dr. john gonzales has breaking news. >> a lot of police activity in fairfax county. just after 4:00, there was a vehicle headed southbound, and for some unknown reason, the driver lost control of his vehicle and crossed all six lanes of the road. he continued, preceded off to the bike path. unfortunately at that very moment, there were a couple of bicyclist riding on the path. we understand that the 17-year- old was struck and killed. the driver was also killed. we talked to a business owner their works across the street, he witnessed the entire thing. >> i thought the car was going to stop, but it didn't. it was pretty bad, you know. >> we understand that the 17- year-old was riding his bike with an adult male. that person was not injured in the accident. the vehicle came to a stop when it slammed into a tree. police have closed off all of the northbound lanes as they continue to collect clues and interview witnesses who saw this terrific accident and try to figure out why this man, the driver was not identified, lost control of his a a vehicle. >>> coming up, if fo

>> dr. john hunter: typically, they'll find them at the drops.le, there's five of these big hydro drops here. drop one-- they found over a hundred bodies at drop one; drop two, they had 60; drop three, 60, et cetera. >> pelley: dr. john hunter showed us the hydroelectric dams, or drops, that catch most of the bodies. hunter is an unlikely activist. he's a physicist and life-long republican, who has spent much of his career designing weapons for the u.s. government. >> hunter: i'm a very right-wing guy. i'm not an open-border kind of person. i just don't believe we should be letting people drown in our backyards. it's inhuman. >> pelley: ten years ago, a newspaper article about rising immigrant deaths caught his attention. and today, the deaths in the canal system are an obsession. >> hunter: this first picture is a little girl named alexandra, and she drowned saving her older sister's life. this was border agent goldstein. he drowned trying to save his dog. this is one small subset of the american canal. each pushpin represents a person who drown

phil roe and dr. john fleming here. we'll kick this off, i'll go to dr. roe to put in his input about failed promises and huge spending that obamacare, as well as the democrats, not only with obamacare and their stimulus bill, dr. roe, we're fixing to have another bill that our democratic colleagues are calling the jobs bill if they like the firstonstimulus bill, actually, it stimulated big government, it's been an abject failure, but they want to give us another bill they call it the extenders bill here in congress, but the american people will hear it described as the jobs bill. that is absolutely incorrect. mr. roe: thank you, dr. broun. i bring with me tonight a blank sheet of paper. this blank sheet of paper is where we ought to go back to health care and start over. that's what the people in my district in the state of tennessee have overwhelmingly told me. i was at a convention in gatlinburg this weekend. they understand it, let me tell you who gets it the most, are our senior citizens. when i came here, i came as a 31-year practiced physician, pri

>> reporter: decades of struggle in the laboratory by a team of dedicated researchers, including dr. john rock, a catholic fertility specialist. >> the woman now can imitate nature. >> reporter: but fda approval of the oral contraceptive 50 years ago this month was only the first step on a long and arduous journey to access and acceptance. enmeshed in the turmoil of the 1960s. faye waddleton is the former head of planned parenthood. >> many sectors of society were saying, i want to be liberated. i want to be treated as a human being. i want to realize the american dream. and along came the technology that liberated us from the traditional role of being barefoot and pregnant. >> reporter: but it took until 1972 and a supreme court ruling to ensure legal access to the pill for single women. access that was fought in part by state governments and the catholic church, whose culture was shifting as well. when pope paul vi banned the pill for catholics in 1968, the debate for many was already over. >> catholics didn't follow the rules anymore. they just thought, you know what? we need the pill.

. >> in his book "the political centrist" la professor dr. john hill says government doesn't have to be large to create economic opportunities and establish moral norms. georgetown university in washington is the host of this event that's about in our. >> [applause] >> thank you. i'm delighted to be here and honor to be at my alma maters, georgetown. i was reflecting and it struck me that i believe it was 21 years ago this week that i was defending my dissertation just across the way and you the hall i believe it was so it's wonderful to be back. i'm very pleased and honored to be here, thank you for having me. i'm going to do three things tonight since this is an academic setting. i have three goals. one is fairly abstract, i want to talk about the meaning of the left of the right to political spectrum. does that have some evidence today? i'm going to argue it does but i want to talk about how i think it may be different from the way some people think about it. secondly i want to talk about liberalism and conservatism as the terms is a day and ta

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[applause] >> dr. john rich chairs the health management department at drexel university school of public health. he is also the universe is director of the center for nonviolence and social justice. dr. rich is a former medical director of the boston public health commission. for more information visit public health dr. axel.edu. >> well, there is a new worldwide community gathering to read a book and it's called "one book, one twitter" and the organizer is jeff howe. explain to us what "one book, one twitter" is. >> well, in a sense it is a global book club but the inspiration was really not book clubs. which twitter has a few of and our wonderful. as the big reads that we've seen over the last 10 years, the first one being nancy pearl's what if everyone in seattle read the same book, where in 1998 all of seattle read the sweet hereafter. the one that actually inspired me as i was reading about "one book, one chicago" the first and not go -- to kill a mockingbird and connections that true and i was readin

. >> drexel university center for nonviolence and social justice chair, dr. john rich present several portraits of young black men trying to avoid violence in the inner cities. he also discusses the challenges posed by socioeconomic factors. the enoch grad library in baltimore host this hour-long event. the program contains language some viewers might find objectionable. >> i am grateful to be, grateful for this limitation and grateful for the opportunity to have a conversation with you this evening, and to hear your thoughts. i am grateful to see young men and women here, who can reflect upon how many of these issues, the issues that the young people in the book talk about affect their own lives. i would also like to thanks piece band for-- c-span for being here and for my colleague, christina from johns hopkins press who has been wonderful. now, i come to this really from the perspective of a doctor, and i appreciate your reading those words. that is where i ended up, in understanding that we couldn't necessarily discard, we couldn't discard these young people a

next we'll move on to the author of the book, the struggle to limit government who's dr. john samples. dr. samples directs cato's institute. he's written a couple of books. another one that i'll mention briefly is the fallacy of campaign finance reform. certainly remains a hot topic here on capitol hill. prior to joining cato he served eight years at the georgetown university press where he's the director of the georgetown university press and prior to that as the vice president of the 20th century fund, dr. samples earned his ph.d. in political science from rutgers university. dr. samples. >> thank you very much, brandon. i'm happy to say that i don't have any disagreements with congressman sensenbrenner which is a good thing because he was here and lived through it and i did not. i just read about it in books and occasionally talked to people. i think one of the things he mentioned bears repetition because it's, one, an important factor on this that is often forgotten. which is -- and i will generalize it. the american political system that's in the constitution and the part

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dr. mudd went into uniontown to buy a few things and post some letters. he found it filled with union soldiers. he came back, told john wilkes booth and when bruce left to go to the home of colonel cox the direct route was through briantown. but dr. mudd swung way around to useville. in and next met with archibald's one, a free black who lived here. we know this because we have affidavits of these people. why would they swing way around briantown unless they knew there were federal troops? they went miles out of their way. obviously dr. mudd told him don't go through bryanttown, there are federal troops there. they went to salon and asked if he could leave them again the swap to captain cox. he said i can take you there so booth gave him five dollars. this is the next stop. there arrived at the house unti when cox cent for one of his other agents and had them hide them in a pine thicket until baker arranged to get across the potomac river. from 6:00 in the morning for the next we 5 days, that is captain cox, tough looking guy. next. we know the approximately location where they were hidden because it is directly oppos

dr. john howard has served since 1992. prior to this he was the chief of occupational safety and health in the california department of industrial regulations. mary lou jordan has served on them not -- mining health and safety commission review board since 2009 and chairman from 1994 to 2001 and commissioner from 2001 to 2009. we welcome you all here. thank you for your written statements. i have gone over the mall beforehand. i would ask if you could each as we go down the line some of in five or six minutes the main thrust of your statement i would appreciate that and we could get into a discussion. mr. mayne, welcome back to the committee. please proceed. >> thank you, mr. chairman. members of the subcommittee, i want to thank you for the opportunity to appear before the subcommittee today and speak of what we have done in the wake of the disaster. i want to again express my deepest condolences to the families, friends, and co- workers of the minors that perished in the big branch mine. i've been holding multiple meetin

dr. chu from the department of energy, john holdren of the science and technology policy in the white house were how did you come up with those calculations. show us the math, what are the thresholds of the casing might be put at risk by the pressure. so you could create a greater problem and what are your margin for error and that was a two hour conversation and it was exhaustive. >> brown: and are you satisfy when you do push, b.p. has been responsive? >> yes. >> brown: as you know, louisiana governor bobby jindal has been critical of the federal. today specifically he was talking about the need for more boom equipment and for permission to build sand barriers what is your response there? >> well, in the booming strategy i think he has got a point this is one of those case where i have gone to b.p. and raised a concern and they have been responsive. i had a really long talk with tony hayward over the weekend about what i call the retail end of this response. and that last mile where oil is impacting the shore, we need to move, cleanup teams there very, very quickly. and the ability and th

dr. rachel is a pulmonary and critical care person who specializes in sleep medicine. recently, johnspkins has been busy with more and more patients. >> we see things like obstructive sleep apnea where people stop breening several times a night. we have restless leg syndrome near bedtime and moving and walking improves those symptoms. >> reporter: for people looking for a good night's sleep, dr. salas offers five ways to wake up refreshed. first, relax before going to sleep. keep your room for the three ss, sleep, sex and sickness. next, limit bright light close to bedtime. and don't take a late nap. keep your bedroom cool and dark. it's conducive to sleeping. avoid bright lights. following those five tips will help you have a good night's sleep and wake up refreshed and ready for the day. sherrie johnson, abc 2 news. >> more and more people are turning to sleep centers at times for help. the johns hopkins sleep center has had a five-month wait. they add add decisional clinics to accommodate -- added additional clinics to accommodate more people. >>> we take you back to last night whe

dr. samples and congressman sensenbrenner for the remarks. [applause] >> john samples is director of the center for representative government at the cato institute and adjunct professor at johns hopkins university. for more information visit cato.org. >> there is this idea that sometimes crisis our events and are unpredictable and very rare. unit, my good friend, you might know this book, black swan. the second edition has been published this week. those our events that occur when there is a distribution with thoughts of -- the father but they're coming out of nowhere. one of the things i learned by starting financial crisis through history and emerging markets and the most recent one, in the book looks not just at the current financial crisis but goes back through history and through time and across the world, is that the first chapter of the book in the title it is a white swan as opposed to black swan. and white swan. first because christ is in my view are predictable. because they are not just random events but they are a build of macroeconomic financial an

dr. rand paul and mr. john stephenson. thank you bir joining us and thank you for joining us across the state of kentucky. before we get started, a couple notes for our viewers. another protest and had been scheduled to be here but is unable to because of a death in his family. bill johnson who filed as a candidate has indicated that he is out of the primary. he has not officially withdrawn. >> kentucky has garnered a lot of national attention for this race. arizona, mccain and hayworth. here is the republican primary. let me begin this way, mr. tray grayson and mr. rand paul. describe the republican party that you belong to and how you would be representing republicans in kentucky. >> i think every generation, as jefferson said, renews its defense of liberty and every generation, a political party redefines what it stands for. a political party is an empty vessel unless we in view it with values. what i mean by that is we have to believe in something. i got into this race because i was upset that a lot of republicans vote

dr. mida's attorney did not return calls for this story. tomorrow the investigation, the fall out and how the hospital involved is moving forward. >>> an incredible story of survival for three, brothers john and ely as along with their friend rebecca sullivan spent three days adrift at sea. they said the thought of dying was something they refused to consider. >> we didn't give yourselves the option not to. if we had done that then we probably wouldn't have. but for the sheer fact that we were determined not the die out there we all came back safe and sound. >> reporter: all three are navy veterans. a shipping boat came upon them simply by accident. >>> it has been sitting inside a vault and now mark twain's auto buy graphy is now object released. he left orders they could not be published until 100 years after his death. >>> the traditional harm and climb at the naval academy lacked its -- but was still there. the class of 2013 didn't have to contend with grease on the 21-foot object lisk, that was dropped for safety reasons. this may be the last year the superintendent will decide if it stays or. >>> that makes a big difference. >>> we had a little drizzle in the morning and a few sprin

dr. kenneth lieberthal the director of our john l. thornton china center. and it's our joint privilege to welcome you here today. the subject is u.s./china cooperation on big issues. washington and beijing will soon convene the second strategic and economic dialog. the first was last summer. and at that first dialog, president obama gave a speech that captured his vision of our bilateral relationship. among other things he said the relationship between the united states and china will shape the 21st century, which makes it as important as any bilateral relationship in the world. that really must underpin our partnership. that is a responsibility that together we bear. i believe that we are poised to make great progress on some of the most important issues of our times. my confidence is rooted in the fact that the united states and china share mutual interest. if we advance these interests through cooperation, our people will benefit and the world would be better off because our ability to partner with each other is a prerequisite for progress on many of the

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dr. lewisb lasagna,who teaches at tufts. c-span: still? >> guest: still teaches at tufts. he was at johns hopkins when he. wrote an alternative oath in the early '60s, and i knew he had gone to tufts and i called himcu and ecause i wanted to find out how his oath was doing -- and o it's a rather ni -- nice oath; o reproduce it in the back of the book with his permission, of course -- and to ask him how thc oath was doing and how other v hippocratic oaths are faring,t' because there are other versions. and what he told me is it's common these days -- and when i say 'these days,' i think this is really the '90s -- for r udents to want to return to this tradition, which wasis tra rejected by and large in thedi '70s.the the original hippocratic oath was proving to be unpopular, onb of these received ideas, ratherd archaic, that students, i think, initially at harvard medicalti school just rejected.ar but now students are voting in many medical schools to go back to the idea of reciting an oath. and some of them go back to the original -- i think not many -- and some of them -- let's say no most of them -- try

johns hopkins doctor who took these plaques tell us about them. >> welcome there were all of them said there was a certain team of doctors. howard jones with sir initial dr. that this all the tumor and diagnosed it and there was a team at hopkins and the research on the cervical cancer and the scientists who grew the cells so they took the cells and gave them to the scientist and he gave them away for free. no one patented the cells. that wasn't something you did in the 50's, so he gave them to anyone who he's always use them for science. they very quickly went all over the world. at one point and factory was set up where they were mass-produced to about 3 trillion cells zero weeks of the volume of the cells is just kind of incomprehensible. >> when you produce this besides polio where else have they gone? >> everywhere. >> another example? and products? >> tataris -- you know, you can use them as a baseline. you can grow various things and if you want to grow a certain protein you can use the cells for that. and they -- research donner to go to the scientific data bases and you type in hela it's like going on google and typing and. the research on her c

john hope, marc sobel, an meaghan burns. thank you. [applause] and the library of congress who has really welcomed us into your home, and i hope that we will be welcome back again. drbillington, suzanne hogan who really was our partner and we really feel like -- what can i say? the walls of the library are down. the rest of our family, and that occasion caterers. tonight's show was written by keitel bradstreet and conceived and upstaged by tom fontana. thank you. we want to encourage you to look at the portraits that are displayed in the library of congress. it is our launch for a publication that will be out in the spring called art and soul, and the portraits are by the pulitzer prize-winning photographer brian smith, who is also here this evening. we want to start with a special presentation. we are in the library of congress. it is our spotlight award. we are so honored to be presented to dr. james billington. [applause] >> our presenters this evening are both cultural icons in their own right. one is in any oral warning director -- one is an emmy award winning director. the other is an actress who has been welcome in american homes for the last two decades. mo

john hopkins school of international studies. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> been morning. thank you for joining us on such short notice, but we were quite confident in speaking to dr. summers's colleagues that people would come out even with just a little bit of time. time. i am said the enough science, and i am delighted to see students, alumni, other members of our community, and of course, the media, here. it is my great pleasure to welcome all of you here this morning for a most timely presentation by larry summers, who is surely a month spent the most thoughtful and influential blic servants of this generation. is easy to say that larry needs no introduction, and it isrue. in particular for an audience on massachusetts avenue. for our students and perhaps some of their family members or here for commencement already, let me offer some highlights. i first met larry summers in the early 1990's when he joined the world bank as a young and brilliant chief economist. having been awarded by the in the john bates clark medal as the most outstanding economist under the age of 40, he was leaving the ivory tower to take on the challenge of applying knowledge to help al

dr. king as he challenged john kennedy or standing with lyndon johnson for the voter rights or challengingding with bill clinton against the forces that turn us around, she was there if you call the record of it and you get to the record dorothy height was always there. [applause] i must say this in closing. my last conversation with her demonstrates how she was always there. we met in january with president obama around the issue of black unemployment. she was scheduled to be one of the first. a blizzard hit washington that night before, and we somehow got down any way. the president said well, dr. height can't make it i understand. but she couldn't understand. she kept calling me at the hotel that morning trying every way she could to get out of the house to that meeting. finally, they had to take her by the wheelchair to the library building to show her the streets were blocked off. laughter, to convince her she couldn't make the meeting. so the compromise was she got me on the phone and talk to me literally until we got to the door of the oval office. finally she said to me i should ha