. >> reporter: jeanette garcia, an ibm chemist in san jose, thought she made a mistake in the lab. what she made was a brand new kind of plastic. >> plastics. it's a great future. >> i was really excited about this, because i had made plastic clearly. >> reporter: clearly a new product that could help our environment because it's recycleable and this new plastic is super strong and cheap to make. >> they are very inexpensive and start out with inexpensive starting materials. to i would envision that they would find a way into everyday constumer products. >> reporter: it's the kind of discovery that comes along once every few decades. though it took a while for jeanette to figure out what she made, it could be a legacy that changes everything from the way we build to the way we bag groceries. >> definitely proud of my work, proud of the paper, and really excited for the field to see it and to start having discussions with people about it. >> reporter: there is a future in plastics. thanks largely to the work done here. scott budman, nbc bay area news. >> it's still early, but the sc

jeanette said she has not seen evidence of that. >> it is about civil rights. if my child and your child is worthy of a laptop. this is 2014. that should not happen. >> let's have this conversation here with us is mark moriel. mark, good to see you. can we have some straight talk here? >> let's talk. >> let's do it. did america replace segregation with the brown decision with a second-class integration. >> i think what we replaced segregation with is legal segregation, 50 years of resistence by many for the full implementation of the brown decision. where we are today we have a society and nation that while we've made progress in many areas look at us, but a nation that is still divided all too offer by race and often, i would add, by class. 60 years after brown our schools are still in need of dramatic change to fulfill the promise of brown, and that was that all children receive an equal education. >> i want to know from you as someone who fights these battles every day what is the resistence specifically? what is it that you run in to when you put these issu

the chief executive has told the financial times that more internet regulation could hurt jeanette startups. >> a european privacy headache for digital search giant google. the eu ruled that the citizens have the right to get objectionable links removed from search engines. they expect to be swamped with requests from the 500 million citizens that will need to be dealt with individually. form givingll in a reasons for having certain information not turn up on searches. while saying they're willing to comply, chief executives have not been enthusiastic. eric schmidt told the company's annual shareholder meeting that they struck the wrong balance between the right to know and the right to be forgotten. criticizelarry page what he said was an extra layered of regulatory complexities. although google had the resources to deal with it, this would make it harder for internet startups to succeed and make it easier for to radical regimes to sensitive civilians. but the law only applies to search engines with business headquarters in europe. results can still turn up on websites operating overseas.

. >> words don't always come easy for jeanette taylor's son, michael. >> i was -- i would not like them here or there. >> she hopes one day they'll read together effortlessly, but worries her son's education is suffering because consolidation doubled the size of his school. >> what is behind this? >> you're profiting off the poor, closing schools to bring charters so give them a signee new building, lap tops, it's not overcrowded. >> in the face of a $1 billion budget shortfall, the chicago school board voted to close 49 poorly performing and under used schools in the economically high crime south and west sides. >> save our schools! >> the decision sparked outrage and protest. this week, a coalition of civil rights groups filed discrimination claims with the department of justice and the office of civil rights against school districts in three cities. newark, new jersey, new orleans and chicago. the groups contend that charter schools, which are publicly funded cherry pick students and inflate performance figures by kicking out poorly behaved students. one alleges that chicago. schools

. >> words don't always come easy for jeanette taylor's son michael. >> as a single mother of a specialeeds student they hope to one day they can read together effortlessly. but she worries that his education is suffering. >> you're figuring you at how to close schools so you give a shiny new building, a bunch of laptops and it's not overcrowded. >> reporter: in a budget shortfall, the chicago school board voted to close 49 poorly performed and underused schools. only a handfuall but a handful d in the southwest sides. >> the groups contend the charter schools publicly funded but operate independently cherry pick students and kick out poorly-behaved students. one complaint alleges that chicago public schools is deliberately setting schools up to fail in order to close neighborhood schools in african-american communities. it points to data in which .6% white students were effected and 87.6% black students were affected. >> they're taking art and physical education as online classes. they can't even take physical education. that's a civil rights issue. >> proving discrimination can be tou

area certified nursing assistants as possible violence has spiraling out of control. 48 year-old jeanette chapman recently was returned from disability of fair mall hospital in san leandro that's after she says the patient sexually harassed and beat her all shoes and the shower back in november that she is one of the dozens of speakers scuttle the talks rally in oakland are mourning the will be demanding that the lme the health system and hospitals throughout the bay area and prove their safety measures when it comes to protecting employees from violent patients. >> : i love working with patients and taking care of them but i did not find the physically and >> : in the union represented her and her colleagues are pushing the army and how that system to have contracts standards addressing workplace violence does include metal detectors wanting my absurd security cameras and limiting access after visiting hours. you'll hear more about this tonight at 11 at including whether not she plans to contest continued to work as possible. tie at 11:00. happening now president about in the bay area to

except for, of course as some of you know, congresswoman jeanette rankin from montana. and i've always thought that a book needs to be done about her, because she was first woman elected to congress, she was in congress in 1917, was one of the few, one of the 50 who voted against entry into war, was immediately voted out of congress. she was in the wilderness for many, many years and then was reelected in 1940. and then in 1941 she's again confronted with a war vote. and she said at the time, she says i cannot send young boys to fight in a war that i can't go fight in myself. she was extremely thoughtful, and, of course, it cost her her political career, because she was out of politics by 1942. she didn't seek re-election in 1942. but she's the only one. everybody in the united states senate, everybody in the united states house, everybody across america, you didn't find anybody who said we should not retaliate against the empire of japan. now, some people try to -- but this is not our entry into world war ii because the japanese attacked pearl harbor which, and also wa

jets correspondent reporting from jeanette says that those words you just heard from flooding including stunning pro russian separatist they're currently having holding crisis meetings to discuss up their position following line of putin's announcement the government in kiev accusing clinton of selling hot air could move by the way also claims that he'd pulled its forces from the border. although both nato and the white house saying they have no evidence of that so far. after six months of political turmoil it's not yet clear whether the ouster of thailand's premier will ease tension the constitutional court for seeing much and want to step down over abuse of power charges. the opposition first was a litre reform or deputy prime minister knew what time ron bowden some ice on it instead. vowing to press for the june elections i need to be nice the recourse to live their lives over six months of anti government street protests could not. the constitutional court's order prime minister in optional ones this time daddy. after finding her guilty of abuse of power. she transferred to senior c

in the winter of 1997, you jeanette, mci and ddn, key members of the commercial internet exchange let the router which was the first commercial interconnection point. similar incidents continued into this decade. for example, in 2005 level three terminated peering arrangement with cogent and a 2008 coach of terminated its peering agreement with collegiate. we're also aware of more recent disputes have erupted between comcast and level three in 2010, in between cogent and comcast and verizon earlier this year. rather than the peering out right, these disputes seemed to involve the degradation of service arising from congestion at peering point, particularly during peak usage times. and with such disputes as a backdrop, the fcc has received a number of points of view on the manner in which the current traffic exchange are or are not working. to one question might be this. are these disputes just business negotiations that can be resolved adequately in the marketplace, or are they a warning sign of a breakdown of the functioning marketplace on the internet? we don't know the answer, are

jeanette taylor says she doesn't see evidence of thax. >> we live in a segregated city.f your child is worthy of a laptop, this is 2014. >>> last night president obama met with plaintiffs from the brown versus board of education case, including joy. back in 1951 she took part in a student walk-out. she protested overcrowding and separate but unequal conditions. the n.a.a.c.p. took up their cause, combining with four others. she joins us for the weekend conversation segment from richmond virginia. i can't tell you much i appreciate you waking up early to join us. you and hundreds of your fellow students at high school walked out in protest. what were the conditions like. what sparked your decision to walk out. what sparked - parents attended pta meetings, trying to get us a better school. we had hand me down books, we had no gymnasium, cafeteria. there were teachers teaching and the auditorium. we only had one in the lap. we didn't have the materials. we had tried to get a better school. what they gay us was tar paper shacks that they said we had to go to school in. when

by a group of gunmen identifying themselves as representatives of the south proclaimed people's jeanette's republic and was shot down four hours later with all flights suspended the road leading to the airport is currently cordoned off we were stopped around one kilometer before the airport itself and we were told that gunmen are still inside the airport also occupying the territory around the airport including the runaways while the ukrainian military surrounding them and the negotiations were currently under go in and then all of a sudden we saw first one and then two other ukrainian fighter jets overflying this area shortly after that we heard shots apparently someone from the ground tried to fire at the spider just quickly after that we saw three ukrainian military helicopters they were flying very low and they were moving towards the airport and just minutes after that we heard firing even the sounds of explosions of course a very dangerous escalation of what has been going on here and of course concerns are very high about how it may and. the war and we have notion of the risk analys

example is for the last few years i've gene to cold spring laboratories forks are those who follow jeanettes ticks, the wellspring of a lot of interesting work. just to talk to some graduate students about how society and science and the media work together, and a direct connection to policymaking there. but it's a little like -- i think as science and technology affect us more and more quickly, that should be part of the curriculum, and we're seeing that shift in medicine. medical school educations are more holistic approach. journalism education. that would clue entrepreneurialism so you can figure out how to make a living. so educations are shifting and the scientific education should as well. it's got to come from that side. the policymakers, it's hard -- you need someone to go to them. they don't necessarily come to you. >> are you seeing enough of that conversation happening? should be doing it but is enough happening to make the most necessary changes? at least from the policiesmake -- poll policymakers' side. >> generalizing for the university -- a biodesign at arizona state universi

additionally, i appreciate the dedication of the subcommittee staff, jeanette james, deborah wadder, craig green, dave giaceti, colin bossey and our two academic fellows, dr. ellen johnson and matt vandeshear. we are great for their professionalism in the prodigs of the late john chapla. thank you, mr. chairman. >> chair now recognizes ranking member of the subcommittee on military personnel. gentle lady, ms. davis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank mr. wilson and the committee staff in particular for working in a bipartisan manner to develop the mark. i really appreciate all of their efforts. the mark continues the committee's focus on sexual assault. the chairman's mark includes two more provisions in addition to several provisions that were already included in the subcommittee mark, and these include a requirement for the secretary's concern to establish a confidential process by which a victim of sexual assault may appeal to the board for corrections the terms or the characterization of a discharge or separation from the armed services and requires the secretary of defe

jeanette reyes from our affiliate is in laurel. >> reporter: good morning, carol. been out here all morning. but with the sun coming out, can you get a better idea of what's going on here. i want to get out of the way so i can show you this massive flooding on a major road here in laurel, maryland. if you take a look at this car dealership not far from here, half a dozen cars completely surrounded by water. i just talked to the dealership owner, and he tells me it's a complete loss. all of those cars are useless now. about $150,000 in losses there. now, back to those evacuations, they're under way. currently about 100 people have already taken shelter at the robert j. depetro community center not far from here. hundreds more are expected. i want to explain why this is going on. it is due to the rainfall but somewhat indirectly. they had to open up seven gates of a dam here. so that's why this is happening. they're telling us those gates will remain open indefinitely. no word on whether or not this will worsen. but of course, needless to say, they're asking people t

reports about military movements around the nearby city of constantine located just off the road to jeanette's we were also able to get a comment from a witness in kramatorsk let's take a listen. well tonight there have been alarm sirens sounding all over constantine of in witnesses say there's been shooting there's also word that army vehicles could be regrouping near kramatorsk or somewhere else around here then set off for donetsk in kramatorsk where i am now the military has withdrawn from the city center but it still remains on the outskirts and some are guarding the airport outside the city people are afraid of the army now the troops used to be more careful when moving around but now they're becoming the de chastain's drive through and should regardless of anyone stand in their way. the violence has been erupting in other cities in the genetic region as well on sunday there was fighting around a train station near slavyansk and there have been reports of sporadic shooting on the city's spirits overnight artie's paula slayer's in the region following all the recent developments for us. d

gunmen identifying themselves as the reprise and steves of the self-proclaimed people's independent jeanette's republic just four hours later it was closed with all flights suspended the ukrainian military surrounded the area immediately and the operation to free this strategic location is started shortly after that and on top of what we've just been talking about there's more news just coming in we're hearing the leadership of the self-proclaimed people's republic of donetsk says there's been a large number of civilian casualties in a shootout with ukrainian soldiers near the airport that launches come through as well so it looks like there may well be more casualties on top of the thirty five others that we've already been talking about tonight also three civilians have reportedly been killed in the nearby city of slovyansk one of the main targets of kira's military operation in the region. yes you know i just want you to. leave the latest pictures that came through from the scene from marty's video agency roughly local self-defense forces there say the army opened fire on a residential area

identifying themselves as different presents to absolve the self-proclaimed people's independent jeanette's republic had just four hours later it was closed with all flights suspended the ukrainian military surrounded the area immediately and the operation to free these strategic locations started shortly after that well too much to speak to the head of the ukraine mission from the organization for security and cooperation in europe or this latest set of troubling developments in donetsk this is what she told us. it's the sort of course of great concern that's you know there is a un human rights commission in the country and they are reports the rights press several of these have after reading. the escalating violence in these comes home from the heels of the presidential vote of course confectionery billionaire petro poroshenko as the most likely winner judging by the early results still coming in he's already come out in support of the military crackdown on proton army forces earlier discussed the chances of easing the tensions between kiev and the east with viktor figural a clerk he's an

activists have occupied the regional prosecutor's office am raise the flag of the self-proclaimed yet jeanette's republic local health authorities say at least fourteen people were injured artie's paul asli witnessed the assault. violence has erupted here in front of the prosecutor's office as you can see people are breaking up chunks of pavement and throwing it at the security forces and at the fence as a crowd has got their estimates going off as you just heard people are very very tense here it was a demonstration that started the relatively peaceful people gathering to say and show support for the people's republic of timid they're being marched here to the prosecutor's office same if they want to hear the same kind of statements coming from the surface which is usually. quite supportive of here right now we're hearing people saying fascist fascist accusing people here are supporting the fascist regime it. doesn't look as if the police are trying to much to control the crowd at this stage over windows and on the first floor have been broken up and as you can see stones everywhere i mean we'v