andñr melinda gates foundation.er) established in 2006, the stephen and melinda gates foundation has worked tirelessly to find out what we support. (laughter)Ñi and tonight i am finally proud to announce that we have done it and i don't care how many angry letters i get for saying this, we're going to help the children.çó (laughter) it's all right to cheer me. (cheers and applause) i'm disappointed how late you are. (laughter) and, folksçó, you can help them, too. just go to stephenandmelinda gatesfoundation.org where you'll see me andñr melinda flanking or good friend "your face here." just upload a picture of yourself and voila, it's melinda you, and me inçó a freaky philanthropic three-way. for every face uploaded, donors can send $5 to the bill and melinda gates foundation up to $100,000! (cheers and applause)Ñi i got to tell you, i don't know where you're going to find that kind of cash. folks, i don't like what i'm hearing people say about rick perry. he has had açó bad week largely because of one moment in th

we're also going to be joined by melinda gates, coshare of the bill and melinda gates down fact, and the largest single funder of education anywhere in the world. it's their facts that we will be referring to often to help along our conversation. we're getting a first look here today at the results of a survey the foundation has done, about 10,000 of you, 10,000 american teachers. and finally it's very important as it was last year for you to join in this conversation. and there is many, many ways to do that. my colleagues here in this room ellis and tamron hall will help out with things. and tamron hall, set the scene for me. >> you are up there on the stage, and all the way in the back, every seat is occupied. in this town hall, we have little stations, if you will. mikes set up so these teachers and audience members can walk-up and have their voices heard. i am willing to come to each and every one of you, as brian said, this is an opportunity for your voice to be heard this this conversation. i think brian said it's what you talk about in your teachers' lounges, when none of us a

and joining us now on the set, co-founder and co-chair of the bill and melinda gates foundation, melindaing out exactly what they need. because every school is specific and every community is specific, and their needs change. what have you found? >> we found that the single most important thing that makes a difference in terms of whether a student is going to be prepared to go on for college and work is is an effective teacher in the classroom. and we have the job of getting a great teacher in every single classroom. and if we don't do that, we're not doing ourselves a favor. >> willie geist -- >> no, one of the things, when you get somebody, a notable face to do this and they have dropped out of school in second grade, it narrows it. >> well, that. >> you did this, right? >> yeah, i did it. a bunch of people did it. cycled through. i chose my 7th grade music teacher, i didn't turn out to be a great musician, but he taught us about life. >> about life. >> he did, actually. >> it goes back to teachers. we've had so many people pushing on education reform for so long. and as you were sayin

the summit included a conversation with the white the microsoft founder bill gates, melinda gates. when we come back, we will get a break from the rain in the weather. >> tomorrow, not bad and the rain chances go back up. >> at your 11 insta-weather + forecast with john collins. >> not a bad day today. the temperature got up to 88. some rain offshore with a few showers in the mountains and a few showers out to the west. the boundary still sitting there, more stalled. this is funneling moisture in our direction. we cannot take rain out of the forecast completely, but mostly cloudy skies with areas of fog. 65-71 the overnight low. kind of light today really with minimal rang chances. southeast wind at 5-10 miles per hour. the 77-81 is the height, tomorrow is similar to today. on tuesday, everything may start moving which means the rain chances will go up to 50% or so for scattered showers and storms. up around 80 or nearer 80 for the high. wednesday, rain chances will taper off and we will get drier and cooler by next weekend. >> lots of fun. ravens having a great day. the o >> from

thanks to you and the foundation, bill and melinda gates for all they've done and franco harris, my newnk you so much. >>> brian williams will be talking education with former president bill clinton live from the education nation experience in new york. watch it live at education nation.com and you're watching andrea mitchell reports live from the education nation experience on msnbc. i'd race down that hill without a helmet. i took some steep risks in my teens. i'd never ride without one now. and since my doctor prescribed lipitor, i won't go without it for my high cholesterol and my risk of heart attack. why kid myself? diet and exercise weren't lowering my cholesterol enough. now i'm eating healthier, exercising more, taking lipitor. numbers don't lie. my cholesterol's stayed down. lipitor is fda approved to reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke in patients who have heart disease or risk factors for heart disease. it's backed by over 19 years of research. [ female announcer ] lipitor is not for everyone, including people with liver problems and women who are nursing, pregnant or

day sat down with melinda gates to talk about ways parents can become more involved. >> first they need to talk with the administration of the school and say these are the scores that our students are getting. let's be honest. they need to start there. but if that doesn't work, it does mean eventually coming this saying, okay, we've done as much as we can do, we have to make a change here. >> reporter: there are now more than a dozen parent unions in california and two other states since passed parent trigger laws. mississippi and texas. kim baldonado, nbc bay area news. >>> and you can be part of the conversation. just logon to nbcbayarea.com and coming up tonight at 6:00, rocket ship education. chris sanchez shows us the key factors of a bay area charter school aiming to close the achievement gap in low performing and low income schools. >>> well, in other news, coffee lovers have another reason to pour another cup. >> turns out coffee is more than just a morning jolt of energy. it might prevent depression in women. here is erica edwards. >> reporter: it's the magic elixir of groggy m

thank you very muc >> stephen: tune in tomorrow night where my guest will be rocker melinda gates -- jimmy? >> we've got another 30 minutes to do. >> stephen: can't we just make this the half-hour rerun? >> later. first we have the make the full hour and then cut it down. >> stephen: whatever. someone needs to get their [bleeped] in a pile. i'm stuck out here for another half hour with my [bleeped] in my hand? i have no idea what to do. speaking of not knowing what to do, global warming. now, radionation, i know global warming is real, folks. i have believed that ever since the box office success of al gore's movie. the market has spoken. the same reason i believe there are transformers on the moon. i'm not one of those cooks who thinks that transformers lunar landing was fake on a sound stage. and the evidence for global warming is mounting. the european commission reported this week that since 1990 global emissions of carbon dioxide jumped 40% with margin of error of plus or minus all polar bears, and the united states emits more co2 per capita than the european union and china com

. to discuss measures to boost cooperative ties between the korean government and the bill and melinda gates foundation... before arriving home on korea's trade minister kim jong- hoon says... the united states is mindful of president lee myung-bak's state visit to washington next month... and so... congress will likely take up the korea-us free trade deal before then. speaking to reporters in washington thursday,... the trade minister said... the white house and the republican house leadership will likely discuss the pact next week,... following the senate's approval of the trade adjustment assistance bill this week. kim predicted that the white house will submit the house- backed legislation... as early as the first week of october. the minister indicated that the korean national assembly plans to ratify the deal after the us... and so both sides could finish the process by the middle of next month. the 1-hundred-51 member states of the international atomic energy agency,... have unanimously passed a resolution calling on north korea to suspend all of its nuclear programs. choi you-sun has

our guests, education secretary arnie duncan, vicky phillips with the bill and melinda gates foundationlarship program. also this hour -- >> my question is would you please raise my taxes? >> perhaps proving that silicon valley is not really america, the president gets a surprise request from a pioneer google employee at a california town hall. today the president heads to denver, colorado

since yesterday, we had such guests as melinda gates, arnie duncan, laura bush and a panel of ten of the nation's governors. the president of the american federation of teachers. it's a great pleasure to see you and it's also to see you during my panel. you were in the front row when we were talking to administrators in detroit. they are trying to turn around the school system there. their children were scoring poorly on standardized tests. they found a way to make it work. i want to talk to you about the changes the @min station wants to make on no child left behind. it just didn't work. >> let me say not to give nbc an advertisement, but i was there for the last two days. it is really great what nbc is doing in terms of education nation. we may not agree on how we fix our schools and how we help educate our kids, but the fact that nbc is doing this is terrific. props to you. >> thank you so much. back to no child left behind. do you believe the president is going in the right direction? good in theory and was not executed well and was not an effective tool to help students. >> when

. >> 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: efforts to contain the debt crisis in europe took a major step forward today. the german government won a critical vote on expanding a continental bailout fund with greatly increased german financial support. it could ease the way to a partial default in greece. we begin our coverage with a report from faisal islam, of "independent television news." >> reporter: a vote to save the single currency in berlin. in the end, resounding backing from germany's lower house the bundestag. german m.p.s parking their fears about the dizzying exposure of hundreds of billions of euros to debts that aren't there's, but this process has exposed serious faultlines in german politi

additional funding for frontline's expanded broadcast season is provided by the bill & melinda gates foundation. >> smith: 6:00 a.m., october 12, 2000. fbi agent ali soufan was on his way to work. >> i remember i was on the brooklyn bridge. i was driving to the office. and i got a phone call saying to come to the office fast. >> a suicide bomb attack on a u.s. navy warship... >> a ship, a navy ship, was attacked in yemen. >> smith: soufan was only 29 at the time. how soon did you go to yemen? >> same day. >> smith: he was badly needed. how many people in the fbi spoke arabic? >> eight, nine, something like that. >> smith: how many of them were working on al qaeda? >> i don't know. i think maybe i was the only one. >> smith: soufan was made chief investigator for the uss cole investigation, a major assignment. that's soufan there in a meeting with yemen's president, ali abdullah saleh, and fbi director louis freeh. you began the investigation. how do you begin something like that? where do you start? >> you start from the crime scene. you start taking statements from people who were o

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. 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: the president took a break today from the debate on jobs policy. but the republican leader in the house presented an alternative set of ideas on taxes, regulation, and entitlements. it's been one week since president obama laid out his jobs package, a $447 billion mix of tax breaks, public works spending, and jobless benefits. today, house speaker john boehner offered a republican response. he said while some of the president's plan offers "opportunities for common ground;" overall, it's not enough. >> the president's proposals are a poor substitute for the pro- growth policies that are needed to remove barriers to job creation in america, the policies that are needed

. >> 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 president sought today to get his ideas for reducing red ink off the ground. republicans insisted his talk of raising taxes will never fly. president obama unveiled his $3.6 trillion plan to tackle the deficit by raising taxes and cutting spending in the white house rose garden this morning. >> we can't just cut our way out of this hole. it's going to take a balanced approach. >> ifill: the president's call for balance has run into head winds before. he acknowledges the criticism that would greet his latest proposal. >> we're already usually hearing the defenders of these kinds of loopholes saying this is just class warfare. i reject the idea that asking a he

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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> tom: stocks and commodities rally, with greece promising new taxes in an effort to avoid default. is it a turning point for the markets?

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. >> 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: economists sifted through a new pile of data today on the state of the u.s. recovery. and the obama administration lowered its expectations for what's to come. ray suarez has our report. >> suarez: with the august jobs numbers coming tomorrow, today's raft of reports offered differing clues to the economy's direction. whether it was manufacturing, retail sales, or unemployment claims, those first-time applications for benefits fell to 409,000 last week for the first time in three weeks. the figure has to drop below 375,000 to stimulate long-term job growth. and major retailers reported better-than-expected sales in august. even as those numbers suggested some brig

and by the bill and melinda gates foundation.d 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. >> fear of the unknown is very high. stock prices have fallen. this will adversely affect spending and growth in the months to come. >> susie: the international monetary fund offers a gloomy

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. >> 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: the 2012 presidential campaign got going in earnest this labor day. president obama talked up his jobs plan, and republican contenders went after him-- and, increasingly, each other-- in response. the president used a labor day event in detroit to preview the jobs speech he'll give thursday night. and to challenge republicans. >> we're going to see if we've got some straight shooters in congress. we're going to see if congressional republicans will put country before party. we'll give them a plan and then we'll say do you want to create jobs and then put our construction workers back to work rebuilding america. do you want to help our company succeed? open up

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. >> 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's jobs bill headed down pennsylvania avenue to congress today. he challenged republicans not to let it languish, and he called again for a series of tax increases to cover the cost. >> on thursday i told congress that i'll be sending them a bill called the american jobs act. well, here it is. >> ifill: echoing many of his own arguments, this time while standing in the rose garden, the president demanded that lawmakers act on his $447 billion program. >> no gains, no politics, no delays. i'm sending this bill to congress today. and they ought to pass it immediately. >> ifill: the president surrounded himself with people from industries he said w

. >> 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: hope replaced fear-- at least for today-- as stocks rallied on reports that europe will try to fix its financial woes. on wall street, the dow jones industrial average gained 272 points to close at 11,043. the nasdaq rose 33 points to close at 2516. the story was much the same on the other side of the atlantic. ray suarez begins our coverage. >> suarez: european markets were calmer today amid signs of new efforts to stop the debt crisis in greece from damaging the global economy. at the world bank in washington this weekend the u.s. and other major economies pushed for stronger european action. during an appearance in mountain view, california today, president ob

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. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation.erve 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. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> susie: wall street wraps up a weeklong winning streak, its first in months... >> i don't think the bull market is back. i think, at this point, that we're just seeing some bounce after a losing streak. >> tom: we look at positioning your portfolio for uncertain times. it's "nightly business report" for friday, september 16.

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