dr. michelle clearer. i have an m.a. in sports psychology and a p.h. in clinical psychology. part of the work i do is with folks who are struggling to lose weight, exercise and eat healthy. for them the behavior started when they were kids, now engrained patterns which they are struggling to change. if larger problem is not only do they struggle with weight, excercise but healthy eating but confidence and self-esteem which invades all areas of their life. physical activity not only helps with confidence, motivation and self-esteem but scores of studies have shown that physical activity helps to improve cognitive functioning, concentration and classroom behavior. and may ultimately contribute to closing the achievement gap in many of our schools. not only should p.e. be mandated because the state mandates it but because it's the right thing to do and it provides so many more benefits than is obvious. i am passionate about changing the direction of the obesity epidemic spreading across the u.s.a. which is why i have joined forces with shape up san francisco p.e. advocates. this

. >> michelle obama and dr. jill are pushing, the goal is to hire 100,000 by 2013. >> reporter: giving service members the respect and employment they deserve. >> i enjoy putting the uniform on every day. i do it for my kids. you know, so that mission still holds very close to my heart. >> reporter: andrea fujii, wjz eyewitness news. >> if you missed today's event, wjz.com has more information on how you can become a hero to the hired. >>> it's a mostly warm and sunny saturday afternoon outside. it's starting to get cloudy. and that's because rain is on the way. meteorologist tim williams is live with an updated look at first warning live doppler radar. and as you have been mentioning, tim, it's not like we don't need the rain. >> we're about an inch down for the month. and this is what we'll call a drought-buster type of a rain system coming in. and it's going to bring in quite a bit. of course, wjz drought watch continues to track these rainfall totals. rain is moving in from the west. as you're starting to lo

first lady michelle obama and dr.ill biden are celebrating the one-year anniversary of their initiative joining forces, dedicating to securing private sector jobs for veterans and helping families find work. last night on "the colbert report" stephan co lshlbert participated in the training. >> brian, mrs. obama launched an initiative last year, support the troops. that's what i'm doing with you. if she could see how hard i'm supporting you right now. i can only imagine what she would say to me. >> thank you for your service to your country. all americans owe patriots like you a debt that can never be repaid. you are a true national treasure. >> thank you for noticing, ma'am. >> i'm not talking to you, stephan. i'm talking to brian. >> oh. it's for you. >> thank you, ma'am. >> anything you want to say to me? >> yeah. from this angle, your hair is getting kind of thin. >> what? really? is there anything else you want to say? >> i don't know, stephan, this is your imagination. >> then say i'm a national treasure, too. >

i'm michelle caruso-cabrera. they trade dr horton surging within a dollar of its 52-week high.e builder second quarter results on monday. today getting a lift from isi telling clients that the street expectations are muted. that's going to set the stage for an out performance of orders. they are not giving dr horton its due even though it's beaten street estimates. over the past year, dr horton shares have been running second to lennar. bob, over to you. >> france set to hold the first round of presidential elections this weekend. the drama is mounting as incumbent nicolas sarkozy could be in for an upset. brian, what's up? >> hi, bob. you mentioned about the elections coming up in france. it's going to provide a lot of volatility. especially if the socialist party takes over. i want to monetize volatility. there's volatility in every walk of your life. how do you control it? take a look at this. this is a stock like total. i want to play for some of the volatility out of this election. what do i do? i'm looking to buy a may 47.5 call. i'm also going to buy a 47.5 put. it allow

dr archie talk to tom . rather welcome back to the kaiser report time now to go to thailand to speak with michelle balance of the p.d.p. foundation michelle also writes for al-jazeera michelle welcome to the kaiser report so it's really nice to be here it's actually my favorite show so this is very early on or for me oh fantastic all right well michel you are paying salaries and big coin at the p.t.p. foundation we've been talking about that call and tell us more well you know there's a few things that we like to. do first thing is you know we call the socialists over and currency so it's a currency which is no created by the banks. and he's not created by good by the state he's who really exists because there's a human community you know the hacker community to be calling community wish once these to work and trust the protocol that is designed to create some money so this is a kind of historical moments you know for a post was fairly in currency you know that we used to have local currencies then a nation state came in and basically destroyed them and so the factor we now have a working global currency tha

michelle romney. >> well, thank you so much. dr. ablow, appreciate it. >> all right megyn, take care. megyn: dr.ow wrote a column on this issue posted on foxnews.com. you can check it out. and earlier, we had a chance before the show to debate this issue with a focus group of nine mothers, some who work by raising their children at home and some who work outside of the house as well. here's a little sneak peek: >> i think the main thing is that we need to stick together, and i think one thing that's happening in this debate is that women are starting to say look, no matter what you're doing, no matter what choice you make, we honor these choices for our fellow women and we need to stick together and rally to our friends who are working -- >> it feels like we're in middle school again! we just got passed the damage from those years! >> megyn: our next hour we'll have more from those moms and hear whether they think washington has their best interests at heart. stay with us. >>> also ahead, there are some very upset parents after an elementary school teacher encourages a classful of students to be

. >> is lady michelle obama talking with stephen colbert last night about honoring u.s. troops and their families which she and dr. joe biden started last reported the unemployment rate for returning veterans is decreasing it is still above the national average. >> system clock 25 and still another half an hour of "good morning washington"coming up. >> rick santorum as a running mate? we will have the latest from the campaign trail. >> yesterday was the coldest day all week and is looking up >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> it is the search for justice for trayvon martin that has brought us to this moment them out we did want an arrest and we got it. >> murder charges for the man who killed trayvon martin. george zimmerman spent his first night in jail and get ready for his first appearance in court. >> it will be a good day for baseball in the nation's capital and we go live to the ballpark for opening day. good morning washington, it is thursday, april 12. >> thank you for joining us and let's begin with traffic and weather every 10 minutes. let's start with lisa baden. >>

conversation that michelle alexander has kicked up about the racist prison industrial complex and prison system we have. so success isn't defined but the number of books sold. and dr. west is one of my dearest friends and we have done a lot of things but never written a book together until now. and it's called the rich and the rest of us. a poverty manifest stop we have been talking about this for a long time but now the book comes out in april and we're going around the country. i don't know how this book is going to sell, and it doesn't near the me, doesn't matter to dr. west. we're going to do our part to continue to raise ire on the american agenda, a conversation about the poor in this country, and how we reduce poverty and eradicate poverty. this is not about book sales. this is about the work. so you have to understand the industry has changed. number two i hope you don't define success just by the number of books that you are selling. and number three, how creative are you willing to be? how hard are you willing to work? how are you going to engage social media? how are you going to challenge african-american media? i made a joke earlier that wasn't a joke

dr. glenn stream thank you very much. >> thank you. >> woodruff: next, a california couple develops a small and innovative solution to a power problem that's causing thousands of deaths a continent away. "newshour" correspondent spencer michels the story. >> reporter: in crowded hospital emergency and delivery rooms the pressure is on and so are the lights. in fact, electricity powers dozens of medical devices keeping patients alive: heart monitors, refrigerators for bags of blood, ventilators. but imagine if a doctor was delivering a baby or performing an operation and the lights suddenly went out. >> this baby is about five minutes old. welcome to the world. whoa! and the lights just went out. ( baby crying ) we estimate that 300,000 health facilities do not have reliable electricity around the world. so this is a huge problem. >> reporter: berkeley, california, obstetrician dr. laura stachel has witnessed power outages and their often tragic consequences in health facilities throughout africa. >> i watched c-sections where the lights would go out and the doctors literally finished with my own flashlight. i watched women fighting for their survival in the labor room with complications such as and the only light was a keros

dr. cable. were you aware that he had his own lobbyists on the other side lobbying government? >> i do not know you are talking about. nope. it was not until recently that i --rned about mr. michelle'slobbying? certainly he was seeking information. >> when the e-mails were disclosed, that is when you thought it out? >> i knew of mr. michele's existence a few months before that. >> when you became acquainted with these pages, were you surprised by the extent of mr. michele's activity? >> a did not see anything wrong with these activities. >> was your surprise only on this fact that it should have happened sooner? we should've gotten a bit sooner? >> i was just surprised at the success of the competitors lobbying and of course, they would never succeeded if it had not coincide with the hacking scandal. >> were you not surprised by the success of mr. michele's a lot being? >> i cannot understand the reasons. >> were you not surprised by the degree of closeness between mr. machel and mr. hunt? >> nel. i do not want to say anything about mr. machel. i think that is a little bit of an exaggeration. >> maybe you were not surprised because you were assuming that mr. hunt's office would be i