scott brown, mr. i am against obamacare, mr. scott brown himself apparently does not even know what to say now when he is asked in new hampshire about whether or not the state ought to expand health insurance access under obamacare. scott brown, mr. i'm against obamacare, the man who person phis running against obamacare for the republican party now that he is running for office right now cannot even answer basic questions about what the state he is running in should do about obamacare. he cannot answer the question, because expanding health insurance in new hampshire probably at some level makes sense for new hampshire. but that is obamacare, and being against obamacare is the one thing people are supposed to know about scott brown that does not make them laugh out loud. poor scott brown, live free and die. frank rich joins us next. stay with us. i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough.

fabricio werdum, travis browne. the winner will fight cain velasquez for the ufc heavyweight championship. and joe, fabricio werdum has been dominant thus far in this fight. >> joe: he certainly has. he survived a few scary moments in the beginning of the first round, but now he is all over travis. he's stepping over. he's taking guard. and watch the control of fabricio werdum. when you're dealing with a guy who's never given you space. that left leg is pinned to the chest of travis browne. there's no air for him to move. if he separates that right arm from travis body and throws his right leg over the body of travis's body. travis is in all sorts ever trouble. he's back to his feet. >> mike: he's up. good escape, though, joe. >> joe: yes. but fabricio can hit him with knees now too. >> mike: and a right hand. >> joe: and look. travis is exhausted. >> mike: he's trying to play like he's not. >> joe: oh, he's exhausted. his legs are wobbly. look how he's moving. >> mike: look how he's laboring with his punches. he's

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: common core was initiated in 2009 by the nations' governors, seeking national standards for math and english literacy. u.s. secretary of education arne duncan supported the move, spending $350 million to develop common core tests. >> i believe this new generation of assessment is an absolute game-changer for american education. >> brown: in relatively short order, nearly every state, plus the district of columbia, agreed to create curricula based on the common core guidelines. but more recently, a backlash has begun. last month, indiana became the first state to drop the common core standards it had already adopted. governor mike pence explained the move in an indianapolis radio interview. >> hoosiers should be very proud and take every opportunity to be engaged in the fact that we're the first state in the country that's really going back to the principle that education is a state/local function. >> brown: now, oklahoma and other states are moving to follow indiana's lead. the criticism initially stemmed from republicans leery of federal involvement w

with brown and tolley. then there is the stretch target. say the initial target is x, then the next target is 10 percent below that and we have a stretch and sometimes the percentage allocation is higher or lower depending on if we are doing a 50/50 split. that's what we are trying to show you on page 11. so that we want everybody to be aware that those exist. then there is a second thing is an example of how this works on page 12. so talk to your target is 550, second tier is 510 and final pay out level is 490. so if you cross over 550, and you go to 510, there will be a certain allocation of the money on a certain split. then if you go down, i didn't make this super complicated and fancy. once you are at 490, no more pay out. with that, we have an example. they get to 530 as an example. there is a $20 difference in the average cost per member per month in the entire year. they have 20,000 people times 12 and the allocation is 50 percent. that turns out to be $2.4 million that is now paid from the trust to

>> that's possible. >> brown: what are the >> brown: what will happen next? how does a country transition from closed to open, from dictatorship to democracy? these young students at the yangon school of political science debated those questions recently. it was the first time in their lives, they told us afterwards, they could study politics freely. >> brown: has your life changed? >> i'm a youth. i can have more employment opportunities because so many foreign companies are coming for investment in myanmar. >> brown: is it an exciting time? >> yes. it is exciting. and at the same time, its also nervous. because there are a lot of challenges. we have ethnic violence. so it's exciting but i feel nervous. >> brown: a country in a state of de-isolation. poor, ethnically divided, with a very troubled past. and a potentially booming future: exciting but nervous. >> ifill: tomorrow, jeff looks at what this new political openness means for myanmar's cultural heritage. and on our art beat page, you can read jeff's travel journal, which is part of his series, "cultur

>> brown: and santos is getting his message out in other ways too. he's also a lecturer at san francisco state university, teaching a course called, "the architecture of incarceration." in just it's second semester, it's become hugely popular with criminal justice majors, some squeezing onto empty floor spaces. >> brown: i read your life story and you're an impressive individual. but what about the thousands or even millions of others out there, what makes you think that they could do what you've done? >> i think the biggest problem in our criminal justice system is that we don't set goals high enough. in fact, when i was in prison and a guard would see me, and he'd say, it doesn't look right, you don't fit the profile. i said, isn't that ironic, you're a correctional officer, but when you see somebody who comes back whole, you wonder what went wrong, rather than saying what are we doing right. and we need to send a message that people in prison can come back whole. i believe absolutely that any individual can do it if we can change the narrative. >>

jeffrey brown has more on the struggle to contain it. >> brown: one of the concerns is that ebola has crossed borders. guinea is where the outbreak began and was first made public in march. more than 100 deaths and 150 cases have been reported there. another troubling aspect: the disease has turned up in a wide area. from tropical forests to the capital of conarky to the liberian border. in liberia, investigators believe there are at least 10 deaths. health officials are now investigating possible cases in both in mali and ghana. more than 60% of infected people have died. laurie garrett of the council of foreign relations has tracked outbreaks in the past as a journalist and author of several books on global health and disease. she joins us now. lori, welcome back to the program. first, remind us a bit about what ebola is and exactly how it's transmitted. >> thank you. yeah, ebola is an rna virus, a very small virus that attacks the endothelial linings that maintain the blood veins, capillaries. first, a microscopic holes through which blood and fluids leak until they're larger and l

jeffrey brown has the story. >> brown: crowds flooded the vatican today ahead of sunday's historic canonization of popes john paul ii and john xxiii. more than a million people are expected to pack st. peter's square as two of the 20th century's most beloved pontiffs are declared saints. >> ( translated ): they were both great popes. they changed what was the course of the church throughout centuries. so i think that they will do a lot as saints, too. >> brown: john paul ii will achieve that status faster than anyone in modern times. the polish cardinal was elected pope in 1978, at the height of the cold war, and stood as a firm opponent to communism. he became wildly popular, and was greeting the faithful in st. peter's square in may 1981 when he was shot by a turkish guan. he recovered and ultimately reigned for 26 years until his death in 2005. since then, though, there has been continuing criticism over the handling of sexual abuse by priests under his watch. >> the sex abuse affair is a dark page of his papa in my opinion, during the last year of his papacy, john paul ii wasn't informed en

we'll do brown and toll an first alphabetically. it's not by preference or anything like that. thank you very much. if you would please identify who you are? >> i'm richard fish from brown and toll an. ceo. >> welcome. >> thank you. thanks for having us here. this is a project that's been and i have spoken to you before and it's been near and dear to our heart and important to address it. certainly the labels that have been mentioned the collaboration with the hospital which means getting our staff together with the hospital staff in the er and the hiring of nurses and really to support to t up for the discharge. having a dedicated hospital group that centers around your patients and knows our staff. a significant discharge plant that we started with the county and patients that works from before the patient's discharge to make sure everybody understand the plan and what's going to happen afterwards. it works all the way through having the hospital make the hand off and we've added staff that contacts most patients. there is a crite

mccollum just spoke about. >> brown: they did say they will put more attorneys assigned to this. which means the use of resources which is another issue. >> absolutely. they're going to have to. because the response is going to be overwhelming. but you know, the reality is mandatory sentencing has completely hamstrung the federal system. federal judges have been unable to do their jobs in the system. and there is a real need for reform so while we are very eagerly anticipating a very robust greening and scrutinizing process in this clemency announcement today, the reality is we need to actually see action from congress. and see congress enact the smarter sentencing act to really kind of enact the kinds of reforms that we're seeing take place in red and blue states around the country, reforming mandatory minimum sentencing lieus and keeping crime rates on the decline. so that's going to necessarily be a part of the effort on criminal justice reform for the next few years. >> what, do you have a sense now of the impact of this step. i mean we're talking about thousands of people po

practices. >> brown: so the monastery was there? >> a monastery complex. >> brown: u myo nunt served until recently as deputy director of the department of archeology in bagan. he explained as earthquakes took their toll over the years much restoration was done piecemeal, and not by internationally-recognized standards. but these are buddhist shrines, he points out, seen as places of worship. >> ( translated ): people put gold coating or lime wash on the pagodas to make them look nice, thinking that will bring good karma. >> brown: other practices, such as the building of faux-historic pagodas, this one by a former top general, also raised concerns. all of this leading unesco to deny bagan world heritage designation. there is now internationally- sanctioned work being done here. we watched an effort at one of bagan's oldest and most important structures, the 12th century ananda temple, to remove layers of white lime coatings, a $22 million project being financed by the government of india, and overseen by indian experts. at the mini

new hampshire is now home for old scott brown. in the opening weeks of this brand-new i'm now from new hampshire senate campaign scott brown has decided to travel to las vegas, whereupon he will attend a giant hedge fund conference. tada. when the boston globe first reported this planned trip last week, scott brown's campaign said essentially we have nothing to speak about here, just speaking in a bipartisan event. but rather, the press revealed that not only is scott brown traveling to las vegas to speech at the hedge fund conference, turns out it is a paid appearance. he is being paid to speak at the hedge fund conference in las vegas. this is the kind of thing that helped sink scott brown in 2012. this is the thing that helped elizabeth warren become senator elizabeth warren. it was the senator who said wall street should follow the law. and in that narrative the people voting in the election chose the wall street sheriff over the wall street stooge. this time, though, in neighboring new hampshire scott brown is apparently more

>> brown: and a troublemaker reformed by spencer tracy in the 1938 film "boys town." >> brown: he sang and danced alongside judy garland in their "let's put on a show" musicals, including the 1941, "babes on broadway." >> i am a yankee doodle dandy. and appeared with elizabeth taylor in "national velvet." >> you'll be disqualified at the end if they find out you're a girl. >> brown: after serving in the army during world war two, his life became one of professional and personal ups and downs, he married eight times and lost his fortune to gambling, lavish spending and bad business decisions. but the irrepressible performer kept popping up in one comeback after another. he showed his comedic talents in the 1963 hit "it's a mad, mad, mad, mad world." >> hello down on the ground this is us up in the air. and listen we're in this fellow's plane, see. and he knocked himself out because he drank a whole case of bourbon and he fell down and he hit his head. and what do we do? >> the switch! let go of the switch! >> if you can give us your position. who's flying the plane? >> what do you mean,

and brown and toll an, do you have a colleague here as well? would you please stand and have them identify themselves. please stand up. all right. we thank you all. >> all right. i would like you before you leave today to get your names and affiliated titles to our secretary so it will at least be recorded in the minutes that you were here affiliated with this presentation. if you do that, i would greatly appreciate it. if you don't care to be recognized, that's okay too. we are public. >> are there any other comments that you would like to share at this time? >> commissioners, bob muss skat, chairman of the public employees committee and local 21. good afternoon. >> can you bring the microphone closer? >> i wanted to come by and thank the hss board and staff for their leadership vote on kaiser and blue shield, the work that you have done has been terrific. if you remember it seems like a week ago, but the last time we went around with the kaiser rate increase, i think it was a very intense time. it wasn't particularly comfortable for all of us

brown and the bodyguard are pleading not guilty. brown has been arrested on multiple occasions.ident he was on probation for assaulting then girlfriend rihanna. if convicted he could face additional penalties including jail time. >> reporter: thank you for watching abc news. tune in to "good morning america" tomorrow. as always we are online at abcnews.com. good night.

brown last night launching another senate run in new hampshire, starting with this ad. >> scott browne last few weeks it's taken him all across new hampshire, listening, learning. >> wait a second. that looks familiar. haven't i seen that somewhere before? >> my name is scott brown and i'm running for the united states senate. this is my truck. i put a lot of miles on it during this campaign. wherever i go, people tell me they're concerned about the path our country is on. it's time for a new direction. >> he loved that old truck so much that he used it to basically make the same ad he ran in his first race he ran in massachusetts. the website pointed out the similarities, both ads feature brown and they feature him in his favorite pickup truck. hope he got the new plates done for the new state. those signs even look identical. they're classic new england. scott brown might want to get a gps for that old truck of his so he knows which state to campaign in this time around. senator brown, did you think we wouldn't notice your state of confusi confusion? nice try. but we gotcha. marge:

wewelcome to him. >> thank you. >> brown: what is driving got news? how did we get there? >> the significant gains in graduation rates have been among hispanic students and african-americans since 2006. these students, half african-americans and 40% of hispanics were trapped in the dropout factory schools where it was 50-50 proposition where whether you graduated or not. >> brown: you use the term dropout factory? >> we did. it's a tough term but i think it's appropriate. you go into these places and half of classmates are not finishing school. >> brown: give me an example of a place or two that you saw the difference. >> new york city had the large urban school districts. they broke them up to smaller learning communities. schools within schools, ninth grade academies. made them more personalized learning environments, where young people could connect to learning in ways that showed relationships of what they were learn flg school and what they wanted in life. we had done a study called the silent epidemic listening to the perspectives of dropouts across the united states

one is brown. >> yes, he came here at the rocket program and brought 114 fellow v2 rocketmakers withhim and this program had a very ben i havbenefittent face. we only now know the facts of the slave labor factory deep in the tunnels that you had concentration camp prisoners building the v-2 rockets. >> brown: so in a case like that and others where we know that they did accomplish things for the u.s., when they came here, the only question, and you wrote this, does accomplishment cancel out past crimes? >> that is the conundrum of operation paperclip, and i hope people come to their own conclusion about that because certainly the idea that you would excuse some of this horrific, horrific behavior during the war becomes, you know, that big moral question. >> brown: and what happened to these guys in the end? a number of them just lived out their days quite well here in the u.s. >> you know, the obituary for dr. theodore benzager in the new york times sums it up, he died in 1999 and the "new york times" lauds him as a good german scientist who dedicated his life to the u.s. military. i

congratulations and happy birthday to former mayor willie brown and our war memorial committee.mit to work hard with you and the rest of the city joining in this effort. thank you and congratulations >> thank you, mayor thank you mayor ed lee. nova is going to recite a poem. it's titled the young dead soldiers. this particular poem will be inskrind in stone in the san francisco veterans memorial when it's completed. arching balanced wrote this poem in the middle of the last century when he was a larger than four is larger than congress. as a young man he severed in embattle in world war i and witnessed suffering and death. air force world war ii when the congress held a service for all the staff members who died in the war he contributed this poem tonl not only to commemorate the dead by those who survive bear a special responsibilities to make the deaths of those soldiers meaningful so as the poem is being resided live up to that responsibility of making the deaths of our american soldiers and mooerpz and coast guards make it meaningful. noah. >> young dead soldiers do not spea

we've guaranteed it. >> happy birthday to former mayor willie brown. >> happy birthday to you. happy birthday to you. happy birthday dear willie. happy birthday to number 80 if you can believe that (clapping.) okay folks that's the end of the ceremony i wonder if i can get the shovelers back here we'll get one more picture >> thank you for coming and stand but for the

>> it is often forgotten about with brown, brown was addressing the system of racial caste that we had been and that resources -- >> explain what you mean. >> round versus board of education, the 1954 ruling, the landmark ruling that struck down -- it understood resources follow white students in this country. schools that have a significant percentage of point students get better teachers, did better textbooks, they get better curriculum. today, that is still the case. we have not eliminated that kind of connection between resources and race. >> could you talk about what it is that prompted the study? this was a year-long investigation that you conducted. how did you come upon the topic and decide to research it in this way and focus on tuscaloosa? prior to working on school segregation, i spent nearly two years working on housing segregation. i was looking at the federal failure -- 45-year federal failure and asking why when we have a fair housing law, we still have so much racial segregation. during the course of that, i became very interested in the connection between segregated ho

amos brown. >> good afternoon. >>> good afternoon, thank you, commissioners. i am a part of senior and disability action. i'm also part of the international hotel manila town heritage foundation. i'm very concerned about the quality of life issues that are facing seniors and people with disabilities. many seniors are outright targeted for eviction. there have been cuts in many services. senior incomes have gone down. and the bottom line is that with less disposable income, the quality of life for seniors does go down. and we know that living in san francisco is not cheap. however, we do have a large number of seniors that live in san francisco, have lived in san francisco, and have contributed to its culture, its history, be it the spiritual community, the artistic community, have made very many cultural and very many valuable contributions. i think that seniors, quite frankly, need a break. we need some relief. we need some help. i'm about 15 years away from being a senior myself. i work with se

when governor brown's father edmund brown was the governor of california. today one in four californians lived in abject poverty under the poverty line, 20,000, roughly $20,000 a year for a family of four is considered the poverty line. part of the reason is the cost of living in california because californians desire a place to live. it has great weather and the coast and yosemite and all the cool things young people and old people enjoy doing. the reality is the cost of living is increased by consumption taxes. consumption tax is a tax on a good or a thing. in california consumption taxes are sales taxes, taxes on gasoline, taxes on alcohol and tobacco, taxes on cellphones, taxes on internet. in some cases taxes on cable television. when you have the highest consumption taxes in the nation you are pushing people who are already 4 farther into poverty because when you lift the cost of living you take away disposable income and make people for. brown and the democrats know that they are making people 4 in california but are doing so at the behest of public