these are things that northwestern university already does. >> reporter: for years, a bigger debate about fairness went through college sports. the question with billion-dollar tv deals, millionaire coaches, packed stadiums, do athletes deserve a bigger share? in a statement an ncaa official said turning student athletes into employees and changing the relationship between students and universities is certainly not the answer. regardless of the northwestern vote, some are declaring victory for athletes. the ncaa is prepared to overhaul rules, rules more favorable to players, including lifting restrictions on how much food they can eat. they approved further studying giving colleges more leeway involving player benefits. >> they are realizing the change and want to control it as much as possible. they don't want to let the issue get away from them. >> reporter: outside northwestern's campus, students weighed in. >> it's where you come for education and to exercise foxes and that should be kept separate from business. >> i think they should be paid for promoting hard work and promoting the

in today's cover story....it's history in the making as northwestern university players vote on whether to unionize. plus.. ford evaluates it's finances... is the company losing touch with american carbuyers? and.... bollywood stars shine on florida's economy... first business starts now. you're watching first business: financial news, analysis, and today's investment ideas. good morning! i'm angela miles. it's monday, april 28th. in today's first look: as new week gets underway...... corporate america with stocks in the s&p 500 is more than half the way through earnings season.. friday, the the stock market caved on earnings jitters and concerns about mounting trouble in the ukraine. the dow fell141, the nasdaq 72 and s&p 16.gold rallied back about 1,300 and oil dropped $1.30. citigroup plans to meet in may with the justice department to talk settlements over shady mortgage backed securities.and criminal charges have been filed against former ebay executive.christoper saridakis.he's acccused of insider trading involving ebay's purchase of gsi commerce. let's get down to it now with tra

plus, northwestern university's football players take a vote on whether to launch a union. we debate the positives and the negatives of this historic move that could change college sports forever. and superstar entertainer dolly parton. she dishes on her legendary career and the novel way that she is launching her new music album. but first, let's launch into headlines with my radio could he host -- co-host. >> thank you very much. ford out with its earnings today. the automaker's first quarter net income coming in just below $1 billion. the number represents a 39% drop from a year ago and less than analysts were looking for. ford shares falling on that news. russia's sovereign debt rating cut to the lowest investment grade. the credit agency saying further downgrades are possible. russia responded by raising its benchmark interest rates from 7% to 7.5%. and the nasdaq tumbling today, the most in two weeks. the index retreated nearly 2% as amazon slowed the most since january. that's a look at some of the top headlines at this hour. >> thanks very much. for more on today's

northwestern players aren't employees of the university -- they don't get "paid." technically, they're "slaves" of the university. (laughter) the five's eric bolling knows the nightmare we'll be stuck with after unions take hold. >> can you imagine, just take this one step further. a football team in the middle of summer doing doubles when it's hot? a player goes, you know what? this is against my labor board relations. here it is. right here. i have this document that says i can't run in 100-degree heat. >> stephen: yeah, unions will turn our players into wimps. you gotta be tough! you don't hear the mascot complaining about the heat, mostly because he passed out hours ago inside his puma suit. (laughter) (applause) but the n.c.-double-alligators behind this campaign like former northwestern quarterback kain colter refuse to back down. >> student athletes don't have a voice. they don't have a seat at the table. the current model resembles a dictatorship. >> stephen: dictatorship? that's outrageous. how is gathering in a stadium to chant in unison as uniformed men

northwestern university will fully exercise its right to campaign against the unionization and fightf necessary. joining me now to discuss the vote and its implications are dorian warren, associate professor of political science at columbia university, amy cane nelson, jamel hill, co-host of espn 2's "numbers never lie" and david epstein. also joining us from chicago is swin cash, most recently of the wnba chicago sky. she's a three-time wnba champion and two-time olympic gold medalist and two-time ncaa champion during her days of playing at the university of connecticut. nice to have you, swin. >> thanks for having me. >> and let me just start by saying congratulations that your school did this amazing thing again this year. >> yes. >> that was pretty extraordinary to watch. >> yes, a lot of pride. we're really happy. i was happy to be there for the semifinal game for the men and saw the women win it as well, so it's exciting. >> so talk to me a little bit, were you at all surprised to hear shabazz talk about hungry nights? is that something that was stunning, i think, for a lot of

the box will stay sealed for weeks, maybe even years, as the northwestern university appeals to the fullational labor relations board. mike tobin is live on the campus. football players accuse the school now of trying to scare the players into voting against this union. >> well, certainly the university pulled out all the stops. some people on the periphery saying the pressure from coaches,s a mr.orses, alumni, amounted to intimidation but the university looked at the nlrb rules, campaigned aggressively but didn't cross the line. >> there have been some allegations by union supporters that northwestern engaged in unfair labor practices during the election campaign. that is simply not true. >> reporter: those ballots were impounded before they were counted and will remain secret until the nlrb can rule on this appeal. the appeal was on the decision that players had the ability to form a union. the vote today is whether they want to. shep? >> how could this vote affect other college sports? >> reporter: the short answer is, money. it will cost more to run a football team. >> if we're going

. >> some football players at northwestern university have voted today on whether they want to be part of a union a yes vote could have a major impact on the way colleges operate their athletic programs diane eastabrook is in evanston, illinois diane -- when will we know the results of today's vote? >> well, del, those votes aren't going to be tallied until the national labor board reviews the decision, to consider whether the athletes are employees, and that could take several weeks, but clearly, this is an issue that is dividing the college sports world. northwestern's football wildcats are the talk of college sports but, freshman cornerback keith watkins had little to say about efforts to organize his team >> i'm not able to say anything everything is supposed to be kept inside of football right now >> the football wildcats stunned the sports world in january when senior quarterback kain colter announced the team would vote on union representation, claiming they were employees who made millions for the school, but were treated unfairly if they were injured while playing a regional d

. >>> football players at northwestern university voting today on whether they want to be part of a union. results aren't expected for weeks, but a yes vote could have a major impact on the way colleges operate their athletic programs. diane eastabrook has more from everyston, illinois. >> reporter: northwestern football's wild cats are the talk of college sport, but this freshman has little to say about efforts to organize his team. >> i'm not eligible to say everything. everything is supposed to be kept inside of football right now. >> reporter: they stunned the sports world in january when the team captain announced the team would vote on union representation. a regional director said the team could organize. >> touchdown! >> reporter: since then colter has been lobbying on behalf of all college athletes. >> it's time for players to be a part of the discussion. >> reporter: opponents say organizing could jeopardize division i sports . . . the school's head coach has been discouraging the team to organize. >> we have to ed gait them to help them understand the whole aspect of what this

he met his wife and freshman orientation at northwestern university 60 years ago. it is a wonderful musician. i'm tom deaf. i'm an artist is color blind. it is just wonderful. >> back in 1975 he thought he would merely lose his mind when has handcrafted cello was stolen right from the back seat of his car outside of his law firm. >> my heart was broken. we could not find it. the 1975 and 201136 years later i received a call someone was walking down an alley on the northwest side of chicago and he phoned his cello sticking out of a garbage can. >> there was in bad shape but he had it restored. it put the replacement up for sale. >> back to plain beautiful music with the original in the highland park strings. >> i get so much satisfaction from that. and i get to play. let's not forget that. >> he is one of chicago's very own. >> the highland park strings is free to the public. the index free concert is may 18th. for more information go to our web site. and warmer weather comes another front. this is tornado season. >> we will talk about and a little bit. happy monday

we have the northwestern university football team thinking about unionizing and incredibly some of theaybe you don't want to do. that the winston story at florida state. whether or not that investigation was botched or not. incidentsincidents at vanderbile naval academy. they are happening all around the country. >> jon: aren't they also happening outside -- we can't assume that sexual assault or in this case they were exonerated but that these types of activities are somehow relegated to the universities. it's a problem in society. as most problems are. universities are merely a microcosm, if i may use that word. >> jon: yeah. >> of larger issues in society. why this became such an amazing story. i mean really it's unprecedented in its scale and the media attention it focused. these kids just thought we'll have a party where we'll just drink all day. there might be underage drinking going on and have a great idea of inviting strippers to come to our house instead of going to a strip club which we usually do and next thing we know their lives up upset for certainly the next 15 ms. of t

researchers at northwestern university and harvard medical school used merrill damaginnarrow imaging. using marijuana changes the shape volume and density of two key brain regions. those regions are responsible for emulsion and motivation. the changes indicate the brain is adapting to low-level exposure of the drug. the study was published in the journal of neuroscience. attending just one disease and could be enough to cause ear damage. some of their nerve fibers with her. exposure to loud noises becomes more severe over time. a few times we will have a small impact. if you like more information you can visit the scientific american online. >> this is national eggs benedict de. [ amy ] when you're tossing and turning and can't sleep an ounce, wash in sweet dreams with tide, downy, and bounce. the sweet dreams collection has scents so relaxing so you can tuck in and turn off after a day oh so taxing. ♪ [ click ] a breakfast cheese steak. we're making a twist on this classic recipe. suns really that good and.it sounds really decadent. >>in the kitchen >>it is just do it by hand. if yto

you have this vote in northwestern for football players to form a union. take a listen to the vice president for universityat northwestern. >> today the chicago office of the national labor relations board conducted an election here at northwestern in which the university scholarship football players had the opportunity to vote by secret ballot on whether or not they wished to be represented by the college athlete players association. those ballots will not be counted until that appeals process or review process is completed. >> what about this? unions in college football. >> look, if i was doing this from scratch, i would say get these teams out of division one sports and create a minor league. never going to happen. but i think the union thing is just nuts. the idea -- first of all the idea they could contain it just to these sports seems ridiculous to it me. title 9 activists everyone would want to be unionized. last thing you need is more bureaucrats running all of it stuff. >> elise? >> i like his initial idea create a minor league people involved in sports can get benefits not necessarily have it eff

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last month northwestern university football players were allowed to form a union. what idiot taught them to work together toward a common goal? and ever since collegiate lets have been griping, like shabazz napier, star point guard of the champion uconn huskies. >> at the end of the day that doesn't cover everything. we do have hungry nights that we don't have enough money to get food. i don't think, you know, student athletes should get hundreds of thousands of dollars. like i said there are hungry nights that i go to bed and i'm starving. >> stephen: oh, that is wrong. what are you doing going to bed? you should be practicing. you got time to lay down, you got time to lay up. sadly, folks, the ncaa heard his starved ramblings and crumbled faster than an underfed point guard. >> the ncaa has announced collegiate lets can now receive unlimited meals and snacks. the new rule applies to both scholarship athletes and walk-ons. >> stephen: unlimited meals and snacks. i mean who do these players think they are, basketball fans? (laughter) collegiate lets need to stay hu

nicola persico was on the team, he's a professor at the kellogg school of management at northwestern university. what did you set out to find? >>we started out researching the productivity of italian judges and found that as we studied their production process they were taking on more and more cases and not finishing them. so their backlog increased. that led us to think about the disadvantages of multitasking. >>you created a research model to prove this and your research findings are? >>our findings are that as judges take on too many cases they don't finish them and we measure how much this slows them down. >>and it's not just judges obviously. this has everything to do with the officethe workplace. >>correct. there is a lot of multitasking in the office and we know this from sociologists, researchers telling us this and measuring this. we think that our findings have broader applicability than just judges. >>you found that the problems are compounded whenand this is typicalyou've got various supervisors throwing all kinds of work at you. >>that's correct. that's what the sociologists report

and then northwestern university football players will become the first u.s. nion today. northwestern, this is a real test case and what is possibly something that larger movement for how student athletes potentially could get paid. that's going to do it for "way too early." thanks, gang! that was weak. "morning joe" starts right now. ♪ ♪ couldn't understand why he has to pay for land ♪ ♪ this land belongs to you and me ♪ >> take it cliven. >> i want to tell you one more thing i know about the negro. >> all right. that's enough with the song. all right. let's see. >> oh, my gosh. that's good.

bill-- football players at northwestern university vote tomorrow morning on whether they want to be represented by a union. it follows february's landmark ruling by the national labor relations board that players are considered employees. northwestern is appealing that ruling, but a decision is not expected before the vote. players argue that they are left out of billions of dollars that n-c-double-a organizations bring in. as many as 76-football players are eligible to vote tomorrow . protests are planned outside 50 staples stores today. who's picketing? postal workers. they don't like the plans of staples and other retail stores to open mini post offices. initially it was a pilot project but it's now expanding to more than 15 hundred stores. workers say it is a step closer to privitizing the us-ps. they're worried about their jobs. but post master general patrick donahoe says no one's going to lose their jobs because of this. next week when congress returns from recess, a bill to reform the postal service is expect to be introduced. the white house provides a "transition tool" for members of

. >>> speaking of pay, northwestern university football players will vote today on whether to join a. the issue is whether athletes on scholarship are employees of the university who have the right to collect a bargaining and thus getting paid to play. >>> coffee drinkers beware. that's me. a drought in brazil caused coffee prices to double since late last year. >>> and the american postal workers union is protesting the decision to open post office service counter at staples stores. the union understands they need new revenue streams but says it should not come at the expense of union jobs. >>> michael phelps hits the fast lane in the swimming comeback. >>> the hockey player with the heart caught on tape. "early today" continues. ifyou may be muddlingble withrough allergies.nger... try zyrtec® for powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin. because it starts working faster on the first day you take it. zyrtec®. muddle no more™. yeah. i heard about progressive's "name your price" tool? i guess you can tell them how much you want to pay and it gives you a range of

. >> speaking of pay, northwestern university football players will join today on whether to join a union the issue is whether athletes on scholarship are employees of the university who have the right to coelective bargaining and thus getting paid to play. >> coffee drinkers, a drought in brazil caused coffee prices to double since late last year. and the american postal workers union is protesting the decision to open post office counters at staples stores. they understand the usps needs new revenue streams but say it shouldn't come at the expense of union jobs. >>> other stories, a man in italy is dead after being crushed by a giant crucifix. it was dedicated to john paul ii. >>> the nra will hold the annual week long meeting today. one of the first orders of business, a gun law. concealed weapons are legal in all 50 states but the laws can differ. they want to make sure that permits from a particular state are recognized everywhere. >>> nissan hoping to make things easier for drivers that don't have time to hit the car wash. engineers are developing a type of paint that repels dirt an

want so it could lead to them being paid and other thicks. >> northwestern is against the idea of paying its players. here's how the universitysterday. let's take a listen. >> northwestern has been a leader in a lot of the things that the union has raised. extended medical benefits for players, four-year scholarships. these are things that northwestern university already does. we're a leader. our students are leaders. we intend to continue to be. >> if the union does get formed, it would mean the players get paid. perhaps they could share some of the massive merchandising, jerseys with their numbers or posters. what is the university's next move if a union vote happens? >> well, if it becomes a union, first of all, northwestern is being a little defensive. it's kind of understandable. they have a good academic record. they do a lot of good things. in a way, they're the test case. this really isn't about northwestern of course. it's about the larger landscape of college football, college basketball and all of that. the likeness issue was a huge can of worms. we see all the merchandising, which along with television money is a

. >> reporter: defined as workers under federal law, northwestern university football players were eligible to vote on unionizing, long-term medical care, practice conditions and, most controversially, compensation. >> i do see pay and the athletes getting a so-called cut of the revenue from television contracts and the like as ultimately being an issue. >> reporter: the results will be sealed while the national labor relations board hears the university's appeal. >> you don't think they're employees. they're students. extended medical benefits for players, four-year scholarship, these are things that northwestern university already does. >> reporter: for years, a vigorous debate about fairness has been throughout college sports. with millionaire coaches, packed stadiums, the young athletes deserve a bigger share. ncaa said turning student athletes into employees and changing the relationship between students and their universities is certainly not the answer. >> reporter: some are declaring victory for athletes, ncaa appears ready to overhaul their rules, including lifting restrictions on

plus, northwestern university's football players take a vote on whether to launch a union.he negatives of this historic move

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the ballplayers of northwestern university could change the face of college sports.voted in secret ballot whether to join a union. directorh a regional for said they are eligible to organize. results of the unprecedented vote will not be revealed anytime soon. weeks or be sealed for months as northwestern challenges the efforts. it is made of woven fibers and is the latest version of a in 1998.ine debut rising rates have pushed mortgage lending in the united states to a 14 year low. the value ofr says new mortgage loans a fell 50% in the first quarter from a year ago. the average homeowner has risen almost a full percentage point in the last year to 4.5%. that is a look at the top story on the news. export/import bank has wrapped up its annual conference in washington. it highlighted the ongoing efforts to finance u.s. exports abroad will stop it comes at a time when critics on capitol hill are threatening to close the banks doors all stop peter cook spoke to export/import bank fred about the looming fight over the banks future. >> we have 1200 people here. we have e

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these are things that northwestern university already does. we're a leader. our students are leaders, and we intend to continue to be leaders. >> its appeal to the nlrb was just the start of the university's fierce and controversial opposition to the idea that their football players may form a union. that idea was born, you could say, with three little letters, apu standing for all players united. those letters were worn by a number of college football players during games last september 21st. while the message may have been written on a wristband, it was heard loud and clear. there were college players who wanted a change in how the ncaa does business off of their sweat and hard work. among those wearing apu that day was cane colter, the northwestern wildcats quarterback and co-captain. last season he would go on to spend the last half of his season year fighting for that cause. in january, he led a group of players who submitted to the national labor relations board signed union cards and a petition to be represented by a labor union. the questions over whe

northwestern official said it was unrelated to the upcoming vote. a former quarterback visited the team to encourage players to vote no. as "the new york times" reported. the president of the universitylicly, "a vote for the union could mean the end of division-one sports in northwestern. they'll all be gone." university even gave them a 21-page anti-union dossier. one former player said he's seen "every sorted of classic union-busting." remember, the people at issue, the ones casting votes, 19, 20, 21-year-olds. and every single one of the most important authority figures in their lives are bringing all the pressure they can to bear on them, to tell them ton do this. and if you think that is special, it is not because that is basically what every single union election in this country looks like regardless of the employer, regardless of the brand's popularity or its reputation. regardless of the place. but if you had to identify one thing that perfectly illustrates that fundamentally broken labor law and unionization in this country is, it's the fact an election can be held, and the votes don't get counted. because what we all really want... ...is more. there's a reason it's called a

my next guest, deepak chopra, is the adjunct professor at northwestern university's management schoolhe is an expert on wellness. he is the author of 19 best sellers and the founder of the chopra center for well-being. thank you for being here. as phil mattingly was just describing, you have the situation many times in the corporate world where the sense of responsibility changes depending on who is in charge. if you are the chief executive of a company, your job, supposedly, is to look out for the interest of the shareholders. it is not to be fair with the u.s. taxpayer. in this case, there is an investigation about tax policy having to do with money overseas in u.s. corporations. you must deal with confrontations on a regular basis. is there a way to address these things so you can have a practical, positive result? >> right now, everything is so transparent. people should never hide anything anymore anywhere in the world. that is nothing new. >> the allegations -- >> even have the appearance. >> all right. as they say, passing the smell test. >> anyone cheating in any way should be

northwestern university football team is voting on whether to form a union.ast month a national labor elections board regional director ruled their employees ineligible to form a union. the outcome of this vote will have huge applications for northwestern. they could divide the team and get some players against the school and coaches. they could shake up the $31 billion business of college sports. the president of the ncaa is not too happy about it. >> it so fundamentally changes the nature of what college sport is about and blows up what is one of america's iconic activities. i think it winds up in the supreme court. >> the ncaa's argument, it has been athletes get tuition, room, and board and above all the get an education, in many cases, for free. the revenue helps fund a lot of the other teams. athletes, well, they say they see none of it. they need better health care and many times they don't even have enough food to eat. >> there were plenty of times where throughout the month i didn't have enough for food. our stadium had 170,000 seats, buying tickets

calling a blitz play already, northwestern university football players casting ballots today on whether to form a players' union, but their coach wants them to vote no. who is going to win? legal eagles take up sides. and you might loathe this but stay all day in a confined space. you know it. the office cubicle turning 50? can't we get rid of these things. nobody likes them. stay with us. . gerri: to unionize or not to unionize, that's what northwestern football players voted on today. you probably heard the story, right? the first of its kind. the university's players cast ballots whether to unite and join a union. it is a controversial labor battle that everybody is talking about. joining me, the partner at frumpkin and hunter law firm. why are they talking about it? >> these young people are getting into the schools, they have scholarships, they're not paying for going to school but taking basket weaving and things like that. not highfalutin classes. they are exploited by the coaches who want to keep them there, use them again and again and again, they make millions, the coaches, on

the outcome won't publicly be known until appeals by the university are exhausted. >> northwestern believesat our students, our students first and foremost. they are not employees. and we believe very strongly that their role here at the university is primarily students. >> former northwestern quarterback and nfl running back mike adamly joins me live from chicago. mike, thanks for being with me. first of all, almost as soon as the nlrb ruling came down, northwestern really stopped at nothing to try and squash the move. any sense at this point on how the vote went down yesterday? >> well, i have a pretty good feeling that it was probably voted down, and it might have been a majority of players who voted no. the reason i say that is because once they were given a lot of information, at least the university's side of things, they created a manifesto, if you will, of the pros and cons. i think they felt in the end that it wasn't the right thing to do. make no mistake, though, this whole story really isn't about the unionizing of northwestern's football program. it's about being a catalyst for

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the pilot reacted the way he did, elizabeth. >> thank you. >> elizabeth tis decision day in northwestern universitybut the football players, should they join a union? well, 76 of them are voting on that today. it is an issue that could chaefrj college athletics in the country. what is the impact and what should they do? >> and house speaker john boehner is having words with colleagues when it comes to immigration. >> here. oh. oh, don't make me do this! oh, this is too hard! >>> it is time for a quick check of the head leans, south korea's government acknowledging that some of the bodies recovered from the ferry disaster was misidentified. and divers so far recovered 183 bodies. 119 people are still missing. several businesses in washington state destroyed or damaged by an explosion and fire in the middle of the night. this happen east of seattle. firefighters say it could have been caused by a gas leak of a pizza restaurant under renovation. >>> new forest fire burning in southern new jersey. crews gained control over the four others that broke out fanned by strong winds. no injuries to report in

researchers at northwestern university discovered young adults who used marijuana once or twice a week, while you are our team of producers was in colorado this weekend, they asked the stoners what they thought about the study. let's take a look. >> happy 4-20. >> i'm not a scientist, i don't know, i didn't read the study. i think it's possible, anything you put in your body is fon like that. again, it's america. people are going to do what they want. it's free will to a certain extent. i don't think marijuana is any more dangerous than alcohol. if we're going to outlaw marijuana, we should outlaw alcohol. >> i would definitely agree with teenagers, definitely. in a cultural situation in which it's 4-20 friendly and they have the education, they don't need to smoke marijuana until well after high school. >> that's pseudo science and it's false. it was a skewed study to begin with. it's not true. can i bis is a genesis. it causes new brain cells to grow. >> i wouldn't be surprised. there's a lot of developmental changes in adolescence and puber puberty. as you haj, -- age so does your b

[laughter] >> edward be interested to hear your observations regarding northwestern university football players to become paid employees as opposed to a student athletes? that such universities have a liberal outlook now with seems there on the other side of the korean -- going. >> how could it be any worse? [laughter] maybe that will teach them to be a capitalist there could not be anything worse in college than what is going on in the classroom is not so much about money but character that is the problem i have a chapter in "not cool." i am talking about sports. [laughter] that it was okay to be an athlete prior. but used to be enough to play a sport debt now you have to be somebody special. the blank one dash bling. because that is the pop culture into the world and i think is polluting it. >> with the offbeat question i've been a huge fan of "the five" what you do during the commercial breaks? i have an idea you should be pay-per-view to watch during that commercial so we can hear you talk. >> it has occurred to me one way to raise money is to auction off and availability to see wha

i opening study coming out tomorrow for the first time researchers at northwestern university collect the relationship between casually is and brain changes. what they found is adjusting the found that college students to use it to wasnt was a week shows significant abnormality is using mri as researchers allies to keep grain rations responsible for processing emotions making decisions and motivation all abnormal and size and shape. what they don't all as if anything happens to the branch of the user does the cut. decide to quit to. >> : as we had the afternoon l warmup quickly even or the what we saw today was seventies and low 80s or around the bay area. start here in the close lime up to the jurors will be the coolest low 60s few degrees warmer than the pit of the '70s and sematech out. upper '70's and redwood city. east bay shoreline running in the '70s as well sunday to assembly and joe kleine said heady one in hayward 74 and union city. and then fell is where will hit some of those a degree readings 80 degree in walnut creek at 1 in livermore and san ramon. and on themselves the

researchers from northwestern university and harvard found that more -- wow, i can't read. this is ironic that i'm doing this story. even light pot users who use the drug had more obvious changes to crucial parts of their brain including those that include emotion and motivation. this is the first step to understanding the impact of casual marijuana use on the body. it's really interesting study. essentially, your brain is developing into the 20s and 30s. casual use of marijuana causes these changes. they can see the changes in the brain. some researchers are concerned. they want to be sure we are not sending the message casual use of any drug is not benign. >> the president's comments about using marijuana and comparing it to cigarette smoke. it's a conversation we'll have more of. happening right now at the oscar pistorius murder trial, defense trying to convince a judge the olympic athlete did not mean to kill his model girlfriend. is the strategy working? we are live, next. >>> happening now at the oscar pistorius murder trial. the defense is making their case saying it

. >> scholarship football players at northwestern university cast ballots that could forever changed college sports to pacify them as employees instead of students. with the results still unknown it had allegations that alumni and coaches put under pressure of the players for the lenovo. >> they were trying to communicating by voting for the union my teammates would be be trading northwestern and the football family. >> a spokesperson said they studied debt and alert the election rules and campaigned aggressively the senate there have been allegations by union supporters that northwester engaged with unfair labor practices during the election campaign. that is simply not true. >> ballots were impounded without counted in filagree made secret and tell the nlrb can have an appeal from the regional nlrb that a player's the ability to form a union the vote is if they want to the yes vote could entitle them to a piece of the revenue like extended health benefits, a compensation for travel and the ability to transfer schools without a penalty battle that is certain is college football will