svante myrick, mayor of ithaca, new york. they like snow up there. i would say. to give folks a taste of who you are, you were profiled by my colleague kate snow a few years ago. here's a little clip. >> at just 24 years old, myrick is the youngest mayor ever elected in the city of ithaca, new york. a democrat in a liberal college town. this is his first day on the job. >> this is weird. this is my office now. >> there you go. that was two years ago. you're now halfway through your term. before i get into health care discussion, biggest problem you're facing right now as mayor? >> right now? potholes. >> there you go. spoken like a true mayor. you know what, i got a problem with potholes coming here to d.c. >> that's the thing. it's a national epidemic and the problem is broader than that. there's a reason why we can't cannot afford to fix those potholes and that's something that every mayor across the country is struggling with. >> i love it, the first thing you bring up is potholes. good for you. >> constituents love you for that. >> amy, i want to pick up quic

from 26-year-old of mayor of ithaca makes me think i may have underachieved a bit. you're, too.odel, buddy. >> that's not true. i had a misspent youth. i was lucky enough -- >> you're still in your youth. when you're young and irresponsible is the way politics works. >> senator brought up bruce braely who had a worse gaffe, mitch mcconnell or bruce? >> you're bruce and mocking people who are farmers that's probably a worse gaffe. even though kentucky loves basketball. >> that's it for today. david will be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the david will be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> they're on the front lines of right and wrong. >> cops need some help. >> and right in front of the camera. >> okay. i got a bag full of drugs here. >> police officers doing their dangerous jobs, confronting cold-blooded killers. >> officer in trouble. shots fired. >> getting caught in shootouts. and sometimes going over the line. >> yeah, i hit him. i was trying to hit him. >> when they go to work, the camera rolls. captu

from 26-year-old of mayor of ithaca makes me think i may have underachieved a bit. you're, too.model, buddy. >> that's not true. i had a misspent youth. i was lucky enough -- >> you're still in your youth. when you're young and irresponsible is the way politics works. >> senator brought up bruce braely who had a worse gaffe, mitch mcconnell or bruce? >> you're bruce and mocking people who are farmers that's probably a worse gaffe. even though kentucky loves basketball. >> that's it for today. david will be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the david will be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com . >>> good monday morning to you. right now a first look. rain-soaked water logged earth is causing damage around the country. many rally around the people of washington state. >>> health care deadline. today is a major milestone for president obama's signature piece of legislation. >>> pope surprise. francis surprises even his own masters of ceremonies by going to confession with an ordinary priest. >>> a breakthrough for he

from 26-year-old of mayor of ithaca makes me think i may have underachieved a bit. you're, too.model, buddy. >> that's not true. i had a misspent youth. i was lucky enough -- >> you're still in your youth. when you're young and irresponsible is the way politics works. >> senator brought up bruce braely who had a worse gaffe, mitch mcconnell or bruce? >> you're bruce and mocking people who are farmers that's probably a worse gaffe. even though kentucky loves basketball. >> that's it for today. david will be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the david will be back next week. if it's sunday, it's "meet the press." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> rainy and cool in philadelphia. a cool time for hockey fans here and in new england. the push for the playoffs, one of the great old rivalries at wells fargo center? south philly. lots of orange inside for the philadelphia flyers and the boston bruins. to the ice, pierre mcguire and team captain claude

so, so then he took me back to the cornell, ithaca, new york, started snowing as it always does. >> stephenall through summer. >> and sow was worried that the bus wouldn't get through and he wrote down his home phone number. he said if the bus doesn't come through, call me. spend the night with my family, leave tomorrow. and i said who am i to him. and so i realized, this is an extraordinary behavior for someone who is famous. and i said if i am ever remotely that stam famous i'm going to treat students the way he treated me so it affected me the rest of my life. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: i just want to say forred record, are there any students out there who get caught in a snowstorm, you may not stay with me. (laughter) let's take a look at cosmos. >> the cosmic calendar begins on january 1st, with the birth of our universe. did contains everything that's happened since then up to now, which on this calendar is midnight december 31st. on this scale, every month represents about a billion years. every day, represents nearly 40 million years. let's go back as far as we can to the ver

. >> housing had a very strong 2013, up better than 11%, but the numbers seem to ithaca there is a slowdown in momentum. what's really happening? >> if you look month to month, the first half of last year, went straight up. the second half of last year flattened and drifted down a little bit. as we look at all the other data that's come out, housing starts have been soft. existing home sales were soft. new home sales a bit of a press sant surprise. across the board, there's a lot of softness, a lot of indicators. prices are up. 10, 12, 13% in the last year. that in itself is likely to tamp the market a bit. mortgage rates are up better than a full percentage point since last may. everything points to continued growth but at a much slower pace. half the rate. >> how much the most recent numbers are the effect of weather? it's hard to have housing starts when there's snow all over the country. >> all these data are seasonally adjusted. the joke used to be if you got a big jump in january, one guy built an outhouse in maine. the numbers are seasonally impacteded. this is not all weather. we've

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we look at the grand scheme of education today and the president of ithaca college, he used to work forr their university test scores aren't a good predictor of their student's at the tenel performance both in school and in the workforce. and then we look at the ce ohs of ceos facebook, microsoft. apple, steve jobs none of them finished college. it's hard to say that a college degree is a predetermine nant of how successful you are going to be in the workforce. >> amber, here is some unemployment rates. go ahead, take that away. >> no. i just want to get the point in that test scores do matter there were some fantastic research by some great economists a few years ago. they followed 1 million elementary school children into adulthood. you you know what they found? they found that once they -- these were kids with high-test scores. they made more money. they were more likely to graduate from college. they were more likely to get a great job. more likely to live in high income neighborhoods and more likely to safe more money for retirement. those people with test scores. >> unemployment r