bill nye, the science guy. dr. nye, gd to have you with us. appreciate your time. this is fueling the conversation we haven't had a whole lot of in the media as of late. who's right, who's wrong? your thoughts? >> well, i strongly believe in climate change. not because it's my opinion, it's the opinion of a lot of professional people. further more, it's reasonable to me that the fires in colorado that is the dehydrating of the forest and the extreme temperatures across north america are consistent with all of the models of climate change. in washington, d.c. on friday, there was a 30 degree fahrenheit drop in temperature in less than a half hour. and this is evidence of extreme weather. this is a big storm. this is a storm that knocked out the power in the world's most influential city. and there's nothing to do about it. this is bigger than we are. so this is a chance for us all to pull together and address climate change, to all get together and work to make our energy distribution systems more efficient. >> what do you say to the critics? this is just one of tho

there's no bow tie wearer cooler than bill nye the science guy. >> oh, the coolest. >> bill, bill, billbill, bill! >> here is bill nye, the science guy, teaching to tie a tie. >> in this case, he's teaching chris hardwick. chris hardwick is a television personality known for shows like "attack of the show." >> left over right. you want the one that's dangling from the right to be just a wink longer, like a seam width. >> an actual scientific measurement. >> make an overhand knot. bring the one from the left over like this. just a knot. the same knot you'd start tying your shoe with. bring this one back. this is key. one thumb doing this. this one comes over the top. the other thumb is poking the middle of the bow back through there. >> they make it look so easy, but it's not. it's not. >> now we must, as we say, dress the knot. >> all right. >> you have to snug it by, pull it tight, pay attention. make it take on the bow tie iconic shape. >> i don't think i'll ever be able to do it. >> what we learned today is the way to tie a perfect bow tie in your own home is to have bill nye come ov

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. >> just a few blocks south of here is the nu nye governor's mansion. al smith lived in there for eight years or so during his career here. what was life like for al smith at the governor's mention. >> hectic. >> would he walk up here to the assembly? >> he would walk. he would walk up here. in fact, when i worked for the legislature, worked for an assemblyman up in his 80s who remembers the governor -- used to tell me these stories. he remembered the governor walking over from the governor's mansion to the capitol. he'd stop him and say, do you go to school with my son? probably son arthur. yeah, yeah, i do. the governor would joke with him and everything. he was very much, i guess you could say, just a neighborhood guy. the mansion, of course, had five children. its own zoo. this is true. he had a zoo. >> was it there when al smith got there? >> no. he brought them all with him. a lot of things were given to him. he had a bear. he had deer. he had elk. at one point somebody gave him an alligator. >> why? >> he had all this stuff. smith always loved an

but not bill nye. bill nye the science guy is in los angeles. morning, good morning. >> thanks for being here. bill, we were struck by this image. i'm sure you've seen it. it shows nearly all of greenland's ice sheet melting. nasa was so stunned by these images they thought they made a mistake. help us understand why this is so significant. >> well, the climate models, these are mathematil computer models of what happens to a planet like ours. you expect the poles near the north and south pole to show signs of this kind of warming first or sooner. and i think this is so extraordinary it took everybody off guard a little bit. but greenland always melts a little bit every summer but this year it melted almost completely and that was stunning or surprising. but what it means to me is that the climate models associated with climate change are true at least at this level and so we should all be very concerned. >> these pictures we're seeing now, this is what resulted from all of that ice melting. there was this bridge in greenland in an area around s

. >> she kept saying i have a nye. i have a knife. i was like what do you want? she wouldn't answer me. i said don't you dare fight with a 75-year-old. i will give you everything back. >> reporter: and she did. the fighting moved to its basement. at one point the suspect had a knee on her neck nearly choking her. she said the suspect pulled out a knife, she didn't stab her but the force left her with several stitches, inside and outside her mouth. a neighbor saw her dog out and the front door shut. >> i rang the bell and she didn't come and i rang it again and she didn't come. then the dog was kind of -- strange cry so i ran -- rang the bell a third time and just standing there and then after a minute she came up and she was bleeding. >> reporter: the suspect left out a back door. her glasses were found and money but $40, her wallet and a cell phone are gone. she has been here 28 years after all this she is making a change. >> nice -- it's a good less soon to lock your door. >> reporter: tonight police have a very brief description of the suspect. a black woman i

. >> and as bill nye says it, it must be true. they needed to find to justify the present understanding of why particles even have massed in the universe. if you understand that, you can stay after the show. >> now you can sleep well knowing that you know. >> the rumor mill is turning. >> when apple could start selling the long awaited apple ipad mini. >> and why your july 4th, out could cost less? >> great day for barbecuing along the coastline we have patchy fog out there, and that fog is going to pay a v,,,,,,,, [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to keep from driving all over for the best deals. you don't need to run around. safeway gives you real big club card deals each week. this week, the farm comes to you. fresh sweet corn is an amazing 6 for a buck. arrowhead water is just $3.33 a case. and honey bunches of oats just $1.88 a box. real big deals this week and every week. >> but we are looking at lawrence karnow getting ready to do weather and >> if you start to see that green on the do

. >>> for mitt romney, a new controversy to nye. palestinian leaders are calling romney a racist after comments he made during his visit to israel. romney made the comments while speaking at a $50 per plate fund-raiser. he placed the economic success of israeli verses the poverty of palestinians, culture makes all if difference said romney citing a book on development. palestinian leaders commented that romney failed to mention the effects of the israeli occupation. >> look, palestinians and israelis are people equally. such racist statement -- >> a campaign spokeswoman says romney's comments were grossly mischaracterized. today mitt romney is in poland, set to meet tomorrow with the foreign minister and deliver a speech before returning the the u.s. >>> california gamblers one day could have an option to ride a bullet train to sin city. there's a plan to build a high speed bullet train that would start in las vegas and link with california's proposed high speed rail line north of los angeles. the backers hope the obama administrati

certainly for taminy hall your power is really concentrated in nu nye city. and so al smith is sort of an ambassador from the city to the rest of the state in certain ways. but he's also trying to make it possible in this kind of progressive impulse to actually make more things possible, to consolidate a little bit of executive power up here in albany in ways that you hadn't seen before. >> and we'll talk about his career. as for term governor of new york after we take this call from ft. lauderdale. hi, neil, you're on "the contenders." >> how are you guys this evening, lady and je e men. first of all a commentary and then a question. your forum is absolutely incredibly stimulating. i have the credentials you both do. i consider myself an armchair historian. as far as mr. smith is concerned, catholicism should not enter into the picture. he was clearly a proponent of the middle class and pro-labor. gene yunly well intended individual. i was wonder ing iftoday if we had a candidate running for the presidency of the united states, would a candidate with mr. smi

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larry the 17-pound lobster was caught in nye antic, connecticut. dawn couldn't bear to see larry end up on a plate so she bought him for a few hundred bucks and released him into the water. >> it wouldn't be that tasty anyway. too big. good for larry. our go larry. >>> a hundred years old and carrying the torch. diana gould is the oldest olympian torch bearer this year as the flame makes its final journey through london. she carried it the mayor said she's doing an amazing job. she didn't even need to use her cane. the flame finishes its journey friday night. >> look at her go. >>> just about 5:20. all eyes are on rg3 today. >> what the star is saying about all the preseason hype. >> before we go, let's take another look at the question of the day. according to a study men who do this before work live longer than those who don't. is it a, meditate, b, eat breakfast or c, kiss their wife. >> facebook friend kim says a, meditate because most do not eat breakfast and not all men are married. she's taking a logical approach here. if you have an opinion

paradise she suffers from epilepsy. 6-year-old antoine johnson, 7-year-old of nye johnson and marie johnson 16. now these children apparently related to 3-year-old taken to the hospital. babysitter police believe he was abused. by his babysitter. he is in life threatening condition. children mother stepfather babysitter all under arrest tonight. police say the missing children are likely at the home of another family member and are likely at risk. we are on top of this story. we'll let you know as soon as we hear anything new. >> other big story tonight. illegal fireworks. problem may escalating this fourth of july. in san francisco police searched a house on the 3300 block of 22 street in the mission district. they confiscated 50 m 1,000 fireworks that is equivalent to 12 sticks of dynamite. they also seize add gun and arrested this man. convicted felon in that house. the illegal fireworks cause this fire late today in the marin head lands. we shot the pictures near the waldo tunnel above highway 101. firefighters kept the blaze to less than an acre. they worked very, very quickly. one man

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. >> bill nye, thank you for your time. a lot to talk about here, no question about it. thank you for your time. >> that's "the ed show." ezra klein is filling in for rachel maddow. good evening. >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> thank you for sticking around for the next hour. rachel has the night off, but we have a really great show. in fact, we literally have a report that will change your understanding of the fundamental understanding of the universe. but we're going to begin with a smaller but still pretty important question. after republicans lost in the court and if they lose in november, can they still stop the affordable care act? and would they even want to? now, some say they can. they have come up with an exciting new plan to keep the affordable care act from stealing your freedom. they will fight it in the states. states can't actually overturn federal law, but they can maybe, possibly be convinced to refuse to go along with it. that's what the republicans are trying to do. michele bachmann has joined 12 republican senators and 60 republican house m

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. >> well, what's got bill nye and the rest of the scientific universe so pumped?can't exactly show you but it's the best evidence yet of what one physicist calls the last missing piece of current understanding of the universe. we're talking about the higgs boson sub particle and it's been detected in this vast underground tube in europe and a smaller one in the u.s. here's what the collisions look like and here's atika schu bert on why it's the biggest thing since the big bang. >> as a lay maine would say i think we now have it. would you agree? >> reporter: until today the so-called god cart kl with our understanding of the university existed only in thee but not anymore. collecting data like this, scientists have announced the discovery with 99.999% certainty that the higgs boson does exist, the so-called god particle. professor peter higgs, now 83 years old who first theorized its existence in 1964 was in the audience to experience the moment. >> for me it's really an incredible thing that happened in my lifetime. >> reporter: so what is the god particle and ju

. >> greece coalition leaders failed to agree to awe nye package of savings after talks yesterday.hey command two extra years to complement a $1.5 billion in cuts. prime minister samaras is said to be unwilling to renegotiate the terms of kunlt's bailout which demands all austerity measures be implemented by 2014. >> all right. some news out of -- you have to be quick. spain may current account 750 million you're yos versus 1.7 billion in april. capital outflow is 43.3 billion euros, it was 26.6 billion in april. the capital outflows are nearly doubling at 40%. >> nearly doubling, which is more than 40% of my apologies. in the nemeantime it's a curren account balance and shrinking, so the international position is weakening. >> if there was a crisis, it would be bank grounds or capital outflows, right? we'll get the thoughts in a second. at the same time the bank order results, wefr the latest results. let us go over to julia in madrid. the outflows, bank deposit outflows, julia. that's where the real -- if there's ever a crisis triggered, that would be where we look, i guess. >> c

television personality, bill nye, the science guy says it creates the size and shape of all matter. >> we would be another step closer to knowing where we came from. we would be another step closer to understanding the universe itself which is a mystery to us. >> the announcement was made if ten million dollar atom facility in geneva. students and scientists at berkeley and uc santa cruz have collaborate on the research. >>> just in thyme for the 4th of july, the sun held its own firework show. this is a solar flair and it has disrupted radio communications across europe. it could bring a more vivid perspective of the northern and southern lights. >>> a man was arrested after firework were found in his house. police went to the home on 22nd street yesterday after receiving a tip inside they found 63 explosive devices and a handgun. >>> they arrested 44-year-old jerry lopez, a convicted felon charged with possession of explosives, fireworks and a firearm. police sent us a photo of some of the home made fireworks. overall the firework were the equivalent of 12-and-a-half sticks of dynam

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chairman nye scans scams gets into offer amendment amber 20. >> without objection. >> my amendment would amend the energy title and add an additional factor for the secretary to consider the project areas. the intent is to give usda the flexibility to protect the cap funding that has been invested and to ensure these existing projects are given proper support. the worst thing we could do to a project consent of that is then part of the decaf program is to pull the funding from it before it's had a chance to establish itself. the section of the law would like to amend sets of factors that the secretary shall consider but no one factor mandates certain actions by the secretary. this amendment does not alter that fact and it doesn't mandate a particular result. so the future of the developing energy crop industry is heavily dependent on the support of our farmers and after only one year of fee cap hunting success stories are quickly spreading throughout the country from farm to farm in both education and enthusiasm for energy crop is rapidly growing. existing projects, less-developed fundin

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the last one with nye good friend from california, mr. denham.and the care and concern that he showed listening to these veterans of what they need, listen to them talk about this, and one of the things on the mind of our veterans as they're fighting down range, defending our freedoms and doing what's asked of them is, how are they going to be able to take care of their family when their service obligation ends? so mr. denham came back and working and reaching across the aisle, and working over in the senate, crafted a piece of legislation that's not only morally the right thing to do. taking care of our veterans. you hear a lot about the 99% and the 1%. there's truth in that. 99% of us enjoy the benefits of security and national defense while 1% provide it. the moral obligation of providing this is pretty much unquestioned. but the thing mr. denham looked into on this is making sure the economic impact is felt also. this is very important to keep in mind. we spend $140 billion a year training our military. that's an investment into those folks.

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