ruth lilly the last surviving great-grandchild of pharmaceutical magnate eli lilly died last night in indianapolis. over the course of her life, lilly gave away the bulk of her inheritance some $800 million dollars. most of it went to charitable organizations and arts groups based in indiana. she also gave a $100 million dollar donation to the literary magazine "poetry", which had rejected her submissions for years. lilly was 94 years old. parts of the world have already ushered in the new year. in sydney, australia more than a million people turned up to watch fireworks over the city's landmark harbor bridge. fireworks also lit up the skies over red square in moscow. back in the u.s., crowds began gathering in new york's times square under a light snow for the ball drop at midnight. security is stepped up there, with police and other officials planning a sweep of the area for biological contaminants. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's website. but for now back to jeff. >> brown:

. >> lilli is french. >> we thought maybe that. >> larry: the star had to audition?i didn't know she had to sing or dance. >> it was such before. >> larry: wait a minute. kate auditioned. >> they wouldn't have, but i didn't know if they could sing or dance. nicole did not because i knew her work. judi i didn't addition either. >> larry: penelope, how did you come to "nine"? >> i auditioned for three different parts. my first meeting with rob was 2 1/2 years ago. i knew i wanted to be part of this movie. i said to him i don't care which character. have me on the set cleaning the floors just to learn because i admired him so much. he called me and said i decided i want you to be carla. >> larry: judi, do you have to say dame? >> no. you don't have to say dame. it is a bone of contention because nicole was asked to have lunch and to do the part. i was just asked to have a coffee. but, you see, same magic. how can you resist him? >> larry: glad you did it? >> oh, you bet. i'm resentful i'm not in all the other dances. >> larry: sophia in geneva, how did you get to do "ni

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nightmare has emerged which is a platform other than pockets on an afghanistan serving as sort of a lillypad from which al qaeda can then try to attack the u.s. and i think this now is kind of the straw that broke the camel's back. because we've had other concerns and incidents with respect to yemen. so i think this is the one that will garner the attention of u.s. officials more than any to date and i think we're going to see more intensive focus on yemen as we have seen over the last couple of weeks with raids in yemen against al qaeda safe houses and compounds. >> ifill: i want to ask each of you if you can gives us a sense starting with you larry johnson, how afraid is our safety -- how freyed is our safety security network. >> it has some gaps, they haven't been closed but we have known for 20 years. we made some improvements since 9/11 but there are still significant areas of gaps that we need to close. >> ifill: douglas laird, how freyed. >> one of the things that juan-carlos said that caught my attention was when i was at northwest we designed a program called caps, computer assis

i appreciate your comments, lilly, and a critical component from here is our conversation about what happens with teachers and ultimately what that means for students. early on in the panel presentations today, nancy jones mentioned the story of judy human. for those of that you don't know judy, judy has been a pioneer in terms of students with disabilities. when you look at what her life has become and what education looked like for her several decades ago versus what it looks like for students now, i think there's some very interesting lessons. recently i was asked to take a look at an iep of a young african-american student who is in the public schools. and i was shocked by what i was provided. i was provided by a couple of pages that talked about very little of what this student couldn't do, very few pages on why she had the educational level she did. the goals and expectations of this child were nominal at best. she had been written off in second grade. and i was appalled. i contrast that to another family i supported recently through a series of iep meetings in a suburban distr

and my aunt, migrate aunt lilly was a very good business woman. very careful. and she lived a very minimalist life. she was not extravagant. she didn't have a lot of cash. she would acquire nice things, nice crystal glasses, nice china, silverwear, there were things she smade clear she was leaving to certain family members and when she passed away there were comparable sales of around $2,000 an acre. before the estate could be finalized and settled, there was a lot of land that was dumped and prices of land fell to $600. i.r.s. was nice and gave them a couple of years' extensions hoping the land value would come back, but after a couple of years, the i.r.s. said that's it. no more extensions, it's all got to be sold. it was a nearly $5 million evaluated estate. and when the land values fell to $700, i think they got nearly $800 if i recall correctly, that paid the tax. didn't quite do that. that's why the i.r.s. ordered the land sold at auction. it sold. and then had an auction of all her personal assets. so all of us in the extended family were encouraged to c

host: virginia, lilly, republican caller. caller: my first vote was four eisenhower.t sounds like you of that change your political views. c-s -- you have not changed your political views. caller: it is getting to a point where i do not want anything to do with either party. they are bickering, they never did anything, and when they do something, one party does it all. i cannot see where the parties are going, and i just hit it for my children and my grandchildren. i don't think we are going to have anything left. i'm real disappointed in our government. host: thank you for your call. paul krugman writes about "dangerous dysfunction" in "the new york timesç." "it is nonetheless a huge step forward. it was, however, a close-run thing, and the fact that it was a close thing shows that the senate and the u.s. government as a whole has become ominously dysfunctional. çdemocrats won big last year running on a platform that but health reform front and center. in any other advanced democracy, this would have been a mandate and the ability to make major changes. but the nee

i appreciate your comments, lilly, and a critical component from here is our conversation about whatppens with teachers and ultimately what that means for students. early on in the panel presentations today, nancy jones mentioned the story of judy human. for those of that you don't know judy, judy has been a pioneer in terms of students with disabilities. when you look at what her life has become and what education looked like for her several decades ago versus what it looks like for students now, i think there's some very interesting lessons. recently i was asked to take a look at an iep of a young african-american student who is in the public schools. and i was shocked by what i was provided. i was provided by a couple of pages that talked about very little of what this student couldn't do, very few pages on why she had the educational level she did. the goals and expectations of this child were nominal at best. she had been written off in second grade. and i was appalled. i contrast that to another family i supported recently through a series of iep meetings in a suburban district

and i lost faith in the supreme court after that and then when that's -- that lilly lead better case was such an absurdity, you have to ask a question of what planet are these guys on. guest: the case had to do with age discrimination suit, basically equal pay suit. the question was whether they discriminated and number of years ago, beyond the statute of limitations, and it still has a present-day effected -- the woman receives lower pay than are male colleagues because of the discrimination years ago, whether she can sue and the supreme court said, no, she can't. congress came in and reversed that. that is actually a good example of the system working in a way that it should work. the court interprets a statute, may be right or wrong, but if they get it wrong congress can come in and say this is what we want. what the constitutional ruling to the does not work the case of the terms of bush b-girl -- bush versus gore. host: what were the judicial aftermaths of the 2008 ruling? we know the political aftermath. did that change the relationship between members of the court at all? gues

it underscores what many women know, the significance adult lilly ledbetter case and what the supreme court did, what president obama did as the first piece of legislation that he signed. we need to have people informed of their rights to ensure that we start to eat away at that gap. >> half of the narrowing of the wage gap comes from loss of pay for men. this is not exactly what we had in mind. one of the things we need to do in addition to enforcing the laws we have an raising awareness about that is we need a new policy that will revalue women's work. as maria pointed out, the people who take care of our kids make less than the people who take care of our cars and our pets. we need to revalue women's work and remove gender and race as criteria in compensation. that will certainly help. >> i wonder if you have had any views from those on how we might support employers in financing leave. a lot of people are uncovered by the fmla, but of those who are, many cannot afford to take it or say that is why they are not taking it. you find good employers to pay maternity leave but small emp

objection four was the republican filibuster of the lilly ledbetter fair act, to make sure women get equal pay for equal work. the republicans filibustered that bill but we passed it. we passed a very important equal pay for equal work bill, in spite of it. objection 6 was to the american recovery and reinvestment act, which has been absolutely critical to creating jobs, keeping our economy out of a depression. they filibustered that bill three times as well but we overcame the objections, passed the rove act an recovery act ane critical investigations in transportation, in our schools, in our police officers and in clean energy technology and manufacturing. and, yes, we are seeing the difference, mr. president, in michigan right now. $2 billion that was part of the recovery act. i'm pleased to say that we have received a large part of that in michigan to develop new battery technology, manufacturing. and we have at least six different firms that have announced and begun to develop manufacturing facilities for advanced battery development. and those manufacturing facilities are going

host: one twitter comment, lillie ledbetter should be the person.er: yes, it should be barack obama, i have seen him since eisenhower, and this is the best president i have seen in my lifetime. no one else has the skills or the talents he come on to this scene at this time. no question it should be barack obama. host: thank you for the call, next is gary from st. louis. caller: yeah, i think it definitely be glenn beck, he brought out the wrong people and shows from the president, and no one can dispute him. as far as i am concerned he's doing more for this country than the president or any other administration. host: thank you, next we have sam. caller: i don't agree with that gentleman with glenn beck, he's disinforming the country, and god help with someone with that echo chamber. i am a muslim and it should definitely be ron paul. i applaud your network because it has some gumption to stay true to the principles. for ron paul, he understands foreign policy and understands the nature of the relationship between intervening in =ññ countries and oc

the lilly ledbetter fair pay act. i'd go on and on and on, but this has been an activist congress responding to the needs of the american people, responding to those who are struggling, who are out of work because they were neglected for so many years. and we are trying to deal with our debt as well, trying to go back to what president clinton established, a time of record surpluses. but when the republicans came in, the first thing they did was pass tax cuts for wealthy people without paying for it. the rich got richer while the middle class got poorer. mr. speaker, this omnibus bill before us represents, i think, the right priorities, the priorities of the american people. and i'd urge a yes vote on the previous question and on the rule, and i yield back the balance of my time and i move the previous question on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution. those in favor signify by saying aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have

and i lost faith in the supreme court after that and then when that's -- that lilly lead better case was such an absurdity, you have to ask a question of what planet are these guys on. guest: the case had to do with age discrimination suit, basically equal pay suit. the question was whether they discriminated and number of years ago, beyond the statute of limitations, and it still has a present-day effected -- the woman receives lower pay than are male colleagues because of the discrimination years ago, whether she can sue and the supreme court said, no, she can't. congress came in and reversed that. that is actually a good example of the system working in a way that it should work. the court interprets a statute, may be right or wrong, but if they get it wrong congress can come in and say this is what we want. what the constitutional ruling to the does not work the case of the terms of bush b-girl -- bush versus gore. host: what were the judicial aftermaths of the 2008 ruling? we know the political aftermath. did that change the relationship between members of the court at all? gues

it turns out as lilly pasteur said,-- what was his quote? it was in a situation where people in england were working on distemper vaccine in a lab where influence came in and affected the ferrets which is the first identification with the ferrets as an animal model. later run will 42 accelerated the development of the vaccine because the military was very concerned about what the losses were in world war i and that with the pandemic and want to try to protect their troops and then later on was the first vaccine, the first influenza vaccine approved for use. and the 40's and 50's there was work on-- were even apply to influence it was clear that the antibody response could be improved, the height of the response was greater, the duration of protection was longer and was a broader protection as well. that field apparently stopped when there were local side effects and sterile abscesses but some of what we are going to hear about later had its history in some of the basic sciences. and then separately by virus cultivation using from mammalian c

host: what prompted merk and eli lilly, you mentioned they were one of the four companies to -- i think's merk and eli lily -- to agree to reveal their political? guest: merck is really interesting, because they're really a leader. there are several other companies that have been leaders in this, but merck, really about three or four years ago, recognized that they face certain problems with their political spending. they had made a contribution to a state supreme court candidate in mississippi back in 2004, and there was -- that candidate had not been thoroughly vetted. the jackson clarion ledger reported that he had run a racist campaign. and i think that when that was disclosed, merck, instead of sort of retreating into itself, said, you know what, there was a problem, we need to do more thorough vetting, we really need greater transparency and overseist our political spending, so i think they recognized that it really served the company better to be more open and adopt the policies and procedures to achieve that. so they've been a real leader. microsoft has been a leader. yo' host: