greg hampikian who spreads his infectious enthusiasm at boise state university.ork is not all done in the classroom. in fact, his own path changed back in 2004 when he was asked to test some dna that eventually led to an innocent man being freed from prison in georgia. the doctor wrote a book and just like that the doctor found a new calling. he is now in high demand. in tween, he was part of the team credited with freeing amanda knox. and in his spare time, he is founder and director of idaho's innocence project. >> it's an unfortunate thing that our name is innocence. honestly, i've worked on 13 exonerations now, four of the ones in georgia, they found the actual perpetrator, to those four guys i'm the guilty project. >> so now the coincidence you just couldn't make up. the very week carol left a phone message for the doctor asking for help, idaho's innocence project had just taken on a new case -- the case of the man convicted of killing carol's daughter. christopher tapp. the doctor called carol back. >> her words to me, i'll never forget, i just want to know

a lot of rainfall back east, some rain stretching back to about boise idaho and the pacific northwestis it not going to rain? the bay area is the center of the dry spot. this is five days worth of weather. we will not see a drop of rain for the entire state of california. chilly nights with little, if any, cloud cover, warmer than average days through the weekend, gusty winds in the hills making the fire danger critical tomorrow night through friday morning. 70s tomorrow, concord 77, oakland 72, san rafael sunshine 75, san jose 75, san francisco 70, fairfield 81 degrees. a couple degrees cooler thursday, friday, saturday, more 70s inland, upper 60s near the bay, still well above average. we stay dry through veterans day into early next week with highs mainly in the upper 60s to right around 80 degrees. that is your kpix5 forecast. we'll be right back. >>> it's election night. the cbs evening news is coming up next. >> on tonight's cbs evening news on this election day we will have the latest exit poll information, what voters nationwide are telling us brought them to the polls today.

du boise lectures at harvard. he's the author of 15 books. a novel that spent 11 weeks in n "the new york times" bestseller list. tonight he's here to present his new book invisible the forgotten story of the black woman lawyer who downed america's most powerful mobster. remarking that it running with intellect and green and the best-selling author walter isaacson praises it as a moving story, one with enormous resonance for our own time. we are so pleased to have this offered with us tonight. please join me in welcoming stephen carter. [applause] >> thank you for coming and i want to thank the bookstore for inviting me back. the last time it was supposed to be here i canceled at the last minute into the bookstore so don't worry we will reschedule. it's a pleasure to be here this was a book that had been inside my head for a long time. i want to get into the book in a sense talking backwards. before i write the book i want to talk about a historical moment gave rise to it. going back to the 1930s there have just been a big war in which they h

. >> micron is based in boise, idaho, but has offices in milpitas. it has a large share of the dynamic random access memory industry, dram for short. the justice department says china didn't have that technology until recently. >>> an update on a new environmentally friendly way to fight wildfires. we first told but the company that says its product can put out fires in record time. but kpix 5's julie watts explains that the company is getting some push-back from state and federal agencies. >> reporter: the homes behind me are a perfect example of the increasing fire risk as communities continue to expand into areas with dense vegetation. now one company claims it can revolutionize firefighting but state and federal agencies say, they're not interested. a raging pallet fire flames shooting feet into the air, put out in about 20-second using water with an additive calls ptx. >> our product is going to save them money because all the fires will go out fast. >> reporter: they claim it puts out fires faster than any other market product. in a demo, water

now this boise her voice there showing the wear and tear of this campaign and the margin of victory there the number of seems that the democrats forgive the health we're not talking about a huge margin so i mean should nancy pelosi should she be celebrating a lot or she should be worried a little bit. i think that she can be happy that it really looks like the democrats are able to take over the house of representatives and then they can try to block at least parts of trump's agenda they will have subpoena power as they can launch investigation it's rather unlikely that they will push to impeach the president because of the situation in the senate but they definitely will be able to keep this president in check and that is what many people here india ass want it's. going to have a divided congress going all the way in twenty twenty what we've learned tonight as well is that there were more people concerned about health care then immigration going into this election and the u.s. president he was betting on immigration as the motivating factor was betting on the wrong horse well it seems so

aside no i'm not i'm up the career ladder and be ahead of the man all the time lee here in the world boise a. sweater is familiar with these prejudices her own family was against her career choice. when they hadn't stood up i don't care what people think this is my life and i lead it the way i choose which back at me and. the way i choose could also be a motto for a lawyer nordic and shop of all of a vague challenge to booze in russian society and spray feminism or death on the war. a few men look on. feminism is seen as a western idea in russia if you're absolutely right that people here don't understand the meaning of feminism and those who do understand it reject it because of the patriarchal power structures in society now we're also being inoculated with religion soon women will have no say at all. the two d.j.'s and art students create their own fashion designs. on their t. shirts they call for more openness on menstruation and pubic hair. they have underwear with logos such as welcome to the jungle or madonna's hit like a virgin promoting a woman's right to her own sexual desires ta

those who fled their homes have been attacked at least two people killed former president francois boise's a was overthrown by a coalition of rebel groups and since then more than seven hundred thousand people have been displaced. protests in pakistan against the acquittal of a christian woman who was on death row charged with blasphemy have been called off under a deal with the government cannot leave the country and demonstrators can file an appeal with the supreme court. a new allegations have emerged the politicians were bribed to switch sides after the sacking of sri lanka's prime minister and i nearly a is refusing to quit the president fired him last week. has been replaced by mahinda rajapaksa a former president he needs another five m.p.'s to get a majority in parliament bernard smith as more honest now from colombo we believe that so far today mahinda rajapakse that needs another seven stories got seven minutes needed twelve at the end of last week to switch over to given the parliamentary majority he wanted he's done it he's got persuaded seven in the last few days to join him h

information on how to make dynamic random access memory chips from a company called micron based in boise, idaho. micron also has offices here in the bay area, and is worth an estimated $100 billion. it controls 20% to 25% of the dram microchip technology. rather than develop their own technology, fbi sources tell me, too often the chinese just steel it from u.s. companies here. >> it's unacceptable. it's time for china to join the community of good for china, but cheating enforcement cooperation withore them. china cannot be a safe haven for criminals who run to china when they are in trouble never to be extradited. >> reporter: as part of our investigation we were granted rare access to a secret fbi field office here in the bay area where 80% of the entire united states economic espionage cases are based. fbi officials did say it's a serious issue around here in silicon valley as well as the rest of the nation. it's not just the silicon valley but a national problem. nearly every one of the 65 fbi divisions around the united states, i was told today, has handled some type of economic es

. >> micron is based in boise, idaho, but has offices in milpitas. it has a large share of the dynamic random access memory, dram for short. china didn't have that technology until recently the justice department said. >>> the port of oakland gets a massive refrigerator. we took a look inside. >> the refrigerator known as the pacific ocean offered no help for us today whatsoever. that's the sunset, amazing beautiful sunset out there now, a different vantage point. wait till you see how long we stay warm, the forecast next. big corporations are making and just got a huge tax break. but the middle class is struggling. prop c is a common-sense plan. the top 1% of businesses pay their fair share to tackle homelessness for all of us. companies with revenue greater than $50 million pay, not small businesses or homeowners. the prop c plan is supported by the democratic party, nancy pelosi & dianne feinstein vote "yes" on c. big corporations pay for it, not you. >>> well, it is the coolest thing ever to happen at the port of oakland. a new 280,000 square foo

du boise when you use true statistics to say misleading things.hey could go away thinking about the wrong ideas. it's to be attacked was done by that immigrant. right now people are saying george soros did donate to various groups, so what's wrong with reporting its? don't you find in our traditions you find people fighting back. it is about that fight. it's about how you deal with that. so there is a layer to fighting for textuality. a disposition if you will. my peachtree t petri it has somm our countries long tradition of fighting that gives me hope. >> i will wrap up with this question and comment from my opinion writing class. one thing that is important for us to remember is that we have seen this tradition of populism that has tended to the conspiracy theorizing and violin forms of racism and tended towards misogyny and patriarchy. it has tended towards the belief that there is a true american invariably white and male who has been cheated out of his birthright. those things are very prominent and the questions about what holds them togethe

dave boise represented al gore. he joins me next. afford a real babysitter instead of your brother.oh, that's my robe. is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on auto and home insurance. and still get great coverage for you and your family. call for a free quote today. you could save $782. liberty mutual insurance. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ well you remember what happened last year. you can't bring a backup thanksgiving to my sister's house. it's not like we're going to walk in with it. we'll bring it in as we need it. ...phase it in. phase it in? yeah, phase it in. >>> well, tonight in the florida senate race, republican rick scott leads incumbent democratic senator bill nelson by just under 15,000 votes. scott's lead is narrowing as more votes are being counted right now. both sides now expecting a recount after the actual counting of votes is completed. joining me now to discuss this, david boies, lead counsel for al gore during account florida recount battle in the 2000 presidential election. good to see you. i'm having flashbacks now. >> good t

attorney general jeff sessions, as if on cue, accused china of stealing corporate secrets, singling out boise, idaho based micron as the high profile victim. in a fox business exclusive we have reaction from the man some of america's biggest businesses look to to be the bridge between them and doing business in china. apple, by the way, is one of his companies and we've got our eyes on apple. the iphone maker set to report earnings after the bell. forget the estimates. we are going to tell you the whisper number. what wall street really thinks apple will report. our all-star panel on whether apple and tim cook can hit that target. >>> and remember that line from "network," they're mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore? the global google walkout. we'll take you there live. >>> five days until election day and as polls tighten up in what has to be one of the most talked-about senate races, gop senate candidate bob hugin is here on the bruising new jersey race against democratic incumbent bob menendez. hu hugin on what he stands for and why he doesn't want to be described as a tru

get as many jobs as promised and cities that thought they might be in the running like detroit and boise felt they weren't being dealt with honestly. >>> bloomberg reports that waimo will start an uber service with driverless cars next month in phoenix. people getting rides in autonomous cars in december. >>> a report from oxford tries to figure out what people will do with automated cars once they're common. how will it affect society? for instance, will they drink more? that is a possibility. the report titled "autonomous vehicles and the future of urban tourism" expects driverless cars could be used for terrorism, put a bomb in them, send them on their way. on a lighter note, they also take a great deal of time in that report to discuss the possibility that coupling who have had a great date away from the kids may not want to go home to the kids right away. i can see you can see where i'm going with this. >> don't go there. >> it's an oxford report, very curious and that is exactly what they think autonomous cars may be used for. >> really? oh wow, interesting. >> they could be used f

get as many jobs as promised and cities that thought they might be in the running like detroit and boise felt they weren't being dealt with honestly. >>> bloomberg reports that waimo will start an uber service with driverless cars next month in phoenix. next month! people getting rides in autonomous cars. >>> a report from oxford tries to predict what people are going to do in automated cars once they're common. for instance, will people drink more? how about society change? the report titled autonomous vehicles and the future of urban tourism" expects driverless cars could be used for terrorism, put a bomb in them, send them on their way to the destination. whoever thought of that? that's something that, okay, and this is an important detail, they go into quite a bit of detail, autonomous cars will be used, they predict, by couples the same way that cars have been used by couples since the invention of the car, except the whole car is the back seat. >> hmm. >> didn't think of that either. >> maybe it will cut down on drunk driving. >> for sure. >> let's hope. >> let's think of the posit

and scott yaner at the end, last, but certainly not least, he is professor of political science at boise state, and the family politics and the idea of marriage and modern political thought as well as a wide range of scholarly articles and exploring the political theory of john lott and others. he also has a shared insight of personal experience and has been a target of campus outrage himself and with that, we'll begin. >> well, thank you so much, john, for that cordial introduction. i am delighted to be back here at the heritage foundation, such a prominent, conservative organization, and i am here, happy to be here, not despite the fact that i am a proud, bleeding heart liberal, but precisely because of that fact and i need not tell this audience or anybody who has been paying attention to our politics and culture that it is driven by divisiveness and tribalism and charges and countercharges of hatred for all manner of ideas that people at various points on the political spectrum consider hateful and hated. so i welcome the opportunity to speak to all audiences about what i profoundly

make sure you don't have additional attack submarines sitting at dry dock, such as we had with the boise and several others?>> again, if you ask admiral mertz, that is the most looming shortfall. we are attacking matt in several different courses of action. one is ramping up the virginia production to two, potentially more than two down the road. submarines per year. and getting the submarines out into the fleet. the second area is where can we do service life extensions, some of our existing submarines, to extend the life of some of her existing submarines and mitigate some of the -- that is coming up. in the third piece is attacking availability so we have every submarine available in the fight as we can. >> how many severing stew have a drydock? how many are tied up a dock waiting to get into drydock?>> i have to get you the exact number. what i would say is, we are looking at how do we improve performance from rents and public shipyards. that is part of our shipyard plan. and how do we move and work and leverage private capability so we don't have ships waiting to get into public gua

so first we're pleased to have, i'm going to introduce all of them with brief boise because you have their bios in the program. i cannot do justice to their extensive scholarship. first we're pleased to have with us phil at harvard administration and harvard business school. one of the leading scholars op a wide varieties from the institute of economic. and when i say wide, i mean wide. from immigration, he's the co-director of harvard managing work initiative. we're delighted to recommend professor ann anna maria at georgetown university. advisor to a chief economist at u.s. state department and one of the researchers on immigration and trade policy. >> and i'm happy to have the brother or sister institution, michael clemons, the co-director from the policy and senior fellow at the center for global development here in d.c. he's a leading researcher and global thinker on migration around the world and the more of the coming book "world of nations" and hopefully launch that book here in the future. and all three of them have vasty contributed to our understanding of economics and mig

. >> from boise, idaho. >> i'm turning 13. ♪ >> got married five years ago. >> checking off our bucketlaza is going poncho-casual. it's a rainy day and we have a hearty crowd. hoda has the morning off. craig is here. and it's good to have you along on a friday morning. >>> let's start with news at 8:00. millions of people across the northeast, dealing with the icy mess from our record early season snowstorm. stranded commuters and air travelers, caught a lot of folks off guard. kristen dahlgren has the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you, savannah. the snow coming down here again pretty heavily. people are talking about that commute last night, some calling it the worst-ever. that's really saying something. this record snowfall is catching so many people off guard, including a school in new jersey. they had to keep kids overnight. it was too dangerous to send them home. on the roads, so many accidents, people talking about six, seven, eight hours stru s stuck in tra. many were abandoning their cars because they weren't going anywhere. this morning, a lot of calls for

. >> we first caught up with ivanka in a farming town outside of boise, idaho, where she was visiting, everyone. >> reporter: while her father makes daily headlines for his biting tweets and controversial policies, ivanka trump is making her way into struggling communities like wilder, idaho. in this rural town, apple has invested in school ipads and technology. ceo tim cook has partnered with the first daughter to highlight the game-changing education for kids here. >> i think that one of the key things you want kids to do when they graduate, you want them prepared to do well in the workplace, and today the most -- the largest thing that either prevents or makes people successful is being able to do collaborate. >> reporter: they have given 114 grants to schools throughout the country, a program launched by the obama administration and championed by ivanka trump bringing technology to underserved children helping them to learn how to collaborate. >> 60% of the kids that go to school here don't have internet access in their homes so the fact that the private sector, in this case apple

>> from boise, idaho. >> i'm turning 13. ♪ >> got married five years ago today. >> checking off our bucketevne on the plaza is going porch owe -- poncho today. hoda has morning off. craig is here. >> let's start with the news at 8:00 and the weather tops it. millions of people across the northeast still dealing with the icy mess from our record early season snowstorm, stranded commuters and air travelers, caught a lot of folks off guard. nbc's kristen dahlgren has the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. with the snow coming down here againretty heavil people talking about that commute last night. me calling it the wor ever. that is really saying something. this record snowfall catching so many people off guard, including a schoo in new jersey. they had to keep kids overnight. they said it was too dangeus send them home. on the roads, so many accidents. people talking about six, seven, eight hours stuck in traffic. any simply abandoning their cars. this morning a lot of calls for officials to figure out just what went wrong. remember we sti a have long winter ahead. >> all righ