the widespread smoking ban isban now in effect at george washington university, and american university, fox 5 john henrehan as a look at the new ruleslo on smoking and reaction from students. >> reporter: according to theth center for des disease control only 19% of adult americans nowadays smoke tobacco products, but when kids depo away to college, -- go away to college,o they sometimes like to a experimentom with new things.new >> it's my object servation that students often smoke, and theyen get here, and s we are enabling them by allowing them to smoke, even though they don't smokesmoe inside, they smoke outside. >> reporter: the rules at american university have change except for three outdoor areasth on campus, smoking is no longere permitted anywhere on au grounds. >> when you look at the research of secondhand smoke, we feelwe that we have a commitment to the health anding with man and wellr community. >> reporter: in january, anyone who wants to light up at the american university will u have to go to the public sidewalks on nebraska orni massachusetts avenues.avue graduate st

students at george washington university in the u.s. not happy and are intent on making it known. they set up a facebook page to expose the horrible conditions of a college dorm room, where more -- for mold was growing on the ceilings that have convinced authorities to take action to improve the conditions on campus. the new king of youtube is not a rock star or head of state. the 23-year-old swedish man develops video games for the cameras. posted online today 2 million views collectively. he will use the money on drinking for the projects. as we can see here, this american athlete has more than a spring in his step as he performs one amazing jump after the other.

it took repeated requests from george washington-- george washington university-- to get the c.i.a.o get it up. here's david martin. >> reporter: located in the middle of nowhere, area 51 has been at the center of some of this country's most closely-guarded secrets going back to the u2 spy plane. the world has known about the u2 ever since 1960 when one was shot down over the soviet union. but only now has the government officially acknowledged the existence of area 51 in nevada. so here it is on page 56: "known by its map designation as area 51." >> old history is being admitted to, but i'm not hold mig breath wait for my invite. >> reporter: bill sweetman has spent much of his career spying on area 51 to find out what new aircraft like the f-117, the world's first stealth fighter, were being tested there. back in 1985 when cbs news hired a small plane to go looking for the f-117, an air force jet suddenly came up to chase us away. but that was nearly 30 years ago. >> i'd be really interested to know what they were spending billions of dollars on at that base for the last 30 years.

now he's a fellow at the george washington university. when we come back, we look at yemen.s the story of an eight-year- old boy who was given a chip to put in his surrogate father's coat, later that father was killed in the drone strike. stay with us. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> week in today's show with a shocking new story out of yemen read the article is called, "did an 8-year-old spy for america?" it is written by gregory johnsen . in it, he writes the united states was able to target and alleged al qaeda operative named adnan al-qadhi for an american drone strike after u.s. allies in yemen convinced an eight- year-old boy to place a tracking chip in the pocket of a man he considered to be a surrogate father. shortly after the child planted the device, a u.s. drone tracked and killed adnan al-qadhi with a missile. >> for more, we go to speak with gregory johnsen. candidate in the near eastern studies department at princeton university. >> this is heartbreaking and tragic st

on the campus of george washington university in downtown washington, students preparing to start theirl terms said these tools could help. >> things like affordability and retention rate and things like that are all very important to me. >> if a school that you're at isn't too affordable and it's not really setting you up to be successful after graduation, prospective students should be able to know that before going into the college or going into the school. >> suarez: tomorrow the president continues his two-day bus tour to promote the plan, with a stop at the state university of new york at binghampton for a town hall with students and faculty. for more we turn to sandy baum, a senior fellow at the urban institute and at the george washington university graduate school of education. anya kamenetz, author of a new book on higher education called "d.i.y.u." and a contributing writer for fast company. and gail mellow, president of laguardia community college in queens new york. i'd like to start with all of you by getting your quick impregzs of the policy package. what do you maj of th

declassified documents obtained by george washington university confirmed the existence of the militaryir base northwest of las vegas. until now, all references to it were omitted from government files. the site has harbored secrets, but they don't involve aliens. area 51 has actually been used by scientists to research spy planes and as a training ground for moon landings. >> we can't afford to pay three people right now. >> we can't afford to pay ourselves. >> it's in theaters. that's ashton kutcher and josh gad as jobs and wozniak out of their los altos garage. critics praise the performances by say the story is superficial. meanwhile steve wozniak writes on gizmoto he was entertained by the movie but not quite enough to recommend it. >>> one last weekend to enjoy a one on one landmark. that's next. >>> want to update you on our breaks news we brought you earlier in the program. highway 24 near the caldicott tunnel in lorida. because of police investigation, reports after a motorcycle crash shots were fired in this area. you see that heavy police presence. once again this is wilder r

bring in a professor from george washington university. the giver joining us on out zero. i was just talking about what happened. rebel forces have reclaimed h -- assad forces have been reclaiming parts of homs. >> there will not be any tipping points. the opposition will have the upper hand, militarily. they did for quite a long time. the regime seized the initiative and is going on the assault. >> how will they have the upper hand? >> they will have it if there are shipments to the rebels from the outside. if the rebels are able to seize more weapons. most of the weapons they use are taken from the regime. ify will have the upper hand has the law reduced the contingent of fighters they had. important point. how likely do you think it is that has a lot will reduce the hand that they play? heard a ron's we new president -- iran's new president. >> you are absolutely right. that is a major ally of the searing regime. iran is putting everything they have into this play for syria. the friends of the syrian people are trying to restore that balance. restored, wece is can talk

it took repeated requests from george washington university to get the cia to spill the beans located in the middle of nowhere. area 51 has been home to the u.s. government's biggest secrets going back to the u2 spy plane. >> i'd be really interested to know what they were spending billions of dollars on at that base for the last 30 years. >> the cia did not say whether the test site houses space aliens or flying saucers, but hollywood and ufo enthusiasts will certainly keep that decades-old debate alive. >> certainly will. >>> well, kim coil has got a sports cast that's out of this world. >> we do. so glad football is back. a woman makes nfl history tonight in new orleans, and remember this guy? yeah, that's right. 49ers saves one of their former trusted ajents. that's coming up in sports. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, [ male announcer ] what is performance? 0 to 60? or 60 to 0? [ tires screech ] how a car performs in a quarter-mile? [ engine revs ] or a quarter-century? is performance about the joy of driving? or the importance... of surviving. to us, performance is not about doing one thing wel

it started with my dissertation many years ago at george washington university. i had the opportunity to interview some of the women who actually attended press conferences when they passed from the scene. therefore i think i do have some insights here into the way these press conferences when that would be of interest to us. the importance of the conferences which are often brushed off by people who write about eleanor, she held press conferences for women only and go to something else. the importance of them has been overlooked. i would like to ask some questions of view about eleanor as the focal point of women journalists in the capital of her day. i would like to raise these questions and elaborate on them and i would like to hear from your answers when we get to q&a. questions? did these press conferences allow women journalists, newspaper women, that is what most of these women were, 1933-1945, when newspapers were still the name of the journalism game. and still newspapers where the thing. and period when washington d.c. and five newspapers, but these pre

at the freedom forum in columbia, at the institute of politics at harvard, and that the george washington universityedia and public affairs. memoriesart with the of those among the leaders in the march on washington. , after so muchis violence against you personally, and against many others in the black community, how did you come to feel that nonviolence was the way to go? nashvilleudent in during the late 50's and early 60's, we were taught the way of peace, the way of love, the way of nonviolence. at 6:30esday night p.m., a small group of students would come together and we would study the teachings of gandhi. wikia compassed in india. we would study the role of civil disobedience. we studied the great religions of the world. it had a wonderful teacher but a name of jim lawson. he infused us with the way of nonviolence. many of us, during the early days, except that nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living, not simply as a technique or tactic. it became the way of the national movement. >> thank you, sir. ambassador young, i think all of us who were at the march realized that we were expe

it started with my dissertation many years ago at george washington university. and i had the opportunity to interview some of the women who actually attended these press conferences before they passed from the scene. therefore i think i do have some insights here into the way these parts -- press covers it went that would be of interest to us. the importance of the conference of which are often brushed off by people who write about eleanor, they say she held a press confidence for women only. the importance of them though has been overlooked. so i would like to ask some questions of you about eleanor as the focus point for women journalists in the capital of her day. i'd like to raise these questions. i'll elaborate on them and then i would like to hear your answers when we get to q&a. okay, questions? did these press conferences allow women journalists come and i should say newspaper women because that's what most of these women were. this was a very 1933, 1945 when newspapers are still the name of the journalism game, although radio is coming in, and there wer

crowley, a professor at george washington university, and a former assistance secretary of state. from portland oregon is moo mike young, director of the mideast programs for the international rescue committee. thank you for joining me tonight. guys p.j. i want to start with you, are you surprised the u.s. has so few friends on this issue? is it wise for the u.s. to go it alone, if the president decides to attack. >> i this i that in any military operation the united states will all the have the preponderance of military power. so we have the capability to do wayneeds to be done. to redeem the red line if you will. is it wise to go it alone. >> well, that remains to be seen. obviously any time you want to have a coalition, and have it be as wide as possible. it provides legitimatesy to what you are trying to do. i do think that the more critical voices will be in the middle east. countries like turkey, that are demanding some kind of response to what has happened. ten there's different levels of support. i don't think it is a military challenge, but obviously this raises the polit

. >> i was taking a course at george washington university and ellen's roommate invited me over for dinner so the three of us had dinner on saturday night and i think about two weeks later i asked her out on a date. >> when you brought him home for the first time and said i'm going to marry this marine, what was your parents reaction? >> it was definitely a known kwaupt to them. >> about two years later, we were married. >> joe and ellen dunford started a life together, serving our nation, in a tradition that goes back generations. >> his grandfather's world war i trunk, we have his picture here. then his father worked in korea. >> clearly the hero in my life was my dad. >> the shot of joe's dad in a police uniform? >> he retired after a 40-year history. >> from the fire of the marine corps to the fire of being a policeman? >> yes. my father was a world war ii vet and that's his photograph. >> in 2011, the president announced that all u.s. combat forces would withdraw from afghanistan. >> by 2014, this process of transition will be complete. >> now carrying out that decision will be square

. >> i was taking a course at george washington university and ellen's roommate invited me over for dinnere three of us had dinner on saturday night and i think about two weeks later i asked her out on a date. >> when you brought him home for the first time and said i'm going to marry this marine, what was your parents reaction? >> it was definitely a known kwaupt to them. >> about two years later, we were married. >> joe and ellen dunford started a life together, serving our nation, in a tradition that goes back generations. >> his grandfather's world war i trunk, we have his picture here. then his father worked in korea. >> clearly the hero in my life was my dad. >> the shot of joe's dad in a police uniform? >> he retired after a 40-year history. >> from the fire of the marine corps to the fire of being a policeman? >> yes. my father was a world war ii vet and that's his photograph. >> in 2011, the president announced that all u.s. combat forces would withdraw from afghanistan. >> by 2014, this process of transition will be complete. >> now carrying out that decision will be squarely on

the classified documents obtained by george washington university confirm the existence of a military air base northwest of las vegas. the site has harbored secrets, but they do not involve aliens depicted in movies, instead, engineers who worked on spy planes and helped with training for moon landings. >>> a utility company accused of manipulating prices has agreed to refund millions of dollars to california customers. the $750 million deal was announced today. state officials accused power ex of shipping to canada, selling back to california at exorbitant prices. the deal with power ex is the largest settlement with electricity consumers to date. >>> what if one person could solve the bart labor dispute? no threat of a strike and no disruption in service? it's headache free for bart riders, but would the suggs by a local expert actually work? in tonight's reality check, sam brock looks into claims that binding arbitration to help. >> it's a third party getting the final say on negotiations and that is it. the judge picks what he or she thinks is the fairest side and it's worked. it'

the national security archive at george washington university obtained the report that said it was carriedtry from a possible soviet threat. many admitted working for the cia. this is the first time the agency, itself, owned up to the role. >>> the drills between the u.s. and south korea under way and stepped up moves by north korea to negotiate an end to some of the attentions with the southern neighbors. the drills involve 30,000 troops taking part in war games. so far, no comment from the north that called these exercises preparations for invasion. >>> a scary fall for a man at a golf course in one of california's most picturesque places. the 25-year-old tumbled more than 100 feet off a cliff at the half-moon bay golf course south of san francisco. it is not clear what he was doing along the edge of that cliff. there are signs that do warn players to stay away from the edge there. he is said to have suffered major injuries. >> all right. a teenager facing arson and attempted murder charges after a fire destroyed four units at a condominium complex. investigators say the 19-year-old got

george washington university national security archive recently received a cia history of the plane withtions of area 51. previous versions of the history have taken it to nevada where the government is throughout to test weapon and intelligence tools. researchers say it suggests the cia is less secutive about the existence of area 51. >>> from new guards to new locks. security changes made at bay area campuses as students go back to cool. >>> but up first, a reputation for prostitution. now this mottle is about to be torn down. the community is calling it >>> the city of oakland is declaring a small victory tonight in a fight against prostitution. a hotel in east hook land has been sold under court order. ktvu amber lee is live in oakland to tell us what will go up in its place, amber? >>> julie, the city attorney is leading the effort. tonight we spoke with community members who are handing out the flyers to offer help to women and children who have been lured in the human sex trafficking. >>> desperate for love they fall for any type of jive people have to sell them. >> reporter: it w

george washington university national security archive recently received a cia history of the plane with mentions of area 51. previous versions of the history have taken it to nevada where the government is throughout to test weapon and intelligence tools. researchers say it suggests the cia is less secutive about the existence of area 51. >>> from new guards to new locks. security changes made at bay area campuses as students go back to cool. >>> but up first, a reputation for prostitution. now this mottle is about to be torn down. the community is calling it a victory. >>> and a reminder you can get ktvu news to go. download the app and click the icon and watch all of our newscast live on our mobile device. look at 'em. living on cloud nine with that u-verse wireless receiver. you see in my day, when my mom was repainting the house, you couldn't just set up a tv in the basement. i mean, come on! nope. we could only watch tv in the rooms that had a tv outlet. yeah if we wanted to watch tv someplace else, we'd have to go to my aunt sally's. have you ever sat on a plastic covered couch? [

. >> from george washington university, i will direct the question to matt. eight days after benghazi, you said benghazi was an act of terror. we have had a significant political and bureaucratic debate about talking points and what happened prior to that point, but what goes into the formal determination that something is an act of terror? depending on the political agenda, it could be active thuggery or an act of war or an act of terror. for those who have been inside the system, eight days is not necessarily bad. >> important point after benghazi is -- i was in a hearing that was prescheduled. in the intelligence community, i think i can speak for all of the analysts that were working on this. we proceed of presumption it was a terrorist attack. you had a mortar attack that killed americans and a government facility in benghazi. they were clearly targeting our presence there. it was violence and result in death. there are number of legal definitions, the practical common sense of you that we all proceeded on from the outset was this was a terrorist attack.

. >> i was taking a course at george washington university. ellen's roommate invited me over.he three of us had dinner one saturday night. i think two weeks later i asked her out on a date. >> when you brought him home for the first time and said i am going to marry this marine, what was your family reaction? >> a local boy had gun to the same high school, garage graduat graduated. >> they began a live together serving our nation. goes back generations in both their families. >> ellen, tell me about this footlocker. >> his grandfather's world war i trunk. we have his picture here. then his father served in korea. >> he was with the first battalion, fifth marines. fought at seoul. didn't talk much about it. clearly the heroen my life was my dad. the shot of joe's dad and the police uniform? >> his father retooired from boston police after a 40 odd year history. >> from the frying pan into the policeman. >> your family in here too? >> my father was a world war ii vet. served in the army. >> in 2011, the president announced all u.s. combat forces would withdraw from afghanistan.

crowley, a fellow at the george washington university institute for tkhreupt seu and global communications. just your reaction to what we're seeing. the violence. look at the pictures that richard engel brought to us. people brought into morgues, declared dead, boom, they're moved out. it's horrific what we are seeing. >> well, egypt is moving backwards. in many respects, while the players shifted on the field, we're back to where egypt was in january 2011 or even before. obviously the military's reasserting itself, cutting the muslim brotherhood down to sizement it's hard to see whatever emerges from this will be different. but it will hardly be the in exclusive democracy that, for example, the united states has aspired for egypt. >> so the president breaks a vacation, makes an address from martha's vineyard on thursday. talk about what he said. are we doing the right thing? are we doing enough? >> i would have called it a coup six weeks ago. in terms of democracy in the middle east has been -- that credibility has been lost. that said, the united states is going to have influence only on

according to recently declassified documents obtained by the national security archive at george washington universitythe military air base is 125 miles northwest of las vegas. until now, it never officially existed, with all references to the area redacted from government files. >> they're no longer pretending the place doesn't exist. that's the first step to getting a lot more information in the future. >> reporter: that secrecy made the site the frequent subject of conspiracy theories, particularly that it was used to secretly hide alien spaceships, dramatized on tv and in movies. >> take my word for it. there's no area 51. >> that's not entirely accurate. >> reporter: no mention of flying saucers in the documents, but instead a different kind of flying. turns out area 51 was created as a test site for the lockheed u-2, a spy plane used by the cia during the cold war. >> they didn't want the soviet union to know about it. to ensure that, they wanted a facility where it could be tested away from everybody else. >> reporter: area 51 has seen some out of this world action. apollo astronauts trained th

edward is a kuwait professor of gulf and arabian peninsula affairs at george washington university and a former ambassador to jordan. welcome to the program, sir. the u.s., u.k. and france seem to be taking a slightly softer tone then in the last few days. why do you think? are they trying to step back from the brink of military action? >> no. i think it's worth saying, though, that the world, the united states and europeans find ourselves in a position we don't want to be in. it's only because of this heinous use of gas against his own people. something that the syrian regime said it wouldn't do that has led us to it point. i think there will be action, and i think that there are just some developments that need to take place. the debate in parliament, in england, consultations here in kashz between the president and congress and an explanation to the american government. they will take place and there's a reaction to the syrian action. >> so are you saying they'll go ahead with military action even if that resolution doesn't pass at the u.n. security council if russia and china block

crowley, public diplomacy, george washington university. former assistant secretary of state for public affairs in the obama administration. and kathleen hicks, now seen yore adviser for the center of strategic and international studies. it was striking today how reminiscent john kerry's performance was of the infamous colin powell performance before the u.n. in 2003. there was less theater. he was not holding up vials of substances or throwing to sound bite as colin powell did. one could not help but be struck by the parallels between the two and it is precisely the hangover from the fact that that first one turned out to be basically nonsense that it is hard to listen to john kerry with the same kind of open mind to the truthfulness of what he's saying. >> i thought john kerry did a fantastic job of taking that issue head-on. iraq is the background to which this entire discussion about syria is going on. here he is trying to present an intelligence-based assessment just as colin powell did, and, again, in his talk he said right there and

from george washington university and two years of law school so this was no fool.t was clear. the other thing that was interesting was that kennedy was proposing a joint moon mission because of the datante with the soviet union that fall, he was proposing that american and soviet astronauts together. who knows if he lived, we could have been holding hands on the moon together. >> you talk about the import he put on the treaties that could get us away from proliferation. i wishing we had time. it fits that notion of him of someone who thought so grandly on the global level. the book is jfk's last hundred days. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> we did ask some of you guys, our fn friends to weigh in on president kennedy and his lasting impact. robert smith says jfk was a great visionary. proud to be from massachusetts. got to get in local flavor. one of his gave ret lines was ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for the country. like us on facebook and come join the conversation. >>> up next, there's a species endangered that could b

live in our studio now i'm joined by nathan brown, professor of international affairs at george washington university. and our own margaret warner. nathan brown, let me ask you first, what was the calculation, do you think, for the government to crack down today, and this hard? >> well, it doesn't seem like there's a lot of calculation going on in egypt right now. it seems people are pretty much dug into entrenched positions. there was a negotiation process that was under way that has an international mediation and a domestic mediation between the brotherhood and the new regime. and that seems to have come to an end about last week or so. at that point, there was some determination to move forward, to move out these demonstrators, move out the protest camps and so on. but the exact form that that would take and when that would occur nobody knew. >> brown: does it surprise you the way it happened with the force it happened? >> it doesn't surprise me. i think there were possibilities for a negotiated solution, as i say, and there were also possibilities for more gradual action. those were the kinds of

crowley, public diplomacy, george washington university.er assistant secretary of state for public affairs in the obama administration. and kathleen hick hicks, now se yore adviser for the center of strategic and international studstud dyes. it was striking today how reminiscent john kerry's performance was of the infamous colin powell performance before the u.n. in 2003. there was less theater. he was not holding up vials of substances or throwing to sound bite as colin powell did. one could not help but be struck by the parallels between the two and it is precisely the hangover from the fact that that first one turned out to be basically nonsense that it is hard to listen to john kerry with the same kind of open mind to the truthfulness of what he's saying. >> i thought john kerry did a fantastic swrjob of taking that issue head-on. iraq is the background to which this entire discussion about syria is going on. here he is trying to present an intelligence-based assessment just as colin powell did, and, again, in his talk he said right the

i am a student at george washington university. >> get a little closer? >> how about now? i can speak loudly. my question concerns the obama family and the romney family and to touch on it briefly and their impact on the campaign. >> well, i think and michelle obama the two candidates head terrific -- the speech that michelle obama gave at the democratic convention was arguably one of the two best speeches. this was an odd convention and that the president's speech was that asked the third-best speech. after michelle obama and bill clinton and maybury -- maybe mayor castro of san antonio who certainly outperformed expectations. and gave a very effective speech at the convention and also on the campaign trail. i think it always had an natural quality and determination. she was a fighter on behalf of her husband and so i think both of them were helpful and the families. i think americans of whatever political stripe they were elected each of the families and said these are real families in these are good families. i think those sites had assets. >> thank you. >> one last que

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he has held top positions at the institute of technology and the george washington university. right, again, only in geography, andrew young. he was a close aide to dr. martin luther king. he helped organize the march on washington. he was a former congressman, mayor of atlanta, and ambassador to the united nations. he is currently a professor at the andrew young school of policy studies at your estate university. to my left, gwen ifill, reporter and managing editor of pbs's washington week. she has covered seven presidential campaigns, moderated two vice presidential debates. before that, she worked for nbc, the new york times, and the washington post. in this business, she is regarded as one of the best. to my right, julian bond, one of the leaders of the civil rights movement while a student at morehouse college. he helped found the student nonviolent coordinating committee. in 1998, he was elected chairman of the naacp, the national association for the advancement of colored people. he was also elected to the georgia house and senate. he has been a radio and television comme

jonathan reiner, a cardiologist with the george washington university medical facility and with his long-timeient, former vice president dick cheney has a new book coming out soon entitled "heart." is that right? >> that's right. >> let's talk about the former president bush. he was always very active, jogging, biking and everything. this comes as a major surprise for someone who is his age. doesn't y don't you think? >> yes and now. coronary artery disease has been the most important in the united states in every year since 1900. it kills more americans than any other disease in the united states. it's really not a surprise. >> he had no family history and his most recent checkups all showed -- at least the annual physical when he was in the white house heeshs h, he had lo low coronary disease artery risk. >> we don't know the exact parameters of all his risk factors. his level of fitness only tells us one piece of the puzzle. other important issues like his cholesterol, his blood pressure, his glucose, these are other indicators. >> you brought an example of what he had to endure today, the