nyu is a unique place. our value proposition is different than every other institution in the country. we have a global network of campuses. we are in -- i am biased, but the greatest city. we are in greenwich village. we have a world-class faculty. i believe there is a value proposition that is different than other institutions. we are a fabulous place, but we are not the only fabulous place. our message to students from prospect on is about what are you looking for in an institution, what are you looking for in a program? and remember, about half the freshmen who begin this fall will change their major at least once. what are you looking for in a program? small, large, internship opportunities, faculty? one thing to consider should be the financial investment, not just the first year, but across four or five years. families will cobble together a package, a financial package, that will get through the first year, and then they find themselves in real difficulty. our goal is not to scare people away, and n

nyu is a unique place.value proposition is different than every other institution in the country. we have a global network of campuses. we are in -- i am biased, but the greatest city. we are in greenwich village. the we are in greenwich village. we have a world-class faculty. i believe there is a value proposition that is different than other institutions. we are a fabulous place, but we are not the only fabulous place. our message to students from prospect on is about what are you looking for in an institution, what are you looking for in a program? and remember, about half the freshmen who begin this fall will change their major at least once. what are you looking for in a program? small, large, internship opportunities, faculty? one thing to consider should be the financial investment, not just the first year, but across four or five years. families will cobble together a package, a financial package, that will get through the first year, and then they find themselves in real difficulty. our goal is not

here to tell me is the director of the institute of french studies at nyu, edward berenson.nk you so much for join us -- joining us. okay. first of all, who or what is mali? and why do the french care? >> mali is what. >> stephen: okay, good. >> it's in northwest africa. it's a big. >> stephen: how big compared to france? >> up there. it's big. it's big. >> stephen: thank you for your -- [ laughter ] thank you for your precision. why does france care about mali? >> here is why france cares. mali say former colony of france. right? >> stephen: okay. wait, they had colonies? >> they had a ton of colonies. >> stephen: really? there were countries that surrendered to france? [ laughter ] >> and for many decades. >> stephen: no longer colonies. >> no longer a colonies. the french gave up the colonies around 1960 but kept them on a longer or shorter leash depending on which country and how much stuff they had. mali is in the middle of a part of africa where there's natural resources, tons of oil offshore. a lot of that oil gets dealt to the french on good terms. algeria is a place

is that the langone center of nyu? >> yes.out an entrepreneurial spirit. that's about employees with no hospital open. they were care takers like anyone to care for. stuart: it was closed because of hurricane sandy? >> there was 15,000 gallons of water in the basement. it was closed. close to a million people a year get their care there in some way shape or form. inpatient or outpatient. they had no access to care. they had no emergency services. they had nowhere to deliver their babies. no one thought our medical center could reopen in just less than two short months. stuart: but you did it yourself, i mean the people who worked there, did it. >> absolutely. stuart: did they get a big subsidy from the government? did they get fema help? >> they got help but didn't get anything sufficient with what they needed to reopen the medical center. the dean told me, dr. grossman, that the key was the spirit, the teamwork. it was courage. it was people saying i need a place to work. i need to be able to see my patients again. that's the

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. >> this week, nyu medical center opened the urgent care center, which is at the heart of medical centerke arteries out to surgery, to medicine, to pediatrics, to trauma, to obstetrics. >> we will be able to handle heart attacks, strokes, surge call emergencies because we have emergency medicine, and physicians and nurses and the medications that we normally use in the emergency department and the specialists we would normally use. >> the the only limitation, ambulance traffic. >> while it will be another month or so before the sirens are heard at nyu, dean grossman says having the rest of the hospital back is a big relief for the city, weapon a flu epidemic. >> not only are we a national institution but local hospital for the people in mid-town manhattan. it's critically important for to us be up and running. >> grossman says there are important steps to come. >> advancements include a massive natural gas power plant currently under construction which will help sustain power in future storms. >> the way the medical center rose to the occasion, to see heroism and competence and envision

associate professor at nyu medical center and he has a ph.d. it's a fluke. he has written two books, swine flu the new pandemic and bird flu everything you want to know and need to know about the next pandemic. today we are going to talk about the flu. >> he's pretty good at this kind of thing, too. owe bought ticks at the mount sinai medical center. if only a surgical solution from the flu. we are all suffering. you got your ph.d. for taking care of everybody here. thank you very much. we are doing better. we want to talk about the levels which we are with the latest. there are reports we may be short on vaccines and short on tamiflu. >> i want to talk a couple minutes on the flew. ow side of david and i david did a great job on the flu yesterday. few things people are getting the wrong idea about. flu is an epidemic every year for a certain period of time couple of weeks usually. maybe we have a more severe one this year we probably do but we won't know that for sure until the end of the year. that's the first thing. it's an epidemic. it is always an epide

while it will be another month or so before sirens are heard at nyu, the dean says having the rest ofhe hospital back is a big relief for the city, especially with the flu epidemic. >> not only are we a national institution, but a local hospital for the people in midtown manhattan. it's critically important for us to be up and running. >> he says there are important steps to come of the advancements include a massive natural gas power plant currently under construction which will help sustain power in future storms. >> the way the medical center rose to the occasion, to see heroism and competence and vision all operating, it's rare in life that you get a chance to face a giant storm and then to come out at the other end a better place. >> in new york, dr. mark siegle, fox news. >> rick: switching gears, house republicans are expected to vote to raise the debt ceiling for three months giving congress more time to pass a federal budget. they're warning a failure to do that could result in a freeze of salary. a poll said government spending is out of control k. this new pressure fine wil

my answer. >> let me open it up to questions from floor. >> [inaudible] >> yep. >> larry mead from nyu. >> yeah. [inaudible] >> yeah. robert, i want to pick up on comment about mate your's problem with the family problem. i think since we made progress in raising workload some of the people in welfare, it is said that shift priority toward addressing priority and family break and non-- [inaudible] i agree with you that it's a very sensitive issue that people find hard time addressing. from your comments, i had a sense that maybe you think that the best way we can promote it is just to stop accepting -- [inaudible] we have to say it's improper. it's not a good idea. we have to go back to a policy where we -- [inaudible] we know from various opinions surveys that the public is uneasy about that. they don't want to sigmatize single mothers and they don't want to a decline of a family. is it rhetoric, is it public campaign? what are you suggest and i lean that way myself. is there a practical thing you can do at the policy level that will promote the family? >> someone in the practical wor

georgia state in atlanta topped the list of schools, nyu second, temple is third. >>> other higher educations, a study finds the more money parents contributed to the kids education the lower their grade. it's not a big enough effect to make the students fail out of college but parents assume the more financial support they give the better their child will x<perform in school. >>> weddings are popular, there are a lot of brides out there, right now planning for their special day. as elizabeth tells us tonight, there are plenty of people out there planning to take advantage of the brides to be. >> they treat brides and grooms like human atms. >> they are the authors of bridal bargains , the wedding industry doesn't want you to read. over the span of 24 years, they mystery shopped at 1000 stores uncovering secrets of the marital market. >> when somebody is planning the wednesdaying. >> the last thing they want to think of, are you going to rip me off? >> tough be a smart consumer. some of this isn't romantic. >> reporter: what they call, the mercedes syndrome. >> we spoke to florists who say

marc segal, nyu langone medical center, author of the swine flu and bird flu, everything you need tonow about the next pandemic. >> and dr. david samadi. mount sinai medical center in new york city. >> good morning. >> a major warning as this year's flu season is already off to an early and very deadly start. thousands of people and more than half of the country have been infected just in the first few weeks of this winter season. what's going on? >> i want to tell people what flu is. a package, a tiny package of genetic material covered with an envelope. the envelope has proteins. h protein helps the virus get into your cell. the n protein helps the virus get into another cell. h3n2 is the version we're dealing with and it's bad. in 2003 it led to the deaths of over 40,000 people, a similar variety. we also know and the cdc said it tends to give you an early flu season, which we're seeing. it could take time at the end of this month or early part of next month -- we haven't seen the peak. we saw over 2,000 hospitalizations last week. we talked about this yesterday on the air. we've

money and time as training teachers as i became a teacher i think my big skill coming out i went to nyu and bachelor's in elementary ed. i could thread a projector with the best of them and my career in the 70's and in the last panel "if you had all the money what would you invest in?" . i would invest in education and we're not investing in the future of the children and the in the country and the global future of our world and i agree absolutely with everything you said. we're short changing our kids and not giving teachers the resources. there is mold in the teacher's work room. if i worked in the building that many children go to school in i wouldn't go to work either and in answer to your question there is a priority here about education that's not quite right. >> and while we're earmarking money i would totally support that and i feel that we should train teachers in digital media. you can't teach cooking out a kitchen, so we need to bring digital media into the classroom so people can practice in the environments they're in all the time outside of school. >> and i would say that

when she got into nyu, we were like, "it's a great school, honey. are you gonna go? "you know, as it is, she's moved out of my house, so it's a quieter house. autumn's a big presence and it led to my wife turning to me and saying, "look, i got to do something creative. if my girl's gonna be out of the house, i got to do something." so she started a blog called "carpool, couture and cocktails." tavis: ooh. >> you know, the carpool being the mommy side of it, the couture is her fashion sense and lifestyle, and the cocktail is, you know, the adult side. so she's having a blast with that and it's incredible how popular it's become, how quickly it's blown up. tavis: so that's how mommy is dealing with it. how's daddy dealing with it? >> i'm going to a lot of usc football games and showing up in her dorm room. tavis: what happens when you show up at the dorm? i mean, do you hear a bunch of footsteps? people start running? >> it's one of the biggest upsides to having played vic mackey and now a guy like savino. tavis: here comes that tough guy. >> boys are terrified of me.

money and time as training teachers as i became a teacher i think my big skill coming out i went to nyu and bachelor's in elementary ed. i could thread a projector with the best of them and my career in the 70's and in the last panel "if you had all the money what would you invest in?" . i would invest in education and we're not investing in the future of the children and the in the country and the global future of our world and i agree absolutely with everything you said. we're short changing our kids and not giving teachers the resources. there is moldn

money and time as training teachers as i became a teacher i think my big skill coming out i went to nyu and bachelor's in elementary ed. i could thread a projector with the best of them and my career in the 70's and in the last panel "if you had all the

a study from the nyu school of medicine shows a possible link between bpa exposure in children and higherof heart and kidney problems later in life. the fda banned the use of bpa in baby bottles last year. but companies still use it in aluminum cans. >>> coming up, gift cards gone bad. the unpredictable things that can make your gift card void and what if anything you can do about it. consumerwatch reporter julie watts explains, in many case >>> not in my house but billions of dollars of gift cards go to waste after the holiday. cbs 5 consumerwatch reporter julie watts explains in many cases, you need to use it before you lose it. >>> reporter: >> this piece i got in the early 1990s and i hope my daughter gets to wear this someday. >> reporter: her love for betsy johnson spans generations. >> this was my mom's. >> reporter: so when her husband gave her a betsy johnson gift card a couple of years ago, she was thrilled. >> it was a great gift. i was really excited but i wanted to wait a little while. >> reporter: she says she had a few pounds of baby weight she wanted to lose first but befo

joining me now is a swash buckle in his own right, bob schrum, nyu professor.just wrote a daily beast column saying, what we have in washington is not a functioning congress, but a one-ring circus on the far right. and, also with me, cynthia tucker, syndicated columnist and now visiting professionalism of journalism at the university of georgia. thank you both for joining me. >> glad to be here. >> bob, are there any reasonable republicans left to put the ship back on course? >> well, i don't agree with some of the analysis that peggy gives. but her recommendations are reasonable and sensible. if you talk privately, they'll all say they want to do this. what noonan wants is a party like ronald reagan. a deal on social security, deals with democrats on taxes. but today's republicans, these folks in the house, the people you just talked about, they're regaenites in the real party. they're not guilty going to give an inch. i think we're going to see self inflicted crisis after self-inflicts crisis. it's good for the democrats, but bad for america. >> very bad for

brought in someone on the inside, life in politics and worked for joe mockley, college administrator at nyuckground like obama. they were hoping for jamie dimon to bring marketing experience. no. is there any evidence in this man's background, he is deliver and he thought it was sequestration. and he is the bold reformer capable of actually bringing entitlement to the table? i don't think there is any. it's disappointing that way. >> you learn where he wants to go, by where he chooses. he chooses hagel for defense because he wants to go in a certain direction with iran and a n a direction cutting the defense spending. jack lew is getting a guy that knows anything he knew aboutbe the budget and more. he would know where everything is. it's one of two choices. is he appointing him because he would be guy to makebe a big deal and reform entitlement? not scintilla of evidence that obama has interest whatsoever. the log call and likely explanation is he a choosing a guy to defend every nook and cranny of the budget, because he is not interested in spending cuts. not interested in reform. he want

enrollment advisor, i should say, in particular at nyu. take a listen. >> financial aid counselors and financial aid advisors. we know what the facts tell us. we have additional info there. it is our policy that we are not providing or doing any financial advising for families. we help them understand that this is a grant, this is a loan, you have to repay a loan. we help them understand their long-term obligation. but we are not qualified, nor should we be making decisions for families. we cannot tell them, you cannot come here because you cannot afford to be here. we do not know what additional resources they might have. you need to consider carefully what this will mean long-term. host: marian wang, the official from new york university -- what do you think the role of universities in guiding students for the future is? traditionally, it has been what randy has said. we are not financial advisors. these tough times with the college investment being significant as it is financially, with the costs continuing to rise, there is a degree to

with us is the director of the division of medical ethics at the nyu medical center.ny time you are keeping something from one group that another group can have there is reason at least for rethinking, right? >> i agree. one of the problems with the ban is that it is unfair so if you have a private hospital and a private doctor all the oxycontin and vicodin you want. we have a huge problem with the abuse of prescription drugs. more die of prescription drug overdose than car accidents now. it is probably worse than recreational drug abuse, heroin and that sort of thing. we need to do something. i appreciate the mayor's stepping in. he in a sense runs those hospitals so that is what he controls. begot to do better than that -- we got to do better than that. quite simply doctors have to stop saying you have an ache i will give you this powerful pain killer. >> shepard: there is the other group and that is exactly the group to whom you are referring who without the modern miracle drugs for some people they couldn't live the way you and i do. debilitating pain. >> huge ten

. >> justice black said that in a very long lecture about the bill of rights at nyu law school in 1960stice black said there are absolutes, he very specifically said the second amendment is not one of them. he pointed out that the supreme court in a unanimous decision that included his vote, had already restricted the second amendment to not include the right to have a machine gun, or a sawed off shot gun, the favorite tools of bank robbers and gangsters at the time. and so crazy wayne was not standing on the liberalism of justice hugo black last night. he would have been upset to see his words manipulated by the lobbyists, who make sure that when mass murderers enter the shopping malls and areas, they will be able to fire as many bullets as possible without reloading. >> we believe that if neither the criminal nor the political class and their body guards and security people are limited by magazine capacity, we shouldn't be limited in our capacity either. >> crazy wayne is constantly comparing nra members and gun owners tonight, in his speech, to try to make it appear that justice bla

joining me now is a swash buckler in his own right, nyu professor and former senior adviser to the kerry he just wrote a "daily beast" column saying "what we have in washington is not a functioning congress but a one-ring circus on the right," and also, now visiting professor of journalism at the university of georgia. she has given out a few black eyes in her time. i don't know about patches. thank you both for joining me. >> glad to be here. >> bob, are there any reasonable republicans left to put the ship back on course? >> well, i don't agree with some of the analysis that peggy noonan gives, but her recommendations are reasonable and sensible. and if you talk to republican strategists privately, they all say they want to do this. look, what noonan wants is a party that is more like ronald reagan, who made a deal on immigration with ted kennedy, a deal on social security with tip o'neill and deals with democrats on taxes. but today's republicans, the folks in the house, the people you just talked about. they're reaganites in name only, the real rhinos in the republican party. they wo

. >> according to her facebook page glideman attended the dalton prep school and studied at nyu. green has a different pedigree. serving time for a 2005 assault conviction. he was arrested in february for possession of a semi automatic rifle, heroin and prescription drugs. to confront the illicit demands drug manufacturers changed the formula of oxycontin pills making them harder to abuse. >> so i tried the heroin and after that my life literally just like revolved around getting high off heroin and how i was going to get money. nothing matter ared but how i was going to get dope for the day and that is all that was important to me. >> you were a full-blown junkie and there is a physical need you have to have dope in order to feel straight. >> absolutely a 21st is century heroin epidemic. the new jersey governor established a task force. >> bryan of day top new jersey is treating the addicted teens and many others. >> it seems from listening to the kids that oxycontin has created the new heroin hour. >> absolutely. absolutely. i mean oxycontin percocets any of your openiate presc

stephen cohen is a professor at nyu and william browder was his former employer and he is, of course, of the biggest proponents behind the magnitski act. william, explain the importance of the act from your point of view? >> very simply, it is a piece of legislation which is sort of designed for the modern day problems of what's going on in russia. in russia, you have a regime which is basically out to steal as much money as possible from their own people. when people try to stop it in any way, like sergeis magnitsky, they get killed. the corrupt running russia today and creates consequences outside of russia by banning their visas and freezing their assets in america. >> steve cohen, you disagree with the magnitsky act. >> i do for many reasons, but as you said in your introduction i think moscow and washington are sliding into a new cold war, which would be very bad for national security and the magnitsky act further poisons the relationship. mr. browder is right to a certain extent, but not quite as simple as he says. even though this may be this act just a lot of words, it will ha

let's bring in bob shrum, professor of public policy at nyu and contributor for daily beast.oward fineman with us tonight, nbc news political analyst and editorial director of the "huffington post" media group. gentlemen, great to have you with us. we want to talk to you on a number of different subjects with both of you tonight. but first, let's start with the debt ceiling. howard, don't republicans know this is a big potential loser not only for the country, but for republicans politically, or am i viewing this wrong? >> excuse me, ed. i think some republicans know it in their head. i think most republicans in the house don't know it in their hearts. they're here to lecture and to disrupt and not to legislate. they don't understand often, the ones i talked to don't really get the idea that the american public views the congress as an utterly dysfunctional institution that is standing in the way of leading the country and bringing about a true recovery from this long great recession. and most of the american people don't see political and legislative maneuvers like the ones

joining me now is bob schrum, senior advisor to john kerry's presidential campaign and now a professor at nyuand maria theresa, a president and c.e.o. a voto latino and msnbc contributor. thank you for being here. >>> let me start with you, what can you say about this tape. classic joe biden yesterday. what do you make of him? >> he's real. authentic. comfortable with himself. and, combined with that, he's extraordinarily effective. i think he's arguably the most effective vice president in american history. it's not just what he did on the fiscal cliff deal. it's what he did at the end of 2010 in terms of extending the tax cuts and getting unemployment compensation through and the payroll tax through. it's the influence he's had on afghanistan policy and iraq policy where we're getting out of those wars. it's the way he campaigned and the way he related to people in the last election. i think that, you know, look, hillary clinton is a formidable obama th obama that skal. i think some times people forget throughout history no incumbent vice president has been denied the nomination of his part

lew served as coo of nyu and worked at citigroup and served as white house office of management and budget chief and is currently white house chief of staff. apparently job one will be to work with congress to raise the borrowing limit and prevent default that could come as soon as next month. the announcement is at 1:30 p.m. eastern time. stay with "power lunch." we will take you inside the white house for all the details. ty, back to you. >> very interesting. now, of course, another major event at the wlohite house. taking place right now. vice president biden's task force making a change in the way americans buy, sell and potentially use firearms. eamon javers live at the white house. eamon? >> there are some that biden himself might not participate in. we just heard from the vice prest as he emerged from his first meeting of the day and he gives us a sense of how fast this process is moving along. >> there is no conclusion that i've reached and with my colleagues, i'm putting together a series of recommendations for the president that he will take a look at and a very tight window to d

studio is jonathan capehart from "the washington post" and in los angeles democratic strategist and nyuob shrum. welcome to you both. professor shrum, we reached the debt ceiling two weeks ago today. the treasury department is giving us a few weeks of maneuvering room before we begin to default. and yet you have people like the heritage foundation saying today, default is not at issue. how many conservatives truly believe their tactics pose no risk whatsoever to the economy, particularly given what happened the last time they took the debt ceiling hostage? >> look, what heritage put out today is drivel. a transparent attempt -- >> drivel, this is the considered view of an important organization. >> yeah, whose president is jim demint. i don't take it all that seriously. >> okay. >> what they're saying is, well, the government could pay the interest on its bonds, but you could then cut everything else, social security, medicare, education. what they're ignoring is the fact that you would shake the confidence of markets all over the world with unpredictable consequences. this could be of

the nyu medical center will get over $100 million to rebuild. completely agree that that's crucial, it's the small businesses that won't get any assistance in rebuilding and it's the small businesses that are the backbone of our communities. >> why is this happening now? we have always taken care of our next-door neighbor in hurricanes, tornadoes, floods. but all of a sudden this. what do you make of that? >> i really can't even tell you. i think we have a crisis where relief is concerned in general. and i think that truthfully, if you start to look back at stories about haiti and stories about katrina people are wondering where is the money and why didn't it get into the hands of the people who needed it most, the victims, instead of going to various ngos with well-intentioned programs, et cetera, that aren't really helping people rebuild their lives. >> it just seems to me that politically sandy just happened at the wrong time, which is just absolutely outrageous, that that would even be a consideration. >> unquestionably. christine -- >> moni