isaac newton was a genius. you know, there are people on this campus that can calculate how fast the cannonball would have to go. and you know what? there are people in this room who could calculate with no pencil, no paper, only their minds how fast the cannonball would have to go. and i think that 80% of the people in this room can make that calculation if i guide your thinking. can we try it? you want to see who you are? let's try. let me give you a geometrical fact. we live in a world that's curved. we know it's curved because if you put a laser one meter off the ground and you fired the laser beam out over the desert like the mojave desert in california, perfectly flat for miles and miles and miles. if you fired that laser beam, you'd find out the laser beam over here, it looks like to people it's pointing up. but it's not pointing up here. it's just that the earth is curving under. let me give you a fact that a geography teacher can tell you about. if you go out 8 kilometers, that's 8,000 meters this way,

you got isaac newton, you've got ice being hays now another isaac is getting the attention. we are tracking the storm's development across the atlantic and the impanth it could -- y pact -- impact it could have for those traveling south florida. and if politics and hurricanes are not in your future you may consider the maryland state fair. the annual kick off continues today in a few hours. we will tell you what to expect. look at 695 at 95, and that's war lot of the traffic and -- where a lot of the traffic and congestion is building up in dundalk. we have the stop and go traffic near the francis scott key toll plaza and 95 in baltimore. we have an accident near hanover blocking exit 54. good morning maryland continues in just a moment. >>> thanks for staying with us. a possible threat this morning against representative todd akin. u.s. capital police say there's an investigation underway into a threat but details regarding the security for members of congress will not be discussed. the missouri congressman is running for u.s. senate and caused a stir earlier this week when

sir isaac newton discovers predictable pattern in the physical world that two objects are inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them which is the first was that will suffice to generate the elliptical orbits that have been described by previous astronomers. it doesn't follow that he is exempt from it. he is not attracted -- conflict above the year attracted to other bodies and interesting eccentric orbit just for him if you were to shoot him into space and so on. the same law applies to him. the fact that he discovered it does not exempt them from it. similarly if we see the law as something that is discovered and the law institutions themselves that discovered it or enforce it a subject to it. very important conceptual difference so the definition of the law given by a lawn fuller, more consistent with the liberal tradition and our commitment to classical liberal tradition or commitment to individual freedom, the rule of law, personal dignity and so on but captures the experience of the law as we see it in the world. lot is the enterprise of subjected human conduct to the

as isaac newton said. i feel the same way. i benefited so much for all the great economists who have come before me. >> you said you teach. where are you currently teaching? >> i'm actually teaching at mercy college teaching a program at sing sing penitentiary, believe it or not, i was teaching at colombia university. , and teaching the best and the brightest. i'll tell you what, i teach in maximum security prison. they are all male. 25 students i teach economics and business that. i have an incredible thirst for knowledge. it's unbelievable how the men who have been committed serious crimes in the youth trying to turn their lives around. i have stiewmentds at sing sing who have read the entire textbook before coming to class. i couldn't say that -- some of my students at colombia. not all of them. so i'm teaching that. my wife teaches english literature at sing sing. it's part of mercy college. it's a four-year college degree program. all privately funded exempt for the prison itself. no prel grants, no federal or state money

it also stopped in 1878, i think, when sir isaac newton came to open a new medical university called johns hopkins. and he said that in the 2000 years previous, there had been no advances in medicine at all. during the civil war, and other war is that often diseases were considered to come from outside into the body, which is why you things were applied to wounds not the diseases came from inside the body, which we know to be different. he did something, in those days there was no federal funding for research of any sort. this is 125 years ago. there was no federal funding for medical research at all. there were no requirements. harvard had a medical school, stanford had a medical school. you did not have to have a high school diploma to get into a medical school, much less a college degree. so they took you and talk to nothing. what johns hopkins date, when sir isaac newton said he followed the truth wherever it takes you, in medicine, there can be no compromise on that. you do what you have to do to follow the truth in science, in medicine. as a result of that, the tralee, the medi

but not until the work of isaac newton was the mystery of planetary motion finally unraveled with absolute mathematical certainty. in the years since then, countless scientific breakthroughs have provided still more clues about where our planet sits in the celestial scheme of things. yet questions linger as we seek to better understand planet earth. how exactly did this world of ours form, and why is it so different from the other known planets? one characteristic that makes earth unique in our solar system is life. living things can be found virtually everywhere on earth-- high on mountain peaks, in deep ocean basins, in the hottest deserts, and at the icebound poles. life has even been found in such seemingly inhospitable environments as active undersea volcanoes, iand hot, acidic esulfur springs. the presence of life clearly distinguishes earth from its neighboring planets, but life hasn't always existed here. in fact, when the solar system came into being, an event we estimate occurred about 4.6 billion years ago, earth was a very different planet than the one we know today. the most w

. >> reporter: eric newton's a security director trying to protect this casino and resort from isaac's furry. >> all aluminum? >> all aluminum. >> reporter: flood walls at every entrance can stop up to ten feet of storm surge and protect the 28-story hotel, rebuilt after katrina. this 2005 surveillance video shows 24 feet of floodwater overwhelming the casino after a $550 million renovation, the beau rivage reopened one year to the day after katrina hit. now comes isaac. >> i feel real good. i think we're good, in good shape. >> reporter: along mississippi's coast, mandatory evacuations are in effect for residents in low-lying areas and many of them are taking isaac seriously. >> make sure we were better prepared than we were for katrina, that's the one thing we learned. >> reporter: isaac could test gulf coast construction standards. one rating from maine to texas scored florida high with a 95, louisiana 73, alabama 18, mississippi scored the lowest, a 4 out of 100. newton says the beau rivage could be rebuilt after katrina only because its original construction exceeded standards. >>