what this holiday is really all about joining me now to break down the real story about this day is dr steven larsen a practicing psychotherapist psychologist professor emeritus at the state university of new york and author of ten books including the schama is a doorway open imagination to power and myth dr larson welcome. thank you tom you know the sherman is a good place to start our conversation because if you go way back into the urgency of prehistory you find this primordial figure wearing masks and coming out of the supposed cruel darkness of the paleolithic caves and here is seen the film cave of dreams just released a few years ago you see the handiwork of the shermans interacting with the animals and the spirits of the animals and so you'll probably see out there in your average helloween parade a whole bunch of animals of some kind. birds and bears and wolves and stuff like that along with the spirits and the ghosts of the dead which by the way is also the province of the showmance so is this i say there are shamanic routes for holloway north and hollowing come out i think of hollo

dr. steven chu. the very first asian-american -- as ambassador to the republic of china. we have a lot of accomplishments. it was not that accident, my friends. everyone of you know that you work hard. all these things are done on purpose. i want to let you know that we also can boast twice as many asian-americans on federal benches. those of us to understand the impact of the supreme court and what it can do or on june, we know that having asian-americans on the federal bench is a line up for appointments to the supreme court. thank you very much for this opportunity. i want to say that silicon valley is the birthplace of high-tech. silicon valley is the birthplace of norm. five minutes? thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, congressmen. we would have extended the five minutes if we got a karaoke's song. >> this event would have not been possible by the financial contributions of our sponsors. we want to thank chevron corp., wells fargo, mcdonald's, academy of arts university, at&t, southwest airlines. if you have not entered their raffled yet, do so later tonigh

dr. steven. thank you for joining us, doctor. over the past 10 years have we seen an increase or decrease in the number of breast cancer cases. >> in the past 10 years we've seen steady decline at the rate of 2% per year. prior to that it was a steady increase, but, still, this year we expect 230,000 women in the united states to be diagnosed with breast cancer and about 40,000 will die from it. >> and it affects so many people. it's a disease that really hits home and we try to bring more attention to it during the month of october. what should you do if you see something suspicious prior to or in between your mammogram. >> if something is identified on a breast exam, usually we recommend an imaging to help characterize it and help to guide further treatment. if something is identified on a mammogram or potentially an ultrasound, usually the patient at that point will undergo a biopsy. depending on what the findings are they will be referred to a surgeon. >> we can all imagine how overwhelming this would be. tell mow about the m

dr. steven goldberg and psychotherapist joan defuria has been there to help. >> average client is $25 and $50 million and up. people come to us when they don't have to work another day in their lives. >> so why do they have problems? (laughter) >> i know it sounds very odd but the climate today is very different than it was ten years ago. >> we're really angry at the haves right now. >> and so what happens because of that have is the wealthy end up hiding themselves in these gated communities. >> when i think about these people i just feel bad and i just-- (laughter). -- want to punch them in the (bleep)ing face. >> the wealthy are people, too. >> from the trust belt in connecticut to the tech get co-s of silicon valley, the rich are being unfairly vilified but at the money meaning and choices institute has identified a more serious problem. >> we coined the phrase sudden wealth syndrome. >> sudden wealth syndrome? >> it describes the psychological issues and sin toms that many people experience as a consequence of coming into new or sudden problems. >> they have problems, that's why we c

dr. steven martinez. i understand you own business interests in the area. is that correct ? ally, i'm one of the investors in this property. [ mcallister ] dr. martinez did you know about all the problems with the building ? absolutely not. i'm just one of a large group of investors. i'm not involved with the management of the building. doctor, many of the tenants here tonight appear to be of hispanic origin. as someone of that same background yourself do you feel any special obligation to get to the bottom of this ? this has nothing to do with nationality or ethnic background. i plan to take an active role and find out what's really happening... - because it's the right thing to do. - all right, doctor. i'm sure everyone here will be happy to hear that. thank you. i'm michael mcallister crossroads cafe, channel 8 news. rosa, you were like a movie star. maybe she can sign autographs later. table five needs a club sandwich. so much for being a star. - ms. rivera. - oh, it's you again. - glad i found you. - if you're here for the rent, i already gave it to the manager, and it's

i know i really appreciate you being on the show and expounding on all of this with your insight dr steven lee of author and chairman of leave capital management. all right let's wrap up with loose change because boy do we have some exciting for you so dimitri thank you for being here to talk with me mike was a magazine loved yeah because we touched on this yesterday when our producer just dana got a question in to jamie dimon about j.p. morgan buying bear stearns but there were so many other comments that jamie dimon made that were just worthy of bringing up to really show his air of indifference his pompousness at times just total disrespect for the truth i want to play you some examples this starts with his response to i believe a priest or some kind of monk who was asking about the banks lending to faith based organizations. some of them saying you know what i could do it and it's not good for you either it's like selling you know too much liquor someone are going to have to drink at the bar or whatever and so but i will give you all the help i mean some e-mail we have something like f

dr. steven lamm, we appreciate it. >> drive for five website. >> we'll link you to wusa9.com. monika, over to you. >> thank you so much. >>> here's a live look at the american legion bridge. things are fine here but if you're planning to head south on the gw parkway, you want to watch out for a disabled vehicle after route 123 and it's in the roadway. i'll be back with more traffic coming up in a few minutes at 6:30. you're watching 9news now. we'll be right back. >>> good morning. it's 6:29. this is always the place to get your weather first. a beautiful shot. the fans are a little down this morning because of the blowout yesterday and the nats are in the hole. they have to pull it out today. we know they can do it. maybe they like the cool temperatures because it's 49 degrees right now. heat up the bats. >> ross detwiler is on the hilda. start 4:05. it may change a little bit. >> thank you for starting your thursday here. >> friday is almost here. thanks for joining us. meteorologist howard bernstein is on the weather terrace. >> it's chilly out here. we dipped into the mid

dr. steven garrison, with care in texas, a treatment center not working with moore, says it takes one monthescription pills but a lifetime of recovery. he says doctors can be too quick to write prescriptions, and moms are shopping around until they get what they want. >> they learn quickly from friends who are using, share notes, compare, they find out what works. then they go ahead and use it again and again. >> reporter: concerning, drugs set a new normal. for moore, that means four hours of sleep a night. and a pill. >> i shake all the time. can't sleep at night. >> reporter: is that worth it? >> yes. >> reporter: moore says her use is based on need, not recreational use, although her street value of her pills, $10 to $15 apiece. >> a hot commodity. moms come up and say can i buy adderall off you. i love it. the way it makes me feel. i have energy. great mood all the time. i love it. >> reporter: do you think you're addicted to it though? be honest? >> yeah. yeah. i do. >> i think you see the toll on her face, to be quite honest. >> moms are going to do what they can. some time at our ow

dr. lisa stevens, president of the academy of art university. in the 33 year history of the campus, classes have been housed in over 30 different locations. we are very happy and proud to finally have a permanent home and a beautiful modern facility to train the future generations of students. this has been a 40-year journey for the community. some of you have been with us from the start. today we join together the community, the faculty, the students, the staff, the business community and our neighbors and friends to start a new chapter in our history. we'd like to introduce john miso, president of our board of trustees. he has been with us for the last few years helping us with this project. he chairs the information committee that watches over this project, including our higher goals. >> trustee riso >> thank you. so how is everybody doing today? i thought so. you know, the opening of a new education facility is always a wonderful experience. a new facility dedicated to serving students as is city college. this particular educational facility

dr. steven blank. the strategic studies institute expert on soviet bloc and post- soviet world since 1989. he is the editor of the imperial decline, russia's changing position in asia and the co-editor of soviet military and the future. the last speaker, my colleague that heritage is the senior research fellow for russia and eurasian studies. they have often been called to testify on economics and law. they have numerous media outlets both domestically and across the globe. we will start with jim phillips. >> i would like to set the stage for the next three speakers that will focus primarily on russian policy by outlining u.s. policy and how it is factored into the blood packs that we see in syria today with more than 30,000 dead and no end in sight. i think it is fair to say the obama administration was behind the curve of the following the events in syria. i'd say this was because of ideological baggage. it led the wishful thinking about these opposing benefits of engaging in the regime. i think it w

dr. steven blank. co- editor of soviet military and the future. the last speaker, my colleague that heritage is the senior research fellow for russia and eurasian studies. they have often been called to testify on economics and law. they have numerous media outlets both domestically and across the globe. we will start with jim phillips. >> i would like to set the stage for the next three speakers that will focus primarily on russian policy by outlining u.s. policy and how it is factored into the blood packs that we see in syria today with more than 30,000 dead and no end in sight. i think it is fair to say the obama administration was behind the curve of the following the events in syria. i'd say this was because of ideological baggage. it led the wishful thinking about these opposing benefits of engaging in the regime. i think it was a horrible mess reading of that nature of the assad regime. the possibility of negotiating a diplomatic transition to a new government, i think it was due to an insistenc

dr. phil lip orton, from the stevens institute of technology. dr. or tcton, how big of an imp is this storm going to have over the next few hours as the storm makes landfall? >> the biggest krn is the central part of new injuries see. there is flooding all over the place. new york city is going to have pretty bad flooding and really now since it took more of a turn sitting to the south of new jersey, they are getting hammered. >> we heard from 9 to 11 foot storm surges from hurricane sandy. what exactly does that mean? >> the storm surge is a slow sea level rise over the past 24 hours it's been coming in. the tide comes in every 12 hours. we had one of those on top of a little bit of storm surge this morning and now we've got about 6 1/2 feet of storm surge in new york harbor, even more along the jersey coast and we're getting another one of those high tides. so that's -- the two together are what determines the total water level that people have at their feet. >> where are we going to see the biggest impact of this storm and what will happen in tho

dr. steven morgan is a professor at cornell university. professor of social sciences. of international comparisons for public support of k-12 education. dr. morgan, nice to see you. is it professor or doctor? >> professor is fine. steve is fine as well. pleasure to be here. >> bill: thank you. particularly, you bring a breath of fresh air from ithaca, new york. we love ithaca, particularly -- >> go, bombers. >> bill: there you go. that's not cornell though. >> no. we're not the big red. we're the other school on the other hill in that town. >> we like it for the college as well. >> thank you. >> bill: dan alumnus of ithaca college. >> so you have a lot to live up to sir. [ laughter ] >> i'll do my best. >> bill: we're all part of 1470 a.m., wnyy. many good visits up there to the good people at wnyy. nice to have you in studio. with our regular team, peter ogborn and dan henning. phil backert on the phones and cyprian bowlding on video cameras this morning. president obama was out on the road yesterday having a lot of fun with some of the spillover from the debate. one

steven frantzich. his most recent book is "o.o.p.s." and observing our politics -- dr. frantzich how how many books have you written? >> this is 17 aboriginal books. it starts out the second edition with statistics. i start out all academic, doing doing a atomic kind of books. i have done five or six books that have been the more fun kind of book. the one just prior to the second one called honored guests wear a profile that the president has mentioned in their state of the union message. today where you did that a president using someone as an example. that was not done until ronald reagan did it for the first time and every president since then his use people as an example of their political goals. close to home i did a biography of brian lamb. i have done a lot of work with educators and c-span and people kept saying what is the real brian lamb light? he did not want a biography done and i pumped him and pumped them and i finally got a contracted the one and i find it came in and i said well, what do you think lexi said well, i guess i will do it and i can't say no.

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is.there steven bucci with the homeland security in our douglas and sarah allison center for foreign-policy studies. is focuses cybersecurity as well as defense support to civil authorities. dr. bucci served in america for three decades as an army special forces officer and top pentagon official and commanded the third battalion special forces and became military assistant to defense secretary donald rumsfeld in july 2001 and served throughout the secretary's term and his retirement he continued at the pentagon as deputy assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and america's security affairs. prior to joining us here he was a lead consultant on cybersecurity. please join me in welcoming my collie, steven bucci. [applause] >> we want to welcome everyone here to heritage this morning. we have a very timely subject to discuss and i think we have a great panel of experts that will be doing the discussing at least to get us started. i have to tell you i have an interest in this because one of the first things i did when i arrived at heritage was to testify before congress about the weapons of mass destruction threat that syria a bandit somewhat untimely demise it might