. >> i was just on assignment in nepal. i wasn't there for storm chasing. we got hail. i found hail. i was very excited about that. every morning waking up to the himalayan mountains is exciting. >> very competitive slot to get the pictures into ginger's post-weather picture show, i have tried for years and never succeeded. >> you said show us some of our pictures from your assignment. >> all right, ginger, great to have you back. >>> now to a controversial open letter to women attending a top ivy league university. the best place to find a good mate for life is right under their nose, on campus. her message -- marry a princeton man. >> she start looking for a husband your freshman year. it's not quite that simple. if the letter making waves not just on princeton's campus but across the country. because it's filled with advice like this -- here's what nobody is telling you -- find a husband on campus before you graduate. >> at first, i was shocked. i do think there's some truth to what she's saying. >> reporter: the author of the open letter was one of the first females

. >>> i was just on assignment in nepal. i wanted to share with you -- i wasn't there for storm-chasing. but we got hail. that's right. i found hail. i was very excited about that. every morning waking up to the himalayan mountains is a wonderful sight. i kept thinking those clouds have hard tops. nope, the himalayas. exciting trip. i'll have much more. >> it's very competitive slot to get the pictures into ginger's post-weather picture show, i have tried for years and never succeeded. >> you said show us some of your pictures from your assignment. >> you'll never get over that, dan. all right, ginger, great to have you back. >>> now to a controversial open letter to women attending a top ivy league university. a former princeton grad is advising that the best place to find a mate for life is right under their nose, on campus. her message -- marry a princeton man. abc's linzie janis is here. you spoke with her? >> i did. she said start looking for a husband your freshman year. it might sound like advice from a previous gener

a new parliament will work to complete the drafting of nepal's new constitution. the country abolished the monarchy and became a republic in 2008. political analysts see the appointment as a compromise. they say it's aimed at ending a deadlock that continued since the parliament was dissolved in may last year. voter registration procedures have been slow so it may be a challenge for him to held the election on schedule. smaller political parties are also opposing him. they say a supreme court chief justice serving as prime minister goes against the separation of powers between legislative and judicial branches. >>> emerging economic powers still struggling with poverty. embolden citizens still demanding democracy. the threat of violence. the push for peace. the shadow of conflict. get news and insight on south and southeast asia every week day live from bangkok only on "nhk world newsline." >>> militants have launched a coordinating attack. they killed 24 people and wounded more than 50. they provered how vulnerable they were after the attack. two more car bombs w

the united states paid nepal $50 million to make it illegal. the king goes yeah, $50 million there you go. cenk: and now it's illegal like they don't have hashish in nepal anymore. >> look at the effects in indonesia. there's a death sentence. if you get caught with a joint you can go to life or face a death sentence. cenk: you were talking about the national flower, given that george washington and thomas jefferson had hemp falser, is it possible that we swing things so much that our national flower becomes hemp. >> it could happen. cenk: let me give you the facts on that. is it bad for you to smoke these things they asked the young? 78 high school enjoyers, bad to smoke cigarettes, but for marijuana, 44%. growing up, i couldn't have imagined a poll like that. there's no question that it's swinging that direction. let me give you some more stats on damage it's done to the country. i want your reaction. in the past 40 years in this terrible war on drugs it's cost us $1 trillion. 45 million arrests and then we had just in 2009, 1.7 million arres

i thought it would be good enough to put english language in nepal because they teach english as a secondu've never heard of because we'll publishing in other languages. stop me. i can tell you over 20 languages we accomplish in. >> reporter: john, you're not some old man. would you jump back into the corporate world? >> no. i've had offers but i feel like i've got the best gig in the world being at room to read. i feel like we have it in our sights to reach 20 million children by 2015. >> more of raj's interview on our webpage. he answered a question from our facebook followers, too. you can check that out on our website g. to nbcbayarea.com/theinterview. a check of our forecast. jeff ranieri is live in petaluma for little league's opening night. hi, jeff. >>> hi, you guys. it is so much fun out here. there's a loft excitement in the air with opening day tomorrow. everybody having fun? yes, they are. and here are the guys who made it all the way to the little league world series in 2012. they're celebrating what happened last year and looking forward to another great season as we head to

i thought it would be good enough to put english language books in the libraries in vietnam and nepal biggest children publisher that you've never heard of, we're publishing in so many different languages -- top me. i can tell you over 20 languages we're publishing. >> time-out. you're not some old man. would you jump back into the corporate world? >> no. i've had offers to jump back into the corporate world. >> i can imagine. >> but i feel like i've got the best gig in the world, we've got it in our sights to reach 10 million children by 2015. >>> much more ahead on "today in the bay" including an illness that forces the queen to cancel a royal engagement. the latest on her condition coming up. >>> and this is a look at the bay bridge and you can see from the haziness that it's going to make things feel a little muggy today and there's rain in the forecast. thanks for joining us, i'm kris sanchez along with rob mayeda who says not enough rain to get you out of your outside chores. >> never enough rain to stop that it seems like. let's show you the temperatures out there this morning.

in the next hour congress woman grace nepal on the know. they are celebrating st.ig reception at the white house tonight, after which president obama takes air force one to the middle east where we'll be visiting israel palestine, and jordan. but, you know, if you're still bent on blowing this fat stack of cash there's a couple of ways you could do it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ or just go to e-trade and save it. boom. ♪ ♪ [♪ theme music ♪] >> bill: what do you say, friends and neighbors, good morning, good morning, and welcome to the "full court press" here on current tv coming to you live all across this great country of ours from our studio on capitol hill in washington, d.c. we're just down the street from the united states capitol building, where president obama and the prime minister of ireland will be coming up to the hill for the big st. patrick's day lunch on and the celebration this evening, after which president obama will be heading off to the middle his first trip to israel as president of the united states. we'll visit with israel palestine, and also jordan. the pope ce

to mention a couple the new chair of global health is conducting research in nepal critical to the maternal developing interventions that a community level to reduce air pollution by cookstoves, which have been shown to cause poor birth outcomes and poor health especially for women and children. our new share of prevention and community health is here today and alan greenberg the chair of epidemiology have devoted a good part of their career to researching hiv/aids. dr. greenburg is the director of the district of columbia, center for aids research, a multi institution average addressing the hiv/aids epidemic here in d.c., which has most of you know has among the highest rates in the world and the highest rate in the united states and professors have made remarkable progress in addressing women's health issues, for instance, the professor studied the health problems affecting minorities living in the united states and has developed recommendations to reduce the rates of teen pregnancy comes sexually transmitted diseases and other serious health problems that disproportionately impact such a