he is a bio-climatologist at columbia university's lamont-doherty earth observatory.elcome to democracy now! it is great to have you with us. so lay out the main findings of your report. >> i think we all know as you warm the air, the warmer air is able to more easily extract water from soil. we know this because a puddle on the sidewalk on a hot day will evaporate more quickly than a puddle on a cold day. so as we warm the atmosphere over a century as we have done, that atmosphere is more able to pull water out of soils and then when natural climate variability causes a drought, as is happening right now and california, the drought is probably going to be worse. but we've never actually put a number on how much worse or how much of the california drought or of any drought is due to global warming. what my colleagues and i did was put the number on that for the first time. we find in the absence of global warming, the drought in california would have been somewhere between 8% and 27% less severe. juan: how are you able to reach that conclusion? >> we used monthly prec

sears optical >>> in a columbia university lecture hall, professor james ballentini begins his chemistry final. >> i have a question. >> mike berry breaks out into song. ♪ you come to class every day and we all fall asleep and we lost all our dreams ♪ >> and it's all caught on camera. ♪ when did we become this way ♪ ♪ i can make the calculation ♪ >> a lot of people liked that video because we all want that to happen. it's disrupting the ordinary day and people love musicals and hate math and science. everybody wants to see that happen in their lecture, but, again, i have terrible skepticism. i'm a bitter, bitter person who watches this and it's like, where is the laugh mic? where is the sound coming from? why is the sound quality so good in this lecture hall? ♪ you must think we only party and drink beer ♪ >> the professor i thought would step in at some point. >> could a couple of students really hold up a huge class right before the final without anyone stopping them? many believed the professor and the students were in on it. but others say the reactions seemed too genuine. ♪ ♪ reach

columbia men are. no women at the time. the university is not radical, the president and trustees are perfectly prepared to stand in the old paths for an indefinite period. there are radicals. when eugene debs spoke on socialism before the students at columbia, the audience that wanted to hear him was so large that none of the university halls were big enough. umm -- all right. the other great center of what is called moderate right-wing, non-revolutionary was milwaukee. milwaukee, wisconsin. the leader there was a man named victor berger. german born, a teacher, politician, newspaper editor who in the 1890's formed a social democratic society of milwaukee with close ties to the populist movement and trade union, american federation of trade unions in milwaukee. and brought his group into the socialist party in 1901. berger said socialist have to win the trade union, the skilled craft union. and to win elections and local offices and that's the way to get to socialism. run candidates for offices. and when you get into office, you govern i

next, andrew dolkart of columbia university speaks on the history of the commission and the obstacles it has faced over the years as well as the criteria and process for designing a landmark. the skyscraper museum in new york city hosted this program. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ms. willis: welcome. i'm the founder and director of the skyscraper museum. i want to welcome you tonight to a lecture that will elevate the the 50th year anniversary of the landmarks preservation commission and is occasioned by the book that is the catalog for the exhibition called "saving place" which is on view at the museum of the city of new york. through september 13. i hope you will go see that exhibition. andrew dolkart is the co-curator for that exhibition, and he has a very long history with new york city landmarks and architectural history. i think this has gone off now, has it? all right. andrew is a good friend of long-standing, as we

list a miller from columbia university teachers college and the author of the spiritual child. lots to talk about. >> fantastic to be with you. christina: we connected on a spiritual level. it's a human thing, regardless of what religion you are, to be spiritual. >> absolutely. every single person on earth is born spiritual. spirituality is part of our birthright. it's innate. if we look at twin studies, twins raised together and apart, one-third of how spiritual we are was set from the day we were born. christina: we see studies where younger people are losing their religion, so to speak. the term being religious, it's kind of changed along the years, has it not, especially all across the world? we see atrocities and murder in the name of religion. it's become charged. >> it's a shame. there are two-thirds who are profoundly spiritual through their religion. so religion quite unfairly is getting a bad rap. many people, most people, have a deep personal relationship with their higher power, and derive deep values of goodness through their religion. that said, there are about on

researchers from columbia university put that to the test. they divided people into three groups and found the only ones who lost weight were the ones who skipped break fast for four weeks. researchers do admit more studies are needed for that. i can totally see why. >> maybe not start the day with waffles and bacon and eggs. a protein shake might be great. maybe some scrambled eggs. >> eat every three to four hours, that's the best way to be. >>> hotel rooms will be scarce when pope francis visits the united states next month. there is one unique option still available in philadelphia. you can bunk on board the uss new jersey. >> that's an interesting thing to do. haven't done that before, right? the historic battle ship is offering bunk beds stacked three high for $75 a night. the ship is docked a short walk from the ben franklin bridge from philadelphia. >> so they're saying you get three beds for $75 a night? that's a good deal. stay tuned for continuing coverage of the pope's visit. for more, head to nbcnewyork.com. >> tonight, starting

. >>> columbia university wants a out. paul nungesser is suing the school for discrimination claiming the school did not protect him from being labeled a serial rapist. he says a one time friend called him a rapist and protested sexual abuse. and he says the university shamefully bows to social pressure and turned its back on him. but columbia university doesn't see it that way. and asked the federal judge yesterday to dismiss that lawsuit. >>> we have exclusive video of the moments after the front of a restaurant collapsed in westchester county. cbs 2 was first on the scene. and an employee climbed through the debris, worried someone was trapped underneath. from largemont. >> reporter: utility crews have cordenned off tequila sunrise. a popular mexican restaurant in largemont closed for business. >> it is pretty popular and people sit there and they eat. >> when the restaurant's parapit came crashing down bricks, wood and concrete rained on to the sidewalk and crushed the tabletop. cbs 2 lou young happened to be in the ar

for more, we're joined now by gary sick of columbia university. he served on the national security council under presidents gerald ford, jimmy carter, and ronald reagan, and was the principal white house aide for iran during the iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. he recently wrote an article for politico called, "the danger of a failed iran deal." professor gary sick, welcome to democracy now! good to have you with us. what is the danger of a failed iran deal? >> basically, we've had two years of negotiation that have been remarkably successful and produced something that is complicated, but nevertheless, solves the problem. if that is turned down by the u.s. congress, basically, the united states is on its own. the best -- the rest of the world does not have to go along with this. we are basically saying, we throw that out. the chance of renegotiating it is close to zero. as the situation evolves, there's a very real chance of conflict. that would take us back not only where we were two years ago, which was when mr. netanyahu was standing

. >>> columbia university wants a lawsuit thrown out, claiming it did not protect a student from being called a serial rapist. paul nunguesser is suing the school for discrimination. he says a one-time friend called him a rapist and carried a mattress around campus to protest sexual abuse. he says the university shamefully bowed to social pressure and turned its back on him but columbia university doesn't see it that way and asked a federal judge yesterday to dismiss the lawsuit. >>> we have exclusive video of the moments after the front of a restaurant collapsed in westchester county. and cbs 2 was first on the scene, and as an employee climbed through the debris outside of tequila sunrise, a popular mexican restaurant in largemont. the restaurant's paapit came crashing down yesterday afternoon. luckily no one was hurt. thanks to a passerby who noticed the crack in the building. >> i told the bar tender. he came out and saw it and the people sitting outside went in. >> they moved them in? >> yes. >> you probably saved their life. >> i guess, yes. >> the cause of the crash remains unde

radley horton of columbia university. hi. >> hi. how are you? >> fine, thanks. when people talk about climate change, what are they referring to exactly? >> climate change refers to a whole series of changes that can happen on our planet -- warming of the atmosphere, melting of ice on land, warming of the oceans. and when we talk about climate change today, we're talking about the impact of human activities -- the burning of fossil fuels like coal and oil, changes in land use. since the start of the industrial revolution, we've increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by about 40%. because it's a powerful, heat-trapping gas, that's caused temperatures to go up. it's causing ice to melt. it's causing sea levels to rise. >> why all the controversy? >> i think there are a few reasons why there's controversy. one issue is that there are very powerful interests who don't want to have to change their actions today. we have seen an active campaign attempting to undermine the climate science and make people confused. i think that's part of it. but part o

reporter: the changes were spurred by high profile assault claims, such as those made by a columbia universityssault student. she vowed to carry around a mattress as long as her rapist attended the same school. >> it's a crime. it's wrong. >> reporter: the white house estimates one in five women has been sexually assaulted during her college years, of those assaults only 12% are reported. last year the white house announced the it's on us campaign to stop sexual attacks on campus. >> city by city, state by state, this entire country is going to make sure that we understand what this is about, and that we're going to put a stop to it. >> reporter: new regulations also require training for personnel and notifying victims of their rights. >>> going green to make more green. businesses look to be more environmentally friend. >>> and jeb bush hits back at donald trumps immigration plan but not before stirring up controversy over his own choice of words. ♪ >> i lived that character. >> go one on one with america's movers and shakers. ♪ >>> the debate over immigration is once again causing anger in t

. >>> new at 6:00 tonight, a warning for students and teachers at columbia university. police releasing these photos of a man accused in the string of on campus thefts. a $2,500 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest. the crimes happened this month. >>> thieves dressed as surgeons take a look at the video here, showing two people dressed in scrubs and surgical masks. police say they targeted a bronx cell phone store wednesday at a metro pcs store on castle hill avenue. the suspects approached an employee behind the cash register demanding money. they stole $200 from the register. 22 cell phones and 6 tablet computers were also stolen. >>> this man late for work 100 times but will keep his job. that's the decision from a new jersey state arbitrator in the case of a tardy teacher in new brunswick. tonight in a cbs 2 exclusive, the teacher defends himself. cbs 2's andrea grymes spoke to him and students, too. >> reporter: at roosevelt elementary school, student anna dominguez said she liked her third grade math teacher. >> he was a nice teacher. he g

of columbia dolkart university speaks on the history of the commission and the obstacles it has faced over the years as well as the criteria and process for designing a landmark. the skyscraper museum and new york city -- in new york city hosted this program. ms. willis: welcome. i'm the founder and director of the skyscraper museum. i want to welcome you tonight to the lecture that will elevate the50th year anniversary of landmarks preservation commission and as occasion by the book that is the catalog for the exhibition called "saving place" which is on view at the museum of the city of new

. >> reporter: rosalind morris is a professor of anthropology at columbia university. >> violence against women is not uncommon. so, one finds a kind of intensification of that violence directed against black women for not conforming to ideals of femininity, on one hand, and for appearing to betray a black cultural or a black national cause. >> reporter: while muholi's work has been celebrated and embraced by art critics around the world, some of her more explicit and revealing photographs have led conservative politicians in south africa to criticize her work, calling it immoral and offensive. your work has been met with criticism or controversy. how do you respond to those statements, those sentiments, that push back? >> when i'm being called a black lesbian controversial photographer, they basically say, "continue to do it, because you are doing the right thing." >> sreenivasan: about 40 million americans wear contact lenses to correct their vision, and how much the lenses cost is now the subject of a courtroom battle. a recent federal appeals court ruling temporarily allows discounter

he was a professor of neurology at the new york university school of medicine, as well as columbia universityhis study of the brain informed his books, including perhaps his most famous, the man who mistook his wife for a hat, and" awakenings ," which was made into an oscar-winning 1990 movie starring robin williams. sacks knew had cancer had spread and his time was limited. in an op ed piece, he said he had been a thinking animal on this beautiful planet and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure. >>> in virginia, friends and family came together for an interfaith memorial service to honor those two television journalists killed on the air. as brian yen reports, the families of both victims are planning their funeral services this week. ♪ >> reporter: the symphony orchestra was the sound track for today's memorial service for the journalists murdered on live television. the service included a video montage, images seared into the public consciousness. >> seven is not only the identifying number of our hometown station, it is also your expression of completion expressed i

california, and columbia university found cingdz gartners who had -- found kindergartners who had a larger vocabulary at age two were better prepared academically and behaviorally. >>> this was anything but a routine traffic stop. a dash camera from a seattle police cruiser shows officers helping der livea baby. an officer pulled over the driver for speeding and running a red light. the driver opened his door and shouted his wife was in lake. the officers hopped on the radio for an ambulance but the baby girl was born on the side of the road before it arrived. both baby and mom are doing final. >>> two female army rangers are about to make history. they're on their way to graduating alongside 94 men from the army's elite ranger school. it's the first time in the army ranger's 60-year history that women have been admitted to the course as part of a coed training session. >> carrying the ruck sack which is pretty heavy, running missions, learning how to do patrolling in different types of environment, none of that is aided that the students probably average between two and four hours of slee

recent stud fry columbia university medical center shows women diagnosed with ovarian cancer, are now0% less likely to die from the disease, than women diagnosed decades ago. >> i know what was done for me and how my case was handled, and i feel lucky. >> doctor jason wright's research looked at nearly 50,000 women with ovarian cancer if 1975 to 2011. >> they're living with the disease for longer and longer periods of time. as we have new chemotherapy, new drugs, new ways to deliver drugs for ovarian cancer? when doctors discovered her cancer it, had spread to other organs. >> i didn't want to talk to anybody. i wasn't going anywhere. you know, because you think you're going to die. >> but after month of targeted chemotherapy, she has recovered. >> there is life after cancer. and while lorna is not cured, she's now been cancer free for two years. marlie hall, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >>> 5:50 right now. a statue in western pennsylvania honors fallen police officers and now that statue has a partner. >> ♪ >> yesterday's dedication paid tribute to pittsburgh police k9 rocco. he was kil

. >> begin with the study from columbia university. scientists there saying climate change caused by us made our drought worse. how did that happen? what's that connection? >> california had kind of a double wham

well, now a new columbia university study shows that may not be the case.lines have been based on speculation, not fact. new dietary guidelines are the basis for shaping school lunch menus and other government food programs. >>> a panda bear in china gave birth to four cubs last week. the cubs have passed a critical seven-day period which shows whether or not a newborn panda will survive. look at how little they are. so far they're doing just fine. this according to breeders. they're eating well. they're gaining weight normally. check out what they're doing. the care takers are massaging the cubs bellies with cotton balls. i want to volunteer for that job. >> i know. >> i want that job, right? >> they're so little. isn't that just amazing. >> i know. >> now for a look ahead. nik wallenda, king of the high wire is at it again. he is bringing his tight wire act to the wisconsin state fair today. wallenda will attempt his longest ever tight rope act just over 1500 feet. he's going to do it 10 stories above the milwaukee mile racetrack. >>> happy birthday to th

with me i have someone from the columbia university. what are the importance of the election.he choice that the people are facing? >> after years of domination by the pack is family which was a surprising change in 2015. now the voters have been given the opportunity to change that. he needs the parliament that he can work with does the president. so the question is whether the election will produce a majority for a political grouping that the president can work with, or whether it's going to be a hung parliament where the boll of power in the legislature is difficult which will create problems for the president to work at the helm of an effective government. >> reporter: how critical is that choice as sri lankans come to the polls today in terms sri lanka's future journey? >> it's critical. it has implications for constitutionalism and democracy it. has implications for ethnic relations think. relations. the minorities had a bad time under the rajapaksa regime and they are looking to the president con doll saying power in parliament and has significant implications for develo

our sponsors, columbia university, of course, c-span, city sightseeing, barnes & nobles, wnyc, wkcr.i'd like to finish by reading a quick letter. dear mr. rodriguez, congratulations to the harlem book fair on 17 years as the largest african-american book fair and the nation's flagship black literary event. i am thrilled to be able to sponsor hbf's initiative give a book in your name and provide books to children in harlem community where i was raised and educated. the best gift you can give to a child is a book. reading not only builds their vocabulary, improves their listening skills, it develops and stimulates their mind and helps them discover new things. as a child, my mother encouraged us to read every day. she kept our book shelves filled with books. if i read them all, she had me read them again. books opened my mind to many possibilities and allowed me to dream and later the make those dreams a reality. if i did not know how to read, i would not be where i am today. i would not have done well in school, would not have known to read, to understand, to follow directions, to fil

he is a graduate of columbia university and earned his law degree from the university of california,'s undergraduate from princeton university, and he is currently the chair of history and african american studies at the university of houston. he's joining us from raleigh, north carolina. turner is on the phone from california on our line for independents. good morning to you. caller: good morning. i would like to thank the professor for nailing it on the head and observing the condition of black lives is like the canary in the coal mine. blackout of black students,s prevented black-and-white, from learning about the real history of slavery and racism in this country. i am quite sure he is aware in formedr. carter woodson black history week due to the lack of information about the contributions of the african americans to this country. when people are complaining the situation with black people, academically they have no knowledge of it because it was not taught. host: we will get a response. thank you, turner. guest: i think the caller makes a sound point. is a member of the editoria

by motherstudy in jones and it's a columbia university cooperated study.shows gun ownership state by state in the u.s. the darker the state, the more gun ownership. this, which is alaskaed in the journal, has 62% of adults saying they own a firearm and delaware is at the bottom with just 5%. jack is calling in from to gunee, we are talking owners only in this first segment and looking for ways to prevent gun violence. caller: good morning, a number of gunshot guns, rifles -- i have a different take. there are a series of things rather than one or two. enhance to really sentences when criminals commit a crime with a gun and we don't. there are many criminals using guns that are not sentenced for the gun use. we should sweep the ghettos where people are arming themselves to the teeth and doing drive-bys. we should have gun education in schools. if sex education and domestic violence remediation education is worthy, certainly people uneducated about how to use guns should be educated. use of looking at people on parole or probation and former convicts, these

columbia university, $66,000. university of chicago at nearly $65,000.you want to pay a lot of money, that's where you're going, if you don't want to pay a lot of money, the least expensive states, the most expensive schools in the states are university of wyoming, $25,000. north dakota, 26,000. the university of alaska at anchorage is 27 and change. this is tuition, room and board, not pizza and beer. >> you have to factor that in, gerri, come on! >> almost complete. any wonder student debt is near 1.2 trillion dollars. one of the most interesting things, 23 out of 50 states have schools that charge $60,000 a year or more. >> that is incredible! i'm shocked nau didn't make the list. i went to a cheap school but got a great education, i don't think you have to go to an expensive school. >> i think you are absolutely right. if you're looking at the list and worried you think holy cow look at the price tags, think of this as the sticker price, okay? that's my message today to parents and students alike. you can negotiate these numbers. don't call it a nego

in new york columbia university. and the university of chicago, the home of a lot of economists at $64,000 and change. even if you look at the least expensive colleges on his list, we are still look at very expensive schools. the university of which, 25,000. 23 of 50 of these schools charged in excess of $60,000. that number blew me away. it's no wonder total student debt is $1.9 trillion. you should regard these prices, they are a sticker price. they are a suggested price. the smartest moms and dads are negotiating these numbers. what we are seeing is some of these entering freshman classes are smaller than they used to be. there is a lot of competition. i don't advise you have calling it a negotiation but you can express your interest in the school but say i can't pay that number. i want to go but i can't make it. gregg: the director of admissions unrelated to my children told me they will work with parents and if they say, we can't do this even though we are over the threshold level of income, they will find a way

. >> begin with the study from columbia university. scientists there saying climate change caused by us made our drought worse. how did that happen? what's that connection? >> california had kind of a double whamny. 2013 was the driest year on record. 2014 was the warmest year on record. here we were already two years into drought. any residual moisture just gets baked out of the soil by that excess heat and sucked up by the plants and it's gone. setting the stage for worst wildfires, tougher to grow things, all these drought impacts become that much worse in that situation. in reporting in the past, i've tried to ask the question, yeah, but how much worse does this actually make the drought? nobody really had an answer. >> they say it makes it worse how? there's less water in the ground and all that. but does it make the drought longer, does it make the temperatures -- how is it worse? >> it's sort of a vicious cycle. like hotter means drier. and then it just gets cranked up, you know. >> but they're not saying that climate change cau

in the 1950's, people from columbia university were investigating how come the navajos do not have cancer? guess what. open inilings were left arizona as well as in new mexico. whothere are so many people have cancer. columbia,ia in maryland, originally from new mexico. do you want to talk more about the downstream effects here? guest: yeah. i think some of those comments are right on the money, as far as the concerns people in the west are feeling. it is the year where we have seldom thought more about water in that colorado river basin, from a water quantity standpoint. the drought in california. beyond having enough water, now that this has focused attention on the quality of the water. when you see the river that is as peoplef your city, into rangle did last friday, it is horrible to see it running the color of mustard. an agrarian community, where it is settling into ditches and has yet to be flushed out. gina mccarthy said that nature has begun to clean itself -- sure, there are natural healing the sedimentat deposited along riverbed contain heavy metals. they are doing a lot of mon

guest: i bring the issue up because, having spent years in academia, when somebody goes to columbia university, that is a big jump. it would be informative to find out how that occurred. when you hide something like that, it makes people suspicious. al hunt: i am not sure what was hidden. let's move on. cut inpose a 10% spending across the board other than defense. orst: whether it is 10% another percentage, it has to be across the board. we have difficulty getting things cut in washington because everybody has a pet project. al hunt: cutting social security 10%? all programs or parts that support that program. let me tell you about social security. the way it works, as you know, we will run out of money in the late 2020s. we need to do something to stabilize it. 63.average age of death was and now, we have approached 80. would you raise the age and cut benefits? thet: i would offer people ability to opt out of the check. only certain people would be able to take advantage of that. there is 20% who could take advantage of that and that would alleviate a lot of the strain on the program and giv

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and we think of you as columbia university. my columbia tie. stuart: stay there for a second. waiting for the flag to be raised. that will be a historic moment and we're going to cover it and you will be right there. >> wonderful. stuart: i want to turn to the pga. let's turn to golf, why not? dustin johnson is in the lead, he's six under. he played yesterday in the morning with the wind. by the time the big three teed off at 2:20, the wind was up and the scores were lower. i think the story about the pga for everybody is mcilroy versus jordan spieth. we've got a shot. watch this, this is the 5th hole. that's rory. now, that's not a bad shot, i'd say. >> i'd take it every time. stuart: and that is very, very shallow water and wades into it and gets his feet wet, chops out of it. >> his ankle looks fine, it looks good. stuart: do we have greg norman on the line? >> we do, indeed. stuart: how are you? >> i always figured you would have played a lot of shots out of the water. stuart: oh, very funny. it must be friday. humorous. [laughter] all right, if we don't see rory and jorda

some of that money will go to biogen and columbia university will use it to map genes in clinical traitsf 1500 people with als. those are your top stories at this hour. softbank just announced increase -- an increase in their shares of sprint will stop there's a battle for the future of the american highway between technology copies like uber, apple and google. even the chinese search giant i do. they are trying to acquire the the roadiled maps on as our own cory johnson reports. there is a car race underway here -- pitting traditional carmakers against silicon valley, getting self driving cars on the road first. and maps are the tool in this race. >> it's really about getting from a to be. maps are transitioning to being something embedded inside the car. it's going to become a component in a car that will go from a to b and help the car drive. cory: it's also knowing everything in real time. so why would the m w, daimler and audi team up to spend $3.1 billion to acquire gnocchi a's map division? because the car makers are afraid of ceding control to the likes of apple and google. >> th

matt: that was columbia university finance professor charles calomiris. come, shall emerge a slumber j is buying. is --s a sign the oil business is a bust? ♪ matt: welcome back to the bloomberg markets day. miller with alix steel. in a week of high anxiety, news for commodities has been unsettling. the bloomberg commodities index sank to its lowest level on monday since 1999. it is been a cool summer for oil and metals. bloomberg's alix steel joins us for more. alix: how bad was it? matt: it has been rough. alix: yeah, and oil has taken the brunt, down 33% since memorial day, but it was the whipsaw action -- the run-up in march 265% and we have been trading at $45 a barrel. $65, and now we have been trading at $45 a barrel. matt: inventory is lower. that is a good thing if you want crude prices to go up. alix: yes. we did not see a product build. at some point, too much product, your margins stink, and you stop using crude and not work as hard. these data points start rattling the markets. matt: am i the only person in the world looks low commodity prices

ben: here is what looks like on a seismograph from columbia university's lamont doherty observatory according to their seismograph at the palisades you can see the small but obvious joel on the right-hand side. quakes are rare in our area at, the usgs is monitoring quakes about twice a century, this on a separate shaking scale registered 4 which means it could wake some people what it was that strong and could shake buildings and cars. juliet: we move on for the first time in half a century the american flag will fly at the newly reopened u.s. embassy in havana, cuba. ben: john kerry will be at the event that the white house is to normalise ties with cuba which some accused of history of human-rights abuses. he is not slated to meet raul castro or former president fidel castro who claims the country is owed millions of dollars in damages from the u.s. caused by that half century embargo. kerry: signs of life, the rubble inside after two explosions in tianjin killed 50 people. 32 hours after those explosions the firefighter was rescued after being buried alive. the explosions happened in shipp

. >> john studies the affects of natural disaster at columbia university and says the official deathl from katrina is far too low. he thinks more than 3500 people perished because of the storm. the reason it's hard to get a final number is because some people were, at first, deemed missing like tonette jackson, while others died after being displaced from the storm. >> if you were trying to escape and you rolled your car and died in a car accident the day before, that wouldn't have happened otherwise. and then how many days afterwards do you keep counting? if you died because of the exacerbation of an existing condition, something you would have died of any way, maybe even a few weeks later, should you be counted? there's no uniform standard. >> john mutter has made a list of every death related to katrina, using records from the state, media, and asking anyone out there who knows of a person missing or dead to send him information which he then tries to verify. ten years later, and he is still compiling that list, still counting the dead. >> it's a moral issue. we know how many peop

and columbia university's professor on new york's architectural landmarks and the history of the commission created to protect them. it is sunday at 5:00 p.m. on c-span. a program created by the johnson administration to help improve relations between the police and the community in washington dc after the martin luther king if it -- assassination and subsequent riots. q&a.sunday night on kurtar-old college student has been visiting the graves of u.s. presidents and vice president since he was nine and documenting his adventures on his website. he talks about those visits and his interest in american history. >> the one great site that everyone has trouble -- grave site that everyone has trouble getting to is the nelson rockefeller one. >> how did you get to a? >> we were able to get to it by what my father describes as an act of god. my father saw that this gigantic tree had fallen. he went in and actually sought nelson rockefeller's grade and decided that he would have to get me there fairly quickly after that. >>kurt >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on ame

this week, columbia university history professor eric foner discusses the rise of socialism in america in the 21st century. professor foner discusses the socialist party in new york city and milwaukee and the campaigns of eugene debs. this class is one hour and 10 minutes.

davenport is being held at columbia university medical center. ken? >>> the search is on this morning for a man accused of raping a 7-year-old girl on staten island. the twist here is this. he had been in police custody following the incident but he was released. eyewitness news reporter dray clark is live at the precinct to explain how it happened and good morning. >> good morning, ken. police had daniel nieto in custody but not long enough. he was placed under arrest for trespassing. it was after his release that police learned of an alleged rape of a 7-year-old girl. here is a look at daniel nieto. police say he broke in a namely's home through an unlocked backdoor, went to the 7-year-old girl's bedroom where police say he raped her. the family discovered nieto inside their home and called police. by then he ran away. police found him a short time later, close to the family's home. detectives had him in custody for trespass being but it was later on that they learned that the 7-year-old had claimed that nieto raped her. so, we have been showing you

for the work in progress award is sponsored by harvard university nieman foundation and the columbia university school of journalism. this very important book is now out with reviewers rightly recognizing its tremendous importance and merit. we are so moved by the publication of last. and take a look at the reviews we just posted a few of them on the table of books and we are so very fortunate and happy to welcome our dear friend took the stage. [applause] i don't know if those of you that don't know me well, but the people that have been waiting for the book to come out they've made a 12 year process and i'm very grateful for anyone i know who did it about me or didn't say out loud that they doubted me. so first of all, thank you for that beautiful introduction and for allowing me to have my book launch event such as been an integral part of my life for the last 25 years it's an honor. and good evening to all of you. i see many, colleagues and my family here tonight and there are many of you i don't know and i look forward to getting to know you as well. before i begin, there are few people he

this week, columbia university history professor eric foner discusses the rise of socialism in america in the 21st century. professor foner discusses the socialist party in new york city and milwaukee and the campaigns of eugene debs. this class is one hour and 10 minutes. prof. foner: this is called the american radical tradition. we started with the american revolution and have been going through the abolitionist movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement, now we are entering into the 20th century. in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of a lot of labor unrest, industrial workers of the world, the women's suffrage movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things. but today, our subject is the socialist party. the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. on a reading list, the chapter by michael casing gives a good quick summary of this moment in the various kinds of socialism at that time. from 1860 at least

sacks was a professor at columbia university. he wrote dozens of books based on his study of the brain. he book awakings was turned into a movie of the same name. in the movie, catonic patients were given a drug then woke up before reverting to a nonresponsive way. >> in a way the reality was not quite as sad as the film and one of the patients who is still alive in fact, came along to the set, they said hey what are you doing in 1990 before it was all over in 69 she's still going strong and she actually did a scene with the duo. >> reporter: in february, sacks wrote an off bit pit saying his cancer had spread and that his time was limited. in that piece he wrote quote i have been a sentient being, a thinking animal on this planet and that itself has been an honor and an adventure. >>> craven's family says he passed away this afternoon in his home in los angeles. the so called horror maestro was known for his his work on nightmare on elm street and scream. he also wrote a musical known music of the heart. craven leaves leaves beh