and i live in durham north carolina for instance which is only several hours fort bragg camp please you name all of a member of the used to be a draft during vietnam but now we have a different kind of draft they have this program in a lot of the housing projects with black and brown called the young marines you have single mothers who are thinking well my son or daughter gets to have a uniform they have some sense of. you know a. sense of order in their lives but that's just one stepping stone into jail she goes on and who's going into those military now when you think about people of color so for those of us who are active with the war resisters league certainly when you think about pacifism and nonviolence that he believes and yet we also see this other kind of conscription going on mostly people of color but yet i have to say when you think about the first african-american president when blacks didn't used to have the right to vote and you see how far we've come now the question is what's going to happen next four years and whether that policy afghanistan were still there good point

it concerns me like i said where i live in durham north carolina the military what i'm really struck by is that. one of the things that we haven't talked about it these drones are going over there to keep on saying well we don't have to put our people at risk but these machines that are flying over there some people think if you can't see it it's ok so it's almost gotten to a different level of the militarism and who's pushing those buttons don't have to be black or white or woman or even a removing yourself from the ground the best icon i've seen over this weekend is this photo of kate in the classic photo i have a dream and then the photo of obama i have a dream. right now really yeah. it's pretty amazing oh my god it's a striking image and i think it speaks to some of that vision of a society that would be an actual spiritual fulfillment might look like and what in fact as you say we are approaching absolutely how it should matter how much you think of racial prejudice has prevented a successful antiwar movement from really coalescing and i know that your book kind of addresses th

president's council on jobs and competitiveness have met twice in the white house once in durham north carolina and once in pittsburgh. they haven't met since january 17th of last year. since the same executive alreor that created the council has language in it that terminates the council today that council will go away unless the president reaut rides it. jay carney said yesterday even though the economy shrank in the 4th quarter it is still showing signs of life. oo there was positive economic growth in 2012 and 2011 and, you know, we continue to believe as outside forecasters believe that unless actions by those in washington take us in a different direction we will see positive economic growth and job creation this year. >> kevin brady sees things a little differently. he says this is a quote, this president's recovery ranked near the bottom in mainstream job creation. we are 3 million jobs below the prerecession peak of january 2008 and 4.3 short of an economic recovery. >>> the white house blogged about the job's council last meeting over a year ago. the council offered president obama 35

and you can see that rain exiting areas, especially of north carolina during the morning. morning commute from raleigh, durham area, from the coastal areas, north carolina out to the outer banks. you'll have a little wet weather but that's about it. here's your forecast for this wednesday. with 30s across the heartland in new england. a little snow flurry activity in minneapolis. that's a look at the national forecast. now, here's a look at the weather outside of your wind. >> well, areas like memphis, tennessee, have been very cold. i think we're going to hit the peak of it, though. i think we'll warm things up in the middle of the weekend. a lot of people are enjoying it in the middle of the nation. it's been very cold. >>> well, sandy hook students prepare to go back to school. >>> penn state fights back with a major lawsuit against the ncaa. >>> plus, a member of the paparazzi killed after taking photos of justin bieber's white ferrari. you're watching "early today." >>> well, welcome back. some stories making news this morning. a lawsuit is being filed in federal court over sanctions filed against penn s

. >> stephanie: wiley in durham north carolina.stephanie: good morning. >> caller: i'm just wondering all of the people that are pushing for all of these voter i.d. bills through all of these states are they the same people that wanted to protect the gun seams that require no i.d.? >> stephanie: yes, interesting. >> caller: very interesting. >> stephanie: you have to have i.d. up the yahoo to vote but to get a gun? >> you can be a yahoo. >> stephanie: like many of the commenters in the yahoo news story section. are comprised entirely of -- >> yahoos. >> stephanie: i don't understand -- does wayne lapierrre makes my blood boil just seeing him. there's no point in background checks? because bad guys will get guns anyway? >> why have any laws at all because someone is going to violate them. >> stephanie: there shouldn't be any laws against guns of any kind. >> or any laws of any kind. be free. do whatever you want. >> he's so unwilling to talk to anybody. >> he's got his own internal monologue. >> stephanie: yeah. okay. caroline in sa

the doctor is chief of breast cancer in durham, north carolina, part of a team that conducted this studyhen. it's wonderful to be here. >> gretchen: thank you so much for joining us. amazing results of thiswhat into look deeper into the difference between lumpectomy with radiation and mastectomy? >> it's not new news that there are two major ways to treat breast cancer surgically. so the first involves lumpectomy, which for those of you who aren't familiar with breast cancer treatment, involves taking out part of the breast and rid of abnormal tissue around it, the lumpectomy or partial mastectomy. the other way to treat breast cancer is remove the whole breast and that would require a much larger operation. usually doesn't involve radiation. and we've known for at least 30 years that the two options, lumpectomy combined with radiation, versus mastectomy are pretty much equivalent. the studies were done a long time ago and we were interested in several very important issues, i think. the first was to know if the study results that we found 30 years ago apply in real life now. the second

they met twice at the white house, once in durham, north carolina, and once in pittsburgh.and action sessions. and the idea, according to the white house's web site, is for the council to provide the president with nonpartisan advice about how to strengthen the economy. two years ago today on january 31, 2011, president obama signed an executive order creating this jobs council and section 4 explicitly says, the council shall terminate two years after the date of the order, unless extended by the president. so by this time tomorrow, the jobs council will be a thing of the past unless the president takes some action before midnight. back to you in new york. >> steve: thank you very much. straight ahead, currently 711 here in new york city. imagine calling your doctor and hearing this. >> i'm sorry, the doctor can't see you today. he's on strike. >> steve: man. >> brian: who did that voice? >> steve: somebody on our staff. >> gretchen: i'm not going to say i know whose voice it is. >> steve: coming up, why obamacare can make that the striking doctor's thing a reality. >> bria

. >> calvin, durham, north carolina, day one of the confirmation hearings. you are on the air. >> yes, john mccain appears to be a sore loser, still bitter about his loss in the election. president barack obama won the election. i do not understand why he cannot have who he wants in his cabinet. >> we are getting comments on the facebook page. one says confirm chuck hagel, he served in vietnam, knows war is hell, and the us is wasting blood and treasure. another says i support chuck hagel as secretary of defense as it will be refreshing to have a man that served and enlisted. next, little rock, arkansas. >> chuck hagel kind of reminds me of the oliver stone 1960's guy that does not see the us in the power that it is, and i am tired of these people that think we should not back israel because if we were to lose israel it is a new ballgame and that is not good for anyone. as long as they keep using chuck hagel's own statements, i think any line of questioning is open for debate. too many people are making this about trying to do something against the president

durham public schools. he was an administrator in north carolina and was the national alliance of black school educators superintendent of the year. we have elizabeth celania-fagen -- liz fagen, douglas county superintendent of schools. she was superintendent of tucson unified. a beacon of education reform by arne duncan. david coleman, president of the college board. he co-founded student achievement partners. he was recognized as one of 11 education act of this. he was new school change agent of the year. he has set a high bar. always a mistake. john deasy, los angeles unified superintendent of schools, second largest system in the country. he was deputy director of education for the bill and melinda gates foundation. he is remembered as the hard- charging superintendent of the prince george's county schools. we have joanne weiss, chief of duncan. army duncane she ran the race to the top program, getting that off to a widely heralded start. ceo at the new schools venture fund. let's get this started. lost angeles is wrestling with a number of challenges. there are concerns about the reform. of where does it intersec