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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

at 6:00 eastern here on c-span a look at emerging nonviolent political involvements, johns hopkins universityschool of advanced international studies. why it's popping up in some countries and not others? on c-span2, "book tv" live with author john beck who wrote the book "pinched:how the great recession has narrowed our futures and what we can do about it," talking about the long-term impact about the economic recession. in a city that averages 250 murders a year, former baltimore homicide detective, calvin sewell, and investigate wereive worper stephen janis, features "why do we kill?" , including a book launch party for columnist and political commentator armstrong williams. and how they tried to change our nation's school system. court tv founder talks to diane ravich on "after words." get the complete book tv schedule on booktv.org where you can watch all of our 9,000 programs online. >> the united nations economic commission for latin america estimates that china will be the region's second largest trading partner behind the u.s. by the year 2015. today, some of those scholars to discus

. >> reporter: the new study from john hopkins says cartoon characters play a key role in getting childrenarents for fatty foods. >> you like those? >> i like these. >> how do you know? >> because. >> reporter: critics say food marketers ow this and exploit it. i called the author of the study, a researcher by the name of dina borzekowski, and i asked her, what does she think? does she think cartoon characters like fred flinstone and tony the tiger should be banned the way joe camel was? heanswer is no, but she says she hopes food companies will start using cartoon characters to market healthier foods. she points to another study she did showing that if you wrap carrots in mcdonalds packaging, kids actually say the carrots taste better. dan harris, abc news. >> the carrot in the mcdonald's box, that's kind of cool. we put this question on facebook, a lot of interesting responses. raven wrote in, what happened to saying no? seriously, people. someone wrote in and said, i tell mine the truth about what's in the food. they understand the difference between what's good for them and what's not.

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

. >> reporter: he's an associate professor at johns hopkins university.e speaker where this group coming together to re-define what pedophilia means was pushing their agenda. he says i was a keynote speaker, i didn't agree with everything said there. he says the problem he sees is the way the psychiatric aassociation defines pedestrian nil yeah, they demonize people. he said there were people actively pushing for this change who say they do think it's okay for adults and children to have some kind of sexual relationship. there were people at that conference who held that position. he said i didn't want to demean them when they spoke up. but i personally do not agree with that. megyn: shannon, thank you. while on this topic, "kelly's court" is back in session. on the docket, to catch and release a suspected child predator. >> the next man you will meet needs little encouragement to take off his clothes ready to jump in the hot tub. megyn: arrested after being interviewed by nbc's to catch a predator. the former navy sailor traveled 100 miles by bus plannin

he will be speaking at the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. we will have that live here on c-span. congress returns three weeks from today. when they do there 12-member joint committee on deficit reduction will begin meeting to determine additional $1.50 trillion in cuts by thanksgiving. on this morning's "washington journal", discussion on how that may affect the federal work force. >> "washington journal" continues. host: john gage is the president of the american federation of government employees. we hava special line set aside for federal workers. we want to hear from you this morning. let me begin with what the so- call

marty mccarry is a physician of public health at john hopkins and he's here to talk about it.d jumping jacques until the end of our show would that be enough for him for a day? >> that's a great question. you know, everybody wants to know what is the most health benefit you can get with the least amount of work, and this study answered that question. it's published in a very prestigious medical journal. by saying that 15 minutes a day is sort of an optimal amount, what they are doing is they are encouraging people to use more modest goals. most people they get crushed with their exercise and they end up not going because their goals are too lofty and they feel like i can't go for an hour or run three miles, when you can really go for 15 minutes or run a mile or something like that. jenna: rick and i were talking during the commercial about this. how it is tough to schedule and if you just thought only satisfactory minutes would give you some benefit that maybe a whole lot more people would be exercising. does it matter what you do for the 15 minutes? for some it might be a wal

marty mccarry is here, professor of public health and health policy at johns hopkins.oing to talk about a new study on vaccines in the just a moment, doctor, but we wanted to talk a little bit about from a health professional's standpoint, when you hear this sort of story, 65 million potentially affected by this storm, what are you most concerned about? >> >> well, the common things we see with these big disasters are that people don't anticipate that the power will go out and that the water supply may no longer be clean. people have to remember that the sanitation facilities, they operate on power, and after a day sometimes you need to rely on your own water supply. so having that is really critical. hypo and hypothermia, these are things that the elderly and children really need to watch out for. and food safety. i mean, let's face it, refrigerators go out, and is after a couple hours that food may no longer be clean. jenna: it's interesting you mentioned power outages because harris and i were just talking about that being one of the main concerns in some of these m

in that connection, i just learned that yesterday there was a speech at johns hopkins announcing that administration to focus is shifting to a counterterrorism strategy focused on this loose affiliation of a al qaeda. the intent is to block them from attacking us here in the homeland. that is the right focus. lemme add one more thing. an airplane at tak is less likely but there are other ways that we could see a significant attack in this country. we need to be prepared. one of them is a dirty bomb attack. i will explain why i think there is a risk for something like that which would be far more the full overtime than a conventional attack which we are likely to see. >> i want to do a round about what you fear the most. the lme turn to michael for a couple of things. i will get to the tsa, believe me. bring along, bring it on. i want to go to something we were talking about before, this bin laden moment. are we safer because bin laden is dead or are we less safe because bin laden is dead or is it irrelevant to our posture? >> positive developments, justice is done. that demonstrates t

this book incidentally is also from the john hopkins press. yes, this is a very important challenge and a very important area we have to address. the gravity of this whole issue is now felt by people who are exposed to the outside socities, who also believe in a certain, in an apporach-- apporacroach that places this on rationalism. let me say that in pakistan, there is a course that our people, who are still trying that these laws should be ammended -- i can mention names, but no need. there are these institutions that are sponsored. you mentioned the lawyers. i'm not much concerned about the body guard. there was the golden temple issue. it is not that. i consider it more serious that there should be a body of lawyers who should be taking sides with this kind of big con. here there is a whole history of how it has come to this spot. we have to bring rationality in our public discourse. >> we will have the privilege of thanking you. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. [applause] i want to make 1 announcement. china came up. we have prob

the brookings institution, johns hopkins center for bio defense strategy, interpol, many scientists are britain and warned these advances in manipulation and bioengineering, even an individual could choose very cheap and available equipment and today's technology to do with the soviets did back during the cold war which they combined ebola virus which is 90% legal, with smallpox which is highly contagious. if they create a brand-new deadly virus, they can also add in the gene that makes the virus vulnerable to a vaccine that they create. so if they want to protect their children from the vaccine they can do that. we have got cases i should point out, used we've had these cases were scientists try to use dna manipulation to create good have asked you a great lethal viruses for chile just in the lab so for. so the bottom line for americans, number one, don't count on the federal government to protect you from emp or viral pandemic threats. they are too busy penning with social programs and unconstitutional programs to be bothered it seems with vital national defense measures. it would be

johns hopkins was a model that he held up as a model for medical education, because at least the admissions requirements were that you had to have at least a high-school diploma, preferably one two years of college education, to enter medical school. and they also have a curriculum structured with the science is being taught basic to medicine, followed by the clinical sciences. so that pilot which is still called the flexnarian model of medical education at a great role in improving the medical education system in the country. we could say that the u.s. had the strongest health profession education system of any country in the world, where you draw people from all over the world to come to our country now for training often not available in their own countries. then with the establishment of the national institutes of health, we can say the same about our research enterprise. that is reflected by the fact that throughout the course of the 20th century, more nobel prizes in physiology and medicine have come to a scientist and american laboratories than in the rest of the world combined. so i

we will have that discussion with a person from johns hopkins.will be right back. ♪ ♪ >> it is a country with many corruption and natural disasters. >> these assassinations were welcomed and congratulated by many pakistanis. they are not terrorists, not al qaeda or taliban. ordinary pakistanis that feel their religion is threatened, the country is becoming too secular, the islamic values are under attack, and blasphemy something to be defended with their lives. >> washington post correspondent sunday night on "q&a." august 16 marked the anniversary of elvis presley's death. on american history tv on c- span3 gary shilling talks about the king and events that led to his meeting to the white house. we will visit mount vernon or archaeological discoveries shed new light on the one figure. get the complete we can schedule on c-span.org/history. a search, watch, and a share all of our programs anytime with the c-span video library. we are on the road with our c- span digital bus and local content of vehicles. we are showing events from around the coun

johns hopkins was a model he held up for medical education. at least the requirements were that you had to have a high- school diploma. preferably one or two years of college education to get into medical school. they also had a curriculum structure with the science is being taught followed by the clinical sciences. that problem which is still called the flecksnarian model, by the middle of the century, we could say with confidence that the u.s. had the strongest health professions educational system of any country in the world. where you draw people from all over the world to come to our country for turning not available. with the establishments of the nih we could see -- see the same about our research enterprise. more nobel prizes in physiology or medicine have come to laboratories than the rest of the world combined. we have leadership in science and from the institutes of health and leadership in quality american education. from the slide, we still are underrepresented in the overall health professions population. more than 30% of the u.s

again, it's just implemented in 2006, and we clearly pay more than other nations with johns hopkins. the value commission says medicare pays too much for indirect medical education for some of the big teaching hospitals and for some rural hospitals. clearly, payments to some specialties are more than certainly primary care and other physicians. there's some targeted areas. one that i think we do get into the question raised earlier about additional revenues in the long run. >> host: more about the deficit reduction commission that is six republican and six democratic lawmakers as we now. the leaders of the committee say they are already at work in terms of organizing and dialoguing. $1.5 trillion in deficit reduction is what they're working on. 23 they don't agree, automatic spending cutses take place, but no cuts to the beneficiaries themselves, only cueses for -- cuts for doctors and providers. here's a twitter. physicians -- [inaudible] why can't they grade doctor quality? >> guest: well, there is work in the quality area going on. the point is, again, this is not particularly a m

in a senior fellow at the hoover institution, formerly the director of middle east studies at johns hopkinsy and a leading authority on the region. you've always said, if gadhafi falls it's justice. >> look, the libyan be people have been living in prison for four decades and four decades of tyranny is good enough, if you will. whatever they do next, whatever becomes of libya, it will be better than the libya of moammar gadhafi. moammar gadhafi robbed the libyan people of their freedom. it's the richest country in africa with the poore poorest population. it was living in a twilight zone, a zone of moammar gadhafi, only one who spoke, moammar gadhafi the only one who lived, moammar gadhafi the only one who acted and now it's up to the libyans. >> yeah. the largest oil reserves in frick kashgs 95% of the economy driven by the oil industry. one hopes whatever it looks like after this, those riches will be shared with the people but that means -- that is a lot of ifs until that happens. >> libya became basically a thief and it began with all kinds of pretensions. when you go back, i'm old enou

later today i will be speaking at john hopkins hospital in baltimore. --s where search of the role surgical residency is were first initiated. we are proud of that care. we have the best technology in the world. the problem is, it is out of reach for more and more americans. they cannot afford it. they do not have access to that. the affordable care act is an effort to say, let's bring this system available to all and bring down the cost of health care. how do we bring down the cost? by having everyone in the system. we say that everyone will be covered by the system so that we no longer have people visiting our emergency rooms to get health care needs because they have no insurance. we no longer have people not paying their bills in the emergency room and we have to pay for that. by bringing down costs and by bringing everyone into the system, we also bring down costs by their use of health information technology. you might be surprised to learn that if you have visited an emergency rooms in maryland, there is very little chance that they would have yo

with a senior fellow at the hoover institution, formally the director of middle east studies at johns hopkinsince we last talked, faweed, we spoke to arwa damon and sara sidner and matthew chance. now 35 or so foreign journalists are holed up inside that hotel and not told they are hostages but they are not allowed to leave. >> but they are. >> what is so important going on at this rixos hotel hichlt? >> i respect people reading reports and being in the library stacks, i admire that. reporters have an instinct and they smell something and have an instinct for it. i think what john burns says carries its weight but i think it's very speculativspeculative >> arwa, we have you back. pick up where you left off you had speculation from others whether or not they are trying to create an escape route for moammar gadhafi. >> reporter: yeah, ali, the chief rebel commander here believes the intense iity is lid to the escape route for gadhafi. or that he is possibly is around the airport itself most likely to the east. this, of course, is speculation at this stage. they did spot a convoy they said conta

the brookings institution, johns hopkins center, many scientists have written and warned of these advancesn dna engineers and bioengineering gives the ability for the small terrorist group or individuals can use cheap available equipment to do what the soviets did in the cold war which they combined the virus which is 90% lethal with smallpox which is contagious. they can add a gene to make the virus vulnerable. they can protect their people from. we had cases and years ago we had cases where scientists tried to use dna manipulation and created lethal viruses, fortunately just in the labs so far. the bottom line is don't count on the federal government to protect you from threats. they are too busy pappedderring with social programs and poor and unconstitutional programs to be bothered with vital national defense measures. it would be great if the heritage foundation and ron paul and the tea party could convince people to focus on security, but that's an unlikely thing to happen. my second conclusion recommendation is as individuals and families you need to prepare for the disasters and ha

yesterday, john brennan gave a significant speech at john hopkins announcing that the administration'socus is now shifting world wide to a counterterrorism strategy focused on this loose affiliation of al qaeda cells, and the intent is to block them from attacking us here in the homeland. that, i think, is the right focus. let's add one more thing. i said an airplane and that is less likely, but i am sure there are other ways -- and you will get to this -- otherwise where we can see a significant attack in this country. one of them is a dirty bomb attack. when me get back to this, i can explain what i think there is a real risk to them, which would be far more lethal compared to a conventional attack. >> let me turn to michael chertoff for a couple of things. i will get to the tsa, believe me. >> bring it on, as they say. >> i want to go to something that we were talking about before, this bin laden moment. i wanted to try to answer the question, are we safer because bin laden is dead, are we less safe, or is it irrelevant to our posture? >> i would not say irrelevant. first of all, ju

first we're going to hear from karim mezran who is a professor at johns hopkins site is here in washington. and also in bologna italy. is a senior fellow with the middle east policy council, and he is originally from tripoli. also daniel serwer who is also a professor at size and a scholar at the middle east institute, and my colleague, peter pham who is the director of the michael africa center here at the atlantic council. i'm going to start with you, karim. i'd like to hear from you about your evaluation of how close are we to the end of a military conflict inside of libya, how important or not important is what happens to gadhafi himself and whether he is apprehended, and finally, what are your thoughts on scenarios, where might libya be away from your? [inaudible] >> i wish i could take a couple of hours. i think we are at the end. to answer your question, -- [inaudible] his troops have abandoned. what entropy is happening is a faction of important parts of his troops, have caused the rebels into the city. they defected right away. so there in the city. catawba was caught offguard. th

later this afternoon pakistan's foreign secretary will be at the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies talking about the strained relationship between the u.s. and pakistan. "the wall street journal" reported monday that the obama administration will start basing aid to pakistan whether the country meet as scorecard of u.s. objectives to combat al qaeda and its allies. live coverage of all these events today on c-span. >> next, a senate transportation committee hearing looking at ways to invest in rebuilding roads, bridges and railways. the u.s. currently invests 2% of its gross domestic product in infrastructure while europe invests 5% and china 9%. chaired by democratic massachusetts senator john kerry, this hearing is about two hours. >> good morning. this is one of those meetings which, hearings which can have a lot to do with the future of the country and i'm very pleased to see there are a lot of people here because often on infrastructure people hear the word and they chill out and yet it is probably about the most important word other than war and peace that we can be d

live also on c-span leader today, the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies will host a discussion examining the dynamics that lead to a nonviolent movement. and we will have that for you at 6:00 eastern. again, that's on our companion at work, c-span. while this break is underway, we will have a look now at some of this chamber of commerce meeting from earlier today with the first homeland security director tom ridge who was also the former governor of the state of pennsylvania. we will have a look at this until the meeting resumes. >> thank you very much for the kind introduction. thank you for your response. it's great to join you again, ann. i thank the sponsors for the event and thank the chamber for giving us an opportunity to reflect a little bit on where we were, what we've done and where we need to go for the purpose of this engagement today, and i am very privileged to be part of this. frankly i'm looking forward to the discussion. i was privileged to serve with most of them in one capacity or another. so, i look forward to that engagement as well. i think it

i'm director of maryland space grant consortium and i'm professor at the johns hopkins university in baltimore and i have a question for mr. leland melvin. we're all attempting to inspire the young people and the national space grant program allows nasa to have a footprint not just in states such as maryland where there's a nasa center but in every single state of the union. and i'm wondering what your vision is mr. melvin for the future of your space grant program. >> a very good question. and we just went through a redesign of nasa certification and we're meeting september the 9th with all our directors to start shaping where we're going to go with our new vision for education. so i'll have to get back with you september 9th. we're really looking at how do we give kids more experiential moments to get that defining moment in their lives? also with middle school teachers, that's another area that we're going to try to increase this pipeline. and give, you know, some of the higher ed kids, you know, these experiences. some of the things you're doing right now. all the things you're d

later today, i will be speaking at johns hopkins hospital in baltimore. i will be talking about excellence in surgery, or surgical residency is were first initiated. we are proud of the quality of care when king gets at hopkins. -- one can get it at hopkins. we have the best technology in the world, the problem is is out of reach for more and more americans. they cannot afford it and don't have access to that care. the affordable care act is an effort to say let's bring this system available to all and bring down the cost of health care. how do we bring down the cost? we bring down the cost by having everyone in the system. we say that everyone will be covered by the system so we no longer have people visiting the emergency rooms to get health care needs because they have no insurance. we no longer have people not paying their bills in emergency rooms and we have to pay for that. by bringing down costs by bringing everyone into the system. we'll also bring down costs by better use of health information technology. you might be surprised to learn that if y

johns hopkins was a model that he held up as the model for medical education. admissions requirements were that you have to have at least a high school diploma, preferably one or two years of college education to enter medical school. and they also had a curriculum structured with signs of being taught followed by the clinical sciences. so that model which is to call today the flexner model, improve the quality of our medical education system in the country. so that by the middle of the century we can say with confidence that the u.s. had the strongest health professions educational system of any country in the world. where you draw people from all over the world who come to our country now for training often not available in their own countries. that was the establishment of the national institutes of health. we can say the same about our research enterprise. that's reflected by the fact that during, throughout the course of the 20th century, more nobel prizes in physiology and medicine have come to american laboratories and in the rest of the world combined.

yesterday, john brennan gave a significant speech at john hopkins saying that the administration focusnow worldwide to a counter terrorism strategy focused on this loose affiliation of al qaeda cells and the intent is to block them from attacking us here in the homeland. i think that is the right focus and something which should have done. i think an airplane attack is less likely. but i think there are other ways that we could see a significant attack in this country and we need to be prepared. one of them is a dirty bomb attack. when we get back to this, i will explain why there is a real risk for that, which would be far more lethal overtime. -- over time. >> let me turn to michael chertoff for a couple of things. i will get to the tsa, believe me. but i want to stay on -- >> bring it on. >> bring it on, bring it on. we have been talking before about this bin laden moment. i want to answer the question -- are we safer because been laid in it -- because bin laden is dead or is it irrelevant to our posture? >> justice is done. it demonstrates to the world that we're capable and willin

first, we're going to hear from kadim misran, a professor at johns hopkins seis and also bologna, italycouncil and originally from tripoli. also daniel serwer, also a professor at seis and a scholar at the middle east institute. and my colleague, peter fam, who is the director of the misme -- of the africa center here at the atlantic council. i'm going to start with you, karim. i would like to hear from you about your evaluation of how close are we to the end of a military conflict inside of libya, how important or not important is what happens to gaddafi himself, and whether he is apprehended, and finally, what are your thoughts on scenarios? where might libya be going from here? >> i wish i could tell you -- could take a couple of hours or a couple of days. hard to see when this will be over. i think we are at the end of it. to answer your question rapidly, it is essential that gaddafi is captured. or -- his troops are disbanded, seen in tripoli, what's happening is the defections of important parts of his troops has caused the easy entrance of the rebels into the city. the troops of