one in five kids has dyslexia. it's a brain-processing disorder that makes it hard for them to learn to read. now, just in california, there are more than 6 million children in school, so do the math -- 20% means more than 1.2 million students, potentially, with dyslexia. that's just in this state. many of those cases have gone undiagnosed. but a new law is aimed at changing that situation. welcome to "beyond the headlines." i'm cheryl jennings. joining us right now is somebody who has dyslexia, the lieutenant governor of california, gavin newsom. >> thanks for having me. it's fun. >> thank you for being so open about this. >> yeah, no, it's interesting. the response has been interesting. i've always been pretty honest about the fact i have dyslexia, but no one really paid much attention to it until i became mayor. and actually, one of the first things i did as mayor, the first public events, was visiting kids with dyslexia in the school, and everyone was shocked to know that i had this learning disability, which i

>> he was an employee in the air force and he'd grown up with severe dyslexia. as a result of that he didn't do very well in school and was also mocked by his peers and classmates and friends in the neighborhood not just because of his dyslexia but certain quirks in his personality which you can read about in the buck. on the military test to get into the air force he did well enough to be absorbed into the air force intelligence as a signals analyst and he did pretty well for ten to 12 years he served admirably during the first gulf war he was at the pentagon during signals analysis to help the forces ended in 1995 he came to the national reconnaissance office which is an agency that manages all the military spy satellites the u.s. government has. these are multibillion dollar satellites that have taken years and years to develop into different decades behind them and these images the satellites gather and the signals and gyms that the satellites collect are what gave the united states its great military superiority in the world. so, starting in 1997, because b

he had grown up with severe dyslexia and as a result of that he didn't do well in good and molled -- mocked by his peers, friends in neighborhood not because of dyslexia but certain corks which you can read all about in the book. he did well for him, he had to cheat in the military test to get in the air force. he was well enough to be absorbed as a signal's analyst. he did pretty well 10 to 12 yes, he served admirably during the first gulf war. he was at the pentagon doing signal's analysis to help the armed forces and then in 1995 he came to the national office, the agency that answers all the military spy satellite that is the u.s. government has. these are multibillion dollar satellites, they've taken years to develop. decades of r&d behind them and these -- the images that the satellites gather and signals intelligence that these satellites collect are what gives the united states its great military superiority in the world. so starting in 1997 because brian regular -- regan was facing hardships in life, under severe credit card debt, his wife wasn't happy because of how much he

we dyslexia other three people go? [laughter] and then we say we're sorry. it is mad. and you got cheated. u + 300000000000 other americans were cheated. this is outrageous. live the media doesn't touch upon and i don't know. call the white house and ask them to marco ascend the copy of my book but not know if he has read it. >> i have gotten two-thirds of that it is a good read. but then to implications that are here but what is the developing market and the trouble with the story is a lot of money comes out and did doesn't get invested in education or health care than we have a situation where it is tantamount like in africa in particular. the second thing is if you have these jurisdictions and plays in the united states and elsewhere then that includes national security. there is an issue of terrorism with national security and a the mexican cartels. can you talk to those two issues? >> absolutely. i think the problem if you want to cheat on your taxes is one thing. or cheat your business partner is another or your spouse. those are fundamental reasons why have offs

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he used his dyslexia to create a complicated code that was difficult for the fbi to decipher. >> thank you all so much for coming out. i think what we will do is talk for the first 20 or 25 minutes and then i will be available for questions pertaining to the book :

they believe he had dlexyslexia but of course in the 1860s, they did not know what dyslexia was, but he did have trouble reading and was a slow, deliberate reader for the rest of his life. when wilson, when young tommy wilson didn't know the meaning of a word, his father would send him to the dictionary to look it up. and he often admonished him to use his properly structured sentence as he could possibly come up with. as a minister, of course, that was an art for him. but he would say, now, when you're framing a sentence and you're picking your words, do it as if you're shooting a rifle. and with the rifle, with that one bullet, you hit straight on with the word that you intend to use. don't do it as if you're shooting a shotgun and you kind of spray all around the word that you mean, but it doesn't exactly hit the mark. and i think that's good advice for us even today when we're trying to write or speak. president wilson's very first memory was in november of 1860 before he was 4 years old. he was standing on the front gauge out in front of the house, and two men came by in a hurry

>> i have found that kids who have autism or dyslexia, that they really take to my books. i think that what it is is that these pictures in the books, they give the kids little islands to swim to and the even the pope, if he is learning latin, he can look at the picture and read the text and he gets some context from that feedback. >> you're taking this worldwide, though. as charlie said, when you go on the road, this is the first time you're doing a book tour globally? >> we started that book tour last year and continuing it this year. we went to brazil, china, australia, lat va romania and going to india and korea and all around the world this year. >> the message resonates even outside of america, a lot of wimpy people around the world is what you're finding? >> yeah. if i'm sitting in front of a crowd in brazil, i say what is it about this book that about really an american kid that resonates? i think is that childhood is a universal condition, really. is that kids have -- most kids have parents and siblings and pets and homework and teachers. thighs are the stories of