ben: northeastern university offering up financial help to boston business owned by women and minorities. the university is stating a new program called impact lending to offer up loans with below-market interest rates. the goal is to provide 85 loans to small business over the next two years. the focus will be on business that competes for university contracts. a student in natick is showing us how to overcome medical chales you to this week's a+ student. >> national security a recurring theme. both hillary clinton and donald trump stances on the issues. jc: it's still october, but this season has arrived at least at i heard a strange sound coming from my basement, and my hot water heater was leaking. luckily it's protected by a repair plan from homeserve, which covers things from drain valves to burners. heating system. hey, homeserve guy! sorry... jc: high school can be a tough student with medical conditions that make it tough to get around. ben: but sara berg of natick high school is also dealing with an invisible illness. newscenter 5's antoinette antonio shares her story. >> i hav

jc: one of the family-owned companies receiving an award this year from northeastern university's center for family business, north billerica's w.l. french excavating corporation. owned by its founder's three children, bill french, jr., lisa french, kelly, and jessica french goyette. >> never wanted to do anything thought we would have lifelong careers here. but as the company grew, and as we decided we wanted to be a part of it, we created our own positions, and our parents let the rain scale. -- let the rains go. >> on any given day, an army of trucks, excavators, and looters halters in snow. -- haul dirt and snow.a blizzard, french was there. >> we were a subcontractor. >> w.l. french has won awards for its work and is a family business. >> we were always taught be good, be honest, work hard. we maintain those today. it's one of the things that makes us most proud, our employees are part of our family. >> especially true for tom. an owner, one of the highlights of my life. >> and there are seven grandchildren lining up to sign on. >> she is sure she's going to be the president and i k

>> we have developments, we have northeastern university that did something that disrespected and disregarded our community. they recently got approval after with them to cite an 8-story dorm they went ahead and overrode the community and they are citing a 22-story dorm right on columbus avenue. we have to guard against predatory types of behavior like that that can flip neighborhoods and communities. in addition if you come to roxbury you will hire people from the neighborhood and community, there is a mandate that you hire people who, people of color, 50%, residents so a head's up to those folks who want to come and build in the great part of the city of boston and a great part of roxbury. >> byron: this is a collaboration between your office and mit and roxbury community college. what role does each play? >> this is run by roxbury residents, an organic grass roots thing. we directed them and they did consulting for us. an amazing job, but this has been a grass roots movement. but most importantly the residents of roxbury. and in fact armani made us better and came and crashed one of the me

and last but not least bernard powers of my own heart and academic he got 1 degree at northeastern university. his book a social history 1822 to 1883 was elected a choice award for one of the best academic books. we have the people whose skills are necessary to tell the story how did the three of you come together. that's great because that's what we were going to start with. it started with a palm and we like to begin with this because it puts us back to the day in june. the day after the shootings. and they were putting together a section that someday that they open for services. it was still a crime scene downstairs but they were open for services and wanted some articulation of what this meant. it's always the holy city. i found a speech. those were his words speaking to me. it seemed to embody what we needed to hear. we will take a little bit how we came together. holy city. ellis gather and be silent together like stones, glittering in sunlight it hurts our eyes and search the sky for answers. let us be strangers together as we gather in circles wherever we need to the heavens and pray

let's bring professor of journalism in northeastern university and author of the book presidential debatesisky business in the campaign trail. great to have you on the program. we saw the line and listened to that line, but do vice presidential debates ever impact the outcome? >> really no. the answer is no. and we can see because that clip that you just showed did not lead to a vice presidential, dan became vice president. they really concentrate on what's at the top of the ticket. the vp debates are good theater. they're often entertaining and scouting the future of candidates as we think about careers down the line but they don't tend to influence the vote. jenna: one of the things that we have been talking about is how unpopular major candidates are. do you think the vice presidents can play role because of that fact? >> possibly, it's interesting how much they really haven't been drawing a lot of media attention. you know, what happens when you have strong personalities like trump and clinton is that that's where the focus goes, that's where the attention goes and so this could be one

i'm teaching kids now, taught for 25 years at northeastern university, and 23 at ucla, they're wonderful kids, many of them children, grandchildren of immigrants. they're going to be great americans. they are great americans. i have no idea what kind of reality this guy lives in. >> what do you say to the voter -- >> i think he's dead wrong. >> what do you say to the voter who says, it's just a setup against me. in washington, nothing gets done. they just take care of each other there. it's about the elites, versus people like me, who are working check to check trying to take care of my family. they only take care of themselves. what do you say to that voter who numbers in the many millions in this country about why hillary clinton isn't more of the same? >> i tell them that i'm a guy, greek kid from boston, who managed to get elected governor of the state three times, to be the nominee of his party for the presidency of the united states. there's no country in the world where you'd see this happen. i don't think anybody's ever accused me, chris, of being part of the establishment. i've

she was hot at 1:00 i should say yesterday morning on annunciation street in roxbury near northeastern university. police told the harold there is concern she could be paralyzed. the harold is reporting two people were caught on camera approaching the party where it happened. boston police hope witnesses and the video helps catch the people responsible. we spoke to boston police commissioner william evans about what may have happened. >> it appears that one car was shooting at the other car so >> coming up at 5:00, i'm bob ward, we talk to tractor trailer mor of a teen shot at that exact same location just a year ago, her story and what is being done for the latest investigation coming up next hour. >> all right. mark we will see you then. first off, the debate, the presidential candidates are rallying for support today. we have a live look now to donald trump rally happening in pennsylvania. that is a key battleground state in the nomination, the gop >> meanwhile, hillary clinton attended a voter registration rally in detroit. of course the debate is still a hot topic today. >> did anybody see t

i'm a faculty member at northeastern university school of law. so, vanessa? >> so, again, thanks for holding this symposium. i'm going to start with a very, very brief history of trigger warnings. they began a number of years ago in the feminist blogging community and used for a wide array of content, anything from descriptions of war to abuse or self-harming behavior, fat shaming, eating disorder behavior, a wide range of content. moving then into the university setting, there's been quite a vibrant debate on this topic even though, and this is what my colleagues will speak about. a glarg lack of impeer cal research on the benefit or harm of trigger warnings in the university setting. on the one hand, and much of this happened in the chronicle prior to -- trigger warnings allow students to make decisions about whether or not they should avoid potentially traumatic material in the classroom or in supplemental materials and overland college was particularly vibrant site of this as early as 2013 they had recommendations not requirements, by the way, that facult

university. that's how he sta anybody's. you go from boone iowa to china, tell us about some of the surprises, the contrast that you experienced. andy: again, i lived in dalian in northeastern china, it's on the peninsula right in between beijing and north korea on a peninsula surrounded by sea on three side. i was one of the only foreigners in the city that i lived in. i lived in the northern suburb of the city called , so the free trade area. back then it was very stark difference, this was back in had just recently graduated from undergrad who is actually considered fairly well off compared to a lot of my co-workers who had been in the industry for 10, 15 years. speaking to this change that's happened with the students your experience is very different from what we see from students today at the university of iowa. i would say, you and i ... all across the board. ling: cornell college as well. andy: cornell college as well, it's very dif now, not everybody is poor. it's still a very poor country. i think that's one of the misconceptions for americans, they think of china they think about this very, very strong, wealthy country where everybody is rich. that's not always t