. >>> as we continue on this monday night, growing excitement on the campus of columbia university. >> after a second term comes to an end, president obama returns to columbia? that announcement today. and it didn't come from the white house. i'm joe torres. the details coming up on eyewitness news. >> also, the wild weather that sent a tree crashing down on a forklift. plus, no wild weather here. just a heat wave. lee goldberg returns to [muted singing throughout] these girls have waited 62 days for this concert tonight. so far i've counted 32 omgs, 75 lols, 13 yolos, and i'm super tired! tweens--fun age, huh? you have places to go. [girls squealing with delight] let us worry about getting you there. bp gasoline with invigorate. fuel the journey. >>> new at 11:00, did the president of columbia university jump the gun on the president of the united states? columbia's top guy telling the freshman class today president and mrs. obama are headed to new york city after they leave the white house and they will work for columbia. a reporter from the student newspaper heard about it and twee

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breach of protocol, a university spokesman said the comments at convocation follow a may 12th statement by the barack obama foundation that it intends to maintain a presence at columbia. president obama graduated from the university in 1983. >> i'm not sure like how, you know, how -- what's the policy there but like, yeah, i mean definitely didn't hear anything from the white house before. so definitely a surprise. >> i'm from the school of engineering so not sure i'll be able to take a class with him but i definitely will try to go see him if he has a talk. >> reporter: you'll track him down. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: the official word from the white house is this, the president has always respected columbia university and wants to continue working with the ivy league school but for the record, no plans have been finalized as to what the president will do when his second term comes to an end. at columbia, i'm joe torres, channel 7 eyewitness news. >> a lot of wishful thinking at columbia, huh? >> that's what's making news in

white house is rolling back reports that the president will be coming to new york to work at columbia university after he leaves office. mr. obama graduated from columbia in 1983. the talk started when columbia's president mentioned he looked forward to welcoming back the world's famous alumist. in a statement the president stayed he has long respect for columbia university and his desire to continue working with them, however, at this point, no decisions have been finalized about his post-presidency plans. >>> the penalty phase of the trial starts today for the white supremacist convicted of killing three people at jewish sites in suburban kansas city last year. the jury found phrasefrazier glynn miller guilty. >>> friends are saying good-byes to two tv journalists killed last week. hundreds attended the memorial service monday in martinsville for alison parker, the reporter shot and killed live on tv. she they shared their memories of the 24-year-old including her love of dance and theater. >>> more than a thousand people honored parker's cameraman adam ward on sunday. a funeral for ward will

columbia university's president says he would welcome back mr. obama and reporter who covers the obamas says a return makes sense. >> new york retains a warm spot for president obama and if t first lady -- the first lady. they see themselves teaching perhaps together at columbia university. >> we shall see. the white house right now is trying to tamp down speculation saying no decisions have been finalized. >>> coming up, harassments get -- helicopters get awfully close to the ground in san francisco. what the aircraft are measuring. >> and we want to invite all you pet lovers out there, send us your questions about their health and well-being, e-mail pets@kpix.com and dr. jill every friday at noontime will answer ,,,,,,,, hey foster farms! looks like you left these two west coast birds behind! foster farm's chicken's california grown. you guys aren't from here. wrong! we love yoga and sunshine and stuff. well foster farm's chicken has no added hormones. well i wish you didn't have any added negativity! ha! high five! yeah! he's not going far. th

quote, the president has long talked about his respect for columbia university. at this point, no decisions have been finalized about his post-presidency plans. while chicago will be home to the barack obama presidential center, the intended placement of the barack obama foundation at columbia university ensures a strong foothold in new york city. in july, president obama and his first daughters took a stroll through central park. high school senior malia also toured nyu and columbia earlier this year. >> when you look at the history of barack obama, columbia is scene as the place as barry obama bake barack obama. new york obtained a warm spot for barack obama when the first lady. they see themselves teaching and working in nonprofit work after they leave the white house, perhaps together at columbia university. >> reporter: all of the living presidents left washington, d.c. after their terms ended. jimmy carter returned to georgia. both george bush's flew south to texas, while bill clinton moved to westchester, new york. last year, when he was asked where he saw

social media lit up with speculation that he could return to the school he attended, columbia university. columbia's president mentioned he looks forward to welcoming him back, meaning the president. mr. obama got his bachelor's there in 1983. and they say no plans have been finalized. >>> and it may seem just a mouse click away. harvard university will be using a high-tech classroom letting professors teach to students around the world. for the first time it will be realtime instead of a prerecorded lecture. the school says it will offer lectures entirely taught online. >> i don't think i could have done that. >>> coming back, if you're about to head out the door, take eye us with. >> take the "today in new york" in new york downloadable device. our next hour starts right now. >>> a scary sight over and over again in the bronx. this morning, a new look at criminals behind a robbery spree. >>> plus, running wild. president obama about to go on an adventure with cameras tagging along. >>> and some customers complain, why one person is suing chipotle. "today in new york" starts now. good m

convocation that he looked forward to president obama being back at his alma mater, back at columbia universityaves office in 2017. the president's office at columbia has since sort of clarified, walked that back. do you have any sense what that was about? is the white house confirming any of that? >> reporter: the white house is not confirming any of that. the white house is saying the president is -- has not made any decision about his post presidential life. the truth of the matter is that the president's alma mater desperately wanted his presidential library. they didn't get it, as you know. it's going to chicago. i think the presumption has always been that there will be this tie between columbia and its most famous alum. so i don't think it would be surprising to see that he had some things going on with columbia, starting in 2017. he's going to go there, do a full professorship and give up a public life? no. i think there's a little tease there, that a, helped do a little push maybe, but also it doesn't help when you're standing in front of all these incoming freshman and parents and say

. >> the president of columbia university may have spilled the beans on what the president, president obama, be doing when he leaves the white house the people at the university are buzzing after the president told the freshman class that president obama will return to his alma mater in 2017 the official word from the white house is that the president has always respected column what and wants to continue working with the school but in maps are finalized when the term ends. columbia university's president... >> apple could be on the verge of becoming a major player in show business. >> variety reports the company is in early talks with hollywood executives to produce original video content that could allow the company to rival netflix and amazon. they did notment on the magazine about the report. apple is looking to launch a streaming tv service and makes hardware and software pore appealing to consumers. >> a cool and less expensive alternative to hotels for those looking to add a special twist to the next twist. >> what tom hanks told california while students pleading for him to co

. >> educated at what's now columbia university.amilton made a name for himself in the continental army. he was barely 20 when he became washington's closest assistant. >> he edited led the development of the most famous work of political thought, the federalist papers along with james madison and john jay and wrote two-thirds of it and that's the foundation of american political thought. >> when washington was elected president he appointed hamilton first secretary of treasury. a monumental feat after the system was bankrupt from the revolutionary war, convincing investors to buy bonds. the base of the economy. >> he had a coherent financial vision at a time when the science of economics was in its infancy. it wasn't perfect but it pushed us in the right direction. >> hamilton's name has also lived with infamy for more than two centuries due in large part due to his untimely death in a duel a lendingary argument with aaron bur. burr. now one of the most common daily tributes to hamilton's legacy as a leader is on the endangered spe

joining us from new york, a professor of political science at columbia university, and author of "red state, blue state - rich state, poor state." >>> what do you think it's important to know as candidates head to the country? >> most important thing is predict. the general president is predictable. at the national level, based on economic conditions, and at the state to state level. most states vote the way they did four years ago. but for primary elections things are more predictable, changeable. i think we have to accept there's an unknown there. >> it's a tremendous undertaking running on 15 different election days. iowa, new hampshire are front loaded with south carolina behind. it gives candidates is chance to show their stuff in three different regions among ut might say different audiences. >> it's different elections, more to the point. you have two candidates. different party labels. different positions. they are bounced. in the primary election, multiple candidates who are similar. you take, joe biden, hillary clinton, issues are not that different >>> on a lot of big issue

. >> columbia university professor susan pedersen is next on booktv. she recalls that paris peace conference after world war i and the creation of the league of nations. >> the great war had been a war of empires come into the victorious allied powers it seemed as if the militaristic and aggressive empires had been defeated while the oppressive empire that had been the ally, the russians, had fallen by the wayside in the throes of revolt. it seemed as if the good empires thought of themselves as having reluctantly acquired their possessions, and to administered these for the good of their people a triumph. now it is up to the victors to clean up the mess that was left so to speak. was to happen to the broken into your pieces left leaderless by the collapse of the central powers? preston wilson had stressed the self-determination of nations as when it is 14 points but this idea came up against demands by the allies to have the outlying provinces other former enemies as spoils of war and also against the idea that the population of these former colonies

roy stryker, an economist from columbia university, was really persistent. he was the head of the project. he went to newspaper offices, contacted magazine people, pushed and pushed to get the pictures published and out to the public so they could see what was happening. his project employed photographers, who travel to the worst hit areas, where they were planning to have government intervention programs. one of the things they did was to relocate people off of land that was expired, that had been farmed until it was depleted. another project was to move people from urban locations, ghettos, into better housing. hoping they would be more productive economically. photographers went to various locations to do some before and after pictures to show a need for government projects and the benefits of them once they had been implemented. most of the photographers worked out of the washington dc office, working directly for roy stryker. dorothea lang lived in california. her husband worked at the same agency as stryker. written reports and photographs were sent ba

. >> reporter: columbia university professor of astronomy researches water in the universe. >> if we find live somewhere else in the solar system that has a lot of implications towards what we understand about life on earth. >> nasa's long purpose on mars because of all the planets in our universe is most similar to ours. >> with warm salt pcs, freshwater lakes. >> some time in the last 3 billion years something happened on march. >> mars suffered a major climate change and lost its surface water. >> torso nasa thought. every spring scientists observe streaks of something appearing on the surface of the red planet. those streaks grew larger in the summer and disappeared in the fall. nasa wanted of the water might cause that streaking but needed prove using a process called spectroscopy scientists involved the interaction between light and materials on our that there is, that town hydrated salt in the streak syndicating presence of liquid water and a surface more habitable and human once life on mars in the past, present and future. >> soon i hope we will send humans to the red planet

is an associate professor in math mount i cans science and technology at teachers collegiate columbia university kate is the chief content officer at. [ inaudible ] and the former president of girls in tech. and chris, i'll start with you. if you had to give the fortunate 500 companies the tech companies a grade when it comes to diversity, what would that grade be in. >> it would be "d" or "f." >> but they say they are trying. >> sometimes trying is not good enough. so the reality is until the point where they were almost forced to showcase what the diversity is in their offices and of course these companies we just didn't know anything about it. and in the last two years, they were forced, literally because of the general conversation in the public, to talk about diversity and show the numbers and those statistics were appalling, so we have in some instances less happen 5% african american and latina. gender equity is awful. the fact they are working towards it, by no means means that you get an "a" for effort. >> "d" "f" is he being extreme or accurate? >> i say that's really spot on. i think

i'm joined by the head of african studies at columbia university in new york.at blaiseing compaorÉ had nothing to do with this. do you believe that? them for theyieve are the close allies of the former president. i'm not sure that they staged a coup. staged a coup to renegotiate, i transition.erm of and the location was in it. nevertheless, when mr. ended, it reign raised to a lot of people that they could turn a page in the country. in terms of stability, this doesn't look very good. but i think it is a consequence of the way in which the ousting of compaorÉ happened. if you look at what he is doing all over africa, and burkina faso is a great example, the africans have been able for the last 30 years to learn how to resist authoritarians. they have also learned how to fight back and if you authoritarians. but they are -- defeat authoritarians. but they are not equipped with the system -- at least what we are experiencing, showing that people are not ready to come with a solid alternative accepted by everybody. the lesson of what has happened this the youth is

uptown from nyu, emma carried a mattress through her campus as a form of protest after she said columbia university botched an investigation into her rape. changes have since been made to how columbia handles rape allegations. back at nyu, we explained the enough is enough law to students. teddy foster says his freshman yer ar he heard a few rape allegations happening right in his enabled. >> especially this area out of all nyu, seems it would be the safest. those were really crazy to hear. so i think it's great something is being done about it. >> reporter: we asked students if the affirmative consent clause was plausible. >> it definitely isn't organic in any sense, but i believe because of what we're dealing with right now, and the increase in rape culture in general, i think it's necessary to interject in those moments. >> reporter: and the governor said today that many campuses wanted nothing to do with the press conference of this nature, and actually applauded nyu for being so progressive in this matter. reporting in the village, rob schmidt, news 4 new york. >> thank you. >>> still ahead at

striker, an economist from columbia university, was persistent. he was the head of this project. he went to newspaper offices, contacted newspaper people, magazine people, just really pushed and pushed and pushed to get these pictures published and out to the reading public so they could see what was happening. his projects employ photographers who travel to the worst hit areas where they were planning to have government intervention programs. wasof the things they did to relocate people off of land that was expired, that had been depleted.l it was and other part -- another project was to move people from urban locations from ghettos into better housing, hoping that they would be healthier and more productive economically. so, photographers went to these arious locations to do before and after pictures to show the need for these government projects and the benefits of them once they had been implemented. oft photographer worked out the washington, d.c., office, working directly for roy strike r. but dorothea lange was in california. her husband worked for the same agency that roy

. >> the president of columbia university may have spilled the bean on what the president is going too when he leaves the white house. people at the university are buzzing after the freshman class was told that president obama will return to his alma mater in 2017. the foil word from the white house is that the president has always respected column what and wants to continue working with the school but no plans have been finalized as to what he will do when the term ends in the white house. >> apple could be on the verge of becoming a major player in show business in early talks with hollywood executives to produce original video consent that could allow the company to rival netflix and amazon. apple did not comment. the move cops as apple looks to launch a jamming tv service and make hardware and software more appealing to consumers. >> on the third lane now. please. a group putting pressure to open another lane on the richmond-san rafael as soon as possible. >> a powerful storm pounced arizona and the damage it caused and the clean up underway. and the clean up underway. >> stay tun

researchers at columbia university looked at 35,000 parents and teenagers across the country and found children who grew up in a household with smoking parents were more likely to smoke during add less epts and non smoking parents tened to have children who don't smoke. ev day nearly 4,000 teenagers try their first cigarette. >> as we have been reporting, for weeks, more than 1 million people expected along the ben franklin parkway to take part in events during the papal visit and many more of you will be watching from home and channel 6 and "action news" are ready to bring it to you. >> pope francis arrives at philadelphia international airport saturday morning than is first of his appearances in philadelphia and "action news" will be there and on the air bringing it to you live on 6ab 6abc. our live coverage continues throughout the weekend. but you don't have to be in front of a television to see. it make sure you have the 6abc news app because that's where we'll be streaming every event as they take place. >> it's important to be live. it's important to be present. this is one of t

. >> reporter: columbia university law professor katherine franke says ignoring the supreme court reminder of the 1950s civil rights era. >> people who didn't want to follow the suprem supreme supres decision in "brown versus board of education" very clearly turned to religion as a justification for maintaining segregationist policies. >> reporter: tonight in washington, davis will receive an award by the family research council for her fight. what is this all about forker? >> it's upholding my constitutional rights. >> reporter: did anything really change? because same-sex couples are still able to get marriage licenses at your office. >> i have not compromised my convictions or my conscience. >> reporter: davis plans to stay row an county clerk until her term is up in 2018. jericka duncan, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: still ahead, steve hartman "on the road,"" and we'll hear from some v.w. customers who feel betrayed. that's why i have the spark cash card from capital one. i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy for my studio. ♪ and that unlimited 2% cash back from spark

well, he now teaches at columbia university here in new york city as a postdoctoral fellow in humanities. you see the book cover there. at the young age of 30, he's published his first book, he tells me -- this one about his upbringing, his education, his life experience. it is called "undocumented: a dominican boy's odyssey from a homeless shelter to the ivy league." dan-el padilla peralta joins us to talk about his book. congratulations. >> oh, thank you so much. >> the book hit store shelves when? >> july 28th. >> july 28th. how are sales? >> i do not ask these questions of my publisher. >> you don't. >> i prefer to keep it all unknown. >> you just sort of sit back, and whatever happens happens. >> indeed. >> congratulations on your story. we're gonna get into some of the details, but take me to that moment, that epiphany -- the word i used earlier -- when it came to you, that it said, "you know what? i should write a book about my life, my history, where it's taken me so far"? when did that happen? >> it happened 2006. i was a senior at princeton at the time, and a wall street journa

at columbia university in new york. unfortunately with young people who did not grow up attending church, a transitional appeal does not always work.>> we have to engage people where they are. >> reporter: he says that requires technology, which is why he has turned to face life, and at that encourages bible study, fellowship, and prayer.>> the days of carrying a leather bound bible to church are not necessarily over, but young people do everything on their phones nowadays. >> reporter: the catholic church released its own at last week in time for the arrival of pope francis.>> you are also the first pontiff to share an encyclical through a twitter account.>> reporter: thousands are here in washington to see the pope and millions more will greet him before sunday. not everyone who wants to see him will get to.>> your app is allowing people to follow the pope's every move. >> we're going to live stream, have live press conferences. >> reporter: christopher coyne is the catholic bishop in vermont. the man most responsible

structured it along the lines, and thomas merton as i sit in the middle of manhattan, he went to columbia university. walking down fifth avenue, seeing the books in the bookstore that changed his life, led him to become a trappist monk. i read his book when i was 17. it's major move for the priests and merton's openness to god. left and right, all part of catholic social teaching which is grounded in a sense of god. >> you gave a thumbs up, your work -- referring to the people in the room, is work that makes you reflect in many ways on the figure of moses. moses in the chamber. i thought it was wonderful. one nation under god. it's a groundedness in the law. >> maria shriver, you were watching and listening as well. interesting to hear your perspective over the last day. what do you think? >> i agree with many of the things that the bishop and chuck both said, but for me, i thought the speech was aspirational. i thought it was thoughtful. i thought it was deep. i agree with the bishop, the four people he focus on, lincoln. martin luther king, he talked about him at the white house. dorothy day and t

sirius xm show on a big apple media blitz for her huge new season, surprising new yorkers at columbia university andberg dorf goodman and revealing david spade had a crush on her. >> he's not good at flirting. >> no game. >> no. [000:29:57;00]

. >> columbia university. forced bernie sanders reluctantly. the worst time of police interaction. surprising when you look at the democratic party's, it is retro, young people of color for showing dynamism within politics. we have almost the same sort of dynamic is the 1960s. >> ii want to push you a little bit because you mentioned the jesse jackson, george mcgovern wing of the party. and do you think there is a difference between black and white liberals with the democratic party, the jesse jackson and bernie sanders. >> absolutely. the liberalism, poverty, cuomo zeroed in on urban poverty, and jesse jackson his agenda was about poverty but whose agenda is race specific. and that is something by a large some of them are sympathetic to. it was not central to their argument. very much in the sanders camp which is about income inequality broadly and if you can solve that it will lift everyone. and that has always been the divides. >> very interesting. let's talk about the recent campaign, hillary clinton running in the democratic primaries, bernie sanders, martin o'malley. at the e

participation -- he accepted an invitation from columbia university to serve as president of that great totitution, enabling him devote the remainder of his life to the challenges of education. even of the postwar world dictated otherwise. the urgent necessity for unity in the free world brought into being the nato, and it was evident that only one man could make that complicated organization work, dwight d. eisenhower. at the end of 1950, he answered the country's call. he was on european soil to of thesupreme command land, the sea, and the air forces of a grant defensive alliance against the new threat rising from the soviets. forad to create the will europe to defend itself so that freedom would not be lost. for more than one year he labored diligently. reigns turned over the of command to general matthew ridgway, the structure of military unity among free nations on which rested the hope of continued peace was established. once again, with the accomplishment of substantial victory behind him, this might well have been the end of his public career. in a sense, it was. the closing cha

he was a young fellow i met who had a radio program at columbia university.these all-night video guys. he played my music. he became a writer about music. i made -- let's put it this way i cultivated critics who liked , me. the ones i did not like, i did not read. charlie: what is the biggest misconception about the music you compose? philip: the needle stuck in the groove? it does not repeat. what is interesting about that, the music does not hardly ever repeat. if it repeated, it would be unlistenable. what makes it interesting is it is changing. charlie: what makes people think it is repetitive? philip: it keeps repeating. but it is about transformation. i do something which people were also doing in the art world. we were working. and many of us and the theater working towards a kind of nonnarrative expression. with beckett, he would take a piece and cut it up and put it back together. the idea of stories -- charlie: you are akin to beckett in what you are doing? philip: when i was kind in paris, i was running music for his plays in paris. we had a little

. >> how convenient for that entity whether it is hillary clinton or columbia university. of course she wants everyone to move on. no one is paying attention to anything she is saying whether it is the keystone x.l. pipeline or donald trump's tax fund. no one cares because there is so much damning information every time we get a new trove of e-mails. >> why did the clinton campaign let these identical e-mails would slide? how would they think anyone would catch on to that? >> the fact that so many people said the same thing -- >> when the fbi issues subpoenas or at least when she is indicted people will say this is a totally different ballgame. perhaps this isn't a witch hunt. perhaps she has broken the law on several fronts. >> the next time -- i will try that next time i get pulled over. can we move on please. >>> campaign ads are not crazy at all. it brings us to a congressional race in north carolina. he is facing a stiff challenge from a county official, but there is a lesser known candidate. it is a spokeswoman and judging from daly's new ad she ain't playing. >> thi

undergraduate students from 27 university say that they have been sexually assaulted. 23% were columbia university students and in the letter to the campus, colombia's president said a task force made up of students and faculty and administrators will work on strategies to prevent future sexual assault be one and an assist in runcible shocking students, parents, school officials. dari: while on summer break she appeared in a racy rap video and even though her role was small, it could end up costing her big time. >> and it also features a familiar face. showing her and her real-life husband leaving for the weekend out what appears to be their mansion. reporter: her role has people talking. >> that was probably something that should've been rethought and in a statement he says that the video in question showcases behavior and language that is not promoted by the southampton school district. in fact, we actively teach students the importance of good character. in making smart choices. and it's not fair to judge a what someone does on their personal time and they don't see it as a problem jody goldber

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