foreign policy in the new york university which would do you think american citizens being driven to war tool in syria what's the motivation. well i think the motivation is often in these cases family members or people who have immigrated here before come here during during different instances for work or whatever and they want to go back and help their families and see if they can make a difference and change the situation there and in addition to that we see this cross cross regionally where people feel that they want to go in and start to you know be be part of the combat against gets the grass or in this case it's. when. the reports that they are being radicalized on the road ports that seventy u.s. citizens in the last three years have been to syria does that actually mean that we're going to seem that seventy potential terrorists back in america now. and i think we have to be really careful of this again or going down this whole idea of rabbit hole all my god there's terrorists out there and we have to be more secretive and we have to you know have more. more more intelligence

new york has closed 13 blocks of broadway and is turning it into super bowl boulevard, 400,000 football fans are expected to blitz hotels, restaurants, and souvenir stores. robert boland teaches sports management at new york university. financially, who is going to benefit more from this, new jersey or new york? >> new york stands to reap the bigger share of the benefits, if you are talking about a $600 million local benefit, new york would probably reach somewhere between two-thirds and three quarters of it. >> i am embarrassed. >> reporter: if the state known for the recent traffic jam scandal, the jersey shore and the sopranos was holding the super bowl would help it's image senator menendez says "fugidaboutit". >> with respect to my friends across the hudson this is new jersey's game. what new jersey does offer visitors to the hotels on its side of the hudson river this week are unparalleled views of new york. don dahler, cbs news, new york. >> glor: the stock market will >> glor: the stock market will open tomorrow coming off its worse week in two years since november 2011, the dow is off 318 points and down three and a half percent for the week. we are joined by cbs news business analyst jill schlesinger, jill

new york has closed 13 blocks of broadway and is turning it into super bowl boulevard. 400,000 football fans are excellented to blitz hotels, restaurants, and souvenir stores. robert boland teaches sports management at new york universityom this? new jersey or new york? >> new york stands to reap the bigger share of the benefits. if you're talking about a $600 million local benefit, new york would probably reap between two thirds and three quarters of it. >> i am embarrassed -- >> reporter: if the state known for the recent traffic jam scandal, the jersey shore, and "the sopranos" was hoping the super bowl would burnish its images, senator menendez says fuhgettaboutit. >> for all my friends across the hudson, this is new jersey's game. >> reporter: what new jersey does offer visitors on its side of the hudson this week are unparalleled views of new york. don dahler, cbs news, new york. >>> well, coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," the latest on that air strike in somalia. we'll hear from ex-cia deputy director michael morell. >>> plus, day after his "60 minutes" interview about his son's stabbing attack, we'll speak with virginia state senator creigh deeds about mental health reform. >>> and a super

author of the ten principles of open business and in new york we cross in brunton he is a media culture in communications professor at the new york university all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it david if i go to you first in london what is the relationship between conventional media and social media because i have the impression that social media is now leading conventional media well you only have to look at the newspapers certainly here in london you'll see that it is very often the case that people are the news media is following the agenda set by trends that are emerging from. platforms like twitter. now whether that's the most relevant news to the individual's thoughts for me the bigger question of what's happening with me because news has traditionally been a kind of lower storm skews very low a lowest common denominator. a way of reporting the facts of the world i think what social media are unable to see is to really focus on a major issues of interest that we care about and therefore what becomes our standard of news varies depending on what we're interested

joining us now to discuss these questions is arthur cap lynn, the director of medical ethics at new york universityfrom san diego wendy patrick an ordained minister who is a deputy district attorney. from sacramento michael weinberg, senior policy adviser for the bay area council. a trade group with kaiser permanente. has our technology moved so far ahead we could keep bodies alife and also detect whether brains are working in a way that blurs the line between the state of being alive and the state of being dead? >> well, you know, ray, the issue is certainly fueled by technology, but we've had issues throughout our history of humanity in deciding when someone is truly dead. it was always a terrible fear even when someone's heart stopped that they might be buried prematurely. edgar alan poe made a career out of it. people wanted coffins with exploding lids because they knew errors were made. today's technology certainly exacerbates the problem, but at the end of the day i don't think we had that problem in either of the cases we're discussing. we know what the medical facts are pretty clearly death

professor lee igel is codirector of new york university's sports and society program. >> sochi is going to raise questions for the international olympic committee going forward, in terms of its bid process, and to which cities or countries it selects to host the games, in part because of all of the concerns that we've discussed. but also the bid process in terms of how much it is costing from bid to actually putting the games on. >> reporter: with a $50 billion price tag, the sochi games will be the most expensive in history. don dahler, cbs news, new york. >> glor: in afghanistan three americans killed this weekend at a kabul restaurant have now been identified. two of them worked at the american university. charlie d'agata has more. >> reporter: friends and family of lexi kammerman have described the 27-year-old chicago native as smart, strong, stubborn and fearless. she took the job at the american university of afghanistan less than a year ago. her family said in a statement, "to help the young women of afghanistan get an education and take their rightful place as leaders in afghan

author of the ten principles of open business and in new york we cross in brunton he is a media culture in communications professor at the new york university all right cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it david if i go to you first in london what is the relationship between conventional media and social media because i have the impression that social media is now leading conventional media well you only have to look at the newspapers certainly here in london and you'll see very very often the case that people are the news media is following the agenda set by trends that are emerging from. platforms like twitter. now whether that's the most relevant news to the individuals that's from me the bigger question of what's happening with me because news has traditionally been a kind of lower storm but skews very low in the lowest common denominator why if. the facts of the world i think what social media are unable to is to really focus on the make shoes of interest we care about and therefore what becomes our standard of news varies depending on what we're interested in who we're con

. >> reporter: he came to see this urologist last spring at new york university who uses a type of advanced to get a better look at the prostate. he says it's a more systematic way to search for cancer. >> you can see here almost a dark, black hole in the prostate at this level. when we see an area like this, we're suspicious that may represent prostate cancer and we recommend a targeted biopsy to that area. >> reporter: with that dark spot as a target, this most recent biopsy did find cancer. so he had these three biopsies and they came back negative, but he had cancer all along. >> i suspect he did. >> reporter: some would say that's part of the problem. many prostate cancers can sit there a decade or more without causing harm. the thing is, it's very difficult to identify those that do require aggressive treatment. what are you going to do? >> that i still have to discuss with the doctor. >> reporter: in the end he opted for surgery to remove his prostate. what was your sort of attitude? another patient we met took a different route. >> our goal with your biopsy today. >> a great example

these dueling universal pre-k plans will now be settled by the new york legislature. which has the ultimate say in passing laws to create universal prekindergarten education and how to pay for it. >> you will win if the mayor and the governor battle it out in the new york legislature over universal pre-k? mort. >> not even close. the governor is going to win hands-down. he put the mayor in a corner. he has the ability to put this pro- -- plant across the state. not just in new york. not without any taxes. he has two big giant steps ahead of the mayor. and says, look, i was elected on this platform. and was certainly elected by huge margin. there is no way he will get the tax increase he wants to the state legislature, which he must get without the governor's support. this is a game over situation at this stage. >> yes. a direct confrontation like that is true. cuomo holds the cards at the state-level. you have seen a situation where cuomo had a run-in with the cardinal over a quote he had given -- that he actually misquoted. in terms of saying, -- >> pro-life, pro- wea

. >> new york university, professor macmillan. some years ago, david wrote a book on the same subject, iraq last summer. the focus of the book was to save vienna was -- and there would not have been a war and keyser was less bellicose in the end. >> your book is sitting right there. >> which we thoroughly enjoyed. tried to sort it out because in the end, the chief of the german general staff would have done what kaiser told him, kaiser had constitutional authority to make war or not to make war. and both often pulled back, was not the man closing the architect of germany's victories in germany and if kaiser had been firmly on the side of peace that would be no choice but to agree but in the end kaiser gave way and he was affected by the knowledge that a number of his officers and he adored his army, it was always my army and number of officers were pulling him in because he backed out on previous occasions and it is a very revealing conversation, was a close friend in summer of 1914 and he said three times i am not backing down th

. >>> here is the research professor of education from new york university joins us tonight and authore book "reign of error." there it is. thank you for joining us tonight. i want to ask you about this situation in newark. what do you make of it? >> this is all about an effort on the state of new jersey, the superintendent who is appointed by the state, to close down public education school by school and hand them over to privately managed charters. these four principals spoke out at a public hearing and they were indefinite ly suspended. there was a fifth principal suspended on the same day. >> what did they do wrong? >> they didn't do anything wrong. they said, don't close our schools. they were not insubordinate. they disagreed with this plan. newark has not had any democratic control since 1995. they've been under state control for almost 20 years. parents there and citizens are very angry. they want to have something to say about their public schools. >> we interviewed an elementary schoolteacher on this program who governor christie had yelled at and scolded. are these more bull

. >> new york university. professor, some years ago, david wrote a book on the same subject the focus of the book was to say but arch villain of the whole situation if not for him there wouldn't have been no war and that keyser was much less. do you agree? >> and it's a wonderful book which i thoroughly enjoy it. it's hard to say because in the end of the chief of the german general would have done, the kind that had the constitutional authority to make the war or not to make for. but also both in a belligerent way that they hold back and we knew he wasn't a man his uncle would be. he was in the reunification of germany, and i think that he had been very friendly on the side of peace but had no choice but to agree and in the end he gave way and i think that he was affected by the knowledge that a member of his officers, and number of officers were calling him william because he backed out on previous occasions and he said it was a very revealing conversation he had with one of them who was a close friend in 19

for more we're joined in new , professorhen cohen emeritus of russian studies and politics at new york university princeton university. his most recent book is, "soviet fates and lost alternatives: from stalinism to the new cold war." book now eight and paper -- it is now out in paper book. he recently wrote a letter to "new york times" that was critical of its editorial on ukraine and russian president vladimir putin's role in the country. and also joining us from london is anton shekhovtsov, a ukrainian citizen who just got back earlier this month from observing the protest in kiev. he recently wrote a piece titled, "what the west should know about the euromaidan's far right element." welcome. let's begin with anton shekhovtsov. what should people understand? >> well, first of all, thank you for th the invitation to democracy now! highlight apiece to very dangerous trend, in my opinion, that many people in the west buy into russian propaganda which is saying euromaidan is if a traitor by the neo-nazis and anti-semites. this is completely untrue. there is a far right element in it isidan protest

. >> by i am with new york university. some years ago david frumkin wrote a book on the same subject called europe's last summer. the focus of the book was to say that -- the arch villain of the whole situation and if not for him there would not have been a war and that kaiser was much less bellicose in the end. do you agree with that? >> careful because david is sitting right there. >> i know and it's a wonderful book which i really enjoyed. it's hard to sort it out because in the end i think the chief of the german general staff would have done with the kaiser told him. the kaiser had the constitutional authority to make war or not to make war and they both talk in a belligerent way that they both often pulled back he knew that he was not the man his uncle had been. his uncle ed been architected german -- and i think kaiser had been firm on the site's piece they would have had no choice but to agree. i think he was affected by the knowledge that a number of army officers, a number of his officers were calling. there was

. >> ralph, new york university. professor macmillan, some years ago david frum and wrote a book on the same set get called europe's last summer. the focus of the book was to say that -- the archvillain of the whole situation and if not from the would not have been a war. and that the kaiser was much less bellicose in the end than moltke. do you agree with that? >> it's a wonderful book which are third enjoyed but it's hard to sort out. in the end i think moltke, the chief of the german generals staff would've done with the kaiser told. the kaiser had the constitutional authority to make war or not to make war. and moltke was rather like the kaiser. they both talked in a blue chip away but they both often pulled back when moltke is not the man his uncle ben. is ongoing and the architect of chairman victories with the unification of germany. i think that the kaiser been very from and on the side of peace, von moltke wouldn't have had no choice but to agree but in the end the kaiser gateway. i think he was affected by

. >> joining me tonight bob strum, democratic strategist and professor at new york university., this is a big step forward, is it not? what does this mean that priorities usa, action is out there this early? >> well, i think it reflects reality. the advantage to hillary clinton, and i believe she will run, is going to have money, machinery, organization, is a consequence and not a cause of her dominance in this race. it's unprecedented in modern politics for a nonincumbent to have this dominant a position. and there's no barack obama out there to challenge that. he was a unique figure and a uniquely powerful candidate. and, you know, he was introduced to the country actually before he ran in 2004 when john kerry made him the keynote speaker of the democratic convention. hillary would have beaten him anyway, but she ran the wrong campaign. she ran for restoration and a year of change. she won't make that mistake again. she'll run with a sense of vision, of how to move america forward, and i think she'll set that out. and by the way, there's an unintended consequence of this, ed,

new york university dropped like board in flavor -- in favor of an open board solution and they can shapenyway it wants. >> i think open source software, for viewers who do not know, is a software developer by the community and it's free. open source software exists in elements of our environment. the reason to go to blackboard is we are spending a tremendous amount of money on r&d and the next generation of technology. mobile and the mobile delivery of education is happening at high levels of proliferation. you will see more and more mobile and the companies that can invest in delivery of education, delivery and content with dollars as opposed to community development are the ones that will win in the space. thank you for joining us. the ceo of blackboard. >> when we come back, not all boeing union workers are celebrating now that the new contract is in place in seattle. we will speak to one who says it is a bad deal. we will have that right here, when we come back. ♪ >> if it is a good deal for boeing, does that mean it's a bad deal for the union? we will talk to one of the labor unions

michael mckee here in new york and tom keene is in davos, attending the world economic forum meetings. our guest host is scott galloway , a professor of marketing at new york universityff with a brief. >> global risk watchdog, a great business card. in china, a lot of talk about slowing and now ware seeing signs. the manufacturing index signals surprise contraction as the chinese economy slowing down. in europe, the euro area january factory output more than forecast, particularly in germany, 32-month high for the pmi. spanish unemployment stays above .5% for the sixth month in a row -- it hits 20 six percent actually. and united states, earnings before the bell from lockheed martin. -- donald, union pacific after the bell, starbucks, discover, e*trade and microsoft. the question about who is going to be the next ceo. 8:30 a.m. this morning, initial jobless claims, 9:45 a.m., bloomberg consumer confidence and at 10:00 -- we saw falling existing home sales in november and now we will find out about december. >> i want to pick up on microsoft. the ceo discussion is front and center but in terms of what analysts are looking for, anticipating a six percent increase in fu

com and a columnist for the washington times community section in new york we have he is an associate professor at the city university of new york and the co-director of the middle east center at northeastern university and in los angeles we have nick hancock he is on the national outreach team for the tenth amendment center all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it john if i. go to you first you recently published an article the danger of entangling alliances and you ended by saying the fiction that every corner of the earth is a vital us interest and the consequent state of perennial fear together make unnecessary conflict more likely and that is the great danger of entangling alliances why did you write that what does it mean and why now well i wrote that with the fact in mind that we're coming up on the hundredth anniversary of the first world war and as any first year college student can tell you what really cause that global conflagration was a small scuffle. in the balkans and what would have been a relatively small issue in terms of

discussion one that needs to continue mary ellen o'connell a professor of law at the university of notre dame in new york and abraham wagner adjunct professor at columbia university in los angeles new york stop and frisk program had a number of roadblocks this past year first with a high profile trial over the legality of the practice and then with allegations of abuse by individual police officers but with the end of michael bloomberg his reign as mayor and the beginning of build a blasio was where does the future of the stop and frisk program stand for more on that we turn to our key correspondent ana stasia charkha. the n.y.p.d. stop and frisk policy reached the peak of its criticism and controversy during twelve years under mayor bloomberg the stopping and tearing gating and searching of new yorkers on the streets overwhelmingly in communities of color without warrants and often under flimsy pretenses hundreds of thousands of stops need each year human rights groups and advocates have dubbed the policy of moral illegal discriminatory and a violation of civil and privacy rights whereas officials have

. >> i'm from new york university and you have talked a little bit about physical activity and aboutfood and some about sugary drinks but the other piece of obesity might be also thinking about alcohol and we haven't done very much in the city at least about even basic information about what the calorie content is. we know alcohol consumption in the last 10 years went up pretty dramatically. so i just wondered if alcohol is off the table because it might be an even more scary industry to approach not only the alcohol industry but you have hospitality or if it is on the horizon and another place to think about intervening? >> who would like to take that? bea, part of the answer is you have to pick your battles and we looked at the issue of alcohol consumption. it's sort of beyond obesity. if you are talking about substance abuse the first thing that pops to mind is not let's try to do more because of obesity because there are so many of terrible social ills that come from it but in thinking about how to go about sugar-sweetened beverages, how complicated do you want your message to be

discussion when any nice to continue airing on o'connell a professor of law at the university of notre dame in new york and abraham wagner and a professor at columbia university in los angeles. on new york's of interest program in a number of robots this past year first in the high profile trial over the legality of the practice. the allegations of abuse by individual police officers with the end of michael bloomberg's reign as mayor in the dam built in one seo is what is the future city and with a stop and frisk program. for more and then return to rt correspondent on the stock feature. the nypd stop and frisk policy reached the peak of its criticism and controversy during twelve years under mayor bloomberg the os stopping interrogating and searching of new yorkers on the streets overwhelmingly in communities of color without warrants and often under flimsy pretend says that hundreds of thousands of stops we needed each year human rights groups and advocates have dubbed the policy of greece is immoral and illegal discriminatory and in violation of civil and privacy rights fall whereas officials have b

christina beltran who's sew yacht professor of social and cultural naps of new york university and author with unity." and former special assistance to george w. bush thank you all for being here. i want to come to you as jersey guy and law professor in part because we have here a clear statement from governor christie saying i had nothing to do with it but we have these fifth amendment invocations that always feel unfair because you're always able to in evoke the fifth. >> the think that i think is important here you can't say i don't feel like answering, i plead the fifth. there's got to be a possibility of a legal conviction. there is absolutely some possibility that david wildstein and whoever else pleads the fifth they could be charged and convicted on some sort of crime. we don't know what that is. to me that leads to criminal. if we know the people at the top are saying we might have done something criminal and the governor says i don't know about this, the fish rots from the head. that's the old expression. people from the top are doing something very shady. i tomato know what the

discussion one that needs to continue mary ellen o'connell a professor of law at the university of notre dame in new york and abraham wagner adjunct professor at columbia university in los angeles well let's turn now to the latest information coming out about the national security agency on thursday we learned that the n.s.a. is well on its way to developing a new quantum supercomputer this incredibly complex system has eluded researchers for years due to its complexity and its fragility if the n.s.a. succeeds a working quantum computer would open the door to easily breaking the strongest in question tools and the use today including a standard known as r.s.a. meaning that you can kiss your digital privacy goodbye for good no matter how many measures you take to protect yourself now the completion of a project like this is still likely at least five years off but that's not the only computer you should be worried about the other one is your own according to a new report by der spiegel a division of the n.s.a. is intercepting computers and other electronics on their shipping routes and then before the pac

new york and reconstructed. to promote the study of japanese literature, keene has do nighted 2,500 books, records, and artifacts to be housed in the room. for over 50 years, keene was a professor in columbia university in new york, inspiring students with a passion in his field. over a period of 25 years, he wrote his 18-volume work, a history of japanese literature. it's now used around the world as a key textbook in the field. >> first of all, congratulations on the opening of the keene center. >> thank you. >> what was it like for you? >> well, it was rather weird, particularly, because one of my study in new york was taking entirely the furniture, the rugs, on the wall, so i have this strange feeling of being in the present and the past, and the one thing they couldn't send from new york was the hudson river. >> now, thanks to your classes and all your books, i think many foreign students, it's become much easier to study japanese literature. >> especially at universities where there were no person to teach japanese, nobody who was particularly interested in japane japanese. suddenly, there was a book they could get a good idea of what japanese literature was like over 1,500 years of its existen

new york. >>> a university outside of philadelphia is on lockdown after on-campus shooting.are told to stay inside until 6 p.m. while they investigate. a student was shot near the school's athletic center. he was operated on late last night and for now the campus has been secured and they don't believe there is an active shooter still on campus. >>> now to those growing concerns about olympic security. pentagon developed contingency plans in case it needs to get americans out of sochi in a hurry in case of any attacks. police are searching for black widow terrorist who may already be on the ground in sochi. they are afraid she might try to set off a suicide bomb at the games. >>> police say suspects are carrying about 100 phoney credit cards containing account information from south texas. the cards were used to purchase tens of thousands worth of merchandise. so far they have not been linked to the massive security breach that happened at target. >>> new jersey governor chris christie will be inaugurated for a second term as his team pushes back against claims of political

some institutions, like new york university, have as many as a thousand graduate students. that is a lot of people who have begun to organize. it is hard for people who are trained with college educations to join a union. people are starting to say -- listen, unless we have a voice to talk to our employers, debate and negotiate for better terms and conditions, there is a chance. it is interesting to see that happening with people who never would have seen that before. host: let's switch topics. you wrote a number one bestseller based on your years in moscow as a correspondent. what you think of the role of vladimir putin this year, edward snowden, the nsa leaks? guest: i think vladimir putin has been a big disappointment. i wrote a story on perestroika. back then he was the go to guy for western businessmen. he was the guy who was supposed to be modern. former kgb, he spoke german, had worked in east germany. many people thought that he had snuck into west germany and thought that he understood that russia could not compete unless they joined the world. is he going to be th

>> well, bill de blasio has picked it up in new york, proposing universal child care, preschool care lot of studies show can really boost the chances for poor kids going to college and succeeding. i think we're going to see there is a huge opportunity for any national democrat who really picks up this mantle and makes it his own. john edwards, he may have had a lot of problems in his personal life, but he was really ahead of time in raising this issue. thing is a lot of opportunity for anyone who credibly does it in the future. >> thank you, cynthia tucker. thank you, peter beinart. >>> up next, militants take control of part of iraq. and here at home republicans are blaming president obama. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> the united states supreme court has temporarily stopped same-sex marriages in utah. the high court issued a stay while a federal appeals court considers the issue. utah became the 18th state to allow same-sex marriage just before christmas when a federal judge there ruled the state's ban on gay marriage was unconstitutional. since then, nearly a tho

the fifty s he was professor of japanese students at columbia university new york inspiring seriously this passion for his field. tricky age of twenty fine pianist humanities eighteen billion lack a history of japanese into town. it's now used around the wild is a key text that in the field. so congratulations on the opening of thinking and to thank you. what was it like a lady. well you know that we in the tt the decor is the one whom my study in new york was taking our entire him to curse us jackie did for us to reports on the war. tucker had a strong feeling of being in the present and past us and the one thing they could do is send to new york was the heights in denver. no place to cost its own oil but i think a menu foreign students. it's become much easier to study japanese sneak attack. especially at universities where there was no question he's japanese minority who was particularly interested in japanese certainly there was a book that he could guarantee a good idea when japanese literature was like hearing me over fifteen hundred years the statistics the use of this town due

military analysis at the hudson institute and in new york we cross to urban abrahamian he is an author and a distinguished professor of history at the city university of new york all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it richard if i go to you first the interim agreement with the international community in iran is in effect of this week here there was a lot of discussion coming out of the u.s. senate to me there obviously lobbyist groups in washington that were putting casting aspersions let's say on the interim agreement but it's in effect and the i.a.e.a. said already that iran is committed to this it's already done what it's most of what it's committed to do in the initial phases how do you see this panning out. i think that the interim agreement well probably be implemented as specified all the parties have an incentive to do that. he does not appear to be any development that we four see that would cause the process to be disrupted there's of course always as we know in the whole history of this negotiation there always and still are a developments that can cause com

military analysis at the hudson institute and in new york we cross to urban abrahamian he is an author and a distinguished professor of history at the city university of new york all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it richard if i go to you first the interim agreement with the international community in iran is in effect this week here there was a lot of discussion coming out of the u.s. senate to me there obviously lobbyist groups in washington that were putting casting aspersions that say on the interim agreement but it's in effect and the i.a.e.a. said already that iran is committed to this it's already done what it's.

new york. she teaches in the msa program at the new school university in columbia university school of the art and taught cor are a lawrence college in new york. where she was washington irving professor. please welcome brenda wineapple and nathaniel philbrick. [applause] >> on my way over here, nathaniel, i talked about how both of these subjects are, you know, obviously the most, you know, among the notable eras of american history. how could we characterize, you know, a comparatively between your book and brenda's when it comes to, you know, intensity and relevance, you know, where both in the revolution and with the civil war there wasn't very much of a clear future in any era. >> yeah. well, i was thinking about this question, actually, when i heard about the great opportunity to be paired with brenda. and my "bunker hill" begins and ends with john quincy adams, it begins with him at 7 years old, standing on a hill with his mother then in her early 30s on june 17, 1775 watching the battle of bunker hill from a hill about 12 miles away, and later in his life he would record in his journal i

hayden planetarium at the american museum of natural history here in new york, where he narrates a breathtaking new show titled "dark universe." i took my 12-year-old grandson to see it over the holidays and we were mesmerized. imagine, trillions of stars, a hundred billion galaxies and light traveling 100 million years before reaching us here on earth. that very planetarium, by the way, is where neil degrasse tyson, a kid from the bronx, age 9, first felt the universe subpoena him to become a scientist in thrall to the night sky. he's written ten books including this memoir, "the sky is not the limit," and this, his most recent, "space chronicles: facing the ultimate frontier." oh, yes, i almost forgot, "people" magazine once voted him the sexiest astrophysicist alive. welcome. >> that was a few years ago, actually. >> you only got it once. >> i know. >> so no bragging rights, right? but you clearly got more of the star stuff that carl sagan said we're all made of. you just got more of it than we did. >> well, yeah, i've been touched by the stars perhaps more frequently than others. >> but you were just 9? >> 9, 9 years old

and new research shows successful books have a similar style. computer scientists at stony brook university in new york say a computer program can tell them which books will likely be a success. books that fail have a high percentage of verbs, adverbs and foreign words. books that sell use more prepositions, nouns and adjectives. that's your moneywatch. for more go to cbsmoneywatch.com. at the new york stock exchange, i'm wendy gillette. >>> 4:50 on a wednesday. warm dry weather has already contributed to at least one major fire this week. coming up at 5:00, how long the danger will last. >> but first, we'll introduce you to the san jose teenager who just earned a spot on the u.s. olympics figure skating team. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> we are going to see many records fall around the bay area. 74 in san jose. that will be a record. maybe another record day tomorrow, too. >>> and still waiting for tow crews and electricians. this "kcbs traffic" alert is still in effect eastbound 80 lanes blocked at powell. a full "kcbs traffic" report coming up. >>> the 49ers scored more parking at its new stadium in santa c

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