how are you able to learn so much about it and to kind of get the inside scoop and there is darpa open to sharing their scientific research you know it's really interesting the old american radical journalist stone used to say people ask me how i can get this information i just read the newspaper i just keep track of things it's amazing how much is really available in open source and that's all i needed to use to kind of connect the dots and to see where not only the u.s. but other military establishments are growing with respect to the brand really interesting jonathan thank you so much for coming into the studio today that was an event in what i know author of the mind wars brain science in the military in the twenty first century and professor at the university of pennsylvania. also had an artsy president obama had the oh dass city of hope and we could skull founder julian assange has the audacity to call him out on his apocrypha going front of the international community coming up next the wrath of a speech to the. here is mitt romney trying to figure out the name of that thing tha

the pentagon backed darpa program has robot dogs. it could lighten the load for our troops. gps keeps them moving in the right direction. now, for a look at the latest national and regional weather we turn to todd santos. that dog is creepy. >> if military dogs weren't scary enough, that's a different level. >> as you go outside, find cooler temperatures through the northwest. billings to wyoming we are dealing with some showers. here is a look over vegas yesterday. incredibly enough, we didn't have a lot of rainfall. 1.18 inches. prompted some rescue missions via helicopter to get folks out of the water there. that was the highest number rainfall wise. it's been incredibly parched. we got rain around lake immediate. when you get all that at once, then you see scenes like that. it should improve. eastern san bernardino county. that will be one area we are watching. the showers across the four corners is going eject the moisture to the plains. looking at the country, the eastern half, quiet scenario with the exception of florida. still has the on shore flow. that on shore flo

the pentagon-backed darpa program has posted video of what it calls robot dogs. they're electronic canines that could one day lighten the load for our troops by hauling heavy gear over rugged terrain. gps and other technology helps keeps the high tech mules moving in the right direction. hmm. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here's meteorologist todd santos with the weather channel forecast. those dogs kind of freak me out. >> they look a little awkward, "star wars" like. >> and no head. >> maybe make it look more like a talk. >> i want to talk about where we're seeing some flooding, we've seen some of the video out of utah. want to take you into portions of nevada out of clark county, yesterday, you find vegas and in the area some substantial flooding. the rainfall amounts don't sound staggering but the amount of runoff combined with how try the conditions have been, 1.18 inches worth of rain at the vegas airport, a record for the date, almost doubling the original record, i think there were rescues done by helicopter. thankfully a lot o

it's called the alpha dog more formally known as the leg of squad support system it was designed by darpa that is the defense advanced research projects agency and if you think you've seen it before you have but this is the bigger better version of the alpha dog but there is one. very important difference between this robot and its predecessor like its well as trained organic counterparts this robo dog can obey instructions to follow people and that's certainly not all it can do the machine which was designed by boston dynamics can stand upright walk twenty miles without a break and carry up to four hundred pounds through the rough terrain so are you impressed yet well despite the noise that you heard the robot is ten times quieter than before and they're working to silence it even more now despite all these improvements the robot dog is not quite ready for combat yet the next step comes in december when the marines will embed the robot dog in a series of field exercises on military bases in virginia and the california desert to see how it handles those claimants but it looks like it's in

we need darpa-like funding to turn seoul into a product. wind is fine, but when the wind is not blowing, you get nothing. host: we are talking to john hofmeister, former president of shell oil company and president of citizens for affordable energy. tell us a little about what your organization is all about. guest: it is a not-for-profit that is non-partisan by design. we take no money from energy companies. people always wonder who funds you. we are only funded by contributions from consumers. our mission is the education of everyday citizens about what the truth is about energy. we get a lot of hyperbole and misinformation from the people who represent us in government. i am of said about how much misinformation is handed out by politicians. we want to come in as a neutral educator about what it is about the future of energy that citizens need to know so that what -- when they vote, they are voting based upon what they know are the true facts about energy and environmental protection. we teach every day. host: we are going to go back to t

. >> darpa pulled over for not signaling, and got a ticket. >> citing the mayor for a legitimate deal code violation is one thing but an officer leaking a photograph of the ticket to a social media site is another. >> we're still investigating. >> the san jose police chief has vowed to get to the bottom of a serious violation of department policy. >> we do have internal affairs investigation currently being conducted to determine who released it, maybe why they released it, and if someone is held accountable for it, the administrative discipline process will take its course. >> it happened tuesday well the mayor was driving to work at the intersection of mayberry. >> i have no criticism of how the mayor handled the incident. >> within hours a photograph of his ticket was circulating on the internet. >> it was a stupid thing to do. >> the police union had nothing to do it but they also know it comes at a time when morale is low and tension is high due to pension reform and cutbacks that the mayor had supported. >> i have never seen be so strong in the time have been here. >> the office

can we in this project we're doing with darpa come up with a way using biochips that's more effective in predictable toxicity than using animals? >> thanks, we're going to have more with dr. francis collins in just a moment. >>> we've got a few more minutes for some final thoughts with nih director dr. francis collins, dr. collins some final thoughts? >> well, i think i'm going to challenge the premise of some of our conversation here. namely, that the support for biomedical research in the united states is going to continue to be under severe stress and that there's no light at the end of this tunnel. i think the arguments for the value of this enterprise both in terms of advancing human health and stimulating the economy are extremely compelling. and i would like to believe that those arguments will actually get some purchase in decision making in the coming years. other countries seem to have accepted that. even countries whose economic distress is at least as bad as ours and yet they have seen medical research as an opportunity to actually build things back up into a healthier sta

como lo está escuchando, esto la agencia investigadora de proyectos avanzados de la defensa, llamada "darparavilloso. >> deberian traer uno para despierta américa. traigan uno para acá. >> queremos que seas parte de nuestro programa, comunicate en las direcciones en pantalla, te esperamos en despierta américa. >> no pude bailar el tucanazo con alex, no me puedo perder esto en una mañana como esta. >> venga, vamos. >> yo bailo con chiqui. >> te puedes quebrar si quieres. >> ¿y que dice arriba el esposo? (♪) >> con una mexicana que me diga como se baila realmente el asunto. >> el aplauso, en verdad, ay alex. >> no te había despertado. >> ya se despertó. >> ¿te has montado en un cohete en tu vida? >> si, pero no en cohete. (risas) >> ¿un jet? >> ok. >> ¿en algun momento? >> sí, porque se usó esto para romper un record de velocidad, para agarrarse la película, se prepara para la mayor unión del cohete de tierra en 20 años quieren superar las 1000 millas por hora, o sea 1600 kilometros por hora, están en una fase de investigación, y será la primera vez que se pruebe la cámara en rendimiento comp

processes, amending the clean air act, open reserves to exploration and extract shale gas and used a darpa-like funding mechanism. you can respond. guest: round the's plan sounds like the mirror image or opposite -- romney's plan sounds like the mirror image or opposite. when obama came into office, his administration rescinded the existing plant. they blocked yucca mountain. he is anti-nuclear. he has a secretary of energy who does not own a car and said we need to get our gasoline prices $9 or $10 a gallon. we see and anti-fossil fuel agenda and we see wasteful subsidies going to technologies that do not work. these companies have gone out of business. solyndra and others. hundreds of billions of dollars. we give loan guarantees to companies that do not need loan guarantees. goldman sachs cannot get their own funding? that is unbelievable. host: this is president obama in iowa last month. he brought up the topic of romany -- romney. [video clip] >> governor romney wants to get rid of the tax credit for wind energy. he says these sources of energy are imaginary. he needs to come to iowa. he wi

it would extract shale gas and use funding mechanisms -- utilize darpa-like funding mechanisms. depeff you -- guest: you could say romney's plan is almost like the mirror opposite. the reason i say that, if romney came into office, the first thing he would do is -- when obama came into office, he rescinded the oil and gas leases in utah. they blocked yucca mountain which is the only program going forward that will accept nuclear waste. he's anti-nuclear, he's anti-oil and gas. he has a secretary of energy that does not even own a car and that famously said we need to get our gasoline prices up to $8 or $9 a gallon. if i didn't own a car, i may not care what gasoline prices were either. we see anti-fossil fuel agenda on the part of this administration. we see wasteful subsidies going to technologies that have been proven not to work. hundreds of millions of dollars. we see him giving loan guarantees to companies that don't need loan guarantees. g.e. received millions in loan guaranteees. $47 million for goldman sachs. they can't get their own funding? that's unbelievable. host: t

important political note to talk to folks about organizing -- this is an important political note to darparole that the republican legislature across the country has played in suppressing minorities. the cards i'm saying is wrong. i agree with you that it is wrong. in any facet, it is wrong. but it has been done on both sides and it is wrong. >> [indiscernible] for a long time there were conservatives who are identified as democrats. over time, they became republicans. they gave the same way, but they change the title that they had. >> they focused on voter identification restrictions, that only began in 2006. those segregation efforts -- if you want to evade the two-party, we cannot do it. -- if you want to imitate the tea party, we cannot do it. this is an opportunity that we need to take recognizing that the democratic rights need to be reaffirmed. because these people think that they can win by keeping people away from the polls. >> a people paid me $1 billion to organize, i would organize, too. >> my only point for the young people is, take a flavor from the civil rights movement or t