an engineering science technology mathematics and management university has created in a greenhouse a strain of genetically engineered rice that contains pro vitamin a the rice is intended to benefit under nourished people not feed the profit of the agricultural industry. the whole food as i hold the mothers in families where vitamin a deficiency. it is a problem have understood that eating this rice will be good for them because we expect to finally start delivering this golden rice to farmers in the philippines by the end of this year and it is. symbolic and this is the poster boy. for the genetical means it will be interesting and this is something. yes. but is the golden rice a blessing or a curse we went to the philippines in search of the answer. the country is home to ninety million rice eaters here rice is not just a basic food state it's part of the culture. this is where people are being asked to abandon their accustom ways and switch to the new golden yellow type of rice. we traveled to the philippines to find out how this idea is being implemented we were told the authorit

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more about the changing landscape of health insurance is greg, assistant professor of management at northwestern universitylogg school of management and specializes in health care. good to have you with us. i assume you heard scott's package there. i want to get your best guess, estimate of how much or what percentage of the premium increase i may get next year in my company plan is atranscribable to the affordable care act. is it 20%? 50%? 80%? ? >> i don't have an exact number but we'll see a mixture of two things that are causing premiums to go up. one is that we're coming out of recession so it will increase again. we had relatively low increases as a result of the recession and the second is that a lot of company plans have to be more generous to meet minimum standards under the affordable care act and those are the primary drivers of increased premiums. >> the other thing people are asking questions is whether you work for aç company, a big company or no company that ultimately every american person is going to have to sign up for these health care exchanges. is that a good thing? are the pros and c

despite the final day's problems, tokai university managed to make up a lot of time to finish second. >> translator: i think we'll be able to put these cars to practical use in 10 or 20 years. >> young people from all over the world come to compete in this solar car race. their heated rivally may one day give us the car of the future. nhk world, adelaide, australia. >>> the scientists in australia say they may have found a way to find gold without having to dig for it. the key is traces of gold in eucalyptus leaves. a team from their science and technology discovered gold in the leaves in eucalyptus trees. they say the trees act like hydraulic pumps draw up gold ore through their roots. the particles are 1/5 the width of a human hair. >> we've only really scratched the surface with this research. we found that some trees will take up gold. others don't. and so we need to do some more research to find out why this is happening, to make it into a robust exploration technique. >> researchers say mining gold from the leaves is unlikely, but the findincould lead to a cheaper way to locate

. >> kennedy who now runs the graduate school of political management at george washington university said higher mortgage ands and borrowing costs municipalities struggling to fund pensions because of higher interest rates. >> it will have a massive impact on every business and individual in america and around the world. >> president obama is willing to negotiate on a budget but -- >> the president has made clear the air of threatening default has to be over. >> while kennedy points out in other nations facing struggles, pressure and markets has led to political compromise. they need to put their internal aside.nces i to theedy compared it government shutdown. will be a disaster. the supreme court is operating normally at least until friday. the high court opened its new term in the justices will hear six arguments this week. the arguments included challenge to them it's on campaign contributions. the court will not hear an appeal of a lower court ruling that struck down virginia's anti-sodomy law. to >> a woman was found dead in stafford county. deputies are searching for her car an

joining me now the assistant professor of health policy and management at columbia university. you were watching, and i noticed you were nodding as the president read the e-mail who said that the website stinks. >> let's focus on the bigger picture, that is people will get coverage. this website, we haven't gotten to the bottom of this, we don't have the full information, but let's look at the full picture and not get distracted by this. as the president said, there is still time. >> you studied this. we have a law. we have a piece of legislation that is being demonized on one side, the worst thing that ever hit government yet the president on the other side said there are 30 million americans who need health insurance. how bad is america's healthcare industry. >> it's it very bad shape. if you can't cover people in this nation it needs to be fixed. that was the intent of the legislation. >> what "y" iwhy is it broken? what is wrong with the system? what do you see that is wrong and what is right? >> it goes back decades when we, unlike other countries, did not make those cruci

our first awardy paul day in management and communications for the university of california san francisco. [ cheers and applause ] and mr. day, if you would like to talk to us about the work that you do for a few minutes. >> sure, yes. i just have to, i'm so honored to be mentioned in the same breath as all of you civil rights pioneers and our other 2013 awardees. i humbly thank you for choosing me for the work that i have done. i have always been a civic minded individual. i get that from my grandparents. i was thinking about this this afternoon and i remember the exact moment where the switch went off. i was a youth representative for the general assembly in presbyterian church in 1989 where they allowed gay ministers in the church. i sat there in the convention center that was as big as -- and through my own issues of being a gay man and when the debate the -- and when the final vote was they were not going to allow this, a spark, that was the moment for me. i stood up with maybe 20 individuals and walked to the center of the room and silently walked down in protest towards the front o

soon after the fukushima nuclear accident in march of 2011, the city university of hong kong has come up with a program on crisis management and nuclear energy. can you tell us a little bit about the program and what are some of the qualities the program intends to train the students with. >> this is wonderful. the fukushima crisis occurred on march 11, 2011. coincidently, we submitted a proposal to the government on february 15th, 2011. three weeks before that to develop this risk analysis and nuclear engineering program. we were worried about the government not improving because there is no nuclear power play in hong kong. but we submitted this proposal because there would be 22 nuclear reactors across the border on the china side. it will provide a lot of electricity to hong kong. in to understand the risk, we feel very strongly we need to develop a program in hong kong so that we know what is going on. in a dark spot. >> that is why the program was first launched more than two years ago. how big is the program now? >> the program is moving along quite well. every year, we accept 30 students. we are accepting master stu

the offender case management system, eventually give offenders one universal state id and generate a list of releases for those in state custody. that's also a work in progress just like the registry itself. when its began in 2007, bartholomew says it couldn't tell you whether an offender was in jail. now they are changing the way it works adding new tools and trying to get them in to the hands of every agency that touches the registry so no one is missed. >> it's no excuse. at least we are getting there. we are seeing progress. >> reporter: joce sterman, abc2 news. >>> even though local agencies would have to pay to be part of the system, they don't track sex offendsers for free. bartholomew says they get $200 per offender. most of time it goes in to the fund of the jurisdiction. bartholomew says baltimore city puts the thousands they get back in to the sex offender program. >>> joce sterman profiled three offenders and turned them in to case studies, and posted them on the website, go to abc2news.com. >>> a man worked with the volunteer fire department faces charges he sexually abu

he was president karzai's campaign manager during the 2009 resident elections. he wanted the university of malaysia where he gained a degree in economics. he worked for foreign ngo's such as care international using x bertie's and rural development. the killing mark one of the most high-profile assassinations this year. he survived other attempts in the past, including the suicide bombings. our correspondent in kabul has more about the attack. the loss of a very significant figure from hamid karzai's pointed you certainly. view, certainly. >> the most important death of this sort this year, the biggest scalp, if you like, for the taliban or whoever carried it out. nobody said they did it. we are getting more detail. it seems like the bomb was placed in the microphone itself, standing above the podium where arsala jamal had gone forward after greeting people at the end of prayers, the first morning the great family celebration for muslims worldwide. just as he was beginning to speak, that bomb was remotely detonated. , -- one intriguing detail that may be connected with this killing, m i

management and budget. charles tiefer/ law professor, university of baltimore law school "we would gladly pay them if they would do things like processing new social security claims and auditing defense contractors but were losing out in getting these services." charles tiefer is a professor of government contracting at the university of baltimore law school. he says there's also the matter of those who get paid unemployment benefits who, if congress gives the green light, will also get back pay. while most states require them to return those benefits, the offices themselves would have to make sure they do. charles tiefer/ law professor, university of baltimore law school "some states may very well have the attitude that it costs more than its worth to pursue this." another major expense? the backlog government agencies who already struggle to keep up with paperwork could now have piles of paperwork to catch up onincluding money owed from audits that doesn't get collected a vicious cycle at a huge cost to taxpayers. in washington i'm kristine frazao reporting. workers... in dc .... and... virginia.../ must... w

that from happening again after the next storm, the united nations university has come up with a hurricane insurance plan. project managerah becker is working with local insurer ec global. it will sell the policy. the idea behind it is simple. a policy costs 80 east carribean dollars per year. when a hurricane hits, the insurer will pay policyholders $1,000, regardless of whether the storm has done any damage. an independent weather station measures rain and wind speed. it's an unusual idea. and, at first, it was hard for becker to win over an insurer. >> you know, any time you went >> you know, any time you went to an insurer and said, well, you know, there doesn't have to be real proof of damage but if wind and rain speeds exceed certain threshold limits, there will be an automatic pay-out. obviously, this was a completely new concept and it was difficult for the insurer first of all to come to grips with it. >> when there are no hurricanes, we benefit. but when a disaster comes, we have to pay out a significant amount as well. so, there's a potential there to make money. there's a potential there to lose money. we nev

over $60 million here, and it's not just the settlement money, the university spent $50 million on crisis management, legal fees, p.r. expenses and awareness policies. >> when we say the university in the case of penn state, we should be saying the taxpayers. when we say the taxpayers, we should break that down to industrial northeast pennsylvania that may not be able to put food on his own tail. why does he have to foot the bill for something jerry sandusky does wrong. >> the university is saying that most of the payment is coming primarily in fact, their position is that it's not coming directly from the taxpayer, it's insurance policy payouts and interest from the revenue of loans from third party affiliates. over time, and given the massive amount of money involved, tens of billions of dollars, indirectly, some of these individual citizens going to foot the bill. >> even though they say it's insurance policy, someone has to pay the premium. >> those premiums are likely to rise, one would think. >> if i'm another university with a huge football program where i realize there could be problems, am

university. for ten days this place has been the focal point for protesters from the anti-coup alliance. on wednesday some managed to break in and set about destroying what they could. some used water hoses to prevent those outside from getting in. employees were harassed, documents taken and anti-coup graffiti sprayed on the walls. the head of the university called on the police to come to the campus, and he issued a warning to those involved. >> we will deal with the students who have gone against the rules of the university with the utmost urgency. >> reporter: one student witness described what he saw. >> security forces reacted after the they stormed the administration building and damaged its office. >> reporter: one of the most prominent educational institutions in the arab world. many attend classes here every day. it is near the square where hundreds from killed in august, when government forces moved in to remove the sit in. and many more remain in prison to this day. so far this week hundreds of students have protested on the streets outside of the campus 37 this was the scene on tuesday when one membe

every new manager comes in, i remember when i used to be at nbc and ge bought nbc universal, that wast then universal came on board, it was, let's just, let's just go with names at the time. "brokeback mountain" hadn't cost a lot and was huge success. those come along once in a blue moon though, don't they. >> absolutely. making bit bets is so important. companies that move away from the blockbuster strategy like nbc universal did with the television network as i describe in the book, jeff zucker had a strategy we'll be managing for margins. on the face of it seems really interesting strategy. we're saving costs. we're pushing not for the highest ratings but pushing for highest margins. you then see what happened, it was an unmitigated disaster. so you have to, if you work in the entertainment business you have to embrace risk. you can't walk away from it. liz: as an investor what should people look for if thinking buying certainly publicly-traded entertainment companies? >> they should look for executives willing to take the risks and willing to stand up and say we'll spend $200 mill

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university of minnesota. he now runs his own asset management and sports advisory firm, the brewer groups.e back. >> this action at grambling was to strike against deplorable conditions. they are having a losing season. a far cry from eddie johnson, one of the greatest coaches of all time. there is a broader movement where college players are standing up saying we deserve some of the fruits of our labor. where do you come down on this and do you think that's where ultimately we're headed? >> finally. i mean, any time you have a multibillion dollar organization like the ncaa and players aren't getting compensated, things like locker room conditions, you know, the feud that they are eating, the way that they are treated, this is america and that's unamerican. we're seeing a renaissance period in college sports. and now this. >> and you look at the video game settlement and all of that money and you look at how, for example, a couple of years ago rg3 was on the cover of that video game. did he see any of that money? >> no, he didn't. >> no, he didn't. look back. even when i played, i was the

. >> morgan state university is investigating claims that they rejected an application because of a student's sexual orientation. frederick named airport managerhat will take over the position on friday. in the news this morning. landmark settlements. penn state prepares to pay out millions to those abused by jerry sandusky. >> chris brown is out of jail in d.c. the latest on his legal woes and one year later. residents remember the impact of superstorm sandy. the latest on the on going cleanup. more news, first warning weather and the first traffic report of the morning in a couple of minutes. ,, you disgust me. prove it. enough is enough. d-con baits are specially formulated to kill in one feeding. guaranteed. d-con.

university. and for eight years after that, he was a manufacturing manager of a division of coburn optical industries in colonial heights, virginia. after his family's business was sold he changed the course of his life by returning to school to become a physician. he became president of his class at the university of oklahoma medical school where he graduated in 1983. after internship and residency he returned to his hometown where he specialized in family medicine, obstetrics and allergies. dr. coburn and his associates serve more than 15,000 patients for whom he has also personally delivered almost 4,000 babies. dr. coburn and his wife have three children and four grandchildren. now when he was a member of the house of representatives dr. coburn was allowed to practice medicine on a not for profit basis, that means to earn enough to cover the cost, but not receive any profit. during this period he delivered more than 400 babies and he says that not one of the parents of the babies he delivered chose him hoping to sway his vote. before being sworn in as a member of the united states senate dr. cobu

survivor who if you asked him what college he went to, he'll say ucla, the university of the corner of lexington avenue. bobby has managed nobody else has, by quietly and coldly figuring out who's in charge, what they want and how he can deliver it. ever since i wrote the book, i started saying to myself at times what would bobby flay do in this situation. he seems to be without neurosis. that rachael story is great, too. please buy the book. >> sounds like bobby flay's a great role model. i need to take that advice. >> you're doing great, jake. don't worry. >> thank you so much. the book is "from scratch, inside the food network." it's a great read. good luck with the book. >> an honor. thank you very much. >>> now it's time for the sports lead. here, he's the king. there, he's the emperor. it's like beetle mania without the moe howard haircuts. every year when lebron james makes his annual trip to china, he's there to spread the basketball brand and shill for nike in the fastest growing market in the world. as rachel nichols shows us, he is also there to spread the brand of lbj. >> reporter: for one week a year, every

management announced it's best, and final offer we were das pointed. >> skinner said she's not taking sides. the head of san francisco state university labor studies agrees saying politicians are neutral observer autos it won't have been useful to have them there all along but just to try to push the deal over the finish line. >> akerding to figures from map light.org between 2010 and 2012 fdiu has given $2.5 million to lawmakers. but labor expert believes disstress over a possible strike holds more sway than money. >> i think intervention was helpful. >> union leaders are critical of the bart board. >> it's doing nothing for project. and that is a tra vesty. >> as the clock ticks down ed lee postpone aid trip to china, hoping to help forth an agreement. >> bart negotiations continue the bart board president is speaking live. >> it's become crippling for the district. we're unique in this clause. few people in the world, if anyone still has this. i will give you an example. if you have been faxing, a report, to people we can't access e mail anymore without a mutual agreement. union would have to say we're e mailing it. you can imagin

the georgetown university school of continuing studies is offering six free courses to people affected by the shutdown. class subjects include manager as a coach, and project management fundamentals. registration started yesterday and it is limited to 100 workers on a first come, first serve basis. so jump on that if you're interested. >>> a legal win for a oil giant. bp won a u.s. court ruling that could lower the amount it opens in the gulf of mexico oil spill. the appeals court in new orleans granted an injunction against payments being made to businesses that claimed loss or injury not linked to 2010 oil disaster. this decision reverses previous rulings that went against bp's argument that some payments were illegal. >>> and twitter has unveiled its billion dollar initial public offering. this is interesting. in case you were curious, the company is not making any money. not even close. the financial statement shows the social media network lost $79 million last year. it brought in almost $317 million in sales. that's a big burn right. the company on track for even steeper losses in 2013. already racking up $69 million in losses

managed it in 33 hours. i'm pleased to say that the leading american car from the university of stanford is this one right here. it completed the journey in 39 hours and wesley ford is the team leader for that team. wesley, quite an achievement to have got here at all. what was the toughest part of the race? >> so far building a vehicle that can run on sun power but still go across the entire outback. we were able to cruise at highway speeds for a very efficient vehicle. >> what happens when the sun doesn't are shine? >> the fifth day it was raining. fortunately -- >> apologize we lost the shot from adelaide. if we get it back we'll pass it along to you. congratulations to the winner. >>> coming up on al jazeera america, more on the controversy surrounding the technology of drones. typewriters are still being used in one country. we'll tell you why. victoria azarenko [[voiceover]] every day, events >> welcome back to al jazeera america. i'm thomas drayton. the headlines, the focus has shifted to end the impasse. >>> talks came after senate democrats rejected a republican bill to end the government shutdown and

joining us now to add to the conversation is allen miller, ceo of universal health services that managesal hospitals. thank you for joining us. i'm not sure if you heard our conversation before the break. we've been trying to figure out what the affordable care act means for hospitals. tell us what's been happening to this point and what ultimately it will mean. >> first i want to mention we released earnings last night and had a solid quarter. we have raised our guidance. we're doing fine. i think that what should be happening is a delay and then each of the provisions should be fixed. i think they've got to do it on a situation where both parties contribute. it can be fixed. both parties have to contribute to that. >> what has to be fixed in particular? >> well for example, trying to get young people to buy insurance when they're indestructible. there's a $95 penalty when insurance will cost you $10,000. it doesn't make sense. you've got to fix that arithmetic. people are not going to spend 10 when for $95 they can avoid having to pay that. >> isn't that scheduled to go up? >> it is bu

>> reporter: dozens injured after university students clashed with riot police and they were demanding the resignation of the head of a college overalled miss managementce used tear gas to disburse the crowds. u.s. civil rights groups are calling for a federal investigation into the new york police department surveillance of muslims, 125 organizations want the justice department to look into what they call religious profiling. and investigation by the associated press showed that people were paid by new york police and people paid by new york police have infiltrated mosques to keep track of muslims and student associations, restaurants and book stores have also been monitored. new york city commissioner and mayor have consistently defended the methods as a deterrent to future attacks. the council on american islamic relations is one of the groups calling for the investigation and the government affairs managers said the surveillance hurt the muslim community. >> it had a very chilling effect. it effects the community from religious, business and a social standpoint. mosque leaders are afraid to speak because they are spied on and afraid to attend the

university of southern california in los angeles. allegations of a troubled past for the nine-year-old boy who sneaked onto a plane over the weekend. he managed to sneak through at least two security checkpoints at minneapolis st. paul international airport. he has been in protective custody ever since. according to the minneapolis newspaper, there had been for child protection assessment on the voice family since last year. he allegedly stole a car and was arrested on the highway just weeks ago. the boy's father is now speaking out. >> i don't have an angel. i have a nine-year-old. he has a behavior problem. >> child services officials report the boy claimed his mother held a knife to his throat. his mother has not yet spoken publicly, but a source close to the investigation confirms she works at the airport. coming up, details on the dangerous salmonella outbreak that has the cdc bringing employees back to work even though the government is shut down. >> here is our offshore storm. it does not look particularly large. the forecast is next. ocean city is already getting some of that rain. low 60's here in town. at the airport, only 59. inner

without those funds coming in the door, these universities can be put in an incredibly difficult position with respect to managing their expenses. and then not to mention the time lost here in congress. we should be talking about thousand continue repairing our economy. we should be talking about how to improve job training programs. we should be talking about growing manufacturing in our country. but instead, we are just manufacturing crisis after crisis after another. there is no reason we can't end this shutdown, and fortunately there is a simple solution. the senate has passed a responsible bill that keeps the government running at currently reduced spending levels. the house of representatives could pass that bill today, and this shutdown could end within a matter of hours. then we could have the time and space to come together on a long-term balanced and bipartisan plan to finally put our fiscal house in order. instead the other side of the capitol insists on sending us bills that they know have zero chance of passing, of becoming law over here, just to stage a political stunt. but political stunts won't pr