witnesses say glassner fell on to the tracks at the angora station in southwest philadelphia in the pathf media elwyn train. >> philadelphia police are trying to solve the murder of 27-year-old jasmine wright whose body was found yesterday in her west philadelphia apartment. dann cuellar is live at police headquarters. dann are they getting closer? >> yes jim they say they've been getting a lot of leads and they have a couple leads and a lot of tips and may very well be closing in on the person of interest. so far no arrests. they have also been talking to the victims' parents which could be crucial because one was talking to the vick timing on the phone around the tile of her killing. >> my understanding is that one of the parents was actually on the phone with the daughter eitherer at the time of the assault or right before the assault. that would be critical to find out what she heard or knows. >> friend of jasmine white are graduated over why someone would want tonight snuff out a promising young woman with a bright future she graduated with a pastors degree. she was ref eerd by frie

police say 71-year-old john glassner of clifton heights died after falling onto the tracks. this happened near the angora station near 58th and hoffman streets. >>> dozens of people pro testified outside philadelphia police headquarters today. they want the officers involved in tyree carol's arrest fired. >>> this video surfaced that shows a struggle between carroll an group of police officers. it happened during a drug investigation in germantown in april. police say carroll bit two of the officers but carroll's family said he was not resisting. today his family members and activists gathered to call for his release. an internal affairs investigation is ongoing. >>> school employees from philadelphia spent this day trying to convince lawmakers to pass a budget that includes money for education. they visited the officers of six state legislator around the region. this is video of their stop in doylestown at representative quinn's office. they want a budget passed that opposes a severance tax on natural gas drilling and with there money going towards public education but repu

. >> host: chapter 12, society the future of fear mongering barry glassner, profit lewis and clark college. americans will be fear inflame 2040 often about matters of minor consequence. >> guest: yes, well, barry has this book, the culture of fear, and i documents cases where people became panicked by problems that were actually very minor problems or not problems at all because it's very easy to drum up fear, and it's in some people's interests. if you want to get people to contribute to your cause just make people afraid of some disaster, and people are highly susceptible to that. so while barry doesn't know exactly what foolish thing we'll be afraid of, he knows we will. the real problem is there really are some things you should be afraid of. how do you tell the difference? that's the question. how do you tell the difference? didn't really get into that, but i'm hoping that this book will suggest that. >> host: when you sent out requests did you just send out blank requests saying i want you to write about x send it back? >> guest: well, one difference in this book and the one in 1955