joining us now, scott hubbard, professor of aeronautics at stanford university, and michael mandel, chief economic strategist at the progressive policy institute. >> welcome to you, gentleman. >> thank you. >> glad to be here. >> susie: scott, let me begin with you. was the shuttle program worth it? >> the impact of the shuttle program has been significant and mixed. on the one hand, it gave the u.s. unquestioned leadership in space for 30 years. it launched the hubble space telescope and serviced it. it carried out construction of the space station. but it also was high risk. we lost two crews. and we learned it's very expensive to operate. >> susie: did we get our money's worth? what do you think? >> i think the economic impact was far less than expected. if you go back what was supposeed to happen, we were supposeed to have manufacturing in space, and the amounts were in the multiple billions and none of that happened. we've been going through diminishing expectations and diminishing expectations. in the end, i think it turned out to be the wrong road. >> susie: you know, mike. the pro

this was a watercolor done in 1945 by david mandel which -- by david mandelowiz. this building started gradually falling and sliding down. >> they had to replace the street right there. and in the process of jack hammering out the old st., they weakened the rocked. then the rockfall occurred. it undermined the building. once the building was undermined, it could no longer state occupied, and the decision was made to remove the building. as you recall, it made headlines. eventually, the building was removed and a new wall was built. the lot where 22 once sat is still there. there are big disputes over whether it can be developed safely predict -- developed safely. and the filbert street stairs, because of the rockfall that occurred, new stairs were built, and they were built in a manner that when rockfalls occur, that actually lift out the stairs and put them on the ground and allow the crane to get back there to access the rockfall. >> beyond that, the building that we see at the bottom of the rockfall was actually designed to allow barack to fall off and be compo

[ snarling ] my name's mo mandel. thank you so much. [ cheers and applause ] -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> july 12, 2011. from comedy central's world news headquarters in new york, this is "the daily show with jon stewart." captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme song playing] [cheering and applause] >> jon: welcome to "the daily show." my name is jon stewart. the great kid rock will be joining us on the program tonight, and i'm going to go with shark. all right. [cheering and applause] folks, i'm going to start with a problem. we got a problem. apparently america spends more than it takes in. so america needs to figure out a way to become more fiscally responsible. unfortunately while america figures it out, there is a repo man, let's call him "china," that on august 2nd could possibly repossess us. [laughter] the good news is we have a couple of good debt reduction options at our disposal. worse comes to worse, we could for some weird reason arbitrarily change the money we're allowed to be in date,

. >> here's a name you probably haven't heard of -- john mandell.atch, he is challenging sherrod brown. he has a republican primary but he's likely to emerge from that. he's 33 years old. fund-raising numbers came out. he is out in ohio. he outraised brown by $800,000. he's a candidate that's been endorsed by jim demint, tea party, and also moderate republicans. that's my home state. chris: sherrod brown will kick his butt. your thoughts. >> the bounce out of new york with gay marriage is going to land in washington in days to come when they're going to have the first hearing to repeal doma, defense of marriage act. that will give it a lot of attention. >> back to the issue dare not speak its name in washington, the economy. twice this weekend in the press conference, barack obama mentioned the idea of a national infrastructure bank. it's the next big idea. we put in $10 billion. chris: to create jobs for 2012. >> it will create jobs and provide infrastructure that isn't riddled with pork because it's not going through the appropriations -- chris: c

. >> reporter: mark mandell with the state department of health says even though most symptoms are minoreadaches, kickoff and sniffles, some are more serious. >> they could range from asthma attacks, allergic responses, respiratory infections. >> reporter: what's causing it all? >> there's hundreds if not thousands of chemicals in offices. >> reporter: at the department's richmond lab they are analysing materials like partly board and firer board that a lot of furniture is made from to identify those chemicals. >> the one that's most well understood is formaldehyde and that is known to cause irritation at levels that are commonly found indoors. >> reporter: compounding it all, lack of fresh air. most office windows don't open. so you're at the mercy of the building's ventilation system. the e.p.a. estimates that 50% of all office buildings don't provide enough fresh air. just increasing ventilation rates would have a huge impact according to a new report out of the lawrence berkeley lab. >> we would reduce the average health impact and increase worker performance. >> reporter: bill fisk

mandell tipped them off to the murder. he told the station in west palm beach, florida hadley confessed to him about killing his father, blake hadley and his mother, mary jo hadley. >> after he told me, i didn't believe him. he'd been my best friend forever. he said if i looked i could see signs. i looked on the floor, i could see blood and that's when i went around back and looked in his parents' bedroom. >> that bedroom is where they found the body covered with furniture, and bloody towels. >> there seems to be head trauma and torso trauma. >> as the door opened, there was a large amount of blood and blood stains on the bedroom floor and sheets. mandell said that's what he saw. >> i saw bloody sheets piled everywhere. i saw broken pictures with blood on them. and i looked down and saw his dad's leg. >> reporter: mandell identified as mm told police on saturday that he stated he was going to kill his parents. m.m. did not take him seriously. the report says at a party at hadley's house later that night, tyler also told m.

next week on the show, james franco, jeremy piven, howie mandel, hank azaria, jim sturgess, denise richardshley, and her mate -- whoever he may be. if she chooses anyone. and we'll have stand up comedy from todd glass, and music from gavin degraw and cold play. that's right, coldplay -- we have a big deal planned for them too. without our first guest tonight, there w wld probably be no america. he is one of the biggest movie stars ever. on friday, you can see him saddle up alongside daniel craig in the new movie "cowboys and aliens." please say hello to harrison ford. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how are you? they're a little excited tonight. >> thank you. >> jimmy: good to see you. >> very nice of you to say that. about america. >> jimmy: it's true. it really is. i was on vacation two weeks ago and i decided to go to jackson, wyoming where i know you have a place. and a friend of mine who is in show business, said, hey, you should call harrison ford. and i thought, well -- why? because i thought maybe he knew something that, like, you'd requested my presence. i said, why would i do th

. >> reporter: mark mandel with the state department of health says even though most symptoms are minorlike headaches, coughs and sniffles, some are more serious. >> they could range from asthma attacks, allergic responses, respiratory infections. >> reporter: what's causing it all? >> there's hundreds if not thousands of chemicals in offices. >> reporter: at the department's richmond lab, they are analyzing materials like particle board and fiber board that a lot of furniture is made from to identify those chemicals. >> the one that's most well understood is formaldehyde. and that's known to cause irritations at levels that are commonly found indoors. >> reporter: compounding it all, lack of fresh air. most office windows don't open. so you're at the mercy of the ventilation system. the epa says 50% of all office buildings don't provide enough fresh air. just increasing ventilation rates would have a huge impact according to a new report out of the lawrence berkeley lab. >> we would reduce some adverse health effects and increase worker performance. >> reporter: bill fisk authored the

african children began the school day by sing ago special version of happy birthday to former president mandels 93 today. mandela spent the day with friends and relatives at his home. people around the world were asked to mark his birthday by giving 67 minutes of their time to work in the local community. that is one minute for every year of mandela's public service. sxwrool all right let's go back up date the forecast. spencer here with that. okay. we have some nice mild weather coming our way. start our forecast animation 5:00 o'clock tomorrow morning. low clouds moved in overnight. stil pull back to the coast and actually away from the coast north of the golden gate and this is our pattern tomorrow. high pressure near the coast in the 60's. 70's right around the bay and up to mid 80's in the warmest inland location. here's sampling of high for tomorrow. mav my head. in the north bay 80 at clover dale 80 at nap a.mainly 70's around the bay over in the inland east bay mid 80's 84 concord livermore 85 and antioch fairfield and to our south monterey bay mid 70's watsonville santa cruz and gilro

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in czechoslovakia mandel was troubled and his followers were referred to as fruit fly lovers, people haters and were depicted wearing pointed ku klux klan hoods. i bought a handbook that was published in 53 and -- it doesn't matter anymore. an organism can be changed by changing its surroundings so that it can be hardened by exposing it to extreme cold. those that survive will automatically pass along the new film resistance. that is the way heredity works. outside the soviet union the area of a geneless biology was not welcome the. humanist thinkers like george bernard shaw were systematically playing down the importance of nature, inborn differences between groups of people that lend themselves so readily to racial doctrine. ionesco's statement on race in the 50s was based on no more auschwitz sentiment declaring there is no biological justification for race hatred or prejudice. according to the postwar generation of left-wing opinion leaders, aggressive behavior was found in the rotten soil of consumer capitalism. criminals were not bad by nature. they were the product of unemploy

attorney steve mandel was shocked the high powered payer didn't have a prenup and agreements have long old money families. entertainment figures like arnold tend to protect intellectual property. >> any character will be community property, an asset so when arnold wants to expand on that character he has to go to maria and get her permission. >> reporter: they split after 25 years of marriage at a public event in may, schwarzenegger said they were working out their differences. >> we both love each other very much. we're very fortunate that we have four extraordinary children and we are taking one day at a time. >> reporter: days later arnold admitted to fathering a son 13 years ago with their live-in housekeeper. she went public with her story saying maria confronted her about her son's father. the divorce filing shouldn't come as a surprise. the pair remains on speaking terms. according to the divorce document, maria shriver is seeking joint custody of the two underage children, 13-year-old christopher and 17-year-old patrick. serene branson, cbs news. >> it's about four minutes afte