acceptance letters sent to hundreds of students rejected from john hopkins university. and cecily tynan has more on the christmas eve weather coming in. >>> get a load of this, a california valet is out of a job today after being caught taking a brand new corvette for a spin. dan coles says he turn on the stingray's valet camera mode. good thing he did, he watched the valet zoom through the parking garage at speeds greater than 50 miles per hour. though the sports car was not damaged, from now on he will let them know they are being recorded. >>> here at the big board, a big battle over a woman's final wishes, she wanted to be buried with her beloved dog, bella, their ashes mixed together. the problem is connie is no longer with us but bella is, she is young, vibrant and healthy, according to the attorney for the estate, she could be put down because of the stipulation in the last will and testament. and they could carry out the wishes too. many people have offered to adopt bella. >>> now to a big awful academic oops for john hopkins university after 300 applicants were

we're both johns hopkins university alumni, if you will. it was pretty stunning to me when you said this, the comparison, widely reported, about the united states and nazi germany. i'll play the clip. then i want you to explain, dr. carson, what you meant. >> very much like nazi germany. i know you're not supposed to say nazi germany. but i don't care about political correctness. you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. we now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe. and it's because of the p.c. police. it's because of politicians, because of news. it's all of these things combining to stifle people's conversation. >> you have to explain that. when i heard the comparison of the united states of america, the greatest country in the world, the greatest country ever, to nazi germany, i said, what is he talking about? >> well, see, what you are doing is allowing words to affect you more than listening to what was actually being said. >> so please explain that. that's part of the prob

profits, dropping fuel prices, and what it means for the flying public, steve hanke at johns hopkins university, and douglas kidd, executive director of the national association of airline passengers. good to have you with us again. when can consumers expect to see this new world of oil prices reflected in what they're spending in tickets? >> for myself, i wouldn't expect to see any change until after the holiday season. the holiday season is typically a time when airlines are making money, their passenger load levels are up, and they're not about to cut prices at a time when they expect to have more passengers and they can make the most amount of money. >> is there a sense that this is almost our due given the haircut they took when the economy tanked and loads went down? >> i can't speak for management, but i would say for all of us personally fuel costs are a big part of our own personal family budgets. for the airlines it's a very big part of their budget, and a mistake in pricing can put an airline out of business. i would expect the airlines to be cautious and careful about any decrease i

analyst and program director for the graduate program in global security studies and johns hopkins university. were you one of the people who opposed 9 idea of bringing this forward to the public? >> not knowing what is in the report. now that it is out, yeah, i wish this report had not come out. i wish what would have happened was there was a bipartisan report republicans and democrats endorsing the conclusions and findings. that's how we move intelligence forward. this week we'll celebrate the signing of the intelligence reform bill. i was part that have process with joel lieberman, with susan collins and jane harman. we harmed through a tough process, and we came out of a bipartisan product. we move the process forward. this is a partisan report by democrats in the senate. it does not move the ball forward. >> having said that what about the conclusions that it comes to. i understand your objections to the process, but what about the material contained inside. >> there was a systemic process of withholding information from congress and deceiving congress. from 2004 until 2011 i was recipie

baltimore's johns hopkins university says it mistakenningly sent out welcome emails to applicants who got rejected. they blamed the glitch on an outside contractor. and they sent out follow-up messages and they are apologizing to all the applicants who were impacted. >>> coming up in the 5:00 hour, for the first time since the big bay area storm, the special way they are helping one family regain a since of normalcy. >>> but first, let go from the niners and now his mom is coming to his defense. what she told us about the allegations that forced the team to release her son. >>> good morning. right now, looking at a commute where traffic is doing well on 280. nice looking drive. we will tell you more about the south bay commute. >>> some light rainout there but we are in between one last system which will arrive on friday. light rain, mostly cloudy but a break today. the next system coming up. >>> american officials say north korea is indeed responsible for a cyber attack at sony. and the terrorist threats that led to the scrapping of a movie release. how hollywood is reacting. >>> do

. >>> the rape of a 16-year-old girl at a fraternity party, at a johns hopkins university fraternityparty, two men forced that drunken teen to have sex in a bathroom during the party. >>> killing of an american teacher stabbed in a shopping center restroom. the murder follows a warning about a web post that encourages assaults on american teachers at schools in the middle east. >>> we first brought you an "america tonight" exclusive last night about veterans who believe they face serious illness. trash including toxic chemicals burned on u.s. military bases is what made them sick. already 25,000 have signed up on the va's online registry. "america tonight's" sheila macvicar now investigates. why they still used burn pits. >> for years the u.s. military burned its trash, everything from garbage to chemicals to tires to plastics and more in smoldering burn pits. burn pits that by law, should have been put out of business. a law passed by congress in 2009 designed to protect the health of service men and women and the them. >> if you have over 100 people at the base and you have them ov

johns hopkins university shattered nearly 300 student's dreams last week.ent rejected e-mails e-mails saying they had been accepted. they realized the error and said they were actually rejected. they blame it on human error. your kids have a reason to complain about homework. a study for american school children spend an average of 6 hours a week hitting the books. that's employeer than the average of 5 hours. u.s. students were below average on worldwide student assessment tests especially in matt and re -- math and reading comprehension. a 10-year-old little girl taking on the common core curriculum bringing the crowd to the feet. >> i love to read, i love to write. i love to do math but i don't like the (indiscernible be. why? because it stinks. i am glad my mom and dad are letting me opt out because i don't want to deal with this nonsense. >> little 10-year-old elizabeth blaine from montclair new jersey showing her support for a proposed policy which would allow parents to opt their children out of the common core testing. the voting will be held at a l

. >> professor gerard anderson as the johns hopkins university in baltimore studies health management. >> when we have lest management they can charge what they want. >> he says he is never sure when the next price like will come or whether his customers can afford them. >> when we have a drug and dispense it tomorrow the vaim se drug comes an increase of over $200. >> the pharmacist caught in the middle, responsible for the needs of the community while also trying to run a small business. >> we're busy fighting things like generic drug spikes. >> a group of 23,000 members he too is baffled by the price rises. >> that is the question why are we seeing these spikes in price that have of products that have been around for decades, and they are going up a thousand, 2,000% overnight. pharmacies are left with losing lots of money. >> community pharmacies are left in a difficult position. it's something he believes is unsustainable. >> well i'll share an example one of my members told me about. a breast cancer drug. in this case the gap in the price increase was $250. so the pharmacy had to

that's what 293 students who apply for early admission at johns hopkins university are dealing with thisning. school officials say it was a technical glitch and apologized for any confusion it might have caused. what happens is they got an acceptance letter and turns out they weren't accepted. >>> russia is in crisis. the economy there in shambles. what went so wrong. and how the u.s. plans to issue even more sanctions. we're live in moscow next. >>> all right. happening right now -- the russian ruble, the main currency there is in free fall. and this is causing huge ripple effects all around the world. and it comes after a huge interest rate hike earlier this week. russia that was aimed at propping up the ruble. it also comes as president obama gets ready to sign new sanctions against russia, which could only make the situation there worse. let's go live now matthew chance in moscow to get the latest, good morning, matthew. >> reporter: good morning, john. that's right, the sanctions the white house says it could sign by the end of the week 0 would cut sanctions restrictions on high-tec

. >> johns hopkins university says nearly 300 applicants were takenly sent acceptance letters, i knowen they were actually rejected or deferred. university officials say the mistake was human error. a contractor who works with the school, an electronic communications, pulled the wrong list of emails. so the student who had applied for early decision, received an e-mail with the subject line embrace the yes. oh, my gosh. this is horrifying. the school apologized in a follow up e-mail, but some say they would like university officials to make personal phonecalls to apologize. what's that, is that like there -- what is this music and video we're looking at? put their promo on youtube or something? this is not the e-mail that they sent everybody to say -- it is? okay, go ahead, we'll get to the bottom that far momentarily. >> are you betting -- okay. are you getting -- >> the best bang. >> oh, the best bang. >> not the bets bang. >> like it says bets? local college recognizes having the best value. >> the back street boys are back in a new documentary. >> i've been waiting. >> huge fans.

. >>> johns hopkins university says nearly 300 politics were mistakenly sent welcome messages when theye rejected. school officials tell "the washington post" it was human error and the contractor pulled the wrong list of e-mails. some parents are calling on the university to personally apologize to each student. >>> a medical marijuana dispensary in southern california removed its holiday decorations after finding itself at the center of a town controversy. the business hired an artist to paint christmas decorations on its store front. those decorations include a pot-smoking santa. the paintings also depict a snowman holding a prescription pill bottle. hundreds of people expressed their anger. >> i was shocked when i drove by in the morning knowing that there's a junior high school a block away. kids walk past it. it just didn't seem right. >> the store manager says he had the decorations removed once he found out so many people were angry. >>> in part of california, people are back in their homes after a mandatory evacuation overnight. sheriff's deputies went door-to-door in ventura c

a senior fellow of the cuba project at johns hopkins university. wayne, nice to see you, sir. the center for international politics. >> forgive me. thank you for correcting that. let me just begin with the question that we went through five questions people are asking and let me begin with how does this impact americans potentially traveling to cuba, goods americans would want to bring back, ie cigars and what not, does that change? >> i have no idea whether that changes or not. you've been able to bring some things back for a while. whether this changes it, i don't know. >> how about why don't you tell me -- you were there in havana. i heard that church bells were ringing. have you had a chance to speak to cubans? how are they reacting to the news? >> i haven't been in cuba in havana. i have actually. i'm in havana right now as a matter of fact. there was tremendous enthusiasm in the streets here in havana when the news came that the u.s. was going to ease restrictions on cuba. we're going to establish diplomatic relations with cuba. it's been a long time coming. let me just

my phd is from the johns hopkins university. c-span: in what? >> guest: in history. c-span: what got you interested in history? >> guest: well, i--it's that teacher in the third grade--you know the way people say. and it also, i think, has something to do with my family and their interest in their past and i was just always hooked from miss howard's class in the bryn mawr school where we cut and pasted greek statues into our books and learned about pericles in fifth century b.c. greece. c-span: what do you think of the teaching profession today? do you like to teach? >> guest: oh, yeah, i love it. yeah. what a wonderful way to stay in touch with young people and learn from them and then try, sometimes, to teach them something. c-span: what is goucher like, and what kind of a school is it? >> guest: it used to be a women's college, and now it's co-ed and boisterously co-ed. it's small, undergraduate and very much committed to the idea of liberal arts--that you have a broad-based, general education and then off you go to do more specialized training. c-span: is there n

for the republican presidential nomination, he's a famed pediatric neurosurgeon from johns hopkins universitywhat's going on in ferguson, missouri, before the grand jury decision in staten island, but listen to what he said about police in america. >> i challenge people all the time, imagine living for 24 hours with no police. people will be walking into your house saying, hey, i think i like that television, i'm it taking that. it would be total chaos. so the police are our friends. are they perfect in all cases? of course not. >> you want to react to that, debbie rose? >> yes. this is not an issue of police and what they endure. this is about treatment, a different standard applied in communities of color as opposed to a standard that they use in other communities. and so with ben carson's remark, he does a disservice to this community when he tries to triv vallize how the what we know the reality is and how those services are delivered. >> is one of the problems, tom fuentes, you were a cop before you became an fbi agent, former assistant director of the fbi, racial profiling in the united

at johns hopkins university, there's a man named roland griffiths. you probably know that name. he was a guy who came to psychedelic research through his interest in meditation and the astounding disco statements and he had a background in testing drugs to find out how it did if they were. so it's a specialty. but it also says interesting things with apes and humans to see how much work they were willing -- people notoriously lie on surveys. they want to see how much work they were willing to do. in the personal life, he was fascinated by his study of meditation and these amazing states that vitamin c. -- brought him into. so it occurred to him at some point that he could actually bring his personal and professional interests together by studying whether the spiritual state claimed to be produced by psychedelics, have aggravated to state that had gone through meditation. so he did one of the early studies at johns hopkins where they can't help the people psilocybin, which is the magic mushroom active ingredient. and then they gave him a survey on the sale of mystical experiences

. >>> the washington post says johns hopkins university is apologizing for an embarrassing mistake. e-mail but they were never entered into the school. that hurts. >>> the dutch chess traded in her high fashion for a hoodie. she wore a black sweatshirt tuesday to an convenient with scouts. she paired it with black jeans and boots. why is that news? >> because she's princess kate. >> bradley cooper and "american sniper." it is his most challenging role yet. for him the role was a lifetime in the making. >> you see these lights here. >> yeah. >> when they're blasting through, you're blinded. >> reporter: broadway's "the elephant man" might seem like an odd place to see bradley cooper but he spent years in the wings waiting for the chance. >> oh, charlie, it's a good year to be here in the bookts where it yore rid yore ridge nated wh david bowie did it. >> it was the play that encourage dwroud be an actor. >> yeah. there was something about the story which was infectious. >> "the elephant man" is the story of joseph marek, an english man with a rare disease that distorted his face and

. >> johns hopkins university. question for laszlo. as we think about gas with go, especially unconventional gas is there a rapid decline rate in unconventional gas summer tour we've heard about unconventional oil that would suggest maybe the new gas resources won't last as long? >> there is -- [inaudible] of local gas but this has been known with the north america spring suspension of due -- in order -- if you stop building production will fall very very rapidly. now, at the same time i do say that outside, outside north america, the only country that noncommercial gas has an even money chance is a china. even in the case and if there's a huge -- [inaudible] in china because china so far has only -- in the entire country. in the united states 100 shore gas value. so the understanding in china is comparable to the united states 50 years ago. nobody knows but in china visible people, a very bullish scenario. we did that. for india if i combine the population density, a land-use problems -- that's a big issue in india roads. the water is

. >> an email faux pas at johns hopkins university. the school accidentally sent out notices that 300 high school students welcoming them to the school. the problem is, they had all been rejected. the university sent out an apology. a spokesperson said someone from a contracting company pulled the wrong email list. >> i still have that nightmare of the school or the classroom that i didn't go to and they call you up and say that your diploma is no longer valid. >> i have that dream, too. >> unfortunately, mine is true. let's look at other stories caught in our global net. a texas plumber flooded with phone calls and threats for a picture posted on twitter that shows insurgents in syria using his old flat bed truck as a gun platform, the owner traded in the truck a few years ago and did not remove the company details. he said he did it on an on line group and they were supposed to remove it but did not. >> interesting to trace the journey of that truck. >> india is closer to sending astronauts into space, the organization has successfull

a cryptographer who teaches and conducts research and privacy enhancing techniques at johns hopkins university. richard, richard, why don't you want by briefly telling us about efforts to promote privacy, limit surveillance. eric mentioned the encryption effort on the data center. i am curious, you do that in response to mac. >> encrypting data that goes from one center to the other some of you may recall stories about the collection of data from between those data centers. as eric mentioned, during a presentation it was a pretty shocking moment when we learned that that was happening. >> what was your personal reaction to mac. >> well, my personal reaction was that it was pretty shocking to see that this was happening. i happening. i guess my personal reaction was, we have a front door for the government to ask us for our data. data. i know what it is. i manage. and it would have been nice if they needed data if they had used the legal mechanisms available. so my reaction was, you know, what is this about? somewhat confusing. i know in the company was just flat out outraged. i think one of th

is a cryptographer who teaches and conducts research in privacy enhancing techniques at john hopkins university. richard, why don't you launch by telling us about google's efforts to promote privacy, limit surveillance -- eric efforted the encryption on the data centers. i am curious, did you do that in response to snowden's disclosures? referring to is increasing data, it goes from one google data center to the other google data center. some of you may particularly recall the stories about the collection of data from between those data centers. mentioned, during the aesentation, that was shocking moment that we learned it was happening. >> what was your personal reaction? that personal reaction was it was pre-shocking to receipt -- it was pretty shocking to see this was happening. i know what that front door is, i man that front door. it would have been nice if they had used the legal but -- legal mechanisms that are available. my reaction is, what is this about? it was somewhat confusing. i know leadership in the company was flat on outraged by it. google actually started about a year before,

. >>> and students who thought they got into johns hopkins university are learning otherwise.ls. the problem is those students had been rejected. they got e-mails saying embrace the yes before admissions officers withdrew the offers. the school has since apologized. >>> and finally, how embarrassing is this? being scolded by mom on national tv. two political fun dits known as the woodhouse brothers were debating on c-span. brad is a liberal, his brother, dallas, is a conservative. they took a call from a viewer. >> you're right i'm from down south. >> oh, god, it's mom. >> i'm your mother. i hope you have this out of your system when you come for christmas. >> we are most years -- >> i would really like a peaceful christmas and i love you both. >> but she loves them enough to tell them what they shouldn't be doing, which is fighting on national television. she even said i am really glad you guys spent thanksgiving with your in-laws. i had a peaceful thanksgiving. maybe she can negotiate for congress. >> help sells the book. thanks, amy. >>> we have a health alert now about tho

. >> john hopkins university. question for laslow. as we think about gas competing with coal, especially the unconventional gas, does the -- is there a rapid decline rate in unconventional gas similar to what we heard about unconventional oil, it won't last as long? >> there is a rapid rate of nonconventional gas. this has been very known from the north american experience. which means, you have to drill continuously in order to maintain. if you stop drilling, then production will fall very, very rapidly. now, at the same time, i have to say that outside, outside north america, the only country where noncommercial gas has an even money chance to make an impact is china. even in the case of -- now, there's a huge -- of noncommercial gas in china, because that's -- china so far has drilled, in the entire country. so the understanding in china is like compared to the united states 15 years ago. so nobody knows, but in china, reasonable people can put together a very bullish share. we did that. we did that. unfortunately for india, if i c

. >>> johns hopkins university is apologizing to nearly 300 students who got acceptance e- mails by mistake94 students got the news this week they had already been told they had been rejected for early admission. the university says it regrets adding to their disappointment. >> yikes. >> yikes. exactly. >>> 8:21. well, protesters in berkeley want the city to hold the police accountable. >> should be free now. >> coming up in 31 minutes, demands last frit pro-- last night from protesters inside a city council and how the mayor is responding. >>> first it was the bay bridge lights. after the break, the spectacular new light display along a major corridor in san francisco. >>> 8:25. happening today, british and german soldiers are marking one of the most memorable holiday events ever. it was 100 years argue. it happened on christmas day 1914 during the horrific bloody days of world war i. soldiers climbed out of their muddy trenches, shook hands and played soccer. this match became known as the christmas truce of 1914. today teams representing great britain and germany will meet in southern en

. ♪ ♪ >> this week on q & a johns hopkins university brain surgeon dr.redo quinones-hinojosa discusses his new book "becoming dr. q." >> dr. alfredo quinones-hinojosa, you write in your book that you were an illegal homeless immigrant farm worker illegal homeless immigrant farm worker and now you're a brain surgeon. how long ago were you a farmer? >> thank you, brian. i think it's a pretty comprehensive description. i came to the united states in 1987 and i talk about that on that recent book that we published. so a little bit over 20 years ago i was just came into this country with literally $63, $64 in my pocket. i spent $60 on my first tract land in l.a.x. with about $3 left and then found my way all the way out to northern california where i began to work with the very same hands that now get to touch the human brain at one of the most prestigious institutions in the world which is johns hopkins. >> do you remember the first time that you saw the brain? >> can i remember the first time? imagine, brian, i mean i was just a kid now that i look back. i

researchers at johns hopkins university found a diabetes diagnosis in midlife appears to make the brainive years faster than normal. researchers found a 19% mental decline among patients whose diabetes was poorly controlled. being overweight is the single largest risk factor for diabetes and accounts for at least 90% of all cases. lifestyle changes remain an important tool for prevention like healthy eating, regular comrs, and not smoking -- exercise and not smoking. >>> a group of heles angels motorcycle riders is being hailed as real life angels for buying out a store's entire supply of bicycles to give to needy kids. it happened during black friday sales at a walmart in fresno. riders stood in line for five days to be first in line and buy every bike in the store. >> you know when a kid runs up and gets on the bicycle and he rides around, it's a good toy. it's not a jacket. it's not a glove. it's a bicycle. pretty awesome. >> it is pretty awesome. the bikes were given to catholic charities and an organization that helps the home les. close to 600 riders helped deliver the bikes. beca

is a krippingeen , is at johns hopkins university.ichard, why don't you launch, by briefly telling us google's efforts to , limit privacy surveillance. eric mentioned the encryption effort on the data centers. i'm curious, did you do that in response to snowden's disclosures? >> what i was referring to is that goes from one google data center to the other google data center, and you may recall stories about collection of data from centers.hose data and as eric mentioned during aat presentation that was pretty shocking moment when we learned from the press that that was happening. was your preferred reaction? reactionmy personal shockingit was pretty to see that this was happening. i guess my personal reaction was a front door at google for the government to ask us for data. is,ow what that front door i man that front door, and it would have been nice if they e if nayta from going could use the legal mechanisms that are available through the door. so my reaction was what is this about, it was somewhat confusing. leadership in the compa

in conjunction with top surgeons from johns hopkins and the university of maryland.if you look at these jawbones. these are the types of facial reconstructions that were done, the reconstructive surgery. men who had their jaw bones shattered, destroyed by exploding shells and machine gun bullets had new jaw bones fabricated an carefully implanted into them. again, a lot of early plastic surgery. a great deal of medical history was made here during world war i. addition to that, some of the first programs to train the disabled veteran were promoted here. we know through this woman -- emily reine williams, one he

pleasure of working with andy when he was a visiting professor of political science at the johns hopkins university center for chinese and american studies where he was from 2006 to 2008. and i would also like to welcome his daughter, maggie, who is also at the hopkins center and is now studying china at george washington. andy is now working on a new book project that examined social unrest in china and he is the author previously from mow to market. and the double paradox of rapid growth and rising corruption in china brought out by the cornell university press in 2012. i should also mention that when we were at hopkins center together, andy once caught me singing loudly the rolling stone's wild horses and what i thought was the abandoned underground garage where the acoustics were excellent but i was not alone. and in that small community you did the courtesy of never telling anybody, so a man of discretion as well as a man of letters. i want to thank you for that. donald clarke is the david weaver research professor of law at george washington university where he's been since 2005 and leading s

in conjunction with top surgeons from johns hopkins and the university of maryland.if you look at these jawbones. these are the types of facial reconstructions that were done, the reconstructive surgery. men who had their jaw bones shattered, destroyed by exploding shells and machine gun bullets had new jaw bones fabricated an carefully implanted into them. again, a lot of early plastic surgery. a great deal of medical history was made here during world war i. addition to that, some of the first programs to train the disabled veteran were promoted here. we know through this woman -- emily reine williams, one of the lead nurses stationed at fort mchenry during the first world war. and that's another important theme here, the role of women at the time. you know a lot of times women are ignored when it comes to military history. in this time where women were seeking to gain the right to vote, women really proved themselves as nurses during the first world war. and over 300 female nurses were stationed here at fort mchenry. like i said, some of the first programs to help

idea back >> the department of mental health, johns hopkins university school of public health. for many years, military regulations have prohibited the continued retaining a deployment of mental health disorders and soldiers on psychotropic medications. and for good reasons because we have soldiers existing mental health disorders exposed to trauma are much higher risk of chronic morbidity as a result of this. for many years the u.s. military turned a blind eye to the deployments, two soldiers with diagnosed mental disorders on multiple psychotropic drugs deployed with conditions that ordinarily would have made them non-deployable and i think we can all recognize the reason for this was that we could not have meant our manpower requirements without this. what does the current epidemic of mental disorders in the military and this practice say about the sustainability of the all volunteer force? >> when it comes to the baseline question of one, will the military function to be of effect is in the u.s. indirectly, or should we go back to the draft quite should mean suddenly spread

roshini raj and from hopkins university.ht. >> that's pretty scary. >> it is. we're talking about blood tests that are done earlier on in the pregnancy, screening for certain diseases, things like down syndrome, or other genetic problems. the problem is while many times they're talked about as being highly accurate, the truth is you can get up to a 50% false positive rate, meaning you're told there's something seriously wrong with the fetus and it turns out not to be the case. this is a big issue and it's definitely something you need to discuss with your doctor before you get the test whether you really want it or how you're going to act on this information. >> is it true they're not regulated by the fda? >> it's unregulated by the fda because it's not invasive. willie, we this tendency to overtest in health care. that's the basis for this dr. movement choosing wisely. because you can know your risk doesn't mean you should know your risk if you're not going to act on that information. we have an old saying, treat the patien

. >> this happens, hear about this every time this year, john hopkins university mistakenly sending outright? >> yeah. so school official apologized, said this was humor error, somebody who works for a contractor, electronic communications, pulled the wrong e-mail list of addresses and those -- they should let them in. >> i think so >> 294. you can fit them in. >> yeah. >> fit them in. come on. urge got go to the weed out classes. remember they used to call the -- i went to temple and freshed, larger universities, when there are like 200 kids in one class, had he stayed is the weed out because the first week, x-amount will drop off, the second week, after the next test. so many. so, they are weeding out the people who really don't want to be there or who aren't dedicated. >> i never heard of that although that makes sense, aid professor say, you're still here? >> didn't weed you out? >> didn't expect me. >> basically those classes, are you really there to commit to the four-year challenge of university? >> yeah. >> four years? now six years. not my choice. my dad is like you got four. n

area, university of virginia, george mason, johns hopkins one of the most notorious, and my old alma mater, unc chapel hill. a big one. all happens. something that students expect. that you can go and take a course in writing, which seems to me projecting yourself on to paper or into a computer now. >> host: if you were going to teach a course on writing what would be a goal. >> guest: i did that four four semesters, two the university of north carolina and then two semesters at the johns hopkins in what they called the writing seminars. in both case is taught opinion writing. i taught writing editorials-writing book reviews, writing columns, expressing opinion in an instill gibel and coherent way -- intelligible and coherent pay. my plans for retirement did not include teaching, and i didn't like it very much. if you're teaching a class where students are handing in papers, it's really important you have good students, and the truth of the matter is that if you're teaching a seminar of 15 kids, you have two good studentsor, you're very lucky. the rest of them may by bright but not v

or med star washington, george washington university hospital and children's national medical center. johns hopkinsbaltimore and nih in bethesda also certified. and the university of virginia medical center in charlottesville is also on the list. >>> a warning for women. >> right now at 5:00 tonight, a crook caught on camera taking advantage of a woman enjoying a night out. we'll show how to prevent becoming the next victim. >>> plus, there has been some last-minute drama over the new d.c. soccer stadium. >>> i'm julie carey. more than a dozen residents woke up to a nasty sight as the week began. cars and garages spray painted, some with swastikas. i'll tell you who police think is behind it, coming up. >>> right now at 5:30, she did all of the right things by going to court to file a domestic violence complaint against her ex. but we'll explain why that may have triggered a killing spree. >>> plus, a followup on an nbc news investigation into the use of recycled tires. it's not just on your kids' play ground anymore. >>> and a remarkable recovery. a northern virginia rugby player defies the odds o

there's a few we going on at johns hopkins, a few going on at new york university.ew going on at ucla. that all can have a different approach, using maybe one substance or another to focus on a different thing. people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. there's a study for smoking cessation. people with death anxiety your terminal cancer patients. people with cluster headaches. these ailments that there just hasn't been, there hasn't been a remedy for. psychedelics are becoming very active in solving some of these problems. >> you are watching tv on c-span2 come and this weekend we are visiting lafayette and west lafayette, indiana, talking with local office and touring its literary sites. next we speak with glenn sparks about her book, refrigerator rights. a look at how technological advances have cratered a false sense of closeness. >> i became interested along the way instead the media several years ago back in the 1990s. i got interested in a project that some of my colleagues were working on a study and long-term fringe. they were interested in figur

hopkins fraternity house last month. the two men are not connected with university according to the university. the alleged incident happened back on november 2nd. sigma alpha fraternity where the accident occurred is under suspension, we're told. all of this follows a string of reported campus sex assaults, most notably being the alleged gang rape at the university of virginia. >>> coming up next, a top nfl executive got emotional while testifying before congress. now, the story is trending nationally. what brought him to tears? we'll take a look at that also. and an international man hunt is on at this hour. it involves a u.s. citizen in abu dhabi and a chilling murder caught on on tape. we'll go to london for the details after this. how much money do you have in your pocket right now? i have $40, $21. could something that small make an impact on something as big as your retirement? i don't think so. well if you start putting that towards your retirement every week and let it grow over time, for twenty to thirty years, that retirement challenge might not seem so big after all. ♪ i will take b

hopkins for a time. that of course, modern emblem of the modern university but will be forced out due to his divorce, which was brought on by an affair with his co-author here, one of his students. so not everything has changed. right? he could lose his university position for his divorce. and his affair. he will become a popular expert as well as a scientific expert on child rearing. eventually, also advertising. we might think about the links between something like stimulus response and these experiments with children and the field of advertising. what is going to get a consumer to respond? this is watson. this is psychological care of infant and child, a new psychology maybe for a new century. he is writing later. this isi+r today. he is a simplifier. freud had a kind of darwinian battle within the person, within the mind between -- and the urges of the mind between the conscious and sub conscious. a mind that was always at war with itself. watson will have a very different view and a different view from his mentor dewey who thought of consciousness in complex ways. watson sees nothing in the mind. all