governance and innovation at harvard's kennedy school and here in the studio with me is the of on aziz he's a professor of economics at cornell university right cross talk rose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and only one of us stock in the end why should people know something about this why is it important it's important for a number of reasons. one this is an organization that has been growing and clout and it is a sum it was a number of asian countries represented and many americans are not aware of this and with more and more activity going on in asia pacific and as you were posing the question is it the pacific century and i would say yes because you know the pacific region is growing in wealth and whenever you have growing wealthy a growing influence and power and you're going to start to see more of these countries join the rulemaking classes and this is going to create changes throughout the world ok to you in cambridge are we going into the pacific century you know these are right countries represented. well you know. who we we've been in. the half century asi

he was transported to a nearby hospital. >>> and finally, who says kids could care less about politics? at age 18 aziz is running to become the mayor of california's 15th largest city. he's been interested in politics since he was 8 and worked on political campaigns since he was 14 despite no previous elected experience, aziz says he knows how to fix all of free month's problems. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is nbc's meteorologist dylan dreyer, she has your forecast. those stories make me feel guilty. i should be doing more with my life. at 18 i wasn't running for mayor. >> i didn't run for school treasurer, school office or anything. he's taken on a whole town in california. good for him. he would are actually looking at some pretty nice weather out that way. that won't be an issue. we're going to see a good amount of sunshine across the majority of the country. we have showers through the great lakes moving through minnesota, chicago, a little bit of light rain, off and on showers. we have a line of heavier storms in southern missouri right now. not so much severe w

he was 14. despite no previous elected experience, aziz says he knows how to fix all of fremont's problems. >>> well, now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is nbc's meteorologist dylan dreyer, she has your weather channel forecast. good morning. happy friday. >> happy friday is right. fridays so so nice, especially when the weather cooperates. we are looking at a few showers across the country. but for the most part, the west is seeing lots of sunshine. we could use some rain out that way. it has been extremely dry and with the wildfires out there, we are still dealing with a lot of smoke in the air. in general with high pressure still in control, there's just not a whole lot of rain in sight. no coastal storms trying to move onshore either. there's a cold front moving into the missouri and arkansas area, but to the west of that, high pressure is still in control, and that means not a whole lot of anything. it is going to be hot through vegas and into phoenix. we'll see temperatures well above 100 degrees. again, that high pressure producing more of an offshore wind, keepin

he was 14. despite no previous elected experience, aziz says he knows how to fix all of frof fremont' problems. >>> dylan drier has your weather channel forecast. >> try to go back to what i was doing at 18ment some we won't talk about on the broadcast. it wasn't running for anything. >> i definitely wasn't fixing a few problems, i mean not to mention all of the town's problems. so pretty impressive. good luck to him. we are going to see rain in spots across the region in the northeast, through the great lakes, just a few scattered showers. not heavy rain although we do have heavier rain moving into southern missouri, northern arkansas right now and florida, especially southern florida still dealing with more showers and storms, possibly producing pretty strong thunderstorms as we go through the entire day really, it's not just an afternoon type of event. here is that heavier rain, though, in southern missouri that is out ahead of a cold front and it is producing pockets of torrential downpours. we even had some severe thunderstorm warnings issued in that area not that long ago. leer is the hea

. >> the sons of abdul aziz. >> he had 44 sons and daughters don't count. >> yes, but, you know, there are ten or 12 of them still alive but the youngest is 67, 68, so at some point they are going to have to shift to the next generation. >> rose: the succession set? >> no, not at all, and so they are now much like the old soviet union they are going from one old lead fore the next, who is fundamentally the .. tooled and weak and tired. >> to changed? >> to have the emergency to work very much and certainly not to change anything. so i think the country has roblems, all of these problems of unemployment, wealth distribution, housing, poverty in a country that has got that much money. and those are not going to get better without some real younger energetic leadership and i don't -- they have trouble getting to that point. >> rose: okay. but do those people you talk to to and you have access to the royal family in writing this book, recognize that? >> some of them do, yes. >> rose: challenge that reality? >> yes some of them do, the grandsons talk about it and some of the sons talk about

one candidate says he is ready to take charge despite being just 18 years old. azizari is running against a field of experienced politicians. but he says he's been active in politics for years. >> i worked on pete stark's campaign back like four years ago when he was running. >> you were 14? >> right, but i've been involved in local politics since i was about 8 or 9 years old. >> that's amazing. if he wins the mayor's race, he will be become fremont's first mayor of south asian decent. >>> b.a.r.t. is celebrating its birthday by giving gifts to riders. to celebrate, they're giving away 40,000 free rides to bay area students going on school field trips. b.a.r.t. is also handing out $40 vouchers for free tickets starting tomorrow. next week, the agency will be giving free ice cream at san francisco's powell and oakland's rockridge stations. >>> coming up next, why the nfl is warning alex smith to flip his lid in his postgame interviews. we'll be right back. >>> off with the hats. the nfl has warned niners quarterback alex smith to stop wearing a san francisco giants ha

he was in a bad neighborhood. in fact, one of the iranian diplomats when tariq aziz has asked why did you play this game. he said because of the-- and the jews. >> rose: is rannians and israelis. >> basically what he was saying is i'm powerful. i have weapons of mass destruction. don't mess with me. don't take me-- . >> rose: you think that is the reason the iranians want weapons of mass destruction. >> well, they claim they don't. >> rose: what do you think? >> it's difficult for me to say authoritatively that they are going for weapons of mass destruction. >> rose: i know that. nobody can say authoritively because they haven't done it yet. >> yeah. >> rose: but they constantly do every their conduct suggests they do. so therefore when you look at their conduct, do you assume they do? >> conduct. >> rose: you look at the construct and i have also discussed with them. >> yes. >> rose: and also talked to some of the people that have been in the negotiations. and they may. they may be heading that way. the difficulty for those of us who want to check them and check them based on the fact that they are not c

. >>> he's barely old enough to vote. 18-year-old aziz akbari is running for major. aign office is just down the hall from his bedroom. he says i can balance the two. >> i feel like for the most two decades now, fremont's been very stagnant. we're such a large city but we're not growing. he says le transfer to a bay area -- he will transfer to a bay area college if he wins the election. >> early voting begins this month in some states. voters in north carolina can do so starting thursday. in 2008, president obama's victory relied a lot on early votes. >>> the "no easy day" about the capture and killing is in print and for sale. the pentagon is threatening legal action because the manuscript was never submitted for a security review. >> you have to abide by that. you have to give the government the student to see if, in fact, there's class -- the opportunity to see if, in fact, there's classified information. >>> 7:48. we have new information on the crisis in syria. the united states side 100,000 ref fi gees fled syria last month. -- refugees fled syria last month. thi

. >> reporter: he's 18 just barely able to vote and aziz asari is running for mayor of his hometown of fremont. >> i've been paying attention to local politics since i was 10 or 11 years old so i know what has been going on for the past year and i know what needs to happen. >> reporter: he has a second degree black belt in tae kwon do and is managing home work with a busy campaign schedule. >> this is like our campaign headquarters. >> reporter: his social media campaign has attracted more than 16,000 page views and he says it's encouraged many young people to register to vote and get involved in the campaign. >> when somebody has a passion and they have that commitment you just have to let them go with it. you just can't take that away from them. >> reporter: aziz is going against two 10 other candidates including cho and harrison who both have served on city council and natarajan who's the city's vice mayor. >> i have the experience, the expertise. >> reporter: natarajan says she's never met aziz but is encouraging to see a young candidate. we tried to contact the other candidates bu

. >> reporter: he's 18 just barely able to vote and aziz asari is running for mayor of his hometown of>> i've been paying attention to local politics since i was 10 or 11 years old so i know what has been going on for the past year and i know what needs to happen. >> reporter: he has a second degree black belt in tae kwon do and is managing home work with a busy campaign schedule. >> this is like our campaign headquarters. >> reporter: his social media campaign has attracted more than 16,000 page views and he says it's encouraged many young people to register to vote and get involved in the campaign. >> when somebody has a passion and they have that commitment you just have to let them go with it. you just can't take that away from them. >> reporter: aziz is going against two 10 other candidates including cho and harrison who both have served on city council and natarajan who's the city's vice mayor. >> i have the experience, the expertise. >> reporter: natarajan says she's never met aziz but is encouraging to see a young candidate. we tried to contact the other candidates but did not

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and game for the us although he does profit handsomely from the sales in february nine hundred forty five president roosevelt at a meeting in egypt with our little abdel aziz bin sout the founder of modern saudi arabia pledged to defend the kingdom in exchange for a steady flow of oil up to this day u.s. actions in the region have been consistent with that goal the us has armed the gulf states to the teeth turning a blind eye to widespread human rights violations like of democracy terrorists turning a blind eye to a lot of things the question is whether the world is ready for another devastating war in the region i'm going to check on our tape coming up for you later on in the program coping with a revolution but if the facts of the economic and political uncertainty has on regulate just someone who was forced to go up the role of these in search of work. a rough start for greece in his quest for more bailout money with his creditors rejecting about two billion euros worth of planned cuts saying they're not nearly enough defined top of that this infighting within the government itself over a way to make savings at the root of that way of storage of measure