we begin with bill and melinda gates. with their plan to give away $60 billion, they're the most generous philanthropists in the world. they want to make american kids among the best-educated on earth. and while they're doing that, they also intend to save millions of lives worldwide. the gates shun publicity, but in october 2010, melinda gates agreed to show scott pelley the nuts and bolts of giving away a fortune. [train whistles] >> the north of india, where it is a short drive from the big city to the middle ages. [animals bellow] in the countryside of india's most crowded state, uttar pradesh, often, food is scarce, electricity nonexistent, women and infants die in childbirth, and medicine remains in the realm of superstition. it's exactly what melinda gates is looking for: a neglected crisis where her investment can save the most lives. >> our belief is that all lives, no matter where they're lived on the globe, have equal value. all lives. >> what are your global priorities? >> hiv/aids, malaria, mother and child d

dozens gathered at facebook headquarters to take part in a competition sponsored by the bill and melinda gates foundation. it offers prizes up to $100,000. it's up for a youthful app or service. >>> one of stockton's strongest supporters spoke out against the police that patrol that embattled city tonight. they reallied against the high crime rate -- rallied against a high crime rate and what he called a lack of effort by the police department >> the only bit of a could give me was to take my grandmother and move. they said unless i'm shooting or they're shooting at me, they just don't come. and i've fought for this community, i've given back to this community because i love this community. this community raised me to be where i am today, and to be lied to blatantly by the guy who's supposed to be running around the shots around here, i don't do anything. if a guy with a gun and badge can't step up and answer the bell, who is? we have no other choice. arm yourself or get out. it's the wild west, the boys in blue are outgunned. and they just let you know they just can't do it. >> stockton becam

this, sponsored by the bill and melinda gates foundation. four useful college advice.will run until november 16th and i know that they require to make a lot of money when they develop new items. >> we will be right back as the kron 4 morning news continues. the wall street showing negative. the opening bell on wall street this friday closing at 14. . starbucks during the opening bel in the airline e it's gonna be a nice day for/because it's going to be hot. >> we should get the coffee today and said the slushy for the weekend. temperatures will be flirting with the triple digits. in the evening hours will see instances of patchy fog. today is shaping up to be warming gorgeous day. temperatures climbing up into the mid-90s. i will show you what's on tap for the week coming up in my next report. >> first i want to tell you something about the san mateo bridge. we have been tracking these delays the last couple of weeks and we are checking out first hand if there are construction issues near the base of the high rates that have been causing these delays. no delays for the

. >> that is facebook and the bill and melinda gates foundation are teeming up to get kids into college and stay there. there is abc 7 news reporter. >> these 150 web jerlz are working to help kids navigate the pro cease this is about b.getting best and brightest developers in a room and focusing on a problem. >> in this case, hack sag positive term meaning producing great ideas quick lie end goal to get kids to stay in college and great thing that we know these kids are using social media. >> there is a foundation providing $18,000 for prizes for the best prototypes and $2.5 million in grants for more down the road. the nonprofit has a team of four in the race. >> this is a short case. we're going to have a barely functional proto type. >> one of the judges was listening to each team's pitch. >> we'll look at first of these to solve problems kids have. and that there is great tools for helping them going through this process. >> jessica is a high school senior from san francisco. she's had lots of help making her april politics. today sheerks hoping developers are understanding what he

. >> reporter: the bill and melinda gates foundation put up $2.5 million in prize money for the best apps. >> the genuine experience -- >> reporter: so groups like this one are ripping through caffeine and code -- >> keep it simple. >> reporter: trying to focus. >> we got the basics. >> reporter: on the best ideas. >> i think the power behind the social media in general is providing more social proof to people that it is possible. so i know one of the focus that's our group is currently trying to build an app(5a for i rebranding college as cool and possible. >> we think that the social layer is something people don't pay enough attention to. and that we are real life laboratory for efforts that can happen right now. >> so facebook turned its building into a laboratory. looking for a new way to get into college. >> people will remember this and they will remember this. >> reporter: while keeping things social. the gates foundation says it will accept apps suggestions through november 16th. it will give $30,000. 50 and $100,000 each to the winners. jessica? >> okay. sounds good. thank

. >> 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: violent protests erupted across pakistan today. 19 people died and scores were wounded. the pakistani government had declared this a national holiday-- "love for the prophet day"-- and encouraged peaceful protest. some 15,000 people filled the streets in the southwest city of karachi. >> ( translated ): we want to show the world that muslims are one and united on this issue. we all are ready to die for prophet muhammad. we have left our family to join the protest and will remain here till the protest is over. >> brown: but things quickly turned violent, as crowds burned cars, theaters and a bank, and some opened fire on police. at least a dozen people were killed, inc

. >> 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 annual remembrance of 9/11 brought somber ceremony and muted politics today. americans looked back on a day that shook the world and led to a decade of war. >> keith george... ifill: a day of remembrance began at ground zero, where new yorkers gathered under a crisp blue sky, reminiscent of the day of the attack eleven years ago. friends and relatives of the victims listened to what has become an annual, solemn ritual. the names, read allowed, of the nearly 3,000 who died on that day in new york, washington and pennsylvania. >> john edward bulaga,, jr. steven bruce bunan. and my financee, firefighter seph j.ogren. i love and miss you so very much. till we mee

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so a couple of years ago, both the global fund and the bill and melinda gates came to us and said can we -- >> rose: use your trucks. >> and coke co, can coca-cola help us in a certain country? that was tanzania, and truly enough, all of the vital medicine was getting there at very low costs at gabriel said, much lower than before, but it wasn't getting to the right people's hands, it wasn't getting to the patients quickly enough. effectively enough, efficiently enough to say those lives. so we went to that, we set up a collaboration, corporation with the global fund, with the government of tanzania so the golden triangle to work, and we were able to provide training, provide our expertise in supply chain, rather than give money, rather than put the medication on our trucks, and what happened was the medical storage department of the ministry of health really improved their logistics to a level where prior to this project happening, there was only 500 points of distribution for these vital medicines and today now there are 5,000. the lead time for delivery was 30 days, now it is five

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and he's been very active, bill and melinda gates and the rockefeller foundations. and we brought in other governments to work with us some i spent quite a bit of time on that. i also did mediation work in kenya, and sometimes offer advice to african governments on political conflicts. i do work on governance through a group called the africa progress panel. and right now i'm chairing a global commission on integrity of elections, democracy and security. and we are issuing a report in london next week so, from here i go to london for that event. >> rose: let me turn to syria. were you hopeful when you took this job? >> no, i knew it was going to be very tough. in fact, my wife and i were having dinner, sitting there quietly when the call came. and i said i needed to think about this for a while. and i knew hi been following it it and knew how difficult it was. but it was also difficult to say no. when you consider the killings, the tragedy, lives were at stake. and the situation syria was in. most people said it was an impossible task. and they probably weren't wron

policy not to see at the bill and melinda gates foundation.we're fortunate to have him here with us and i thought i would ask you, what technologies do you see out there? and how might they interact with edu star that we are kind of at the cutting edge here. >> first let me say thank you for the paper because this is incredibly important subject because no matter what the cool new tech elegies or ideas that are out there, if we don't have a way to make sure they are actually helping students and helping teachers and they don't actually make a into not just one, but many, many classrooms, then it doesn't matter. so finding a way to help break that sort of failure that she talked about is really critical. i think there's a couple different kinds. clearly there's a lot of entries and intelligent tutors that can interact with students and help provide feedback and also i think the most powerful ones will work really closely with teachers, not replace teachers, but the benefit is really help teachers help them with access to data, help and use info

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