holland america, silver sea, roadway gent, carnival, royal caribbean, princess, it seems to me that justrybody has been on the list. >> yeah. they usually only failed one ship one time. they're not major fails only 27 ships in the past three years failed it's out of 900 inspections. gerri: what is the typically thing failing on? >> food left out. the the pool -- >> and reservice? >> that's for you to eat. and they leave it out. not chilled enough. the pool and the spa is a big thing. sometime it's not quite clean enough. you name it. they have failed it. you can still have a lot of the violations and still pass it. let's -- gerri: let's talk about most cruise lines. these are the guys doing. nor wee again, disney is on in. talk about it. >> costa at 37% of the time they got a perfect score. that's the best one. it's the cleanest in term of, you know, getting perfect score. nor wee began was great. they were inspected a lot. 28% of the time they got a perfect score. these are clean. disney parents will be happy about that. and the two luxury lines crystal and sea born too. >> those are lu

saul and he began without them we did an exhibition as well of holland america taiwan scholars to go to the united states and made huge contributions to science technology business in the arts. well we followed that with an exhibition of those with studying united states will return to town and made great contributions to time on it. so i think ago the idea and all of these was to emphasize the more positive aspects of our relationship with taiwan because the newspapers. often the media understandably will highlight what the conflicts are what the disagreements or and to remind everyone the great vast sea of goodwill the number of countries which one would expect. and in my personal view. i think the biggest contribution the united states has agreed to come off as close to many of the developing countries after one point two. what's the export of the american education system. no which is the inclusion of foreign students become one of the places and i agree we view that the number of college students going over you know to united states has been on the decline in recent years. and o

well-equipped to write such an ambitious book because of your connections with england and with america, with holland, germany and crucially with japan. >> i don't think it helps necessarily to know germany well or japan well to explain the human propensity for extreme violence. one of the reasons i'm very happy to be on stage with you because i think we share a sort of horrified fascination with why people are capable of doing terrible things and, i don't think, there are people who say well, you can explain it because the germans had an exterminationist mentality or go from hitler or the japanese are you leakily barbaric and cruel or anything like that. i don't believe that for a minute. and i think your question is a good one, how is it one of the most highly educated and civilized country in europe produced so many extraordinary things but hitler led it but he couldn't do it on his own. he had very active participation. i think hitler is one example and perhaps the most extreme example in modern history, but there are others in on a smaller scale of political regime that deliberately exploits peo

america. >> how about this, french president hollande is threaten to sue a newspaper that saids he was having an affair with an french actress. he has never married and lives with his long-time partner. >>> we suffered through the frigid cold but another form of extreme weather tornadoes hit the center of the country. oklahoma became synonymous with disaster. now azte as techno shows us, its is more coming from labs. >> a tornado was captured in time lapse video that went viral. >> we have large debris in the air. >> i think if you live in tornado alley, it needs to be a priority. you need to have a shelter. >> 300 miles from moore in a lab at texas tech university they make storm shelters a reality. >> what we have here is an air canon. it's called boomer. virtual potato launcher on steroids. >> it performance tests on a variety of buildings. some of them failed. through trial and error innovation came in the form of reinforcement and engineering. >> so should we load the canon? >> load the canon, okay. let's do that. >> wow. >> 103 mph. >> 103? it's completely fine. >> this particular wall

holland to stop it. we have seen in america, prohibition didn't work. we've seen a cost benefit analysis.ear to incarcerate somebody for this. >> that's what i had to deal with last night. >> beneficial. no pot smokers are incarcerated. very very -- >> it costs the taxpayers more money, dealers legalize marijuana won't stop, you know what they'll do, won't you? >> what will they do? you. >> know what dealers will do? >> they'll get legal marijuana and sell to whom? >> well, they -- >> they're going to sell it to people. it's illegal for children to use. it's still illegal. they're selling it to children anyway, it's still illegal. >> they can't buy it at the 7-eleven. but now they can. >> they're going to be busy with slurpees. >> you're losing this. >> thanks for letting me know. >> the greater good for the country is to have definitions about good and bad behavior. >> so is alcohol, so is tobacco. you want a nanny state. >> i want protection for children, and this is going to really -- >> why not apply that to alcohol and tobacco. >> why not apply it to the 2-year-old who ate the mariju

people enough, the so-called pilgrims, and i am money is to what people in america don't even realize and they started from holland and they were already exiled and such from there rather grim utopia and they just stopped implement on the way to pick up a few more so -- >> host: we have about a minute before we take a break and i want to ask you the big question. hispanic or latino in terms of u.s. hispanics throughout the book and latino has come up most recently. what is your -- >> guest: it's interesting you recall that a big question. i like people to call themselves what they want to call themselves and if somebody tells me she wants to be called a latino -- but i call myself hispanic, and i can't see any good reason for abandoning that label in the spanish origin as well as people of latin american or spanish-american origen's so to me it is more inclusive than latino and you have to remember all of them are imposed but if people are happy to use cut mode themselves, then i'm happy to reflect that back at them in my work. >> host: we will take a break and be right back. >> host: during the break we were talk

lady in france are splitting but never married, announcement follows that hollande is having an affair. director's guild of america space movie "gravity" that makes him likely winner of the best director oscar in the academy awards. history was made at the cathedral when a girls chorus made public debut. performance ends all male vocal tradition going back a thousand years. today's weather a clipper system is prompting blizzard and wind chill warnings from montana to illinois. snow is expected in the northeast and northwest. more frigid weather for most of us in the days ahead except in the sunny southwest. coming up -- >> prosthetic hand around the hammer. >> just like rube goldberg. different sounds of music.,,,,,, >> osgood: this victrola had state-of-the-art audio. fast forebarred, sound systems of every sort saying "now hear this" our cover story by john blackstone. >> this morning we're showcasing the very latest in high end audio technology. yes, vinyl long playing records introduced back in 1930. are still state-of-the-art. that is if you play them on a $50,000 brinkman balanced turn table. ♪ >> why do i w

america." >> reporting from washington, i am katty kay. egypt votes on a draft constitution, but violence kills nine people in the first poll since morsi was ousted. francois hollande tells the rest his private life is off limits, but a difficult moment amid allegations of an affair. need the cloned pigs helping to make china a scientific superpower. we get a rare look inside one of the country's research centers. iswhat is new here in china it is being employed on an almost industrial scale, while in the west cloning remains controversial. here, it is becoming almost normal. >> welcome to our viewers on public television in america and around the globe. today, egyptians went to the polls to vote on a new constitution. six months after president morsi was removed from power, the ballot also revealed how divided the country is. at least nine people were killed in sporadic violence. supporters of the muslim brotherhood are boycotting the referendum. our correspondent reports. >> in central cairo, and eager queueore the -- an eager before the polls opened. this is the third constitutional referendum in as many years, and many hope it will and unrest, and one of the fi

america. perhaps it's no surprise, then, that in such an extraordinary structure you will find three extraordinary sisters. ♪ the hollandkiley, devin, and piper have recently formed their own rock band. they call themselves zeus sisters. it's what they've been doing for years now that makes them stand out. you could say these three have been humanitarians, almost as long as they've been human. >> okay. you can go. you can go ahead. >> we were kind of born into a family that likes to help people. >> reporter: their impact can be seen online with a website they developed years ago called earth savers club for kids. the impact can be seen in their community with any number of projects to help those in need locally. but their latest endeavor is by far their most distant and ambitious. haiti, the country the poorest in the western hemisphere was in difficult straits before the quake, so it is little surprise four years later there is still much to be done. and while much of the world's attention has moved on to different causes, the girls decided to revisit this one. >> this is generations of poverty they've got that they're

america. >> they're totally huemiliatedhumiliated. they feel like they're living in italy. >> reporter: well hollande went on for 2 1/2 hours.an or it's going to be a pretty awkward visit to washington next month. charlie and norah? >> indeed it will be. >> somehow i love this story. >> listen. i think some of the best parts of that piece is with the women comments. >> elite french. are embarrassed by this. >> living in italy. thank you, mark. >>> the ice is crippling the ships this morning. the coast guard is working arou mills mills before the pathways close for the season. >> if you absolutely positively need iron ore for your company these are your friends. >> it impacts the great lakes region and really the global economy. >> reporter: without the coast guard ice breakers such as the mackinaw, these freighters would never make it through the waters on these cold winter days. it doesn't just impact the freight companies. it impacts the plant and the workers expecting to get the coal and the ore that they're carrying. subzero temperatures arrived early this year. one freighter got so trapped in the ice it took the coast g

. >> congressman van holland, i think many people were appreciative of the idea of the promise zones. ted cruz came out and said all of americao be a promise zone with reduced barriers to small businesses creating private sector jobs. do you agree or disagree with the premise that the best way out of poverty is to have a job and the best way to create jobs is to create a playing field in which small businesses can flourish? >> john, there's no doubt about it. the best way to pull people out of poverty is to get the economy kicked into full gear and all the efforts that go into that. for example, i believe we've got to reinvest in our infrastructure. you've got huge needs in term of rebuilding our infrastructure, modernizing for the 21st century. and you've got a lot of people unemployed in the construction area. that's a win/win. we'd like to work with our colleagues to do it. there's also a very important role to play in trying to harness resources to focus on places in greatest need. we also need to make sure more people can share in prosperity. that's why we should increase the minimum wage which hasn't been raised for a l

hollande's personal troubles not enough. united nations says foreign investment, money flowing into france, down 77%. here is, we keep saying it, our favorite recovering european, now resident in the united states of americang me. stuart: that is a huge drop in the amount of money flowing into france, down 77%. >> particularly big when you consider that investors are always slow to give up on a big economic power and no matter how in trouble france is it is a wealthy nation. would you want to invest? charles: absolutely not. look at goodyear tire. like the old movie, the mob scene, once you get in you can't get out and there's no freedom. >> the rhetoric from the president has been all along extremely anti capitalist, extremely anti capital. jack up taxes on capital immensely. and taking measures that taxes for foreigners investing in the u.s. would be much higher, they would have to pay social taxes for benefits they would never turn. stuart: didn't president francois hollande just make a big presentation where he said we are going to cut business and tax breaks. said that. >> with what he is asking in return. he is asking that they be more employment for people who probably have been unemployed. basical

hollande meets with pope francis at the vatican. coming on the heels of his love scandal. the french press does not hold back. >> good morning and welcome back to al jazeera americai'm morgan radford, live from new york city. up next - the french president makes a special trip to the vatican. first, the cold weather continues to hang around. our meteorologist eboni deon is here to tell us about it. >> we have a little bit of a break from the snow. it looks like we are going to see the next clipper system move in, as it does, it will bring the snow back into the north-east along with very gusty winds and that is going to plo the snow around. that's what we are dealing with in places such as buffalo and new york. travel will be difficult, especially early on across our interior sections of new york. that is where the snow is coming down. we have a number of advisories in place. a winter storm warning. watch out for the snow. it will be heavy at times. with the wind blowing and whipping it around, it will drive visibility down further. that's clipper system number one, snow showers into the dakotas. back into the chicago area. at least close by. that's what we could