if i bleed columbia blue, he bled cardinal red. i don't think it was cardinals at the time but it was cardinal red. he was a lifer at stanford. but he had worked during the war for vannerover bush if you think networks weren't operating there at the time and they were. he got to not only know vannerover bush but he headed the antisubmarine effort at harvard during the war. he actually ran a group that was numbered in the thousands, larger than the total population of faculty and staff at stanford when he returned to stanford. he went back to the engineering school. he became provost in 1957 in the next decade. he transformed with the help of wally sterling, who was very important to the president of stanford at the time. he transformed this from a rather sleepy college, a good sleepy college and a good university into a world class institution. and he envisioned the future the way in which very few academic leaders did. and i'll contrast him for a moment for one of our own. what did he see? for example, he saw the opening up, the e

i'm the provost of columbia university. and my role tonight to be your host and moderator and emcee. and after the remarks have been made i'll probably moderate the discussion a little bit. it should be a very interesting discussion this evening. it's just all too rare that the topic of what makes research universities so valuable to society gets talked about. even in those universities. a real hope of mine is that jonathan's new book, which so magnificently addresses these questions, will help to change that. that it will help us all take a step back and get a better understanding of these institutions. institutions that have been so central in many of our lives. and that it will help society get a better sense of the value that these institutions hold for a society of a distinct kind of contribution that they make toward the american way of life and the world for that matter. i am as just noted the new provost at columbia having begun my term on september 1st of this year. i've known jonathan for a good while now. he was

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but they have definitely been taking good care of us out here in columbia heights. i really want those people to go ahead and stay inside. here we have a lady right over here, walking down the center of the street. you know, this is the kind of stuff that makes it difficult for pedestrians, also for drivers. these pedestrians, you know, the drivers cat see until they get right up on you. the sidewalk is the best place to be. and i just showed you what a sidewalk's looking like here. they're not the bestooking sidewalks, we really just need to give folks some time to clean up this city for us, then we can come out when it's safe to come out. some of the people i'm seeing out here are doing a lot of grocery shopping. i see a lot of giant bags, so i understand that. we've got to get that food. i doubt they'd be in this mess if they could stay inside. northwest washington in columbia heights, i'm tracee wilkins, thanks to y'all. >> all right, tracee, stay safe. >> tracee just mentioned she hasn't seen a plow go by for a while. a lot of areas, jurisdictions aren't plowin

respect for the people of the district of columbia, that they should have more than home rule. they should have full participation in the congress of the united states. so any of these bills that are a priority for the district, let's put them on the table and see what we can pass. >> [inaudible] >> i'll have to take a look -- i'll be honest with you, mark. my focus has been on this vote. let me say that the district couldn't have a better add vo cat here as far as our leadership. we're relentless on this and now some other options that can strength tennessee hand of the autonomy of the district of columbia. >> the emphasis on health care and the emphasis on jobs and things. you took a question a -- a minute ago about don't ask/don't item. some members of your caucus say they feel tough about having to go back to their district and talking about gays in the military when they'd rather talk about jobs and health care. is there a way you can protect them? >> anti-discrimination is a value that i think everyone in our country shares. this issue -- that's why we have to be careful

northern prince georges, eastern howard, columbia, down 100. down 32. maybe toward annapolis, not quite yet but we will watch it. head your way in the next hour or so. in to upper montgomery and frederick county, lighter flurry and snow showers over there. we have a winter weather advisory as i said in affect until the noon hour. north and east. it does not include washington but all the counties in pink and winter storm warnings north and east in to northeastern maryland where they will see more snow. 33 national. 30 winchester. but with those winds our wind chills are in the teens and 20s. one below zero at johnstown and oakland. 33 sustained winds west at 23. gusting to the 30s but in martinsburg in the 50s. go to the seven-day forecast. we have a break coming, especially by sunday and monday. monday will be nice. mostly sunny and upper 40s. by wednesday a coastal storm may affect us. we are worrying about that as with get closer to it. >>> hello. we have some weather-related incidents to tell you about but first show you 270 southbound. already seei

. >> a columbia man intentionally set the fire that kill him. he was found dead inside his burning home last week. neighbors say he lived alone and did not have relatives in the united states. investigators figure how he started the fire. >>> a day-long health care summit. the president is trying to push one of his top agenda items closer to reality. >> reporter: president obama across the street in an effort to cross party lines and reach a compromise on health care reform. >> what i'm hoping to accomplish is for everybody to focus not just on where we differ, but focus on where we agree. >> their agreements are happening on live tv leading rerepublicans like the idea of the summit but want to be consulted. >> we have to start by taking the current bill and putting it on the shelf and starting from a clean sheet of paper. >> reporter: the president and the top aids plan to cover four themes during the six-hour summit meeting. they include reforming insurance, controlling costs and reducing the deficit. president obama wants to win support for h

this is the columbia heights area. you can see a little pavement. with more accumulation coming, who knows what it's going to look like. >> i can guess. snow-covered. >>> here is the latest at this hour. l local schools are closed again today. the federal government is closed for a third straight day t.d.c. government is closed as well. there are more than 4,000 homes in the area still without power, although that number could go up as the storm gets worse. if you plan on taking metro today it is only running underground. there will be no metro buses or no metro access vehicles returning today. >> from the picture you can see they're already doing work at ronald reagan, washington national airport, trying to get the runways clear so they can have some flight operations to day. the snow will continue to come form quite a while. >> let's get the latest on this storm with meteorologist tom kierein in the storm center. what's it looking like now? >> continueing to see the snow pile back up after it started yesterday afternoon and overnight until about 1

i am from columbia college.my question to you is i took a class about blacks in the last semester, and i want to know since obama is our new president, will there be more positive black the trails of black americans on television? what do you think about that? >> well, i don't think that obama will have any direct responsibility in that regard, but i think it's probably not far-fetched to expect to see some characters that reflects some aspect of obama. in our portrayals. i've written about the failure of african-american dramas on television, and where the things that has to be addressed is that african-americans themselves have never substantially supported african-american dramas. so that's something we would have to step up and do more of. and other aspects that portrayal of african-american men on television, i want to point to shonda rimes doesn't "grey's anatomy" and private practice. one of the most successful black producers ever heard if you look at her shows and say that to other medical shows like ho

we are here at columbia heights metro station. a reminder to folks that they're looking at only underground service for metro. no above-ground service today, that includes buses and above-ground metro stations won't be operating. columbia heights should be fine when metro opens unless they decide to shut metro down. that's poosability. i'm tracee wilkins live this morning in northwest. back to you in the studio. >> thanks very much, tracee. our coverage of winter storm round two will continue right after these brief messages. looking at a live picture of ronald reagan washington national airport where the temperature is 30 degrees. >>> good morning. time for weather and traffic at 5:11. 31 degrees in washington. we have snow falling all ak skros much of virginia, much of maryland and into pennsylvania. after a brief respite overnight of sleet and freezing rain. now it is back to all snow all around the region. here is the radar over the last hour. you can see the snowfall. as we look at the more detailed view of the radar, the col

we have an area of snow in and around baltimore coming through parts of columbia now. we will go to frederick county with the light stuff. howard county in to northern prince georges, northern anne arundel this stuff has been fairly moderate piling up a little bit and blowing around, too. watch out north of 32 especially to around route 100 back to 29. in parts of howard county a little misscy right now. we will come back and talk about the weekend and the winds and maybe another storm in the seven day. right now step out of the way and toss it to my colleague, angie goff. >>> hello, everybody. a few traffic alerts to kick off the 9:00 a.m. hour. be-- begin with 270. taking away left lane for drivers. slow to from the scene to the split. to the map in frederick maryland, route 15 is closed between ingel burger road and 806. we have an overturned tractor- trailer and i want to remind you they are checking the weight of the trucks and the buses and because of the high wind advisory out if you don't meet the requirement you are not going to be able to travel that way. mov

columbia college?laughter] >> nimer-- my name is angela and i was wondering how you describe the style of this book from the style of the n word? >> that is a good question. how would i describe this dial-up this book? i would describe the last book is a work of history and i would describe this one has a work of journalism. >> how are you doing? i am also from columbia college. i was wondering, regarding the freedom museum is any of your work going to be displayed in the museum and have the plant on contributing the exhibits that are not there yet? >> i think the representatives of the freedom museum can address what is going on with the freedom museum. collican sais i am grateful to have been hosted by them and would happily work with them in whatever capacity. >> i have another question. regarding your new novel, nappy days is that coming out in 2010? are any of the real-life experiences paralleled in any aspect of the book? >> i am sure, i am sure the answer is yes. i can't think of a specific expe

i think it is exciting. >> yesterday was the anniversary of the columbia accident. my understanding that the constellation program was assembled as a direct response to that accident, the findings in the columbia accident investigation board which mentioned the absence of a national mandate prior to the accident and the fact that nasa was stretched too thin. how do you a corporate the lessons of columbia in this new venture, particularly the part that they identified as a lack of a national mandate? >> you limit the sources of lessons learned. our lessons learned cobol boy back to apollo 1. -- our lessons learned go all the way back to apollo 1. we might not have known everything we thought we knew. we felt really good about ourselves in 1986. i continue that i landed in the middle of a desert air -- edward air force base in the middle of the night on january 18. i went back home to houston and went through my debriefs and we took a break to watch the shelter alistair launch and 73 seconds into flight, i lost seven dear friends. we were awakened that this is hard. y

there's columbia. we're watching howard county and baltimore city and our friends in randallstown and pikesville and owens mills we're up to nine inches in owennings mills. this is the heavy band. i'm going to pull back and highlight how easily and quickly this thing shows up. we were watching this develop from the west slowly work its way across baltimore. it's right on top of marysville. we have eldersberg coming in with a report of about 13 and a half inches. that was about an hour ago. you may be up to 15 now. we go up 95 and we go up 893 up towards the harford zone. we have over a foot in shrewsberry. lighter amounts of snow in bel air. i've been pointing out harford and cecil county to get the bulls eye here. and we have some heavy snow. it's heavier back to the west. the thing is this heavy band that we've been watching that, is part of that developing storm that are is going to pivot its way to the east and may sit on top of you a little longer and allow to you play catchup and maybe surpass. i

crash baltimore national pike at columbia road. as we look at the jfx it is really coming down. expect some very, very slick conditions. back to you. >>> i'm sure the roads will get nastier and nastier out there. we are tracking heavy snow as it moved out of baltimore. now we are in moderate snow. heavy bands across winchester and d.c. d.c. under a blizzard warning. current conditions at bwi marshall 31 degrees. humidity 100%. barometer dropping like a rock. we'll be out of the 30 range quickly here. i want to show you through the day today. look at ellicott city. it starts out as rain. then we quickly get into a much snowier scenario into the afternoon and evening. you can see a thick blanket everywhere now seeing the changeover occur. here's why it was not sticking so well earlier today. we were in the upper 30s. 35 to 37 degrees about the range for highs. but now we haved on the down to the freezing mark. it is going continue to stack up overnight. this thing is one massive storm. just a tremendous amount of moisture coming out of the south in two areas of low pressure that w

most of virginia, all of maryland including the district of columbia. here's t timeline. light snow moving in later this morning. heavy snow this afternoon. very heavy snow overnight tonight into tomorrow morning. and the total amounts from the storm by the time it all ends saturday afternoon 18 to 24 inches around washington and throughout most of the area, maybe higher amounts around blue ridge up to 30 inches and maybe even more and some very high drifts on the eastern shore with winds gusting over 40 miles per hour there. how is the traffic now, jerry? >> we'll head on out and check the roads along interstate 66 inbound as you head towards the capital beltway through vienna no worries. westbound side lanes are open. right now everything is dry. as tom just mentioned that will change shortly. 270 same thing, coming out of frederick down to the split. light to moderate volume with no accidents reported. >>> new information from toyota this morning. the troubled car company just made another big announcement. >> it's been a cold and very snowy within and your heating bil

it happened thursday morning near appleton high school in columbia. the 17-year-old tried to drive across the intersection when he collided with a trash truck. the impact forced the teen's car in to a volvo with a mother and a baby inside. >> all of his friends were in the guidance this morning. everyone is here for them. >> reporter: do you get nervous when you go to that intersection every day. >> i actually do. because there is no light it is dangerous. >> reporter: the young driver faces charges of negligent driving and violating a restriction on his provisional license that all passengers be belted. two passengers in the teen's car were sent to the hospital. both are expected to recover. >>> the national transportation safety board says it will use new information from a public hearing as it determines what caused last year's fatal metro train crash. the three-day hearing exposed glaring shortcomings including a warning not to reconfigure electronic components on the system that is supposed to keep trains from hitting each other. the mother were

we'll talk to annette insdorf of columbia university, stephanie zacharek of salon.com, dana stevens a film critic for slate.com and tony scott, film critic of the "new york times" and co-host of the television program "at the movies." >> i think it's between sandra bullock, a hollywood insider who never received the kind of acclaim being showered on her with "the blind side." between the two of them. i think meryl streep is always such a camilleian. by the way, the past couple years, the oscar has gone to attractive women in deglamorized roles like halle barre for "monsters ball" and kate winslet in "the reader." so the fact that meryl streep is made to look much dowdier than she is hashgs that may help her win. >> rose: >> with catherine bigelow, she takes a lot of care with looking at what's in that frame. you always know where one character is in relation to another. whatever there's something happening, whatever there' movement. she's very attune to that. that's one thing that i kind of never hear mentioned is... it's not just wow, a really good movie made by a woman it's the fact

craig melvin is out in columbia heights on 14th street. folks stepping out around that way, too, craig? >> folks are having a blast. they've been hanging out here for hours. i want to highlight the different modes of trsportation that we're seeing. what is your name? >> ryan. >> we've seen a lot of cars today unfortunately. a lot of pedestrians. you, sir, are the first bicyclist. >> i'm honored. i was staying in my bedroom and got pretty bored. i decided to come out and get exercise. >> you realize you're in a blizzard. >> i know, but i love the ski, i love to snowboard. so iind of had that itch to come out. and do what i can. >> this is how you scratch that itch, huh? >> that's right. >> what aboutwalking? did you think about taking a casual stroll? >> it's too boring, too slow. i wanted to start a new sport. >> where do you live? >> right here in columbia heights right by the metro station. >> where are you going? >> i'm working in a hospital. >> make sure you don't end up in the hospital. we've got a likealibicyclist an cross-country sk

so is the district of columbia.g really sort of unprecedented conditions over a wide area. what does a blizzard warning mean? it means sustained winds over 40 miles an hour and near whiteout conditions as we have got all that cry tiera filled as the situation is continuing to be cold and windy. look at the latest gusts now, reagan national just had a gust of 434.Ñi and that just occurred in the last hour and the gusts are, along with the snow creating near whiteout conditions and visibilities down to just nearly a quarter of a mile throughout much of the region as the wind driven snow continues and as we look at the windchills, that is the other thing, it is so cold now, it's only near 20 degrees. the windchill at dulles airport now just two above zero, windchill at prince george's county and andrews air force base just six degrees, feels like ten in washington. now i'm happy to report, though, it looks like the radar is showing a decrease in the heavy snow. so we may begin to see finally the storm as far as the hea

voice has been here in this community right here in columbia heights and adams morgan u. street area for the last ten years. where civil rights organization whose loans of a rights issue is public education and the district of columbia. we primarily carry out our mission through community action research. we just celebrated our 10th anniversary in december on december 5 of last year. [applause] thank you. and we celebrated now the sixth year that we've done what i was talking about, that ready schools project for six years in a row we've gone into schools across the country and about willow supports the receiving and what they need to deliver high-quality instruction. for the last three years, we've gone into over 100 schools, each of those years. and the 2008 in 2009 school year, we started our town hall meeting theories. the last school year we had five town hall meetings throughout the city, identical meetings on fridays and saturdays to let people of different backgrounds, different geographical locations could make them. and from

i went to columbia in 1946. under a 17% quota.body admitted that it existed but everybody knew it was 17%. harvard had a bigger one because not being in new york, it wasn't as afraid being overridden of jews as columbia was. and in those days, the effect that the sociologists that i was referring to ascribed to college education did actually occur. i mean, i was totally transformed by my four years another columbia coming from a slum in brooklyn. i don't see most of the universities have that character any longer. i find them conformists slavishly conformist. intolerant. incapable of entertaining positions on the other side. and dogmatic about their beliefs rather than critical. and i think that's been well documented by studies of the contemporary university. yes. >> how are you doing, sir? i have two questions for you. i believe abraham lincoln once told us that. a house divided cannot stand. that was recently displayed in black and white in new york with the cycle political division between the republican and the conservative e

i had the opposite experience at columbia. doing my comprehensive in 1968 when i was a young mother, trying to get through it all. there was rioting at columbia and you could not study. it was interesting to see -- clearly, a lot of things were going on in 1968 that were worse students expressing themselves about, but it disrupted a lot of issues. it is an interesting point as to how far you go with it. i can now see activism -- you were talking about new orleans. a lot of students at tulane have gotten very involved in trying to repair new orleans. i think that is a very appropriate kind of community service. at georgetown, a lot of students were the moving force behind doing something about darfur. there are networks and linkages that are very important. it leads to the question about -- i do think that universities can do a lot about promoting ecology and worrying about the environment in a lot of different ways, to teaching about it and encouraging people to do something about it. in terms of leadership, i think that -- an

in 1991, tillikum and two female whales drowned a trainer in british columbia. seaworld bought the whale a year later for breeding purposes. a canadian trainer at the time remembers tillikum was sold with restrictions. >> so it was, to my understanding at the time, that the orcas were not going to be display or performance animals. they were just going to be there for breeding purposes, primarily. >> reporter: and tillikum lived up to that expectation, siring 13 calfs for seaworld. in 1999, a man was found dead in his tank here. >> this does beg the question about whether or not it's appropriate to have such large animals on display for the entertainment of people. >> reporter: u.s. laws banned the capture of killer whales since the '70s. that's driven up their value today to more than $2 million. but seaworld officials here say they're governed by safety over profit. they also say tillikum now involved in three deaths will not be destroyed. kerry sanders, nbc news, orlando. >>> when we continue in a moment from vancouver, how they do things here. 6 years. i've

we do 400 emergency responses in the district of columbia each and every day. since the storm has hit, we are probably closer to 800 to 900. we have seen a wide variety of call and have had several children born. yesterday they delivered a child before we could get to the hospital. a lot of heart attacks, relative lifting and shoveling the heavy snow. automobile accidents, slips and falls. it's been a plethora of emergency responses for our department. >> reporter: you guys are fully staffed, or are you having problems getting crews in. >> we are actually doubled staffed. we have added additional staff, firefighters, police officers, doctors, nurses and even reporters understand how important it is to be out here, in your case, to report the message, and keep people inned. in our case 0 to respond to emergency calls. we have had approximately 20 roof or building collapses of some form or fashion from extreme to minor. nonetheless we are seeing a lot of activity. hence we added an extra shift, at least throughout the event and i'm hearing words that perhaps by w

in 1991, the bull orca was blamed for the death of a 20-year-old trainer in british columbia, after the whale attraction there was closed, tilly was sold to seaworld and eventually wound up in orlando. steve huxter was one of tilly's trainers in british columbia. >> so, it was my understanding at the time that the orcas were not going to be display or performance animals. >> reporter: eight years later, another death. a 27-year-old tourist found dead in the tank with tilly. the whale was captured in the wilds off the coast of iceland. the u.s. no longer allows the importation of captured orcas. the grandson of famed oceanographer jacques cousteau says this now reopens the debate on whether it's correct to hold whales. >> in some cases, there is educational value, and in some cases, you know, facilities make a lot of money off these animals. >> reporter: seaworld has extensive video security systems, but it's unclear from the officials of whether they captured on those cameras this attack or whether a tourist got it on their home video. that would be important to investigators who will t

there's the uptown campus at columbia and the downtown kampls. >> president clinton was at the uptown. >> you could have done his surgery, right? >> no, probably not. >> they calmed you but you didn't come? >> there's a lot of misconception there. i think the cardiologist -- that was on a holiday weekend. the cardiologist was calling a lot of people to see who was in town, and i was out of town. aye said this before. i wanted to know who it was, and they said we can't tell you. so i am thinking it's part of a gangster or a type of lawyer that i don't like, and i said, well i don't want to do him. i'm not coming in. that's what happened. >> larry: what occurred with bill clinton today is fairly normal in postoperative patients? >> well, you know, it's hard to say. the -- usually if a graft is going to close off, it closes off fairly soon, within the first few weeks. and then there's another period of time that it will close off, and that might be four or five years. but i think alan schwartz explained this. that's usually people who don't take care of themselves. >> larry: he took care

i had the opposite experience at columbia. i was doing my comprehensives in 1968 when i was a young mother trying to get through it all and there was all the rioting at columbia and you couldn't study so it was kind of interesting to see clearly a lot of things were going on in 1968 that were worth students expressing themselves about but it clearly disrupted a lot of the issues and questions and i think it is an interesting point as to how far you go with it. i also -- but now i can see activism. for instance, you were talking about new orleans this morning when i was talking about doing something locally. a lot of the students at tulane had gotten very involved in trying to repair new orleans and so i think that is a very appropriate kind of community service, or at georgetown, a lot of the students were the moving force behind doing something about darfur so that there are a lot of kind of networks and linkages that i think are very important. which kind of leads to the question about -- i do think that universities can do

the reason i'm going to shift is let's go back to "columbia." when there is a crash in america, and we have a concern, we go to the product. so exponent looks at "columbia." tries to gather as much information as they possibly can. dataa and what's left. >> right. >> when there is an airline that crashes, ntsb will go in and try to re-create and rebuild that aircraft. when i look at what exponent is doing, and i look at the report and i look at the thousands of vehicles they are looking at, what bothers me is why -- why wouldn't you, when an automobile that has been identified as this sudden unintended acceleration, why isn't that product pulled aside and ripped apart so you can understand what is exactly going on. those are the thousand ones that if i were in your seat, that i would be going after and applying the greatest minds of the world to understand. >> in many cases, one of the field technical specialists or one of the quality specialists, they do go out. and if there is a component failure, they would take that component off and send it

matt wolfer and paul bowers are planning to spend a week being homeless in columbia, south carolina. but before going for a week, they decided to go on a test run. and that's when they ran into some trouble while trying to sleep in a park. three men with guns tried to rob them. >> wasn't quite sure what was going on until we saw the guns and realized more of their intent. >> he had it pointed at me at my chest. they were asking for cell phones, wallets. we don't have anything. >> i heard paul get slapped and then shoved. >> matt looked over and he got pistol-whipped a couple of times. >> wolfer and bower says their experience shows how vulnerable the homeless are. they also say that they still plan to follow through with their experiment to be homeless for a week. >>> the state of maryland may begin recognizing same-sex marriages performed in other states. in an opinion issued this week, state attorney general said that maryland could recognize the marriages but also said that his opinion was meant to guide the courts and is not the law of state. >> much like a driver's license. peop

watch for a crash in columbia i should say. that one on pen shop road. there's a live look at the beltway looking pretty good. back over to you. >>> real quick and sharon is involved with this. we've got to do this fast. we've been running video of dorothy hamill in the olympics. sharon your mother made that? >> not my mother, dorothy hamill's mother made that costume. i did a live shot at the sports legend museum. and that costume is on display and they said that her mother used to hand stitch all of her costumes. >> there will be designer outfits worn this year. this morning's "coffee with" is with dorothy hamill. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the morning edition. this is dorothy hamill. how are you doing? >> i'm great. >> before we get into the message that we're going to deliver. in your previous interview there was a peanut butter catastrophe. can you explain? >> that was a i can't remember of peanut butter. i was demonstrating my weightlifting skills with a bar of peanut butter how you can use household objects to stay fit. it was a casualty. so

columbia just signed this year a free trade agreementçó with canada.trade agreement, they are going to begin buying their wheat from canada.çó we are going to be put at a competitive disadvantage. >> right now, we buy their flowers and coffee all tarrif free. it's our advantage now to eliminate those tarrifs. i agree ks it needs to be free and fair trade. we need these trade agreements for new customers toÑi grow and employ more people guest: i agree we need free and fair trade. all of the trade agreement that's follow on this model aren't working not because it is trade but because it is not on a level playing field. it would be like two teams coming on to a playing field and they haveÑi to play by different rules. with china. china won't even float its own currency.ñrÑixdñr it has undermined our industrial base. we as a country have to have a strong manufacturing base. we have to have a strong agricultural base, too. i have a strong base in my state as well. we cannot be naive. if we have to put up with other countries and in the rules or having diff

centreville 2 inches, columbia a little bit less than 2 inches. we will continue to update the reports through the night. what will happen next? so far, we have had 27.3 inches this winter. these are the top winters over the past five, six years. we are clearly in the lead. will we wind up wi the most snow this winter? we are well on the way. if we get 20 inches from this storm, that puts us in second place for all time snowiest winters since the records have been kept. the most snow was 7099, jefferson washington storm, 55 inches of snow falling in washington. that is the latest. -- the most snow was 1799. >>> the state of maryland has a sophisticated system to keep track, and that is where the governor is. >> rebecca cooper is with governor o'malley inside of the command center in hanover. >> the governor has been here through the day, also out on the roadways, the this is wre he gets all the information he needs. he joins us right now. what are you saying? >> the snowfall has really change the past half hour. that is coming down heavier. the he

simon schama is a professor of history and art history at columbia university.luding oxford, cambridge and the other cam bridge also known as harvard university. lionel barber is the editor of "the financial times" of london. he covered europe and the united states for the paper. both of my guests happen to be brits. i don't want you think i consider them smart just because of the accent. lionel barber, you spent many years here. you now watch the united states from across the pond. what is your sense of the obama presidency one year in? >> i think, first of all, he has to realize that he took probably too many people from the campaign into the white house, that he's reliant on those people. he needs to have some people who are, if you like more experience in government as opposed to campaigning. secondly, he probably needs to outsource less to congress. he's been too deferential to congress. he needs to spill a little blood, flex a bit of muscle, be angry a little bit. i'm sure he believes, and he is a formidable articulate person. he believes too much in the p

. >>> i'm mike schuh, in columbia. a fifth grade teacher reprimands a student, kicks her out of the classroom, and pushes her out the door. today, police file charges. what happened next, when eyewitness news continues. >>> an manner classic comes to stage. celebrating the 75th anniversary. coming up, what local university choirs are teaming up with the bso. i'm gigi barnett. that story is just ahead. >>> and getting ready for a major snowstorm. don't miss the updated forecast coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> a two-week investigation has charges being filed against a fifth grade teacher. it is for what she is alleged to have done to a student inside her classroom. >> reporter: on january 13th, something happened inside mrs. tracy clay's class, that could ruin her career. >> the girl reported to her mother, that after a verbal altication from the classroom, the teacher physically pushed her. >> reporter: the principal wasn't notified. >> our investigators went to the girl's home, interviewed her and discover a red mark o

ú funcionarios del sistema escolar del distrito de columbia reportaron mas de 200- alegatos por partes, por supuestos abusos fisicos o verbales de maestros, durante el periodo escolar 2008-2009... las alegaciones fueron recopiladas por una ex-compania de securidad de las escuelas publicas... las acusaciones incluyen incidentes en donde los maestros tomaron por el cuello, empujaron, dieron palmadas o golpearon con el pie y abusaron verbalmente de los estudiantes... oficiales escolares y de la policia desconocen cuantas de las acusaciones resultaron en acciones diciplinarias o cargos criminales en contra de los maestros... el lider de la minoriaen el congreso estatal de maryland, o'donell quiere prohibir que las agencias locales y estatales, otorguen beneficios publicos a las personas adultas indocumentadas... el delegado republicano quiere que los gobiernos verifiquen si las personas adultas se encuentran legalemente en el pais, antes de que se les proporcione asistencia publica... la medida bloqueria que los indocumentados reciban proteccion de vivienda, subsidios de desepleo, estampi

you know, the average class size at columbia is about 20. and so it's a very, very -- we run a boutique educational establishment here. unfortunately, that, the state universities and great city university like the one that matthew runs really cannot have the luxury of all those small, small classes, and that does put enormous burdens on faculty members teaching thousands of students. it takes a very special type of person to be able to do that well, and i think that's where a lot of the discontent is expressed and where there are serious issues to be addressed. >> [inaudible] is this on? let me just quickly comment on that, and that is there is the formal teaching, largely undergraduate teaching, and then there's the intimate, daily teaching that a research professor participates in with his students and fellows. and i think we're all -- maybe the world is not aware of the extent to which research scientists teach graduate students and fellows and the realization on our part that without this teaching, our disciplines are dead. and so there

columbia at 4.3. we did see baltimore city reported 4 inches in pikesville and baltimore county at 3 inches of snow. 4.9 the official total. westminster, beltsville and craw all downward from 3 inches. we are now looking at this melting down and moving on out. we're now setting our sites on what is coming in our direction. for a little more on what's happening, we send it outside to bernadette woods. we talked about the 4.9 at bwi, putting us almost smack in the record books again. >> with that added to our season total, we are now 13th place for snowiest snowfall season. we're creeping up that list right now, and this weekend could add to that. i want to show you down to the southwest, the next storm's already taking shape, bringing a lot of rain to texas. that storm will track across the south and then move in our direction. for us, we think it could be a sleet/snow combo in the beginning and southern parts of the region, more of a rain mix. so we could see a little bit of everything at the beginnin

coming up from columbia to baltimore, as well. we are seeing heavy snow.nd look at this knot of chantilly. route 28 south of dulles heavy snow, as well. this is extending back to fairfax and vienna here in fairfax county. this snow will be more than an inch an hour rate. you see the purple popping up between chantilly and dulles. a lot of areas are experiencing light to moderate snow and kristin fisher gets a gold star from me for noticing the snow going from a wetter to drier snow and that will help to pump up the snow total and help with the blowing and drifting. it will be a fluffier snow from now on for areas north and west of us washington. here's devon lucie. >> the lighter, drier snow stacks up higher because the fluffier snow doesn't compact like a heavier, wetter snow would out there. we have blizzard warnings, north, northwest and east of washington now. the immediate washington metro are not in the blizzard warnings. they will go in to affect at 10:00. east of anne arundel county, howard county, up to frederick county, maryland. baltimore county

so i would take a close look at the sexual assault laws in the district of columbia. >> chance lowerresays when the case came to her attention she sent it to mpd which did not prosecute saying the act did not warrant criminal investigation. >> there is nothing wrong with a teacher having sex with a student regardless of the age? >> yes there is. >> reporter: so are you making a request for some legislation? >> we are working on it, yes. the request has been made before. it was omnibus back in 2006. >> reporter: are you making this request for legislation? >> i'll be working with the administration to get the statute updated and i think it's important for everybody. >> reporter: but the man who chairs the judiciary committee says not too fast. maybe there is a law that covers this. >> we do have a law that says certain kind 0 of relationships that involve trust are prosecutable. >> and the washington teacher's union is weighing in. >> this is a vulnerable young individual who needs to be protected and the way to address this issue is potentially a change in dc law, not in the union co

en juridicciones, como el distrito de columbia las preparaciones ya comienzan.. desde esta noche, camiones esparciran arena, sal y otros quimicos descongelantes en las carreteras principales para que esten listas para el viernes... "utilizaremos todos los recursos necesarios para limpiar las calles" reportera: podrian haber cancelaciones de actividades y el cierre de agencias gubernamentales... una nueva tormenta invernal obligara a muchas personas como este electricista a cambiar sus planes de trabajo. "tenemos que trabajar adentro me entiende, porque la avenida, uno tiene que estar mas late en el trabajo" reportera: recientemente la traviesa marmota pronostico seis semanas mas de invierno. .. y no es de equivocarse... resignarse es la unica opcion. .. "son cosas de la naturaleza y me gusta porque a veces una sola cosa aburre, es bonito ver las dos cosas, verdad" reportera: autoridades recomiendan a la comunidad tomar medidas de precaucion durante este fin de semana y si no tiene que manejar, no maneje, qued

ing right now let's take a look at our weather net from columbia. currently sitting at 36 degrees. a change is a coming. keep it here. we'll be right back. >>> you'll love this story. after getting more than one hundred billion in the massive taxpayer bailout aig is giving out $100 million in bonuses. they will go to the employees at the financial products division. that's the unit that brought the insurance giant to the brink of failure. the payments are obligations entered into years ago. >>> after a two-day rally, some mixed result on wall street. dow jones dropped 26. nasdaq gained less than a point. the s&p 500 dropped six. >>> coming up at 11:00, could underarmor be setting up shop next to its biggest rival? tonight at 11:00, which west coast city is ruining the apparel maker? >>> the fix is on the way. we are talking with toyota dealers tonight about their game plan to recall those vehicles and repair them. those stories and more tonight at 11:00 after "ugly betty." >>> on the weather front good night tonight. good day tomorrow. one last look at this thing. you can see that

and there was all of the rioting at columbia.and you couldn't study for -- so it was kind of interesting to me clearly a lot of things were going in '68 for worth students expressing themselves about. but it clearly disrupted a lot of the issues and questions. i think it's an interesting point as to how far you go with it. i also, but now i can see activism, for instance, you were talking about new orleans this morning when i was talking about doing something locally. and a lot of the students at dew lain were trying to repair enormous. that is an appropriate kind of community service or at georgetown, a lot of the students were the moving force behind doing something about darfur. so that there is a lot of kind of networks and linkages that i think are very important, kind of leads to the question about, i do think that, universities can do a lot about promote the ing ecology and worrying about the environment in a lot of different ways through teaching about it, as well as encouraging people to do something about it. in terms o