>> one important factor is a gene called the comp gene, one is the warrior gene and equally spread. half of us have one of these, half of us only have warrior genes and a quarter of us only warrior and the quarter of us warrior only. the warriors, not bad to have them only. they think about the future plan, strategize and have a 10- point iq advantage on average, as long as you not stressed. >> uh. >> under stress, the brain function melts down. >> the worrier? >> that is the worrier. it's not bad but has a negative worth to it. the warriors which, sounds cool, they don't, their brains don't work best without stress. they actually need stress and intensity and pressure to raise dopamine levels in their brain to optimal levels. only then do the brains work their best. >> maybe it's wrong, is this like people who say i can't do anything until the last minute? i do my best work at the last minute, i can't plan ahead. >> if they do their best work at the last minute. this is not a way to condone all lazy people out there, right. [ laughter ] >> that is okay. >> some people are slackers

>> gene sperling? >> gene sperling. >> gene sperling.the speaker of the house to top off the program on reaction to what happens today at the white house. >> that's pretty good. >> and how we get past this. >> that's pretty exciting. >> keep them separated, man. >> david axelrod, thank you. >> good to be with you. >> good luck getting back to chicago. >> yes, yes. >> chuck todd, thank you so much. see you at 9:00 eastern time on msnbc. >> hey, chuck, we've been a little late the past couple weeks. >> that's all right. i take it out -- you know what happens, i take it out of jansing, and we pay it forward. and so i just tell her to blame you. so jansing's going to be all after you. >> it's the circumstanle of lif. >> goth that, chris? it's all joe's fault. >> it's all my fault. >> former senator russ feingold joins us. more "morning joe" in just a moment. for over 125 years we've been bringing people together. today we'd like people to come together on something that concerns all of us...obesity. and as the nations leading beverage compan

we have a wide variety of gene picks. gene's trash. i'm gene. hi.ilos, i can assure you i had no intention of telling anyone about your unbelievably bad tennis playing. thank you, but unfortunately, i have much larger problems to fry. my wife, she has no respect for milos anymore. i guess that's a risk you run when you dabble in the flesh trade. patty, she-- she loves tennis as much like i do. w-would you-- will you... let me beat you in tennis? that is the only way i can show her that i'm still a man. well, i'll do it as long as there's no other girls around. i mean, i want to be a man, too. jerry: so you hurt vincent's feelings? look what came in the mail today. what's this? it's the play button off his vcr. boy, look how far back it goes. it's like a tooth. so, guess where mr. ocean-phone turned up. he's working for firestone in akron, ohio. ohio? yep. i'm leaving first thing tomorrow morning. you're flying to akron just to zing a guy? don't you understand? it's not about him. to have a line as perfect as jerk store and to never use it. there are

gene, sound very family friend did ily as you describe it.n i think of kiss and family friendly and kids and all those kinds of things. let me ask you what is your biggest concern and as you expand and try and buildout your business? there are,as i said there are some different headwinds out there. unemployment is a huge one. you're asking people to spend their disposable income. what do you think about the state of the consumer right now? >> well, first of all, rock and brews makes it very, very affordable for everybody. we have all kinds of wonderful plans for people that work with us. everybody that works with us are partners. we have a very friendly work atmosphere. we're aware, look, once upon a time you did, i did, paul did, we all washed dishes. melissa: yep. >> we came up, we came up the hard way and got to where we are because america allowed us, the great american dream and we want to give back and rock and brews is a amazing american success sty. we're on the cover of franchise times. that is only happening because we have the qual

gene sperling is not a threatening person. and although emotions were running high, at the end of their e-mail exchange, it's pretty clear they're both on a very friendly status. >> schieffer: all right well, senator we want to thank you for giving us the democrats anti-side of the story. we'll be back and talk to bob woodward about this in just a minute. transit fares! as in the 37 billion transit fares we help collect each year. no? oh, right. you're thinking of the 1.6 million daily customer care interactions xerox handles. or the 900 million health insurance claims we process. so, it's no surprise to you that companies depend on today's xerox for services that simplify how work gets done. which is...pretty much what we've always stood for. with xerox you're ready for real business. [ male announcer ] ok, here's the way the system works. let's say you pay your guy around 2% to manage your money. that's not much you think. except it's 2% every year. does that make a difference? search "cost of financial advisors" ouch. over

the genes of the first 100,000 patients was done here at risch's u.c. lab in san francisco. it was a long and costly process that was paid for with $25 million of federal stimulus money from the national institutes of health. the data is stored digitally, billions of bits, in these u.c.s.f. servers. >> we think of this as really a gold mine, but a lot of gold is still in the mine. i mean, you need pickaxes to give it up. >> reporter: kaiser's schaefer says researchers are just beginning to tap into the database gold mine, and she thinks alzheimer's will be one of the diseases which will be better understood by what they find in the data bank. >> we don't have any way right now to treat alzheimer's. we don't have any way to prevent alzheimer's. so if we can understand what are the underlying pathways by which genes and environment interacting actually create the disease, then we have a chance to interrupt that process. >> reporter: researchers acknowledge that the promise of genetics to treat and potentially prevent disease is moving slower in some cases than initially expect

the other gene that we found involved is the serotonin transporter gene which is involved in personality traits like depression and impulsitivity and anxiety. people with those traits find it hard to give up smoking because they use the cigarette to self-medicate. karen miotto: because it's such a difficult addiction to recover from or to be in the process of recovery, we recommend a combination. try the patch. try an anti-depressant. make sure you go to some kind of program to get tools and techniques to identify when you're craving, when you're having high-risk situations, to help prevent the cycle of stopping and starting and stopping and starting. people really need to anticipate these risk situations and practice the behavior of declining, declining the cigarette or getting out of the situation. the individuals who simply believe they're going to proceed on willpower and don't anticipate the specific risk they're going to face and develop strategies for coping with those risks are much more vulnerable to relapse than individuals who've been through these behavioral psychosocial trea

tell us about the conversation. >> with gene sperling? >> yes. >> yeah, i mean, it was the half hour in which he was shouting at me. now, i've known him for 20 years and he e-mailed back don't i don't worry about shouts, but he was really worked up and, and then he sent me that e-mail apologizing and you know, saying i'm going to regret taking this stand. now, what we're talking about here is not a fact. he's not arguing with a fact because beforehand he said we're just not going to see eye to eye on this. it's an interpretation. obviously, he didn't like being challenged on this at all. but you know, people have said, well, this was a threat or i was saying it was a threat. i haven't used that language, but it's not the way to operate in a white house. it's not-- as you know, when somebody says you're going to regret something, particularly somebody in a position of power like gene sperling, he's not just a guy in the white house, he is the economic czar for the president. he did the same thing for bill clinton, has the same job, when yo

i'm gene otani in tokyo.

i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks for joining us. have a great day wherever you are.

. >> to you think there is a gene for music? >> well, you are the scientists.hter] i do not know. my grandfather was a side -- violinist with the san francisco symphony. my father was quite a good pianist. my brother was musical, my sister was not. i have a musical cousin. i do not really know. >> let me put it this way and i will try to stumble through a scientific explanation. let me remind the audience at this point that we are going to take questions in five minutes. there are microphones set up in the aisles. please be ready with your questions. if you had not become a musician professionally, do you think you would still be playing? >> yes, i think i would still be playing, but everybody should play a little bit, sing -- not everyone feels confident about their medical abilities, -- musical abilities, but it is such an import way to connect. it is, after all, a vibration. whether you are doing it to relax, get excited, to jump up and down, i think it is an import way to connect yourself to something that is a little bit bigger in life. life is a constant

mean gene as no one has ever called him. [laughter] we're going to read the e-mails. if there are children in the room, i would ask you to have them leave. my guess is they'll think it's pretty lame sperling writes, apologize for raising my voice in our conversation today. >> jon: interesting tactic. begin your threat with an apology. >> i do truly believe you should rethink your comments about saying the potus is moving the goal posts, i know you don't believe me but as a friend i think you'll regret making that claim. >> jon: that's la cosa nothing. woodward if you see i again, i'll wave to you because we're good friends. >> jon: that doesn't sound like a threat to me and i'm a coward. i'm sure in his return e-mail he discuss disappointment with this bullying tactic. >> gene, do you not ever have to apologize to me. >> jon: because access means never having to say you're sorry. great another ginned up distraction pulling focus from the sequester budget cuts. why is there no bill? mr. tangerine man, write a bill for me. >>

. >> on the science side, nobody is really sure, of course, whether there is a gene for music. two of the complicating factors are, a town that grows up in a household full of music will have a different set of learning experiences and in a house where music is not supported. become difficult to separate nature from berkshire because of these in our mental factors. the other thing that is interesting is music manifests itself in some way different ways. not all composers can blame their instruments very well. and not all instrumentalists compose, and there are for rangers that do not play or compose. you would not say that they are not musical. then you have all of these people who are musical experts, disk jockeys, film supervisors, and they have what we would call musical sensitivity, but it manifests itself in so many different ways, the hunt for a gene is complicated by that. if you are looking for a gene that might give you blond hair, that manifests itself in different ways, but more less is blond hair. musicality is 10 or 12 different things. and to become a great musici

>> reporter: yes, gene.i keqiang and xi jinping are expected to be confirmed as vice premier and president at next week's national people congress. chinese government officials are trying to show they are doing what they can to keep the peace. a foreign ministry spokesperson appealed to leaders in north and south korea to let cooler heads >>> china is north korea's biggest ally but it too supports the latest u.n. sanction. the country is in the process of a leadership transition. james tengan is in beijing covering developments as part of our series, "china, change and challenge." james, how is the story on the korean peninsula playing out there? >> reporter: yes, gene. xi jinping and li keqiang are expected to be confirmed as china's president and vice premier next week at the national people's congress. it looks like the situation on the korean peninsula will be their first major foreign policy challenge. chinese government officials are trying to show they are doing what they can to keep the peace. a fore

come on, gene, chop-chop with the chop-chop. whoa, it's tippy! aah, no, gene, get the fin!ene grunting) are we safe here? of course! it's safety tape. they can't just call it that if it's... aah! aah! run, shark, run. we set it free. no, we didn't, we were never here. but we were. remember right now? yeah, okay, but you know what i just remembered? we were never here. oh, okay. (funky soundtrack playing) man, this movie is, like, 90% nude car wash. bob, there's some kind of commotion down at the wonder wharf. it's like the running of the bulls but dumber. yeah, but with a shark. uh, yeah, it is a shark. yeah, it's a shark. fischoeder: nothing to worry about. having a little shark problem. uh, good time to grab a hot dog or some popcorn. oh, or a hot dog. mr. fischoeder, enough's enough, right? you've got to shut off the shark, right? i mean, now. shut it off? oh, no, no, i've got a packed park. i can't shut down my top attraction. i mean, i really can't. that thing's on till it runs out of gas. but what if it breaks out of wonder wharf? what happens then? those are reinforc

and this issue came up as i asked gene sperling about. here's how woodward reacted to getting the email. he spoke on cnn this week. >> i mean, it makes me very uncomfortable to have the white house telling reporters you're going to regret doing something that you believe in, even though we don't look at that way, you do look at it that way. >> you know, i told gene sperling he should be offended that nobody believes he's that threatening. [ laughter ] >> well, i have known bob a long time, going back to his seminal days as a watergate reporter. and i'm confident that white houses have made him a lot more uncomfortable than that email over the course of the years when he talked to. any reporter who has worked in this town has been yelled at by somebody in the white house or somebody on the hill. it just comes with the territory. this is a speck that became a sandstorm overnight. and i think it's really reflective of the kind of media environment that we live in, in which everybody is looking to stir something up. when i was covering waterg

the baldness gene comes from your grandfather.n i suppose the bosom gene comes from your grandmother. frank can't be too comfortable with those things clanging around. he should wear something for support. you mean a bra? a bra is for ladies. i'm talking about a support undergarment specifically designed for men. that brain never stops working, does it? that's right. i'm going to go noodle with this. hey! we're twins. what? our shirts they're the same. oh. imagine that. what did you say to the doorman? what? nothing. he claims that you followed him home and started harassing him. has this guy got a personal vendetta with me 'cause i asked him about the knicks? did you make the movie? no. you want to go tonight? you can pick me up. we'll go to a later show when he's off his shift. now we have to rearrange our lives to avoid the doorman? yes, we do. what is wrong with george? he's trying to get something off his chest. i got to talk my mother into taking him off my hands. help you? [gasps] what are you doing here? you're supposed to

bob woodward wrote back to gene. you do not have to apologize to me. get wound up because you are making their points and believe them. this is all part of a serious discussion. i for one welcome a little heat. then he goes out and says he was threatened by the white house. i am telling you see, what a phony f he were a real mensch i think woodward would say this thing has gotten all blown out of proportion. i have to tell you i respect gene spiraling. he has his point of view. i have my point of view. i should not have -- i should not have talked to politico. i should not have the made a big deal of this. i'm sorry i did. if he had any, you know, trues convictions left. right? >> what he ought to do. >> yeah. >> that's what he should do. >> don't hold your breath exactly. gary is in woodstown new jersey. what do you say? good morning. gary? gary? gary? no. obvious. say hello to dan in shan 'tily, virginia. good morning >> caller: woodward, i don't know who wrote -- i'm sorry. i don't know who i don't know what his tactics are. he goes to you in the wh

. >>> new evidence shows your genes can help identify whether you are likely to get cancer.arly hal explains how this could be vital in preventing that disease. >> harden never thought she was get breast cancer. >> i had a breast sonogram and that's when they found that i had stage 0 cancer. >> the 42 -year-old didn't have a history of the disease in her family. >> no one could explain to me why i was getting cancer, if genetically, you know, i wasn't set up. >> now, new research may be able to help identify people who are at increased risk for cancer before they get it. scientists from around the globe uncovered genes that could increase a person's chances of developing breast, ovarian and prostate cancer. >> it's all about predicting who might get cancer and avoiding the disease if at all possible. that's the theme here. the genetics can identify who's at risk then we can catch the cancers very early or avoid them completely. >> scientists found 49 new markers for breast cancer, 23 variations for prostate cancer and 11 for o variance cancer. >> involved in this massive stu

how will that change or contaminate the gene pool in the wild?course that's the concern of environmentalists is that it will some how they would get away. in fact, the reason why ron invited us at our behest to come look at his farm. he has a lab up in canada, which we saw and a farm down in panama. we went to both locations. the reason why he did that was to try to show that there was in his words no way. with so many redundancies that this fish could get in and mate with regular fish and some our spoil them. first of all, this fish genetically altered fish is sterile. up to 95% to 99%. yes, there is a 2% chance if it got in the water it could impregnate another wild fish. that was the first redundancy. secondly these fish are grown in fresh water far away from the ocean with no direct path to the ocean. according to the company they have--they showed us, re redundancy after redundancy the nets that would keep them from getting in the streams. it doesn't satisfy everybody but they do have those things. >> michael: this is a part of the story aft

there is a major potential breakthrough in the fight against cancer. 0 scientists identifying new genes that can reveal a person's risk for breast ovarian or prostate cancer. dr. samadi this is amazing. >> now finally we have great news for everybody out there because this is the multiinstitution of studenty, over 100 institutions came together, looked at over 200,000 patients. they're trying to really break the genetic codes. when two patients with prostate cancer come to my office, it's hard to know which one has the slow growing disease and which one is aggressive. now for the first time they have come up with genetic codes where they can tell us exactly what the risk strat fiction is. what that does is it would reduce the number of biopsies, reduce the number of surgeries and radiation. they've come up with the same number of codes, about 60 of them, for breast cancer, 26 for prostate and 8 for ovarian cancer. huge news. still in clinical trial, still not in practice. but in the future, dr. siegel, myself, we can actually look for the geneticist and say, you have to go to surgery, y

well it turns out that the same genes that control metabolism also control appetite-- these are genes coding for hormones and receptors that are released in response to how much a person eats and how fat their cells are, in essence. it turns out the same hormones and receptors control how hungry you are. so when people eat a big meal, the hormone is produced. the hormone tells the body, "burn off the fat and use it as fuel," and it also tells the brain, "you're full, stop eating." if a person has a problem or different variety of these hormone and receptor genes, then their body doesn't burn off the fat so well and they want to continue eating. so often people will say, "well, he has a metabolic problem, but she doesn't have enough willpower." actually both of those are at least, in part, affected by a person's genes. one theory is that these genes are leftover survival mechanisms from thousands of years ago, when humans lived from one meal to the next-- or one feast to the next famine. joanne ikeda, r.d.: if, when they found a lot, they ate a lot and deposited fat in the body, then w

gene, you personally experienced some initial family rejection when you came out.ink your marriage will change minds? >> i do. but what's more important and senator portman's situation with his son is the perfect example. when people are confronted with the fact that they know people who are lgbt, it is no longer an academic exercise. a father looking at his son or daughter, a mother looking at a son or daughter, how could they not want happiness for their kid? that's the importance of coming out. and senator portman is to be congratulated for making the leap that he made. his son demonstrated a great deal of courage and he is the one who in my heart deserves our congratulations and our thanks even more. he's the one who took that critically important first step. >> gene, jim, thanks so much -- and congratulations! >> thank you very much. >>> still much more ahead here in the "cnn newsroom." investigators want to know what caused a horrible crash at a spring car race. it killed two people. a live report coming up. >>> watch cnn's new show "the lead" with jake tappe

>> reporter: hi, gene. members of the congress got straight to work. they divided into subcommittees to talk about the issues premier wen brought up in his speech. the men expected to control china after next week also took part in the discussions. communist party chief xi jinping joined representatives from shanghai. he said courage is needed to deepen reforms so the country can develop. he admitted that wouldn't be easy and described the process as being like gnawing at hard bone and waiting at a dangerous shoal. he also stressed the importance of technology. he said the process will not be easy. he stressed the importance of innovation and technology in china's future development. the vice premier met with officials discussing shortening the gap between rich and poor. he said developing rural and urban areas is key to improving people's life and maintaining a healthy economy. the income disparity within china grows day by day. government figures show people in major cities earn three times as much as those in farming villages. china's children are p

hi, gene. what's up? just reading. ahh. hey, what are you doing? eating olives.rings] who is it? feldman: feldman... from across the hall. hold on. hey. hey, kevin. hi. look who i ran into. hello, kevin. hello, vargas. kevin: wanna catch a ball game this weekend? great! ok, great. i'll see you later! vargas! well, i got 'em! all right! hey, elaine, feldman was able to get us all tickets to the bolshoi. "fourth row, center." get out! kevin: aah aah! what's the matter with you? oh, kevin. i'm so sorry. is there anything i can do? haven't you done enough already? just-- it's-- it's locked. so this is it, huh? but it was-- it was here, i'm telling you. it wa-wa-wa-- it was really here. there was a bar and a dance floor. i guess the d.j. booth was over there behind the bone saw. let's get out of here, george. captioning made possible by columbia tristar domestic television captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- do you think the moon is really made of cheese? [ crisp crunches ] whoo-hoo-hoo! guess it was. [ male announcer ] pringles bursting

. ♪ ♪ >> greg: it was the president's economic advisor gene sperling saying he regretted saying that the goalpost in sequest tration. it hate volleyball metaphors. here is woodward yakking. >> share with viewer what is is going on between you and the white house. >> it makes me uncomfortable to have the white house telling reporters you are going to regret doing something you believe in. >> greg: was sperling giving a threat or friendly advice? why can't it be both? regret comment translates to you look stupid if you write that, which is how the white house man caned the media on benghazi. remember benghazi? the film "argo" won best picture being about heroic rescue of americans. obama won re-election with the opposite. michelle gave out that oscar, the joke was on us. another joke, what do washington politics and diaper have in common? at the end of the day, both are full of crap. we have obama staffer insuspecting woodward on twitter. is this a government or sorority sleepover? is fluff fluf plouffe braiding s hair? what is a few trillion when kim kardashian is pregnant? the fact,

i mean, yes, our genes are very similar, but there is a gene for skins features, an african american and european, that may be just a tiny portion of genes, but we have culturally grown it to treat those as things by which we categorize people. tavis: do you think that they can be unlearned or unacquired? >> it would be nice if it were that easy. we have been doing research. others have been doing research, trying to eradicate the associations, the implicit, the hidden biases, but it does not happen easily. imagine you were -- here is an example. all of a sudden, we decide, well, women we call she, her, men we call he and him, and let's change that. we will call the women he and heim and men she and her. we could not do that. actually, in the 1970's, we did that when we try to get rid of male pronouns generically. 40 years later, some of us are having difficulty with that, and that is the kind of difficulty. these are things so ingrained, so automatically established that erratic eating them is no simple task, perhaps impossible. we are only going to be passed this when our culture h

worked in two white house and i've heard pretty big screaming matches with reporters and you know, gene sperling is not an aggressive, nasty guy at all. what -- but woodward obviously referring to was the way the media react today him. it wasn't the white house reaction, it was the media reaction. john nolte at breitbart did a long list of new york times, politico, cnbc, slate, gawker, andrew sullivan wrote a headline bob woodward quote, did he m demonstratable liar. >> and when he said he interpreted the white house words as a threat, it's whether he was write when he reported that the president isn't telling the truth about his role in the sequester and behaving badly as his national on the national security show. america is still waiting for the white house press corps to take up that story. >> right, the well, the issue whether or not woodward was right, inserting that tax revenues were never on the part of the original sequester, is really very, very important. and we've seen all too little discussion of that in the media and much too much about whether or not the threat was a kind

(gene siskel) it was a carny show in effect.he impulse that we must offer sometng that they can't get at home, and one of the things would be to widen out. that was triggered by television. (announcer) ladies and gentlemen, this is cinerama. (screams in the background) (charles champlin) cinerama has 3 projectors, wonderful effects. i mean you really did get a 3-d effect on a 2-d screen, (screams in the background) but it was just too cumbersome and you had wavering lines where the images met and it was wonderful novelty, but it just wasn't going to do it. (sound effects as doors slide open) (narrator) although it failed to catch on, it led to new widescreen forms. this motion picture was photographed in the grandeur of cinemascope and gorgeous life-like color. (single musical note) gorgeous life-like color (music playing) (jonas rosenfield) imagine,n september of 1953, the impact of this huge image on the audiences which attended the showing of the first of the cinemascope pictures. studios were quick to realize that cinemascop

(gene siskel) it was a carny show in effect.he impulse that we must offer sometng that they can't get at home, and one of the things would be to widen out. that was triggered by television. (announcer) ladies and gentlemen, this is cinerama. (screams in the background) (charles champlin) cinerama has 3 projectors, wonderful effects. i mean you really did get a 3-d effect on a 2-d screen, (screams in the background) but it was just too cumbersome and you had wavering lines where the images met and it was wonderful novelty, but it just wasn't going to do it. (sound effects as doors slide open) (narrator) although it failed to catch on, it led to new widescreen forms. this motion picture was photographed in the grandeur of cinemasco and gorgeous life-like color. this motion picture (single musical note) gorgeous life-like color by delux (music playi) (jonas rosenfield) imagine, in seember of 1953, the impact of this huge image on the audiences which attended the showing of the first of the cinemascope pictures. studios were quick t

joining me now, gene robinson and political analyst, dark par putinly, chairman of the south carolinay. you have been manning the south carolina desk here. counting every one of these votes as they come in. stephen colbert's sister won with 151% of the voters. >> ran against a perpetual candidate who, you know, wasn't going to win. so she won. so this will be very interesting. she's an interesting candidate in her own right and has a shot at a very red state of winning a congressional seat. >> dick, is mark sanford maybe the only republican she could beat in that district? >> well, i think that he is not the only republican but certainly is the easiest target. he is by no means home. we prefer to run against him. he has not only the app latch and trail and promised term limits and is running again. the scandals of his governorship, ethical and moral are renowned in the state. i think he is a candidate of choice for us. >> let's listen to mark sanford talk about re-entering the world of politics. >> you know, you step in with more than a bit of fear and trepidation because you knew you

there is a major potential breakthrough in the fight against cancer. 0 scientists identifying new genes that can reveal a person's risk for breast ovarian or prostate cancer. dr. samadi this is amazing. >> now finally we have great news for everybody out there because this is the multiinstitution of studenty,

"gene, you do not ever have to apologize to me. you get wound up because you are making your points and you believe them. this is all part of a serious discussion. i for one welcome a little heat. i also welcome your personal advice. i am listening." now, after reading the e-mails, woodward i think lost some real shine in the conservative circles in this country. for instance, the daily caller website said conservatives got played by woodward. but the most important thing this episode reveals is that -- really the broken nature of mainstream journalism in washington. the washington beltway media have a real impact on how stories are shaped and get shaped in this country, with the reciprocal pickup across the country, once they see what the washington media is saying. and don't you think they have a responsibility to get the story right? and when they get it right, they have a responsibility to make sure that they continue to report it factually. but when they get it wrong, they have to correct it. bob woodward in my opinion on this

she is the founder of next gene girls. this was started at the grassroots, an organization commit today empowering young women for under represented communities to see themselves in science by introducing the girls to the wonders and the many -- to wonder of the many different scienceses such as engineering, technology and math professions. this is a visionary woman i set before you and it is a privilege to be able to honor her. but a little bit about who she is. she was born in the most beautiful part of san francisco. she was reared in the most wonderful promising talented part of san francisco. and without any further ado, you guys probably guess it had. that's bayview hunters point. you got to give the lady some credit. so, mom and dad, thank you very much for raising outstanding woman. (applause) >> now, ms. jackson, she understands the roadblocks and challenges many of our young people face when it comes to growing up in a challenged community around such as bayview hunters point. but she wants to change that. she wa