as for the part of town that is home to the mafia, the mayor wants to see a new university, so his new revolution has only just begun. of the mountains of garbage do not disappear, naples will be facing a very messy future indeed. >> for the local white serioues we are off to comino island in the maltese archipelago which has a population of four. >> the tiny island of comino measures 3.5 square kilometers and it is only linked by a passenger ferry. the captain has been going back and forth for 10 years, but he would not actually live there. at first glance, comino does not seem that remote. during the summer, there is a hotel open. the major tourist attraction is the island is famous blue lagoon. the inland area of the island is the domain of the jack of all trades. born and bred year, he has learned to be independent. the workshop is his castle. he designs, makes, and repairs everything on his own. he has become a specialist in customized vehicles. >> you have to take this piece by piece. then i will build it here again. >> his latest invention as this hovercraft, assembled from scra

without their paying operating costs and staff, jabez's income is about half what a new university gradould earn. he asks his staff of four to be patient with the low salaries. >> jabez can't easily cut costs or lower salaries any further, but he doesn't want to raise the price of his coffee either. to keep costs down, he decides it turn the lights off in the kitchen whenever he can. the staff uses both sides of the paper to take orders. even if jabez has it struggle to pay costs, he wants to keep the cafe going. there's a reason why. today members after student film club are showing a film they've made. jabez wants his cafe to be a venue for his students to present their creative work. he also asks an aspiring young designer to design the interior of the shop. jabez wants it watch people launch their careers and make their dreams come true in his cafe. >> they've been given a stage to showcase their talents and making other people's success, making them happy. we know the people, we know the culture, that's why we have played a very big impact in our community. even if it is an coffee

he has released two albums to critical acclaim, taught at brooklyn college, new york university, the school in columbia university, and is now touring lyrics for lockdown. one of those is sponsored by the naacp. i learned that he is beginning rehearsals for the remakes of "the wiz." let's welcome him. [applause] our moderator for this afternoon, world renowned anti- racist, multicultural educator. [applause] yes. as many of you in the audience know, she is an accomplished front line teacher. a teacher, educators, researchers, writers, consultant, speaker. she is like a mother, auntie, big sister, all in one, for me. she has taught in canada, the caribbean, and the u.s. and has been involved in the development of teachers for two decades. she consults on anti-racist inclusion very and equitable education. she assists school districts and schools to continually restructure themselves for equitable outcomes for all students. the initiative put that puts race -- she designed the initiative that puts race on the table. she is the virtual scholar for teaching for change. she is the author o

are so you are selling the news universality and this is the concept that we use not unique. to russia or. an international acknowledged concept how do you respond to that human pratt's watch report which highlighted u.s. reluctance. systematic torture and rico imprisonment by officials in iraq one time away is an interesting question actually. we took note of all the other reports. it is not the first time. human rights defenders like him put it in this way or international organization which is dealing with a non-governmental organization in this case which is dealing with human rights is drawing attention to this new show we have heard of the us american human rights defenders also from the non-governmental sector demand action from the us government mainly in the proper investigation of a number of cases very fair not mistaken we have been a number of lawsuits against the us government dealing with the village of human rights violations during the so-called counterterrorist operation in particular during the military campaigns in iraq and afghanistan. you mentioned also.

and new york university, two of new york city's largest private college, freshmenin day is being moved to monday. >> doing it in the middle of a hurricane probably would not be the best experience. >> reporter: even the long planned official opening of the martin luther king memorial in washington, d.c. has been postponed until later this fall. >>> at the end of the day, i think everyone wants to have a successful event and wants to ensure that everyone is safe. >> nothing beats this. >> reporter: but irene the bride and david are not going to be deterred. they are going ahead with their wedding instead it will be indoors at home. well, they are really one determined couple. also defiant. they plan to tie the proverbial knot at 9:00 sunday morning which, dan and bianna, is roughly when hurricane irene is pounding that part of connecticut the hardest. >> it will be more memorable for them. >> it certainly will be now. >> ron, thank you. >>> back with one more note on reign. keep it here. [ female announcer ] this is not a prescription. this is kate. [ kate ] can't b

my name is gunther establish shaw, i teach history at the university of new orleans. it's a great pleasure to introduce this evening's speaker. before i do that, just a couple special welcomes. a special welcome from friends from vienna that are here. so the visitor come from far and wide as we all know, so special welcome to the family from vienna and to my world war ii seminar graduate students this spring at unl. special welcome to you too. [applause] i'm very pleased to have the opportunity to introduce dr. gerald steinacher who is from austria. he did his studies at the university of innsbruck and while studying at the university of i innsbruck like many studen, like myself, given the intimate relationship between the university of i said brook and new orleans and a relationship that dr. nick mueller, in fact, started with a summer school almost 40 years ago, i had the pleasure to study with dr. ambrose at unl, and actually dr. steinacher when i started teaching at unl fell into my hands when in 1996, 1995-'96 he came as a student for a year as so many innsbruck

from the university of california berkeley, taught english and american studies at northwestern university, new york university, and rutgers, and then in 1989, moved to the city university of new york and now distinguished professor of english and american studies at the ph.d. program at the graduate center. he's a widely published author and his books have been recognized with awards including the prize and ambassador book award, the timist for the -- finalist for the book award, editor of six books, the author of waking the giant, america in the age of jackson, don brown, the man who killed slavery, sparked the civil war and seeded sile rights. john brown alaska from connecticut as stowe is from connecticut. there's overlaps here. a cultural biography, a book with the straightforward title, walt whitman, the author of beneat the america renne sops, the imagination in the age of the emerson and melville and that "s" word submersive came up in oping l tom's cabin and its impact. there's the issue of faith and fiction. when you see the list of books, you begin to understand how much he -- how of

the end of the cold war led to a new universe. i remember being in the british army at age 181991 -- 18, 1991 nobody knew what they're doing they have never seen action. since the korean war. fast forward and 12 years and i find myself standing in a cemetery alongside officers of the same regiment from the fighting in bosnia and kosovo and afghanistan and iraq. we meet the we would never go to war. and that seems to be a movement initially from triumph and to weigh to a sudden moment of despair when confronting the core which we were unable to control. the third act of from 1994 when they rediscovered those the things that it could do so as a young diplomat when i left, i move to 92 kosovo and bosnia i was then the high tide that to we had the formula and this of course, led to the edge ramp that led to afghanistan in this sense we were told they could not do it in bosnia or kosovo and people said we could not do it to an iraq or afghanistan. and then a humiliating mess a terrible realization over the last nine years the limits of

there are more opinions in the news universe than ever. i do not think that is a bad thing. you have to be a very alert news consumer in this environment. would i grant them credibility as a revival news source facts do i believe they talk like people like me before they make comments? i do not think that. they can say outrageous things and get more of an audience or cater to people who have one set of beliefs. >> apply that to npr which you said is elitist and liberal. why should anybody pay attention to them if they are looking at the world their liberal allies or vice versa? >> you should be aware of them. in both places, you can find examples of good journalism. it represents point of view. there is a big difference. fox is in the cable news difference. npr is in the radio business. fox has the strong personalities in prime time. you are going to get very strong medicine and opinions, authoritative views that told an audience. npr does not do that. people have a hard time naming many of the hosts on npr. the way that in pr presented is that they are neutral. they did not

the end of tyranny, the end of brutal dictatorship, the beginning of a new universe, a new horizon for libya. and to come together as a nation to build, to live under rule of law. >> your family exiled in 1969. do you intend to go back yourself? >> absolutely. no question. i intend to go back and join my countrymen, sisters and brothers and our children to build our country, and give it -- and give it all i've got, you know, our talent, our experience, our knowledge, to put it to use for the benefit of our country. >> and your family's ensign has been waved by the rebels. must have been a very proud moment for you all. what would you like to say to the rebels, if you got the chance? >> they are -- you are freedom fighters. you have really earned the world respect. you have -- you have shown how brave and courageous you are, and you put an end to a -- to repression, to tyranny and you have demonstrated that you can -- you can overcome all of the hurdles and obstacles ahead of us. i am looking forward to joining them to build our country. >> what would you like to see happen to gadhafi?

news. >>> san francisco state universities welcomes new students today as they get ready for a new school year. this was the scene this morning as 2,000 students prepare to move into their dorm. >>> the california faculty association gave a dismal preview about what the academic year will hold. the budget imposed $650 million in cuts, forcing them to raise tuition again. officials say more cuts could be on the way if california doesn't collect enough tax revenue. >>> a group of seniors stood up for social security today in san francisco. they demonstrated outside of dianne feinstein office. they are urging her to take a stand against efforts to make cuts to social security. they say the program is more important than ever. >> a program that has done the country very well and will continue to do well if it is left alone. it needs to be improved because it is now becoming the sole support of most retirees. >> a similar protest took place today outside dianne feinstein's office in los angeles. >>> distracted drivers paid for their mistakes on this road, now comes the biggest distraction of a

the end of the cold war that to a new universe.i remember as a young infantry officer in the british army in 1991 serving in an army that had no idea what it was doing. many officers had never seen action. my regiment had not been in action since the korean war in the 1950s. fast-forward 12 years and i found myself standing in a cemetery in southern iraq alongside officers from the same regiment who had in the intervening period been in bosnia, kosovo, macedonia and afghanistan and iraq. it was almost unimaginable. i actually left the military believing we would never go to war. i felt we were rehearsing for a play that will never get put on. that two decades seems to me to be a movement initially from triumph, julie --joy to sudden moments of despair as if it were the second act of a tragedy when confronting the war of the balkans and rwanda we felt we were facing new forces, ethnic hatred and civil war which we were unable to deal with. a third act symbolized by dayton in 1994 when the international community rediscovered its con

melodies you can play on these interacting strings the universe is a symphony of strings and the mind of god that albert einstein wrote about would be cosmic news. sick cosmic music resonating through ten baby leavened hyperspace so you can imagine how controversial it is people were saying this is star trek multi-verse of universe that's right and now we have the larger and collider outside geneva switzerland that hopefully will test this theory maybe there are other universes and other dimensions. may be here the. a friend of mine who started out in physics and ended up in metaphysics. suggested the matter. sensually you know that i as an einstein equals mc squared that the amount of energy in matter is is you know math and you know just the speed of light squared and times the mass and and if you could then define that energy and look at the most subtle particle of energy that at that level the universe would be solid or at least would be filled and that most subtle energy might be something that we could describe as for consciousness you use the word love just a moment ago is that anything close to what you were talking about. well in the s

joined by economist richard roth professor of economics emeritus at the university of massachusetts amherst visiting professor at new school university as well as the author of numerous books including capitalism hits the fan it will economic meltdown and what to do about it richard welcome. thank you for inviting me great great to have you back with us sir why does a scene like the market always swings at least recently in the range of four to five hundred points is that by any chance just big enough for big investors to make the most amount of money without pushing the envelope so far that they're into dangerous areas of risk. well there's always some of that but i think something more fundamental is going on basically we've been in a crisis now since the middle of two thousand and seven between two thousand and nine and earlier this year we had what we called a recovery but the truth of it is the only things that recovered were banks insurance companies big corporations and the stock market they dominate the government help all of them but the recovery bypassed the last majority of americans it was a modern versi

whether with my own groups or with the groups that... the two orchestras that i teach at the new school universityattan school of music... >> hinojosa: in new york. >> they come up and say, "mr. sanabria, i never heard this music before. my mother and father told me about it, but i never paid any attention. man, this is bad. this is amazing. where can i hear more of this?" >> i says, "man, start looking up machito, tito puente, santana, duke ellington, john coltrane, bobby sanabria, start looking up on youtube, and you can see them right there in all their majesty. >> hinojosa: what you do is that you took your strong, you know, latin basis, and you moved into latin jazz. so what is the state of latin jazz right now? is it good? >> well, the state of the music is very, very good. in fact, latin jazz, when you mention that term, would always refer to afro cuban based music done with jazz harmony and arranging technique and improvisation. but now it's expanded, and i think that we were at the focal point of that with my nonet, with that new york city ache! album where we started doing rhythms outsid

if you take a look, new york university, this medical center is practically on the river.he river, the fdr drive and then the hospital. if that river overflows, it will go into the basement. the basement is where all the generators are. so you can imagine the brave staff that's agreed to stay with this handful of patients that just can't be moved. fred? >> oh, my goodness, that is incredible. so, elizabeth, can you give us a general consensus of where you are as you look around usually this time of day on a saturday, the streets are still teeming with cars and people. can you paint a picture where you are and talk about how perhaps deserted it is? >> reporter: sure. what's funny is it's not completely deserted. on a saturday in august, it's usually much more crowded than this. but there are a fair number of people. i was just chatting with our photographer saying, you've been here all day. have you been talking to these people? and he said, oh yes. they said, this is all hype, we're staying. that's what they're telling us. >> elizabeth, thanks so much. we'll check back wit

precision with which you look at the sentences in your book, then as they mound up create a whole new universe and a better one. >> you also quote at the beginning of this mark twain. the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. it's a difference between the lightning bug. >> it's what i teach my students. we are in the lightning business. and i will do every kind of trick i can, i'm sure stanley does the same thing to push them toward that right word and to know the difference between the word and the right word. >> and you said i think i never fail to say we to my students because i do not want them to get the idea that you ever learn how to write no matter how long you've done it. >> every other writer feels the same as i did. every time you sit down to write something new you go huh? have i ever done this before. how do you drive this car. then when you get in it you start to remember things that you have learned in the past. but these writing programs are not professional schools the way law schools or medical schools or professional schools. t

thing that all the social democracies in europe have in common is universal health care and i bet just like europe thought so called news has universal health care and their full time employees as well and here's another little secret most of the production crew is over at fox news are yes what unionized that's right fox news actually supports unions despite what you may hear there talking heads say on the airways one of those unionized cameramen and sound engineers get to sit a rupert murdoch's corporate board like the socialized nations of germany austria the netherlands italy norway sweden and denmark where union workers are required of were union workers are required by law to make up as much as af of all the members of major corporate boards. if not they will be soon made you see it once you cut through all the right wing noise in the socialist accusations thrown at president obama and democrats by fox so-called news talking heads it becomes pretty clear fox news is a bunch of pinko commies after all they make their money using our commons our cable and airwaves and air rights away for all three million or pinko co

i'm joined by dr james gilligan clinical professor of psychiatry at the school of medicine at new york university and author of the book why some politicians are more dangerous than others professor gilligan welcome but. in two thousand and two. looked at suicide rates in the u.k. between one thousand and one and one thousand nine hundred eight and found the suicides go when conservatives are in power in both the u.k. and australia today conservatives are in power in the u.k. and civil unrest is sweeping across london i was there a connection here. i've certainly found a lot of evidence. so refined and homicide both. in the u.s. since ninety nine. and what i found really to my surprise. that these rates both forms obama increased dramatically. when the republicans. and they only dropped below epidemic levels when democrats tried. to fix our staggering over the years i couldn't believe it frees us up to date it seems to one sidedly hardest to people legal and i try to find every way to have to disprove it and i couldn't do it i kept writing the same result no matter how i analyze the data so the s

thank you. >>> we're still following breaking news live from virginia tech university.ted a gunman on the campus. it's on lockdown right now. this is the same place where people were shot down and killed four years ago. we'll bring you the latest. >>> and in san francisco, police are looking for a gun that was used as an assault earlier in the morning. we'll show you the pictures of the suspect they already have in custody. >>> and another frightening incident involving a california teenager and a sand cave. >>> breaking news in san francisco. police have rushed to a shooting scene in the potrero hill neighborhood. kraig debro just got there. what do you know? >> reporter: good morning. this is the 1000 block of connecticut, near 25th and connecticut. police are investigating. apparently the suspect ran in there. according to police, there was a shooting somewhere in this neighborhood. they are not sure where exactly. a bomb in her 40s was shot once in the ankle. she's been taken to the hospital for treatment. what you are looking at now is the man who is the suspect. p

the ship of state hostage taking politics i'm joined by max fraud wolf an economist at the new school university graduate program in international affairs and huffington post blogger max welcome to the program. thanks always a pleasure to join you it's great having you with us everyone keeps blaming the europe for america troubles that seems to be the main mean in the main in the mainstream media is it the other way around or is it possible to see their way around that european markets are crashing both because they see the u.s. economy in its death throes and because of of the damage done a couple of years ago by american bankers. well i mean certainly it's a feedback loop so weakness in europe and japan always reverberate in the united states and of american weakness reverberates elsewhere clearly the financial crisis of zero eight zero nine started inside the united states and is intimately entangled with mortgage financing here the debt load of the u.s. consumer and some rather unfortunate financial practices not exclusively emanating from the u.s. but in many ways disproportionately from th

news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. it's the summer of 2011, but right about now, it sure seems like the summer of 2012. we don't vote for president again for a good long while, and yet all the candidates are out on the road. the president, the entire gop field, and right about now, the rest of the country is learning what texans already know about their governor, what he says, what he does, how he does business, and it's given the rest of us something to talk about and watch closely right here in the middle of august. and as proof that the campaign is already on, today's debate had to do with money, name calling and whether or not the president of the united states loves his country. we begin here tonight with nbc's andrea mitchell. >> reporter: campaigning today in iowa at the world's largest truck stop, rick perry was not backing down about the storm he created by taking aim at fed chairman, ben bernanke. >> if this guy prints more money between now and the election, i don't know what y'all would do to him in iowa, b

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university professor. they're considered crucial in regenerating medicine for their potential to be turned in to a variety of tissues or organs. in news conference thursday, kyoto university said u.s. authorities had approved the patent to a basic technique which entails introducing three to four genes into skin cells to transform them into ips cells. >> translator: as soon as possible, i want to turn this technique into one which is useful in clinical practice. >>> the patent still has to go through a number of u.s. patent procedures before it is finalized. >>> up next, the extended world weather forecast. >>> friday marks the 26th anniversary of the worst accident in japanese aviation history. on august 12th, 1985, a japan airlines jumbo jet crashed into a mountainous area near tokyo. 520 people died. relatives of the victims attended a memorial service at the foot of the osutaka ridge where the plane went down. people lit candles in honor of the victims. >>> then at 6:56 p.m., the exact time of the crash, participants held a moment of silence. >> translator: i don't want any other families to feel such sorrow. i don't want anyone t

. >> let us focus on a new university of missouri study which again pointed out the obvious that we allke to discuss their problems. >> wow. >> stunned to hear that. emotions and what we're thinking. guys think it is a waste of time. a new twist they put it on, though, they think this is actually drilled into us at ildhood. they listed 2,000 children andnd adolescents. and boys, more likely than girls, that discussing problems would be a waste of time. >> rob, tell us how you really feel. how do you feel? >> we'll have that discussion. not when the game's on. not anytime. >> i don't get it. but it's so true. >> it is. >>> another gender difference study. it turns out that commuting to work takes a toll on women than men. and i believe this one. here's why, apparentlyly a lot of women still have more household responsibilities than men. they're rushing to get home from work. they have to pick up the grocery stores. they have to pick up the kids. a lot of worries when it comes to commuting. i totally believe it. >> really? >> so live closer -- you have to figure out where to live, move cl

at new york university hospital, 400 patients moved to higher ground, same with the low lining coneyital. and staten island, an emergency room is now empty. today more evacuations, around 370,000 people in zones city has labeled "a" and "b". it's the first time new york has ever evacuated residents because of a hurricane. >> it's better. it takes precautions and gets out of the way of the storm. mother nature is much stronger than all of us. >> strong enough to flood heavily populated areas of the city. the storm surge is expected to reach above five feet which would put battery park in manhattan under water. rest of the city will not escape irene. >> the world's largest transit system will shut down at noon. subways and buses and trains around new york, paralyzing the city and 8 million people who use the system. other closures the beaches the bridges in and out of manhattan, major highways once winds reach 60 miles an hour. outside of the city in new jersey, atlantic city is closing casinos and the governor ordered everyone out of the pool so to speak. >> get the hell off the beach

a professor at the new york university school of medicine. okay, let's talk about this. about 20 years new york has been pretty active, right, in sex education, public schools. i think they have distributed condoms to though students who want them and still we see a lot of std's and we see extremely high number of abortions in new york city. let's start with you dr. grossman. what's wrong with teaching sex education? >> laura, i reviewed the kuric la that are now mandated for the public schools of new york city. i read every page, okay? and i concluded that although they are not without restraints i'm not here so say they are all bad. they are not. there are serious flaws. parents who think that their children are going to receive a firm no nonsense delay sex until you are older message are in for a surprise. these curriculum have loads of green lights for sex. >> laura: earlier you have sexual intercourse for kids this age, 11, 10 years old the hardered your life will end up being. tell us about it. >> this is not a debate whether we are promoting sex in teenagers but ra

tickets are $15. >>> the university of san francisco is showing off a new logo tonight with a tag linenge the world from here. university officials unveiled the dine yesterday. they said students faculty and staff had a hand in the process. >>> how about fear the birds? the giants have an opponent in the sky. what they're doing to take back the ballpark. >> some places could see drizzle tomorrow but we'll tell you which day you can see temperatures sore into the 90s. go! go! completing an atm deposit in record time... that's a step forward. go! go! with deposit friendly atms, you can make ultra fast, secure deposits with no slips or envelopes. take a step forward and chase what matters. >>> a really big drop off in temperatures today. only most spots only in the mid to upper 70s this afternoon. right now the map is doing it again as you can see on our mapping system, our live storm tracker, santa rosa reporting cloud cover. right around the central portions of the bay, san francisco and oakland and hayward, the low clouds are already regrouping and will push back inland for tonight. so

already several hospitals started to evacuated yesterday, including new york university hospital thatou're seeing here. they're getting people out of there, patients out of there. mandatory evacuations in new york and lower lying areas. look at this. this is the traffic. the backups on the new jersey turnpike yesterday. even though this looks horrible for folks stuck in traffic this is a good sign that maybe people are actually listening and getting out of there. a lot of people buying emergency supplies, buying up generators, food. listen to this. from news 12 new york reporter, listen to this. >> this is the line for generators at the lowest department store in bay shore. and this line began forming at 4:00 a.m. it goes all the way down this aisle. it begins forming down this aisle, goes all the way down and makes another turn to the right more than 100 people. >> yes, people buying up supplies in new york. also, listen to this, folks, here in a matter of hours, just the life flood of new york is going to shut down. the subway system, the transit system in new york are closing it to