of richmond law school and still with us, the professor of jurisprudence and political science at amherst college and daniel le chance, a professor of history at emory university. professor lane, just before you joined us, we were talking about what austin called the death penalty we actual have versus the one we think we have. in practice is it getting tougher to execute condemned americans? >> it absolutely is. it has been getting tougher since january 2011 when the primary domestic producer of the drug pulled out of the market. >> was that a stated objective of that producer, to stop making this, stop importing it, stop supplying it? how did that happen? >> yeah. it actually was. the sole domestic producer of the drug was hospira. they had a north carolina plant and moved to italy. italy has long-standing opposition to capital punishment, and the italian authorities said, we're not going to license the plant unless you can guarantee that your product will not be used in capital punishment. also, there was some talk about the company being held liable if its product was known to be used

road and amherst drive.into a pole so could take longer if a downed pole is involved. sunset road will get you around the problem here on salem road in burlington. i want d to take you to delaware. newark new castle county, we have an accident here with a downed pole causing a problem all morning long. they've shut down old baltimore pike. it's closed at old cooches bridge road. stick to route 40 to avoid any delay there. outside we go on the schuylkill expressway at spring garden street, that's your eastbound traffic there headed towards center city. the road has been milled not paved just yet so it's a bumpy ride on the schuylkill expressway. watch for that one, tam. >> okay, will do. thank you karen. >>> two accused carjackers charged with killing three children were arraigned overnight while a vigil will be held at that crash site later this evening. that's where we find "action news" reporter katherine scott live in tioga with more on what's going to be a show of support. good morning, katherine. >> rep

and in 2007-12 i was honored to have him at amherst college and i am particularly grateful for his discretion because we confirmed this evening that our apartment windows actually look into each other. investigative journalism, let's draw the line. please welcoming -- join me in welcoming the amazing people. [applause] >> thank you very much, thank you all for welcoming me here tonight. i won't take up too much of your time but i do want to start by thanking mrs. bernstein for her continuing awards. my hips got six weeks left. i really want to complement the judges and the review committee for this year's work because these five really fine books and i hope you have time to take them to the beach this summer and read them. they are all really distinctive. they have something in common which is engagement with the public issues the award is intended to honor but they do so from multiple perspectives and fine literary skills. hard to find four or five books from last year that so well synthesize literary ambition with dep reporting, and public issues they engage in and i complement all the writ

please welcome today's contestants -- a sophomore from east amherst, new york...nior from boca raton, florida... and a senior from irvine, california... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek!

please welcome today's contestants -- a sophomore from east amherst, new york...a junior from boca raton, florida... and a senior from irvine, california... and now here is the host of "jeopardy!" -- alex trebek! thank you, johnny gilbert. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. so far this week, we have discovered two things -- our contestants in the teen tournament are extremely bright and, secondly, they have marvelous senses of humor, don't they? i hope that's true of kevin, alan, and ananya. good luck. here we go into the jeopardy! round. and this round, as you know, contains one daily double in one of these categories. and we might as well go outdoors, as well. alex: kevin, start. let's go with the presidency for $1,000. ananya. what is the helicopter? correct. fictional characters for $200, please. kevin. who is nancy drew? right. let's go with the presidency for $800. alan. what's the oval office? you are right. presidency for $600, please. alan. what is 35? yes. presidency for $400.

give them thousands of dollars for scholarships to come to the schools in harvard university and amherst have been battling back and forth between being the number one school to graduate. >> guest: many of them are black immigrants mightily. they are not people that grew up in a subculture that i talk about in this book and which are graduating from the schools and any of them are immigrants and you find that when you look at education across the country come and in particular in the big cities here in new york where i live you have some selective high schools and the kids have managed to get into those schools do tend to be immigrants. so, there is that. but the issue with affirmative action again is are we helping the intended beneficiary? when you lower the standard for the admission, are you helping or hurting the child's chance of graduating clicks and i think the evidence is overwhelming. >> host: in society today you are no one and i hate to say this but you don't make anything if you don't have a college degree. >> guest: why are we assuming that it's for sale or nothing? >> host

a crash, in south jersey, salem road, between amherst drive and jfk way with police on the scene. crash in delaware, been watching this one all morning long, old baltimore pike remains closed at route 896. headed out the front door, i would say route 40 would be your best belt through delaware. otherwise, mass transit running with though delays. ukee, back over to you. >>> thank you, bob. developing right now, israel has hit gaza's only power plant as part of its heaviest bombardment yet. two shells hit fuel tank causing an explosion. sending smoke into the air and forcing the plant to shut down. at the moment there is no word on any casualties. even before the strike, gaza residents had electricity for only about three hours a day. >>> the israeli military intensified air strikes overnight t got too close to news crew covering the story. >> military has accused hamas of -- (gunshot heard). >> air strikes forced the crew to take cover. reporter duck during live report after a very loud explosion hit the finance ministry in gaza sit. israeli air strike also hit hamas controlled tel

in amherst, ohio, and a sleepless bargain hunter cases an adult novelty store.he store is closed, but this customer isn't concerned with such minor details. he circles the store to make sure no one is around, then chooses the back door to make his grand entrance. tracy is the store's manager. >> he decided that he wanted to come through the back door, and you see him get up on the curb and kind of bumps himself up and then he just guns the car and just goes for it. >> in a split second, he's in. glass shatters. the door frames are left a twisted heap of metal. then the customer in black hoodie jumps out of the car. >> pulls in probably about ten feet. you can actually see him get out of his car and starts running. >> he's running, but so is his car. >> he forgets to put the car if park and the car will just keep driving throughout the store, hitting a fixture and bouncing off on to one of our security off onto one of our security systems. >> the customer is so busy deciding which sex toy he wants to steal, he hardly seems to notice his car rolling down the aisle

they give them thousands of dollars for scholarships to come to the school and harvard university in amherst have been battling back and forth to be the number one school that graduates the most blacks. the way we understand from ivy league schools in general. >> guest: many of those are black immigrants by the way. they're not people who grew up in the black subculture that i talk about in this book. there have been a number of studies on this about which blacks are graduating in the schools and many of them are immigrants. you find that when you look at the education across the country particularly in big cities. here in new york where i live you have selective high schools and the black kids that manage to get into the schools tend to be immigrants. so there is that but the issue with affirmative-action again is are we helping the intended beneficiaries? when you lower the standards for emissions are you helping or hurting that child's chance of graduating and i think the evidence is overwhelming. >> host: in society today and i hate to say this but we are hearing this. you don't make any

richard wolffe economist and professor of economics of marriage is at the university of massachusetts amherst and author of numerous books including his latest democracy at work richard welcome back to the program. thank you very much tom glad to be here it's always great to have you professor so let's start out with the obvious question is this surge an asset price is a bubble. basically it is a bubble it doesn't yet tell us whether it will burst whether it will burst but this is the replay of a very old endlessly replayed story it's a kind of chickens coming home to roost if you make the mass of people less well off which the last thirty years in this country of the united states has done and you then promptly large amounts of money into the economy which our government has done trying to cope with our crash since two thousand and eight you're creating an impossible situation all that extra money is. is not being invested in production in jobs to create goods and services because the mass of the people don't have the money to buy them so where does the money go it is in the hands of the ric

to address all of this and more we have richard wolfe, professor of economic emeritus amherst visiting professor at the new school graduate program and author of many wonderful books including democracy at work if you are for capitalism, occupy the economy, challenging capitalism and capitalism hits the fan, the global economic meltdown of what to do about it. he also hosts a wonderful economic update in new york. [applause] and vindicated nationally. chris hedges spent 20 years as a correspondent 20 of those for "the new york times" where he was part of the team that won a pulitzepulitzer prize until he denounced the bush administration's call to invade iraq and lost his post at the time. he's the author of the bestsellers empire illusion war is a force that gives us meaning and the death of the liberal clasclass and a weekly column yu must read for the website truth. [applause] cornell west is a man in the life of the mind longtime princeton professor now at the union theological seminary he's best known for his classic matters, democracy matters in his memoir brother west living and

not only to amherst youth up in crash in amherst result in an altar, to develop relationships that willchange your life, and make an and. it was started by president john f. kennedy. i think he was concerned about some of the pressing issues that continue to concern our country. hunger, poverty, disease, the threat of nuclear war, and the need for our nation to develop relationships with other countries, especially at the community level. far as membership, how many people are out there in other countries representing the peace corps? 7000: we have just over volunteers right now they come from all walks of life, from 20 years old to our oldest volunteer is 80. host: how do the numbers compared to years past? guest: historically, it is about the same. our highest number of violent tears was actually 1968, about 15,000 -- our highest number of volunteers was actually 1968. 2010 was our highest number in recent years. with the recession and budget cuts, we have had to go down to about 7000 right now. host: there are stories about changing the process of where someone goes in the peace corp

first from es, southern methodist university, stevens and skwroulian quigley a graduate of amherst baby son nicholas to see his dad do the rule's committee. i told him don't yawn on tv and blackberry darn or -- he want to thank everybody for being here. i want to yield to the person from massachusetts. i will forego an opening statement and go right to the testimony. >> i thank the gentleman. that is a strong and clear mission of what we want to get our work done. i will defer to the gentleman from michigan. >> thank you. at thechairman of the ways and means is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. at the end of this month states across the country will be forced to put construction projects on hold if congress cannot address the highway trust fund. at risk are hundreds of thousands of jobs in the construction industry at a time when millions of americans are packing their bags to take a vacation or just traveling to work. we must ensure that the roads, bridges and highways they travel on are modernized and safe. the bill before us would provide enough funding to get us through may 31

and jillian quigley, a graduate of amherst, i want to thank them both for taking time to come to the rules committee. and lastly my baby son nicolas who is joining us first time to see his dad do the rules committee chairmanship, so i told him, don't yawn on tv, and get off that darn blackberry, or i-thing. he reminded me it's an i-5 dad, and i said okay. want to thank everybody for being here. i'd like to yield to the gentleman from massachusetts for any opening statement. >> welcome everybody here. and i will forego an opening statement and get right to the testimony. >> i thank the gentleman. i think that's a strong and clear message that what we want to do is get our work done today. with that said i would defer first to the gentleman from michigan, the chairman of the ways and means is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. at the end of this month states across the country will be forced to put construction projects on hold if congress cannot address the highway trust fund. at risk are hundreds of thousands of jobs in the construction industry at a time when millions of americ

and jillian quigley, a graduate of amherst, i want to thank them both for taking time to come to the rules committee. and lastly my baby son nicolas who is joining us first time to see his dad do the rules committee chairmanship, so i told him, don't yawn on tv, and get off that darn blackberry, or i-thing. he reminded me it's an i-5 dad, and i said okay. want to thank everybody for being here. i'd like to yield to the gentleman from massachusetts for any opening statement. >> welcome everybody here. and i will forego an opening statement and get right to the testimony. >> i thank the gentleman. i think that's a strong and clear message that what we want to do is get our work done today. with that said i would defer first to the gentleman from michigan, the chairman of the ways and means is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. at the end of this month states across the country will be forced to put construction projects on hold if congress cannot address the highway trust fund. at risk are hundreds of thousands of jobs in the construction industry at a time when millions of americ

then their daughter amy, an excellent athlete herself in rowing, won a full college scholarship to amherst college in massachusetts. for years it had been billy's dream to open a business in america. at the age of 48 when his daughter headed to have america, he decided to give a shot. his friends thought he was crazy. ann waited several months before she followed billy into the states for this venture. she wanted to make sure that this wild idea had a possibility of success. billy looked at opportunities in boston and philadelphia, but on december 31, 1997, new year's eve, bill leirrived in chicago. he knew he'd found a new home. today chicago is home to billy and ann lawless, all four of their children, and their seven american-born grand chin. as billy say, "i can think of no other place in the world where our family could have achieved what it has in america." well, billy and ann, thank you, and all your family for what you've given to chicago, to illinois, and to our nation. you've waited a long time and you've worked really hard for this day. now it is here. i'm proud to call you not