and of course, the exporatorium team of dennis bartel george, and dr. rob semp er all here today on this momentus occasion, thank you everyone, our port commissioners here as well are here too. and i want to just make sure that everybody remembers that it was in 2006, that lieutenant governor made a promise made a promise that san francisco would rebuild a world class state of the art facility, that would expand our capacity to educate, and to inspire the curiosity of children, young and old from all around the world. and today, we are delivering on that promise. as we celebrate the reopening of our exporatorium, one of our city's treasured education and cultural institutions for over 40 years. where else in the world would you have our children and our families experience over 1,000 interactive exhibits that explore, biology, physics, listening, cognitive, perception and social behavior and the environment. right here in san francisco. and it just does not happen in every city, but it will happen here. not only in san francisco, but for the families around

please welcome dr. rob semper. >> good morning, everyone. and welcome to the plaza, one of the wonderful things about the new exporatorium is that we have this wonderful outdoor space as well as in door space and would i like to think of us as an inside out museum and invite, and those that have come behind us outside of the plaza. >> when i first came in, 1977, i was privileged to join, a band of 35 people who already had been working for 8 years with frank in the palace of fine arts a place dedicated to the proposition that individuals need to be encouraged to ex-mror the world to ask the only questions and by learning and doing. it was an appropriate place, and over the years, the staff and volunteers in the palace of fine arts established exist and produced 500 programs and hired 5,000 high school kids to be the ex-plainers. we built exhibits for over 100 museums from around the world and we design the museums for places as diverse as china and turkey. we published hundreds of papers on the work that we were doing about learning. we are

dr. squeak emanuel and senator rob johnson will impact the debate of obama care as it goes into effect tomorrow. up next a feud brewing in the wyoming senate primary. why the cheneys are going after former why owe ming senator alan simpson. first, bill karins has a look at the forecast. hey, bill. >> hey, good monday morning to you. for millions of us, it was an incredible weekend with sunshine, warm afternoons. that's going to continue pretty much all week for the east coast. the trouble spot where the people are still recovering from damaging winds and rain was throughout the pacific northwest. look at the radar this morning. still raining hard. at one point a couple hundred thousand without power. the strong winds are moving through the intermountain west. few spots that have strong winds forecast including the mountains of montana and a section of oregon. that's where that big storm is going to be as we go throughout this monday. the east coast, we're still looking nice. the big storm we talked about last week that could have clipped the east coast just off the coast of new jersey, but it's

rob mathison, al jazeera. >>> here to talk about the importance is dr. samar abud, a history and national studies professor in arcadia university in philadelphia tonight. doctor, welcome. good to see you. >> thank you, john. thank you for having me. >> this seems to be the $64,000. how many members of al qaeda are actually in syria? >> yeah, that is the $64,000 question. that's impossible to tell. it's impossible to distinguish between those who are loyal to al qaeda, those who are taking, for example, orders or commands from al qaeda leadership in syria, outside of syria, those who are sympathetic to al qaeda. i believe earlier in the program the number of 20%, 25% was given by your guest. that seems reasonably accurate, but i think it's almost impossible to tell at this point. >> you know, isn't it a little more complex than either they're 25% members of al qaeda there. what does that say? a full-fledged member of al qaeda or someone who is an al qaeda sympathizer? >> i think what it says and the kind of complicated nature of the answer tells you how c

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