there is a slice peopl of people who say i'm here to learn and go to mook.ut there are a lot of problems. the completion rates are low. unstructured, you lose the face-to-face. i'm not saying that online education will never have a place or won't be art of the future. there will be people who take it. but from where i come from, we focus on silicon valley and the start up ecosystem. the enthusiasm is out of control. it feels like 1999 where they said we're going to put supermarkets out of business, and we know supermarkets didn't go out of business, web van went out of business. are people getting groceries online? yes, but supermarkets are still in business: they haven't gone anywhere. >> and i know, edward, you think the university of pennsylvania is not going to go anywhere. it will be a hundred years from now. the question of course is whether cosera and these other start ups will be around? doesn't francisco have a point? you may have people who care about learning, but the end result is people want to go to a place like the university of pennsylvania n

house's greatest protection here has been -- has maintained a solid wall united with it in the senate, mook its democrats, against doing any big change to this law, and you saw this in the shutdown. so you mentioned new hampshire, senator, jean shaheen, who wrote a letter to the white house saying we need to extend the enrollment period and drop the tax penalty on those who can't enroll. within a day she had six more senate democrats behind her on that. five of the six altogether. they are very much worried about how they're getting hit with this back home, and the importance here is that once they stepped out and admitted there needs to be some change to this, the pressure is going grow on them to do something even more significant. >> just delay the enrollment period, that would seem to be very -- i mean, almost essential. but that gives them a little political cover. are they going to go as far as republicans want them to do which would be say delay the individual mandate for a full year? if they don't do that, aren't democrats trying to get political cover and not addressing the big pro

stanford university is offering mook massive open online course in the finance of retirement and pensionit's offered by a professor from stanford's graduate school of business and starts this week. the goal is to help people make better decisionsuttheir finances as they near retirement. people who graduate will get a certificate and a free stanford education. although, the finance of retirement sounds like something you probably wouldn't want to take until you're nearing retirement. can't imagine a lot of 18-year- olds rushing out to take that class. >> never hurts to be prepared. >> and it is free. >> he didn't go to stanford but he is a very good meteorologist at that. >> reporter: my farm went to stanford. does that count? >> here is live look outside. i will show you what's going on. we want to go out to oakland where alicia is addressing the media. >> hopefully we will be able to notify the bay area and our passengers if indeed there will be train service tomorrow, wednesday. we're working to try to bridge that gap. there is still a lot of work to be done, but the good news is we're

here thanks to nbc with among others one of the brilliant people who is driving one of the so-called mooki talk about this subject to my fellow citizens these days, i start by showing them a picture of joseph, if anybody knows who it is and talk about the fact that many people believe that just new breakthrough disruptive technologies have totally transformed or even ended industries in the past, this could happen to higher ed now. purdue, we think it's our job to add plenty of value the other end of the value equation to keep doing things you can't learn at home in your pajamas. and most of our undergrads undertake research projects. we are transforming our classrooms very quickly so they take advantage of online technologies. go to class, its projects, it's working in teams, working with a professor on things you didn't understand from the lecture which he already knows thanks to the technology. so it's a race. it may well be that as the record stores were and maybe newspapers today higher ed will be utterly transformed. but we think there's a place for great research university like ou