boston university neurologist ann mckie directs the largest brain bank. >> cte is a neurodegenerative disease that affects individuals who have been exposed to repetitive brain trauma. >> i could go out and hit somebody that hard that could cause me could be concussed or perhaps even laid out cold on a football field. >> reporter: leonard marshall has been diagnosed with cte. when did you sit there and go, what's wrong? >> i would forget things. i would forget places. i would have this erratic behavior towards my child for no reason. >> did it scare you? >> scared the daylights out of me. and i started talking to people and i started to figure out i'm not in this by myself. there is other guys like me. >> researchers have discovered the signs of cte in the brains of dozens of former players. dave durdson who committed suicide, jevon belcher who killed his girlfriend before taking his own life and junior seau who killed himself in 2012. this weekend he was voted into the hall of fame. >> the late great junior seau. >> the nfl released new data this week showing a 25% drop in concussion

then went on to cornell and harvard for postgraduate training and ended up on the faculty at boston university. in 1975 morehouse college my college alma mater recruited me back to atlanta from boston to found the morehouse school of medicine. so that they then led to a meeting then vice president bush who spoke at the dedication of the first build it we constructed back in july of 82. county nine very well and i was lobbying him in 1988 for one of my trustees so i thought would be a great secretary. he reversed the tables on me and he asked me to serve as his secretary so that's how i became secretary of health and human services. >> what do you consider your biggest accomplishment during your tenure at hhs? >> really waging the war against tobacco use. because tobacco use then and today still is the number one preventable cause of death. i never smoked and i have nothing against executives in the tobacco industry except their product kills people. and as a physician and as the nation's health secretary, my responsibility is to do everything i can to protect preserve and enhance the health of

he also teaches at boston university. >> i will pick up the boston piece, if that is ok. history of lincoln is not in my wheelhouse, but the movie -- but i think the movie portrayed lincoln and his assassination the way it did because from the southern perspective, following though war, lincoln was on record as trying to corral and restrain what was seen as the vengeful, punitive, carpetbagging radical republican reconstructionists. with his death, in griffith's point of view, that unleashed the carpetbaggers to come to the south and wreak the havoc that was dramatized in the film. to jump to the other part of the question about the boston protest, again, once you break it down and develop what we call a day to day, trotter was at the forefront, along with leaders of the boston branch of the naacp of this amazingly multifaceted protest against the film that played out in city hall, in the courthouses, on the streets. at the tremont theatre that was located at the corner of boston common where trotter got arrested, along with a handful of other protesters and demonstrators

boston university in red, at american. the bender arena. the fake, in the corner, drives the baseline. how about the finish b.u. over a.u. the wizard should be well rested. the all-star break is over, time to make a run. john wall and the wizards play host to the cavaliers and lebron james friday night. >> we have 28 games now, and we have to start looking at the playoffs. every game now is a big game for us. we have the teams at the top everybody jockeying for position. every game is huge for us. >> paul pierce. still no score in the carolina-duke game, still in overtime. bowie state topped virginia state, rivalry game, in overtime. >> does not matter. shanahan, that is amazing stuff. >> coming up -- it started with heartbreak. >> just the look on his face killed me inside. >> nobody showed up at a birthday party for this six-year-old. what happened next is inspiring. >> record-breaking cold on the way to the dcu region, the number one trending topic on wjla.com. also, school closings and delays tomorrow. and our week long spotlight on col

and to bender arena, american hosting boston university. the eagles back in this game. 3 of the 17 games there coming from the corner. d.c. native justin austin went to archbishop. 61-53. a couple scores for you tonight, george mason falls to fordham 80-68. cat lynn university picks up their 15th win in a row, 75-60 is the final. >> 15 in a row? >>> did you see westminster last night? best in show was won by miss p, the beagle. she took new york by storm today, celebrated by chowing down on a steak and then went and posed for pictures on top of the empire state building. i guess it proves that every dog has to have his date. a nice-looking dog. they gave no love to the akitas once again. or the spaniel. >> it looks like a real dog, not all fuzzy and -- >> that' >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- sigourney weaver andy cohen musical guest, ella henderson,

boston university neurologist ann mckie directs the largest brain bank. >> cte is a neurodegenerativese that affects individuals who have been exposed to repetitive brain trauma. >> i could go out and hit somebody that hard that could cause me could be concussed or perhaps even laid out cold on a football field. >> reporter: leonard marshall has been diagnosed with cte. when did you sit there and go, what's wrong? >> i would forget things. i would forget places. i would have this erratic behavior towards my child for no reason. >> did it scare you? >> scared the daylights out of me. and i started talking to people and i started to figure out i'm not in this by myself. there is other guys like me. >> researchers have discovered the signs of cte in the brains of dozens of former players. dave durdson who committed suicide, jevon belcher who killed his girlfriend before taking his own life and junior seau who killed himself in 2012. this weekend he was voted into the hall of fame. >> the late great junior seau. >> the nfl released new data this week showing a 25% drop in concussions last

and this week, researchers from boston university published a study that found former nfl players whoying football before age 12 had a higher risk of developing cognitive problems than those who began playing later. and even some former players are wary of letting their kids play football. >> i would be real leery of him playing. and that sounds -- in some respects i'm almost glad i don't have a son. >> do you believe football can be safe enough to play in the future? >> i think -- i think it can. but i think it is going to take an overwhelming and alarming thing to happen for there to be change. >> i'm joined now from outside of the university of phoenix stadium, site of the super bowl, by demaurice smith, executive director of the nfl players association. welcome to "meet the press." >> thank you for having me, chuck. >> you just heard in that piece, mostly leonard marshall, some other former players, brett favre, being concerned about the safety of the game. you represent nearly 2,000 players on any given day as executive director of the nfl players association. do you believe this

a recent boston university study found that former nfl players who played tackle football before the12 are more likely to have serious brain damage. pop warner says they have made rule changes to make the game safer, but in a statement, says, "we question the merits of singling out four years of youth football amid a career of sports that lasted through high school." >> even if this mother was able to demonstrate that football was the cause of the injury that doesn't mean she wins a lawsuit. you still have to prove that they knew or should have known how dangerous football is. and i think that's just incredibly unlikely. >> reporter: pyka says she hopes her lawsuit will make other parents think twice about letting their kids play football. linzie janis, abc news, new york. >>> still ahead on "world news tonight," what you need to know before buying your valentine chocolates. the warning tonight from one of america's most popular candymakers. our "instant index" is next up. than a spontaneous moment. so why pause to take a pill? and why stop what you're doing to find a bathroom? with

he is a professor of journalism at boston university. his latest book is "the birth of a nation." let's go to marvin from saginaw, michigan. >> good afternoon. our last caller talked about the history of this country being skewed by basically propaganda such as this. i would like to ask one of, both the guests, how they feel about this being basically the first propaganda piece of this country. >> thank you for the call. mr. jones? >> how i feel about this movie being the first propaganda piece? it is disheartening that this is the kind of work that was presented as such a cinematic blockbuster with all these innovative techniques, the long-running film. it is disheartening that that is what actually happened. i do feel that it gives us an opportunity to examine ourselves , but also to examine not just what is in the dome, but also what is being taught, because the film is not far off from what is being taught in the classroom. you can still examine the residual effects of it in today's classroom areas -- classroom. >> dick lehr, can you go through some fast facts about the film h

. >> caller: most definitely, and i teach at boston university once a week, and when you talk to those kids, they don't call it fake news, they call it the news. it's a digest of the news, it teaches them things about what is going on in the world and it filled a whole in their diet. >> do you think he is replaceable? can you imagine a daily show with a new host or do they can have to go with something else? >> caller: it is straight up satire. i certainly wouldn't want to wander into those giant footprints. and you know in the instance of colbert, which is a little more sin -- you have to admit that jon stewart wore the uniform better than most. enough so that it is a little hard to imagine what he will do next. you know he did a great job with rosewater, the film he directed, but in terms of a straight up talk show, he never excelled at interviewing all that much. if you're thinking about well, he's going to do straight up comedy somewhere -- i don't know, he is a satire guy, right? >> my sense from watching him during the presser of "rose water" is that was a passion project and i t

i myself did not attend an hbcu and am currently attending boston university but had there have been an offering i definitely would have attended. >> host: to that point president johnson about an on line offering hell is tuskegee capable of back? isn't something you want to expand? >> guest: i i think you must have been reading my vision document. we are pleased to say we will be presenting to the board of trustees in the upcoming board of trustee meeting for approval for on line modes of delivery. we are to have in the structure platform that can accommodate 10,000 students and only accommodates 3000. we already have a programs and faculty members who are excited about offering a wonderful s.t.e.m. offerings on line in an on line mode of delivery. we are fully aware of our accreditation requirements for reporting and went to by are accrediting agencies. one of the beautiful things about it is it takes little to no revenue at all to put these programs in place and to get them up and running. we believe to tuskegee university has not only the brand but the quality of its programs to

the that we have covered barnes & noble when they started to anchor stores universities like boston universityey in the process. what's your number one goal here with the students? >> colleges are struggling to make college more affordable for students and that's the focus of our program. how to bring this to customers on campus. and have a week improve the convenience of amazon. so we have opened up our first physical pickup location where students can ship packages to the university and use a mobile enabled experience. it and then the prime members can order as late as 10:00 p.m. and get things the next morning. liz: that is amazing to me and of course students have that immediacy that they definitely need whether it's textbooks or we were joking about ramen noodles. but uc davis and amherst, the first schools trying that out. you have other schools lining up your to . >> we are talking to another of other schools and i expect to have other announcements later this year. our focus is on the big schools for now and yes, we think we will have a lot more coming soon. liz: what's the pricing whe

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with the boston globe. >> for 19 years. >> what are you doing now. >> i teach journalism at boston universitystudents. >> about 30 or 40. >> and what do you teach. >> journal and writing and a course on ethics. >> how many of your students watch this film? >> i don't know. i've talked about it in class. they've heard me talk about it in the last few years as i worked on this project. some of them never heard of it which surprises me. and i'm in the college in communications and i'm home of the television department and this is still taught in the american history survey course. >> here is a clip of the ku klux klan bringing gus, so-called, to justice. a minute and 15. let's watch. >> sure. ♪ >> you can see why trotter and the other protesters were appalled by the film. >>.lieutenant governor was lynch. >> lynch. >> sent down by stoneman from peninsula or from washington, d.c. >> sure. >> and gus, on his doorstep. >> the answer to blacks in carpet baggers. >> what happens to all of those -- i do want to ask you about monroe trotter and d.w. griffith at the end of their lives. what happens in t

a boston university student copied 30 songs and shared them on the web. recording industry association sued him and a jury ordered him to pay $675,000. >> $22,000 for every song. >> and that's not right according to this author. >> the internet has given us a tool to learn and copy. this is how society advances and how humanity grows. copyright laws censors free speech. >> without it people will say and mix and produce less. >> that is not true. today we have piracy that is widespread and most people want their ideas to get out there. the danger to artists and people who want their name out there is piracy. >> so i should be allowed to pirate movies off the internet? >> i think piracy is the wrong term. when you copy information you are not taking anything you are copying their ideas. they still have them. piracy is raiding ships and taking things. >> and the movie industry complains all the time. >> the wolf is ripped off. the wolf of wall street was downloaded illegally more than any other movie in 2014. others are frozen, robocop gravity and the hobbit

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. >> a look at loss on gender equality during the conference at boston university. marking the 50th anniversary of the 1964 civil rights act. gender stereotyping, equal pay, and sexual harassment laws and this is one hour. >> my privilege this afternoon to introduce commissioner chai feldblum and also thank her for coming to the conference. not only coming for being here the whole time and participating actively, we can all agree she is substantially enhanced the conference for doing that. i think it reflects the fact that at heart she is still a law professor dale loves ideas. -- and that it loves ideas. we can admire her career as being successful in connecting the realm of ideas to the world something she has done pretty much since graduating from law school a couple years clerking on the first circuit. at georgetown, she founded the law centers, a federal legislative clinic which she had a number of clients that led to her being instrumental in the drafting and negotiating the american with disabilities act. and the 2008 amendments to that act as well. these are

a boston university student joel tannenbaum copied 30 songs and shared them on the web.try association sued him and a jury ordered him to pay $675,000. >> $22,500 for each song he downloaded. >> and that's not right according to the author of "against intellectual property." why is it not right? >> the internet has given us a tool to learn, to copy. this is what humans have been doing for thousands of years. this is how society advances and how humanity grows. copyright law basically censors free speech, preventing people from sharing, from me mixing. >> without it people will say and mix and produce less. >> that is actually not true. today we have piracy that is widespread and most people want don't make a dime from their works. most people want their ideas to get out there. the danger to artists and people who want their name out there is obscurity, not piracy. piracy is a compliment. >> so i should be allowed to pirate movies off the internet? >> well i think piracy is the wrong term just like the idea of the term stealing is the wrong term. when you copy information

researchers at boston university have developed a new methods that could more accurately predict a woman's is big. if doctors know you're at risk, they can screen you earlier and as you know early detection can mean the difference between life and death. the mental will look at everything from bmi at age 18 to hormone and contraceptive use even your height. piecely research only used a few of those criteria. >>> let's find out what's on your radar tonight here's scott williams. >> a whole lot. get ready to buckle up over the neck 24 hours. we're looking at a dramatic change in the temperatures as well as the weather. ultimate doppler right now showing you this clipper. this arctic front snow right now the western part of the state. some of that will make its way toward our area during tomorrow morning's rush. so between 4am and 10:00 a.m. that window of opportunity reduced visibilities and also a slicking out theres as we move north and west whiner am the poconos by 6:00 a.m. trying to move into berks county sections of bucks and montgomery county by 7am. that moisture fiss sells out likel

and just this week researchers at boston university found that retirees who started playing tackle footballthe age of 12 had an increased risk of memory trouble and related problems. clearly none of this is good news for football players or the league itself. but the implications may reach even further, to the next generation of players. a new nbc/wall street journal poll found that 37% of americans say they would steer their kids away from playing football because they are worried about concussions. we love football and we love our kids. does all this mean that those two loves are in conflict? joining our table, dr. anthony assisi who is a sports neurologist and medical director at the university of connecticut neurosport. i want to start with you, doctor. this new report about 12-year-olds will undoubtedly lead at least some people to look at the small ending study and say, hey, all we need to do is keep the peewees from playing and if they start middle school high school, it will be okay. is that the right conclusion to draw? >> melissa, you have to understand that throughout time mother

of near east studies at princeton university and michael danti, a professor of archaeology at boston universitypecializes in this region. let me start with you, michael danti. i know ex pieforts have been looking -- experts have been looking at the video to authenticate the museum, to try to determine the extent of the damage. what do we know so far? >> we know some of the objects we are seeing are plaster casts or restorations, but the majority of what we're looking at both at the site of nineveh and the mosul museum is sculpture of antiquity. we're seeing material from the ancient city of hadr and from nineveh from the first millennium b.c. >> brown: put context to these works. >> the material from hatra is really unparalleled in art history. there's very little material outside the mosul museum. in terms of the sculpture we see from the asyrian empire, a large amount of that material graces the british museum the metropolitan museum of alter and the louvre. but the works we're seeing that remained in mosul were the hard work of iraqi archeologists and museum professionals. >> brown: bernard

. >> next, a look at laws on gender equality during the conference at boston university. marking the 50th anniversary of the 1964 civil rights act. topics included gender stereotyping, equal pay, and sexual harassment laws. this is one hour. >> my privilege this afternoon to introduce commissioner chai feldblum and also thank her for coming to the conference. not only coming for being here the whole time and participating the whole time and participating actively, we can all agree she is substantially enhanced the conference for doing that. i think it reflects the fact that at heart she is still a law professor dale loves ideas. -- and that it loves ideas. we can admire her career as being successful in connecting the realm of ideas to the world something she has done pretty much since graduating from law school a couple years clerking on the first circuit. at georgetown, she founded the law centers, a federal legislative clinic which she had a number of clients that led to her being instrumental in the drafting and negotiating the american with disabilities act. and the

and a boston university law school conference looking at gender equality law and the civil rights act. >> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. this weekend, we partnered with time warner cable for a visit to greens bro, north carolina. >> after months and months of cleaning the house, charles halpern who had been given that task was making one more walk through. in the attic he looked over and saw an envelope with a kind of gray seal on it and walk over, and noticed the date an 1832 document he removed a panel in an upstairs attic room and discovered this trunk and portraits. this was this treasure of dolly madison's things. we've had this story veable to the public, display different items from time to time, but trying to include her life story from her birth to her death in 1849. some of the items that we currently have on display a carved ivory calling card case that has a card enclosed with dolly's signature as well as that of her niece, anna. some small cut glass perfume

vanderbilt university hired the boston consulting group to tell the university how much it spent, the university spent in complying with federal rules and regulations for higher education in a single year. according to the boston consulting group vanderbilt university last year spent $150 million complying with federal rules and regulations. that's 11% of all of its expenditures. that adds about $11,000 to the tuition of each one of about 12,000 students at the university. that's absolutely absurd, mr. president, absolutely absurd that somehow or another that could happen. or a second example. the student aid form that 20 million families fill out every year. it's 108 questions long. our committee has been told that two questions would do the job for 96% of the families. what's your income, what's your family size. a bipartisan group of us have introduced that. that would save millions of hours, millions of dollars across the country. or here's a third example. the head of the national academy of sciences says that 42% of the time of an investigator on a research project is spent on a

he moved to massachusetts; worked as a tenement lawyer in boston, teaches at the university of massachusetts latino poetry, and the work of pablo neruda. he's published 16 books, and his collection of poems, the republic of poetry, was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. >> at 16, i worked after high school hours at a printing plant that manufactured legal pads-- yellow paper stacked seven feet high and leaning as i slipped cardboard between the pages, then brushed red glue up and down the stack. no gloves-- fingertips required for the perfection of paper, smoothing the exact rectangle. sluggish by 9:00 p.m., the hands would slide along suddenly sharp paper, and gather slits thinner than the crevices of the skin; hidden. then the glue would sting, hands oozing till both palms burned at the punch clock. ten years later, in law school, i knew that every legal pad was glued with the sting of hidden cuts; that every open law book was a pair of hands upturned and burning. ( applause ) >> funding for "overheard" with evan smith is provided in part by mfi foundation, improving the quality of life wi

i'm attending boston university.re been a bit more online offerings, i definitely would have attended. host: two the point about online offering, how is tuskegee capable of that? is that something you want to expand? guest: you must have been reading my vision document. i'm pleased to say that we are presented to our board of trustees at our upcoming board meeting of approval for online delivery. we already have an infrastructure and platform that can accommodate up to 10,000 students that only accommodates 3000. we arty have eight programs where our faculty members are excited about offering wonderful stem programs online. we have progress reporting on when to notify a regional -- our regional agency crediting program. it takes little to nothing at all to put these programs in place and get them up and running. we believe that tuskegee university not only has the brand, but the quality of the program to be online. we are looking forward to both of these programs in the fall. we trust that the board of trustees will

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boston globe, the university of massachusetts reversing a controversial decision to ban iranian nationalsentering certain engineering and science programs. by law, iranians are not permitted visas to study here if they plan to return to iran and work in nuclear-related fields. u.s. am hers claims that following the law on a case by case basis was too complicated an issue to blanket ban which drew accusations of discriminationing discriminationing. >> "new york times." ten states are push for so-called gun on campus bills. the law would permit carrying firearms on college campuses which many argue would help prevent rape as well as mass shootings. some opponents say introducing gun on campuses are opening up a new range of risks mixed with drinking and other reckless activitiesnd pose a greater risk to students. concealed fire ams are banned in 41 states by law or by campus policy. we disagree on this. >> yes we do definitely. the "los angeles times" -- >> you don't want to talk about it? >> it's pretty obvious. you don't want to have people running around on campus toting guns. i think th

universe. we are ghost pepper in boston. >>> ghost pepper the name of the band from the berkeley college of music in boston than means these guys know what they're doing. great musicians. but they thought in order to get their name out there, they needed to literally do the ghost pepper challenge since the name of their band is ghost pepper. >> we're going to play part of our song called "drowning" and the middle of it we'll have a ghost pepper and finish it and probably going to die. it's going to be awesome. ready for this? one, two. ♪ >> first, we hear their skills. they're awesome. they're playing their song "drowning" and play the first half. it's really good. ♪ i'm drowning♪ >> here we go. halfway through the song they put their instruments down. they each take an entire ghost pepper and shove it in their mouth. we're talking the world's second hottest pepper. they're not ready. no one's ready for this. >> wow. okay. >> this is going to go well. >> the poor bass player can't handle it. >> this looks like he didn't eat anything spicer than mayonnaise. >> you say -- ♪ ♪ >> the drummer's back

the idea is that it benefits because it's got all these universities that it has in boston a high qualityof life as people generally like to be there and emphasize the historical attractiveness to that kind of lifestyle but it's the same that providence and newport have and you have brown university the university of rhode island, a large number of colleges and universities. what went wrong and how do they not benefit from the same forces that helped massachusetts and new york? >> i will tell you what i think massachusetts has done a great job of partnering and collaborating. the government can't do everything. the government cannot make an economy work. it has to be a collaboration and bottoms up. great things happen at the universities working with the government and working with business. and massachusetts and pittsburgh and other places have nailed that. and rhode island hasn't. we just haven't brought together -- yes we have brown university and a school of design the school of design but we haven't married them with industry so we haven't tapped the intellectual capital to turn thos

boston. we have great amazing universities. we ought to be a thriving economy, but we are not.ed when the manufacturing sector left. we didn't reposition ourselves for high-growth industries. so, i am in the position where the insfifrning would be to cut and there have to be cuts except you can't just cut. you can't cut your way to prosperity or job creation. we have to cut in the areas where we spend too much or that aren't job creating and then reality of that money -- rea allocate that to skill development, economic incentives for businesses and that is exactly the task before me. those are tough choices. i will have to take a hard look at medicaid. rhode island the second highest in the country per enrollee. not doing a great job necessarily faketaking care of the most vulnerable. we have to find money there and invest in the roads and bridges and schools, skill development to fundamentally get people back to work earlier, the earlier schedule, we are going to be joined by governor nixon of missouri under a talking to his staff. it is the return for american manufacturing.

further, we don't have a problem with sending brigham young xavier university, notre dame, boston college or any of the other jesuit schools federal student financial aid. we don't have a problem with that. we see this part of the thing. that we do to educate at this next level, but then you'll hear people say inging they're against prek to 12 vouchers because they might go to a catholic school. isn't notre dame a catholic school? so, why would you have a problem, why would you be okay with notre dame the university receiving a voucher, but not notre dame high school or elementary school receiving a voucher? it's because notre dame university, or the university of notre dame doesn't have as good a lobbying group. as the pre k-12 folks do. we need to do a better job of making it plain to the community what's really what. too much of the education conversation is held in the minds and mouths of wonky politicos. love you guys in your khaki pants and blue blazers, love you, but you don't make sense to the rest of the world. your little echo chamber conversations don't mean anything to people.

schools and universities closed throughout the boston area. be careful. >>> let's head to chicago, shall we? it's been four years since the windy city saw snow this deep breaking old records breaking into the top five winter storms of all time. 19.3 inches the top spot. ryan young is there this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. 19-inches. you can see what neighbors are having to deal with. you can see cars under all this snow coverage. neighbors helping neighbors trying to dig themselves out. it will take a lot of effort. there is a guy using a snow blower to blow some snow off the sidewalk. the city says they can't get to the side streets for quite some time and have to worry about major roads. power outages for the last 24 hours and so far so good as you see all the snow left behind. >> you look so cold. i just want you to get in for a bit. ryan young reporting live this morning. >>> for millions of americans today feels like a groundhog movie. for this chubby cheeked animal it is groundhog day. did you know that? guess what