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johns hopkins university makes a huge investment. >> speed cameras under scrutiny.t story is next. >> highlights of last night's >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today at 6:00 a.m. >> good morning. welcome back to 11 news today. i'm stan stovall. >> and i'm mindy basara. thanks for joining us for 11 news today. a good weekend to get stuff done indoors? >> we do have a rain threat. temperatures will be a little chilly. i have circled the city to give reference point. some rain activity is moving in. more rain is back in pennsylvania. we will be dealing with that and clouds today. details for the rest of the weekend coming up. >> a company is looking into the issue of the speed cameras. >> jennifer franciotti is live with more on the story. >> good morning. erroneous readings in at least three speed the camera locations. the department of transportation is planning on taking those recommendations. a contractor try to recreate those conditions. here on coldspring lane, the contractor conducted a massive test of a camera aimed e

. >> a cash infusion from the neighbors around john hopkins university. $10 million, the money is from the school to help fund projects, projects that will be chosen by the neighbors themselves. it is to promote and buying more from local businesses. the announcement was made today. >> it has become clear that the interest of our neighbors, safe streets, the elimination of dilapidated properties, and the work force are also the interest of our university. after all, the future of john hopkins is linked to that of the community and we're deeply, deeply, and purposefully committed to baltimore's success. >> there is 10 neighboring communities that surround the cam pass that qualify to receive some of the money. >> it looks like we timed the weather perfectly for the lighting of the washington monument. ava is down there at the monument. as long as we can keep the rain away you can't ask for much more. >> can you imagine fit was 70 degrees right now? it would be hard to get into the holiday spirit. it is not that bad i'm dressed in layers and i feel fine. temperatures are not too bad arou

. >> at john hopkins university the university will contribute $10 million over the next five years. rob roblin join us now with more details. >> this is a lot of money that is going to help these communities quite a bit. the money is going to do things like getting development in the communities, school projects and neighborhood improvements. today's announcement is an effort by the university to improve and strengthen the communities that surround john hopkins university. >> it is clear that the interest of our neighbors, safe streetings, the elimination of dilapidated properties is the interest of our combruferte. off all, the future of john hopkins is linked to the community and we're deeply, deeply committed to baltimore's success. >> it will be $10 million over the next five years for community projects that will be chosen with the residents that live in the neighborhoods. >> it is our hope that john hopkins will serve as a model. by demonstrating that the vitally of the neighborhood surrounding the institution is critical, critical to the strength and the growth of those insti

. >> a local project got an infusion of jumps from hopkins university today. christie ileto has more on those living around the homewood campus. >> reporter: $10 million. that's how much money johns hopkins university is giving to the homewood area project, money that will directly revamp 10 neighborhoods in the surrounding area, including right here in charles village. >> johns hopkins is committing $10 million. >> that's what johns hopkins just announced, and members of the homewood community partnership initiative and nearby neighborhoods will soon decide which community projects get a piece of the $10 million pie. >> people are excited about the possibility. >> reporter: possibilities to eliminate dilapidated properties and bring small businesses to the area that in turn create jobs. but the money will be more than just a facelift for those neighborhoods. >> the neighborhoods will become safer when there are more opportunities for young people, it becomes safer when we have the vacants no longer just boarded up, where residents become homeowners. where sma

. >>> the neighborhoods surrounding johns hopkins university may soon be getting the makeover. today the president of the college and the mayor will be on hand for the announce. the new plan comes after last year's homewood community partners initiative. it brought together community members and the university to come up with ways to help the north baltimore area thrive more. >>> many couples have been waiting a lifetime for today. >> today same sex couples are unstop closer to -- one step closer to getting legally married. abc2 news' sherrie johnson is downtown live with more on this story. this is a big day. >> reporter: yes, it certainly is. we are here live in front of courthouse east where many same sex couples are expected to line up today for their marriage licenses. the place will be a pretty busy place today. even though they will have the license, they won't actually be able to tie the knot until january 1st when that new law goes into effect. the governor is expected to formally ratify the election results allowing clerks to hand out marriage certificates today. now

researchers at johns hopkins university in the united states say they have observed the first two stages of what appears to be a long-range missile. these images of the launch site in tongchang-ri on the west coast of north korea were captured on monday. researchers say they show trailers carrying the first two stages of a three-stage rocket. they say north korean officials seem to be conducting final checks. the orientation of a crane on the site was also different from three days earlier. equipment that could be used to record the launch, including cameras and antennas, was also observed on the site. the researchers say north korea could be ready for liftoff as early as december 6th. they also note the country has not informed international organizations of its plans. north korean officials sent advanced notice before previous tests on two occasions. the possible launch of a long-range missile was among the topics discussed friday by high-ranking chinese officials during a visit to pyongyang. the chinese delegation met with north korean leader kim jong-un. it was headed by li jianguo,

. >>> regarding a neighborhood surrounding johns hopkins university, the president of the college along with the mayor will be on hand to talk about recommendations to improve that area. the new plan comes after last year's homewood community partners initiative brought together community members and the university to come up with ways to help north baltimore continue thriving. >>> well, in an effort to improve schools administrators talked to those people attending them. baltimore county school superintendent went to the students to ask for their suggestions. dr. dallas dance held a town hall meeting with about 60 county high school students. they got a chance to ask their superintendent direct questions. >> we want to get our kids the opportunity to actually say this is my life. what do i need to do in order to accomplish the plan? if that plan is not in place, nothing is going to happen. it's a little late in high school but at the same time this was the audience i had. still having the conversations about drafting that plan for your life. >> superintendent dance is also engaging stu

we're expecting a major announcement about an effort to boost neighborhoods surrounding johns hopkins university's homewood campus. the president of the college along with mayor rawlings blake will be on hand to talk about recommendations to improve the area in north baltimore. we have the details on abc2 news at 5:00. >>> and important news in you received a speeding ticket in baltimore but you think you weren't going that fast. you may be right it turns out. the city is investigating false speed camera tickets and baltimore city council president jack young says they're going to figure out exactly what went wrong. >> we're going to make sure that we're having the hearing. that we going to get to the bottom of it and hopefully those deficiencies that are in place will be corrected. right now, you know, the camera is having some kind of glitch. that we're told. but what kind of glitch, i really don't know. >> young says anyone hit with an improper ticket will be reimbursed and people should have been notified about the false tickets they may have received. >>> a big event is happening tonight in w

at johns hopkins university, dr. stephan desiderio is under pressure to reduce the experiments he designs in mice in his search for a cure for culdhood leukemia. does that make a more uncertain morence? >> not only a more uncertain scie science, we actually lose ten uncrs. en reporter: and the down side of turning off a variety of experiments is what? >> we've killed innovation because the most innovative becaus projects are the projects that will go first. >> reporter: the pending budget cuts have also forced labs to etow down the hiring of promising younger scientists. >> turning them down because i have to say to them "in all honesty, i don't know whether i can take you on. on that four to five-year commitment." >> reporter: the n.i.h. hopes to restore the lost 10% if the ifncy's funding is restored, but this is one danger from the anscal cliff that isn't waiting for new year's day. the reduction in medical experiments and the hold on ingoratory jobs is happening now. wyatt andrews, cbs news, wy washington. ghanlo

she is a graduate of harvard law school and johns hopkins university. she is a contributing author to consumer credit and landing. welcome to both of you. >> thank you for the opportunity to be here before you today. let me touch on a few highlights of the testimony we have already submitted. we talked a little bit about credit reports and whether consumers understand them or not but the strongest advocate for me is a consumer. when the bank does not know me, 40 million of us moved every year and a credit report is the bridge that tells my story. it is about my hard work and help pay my bills and the good decisions i make and personal responsibility. credit reports are an incredible indicator to others, everything else about you want someone to know about me. usaid, the other banks are so involved and supportive of credit reporting that they are involved in spreading this good news around the world. i serve on an international task force to advance credit reporting and other parts of the world. the system is big. the report laid out very well, 200 milli

. >>> at john hopkins university professor roger pang was hoping for a few extra students in his statisticshe signed up for a new program to put his lectures online. >> i was expecting maybe a few thousand. >> what did you get? >> in the end i had 54,000 students. and about -- >> 54,000 students in your course? >> that's right. >> reporter: such is the rapidly exploding power of online learning. a new concept being embraced by a dozen top schools that want to reach more schools, expand their influence and enhance their worldwide reputations at very little cost. they are all offering classes online for free through companies like the nonprofit adex and the response is astonishing. >> we had 10,000 students sign up in the first few hours we opened enrollment. and this was at midnight u.s. time. then the numbers went up to 155,000 in a short amount of time. it was completely insane. >> reporter: students are connecting from all over the world for all sorts of reasons. in chicago dawn smith wanted improve her job skills with a free course in pharmacology from the university of pennsylvania. she

johns hopkins university and there for just two weeks and then once he no longer seemed to be imminent danger, which is what the criteria is, you need to be an imminent risk of killing yourself or somebody else, he was discharged and sent back to my care. the problem is, he refuses to come and see me and giving the parents a real fuss with taking the medication so what do we do with the kids? what i think we need is more services available for the families, we need to have programs and institutions where kids can go for long-term treatment. the problems do not start overnight and they're not going to be cured overnight so there needs to be a place where kids go and go for a sustained period of time. months, we are not talking about days. and that's the amount of time that it really takes to help people get better. >> well, doctor, i mean, you mentioned talking to a mother who's worked up and concerned about her son. what is the practical advice for a parent who feels that way about their kid and what are the steps? >> this is so hard. it is so difficult. what i tell her to make sure sh

to nurses -- >> host: tell hour viewer -- >> guest: bill brody was a time president of johns hopkins university and was part of this initiative to have all the executives adopt a unit and many of the executives at hopkins adopted a unit, and icu or ward or clinic or operating room area, and they would meet with the staff -- and we still do -- and say what are the safety concerns here? how are you going to harm the next patient. they anticipate what is going to go wrong win we have a medical catastrophe, and they happen every year at every hospital in the country. have medical mishaps every year, and these discussions create sort of an anticipation that allows people too redesign and reengineer the hospital system, to make it safer, and you don't -- the employees, the staff and the nurses, they feel valued. people listen to them. and when we've got 26% of doctors saying, they're burned out, they don't feel valued, getting crushed with malpractice and insurance and premiums and costs and having to fight with insurance companies. feeling value goes a long way and not feeling valued by your hospita

at the applied physics laboratory at johns hopkins university in maryland, michael mcloughlin led theulti-million dollar engineering of what has become the most sophisticated hand and arm ever developed. it's the same size and weight of an average man's arm and hand, and everything is inside, including the computers and the batteries. is there anything that your natural arm and hand can do that the mechanical hand can't? >> michael mcloughlin: well, i can do this. ( laughs ) >> pelley: okay. there's that. >> mcloughlin: we can't do that. but other than that, virtually everything your natural hand can do, this prosthetic is able to do. same strength, too. >> pelley: same strength? >> mcloughlin: same strength. so we can curl 45 to 50 pounds with the arm. >> pelley: they've thought of a lot of ways to use it. when set on wheels, it can bring a human touch where no human can go. in this demonstration, we wore a visor that showed us the video feed from the robot. these gloves moved the robotic hands. and we practiced pulling a wire out of a bomb. come on, give me that pinch. awesome. but

i'm a grad student at johns hopkins university. i had a question for you related to dan mudd's testimony when he talks about the series debate that occurred around 2005, fanny, whereby he mentions whether to stay the course, and stay, remain as a niche player in the mortgage market, or to enter into some private market as a means to capture additional market share and stay competitive with what was occurring at that time. my question is, if fanny and mudd would have stayed the course and not gone so heavily into the subprime our alt-a market, what would've happened or where would they be today? .. >> beginning of '06 worsened the situation for the whole country and for themselves. dan mudd would argue no matter what we had done, we couldn't have survived 2008. i think we'll never really know that. but we do know that what they did made things worse. >> do you have a comment on that? >> yes. as i indicated, my view is that this was building over a very long period of time, and it really started -- if you look at nominal house price

came from one of the nation's leading experts on dropout prevention-- robert balfanz of johns hopkins universitylfanz has spent years developing a data-driven model that flags early warning indicators to target students who show signs of falling behind in subjects like math and english. he says that two pivotal years determine whether or not a student will be academically successful. >> our focal point is always starting with sixth and ninth grade because the data shows if you can make the transition to middle school and the transition to high school and really get from sixth to tenth grade on time and on track your odds of graduating go from maybe one in four to three in four. it's a really big shift. >> reporter: in 2009, with the help of $30 million in federal stimulus funds, balfanz was able to implement his research in 44 schools across the u.s. one of which was broadmoor in east baton rouge. at the heart of balfanz's he admits that's a high number at first, but that it's well worth it in the long run. >> the cost to society of a dropout is staggering compared to the investment it actually

. >> guest: the president of johns hopkins university and there's a part of this initiative to have all of the executives about the unit and many of the executives adopted the year net or the clinic or the operating room area, and they still do and they would say what are the safety concerns? how are you going to harm the next patient and anticipate what is going to go wrong the next time we have a medical catastrophe and let's face it it happens every year every hospital in the country doesn't matter if it is the best or the worst has medical mishaps every year. and these discussions create a sort of anticipation that allows people to redesign and reengineer the hospital system to make it safer and you know the employees, the staff and the nurses feel valued. people listen to them. and when we have got 26% of doctors saying they've burned out, they don't feel value they are getting crushed with insurance premiums and cost and they are having to fight their insurance companies, feeling the value goes a long way, and not being valued by your hospitals or leaders is a serious way to alien

. >> reporter: jeffrey kahn is a professor of bioethics at johns hopkins university. he chaired a blue ribbon committee for the institute of medicine that took a hard look chimpanzee testing in the u.s. as the outcry from animal rights activists reached a crescendo. >> we did acknowledge that from the perspective of this committee, the fact that chimpanzees are very close to humans gives them a different status. >> reporter: in late 2011, the committee laid out strict guidelines for chimp testing: the research must be done only when it's lifesaving, it can't be done ethically in humans, there are no other models, and the animals are socially and humanely housed. when the report arrived here at the national institutes of health, they embraced the new rules almost immediately and formed a new working group to examine all research that relies on chimp testing. james anderson oversees that group. >> but the first test of this working group is to review all of those one at a time and hold them up against the iom principles and tell us this is consistent or this is not cons

. >> reporter: thomas burke teaches about the environment and public health at johns hopkins university. >> there are also combustion by-product -- that sounds like a fancy term -- but that's from the old plants there, coal tar plants and plants like that so there's heavy petroleum molecules too. >> reporter: some of those chemicals in the water have been shown to cause cancer in animals. others can damage the central nervous system. both the creek and the canal overtop their banks when sandy's storm surge reached them. the water lapped on to sidewalks and poured into buildings nearby. here in the green point neighborhood the newtown creek is less than a quarter mile away. one of new york's biggest sewage treatment plants, which was also in the flood zone, is just around the corner. resident jacqueline lomb barred says water poured into her house from both directions. >> the evening that sandy hit, we were hit with an eight-foot storm surge. that basically flooded my basement up through the ceiling and my landlord's basement here up through their first floor. so it was a very smelly nox

senior fellow with the center of transatlantic relations at johns hopkins university.t is this really about? >> this is about vladimir putin playing to his base which is nationalistic and poor as he's losing moscow and it's about vladimir putin sending a signal to the united states that he does not want us interfering in russia's internal affairs and this is a convenient way to send that message. >> let's, explain why they would think that with this trade status improvement there was a little clause that said if someone violates human rights in russia you're not going to be able to get a vase to get in here. what is this law called? >> the magity insky bill. >> sergei died in prison. who helped kill him. >> the reason he was in prison, he's a lawyer. he was defending a guy who is a frequent guest on cnbc, william rattner who got ripped off by russian police officerses. >> yes. those police officers were promoted and browder has pushed the bill forward with the white house to go forward with it and he worked with congress with a bunch of allies who supported him. >> i'v

so she switched her major and then she graduated from pcw, she went to johns hopkins university in baltimore to pursue a master's degree in zoology and spent her summers at the marine biological laboratory in woods hole, which is where this picture is from writer from 1929. carson was thinking about getting her doctorate in either serology or some aspect of biology and she would've had fairly circumscribed opportunities had she done that. there were not a lot of good career paths for women coming out of college with phd's in the late 1920s. she could've taught certainly. certainly at a school like the one she just graduated from, but the future was always an out search and one andy was made doubly so by the onset of the great depression, which of course it at the exact time carson had first graduated from college. after a couple of years at johns hopkins in earning her master's degree in doing a little bit of teaching, she really needed to find work. she was kind of the sole breadwinner in her family. her father had mixed success in life and her mother lived with carson for most of her life.

she graduated from pcw, she went to johns hopkins university in baltimore for his zoology and spent her summers at the marine biological laboratory in woods hole, which is right around 1929. person was thinking about getting her doctorate in nuclear zoology or some aspect of biology and she would have had fairly circumscribed opportunities had she done that. the pilot career paths for women coming out of college with phd's in the late 1920s. she could have taught certainly. certainly like the one she just graduated from, but the future was in 131 and it was made doubly so for the onset of the great depression, which hit at the exact time carson had first graduated from college. after a couple years at john's heart tends in earning her master's degree doing a little bit of teaching, she really needed to find work. she was kind of the sole breadwinner. her father had mixed success in my her mother lived with carson most of her life in a number of relatives were moving in and out of the household and carson was the one who had a job. in the mid-1930 she went to work for the euro beneficiar

books he spends his time as a fellow at the center for dance to governmental studies at johns hopkins university. tom also served as staff on the financial crisis inquiry commission and in my opinion there are a few things i would disagree with the commission's findings one thing i know for certain is the commission's report was stronger because of tom's involvement. the book is also informed largely by tom's experience on commission staff. we are fortunate to have with us alex pollock to offer his thoughts on the book. alex is resident fellow at the american enterprise institute. i got to know alex a decade ago when he was president and chief operating officer of the bank of chicago from 1991 from 2004 and i would also say i always found him to be one of the most insightful commentators on the financial service industry so with that i turn the podium over to thomas stanton. >> thanks very much, mark. good afternoon. i think it is acting in. it is a pleasure to join you today at the cato institute. i am extremely grateful to kato and want to express my thanks. years ago i wrote a monograph that

by owns the johns hopkins university staff ride of sicily looking at the american campaign in sicily in 1943, and the grad student talking terry tal eleve- talking about terry allen mentioned and after the battle was over and the campaign was won, omar bradley fired terry allen. my jaw dropped. i had just come out of iraq where nobody got fired for nothing, you know, where mediocrity was our goal. and instead i hear about the army firing one of our most effective division commanders in europe in our first your of war there, and that's really the they had that began the book for me, going back and studying this. bob kill brew told me, tom, you need to learn more about george marshall, so off i went. a couple years later i emerged from the archives. really came to admire the guy. i don't think he's a particularly likable guy. and the other hero, i think, in my book is eisenhower. i think he's actually underrated. the job of managing the allies, of dealing with the british, the french -- >> montgomery was no easy character. >> montgomery's a piece of work. [laughter] you know, at one po

paul rosenberg is an alzheimer's specialist at johns hopkins university part of the first clinical trialment in the united states. welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> tell me ow this works. >> you put two wires in the brain, in the part of the brain we know is involved in memory. the wires are attached to, it looks like a pacemaker. a little battery that sits under your shoulder blade and it puts electricity through these wires. these wires run along the natural wires of the brain, which feeds your memory, and they actually stimulate those parts of the brain. >> similar to what we do in deep brain stimulation with parkinsons? >> exactly. the equipment is the same, surgery similar, it's just a different part of the brain and based on what we know about memory circuits in the brain. >> what have the results been? >> there was a pilot, charlie in canada of six patients. they did somewhat better in terms of their memory. they did great in terms of their brain metabolism. and in alzheimer's disease you usually go downhill and these folks actually increased a little bit. >> did you go for thi

. >> reporter: at johns hopkins university, professor roger pang was hoping for a few extra studentshe signed up for a new program to put his lectures online. >> i was expecting maybe a few thousand. tops. >> reporter: what did you get? >> in the end, i had 54,000 students enrolled. >> reporter: 54,000 students? >> that's right. >> reporter: such as the rapidly exploding power of online learning, an old concept being newly embraced by dozens of the nation's top schools which want to expand their influence and enhance their worldwide reputations at very little cost. they're all offering classes online for free through companies like corsera and the non-profit ed ex, the joint venture of m.i.t. and harvard and the response is astonishing. >> we had 10,000 students sign up in the first few hours of open enrollment and this was at midnight at u.s. time and the numbers went all the way up to 155,000 in a short amount of time. it was completely insane. >> reporter: students are connecting from all over the world for all sorts of reasons. in chicago, dawn smith wanted to improve her jobs sk

i want to bring in katherine newman, a sociologist with johns hopkins university and co-author of thecial roots of school shootings." you've been studying these things for years and the rampage shootings are rarely spontaneous and that people telegraph to friends and family what they are planning to do. how do they do that? >> well, they usually are telling their peers that they have ambitions to shoot up a school or take some other kind of action, but it's usually said in a very veiled way, suzanne. so it's not that easy to interpret. they will say things like i'm going to be running from the cops next week and everyone says, what is johnny talking about, but it piques their interest and that is what johnny is trying to do. >> why would he be trying to do that? is he trying to warn people? is he trying to give out some sign that he needs help here that he doesn't really want to do this. >> he doesn't usually really want to do this, but after many years of trying to get attention in other ways, johnny who is usually someone who has trouble making friends and connecting with other peop

thank you for the john hopkins university for organizing this event.et me start by sharing with you a personal story that just happened today, which gives you just a sense of how our lives became tragic. today, one of my close friends, a well-known activist in my home town, has been killed by indiscriminate shelling in the city. dareaa is 7 kilometers south of damascus. and it has been days of fighting with the security forces. this is why the security forces target the city. it is very close to the damascus capital. they use the fighter jets and the shelling. the story of mohammad is very important. he is a peaceful activist. he graduated from damascus university. since 2003, he was very active on social networks, working with other activists in the city to organize peaceful demonstrations against the war in iraq. this is where the security forces detained him. they released him in 2005. since then, he was very active in humanitarian assistance, along with his friends, including one who was killed in the beginning of the revolution. mohammad establish

well a new study from researchers as johns hopkins university say mood light something a real thing.u're falling asleep with a lot of lights on at night, you might be seriously disrupting your state of mind. dr. manny alvarez, senior managing editor for foxnewshealth.com and a member of our fox news medical a-team. dr. manny, i'm so guilty of this. why is it a problem? >> what are you guilty of? jenna: no, leaving all the lights on at night and falling fast asleep. my husband says i have to go around turning off all the lights so. >> well, you know, look, we know lights affect our moods. we talk about seasonal effective disorder. sometimes in the wintertime in the northeast you want to have certain types of light during the day. however, a lot of folks with all the electronics that we have and somehow they get into this habit of, you know, dimming the lights but really not turning them off. ultimately what happens is there are cells in your retina at that really don't shut down, that creates a chemical reaction in your brain. in animal studies, very well done by the way, indeed there

i teach at johns hopkins university, and i would like to talk about administrative capacity, which is different from the discussion of authorities that congress might give fha to adjust premiums or what ever. i am curious, sarah, you and nick would see this and that made 1990's thought and the private mortgage industry killed that so fast all of our heads spun. i was told how much they disliked the idea. what are the politics this time around, because that strikes me as one of the few ways one could get to the improvements in people, processes, and assistance. >> well, my experience at that time is one that i think about a lot, what the opportunities are now. at the end of the day, there were two sets of ideas embodied in the proposal we had at the time. one was the ability to deal with the administrative flexibility and hiring a computer systems and the like. the other was programmatic, giving us the ability to essentially doubled the products that we serve a long performance measures. i think the real objection to what came from folks in the industry was about the product flexibilit

doctors at johns hopkins university are the first to perform the surgery.hey have performed one surgery so far. the goal is to stimulate the brain much like pacemakers do for the heart. >> what's exciting is our understanding of how memory works fits well with how this surgery might work. what we're hoping to see is improved memory and that people don't decline as fast as they would without the treatment. heather: our guest, dr. richard fur shine, he is the director of ther if shine center for comprehensive medicine. thank us. >> thank you. heather: so how hopeful should alzheimer's patients be looking at this procedure? >> well, i think this is a breakthrough and, you know, what we're seeing right now, one case at johns hopkins where this implantable pacemaker was put in, 70,000 people have had a similar type of pacemaker put in for parkinson's, and there are already six patients who have had this treatment in canada. so this is a very, very positive step in the right direction, and it works by stimulating those areas of the brain where memories take place

. >> reporter: at johns hopkins university, professor roger pang was hoping for a few extra students in his statistics course, so he signed up for a new program to put his lectures online. >> i was expecting maybe a few thousa thousand. >> what did you get? >> in the end, i had about 54,000 students enrolled dpaesh. >> 54,000 students in your course? >> that's right. >> such is the rapidly exploding power of online learning. an old concept that is being newly embraced by dozens of the nation's top schools which want to reach more students, expand their influence, and enhance their worldwide reputations at very little cost. >> basic -- >> they're all offering classes online for free through companies like corsera and edex, a joint venture of m.i.t. and harvard, and the response is astonishing. >> we had a few thousand people at the establishment of the enrollment, then the numbers went up to 155,000 in a short amount of time. it was completely insane. >> students are connecting from all over the world for all sorts of reasons. in chicago, dawn smith wanted to improve her job skills wi

i am susan and i'm a researcher at johns hopkins university and i'm not a health care provider. seems like there's as this ongoing trend that there's a disconnect between the patients in the provider and what information they use to make health decisions. there also seems to be head hint that the solution is education and it's only the patient that can be more educated. i wonder if there is something that the physicians could do to help close that gap and you guys agree that should happen? also i'm a little concerned that physicians just need to be more honest. if that's so, how do we educate physicians to be more honest? >> eyed him think the answer is that patients need to be better educated, putting some sort of word and a proof on them. i hope that is not how at least -- i don't think any of us are saying this needs to be -- i think of anything there needs to be transparent to because it does two things. it helps to first of all give information and have it out there whether patients use of our families or whomever needs to user, researchers such as yourself as well as a put

he is currently at johns hopkins university. he spent time on the hill and white house. thank you for your time. >> tomorrow morning, congressman tom cole discusses recent fiscal cliff negotiations. then john buckley talks about the history of the alternative minimum tax and how it is being dealt with in the fiscal negotiate some. "washington journal" 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> what is in the latest proposal? >> it would be about $2.20 trillion in addition to deficit reduction on top of what has already been enacted. compared to what the white house has put out, $4 trillion, but using the same accounting as the white house including other items. . that includes $800 billion in new tax revenues that the republicans say would come from tax reform and not increasing tax rates. >> are you talking about the bush-era tax rates? >> right, their offer assumes they would all be extended into next year and that would set up tax reform, and it would be in that process that they would generate the $800 billion in new revenue, and through capping deductions, eliminate new group