i idolized albert einstein. my favorite story, when einstein was an old man he was tired of giving the same talk over and over. one day his chauffeur came up to him and said, professor, i am merely a part-time actor. i have her do her speech so many times that i have i have memorized it. why don't we switch places? i will be the great einstein and you can take a rest. they switched places. this went along famously until one day a mathematician in the back asked a very difficult question. einstein thought, the game is up. up. the chauffeur said, that question is so elementary that even my chauffeur here can answer it for you. [applauding] thank you very much. much. you have been a great audience. i will take questions and then be happy to sign your book. [applauding] thank you. so we have some time for q&a. afterwards, please lineup in an orderly fashion. we will have pictures taken as well. people will line up. we have microphones in the audience. here is your chance to talk back. come on up. yes. >> yes, doctor

einstein was still trying to figure out the unified theory. and he sat there until the lines went off the paper. i'll give it to my friend, brian green. yes, sir. [laughter] >> thank you. i have no paper for you. my question is for about the last eight years, about two-thirds of the country has felt america's on the wrong track. i want to know what role you think rapid technological change plays this that, and do you have any advice for people living with innovation and change at the pace that it's happening? >> yeah. embrace innovation, embrace change, embrace technology and understand technology. i wrote this book partly because if you're alienated from your technology, if you think your iphone is magic and you don't quite know how the gps works, you're going to be a little bit detached, maybe alienated and maybe not understand and be able to deal with it. we should try to understand our technology because our technology is just a tool, and it's only as good or as bad as we are. i'm quite optimistic. and everybody, i live in washington, d.c.

he has also written biographies of albert einstein, ben franklin and steve jobs. mr. is a isakson discusses book at the computer history museum in mountain view california. this is an hour, 15 minutes. >> and now for tonight's progr program. the history of computing is epic. it is the ongoing story of how one of the greatest periods of creativity in human history has been unleashed. it is populated with some of the most fascinating people of our time and now one of the most distinguished biographers of in our time has taken it on and produced an exceptional result. the biographer of courses walter isaacson. not content solely with his award-winning best-selling biographies of benjamin franklin, albert einstein and steve jobs walter has returned once more to paint on a very large campus and the book is "the innovators" how a group of hackers, geniuses and geeks created the digital revolution. all of us have learned and are delighted to have learned in the process that walter isaacson has an inner geek and he is tapped into it directly. the epic stories are all here. al

those are called einstein winks. we see how much -- wings.how much matter how much mass there needs to be innocent of this cluster of galaxies to do the bending and we can measure how much we can seek the you can we see a part of the matter to the two things it turns out that you need much more mass in a galaxy cluster, cluster of galaxies, to explain this bending of light. that's one part of evidence we have for the editor and there are many more. many, many more, it really looks like there's something out there that is doing all of this pulling, gravitational pulling. >> we will take one last question. >> well, thank you very much for writing the book i haven't read it yet but your approach is great. the only think i will dislike more than having my intelligence insulted, it's out of my ignorance insulted. so i think this goes towards that. but this is a subject, the nature of the actual universe that i think that since i was a young person but i think about all the time. the within it gives me solace is the process of extrapolation, which

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. >> that's einstein. the parrot from texas. who has taken to parroting his fellow texas friend, matthew mcconaughey. >> now, when you can get a dog

. >> now you can meet einstein, the parrot. this could be the best matthew mcconaughey impression ever. >> all right, all right, all right. all right, all right. all right, all right. >> his owner says she started mimicking mcconaughey after watching him accept the oscar for "dallas buyers club." like matthew mcconaughey, almost never wears a shirt. >> the parrot's so chill. that's what i like about matthew. so laid back. water off a duck's back. a parrot's back. >> we all love him after he accepted that award. it was an oscar, right, for

issacson not content solely with his award winning best selling biography benjamin franklin, alberta einstein and steve jobs he has returned once more to paint a very large canvas and the book gives "the innovators" how a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution" we're all delighted to have learned in the process that he has the energy can has tapped into it directly. steve jobs and more ways year but also has a story about the lesser known icons of computing the women who program for example, or those hackers behind the first online communities and the skier belgian engineering gave rise to the world wide web and even sorts out there real story behind allegory and the internet. [laughter] he will take as an abbreviated journey with a distant figures please join me to welcome walter issacson. [applause] >> welcome back. >> is great to be back this is an amazingly wonderful place it is such an honor to be back here. you can even reveal my inner geek. [laughter] >> host: you are about to do that yourself talk about electrical engineers and i love the circuit boards s

i'm matt delucia, nbc 10 news. >>> i'm jesse gary live outside einstein medical center. brought here overnight. three of them are now home with their families, but one was held for observation. all suffering from smoke inhalation. this is all due to a fire at a boarding house on shelton avenue in germantown. three residents were able to escape on their own, but an elderly man was trapped inside. the police officers that were injured tried to get to him but were unable. lni investigating to make sure the building was up to code and the fire marshal is looking for the cause. live outside einstein medical center, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. >>> two minutes to 7:00 now. we have another accident on 95, in delaware, though. 95 northbound at route 273. we have the two left lanes blocked off, as you can see. volume as you approach that scene. then finally, a good news update. this activity has cleared off of the ramp from 95 northbound to the blue route 95. i haven't seen any traffic using this ramp yet, so officials are probably just starting that reopening phase of that ramp. but

einstein didn't write the einstein letter to f.d.r. savard did. the reason he didn't write it is f.d.r. just like you hadn't heard of sallard so he said look, albert, they were friends. please put your name on this. so you get the einstein letter. it's really the sallard letter. pash was researching and surveilling everybody. if you follow the guys, they mic up the houses and the placed they frequented like bars and restaurants. they went into the houses and changed the telephone cords. not just so they could tap the phones but they could turn the phones themselves into microphones and listen to conversations inside the house. all of this without warrants. no f.i.s.a. court. this is all about as far of an overreach as you can possibly get when it comes to the kind of invasion of privacy that you could expect from this. these are investigations into scientists who are suspected leftists. these are two of the scientists that i gave you on the third tier of steve nelson's group. i'm blowing this up a little bit so that you can see a little bit but i

a 60 year old woman is being treated for smoke inhalation at einstein. cause is under investigate. >> investigators want to know if speed was a factor in this crash. driver hit park truck, his car went airborne, crashed into the second floor after home in hokessing, delaware, driver is in christianna hospital in stable condition, and, fortunately, no one inside that home was hurt. >> and new jersey drivers are paying 2.76 for gallon of regular gas. the national average is a little more than that. pennsylvania's average 3.05. delaware, 2.82. analysts say the production increases in the u.s. have led to drops in prices. and i can't say enough. i love it. >> oh, it sounds so good. time is 4:49. >> jill wagner joins us from the new york stock exchange, again, stocks open at fresh high. what are investors watching today? >> yes, well, take it, right? good morning, ukee, erika. dow and s&p both close new highs friday. came after the labor department said the economy added 214,000 jobs in october, and the unemployment rate dropped to 5.8%, which is the lowest l

nbc 10's jesse gary is live for us outside einstein medical center in olney, where one officer is still being held for observation. jesse, you found out some new information, right? >> reporter: chris, investigators are looking into the possibility this could have been an electrical fire at the start. the fire marshal will make the final determination. his investigation is just beginning. investigators say that the flames started inside a second-floor, middle bedroom of a boarding house late last night. three residents alerted to trouble by smoke detectors made it out alive. an elderly man was trapped inside. four police officers used their vehicle fire extinguishers to try and save him, but they were not successful. the fire commissioner says fatalities so far this year running ahead of last year. coming up in the next 30 minutes, i'll have his tips on how you can make it out of a fire alive. live outside einstein medical center, jesse gary, nbc 10 news. >>> some people had to do that this morning, make it out alive, after a fire broke out early this morning in north philadelphia on 17

. >> pelley: finally tonight, this is albert einstein, the noted genius.hereritary, this is einstein's third cousin twice removed, mike nichols, who died last night at 83. the cause was cardiac arrest. jim axelrod looks at his genius as a director, writer, and comedian. >> the winner is mike nichols. ( cheers and applause ) >> reporter: if there was an honor for honors, mike nichols would have won it hands down, one of only 12 people ever to have won at least one tony, emmy, oscar, and grammy. born michael peschkowsky in germany, nichols fled the nazis and came to new york when he was seven. aise teenager he watched brando do "streetcar named desire" on broadway and was hooked. >> the big difference in the theater is that you're actually in front of living people. you are connected. you are communicating with them. >> reporter: he connected like few ever did. in late 1966, he had four hit shows on broadway at once help his first tony for best director, 1964, "barefoot in the park." his last, 48 years later, for "death of a salesman." >> a salesman has got

he was rushed to einstein hospital where he later died. ellington junior played high school will ball at episcopal academy. >>> both sides are talking in the case of the corvette in the delaware river. philadelphia police issued an arrest warrant for john crammer. he a allegedly drove this car in the river on monday near the the tacony palmyra bridge. crammer is charged with violating a protection from abuse order and harassment. his estrange wife says crammer texted her after the car disappeared. >> i was glad that be in was injured. the at the same time i could believe somebody did that. >> i didn't know i was doing anything wrong. i thought it was my car. i wanted to get rid of the dam thing.33 i could in the take this arguing when i was just trying get my minivan. >> police planned to charge crimer with reckless endangerment because divers risk their lives to find that submerge car. >>> new this morning president obama is hoping to take u.s. china relation toss a new level following discussion was china's president on the sidelines of

how einstein saw gravity not as a force, but actually einstein understood that gravity is actually geometry of we think of gravity as something that pulls you but it's really the shape of space time. in other words, when you think of the moon going around the earth in a circle, we think of gravity keeping it in orbit around the moon. actually what the moon its doing, it's going as straight as it possibly can, only spates time itself is bent by the presence of the massive object like the earth and that makes a straight path look like a circle, and so the moon actually is going straight. so a revolutionary idea of geometry and space time being the actual nature of gravity, and these ideas have been challenged many times. specifically to try to explain it away. just forget it and -- but we haven't succeeded. gravity has been tested in many different ways and so far it has always held up. so as far as we know, it's right. but we keep testing this in greater detail and perhaps one day we'll understand gravity in a different way. >> two years ago, professor samuel tinge set up the alpha magnet te

they were taken to einstein for smoke inhalation, overnight, and just behind us, 8:35 chelten avenue, the home they charged inside to douse those flames. know escaped but one man did die. from the outside, hard to see the damage the sunday fire left behind. but on the second floor of 835 chelten avenue, firefighters found the fire and a man dead. >> they did have smoke alarms. the smoke alarms alerted one of the resident, he got everyone else out the building. >> three other inside escaped, but four philadelphia police officers were sent to the hospital. fire commissioner, derrick saw err, said they tried using extinguishers to put the fire out themselves. >> we also transported four police officers to the hospital for minor injuries. they were trying to extinguish the fire, prior to the fire department arrival. but they were in stable condition. >> all four taken to einstein for treatment of smoke inhalation. >> and, again, those four officers are expected to recover from their smoke inhalation injuries, looking live at the house, where all of this happened late sunday night, and the

nbc 10's jesse gary is live at einstein medster where one of the officers is being held overnight just for investigation. jesse, tell us more. >> reporter: tracy, one of these officers is a rookie. the others have various lengths of service, ranging from about a half dozen years to two decades. these officers made a frantic attempt to save an elderly man from a fire. this is on a boarding house on cheltenham avenue late last night. fire investigators say the flames started in a second-floor, middle bedroom. >> they did have smoke alarms. the smoke alarms alerted one of the residents and he got everyone else out of the building. >> reporter: made it out alive, except for the one that the police officers were not able to rescue. coming up in the next half hour, i'm making calls, investigating the cause of this fire. both lni and the fire marshal are investigating. i'll have more live in 30 minutes. live outside of einstein medical center in olney, jesse gary. >>> a show of support is expected for police officers in franconia township who are losing their jobs because of budget cuts. in f

try to be incentive not everyone is going to be able to come 0 so this fans the afternoon and the einstein >> i've decided to be here it's amazing to see all those people's here it's critical to be prepared and to recover from disasters as finishing as possible. >> i've been to a lot of shows and this one was a trufk turnout a. >> since the structure the building represents the super structure the lower part of this particle on the buildings on the corner they shack quite a bit. >> so for the floors above as shaking that top floor is fog go-go have no more mass and we saw in 1984 more structure destruction where we're ryan white this by adding a steel frame typically you want to brass in both directions and see how strong the building is. >> we've adapted a thirty year implementation program i worry about that was a retrofit requirement this is what we do to mitigate the shom and have's evacuation for the people and our partners. i had questions about what kind of professionals are involved in this i want to start to put together a team of people to help me get through this. i'm a structur

. >> einstein said that. it comes from intuition and feeling. this is why young kids are dropping out of school. it's because they are board. i have been working with inner city kids and i have seen that creativity. before they they don't see the connection. the religionon has to get off his high horse. >> all of this. >> that's why ekhart is a freak. there is no one like him. he worked with everyone. the forth e is ecology. how we treat the earth. the governor of florida today, who is running again. he said their is no need to worry. i have a friend in miami who said if you walk the streets of miami there are six inches of water. the governor said what climate change. it hasn't been proven. >> i can't understand that. >> we are capable of creating such a public in terms of our ideology that trumps really, science, and truth. we have to start regetting strong about our responsibility and time is running out for us on this planet. we won't have long to turn things around. the young people know this. those who are running things don't believe it w

try to be incentive not everyone is going to be able to come 0 so this fans the afternoon and the einsteinng to see all those people's here it's critical to be prepared and to recover from disasters as finishing as possible. >> i've been to a lot of shows and this one was a trufk turnout a. >> since the structure the building represents the super structure the lower part of this particle on the buildings on the corner they shack quite a bit. >> so for the floors above as shaking that top floor is fog go-go have no more mass and we saw in 1984 more structure

that man again we are told is in critical condition at albert einstein hospital.ing tonight candlelight vigil for two children shot to death in tabernacle, new jersey. to other people including a child rushed to the hospital ton night investigators still have a lot of questions about a exactly what happened. fox 29's dave schratwieser is live in tabernacle tonight. dave? >> reporter:. >>> iain state police still stationed here at the scene crime scene investigators wrapped up their work around 8:30 tonight. there has still not been a ruling in this investigation. tonight tabernacle is a community in mourning. >> heavenly father we thank you and praise you. >> hundreds of residents and their prayed outside tabernacle town hall thursday night during a candlelight vigil. still stunned over the devastating news that two children were dead, another seriously wounded and their 44 year old mother janine la page was in critical condition after an overnight shooting at their home on holly park drive. >> i just can't believe this happened. i'm lost without her. she's like m

he described dave as the einstein of wrestling because of his amazing technique. nbc bay area news. >>> it is an incredible story. it is a waiting game in ferguson, missouri. they're deciding if they will indict a police officer in the shooting death of a teenager, michael brown. audiotapes are revealing exactly what happened in the minutes before and after the shooting. >> reporter: audiotapes reveal the day michael brown was killed police were tracking a robbery suspect near a gas station. >> it's going to be a black male in a white t-shirt. he took a whole box of swisher cigars. >> reporter: the officer reports his location. according to the post dispatch, it is 12:02 p.m. wilson has stopped brown and a friend. what happened next is at the core of the case. police say the teenager attacked the police officer, tried to get his gun, and was killed when the officer opened fire. some witnesses say brown had his hands up when the shots were fired. officer wilson leaves the police station two hours after the shooting, going to the hospital, and then returns hours lat

." >> only chopper 6 was there as medics rushed a critically wounded robbery suspect into einstein medical center. police say that man pulled out a knife to hold up the rite aid on stenton avenue in west oak lane last night and then a store security guard shot the robber inside the store many times. as you saw there the police recovered the knife and other evidence outside the store. the robbery suspect was listed in critical condition. >>> raging flames attacked a house in wilmington with firefighters battling the flames and the cold. the action cam was on the scene as the crews worked in freezing temperatures. firefighters were worried squatters may have been inside the vacant buildings when it was burning, but nobody was found. they have yet to identify what sparked the blaze. >>> president obama hit it road today drumming up support for his plan on immigration, taman bradley has more. >> reporter: today president obama heads to las vegas to sell his immigration overhaul. he'll sign orders removing the threat of deportation. the president's orders affect 5 million undocumented immigrant

the 25-year-old driver of that car was ejected from the vehicle and was rushed to einstein medical centerdillac is in custody. there is no word yet what led to the assault on the officer who did suffer a hand injury. >> a vine video tonight chose a teacher who had been attacked by a student at bartram nice southwest philadelphia. this happened yesterday. the substitute suffered a concussion. the student has been suspended and is facing expulsion. bartram was plagued by violent incidents in march a student knocked a school staffer unconscious and new principal took over bartram in the fall trying to improve security. >>> haddenfield police are asking for help identifying the suspects seen here vandalizing a school bus. they used skate boards to smack the side and danl the door. it happened 5:00 tuesday in the parking area near the department of public works. >> this was suspected kidnaper of carlesha freeland gamer his name delvin barnes delivered to the regional jail tonight in virginia he's on suicide watch having been officially charged with attempted murder, sexual assault and kidnappi

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he was like an einstein of wrestling technique. >> reporter: he says he is disappointed the story didn't the stick with the real story. >> the facts by themselves are pretty dramatic and pretty interesting, i would think. so they kind of did the hollywood thing. and when they say based on a true story, it's loosely based on a true story. >> reporter: rappel says before he was killed, david talked with him about leaving fox catcher because of dupont's irrational behavior. the movie is based on mark's journal. actor channing tateum plays mark in the field. mark ga rof low plays his brother he was killed. it has forced mark to relive some of his darkest days. dupont died in prison in 2010. reporting live in pallo, nbc bay area news. >>> new tonight at 11:00, one person is dead and the search is on in san francisco for who did it. police say the victim was found before 8:30 near the intersection of larkin and o'ferrell. the man has been stabbed. he later died at san francisco general. investigators have no suspect description and they are asking anyone about information to come forward. >>>

issue at all they don't mention the priority policies not even referenced in either brief albert einstein said one can't simultaneously prevent and prepare for war it it doesn't take a genus to see that one standpoint simultaneously prevent the program and at the same time allow professional developers speculating in our residential neighborhoods to demolish sound affordable rent control units every don't guess the sound like affordable and rerld units is a direct attack on residents rights it's an attack on the integrity and an attack on the promise made by the establishment of that system the failure to enforce the policies is one of the rot causes of the affordability crisis in this city most recent controllers report referenced by supervisor mar tells us the city has losses more 2 thousand rent control units others as metcalf over at spur and the tenants union say it is much honoree that they're being lost to demolition or converging and replacement with no construction that is not subject to rent control during this crisis every supervisor and every elected official for the city has

. >> all four taken to einstein for treatment of smoke inhalation. and, back out live, those officers are expected to be okay, this morning, again, looking at where that fire broke out, man found dead inside of that area, l & i also called out here to investigate those rumors perhaps of possible illegal boarding house, going on in this building here, the cause of the fire still under investigation but the commissioner did say that is the 28th fire fatality in philadelphia so far this year. we are live in germantown, justin finch, cbs-3, "eyewitness news". >>> all right, justin, thank you. and more breaking news right now. three people were hospitalized after a fire at this home in north philadelphia overnight. it happened along the 3,000 block of north 17th street, just before 2:30 this morning. firefighters rescued four people from a roof, from a porch roof, and investigators are working to figure out just how that fire started. >> we are hearing from one of two police officers credited with saving a ten year old boy's life in delaware county. polic

medics rushed the suspect to einstein medical center. else in critical condition. >> 5:35, yet another woman has come forward to accuse bill cosby of sexual assault. she is a florida nurse. she said cosby drugged her with pills and assaulted her in las vegas in 1976 after cosby performed there. cosby has yet to comment on any of the allegations. cosby performed in the bahamas as the pressure continues to grow. while tv and businesses back away from the comedian, temple university is standing by his side. the school said he'll keep his position on the board of trustees. a spot he held since 1982. he settled a lawsuit filed by a temple employee back in 2006. the employee accused him of drugging and fondling her at his he elkins park home. >>> immigrants displayed american flags outside the white house while the president made a televiseed address inside. if the people register with the government and pass a background check and pay taxes they can get work permits and avoid deportation for three years. it did not grant citizenship. only con

. >> reporter: in 1916, albert einstein's theory of general relativity first predicted the existence of black holes. that was nearly 100 years ago, and that theory has not been disproven. but with no real visuals, it hasn't been confirmed yet either. this year, a cloud of space dust is spiraling into the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. if it swallows that dust, as astronomers predict, the event horizon should light up, casting a shadow. so the first question is do black holes exist. and if we see the shadow that will be the most powerful evidence we have that they do exist. i hope we'll see something transformative. i hope we're going to see something that knocks our socks off but whatever we see it's going to be new >> reporter: it's a rare opportunity to find out if einstein was right. >> we think we know the theory of black holes. this is a key test. it's the one of the only black holes that we actually observe and make direct measurements of >> it needs telescopes spread all across the globe to get the maximum separation between telescopes and the maximum res

questioned our way of seeing the world, but the very nature of reality itself-- planck's quantum theory, einstein'sheory of relativity, freud's work on psychoanalysis. it was in 1900 that freud wrote his interpretation of dreams, a prophetic work in view of the tragedies of modern western history. freud wrote and published it here in vienna. vienna, 1900, was one of the intellectual and artistic centers of europe. in tracing modern art's emergence in the 20th century, vienna embodies, perhaps more than any other city, the struggle to break with the ossified traditions of the 19th century to achieve a modern art, an art for the 20th century. turn-of-the-century vienna was a prosperous and technologically advanced society, peaceful and secure, the center of the austro-hungarian empire, ruled over for more than 50 years by the last of the hapsburgs-- emperor franz josef. franz josef symbolized permanence and stability. he cultivated a status quo, based on a bureaucracy and state censorship, which exerted a virtual strangle hold on the capital's cultural imagination. artistic life was dominated by the

found just after 58 on the 5200 block of marion street with a bullet to the head, he was rushed to einstein in critical condition and just before 11:00 he died. >> he was funny and smart and loved his family a lot. that is all his focus was on, his family. >> he was my breast friend, the person that gave me a basketball and put me in the league at 5 years old. ellington jr. was a standout ballplayer at episcopal academy and he is now on leave with the lakers to grieve with his family. they are hoping for answers. >> it was senseless and i want justice to be served. i want the person to pay for what they did. he deserves that. he deserves that. >> at some point it will come out and whoever did this, they will get what they deserve in whatever way it is. >> now, if you know anything about what happened you are asked to can't police, there is an a $20,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. eva pilgram, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> well, our mild november weather is coming to an abrupt end. the big chill is about to arrive. looking outside at sky 6, temperatures are drop