clark calls these people cassandras. >> a cassandra in greek mythology was a woman cursed by the godsbut no one would believe her. >> reporter: clarke should know. he's been called a cassandra as a white house official in the run-up to 9/11. >> no one will believe me. no one will pay any attention to me. there's going a terrible disaster if you you don't do something. and they're saying, look, i lose sleep about this. >> were you losing sleep and were you feeling incredibly frustrated? >> certainly. >> reporter: clarke believes there's a whole series of current threats that are being ignored. >> gene editing. pandemic disease. sea level rise. asteroid impact. these are all phrases that we know. we've heard about. often in science fiction. the problem is they may become fact. >> all told not a cheery book. >> no, i think it's a very cheery book because what we're saying is if we're right about using these human cassandras to predict the future we can prevent most of those disasters. >>> thanks for watching abc news. and as always, we are online at abcnews.com and on our "nightline" fac

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all of these events had cassandras. at current risks and you find people who are out there waving their arms around, can you list some of those. >> artificial intelligence and the rise of robotics. gene editing. pandemic disease, sea level rise, asteroid impact, the internet with everything, nuclear winter. these are all phrases that we know. we've heard about often in science fiction. the problem is they may become fact. >> all told not a cheery book. >> i think it's a very cheery book. what we're saying is if we're right about using these human cassandras to predict the future, if we're right and we can find those cassandras, we can prevent most of those disasters. >> and the new book "warnings" is available right now. lara, over to you. >> thank you, dan. now to a group of inspiring teenagers getting the opportunity of a lifetime graduating from the disney dreamers academy. t.j. holmes was there as they put on their caps and gowns and got those diplomas. ♪ >> reporter: it's the motto of the heart of all that's walt d

among the candidates, cassandra martinez, a veteran herself.usband is an army first sergeant, stationed at ft. belvoir. our virginia reporter caught up with the martinez family in springfield today. >> reporter: there's something mesmerizing watching nature's interpretation of family life. the martiz family looking on as these geese navigate their little ones across the lake. one parent leading, the watching their backs. >> we have our mind-set on the mission at hand. and really that's where we ha to be focused. >> reporter: you could say first sergeant phillip martinez is at the front of his family flock. for 16 years, he's served in the u.s. army, to include four long deployments. all the while, his wif cassandra, keeping an eye from behind, picking up and comforting her little ones when they fall. >> military spouses have to act as single parents on and off throughout the year, but we know that it's for our country and that he's sacrificing and serving our country and it's for a great cause. >> reporter: raising six children is only part of

literally like around the corner. >> cassandra chalks it up to ignorance and moves on with her life. steps up? >> thing get weird quick. situations get dicey. no one intervened a couple of week ago when a kid pulled a gun in a fight on septa train. but how can you blame them? septa sergeant michael wright says there's only one move. get your head down and make the call. >> you have someone that's produces a weapon or brandishes a weapon or the threat of physical harm we ask that you call 911 immediately so every police officer in the city can be notified and have a need response. >> try to move the victim away from the assailant use your phone to call cops not shoot video. people willing to step in and help like dory thompson. >> aren't you scared you'll get hurt? >> sometimes you got to take chances. >> just have faith everything will be all right. >> have to have faith. god is always there. >> ♪ >> now women in this story are a lot tougher than i am. when they say they'd step up to help you in a pinch i believe it for my part, i'm not making any promises. i don't know what i'd do i

because our cassandra, our possible cassandra, dr. cassandras, but he's an expert. if his model is right, he says within the lifetime of people alive today in manhattan, half of manhattan will disappear. >> but there are people who have heard those warnings before and it hasn't happened so you see why they tune it out at some point. >> so what we've done in the book is a set of 22 criteria to judge, a template to judge when you're looking at someone like this. are they likely to be right? have they been right before? he was. are they an expert in their field? are they data driven? has anyone been able to criticize their data? go through all these criteria, and it works for him. and it's scary. >> rich, i want to ask you about manchester. the president said while he was abroad that we're going to drive them out. he repeated that several times. we're going to drive these terrorists out. can it be done? >> i don't know how you drive british citizens out of britain or french citizens out of france or german citizens out of germany. so man

all of our cassandras.studies said the same thing and they didn't know each other and they were in different fields. they said i have the data. i hope i'm wrong. look at my data. tell me what's wrong with the data. they are all about facts. increasingly, in washington, facts don't matter. >> yes, we have seen that. that is a terrible development. thank you richard for being here. it is great to talk to you. great to talk to you. >> always a pleasure. >>> the gop healthcare reform plan which passed in the house has now been scored. what does this mean for the republican effort to overhaul obamacare? those in favor of the plan will have to answer for the score. we will ask the chair of the house health committee how he believes this is good for the american people and which american people is he talking about. next. or the multistage hybrid lc 500h. experience amazing. e for mom, the nation's largest senior living referral service. for the past five years, i've spoken with hundreds of families and visited sen

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it's clear that this goes back to july when director comey chose to go public and to be sort of cassandra and hamlet at the same time and basically try to talk about concealment by the fbi. by the time you get back to his recent testimony he wasn't just pulling information from the public to accept the traditions of the fbi, he was concerned about it in concealed. a value laden word is the deputy attorney general said, i mean the director was out of his mind here. >> conduct unbecoming most certainly and when you size testimony just really appalling. it's upsetting to me as an officer of the court working all those years as a prosecutor. when you take an oath to uphold the law and this man in a position is supposed to be entrusted with the united states and with the citizens really has let people down. he let down the fbi and the reputation of the fbi. i think donald trump made the right decision following the recommendation of his age he and deputy a.g. who put together persuasive document that was compelling in its entirety and did call for this man to be fired. lou: as a former prosecu

i know you also have a cassandra award. what is that and how would it work?oped over the course of these 14 case studies a criteria, a set of criteria, evaluative criteria where you can look at a potential issue or person who's predicting a disaster and make a pretty good judgment as to whether or not you should pay more attention. in terms of the award, what we're doing is asking people to nominate experts who are warning us now, today, of disasters, and who are being ignored. and once a year a panel of judges from across different disciplines will pick some one cassandra who is warning us of a disaster, and being ignored. >> all right, richard thank you very much for your time today. we do appreciate it. >> thank you. >> richard clarke. >>> okay coming up, today's top corporate stories. and later the trump economy and the markets. we talk strategy at 8:30 a.m. eastern. stay tuned because we're coming right back. >>> welcome back to "squawk box." a number of quarterly earnings reports crossed the tape this morning. luxury home builder toll brothers beat esti

. >> reporter: cassandra's son attends heron high school.t was bullied at his last school and with so much focus on bullying kids these days know what's going on. >> i definitely believe the kids understand the whole bullying concept. they definitely pushed that to the point to where i feel like the kids understand and know. >> which is leading some experts to question what why the problem isn't getting better more quickly. >> it's like a forest fire and we're holding a garden hose on forest fire. >> reporter: tone ya ceo of social health association of indiana says there aren't enough resources to fix the problem its add it's one that has to be addressed from multiple angles. >> adults, schools, parents, bus drivers, custodians everybody that inter acts with kids really have to get on the same page and focus on kindness. >> reporter: she also says kids who bully others may be more likely to end up on a dangerous path. >> and research shows, i mean if a child is a bully at the age of eight, 30 times more likely to have a criminal record than

holbrook, of "warnings: finding cassandras to stop catastrophes." r.p.hanks very much for being here. i wonder if you could start off by telling us the distinctions that u.k. intelligence and terror officials have as compared to say, u.s. officials? >> well, overall, it's a fairly similar system. there is probably two key differences. one is it's easier to open up investigations and surveillance on individuals in the u.k., british citizens or others, than it is in the united states. the second thing is that we have an inverted model. in the united states, for example, here i'm sitting in new york city, the nypd would go out and collect much of the intelligence about a potential terrorist attack, and then the f.b.i. would make the arrest, depending on the maturity of the intelligence collection in the city. in the u.k., it's opposite. the metropolitan police service or the local police would actually do the arresting where mi5 and mps would do the intelligence gathering. the key difference is it's easier to begin surveillance on people of concern. >> bran

the book is "warnings, finding cassandras to stop catastrophes. richard clarke, we appreciate it. hope you'll come back. >> any time. >> that does it for us this morning. stephanie ruhle picks up the coverage right now, stephanie. >> hi there, i'm stephanie ruhle. this morning, holy meeting. president trump has his first face-to-face with pope francis. talking health care and immigration, trump now wheels up for a nato meeting in brussels where the stakes will be even higher. >>> and we're back to the russia connection. president trump lawyers up. the senate issues two new subpoenas to mike flynn, and the former cia director gives the most damning account yet of russia interference. >> i encountered and am aware of contacts and interactions between russian officials and the trump campaign. >>> plus, highest alert. new arrests this morning as we learn the suspected manchester bomber was known to officials and had ties to al qaeda. >> an attack remains highly likely, but a further attack may be imminent. >> we begin this morning with president trump headed to brussels after spending

he's the author of a number of incredible books including "warnings: finding cassandras to stop catastrophesks very much for being with us. >> great to be here. >> when you see this attack, there was security at this arena. they couldn't get a device in. and yet as we were discussing before we went on air, outside of any secure environment there's people waiting, queueing to get in or grouping as they come out. >> no matter what you do at a big venue where there's going to be a crowd, no matter how secure the access is, there's going to be a crowd outside waiting to get in. that's true at airports, where people line up at the counters before they go through tsa into the secure zone. it's true at sporting events. you can do some things in that perimeter area. but you can never make it as secure as inside a hard target. in short, you can't make security perfect. >> when you hear -- as the details emerge about who this person was who carried this device to that location, you know, born and bred in -- second generation, you know, his parents i guess came from libya, he traveled there. we don't k

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