he is a profess this man is a professor of boston university. they are in opposition on this. >> when the surge began in iraq, they said the directive of the surge would be to raise casualties because the u.s. forces would be actively engaging the enemy in ways they

professor randy barnett, whom, as i said, was one of professor knowles' dissertation advisers at boston university. professor barnett now holds of the car macwater house professor of legal theory genre at georgetown university where he teaches constitutional law and contracts. he's also taught tort, criminal law, agency partnership and jurisprudence. he's a graduate of northwestern university and harvard law school. he's tried many felony cases, as a prosecutor in cook county, illinois, in the state's attorneys office in chicago. he's been a visiting professor at northwestern and at harvard law schools, and in 2008, he was awarded a guggenheim fellowship in constitutional studies, which he is enjoying right now. he's appeared before the u.s. supreme court to argue the medical cannabis case, gonzalez v.rache, after successfully arguing in the 9th circuit in that case. one of the cases where the 9t 9th circuit got it right and the supreme court got it wrong. he's co-authored as well an amicus brief in texas. randy appears frequently on radio and television programs, he's the author of several books,

she then enrolled in boston university to pursue her doctorate, which she did in completed in 2007 with a dissertation called, a dialogue of liberty, the constitution, the classical liberal and civic education principles of justice kennedy's vision of judicial power. i asked her just before she went on whether it was libertarianism that occurred to justice kennedy or the other way around. surprisingly it was the other way round. she focused on justice kennedy and from that developed the libertarian theory that serves as the first part of her book. i will introduce professor barnett had just before he comments on the book but please join me in welcoming professor helen knowles. [applause] >> thank you roger, and thank you to the folks at cato institute for inviting me here today. i accepted the invitation to come to this book form immediately, and then i took a look to the people who participated in previous book forms, and to say the least i was shocked because i was very much, much more junior and certainly had not published anything like as much as the people who participated in previ

jury deliberations now for the boston university grad student sued by four record labels for downloading and sharing the music. they actually talked to it yesterday on the stand saying, yes, he did -- more than 800 jobs and blamed it on sisters and friends and wound up having to pay millions to the labels. wow, is this... fiber one honey clusters? yes. it's delicious. delicious. i know. but it can't have... can't have about half a day's worth of fiber? i assure you it does. i was expecting... expecting sawdust and cardboard? i know. i can only taste... only taste the crunchy clusters, honey, and brown sugar. no madam, i don't have esp. ok. i'll take a box, but you probably already knew that. (announcer) fiber one. cardboard no. delicious yes. >> besides the weather, this ght be the one story you remember. a british man accused of hacking on into the u.s. government's website is being brought to america, that is the effort, but he suffers from a form of autism. now, his mother is begging president obama and the u.s. government to show some compact. michelle clifford has more from the stor

robert green of boston university says most doctors have assumed people would react badly to such information people might have a devastating psychological response, that could be very common. >> reporter: green set out to test the theory in volunteers including this 44-year-old woman, a health systems researcher. her mother suffers alzheimers so she always knew she may be at high risk. another volunteer, this 60-year-old, an electrical engineer also had a mother with alzheimers. dr. green measured apo-e, one variant increases alzheimers risk. one in four americans carry one copy of the gene. if they carry one copy, they are three times as likely as the general population to get alzheimers disease. if they carry two copies they're ten times as likely. tonya got the worst news possible, a very high risk. her reaction? >> it is not depressing. it is a piece of information. i chose not to be depressed or react in a negative way. it's just how i am. >> reporter: dr. green says none of those in the first 162 people he tested had bad reactions. although he points out all were screened for any previ

he is a profess this man is a professor of boston university.y are in opposition on this. >> when the surge began in iraq, they said the directive of the surge would be to raise casualties because the u.s. forces would be actively engaging the enemy in ways they had not done so far. is that what's happening in afghanistan? >> i think we're inevitably going to see some increase in casualties in the next few months, but i do think casualties aren't necessarily a particularly good indicator of whether you're winning or losing. casualties, both to the civilian population and to coalition forces, tend to be very low in two kind of places, places that are completely controlled by the government and places that are completely controlled by the enemy. so the absence of casualties doesn't necessarily mean you're doing well or doing badly. and the presence of casualties that we're finding in some areas just tells you fighting is going on. it doesn't really indicate whether we're seeing progress on the ground. just to pick up something you said in the intr

andrew besovich is a professor of boston university. they are in opposition on this. is this uptick in violence good news, by which i mean when the surge began in iraq, general petraeus warned that the initial effect of the surge would be to actually raise troop casualties because the united states forces would be actively engaging the enemy in ways they had not done so far. is that what's happening in afghanistan? >> i think we're inevitably going to see some increase in casualties in the next few months, but i do think casualties aren't necessarily a particularly good indicator of whether you're winning or losing. casualties, both to the civilian population and to coalition forces, tend to be very low in two kinds of places, places that are completely controlled by the government and places that are completely controlled by the enemy. so, the absence of casualties doesn't necessarily mean you're doing well or doing badly. and the presence of casualties that we're finding in some areas just tells you that fighting is going on. it doesn't really indicate whether we're

mike: joining us from boston is tony berkowitz boston university communications professor.ony, the president today acquitted himself with some humor. that was a good stroke. why on earth did it take him this long to find his voice to come out and address the fact that he really got into it on this one? >> well, it's really inexplicable. first, why he even commented on this case. obama has been very skillful avoiding getting into racial politics. but today, at least he made this start to go away but why they waited this long and why they let this turn into a huge story, moving away from health care reform, which was his message for the week, is really something that i just can't understand. mike: how much damage to the president in terms of his image, his overall agenda, because of the distraction of the past several days? >> well, i don't think this helps him. there have been a lot of stories in the opinion leader press that his poll numbers are softening a little. his approval rating and especially hal people are looking at how obama stands on the issues. so this is not wh

not so much according to a new boston university study. scientists measured the anxiety and stress levels of more than 160 adults with genetic predissptions. they found stress levels for those who tested positive were about the same as those who tested negative indicating many understandn alzheimer's risk and take steps to manage it. >>> the whole pentagon plan to ban smoking by troops in the war zones, forget about it. the pentagon press secretary says troops are already under enough stress making enough sacrifices from fighting the two wars in iraq and afghanistan. defense secretary robert gates doesn't want to add to that stress by taking away one ever the few outlets they have to relieve it. >>> major moves in the battle over health care. the senate committee approved a bill to expand insurance coverage to nearly all americans. the deal would require individuals to get insurance and employers to contribute to the cost. the government would provide help with premiums for family of four making up to $88,000 a year. the republicans say th

researchers at boston university looked at more than 300 older adults. they found a higher body mass index was associated with rapid loss of cartilage in the knees and they say losing weight may be the best with you to slow the progression of the condition known as knee osteo-arthritis. >>> one othe favorite foods in our region, crabmeat. eating a whole one can be intimidating. where do you start? the owner of a popular crab market in virginia shows us how. >> i'm here to show you how to eat a crab. there are a coupl of different variations. a couple of things still stay the same. first, got to grab your crabs. turn it over and grab the key, pull it out. turn it back over. and use it as leverage to pop it open. put the shell off to the side. one quick snap. okay. this is where there's a couple different variations. i'm going to show you my personal preference. i like to just squeeze the body. that's just going to release some of the not so good stuff from the good stuff. and this portion is called the back, where most of the meat is. jumbo lump, this is

he earned his passion -- his bachelor's degree at boston university. the week for further announcements. pirf has provided honest assessments of police departments for calling it like they see it. for those of you who might not be familiar with his organization, it is a think tank in washington, d.c. that is dedicated to advancing professionalism anacross the united states. i encourage you to go to the website to check out their work. i have confidence that with their leadership and the leadership assembled here today, this committee will help us emerge as a stronger community. individuals have already been identified to serve in this committee. i look forward to announcing them later this week. i would like at this point to ask the mayor to say a few words. i will return to the podium for questions and answers after the mayor speaks. >> thank you, mr. city manager. good afternoon. what you hear this afternoon is an important occasion. it is one that we shall remember as a turning point for the city. while this has been a trying time for cambridge, we

boston. >>> the university of medical mtd's wind tunnel may not be as famous as the legendary basketball programsut this year, the tunnel set brights its 60th birthday and use it to test the effects of extreme wind and simulated hurricane conditions. today i went to check it out. >> one leg through here and one leg through here. >> we do studies to the effect of wind on all kinds of things. mostly vehicles. airplanes, automobiles. trucks. ships. actually water employee submarines, all people can hang in there up to category 3 conditions. >> reporter: this is what a 40 miles per hour wind would look and snd like. for us to go higher, we are going to have to get the camera out here. >> 80 miles per hour. this is what it will look and sound like if you were tethered to something. i can still talk and move my hands. that's about it. 100 miles an hour. looks and sounds ke, category 2 storm. i think we can go up one more level. what did we get up to? >> 117. >> is that the highest for today? >> that's the highest i have seen today. >> that's what i was going for. then the guy threw down the gauntlet. >

he is a native of boston and earned his bachelor's degree at boston university and at m.i.t. perf has a -- >> you've been listening to robert healy, the city manager for cambridge, and the president said he wanted this to be a teachable moment. it seems like the city manager of cambridge does, as well. he says that they're going to be putting together a committee not really as an internal investigation of what happened between sergeant crowley and professor gates, but really to try to figure out ways for the police department to better relate to the community. he talked about focus groups, conflicts resolution, and he talked about relating to diverse groups within the community. so that's what the city of cambridge is talking about right now. streaming this live on cnn.com if you want to continue to listen to the city manager. but again, maybe a teachable moment. and there's also another new detail coming out about this. the woman who reported the possible break-in at the gates' home insists she never told police that the men involved were black. a lawyer for whalen said the

universal coverage. health-care costs in the commonwealth are astronomical, second only to connecticut. on the premiums have risen for two decades. we go to bostonre. >> since the inception of this universal health care program, the big question has been how are you going to pay for it? right now massachusetts is dealing with a big budget shortfall and the decision has been made to cut people from the program. 30,000 legal tax paying immigrants are going to be cut from the program because they don't receive matching funds for that group. the governor is urging lawmakers to come up with a compromise to still cover this group but to a lesser extent. >> we are talking about hard working taxpaying residents who are contributing to the system and it is only fair if health care for all is relief for all. >> health-care advocates believe this will just shift the burden to medical providers. boston medical is suing the state of massachusetts over the health care law. they argue that the state is underfunding their hospital by failing to cover a enough of the costs. they say that they are only being reimbursed for 64 cents on the dollar. the political wi

help us do that is the senior fellow and associate professor for public policy at the university of massachusetts boston. dan mitchell at the kato institute and coauthor of global tax revolution. thank you very much for joining us. let's start with health care. how do you think the president is doing on health care? >> the theme here is that he is showing how government can work and work well. so far the grade is incomplete because we don't have reform. he laid out a number of principals that people can get behind covering the uninsure and working very well with congress. he doesn't say this is what you have to approve. he said we are willing to work with you to find a solution we can all live with. both parties can live with. that shows a smart approach to the large stale problem that is the economy faces and the country faces. >> i bet you don't agree that. >> i agree that the health care grade is incomplete, but if i'm the professor in the classroom and i peeked over obama's shoulder and i see what he is doing and working on a term paper that is going to get him an f if it passes. we tried big govern

he taught at several boston area universities and also served as a massachusetts state rep. a member of congress since 1981, in 1987, barney frank became the second openly gay member of the house of representatives. please welcome congressman barney frank. [applause] >> thank you. i very much appreciate the forum the press club offers for these kinds of discussions. let me reinforce what may have been entirely unnecessary admission. no one who has been familiar with the media in america could ever think hearing applause but it came from members of the media. [laughter] : 2 first address an issue about financial reform -- i want to first address an issue about financial reform. something about president obama -- whether or not he is asking congress to do too much, which is a refreshing change, i think, from the past. if the answer is no. in particular, there is no validity to any suggestion that because many of my colleagues are so deeply engaged in trying to deal with health care or cap and trade or other important is huge -- important issues like labor law reform, to enable

boston medical center announced this week it is now suing the state of massachusetts of the universalalth-care law. their complaint argues the state is underfunding hospital by failing to cover enough of the costs for medicaid, the commonwealth care, and those that are uninsured. they are only being reimbursed 64 cents on every dollar. lawmakers have argued that hospitals need to streamline their care and reduce costs. one recent recommendation was literally to change the way medical providers are paid by insurers. instead of paying for treatment, or particular procedures, the given amount would be budgeted out for a patient. the political will on this matter is alive and well in the state. everyone likes the universal health care. it is a matter of finding the funding to make a happy -- make it happen. rick: thanks very much. coming up, folks are being scared off the coast of california. we are talking about a giant squid. if you're taking 8 extra-strength tylenol... a day on the days that you have arthritis pain, you could end up taking 4 times the number... of pills compared to ale

also, 16 years ago, when he was just a young officer at the brandeis college university, reggie white, a very well-known boston celtics player had passed out, and he was the officer that arrived to provide mouth to mouth. this is someone that has a history of helping people, and this officer claims no history whatsoever of racial bias. gregg: probably the wrong guy to malign on the issue of race if you are going to line any police officer. all of this distracting, and there was brand new information on that from capitol hill. one of the blue dog democrats saying there's no chance for a deal on health care reform, at least not yet. the blue dogs, it's fiscally conservative group of democrats, have yet to agree on a plan. this coming as president obama met with two key senate leaders today. the aim -- to figure out just how to end this deadlock. now, the pressure is on to get something -- anything -- done before the recess. carl cameron live on capitol hill with more on this. >> we're told by aides that there were no agreements, no breakthroughs, no commitments. in that sense, it was a bit of a carpet call in th

harvard university professor henry gates and suburban boston police officer james crowley met with president obama and the vice president over beers. the president was hoping to ease tension over gates' arrest which gates called racially biased. charges against him were dropped. mr.obama later apologized for saying the cambridge police department acted, quote, stupidly. folk outside the white house weighed in on the so-called beer summit. >> you know, if the big scream of things, i think there is more important things than having a beer on the white house lawn. >> i don't think it would solve anything. i think they got together if a beer. >> it probably solved some problems. people need to communicate with each other. >> after meet being, the president said he is hopeful that all of us are able to draw a positive lesson from what happened. >>> there probably won't be a beer summit on this one but in georgia, there is another controversy involving police and the president. details on that coming up next. >>> ahead from the front lines to the classroom, tuition covered, books taken care of. st

he taught at several boston area universities and also served as a massachusetts state rep. a member of congress since 1981, in 1987, barney frank became the second openly gay member of the house of representatives. please welcome congressman barney frank. [applause] >> thank you. i very much appreciate the forum the press club offers for these kinds of discussions. let me reinforce what may have been entirely unnecessary admission. no one who has been familiar with the media in america could ever think hearing applause but it came from members of the media. [laughter] : 2 first address an issue about financial reform -- i want to first address an issue about financial reform. something about president obama -- whether or not he is asking congress to do too much, which is a refreshing change, i think, from the past. if the answer is no. in particular, there is no validity to any suggestion that because many of my colleagues are so deeply engaged in trying to deal with health care or cap and trade or other important is huge -- important issues like labor law reform, to enable

university's curriculum. >> we want to develop something all up and down the east coast because from boston college to florida state. we have a chance to go up and down the atlantic and really do some things to help young people. because the young people are the ones that need it. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: in college park, sara walsh, 9 news now and wusa9.com. >>> the players are hoping to have the young students attend some game and practices this year. the terps open the season september 5th at carolina. >>> penn state top the list of top party schools this year. the university of mississippi was third followed by the university of georgia and ohio university in athens. >>> maybe -- >> nobody likes to be on that list. >> i'm sure it is not in the brochure. >> no. weather wise it will be hot and humid. typical summer weather. >> so far this summer we have gotten off pretty good. >> yeah, we have. and still not that bad. >> exactly. no huge heat wave coming just around 90 and that's the average for time of the year. start with the three day trend. upper 80s to around 90s and each day a 20 to 30% chance

massachusetts and they've made an effort to insure everybody with a universal health care like plan and this past week we reported at fox news about boston headline center, actually suing the state, because medicaid reimbursement had been cut. and, that hospital is facing -- and i want to get this numbers righted and ask you about it, $38 million deficit, just for that one hospital for the fiscal year ending in september. and it is its first loss in five years and next year, $100 million loss potentially, because the state had lowered medicaid reimbursement. are there not calls for medicaid reduction of reimbursement under your plan? >> there are some in terms of what the course would be. we have to get ahold of costs. look, massachusetts just has a report that says they have to change the fee-for-service proposal, or structure, in that state. we need to do the same in this country. this proposal that we passed out of the ways & means committee has major cost reductions and i think, we can go even further. there also has to be coverage of everybody. massachusetts has set the pace here, and now, as i said, they have a new report that says

three of them in the boston area and the university medical school in worcester, that we are working very closely with particularly the state university but with all of them on trying to encourage physicians to go into primary care. my own physician who was at the university of massachusetts, the clinical side of the medical school, teaches primary care. he's the chief of medicine. and he says, you know, when he asked new students and medical students to think about going into primary care, their response kind of is, well, you know, we could go into primary care and maybe make about $150,000 a year and work pretty hard or we could go on and become a specialist and make maybe $400,000 a year and not work quite so hard and have a little bit of a quality of life. we need to look at how we pay for primary care in particular but care in general. we have just completed one of the requirements the legislature asked the administration to do last year in our quality and cost bill. it was to look at how we paid for care. and can't we pay for it more ficialtdly and get better quality -- efficie

continuing fallout from the gates i 'rest, by the way, a boston police officer was suspended for using a racial slur to describe the harvard universityrofessor has now apologized. >> the boston police department has a top-to-bottom commitment to community policing. commune policing is based on trust. this time of venomous rhetoric is severely damaging. maintaining our community relationships is paramount to our mission to serve the citizens of boston. we all work with the community and have made great strides to earn their trust. we must not allow this action to affect the relationships that have been forged and the progress we have made over the years. >> they say the officer, justin barrett, used a slur in a mass e-mail. the police commissioner calls it venomous, saying barrett would face a termination hearing as soon as next week. >> i am sorry that i wrote that. imthat my family has to deal with this selfish motivation and feelings that i had. i regret that i used such words. i have so many friends of -- every time of culture and race you can name, and i am not a racist. >> you can hear more from officer justin barrett later toni

here is boston king -- about this time in boston king rice, peace was restored between america and great britain. which diffused universal joint among all parties except us. he would escape slavery and take refuge in english army, for a report prevail and new york that all the slaves were to be delivered up to their masters. although some of them had been three or four years among the english. this dreadful of rumor and filled us with inexpressible anguish and terror, especially when we saw our old masters coming from virginia and north carolina and other parts, seizing upon a slaves in the streets of new york or even dragging them out of their beds. many of the slaves had very cruel master's, and the thought of returning home with them in better life to us. for some days we lost appetite for food and sleep departed from eyes. in english had compassion upon us and the day of our distress and issued a proclamation importing all slaves should be free to have taken refuge in the british lines. in consequence of this each received a certificate from the commanding officer at new york which dispelled our fears, filled as with

from the university of maryland school of social work and author of the book "buddy system, understanding males." >> they will need to have sports, a football game on, in this case the boston red sox will be on in the background probably. obama will invite them down to his basement where they will have ping-pong or pool or whatever they are going to do. >> why? why won't they sit down at the table and have a summit meeting? >> pretty much guys have shoulder to shoulder friendships and women have face- to-face friendships. we just can't sit here like this and talk. >> fair enough. why beer and not a burger or glass of red wine or orange juice? >> of course, orange juice for a cop never going to happen. too granola. scotch a little bit too upper class and wine a little too liberal. >> okay. so the beer is sort of the universal guy drink. >> macho kind of drink. >> a lot of this stuff sounds old school 20th century. we have heard about gender issues before. isn't this 20th century now. aren't guys more able to do face-to-face? >> probably still have that 20th century guy in them. yes, we have evolved a little bit. not that much. >> president obama -- he is president. >> yes.

university's curriculum. >> we want to develop something up and down the east coast because it goes from boston college to floridate. so we have a chance to go up and down the atlantic and do some things and help the young people. because young people are the ones that need it. >> in college park, sara walsh, 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> the players hope to have their students attend games and practice this year. the terps open the season on september 5th at california. >>> we are buzzing this morning about okay toe mom this morning. i personally have had enough but i think that's why the producer is having me do it. knows how much i love nadia. maybe the california judge has had enough, too. he appointed a lawyer to oversee the estate because they are worried with all of the deals she is doing between rerailty shows and this and that you have to make sure the kids are taken care of. they will make sure money from the children. >> from the golden days of tv, paul was on. i heard him talking. he was the on son on the donna reed show and he's been active and on our news talking about watching out for young children

boston medical center announced it is suing the state of massachusetts over the universal healthcare law citing financial burden. the complaint argues that the hospital is required to provide care to low income patients but the state is only reimbursing about 64 cents on the dollar so they are arguing they are underfunded by the state failing to cover the costor medicaid, for the subsidized program here and those uninsured. the political will behind universal healthcare in massachusetts still exists. lawmakers would like to see the program continue. it is just a big challenge to find the money to make sure it can continue. martha: interesting topic considering healthcare is so hot. the vice president is at it again. some say it is just the latest in a string of statements that may have him in increasingly hot water at the white house. and this video for you of the mass blast, a tanker truck exploding sparking frantic 911 calls. >> it is on 75 southbound. there is a fire involved. >> thank you. martha: now the police say the man who caused this crash is speaking out. you will hear fro

boston. >> facing a massive budget short fall, massachusetts lawmakers are cutting roughly 30,000 legal tax paying immigrants out of the state ground breaking universal health care system with a letter that they will lose their insurance. >> blood test. >> health care advocate at this groups are anxious -- getting anxious phone calls from people who has prostate cancer. >> they're going to send me the bills. there is no way i'm going to pay all these bills. >> reporter: critics say those left without insurance will resort to the only option available to them. >> they will end up waiting until they get sicker, show up at the emergency rooms, being expensive and that cost will fall to the hospital or the health centers. >> reporter: cash strapped hospitals are already strapped. this week boston medical center filed a lawsuit against the state, claiming it's been short changed by 181 million annually of reimbursement rates dropped to 64 cents on the dollar to cover the poor. the biggest question asked about this landmark health program here in massachusetts, has always been how to pay for it. the plan to cut tens of thousands of legal immigrants out wil

universal care. how's it working? it's not. what would happen if the idea were expanded nationwide? molly is live in boston right now. ince the very beginning since this universal health care program was implemented here in massachusetts, the big question has been, how are they going to pay for it? more people signed up in massachusetts for health insurance. only less than 3% of massachusetts residents don't have health care. and that's compared to about 15% nationwide so that goal was accomplished. but now paying for all of this is the big challenge of the legislature. they've actually started cutting people out of the program. about 30,000 legal, tax-paying immigrants, are now being cut from the state's commonwealth care, their state subsidized program in massachusetts. that's expected to save the state about $130 million. the governor has proposed still covering this population to a lesser degree and to a lesser extent to save a little bit of money. the reason this population of particular is being cut out is because they don't receive matching federal funds to cover that population. immigrant advocates, health car

times, even at the university, to try to help students to understand this, the appropriateness of language to place, you could take a working class white kid who comes out of bostonwho will come to northwestern university. and once he gets there, he knows the language of wider communication for him there is going to be some version of this standard thing. but, when he goes back home, and is hanging out with his cousins who were the not going to the northwesterns of the world, and he is hanging out in the pub drinking beer with them he will not speak the same way. he will speak the language that he grew up with, which is a particular dialect or version of english. that has functionality in terms of place. someone has said, actually the difference between the language -- a language and dialect is an army, languages have armies behind them, to give them power. so, all i'm saying is that it is important for us to not get sidetracked into thinking that the debates about blook black english are about language, they are not. they are simply about power and there are -- is no place in the world where you will not find variation in the speech of people speaking a particul

university. she was the leader of the honker strikers and later on the commander in chief at tiananmen square, twice nominated for a nobel peace prize. she is today an internet entrepreneur in boston. she runs an internet company. >> thank you very much for your time. [inaudible] -- the significance of what he did and what he stood for and the defense of tiananmen square. >> the tank man has become the most iconic image is of the century. this is in some ways when we think of tiananmen and a lot of fuss including myself i think have this almost the honorable fragile person in front of a longer line of tanks, and i only saw this image after i came out to the west. and i was very proud when i saw that because i, myself, had been stopped going out to stop tanks. we managed to stop tanks from coming to beijing and i stood in front of the tank and climbed up onto the tank and tried to convince the soldiers to come back and at least not opened fire on the students. so it to a designated with me greatly that to me what this represented in the way that almost amazingly beautiful that we don't know who he is at least at the moment i don't believe we know what he is and what happened to him

boston is bill gavin, an fbi veteran of 28 years and a former assistant director of the agency's new york office. and from philadelphia, dr. arthur kaplan, director of the center for bioethics at the university of pennsylvania. and interestingly, cochair of the u.n. task force on human trafficking. and from washington, d.c., dr. berndeen healey. reports right now that 30 people have been arrested, including a couple of mayors, deputy mayors, rabbis, state assembly men. it certainly sounds like a very large dragnet. >> there's no doubt about it, nancy. it is a large dragnet. the case has been ongoing for a couple of years

boston police officer. >>> there's a shocking new twist in the case of a harvard university professor arrested in his ownse and beyond. now there's fresh fall-out. let's go live to cnn's elaine quijano. she's working the story for us. there's new information about a police officer put on administrative leave for uttering a racial slur. what do we know? >> yeah. this is in written form. a boston police spokesperson, wolf, is confirming to cnn that one of his officers, officer justin barrett, was placed on paid administrative leave yesterday. why? because the boston police commissioner found out about a letter containing a racial slur that was sent by e-mail to the boston globe as well as to some of officer barrett's fellow national guard members. a source familiar with this investigation says this is an anonymous letter giving barrett's opinion on the gates situation and that the term "jungle monkey" was used in this correspondence. that's according to the source. the letter can be categorized as a rant against media coverage of the gates situation. a termination hearing for officer barrett is now pending

on the arrest of harvard university professor henry gates and the possibility that president obama could broker a truce at the white house. tracecy janes us by phone from bostonu literally just heard from professor gates. what does he say? >> he says he is not sure when the beers will be happening, he says very soon and he is partial to red stripe and becks. >> that is a great one from jamaica. >> he says he looks forward to meeting the president under the more pleasant circumstances. >> sounds like he is trying to lighten the at foss mere surrounding this. is he still sticking to the convention that he was racially profiled? >> i haven't spoken to him directly about that in recent days. i know he looks forward to putting the incident behind him. i think the conversation has reached the national level and he looks forward to furthering the dialogue. >> has he admitted doing anything wrong? >> he has not. >> so he still feels that he was the victim in this case? >> i think the last time we spoke he didn't use the word victim but he did say that he did not do anything wrong and i think he wants to have the conversation directly with sergeant crowley. >> do you

university professor henry louis gates. he spoke exclusively with cnn's soledad o'brien. >> i came from new york to boston and my driver picked the door was jammed. the door wouldn't open. to make a long story short, i asked my driver to sort of push the door through. i gave him his tip. he left. i called harvard real estate, which does the maintenance on my house, because they own the house, and while i was on the phone, a cambridge policeman showed up on my porch. i walked with the phone still active to my porch and he demanded that i step out of my house onto the porch. that's all he said. he said i would like you to step outside. i said absolutely not. i why are you here? he said i'm investigating a breaking and entering charge. i said this is my house. i'm a harvard professor. i live here. he said can you prove it? i said just a minute. i turned my back, walked into the kitsch on the get my harvard i.d. and my massachusetts driver's license. he followed me without my permission. i gave him the two i.d.s, and i demanded to know his name and his badge number. >> when you demanded that, what did he say? >> he wouldn't say a

university of buffalo, do you know where that ranked? >> top ten? >> not on the list. >> where did you go to college? >> boston college. also not on the list. surprisingly, shockingly not on the list. >> what about b.u.? >> not on the list. >> okay. >> all good news for us. >> yeah. >>> so, who is bill maher calling soulless vampire? the comedian and hbo host takes sides in the healthcare fight. i'll ask him about that and more. he's standing by live. >>> and sarah palin's parting shots. she takes a slap at hollywood. will that help her on the national stage? etter all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all day long. and it's not a steroid. announceit keeps my airways. to help me breathe better all da

boston. it's raining, pouring cats and dogs in new york city. officially no delays yet, robin, but you know that's going to change. we're expecting hour-plus delays later. robin? >> thank you. >>> a prominent harvard universityprofessor was arrested in his own home for disorderly conduct. a lawyer for him says they had to break into his house after his front door jammed. police continued to question him after he handed over his driver's license and i.d. now the arrest is raising racial profile questions. >> if a harvard professor is arrested it has a certain comical aspect. on the other hand, as a person of color, one has to wonder whether he was treated as any other harvard professor might have been. >> well, police say that gates became loud and might have been. >> police say gates became loud and tu multiyouous. >> next battle field, the title track from former "american idol" champ jordin sparks. the album is getting a mixed response from critics. ♪ >> beautiful voice. this is what you call a sweet anniversary. nasa got a giant moon pie on yesterday's 40th anniversary of the first moon landing. 40 inches in diameter and weighed 55 pounds, 14 pounds of marsh mall low and some folks were lucky enough to ta