if you have a smartphone, it may be that there's a gp schip embedded in your cell phone, and so your phone could be located with a great deal of precision. it actually doesn't matter if you have a smartphone or a dumb one. cell phones can be accessed regardless, and the reason is in order to work, cell phones have to communicate with the cell phone network. they communicate specifically with cell phone towers, you've probably seen them, that transmit the signal. and by knowing what tower a person's cell phone is communicating with, you get a pretty good picture of where they are. and so these technologies enable law enforcement agencies to track individuals in realtime, so as you're walking around the city or wherever you happen to live, as you're driving. but they also enable law enforcement agencies to track people where they've been in the past. most of the cell phone companies in the united states store records about where you have been for at least a year, and law enforcement agencies can serve subpoenas or other forms of court process on the companies and gain access to those r

gps units have changed way we drive. no more fumbling with maps. but now gps units are change. and you can get them free. the free gp, that comes with the iphone has one downside. it doesn't talk. tough look at your phone to get directions. a free app from map quest changes that. the map quest happen gives you audible direction. >> turn left. >> it sounded like a $200 gps unit. but how is for longer trips. >> i have been using it since july of last year. we've taken several long road trips. >> heather love it is. >> it tell knows turn in 50 feet or it say the thing is recalculating. it gets you where you need to go. >> reporter: but heather as well as others find some down sides. the screen is small and without a dash board mount it can be impossible to see. and you're using data. >> it eats through the data. >> false you dry in rule areas you can lose the signal. other gps uses a satellite. but it's hard to complain when it's free. bottom line, don't expect a top quality for free. but if you don't feel like spending $100 on average and you don't plan to use it every day a free

the country from federal agencies even that the progression of light squared would have an effect on gps. i think we're all familiar with how that has progressed. we move forward in the appropriations committee myself and congressman -- one of my colleagues and i move forward and i move forward with an amendment to sort of instruct the fec to fightin' up its process on light squared to hit some benchmarks to assure congress that light squared was not going to violate existing gps spectrum and part of the challenge is folks like myself have garmin in their district and other companies that rely on certainty in these markets before they invest and grow and build technology. it can scare off potential job growth and potential investment. that's in the president's budget this year. my questions are one, where are we going with light square if what's the latest. how do we avoid getting back in this situation again where there's concern across the spectrum by folks who are concerned about this. how do we avoid getting back to this position where ashurdly there will be other companies many the

the spectrum that they had purchased -- the spectrum that is directly adjacent to gps, anytime you areputting a high-powered, land-based cellular radio service next to one that is depending on much fainter signals from satellites, you're going to have potential issues. we worked as hard as we could, and all the federal agencies worked hard to really understand and evaluate how those two very disparate types of systems could coincide with each other, all we could conclude was that based on current technology, we couldn't see a path forward that was going to be helpful in the business needs. >> larry stripling is our guest on the show "the communicators." he is the administrator and assistant commerce secretary for communications and information, argus reporter, jasmine melton of reuters. >> is following up on the lightsquared issue. the company has said that if the federal communications commission were to pull the authority previously given to the company to build its network, they would collect a bait and switch by the government of historic scale. do you believe that the government a

being a gp is considered a privilege. they can take time off and get back to work with fresh ideas. >> getting used to being home again, he has just come back from libya where he worked for doctors without borders. before that, he was in india. he has traveled half the world but always returns. among other things, he visits the city's art museum. that may stay away for three weeks, you stay away for nine months, and you see something that is completely different. you come back here, and after nine months, absolutely nothing has changed. >> his daily routine is treating patients in the community cozy family surgery and continuing his training. officially, he is not yet a gp. he is still a trainee. it takes 12 years of medical study and training, and few are accepted. the government sets a quota. only the best are taken on. >> we think general practice is a very difficult specialty where you have to deal with all kinds of complaints that patients present to you. to be able to do so, you have to be very well-trained, very we

for our viewers in the united states, fareed zakaria "gps" starts right now. >>> this is "gps, the global public square." welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. first up on a great show, we'll tackle the three things your mother told you not to talk about with strangers. religion and politics and sex. catholic simple, mormonism, islam, abortion, they are all playing a role in the 2012 election campaign. i have a great panel, including andrew sullivan and john meecham to talk about it. next, david versus goliath. what small nation is talking on the most populous nation in the world? i'll tell you. then the politics of outer space. america won the race to the moon, but that was 40 years ago. the u.s. is essentially sitting on the bench in the current space race. will that hurt it back here on earth? and is america coming apart? that's what the author of a controversial new book says. i'll ask him about it. first, here's my take. something caught my eye the other day. pat robertson, the high priest of the religious right, had some startling thing

for our viewers in the united states, fareed zakaria "gps" starts right now. >>> this is gps in the global public square. i'm fareed zakaria. we have a terrific show for you today. making stops in many places around the globe. we start with what i believe is the single biggest threat to global stability right now, tennings between israel and iran. have a new round of sanctions eased israel's security concerns? i'll ask its defense minister ahud barack. then to another trouble spot, the afghan-pakistan region. with koran burnings and protests now in the past, will the united states be able to draw down troops without leaving chaos in its wake? next up, debt, shedding real light on our present situation in the united states and europe. we have the author of a phenomenal new book, phillip kogan. i'll explain. first, here's my take. some of you regular viewers will recall that at the start of the first show of this year i predicted hopefully that the u.s. woo economy would recover nicely in 2012. i'm returning to that topic with some preliminary good news. if you look around the industrialized

. >>> don't buy a gps yet, there is a free option that may make life easier. get map quest directions in the palm of your happened. >>> a boy separated from his family for years uses the internet to find his way w he d >>> baltimoreians using a new tool to keep track of the water conditions in tinner harbor. blue water baltimore monitoring conditions at 30 sites and posting those results on line. samples taken and analyzed for bacteria, this will continue through november. >>> gps units have been a really great way to get around for ten years, units are changing, get them for free. the free gps on an iphone has a big downside, you have to look at the phone if you want to get directions. a free app changes all of that. the map quest store mobile app gives you a direction for the iphone, android and the blackberry. >> it tells me to turn in 50 feet. it says the famous recalculating. it gets you where you need to go. >> there is a downside. the screen is small, without a dashboard phone mount, it can be impossible to see. using data for the trip and the battery,

it's aptly named app-free gps live for iphone.f spending up to $50 or $60 for a downloadable gps solution like tom-tom offers for iphone, this is completely free to use. you grab this gps live, free, for the u.s. market. go overseas, one for europe. also one for canada. if you want to go north, and it's completely free. gives you turn-by-turn directions with audio. you'll be able to hear it. turn left and, 50 feet, that kind of thing. it's got gps, sorry, bing and google search for restaurants and hotels and gas stations. so it's a full-featured, the first full-featured yet completely free gps app for iphone. >> cool stuff. now tell us about this very popular instagram for pictures. now for android devices get to enjoy? >> as of last week, the 30 million or so apple device users can share and comment and tag photos with other instagram users. it's a free app for your phone. once you take all the photos this spring with friends and family, you can touch them up with instagram. sepia tone, a vintage look, dress them up and share the

gps that is stolen -- >> as best as we can. if we have the staffing available, we are about catching bad guys. >> of the recovery rate of these devices is not good. if you lose your device, you have lost your device. i mean, it is whatever the market will bear. these are a commodity that are traded. being used, the person that was the owner of the phone could tell that it was taken from them and in use. they do that in australia and we're working to see if we can get something like that locally. >> [inaudible] >> thank you.

fareed zakaria gps is next for our viewers here in the united states. >>> this is "gps, the global public square." welcome to all of you in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. on today's terrific show, we'll take you around the world and back again. we'll start in china with the stunning scandal over the rising political star. this is a story filled with allegations of murder and spying and corruption and more. it has beijing on the defensive. i will talk to the new yorkers beijing correspondent evan about what it all means. then pakistan which had its own mini-scandal a year ago leading to the ouster of its famous ambassador to washington. we have the first exclusive interview with ambassador akani since then. he will tell us what happened to him and what's happening in pakistan. also, why in the world has immigration from mexico to the united states stopped in its tracks? we'll take a look. next up, the american elder statesman brent scowcroft on syria, iran, and the middle east, and how he feels today about the republican party which he served for decades. >> do

. >> coming up next, what's the point of having gps on your ipad?e'll have a story that will have you racing to have it on yours. >> kelly and jamie, coming up on night line, a six-year-old girl vanishes without a trace as her devastated parents plead for her return. tonight the search for isabel celis. plus we'll go behind the scenes where d-listers can cash in on 15 minutes of fame. >> have you got an ipad? you got to lis ten to this story. a university of texas student's ipad was stolen during band practice. she had a gps function enabled and used a friend's computer to track it. >> when i first got my ipad, i'm like i'm never going to use this. i turned it on because you never know. it saveloadit -- saved all my stuff. >> police use d the gps device to follow the thieves and they caught them within an hour. >> for a face only a mother could love. take a look. this is a nu ewly -- newly hatched king penguin. this is from the aquarium of moody gardens in texas. these penguins are different. they're born with a thin covering making them look naked.

activated a gps unit. police weren't watching the car at the time but knew where it was. fortunately by the time police got to where the couple was they had bailed. >> if you're going to put a bait car, put car to watch. >> you don't know when it's going to get stolen. that's a lot of what'sed man-hours looking at the car. >> you have it out there 24/7. you put it out there for a few hours and your shift is to watch the bait car. >> like i'm going to be fishing. send out a van, i'll leave my fishing rod there. maybe a fish will get it, i'll come back later. >> why gps if you're going to watch it. >> clearly it didn't work. >> they didn't expect them to ditch the car so quickly. they are looking for the people. they are pretty confident they will catch up with them because they have such clear images of their face. >>> darcy the cow lives on a farm near denver. apparently youan't keep a cow down on the farm. guess wherehe went. california? >> the moon. >> she broke outfit her coral and went to mcdonald's. >> fries and a strawberry milk chic. >> we got a call from dispatch

and i record that with a gps unit. a gps unit is a global positioning system unit.t will tell me exactly on the earth's surface where i'm standing at that moment. i can then take a photograph of the landscape that i see, and i can look at what the photograph sees, versus what the satellite remote sensor sees, and compare the two. narrator: finally brent combines the information from the satellite images and his ground truthing to make a map of land use. mccusker: i generated this map by taking two satellite images-- one from the year 2000 and one from the year 1989. i then classified the vegetative cover on both images and then subtracted one from the other. basically, i said, "what was here in 1989, and now what's here?" what we see on the mashambalogu cpa is a lot of extensification. extensification means you're taking the same amount of land and you're using it less purposefully. narrator: all of the pink areas, for example, indicate land where there was agricultural production in 1989, but in the year 2000 was mostly grassland. there are a few areas of intensifi

american crass roads and cross crossroads gps.eady spend $11 million in ads against obama including $1.7 million in ads blaming him for high gas prices like this. >> no matter how obama spins it, gas costs too much. tell obama stop blaming others and pass better energy policies. >> 90% of the funds that go to crossroads gps, a non-profit, comes from two dozen donors. that's it. in fact, two of them gave over $10 million. now you want to hear the real joke, you want to know what gps stands for? grassroots policies strategyies. that is grassroots when 90% of your money comes from these incredibly rich donors. by the way, it's supposed to be a social welfare group.

they are worried about auto safety, people being distracted by gps devices even though many are voice activated. right now it is a guideline. today's guidelines are tomorrow's mandates. now any counter intuitive economist such as the people that work on the floor down from here will tell you this will probably result in a net reduction in auto safety for the simple reason most people if they can't use their bill-in gps devices will use their smart dpoens and juggle them by street steering wheel, driving down the road. coolidge would have known what to do with this idea. there is one example that i like when he veto ad bill to expand crop subsidies. he said this is a really bad idea. if we start doing this farmers will start growing more crops instead of fewer. and the problem of course that requires subsidies is if we growing more crops, put more pressure on prices and increase in demand in washington to increase subsidies further. but ended by saying, quote, the most decisive reason for it to be to this bill is it is not con constitutional. imagine that. if we could wish for a reform

fareed zakaria gps is next here for our viewers in the united states. >>> this is "gps, the global public square." welcome to all of us in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we have a wonderful show for you today. we begin with a tour of the world from the french elections to the syrian standoff to india's nuclear missile test. you've heard of the brics. one of the world's top investors says brazil, russia, india, and china have hit a brick wall. why and who will take their place as the next hot emerging markets? >>> then andrew sullivan on why he had to wait almost 20 years to get a green card in the united states. it's a fascinating, troubling story. >>> we're also going to look at the war on drugs in mexico. could it actually be working? first, here's my take. a new poll in the united states shows that americans are still deeply frustrated at the slow pace of the economic recovery. that's understandable. unemployment stays stubbornly high. i was just in europe, and they think america is booming. consider this. the u.s. economy is on track to grow between 2% and

how do we do it in a way that doesn't offend the gps situation we already have in the country and the investment that's been made there? >> the goal in that particular proceeding they're really two fundamental goals. one was to free up more mobile spectrum for broad band. we do have a significant capacity challenge that has the risk of restraining growth and private investment in mobile and the second was deregulatory. that spectrum had an old regulation on it. prohibiti prohibiting test ree yal use. the effort was to remove the barrier from te rest ree yal mobile build out. as you saw from the actions we are taking those into account. it's an open proceeding still. we're continuing to be analyze the record. we were very clear from the start of it that we would have to address that. there's a larger issue that i do look forward to working with you, all the members of the committee. there's no reason it shouldn't be a bipartisan issue which is how do you make sure that we can remove barriers to spectrum use and that the incentives are in place to avoid interference being caused by devi

fareed zakaria gps is next for our viewers here in the united states. >>> this is "gps, global public square." welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm fareed zakaria. we begin an important show with the most important topic today. the economy. to talk about it, we have no lesser an authority than president obama's top economic advisor, that's gene sperling, director of the national economic council. why isn't employment picking up? we'll ask him. then we'll go global. who should be the next president of the world bank? should it be an american, as always, or should it be opened up to emerging economies, in asia, africa, south america, nigeria's finance minister says she should be the bank's next leader, and she has some very influential supporters. we will talk to her. also, the new kind of warfare we're seeing pop up more and more. dirty wars. that's what the "new york times"'s jeffrey getleman calls them, and we'll talk to him about it. first, here's my take. as many regular viewers know, i have been following the tense back and forth with iran very clo

. >> that can be accomplished by the use of a gps monitoring device. i've been in touch with seminole downç tichl i would have broug them, but they would tell you stuff, information i know you already know, which is gpss are nationwide now. they are secure. if -- we will know quickly if he's not in the location he is. we have surrendered his passport. he doesn't have a legal way to get out of the country. though there are always illegal ways for people to get out of the country. we then need to know what mr. zimmerman has done during the time this event has been pending. as proffered by the state, he's stayed in constant contact with law enforcement and literally building a trust with relationship with fdle. when he was set to come in those the active warrant wasn't identified, though i don't fault them, they did what they had to do to secure his safety. he came in voluntarily. he is well established in the community, ten years, though he cannot stay in this community. he had a job that he was doing quite well at for a long time. he was able to suppor

you track your daughter's driving habits through gps. under the guise of safety. you're concerned about speeding but really what troubles you is when the gps shows excessive idling. oh, my lord. i need that gps. will you clue me in on that. i got a 16-year-old right there. we're online. we're live around the world. you're done. his wife is an accomplished i.t. consultant. and, joe, i love the facts that are sent to me. joe's 38 framed pictures of his family in his office and he picked them out and framed himself. this was also sent to me. joe would like to you know he has 1100 female partners and directors at deloit. [ laughter ] okay, joe. and joe will be making -- that doesn't fix it. okay. joe will be making an announcement which we actually shared with the world on "morning joe" this morning about yet another commitment that deloit is making to further women in the kmarks commitment they are making with tens of millions of dollars and it's really incredible. we're glad to have you on the panel. finally we have cecilia rouse. she's a professor at the economics

. >> zimmerman left with a gps monitoring bracelet relaying real-time information on where he will be staying. the defense team says there are a half dozen secret locations they believe he could be safe. that left security officers with the probation department say the gps system will work anywhere in the country. in sanford, fla., back to you. >> another delay in the trial of two brothers accused of assault and carrying a deadly weapon. the werdsheim brothers are accused of beating a teenager who suffered a laceration to his head and broken ribs. an attorney said they were acting in self-defense. the attorney will hear motions tomorrow. fire crews remain on the scene of a fire in baltimore in canton. lisa robinson is live at the scene where crews are still working. what more can you tell us. >> the cause remains undetermined. arson investigators on the scene as well as investigators for the department of the environment. it started near boston street around 8:30 p.m. sunday night. residents did have to be evacuated because of heavy chemical fumes. there are 50-gallon containers of an

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handheld gps systems are just one example. gps would be wonderful while i'm traveling, but the printout would be in braille, and i would have to learn how to use braille. with changing technology, smaller devices like that don't have the capacity for large print. they can only show one letter at a time. it would take forever to read one word. i know that won't work, so when you project out 5 to 10 years, the new technologies will challenge me to become fluent in braille, as well. narrator: technology is rapidly changing the way we all live our lives. so, too, medical research is changing the way we view and treat disease. with all this progress, what does the future hold for those who have usher syndrome? this is going to be a very gradual process. we're going to be able to slow it first because that's the easiest thing to do. ultimately, we'll be able to stop the progression of the rp, and finally, we're going to be able to reverse it and give back some of the vision that people have lost. now, this isn't going to happen tomo

consumer reports just tested three gps units to see how well they can track pets that wander off. >> jesse runs a pet city and has pets and says it's not uncommon for a kog dog to run off. >> best thing to do is just breathe, not to panic. >> consumer reports tested three gps tracking devices to see if they can help find a run away pet. the $170 gtu 10 for $100. there are virtual boundaries online, then, you can yees use a smart phone and the romo uses a radio hand set. >> testing these i had another engineer carry them around outside. i tried to locate him. >> good news no engineer was lost and testers did find a hand set made it easy to track. >> and there is limited rain. and buildings can enjoy that. >> and there is 24 hours of battery live. >> and it's minimum virtual boundary about four acres. bigger than your average yard. >> your dog could be next door. and you'd never know it location is quick if you use it for an additional $5 per month. >> this is easier to track. >> it just might be worth it. >> and the garment uses at and t and charges $50 after the first year. the tags

>>> this is "gps" global power square. >>> we start with the single biggest threat to global economy now the tensions between israel and iran. have a new round of sanctions eased security concerns? i will ask the defense minister, ehud barak. then to another trouble spot, the afghanistan/pakistan region. with koran burnings -- the united states alone in the industrialized world is demo graphically dynamic. it adds 3 million peoples to the numbers every year and at some point, kids don't want to live with their parents and that will produce demand for housing and at that point, the recovery will gain full steam. the new potentially game-changing trend for the united states is the rise of shale gas, thanks to the new process of fracing, american now has 75 years of natural gas and most important, it is the world's low-cost producer of natural gas. the rise in gasoline prices and petroleum prices has obscured this much more important fact. energy costs are plummeting in america. that's why manufacturers like dow chemical are actually opening new factories in the united states. you see,

. >> he has some sort of gps system, right? >> map, gps, of course, food and water.ial custom boat that would pretty much make it impossible for the boat to sink. day 23 the rutter of the boat broke. he made almost the entire journey with no rudder, no steering. he found a leak in the boat, his lowest point. >> oh, no. >> bailing water out of the boat right now. >> one of the other fears he, getting run over by otherae sps t e hardest part. no. he got visitors. a sea turtle. the whales, also a shark fin. on day 98 he endured one more storm. that wound up capsizing his boat. >> no! >> waves are pretty rough. but my boat was sideways. i was tipped by a pretty big wave that sort of turns the boat over. >> he lost his food. he lost his water. he lost other supplies. the boat righted itself. he continued on for another eight days to finish his journey without food. >> no food? >> he had nothing but protein powder and orange drink. he had water. a hand pump, pumping water. he reached the island of antigua 106 day afrs he left the canary islands in spain, 3,972 miles erode

just promise me you won't change your habit of watching "gps." now for the last look.s. not only do they have to be careful of whom they consort with, what they say, and the promises they don't keep. they now need to look out for what they wear. on their wrists. take a look at nicolas sarkozy and what should have been a standard political event. shaking hands at a rope line. but it turned into a scandal thanks to this little move. you see, he has a watch in this photo, and in this one taken just after he has no watch. what happened? he took off his watch and he put it in his pocket. the french press speculated whether he was worried about somebody stealing it or whether he was worried that he would get flack for its reported $75,000 price tag. well, he got flack all right. then there's this one from russia with bad luck. seems the russian orthodox church photo shopped a $30,000 watch off the wrist of its patriarch. they front of to photo shop off the reflection of the watch. oops. and you have to be especially careful if you are in china. there's a blogger there who is

probation system here tell us that that gps bracelet will work anywhere in the country. so there has been speculation that he will leave the state of florida. trayvon martin's parents not excited about this at all. very emotional we are told by their attorney. frustrated that he is leaving jail. they are ready for this legal process to continue though both sides say a trial likely won't come until sometime next queer. that's the latest from here in sanford, i'm jay gray. back to you now. >> thanks so much. >>> nbc news learned that investigators have found possible bits of forensic evidence in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old etan patz. dozens of items including strands of hair, a piece of paper and other possible evidence was found by investigators searching a new york city basement. the material is being sent to a virginia lab. the boy's family has been told no human remains were found. the basement which was along the boy's route at the time of his disappearance was used as a workshop and storage space. >>> and now here's a look at some other stories making news e