>> cool. >> visitors at carnegie-mellon university in pittsburgh going through security. the earliest arrivals came around 5:00 a.m. this morning. we will have live coverage from carnegie this afternoon. the president will be speaking around 1:40 and that will be live on c-span. >> this weekend, head to the state capital named in honor of thomas jefferson with book tv and american history tv in jefferson city, missouri, saturday at noon eastern. literary life with book tv on c-span2. former senator of missouri first lady jean carnahan on family life inside the governor's mansion, from her book "if walls could talk." also, a butcher's bill, a business contract, a provisions list from ancient mesopotamia to the university of missouri's special collections. the stories behind eight miniature babylonian clay tablets. and sunday at 5:00 eastern, on american history tv -- >> at one time, 1967, this was called the bloodiest 47 acres in america. >> a former warden takes you through the historic missouri state penitentiary. also, walk back through history in the halls of the missou

he was at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh.lked about fighting for every american and called on reporters -- supporters to stand with him in november. we will have the speech for you again tonight at 8:20 p.m. 2, a conversation with anna quindlen. on c-span.org -- cspan 3, resistance to slavery and the life of robert smalls. earlier today, a group called the new story leadership or the middle east held a talk on the future of the middle east. the panel is made up on young -- made up of young people in palestine. this was held at johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies. it runs about two hours and 10 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. and welcome to this wonderful occasion this morning. our second conference. i know that you have battled through stormy weather and power outages and whatever. keep our fingers crossed that the lights stay on. we are in for a wonderful morning. i am paul costello. you can tell by my accent that i am not a local. i hail from australia. i am be director of the news story l

the president, the gentleman you guys were just talking about, taking the podium at carnegie mellon in pittsburgh. let's listen in. >> a couple of people i want to acknowledge, first of all, one of my favorite people, one of our finest united states senators, give it up for bob casey! i think we've got in the house as well, your mayor, luke ravensaw, congressman mike dole is in the house! allegheny county executive, rich fitzgerald is here. the pennsylvania state party chair jim bern is here. and we want to thank sheryl and monte reid for the free program. great job. great job. now, i'm -- first of all, pfr we do anything else, before we do anything else -- >> we love you! >> i love you back. but let's also be clear that a very important situation has arisen. the white sox and the pirates are in first place. so we may be in the world series together. >> go pirates! >> we love each other and we can root for each other, until we get to the world series. then it's every man for himself. i know it's hot, i know you guys have been waiting a while. so i just, i want to first of all just say

on what is really a disappointing jobs report, when he takes the podium here in pittsburgh at carnegie mellon university. we expect him to tout what he sees as his accomplishments in the economy, including the auto bailout. that's something that really resonates with voters in nortrn ohio, which is where he was earlier today and yesterday. and of course, here in western pennsylvania. he'll also probably reiterate that statistic, that 4.4 million jobs were added in the private sector over the past 28 months. but, craig, it is really a tough sell, because in addition to the numbers that you talked about, if you look at the breakdown, and i think we have a graphic of some of these numbers and how it breaks down by group, it's really a tough picture. african unemployment rate, 14.4%. that's an increase of 0.8%. hispanics, 11%. whites, 7.4%. women, 7.4%, and then tasians, t gets a little bit lower. so really a tough sell for the president, as you pointed out, craig. mitt romney didn't hesitate to pounce on these figures. from mitt romney's perspective, it really allows him to change the story line

we can invest and advanced manufacturing research like what is being done right here at carnegie mellond we can change our tax code to make sure instead giving tax breaks to companies that are shipping jobs overseas, let's give those breaks to companies that are investing right here in pennsylvania, in pittsburgh, right here in the united states of america. [applause] that is my vision for the future. my vision is one that says we have got to invest in our young people so they get the best education in the world. [applause] i want to hire new teachers, especially in math and science. i want to keep on making college more affordable. we just prevented congress from raising student loan interest rates, and we need to bring tuition down and give americans the chance to study at colleges for the jobs in the 21st century, because a higher education is not an economic luxury, it is an economic necessity, and i am committed to making sure that everybody gets that chance for the skills and the training they need to succeed. my vision says we ended the war in iraq as i promised and we are windin

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less pain and less scarring may be the case as the result of scientist at carnegie- mellon university. >> you make a small incision to rid caged and this robot would sneak itself behind the heart. >> these robotic experts are retreating the unique way that snakes move. >> you're looking a16 individual modules and each module except for the tail and head is exactly identical. each individual module has its own motor, it has its own control board and it has its own break board in there. >> it looks almost as simple as a video game. >> it looks like a police station controller. >> but getting the 16 components to move together requires sophisticated computer manipulation. >> this is a slithering gate, this is a sidewinding date and this is a turn in place gate. >> on a smaller scale that can be used during surgery to correct abnormal heart rhythms come from the surface of a heart. >> there are three tool channels where we can pass conventional catheter based tools. >> it started as a search and rescue project. >> these robots can extend the reach of rescue workers and get into collapsed

then, earned a master's degree from carnegie-mellon in pittsburgh pennsylvaniamy work . i spent time as an executive director for nonprofit on the hill. i was assistant to a wonderful person named julie middleton. the park that worked at was formally known as the hunters point community foundation. we did several programming for kids in the neighborhood. i also have a background in politics on both sides of the day here in san francisco and oakland. i have done fund-raising for different candidates. i have work experience with the federal reserve bank of san francisco. i am most proud of the work i have done for myself. i started a business called power forward, a social media and public policy consulting firm. >> why did you choose to return and live in san francisco? what motivated you to run? >> what motivated me was my love of san francisco. i see the changes that are happening. i see people picking cans out of the garbage. i see that there is no neighborhood grocery store. i see that small businesses are coming and going. they have not been able to sustain themselve

the tour will wrap up tomorrow in pittsburgh with a speech at carnegie-mellon. have that live on c-span at 2:00 p.m. eastern. to get more details on what is ahead on the tour, we spoke with a reporter covering the campaign. when house reporter from "politico" reid epstein. what makes ohio so important to the president's campaign? >> ohio is a key swing state. no republican in modern times has won the presidency without ohio. it is ground zero for the president's pushing at -- boasting about the auto bailout that his illustration pushed early in his term. detroit makes the cars but more parts for the vehicles are made in ohio than anywhere else. so there's a lot of jobs on the line in this part of the state, in this part of the country for the president to be boasting about. >> there is news today the u.s. will file an unfair trade complaint against china with the world trade organization. the president is supposed to talk about that today. how does that tie into his comments on the auto industry? >> surely it is a coincidence -- coincidence that the president is

he had a rally that -- he will have a rally at carnegie-mellon in pittsburgh. we will bring it to you live at 1:50 p.m.. a form on the future of the middle east today with four young people from israel and the palestinian territory. you can see this event from the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies live at 9:30 a.m. on c-span 2. >> we had pulled into the reviewing that morning around 9:30 and we were in the middle of the harbor. >> the former commanding officer of the uss cole on the events surrounding the al qaeda october 2000 attack that left 17 dead and 37 injured. >> i return to my desk to do routine paperwork when at 11:18 in the morning there was a thunderous explosion. you could feel all 550 tons of destroyer quickly and violently thrust up and to the right. it was like we seem to hang for a second and the ship was doing and ought three-dimensional twisting and came back down in the water and lights went out and ceiling tiles popped out and everything on my desk lifted up and slammed back down. i literally grab the underside of my des

at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh, there was one final appeal for a second term. >>> if you still believe in me like i believe in you, i hope you will stand with me in 2012. >> reporter: the president told supportes that almost every stop on the two-day bus tour that he was tough enough to handle negative ads from his opponent and outside groups. but he admitted that he was being outspent. the first time that's ever happened to a sit go president. dan lothian, cnn, pittsburgh. >>> do you think you need to hit the gym to get in shape in why not hit the yoga mat instead in lots of people are doing it these days and one of them is my colleague, frederica whitfield who has some tips from a personal trainer. >> a lot of folks are very intimidated by the word yoga because they think you have to be incredibly flexible. yoga is a state of mind, it is very much a way of life and it is about working at your own pace. i'll show you a few basic pose beginners can do at home safely. you want to start with your feet directly unyour hips. from here we're going to lift, actually, we're goin

it also takes him to boardman, ohio, south of youngstown, and then wraps up the afternoon in carnegie mellon in pennsylvania. and the drive to win the president is making an unsubtle plan to go after middle class workers and he is targeting romney as out-sourcer. >> governor romney said we should just let detroit go bankrupt. i refuse to turn my back on communies like this one. i was betting on the american worker. governor romney's experience has been in owning companies that were called pioneers of outsourcing. my experience has been in saving the american auto industry. >> and in an interview with nbc cincinnati affiliate wlwt, the president dialed up the rhetoric on the health care mandate and went right at romney calling him a flip-flopper. >> the fact that a whole bunch of republicans in washington sudd suddenly said this is a tax, for six years he said it wasn't, and now he is suddenly reversed himself and so the question becomes, are you doing that because of politics, are you abandoning a principle that you fought for, for six years simply because you are getting pressure for two da

. >> the president's bus tour in did in pittsburgh, on the campus of carnegie mellon university. president obama called on supporters to stand with him this november, so he can continue fighting to make their lives better. this is about 40 minutes. ♪ ♪ >> hello, everyone. i want everyone to know one thing. i am going to be two minutes. but i have just two questions. the first question -- and i know you are ready for this. are you ready to win in 2012? the second question -- even if you are not from pittsburg or southwestern pennsylvania, but i know most of you are -- how about those pirates? we meet here today. we meet here in a region known for so many things. we are known for winners and good workers. we are also known for a history and a heritage of hard work and sacrifice. we know that in this region, we have had to overcome so much. the people here know that the only way is forward. the only way we should focus is on the future. so many people here, today know that in pittsburgh and throughout the southwest, the people of this region do not wait for the future. they invent t

at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh, his biggest event of the tour, there was one final appeal for a second term. >> and if you still believe in me like i believe in you, i hope you will stand with me in 2012. >> reporter: the president told supporters at almost every stop on the two-day bus tour that he was tough enough to handle negative ads from his opponent and outside groups, but he admitted that he was being out-spent, the first time that's ever happened to a sitting president. dan lothian, cnn, pittsburgh. >>> and as we saw in dan's report, the president started his day yesterday at a diner in akron, ohio. no doubt it was a thrill for the owner, ann harris, but just about an hour after the president left, the 70-year-old woman died. the local paper reports she had a heart attack. the president was in pittsburgh when he got the news. he called harris's daughter back in akron to offer his condolences. listen to the call. >> michelle and i are thinking of you and your daughters and the entire family. >> she enjoyed her visit with you. it brought a smile to her face. >> than

here at carnegie mellon university, professor and his students are working on a different kind of roboticsnakes. >> do you love snakes and have a fascination with snakes? >> actually, i don't like snakes. i'm afraid of snakes. >> you're afraid of snakes? >> a lot of people are. >> the professor is putting his phobia aside. these snakes can be used for surge and rescue operations like disasters, earthquakes, but the smallest could have the biggest impact. a robotic snake doctors hoping to use for ear, nose, and throat and eventually heart surgery saving patients from large incisions, scars and pain. >> it was designed for minimally invasive surgery. this robot is 11 millimeters in diameter. we're constantly thinking how to make it smaller, don't need large suites to do minimally invasive surgery. >> you're saying a surgeon wouldn't necessarily be controlling this? >> one of the benefits of this mechanism, we can off load a lot of the burden from a surgeon onto a physician who doesn't have surgical training. with this surgical snake robot, you can make a small incision and deliver a whole h

he will be at a rally at carnegie-mellon university in pittsburgh. we'll bring it to you live here on c-span. friday, a forum on the future of the middle east with four and young people from the -- israel and the palestinian territories. you can see this from the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies, live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> one of my favorites things to talk about is a chemical that is and maybe 1/2 of pigs, cows, and a lot of turkeys. most of the drugs are to make the animals go faster. this particular drug is not withdrawn when they walk onto the killing floor. that means an animal is killed and the meat is sold -- the drug is in their. >> this weekend, martha rosenberg looks behind the school of -- scenes of the food and drug industries, and finds lapses in regulation and government complicity in undermining public health. part of book tv this weekend on c-span 2. >> president obama kicked off his two-day bus tour thursday in ohio, 10 miles south of toledo. the president addressed the economy, his efforts to sav

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includes a stop at an elementary school in poland, ohio, near youngstown, followed by a speech at carnegie-mellon, in pittsburgh. we will have the last stop at 2:00 a.m. eastern, on c-span. >> one of my favorite things to talk about is this drug that is in maybe half of pigs, half of the house, and a lot of the turkey. there are multiple drugs. but this particular drug is when they walk onto the killing floor. that means when the animal is killed, this drug is in there. >> this week, martha rosenberg looks behind the seas -- behind the scenes of the food and drug industry, and finds public health deficiencies. part of a book tv, this weekend on c-span to. >> we should focus on the results we want. it can create jobs. it can sparked innovation. it can expand opportunities. it can guarantee our competitiveness. it can put america back on top. >> you can talk about goals all you want, but we have put up stop signs. we have put a stop lights. none of it ever changes the behavior of congress. >> from the time i lost control of the committee, and we went out to have a beer -- i will have to give you a

. >> the president's bus tour in did in pittsburgh, on the campus of carnegie mellon university. president obama called on supporters to stand with him this november, so he can continue fighting to make their lives better. this is about 40 minutes. ♪ >> hello, everyone. i want everyone to know one thing. i will be two minutes. but i have just two questions. the first question -- i know you are ready for this -- are you ready to win in 2012? [cheers] and the second question, even if you are not from pittsburgh or southwestern pennsylvania, but i know most of you are, how about those pirates? we meet here today in pittsburgh in a region that is known for so many things, known for winners, hard workers, and we are also known for history and a heritage of hard work and sacrifice. we know in this region generation after generation has had to struggle and face those struggles, but ultimately triumphed over those struggles, whether it was job loss or economic dislocation, whenever it was. the people of pittsburgh, allegheny county, and all of southwestern pennsylvania have overcome so m

and university of pittsburgh and carnegie-mellon, one of the greatest start-up universities in the country. it has worked very, very well and we are very pleased. we will be happy to share with anybody here where we are doing and pennsylvania. >> a those are great initiatives. let me just use that to point out something that may not be all this. you mentioned life sciences. since the first initial public offering of genetech, life scientists have been a segment that venture capitalists have put billions of dollars in. but the life cycle of a life sciences company, on like software, takes a decade or more to come to fruition. a problem in the last three years -- hopefully it is not pennsylvania -- is that the giant sucking sound you hear is all the money going into social media where investors are saying why should i spend 10-15 years waiting for an investment in life sciences to come to fruition that these hundreds of millions of dollars in capital when i can be investing in facebook? that is a risk and all of your areas. it is an area where states might be able to give incentives, where y

at carnegie-mellon, there was one final appeal for a second term. >> and if you still believe in me like i believe in you, i hope you will stand with me in 2012. >> reporter: now, wolf, a sad note, the owner of ann's place, the restaurant where the president stopped in akron, ohio, to eat breakfast, passed away shortly after meeting the president. her name is 70-year-old josephine ann harris. no official cause of death, but the news we get is she had a number of medical problems. and she was feeling a little tingly, was rushed to the hospital also suffering from fatigue and passed away a short time afterward. you're taking a look at some pictures there of the president at that restaurant this morning. again, 70-year-old josephine ann harris, who met the president, died a short time later. >> that's a sad story. that's a very, very sad story. our condolences to her family. dan lothian out with the president in ohio. thanks, dan, very much. >>> wall street feeling the ripple effects of today's bad jobs number. the dow ended down 124 points. the nasdaq and s&p also posted losses. >>> by the

in the old days, carnegie- mellon and -- andrew mellon and rockefeller needed labor to give people some kind of ladder to climb, and it seems today that human labor and even intellectual efforts are going into coming up with these instruments of finance, which seemed to be stealing the seem to be stealing from the other fields of study -- seem to be stealing from the other fields of study. guest: the second point first, finances is one of the most important story. on the eve of the crisis, finance was about 40% of corporate profits, total. that is a staggering figure. when you get near the top of the merit credit paramedics, you see a tremendous back-and-forth. princeton or harvard are having as many as 30%, 40% of graduates of going out to work on wall street, and this small amount of people have been able to extract value and profit from the economy, and not necessarily in the service of the productive real economy. sometimes when a banking system is functioning well, what it is doing is channeling savings to investment. that is the key role it plays in a capitalist economy. sometimes

we have had interactive courses like carnegie mellon, open learning institute. is there some breakthrough? in the technology cents, there really isn't some dramatic breakthrough. but what is being done that i think is very exciting is that they're taking a real lectures with the interactivity built into those lectures. at 10-minute intervals, your testimony concept and you cement those. the beauty of great video lectures connected to interactivity. the third thing they do is they get a lot of people, as many as 100,000, taking the course at the same time. so they have lots of peer education going on where people are answering questions, looking at each other's home work, giving advice. and then the teaching staff is reviewing that activity to make sure that it is high quality, that students are not being misled. a fourth piece is probably more challenging. how does this connect us to degrees or accreditation that employers will valued? they're giving out certificates, but not fully endorsed degrees. so that is an area where there will be some evolution. but this

you go to ohio, you want to talk about automobile recovery, the president did that, he comes to carnegie mellonpennsylvania, he wants to talk about students and their future, but you get that if you fly into someplace. so my sense is that it matters in terms of the impression that you're trying to leave people that you're more or less like them, just plain folk. that -- it doesn't work as much as i think they think the campaign strategists -- probably not. >> host: terry madonna, we will be checking with you often during the next couple of months yowrks website, samdm, franklin marshall/edu politics. when is the next poll coming out? >> guest: august, we'll do one before the convention and one at the end of september 6789 it's going to be a fascinating campaign. >> host: terry madonna, thank you very much for being with us, appreciate your time. >> guest: thank you. hose host the washington journal continues and we'll focus on food prices especially in light of record temperatures throughout much the country, the director of the international policy institute is going to be here to talk about t

tomorrow, his campaign bus trip that wraps up with a speech at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh. we will have live coverage at 2:00 p.m. eastern here on c- span. republican presidential candidate mitt romney is in east hampton, n.y.. he is back on the campaign trail on sunday with house republican leader eric cantor. you can see his campaign video online at c-span.org. the >> we have pulled in for the refueling the morning around 9:30 a.m. >> the former commanding officer of the u.s. has called on the events surrounding the al qaeda 2000 -- b. al qaeda 2007 attack. and >> there was a thunderous explosion. you could feel all 480 tons of destroyer quickly thrust up and to the right. it is almost like we began to hang in the air. we did this twisting and flexing. the lights went out. the ceiling tiles popped out. everything on my desk came up about a foot and slammed back down. i literally grab the side of my desk underneath and braced myself until i could stand up. >> more on that sunday at 8:00 p.m. on c-span's q&a. >> now to a discussion on social media impact on news reporting

today are wealthier comparatively than the pierponts, the morgans, the rockefellers and the carnegies and the mellons, and all of those names -- famous names of the 1900's that helped to build this country. today the wealth far exceeds that wealth, far exceeds it. and the disparity between the average american and the wealthy has grown wider and wider than at any other time in american history. and while the american average family sees their incomes getting squeezed and going down, the upper 1% has seen 10 times and 20 times and 30 times increases in their income. and that's what's playing out on the american political system today in this citizens united decision. all we ask today -- though we ought to be asking for me, we know we can't get it now, but at least we ought to be able to get the ability of the american people to know who's putting the money into the system, who's trying to affect these votes, who's trying to set the agenda, whose interests are really at stake. that's what's at stake in this vote today and i hope all our colleagues will vote for the right to disclose those funds to the