after the session at cal tech, he would take a select number of friends, graduate students, friends like lawrence, for example. he would retreat to the sanctuary. six acres in the pecos mountains east of santa fe. it is a primitive site. there's no electricity. the only running water is the creek that goes behind it. this is where he retreated after the bomb was dropped. he wrote a series of soul searching letters from this cab cabin. this is my wife and a friend who drove this up there. peter let us in and i think it's probably basically unchanged from what it was in the 1940s. there indian prints still on the wall. beater did live there with his wife for a brief time. it essentially left the way it had been. the name hot dog comes from what oppenheimer said when he found out that land and cabin were available on a long term lease from the forest service. next slide, please. this was taken on may 5th just last year. it was snowing that day. back at berkeley, here is lawrence at the controls of the psycho tron. this i think was the 17 inch or the 37 inch. there is a chemist that was at t

one person whose career was destroyed was a visionary cal tech professor of aeronautics and the subject ofit book "thread of the silkworm." during world war ii, the doctorate work and secret military projects resulting in the production of some of america's first military missiles, and he was also one of the founders of jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena. but during the mccarthy years he was falsely accused of being a communist and possibly a spy, mainly because some of his friends at cal tech had belonged to a secret socialist club during the 1930s. and unfortunately for him, this accusation came when the united states was entering weren't of its most paranoid eras in history. china had fallen to the communist. the russians successfully detonated their first nuclear bomb and the evidence suggested that there was a british and american spy ring that had helped pass some of the atomic secrets to the russians. and the u.s. government and the public began to suspect that the whole country was infested with spies. and so after five years of investigation and virtual house arrests in pasa

nevertheless he was intending in march to come to the conference and go to cal tech. this is a man who won't be defeated by his physical problem. amazing. i am the same age. i turned 70 before he did and told him he'd better respect his elders. i won't be around 50 years from now. but as long as i'm alive i want to remember how much his passion for science and exploring all that science and effect that none of my books would have been written had never encountered him. his wonderful self mocking humor and wonderful smile and delightful universe. really had a tough road through life in terms of a bridge game. he was dealt a relic -- ridiculously unbalanced hand and made a grand slam. he set an example for all of us. not everything he has done has been so laudable. he had -- pecan be arrogant and stubborn and self-centered and maybe he has to be self-centered to survive but i have gotten to know him just a little. i really like the man. so thank you. [applause] does anybody have any questions? one of my most basic audiences. black holes for the scientifically in that. i

sure that more people who come here from india, china, japan, wherever around the world and go to cal tech live in ohio's state? >> well, we need to do -- that's part of the immigration reform that we give them -- you've heard presidential candidates in both parties. and i know harold's talked about this in the past, you give them a visa to stay here once they get that higher ph.d. in math or science. there was a guy -- i was at a guy's company in cleveland the other day who came from japan. he went to case, he was able to stay here, he's got a company of 125 people, he exports, he's growing and doing great things in health care manufacturing. >> this is one thing that mayor bloomberg has talked about before. immigrants able to come here and create jobs and pay taxes, they should be put to the front of the line to ensure they create jobs. but president obama and his team. i know they're listening, this is a defining difference between romney, santorum, and gingrich and democrats. obama made the choice to invest in america to invest in detroit. actually i wish our convention was being held

cal in the u.s. is invested -- here and more than half of the top 100 clean tech companies in the bay area. >> we aremy that's what is helping to differentiate us now and drive growth -- derive growth here. >> council did identify the ageing infrastructure as harmful to the economy. >>> business news, within the last 45 minutes apple unveiled a big new plan for spending its massive cash reserves, quarterly dividend pay-out and 10 billion dollar stock buy-out, buy back in the first year. >> let's check in with jane king. are they smiling this morning? >> the shares are higher here, not as much as they were overnight. some of the traders tell me maybe the run-up we saw in apple last week was in anticipation of this dividend. apple saying it had a record weekend for new ipad sales over the weekend. also, they are issuing a dividend first time since 1995. steve jobs, famously against dividends this is a real change in philosophy at the company. $2.65 a share quarterly dividend, 10 billion dollar stock buy-back. apple shares are higher but like i said, the stock has not reached where it did overnight trad

cal can louse talk about ripping off clients. the ceo said smith was disgruntled and his claims did not reflect the culture. >>> a jury in virginia determined that officials at virginia techere negligent in waiting to warn students of a gunman on campus in april 2007. 33 people died in the massacre. >>> former illinois governor rod blagojevich goes to prison to start serving a 14-year sentence for corruption. he said what he did was legal and an appeal of his conviction will succeed. >>> the remains of 22 belgian children and 6 adults killed in a bus crash in switzerland are being returned to their home country. the victims were mourned in a church service and vigil are yesterday in belgium. >>> nasa assembled an amazing video animation tracing the history of the moon. it shows the moon forming into a molten rock formation of the surface and the many collisions that left all the craters. >> and now here's an early look at one of your top health headlines. most women between the ages of 30 and 65 can go five years between cervical cancer screenings. however, experts say extending the time between pap tests may lead to a small increase in the number of women who could die f

here's some thoughts from our own tech and business guru, scott budman. >>> not is so much a red cale in design but aed are cal change on the inside. we could see a lot of new software, a new processor to make everything you do on your ipad go faster, some new apps certainly, maybe even a better camera. >> reporter: apple's also expected to make an announcement regarding its apple tv. all the speculation ends in just over three hours at 10:00 a.m. when apple begins it presentation at the yerba buena center for the arts right behind me here in san francisco. reporting live, bob redell, "today in the bay." >>> 6:34 right now. we now know the identity of the man who died after he was shot while driving a bentley in oakland. 34-year-old kelry cyril crashed his car near 86th and bancroft monday night. he'd been shot minutes before. the head of on collision sent two adults and two children to the hospital. they were recovering. he died from his wounds. >>> san jose police officer has been found liable for injuries to a bicyclist after stopping him for a missing head lamp. three years ago.

to overcome their tech collage cull material problems -- technological material problems for cept fuses they could put themselves in a position to confront the world with a fay awe cal --fate awe call me. >> rose: the iranians can look at libya and say look what happens. >> i think that's the argument that some make that the reasons they're not going to be dissuadeds bethey think what protect the regime is getting that capability. but i think the flip side of that is if they think the kind of pressure they're under is the kind of pressure that is actually going to put the regime at risk, then they have a profound interest in reducing that pressure. >> my impression of the president and the administration is not that they're waiting for a nuclear test in iran in order to say oh they have a nuclear weapon. i believe that if they gain intelligence, that iran has begun enriching to 9 0% or doing other things in terms of warhead building or delivery systems that that is president obama's red line. of course here's the thing. president obama is not going to tell us his red lines. he's not going to tell anyone his red lines. maybe he's communicated in certain ways to the i