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hottest new tv show or the hottest new show on your computer "orange is the new black" comes to nerdland. >>> first, the moment john kerry has been preparing for his entire life. >>> good morning, i'm melissa harris-perry. whether it's the celebrity off spring of the couple known as kimmy or the royal birth of prince george to will and kate, the talk around birthing or not birthing babies is all the rage these days. it should come as no surprise tuesday secretary of state john kerry announced he will deliver his own bundle of joy in nine months. >> the parties have agreed here today that all of the final status issues, all of the core issues, and all other issues are all on the table for negotiation. and they are on the table with one simple goal, a view to ending the conflict ending the claims. our objective will be to achieve a final status agreement over the course of the next nine months. >> secretary kerry is hoping to deliver what no other secretary before him has been able to birth, a peace baby in the middle east. this the moment that john kerry has been preparing for his entire

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more nerdland at the top of the hour. a-a-a. f-f-f-f-f-f-f. lac-lac-lac.voice. but his accident took that away. thankfully, he's got aflac. they're gonna give him cash to help pay his bills so he can just focus on getting better. we're taking it one day at a time. one day at a time. [ male announcer ] see how the duck's lessons are going at aflac.com >>> welcome back. i'm joy reid in for melissa harris-perry. a shortage of water in the state of texas has left residents thirsty, frustrated, and saying what the frac. according to recent reports, the process of hydraulic fracking, more commonly known as fracking, which is used as oil extraction, is making the drought problem in the lone star state much worse. these areas in red that you're seeing on the map are parts of texas that are experiencing extreme and exceptional drought. the drought problem has become so bad that at least one texas resident is actually wishing for a natural disaster to help. rancher buck owens told the guardian newspaper that, quote, we've got to get floods. we've got to get a hurric

and hey, we here at nerdland aren't above it, so we're going to keep the cute little pandas right one, throughout the whole segment. so this is like our buzz feed moment, this idea that -- so to your point about what consumers want, the truth is, we are trying to put together the show this morning and productivity dropped to zero, because we started looking at panda cam, right? or if you're going to go down that rabbit hole of the other stuff on the side. >> that's the thing, people look at it. and i don't though. i've started to think that maybe we should compare these things less to newspapers and more to television channels where you can watcher "the simpsons" and then watch the news. this is the way the world works. people want to get all sorts of content from one site. we all have senses of humor and we're all deeply interested in politics and that's okay. >> but there's a thing an measuring our success by clicks, by page views, even by subscribers, by ratings, that makes me wonder if we can ever judge it we content. >> i say, go, pandas! >> okay! >> the fact that so many people

there is more nerdland at the top of the hour. >>> good morning. melissa harris-perry and i have a good idea of how millions of you are going to spend your saturday afternoon after mhp show. you'll spend it losing your voice yelling at the television or singing along with your alma mater, rooting for your favorite college football team to win its first game of the season. 44 million of us, 19% of all americans, are avid college football fans, putting it third in national interests behind only the nfl and the olympics. last year, nearly 49 million fans attended college football games at all 644 ncaa schools, just down a bit from a record high in 2011. but that means that even if your team stinks and has for many years, you keep coming back, even when they're not winning, you're yelling, war eagle, ohio, hook them horns, or roll tide! the team may represent your alma mater or your hometown or your home state, and you connect them as part of a way to connect to your own youth, watching as a kind of innocence. but college football is not just about a g

she also leads nerdland whenever i'm on vacation. also, julian vaughn, naacp chairman emeritus. and next to him, the reverend william barber, head of the north carolina chapter of the naacp and leader of one of today's most important social movements for justice, the moral mondays protest in north carolina. thank you all for being here. mr. vaughn, i want to begin with you. as you think about where we have been, over the course of the past 50 years, how would you assess progress? >> well, if you look at the 50 years, the real measure of progress was the civil rights act of 1964. that's the legacy of that march. and that opened the door for black americans and people of color to go places and work in places, go places they hadn't been able to go before. some of the other legacies are not as strong. the supreme courts' revision of the voting rights act is a bad mark on them and meant that justice roberts had a dream that he followed since he was working for ronald reagan. he wanted to get rid of the vote rights act and now is in a position to do it. it's sort of a mixed picture. a