so jennie finch is pitching underhand. >> right. eporter: a larger ball. yep.ter: and a slower speed. so they're figuring, hey, this is a piece of cake. but it wasn't. the big shots couldn't even hit foul balls. (laughter) >> the brain develops a very sophisticated rule set that tells them how to anticipate 100-mile-an-hour fastballs or 80-mile-an-hour curveballs but not balls that are thrown with an underhand from a female that's two-thirds of the distance away from them. >> reporter: their genetic gifts didn't help. they'd never practiced against jennie finch. >> and it has nothing to do with desire or talent or persistence. it has to do with the fact that their brain is just wired in a completely different way. >> reporter: and while the debate over what really makes an athletic star rages on, dan mclaughlin just keeps on practicing, six days out of seven. >> in golf, i don't know anybody who's better than me who's practiced less or put in less time. >> reporter: down now to a four handicap, already better than 95% of all amateur gochers -- golfers and deter

medium ground finches have seen their beaks shrink.he reason - larger finches arrived and muscled them out for larger nuts so the smaller birds need to go after the smaller nuts requiring a smaller beak. science and nature never cease to amaze. >> americans are overworked and overwhelmed. a book says it's impacting humanity. >> politicians and pundits once predicted the 21st century americans would be kicking back and enjoying a life of leisure around now. instead, working hours in the 24/7 high-tech world increased. many professionals worked more than 50 hours a week, less well-off americans work two jobs to provide. jobs are scattered and skimpy. as tough as men may thing they have it, working mums may be worse off, trapped between a culture celebrating a culture with no attachments, and a standard of motherly affection that few if any can meet. we go to staff writer at "the washington post", author of: >> good to have you with us. people are so overwhelmed that you modified the verb, turn turning it into a noun, the overwhelmed. >>

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then over ten years for the gold finch. people don't do it like that anymore.ur years just to figure out what the novel is going to be about, and then starts witling it down. she writes by hand. she's from mississippi. old school novelist. proud to see donna tart getting the attention she deserves. >> that's quality. >> i couldn't continue, but now i feel like that's a personal failure. i'm going to give it another go. up next well, all know college is crazy expensive, but there's another rising cost of raising kids today. that is catching parents off guard. the sticker shock straight ahead. ♪ [ female announcer ] f provokes lust. ♪ it elicits pride... incites envy... ♪ ...and unleashes wrath. ♪ temptation comes in many heart-pounding forms. but only one letter. "f". the performance marque from lexus. but only one letter. [ female announcer ] some people like to pretend a flood could never happen to them. and that their homeowners insurance protects them. [ thunder crashes ] it doesn't. stop pretending. only flood insurance covers floods. ♪ visit floodsmart.gov

and pulitzer prize for fiction went to author dana tarp for her novel "the gold finch." >>> still aheada frightening ebola outbreak that doctors are calling one of the most challenging they have ever seen. and later, a rare late night show, this one in the skies above. >>> in medical news tonight, many of the world's medical professionals, especially in the field of infectious disease and public health is feared of a major outbreak in one of the deadliest diseases known to the planet, the ebola virus. in recent weeks it spread quickly in west africa killing more than 100 people raising concerns it could move quickly beyond there and pose an even broader threat. our report tonight from our chief foreign correspondent richard engle. >> reporter: health officials are taking no chances as they race to contain an outbreak of the world's deadliest virus, ebola. there is no cure or vaccine and for the first time ever on this scale, ebola has broken out in an urban area, in the capital of guinea in west africa. population, 2 million. dr. tim jagatic from doctors without boarders works from ther

the number of sharp-beaked ground finches in our studio audience. oh, my god. beautiful. as an avid bird watcher, i cannot describe how wonderful it is to have a magestic creature in the audience. one. oh, no! the number of sharp-beaked ground finches attacking fred! [ applause ] run, fred, run! also, one. the number of noticeable wires on that, clearly stuffed bird carcass. [ laughter ] you could barely see it. zero. the number of march madness brackets that still stand a chance to win warren buffett's billion dollar prize. one. very sad billionaire, who was just looking for a weird, some might say completely insane, way to give away his riches. [ applause ] better luck next time. 7 million. the number of people who've enrolled in obamacare based on new estimates. 1.2 million. the number of visitors to the obamacare website on the last day of open enrollment. 404. the number most often seen by people trying to sign up for obamacare. [ laughter and applause ] four. the number of slices remaining in this pizza? did eric just seriously take a piece of pizza? [ la

the novel the gold finch won for fiction, "boston globe" staff won for breaking news kufrcover. tyler hicks for his photos. but more controversial was the award for public service presented to the guardian and the "washington post" for exposing the nsa's phone and e-mail tapping that was based on edward snowden's leaks. snowden called it a vindication, but many more were outraged including congressman peter king who called the decision a disgrace. >>> after five grueling days, cross-examination of oscar pistorius was now over. earlier today prosecutors questioned his version of the night his girlfriend reeva steenkamp was shot and his reaction upon sgofring that he fatally wounded her on the bathroom floor. >> that must have been an unbelievable shock. >> that's correct. >> you and you never screamed and shouted out? >> that's correct. >> mr. pistorius, i would have expected you toand shouted out? >> that's correct. >> mr. pistorius, i would have expected you tond shouted out? >> that's correct. >> mr. pistorius, i would have expected you tod shouted out? >> that's correct. >> m

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and alan finch [ inaudible ] reaching their target with 15 balls to spare.in by 7 wickets but still go home. >>> the san antonio spurs have broken their nba franchise win record after knotting up their 18th straight victory on monday. they routed the indiana pacers 103-77 to stay atop of the western conference. while the l.a. clippers move to within two games of the oklahoma city thunder also in the west after they beat the timberwolves 114-104. colinson top scoring with 28 points and 7 assists. >>> baseball, the world series champions, the boston red sox got their mlb season off to a losing start. they were beaten 2-1 by the baltimore orioles. >>> also with baseball, the team playing on the opening day have been playing under some new rules. rob reynolds reports. >> reporter: players from the arizona diamondbacks loosen up during training. some of these players may wind up in the world series. some may wind up relegated to the minority leaders, but what none of them want is to end their season and careers with a brain injury. so major league baseball is ins

movements fair to push back against radicalism if there are political parties who will could not with the finches have a chance that can't be confident in the future with the help of the secular with this because the more moderate islamists movement. the next time viewers may not recognize the term. >> a religious university which is recognized as the leading sunni religious university based in cairo. it's the equivalent of the vatican for the catholics for the sunni. >> this idea, this image you presented is one to be wished. are you concerned about the prospects for this kind of democratic islam is an emerging by what we've seen happen in turkey? >> actually, i am encouraged. i'm discouraged by what was supposed to be whether or not they should be going. >> the ruling party of mr. aragon, which of course is the most advanced. around the world could be a model. they came to power and its effective foreign policy not in the direction we would hope, for example closer to reran, closer to saddam and deterioration of relationship with israel that is not what many had hoped. only when the government

what i would have written, atticus finch is still needed.is abc and the washington post with a brand-new survey that among other things documents that the president's approval ratings are the lowest that they have recorded. 41% only approve of the job that the president is doing. and so the thinking continues to be among the experts that 2014 will be a big year for the gop. that republicans in all probability will maintain control of the house and might even take control of the senate. but i read this survey. and when you get to the internals, there are some very interesting things that go on. when you ask about particular issues it seems like the democratic candidates are better aligned on the issues than the republican candidates. for example you ask who is better suited to help the middle class? when you ask opinions about the minimum wage or same-sex marriage or climate change it is the democratic position, not the republican position. so what then explains the fact that the d's are better aligned on the issues with the american people a

. >> and clint, hang on, because join joining me is alyssa finch a senior at the franklin regional hightand that you did not witness the stabbing, itself, but can you tell uts where you were and what happened inside of the school? >> yes. i was driving up to the school off of the big hill going up to the school, and i saw tons of ambulance ambulances there, and i heard the fire alarm, and i saw everyone walking out of the school. so at first i thought that maybe there was a fire drill, but then i saw a few people hysterically crying and i thought well, that cannot be definite ly a fire, ad people coming down the hill to tell us to turn around and go home. so i pulled in a sub lot, and i staid there for a little bit, but i ended up going back to my park parking spot, and getting out of my car and a few teachers were there, and they told us kind of what was happening and a few students knew what was happen i ing, and they all told us to move down to the middle school into the gym so we can all stay there. >> and for the students who you saw who were in the school at the time, what did the

joining me is jim cavanaugh, msnbc analyst, and melissa finch, and ceo of forbes hospital joining me by home. first from the hospital, tell me about the condition of those injured. according to the doctor's report earlier, there were some very serious injuries indeed. deep penetrating wounds to the right abdomen in what the surgeon described, the e.r. surgeon described as a seeming pattern. can you update us on that? >> yeah. i think that's accurate. all of the victims here are male. i know that there were some females involved that may have gone to other facilities, but the victims here at forbes were all male, and they were deep stab wounds in the abdomen. three of them, you know, that required immediate -- taking the patients immediately to the operating room. frankly, they're fairly extensive surgeries. one of the kids is just coming out now. so very serious injuries. and to include the kids that were not taken to the operating room, that were able to be treated in the emergency room, that will continue to stay in the hospital, in some of our critical care areas. >> according to

jacqueline bryce-finch.chair of the department of english and modern languages at the university of maryland eastern shore, and as i'm a chair in my small college i pay homage to anybody who can be chair in an institution of higher learning. so, hmm. she is co-author of "get it together: readings about african-american life" and was the founding publisher of -- caribbean women writer ands scholars and being an invited speaker at national international conferences and also lectured at many, many american universities as well as internationally at universities in istanbul, turkey, the colleges of the bahamas. her biois in your program. i think we best serve this time by letting her moderate, do her job. please welcome our moderator, dr. jacqueline bryce. maas applause. >> good afternoon. saving ourselves, saving our communities, african-americans are among the many people of color who have traditionally been excluded by literature, related to the natural environment, and nature in particular. conventional noti

let's think about the homo sexual activity scene and major you've written specifically about zebra finch is that a study that examined the nature of their homosexual tendencies can you outline what that study concluded yes that was a very interesting study that looked at the pair bonding in zebra finch as and of course these organisms are known to have long term pair bonds and so what they are just did is they manipulated the sex ratios and then found of course that you know when there is a shortage of females that males will form long term social bonds with each other that do include sexual activity but what's interesting is that then they really introduced females into the into the experimental arena but that had no effect and so the males basically chose to remain together and a couple instead of allowing this female and so that's very interesting in. just another note on homosexuality you would be hard pressed to find a species in the animal kingdom but that's not a gauge of homo sexual behavior it's absolutely everywhere i wanted to play you a clip from from an alter out on the show

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several hundred thousands years ago, so this is, in a lot of ways, a lot like the story of darwin finchesers, and then specied out to fill niches and survive in different sorts of habitat. the difference is in the case of the hawaiian crows, most of the species died out after the first humans arrivedded, so whereas they were not inhabited until europeans arrived. in hawaii, the first settlers arrived about 1500 years ago, and already they brought with them species like rats, like the pacific rat, that out competed or potentially just ate up the young and the eggs of these crows so most of the species were already gone by the time europeans arrived. this is the last species that survivedded into modern times, and it's native to the big island, the island of hawaii, and it, too, is under tremendous pressure from has habitat destruction and by the 1980s, the population was so low that the state of hawaii began to take it in captivity to save the species, and this turns out to be fortunate because the last wild ones were seen in 2002, and the bird is now classified as exticket in the wild. th

. >> i think choosing the gold finch was a fabulous, what a great novel that was. >> i agree with thatee. >> that's not the controversy that thomas referred to. >> was that the controversial. ic? i don't think so. >> but we will be giving out eugene's e-mail at the end of this and if anybody would like to write to them, do so. >> thomas, i know where you live stop that. >> there's new view on secretary of state hillary clinton. 49% have a favorable opinion of the former first lady. 45% view her unfavorably. they do stack up to her ratings back from '07 when she was first running for the white house. speaking alongside her daughter chelsea at an event for young women, clinton was asked about immigrati immigration reform by a teen who shared a private moment. >> for the first time publicly i want to say i'm an undocumented immigrant. i want to say that it's been extremely difficult for me to empower myself in america because i came here illegally when i was five. >> that was incredibly brave, and i thank you for doing that. because it's important to put ourselves in other people's shoes.

matt finch is the owner and founder -- >> american classic food for sure. >> so let's start with thead. we've got some salted butter. whatever you guys like. your favorites. so what we do is we put the butter on both sides. because we're going to grill it on both sides. that's the key to the classic grilled cheese sandwich. it adds a lot of flavor profile to it. a texture. so after you butter it, boom, put it down. perfect, perfect. >> and then pick your cheese. >> you guys are pros. you should quit your day jobs. you can come work for me in cleveland. >> what cheese has the best meltability? >> for me, i'm going for classic american myself. but your favorites, we have pepper jack, cheddar today. >> you can sometimes put on too many. >> you can put on too many. those are about an ounce apiece, so we're going to go probably two is perfect. this is our finished product here. so you guys are making the classic grilled sandwich. down here what we have, we have a little take on the american classic. this is what we call the waking bacon. this gives you an idea of what you can do beyond th