reporter: they graduated from m.i.t.s business school one holds an arrow space degree another speaks cline he is despite the accomplishments, running a start up they believe many in silicon valley are left behind. >> sometimes with women they think you may have to explain stuff to them. there has been no female equivalent to mark zuckerberg. there's no reason for that other than the structure of things. >> 97% of venture funded businesses have male c.e.o.s, and 6% are women. on the engineering side women make up 20% of software developers. battles are waged, including the gender discrimination lawsuit filed by ellen powell against her former employer. powell believes her colleagues receive promotions while she did not. >> this case is a wake up call to the venture capital industry and silicon valley. it's a window on the kind of microindignities that seem small but cumulatively get in the way of women's advance. lawyerens remembers a moment at her job where she was the first woman to be hired. >> when i walked in they were like here look we have a bathroom for women because we never needed

calvin cline cologne. >> what is it about the cologne? >> it's the response from a jaguar that makes it feel like another jaguar has been there. >> we'll take it out of the context of the zoo and put it into the wild and see if we can attract them to our cameras using the scent. we'll show you how that can be used for research. smells good. i can see why the jaguars like it. let's see if it works. with camera and cologne in hand i set off to set up a perfumed enhanced trap. the concept was simply. douse ration with cologne. >> an animal walking by will trigger the camera to take a picture or video. it's got an infrared light. it something passes by, we'll get video of it. let's see what we . >> cologne is like a low-tech solution to a high-tech problem. >> definitely, they are elusive animals. any help you get, even a low-tech tool like col own, that allows you to get a picture or fur sample or give you information if the camera is set to video. >> my experiment was running for a month. it didn't work. the truth is working with animals li

but when judge cline polled jurors he noted there were not the required number of votes for a verdict on one of the key questions. when asked whether pao was terminated because she filed a lawsuit, the jurors were split. 8-4 with 8 saying she was not fired in retaliation and 4 saying she was. but 9 out of the 12 are needed for a verdict in a civil trial to the judge sent the jury back to continue deliberation. they did for just about a half an hour. then came back with their verdict and this time juror number 3 switched from a yes vote to no vote. they had the required 9 to sigh there was no retaliation in firing ellen pao and a few minutes later pao left the courtroom and gave this statement to reporters. >> i have told my story and thousands of people have heard it. if i have helped to level the playing field for women and minorities in venture capital, then the battle was worth it. now it is time for me to get back it my career my family, and my friends. thank you all very much. >> the lead attorney for cliner perkins made a statement moments ago. we will have that for you at 6:00.

they receive, the challenge for the party is to continue to deliver >>> it's been a year since the cline he is government relaxed the one child policy. the changes in rules - some place, a handful of couples applied to have more children. one of the main reasons - money. adrian brown reports. >>> this person is testing the waters of motherhood giving birth to her son 10 months ago. she admits that she was not prepared for motherhood. this is an old job and seems not to care that the easing of a one-child policy makes her eligible for a second baby. >> translation: many young people do not want a second child. they think marriage is too much of a hassle. on the face of it she and her husband have it all, part of the growing middle glass. she has a well paid job. they moved into a 3-bed room apartment. they are only children which is why they qualify for a second baby. she is resigned to the son raised without a brother or sister. >> translation: one child is lonely igrew up as an only child. my brother has many brothers and sisters. the one-child generation cannot do joy. >> the governmen

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captain siegfried cline with the aurora fire department organized this demonstration to show how butane can ignite when amateurs use it to extract hash oil from marijuana plants. a new and dangerous effort to produce a more concentrated form of pot at home. >> and that's the attraction. the purity. it's got a more potent high from it. >> very potent high. >> reporter: windows blown out, kitchens ripped apart. in 2013, colorado saw just 12 of these explosions. but last year that number jumped to 32. dozens of people have been hospitalized. amazingly, no one has died. >> that goes up in a split second. >> very fast. very quick. it's not going to allow people to get out of the area in time. >> reporter: here at the state capital no one would argue that the type of hash oil extraction isn't dangerous, but given that colorado voters have legalized marijuana, the question is, is it a crime. >> i think some districts believe we can already prosecute people for trying to create hash oil at home. and there's other districts who don't think so. so i think it's an area for clarification. >> report

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and the judge today, judge harold cline said to the gallery, or khan said to the gallery, do not talk to the jurors. apparently somebody or some people reached out to the jurors for comment. in the judge's words, that's big no-no. ellen powell expected to be back on the stand tomorrow. mark matthews nbc, bay area news. >> the most advanced time piece ever created. >> apple's big announcement. it's cool but do you need one? we're talking about the an el watch. the first entirely new product since the death of founder steve jobs. >> our business tech reporter scott budman was front and center at today's announcement. scott, why do we need a watch? we said the same thing about the ipad and now we love it. >> a very good point, and time will tell about this as well. the apple iwatching with nothing if not very ambitious. it will tell the time for you. allow you to make phone calls from your wrist. and bring you your favorite app. and in about a month you will be able to buy one. >> we designed apple watch to appeal to a variety of people. >> it is no longer something seen on the screen. t

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. >> and joining us our panel political director rick cline. rick, from that exchange, that could have been last week that she had an iphone and a blackberry. i don't know whether that is definitive. >> i think she needs an i.t. kid to help her life here. this is the part that brings a little bit false and we'll figure out how it works in the testimony. as she's entering this high power job with all the rules and regulations she opts for the simple choice, the convenient choice. then when she goes into the less high pressure private sector she wants to get more complicated with the second device. it doesn't make sense. the length that they went through to set this up with the server that would give them the access that they have right now that gives them the final say, the honor system in saying what's public, what's private that is what is going to continue these questions. >> i don't get during the days when her husband was in the white house they got subpoenaed so often, so many documents, i never thought they were writing anything down anym

i was asked who would win in a street fight between me and ezra cline. i said that i think my size would give me the edge and ezra agreed. if you missed out on the chat this time, check it out on facebook.com/all in chris. the conference call. the ultimate arena for business. hour after hour of diving deep, touching base, and putting ducks in rows. the only problem with conference calls: eventually they have to end. unless you have the comcast business voiceedge mobile app. it lets you switch seamlessly from your desk phone to your mobile with no interruptions. i've never felt so alive. get the future of phone and the phones are free. comcast business. built for business. >>> on wednesday, the u.s. supreme court is scheduled to hear the biggest challenge to obama care since the last momentum obama care challenge that threatened to undermine or destroy the president's signature treatment. last year at this time they upheld the mandate, and there was a sense that the watchers at the last battle had fought and won. now here we are beginning. king versus bur

. >> cline son is here. do we need more president in the streets of new york with their details following them around? >> that was my whole point is the fact that nothing is horrible to get from point8 to pointb. i'm sure obama says why does everybody complain about the traffic? i get along fine. zip on through. ridiculous. and meanwhile we are stuck here on the pinnacle of the free world 6789 the presidents come to town. stay out. >> or go to west chester. >> maybe comrade bill would fix the streets if he thought president obama was moving here. >> that's true. he would be there at his beck and call. >> it would take about two weeks before people started heckling the president about i broke my leg and it cost me $600. >> if a real president the ex-presidents have to leave town. >> that's a good deal. >> there are so many secret service. >> obama's take on that when he met with the writers of hogan's heros gitmo. that's his new plan. >> do you know hogan's heros? >> of course. >> is edie mcdonald's conversat

police used pepper spray to disperse crowds protesting against shoppers from mainland cline in a saying residents are encouraging mainland citizens to come and shop there. residents blame the chinese buyers for distorting the local economy. >> there is a lot of anger. we just don't like how they buy everything and we aren't benefiting from it. >> hundreds of migrant workers being forced to leave libya. many hoped to find a better life and the economic opportunities not available in senegal. they once again face economic uncertainty. nicholas has been speaking to them. >> they return home to senegal empty-handed, hungry and shaken. two words come up again and again to describe their treatment in libya violent and racism. >> they would cover their nose when they talk to us, give us just a cup of water a day and whip us with chains. we were animals to them. >> he traveled to libya with a thousand dollars loan from his family. he ran out of money. it took two years working at a builder to get the money back. then an armed group forced their way into his room, locked him and is companions up

longer reflect the changing shape of the global economy an economy that's increasingly dominated by cline in a with that with the bank china proposes to sets up, it hopes to change that. china of course believes this bank will did you dove tail with the revival of the silk road trade route between china and europe. that would involve billions of dollars of new infrastructure it hopes will be paid for by loans with its new bank. >> moves are being made to end martial law in thailand. the army commander turned prime minister has asked for royal approval which is considered to formality. the critics say the plans to impose a so-called dictator law granting him absolute power 10 months after an elected government was overthrown. >> myanmar is a step closer to ending more than 60 years of civil war. negotiators agreed on the final text of a draft agreement to end fighting on several front between ethnic minorities and the military. there is still a lot of work to do. >> they've been negotiating on and off for years until finally a significant break through. negotiator the for the administratio

. >> i am mel cline. will preface this by saying i am a lifelong democrat, but i do not march in lockstep. is tehran munich? is obama, chamberlain? are the centrifuges, czechoslovakia? is it inviting defeat to job job with the adversary -- isn't appeasement anticipatory surrender? >> my answer is to say, no. as i suggested earlier in the talk, munich 1938 is munich, 1938. this does not mean, however, that the threat with respect with tehran and nuclear weapons is not real. it does not mean that barack obama is wise to pursue negotiations with the irani and government. i happen to think it is the right policy for him to take at this time. of course, it mandates and requires that he and his advisers be very rigorous in those negotiations clear-sighted in what they wish to achieve. that i don't think the threat that tehran represents can be equated with the threat that hitler presented to the u.s. and its allies in the 1930's. it doesn't rise to that level. >> you had mentioned that a lot of times, we need t

members of the cline jewish community centers harvested fresh ingredients to cook today for their home-delivered meals program. the event is part of philadelphia's march for meals celebration. last year they provided about 70,000 meals to seniors in philadelphia bucks and montgomery county. >>> a mix of good and bad news for our area. >> we'll show you which counties are rated the healthiest and which ones are rated the unhealthiest. >>> also, dogs running away with the dough. the canine crimes happening in our area cheating taxpayers out of millions. we'll explain what pet owners aren't doing that's affecting the bottom line of one city. >>> and up next, door danger. the new car concern that has a major automaker issuing a warning to drivers. >>> then all new on "nbc10 news" at 5:00 taking the train to the king of prussia mall. it will one day be reality. and tonight you get a chance to add your input. see the plans for the new route. >>> a recall alert. if you drive a ford the automaker's recalling more than 220,000 vehicles for safety issues. the largest recall involves ford explorer suvs mad

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the airlines are flush with cash thanks to the ke cline in the cost of jet fuel.ines have money they spend it on new planes. they need every seat they can get now. boeing is perhaps the greatest manufacturer on earth with a are red shot stock up 17%er for the yearment let's take a look with jim mcnerney to hear more about how the country is doing. welcome back to "mad money." good to see you, sir. >> tank shanks, jim. good to see you. >> a lot of companies don't have ten minutes of visibility. boeing has maybe the best visibility for the long term. why is that? >> you lose if you don't. les's start with that. you've got to have a 20 year perspective on the market a 20-year technical plan you've got to develop people over that cycle. manufacturing processes. so the people we compete with who don't take the long view they don't satisfy customers as wellment and you've got a 25-year relationship with the customer after you sell them stuff. so you've got to work with him. and invest in him and spend time with him. >> the toughest thing is you have to report quarterly.

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glacks sew smith cline $43. i can go on. what is your experience with the amount of drug being bought this the united states? dr. fugh-berman: we spend more money on drugs in the united states than in any other country. and we certainly use a lot of drugs. and yes, there are some of these businesses, they are extremely successful at the very high profit margin on drugs. there are a lot of companies large and small. there has been in small specialty companies with niche drugs that are extremely expensive as well. brian: what is the difference between a patented drug like lipitor and then that patent runs out and then you go to genric? dr. fugh-berman: by the drug comes on the market there are usually seven or 10 years of patent life left. but there are many techniques for extending patent life in some ways of doing that are for example putting out delayed release preparations. a company might do an immediate release and then they do a controlled release and then an extended release. that is a way of extending patent life. som

congressman john cline, paul ryan outlining the replacement plan they are calling a quote offramp fore president's signature health care law. the fox news political insiders are back. republicans have this. it has some interesting options in it. it is a solid alternative, if you will, something that democrats are wrong about but you are still not happy with your party. >> if they have a plan that all republicans pretty much signed on to they should have unveiled it last year and should have run on it and they should have said if you don't like obamacare here is our alternative. and if they then went to congress the public put their stamp of approval on it. to unveil this thing with three guys riding it it will not do a thing. where is the unity of the thing? the fact of the matter is this is alternative. i see republicans don't get enough credit for putting together an idea. >> they don't have a party alternative. they are in power. they just surrendered on immigration where 74% of the american people according to the fox poll say that they have serious great concerns what the preside

. >> thank you, chairman cline. >> thank you mr. chairman and ladies and gentlemen, for being here and for your service. i think we picked up the thread here that all of you and the witnesses would like to see us spend more than the sequestration level of the president's budget or greater and i think all of us know we're trying to find a way here in congress to make sure we get to a number like that. i share your concerns about readiness. general, i know we're very clear about it. i have personal concerns about the army readiness with my family and certainly we should all be concerned. and sometimes we have issues about readiness that are not about money. i know that we had a discussion on the phone the other day, and general i'm sorry i'm going back there to that issue. secretary mccue, you talked about we send our young men and women into, quote, a very dangerous environment. some couple weeks ago we had apparently a very dangerous environment in yemen. it was so dangerous that we sent extra marines in there. and then it was so da

i was asked who would win in a street fight between me and ezra cline.t is an underappreciated fact about ezra that he can put up some weight. i said that i think my size would give me the edge and ezra agreed. if you missed out on the chat this time, check it out on facebook.com/all in chris. while you're there, give us a like, won't you? in getting key nutrients from food alone. let's do more, together. add one a day. complete with key nutrients we may need. plus, for women, physical energy support with b vitamins. and for men, it helps support healthy blood pressure with vitamin d and magnesium. take one a day multivitamins. ♪ [piano background music begins] ♪ we are one, we are essentially the same regardless of where we come from. um, there are definitely things that are different about us culturally and everything else but at the end of the day we are the same and we really need to start seeing the world as a place that was gifted to us. [thunder and rain] [thunder and rain] [thunder and rain] >>> on wednesday, the u.s. supreme court is scheduled t

clines. they committed a crime. the person doesn't get a job but that means it is the risk of community. we're referring to what economists call as teeming capital. so eric holder i have tremendous respect for him is pushing for enactment of the bill. but fair sentencing act with that 100 / one crack cocaine structure. because maybe we will get smarter and figure out that we are talking roughly 7 million people. that in all of our communities there are studies that show the reduction of productivity productivity, the reduction of gdp the impact of families and to the breakup of the family connected to poverty we cannot afford to do something different. >> the only way that will succeed is the equal employment opportunity commission permits employers to take into account of the ex felons because the cost for something to have been is a foreseeable consequence. if we changed the rules but then held responsible but then to be safe rather than in sari? does anyone have any other questions? thank you can. [applause] [ina

ed cline was on the show earlier, he says it's all orchestrated from inside the white house listen. >hite house. that the clintons know that hillary is under not one, but six different investigations. i'm told is prompted by valerie jarrett, and the president who do not want to see hillary clinton president of the united states. they feel that the clintons are very centrist as far as the democratic party is concerned. that if hillary becomes president, she won't carry out the legacy of barack obama. >> she's choosing convenience as some would say over national security. convenience over promised transparency. general petraeus pleaded guilty to putting classified materials that in a place that wasn't controlled by the government. this is the same thing we're looking at with hillary clinton. >> for those who said that press conference will put an end to this, they were wrong. >>> one say it's returning to the days of the wild west, who approved the firing squad. that happened overnight. >>> across the lines, the verdict is in between marvin gaye's family and allen thicke. did he steal t

. >> i am mel cline.will preface this by saying i am a lifelong democrat, but i do not march in lockstep. is tehran munich? is obama chamberlain? are the centrifuges czechoslovakia? is it inviting defeat to jaw jaw with the adversary as he builds his arsenal? isn't appeasement anticipatory surrender? dr. logevall: my answer is to say, no. as i suggested earlier in the talk, munich 1938 is munich, 1938. this does not mean, however, that the threat with respect with tehran and nuclear weapons is not real. it does not mean that barack obama is wise to pursue negotiations with the irani and government. i happen to think it is the right policy for him to take at this time. of course, it mandates and requires that he and his advisers be very rigorous in those negotiations clear-sighted in what they wish to achieve. that i don't think the threat that tehran represents can be equated with the threat that hitler presented to the u.s. and its allies in the 1930's. it doesn't rise to that level. >> you had mentioned

. >> it starts with bio chemist josh cline. >> we are trying to find plants that happen to have proteins that function in the way egg proteins do. we found a pea yellow split pea he that actually worked well as an emulsifier, we started doing iterations on flavor, taste texture and going into can we make this a viable mayo product and the answer is yes. >> it is the first product made available to consumers. >> our theory of change is win just on the merits to create a model that's so powerful that it makes a not so good thing entirely obsolete. >> for the latest on new technologies and how they impact your life. tune in to tech know today. >> live in nigeria as the opponents of former military ruler takes a lead in the race for president. >> also the c.d.c. goes after e-cigarettes, saying they are just as bad as traditional cigarettes. >> welcome to al jazeera america. let's take a look at today's top stories. federal investigators now say two men who crashed a stolen car into nsa hours were partying. partying at a nearby hotel before it happened. police shot and killed one of the men w

blacks coast smith cline. divesting its cancer drug portfolio to novartis and buying novartis's vaccine business. speaking of cancer drugs, amgen's cancer drug for multiple myoloma was snoen a study to help patients live twice as long as a competing medicine. analysts say this should increase sales of amgen's drug despite some safety concerns that were raised in that study. dr. harper is their vice president of research and twomt. he joins us now. dr. harper welcome, first of all, but explain the significance of this result for cancer patients. do we typically see this kind of dramatic improvement from one broouchlt to another. >> a little more than a year ago we purchased another biotechnology company onyx, and the strategic driver there really was to obtain it's used to treat patients with white blood cell cancer called multiple myoloma. we believe scientifically that also for clinical studies we will be able to demonstrate superiority. not only with respect to efficacy for treating the underlying cancer but

. >> thank you chairman cline. >> thank you ladies and gentlemen for being here and for your service. i think we picked up the thread here that all of you and the witnesses would like to see us spend more than the sequestration level of the president's budget or greater and i think all of us know we're trying to find a way here in congress to make sure we get to a number like that. i share your concerns about readiness. general, i know we're very clear about it. i have personal concerns about the army readyiness, and sometimes we have issues that are not about money. i know that we had a discussion on the phone the other day, and general i'm sorry i'm going back there to that issue. secretary mccue, you talked about we send our young men and women into quote a very dangerous environment. some couple weeks ago we had apparently a very dangerous environment in yemen. so dangerous that we sent extra marines in there. and then it was so dangerous we evacuated all of the americans. and in that process even though we were on stand by not off shore, somebody made a decision to destroy all of

seating, our jeff who is counsellor to the president, or counsellor to the chief justice and kevin cline, our budget and personnel director, and the marshall of the court and is patricia here? cathy, our public information office. as you indicated mr. chairman we're always very careful, very cautious about budgetary expenditures. and the budget of the supreme court is just a small part of the budget for the courts as a whole. and the budget for the courts as a whole is a very small part of the united states budget. and i think today you will hear a presentation from judge julia gibbons from the sixth circuit. she does a marvelous job, and the budget for the federal judiciary as a whole is important, i think, for the congress to realize that it is not just judges, there is 7900 probation and presentencing. this keeps people on supervised release. it is very cost saving, and over the years in the federal system we have a very low resid vision rate for those on release. it is high if you look at it as one-third, but it is quite low compared to the state. this is comfortable effective. the f

there was at&t executive named cline who was on c-span and part of the class action lawsuit.bama is a constitutional law scholar. how could he grant immunity for what was basically defying the constitution and stopping that court case from going forward? >> host: anthony, hang on. let's see if the professor has anything for you. >> guest: it is interest >> guest: it is interesting, anthony, what you said at the very beginning i completely agree with and that is we are real-estate of democracy in decline as opposed to a state of democracy that is bugging and blooming in ways that encourage more people to participate. once you got beyond that you lost me. i apologize. i don't know anything about the idea of george bush and cheney coming in to power through war. you are moving into an area where i frankly don't have expertise. do you consider yourself to the political? what does -- >> host: are you involved in politics at all? do you take positions? you write position papers? >> guest: for candidates? >> host: anytime. >> guest: no. i am critical of our understanding of a democr