roughly 1 in 10 households in pasadena california and cambridge massachusetts, home to computers. this is the digital divide. the internet is basically a great economic equalizer. it is a kind of superhighway that can carry almost anybody to a better life. knowing how to use it qualifies you to work in a professional setting like this but for those who can't get onto that superhighway they end up stuck in neutral. their chance to make money is simply less without broadband access at home. broadband is an income multiplier. a recent study by the consult be firm aksen accenture, the government doesn't probably the basic connectivity that makes that possible. internet access moatsly and sometimes exclusively -- mostly and sometimes exclusively relies on data companies, we're not talking about updating your facebook status, your economic status itself is often defined by whether you have access to the internet. today, nine in ten households with a bachelor degree or higher have some sort of internet access but only four in 10 households with a high school diploma can get online at hom

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i live in cambridge massachusetts to the city council made a very sincere effort last year to specificallywas imagining the worst was on for the situation we have in because uber is a controversial company. their management has done themselves no favor. i want to go on record saying i love trent his business bottle. not just the person who likes point a to point b., but the opportunities providing to put it back in the economy and provide a decent living for people, the bigger fan i become of the company. you probably saw the study on krueger were gone where he said the average driver, the comparison is difficult to make. pretty clear they get paid at least as much per hour as a cabbie does. they have great flexibility about how many hours he walks over. and can't track him as a part-time workers do not assess a penalty on a per hour basis. conducts an hour if you drive 30 hours a week. these are all really good things to have, especially the point that larry was making earlier if we want to bring jobs and demand back, he was a platform bringing jobs and demand back. the negative reaction

one in 10 households in pasadena and cambridge massachusetts, home to harvard and m.i.t. don't have computers. this is the digital divide. >> the internet is basically a great economic equalizer, a super highway that carries anybody to a better life. knowing how to use it qualifies you to work in a professional setting. for those that cannot get on to the superhighway they are struck in neutral. nine out of 10 high ways have internet access. even when you do have access. no matter where you live in the u.s., your internet is slower than in any other development in the planet. despite paying more for internet access, the united states ranks 30th in national broadband speeds. lagging behind countries like iceland. romania, russia. >> in finland, broadband access is a legal right. >> it's not about how fast a cat video loads on your phone, and how much you pay for the access. what is at issue is americans ability to qualify for jobs like this and our national potential in a global economy where competition is more stiff every day. at this point roughly half of low income fam

so in cambridge massachusetts, 100 students took this class. they taped the lectures. two weeks later later tens of thousands of people around the world watched the same lectures, did exactly the same problem sets homework assignments, exams. i went to cambridge. i was curious. is there something i am am missing my not being there? i interviewed the students afterwards to get a sense of how they took the class. i interviewed eric. i wanted to be sure that i was right. what they told me was the same thing. i went to the lectures. lectures. i went back and talked to my fellow students, which i could easily do. i worked hard on the problem sets which is the core of the learning experience and that kind of introductory science class, and i took the exams. that is how they teach the class at mit and you can replicate that perfectly at a marginal cost. probably cost $100,000 to produce the class. they put it out there, and now anyone can take it for free. the combination, i think, the fact that we can reach so many more people for so much less money and in certain important

i live in cambridge, massachusetts. pray for the people of cambridge right now, by the way. the city council in cambridge made a very sincere effort to specifically ban uber from operating in the city of cambridge. they wanted nothing but the taxis to be able to pick up anybody in the city fof cambridge. i think my head came close to exploding when i heard about this i had trouble imagining a worse response to this situation we're in. uber is a very conversation company. its management has done them no favors in many ways but i want to go on the record to say i love uber and their model. the more i understand about the opportunities they're providing to put labor back in the economy and to provide a decent living for people, the bigger fan i become of the company. laura, you probably saw the study that alan krueger just worked on and published. the average. uber driver, comparison hard to make. pretty clear they get paid as much as a cab driver does. >> per hour. >> per hour in contrast to all other part-time workers they appear not to suffer a penalty on a per-hour basis fo

that is the divestment efforts of students and professors at harvard university in cambridge massachusettsimprisoned journalist and former black panther mumia abu-jamal has spoken out from behind bars about the police killing of walter scott in south carolina. he rose from his infirmary bed to record the commentary after a fellow prisoner wheeled in a tv so he could watch coverage of the shooting. in a democracy now! exclusive he discussed his reaction. >> remember the young man who allegedly shot, not killed, two cops in ferguson several weeks ago? every politician in america leapt at the chance to call the kid a punk an thug. what do you call slager? even though he has been fired, he is called officer or mr. slager. he killed a man for traffic citation. the ca punk, a predator or apig? this is mumia abu-jamal. amy: special thanks to noelle hanrahan at prison radio for that recording. his supporters say the remains civil say he remains severely ill. today his supporters have called a national day of action to demand he be allowed to see a diabetes specialist. he's in prison for the murder

rounding out the top five bridgeport connecticut, miami, florida, madison, wisconsin, cambridge, massachusetts, and minneapolis. >>> not just bad for the environment but bad for all of us as well. a new message today from president obama as he seeks to change the way people think about climate change. during the meeting at howard university hospital today, the president said it is not just about extreme weather, rather the impact climate changehaving on personal health. the president will hold a climate change summit at the white house late thermo. >>> next changes coming to a local fire department after wild flames destroy two of their trucks and tear through a maryland warehouse. a crucial clue for police that could help track down the suspects accused of vandalizing a local synagogue. >>> and see how a local doctor is revolutionize ♪ ♪ wow something sounds sweet in here!!!! ♪ ♪ need a little honey in the bowl. yeah!!! badabopbopbopa!!! no? must be the honey!!! >>> at 6:30 messages of hate covering a local synagogue. tonight, we've got the video that's already giving cops some answers. >>> a

. >> they agreed to meet that weekend at a hotel in cambridge massachusetts at noon. >> i got to the>> you were sitting there for three hours? >> three hours. in case i missed her. everybody who came through that door was my daughter. >> finally danielle appeared. she'd been just as stunned the agency had found her birth mother. >> i was like a deer in the headlights. overjoyed. they're like, do you watch "star trek"? i'm like, no. >> how did she seem when you met her, from your point of view? >> you can be honest. >> well, very refreshing kind of feeling because there's a likeness. so that was really neat thing. but then i also felt overwhelmed. >> now a 37-year-old yoga instructor danielle had grown up with her adoptive family in massachusetts. meeting kate began a long healing process that both admit has been hard at times. >> i have one memory of kate visiting me, she was talking, telling me a story sitting across the table. but when i tuned in to myself there's a screaming girl in my head shouting "you have to love me. you better love me, like not listening at all. which i then

when we come back, we are to cambridge, massachusetts. what is harvard heat week?ay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: melissa etheridge. this is democracy now! democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. nermeen: we turn now to harvard where students are continuing to blockade key administration offices while calling on the school to divest from fossil fuels. harvard has the largest endowment of any university in the world, at $36.4 billion. the protest began on sunday when students began blockading massachusetts hall, the school's central administrative building. several alumni of harvard have also taken part in the blockade, including bill mckibben the , founder of the group 350.org and former colorado senator tim wirth. the protests are being organized by the group divest harvard, which produced this video. >> we are divest harvard. >> students -- >> faculty -- >> calling on corporations. >> political action. >> it means taking their money out of investments and also fuels and instead putting it into more socially responsible com

i live in cambridge, massachusetts and pay -- pray for the people of cambridge. i live in cambridge and the city council faced a serious effort to vancouver from operating in the city of cameron street in one of the taxes to continue and nothing but the taxis to be able to pick up people in this city of cameras. i think my head came close to exploding. i cannot imagine a worse response to the situation that we are and because cooper is a very controversial company. i want to go on record as saying i am in favor of uber and its business model and not just as a person who lies to go from point a to point the, but put in the later back into the economy and to provide a decent living for people. the bigger fan i become of that company. you mentioned the work where he says the average uber driver gets paid at least much per hour as a cap he does. -- as a cabbie does. they have more flexibility and appear not to suffer a penalty on a per hour basis for working fewer hours. you make $15 if you drive three hours. these are really good things that have come especially to

third, my first cousin is a policeman in cambridge massachusetts and was policeman of the year in 2012 and was part of a team that apprehended the brother who perpetrated the atrocities during the boston marathon and my daughter is a student at boston university. the upper conference of policeman and the preponderance of cities are decent and honorable to enforce the of lot and follow it and are not rogue. i also disagree it is a problem that is getting worse, of the that is systemically and endemic and they think it is very important to make reasonable distinctions by and large they think this is a problem and i did agree with my first speaker even though i disagree on the general point but in a state like ours authority should always be under scrutiny to justify the use of force or state intervention in general. nevertheless where i disagree with my eloquent first speaker is the issues that this is systemic it has not significantly improved over time. it has and i also think that in treating this problem we have the disservice to the country to lung things together and in response to

thirdly, my first cousin is a policeman in cambridge massachusetts. he was policeman of the year in 2012 and was part of the team that apprehended the tsarnaev brother who perpetrated the atrocity during the boston marathon, and my daughter is a student in my hometown of boston at boston university. the preponderance of policeman and -- in the preponderance of cities are decent, honorable people who enforce the law and follow it and are not rogues. i also disagree that this is a problem that is, a, getting worse, b, systemic and endemic, and c i think it is very important in this area to make reasonable distinctions. by and large, i think there is a problem stop and i agree with my -- this is a problem. and i agree with my first speaker, even as i disagree with him on his general point, that in a date like ours, authority should always be under scrutiny to justify the use of force and state intervention in general. nevertheless, where i disagree with my eloquent first eager -- first weekspeaker is that this is systemic and not something that has impro

. >> reporter: with 130 life sciences companies within 2.5 square miles, cambridge, massachusetts's kendall is exploding. companies from giants boygyn to ironwood, to start-ups just months old call kendall square home with the boom in biotech driving valuations up three-fold in three years and pie poeipos to an all-time high. space is at a premium. from pfizer to novartis, all looking to grow at this key address. lab space has doubled in asking price over the last ten years to more than $71 per square foot in the first quarter according to a real estate firm transwestern. vacancy rates down to a staggering 3%. >> reporter: joining us now here in kendall square the ceo of alexandria real estate equities joel marcus. thank you so much for joining us. >> it is a pleasure to be here in this white-hot market as you know. >> you are the biggest landlord here in this market. you told me this construction site behind us a week ago you couldn't even see this structure. tell me what's driving this dynamic? >> it's amazing. big biotech has grown up in the last few years now into really big companies.

important way different than the experience of the students who were taking the same class in cambridge, massachusetts. it's a very kind of straightforward approach to pedagogy that they use for these introductory classes at mit which is, of course, one of many approaches but not exactly uncommon one. it was a lecture-based class a very good welcometure 6 -- good lecture-based class. good lectures can be really good. true nonetheless. this was a lecture that was taught by a man named eric lander who helped lead the human genome project in the 1990s. he's been teaching introductory biology which is introduction to genetics class for going on 20 years. he's as updated in the field as possible to be changes the class every year because genetics changes every year. so 100 students real freshman at mit took this class. they taped all the lectures and then about two weeks later, tens of thousands of people around the world -- including myself -- watched the same lectures did exactly the same problem sets, did exactly the same homework assignments, took the same exams. i actually went up the cambridge to see

joining us on the phone from cambridge, massachusetts, we have former secretary of state madeleinal brightere onset we have the director of the earth institute and columbia university, economist dr. jeffrey sachs. >> secretary albright what's your take on the deal? is it verifiable? did we negotiate a strong deal? >> i think it's a good deal because i think as the president said, it meets our core objectives. i think that what is important about it, it has cut off a way for iran to develop a nuclear program in terms of not being able to develop weapons grade plutonium and also that it can't operate -- go through pursuing the enriched uranium route because of things that have been shut down and the number of sentry fumesent ry funlgs that have been reduced an set up an international inspection program. so i think it has the elements of it. obviously there's going to be a lot of work that has to take place between now and june. but the framework of this looks as though we have accomplished what was wanted in order to not have iran be able to have a breakout period that was shorter. now it's

police in massachusetts make a disturbing discovery along a public bike path. a dufflebag full of human remains found in cambridgeance video brought them to building where more human remains were found in a common area. police say they do have someone in custody and they're facing a list of chafers. the identity the person whose remains were found has not yet been released. >>> some terrifying moments for an eight-year-old boy after cops say a drunk driver plowed his truck straight into her bedroom. it all happened in fort worth texas. jocelyn, says she fell asleep while watching sponge bob what woke her up at 3am was a nightmare. police say an 18-year-old man was driving drunk and he plowed right through the little girl's bedroom. she walked away with only a scratch on her face but she's still pretty shaken up. >> i'm scared being in my bedroom 'cause the wood has a hole in there and it even has a hole on the top. i can hear all the trucks -- i was all the truck and cars. i feel like they're going to -- they're going to crash. >> that's terrifying. well, the accuseed drunk driver said he was sorry but he is faci

massachusetts make a startling discovery along a public road. the duffle bag full of human remains was found along a bike path in cambridge.e say surveillance brought them to building where more human remains were found in a common area. police say they have someone in custody facing list of charges, the identity of the person, whose remains were found, has not yet been released. >> a couple of teenagers accidentally spark an explosion, in their missouri home later telling firefighters, that they were trying to make their own donut. one of the teens turned on the stove burner, after filling up a pot with vegetable oil when the oil in that pot caught fire firefighters say one of them made what could have been a fatal mistake. >> when she took the lid off the pot the pot burst into flames. she panicked and grabbed a pan full of water and through it on to the pot of burning oil. when she did that the oil exploded. >> well, they are lucky. one of the girls has only a minor burn on her hand. her sister wasn't hurt. as you can see their kitchen is a total lost. >> no more questions about criminal history on virginia state employ

. >>> police in massachusetts said they have made an arrest human remains were found in a duffle bag. the bag was discovered in cambridgene block from a police station. additional remains were found later in the day inside an apartment buildings across the street. the district attorney said the remains are believed to belong to one victim. the authorities have not named the victim or the suspect. >>> we're learning details built deadly university attack in kenya. officials now say one of the attackers was the son of a kenyan government official. that official reported his son missing last year and feared he had gone to somalia. the son graduated with a law degree in 2013 and viewed as a brilliant upcoming lawyer. the details come one day after the president vowed to take action against the islamic militants who killed 148 people. >>> family, friends and colleagues bid a final farewell to darby borough mark hudson who died at the hands of his girlfriend. >> reporter: it was a send off to a man who dedicated his life to hemming other people. at saint joseph's church in collingdale, family, friends and community came to ho