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you heard steve jobs described as the thomas edison of our time. so imagine losing thomas edison. you know, it just -- there's one person like that per generation, per our lifetime. so it's hard to imagine they'll be able to replace him. the company will go on fine for a number of years. it may go on for a very long time. but it won't be the same company. >> leander, do you agree, he was the thomas edison of our time? >> absolutely, yeah. the henry ford and the walt disney too. his products have had as much impact as things like the telephone and the automobile. you know, they've become universal. they've changed not only the way we work but also the way we play, the way we're entertained, the way we communicate. they touch all those pieces of our lives. >> and will for a long time. >> i think one thing to talk about too, anderson, is his persona, and what a charismatic powerful individual he was on a personal level. how he was able to motivate

leads to one innovation thomas edison could never quite make work.resident obama thinks he can with a lot of your money. know what it is? we will show you after the break. >>> live from america's news headquarters. i'm gregg jarrett. new york city police releasing a new videotape a showdown on the brooklyn bridge on protestors. officers warned demonstrators got get off the road or be arrested. more than 700 people taken into custody. some of the protestors accused of them luring on the road just before the arrests. it's part after two week rally called occupy wall street. >>> let's less than 24 hours away from an expected verdict in the italian appeals trial of amanda knox. young american convicted of a murder of her british roommate. sentenced to 26 years in prison. she has spent four years behind bars. the defend team is focusing on questionable dna evidence use at the trial. i'm gregg jarrett. we'll see you top at the hour. >> this is thomas edison's chemistry lab. here in the 1900s edison tried to develop a battery to make electric cars commercia

a world visionary. >> he was our edison.ney. >> apple's steve jobs, hollywood mourns his loss today. one of his final photos. frail. still fighting. >>> plus, his close connection to the stars of music, movies and tv. ♪ >>> then, the jackson death trial. and the

>> yes. >> and you can't put a edison base screw bulb in? >> no. >> can you change this out or is this pretty much much it? >> it's pretty much it. >> it assures that it's energy efficient for the life of the fixture? >> yes. >> what is this? >> this is actually a four-inch . this also meets california title 24 and the reason we're showing this one today is this is one that is a shallow. so it will fit your standard two by six configuration like in a residence. it looks like a really big box because it has to be bigger for the heat dissipation and it is double-walled and it is rated for up to 50 watts, which most everything else on the market is only rated for 35. >> and this fits right between 16-inch joys? >> yes. >> and it takes a high efficiency bulb? >> yes. >> thank you very much, jill. >> thank you.

that is what one newspaper wrote about thomas edison on the day that he died. but the same can be said to want about steve jobs who died yesterday at the age of 56. edison invented the phonograph, jobs gave us a thousand songs in our pockets with the ipod. edison invented the motion picture camera. jobs revel electrocutionized movie making. edison gave us electric lights. jobs' computer iphones and ipads lit up our lives. john blackstone begins our coverage of steve jobs and his legacy. >> reporter: scott, here at apple's headquarters in cupertino, the flags are at half-staff, people are stopping to leave tributes. this place, silicon valley, was not just steve jobs' home, this is a place he helped to create and a police that helped to create him. steve jobs grew up here, the adopted son of parents of modest means. in true silicon valley style, he started apple computer in the family garage with his buddy steve wozniak. how young and naive we were in thinking out our original ideas. >> reporter: wozniak was the engineer, jobs was the one with the ideas, pushing

andrea edison was exsanguinated in that car, ma'am. boa vista: so, you told your editor that you were in milan. i was, until this morning. okay, well we know that andrea was blackmailing your editor, saying that she was gonna expose your entire scam, so, you got motive. but i didn't know. joseph handles all of the writers. and he did mention that she was the most talented of the bunch. why would i kill someone who makes my life so easy? why don't you tell us? your ghostwriters work off your ideas. and? and the book never mentions who the killer is or what he did with the blood. i don't remember. an author that doesn't recall the content of her own work. okay, so not only do you not write your own books, you also don't read them? i'm really pressed for time. joseph did say, though, that the epilogue would answer all of the readers' questions. it's a bonus chapter, and it's only available on the audio version. the epilogue? narrator: he wanted the maid to know what happened to women who didn't behave. but he also wanted to keep her with

chris kirby with another td for edison. he is off to the races. they ain't catching him.uts his team on top. then malcom sherman says you can score, i can score as well. michael sherman going through them all. misses the block. he's off. he's got his guy ahead of him just in case. all the way down the field. malcom sherman gets the touchdown for edison. but despite all of that it still wouldn't be enough. edison wins 49-43. >> we're moving lineups around and people around. they have a great team. it was an exciting game. >> our game out of maryland is a 1 and 5 team against a 5 and 1 record. this one stayed close all the way through. we have the churchill bulldogs. first quarter gus gill with a play action fake. he rolls right and finds barry. all the way down to the two yard line. of course that sets up this short touchdown run. the wildcats go up 6-0. and bulldogs up one. the bulldogs hold on to win 24-22. remember you can always log on to dc.highschoolsports.net for the latest news, scores and great features on our students. it's all on our website right now. that will

andrea edison was exsanguinated in that car, ma'am. boa vista: so, you told your editor that you were in milan. i was, until this morning. okay, well we know that andrea was blackmailing your editor, saying that she was gonna expose your entire scam, so, you got motive. but i didn't know. joseph handles all of the writers. and he did mention that she was the most talented of the bunch. why would i kill someone who makes my life so easy? why don't you tell us? your ghostwriters work off your ideas. and? and the book never mentions who the killer is or what he did with the blood. i don't remember. an author that doesn't recall the content of her own work. okay, so not only do you not write your own books, you also don't read them? i'm really pressed for time. joseph did say, though, that the epilogue would answer all of the readers' questions. it's a bonus chapter, and it's only available on the audio version. the epilogue? narrator: he wanted the maid to know what happened to women who didn't behave. but he also wanted to keep her with

. >> all are edison, right. >> now you're seeing pictures that have four-pin contact fluorescent bulbs. these are even more efficient -- they're approximately as fingerprint as a t-8. so they get about five times as much energy efficiency as a conventional light bulb. this goes into a special socket. you have to buy the fixture. >> the new california energy code is the country's most stringent energy code. and it says that in many cases, you must install energy first lighting pictures in new construction and when you're replacing pictures and you have to install -- fixes and you have to -- fixtures and you have to install four pins in kitchens for example and they cannot be replaced with screw type sockets. it will only take this type of bulb. you have to replace the whole fixture to go back. >> there is a prohibition against using edison-based fixtures. there are exceptions. for residential kitchens, more than 50% of the wattage has to be energy-efficient and throughout the rest of the house, you have to use energy efficient dimmers or you have to use fluorescent light bulbs. you can

of edison international. he's been a board member for nonprofit organizations as well as for major corporations in our country. boeing, disney, some of the great success stories of our country. he has extensive experience working on international issues through his work at edison international and as chair of the pacific council on international policy. and i am convinced that if he's confirmed as secretary of commerce today, he's going to focus on increasing american exports, and he will be a superb ambassador, helping american companies while looking to expand across the globe. this is a person who has already proven his ability to be able to deal with people in other countries, with other companies. and i'm confident about his ability to perform this task. his previous experience exposed him to the importance of innovation and technology at a vital time for the information economy. and his department is now leading the administration in its efforts on issues ranging from privacy to spectrum reform. i am co

sun edison received no tax incentive. it says the manufacture was based on the talent pool available here and expected increase in demand in california residential solar power. >> protest against corporate power have spread to the east bay. up oakland rally began tonight at frank plaza. oakland mayor request juan has declared her support. >> san jose police say the map shot and killed by an officer this morning had a gun but didn't fir his weapon. this is the fourth officer involved somewhating in less than two two weeks in san jose. 2 by san jose police and 2 by the county sheriff's office. >>> more than half of adults in the country take vitamin every day. maybe you. and today researchers say in some cases the supplement either do no good at all or may actually increase the risk of dying from cancer or heart disease. story tonight from sharonal fons. >> for millions of us part of daily rue taken. why the findings of the new study are so hard to swallow. researchers now reporting that for older women some vitamins might

i see him as the edison of our time. the affect of what he did was to change many things and our lives. addison davis the moving picture, the phonograph, and the light bulb. -- thomas edison gaves th ving picture, phonograph, and light bulb. and he gave us new ways of reading. think of how many industries he killed -- cameras, newspapers, publishing. even travel agency. all the middlemen and life. -- in life. >> revolutionize the culture of this country. it could go down the list and find examples. >> thomas edison had a role in the beginning of the last century where he gave us a wod we live in that had never existed, but he did it in the actively. he tried everything and laboratory. there was no evidence. he experimented and if it worked and if it did not, i think he had a thousand light bulbs. jobs had this sort of zen md, an idea of how it should look, and he said to 1000 people, here is how i see it -- you make it. that is what made remarkable. >> and the people who make it and who made it -- for example, they say t

so we need -- you know, many people will get mad at me by saying, we don't need to focus on thomas edisonwe don't. i don't know a kid yet that i've gone to in the past two years that says to me, hey, mario, i want to grow up and be thomas edison. >> he's my childhood hero, but i was an old lady when i was 10, so don't take that to mean anything. but what about teachers who say we don't have the time or the money to have this technology in the classroom? >> yeah, so number one, role models are key. so -- but the time and the money is an issue. time, i'm not buying. teachers, i understand. strapped. they do more than they are asked to do. i love them, i grew up in a teacher's household so i get it. however, money -- i get that. but time, you need to step the kids out of the classroom. and you need to push your schools and push the local community. we don't see enough public/private partnerships where kids should be taking field trips to tech companies. going to the zoo is cool, but going to a tech company is hotter. >> you know, it's interesting. we spoke to sal kahn at the kan academy. and

i see him as the thomas edison of our time. the affect of what he did was to james -- change many things in our lives. thomas edison gave us the moving picture, the phonograph, and the light bulb. every one of those is revolutionary. he gave us new ways of reading. but think of how many industries he killed -- cameras, newspapers, publishing. in a travel agency. of all the middlemen in life. >> the culture of this country -- you can go down the list and find example after example. >> but everything he changed -- thomas edison had a role in the beginning of the last century where he gave us a world to live in that never existed but he tried everything in a laboratory. there was no elegance in it. he experimented. it worked. if it didn't -- i think he had 1000 light bulbs before he ended up with the right one. steve jobs had this sort of zen mine, an idea of how he did -- it should look and he said to want thousand people here is how i see it. you make it. that is what made him remarkable. >> and the people who make it or who mad

who changed the way our day goes, from thomas edison forward. this -- in that list, this name, steve jobs, will be in bold print. >> oh, absolutely. i think you're right to identify edison as one and henry ford being another. as was just said, walt disney. milton hershey. companies where the individual's legacy lived on through the business entity they created. and also changed culturculture, processes as mr. jobs did while he was at apple, when he was gone and more importantly when he came back. he has done so many ground breaking things. don't forget, he also started pixar, the animation company that's now owned by walt disney. he's been on the forefront of technological changes. interestingly enough, lawrence, when he came back to apple, the company was effectively believe to be going out of business and it also, when he came back to apple, he was really turning the company around at a time after the internet bubble burst. when people thought there would be no new major applications that would excite the technology industry. next thing we kne

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>> thomas edison was more the guy in the laboratory with the tools. so i think of other types of inventors in that category. steve would be more my idea of thinking and throwing out ideas and inspiring people and knowing what was possible and who was telling him stuff that was really doable and what wasn't. good engineers -- he was just a really good judge of people and humanity, the people using the products and the people building them. so more almost on a psychological basis. i don't think of edison that way. >> it's interesting -- >> steve was kind of like a lot more than that. it's very important that the person at the top of a company making technology products understands the technology, understands what the different low level devices and technologies and chemistry and physics and what companies are making the -- the owner should make your products -- steve had a good understanding of the technolo technology. he wasn't a technologist, noshgs he didn't sit down and write the programs himself, but he could sure as heck apply the great management

unlimited solar energy. >> reporter: governor jerry brown touted the move of sun edison's new headquarters, which had previously been in maryland. the company will eventually bring about 500 jobs to the formerly vacant office park in belmont. >> california is open for business. we're the innovative state and we're going to invest know solar and make it the -- we're going to invest in solar and make it a world leader. >> reporter: a month ago solyndra went bankrupt. it had received a half billion dollars in federal loan guarantees. while sun edison says it has no federal loans, it will get the same benefits as all other solar powered companies by way of new tax incentives for solar projects. that legislation was authored by jerry hill where solyndra will hank over washington and sacramento. >> people will think that every time they see a solar company in the near future. they will think of all the hundreds of millions of dollars lost with solyndra but you have to look at each particular case differently, each particular company differently. >> reporter: the president of sun edison says he d

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we have heard him compared to henry ford, thomas edison, alexander graham bell and it's true. his death was a global event. in his own way, he changed life. and along the way, computing and music. he gave us something to point to with pride. he gave us the icons, fonts, shuffles and swipes of our modern lives. he was relentless, exacting and unique and he was dying of cancer during some of the most productive years of his life. steve jobs was apple and steve jobs was the american innovator of the modern age. he's gone at the age of 56 and we remember him tonight beginning with nbc's george lewis. >> reporter: with the help of a top design team, jobs turned electronic gadgets into objects of desire. there was the macintosh computer in 1984. >> and it has turned out insanely great. >> reporter: the ipod in 2001. and then in 2007 -- >> today, apple is going to reinvent the phone. >> reporter: -- the iphone. and in 2010, the ipad. >> so all these things, one after another after another it's like homerun, homerun, homerun. and there's only one babe. >> reporter: in 1976 steve woszn

sun edison relocated from maryland to an office park in belmont. the company insists that it is no solyndra, the fremont firm that went bankrupt after taking half a million dollars in government loans. sun edison will take advantage of state and federal tax incentives, but it will also bring about 500 jobs to the peninsula. >>> you don't need to commute every day. the traffic in the bay area can be a challenge and it's getting worse in certain places. joe vas tells us why it's a sticker shock. >> according to a new study, traffic in all lanes has gotten slower in just the last few months. >> here we have shots taken a few years before the expulsion. >> michael cast di, transportation engineer at uc berkeley observed the hov of 880 in heyward and he watched as all traffic slowed down. even though fewer drivers were allowed in the car pool lane. why? >> imagine you're driving in a car pool lane and traffic next to you is traveling at 20 or 25 miles per hour. how fast do you want to go for fear of it suddenly someone in the regular lane is going to su

he was the thomas edison of his day. >> people want large, color screens they can put photographs on. people want motion video. >> reporter: he transformed the way we work. >> i want to show you macintosh in person. >> reporter: and he loved it. >> you have to find what you love. if you haven't found it yet, keep looking. and don't settle. >> reporter: a 20-year-old jobs launched a revolution from his parents' garage with buddy, steve wozniak. >> this is like jfk or martin luther king. >> reporter: he was fired in the '80s. >> i was publicly out. >> reporter: he was rehired in the '90s and spent the last eight years battling cancer. >> i wanted to mention this. >> reporter: in his final years, he was gaunt but still an inspiration. >> remembering that i'll be dead soon is the most important tool i ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. everything, all pride, fear of embarrassment or failure, these things fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. >> reporter: and leaving the world wondering, who, now, will invent the next big thing? john h

this office building is the new home of sun edison. belmont's redevelopment agency play aid role in attracting the company here as did recent legislation but no loan ordeal was offered. local and state officials couldn't be happier creating job autos we're go going to invest in solar making california not only national leader which it is, but the world leader and we're going to could -- do that with a company like this. >> with you b.what kinld of deal would it take to move headquarters from maryland to belmont? its president says no incentive was offered. >> i can only comment there is a different business model. it's doesn't pred yi indicate on new technology. >> the deal maker was a bill clarifying the tax exemption for homeowners installing new solar systems. they won't see properties reassessed for the improvement. the bill's author recognizes there is greater sensitivity over government providing loans or other incentives. >> i think there will be certainly more looking at studying companies that want to come with the solar issue

edis edison, the wright brothers, everybody gary b was talking about, they were hungry and people aregry because the government is subsidizing them, that's the problem. >> that's nonsense. getting defense contracts, that's the epitome of government involved. i'm not-- >> i've got to get to everybody. jonas, he didn't need government, but that doesn't prove at that we don't need government. >> the good old days, no company growing more than apple. and the government a couple years ago, the government part of the government sales, they play a role-- >> and that's a market. that's just a market. >> well, i'm explaining the differences. should the government be making phones or owning phone companies? no. there's an infrastructure called government patent and without that we wouldn't have that in america, the only thing makes america better, as long as the government is not in the phone business, it's a good thing. it's not. >> it is a role though, my point is, he understood there was a combination, a balance between private and public and particularly, in silicon valley, we have an excel

sun edison has plans to hire up to 500 employees in the next few years.california's reputation as a leader in the solar industry lured the company here. >> with the -- we are the innovative state and we are going to invest in solar and make california not only the national leader, which is, we are going to make it the world lead are. we are going to do that with a company like this. >> sun edison did not get tax incentives to come to california. the company says the move was based on the talent pool available here. expected increase in demand in california for residential solar power. >>> sonoma county wine makers reporting significant damage to their 400 million dollar grape crop from reason rains. vines have developed a rot. one grower has lost 50% of his zinfindel vines and 30% of his chardonnay grapes: they are spraying fruit that need more ripening time and clearing leaves out of canopies to let in more sun and wind to dry out the crop. >>> quite a bit of rain, had a bunch yesterday. i know you were adding totals there. >> it was all over the place.

sun edison has plans to hire up to 500 in the next few years.california's reputation as a leader in the solar industry lured the company here. >> with the innovative state and we are going to invest in solar and make california not only the national leader, which is, we are going to make it the world leader. we are going to do that with a company like this. >> sun edison did not receive any tax incentives to come to california. the company says the move was made based on the -- expected increase in demand in california for residential solar power. >>> japan hoping to offer 10,000 free flights next year to improve tourism. numbers have dropped dramatically since the tsunami and fukushima plant disaster in march. the program could begin by next april. would be travelers would have to submit online applications then write about their experiences. >>> a michigan woman is suing the distributor of a new hollywood movie because she felt tricked by the trailer ii sarah saw this trailer for the ryan gosling film drive and expected something like the acti

called the thomas edison of our age. and tonight, we will be telling you how this college dropout revolutionized the world, armed with his imagination and his ambition. and robert iger, the president and chief executive officer of the walt disney company spoke of his friend and colleague tonight, of course, steve jobs the creator of pixar, also on the disney board, and here is what bob said. "far beyond the products he credited or the businesses he built, it will be the millions of people he inspired, the lives he changed and the culture he defined. steve was such an original, with a thoroughly creative imaginative mind that he defined and era and despite all he accomplished, it feels as if he was just getting started." and now, abc's bill weir remembers the towering legacy of steve jobs. >> reporter: before he put a virtual world at our fingertips -- >> and we call it the ipad. >> reporter: before he turned household tools into objects of desire. >> today, apple is going to reinvent the phone. >> reporter: before he cha

not thomas edison, not jack welch, a great ceo. >> it's an amazing story.tner, thanks very much. we're continuing the breaking news. steve jobs, dead at 56. the breaking news. we'll continue on "piers morgan tonight" right after this. [ male announcer ] what if we told you that cadillac borrowed technology from ferrari to develop its suspension system? or what if we told you that ferrari borrowed technology from cadillac to develop its suspension system? magnetic ride control -- pioneered by cadillac, perfected in the 556-horsepower cts-v. we don't just make luxury cars. we make cadillacs. achoo! [ male announcer ] and common tissue can make it burn even more. puffs plus lotion is more soothing than common tissue, and it delivers our most soothing lotion for every nose issue. >>> we're following the breaking news. you're looking at apple headquarters in cupertino, california, a lot of sad people there, a lot of sad people all over the world. also, the apple store on fifth avenue in new york city. that store under renovation. look at this next picture. live

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