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bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation.icated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: this was another day of fierce fighting in libya. forces loyal to moammar qaddafi used tanks and sniper fire to press their assault on zawiyah, outside tripoli. doctors reported at least 40 people killed in the latest fighting. meanwhile, qaddafi again rejected any attempt at outside intervention. we have two reports from "independent television news," beginning with jonathan rugman, in tripoli. >> reporter: this was state television's sanitized version of zawiyah's outskirts today. peace and tranquility are returning after zawiyah was freed from al qaeda linked gangs, the channel said. a reporter interviewed qaddafi's fighters, all dressed in the green of his 1969 r

have a repetitive from dcyf to present on this. >> before you is an except/expend for the bill and melinda gates foundation to award the city $3 million. it is a three-year grant which runs from august 2010 until august 2013. it will fund the san francisco bridge success program, a partnership between the city and county of san francisco, sfusd, and city college. the purpose of the program is to double the number of low income youth who earn post secondary degrees by age 26. in the partnership, the three different entities will share information, data sharing, research together, specifically on the city's and, we will be working to align our funding for student workforce development, preschool, and after school for school readiness. and also, the city will serve as the primary fiscal sponsor, as we will be providing the fiscal and programmatic reports to the bill and melinda gates foundation. city college will participate. one of their main implementations will be looking at program and policy changes to improve sf usd access for students. in addition, they are working on implementing prog

families to retroactively accept and expend grant funding in the amount of $3,000,000 from the bill and melinda gates foundation to fund the san francisco bridge to success program, a partnership between the city and county of san francisco, city college of san francisco, and the san francisco unified school district, to double the number of low income youth who earn post-secondary credentials by age 26 for the period of august 13, 2010, through august 31, 2013. supervisor chu: thank you. i believe we have a repetitive from dcyf to present on this. >> before you is an except/expend for the bill and melinda gates foundation to award the city $3 million. it is a three-year grant which runs from august 2010 until august 2013. it will fund the san francisco bridge success program, a partnership between the city and county of san francisco, sfusd, and city college. the purpose of the program is to double the number of low income youth who earn post secondary degrees by age 26. in the partnership, the three different entities will share information, data sharing, research together, specifically on th

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: the battle in wisconsin over union rights reached a turning point today. after weeks of protests and a legislative stalemate, republicans claimed victory. furious protesters tried to shove their way into the state capitol building in madison today. at least 50 were carried out by police, and the building was locked down briefly. the protests were aimed at last night's surprise action by the state senate. majority republicans approved a bill to strip most collective bargaining rights from public employees. democrats had boycotted the senate for three weeks to prevent a quorum and block action. but republicans finally got around that obstacle with a simple procedur

gates, north carolina has been a beneficiary of the bill and melinda gates foundation. i want to thank you for the investments that you have allowed to be made in our state iran teacher effectiveness and quality. the shining star is the new schools project which has allowed us to do some cool innovation in how we educate children. we have kids who are juniors in high school signing the pledge and that they do when extra year, they can go to community college or get a career degree in five years. it is changing our state and will change our state more. we adopted your model for virtual education. we have the best virtual school education in america appare. north carolina has been a leader in a commoncore. we want to know where we are going as governors. we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars individually in states, spending on evaluation. i read this book and a marked the graph and your data says that quality teachers are the bottom line to a productive worker in america. i believe the data says if you get a bad teacher three years in a row, you might as well dro

. >>> a school event in boston today, brought together president obama and melinda gates, wife and philanthropy partner of bill gates. tomorrow the forbes list of the wealthiest people in the world will show gates has dropped down to second place because of all the billions he's given away in his charitable efforts like education. which brings us to our series of reports, "education nation." tonight a new film on education, and what life is like for some parents and their kids. it's called race to nowhere, and as you might be able to tell by the title, it questions what all this work and stress on our kids is all about in the end. our report tonight from nbc's kate snow. >> reporter: for a few minutes right after school, the andano kids are all in one place before they scatter. >> come home before practice. come home again, dinner, shower, homework, and then go to bed. >> the price of oil is going to go up. >> reporter: rachel is feeling a lot of pressure to get into a top college. all four kids have head-spinning schedules. >> ap classes. >> swim now. >> i play hockey. >> i play tennis. >> it

he discusses his philanthropic organization, called the bill and melinda gates foundation. his career at microsoft and global healthcare. david rubenstein, co-founder and president of the economic club in d.c. moderates this 1-hour discussion. >> we're pleased and honored to have bill gates as our special guest. as i said at the outset, this is in 25 years the biggest turnout we ever had and i don't think it is because the interviewer skills were so great. it is because everybody wanted to hear bill gates. i think the reason is because of his extraordinary accomplishments over so many years. the don't think he needs and a leopard introduction by would like to make a couple points. today he is the biggest collector past and greatest philanthropists in the world. he has given a $30 billion of his own money -- [applause] -- to his foundation and that foundation has given away $24 billion to causes we will talk about including k-12 education in the united states and health-care in the developing world and he has become not only a big donor to these clauses but somebody actually

he donated more than a third of his wealth to the bill and melinda gates foundation. don't cry for him though. gate is still expected to be the second richest man in the whole world. >> nice. >>> sheen is officially fired. but he claims the paychecks will keep coming. >>> also the surveillance video scdepartment continues to grow this morning. >>> and here is a look at the mccarthur maze. you can see the traffic is really looking good. we'll have more hot spots coming up in a bit. >>> good morning, low clouds. some fog and drizzle give way topmostly sunny skies. there are wet streaks out there due to the morning drizzle. after that highs will be in the low to mid 60s. >> thank you, steve. the suspect in the arizona shooting rampage may be moved from a jail cell to a hospital. they asked to commit him to a federal facility. they want to determine if the 22-year-old suspect suffers from a serious mental defect. >>> the coroner has released the autopsy reports for the six people killed in last january's shooting rampage. the report reveals in graphic detail how the victi

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. ç and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: japan's nuclear crisis deepened today, as radiation levels jumped at a badly damaged nuclear plant. and for millions who survived last week's earthquake and tsunami, winter storms addedç misery to nuclear fears and theç struggle for food, water and basic comforts. we have a series of reports from "independent television news," beginning with alex thomson, who traveled today to the town of kamaishi. >> reporter: army aid convoys heading east over the central mountains into the quake zone this morning. several japanese have asked me what have we done to deserve an historically powerful earthquake this vast tsunami damage and now the bliz archdiocese?" with officials her

themselves heard and when you get a group like that together and mix them with the great magnifiers like melinda gates or condi rice something happens and an immense connection is forged and there was an energy that is carrying us to the second year. >> charlie: do you have an agenda? >> it's to amplify the movement for women and we're seeing it played out on the tv screens with the enormous shakeup in the arab world is women must be part of the process because where women are involved the countries do better and they become less stagnant and less dangerous. they become places which can move into the modern world and that's now become a security issue as well as a human rights issue. >> charlie: and you can clearly see it from the revolution across the middle east women are taking a lead role. >> indeed. it's not the first time that women are taking the lead role in active demonstrations. what's different this time is usually in the past they take a lead role and told to go back home after the change happens and this time they're saying we're not going home. in against, for example, no woman was

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: japanese engineers marshaled all their remaining tools today in the week-long struggle to prevent a full-blown nuclear disaster. and in washington, president obama sought to reassure americans about the potential for radiation to drift over the u.s. >> we do not expect harmful levels of radiation to reach the west coast, hawaii, alaska, or u.s. territories in the the pacific. that is the judgment of our nuclear regulatory commission and many other experts. furthermore, the centers for disease control and prevention and public health experts do not recommend that people in the united states take precautionary measures beyond staying informed. >> brown: the presiden

and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the libyan rebels' drive to oust moammar qaddafi reached the outskirts of his hometown and tribal base today. fighting erupted outside the city of sirte, home to 100,000 people. it's a key stronghold guarding the approaches to tripoli, 225 miles away. the rebels had already rolled up a series of eastern cities in a lightning advance over the weekend, behind a curtain of coalition air strikes. we have a report from outside sirte from lindsey hilsum of independent television news. >> reporter: they're fighting just east of sirte, colonel qaddafi's birth place. the rebels who swept up the road yesterday found his tanks waiting for them today. rumors have spread that

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: libyan warplanes carried out repeated air strikes today, and fears of a rising humanitarian crisis grew. we have two reports from independent television news, starting with bill neely in misrata, a western town surrounded by forces loyal to libyan leader moammar qaddafi. >> reporter: colonel qaddafi's got a grip on western libya, but not here. and the town of misrata rebels fight street battles with his men. it's urban, intense and deadly. the rebels say dozens of have been killed. this one of qaddafi's tanks. his men fought their way in but were beaten back. the rebels celebrating, but they haven't won yet. qaddafi still sits confidently in power. here denoun

i don't think though, at least for melinda and i, a perpetual foundation makes sense. there's problems today like the childhood health problems and education, and the people who are rich today and have energy should focus their resources on those problems, and there will be rich people in the future who can know very well what those problems are, and so, you know, there's a foundation in the u.s. that has to give most of its money away to one county, and it's a guygan tick -- guygan take foundation and doesn't make sense. it's hard to pick it out in nature and so we're probably going to have the foundation last 20 years after the last of us to go because this vaccine mission we're involved in is because we built up a team and a staff. you need continuity, but when you pick a time frame where that particular mission will end, then the money should be spent so someone else can form a new foundation. >> okay. any questions? anybody curious to ask a question? okay. one back there. somebody get a mic. >> you stay out of politics and don't endorse candidates. >> i try. >> i

on wednesday, we'll talk with former first lady laura bush, philanthropist melinda gates, and helene gayle, the head of care, about foreign aid programs aimed at women and children. i'm jeffrey brown. >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. we'll see you online, and again here tomorrow evening. thank you, and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> you can't manufacture pride, but pride builds great cars. and you'll find in the people at toyota, all across america. >> okay, listen. somebody has got to get serious. >> i think... >> we need renewable energy. >> ...renewable energy is vital to our planet. >> you hear about alternatives, right? wind, solar, algae. >> i think it's going to work an a big scale. only, i think it's going to be affordable. >> so, where are they? >> it has to work in the real world. at chevron, we're investing millions in solar and biofuel technology to make it work. >> we've got to get on this now. >> right now. >> and by bnsf railway. >> pacific life-- the power to help you succeed. >> and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting s

and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: thousands of bodies of earthquake and tsunami victims washed up today in northeastern japan. the confirmed death toll was near 1,900, but there were estimates of more than 10,000 dead in the miyagi region, hardest hit by the catastrophe. meanwhile, survivors struggled to find food, water, and shelter as engineers labored to prevent a nuclear disaster. four days into the disaster and the devastation is almost beyond words. and spreads as far as the eye can see. whole towns, gone. in their place, mounds of wreckage. today new images emerged capturing the moment friday's tsunami ripped through a residential area. the amateur video was taken by people who ran to high

now as everybody knows she is your partner in the bill and melinda gates foundation. how does that work in the foundation? do you both have to agree on every gift? had you sort through the gifts and decide what your areas of focus are in the foundation? >> she is an equal partner in this whole thing, which is a lot of fun to have a project that is deep and complicated. she knows when i get over excited about something. maybe i have gone so 4 -- 24. she thinks about the people. how -- maybe i have gone too far. we do a couple of trips a year where we go together. we will go off to india for a week together, and then we do three or four trips where each of us will go somewhere and then we get back together and explain what we saw there. it has worked very, very well. she knows some of my weaknesses and is very helpful with those things. she got to ride on air force one before i did. >> when you got your foundation off the ground in a significant way, it contributed $20 billion at the outset. what was it like to write a check for $20 billion? >> the year 2000, microsoft

. >> reporter: one of ray's employees, melinda martin, told me that ray seemed to have disregarded his pushed them harder and harder in the lodge. did anybody reach inside the sweat lodge and say we have people in trouble right here? >> people were being dragged out in front of james. >> reporter: he had to have known that things were -- >> i don't know. all i know is, it was quickly becoming like a m.a.s.h. unit. people were being dragged out. as they came out, they were worse and worse and worse off. >> the trial is expected to last for four months. and the jurors will decide whether the deaths were the result of a tragic accident or recklessness on the part of james ray. >>> now, to the other headlines and ron claiborne. >> good morning, everyone. the battle for libya continues as forces loyal to moammar gadhafi broke through rebel lines outside the capital, tripoli. libyan rebels have captured an oil port town after a fierce battle with pro-regime forces. >>> and republican house speaker, john boehner, says he may have the house counsel go to defend the federal law that bans gay ma

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: rebels in libya suffered setbacks for the third day in a row. and loyalists to colonel moammar qaddafi recaptured more territory along the coast. geraint vincent of independent television news reports from the scene of the battle for the oil town of brega. >> reporter: just behind their front line, the rebels fire their missiles. nothing boosts their morale quite like a rocket launcher. at the actual front, it's breakfast for the brave or the foolhardy. ahead of them is a no-man's land. the road outside brega has become a firing range for the much more powerful government artillery. but these fighters are driving straight into it. within just a few minutes, qad

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation.icated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: the air campaign across libya zeroed in today on ground forces, after sweeping the skies of planes. the aerial pounding forced government troops and tanks to pull back from misrata, before reports of new fighting, hours later. and south of tripoli, rebels in zintan said government fighters retreated from all but one side of the city. we get more from martin geissler of "independent television news" beginning with the day's developments in eastern libya. there were reports on signs of heavy shelling in the town, some residents did manage to escape from what they say is a living hell. qaddafi! qaddafi's's bomb. >> reporter: he's bombing? >> yes. >> many homes were dest

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation.icated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: a key official in moammar qaddafi's government defected today. the foreign minister, moussa koussa, sought refuge in london according to britain's foreign office. on the ground, the momentum shifted again in qaddafi's favor, as government troops reversed the gains rebels made just two days ago. opposition forces retreated east giving up the towns along the way and there were reports of some heading back to the rebel stronghold of benghazi. lindsey hilsum of "independent televison news" reports from the frontlines. >> reporter: the rebels set fire to one of colonel qaddafi's old tanks before fleeing ras lanuf. it must have been satisfying to watch it go up in flames,

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: president obama issued his strongest statement yet against moammar qaddafi. at a white house news conference, the president said the libyan dictator must step down from power and leave. he also said the u.s. is joining an international rescue effort and is ready to do more, if necessary. >> i have therefore approved the use of u.s. military aircraft to help move egyptians who have fled to the tunisian border to get back home to egypt. i've authorized u.s.a.i.d. to charter additional civilian aircraft to help people from other countries find their way home. and we're supporting the efforts of international organizations to evacuate people as well. going forward,

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: world powers moved today to tighten the screws on libyan leader moammar qaddafi. as they did, new protests broke out in and around tripoli, and security forces rushed in to disperse them. but qaddafi, in an interview with abc news, refused to acknowledge there were any protests in tripoli. >> they left me all. they will die to protect me. >> woodruff: we begin with a report from jonathan rugman of independent television news, who's in tripoli. >> reporter: in a suburb of libya's capital an extraordinary act of defiance. the leader of the last 41 years is torn to shred ares and trampled underfoot. and then the flag of colonel khadaffi's revolution is set alight

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: the international campaign of air strikes extended deep into libya today. french warplanes claimed a kill in the no-fly zone. they also raided far south of tripoli to disrupt the flow of mercenaries to the government side. elsewhere, rebels reported gains ithe embattled port of misrata killing 30 government snipers. john ray of "independent television news" is in tripoli and reports on the day's events. >> reporter: it was the french who flew the first missions over libya of the weekend. and now it is a french warplane that has destroyed the first libyan jet to break the no-fly zone. a military training aircraft was hit by an air-to-ground missile just after it l

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation.icated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: libyan leader moammar qaddafi struck back at his opponents today with words and warfare. just after dawn, about 200 of his loyalists attacked the eastern oil port of brega in dozens of vehicles. opposition militias drove them out, but doctors reported 10 killed and 18 wounded. we have a series of reports from "independent television news" correspondents, beginning with james mates, in the town of ajdabiya. >> reporter: testing their weapons and establishing what they fear will soon become a frontline. a few miles from the now besieged town of al-brega, the counter-attack they'd feared for more than a week seemed to have started this morning. from inside al-brega, a

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: a coalition led by the u.s. military hit libya today with a dozen more cruise missiles. it was the latest wave of attacks that began saturday night. the goal was to impose a no-fly zone and stop moammar qaddafi's forces from attacking civilians. in chile, president obama said the coalition acted to uphold a core principle. >> when the entire international community almost unanimously says that there is a potential humanitarian crisis about to take place, that a leader who has lost his legitimacy decides to turn his military on his own people, that we can't simply stand by with empty words. >> ifill: the president said the u.s. would turn over leadership of the o