deployed drones are going to latvia there's f-22 raptors headed to europe. does nato have enough military might to stand up against russia? >> i don't believe they have the will right now and also as far as the drones going to latvia they're only there for two weeks. i don't know what kind of a signal that sends either reassurance of the allies or as a threat to russia. to me it's another half-hearted step by the obama administration. as far as nato i would just say europe overall has been very deficient on this. they really have been taken almost no action against russia. the only significant action is the sanctions, that was pretty much forced by the u.s. so whether it's the foreign fighters going to syria, whether it's russian aggression europeans don't seem to have the heart or the resources to get the job done. >> president obama will i would expect at some point he may run into vladimir putin when putin visits new york in a month. sometimes there may not be a completely official meeting but we've seen that they actually can accomplish quite a bit, even

his first cousin who killed the officer was killed a few months ago in the area trying to defend latviaells you a great deal. a radical faction, yet the government has failed to stop the advances which is getting encroaching closer and closer on the heart, on the popular base of the regime. >> two questions in one. we will have to keep it as brief as possible on this point. are we closer now than we have been in the last four years to seeing some kind of critical mass reached because of what you have been saying? and if it is, and if assad falls, what would it be? >> we are not very close at all. let's not be blinded by these minor advances, practical advances. this is a long war. of course, the opposition is making some advances. the regime is making advances in other places. so 24s a long war, very complicated war. it's not just syria. it's regional thank you for coming in on short notice. >> nigel blanco is most widely known for spearheading the hunt for the bodies of 43 students who went missing and were presumed to have died. it's thought he was murdered as well. al jazeera's alan

>> latvia, it's a baltic state and a nato ally. the u.s.ato is required to defend it if russia were to invade or in any other way threaten it. this is part of a series of military steps the u.s. has been taken. there were f-15s deployed to the baltics. doing exercises western ukraine to reassure the allies that the u.s. and nato is watching. they're watching russia and will defend against further iowe these are tightly calibrated. these drones are going to be there for 15 days, until september 15th and then they'll leave. they're trying to calibrate something that reassures without antagonizing. this is the way they're responding to fears that russia, after ukraine might set its sights on nato allies in the north. >> is there any indication that they will fly the drones, they're going to buzz around the airspace? >> they are. they're going to buzz around like the f-15s. they're trying not to threaten the russians but make this a show of force. >> jim sciutto, thank you so much. >>> meanwhile, the kremlin released a video showing president v

i grew up in latvia and go back to eastern europe all the time and western europe, and teachers are respected there loot more than they are here in the united states, and they're paid more, and i think there's something -- really fascinating for me to read the history of education in the united states and there's this sort of current of treating teachers like they're basically a delivery system and then test proctors and the other countries they're treated more like academics like intellectuals, and i think that's one of the major differences and why you're hearing from the so-called education experts who never taught and rarely are actual practicing teachers. >> host: to go to the art of teaching you refer notice the book as the beauty and complexity of the art of teaching. and i think that standardized testing is incapable of measuring anything that is both beautiful and complex can you tell us more from your experience about your witnessing that the beauty and the complexity of the teachers at mission high and what they're doing. >> i would say my favorite part of reporting on the book --

this web cam set up in latvia and an eaglet just learned to fly and come in for a landing. it's majestic, not full grown, . >> eee! somebody! anybody, help! >> i think when we started riding the tricycle we had a few hiccups. >> poor thing holding on for dear life. >> all on camera as well. >> it eventually got itself out of the situation with you look at the wing span. >> well done, brother, you turned that around. >> it's a beautiful eagle. >> we go to a beautiful black jaguar. this is ciello. they call her mermaid and you'll see why. >> wow. >> there's a little bit of panic there on the face. >> the eyes look scary, they say no, she loves being in the water. big cats love the water so she's having a good time, now living at the black jaguar white tiger foundation, they rescued her. the cat was going to be sold to a store owner who was going to drug her, take pictures with humans who wanted to take a picture with a big black cat. but they rescued her, and they saved her from a life of being drugged up for human fun. >> i can't think of another motorsport that allows you t

so-called fatah has made advances and they are encroaching slowly and gradually just so close to latviacidents where this is really the base. this is the heart. this is the key of the assad regime. >> that's why the protests in the last two days unnerved the regime, himself. absolutely. >> many proceed government and thousands have gone, you know, on the social media demanding justice to be brought against this particular fight. killing the officer in cold blood. this is not the first time. very, very difficult position and i would not be surprised. we know that he has been arrested, but i would not be surprised at an open trial basically takes place to show he wants to show his authority. >> authorities in the u.s. city ferguson have declared a state of emergency after several violent incidents. police say there has been a drive-by shooting, and protesters have thrown things at officers and an 18-year-old man who was critically wounded with police on sunday nearby stop signs, protesters were arrested for blocking the entrance of a court house during a protest. following all of this for

latvia, estonia, lit huania. thereafter, throughout the war, careful to were conduct operations in areas of special interest. those areas where first the baltic region and second the balkans. byt became abundantly clear early 1944 when they attended a full-scale offensive in the balkans, only to see it fall for. -- falter. late summer, 1944, again they return to the balkans and i'll take region this time successfully -- and the baltic region, this time successfully. i maintain now and this will be , that in all likelihood the decision by stalin to halt his forces at the 13th or 14th of february, halt them east of erlang and send them to vienna instead probably a reflection of that policy to make significant gains in the baltics. the planningigate , and you operations watch the evolution of force structure, you will see these same considerations in place. had everer than i anticipated, and to a greater degree than i had ever anticipated. these new revelations continue right up to the final few points of my slide.

vote ina parliamentary committee that has passed in latvia and finland.ers have basically endorsed it really when you come on done something similar. no votes in belgium, cyprus, ireland, italy, and slovakia. which was the euro member i left out? a pop quiz. guy: far too early. you honestly think we are paying attention smack we are, really. hans: austria. a guy: of course, austria. caroline: see later, hans. let's get more on the story with our guest in the studio. lisa mcdonald. director of equities. talk, are we worried about this greek vote? , ande led the charge western european markets doing well yesterday. the attention has focused east for china and rightly so. looking at the dax, we saw the wobble down in july. overdoing the whole situation. moved to a more rational view of what the potential impact to be even in the worst case scenario. focused on where the right direction is. guy: are we underestimating the impact this brought a slowdown -- broad slowdown is going to have? negativehave seen revisions coming through throughout the earnings seaso

. >> poland, estonia, latvia, lithuania have asked for nato protection. 70% saw russia as a major military threat to neighborin countries. have these countries been brainwashed by the west? >> not by the west. in poland and in baltic republics, they feel phantom pains, you know. they were several hundred years inside the czarist empire and soviet empire. they still feel these pains but these pains have nothing to do with the reality. >> what are phantom pain? >> phantom pain means that you think something, you are sick and you have some pain but it's head. ukrainians? >> this is not the ukrainians because ukraine is a special case. by the way, ukraine for a long time and until now especially was very deeply divided society. ukraine as a country, as a unified country never existed. >> that's why this is the period when this country is going through very painful process of nation and state building and as a result, every leaks ended up in new division. eastern throughout are russian speakers. they are culturally connected with russia. they are civilizationally oerptsd towards russia and the

as the primary threat, how concerned are you that russia will try the same strategy in estonia and latvia? gen. odierno: russia is assessing the action of 80 through any of their actions and based on -- what i worry about is his calculation, that they perceive that nato might not be as concerned and make a mistake and miscalculate and do something that would violate article five. that is something that greatly concerns me. is we have too do continue to refocus nato and our interoperability with our nato partners to build capability. we are on her way to do that and we have a long way to go. we have to continue to increase our ability to move quickly there and i think we can do that equipment, bying helping to increase interoperability between nato forces and understand what capabilities are available. i think we have to keep working at that because a true deterrent is one where people worry if , there will be some level of response. we have to look at that so we can deter any further actions. that deterrent is not there at this point. gen. odierno: i think we have deterrent there but i th

rolling tanks and blasting mortars as the century-long border conflict with neighbors lithuania and latvia

david grew upcoming here when it was run by latvia end priests. >> just place where kids could be kids. could you wander off into the woods, take both out go swimming, and dot kinds of things you just can't do growing up in the sit. >> i wanda campers can kickback canoe shoot arrows, or learn to use a tomahawk. >> there it is. >> we always say that this is assay place where people can disconnect to reconnect with simple pleasures, simpler times. >> well, disconnect, kind of. how many times have you check your phone since you have been here? >> oh, my god. every 1010 minutes, which is bad you. >> no idea how many mobile phones are in the bottom of the lake. >> sunglasses, cell phones. >> yes. >> summer camps for adults only, and comic genius, can carl reiner, right here on cbs-3 at 9:00 a.m. >>> well, still ahead in the next half hour here on cbs-3 saddened for a cross country social experiment. how a hitchhiking robot journey came to an end right here sadly in philadelphia. and we'll also have this: >> thank you for helping me. >> well you may have seen this eight year old boy making h

concerned are you the russian will try the same strategy with nato allies bordering russia in estonia and latvia gen. odierno: russia's constantly assessing the reaction of nato to any of their actions. i worry about miscalculation. they perceive maybe the nato might not be as concerned, and they make a mistake or miscalculate and do something that would violate the nato agreements. that is in the greeley concerns me. i would say that what we have to nato continue to refocus and our interoperability within the military with our nato partners to build capabilities. we are on our way to doing that. we have a long way to go. we have to continue to increase our ability to move quickly there. byhink we can do that pre-positioning equipment, we can do that by helping to increase interoperability , have anato forces understanding of what native capabilities are available. we have to keep working at that. because a true deterrent is one where people worry that if they do conduct operations, there will be some level of response. and we have to continue to improve with that level of response might look li

you also see countries, a lot of the baltic nations, for example latvia estonia which responded very differently when the recession hit. they did a lot of cutbacks in terms of spending, especially their governmental spending. they made the resession worse for them in the short term, they got much more of a v a much deeper recession but now they're coming out of it in a ways that lot of europe went in an l shape. they didn't cut as deeply, and they haven't come out the same way as well. one counterexample is britain which actually is beginning to come out of the recession now fairly strongly. helped reelect david cameron. it was because they did some austerity over there. they actually did some cutbacks in their spending. >> host: now, you talk in your book about stimulus. you're not a big fan of stimulus spending. talk about what you think we should or shouldn't do in our own economic downturn. >> guest: yeah. i think stimulus spending tends to not generate long-term growth. i tend to believe what it did was -- does is make that trough not as deep, but also keeps us from bouncing bac

countries where students were performing about the same level were denmark, spain, lithuania, france, latvia, norway, and italy and several others. you can see that information on the pugh research center's website. their five facts about students in the class of 2015 and students in this country. we're asking our viewers to weigh in this morning. what's the quality of local schools in your eoç>area? bill is in buzzard bay, massachusetts, a parent. bill, good morning. >> caller: good morning. i'm a grandparent. so my days of sending my children off to school are long gone. but i'd like to talk about that fella who just talked about passports. the money we spend on pre-k, common core, facilities, is humongous in this country. it's very easy to point fingers at the teachers and to say, oh, the building should be a little better or we should have more computers. before we spend a nickel on sending a child to pre-k, which in my day was called nursery school, all right, not kindergarten, but nursery school. now it's glorified, very expensive day care. we should have these children before they're

. >>> senator john mccain attending a ceremony in latvia. the facility is in riga and it's known as the strategic communications center of excellence. >>> a small plane door panel landed on a north carolina golf course yesterday. the plane was passing by overhead when the panel crashed onto the green. the plane piece belonged to a us airways american airlines airbus. pretty scary. that's the cnbc news update at this hour. it's dangerous on the golf course, ty. >> that would probably improve my putting. thanks, sue. >> you're welcome, ty. >>> if you want a safe trade, gold is it today. it's been, folks, a rough year for gold if we can throw up a rough year. there you see it up $25 an ounce at 1153. up 3.5% so far this week. weaker dollar helping it back. back of the fed helping it. let's move over to silvering copper, played yalladium and se they're doing. they're doing well. palladium and platinum both movers. to the bond market where rick santelli is tracking the sliding yields on the tenure. rick? >> absolutely. maybe even the third year i

they have never respected the independence of ukraine, estonia, latvia.r putin believes the disintegration of the ussr is the greatest catastrophe of the century. >> thank you very much. >> time for a cnbc news update with sue herera. >> thank you. here what's happening at this hour. a hate-spewing murder suspect goes too far and is ejected from his trial in kansas. deputies removing frazer glen miller from the court after he told the judge he has no respect for the system. miller has admitted killing three people at jewish sites last year, but pleaded not guilty and is representing himself. the jury is deliberating his fate. >> blue bell creameries resumed selling its product in select locations four months after it halted sales because of listeria contamination. >> a new milestone reached in the tsa's expedited security screening program. more than 1.5 million travelers are enrolled in the precheck. it allows low-risk travelers to experience faster and more efficient screening at more than 150 u.s. airports. >> u2's lead rocker bono edged out paul mccar

states such as latvia, ukraine tried and succeeded very briefly in the independence.eorgia, russia was both an empire and a regime and both were splintering in the aftermath of that great war and so there were huge questions that the world had to settle. what was the shape of europe going to be like? what was the shape of the middle east going to be like? as the ottoman empire fell to pieces suddenly all the arab territories, vast arab territories of the ottoman empire up for grabs of some sort. africa in the south pacific, questions to be settled in the far east and a real danger that many felt at the time that europe and the world were going to plunge into even more revolution. the second revolution in russia, the revolution of november 1917, had seen a very small splinter group and there were fear that is that revolution followed elsewhere and some evidence it would be. there was a communist revolution in bah vary yeah and lasted far week and enough to worry people. a communist revolution in hungary lasting for six months. insurrections in italy, in france. general

i've been in europe many times, latvia, budapest, i try to pick brains about people and what they feela isn't as respected as it was. they want a strong america. they need a strong america. neil: interesting what you say, people in mainstream media go through this as well, they look at him, all the florida boyians, mistake the messenger, donald trump and all he can centuriesties and bra vowed dough, but not the message. the message is hits home with people. >> and resonating with youth and women. neil: but is he almost too much of a tough guy, a simplistic guy? does he have to get -- >> we need something -- talking to me that play a lot -- i'm out front. neil: you have a lot of finesse. you're not just hammering people. >> number. neil: killing them. >> you can't do that i'm romancer. i do that on saturday night as eisenhower park. neil: i don't know if trump sings. >> look it, we're tired also, neil, of the ambiguity of politicians. neil: yes. >> we're tired of that. we're tired -- i written again in different articles, immigration, six or seven years, ago, get in front, gop, immigrat

lithuania, latvia, and estonia. >> how concerned are you that russia will try the same strategy in natobordering russia? >> russia is assessing the reaction of nato to any of their actions. what i were radioaboorry about and violate article 5 of the nato agreement. i asked the general if they have the deterrent capability to deter russia. he said in his word, it has some, not a ringing endorsement of the ability of nato to deter russia from further military action. he says they're just beginning they have a lot of work to do. jim sciutto, thank you for your report. we are looking into reports that a top korean official has not been seen in public for months. cnn's brian todd has details on this. >> concern that kim jung-unmay be eliminating any one that mildly crosses him. from seoul to washington, officials are scrambling to find out what happened to a man who served kim and his father for many years. a top official in kim jong-un's government vanished from view, chon gon jong hasn't been seen in eight months according to the unification ministry which tells cnn it is watching closely

how concerned are you russia will try this seems abhijit and nato allies bordering russia and latvia.>> constantly assessing nato to any other interaction and what i worry about his miscalculation they receive, maybe nato might not be as concerned and they make a mistake and miscalculate and do something that would violate that greatly concerns me. i would say what we have to do is continue to refocus nato within our military with our nato partners to build capability. we are on our way to do that. we have to continue to increase our ability to move quickly their. i think we could do that by helping to increase interoperability but nato forces to understand what nato capabilities are available and we have to keep working because a true deterrent is one where people are worried if they do conduct operations there will be some level of response. we have to continue to improve so we can deter any further action. >> a long way to go. >> i think we have deterrent and i think we do a good job of that. we have to continue to increase that so the risk is up for anybody who might consider coul

>> i think i can tell you, i had dinner with the governors of the bank of israel, latvia, norway, weway's sovereign wealth fund and norway's problem that they found natural gas. and then cigars with the governor of the bank of saudi arabia and governor of the bank of finland. i can tell you that. >> is it -- >> it's hard core, dude. >> you mean the drinks? >> yes. >> no, it's hard core monetary policy. >> that's when you get the real information out. >> you look a little -- i believe you. >> on the eyes, yeah. i got an interview coming up. you may want to talk about that. isn't that in the teleprompter? >> thanks to professor feldsoon to and professor liesman. steve will be with us in a few minutes and, yes, you have a big interview coming up. narayana kocherlakota will be - bbe -- on. >>> and later on "squawk on the street" the interview with stanley fischer. i got kocherlakota right, but this is fischer. >> i will be on "squawk alley" during this. >> it's a great interview ahead of his big speech saturday. >> really? >> i'm doing double duty. >> that's a long day. >> the bloom. vie

the countries were students were the sameg at about level work denmark, spain, lithuania, france, latvianorway and italy and several others. information ont the pew research center's website. there are five facts about students in the class of 2015 and in this country. we are asking our viewers to weigh in this morning. what is the quality of the schools in your area. bill is in massachusetts and is apparent. good morning. >> i am a grandparent. of sending my children to school are long gone. but i would like to talk about that call you just took about passports. the money that we spend on is-k, common core facilities humongous in this country. it is very easy to point the fingers at the teachers and to say the buildings should be better or we should have more computers. before we spend a nickel and sending a child to pre-k which in my day was called nursery school. not kindergarten but nursery school now it is glorified expensive daycare. we should have these children before they are admitted to pre-k, they should be made to have to pass a test for it a simple test but these children ar