arnie gundersen should americans be worried about a. type of disaster happening here. you know the problems are focused more we're not limited to japan we've got twenty three reactors identical to the fukushima operating right now in the united states and the problems that cause fukushima could happen at the other plants as well so the fukushima happened in japan but it's not unique to japan. the regulator has been very slow to respond to changes some of these changes will be made for the twenty nineteen that are necessary to prevent it from happening here. remarkable prime minister in august japan reached ten point five gigawatts roughly the equivalent of ten nuclear power plants of solar photo voltaic capacity japan is one of only five countries in the world to have reached that level of solar power installation do you see solar as the best way to transition to clean energy that is not nuclear or are there other alternatives that you think will work well for japan. people is that i think that's because at the moment the whole county. i don't have enough coffee. cycli

as assistant secretary, ruslyn is assistant secretary arnie's duncan's primary advisor. before she joined the department of education she was vice president of the education trust in washington, dc and was the founding executive of education trust west in oakland. in these positions she advocated for public school students in california, focusing on achievement and opportunity gaps, improving can urriculum and instructional quality and ensuring quality education for everybody. she served as an advisor on education issues on a number of private ipbs institutions, she is a teacher, a lawyer, and a very influential voice on all policy matters. she was also passionate about ending this issue of bullying and bringing everyone together to stop this disturbing trend so please welcome assistant secretary for civil rights, ruslyn lee. as i said, our moderator is not always our lieutenant governor, of course he needs to introduction -- no, i get to say something. i get to say something. as everyone in this room knows, youngest mayor in 100 years, right? youngest mayor in 100 years

you like "star wars," look no,urther than arnie klein, that's jabba the hutt but he is this poster so is reminding you to have your kids immunized, take that, jenny mccarthy. there's also michael jackson photos and that very illusion"nd "use your c.d. we saved the best for last. >> he has a picture of a bald holding a flute. >> i kind of want it. man can bed flute yours because everything must go. >> amazing, amazing finds, treasures. >> ok, calm down, it's mostly crap. thanks, bankruptcy. >> what's going on, man? >> jonathan lipnicki, he's all up, he was the little kid in "jerry maguire" and everybody knows him for the facts hwould the movie. >> did you know the human head eight pounds. >> jonathan lipnicki is signing autographs and the autograph looks at him and goes -- can you just write the eight pounds brain comment? write the line down? >> write it on the piece of paper because nobody will know you are otherwise. >> i hear other stuff more but heard that a few times. >> he did pretty all right. who's friendsiend with him. he says he's a very successful -- >> he's a fighter. figh

education secretary arnie duncan agrees saying adult who is have trouble reading, doing math solving problems and using technology will find the doors in the 21st century closed to them. jonathan martin, al jazeera, nashville. [♪ music ] >> meteorologist: i'm meteorologist dave warren. a powerful storm will effect the northeast over the next few days. the mid-atlantic states are seeing the storm develop, and you can see this spin here. that's a deep area of low pressure. a very strong storm. up ahead of that we see the rain spread north but most importantly the factor with the storm is the wind. high pressure to the north. low to the south. northeast wind, and that will pile the water up in the bays here along with the rain each high tide gets a little higher. we had the high tide along the atlantic and it looks like we'll have minor to moderate over the next several days. now the storm is not moving too much, but the rain is starting to spread north, so look at rain to develop around washington, d.c. the timing of this looks to be wednesday evening. overnight tonight heavy rain and

i recently asked arnie duncan about this climate. >> politicians think short term. they think about the next election. they think short term. early childhood education is a long-term investment. >> long term. so few people are focused on the long term and that prevents some parents like melanie, a single mom, from planning long term in her own life. she was worried she'd have to give up her new job as a school bus driver when her son lost his spot. she has a message for congress. >> y'all need to work together, stop, you know, fighting amongst each other, think about us. think about the single parents, think about the ones that need daycare to take of our children. >> we couldn't agree more. we hope everyone keeps that in mind. secretary duncan, a democrat, recently told me how he loves getting out of dysfunctional washington, similar distaste from a republican that i interviewed this week. former republican olympia snowe. she told me this new class of podium thumping blej rens she calls them and sheryl sandberg, i wanted to leave you with this exchange. >> please r

from the tish wnet studios in new york, arnie sreenivasan. >> good evening. we look at the effect of the shutdown on congress. president obama has pressed the republican-led house of representatives to follow the senate's lead and pass a immigration reform bill. speaker boehner says immigration reform is an important subject that needs to be addressed and said he was, quote, hopeful. this weekend the governor from california became the first republican that said he would sponsor legislation that would give millions of undocumented immigrants a pathway to citizenship. for more on immigration reform this year, we're joined by washington from alan gomez. alan, first question. how significant is this announcement by the california republican congressman yesterday that he'll co sponsor legislation with democrats, talking about immigration? >> if you're a democrat in the house, it's very significant. they're hoping he's first of several that will be coming on board. they have a most wanted list of about a dozen house republicans that are interested in some sort of

. >> before we get more in to that, let me read a quote from our education secretary arnie duncan, regardingk in graduation rates. to 78.2% in 2010. drop out rates, still, quote, unsustainbly high for a knowledge-based economy. and still unseparably high in our caisson american, latino and native american communities. real world solutions, one of the challenges for all students but particularly students from minority communities, poor communities, it's making this make sense, making it relatable. >> right. >> and that's what you are trying to do. >> that is what we are doing. so there was a 2009 survey that found that 61% of middle school students said that they would rather take out the garbage than do their math homework. >> wow. >> when you ask students why wyoming and as a former teacher i saw it as well. they typically say i don't know what it nineteens it's random skills to memorize and rejudger date and i don't know when i will ever use it. how we are trying to help is to provide teachers w

what dr arnie needs to do is actually work harder to make the terror group the majority by policies that he said he said things that he says and. they said. it was saying good things some some good things in ok the leaders are saying those things my name i'm going to you in washington ok where do we go from here some pleasantries have been exchanged that's not policy. that's true. they need to in geneva and talk about their concrete steps both parties should take to a bit of confidence and. describe to negotiations successful or failure as we would see which one is more serious which one a more detail you need to compromise we haven't seen you haven't started that process yet so it's too early to talk about the c.d.s. ness of president obama or the seriousness of president rouhani i think. up to now they just exchanged nice words and they made lots of public relations and stuff but you have to see when it comes to action which one is really. a bow to deliver its promise ok michael i'll go to you who's blown the most smoke here so far i think we need to keep in mind that obama really the

education secretary arnie duncan agrees sega doles that have trouble read, doing math-solving problemsechnology will find the doors of the 21st century closed to them. jonathan martin, al jazerra, nashville. >> in fact, in all three categories adults in japan, canada, australia, finland, and other countries are scored significantly higher than americans. a new push to close the prison in guantanmo bay, what the obama administration is doing to speed up the process. apple looks to take another bite out of the tablet market as it prep to his unveil its latest ipad. and she concurred the waters between cuba and florida now diana nyad is taking a dip in new york for hurricane sandy victims. in fact, she's swimming right now. here say live look at the pool where that swim is taking place at 2:00 in the morning. >>> the obama administration is moving forward with planned to close the controversial military did hdetention certainty at guao bay. pew lewis will decide whether maintaining the facility is flesh for u.s. security, roslyn jordan has more. >> good afternoon, everybody, please be cea

of the carlyle group which used to be in part owned by the bin laden family talk about ironies of arnie's. are we looking with this explosion of international spying that seems to go way beyond what might be necessary is this just you know privatization on steroids is the profit motive driving much and so sure absolutely i mean profit mood of and the privatization has a lot to do with the surveillance state and the expansion of that. the fact that it's being outsourced to private contractors is a problem but it's also the incentive reverse incentive like it n.s.a. the motto had been keep the problem going to keep the money flowing and there was a row balding door between people who were directors at n.s.a. and people who worked at the contractor s.a.i.c. for example in and out in and out and so i think it's a huge problem that they didn't keep this in house and that they were outsource a surveillance state we did snowden say the same thing i think you would i mean i think he has a huge problem with the contract. and of this also in that he could make himself it said that he could make so

here is another quote for secretary education secretary arnie duncan once again, quote, all students, 100 percent should have access to arts instruction. all children should have arts-rich schools. that is your program. hip hop literacy. and the impact, arts, music, that's the first to get cut. >> yes. >> and we are trying to get it back in. >> right. >> it's very important that the president has talked about it. but the fact of the matter is, it is still a challenge. >> it is. >> and i want to you tell me why we have to be passionate, why parents, why educators have to advocate for making sure that arts programs and everything surrounding that has to be in there. >> yeah, i mean, well, you know before we started the hip hop educational literacy program, the -- originally we started an organization called gorilla arts. gorilla arts was made out of the no child left behind laws that cut arts and p.e. and music from a lot of schools. so once that happened, we -- i was working with a lot of the schools who felt like, you know, we don't have an art teacher. we don't have a music teacher b

of chicago public schools and current secretary of education arnie duncan but they have filiation between the white house and the chicago public school system doesn't stop there chicago mayor no bomb is former chief of staff rahm emanuel is mimicking race at the top education policy on a citywide level according to press news the joyce foundation has already spent one hundred thirty six million dollars on education reform between one thousand nine hundred five and two thousand and twelve including twenty four million dollars for the charter program teach for america why while hiring nonunion teachers for charter schools is much much more cost efficient contractors work cheaply and early in the job for a couple of years. with less chance for tenure and benefits even diane ravitch former u.s. assistant secretary of education has said chicago's school policy is not an education development plan it's an economic development plan c ravitch says the push for charter schools promote standardization a method that's completely destroying and occasion. in the past the democratic party has fought th

education secretary arnie duncan agrees saying adults that had trouble reading doing math, solving problems and using tech nothing will find the doors of the 21st century closed to them. michael is here with sports and the detroit tigers made a big statement today. >> they needed to with their backs against the wall. an 8-6 win. austin jacksons providing the go-ahead rbi as the american league champs now go pack to oakland for game 5 on thursday. in the nfl, the season for the jet's quarterback mark sanchez is over p-fr ever getting started. he had season-ending surgery to prepare a torn -- sanchez who hasn't play and injured in the third preseason game was advised by doctors to have surgery after 7 weeks. and they lost their top running pack for the rest of the season. ahmad brad saw. that's a look at your sports headlines. more sports news heading up later in the program. >>> thank you, michael. >> diane niyad made history when she swam 110-miles from cuba to to the united states. this time it's right in the middle of new york city. juan carlos molina explains why. >> reporter: for 48 hou

but me and secretary arnie duncan are playing defense. man anning through cuts.cuts known as sequester shut out 57,000 children this fall from head start and day carerograms. this is malachai rhodes. he has autism. he's been getting regular speech therapy from this head start program in bridgeport, connecticut. he is lucky he did not lose his spot there because of the sequester. but then when the government shutdown, his school shut down, too. but thanks to a private donation, he got back to class much sooner than our elected officials were able toeach a deal. politics think short term. they think about the next new cycle. they think about the next election. early childhood investment is the best election we could make and also the ultimate long term election. >> so few people in washington are focused on the long term. and that sort of thinking prevents some parents, like melanie, a single mom, from preventing long term in her own life. she has a message for congress. >> you need to work together. start, you know, fighting amongst eep other. think about us. thin

under mounting pressure in washington, white house spokesman jay car arnie said the administration will continue regular briefings on obama care. >> regular briefings at secretary sebelius's instigation that will try to provide as much information as possible. >> reporter: so far answers about the obama care rollout have been hard to come by. >> i would refer you to hhs about what information they have and are able to provide. >> reporter: it's not unusual for the white house spokesman to walk away from reporters as he did tuesday. >> trying to help the situation? >> reporter: when he was still being questioned about obama care, but it is an example of the tension in washington over scarce information. >> how much is this costing taxpayers money as a long-time washington reporter before you took this job obviously would blankley be something that you felt a right to know. will we get that information from hhs? >> i would address your question to hhs. i don't have that information. and this is an operation being run by hhs. >> reporter: health and human services secretary kathleen sebeli

. >> before we get more in to that, let me read a quote from our education secretary arnie duncan, regardingtick in graduation rates. to 78.2% in 2010. drop out rates, still, quote, unsustainbly high for a knowledge-based economy. and still unseparably high in our caisson american, latino and native american communities. real world solutions, one of the challenges for all students but particularly students from minority communities, poor communities, it's making this make sense, making it relatable. >> right. >> and that's what you are trying to do. >> that is what we are doing. so there was a 2009 survey that found that 61% of middle school students said that they would rather take out the garbage than do their math homework. >> wow. >> when you ask students why wyoming and as a former teacher i saw it as well. they typically say i don't know what it nineteens it

arnie's in new york city also what is fast tracking and why is it so dangerous to our democracy reza commentator nate sweet will fill us in on the debate in the debate the debut of the walkout later you know and if president obama succeeds in pushing through the trans-pacific partnership it could be the nail in the coffin of the america our fallen poundage dream to tell you why in tonight's g.o.p. take. in the best of the rest of the news when trayvon christian in one thousand year old college student from queens new york walked into the fancy manhattan department store barneys earlier this month he thought he would be able to head home afterwards with a newly purchased belt instead he was arrested while leaving the store and detained for hours in a new york city jail trayvon christian you see is black and his arrest a barney's is just the latest in a slew of racial controversies for that store which has been accused of harassing people for shopping while black christian is now suing barneys for racial discrimination and many activists think more needs to be done to change the cultur

arnie said i will sign the senate bill. what do we know? congressional budget office. out of legalization. out of legalization. one of our most respected think tanks and we would leave 3 million. here is what i think are challenges. here's what we can do from the greatest good. i know that if we signed that bill tomorrow at next years conference what will we be discussing? how to bring the other 3 million and. we will not give up until they are all in. we will not give up until they are all in. it may be hard to recognize. this is a conference on policy. [speaking spanish] i would vote for that bill today. i want to stop our woman from being raped. i want to stop people from having to die on the border. tired of people dying. we have that challenge. thank you. what can we say? he has tenacity. he showed up with four other democrats here. he sticks with us. thank you so much. thank you for joining us. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] to missill not want tomorrow morning's gala eve