hopkins, and ms. schwartz, as we've heard from professor swire's testimony, results of serviceers' mistakes takes time and diligence. to help correct mistakes sooner, can borrowers access their servicing records and mortgage files to ensure that payments and fees are being applied appropriately? mr. hopkins. >> yes, they call into our servicing department, we will happily supply them with a -- their payment record and any other records that they would like on their mortgage, we will email it, fax it to them, whatever they would like or if we come in and talk to us. if they find a discrepancy, we're happy to work with them to try to resolve the discrepancy because obviously we are what we call a high touch, high feel type bank and we rely on our servicing and our expertise in the servicing and our reputation as a high touch servicer. >> well, what i've seen from some of the largest shops is that they have very impressive web-based access systems where they indeed can go in and look and have a read-only

am jack hopkins, president and c.e.o. of core trust bank, a $660 million asset bank in south dakota. as a third generation community banker, i am pleased to represent icba's nearly 5,000 members as this important hearing. as this committee considers the development of national mortgage servicing standards, i have an important point to make. community banks are successfully servicing their portfolios and don't have the widespread servicing problems reported in the press. i urge you to ensure any effort to create national standards does not added regulatory burden of community banks, we must preserve the role of communitybacks in mortgage servicing or you will see further consolidation which will only harm borrowers, especially those in rural and underserved housing markets. corstruft bank was founded in 1930 and was built, tested and proven under historically economic conditions. we survived the great depression and numerous recessions by practicing conservative, commonsense lending. we have emerged from the recent crisis

in computer science at johns hopkins.ergrad at one of the best computer science school, university of illinois, champagne/urba champagne/urbana. you looked to twitter to see who had the flu. >> that's basically the idea. people are sharing all sorts of on gs about their livescc1: twitter. boring, mundane details about their everyday lives, including their health. so, for example, you have a sore throat and you stayed home from work. you want your boss to know you're not lying, so you tweet about it. >> or you're just covering your track. >> or you have a hangover and you say you have a sore throat. influenza.k for flu, cc1: what other words would i expect you would not look for? >> allergies is another obvious candidate. obesity, high blood pressure. people tweet that they're having trouble falling asleep. so we label that as insomnia. getting information that's actually useful from what people are tweeting? >> yeah, actually. we want to see if what we're reading from twitter matches the real world if we can get informati

hopkins and ms. schwartz, as we heard in the testimony, resolving mistakes takes time and diligence. can borrowers access their servicing records and mortgage files to ensure that payments and fees are being applied appropriately? mr. hopkins? >> yes. they call into our servicing department. we will happily supply them with their payment record and any other records they would like on their mortgage. we will e-mail it, fax it, whatever they would like, or if they come in and talk to us. if they find a discrepancy, we'll work to resolve it. we are a high-touch, high-feel type bank, and we rely on our servicing, and our expertise in servicing, and our reputation as a high-touch servicer. >> schwartz? >> yes, sir. there's systems where they can go and look and have a read-only review in a private secure setting to see where they are, and i think the industry has made great strides in that area. i am not familiar enough to know across the industry the consistency of that opportunity. >> mr. swire, what d

zartman who's professor emeritus at johns hopkins, and he was the founder of the conflict managementdepartment here. he is one of the most influential and well respected academics in the world in the conflict management field, and his mind has shaped much of the vernacular used in classrooms and on the ground by pretty much everybody else. we have, we can thank mr. zartman for concepts like mutually hurting stalemates which have governed the thinking of how the world approaches situations. dr. zartman also happens to be the chairman of the board of the international peace and security institute which is why i made him come today. [laughter] each one of our speakers is going to have 10-15 minutes to give their opinions on the stated topic. we're going to hold questions until the end, and then we will do a 30-minute q&a. so with that i'm going to head on over to jack duvall and start this panel. thank you. >> thanks, cameron, very much. it's a pleasure to be here to see everyone here enthusiastic about this summit. some of us in this field of endeavor intellectually as well as the prac

>> you have anthony hopkins, a fantastic shakespearean actor remain -- bringing tremendous brought the cost of the role of the open. -- of odin. when he says -- i cast you out -- you feel the high stakes. at the center of the story, a troubled royal family with the fates of many other people's dependent on how they get on, that little connection between the personal and public lives of a powerful people is a shakespearean theme. he was always fascinated by what goes on behind closed doors in the lives of the rich and powerful. to me it gave an lot of backbone to a story that had a lot of humor. it was well known, contemporary, direct and different. this bit of the story was a useful connection to me for something that was unfamiliar. >> are there different parallels between what we appreciate about the work of shakespeare and the storyt line thehor"? >> when you look at the reckless use of the henry the fourth place, he drinks too much and stays out late, his judgment is suspect. in this story, all of that applies to thor. in henry rowe and five, the assumptions of responsible leadersh

. >> reporter: aston lewis and ken hopkins were walking through the intersection and say they always try to be aware of surroundings and take precautions. >> if i'm out for lunch or in the neighborhood, i'm usually not carrying things that could be taken. >> reporter: now, the men driving in that lexus were all wearing hoodies but one victim was was able to give police one description described as a black male between 22 and 24, short hair, 5'10", about 180 pounds. that is all police have to go on right now, allen. obviously, they're looking for help from the community to solve the crime to figure out what's happening. they don't know. >> maybe they can get us a sketch, too. that would be help: thank you, mark sayre in san leandro. >>> a south bay man is under arrest after stabbing his girlfriend to death. it happened this morning on the 4200 block of albany drive. police say the 48-year-old man called 911 and confessed. when police arrived at the scene, the 33-year-old woman was already dead. according to neighbors the couple had been arguing. >>> in other bay area headlines, the 16

all i can say is jim burns was my mark hopkins.[applause] and experience unparalleled to be able to study with and work for one of the great scholars as an undergraduate, williams college is one of the very few places where that is possible. i thought i would talk a little bit about how jim came to write roosevelt, the lion and the fox. he claims that this is because his memory is not as good as his mind but actually it is because he is very modest and he doesn't like talking very much about himself. so i thought i would talk a little bit about how this happened as he is told me over the years and actually as i have gleaned it from other sources. perhaps to give a little bit of background on this, jim came into a family in eastern massachusetts that was not necessarily a new deal family, wouldn't you say jim? he had a father who was a dartmouth republican as i remember. there would be very large arguments add dinner and sometimes members of the family would go to bed without speaking. am i right on that? so that was his first expos

hopkins and mrs.rtz, as we have heard from your testimony, results of services it takes time and diligence. to help correct things sooner, can our worst acts -- access their records to ensure that payments and fees are being applied appropriately? mr. hopkins? >> yes. they call in to our servicing department, we will happily supply them with their payment record and any other records they would like on their mortgage. or if they come in and talk to us. it might find a discrepancy, we will work with them to resolve the discrepancy. obviously, we are a high touch, i feel type bank. we rely on our servicing and expertise in servicing and our reputation. >> mrs. schwartz? >> yes, sir. what i have seen from some of the largest shops is they have very impressive, web based access systems where they have a read only review in a private, secure setting to sea where they are. i think the industry has made great strides in that area. i am not familiar enough to know across the industry the consistency of that o

whether that means i go down to mark hopkins or wherever and talk to the concierge, and i really would like to find a cheap chinese restaurant that i can walk to that is less than $5, then he gives me the right answer or she gives me the right answer, or i go to my doctor's office, and this is based on your gino and lifestyle, we need to put you on lipitor and need to exercise more, right? that is service, right? let me take you to computers. visualize the amazon website for a second. what are they trying to do there? they are not trying to deliver information that is personal to you, right? people like you bought this. people like you listen to this, right? i will ask a question. for the technical people in the room, where is the transaction processing system on that web page? i will tell you the answer -- it is that little shopping cart in the upper right-hand corner. most of us in the tech field -- i have been around for a while -- we have all worked on the shopping cart. we have worked on transactions, processing systems, they met. how important is it on the web site -- it has to w

little steven hopkins says he climbed an apricot tree to get into a chimney at a salt lake city house last night just blocks from his own home. officials say he was stuck for up to four hours before he was found. his mother just reported him missing. firefighters had to cut a hole in the wall to pull the little boy out. >> what were you thinking when they finally pulled you out after all that time down there? >> i don't know. i couldn't think. my ears were all black. >> my ears were all black he said. the boy is doing fine aside with minor scrapes. when asked why he was tried to get in the home, he said he was looking for food and water. >>> boys are reaching sexual maturity at an earlier age. researchers at the plank institute have determined that an 18-year-old boy today has the physical maturity of a 22- year-old from the time of the american revolution. as younger boys experience a puberty driven surge and testosterone they are more likely to take risks such as fighting, driving recklessly which could lead to a shorter life. >>> smoke billowed from a boat as a coast guard helicopt

. >> as whas reporter adriana hopkins tells us, the arrest took place in a louisville suburbrballed la it's another twist in an already bizarre case. when the search for an international fugitive ended here near lagrange, kentucky. fbi agents searched this house most of the afternoon and into the night monday after arresting 50-year-old australian native paul douglas peters. we're told peters was living here with his american ex-wife. but this manhunt started thousands of miles away on another continent, australia, at the house of william pulver, a wealthy businessman who's the ceo of an information technology company. australian police alleged on august 3rd peters broke into pulver's house. and while pulver's 18-year-old daughter madeline was studying for final exams, peters strapped a fake bomb to her neck with a list of financial demands and then peters disappeared. it took ten hours for bomb specialists to determine that bomb was a phoney and remove it. according to police peters flew out of sidney on august 8th. final destination, kentucky. authorities say peters was living in aus

hopkins. can someone aluminum -- for memy n -- my name is douglas hopkins.can someone eliminate from the white caps and truckers will have any impact on -- illuminate for me why caps and triggers will have any impact on the negotiations? >> the most cynical among us should answer this question. [laughter] >> i will defer to bill. [laughter] >> i don't know any caps and triggers that have been applied to medicare. it is true that once congress votes any financial provision, it cannot bind future congresses -- someone might make up some morning and say, "that was a stupid idea," and they will pass another law, and, standing any other provision of law, x, y and z. they can be got around. i suppose the doc fix is a good example. but in this case, the promises are getting a little harder to get around, and particularly with respect to this super committee, i believe that it will not be possible for it to avoid at least finding $1.20 trillion from one of bill gale's baselines or another and submitting it to the congress. i do not think that congress will dare rene

turns out it was 8-year-old steven hopkins who actually claims he climbed from a tree to the roof andthen fell down the chimney while looking for something to eat and drink. >> unfortunately, the chimney took some odd turns and séewen got stuck 30 feet down between two floors. firefighters had to cut an eight by five foot hole in the wall to get him out. the boy was just coming over -- he lived a few blocks away and he was coming over to play with the grandkids. >> that poor guy. the firefighter who got him out, he was covered in soot, the firefighter took the boy back to his mother. so it ended well. >> he had to be looking for santa claus or something was going on there. >> it's not like a santa story but at least he got out safe. next time just go to a drive-through, don't go through the chimney. we'll be right back with more "world news nono after this. [ female announcer ] have you met your skin twin? covergirl trublend has skin twin technology. other makeup can sit on the surface of your skin, so it looks like...makeup. but trublend has skin twin technology to actually merge wit

all i can say is jim burns was my mark hopkins.lause] and experience unparalleled to be able to study with and work for one of the great scholars as an undergraduate, williams college is one of the very few places where that is possible. i thought i would talk a little bit about how jim came to write roosevelt, the lion and the fox. he claims that this is because his memory is not as good as his mind but actually it is because he is very modest and he doesn't like talking very much about himself. so i thought i would talk a little bit about how this happened as he is told me over the years and actually as i have gleaned it from other sources. perhaps to give a little bit of background on this, jim came into a family in eastern massachusetts that was not necessarily a new deal family, wouldn't you say jim? he had a father who was a dartmouth republican as i remember. there would be very large arguments add dinner and sometimes members of the family would go to bed without speaking. am i right on that? so that was his first exposure

then daniel serwer from the john hopkins center discusses what the u.s.opean leaders are calling for the removal

> reporter: the campaign is called meatless monday and it's a grassroots in association with john hopkinsthe idea is cut down on meat for your health and the health of the planet. >> a long line quickly formed in front of a san francisco first, a foot truck dedicated to bacon. from sandwiches -- >> oh, my god, it was so good. >> to dessert. >> this is the chocolate covered bacon strip. >> you can't go wrong with bacon. it can be added to anything. >> reporter: except your monday menu. a grassroots campaign is asking that americans cut one meat from their diet every week including bacon. >> i love it. i think it's a great idea. >> reporter: registered dietician toby morris said instead of meat once a week eat a plant based diet. >> plant based foods are higher in fiber than animal protein and much higher in antioxidents and perhaps lower in some of the carcinogens that we know to be present in meats. >> reporter: studies show plant- based diets reduce the risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and cancer. if your worried about losing out on protein, don't. >> you're not going to suffer f

. >>> hop l hello, i'm page hopkins. here's what's happening.tice department announced 72 people have been arrested in 14 countries in connection with an international child pornography ring. meanwhile prosecutors in texas rested their case against religious leader warren jeffs after playing an audiotape of him having sex with a 12-year-old girl. >>> the cdc and usda identified the source of ground turkey linked to deadly salmonella outbreak. cargo meats is voluntary recalling 36 million pounds after one death and 76 illnesses. cities across the country activating emergency heat plans as blistering temperatures stress the national power drid. >>> haiti bracing for proerm emily with thousands of people living tents in the wake of january's devastating earthquake. >>> bubba smith is found dead of natural causes of california today. he was 66 years old. now let's go back it "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." liberals say they're unhappy with the president for what they see as folding, but he's also being hated by conservatives. they call h

johns hopkins was a model that he held up as the model for medical education. the admissions requirements or that you had to have at least a high-school diploma preferably one or two years of college education to go to medical school. they also had a curriculum structure with the science is being taught with basic medicine and clinical sciences. that model is still call flexnerian model parabol. by the middle of the century, we can say with confidence that the u.s. had the strongest health profession educational system of any country in. the world. we draw people from all over the world for education not available in their own country. with the establishments of the national institutes of health, we can citizen about our research enterprise which is reflected by the fact that during the course of the 20th century, more nobel prizes in madison and physiology have come to more americans than the rest of the world combined. we have that leadership in science from the institutes of health and a leadership in the quality of medical education. as you can see from thi

and later this afternoon, pakistan's former foreign secretary will be at johns hopkins school of advanced international studies talking about the strained relationship between the u.s. and pakistan. "the wall street journal" reported on monday that the obama administration will start basing its aid to pakistan on whether the country meets a scorecard of u.s. objectives to combat al qaeda and its allies. again, watch live coverage of all these events today on c-span. all this month watch "booktv" in prime time on c-span2. tonight, journalism and newspapers. at pitt p.m. eastern william mcgowan talks about the "gray lady" down. what the fall of the "new york times" means about america. at 9:40 well-hear from authors of will the last reporter please turn out the lights. and after that, at 11:10, john mcmillan's smoking type write others. the '60s underground press and the rise of alternative media in america. "booktv" in prime time on c-span2. >> the u.s. commission on civil rights recently examined the issue of eminent domain. laws allow local governments to take private property with just

the hopkins family is joining us right now. they were walking down the street, they are from tallahassee, florida. suzanne, what are you guys making of all of this? we were down 600, we are back up in triple digits today. what do you make of all this. >> it's a roller coaster. my husband is a financial adviser so we are used to watching the market. i'm optimistic long term but it is a little scary right now. >> reporter: it's really tough. that's really the tone we've heard in times square, called the crossroads of america. we've heard a lot of talk from people, they are optimistic. the hopkins family are here on vacation, they are spending money. a lot of them say they are making changes at home because they just don't know what the future holds. jenna: we have experience with volume tilt don't we going through the financial crisis. it will be interesting to see this a kwroupl years out. is there a feeling in general whether you're talking to tourists, or the market analysts that you're speaking to that the markets will actual

. >> reporter: aftin lewis and ken hopkins were walking through the intersection and always try to be aware and take precautions. >> if i'm out for a lunch break or in the neighborhood i'm usually not carrying things that could be taken. >> reporter: now, all the men riding in that black lexus were wearing hoodies but one of the victims was able to give police a description and she described one of the men as a black male between 22 and 24, short hair, 5'10", weighing about 180 pounds. it's not a lot to go on weapon those hoods but police are hoping maybe somebody knows -- especially with those hoodies but police are hoping maybe somebody knows something to help. >> are police saying is it enough for them to come up with a sketch or do they have somebody who has given them more information on a description that they could come up with a sketch? >> reporter: at this point there is no discussion of a sketch. these hoodies make it very difficult and most of these are occurring in the evening hours, some during the day but that's the best description they have at this point. and they are

. >>> hello, aim page hopkins. here's what's happening. it's a town facing great challenges. but in joplin, missouri, the school year started on time. students return to class three months after the tornado that killed 160 people and left joplin in ruins. six schools were dam destroyed and damaged four others. >>> >>> a boy is under arrest after planning to set off a bam an@his former high school. there was manifest and bomb making materials in his home. police say he wanted to attack next tuesday with a massacre worse than columbine. >>> in north carolina, authorities have identified a suspect who stole a plane that then crashed leaving behind only a trail of blood. >>> in texas, the hottest july on record, is taking a big economic toll. state officials say texas crop and live stock losses have surpassed a record $5 billion. now, we're going to take you back to hard ball. >>> back to "hardball." so who really are the members, the members, not the leaders, the members of the tea party out there. two college professors say they have the answer, and often it's not who they say

fred whipple picked mount hopkins as the site for whipple observatory pointing out the sites they liked. the son spotted frozen the -- observatory in mexico make up the solar observatory building the -- built in 1962. still the world's largest. finally building a four meter telescope in hawaii that will be done in a few years. we have great supporting facilities like the mirror laboratory on campus that almost every observatory in this book which is building this fantastic new mirror for this project we will talk about. it will open up the entire night sky every week. starting in five or six years. other great characters we haven't talked about. roger angell, mark fox, richard greene has been director of the large binocular telescope in mount graham which is the closing chapter of our book. let me show you some new things that are happening. you can see why it is called the binocular telescope. it is two 8 meter mirrors which are as big as you can fabricated one piece on earth. the goal is to get them to work together because when you add them together they can simulate the sensitivity

the term was coined by dr robert balfanz of johns hopkins university. he characterizes a dropout factory as a school from which fewer than 60% of the students graduate in four years. new york city's department of education has closed many such schools and targeted others, like flushing high, for closure. robeson high school in brooklyn is also on the shut down list. however, teachers and students at that school think their school's characterization as a drop out factory is unfair. >> in every high school, you'd always have one or two students that dropout. but in robeson, i see a lot of people graduating. and the fact that they may not graduate in four years but they will graduate in their fifth or sixth years, so i despise the fact that many people believe that robeson is a dropout high school. >> reporter: stefanie seagle is a long time teacher at robeson high. >> one of the things we've always been proud of is that even though we have young people who come with lots of challenges, we're able to keep them here. they won't graduate in four years for a

sociologist from john hopkins university and the university of virginia conducted that research. one of the authors say bad economic times drives people with less education away from religion because unemployment can disrupt a person's social life. >> ahead, circuits beg, -- sit beg, and surf. it's a surfing dog. but there's a lot bigger purpose to this pooch's ride on the with waves. and a warmup for the work week ahead. leigh glaser coming up with your >> alan: people were enjoying the food and music in downtown oakland today. ♪ >> alan: the art and soul festival attracted the crowd outside of city hall. several bands including power of power and five for fighting flooded the festival with music. there was row after row of artwork created by local artists. >> an ocean-loving canine in southern california is displaying some heart-warmerring skills to give the physically challenged a unique experience. rick ricochet loves catching waves and likes to learn disabled people how to surf. >> she stabilizes the board. somehow she does it. so we're not offbalance. just standing there an

. >>> hello, i'm page hopkins. here's what's happening. jury convicted polygamist leader warren jeffs on two counts of sexual assault after taking two underage girls as spiritual wives snb furloughed faa workers should be back to work monday after the end of a partial shut down. >>> after a decade of grueling back to back deployments the army is cutting deployment months and deincreasing down time here at home. >>> after locking down a campus for hours today, there was an investigation for man with a gun. >>> tropical storm emily broke up over the mountains of haiti but heavy rain could still cause flash floods. >>> a new collective bargaining agreement after ironing out a dispute over drug testing. >>> sir paul mccartney says he will talk to scotland yard about his ex wife's claim that her cell phone was hacked by journalist. . now back to "hardball." >>> welcome back to "hardball." terrible news on the stock market. a drop of 513 points, fresh ammunition to republicans to make the case president obama is not healing the economy. what can

. >> i and henry, i am a professor at johns hopkins university in baltimore and i have a question formr. leland melvin. we are all attempting to inspire the young people in the national spacecraft program allows nasa to interpret not just space such as mailing because the nasa center, but every single state of the union. i'm wondering what your vision is, mr. melvin, for the future of their space program? >> we just went through a redesign of mass education and were meeting september the ninth to start shaping where were going to go with our new vision for nasa education. so have to get back to you september 9. we really look at how to give kids more experiential moment to get that defining moment in their lives. so middle-school teachers is another area we try to increase pipeline gives them higher at kid these experiences. some of things he do now, but how we take it to scale even more with better strategic partners to get even more reach. so it's coming. will be talking to you guys a lot, partly for spacecraft working together to see how we can use the dollars to be more to work on

later, the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies looks at non-violent political movements. in about 45 minutes, michael tanner on reducing the federal deficit. deficit.

hopkins hoppe >> a data tbilisi experience there are a few locals and >> the nfl hall of fame today. a few locals will be there, but i believe dennis hall will try to steal the show. >> he needs to have people look at him. i read about his background, go for it. everyone will be looking at dennis rodman to see what he is wearing. >> he will be wearing some help kids that are out there. >> here is what you should do this weekend if you are bored. this is what people are doing now. it is creepy, isn't it. >> i do not want to look at that size crotch. >> this is what they do, it is like you are holding your own head. i keep looking at the pictures. it is oddly compelling. >> what does this do? >> this makes picture making fun. if you are tired of the same old the to review and your kids. it is called course minting, like the headless horseman. >> i need to take a good look in the mirror. i am not enjoying these. [laughter] >> it is a little weird, but if you are bored. >> stay home. that is why i stay home. i do not want to do any of these things. >> i will see you in a week. i am on va

>> i worked for the associated press and then i went to the johns hopkins university writings seminars program where i received my master's degri. -- degree. then i got married and moved. >> where do you live now? >> in sunny veil, california which is the heart of the silicone valley. >> you say in the book that the japanese have never apologized for this. >> that's correct. never officially apologized. >> why? >> well, i think because there's really no reason for them to do unless they were pressured to do so. >> why hasn't somebody pressured them to do so? you compare it with what the germans have done. >> i think maybe demographics have something to do with it. some of this activism behind the events is fairly new. but i would say the cold war has a large role in the silence of the japanese and the chinese and the americans on this issue. after the communist revolution, neither i think the p.r.c. or the r.o.c. wanted to pressure japan to pay reparations and to apologize because both of them needed japan as an ally against each other. they needed japan for economic and political reas

. >> when my uncle had leukemia, they told him at johns hopkins university that they've done everything they could, and beyond this it was something greater. how much do you think, like either positive attitude or belief in, you know, some sort of spiritual thing, plays a role in curing cancer? and what are your experiences and all the patients using? >> it's good that we're going to end with that question because i'm going to give a relatively provocative answer. my provocative answer to that is, i try not to believe that the psyche has a role in causing cancer. for the following reasons. because i think it victimizes cancer patients. so when people say, oh, you know, there's a link between the psyche and cancer, i think it is precisely the kind of thing that happens at cancer patient is played is already full. twice the burden. so i try to shy away from that kind of thinking because it feels to me very negative in some ways. i know plenty of people who haven't had intensive positive attitude about life for that interval cancers but i know plenty of people who are unbelievably depresse

johns hopkins school discusses why the movements are popping up in some countries and not in others. that is live at 6:00 p.m. kelvin sewell takes on the tough question, "why do we kill"? a book launch party for armstrong williams. how unlikely allies got together to change the school system. steven brill talks on "after words." you can watch nearly all of our 9000 programs online. >> nicholas so kersey -- nicolas sarkozy and angela merkel met yesterday to discuss the debt crisis. they discussed a series of proposals. this is 50 minutes. >> during the past two days to present a number of proposals, a number of joint proposals, ambitious proposals. i must say that we have considerable comment analysis and vision among french and germans. we would like to express our determination to defend the euro, to assume the special responsibilities in europe that we have in france and in germany, and in all these issues to have a common view and to make joint proposals. in the current situation, there are objective reasons and there are also a number of reasons or rumors which have been feeling

johns hopkins university school be advanced international studies on why the movements are popping up in some countries and not in others. and then book tv live tonight, with the author of "pitched," who -- it don peck at politics and prose book store in washington, d.c. again, that's live at 7:00. >> the july 20 u.n. declaration of famine in two regions of somalia was not made lightly and truly reflects the condition of the people there. on the basis of that we estimate that in the last 90 days, 29,000 somali children have died. this is nearly 4% of the chirp in southern so many alio. our fear and -- somalia. our fear and the fear of the governments in the horn of africa is that the famine conditions in those two regions will spread to encompass the entire region of southern somalia. the next rains are not due until october and even if they're good we could see a raise in water borne diseases. >> late last month the white house and u.s. automakers agreed on a requirement that would raise the fuel and economy standards to 54.4 approximate miles a gallon by 2025. we talked sfw on "wash

we are proud of the quality of care when king gets at hopkins. -- one can get it at hopkins. we have the best technology in the world, the problem is is out of reach for more and more americans. they cannot afford it and don't have access to that care. the affordable care act is an effort to say let's bring this system available to all and bring down the cost of health care. how do we bring down the cost? we bring down the cost by having everyone in the system. we say that everyone will be covered by the system so we no longer have people visiting the emergency rooms to get health care needs because they have no insurance. we no longer have people not paying their bills in emergency rooms and we have to pay for that. by bringing down costs by bringing everyone into the system. we'll also bring down costs by better use of health information technology. you might be surprised to learn that if you visit an emergency room in maryland, there is very little chance they would have your complete medical records. we want to change that. if they are at your medical records, they have t

first, we are going to hear from a professor at johns hopkins here in washington and also in bologna,taly. he's a senior fellow at a middle east policy council. also, a professor and scholar at the middle east institute and my colleague, the director of the africa center here at the atlantic council. i want to hear about your evaluation. how important or not important is what happened to moammar gadhafi himself and what are your thoughts on scenarios? where might libya be going from here? >> it's very hard to say when this might be over. i think we are at the end of it. [audio difficulties] what we have seen in tripoli is the defections of important parts of his troops have caused easy access into the city. the troops betrayed them right away. they started shooting, so you see the massacres happen because there was no clear-cut division of rule. they will be taking care of. it is important day -- it is important that they clean up is conducted and -- [audio difficulties] [audio difficulties] once that has been obtained by the rebels, we have seen a rapid advance from the eastern part.

former program director at johns hopkins university. the international peace and security institute in collaboration with johns hopkins hosted this event. it's an hour, 40 minutes. >> good evening. my name is cameron chisholm, and i'm the president of the international peace and security institute, and i'd like to welcome you all to "why here, not there: investigating emerging nonviolent movements." .. >> the first outcome of this natural connection is the symbolism on conflict resolution and reconciliation that we just finished up the second annual program of in italy at the site center. it's a month-long intensive training on the practical skills needed to bring of violent conflict to an end. we have some of the alumni in the room tonight. they have lanyards must like this around their neck. if you have questions you can ask them. with a table out there with materials. so this is the actual second outcome of the associations between sais. this is the first of what will be three yearly panel discussions on issues that we believe are pe

and he had been the founding director of the american institute for contemporary studies at johns hopkins and former president and in the '60s he was in the foreign service and he also was based in west germany in berlin germany after the construction of the wall and he's over here in washington so he has a lot to say about the book and the times. i'm very pleased to have you here and looking forward to your comments. >> thank you very much. i'd really like to begin with a personal note that i was in berlin with the u.s. mission there. and, in fact, i can remember some of the editing of my cables -- but editing of some of my cables by dick smyser. even back in those those he was a real stylist. and let me go to a personal it seems as mary beth has already suggested one of the main strengths is counter-point where the personal and the summit meetings of khrushchev and kennedy and attenhour and de gaulle and it shows almost in every chapter how diplomats like himself looked on the ground. so this -- this counter-point is one of the great strengths of the book. he's drawn from a wide variety