the rest of us can understand not only is he a professor of theoretical physics at the city university of new york he's also the host of the t.v. show so i thought i science physics of the impossible on the science channel as well as the host of two radio programs broadcast on over one hundred forty stations its current work is focused on finishing einstein's project of creating a unified theory to explain how everything works the universe. and he is this the co-founder of something called string field theory which will get into later his latest book is called physics of the future a science will shape human destiny and our daily lives by the year twenty one hundred pleased to welcome from los angeles a man on the cutting edge of science dr michio kaku dr kaku welcome. glad to be on the show thank you very much i'm very very glad to have you with us i understand that when you were eight years old you had an a with an a that's hard to do on this . that's right some people remember the instant that princess diana died i remember the instant when albert einstein guy it was in all the newspapers every

from the university of california berkeley, taught english and american studies at northwestern university, new york university, and rutgers, and then in 1989, moved to the city university of new york and now distinguished professor of english and american studies at the ph.d. program at the graduate center. he's a widely published author and his books have been recognized with awards including the prize and ambassador book award, the timist for the -- finalist for the book award, editor of six books, the author of waking the giant, america in the age of jackson, don brown, the man who killed slavery, sparked the civil war and seeded sile rights. john brown alaska from connecticut as stowe is from connecticut. there's overlaps here. a cultural biography, a book with the straightforward title, walt whitman, the author of beneat the america renne sops, the imagination in the age of the emerson and melville and that "s" word submersive came up in oping l tom's cabin and its impact. there's the issue of faith and fiction. when you see the list of books, you begin to understand how much he -- how often he may have run into stowe and uncle tom's cabin in the others

we welcome back professor of theoretical physics at the city university of new york. that's where i went. thank you for joining us. is this radiation new, or have they been measuring the radiation wrong all along? >> this is a leftover from the original accident. remember we had multiple hydrogen gas explosions which blew the roof off these reactors. well, as a consequence, it contaminated the ventilation shaft, but cleanup has been really slow. we haven't really even begun clin kleining up the operation. it's not stable yet. maybe next year. that's where they're picking up the hot spots. >> what does it mean for the cleanup efforts? can workers even go in there now? >> a few seconds you're going to get several million times normal dose of radiation. it's a horrible death. radiation burns over your body, hair falls out, multiple organ failure, nausea. you don't want work hes to do there at all. this is inevitably going to impede cleanup because there could be other hot spots. >> that means they he can't go in and clean it up. >> they can't go into these areas but they

new york city are almost certainly strikeouts. the final round of the barclays golf tournament has already been called off. and columbia universityew york university, two of new york city's largest private college, freshmen move-in day is being moved to monday. >> doing it in the middle of a hurricane probably would not be the best experience. >> reporter: even the long planned official opening of the martin luther king memorial in washington, d.c. has been postponed until later this fall. >>> at the end of the day, i think everyone wants to have a successful event and wants to ensure that everyone is safe. >> nothing beats this. >> reporter: but irene the bride and david are not going to be deterred. they are going ahead with their wedding instead it will be indoors at home. well, they are really one determined couple. also defiant. they plan to tie the proverbial knot at 9:00 sunday morning which, dan and bianna, is roughly when hurricane irene is pounding that part of connecticut the hardest. >> it will be more memorable for them. >> it certainly will be now. >> ron, thank you. >>> back with one more note on reign. keep it her

from am been hurst and taught american studies at the university and new york university, and rutgers. in 1989, he moved to the city university of new york, and he is now distinguished professor of english and american studies at the ph.d. program in english graduate center. he's a widely published author, and his books have been recognized with awards including the ambassador book award. he was also the finalist for the national book critics circle award. he was the editor for six books, and is the author of waking the giant, america in the age of jackson. don brown, abolitionist, the man who killed slavery, sparked the civil war, and seeded civil rights. john brown, also a connecticut, and stowe is a connecticutian. you are seeing overlaps here. author of walt whitman's america, a cultural biography, a book with the straightforward title, "walt whitman," and he's the author of beneath the american renaissance, imagination in the age of emerson and melville, and i certainly found that "s" word submersive came up quite a bit in uncle tom's cabin. the faith friction, when you see these lists of books, you begin to understand how

from university of california berkeley and taught at northwestern and barnard colleges and -- in in new york and truckers and then move to the cityy of new york and now distinguished professor of english and american studies at the graduate center. he is a widely published author and the books have been recognized including the bancroft prize. he was also the finalists for the book critics circle award and the editor for six books and the author of waking giant. and those that seated civil rights and john brown also a connecticut, you're already seeing some overlap. officer of walt whitman's america and day book with the straightforward title walt whitman. end also been d.c. mayor 10 renaissance. and i find the words aversive came of a lot and the analysis of "uncle's tom cabin" and also the author of the emergence of religious literature in america. you begin to understand how often he may have run into harriet beecher stowe and "uncle's tom cabin." his latest book is mightier than the sword "uncle's tom cabin" which is really used-- released june 14th on period beecher stowe's 200 birthday and also it would be a another edition

new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: sir paul nurse is here, he is a nobel prize winning biologist. he has been president of rockefeller university in new york city sie 2003. hes now leang that post on march 1st to lead an exciti new venture, it called the united kingdom center for research and innovation. among its completion in 25 it will be one of the largest bmedical facilities in the world. he also recently became president, get this, of the royal society london. what honor. this great. >>t is great and it's goods to be here again charlie, good to see you. >> rose: thank you. the reason you have divide divided-- decided to leave one job for another great job is? >> well, firstly, it's a bit bittersweet because rockefeller university, wonderful institution, i've enjoyed my 7 to 8 years in new york and at rockefeller. >> rose: is that all. >> it is extraordinary. >> rose: i remember coming up to see you soon after y had taken the job. >> and it only seems a few days ago, doesn't it. great institution. great research organization. and so i'm feeling a little sad, quite frankly, at leaving new york and leaving all my colleagues

new york city, and he had a grant old time. he went to the top of the empire state building, shook rands with jackie robinson, went down to city hall, up to columbia university. having left new york city, where the policemen who were assigned to protect him because there were all these assassination plots surrounding castro, and these were reported in the press every day, and none turned out to be real but the police didn't know that and castro was completely impossible to protect. he would throw himself into crowds, hugging and kissing people with no concern for his safety. and one afternoon, on a whim, he decided to go to the bronx zoo. the press followed. federal agents followed. the new york city police followed. and castro did what everybody does at the zoo. he ate a hot dog, he fed peanuts to the elephants. rode a miniature electric train, and then before anybody could stop him, he climbed over a protective railing in front of the tiger cages, stuck his fingers through the cage and petted a bengal tiger on the

of death in the united states. dr. siddartha mukherjee knows that reality well. he's an oncologist in cancer researcher at the columbia university medical center in new york city. in his book, the emperor of all maladies, mukherjee writes a history of cancer. he tells the stories of people he's treated and those of leading researchers who dedicated their lives to a disease for which the doctor thinks may never have a complete cure. first of all, thanks very much for being with us today. >> thanks for having me. >> so, why did you decide to write a book about the history of cancer? >> well, i really decided to write the book, i started writing the book when i was in training in cancer medicine. i wrote the book really in response to a question that was raised by a patient. this was a woman i was treating for abdominal cancer. at one point in time during the therapy she said i'm willing to go on with what i'm battling but i need to know what it is. i need to know its history. she was not the only person that questioned it. this question kept on coming over and over again in different forms. the book is an attempt to answer that very basic question: what is cancer?

city. immediately when he went to penn station where he was greeted by 20,000 people,'d grand old time. he went to the top of the empire state-building, he went to columbia university and he left new york city where the policemen who were assigned to protect him because there were all these assassination plots surrounding castro and these were reported in the press every day and none of these turned out to be real and the police didn't know and castro was completely impossible to protect and he would threw himself in the crowd kissing and hugging people with no concern on his safety and on a whim he decided to go to the bronx zoo and federal agents, the new york city followed and he ate a hot dog, he fed peanuts to the elephants, he rode a miniature electric train and then before anybody could stop him, he climbed over a protective railing in front of the tiger cages and stuck his fingers right through the cage and petted a benefit gal tiger on his head. and this is what he did that made people think he was a little crazy. besides trying to save castro from assassins and tigers, many were trying to decipher his politics. which was the following question, was fidel castro a communi comm

of fancy. an escaped peacock causes quite a commotion in new york city. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and very good morning to you. welcome to our viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm veronica de la cruz. today we begin with crisis averted. president obama signed lawmakers' pain staking budget bill keeping the u.s. out of default for now. tracy poths is live for us this morning on capitol hill. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning. lawmakers were so wrapped up in recent weeks dealing with this debt crisis that they did not deal with the budget for the faa and, as a result, thousands of workers may be left without paychecks. after signing a deal to extend america's credit, president obama told congress to deal with the faa. >> congress needs to break that impasse now. >> reporter: nearly 250 airport construction projects are on hold. funding ran out last friday leaving 70,000 construction workers and 4,000 federal employees with no pay. >> i'm concerned with whether or not i'm going to be able to pay my mortgage. >> this is their

of st. john's university here in new york city also was enshrined and also played for the golden state warriors for the weather a scott padgett from our miami affiliate wplg local 10. scott? >> ron, this morning dallas is seeing more rain than they've seen in two months. it's finally raining in dallas and also north central texas. it's going to keep the temperatures down a bit, 99 in dallas, also in wichita falls. down near midland, about 92 degrees. austin, no help there. if you want the cool air, go up to minneapolis, 77 degrees. 81 in omaha. in the northeast, nice in boston, 84 degrees. seattle, nice and comfortable at 70. still pretty warm down near phoenix at 104 degrees. >> this weather report has been brough >> this weather report has been brought to you by united health care. josh, bianna? >> all right, scott, thank you. >>> well, coming up on "good morning america," no photo-shopping here, no retouching. just real photos of real women. why are these women putting it all out there? >> because they can. >>> plus, "your week in three words" with music provided by debbie gibson. >> always

of this is a big question. can this enormous city handle this enormous storm? as one observer has noted, we in new york city like to think that we're at the center of the universe. but when it comes to hurricanes we're really on the fringes, with only five of them since 1851. it's been a long time since we've witnessed scenes like this, which makes scenes like this, stores closed up on the boardwalk, people stocking up on supplies, very strange. >> coming out and making sure i'm ready. who knows what is coming? >> reporter: experts are confident our skyscrapers can weather it but it's the flood-prone area, all 17 of them that have people worried. how bad can it get? one of the areas as we mentioned is battery park city where in a worst case scenario they could see five feet of flooding throughout this whole area. they could also get five feeeeon coney island, home of nathan's famous hot dogs where they have now closed up shop at their boardwalk stand. another place that could get inundated, the subway system. on a normal day they have 280 pumping rooms going pushing out 13 million gallons of water. and now, for irene they are bringing in a whole lot of extra pu

of johns hopkins university. he characterizes a dropout factory as a school from which fewer than 60% of the students graduate in four years. new york city's department of education has closed many such schools and targeted others, like flushing high, for closure. robeson high school in brooklyn is also on the shut down list. however, teachers and students at that school think their school's characterization as a drop out factory is unfair. >> in every high school, you'd always have one or two students that dropout. but in robeson, i see a lot of people graduating. and the fact that they may not graduate in four years but they will graduate in their fifth or sixth years, so i despise the fact that many people believe that robeson is a dropout high school. >> reporter: stefanie seagle is a long time teacher at robeson high. >> one of the things we've always been proud of is that even though we have young people who come with lots of challenges, we're able to keep them here. they won't graduate in four years for a variety of reasons: learning disabilities, or such challenges in their home life, it's just hard for them to have a good attendan

joining me from our city studio from our studio in new york is betsy sparrow lead researcher and assistant professor at columbia university's department of psychology that's the i want to thank you so much for joining us tonight and first we're going to start with your study here so google is making us remember things in a different way there are a lot of headlines out there said the google is making as google is making us do you think this is necessarily a negative thing. we don't know yet. research but i have to show we're using google in the same way that we've always used other external memory systems like other people so we've always allowed other people to be responsible for certain types of information and we're just the internet is just a much more pervasive and ubiquitous. portal to other people and so we're allowing more memories to be stored externally from ourselves and we're getting really sophisticated at knowing where to find things. restoring what seems to be the essential thing in today's age i don't know yet if it's making us i don't know you know i don't know if people's grand store memory is any less what i suspect is

new york city. after the devastating earthquake in japan, i went walking on it. with the director for the center forr disaster preparedness at columbia university. he's'she author ofns if an earthquake like that were to hit new york city today? >> what we would see were a number of predictable, i emphasize predictable, catastrophic events that would include building collapses, flooding potentially, bursting of water mains and gas lines, fires ensuing from that and a great deal of chaos, and an overwhelming of our emergency response systems. and that overwhelming would happen virtually immediately. >> reporter: the scope of these disasters is daunting, but thinking they y n't happen to you, deadly. john berman, abc news, new york. >> that's true, though. people in this country think, oh, earthquakes, only california. no way in the world. it's all over. >> absolutely. but, you know, speaking of california, they're certainly having a little laugh at our expense. some of these tweets. one wise guy on the west coast tweeted, east coast quake is now a 5.9. guess it's not that high but almost. californians, yawn, shrug and go back to their iced latte. >> thanks for the c

of the universe. it was heading for where media elite journalists live. it was heading for new york city. i guarantee you this, if this same hurricane -- no, not this same hurricane, if a bigger hurricane were heading for biloxi, mississippi, i know the population is different in biloxi than new york city but if a category 3 was heading for biloxi, mississippi, it wouldn't get the same attention. there's a kind of journalistic narsissim that new york based journalists are guilty of, if it happens to us, it's more important to you. >> bill: there's something you're missing here, though. why it got hyped up, i think there's a little something to the new york thing but i don't think that was the overwhelming national perspective. hurricane katrina changed everything. ever since that storm hit now, every storm is hysterical. and plus it's the end of august. there's nothing else going on so the media latched on to this coverage. they drove it and drove it and drove it. was it a bad thing? i didn't think so. i got tired of it. i watched the little league world series, bernie, nobody broke into

of yale university. her first novel, when the emperor was divine was published in 2003. she lives in new york city and is just about to publish her new novel which comes out in august. this is the second in a history with excerpted a novel in back-to-back issues. the first time, the only other time was with martin. we are correcting the balance right now. to jewish right is karen russell whose work has appeared in the best american short stories, "the new yorker," oxford american, and zoetrope. karen was also recently chosen as one of the 20 best writers under 40 in "the new yorker." she is the author of lucy's home for girls raised by wolves. and she is also the author of a new brilliant novel which i'm sure you have read called swamp land via. finally, to karen's right is francine prose was the author for 25 books of fiction and nonfiction, including bigfoot dreams, primitive people, how to read like a writer and most recently my new american life. sorry, here's my dana white moment. i have to do this for karen as well. pretty scary. since march 2007 to quite recently she was the president of th

city is getting ready for a direct hit possibly from hurricane irene. already several hospitals started to evacuated yesterday, including new york university hospital that you're seeing here. they're getting people out ofhere, patients out of there. mandatory evacuations in new york and lower lying areas. look at this. this is the traffic. the backups on the new jersey turnpike yesterday. even though this looks horrible for folks stuck in traffic this is a good sign that maybe people are actually listening and getting out of there. a lot of people buying emergency supplies, buying up generators, food. listen to this. from news 12 new york reporter, listen to this. >> this is the line for generators at the lowest department store in bay shore. and this line began forming at 4:00 a.m. it goes all the way down this aisle. it begins forming down this aisle, goes all the way down and makes another turn to the right more than 100 people. >> yes, people buying up supplies in new york. also, listen to this, folks, here in a matter of hours, just the life flood of new york is going to shut down. the subway system, the transit system in new york are closing it today starting at noon just to be sure. now, this co

of brown university. this is her last day. she leaves usow to go to work for her parents who own an art gallery in new york city. i am sure she will run her parents like she ran me, with high spirits, discipline, charm, presence and great intelligence. they have a distinct advantage. i start work at 5:00 a.m., galleries open at 11:00. she will like that. she has been wonderful for us in handling one of the world's toughest jobs, we are now trying to do the impossible, finding a replacement for josie, if you think you can handle that job or would like that job, e-mail us at response 1917 at gm.com. for josie, we say again, good-bye, great love, and here she is, in this video. >> for me one of the high points in terms of watching the interviews has been to the interview with david brooks when he was talng about the brain and if god exists it where chemicals turn into emotions, like that. the low point is coming back from paris, wn we went to paris and back to paris all in a week and i got a stomach bug on the plane coming back and i was throwing up for like 12 urs, including in line at passport control and in the

university professor michael eric dyson, and the bbc's catty kay. >>> good morning, the worst may still be to come as hurricane irene hits new york city. it's just a matter of time, and the concern now, flooding from storm surges. after making landfall early saturday, irene left her mark on the outer banks with heavy rain and high wind. by last evening, the storm unrelenting in ocean city, maryland, and coastal virginia. this morning at 5:30 a.m., a second landfall in little egg inlet, new jersey. so far, the storm is responsible for at least ten deaths and power outages across nine states, leaving more than 3 million homes without electricity this morning. states of emergency have been declared in ten states along the eastern seaboard. joining us now for the very latest from new york, nbc meteorologist bill karins. and bill, do we have an actual change in what the storm is now? >> yes. as expected, it is now a tropical storm. it really rapidly weakened ovrnight last night. we haven't even had any hurricane gusts in about 12 hours, so the hurricane center now officially calling it a tropical storm. that really shouldn't change anything, though, anyone in it

continues now with university of maryland professor, carla peterson and her book "black gotham," she describes the lives of upper-class african-americans in 19th century new york city. she discussed her book at new york jefferson market library in february for about an hour 10 minute. >> i want to start up my talk with two quotes. they are both from the prologue of our book cannot have a little explanation for them, but they introduce why i decided to write the book. so the first quote is in my prose from the prologue. we still hold certain truths about african-americans to be self-evident, that the freeze 19th century black americans refers to enslaved people, that new york state before the civil word denotes a place of freedom, that? in new york city designates heartland, that the black community positive a classic and unify society that a black elite did not exist until well into the 20th century. lives in a new york forbears polite such assumptions. they were born free at a time when slavery was still legal in new york city. they lived in racially mixed neighborhood, first in lower manhattan after the civil war in brooklyn at a time when harlem is a mere villag

university of maryland the english professor carla peterson. in her book, "black gotham," she describes the lives of upper-class african-americans in new york citys her bucket the jefferson market library in an 0 february for about an hour and ten minutes. >> i want to start my talk with two quotes both from the prologue of my book, and i will give a little explanation for them, but the introduce why i decided to write the book. so the first is in my own from the prolonged we still holdl certain truths about n-t africa african-americans to be self-evident that the freeze 19th century black americans cea refers to in sleaved people, thatnslaved people, that new york state before the civil word denotes a place of freedom, that? in new york city designates heartland, that the black community positive a classic and unify society that a black elite did not exist until well into the 20th century. lives in a new york forbears polite such assumptions. they were born free at a time when slavery was still legal in new york city. they lived in racially mixed neighborhood, first in lower manhattan after the civil war in brooklyn at a time when harlem is a m

here to discuss the staggering numbers, rutgers university professor bill rodgers joins me in new york and joining us from kansas city the chairman ofsentative emanuel cleaver. thanks for joining us. thanks to you both. >> good to be with you. >> i'm excited to have this conversation. representative cleaver, you are frustrated the president thinks the solution is to improve the overall economy. i mean he doesn't want to concentrate on one specific group. he says if the economy improves overall everyone will benefit. why isn't that the right tack in your mind? >> well, i'm not saying that president is wrong. i think with the kind of assault he's experienced as president, i can understand why he would take that position. what many of us believe is that unemployment among african-americans, latinos and frank frankly whites, there is a need to focus on this group. it would merit the attention of the entire nation. we think that if the white house shifted toward dealing with this specific population, that it would be helpful. but i'm not going to throw the president upper the bus and say, you know, he doesn't care or worse. i am saying t

department of justice office of community-oriented policing services and with the new york city police department. he received his master's from the fordham university we are delighted to have mr. tucker with us today. mr. tucker, please, proceed. your entire statement, which if read would take considerably more than five minutes, will be made a part of the record so that you can make a shorter statement orally here today. >> thank you very much, senator. chairman whitehouse, ranking member kyl and distinguished members of the subcommittee, thank you for this opportunity to testify here today on the importance of drug courts. as ondcp's director for state, local and tribal affairs, it is my job to work closely in supportive prevention and law enforcement initiatives through development of policy and programs. i understand how important it is to identify and support alternatives to incarceration. having walked the beat as a new york city police officer and worked in criminal justice for the past 35 years, it is clear we cannot arrest our way out of the nation's drug problems. the obama administration recognizes that addiction is a disease and that pr

new york city. conie island, the five universities have to be evacuated. the fear is the power will go out and they won't be able to take care ofse patients. the hospitals just found b out about it this morning. the mayor wants them out by 8:00 tonight. and i have here with me andrew ruben, the president of nyu. you just came up from nyu. so you've been watching and helping with this all day. >> we rehearse and prepare for this all the time. they want to make sure the patients are safe wherever they're going. you're talking about very sick patients. you take care of some desperately ill people. no one is staying at the hospital, as i understand it. they're all leaving. >> each patient is evaluated by the nurse and physicians to make sure that the transport is safe. each patient has to be evaluated to make sure where they're going to make sure there's a bed in the appropriate unit for them. if you're a cardiac patient you're going to a unit with cardiac patients. >> are you worried about the cardiac patients. >> sure, from the least sick to the sickest, anytime you move a patient out that you weren't planning in moving out of th

city everyone knows that they will see some flooding. >> in the buzz, actress dakota fanning is now a college freshman. she is a part of the incoming class of 2014 for new york university. check out our facebook fan page. >> do not forget, dr. phil is coming up.

university california berkeley in finance and mba from hair vade business school. i might add that professor robert pollin got his degree of research in new york city.rofessor ape jell was a train engineer for pacific gas and electric working on regulatory issues. he is an author of many books and often quoted in major press on financial issues. he is a visiting -- he served as a visiting academic fellow and residence at the national association securities dealers and visited over 50 stock exchanges all over the world, even was adviser to the shanghai stock exchange, and he now is on the nasdaq economic advisory bull and member of the otc bulletin board advisory committee own serves on boards of directors of the direct edge stock exchange. we have two moderators who also have a particular point of view, and i thought it would be good to have a knowledgeable moderator even though one is against and one is for rather than have a not knowledgeable moderator and allow the debate to sag a bit. opposed to the transaction tax, but moderating half of the time here is gus sauter, a member of the advisory board, but in his day job, he is the chief investment

university of berkeley in finance and an m.b.a. from harvard business school. i might add that professor pollin got his ph.d. from the new school for social research in new york city. professor angel began his professional career as an engineer for pacific gas and electric, where he worked on regulatory issues. he is an author of many books and is often quoted in the major press on financial issues. he is a visiting -- he served as a visiting academic fellow and resident at the national association of securities dealers. he has visited over 50 stock exchanges all over the world. even was an advisor to the shanghai stock exchange. and he now is on the nasdaq economic advisory board and a member of the o.t.c. bulletin board advisory committee. he currently serves on the boards of directors of the direct edge stock exchange. we have two moderators who also have a particular points of view and i thought it would be good to have a knowledgeable moderator, even though one is against and one is for, rather than have a not-knowledgeable moderator, and allow the debate to sag a bit. opposed to the transaction tax, but moderating half of the time here is gus sauter, who's a