they claim officials remotely activated the laptop's web cam and watched the student in his home. the assistant principal told the student she knew he was engaging in improper behavior at home. today she pushed back but refused to answer reporters much questions. hear, listen. >> at no point in time did i have the ability to access any web cam through security tracking software. at no time have i ever monitored a student via a laptop web cam. >> shepard: oh, but the school admits it did indeed turn on the web cams and it did not notify students but the school says it did so only to find missing laptops, never to spy. well, this afternoon that student responded and said the case isn't about one person at all but the decision to put the software in the computers in the first place. >> we are thankful that the lawsuit has succeeded in getting this peeping tom technology turned off. now we need to learn to what extent peeping tom technology was used by the school district or any employee of the school district. >> shepard: peeping come technology. that's what it is. this assistant pri

students and their families say they weren't aware the laptops had webcams that could be activated. schools say it's for security purposes. the principal cited evidence of a photograph taken from the the teen's school-issued laptop. >> it is bogus. i don't think they should be able to get in to our business like this. that doesn't seem fair. >> the superintendent of schools did say in a letter to families that "there was no explicit notification that the laptop contained the security soft wear. this notice should have been given and we regret that was not done." >>> a new website is getting a lot of attention worldwide. it's called pleaserobme.com and shows how your personal information could be at risk. >>reporter: first thing ashley does when she gets here is checks in to a social networking site. take a look at this new website, pleaserobme.com. the name says it all. it gathers updates from social networking sites and lists them as new opportunities. it is personal information out there for anyone. >> it's there for you. if somebody throws the information in your lap, you're not

son, who was also on a laptop, doing his homework. wash your hands. did you wash your hands? and my younger children picked up my iphone and were playing a game on it or something. and i don't know, it just hit me-- we're all in the same house, but we're also in other worlds. and i don't know, it just kind of snuck up on us. i didn't see it coming. >> these young teenagers on the phones and on the computers, it's amazing. like, when i was growing up, it wasn't like that. >> i just remember, when i went on my honeymoon 25 years ago, we were away for two weeks, and we didn't know anything that happened in the two weeks that we were gone, because we were on vacation. and that simply doesn't happen anymore. >> we now have these tools to reach so many people, all of a sudden, we look around and say, "whoa. now what?" >> well over half my life exists in the digital world. >> i'm connected to my blackberry, i need it at all times. i can't even imagine... i can't even imagine not having it. >> i use my phone. i go on myspace, twitter, faceboo

low end chip compared to your desktop and laptop machines.igh end for a mobile device but still relatively inexpensive to produce this. there's a lot of cost in the touch part of the screen but i think they will make plenty of money. the price on this thing gets high, up to $829 for a high end model. i think that, even at a thousand dollars they would sell probably millions of these if you look at comparables with the ipod touch and kindle, probably millions in the first year and that will be a raining success. >> anything you don't like about it? >> yeah. well, i don't like the fact it doesn't allow for flash in a browser. you can't go to hulu and waches hulu videos on this device. that's what this device is perfect for is watching a hulu or another flash video site. now you can downloadovies and i thuns and tv shows and music and listen to it that way and it has a great high define screen, i think it's 720p. but without flash you can't play flash games and can't watch flash movies i think that is a real problem. >> one thing i want to say a

there are a couple of 3d laptops on the market. usa today's ed baig has been testing them out and says they are not quite ready for prime time just yet. >> 3d in a laptop is an intriguing curiosity, but i want the technology to improve and get more content to watch on the thing. there are interesting games, but we'll need more. >> you can read ed's complete review on usatoday.com. >>> finally, a cutting edge rollout from nasa and general motors. they want to roll out the r2, the world's most dex trows robot capable of working along side humans. they are still working at creating a machine that works at the same speed as humans leading to safer plants. nasa says it will help humans work and explore from space. for information on all of the stories, log on to the technology page of abc2news.com. those are your tech bytes. i'm vinita nair.

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. >> laptop, longhand? >> always laptop.n journalism for 50 years in hiding with my fingers. people television, you'll probably notice that colliding with my fingers instead of my mind sometimes but i do everything on a laptop or a computer and i take notes and stuff of the ghastly like real people but i really do think with my fingers now. >> when you're writing does your professional life come into your characters? >> yes, it does put in a subtle ways. hemingway said years ago if you want to be a writer get a job on a newspaper because it will force you to deal with the english language and some semi coherent way every day but more importantly it will expose you to all kind of people in all kind of situations you can't leader use in your fiction writing at that is what has happened to me. there's no kind of person i haven't met and interviewed and gotten to know. as a consequence when i sit down to write a novel i have a wealth of material to use and i pick and choose. i don't consciously say i'm going to base the story of

they tell me that it was the first laptop ever brought into that room. was this little car roared back had been used so much that the panel had been rubbed off . >> i found i enough on googled books to find out about your book. the " i have is that the american politician is a man who has lied and assembled and a man who has crawled. he knows the taste of the boot polish. he has taken orders from his superiors in knavery and he has wooed and flattered his superiors in centsens." >> that was one of my favorite quotes. >> how much do these folks in the culture world impact politics in the country? >> armstrong had a real impact on politics even though he was not a political man. his impact was in race relations. he was one of the very first black people that white people all over the country came to respect and to love. it was through his art and performing in films and on television. although he was not an activist and a conventional system of the word -- conventional sense of the word, he was as powerful as just about anything anybody else did. mencken w

they to me it was the first laptop ever brought in to the h.l. mencken room.s 20 feet away from his first typewriter which was a little bitty the aroma that was a century old. -- corona that was a century old. >> i used that "on my stump speech on the book tour. it is one of my favorite quotations. >> how much to the folks in the cultural world impact politics in the country? >> louis armstrong had a real impact on politics. he was not a political man himself. he was involved -- he was not involved in race relations. he was one of the very first black people but white people all over the country tend to respect and love. through his art, per performing and films and on television, and although he was not an activist in the conventional sense, that contribution to race relations in america is powerful as just about anything anybody else did in the 1940's and 1950's. >> h.l. mencken was the prototype of the moderate op-ed columnist. he was the man wrote whom the idea of what we think of as an opinion column is crystallized. his track record as a political progno

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most kids carry laptops, in fact the kids here are getting laptops that cost 5-$600, they figure that'she price of books for four years, and because kids are riding buses sometimes two hours to and from school they put a wi-fi system on the bus, kids can do e-mail, home work, do a lot of work they would do, all on a school bus and they say it's been a success and they hope to have more of it. martha: the question is kids -- socialization is just nonexistent now, they communicate with each other all the time by internet. so here's one opportunity where they're actually on the bus, they can talk to each other, they can get to know each other, they can have a fight once in a while, have some physical interaction with each other and now they're not going to have it there, either. >> i mean, there's good and bad to this. on a school bus, martha, i don't know if you remember, they didn't want us to move around, it was not -- it was not that long ago, martha. martha: it was, believe me. >> reporter: they -- you couldn't jump around, no talking to kids behind. martha: discipline is not that bad

i have my laptop in my room and then i use my x-box live vision camera and i have it running through the win do. it's outside actually and it's covered by the roof of my house and by i took a piece of tinfoil. it hasn't got wet yet. the light is on thoutside. >> reporter: you are taking a risk with the technology. i got to tell you, gary mcgrady was intrigued by what you have done. he walked over to the net center and he wanted to talk to you. >> oh, yeah. >> is my mic on. >> kevin. this is awesome. i have never been to an interactive snowstorm before. do you have any background in meteorology. that looks like the instrumentation i used in college. >> no, not really. i hooked up my stuff here. i'm good with technology. i'm not really that much of a computer guy, more in business. but, i don't know. i use the lab top. i have a duel screen monitor in there. one is the left side and one is the right side. i have on the right side this video to make sure that the camera doesn't fall. >> not only are you monitoring the weather and snowfall but we can play hallow later -- halo. >> actually

. >> laptop? longhand? >> always laptop.i was a newspaper man in been in the newspaper business for many years. i think with my fingers. people will tell me, i think with my fingers instead of my mind sometimes but i do everything on a laptop or on a computer. i take notes and stuff obviously unreal people but i really do think with my fingers now. >> when you are writing, does your professional life come into your characters? >> guessed, it does but in sudden ways. hemingway said years and years ago that if you want to be a writer get a job on a newspaper because it will force you to deal with the english language and some semi-coherent way every day but more importantly it will expose you to all kinds of people and all kinds of situations that you can later use in your picture writing. that is exactly what is happened to me and there is no kind of person that i haven't met and interviewed and gotten to know so as a consequence when i sit down to write a novel i have this wealth of material to use, and i just pick and choos

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there's a couple of new 3-d laptops on the market. one by acor. the other by esus.baig has been testing them out. and says they're not quite ready for primetime. >> an intriguing curiosity. but i want the technology to improve. and more importantly, get more content to watch on the thing. there are some interesting games. but we're going to need more. >> you can read ed's complete review on usatoday.com. >>> facebook is getting a face-lift. the special networking giant began rolling out the new look to its home page yesterday. the tap future has a dropdown list with notifications and messages. it's easier to locate your favorite application and games and discover new ones. >>> there's actually hundreds of anti-ketchup groups on facebook. but they have reason to rejoice this morning. heinz has redesigned this new packet that lets you squeeze or dip. some residents in the midwest and southeast are testing the packet. it rolls out at select fast food restaurants this fall. >> anti-ketchup packets? >> i guess because they're hard to tear open. >> use your teeth. can mak

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it's a program that you can have on your pc and it allows you -- if you put some cables in your laptop and you put -- pop them into your digital tv you can watch streaming video that you would normally watch on a pc you could watch it on tv and hulu had been blocked off boxy for a while. and after that exchange boxy came out with a statement, wow, we would love to talk to hulu about this and we would love to not have this problem. but -- and it's right that hulu management had had some problems with boxy but hulu's management said it was because of nbc. and so they basically said in their statement, wow, you know, we would love to talk to jeff zucker going to a licensing deal for this. if he says he's going to do it now, okay, we'll try. but it was a really interesting exchange. and it's one that's going to keep coming up because this is an issue -- it's really where people are starting to watch more tv now. and, you know, they can watch c-span online. they can watch other things online. it's really3pz -- that's where future is and that's where a lot of the affiliates are worried about

people who don't use it, it's a program and you have on your pc and allows you to have cables on your laptop and pop them into digital tv you can watch streaming video that you would normally watch not on your tv. hulu had been blocked for a while and after it that exchange with boxing came out with a statement saying we would love to talk to hulu about this and we would love to it not have this problem. it's right that hulu management has a problem with boxing but the management said it was because of nbc so they basically said in their statement we would love to talk to jeff zucker about licensing deal for those bought the fcc says the they will do it now we will try. that was an interesting exchange and is one that will keep coming up because this is an issue where people are starting to watch more tv now and watch c-span online, watch other things on-line, it's really to then one of eliot's are worried about as you are moving toward an and more people watch it on-line the people who control the video and the content, how will they use the market power to prevent other companies from gett

you're not just seeing the headphones, you're seeing laptops like these.a first look at a brand new laptop that's going to be coming out that she's put her designs into it. it's called the digital clutch. let's listen to what vivian actually has to say about it. >> you cannot live without technology, our everyday life now. you can't live without it. it's part of our life. every day you have a computer, you have to have a hand phone. and it has to look good, has to match your fashion, has to feel you're fashionable. you're in sync with watts happening now. >> i didn't know i had to coordinate my ear buds with my outfit. but i guess that's where we're going these days. >> that's right. >> what other designers are integrating technology into fashion? >> a lot of businessiness going on. it's interesting. you see people like norma kamali, she developed an excluesive line for ebay, only. you can only shop on ebay for some of her line. she's integrating skype and using webcams to offer better customer support. she's using it in that way. cool one, ralph lauren is

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i do not always travel with a laptop but sometimes i do. while, i forget to take it out of the pocket of my. carry-on my as often as not, and i don't know if they just wait it through. it seems to me that when they catch it, sometimes they don't catch it. if i am in a hurry, i am grateful3 . most of the time i feel concerned that this is not caught. can the panel account for this disturbing variability in the screening process at our airports? >> let me jump in. this is an important point. you said you are the science guy and you don't know some of the operational things. that is a very important problem we are trying to address. you are not producing stuff into a vacuum. it is not about the gizmo. it is about the effected service that that gismo provides. you really do have to account for all the operational factors. if you produce a weapon but the operators don't know how to operate it or, like the russian tank that is manually loaded, but you can only manually loaded with a short russian who is left-handed, that causes a real problem. wh

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poor things out and felt kind of treacherous about it and then here i am with a map with, with a laptop. >> i am a hunt and peck guy. no rippling with all ten fingers for me. hammering away at the keys. people used to laugh at me imagery of where the characters of the key is because i hit them hard. >> presidential biographer richard reeves presents a history of the berlin airlift which occurred from may 1948 to june 1949. he focuses on the exploits of the american airmen called back into service by president truman three years after their duty in world war ii. the national constitution center in philadelphia posts this hour-long event. >> thanks for your patience. good evening and welcome, i'm steven frank the director of national programs of the national constitution center. we are pleased to welcome the cleaned historian richard reeves whose latest book, "daring young men," recounts the story of the berlin airlift and the braves pilots who risk their lives to supply humanitarian aid during world war ii. as many of you know the success of the berlin airlift is viewed as the first cold

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learned that vaghari was asked to buy a hydrophone that could be used to listen to submarines, and laptopsyou did end up sending three items to dubai. how sophisticated were the items? >> vaghari: very common college lab equipment. >> stahl: did they go to iran? >> vaghari: never, no. >> stahl: you sure of that? >> vaghari: as far as i know, yes. the stuff was intended for dubai, and ended up in dubai and stayed in dubai-- that's what i think. >> stahl: but in a search of his apartment, the f.b.i. found emails asking him to make inquiries for the pasteur institute and tarbiat modares university. both are based in tehran and, according to intelligence out of europe, both are trying to buy lab equipment in the west that could be used to produce biological weapons. vaghari will argue in court that the equipment was for iranian professors who work in dubai. so you think the whole premise of the u.s. case is faulty. >> vaghari: doesn't make sense. >> stahl: david kris is the head of the national security division at the justice department. he says most middlemen aren't in it for politics. >> da

right now get a free 3g/4g device for your laptop. sprint. the now network.f, hard-of-hearing and people with speech disabilitie. >> larry: joining us now in atlanta is teeione "t-boz" watkins, singer, songwriter, and actress working on a vh1 reality show with her tlc band, matte chile. and here in los angeles, marty caldwell, certified open adoption practitioner, founder and ceo of the lifetime adoption center. she herself is an adoptive mother. t-boz, we understand you want to adopt a child from haiti. why? >> well, i had thought about adopting a child anyway four years from now, but when i heard about the incident and kids possibly not having parents, i felt like i should try and help someone. and go ahead and adopt now. >> larry: have you begun the process? >> i have made calls and tried to reach out, but from my understanding, the person who processes the paperwork is missing and i haven't gotten very far. so hopefully being on the show here today, i can probably get some information and see if i can help move things further along, if it's even possible

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. >> reporter: on the phone, on laptops and in line, passengers fear the snow and heed the warning. ken bailey, a new orleans saints fan is in that number marching to miami missing the super bowl because of a super snow is not an option. >> i thought it would have come in on saturday. didn't expect it to come in on friday. when i saw that it was, i did hustling and scrambling to get my flight rescheduled and rearranged. was able to get it accomplished so i'm miami bound. >> reporter: security lines were unusually busy for a thursday evening. these may be some of the last flights out as the major storm moves up the east coast. all of the major airlines have already canceled flights starting early friday afternoon and all day saturday. this woman rebooked three times already trying to keep her vacation from falling apart. >> now i'm okay. hopefully. i have to get to my cruise. i mean, you know, there are some minor delays and we have to get there two days early but it will be worth it. >> reporter: the last storm in the nation's capital was a nasty scene. passengers were left sleeping

and officials with the pennsylvania school district are saying sorry after it's revealed that laptop computers leased to students had the capability to record them via web cam without their knowledge. the school system says the feature is only used when the computer is listed as lost or stolen. this is the "washington journal" for february 20. in 45 minutes, we will talk about politics, especially relations between the white house and the senate, but in our first 45 minutes, we want to hear from you specificly about your legislator, and specifically to that, does your member of congress deserve re-election? here are the numbers. 202-737-0001 for republicans. 202-737-0002 for democrats. and 202-628-0205 for independents. again, does your member of congress deserve re-election? if you're willing to tell us who that is and why or why not, you can go ahead and start dialing now. the "wall street journal" has a story about the tea party and its influence, but within that story, a fact releaseded by the pugh research center about re-election, especially in midterm elections, and here's wha

right now get a free 3g/4g device for your laptop. sprint. the now network.ng and people with speech disabilitie. >>> let's get to our america votes strategy session. joining us are two political contributors, donna brazil, and mary matalin. rahm emanuel, the chief of staff, has caused a bit of a stir, ladies. sarah palin referring to an article that was in "wall street journal," in which he supposedly used the "f" word and spoke about some democrats liberals as being f-restarted. sarah palin wrote this on facebook. we're told by a white house official that he called to apologize and the apology yus accepted on to the special olympics. let me go to donna first. what do you think about sarah palin's response and the white house's reaction? >> first of all, realm has apologized and, you know, i also believe that it was the wrong word to use, and i'm glad his apology has been accepted by so many people. i hope governor palin will accepted his apology in the spirit he has given it. i don't know about liberals and whether or not they will accept it, because it's c