ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming george dyson. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> it's great to have you here. >> thank you. >> welcome. so glad to have you here george. >> this is a fantastic exhibit. incomprehensibly good. >> thank you very much. we are delighted you are here. you are among friends. these are your people, george. we are going to have some fun tonight. let's talk about the practice of writing the book. you have an intensely personal connection to princeton and the institute of advanced study because your father, freeman dyson, and your mother -- talk a little bit about that, what it was like to grow up and be among people there. >> i have to be careful what i say, but for a child -- a young boy, it was not that interesting. it was populated by theoreticians who would work on pencil and people all day and go out into the woods and talk about physics. the most exciting thing was the chalkboard. they still use chalkboards at the time. there was no powerpoint. but there was this out building in the back where julia

first, let me say thank you to george dyson. [applause] come on up. >> take a chair. >> i want to hear her explain what it was like to join the project at age 17. >> have a seat. you and george have a little conversation. just hold it up. there you go. >> george and i have had several conversations. perhaps he -- you would be interested to know how we met. i have a son in philadelphia. and i went back-and-forth in fort collins, colorado. i met a woman whose father had been woodrow wilson's taylor when he was the president of princeton university. imagine how long ago that was. she was going back to princeton for a high school reunion. and we decided we would meet at princeton for lunch. but since i got there early, i went out to the institute. and the receptionist, when i told her my little bit of history, said why don't you go over to the library? you might be interested in what is over there. and what was over there was a display of the institute electronic computer 50 years ago. and in the case, i found onion skin copies of le

. >> our look at academy award nominated films continues later today with author george dyson. his book is a reference to alan turing who is portrayed in the film "the imitation game. >> in about 15 minutes, our live coverage of the national governors association winter meeting continues with the epa administrator, gina mccarthy. she will be part of a session on energy and water security. until then, we bring you part of this morning's "washington journal." we want to welcome adam green the cofounder of the progressive change campaign committee which is what? guest: it is a million member national grass roots organization, we do about half electoral work and our main focus is economic populism issues and democracy issues. in fact we coined the phrase, elizabeth warren wing of politics. our members chipped in over $1 million in small dollar donations. and we have been a champion of some of her issues. host: we love political paraphernalia. she insist that is she is not running. do you think she might? guest: never say never. and she said that herself. right now i don't think she

then author george dyson discusses his book "cathedral -- the origins of the digital universe.captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] susan: our guest on "newsmakers" this week is utah's governor gary herbert. the nation's governors are meeting in washington this week for their semi-annual confab and the governor is the vice-chair of the organization. this summer you will be taking over the gavel. before i introduce our two reporters, you announced to your reporters at home that your focus, when you take over the chairmanship, is going to be federalism. can you tell us what that concept means to you in 2015? gov. herbert: well, we are partners in sharing the responsibilities of government. the federal government with the states. it has always been envisioned that they were equal partners. states should not be subservient. yet we see with this continued growth and expansion, the federal government encroaches, i believe, into the

dyson. they say they have surveillance video of him making one of those withdraws at this 7-eleven on georgevenue. back to the court documents. dyson told police he exchanged sexual favors with dan belvin for money and the use of his vehicle. a senior murder victim a senior murder suspect. what the seniors here are saying about all this coming up at 6:00. live in montgomery county pat collins, news 4. >>> pat, thank you. >>t now, m street in george is back open for traffic. r part of the day, a fire brought the busy shopping area to a standstill. news 4's zachary kiesch talks to workers how they escaped the flames today. a lot of people in town asking the same question. caused the large section of m street to be shut down. what's responsible for all this smoke that rolled out of steve madden. >> my manager told me we had some gfi t heating. i smelled smoke later, around 10:00. i went downstairs to check and see if it was on fire like our furnac the doors. that's when virgil jeffries and his co-workers ran. this video shows what they saw when t scary. never been in a fire. >> it came around 1