>> guest: i went to barnard, the woman's college of columbia university. c-span: what did you study? >> guest: i was an english literature major. c-span: and why? >> guest: an english literature major? c-span: yeah. >> guest: because the idea of just getting to read for four years. i mean, if i could do that now, just to read -- it's just my favorite thing in the whole world to do. and i'm always finding writers that i missed either because of my concentration, which tended to be on certain writers. i'm a very big dickens fan and i did all the studying of dickens work that i could do in college. but a couple of years ago, i realized that i had never read trollope and that seemed to me a huge gap in my education. so over the last two years, i guess, i've been engaged in reading the "palliser" series of trollope. and right now, i'm in the middle of the last book. so i mean, the idea of being able to study fiction, it just to me is heaven. c-span: who got you interested in reading and english? >> guest: oh, i don't know. i just remember always taking a lot of

lisa barnard life from davis, california. thank you for your time today. coverage on smoking continues in experts ways. how much progress has been made since the 1964 announcement. rebecca? . >> yes. the pacific northwest, new storm slamming in 56 mile per hour gusts in seattle. coming up, i will show you what's happening right now. the state television, which is now broadcasting a lot of his >>> the u.s. will be -- the former israeli prime minister died this morning, 85 years old. he is expected to be given a military funeral at his family farm on monday. >> it's been 50 years since the first surgeon general's report was released announcing the dangers of smoking. the centers for disease control says about 90% of lung cancer cases are linked to smoking and second-hand smoke. acting u.s. surgeon general said it's killed millions of people. >> first and foremost, over the last 50 years, we have lost 20 million lives, 20 million lives to this totally preventable disease. smoking-related diseases. ultimately, we have recently had reports saying over that same

cornell barnard joins us with the story. cornell? >> dog owners are so passionate they got congress involved. representative jackie speier is holding a public forum her looking for canine solutions in the bay area national parks. >> jan says letting her dog off sheet is a morning ritual. we run three to five mile as day. she needs to do ten-plus miles or she doesn't get enough exercise. >> restricting the access and a dealbreaker. >> it is devastating for us. we would move. we would go up to st. helena. where dogs can roam on-and-off in the national recreation area which has been debated for more than a decade. new dog restrictions released bit national park service in 2011 caused such an uproar it caused congresswoman jackie speier to be involved calling this hearing looking if a solution. >> dog owners, non-dog owners, bird watchers bicyclists, everyone's interests have to be accommodated. >> how do you do that? responsible dog owners should be given all access pass to parks. >> what is happenings the feds are telling the local peo

our let'sa barnard is live in davis, california, the first county in the u.s. to ban out door smoking in 1975. tell us about this agreement where tobacco companies put out corrective statements about their history of lying when it comes to smoking. >> if the agreement is approved, tobacco companies would have to take out full-page ads as well as online ads or t.v. spots in prime time on the three major networks issuing so-called corrective statements in which they discussed a history over the past 50 years of basically misleading and misinforming the public about the dangers of smoking. >> lisa, you are in davis california. they made a pretty progressive move in 1975. why davis? why was davis significant? >> the leaders here took 10 years after that warning to put into place an out door ban on smoking. that was unprecedented at the time time. no one had smoking bans out doors' in parts like this -- parks like this. it took about 20 more years for other counties and states to put in out door smoking bans. there are many states that still don't have such a ban in

al jazeera's leaisa barnard tak a look at a photographer who is getting an intimate look at their stories>> these are the faces of slaves, modern day slaves forced to work without pay under the threat of violence and with no power to walk away. they labor in gold mines in ghana, kilns in nepal and silk dying in india. sixteen hours a day, no rest for food or water or bathroom breaks. this child, kopi, worked as a slave in a fishing village in ghana his parents sent him away on a promise of education. he was sold as a slave, made to work hauling heavy fish nets. a photographer documents their story, lisa christine. >> entire families cloaked in a blanket of dust are forced to stack bricks on their head, up to 18 at a time, each brick weighing more than four pounds. and then made to walk hundreds of yards to a truck to place them on the back of the truck. >> according to "free the slaves," a nonprofit agency, 21 to 30 million people are trapped in slavery around the world today. traffickers earn about $32,000,000,000 each year. many every day products are made by slaves such as cars, comput

she is a visit professor at barnard college, columbia university and a visiting economist in switzerland. she went to harvard and from the university of wisconsin. welcome and we look forward to your testimony. >> thank you. mr., chairman and members of the committee, thank you for recognizing tom's public service and retirement and the opportunity to discuss the unemployment data we released this morning. you had very good timing in choosing a very interesting report for me to discuss. so, the unemployment rate declined from 7 to 6.7 percent in december. and non-farm payroll payment went up by 74,000 jobs. 182,000 jobs in 2013, about the same as 2012. in december, employment rose in retail and wholesale trade but fell in the information industry. monthly job gains average 172,000. retail trade added 75,000. food and beverage stores, 12,000. food and clothing, 12,000. general stores, 8,000. and motor vehicles and parts dealers, 7,000 jobs. retail trade employment increased by 32, 000. wholesale trade over the past year added 8,000 jobs per month. employment and professional and businesse

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