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is to bring these heroes alive. i don't want earhart to be a black and white figure in a history texbook. i want her to be as amazing as she is to us. that's what the books try to do. we do lincoln as women. the stories are real. they are all real. i found a story almost no one knows. we found from a great group that studied lincoln in illinois, at this amazing -- an incredible resource for us. a true story that lincoln was when he was 10 he finds a group of boys playing turtlings. he sees -- he loves turtle. he loved animals when he was little. he sees them and loves turtles. they're putting hot coals on the back of the turtles they're torturing the turtles. and he feels terrible about this. he sees this great injustice. they're torturing and hurting turtles. and lincoln, in that moment, he has to decide what to do. it's hard to do the right thing sometimes. but somebody has to. and lincoln in that moment, said, take the coal off the turtles. save the turtles. get them away from the boys and rescues them. does the

latino, un heroe mexicano, un hÉroe norteÑo en la frontera de mÉxico y texas su creador hÉctor rodrÍguezarteles de la droga y los oficiales corruptos cuando tiene que proteger a los inmigrantes ha tenido que cruzar ilegalmente estÁ a favor de una reforma migratoria y tiene un romance que aÚn se estÁ desarrollando. >>> la historia del peso hÉroe son 3 partes ya ha recibido propuestas para llevar su historia a la pantalla grande. >>> hay varios grupos interesados. >>> la gran popularidad que tiene bien los amantes de los cÓmicos no han hecho que hÉctor deje su trabajo como maestro de una escuela primaria en darlas muslo apoyan, un colega le compuso la mÚsica oficial. >>> el peso hÉroe llegÓ para decir bueno, hablemos de esto si nadie hablara de esto, yo voy a defender a los desprotegidos y vulnerables y mÁs fragiles. >>> en estos momentos su difusiÓn es por internet las historietas impresas se han vendido. el peso seguirÁ siendo el bien por mucho tiempo. . >>> el lucha por la gente mÁs que to. la gente que vive en ambos lados. en dallas univisiÓn. >>> en el fÚtbol mexicano, fr fin, las chi

in america these groups well it's a good question maybe united do a book where of all the heroes on i think there are a lot of heroes and i think the cop who walks the lonely beat in a tough neighborhood by himself and my hero i think the single mother with three kids is working four jobs trying to keep her. her family together is a her on their day to day heroes all over the country in terms of transformational political leaders pretty short supply right now and you look up and down the society but we go through these periods you know larry you know i've talked about this so many times before i'm so i'm an optimist by experience but nature i love this country with a deep abiding. love and i'm up at least one feature i know there are going to go listen we're on the down whose lives were in the back side of the slope we were in the room on the standing they get and we have no over commanding heroes in our political life but you know what we'll get there we'll get there and i don't have any doubt about it great lawyer to friend of mine the way that we went away and was asked once we w

hero i think the single mother with three kids is working four jobs trying to keep or. her family together is a her on their day to day heroes all over the country in terms of transformational political leaders pretty short supply right now and you look up and down the society but we go through these periods you know larry you know i've talked about the so many times before i'm so i'm an optimist by experience and by nature i love this country with a deep abiding. and i'm up pretty well in future i know the argument that go listen we're on the down whose lives are in the back side of the slope we're in the room on the spending they're good and we have no over commanding heroes in our political life but you know what we'll get there we'll get there and i don't have any doubt about it great lawyer to friend of mine the way that we've been a williams i asked him once are you an optimist or pessimist he said of course i'm a pessimist unintelligible i'm not going to take the opposite view that i don't know that compare that i wanted you to compare the controversy over lara l

hiring our heroes.s this morning are ross cohen, senior director of hiring our heroes, and jim rios, senior director of recruiting. and with blue star families. welcome to "viewpoint." welcome back to some of you. thank you for coming in. we appreciate it. big friday coming up. this is a day-long event. and effort. tell us a little bit. this is your third year for hiring our heroes, how this grassroots effort has taken off and grown. >> jim, first of all, thank you for having us here. we've been thrilled to partner with nbc 4 and capitol one and blue star families from the beginning. it began with one simple job fair in march 2011 in chicago. and that grew and grew. and i think what people really saw was the power of connecting the private sector, veterans, military spouses and different government agencies and the military because everybody wants to hire these folks. the question is, how do they find them and make that happen? two, three years later, we had 660 job fairs, 21,600 men and women have been

like you sid there are so many heroes out there. your kids are going to pick heroes whether you like it or not, you might as well have some say in it. >> seven or eight-year-olds draw them into reading histories of important people who can really teach them lessons, you have done a terrific job and a very good thing to be remembered for, if this is what you are remembered i'm sure you will be remembered long into the future. >> i tell you one story my son read the rosa parks book, i test them out early to see what they react to. my younger son was being bullied, my older son says, you should be like rosa parks, you should stand up to these bullies. my wife told me she was crying, i said are you kidding me? it actually worked. it is not the stories of these famous people, it's a story of what we are capable of on our best daisd. >> tbrad meltzer, thanks for being with us. i am amelia earhart and i am abraham lincoln on store shelves now. we'll s >> good evening, everyone. welcome to al jazeera america. i'm john seigenthaler in new yo

. >> you got to love hometown heros, especially hometown heros caught on video. you see him working on what seem like a makeshift pulley system. >> or a super size yo-yo. >> and a rope is attached to the back of the pickup truck. thenthere's a rope attached a tree. >> you're probably wondering why. >> look at the giant hole, the cave 40 feet deep. some coyotes chased a small cat into this cave and the cat fell 40 feet below and these guys weren't having it. they're the rescuers. the guy with the pulley system, one of his buddies is 40 feel

nor are the moral heroes. the moral hero's are probably even rarer. even in the worst circumstances you will have moral heroes and he was one of them. he stood up to the nazi regime. he paid with his life. he was intensely and moral human being as were others in germany. [inaudible] >> but that determines whether you will be a monster or a hero. yes? that may be true but again, i think what -- yes, you are right, but as i said before i think sometimes heroes can become monsters, and possibly even the other way around. >> there wasn't much heroism in germany, and people, there were many more monsters than there are heroes. >> yes. >> in the camps, in auschwitz, about one in 10 of the ss were monsters who clearly got satisfaction out of this. one in what, a thousand word euros? >> well, yeah, and it's much more dangerous to be a moral hero than to be a monster. which is easy. >> the real hero, that's a minor consideration. >> yes, absolutely. >> hi. on that same point you mentioned primo levy. -- >> which novel? >> alone in berlin. every man dies alone.

in "heretics and heroes," most of the heroes are heretics, and many of the heretics are heroes. [laughter] but their extraordinary stories cannot be summed up in a brief talk. you must experience each one in your own personal encounter. figures such as leonardo, mix el anglo, botticelli, thomas moore, william tindale, rembrandt, shakespeare and john dunn need at least a few more pages that we can hope to devote to them here. for the truly great figures are always pointing to what is invisible and are somehow managing to express the inexpressible. which brings me to my ultimate and outsized assertion about these matters. good religion, like great art, is necessarily mystical, affirming what is always beyond proof or even likelihood or even possibility. so take that, richard dawkins. [laughter] think of job perhaps 27 centuries ago insisting that all his supposedly comforting and quite comfortable friends are wrong. that as job insists in an assertion without proof and in a better translation than he's usually given, this i know, that my avenger lives, and he -- the last of all --

i won't say that i am a hero or not a hero. i felt luke i was there, ready and open arms to be able to be used. >> you're going to be okay. >> that 911 call that the world had an opportunity to witness, we get to witness that every day here in the building. it's that same compassion, the same concern for everyone in here. she loves to say sweetie. she loves to say baby. that's how she is and that's what she does and she makes people feel like they can do just about anything. >> can you say it to me one more time. >> sweetie, it's gonna be all right. >> thank you. >>> i am like this, my arms are around as many kids as i can reach. >>> when we come back, you'll learn about a teacher's split second decision that ended up protecting school children against this. ncial futures. to help communities recover and rebuild. for companies going from garage to global. on the ground, in the air, even into space. we repaid every dollar america lent us. and gave america back a profit. we're here to keep our promises. to help you realize a bett

that is not a hero. being famous is different than being a hero. there's so many better heroes on the history channel. we have abraham lincoln cannot amelia airhart, how do we do that? snm going to write books for them, illustrating children's books to show them the stories of the heroes. what we want to do in the book is not just tell you to store you do know about camilla airhart abraham lincoln, but also the lives of american. you see lincoln when he is a little boy and amelia at little girl. when you read these books to your kids and grandkids come and they realize the power and potential that's in all of us. see what they're accomplishing them a little cave. if i tell my dad i got amelia airhart flew across the atlantic, is not amazing? my daughter is just not that impressed. she should be, but never as much as they want. but if i tell my daughter that amelia airhart when she was seven years old built a homemade roller coaster in her backyard, that she took a wooden crate, put roller skates on the bottom of them and put to wooden planks in the

but none of them are like the ones you find here at hero bike shop and that's thanks to an industrialer who took the time to get his hands dirty and develop a new innovative design. like walking through the woods. >> it is. >> university of kansas professor where lance rake knew he could turn the local nuisance into a groundbreaking set of wheels. >> why did we choose this one. >> because it's big enough. we want something with a big diameter, green, maybe three years old seems like the strongest so this is perfect. but it cuts pretty easily. bamboo is just a grass. >> it's some grass. >> it's tougher than my saw right now. >> could i try? >> you might have better luck than i am. there you go. >> it ate the saw! all right timber! >> you got it? >> yep. >> so where are we headed next with the bamboo? >> it's only about three blocks. >> and this is how the supply chain moves at hero bikes. >> all right? turning left. >> for three weeks, professor rake and a group of students tinkered with prototype bamboo frames finally coming up with a mash-up hybrid called the semester. >> which part

well he's not necessarily a personal hero but i think yours indeed a hero i can't say personal because i don't know him but to me he's a hero larry because he caught our government breaking the law and violating the constitution it took great courage to put himself on the line and make this wrong doing no one to the american people and we have every right to know it we have the right to know when our government violates our constitution and our bill of rights .

and in the russian city of volgograd a hero a hero in the face of terror. she was so brave she didn't even cry i was talking to her all the. party here is from a man who rescued a nine year old girl after a suicide bomber hit this.

i said i have so many better heroes. that is what i do on the history channel or my novels, heroes. i have amelia earhart and abraham lincoln. i said can you draw cartoon picture. and he drew it. i wrote i am amelia earhart and i know no bounds. my daughter loved the shirt and fell in love it with, her friends wanted the shirt, my wife wanted the shirt. we all know there is nothing sorry. if i can do that, if i tell my daughter that amelia earhart flew across the atlantic oh sharks that is why she is beloved. my daughter says doesn't everyone fly across the atlantic. but if i tell her she was only 7 years old, she built a home-made roller coaster in her backyard. she took a wooden crate and put roller skating wheels on it and went ought roof and skated and skis down and the crate tumbled and fell and gets up and says that was awesome. now my daughter says that that was me. she was brave, daring and fun. the draws are drawn as children. even after the -- >> no, not consciously. we wanted to do, is if you show them as adults, is the kids can't relate as well. and my daughter sees the

which is more fun to play as an actor, a hero or an anti-hero?> i think most fun to play is the anti-hero because, you know, it's really more interesting to layer someone who's an anti-hero with personality traits that are likable. and interesting sort of split there, and that's what i enjoy doing the most. but then of course the hero's harder to play because it's sometimes to hard to play because, you know, not everybody can recognize a hero. some heroes are just, you know, sort of thankless. you never even see them. so, you know, i don't mind playing either if i'm honest. >> last question for you, sir. there is a movement online and abroad and i have to admit here in my studio among my crew to have you play the next james bond. now, i know you've been asked about this before and you said there's no truth to you having been asked, but you would take it if asked. right? >> i mean, it would be such an honor. you know, what do we have to do here? we have to wear beautiful suits, drive nice cars, chase bad guys, and date beautiful women? i don't kno

well he's not necessarily a personal hero but i think he is indeed a hero i can't say personal because i don't know him but to me he's a hero larry because he caught our government breaking the law and violating the constitution it took great courage to put himself on the line and make this wrong doing no one to the american people and we have every right to know it we have the right to know when our government violates our constitution and our bill of rights and that's what makes him a hero because of the courage he showed in bringing if if snowden doesn't do that we're still all under surveillance and it's business as usual can anybody sit here and tell me that it's a good idea to have all americans put under surveillance they treat us like we're all potential terrorists and what we're forgetting larry is the main thing they work for us were the boss can you imagine the employees putting the employer under surveillance only place that could possibly happen is in united states government so why in the run why didn't he just stay and face the music stand trial out of me will my to supp

>> i think definition of hero today is broken in america.ity tv show stars, i want none of, that i tell them that is fame, being famous is different from a hero. i said i'm going to launch a book series of nonfiction children book, not to tell you the story that you know about them, but to also show you them when they were little, you see them when they were actually little kids i hear stories about lincoln when he was 10, and amelia when she was 7, i want to build a library you can share with your kids, here is value of thoflincoln stands up for otherd book by book you give them value. i tell my daughter that amelia earhart flew over the atlantic ocean, she slugs, i said when she was 7 years old, she built a homemade roller coaster in the back of her yard, and she came careens down from the tool shed to the ground, there is she is flying through the air, the first time she flies, now my daughter said shy is up if -- she is fun, and amazing she is like me. lou: i am an over protective grandparent, saying what if they grand daughter gets that

committee and on and on and on and on but if he truly wanted to be a hero he would of followed all the whistleblower protection laws here in this country he would have sort of stood up and took his penalty like the man like a man and said running off to russia seems to me to be a little bit weird but i got to tell you i my my opinion this changes every day on this one in particular. and what do you make of senator rand paul is going to launch a class action lawsuit i guess representing everybody in america against the government over surveillance programs well i think it's both very principled on his part he is a libertarian after all but also a very politically savvy guy he's signing up his volunteers from his web page rand pac which is where people also go to give money it's certainly i'm sure has tremendous appeal to young people president obama is actually really suffered among young voters because of this n.s.a. surveillance and in terms of the you know the legal merits of his class action lawsuit i think that's a bit divided i'm not a lawyer but there has been a split decision wi

but neither call their actions heroic. >> i don't see myself as a hero.did what i know for a patient who needed it. >> it's what we're trained for, twhas we're expected to do. >> she's a hero. there's no doubt about it. >> to save somebody's life, that's the definition of a hero to me. >> reporter: united airlines did not release the name of the pilot. but he is expected to be okay. and if all of that wasn't enough, a second call went out, this time the co pilot asking if there was another pilot on board that could help. and a retired pilot came forward and the co-pilot was able to land safely. >> lucky. >> good passenger roster. >> a lot of heroes. >> absolutely. thank you. >> good to have you, michelle. >>> time now for the weather and back over to meteorologist chris knowles. >> and the midwest, 42 degrees in chicago. they will take that. it's winter time. and after the winter they had so far. dry for most people, some great lakes snow for just a few people out there. but the keyword is mild for the midwest. and with that mildness, comes issues of cour

as you know, if you watch the show you know i am a huge fan of the heroes that work at the nsa. they have kept america safe. in fact, thanks to them so far there has never been another september 11th, 250 o 1. so believe me, check your calendars. a recent study by the nonpartisan new america foundation backs me up. >> a new analysis of 225 individuals link to al qaeda and charged with terrorism since september 11th says nsa surveillance programs quote had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism. >> stephen: see? (laughter) i don't understand what people like edward snowden are so mad about. he's violating everyone's privacy really that bad if it doesn't even work? (laughter) besides, it does not have to work. it just has to feel like it's working. because if what director of national intelligence james clapper calls the peace of mind metric. now folks, i get that. nsa surveillance is just like the handful of placebo sugar pills i take every morning. to prevent canine hip displacia. so far so good. though i have developed type ii diabetes. (laughter) maybe i'm not t

he is a national hero, being wasted in moscow. he deserves a better life, one of a national hero.ave here is the new york tires basically coming down weight to the left a barack obama. melia: is it fair to include the fact that a financially benefited quite a bit from him and his reporting and sold a whole lot of papers. he provided a lot of copy. i mean, is that a fair connection to make? >> newspapers always love lakers. we have not seen tested, someone in the new york times provides a massive leak. would they be a hero? i don't think so. melissa: what do you think is the reaction? >> and ideological hero because ese people have never liked a war on terrorism, never liked their nation's intelligence agency. still stuck in the 1970's about whether the cia was someh more evil than the soviet union. melissa: to you think they are providing cover? do you think they're out there setting up a test plan and saying, this is thright thing to do. maybe it is in advance of the president doing this and they're starting to begin to pave the way? >> if you read, andrew rosenthal was interview

do you feel a hero?ly one of those events where people remember where they were when they heard about it. and i understand the power of this story to inspire hope in people. and i've become the public face of it. while i don't consider my actions heroic, i think my crew did their job under very difficult circumstances. of course this was something that was unanticipated, for which we'd never specifically trained but we were able to very quickly take what we did know, adapt it and apply it in a new way to solve a problem we hadn't seen before. >> despite all the training that you must go through, when you're in that kind of dramatic emergency, what is the reality about what you go through? >> you have to realize that at this point in my career, 57, 58 years old, i'd been flying airplanes for 42 years. i had 20,000 hours, i had been an airline pilot for 29 of those years. in that entire time i had never experienced in flight the actual failure of even a single engine. >> really. >> i thought late in my car

sÚper hÉroes voluntarios, amigos, familiares la acompaÑaron en la travesÍa liderada por su colega des p prÓtesis, pero estas no han sido la carga mÁs pesada de su familia, desde que llegaron a estados unidos hace 5 aÑos atrÁs la mÁs complicado que no fey ti un seguro mÉdico >>> mientras superman la ayuda en todo momento para Él la travesÍa no es fÁcil. >>> margarita >>> tomÁs perdiÓ su pierna cuando se estrellÓ una pared manejando una motocicleta en estado de ebriedad hace 10 aÑos >>> perdÍ mi pierna cuando estaba tomando toda la noche, 110 millas por horas y inmediatamente perdÍ mi pierna, 6 semanas en el hospital, 2 aÑos recuperando pa prender cÓmo caminar de nuevo, y 6 aÑos de encontrar lo que debo de a ser con mi vida. (gritos) >>> esa misiÓn que dice haber descubierto se traduce en este proyecto. es un tema de unir fuerza y sÚper poderes es tejer un futuro mejor para alguien sin importar quiÉn ni las condiciones sociales ni de raza lo importante de acÁ es lograr lo que sea. >>> no tengo pÁnico >>> gracias a dios. (gritos) >>> por quÉ despues de dios no hay nadie >>> y alejandra

also headlining from us tonight a hero in the face of terror. she was so brave she didn't even cry i was talking to her all the.