the radical uncertainty that may be present that looked like safe enterprises of great importance to the world. >> reporter: in our interview professor sen says the domestic crisis at fukushima is a problem of world civilization. >> what fukushima established in a way that somehow the earlier incidents like the three mile island and chernobyl had not be able to get fixed in people's minds that they could be lyingly advanced country and still end up in a situation of gigantic pollution affecting the lives of many people. i think it had made the nuclear option an alternative to standard fuels very much more difficult. so that is a problem of world influence and civilizational issue. >> reporter: really in the wake of fukushima you might say that

harvard university ratcliffe college. bampt a. tough university md. couple laddy. georgetown and tust universities school of medicine instructor in pediatrics, 3 years. the permanent medical group. multiple leadership roles including chief of pediatrics and associate executive director. 29 years all together and currently. hobbies, hiking. sharon levine. >> sharon levine, we are joined by vicki got lick, senior policy attorney for the center of medicare advocacy. are thru? >> i am. good morning. >> vicki, do you have thoughts on what we've been saying so far about the cost implications of by lodgics versus traditional drugs or any aspects of the conversation thus far? >> i have a lot of conthoughts about your conversation. cost is a very important factor and cost very often will cause the population not to be able to afford the drugs. even if they have drug coverage for a biopharmaceutical, very often the copayments are so high that people can't afford the copayments. people are bankrupting themselves in order to get these needed medications and it would be very us

she is going to unveil the foundation at harvard university.member, abc2 news is working for you. we want to to bullying so head to the website abc2news.com and we have all sorts of information on the website about ways you can help. >>> all right. consumer alert this morning. if you bought an ipad 2 you may want to hold on to the receipt. apple could be soon relesion the ipad 3 on march 7th. that's next wednesday and the company sent an e-mail to journalist inviting them to a special event in san franciscoch the invitation shows someone using an ipad saying "we have something really you need to see and touch. >>> and fans of movies and tv series stars we have a story on that in a bit on netflix. but first, we want to tell you about a government report that says radiation levels from the full body scanners at airports aren't dangerous for passengers. they look at independent radiation studies on the back scatter x-ray machines and the radiation levels from those scanners are so low a passenger would have to be seen 365 days a year to reach radi

. >>> some major star power on the campus of harvard university today, lady gaga launching a product she created called the born this way foundation. the musician said the goal is to empower youth and inspire bravery and help all young people create a more supportive environment at their schools and across the world. >>> tomorrow google's new privacy policy takes effect and it effectively consolidates the company's 70 existing policies for its various sites and services. here's what it means. for example, google maps will have access to your g mail data and that g mail will have access to your youtube history. now google's goal is to target more ads directly to you, but if you're not interested, here's some advice. first you can log out of going when you do things like look at maps oar search the web. that's going to -- or search the web. that's going to prevent some of that tracking from happening. pc world magazine suggests logging onto google dashboard that. site lets you see the data google collects on you. then you can clear out the items you don't want associated with your acco

because of my parents, my brothers and i were all blessed to go to harvard university.hat is where i went to school. it was intense. i stayed there for law school and have a master's in public policy from there. those are subjects i decided to study because i was interested in public service and public policy issues and government. >> you grew up in the boston area. what made you want to make the transition and moved to san francisco? what motivated you to get involved in politics question marks before i ran for office, and worked in san francisco as a criminal prosecutor and civil rights attorney. i got to understand how much of a be in san francisco is to the rest of the world for social justice. i spent a number of years helping to grow a small business. i got to understand the innovative spirit in san francisco. at night, i volunteered as a neighborhood leader and as feature of an affordable housing organization. i learned so much about the challenges facing our neighborhoods and the special jewels that are the urban villages we live in. i ran for office because i w

the hottest thing in professional basketball is a harvard university economics graduate. jeremy lin has led the new york knicks to five wins in a row and that has helped the stock of his home court, madison square gardens. shares jumped almost 4% to a new high. volume jumped too-- more than four times normal. m.s.g. has been in a fight with time warner cable, the dominant cable provider in new york city. knick games are not on live in new york, but the newfound popularity may help push negotiations forward. a couple of biopharmaceutical companies were moving fast. regeneron rallied 12% after raising its sales outlook for a key eye drug. shares closed at a new high. chelsea therapeutics lost more than a third of their value after the f.d.a. raised concerns with its hypotension medicine. and that's tonight's "market focus." stocks like chipotle mexican grill, panera bread and even mc- donald's have been on a tear, hitting new highs this year. that brings us to tonight's "word on the street," "restaurant." debra borchardt is a markets analyst at thestreet.com. >> deborah. un

well, harvard university professor says there's a new way and it's as easy as taking a deep breath. something called the arrow shot. a tube of inhalable caffeine. it sells for $2.99 in massachusetts and france. it contains the same amount of caffeine as a large cup of coffee. the product maker insists it's safe but some in congress are calling for the fda to review arrow shot. >>> 4:52. time for the question of the morning -- log on to the wusa9 facebook fan page and leave your response. we'll reveal the answer during the 6:00 hour. morning, sunshine, it's time to bring it. [ gargling ] oo-ay-ow. savings. savings. savings? progressive was the first to offer online quoting. you can do better. first to show comparison rates. ding! the "name your price" tool. oh! gosh, don't mind if i do. who was the first to offer pet injury coverage? we were. and when did you know you wanted to sell insurance? i said i wouldn't cry. um... whee! it's flo time. now, that's progressive. call or click today. >>> welcome back. 4:55. your wear first and we could have a few slick spots this morning. anythin

academics and athletics, ex selling in both while attending harvard university.is the biggest story in pro sports this year. how should parents encourage their kids, nicole, to have both of these things? and what i think is interesting about his story in particular, people have said it turns the tiger mother on its ear. parents have unconditional love and very high expectations. >> so i have to admit, i am lin-sane. i think we all would love a injurimy lin. so for me, i had high aspirations of being a tiger mom myself and i didn't have the discipline. i really like this tiger-panda combo that i think jeremy lin's parents -- >> you can see represented. it's the american version. >> the american version where, you know, you can excel academically and you can love basketball, but we're going to make sure that if you're going to play basketball, we're going to tie it to your academics. and so i think that works. >> this from the mother of twins who she has them in mandarin immersion. many people would say you are the tiger mom. you have very high expectations for you

latin america, africa, and asia, davies' project, in collaboration with the arnold arboretum of harvard university, maintains an active database of more than 3 million trees of 6,000 species. dr. davies: this is a huge data set, which no one else in the world is doing this kind of research. and the idea of doing it right across the whole world is that then we'll be able to come to some generalizations about what's happening to tropical rainforests. narrator: by statistical analysis of a large number of individuals over a long period of time, the team can determine the dynamics of forest growth. dr. davies: what we do is we monitor them every five years. we go and remeasure all the trees. the idea is to try to work out, for hundreds and hundreds of species, their population biology -- that is, the rates with which they grow, the ratethey die at -- to try to understand the whole biology of the species. narrator: stephen hubbell of the university of grgia and the smithsonian tropical research institute is one of the pioneers of this study, which began on barro colorado island in 1980. man: when we fi

born this way foundation will launch today it's going to kick off with an event at harbor -- harvard university she has been outspoken for sometime against bullying. >>> all right the occupy movement is back. organizers announce latest movement shut down the corporations and calling on supporters to protest companies tied to the american legislative exchange council which they say sponsor harmful laws including immigration measures in arizona. >>> president obama and first lady michelle obama will host a dinner honoing iraq war veterans and fallen and families n december of last year the u.s. officially ended operations in the middle eastern country after eight years of fighting. >>> and the spring around the corner the cherry blossom fest val is -- festival is almost here. tomorrow national ain't national dignitaryies will preview the event. it commemorates the 1912 gift of 3,000 cherry blossom trees frojapan to the nation's capital. >>> weather is going to be a big issue. here lynette. >> march 20th, the first day of spring and spring like thunderstorms down to the south and west of us for to

heads the supreme court and appellate practice clinic and is a visiting professor of law at harvard university. after serving in early 1993 as an adviser to the president on constitutional issues, he was nominated by the president to be assistant attorney general. he was confirmed by the senate in october 1993. this was not a recess appointment, apparently. and served three years during which time he was also head of the office of legal counsel. walter is, was then the acting solicitor general for 1996 to 1997 term of the u.s. supreme court. he's published articles on constitutional articles for scholarly journals, including duke law review and written for the "new york times," "washington post," "newsweek," new york new republic and the "london times." walter, the floor is yours. >> thank you so much, peter and thanks to the american enterprise since stut for putting togethput together such a thorough, pla kags ever this. there's a simple clause could provoke such complexity of argumentation. i'll come to that simple clause in a moment. let me echo what peter has said, that this is, does not

this panel, we have tom harks, associate librarian for collections for the hoeten library at harvard universityhor of a forthcoming biography of president james buchanan. >> give it up, ladies and gentlemen. >> james buchanan, after all of these years still represents one of the guaranteed punch and laugh lines of the era. tom is going to really correct that, we know. william c. jack davis of virginia tech is the author of more books than we can count. among them, on the presidency of jefferson davis and the creation of the confederate nation. john, executive director of the you liss s. granted association and professor of history at mississippi state university is an expert on generals grant and sherman and military culture of the u.s. military academy. craig sigh mondamons, u.s. nava academy, recently retired, recently unretired, taught at annapolis and the country's leading expert on civil war at sea. adam goodhart author of the aclaimed book "1861: civil war awakening" and a stranger to all of you, franc williams, who is our beloved chairman, all one of the country's leading experts on the

leaky gaga born this way foundation will launch today and kick off at an event at harvard university this afternoon. she has been outspoken against bullying for sometime. >>> lawmakers in annapolis will hear from poe testers rallying -- protesters rallying against the mortgage interest reduction. the rally is from 11 to 1 and they are going to be with legislators at a sit-in at hearing of house appropriation and way means meeting. governor brown will help the enterprise zone legislation e testified yesterday before a house committee and testify today in front of a senate committee. legislation. works to-- >>> paperwork has been filed to repeal a -- governor o'malley plans to sign a bill thursday evening and it would go into effect next chan. 56,000 signatures -- january. 56,000 signatures are need for a referendum to be placed on the november ballot. >>> u.s. senator barbara mikulski called the death of the major marchanti. she ask whether the death was worth keeping a presence in afghanistan. chaos started after americansoldiers accidentally burned copies of quran. an afghan ally ca

from harvard university, and a juris doctor from harvard law school. we ask him to speak about the committee to us about i-civics, which is a curriculum in many of our states, a number of teachers and others are using this curriculum in their government and civics classes. mr. chapman and i serve as chairs in our own states in local committees that are working closely with our supreme courts and our judicial system and others to advance the use of justice o c'connor's initiative. we're pleased to have mr. ku here and welcome and thank you for your presentation. [ applause ] >> thank you secretary, and what a great opportunity it is to address this group and talk to all of but the work that we're doing in i-civics and a lot of folks are doing around the nation on civic education. what icivics does is provide young people with the knowledge, skills and dispositions for intelligent citizenship, and it's so important for us as we're talking today about voter engagement to think about how do we prepare young people, tomorrow's voters, to be not just capable

harvard university owns the property and filed a lawsuit asking marshalls to evict the government. the nation has not bothered to leave. calls to the embassy today were not returned. few things are as timeless as a treasure hunt. tonight, correspondent molly lion tells us what could be the ultimate find. >> the images are murky. captured deep below waters off cape cod, but a group of treasure hunters believe they found a fortune. >> 7100 pounds of platinum. gold and uncut diamonds. >> it sunk in 1942. the captain of research believes that the cargo payment and soviet to the united states is now worth $3 billion. bringing it to surface is no easy task. it lies 50-miles from shore in an area littered with ship wrecks known for strong current and tush lect weather. >> how difficult is it? >> very. pressure is intense. the team will use vehicle with a claw. treasures of the deep are brought up in the light, the challenges are far from over. merry time law is complicated. waiting for the salvage operation to begin. legal experts expect a battle. >> we talk about as many zeros in a billi

she will unveil her foundation at harvard university tomorrow. her mother will be on hand for the announcement. lady gaga has been an outspoken voice for accepting an encouraging individuality. well, we have all been waiting for the new "dancing with the stars" cast to be revealed, and now the wait is over. >> it is going to be a good one. >> the six women are singer gladys knight, a great one. sherri shepherd from the view. melissa gilbert from little house on the prairie. tennis player martina navratilova and opera singer catherine jenkins. >> in a big martine a fan. check out the men. melrose place actor jack wagner, a singer gavin mcgraw william levy and donald driver. >> the stars are going to dance their first routine on march 19th. it will not be long now. go to wjla.com or our facebook page to tell us what you think of this new cast. >> happy day with the weather? >> gorgeous. >> maybe i should not come in tomorrow. >> we need the rain. the pollen count has been really high, so that is going to clear the air out. early spring sunshine. lo

with us is harvard university professor lawrence summers, who was secretary of treasury under president here. we're just getting these numbers. looks like 8.3%. what does that mean? i know you haven't had a chance to look at the data, but trending is important. >> well, improvements in the unemployment rate, job creation, these are all positive things. there is a fair amount of evidence that the pace has picked up over the last few months. whether that will continue, whether we'll have another disappointment, thouno one can . but it's certainly better when numbers are coming in ahead of expectation than when the numbers are disappointing. that's something that should gratify observers of this economy. but make no mistake, charlie, we still have a real jobs deficit in this country. we have a growth deficit in this country. we are still millions of jobs short of where we should be. the level of incomes in the country are probably $1 trillion short of where they should be. so we're going to have to pay a lot of attention to growth, to demand, to keeping this economy going and growing for s

i was a sophomore at harvard university and decided to take a year off. i went down and met gregg. i didn't know i would meet him. and the baseball cap -- he stood out and came in to use our phone in a booth where nelson mandela's colleagues were getting out of prison. and it was the first legal rally for the african national congress. i saw greg and we met and started dating and i was back to harvard finishing up my schooling. for two years we dated from afar and finally i moved down after graduating and for graduation my father had given me $1,000. it was a check that was supposed to last the entire year. it was going to help me launch my career as a freelance journalist. i arrived in south africa and i didn't know what it was to be dating or married to a foreign correspondent. he said to me as i arrived on friday, glad you are here but i am going to somalia because there's a famine and i don't know when i will be back. so i was a hot headed young 22-year-old and i stewed about it for a week and took the money my dad had given me and gregg had already left and there was no commun

. >> reporter: lin was a star at harvard university, not a tragsal launching pad for nba stars. he wasn't drafted and was later cut by two nba teams before the nose-diving knicks picked him up. >> we had an idea we liked him and it worked out. you have to have luck and we have a bunch of luck. it worked out for us. >> reporter: at first, souvenir stores weren't prepared for linsanity. >> let's go knicks! >> reporter: lim is amazed at his instant fame. >> things are changing so much. everyone wants to talk to me and my family. we're very low key people and private people. and so sometimes -- >> go j-lin. >> he's the man. >> reporter: lin's parents immigrated from taiwan. the chinese media offers nonstop coverage here and games are shown back to asia. >> it's huge back in taiwan. people are crazy about him, even my grandma asks him about. my grandma is 90 years old. he's like you're covering jeremy lin? good for you. >> reporter: he's a marketing bonanza, drawing fans like first-time ticket buyer chris lee. >> more reason to go when you have a chinese-american going. >> i'm a home

. >> reporter: lin was a star at harvard university.fted and was later cut by two nba teams before the nose diving knicks picked him up. >> we liked him and it worked out. you have to have luck and we had lots of luck. >> reporter: first souvenir stores weren't prepared. >> things are changing so much. everyone wants to talk to me and my family. we are very low-key people and private people. sometimes it's tough. >> he's the man. >> reporter: lin's parents immigrated from taiwan. chinese media offer nonstop coverage here when games are shown back to asia. >> it's huge back in taiwan. people are crazy about him. even my grandma asked about him. my grandma is 90 years old. she is like, you're covering jeremy lin, good for you >> reporter: a marketing bonanza. >> more reason to go now. you have chinese american playing. >> i'm a home body. i try to stay inside. >> reporter: his next goal is to get off the couch, sleeping at his brother's apartment while trying to revive the knicks. richard roth, cnn, new york. >>> don lemon can't wait to s

and roderick is a professor at harvard university. he's written more than a dozen books on china.e lunch for xi jinping. people who meet him say that he strikes you immediately as a different kind of chinese leader. warmer, more personable. did you feel that way? >> it's hard to judge, of course, seeing a person in a ceremonial event like that, but certainly i have seen hu jintao in a similar setting and hu jintao seemed a more stolid expressionless character. mr. xi was talking about his adventures in iowa, what that meant to him. what was striking is that just before he spoke, vice president biden gave what was a very, very tough toast by the standards of these kind of events talking about currency valuation, human rights, and all the rest. so that made for a different sort of diplomatic encounter than normal. >> people who were there tell me it seemed almost rude what biden did in the context of a ceremonial state occasion. one of the observers said we seemed like the yahoos and they seemed like the sophisticated war power kind of -- >> it certainly was startling to me. we've a

mark zuckerberg launched the site as a student at harvard university back in 2004.ell, since then, it has now nearly 900 million users. just last week, it filed paperwork to let it publicly sell stock. it hopes to raise $5 billion from investors. $5 billion in an initial public offering. >> hard to believe only eight years. it's changed so much in the world, huh? >> yes, social media, you know, facebook, twitter, everybody's involved. >> they even set up their own newsroom recently. >> oh, really? >> yeah, taking over. >> that's good. maybe people will start to confirm their sources. that would be good. okay, it's 6:37 right now. >>> up next, one of our favorite parts of sunday, david gregory, moderator of "meet the press," will join us live right here on the set to recap the week in politics, including yesterday's nevada caucuses. >>> and also ahead, safety concerns about boeing's newest plane. the issue that's led the company to inspect its much-hyped dreamliner. >>> and also, it's the down side to a recovering economy. a look at some of the items that are about t

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now, the senator may have instead or in addition to been referring to a harvard university study. does have a 62% figure in it. but it's 62% of college republicans saying, quote, religion is losing its influence on american life. no one is saying their faith or anyone's faith is being destroyed by college. the survey also found 1 in 4 students said they actually have become more spiritual since entering college compared to only 7% who are saying the opposite. but as they say, there's more. rick santorum appears to be mocking higher education when he's on the stump, appealing to non-college educated voters. but listen to what he said this weekend about what's right for his own children. >> do u encourage your kids to go to college? >> i encourage my kids to get higher education, absolutely, and in fact, if college is the best place for them, absolutely. >> okay. well, senator santorum went on to say that trade school is okay, too, which as you just heard for yourself a minute ago is exactly what president obama said three years ago. but any way you slice it a four year college degr