. >> what is your position at johns hopkins? >> i'm a professor of health policy and management. i direct the center for gun policy and research there. i'm also deputy director for research for this and our prevention of youth violence. i've been there for almost 24 years now on the faculty devoting most of my time adding violence and ways to prevent it. >> how did you get interested in gun policy? >> actually when i was a doctoral student at the johns hopkins school of public health in the late 1980s and early 90s, i can't bear not to study violence. i was interested in other issues related to preventing injuries broadly and sort of looking for something that seemed to be important to the public south. at that time our country was in the mid-federal epidemic of gun violence mostly involving the use and in baltimore it was particularly acute. we had nearly 400 murders one year that i was doing my doctoral studies. it was apparent to me then that this was the issue. this was a leading -- leading killer of many groups and really a reason why we have -- at least men have a huge disp

johns hopkins professor daniel toad --, todes is the author. you're watching booktv on c-span2. >> booktv is on twitter and facebook, and we want to hear from you. tweet us, twitter.com/booktv or post a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com/booktv. >> there was an ecosystem of liberalism which doesn't exist today which was quite important to the story of building pressure on congress by 1964. and so there's a lot of examples in the story of how this worked. the march on selma is a very important example of this. lyndon johnson unlike the depiction in the movie and i can talk about this later, was fully in favor of voting rights. the administration was working on a bill and negotiating with the senate, but he wasn't prepared to send the bill to congress yet. he was scared in january of '65 that he didn't have all the power everyone said he did. and if he did that too soon that this bill was going to fall apart. and part of what the movement did in selma, part of what king the legislative strategist does is to build that pressure through the

i actually got a call from the president of johns hopkins after the new town shooting. he had an idea of doing precisely what we did that was brilliant based on experiences he had. like 9/11, katrina in those events that gripped the nation decisions that policy makers are faced with. and he had great success to bring people together to do this quickly to give a scholarship into the hands of policymakers. . .

johns hopkins professor n.d.b. connolly with a real looking at? >> it was in the state archives, one of to three dozen telegrams sent to the governor from the residents of north miami it was concerned when a landlord would open his apartment building to the half black residents. carver village was considered to be a genuine threat but it was eventually bombed by white vigilantes' working together who tried to drive out black residents and the neighborhood was named little korea. that telegram connects the history of vigilante violence with property rights and property values. and acting in the interest of risk miami homeowners. >> host: did telegrams and other actions lead to legislation? >> but the greater problem was en 1951 as a way to alleviate to make it more attractive but a 1947 with african-americans who excelled to whites to the local county commission. >> in your book, "a world more concrete" real estate and the remaking of jim crow south florida" what is your goal? what you try to explain? >> there two big pieces to this story. one is t

and then, finally, the cia sent a private jet in with a trauma surgeon from johns hopkins university hospital. and they flew him off to a secret site. >> when do you first hear about the program, as i believe they called it in the agency? am i right about that? they called it program? >> i went back to headquarters in may or june of 2002 and i heard about it i think it was probably the middle of august when i first heard it. from a colleague who i had served in pakistan with. >> and you hear about it as sort of water cooler chat as a formal briefing as -- >> water cooler chat in the hall. yeah. that zubaydah had recovered from his wounds he was not cooperative, and that they were going to waterboard him. >> what is your feeling at the time about the program? like what is the feeling in the halls? like do people know this thing's existing. do they know that you're hearing it thirdhand? >> 99% of the people in the agency had no idea that this was

generally speaking, basic science arrives in places like hopkins, in the minds of scientists and engineers. but, transforming basic science into technology that we use that usually is the result of war and military needs, so much of our technology stems from military applications, atomic energy jets microwaves, radar chemistry. all of these are results of military investments over the years transforming laboratory ideas into technology. sometimes it's technological progress, but it's not just technology. so much of the modern world results are military ideas. take for example, planning to read the profession of planning is a military profession, army's plan. engineering, do you know an engineer was someone who built weapons? today we have civil engineers could distinguish themselves-- a joke in the mac in the engineering profession is civil engineers build the targets and other engineers knock them down. engineering is a military field. bureaucracy. bureaucracy for better or worse grows from military organization. our world is a world built by war. >> what do we learn from our civil world-

. >> postal worker ken hopkins says this neighborhood has been on his route for two decades until a coldmonth, he'd never seen a fire here. >> had smoke coming out. >> he rang and knocked on one half of this duplex and then the other. >> the dog is barking the first time i rang it about 10 times and knocked on the window and rang the doorbell. he didn't answer it. >> he went back to the other half. no answer there either. he didn't think anyone was home back on the other side. but -- >> someone told me we'll try again. walk across the street and get away from the house. fire up in the window upstairs. so didn't answer the door. >> save my brother's life. >> this is the sister of 20-year-old aleksi who is the man that hopkins had woke up. he had been sleeping heavily while listening to music and even the family's dog la-la's barking didn't wake him. >> he had his earphones on that day and he didn't hear nothing. >> revas said it was hopkins' frantic knocking the second time that finally woke her brother. yesterday, hopkins was honored by both the postal service and the prince george's cou

. >> host: professor lester spence of johns hopkins university is the author of "stare in the darkness: the limits of hip-hop and black politics". university of minnesota press publisher. >> every weekend booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on c-span2. keep watching for more television for serious readers. >> from time to time the washington post will publish e-book on topics their reporters cover. here is a collection of some of those books. in the case against bill cosby the coast interviewed five women who accuse bill cosby of assaulting them. it looks that court records from a previous case against the comedian. next up profile of the 36th president, lyndon johnson, and a look at his legacy in the great society. also on the list is a collection of pulitzer prize winning articles on the impact of food stamps on a small town's economy. >> to see what other e-book squashing compose has published a visit washingtonpost.com/e-book s. >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and doctors every weekend. booktv television for serious readers. >>

we are at johns hopkins adversity.n the increased demand for long-term care for the elderly and a current caregiver system can handle it >> good evening. you can do better than that. good evening. we should start with all of you giving ourselves a round of applause for coming out on a cold winter evening to talk about aging and caregiving. give yourselves a round of applause. [applause] we are so thrilled to be with you tonight to celebrate the official publication date of the age of dignity. ..

doing his work all the wage -- behaviors believe people like john watson who got his start here at hopkins the behaviorists believe that to be a science psychology should forget about the inner world because that couldn't be studied objectively and instead should just focus on visible things like behaviors. so they interpreted pavlov in their image and for them what was important was this physiologist who was talking about conditioning word that he never use but are bided supposedly the physiological basis for mechanistic acting out a behaviors. but pavlov was not a behaviorist behaviorist. he was a russian who was deeply steeped in russian culture. as a young man he worried about the problems of human morality. he read dossier of ski and he was deeply steeped in russian discussions about human morality, human nature and what science can do about it. so actually what he was trying to do was as he put it to study the psyche in order to understand our consciousness and its torments exactly that inner life that the behaviorists were paying no attention to. now back to the dog and the bell. as

trip to to corpus christi, texas to bring you the area's literary scene as well as a visit to johns hopkins university to talk with professors for our college series. on "after words," journalist toby around done recalls his time embedded in afghanistan. stephen brill and dr. ezekiel emanuel discuss the health care system and mark krotov of melville house talks about the book publisher's decision to release the senate intelligence committee report on torture. for a complete television schedule booktv.org. booktv, 48 hours of nonfunction books and authors. television for serious readers. >> and now on "in depth" on booktv walter isaacson. the best selling author of several books including biographies of albert einstein benjamin franklin, steve jobs and henry kissinger took viewer questions for three hours. mr. isaacson is a former chairman and ceo of cnn chairman of the broadcasting board of governors and was the editor of "time." he currently serves as president and ceo of the aspen institute. >> host: so, walter isaacson what is theat link between avril hourlyman, ben franklin, steve jobs

the author is john hopkins professor n.d.b. connolly. professor, thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. >> daniel webster, how many illegal guns are in the united states today? >> very difficult to estimate. some have estimated in the range of 250 million guns. >> legal guns. >> legal guns. >> handguns, shotguns et cetera. >> and probably more than not. >> how many illegal guns? >> that is very difficult to determine honestly. anything an analyst at market by definition is difficult to measure. i think it also gets confusing about legal and illegal guns. most of our guns are legal, meaning that if the possessors not prohibit it, the gun is

. >> i want to let people know i'm paige hopkins with breaking news. reports of the new shooting in copenhagen and police are released some information for us. the danish place say three people were shot. one shot in the head and two police officers were shot. i believe one we're hearing were shot in the arm. the gunmen fled the scene. and this is a breaking story. it is not clear yet if this is connected to an earlier shooting in which one person was killed and several others wounded in an attack at a free speech vent. we're still waiting to hear more confirmation about that. so right now we don't have a connection. but joining me on the phone has been clint van zant. clint is the likely these gunmen, we county kndon't know one or two. is it likely they would leave a sign or mark or something to let the police know that if in fact it is a terrorist group they can tech credit for it? is that something they would be looking for? >> i think that is legitimate statement. normally when we see these terrorist groups commit atrocities like this, they want to

>> we're very proud of the jobs hopkins care. [laughter] also mentioned the capacity building, but to dig down was the most pacific impact? that gave the possibility to respond as you have? where the weaknesses revealed from the civil war in health care initiative? >> i have of the question regarding if you have any comments such as the forces and also with the imf and ministry of health to be excluded from the initial planning? >> repeat that one. >> with the ims they met in the did you were excluded. >> this was during the first week of october with the planning talks. >> to be and not included. >> spin that was a very interesting sort of moment of evolution. we will come back for another round. >> i am with the defense department working on a surveillance program. acyl break started what did you find was the best message board disseminating information not only health care workers but to the general public and how deeply and to provide information as we approach? >> we use multiple channels of communication. at 1.we reusing ra

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john lipsky is a senior fellow at the johns hopkins senior farm policy institute and a former first deputy managing director for the international monetary fund and he joins me in studio. dr. lipsey, welcome back to bottom line. john: good to be here. mark:, we were just talking about -- mark: we were just talking about the situation between ukraine and russia and world leaders trying to navigate that. they will hold talks in belarus beginning on wednesday. ahead of the negotiations, the european union decided today to does -- to hold off on imposing more sanctions. our diplomatic efforts working echoed are the sanctions working? -- are diplomatic efforts working? are the sanctions working? john: many believe it is keeping russia from obtaining funding from abroad. it is computing to the russian economy weakening. right now, russia is looking at a recession this year. mark: peter also mention that chancellor merkel was asking about greece -- was asked about greece, and perhaps she did not want to get into that. germany is the biggest european contributor to greece's bailout, so the germans

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creighton and georgetown, mikael hopkins can't get it. but check isaac copeland. towers over everyone. meanwhile, the blue jays are ice cold and georgetown took advantage. the g town goes on to win 67-40. g and rhode island in a nailbiter. -- gw and rhode island in a nailbiter. gw loses 60 9/5 -- 69-55. some early action this saturday in montreal. montreal goalie carey fife was on fire. multiple opportunities to score but could not get past them. braden was also outstanding. a good look. he has 29 saves today. montreal has some numbers right here. they only a goal of the game. round three of the way for managing open. the ball would eventually roll into the cup and fans start throwing beer cans, no flowers beer cans. i guess it makes sense because it is super bowl weekend in phoenix, arizona. george mason falls to duquesne. dugan virginia was everything we hoped for. >> except the final score. [laughter] exactly. couric's a woman who spend -- >> a celebration tonight for a woman who spent decades helping the less fortunate. mother mary read celebrating her 90th ea

>> and then behind. >> i'm from johns hopkins and we're very proud of you at hopkins. >> thank you. >> you mentioned and many people have mentioned the weak health system and, of course, there was a civil war and you mentioned also the capacity building initiative after the war, the basic package. i'm sure you reflected and it would be really interesting to hear your insights on digging down, on what were the most specific impacts of the war and the health care building initiative that gave the possibilities to respond as you have? what were the strengths that were built into the experience and conversely what were the weaknesses that were revealed from the civil war and then the health care building initiative? >> thank you. could you just hand the microphone right behind and next to you? we'll take the two of you. >> thank you for this presentation. i am with the international crisis group. i have two questions. the first one is regarding your role during the acute crisis phase. do you have any comments on the control measures such as the role of security forces and also how did the

we are on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore talking with professors who are authors and joining us now is andrew cherlin. professor cherlin would you do at the university? >> guest: i'm a professor of sociology. i teach courses on the family, demography poverty children's welfare. >> host: and you are chair of the sociology department? what does that mean? >> guest: that means i get to toss around a lot of people who have lifetime tenure and tell them what to do. >> host: we want to talk to you about your book "labor's love lost" the rise and fall of the working-class family in america. how do you define a working-class family? >> guest: it's pretty hard. it's a family with a guy who was working a factory or a construction job in the wife staying home many working part-time in a couple of kids. that is what the working class was like in the 1950s and 60s at its peak. you can't define it these days because it has fallen apart. that's the issue here. what we have seen over the last few decades is the decline in the deterioration of a distinctive kind of american family, th

the hopkins brothers set of the brickyard in the 1850's. they spread all over the area. even though will follow -- the font -- l'enfant planned it, it did not go through. it was a big field. hopkins brickyard was in the way. they had to knock some of those out to put the avenue through. some of the prominent early residents into the 1870's complained the smoke from the council -- kil was coming into their homes at nightm, so there was an act of congress to close the brickyard. this is how things looked until 1871 when congress passed the organic act which gave washington a residentially appointed governor, henry cook, legislative assembly, and a house of delegates. it also created a five-member board of public works of which alexander shepherd was on the board. the governor was the director of the board. shepard was so strong and imposing that henry cook stopped going to the meetings and shepard got his way. he is probably best known at the time for his citywide improvements which involved paving streets laying sewer and drainage, lights, planting trees . but he was very

johns hopkins sociologist andrew cherlin is the author here's the cover. >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail to booktv@c-span.org, tweet us @booktv or post on our wall facebook.com/booktv. >> and while in corpus christi we spoke with norman delaney whose book "the maltby brothers' civil war" tells the story of two brothers who ended up on opposite sides of the civil war. >> in regards to the civil war it was a brothers' war. it was such a great tragedy in all, too that divided so many families. but as far as the personal relationships, they remained very very close as it had been before the war and would remain afterward. you know that cliche blood is thicker than water, and i think it really holds in the case of, well certainly the maltby brothers. my book then, "the maltby brothers' civil war," concerns three of these brothers. henry maltby, he was the second brother, second son of david maltby from ohio, and he he originally came to texas. he wanted to establish the newspaper "the ranchero," so that was when the younger broth

now, generally speaking basic science arises at place like hopkins. it arises in the minds of scientists and engineers. but transforming basic science into technology that we use, that usually is a result of war and military needs. so much of our technology stems from military applications. atomic energy, jets, microwaves, radar, metallurgy, chemistry. all of these are results of military investments over the years transforming laboratory ideas into technology. sometimes those get beaten into flow shares, and that's -- plowshares, and that's technological progress. so much of the modern world results from military ideas. take, for example, planning. the profession of planning is a military profession. armies planned. engineering. do you know that an engineer was someone who built weapons and fortifications? today we have civil engineers who distinguish themselves from their militaristic brethren. in fact, the joke in the engineering profession is that civil engineers build the targets, other engineers knock them down. the field of engineering is a mil

that is first and second degree attempted murder. >>> research from johns hopkins shows e-cigarettes can affect the lung's immune system and they also generate the same dangerous chemicals found in tradition a.m. cigarettes. this comes a week after health officials in california declared e-cigs a health threat. >>> we end with breaking news. the commissioner of the food and drug administration dr. margaret hamburg is expected to step down. "the new york times" says the white house will announce her resignation tomorrow. hamburg has been on the job for almost six years. the fda's chief scientist is expected to fill the position until a new commissioner is named. mike, andrea? >> thank you, nick. >>> whether it's the kids at the bus stop or if you happen to work outside today, cover exposed skin. don't let this morning fool you. it's warm now. this afternoon it's going to be much, mitch different. >> fur -- much, much different. >> north and west, the winds are starting to kick in. north and east, eight not bad. the cold is marching southeastward as we speak. day planner shows temperat

john hopkins from the clinic are his team. this well erases the -- the fact that he'll be a figure wet. there is a number three guys, and the son with a defence minister. >> as part of the transition, they have named a crown prince. we know, effect, who the next king will be. is it important? into well, it's important we know him. i think they make two announcements. first, the crown prince. the youngest son of king abdullah, and the end of the line of king abdullah. also they have designated the minister of interior as the deputy prince and the second deputy prime minister, so the number three position. not a guarantee of succession, but at the powerful signal that they are ready to move to the next generation. >> is it important to signal and unleash a fight among many sons. >> it's important that king salman sent a signal of stability at the top, over the next 30 years. prince mukran was a fighter pilot, training at cram well undergraduate. he went to montgomery. he served as the governor for 20 years. the governor of medin

john hopkins doctors believe they may be able to help. >> i put my hands on face and sobbed. >> he's a fighter. i'm amazed every day by truitt. >> unfortunately he needs a especially equipped plane to make the journey cost of that combined with arrangements for two full time nurses could cost up to $30,000. a go fund me page is already set up to help make that trip possible. >> all right time to check tickets. winning numbers in for the 394 million dollar powerball jackpot million dollar powerball jackpot. this is sixth largest powerball of all time. by the way cash option for tonight's jackpot comes out to more than 256 million bucks get tickets ready here are numbers again melissa. five ten 1 34 58, and powerball is 33. melissa did not extreme. >> this is last weekend for philadelphia auto show. there's plenty of time to check out your dream car. future vehicle prototypes. thousands came through the pennsylvania convention september to check out the scene there. the auto show continues through tomorrow. check it out if you can. >> more than a dozen cadets ovlly joined wilmington fi

if it sounds in the year, that is because in the past year we have seen similar mixups at johns hopkins and m.i.t.. >> rapper vanilla ice is under arrest tonight. robert van winkle is accused of stealing from a florida home that was in foreclosure. he was renovating a home next furniture, a meter, bicycles all taken from the home during december and february. the police say some of the stolen items were recovered on vanilla ice's property. >> not nice, nice, baby. [laughter] there are 80 items inside of the oscar nominees' swag bags, worth $125,000. some of the items are unconventional. there is a three night vacation worth more than $11,000. also on the list, several expensive sex toys and luxury condoms. >> all righty. >> and we lead into the weather with that? [laughter] we have a lot of cold weather on the way -- tim brant, you better stay back there. [laughter] i'm going to get out of here quickly. >> good move. >> 48 the average this time of year. tim i will bring you in front of this wall one of these days and you will have fun. the temperatures right now, 18 degrees gaithersburg

, and fred reeka bipedy, senior fellow from the school of advanced international studies of johns hopkins university. the last time you were here you argued against giving defensive weapons to the ukranian army. has what has transpired given idea? >> not yet, i'm afraid. i support the idea that petro porashenko laid down, having international peacekeeping forces in ukraine. that would be an excellent idea. more so, developmental context, mistake. >> here we are, arms continue to pour in over the russian frontier, even though russia doesn't acknowledge that they are russian weapons, giving an venge to separatist forces. they outgun the national army of a country maintaining borders and territorial integrity. >> it's clear that the rebels, took the last chance to connect the two. this would be their last chance it's also true that the ceasefire was not only one. it is holding everywhere, but in this particular city. it's true that both parties are starting to withdraw heavy weapons, it's not a completely dark picture. petro porashenko has not pictured that that bad. we need more time, but w

there is a 16-year-old science prodigy studying cancer research at johns hopkins! 16!t am i doing?! i'm eating cake! hey. no, no, no. cake! cake! cake!

we're on location at johns hopkins university in baltimore talking with professors who are also authors and joining us now is andrew cherlin. what do you do here at the university? >> i'm a professor of sociology in the school of arts and sciences. >> host: and what do you teach? >> guest: i teach courses on the family children's welfare. >> host: what does that mean? >> guest: that means i get to boss around a number of people who have lifetime tenure, and i can't tell them what to do. [laughter] >> host: so we want to talk to you about your book, "labor's lost love: the rise and fall of the working class family in america." how do you define a working class family? >> guest: it's pretty hard. used to be easy. it was that family where the guy was working in factory or maybe a construction job, the wife staying home maybe working part-time with a couple of kids. that was what the working class was like in the 1950s and '60s at its peak. what i've found is you almost can't define can it these days, because it's really kind of fallen apart. that's the issue here. what we've seen over the

i'll bring in on the phone ron hopkins from septa headquarters, good morning are you there? >> yes bob good morning. >> morning. give me idea exactly tell our folks what's happening? we have downed wires across one of the regional rail trains? >> yes we had an inbound train over 500 passengers coming from warminster. and pass rosalynn station we did have the wires come down and the train became disabled. so right now we have a train that's standing without power you know, on our warminster line. >> now, ron, what's the game plan here? i actually received a tweet from one of the passengers on that train who said that they're sitting here stuck. and the back and forth with her couple of times. she said the mood is kind of calm. everybody is calm, cool and collected. they were told that their wires are on top of the train. now, are those wires hot? are they live at this time? >> the wires are live, i mean, we have weaver de-energized but still have power in them. until we grounds the wires the safety of the people on that train are top priority. you know our crews are very, you

some of the president's proposed laws are meeting resistance in the tech community >>> at the johns hopkins computer science department fall is showing the professor the signs he's made. he's hacking into devices used in hospitals, and making them safe from other hackers. >> the medical devices are everywhere connected to networks now. nobody has really done much work looking at the security of devices, trying to prevent the legacy devices. >> it's not just medical devices. more and more of our lives are networked. all too often with safe disorders. under proposed hacking legislation, they could be prosecuted for exploring net work vulnerabilities. >> there was proposed legislation. there are many others - liable for prosecution for attempting to find weaknesses for those with bad intentions. they are proposing to make things that are already criminal more criminal. i don't think that will solve the problem. they are also sharing information with private companies. >> reporter: about all of us. >> about all of us. there are problems. they are collecting a lot of information. now there'll be

. >> before coming to philadelphia truett has an appointment at johns hopkins then he'll make his wayre to see a specialist at chop the first week of april. >>> if you had less than year to live how would you spend that time? high school student in detroit is spending it helping others specifically young children. fox's amy andrews shows us exactly by the young man is an angel on earth. >> my cancer i could die at any second and there's nothing anybody can do about it. >> reporter: doctors say 15 year old connor may not have much time left. >> i was diagnose with carcinoma of the nasal cavity and cranial cavity. it only happens to 60 to 80-year-old men. i'm the only in the united states with this. >> scared to go in the room to wake him up many not knowing if he's going to answer you or he'll be gone. >> reporter: the high school sophomore refuses to let stage four brain cancer slow him down despite the grim prognosis. >> just because you got cancer doesn't mean you can live your live to the fullest every single day. >> reporter: instead of focusing on how sickly chemo makes him or ho

hopkins said obviously, you build it on wheels. twice a year you drag the horse. my not make the horse large enough so you can put all of the members of congress in the horse? [laughter] stop saving transportation costs. because you're such a wise body and so important, you must have very important papers, so let's build a little closet for the papers of the united states in the horse's rectum. just to let you know, these were rather earthy people. [laughter] well, it never happened. no horse. although the statute itself does appear on peter l'enfant's plan in 1791 and we now have the equestrian statue off the campus of george washington university. it did not occur because congress actually did start its move from princeton as part of the compromise was two federal towns, the two temporary residences. every time it comes up, there is a major fight about where it will be. the temporary seven seat of government would be in annapolis, which the new englanders thought was fine because a lot of republicans who believed in various theories that went beyond self-governm

as i discovered not far from my home in washington at the johns hopkins university applied physics laboratorynowledge gained building compactics complex systems like spacecraft and missile warheads to push the envelope in upper limb prosthetics. this is the modular prosthetic limb. this has been designed to have most to have the functionality of the human limb. >> chief engineer mike introduced me to the modular prosthetic limb the mpl the mostly sophisticated modular limb in the world. >> the arm has 26 joints controlled by 17 different motors. so it can do just about everything that you can do with a natural limb. one of the few things it can't do, if you're a star trek fan, you uh won't be able to do this, but other than that, we can pretty much do everything. >> star trek isn't my thing anyway even though many people think i stole my name from chief miles o'brien. like every other advancement in technology the imus the for innovation was war. a generation ago, soldiers were coming home from iraq and afghanistan alive but more seriously maimed. meanwhile, upper limb prosthetic technology w

another notable thing in the neighborhood was hopkins brick yard. hopkins were two brothers from georgetown who set up a brickyard in the 1850s. as you can see, they just spread all over the area, because even though la fant had planneded it, the streets didn't go through. it was just basically a big field. so when they were extending massachusetts avenue, hawkins brick yard was right in the way, so they had to knock some of those out, put the avenue through, and then some of the more prominent early residents into the 1870s were complaining that the smoke from the kilns was coming through their homes at night so there was an act of congress to close down the hawkins brickyard. this is basically how everything looked until about 1871 when congress passed the organic act which gave washington a governor, presidentially-appointed governor, henry cook legislative assembly and a house of delegates, and it also created a five-member board of public works, of which alexander vause shepherd was on the board. he wasn't the director of the board. actually, t

now joining us is a professor of the history of medicine here at johns hopkins, daniel todes. or faster togas, when you teach the history of medicine, to whom

hopkins with the dunk, but it was all st. johns. phil greene had six threes. here's one of them with the leftwing. st. johns rolls 81-70. the hoyas' three-game win streak is over. >>> number 2 virginia hosting virnlgt. who is that masked man? that's london peranis, broken nose. he plays through. virginia tech up three. uva responds. stepping into it, virginia would come back and take the commanding lead. then late going, malcolm braun steps in. he had 19 points for the afternoon, as virginia improved to 27-1, as they could be running for the final four come march. >>> west virginia, bob huggins trying to take out number 19 baylor. but this is not going to help. gary brown injures his ankle, done for the day. that's a tough blow for west virginia. baylor, prince with 20 points. baylor goes up by 16. royce o'neill gets his three- pointer, as baylor cruises, 78- 66. >>> well, the wizards are looking like a team that doesn't like to play basketball right now, dropping six straight, including two to two of the worst teams in the nba. tonight, home to detroit and gu

we've been showing ourive shots now i want to share with you beautiful sunset our crew brian hopkins and steve rudin got at thompson's boathouse across the river in georgetown. beautiful sunset. look at the colors in the sky and a close-up. now we're past sunset and getting dark. let's go back to now the even colder riverside frozen over. here's steve rudin. what are you looking at? >> it's cold out here now that the sun is done. you can see behind me the river is frozen and it will stay like that for the time being. we set recor early this morning. boy, was it cold out there? long standing record when they took the temperatures downtown d.c. 1896 that's when the temperature dropped to 8 degrees on this day. this morning, we dropped down to 5 degrees. b.w.i. marshall, broke the record old record at 4 and 1 degree. that is the record low for today. nothing at dulles. we have a whole lot more on the way as we move through the weekend. winter weather returns. doug hill has more on that. >> here's our deal going into the weekend. even though we don't expect huge numbers snowwise in the m

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. >> doctors at johns hopkins in baltimore have released one of the students. the others are in fair condition. >>> today prince george's county county police officers went to check on a woman at her apartment in the 9500 block of edwardsway and found her unresponsive inside. she had trauma to her body and was pronounced dead a short time later. police have not released any information. >>> another metro train is out of service after a smoke incident this afternoon. this is cell phone video inside the dupont circle station. you can see smoke between the platform and red line train. a problem with the brakes is to blame. no one was hurt. metro did not evacuate the station. firefighters stop people from entering the station for a short time. >>> a d.c. elementary schoolteacher out on his own recognizance tonight facing two counts of child sex abuse. special ed teacleroy ware admits he touched the genitals of one of his 4th graders. on his facebook page we found dozens of photos including several of him posing with d.c. politicians. the 9-year-old boy went to his

we've already given more than 175 million free >>> i'm page hopkins with breaking news.ooting in copenhagen. the associated press is reporting that three people were shot, two of them police officers. the gunman fled the scene. nbc news is working to confirm details. it is not clear yet if this is connected to an earlier shooting in which one person was killed and several others wounded in an attack at a free speech event. we'll continue to follow the story for you and bring you more news as it develops. now we're going to take you back to our programming. >>> extreme risk. >> it's crazy. that is crazy. >> at dangerous heights. >> if you fall from doing that, like, your friends are done. >> cheating death with every move. >> urban climbing, an understated name for a death-defying activity. climbers scale tall structures and document every dizzying moment. >> any security guards working in the russian building know their building is liable to be approached by one of the people who wants to get to the top. >> then they post videos of their adrenaline-pumping stunts on the

. >> reporter: at the johns hopkins computer science department paul is showing his professor the progresse has made. he has been hacking into desighses used in hospitals around the world, but then making them safe from other hackers. >> these devices are everywhere and contacted to networks and patients right now, and nobody has really done that much work on looking at the security of these devices and trying to prevent especially the legacy devices from being attacked. >> reporter: from cars to our home's power supplies and beyond, more and more of our lives are networked all too often with minimal safeguards. but under proposed anti-hacking legislation announced last month by the obama administration it is researchers like martin who would be arrested. martin's protess or thinks he would be safe from prosecution, but he is not sure. and he knows that other white hat hackers could be liable for prosecution for attempting to find weaknesses before those with bad intentions. >> they are proposing to make things that are credit card criminal even more criminal. they are proposing to share i