industry the shale gas industry is booming in the united states but not without consequence a new duke university study has confirmed what concerned americans have been claiming for a while but which was dismissed as anecdotal by the gas industry that fracking pollutes groundwater but before we got to all of that let me give you a little background on friday if you don't know what it is already now some journalism students from new york university they did a song which is going to do a much better job than i could give you a little background take a listen. it's . going to go to the to the. city it's. like they're going to. see. one of the i don't. know how to talk about this is kate indeed she is senior attorney for the natural resource. council thanks so much for being with us so i want to start with france and what's going on there they're moving to ban fracking which which hasn't really gotten off the ground there yet because they say that it can't be shown to be done safely and that there are. information suggests there's a big risk for the groundwater as far as toxic chemicals what does it

cracked up to be what about the recognition in the united states that you know just most recently duke university had a study confirming that there were dangerous levels of methane in drinking water where wells were where the drilling was occurring is there any sense there's also been more public information out there more investigations that have shown the consequences of fracking is there any movement in the u.s. to regulate more tightly to move to ban it you know is there a response here. there is a response here i mean when you've seen it in new york state for example we've had a an effective moratorium on any drilling for the last couple of years because the state has said like france we're concerned about the risk we need to understand that there before we can move forward in other states you have seen improved regulation are we where we need to be in this country absolutely not and that. because of. two things one is the the pressure to develop domestic energy supplies and the feeling that natural gas that provides an alternative to imported foreign oil and economic development pressures a

i went to undergrad at duke university. i went to law school at harvard. after clerking for a judge, i came out here in 1997. i have been here for the last 14 years. i have always lived in the castro. i am an attorney. i started out in private practice. i settle private law firm during complex commercial litigation. in 2002, and moved over to the sentences the city attorney's office where i worked on the trial team doing trials for the city, handling my own cases, and supervising a team of attorneys as well. >> why did you choose to live in san francisco? >> i always assumed i would go back to the philadelphia area since that is where my family is. i was always interested in san francisco in terms of what it is as a city, its culture, it's amazing lgbt community. i came out here for a summer, fell in love with it. i have been interested in politics since i was a kid. i worked on campaigns as a teenager. i was involved campaign against senator jesse helms when i was in college. when i cannot hear, and was not initially involved politically. -- when i came o

erica rowell of duke university thinks it just might. she uploaded to "planet forward" an idea about one duke alum who is hoping to turn a profit by creating a mini-energy network. >> essentially, you can think of it as democratization of the power grid. brewster. >> reporter: meet david brewster. he comes out of duke's nicolas school of the environment and he dreamed of a big network, one that would... >> ...fundamentally change the way the electric power industry operates. >> reporter: how? by smoothing out the spikes. his company, enernoc, is trying to innovate in high-tech and low-tech ways. the low-tech? he works directly with building managers to identify what energy they can live without when the grid is stressed-- raise the thermostat a few degrees, dim some lights. high-tech? enernoc tracks usage in real time through its network and, when the grid is stressed, can remotely lower the building's consumption. >> instead of relying on power plants to always feed electricity out of the system, we can actually utilize the potential en

born madison, kentucky, wife connie, two children, southern baptist, duke university b.a. magna cum laude. master of divinity. southern baptist theological seminary, master of theology, summa cum laude. cambridge university ph.d.. eaton baptist church cambridge england associate pastor two years. cambridge university, england, instructor, classics, two years. capitol hill baptist church, washington, d.c., pastor, six years and cur dever. born palestine, 34 years of age, wife soran. two children. muslim. university of jordan. b.a., university of jordan, m.a. islam historic. hardford seminary m.a. karattive religions and muslim-christian relations. council on economic relations, washington, d.c. director of public relations. two years. national naval medical center, washington, muslim chaplain, three years and currently, georgetown university. muslim chaplain. one year and currently. yahya hendi. >> yahya hendi, imam, you are a muslim theologian, is that correct? >> i think so. >> how many years did you spend studying muslim theology? >> i would say about 15 years. >> how doe

duke university researches are found obese women had lower levels of sexual satisfaction than men, but the overall sexual quality of life was low for both men and women who were obese. no. 2, use recyclable bags or you will pay more for disposable paper and plastic bags when you shop at montgomery county maryland stores. the council approved a five cent bag fast starting in january and will apply to nearly all-stars, not just stores selling food. no. 1 tonight, heads up, dominion virginia power customers, the utility company is asking state regulators for permission to raise your rates. if approved, your power bill could go up 9 to $13 a month. the rate hike is blamed on the rising cost of fuel. that's tonight's fox 5 top five. >>> coming up next we've got your first look at some of the incredible new phone accessories hitting the market from signal boosters to phone cases that monitor how much you drink. >>> but first the nhl cracking down on the green men. for the last few seasons these vancouver canucks fans have sat near the visiting team's penalty box dancing and doing hand stande

happening in the arab middle east today i'm joined by michael monger in durham he is a professor at duke university in new york we have a loan ben my year he's a professor at new york university and in boston we cross to daniel pipes he's an author and director of the middle east forum all right gentlemen this is cross talk and there's only one rule you can jump in anytime you want i to go to michael in durham first do you feel comfortable with this term revolutions occurring in the arab world because there are so many different examples where you go all the way from tunisia to yemen to bahrain egypt we could go on and on if you like to term revolution for anything that's going on in that region right now. one of the things political scientists debate is actually what constitutes a revolution and in a way a revolution is just a successful change of regime it needn't be violent they can be peaceful it's not clear that what's actually going on here is revolutions what we have is a lot of violence by organized military and government it's not clear that these are going to be revolutions in the in the

travel ban for top syrian officials international relations expert professor mark mellman the duke university in turkey says however that if the current regime is toppled anarchy may follow in the country. well the hope that president bashar al assad is some horrible genuine reformer and all his relatives are now higher. so they're trying to send the regime or her person to sad thinking like his english relatives and family they can somehow or other emerge from this as respectable leaders of the new syria i think the problem is are the bloodshed we've seen the creation tranter anger almost. stays in power and they're not going to be harmed the end if they were in opposition to any. along the other hand significant minorities in syria are out. there is it on our right group religious minority. or the christians in syria look across the border in iraq and say the christian community there has been almost wiped out since liberation since if you like are we. really want to see that happen in syria so yes you can see the whole protest this office and that also are significant. change would be bett

the researchers, led by heather stapleton of duke university expected to find flame retardant chemicals, but not this. of the 101 products tested, five contained the chemical penta which was banned by eight states as a neurotoxin and phased out by industry. nine had small amounts of the chemical t.c.e.p. which california has labeled a human carcinogen. and 36 had chlorinated tris, a chemical that consumer product safety commission calls a probable carcinogen. >> i became concerned when we were finding certainly chemicals that were expected to be carcinogens or known carcinogens. >> reporter: the study does not identify brand names but cbs news has learned chlorinated tris was found in three evenflow car seats and one snugli baby carrier. what's causing some of the concern is that flame retardant chemicals are known to migrate from foam into the air. that means that a baby being changed on a foam pad will be exposed twice-- first through the skin and then by simply breathing. >> to me dr. stapleton's paper is a wakeup call... >> reporter: dr. linda birnbaum is the director of the nationa

from duke university working his way through school after his residency he served as a flight surgeon in the air force from one thousand nine hundred eighty three to sixty five and then in the air national guard from sixty five to sixty eight he moved to texas to train of steps and gynecology eventually delivering over four thousand babies and raising five children of his own ronald laurie randall senator you might have heard of them robert android when ron paul first ran for congress in a special election in one nine hundred seventy six carol warned him to be careful because she said he just might win and he did but lost only months later by less than three hundred votes he won the seat back in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and served until giving up his see through turner medicine full time in one thousand nine hundred four and one nine hundred eighty eight he was the libertarian party nominee for president and in one nine hundred ninety six he was reelected to congress he does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program and returns a portion of his annua

about something that i just completely absolutely ridiculous we did a story where the girl was a duke university as sensually they had a whole list of all the guys that went to school there and you know what their abilities were in the bedroom this now that was a bit of an outrage of but now there's a teenager the dish on facebook i think he's seventeen years old and he actually got arrested by the police i don't understand how you can get arrested for doing that is it because the girls are minors the charges disorderly conduct which would be pretty widely conduct on the internet. we want to arrest you and we don't have any good reason to but he pointed out i think listen district in the lunchroom but still i mean we were all teenagers at one point i mean i remember writing out a little list of boys were cute i mean out of their sexual prowess and they're going to be just it's ok it's all right and the millions of people watching but i mean that's something that you do as a kid and i think to take a. that extra step and actually criminalize that is just absurd there's ways to punish that kind of

energy information administration an economist from duke university. he has been working for the administration since 2009. the job is the statistics that go into energy prices. we have invited him to help you and us understand more about what are the factors that affect energy prices, particularly oil and gas. at 7:45 eastern. what are you looking for in your 2012 presidential candidate? next taylor, michigan, sherry, a republican. caller: good morning. i'm an 83-year-old woman and i have never been so disgust ed. i have been up watching these oil people. it is another attempt by this administration to destroy and manipulate this country into his social ideals. we do not need a shadow government which is what we have with all of these rada czars. host: let's translate that into the next vote. what will you be looking for in a candidate? caller: i willing looking for a candidate this wants to raise the values the country was founded on. obama is not believing in them and he is trying to destroy the country from the inside. host: you have lived a long t

in history from duke university and a law degree from yale university where she was an editor of the"yale law journal." she received her b.a. summa cum laude from airman university. before joining the faculty at the law school, professor brown megan practiced law in new york city and served as a law clerk to the honorable jane roth of the united states court of appeals from the third circuit and to the honorable robert l. carter of the united states district court for the southern district of new york. at uva, professor brown-nagin teaches constitutional law, to constitutional and social history and education law. she is considered one of the nations leading young legal historians and has written widely in the areas of legal history, education law and the supreme court's equal protection jurisprudence. her scholarship has appeared in some of the foremost law journals within the legal academy. in february of this year, oxford university press published professor brown-nagin's first book, "courage to dissent" atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement. is socio- legal hi

in history from duke university and prior to that i got an undergraduate degree in history. >> where did you grow up, and what did your parents do? >> right. i grew up in a small town in south carolina, greenwood it's called. my parents, well, like ethel may matthews parents, my father was once a sharecropper. he later on worked in a factory, both of my parents attended segregated schools in south carolina. my mom later, actually when i was in law school, went to college and became a teacher which is something she does now. >> we have been taking with tomiko brown nagin, courage to dissent, atlanta, and the long history of the civil rights movement. >> so, matt, here's my question. this book is written in a breezy popular style and has sort of a breezy optimism to it. you write at one point, "the innovative capitalist culture will allow us to make a hue -- houdini-style escape from the impacts." what makes you sure of that? >> my mother told me to avoid wishful thinking, and i try to be provocative to see if folks are awake. i take climate change seriously, and now that my two minute

>> yes, i actually have been -- was at duke university for a couple of years before coming back. i had a long career in washington, d.c. i used to be based here at a think tank in environmental and energy economics. so i'm familiar with washington. but it is very interesting to be at eia. the role that that kind of an organization can play in terms of helping to inform and improve decisions, it's very rewarding. this is a time when the need for improved energy information analysis is critical. we see it in oil markets, we see it in broader energy policy, we see it in environmental policy, not just with respect to petroleum, but electricity and other parts. it's an interesting place to be and important with critical decisions made over the next several years. >> host: staying with your organization, you have been one the many places in government with budget cuts. so what is the exact total of the money, what percentage would be more appropriate and what effect will it have on the numbers that you are generating? >>>> guest: yes, we in the fiscal year 2011 we had a significant cut

host: your home base is duke university, currently only leave from the nicholas school of the environment. since taking this job whats it like being inside the government as you look at the statistics? guest: i was the duke -- at duke university a couple of years but i used to be based here at a think tank in environmental energy and economics. i'm familiar with washiton but it is interesting to be here. the role that that kind of organization can play in terms of helping to inform decisions is very rewarding. this is a time wn the need for improved energy information analysis is critical. we see it in oil markets and broader energy policy. we see i in environmental poli just with respect to petroleum but electricity and other parts of the energy system. it is an interesting miss and important place to be as there are critical decisions made. host: staying with your organization before we get in the numbers, you have been one of the many places with budget cuts. what is the total of the money, what percentage could be more appropriate and what affect will it have on the numbers you are ge

in history from duke university and prior to that the undergraduate degree. >> host: what did your parents do? >> i grew up in a small town in south carolina, agreed would. my parents, like at all matthew's parents, my father was once a sharecropper. he worked in a factory and might appear at -- parents attended segregated schools. my mom and actually when i was in moscow went to college it is something they do now. >> . . >> host: peter, thank you so much for joining me today. your book, "the fear," is the third book in a trilogy of books regarding the zimbabwe. so i'm going to just ask the most basic question. so what is "the fear," would you like the viewer to know about "the fear"? >> guest: it is the third in a trilogy and in a sense in an accidental book. i didn't visit to zimbabwe intending to write this book. it's based on reporting in 2008 and in 2009. and when i went there initially, there was elections in 2008 and the elections spun out of robert mugabe's control, and it looked like it had actually lost them and was about to have to stand down and so i was sent to do a story abo

from duke university and a law degree from yale university where she was an editor of the yale law journal. she received her b.a. summa cum laude from berman university. she served as a law clerk to the honorable jane roth of the united states court of appeals for the third circuit and to the honorable robert l. carter of the united states district court for the southern district of new york. at uva, profession brown teaches constitutional law, constitutional and social history and education law. she's considered one of the leading young legal historians and has written widely in the areas of legal history, education law, and the supreme court's equal protection jurisprudence. her scholarship has appeared in some of the foremost law journals within the legal academy. in february of this year, oxford university press published professor tomiko brown-nagin's first book, courage of dissent, the long history of the civil rights movement, a social history about lawyers, courts and community-based activism during the civil rights era. this highly anticipated work has already garnered widespread

in history from duke university, and prior to that i got an undergraduate degree in history from fuhrman university. >> host: where'd you grow up and what did your parents do? >> guest: right. i grew up in a small town in south carolina, greenwood, it's called. my parents, well, like ethel may matthews' participants, my father -- participants, my father was once a sharecropper. he later on worked in a factory. both of my parents attended segregated schools in south carolina. my mom late or, actually, when i was in law school, went to college and became a teacher which is something she does now. >> host: we have been talking with tomiko brown-nagin author of this book, "courage to dissent: atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement." .. >> we're happy to have with us ha-joon chang tonight. he teaches at the faculty of economics at the university of cambridge. his books include the best selling "bad samaritans: the myth of free trade and the secret history of capitalism." is also the recipient of two very prestigious awards, 2003 prize and the 2005 prize for advancing the fr

duke university, university of north carolina. i moved here three years ago from new jersey and when i came here i was shocked to find out i could not get a doctor. none of the doctors would accept patients with medicare. and i shopped around everywhere and couldn't find a doctor. i was even in tears in offices and on telephones. begging people to take me as a patient. i said, i spent my life taking care of other people, and now i just want someone to take care of me now that i'm old. and at the time i wasn't sick. here's the point that i'm making. doctors are like private business people. they do not have to accept you. the government can say you must buy insurance to buy this product health care. however, the practitioners that provide the health care are not mandated to give it to you nor do i think that they should be mandated to give it to you. the only people that are mandated to provide health care for you are in hospitals and in emergency rooms and that's exactly the place that so expensive. and speaking of expensive, do y

in history from duke university, and prior to that, i got an undergraduate degree in history. where did you grow up and where did your parents do? >> i grew up in a small town in south carolina, greenwood. my parents, like eminently matthew's parents, my father was once a sharecropper. he later on worked in a factory. both of my parents attended segregated schools in south carolina. my mom later, actually when i was in law school, went to college and became a teacher, which is something she does not. >> we have been talking with tomiko brown-nagin, author of this book, courage to dissent, atlanta and the long history of the civil rights movement. >> up next vincent cianci recounts his 20 year term as mayor in providence rhode island. he spent five years in a federal prison on racketeering and conspiracy charges. this is about an hour and a half. >> good evening everyone. thanks for coming to books on the square. our honored guest tonight was mayor of providence from 1975 to 1984 and began from 1991 to 2002, when providence became the renaissance city. he is currently host of "

he has three masters degrees, including one in english in duke university and one from the national waris singing. ♪ start spreading the news ♪ i'm leaving today ♪ i'm going to be a part of it >> general dempsey apparently loves to sing and has been known to perform "new york, new york" frequently. ♪ new york, new york ♪ it's up to you new york, new york ♪ >> yea! >> not bad. holding that note reasonably well. nine minutes past 8:00. chris, you disagree? >> no, i like it. >> find a person that tells him he doesn't sound good. sounded great, sounded great. >> we should book him for a summer concert. i mean that seriously. >> why not? all of the sinatra hits. >> i'm in. "summer wind." ♪ >> can't even speak today let alone sing. marysol castro, i'm handing it over to you. >> i will take it from here. good morning everyone apt home. good morning, chris, erica. take a look at the national picture, the heat is the big story. >>> thanks so mu. >> that's your latest weather. here is chris. >> thank you very much. >>> up next, a promising football player walks away from the career he'd always dr

duke university, university of north carolina. i moved here three years ago from new jersey and when i came here i was shocked to find out i could not get a doctor. none of the doctors would accept patients with medicare. and i shopped around everywhere and couldn't find a doctor. i was even in tears in offices and on telephones. begging people to take me as a patient. i said, i spent my life taking care of other people, and now i just want someone to take care of me now that i'm old. and at the time i wasn't sick. here's the point that i'm making. doctors are like private business people. they do not have to accept you. the government can say you must buy insurance to buy this product health care. however, the practitioners that provide the health care are not mandated to give it to you nor do i think that they should be mandated to give it to you. the only people that are mandated to provide health care for you are in hospitals and in emergency rooms and that's exactly the place that so expensive. and speaking of expensive, do y

dempsey the current chief of staff for the army went to west point, got a master's in english from duke university, also a pretty good singer with a fondness for frank sin at ra. a three-hour program for you today. in our first 45 minutes are f our thoughts are going to turn to voting laws in the nation. the "new york times" a has a cover story about various areas of the state that have tightened their laws. some dealing with photo ids. we want to get your thoughts on if tougher voting rules are needed within the state. so if you call in or tweet in or e-mail in you can give your thoughts, your state's example. and then we can have a conversation about it. the "new york times" is where we find this story. it specifically looks at state laws regarding voting rules. here's the headline. and it's targeted to g.o.p. legislatures hoins saying that they moved to tighten rules on voting. key states enact laws. writing out of miami. >> some of these rules are being tightened or tuffednd. we want to get your thoughts on these types of rules, tighting these types of rules, tighting of them, are needed. here

traffic slowing at the exit for 650 over to university boulevard, delays if you're traveling 395 leaving duke street to seminary road. southbound side after the 14th street bridge, move to the right to get by the wreck. >>> thank you. more reaction now as we go to break to the news that osama bin laden has been killed. stay with us. >> i think what it means to the country is it means closure for the people from 9/11. i think that's the most important. it ends hopefully the end to terrorism, at least a partial end to terrorism. i'm horess on that. do you know what's in your spread ? in land o' lakes spreadable butter with canola oil, there are just three natural ingredients. sweet cream, canola oil and salt. discover land o' lakes spreadable butter with canola oil. >>> reaction pouring in to the news that u.s. military forces have killed osama bin laden in pakistan. >>> president barack obama announcing osama bin laden's death late last night in an address to the nation. the council on american islamic relations. >> we join our fellowship zens in welcoming that osama bin laden has been elimina

eventually died, dukes and earlies carried his casket, and he was given what amount today a royal funeral. -- amounted to a royal funeral. among the achievements that won him universal fame was this: he had convinced the world of the doctrines that cost brew know his life. -- bruno his life. so sometime between those two events, the burning alive of bruno, and the hailing as a secular saint of isaac newton, somewhere between those two events the world changed. i think it was around 1660 when the modern world was born. so i want to talk about history and science and new ideas. i want to talk about what it was like to look through a microscope or a telescope for the first time when nobody had ever done it, no one knew what you would see. but i don't want to talk about those ideas in the way that you usually hear about them because i think that the conventional way of talking about these ideas gets things wrong in an important way. when people talk about the scientific geniuses of past centuries, when they talk about isaac newton and galileo and these people, they tend to talk about them as if they were, they were time travelers. they were people who happened to wear f

duke street at jordan and n. alexandria, signal lights are not working properly. treat that as a four-way stop. overnight cop instruction before 66 cleared. top side outer loop leaving universitylevard headed around towards 270. light traffic volume right now and southbound # 70 in good shape leaving hyattstown headed in towards germantown. -- and southbound # 70 in good shape leaving hyattsville headed in towards germantown -- and southbound 270 in good shape leaving hyattsville headed in towards germantown. >>> honda is recalling 800,000 cars due to faulty air bags. they are adding some 2002 odyssey models, some 2002 and some 2003 acura models to the list. honda said it will stop taking orders for cars made in japan until further notice. honda says parts shortages are forcing it to delay launching a new version of the crv. >>> back to our big story, the death of osama bin laden. in new york, people continue to celebrate at ground zero. as we mentioned president obama will visit ground zero thursday and meet with familiar families of 9-11 victims. the families of those on the plane that crashed in shanksville returned to the crash site. even though bin laden is dead, they say

center is erwin chemerinky professor of law at the university irvine law school before becoming the first of the school, he was on the faculty at duke law school for four years and before that he worked on this very campus where he was a member for 21 years. he manages to be professor and practitioner and frequently argues cases in the appellate court including the united states supreme court. he's the author of seven books the most recent of which is just frankly triumph, a personal story and analytical power house and the conservative assault on the constitution was published last year by simon and schuster. he wasn't asleep a great deal. immediately to my left, he teaches at the university of california irvine and was a staff writer at "the los angeles times" for 40 years specializing in labor and politics and i will read this the way that he wrote it and making trouble for the management was his good friend, jim newton. [laughter] he's a graduate of the university california berkeley law school and member of the california bar. he currently serves on the board of the nonprofit journalism organizations, fair warning which is devo