the republican national committee michael steele, msnbc political analyst and visiting professor at nyu, former democratic congressman harold ford jr. whose wife's bathing suit is on the front page of the "sports illustrated" swimsuit edition, it's the middle one. >> it looks good, doesn't it. >> harold. >> what's that? >> there's no bathing suit there, harold. >> it's a bathing suit my wife's company makes. >> can you tell your wife i don't see a bathing suit. just see a lot of skin and a patch of material in a place tucked away. >> i'm not going to look as closely as you did. i understand the young lady in the middle is wearing a bathing

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i'm here to talk about great appreciation and excitement we're nyu tenants in the puc building at the southeast community. this is what we precisely dreamed of. our team of 5 cozy couldn't be more thrilled with the negotiations renovation and when a student walks into that wing he or she knows we're invited and invested in their success. it screams we're wanting you to success. they can work in a healthy environmentalist. i know you people restraining order deliberating budgets today and i want to say thank you for the support in the k3w0ir7b8 community division. sf puc has a huge footprint in our city and the facts your proactively thinking about how to give 0 back to the community and be good neighbors i think speaks volumes. you're leading the way for other public utilities it should be the rule not the exception and the revisiting oakdale and the work you open the demeanors for interim shopping mall training it's hardening. i hope to come back here in a year to share all the graduates from southeast we believe they should take over the leadership so thank you on behalf of 5 keys >

joining us now, the chief justice professor of constitutional law at nyu. nice to see you.r being here. >> great to see you, rachel. >> we have seen this cascade of similar rulings in other states recently since last summer's week -- last summer's landmark rulings. but this one in virginia sort of feels like it has a little more at least historical hest, am i right or imagining that? >> no, i think you're absolutely right. when i asked ted olson who joined this case, he, of course, was part of the odd couple team that litigated the prop 8 case in california. i asked him why this case. you could have had your pick of cases. everyone was inviting you into these cases. there are dozens of them percolating around the country. why virginia? he said it's because i spent my formative years in california, i currently spent a lot of time in virginia so these feel like homes to me. it's because of this loving v. virginia case and has in our constitutional history. so if you think back to 1967, unanimous supreme court, chief justice warren writing the opinion strikes down this ban on

kent is a chemistry professor at nyu. and together -- >> fire!collaboration between a chemist and a chef, how does that happen? >> i think one of the misperceptions about scientists and chefs working tote is that we always want to create something bizarre, strange, and kind of scary. ♪ ♪ >> we literally raided kept's lab and we are like we haven't used that yet. let's use it. there are chefs all over the country doing that. once we bring did in to the kitchen it's now a piece of cooking equipment. >> i am a biologist, i have spent a lot of time in a lab, but this has to be one of the coolest labs i have ever been in. >> we have all the cookbooks we need, chemistry books: liquor, food, and then a battery of things that look like scientific equipment, like immerse circulator . we are going put a light initial sear on it. >> okay. the most important cooking ref >> referee: lukcookingrevolution moving to low temperature cooking. scientists had a way to accurately control temperatures very accurately because they needed it, right? >> yeah. >> and cook

he told "60 minutes" he nearly died of substance abuse after he graduated from nyu. >> everything i could get my hands on, yeah. i liked it all. >> reporter: just last year hoffman revealed that he checked into a rehab facility last may for prescription drug and heroin use. a private unassuming man, hoffman will be remembered for his roles in more than 50 movies including the talented mr. rim and "the hunger games," roles that cemented hoffman as one of the best actors of his generation. >> it doesn't get any better than when you go to work, get a job as an actor, and with that happens you think that's it. when you're an actor and all of a sudden someone gives awe good job, you literally think you're more high than you'll be for the rest of your life. >> reporter: hoffman is survived by his longtime girlfriend and this athree young children. he was 46 years old. >> here in the bay area hoffman is well-known for his role in the oakland a's film "moneyball." ahead tonight, the stunned reaction to his sudden death and a statement we received from the actor's family. >>> untrue and disgracefu

he went to nyu and moved out to la and did a few auditions here and there.went in as a prep school snitch in the scent of a woman. he told me it was an interesting part and had great scenes. it went on from there for him. he had great taste. he wanted to be that crazy guy and wanted to fla the unhappy guy in happiness. he wanted to fla the develop in red dragon and wanted to play a drag queen and you never once sue him go for a leading man role or go for a comedy just for laughs. for a paycheck. he once play s played those gu on the outskirts of society. >> you are in the cnnnessroom. breaking newsing story. oscar winning actor he is dead and the show business community is reeling with shock and sadness. that actor right there. almost sources tell cnn it appears hoffman died of a drug overdose. investigators say they found bags of what they believe is inside that apartment. he was getting a handle on it.

she founded it as a junior at nyu two years ago. has since graduated and is in london, where the magazine sees 20,000 online visitors a month. thanks for staying up for us. we appreciate it. talk about the struggles of running a small business -- >>. i think one of the biggest problems or biggest challenges for a smaller magazine is getting people to recognize our worth. quantity does not equal quality for us. having people realize that is a bit of a challenge. >> so much of what you do -- and , you looking at your site have stuff on travel, fashion, lifestyle, shopping -- is how you differentiate yourself. there is so much content out there. how do you do it? how do you differentiate yourself from so many choices out there? >> we are the first travel and fashion magazine for young people. we make sure that because we are print, that we have spent the hours we don't want you to spend, finding places for you to go to and curating content. valueas high artistic that you will have on your shelf for years and years to come. >> we just d

joining us now to assess the medical come important of the pot debate, professor of nyu.octor, great to have you with us. the president says marijuana is better than alcohol, weighing in another debate that seems to be an interesting decision on his part, is he right or is he wrong? >> refer make to his memoir where he referred to his old pot smoking debate. both are bad for you. i'm not going to say alcohol is good for you. alcohol is bad for your liver, your heart and your brain. alcohol is bad. so is marijuana. many studies out there, shows it interferes with decisionmaking, especially when young children take marijuana, it interferes with their performce on sts. what i do to one person affects their offsprings. it doesn't cause mutations. >> it actually reaches to the behavior of succeeding generation. >> absolutely. we all thought that was the pot smokers of this genation say, go ahead. no. because this study was done on rats and they're not talking. they're related to something being passed along. >> and the president making this comparison, at this time when -- the

professor of medicine at nyu langone medical center.at to have you with us. >> hi, lou, good evening, we're talking about 10 times as many deaths last year in cifornia as there were last year. 260 somedd deaths already. this is, this is deadly stuff. >> this is a very bad flu season. its pretomnantly the -- is predominantly the h1n1 flu. people thought we were done for that. it usual lingers after a pandemic. this affects young pple. this isn't first time that happened. hong kong flu, same thing. 1918 still same thing. lou: is this a pan them dick? >> not now. it was in 2009 when we first saw it. because we don't have the immuni to i because again, it is relatively new bug an only 1/of people in the age groups thatou mentioned are getting the vaccine. that is another problem. this is exactly the time you should be vaccinated. only 1/3 of young peopleave had the flu vaccine. lou: i tell members of my own family, doctor, you have got to havee you got to get a flu shot. they're younger. ey're healthy and they're active and they say, to me

professor of medicine at nyu langone medical center.at to have you with us. >> hi, lou, good evening, we're talking about 10 times as many deaths last year in california as there were last year. 260 some odd deaths already. this is, this is deadly stuff. >> this is a very bad flu season. it es pretomnantly the -- is predominantly the h1n1 flu. people thought we were done for that. it usually lingers after a pandemic. this affects young people. this isn't first time that happened. hong kong flu, same thing. 1918 still same thing. lou: is this a pan them dick? >> not now. it was in 2009 when we first saw it. because we don't have the immunity to it because again, it is relatively new bug an only 1/3 of people in the age groups that you mentioned are getting the vaccine. that is another problem. this is exactly the time you should be vaccinated. only 1/3 of young people have had the flu vaccine. lou: i tell members of my own family, doctor, you have got to havee you got to get a flu shot. they're younger. they're healthy and they're active

he talks about how the uaw has supported the idea of organized labor, finds great welcome in nyu, butes down to it you have workers on an assembly line in chattanooga, tennessee, have turned down the option. the politician of race and culture of the eclipse those of class in the u.s. the culture memes around unions distracted from the actual economic benefits of them. >> the south has always been hostile territory for union organizing. the culture war in the south trumps the class war. you already have right to work laws. even if they unionized the plants, those who benefitted from the presence of that union wouldn't have had to pay union dues if they didn't feel like it. the opposition i gathered portrayed this as a northern invasion, a refighting of the civil war. apparently there are not a lot of black employees in this particular plant, so that kind -- waving of the confederate flag was an effective strategy. >> that would explain the sign, united obama workers. thank you as always for your time and thoughts. >>> coming up from food stamps to sochi, an olympian puts a new face on

built to teach these students at nyu's poly tech institute to teach guys how to fight off cyberattacks. >> the best way to fight off attackers is to find out how it's happening in the first place. >> they exposed the vulnerabl vulnerability of the online world. only 11% of companies are properly protected. >> i will not pay for anything using a credit card. i will pay cash wherever i go. >> he knows almost too much. >> i see the way hackers get in and the things that go wrong. >> if i could see what you see. >> you would see the world as a scary place. gangs hostile, and technology is changing so quickly it's difficult to keep up. >> there is almost a check list of a million things you have to do right. if the attacker find one that you didn't quite do right then they attack your system. >> so they've offers big bounties offering cash to those who find problems on their systems. and it's free time kevin chung discovered a major flaw in a major online retailer. >> it wasn't malicious but something that will happen down the road. >> he shares what he knows with classmates. >> with great

according to a joint report from nyu and the fordham school of law.olicing was widespread in the police response to occupy wall street. from the batons and pepper spray, to denial of medical care. the arrests were often illegal and most led to charges being dropped. >> we aren't do anything we are peaceful protesters. >> reporter: mcmillan's lawyer says the policeman she elbowed left the mark on his right breast. and that her arrest was an example of overly aggressive policing. legal proceedings for mcmillan's trial are ramping up with jury selection in march. the race ar case's outcome willa vert not only her behavior but how the new york city police department handled a protest that turned in to may am. >> we did reach out to the new york city public information office of the police department up there for more information and comment about the case, we have not, however, received any response from this. joining us now is attorney martin s t.o stoller. he is now representing cecily, appreciate your being with us. we note here hundreds of cases. were

i teach economics at nyu and also finance. my mother's from cairo, and i quite often go there on holiday. and many or years ago i remember there were songs in favor of pan-arabism. i think it's the great conspicuous ab stent in this -- absent in this story. they raised turmoil or change throughout a very large area, but everybody seems to be changing on their own with their own strategy, they all have their own aim. that makes a lot of sense. this whole idea of pan-arabism, that there is ran arab world, and this world may share a common set of ideals, and they must work together. not saying like a common market in europe or a european union, but something approaching some sort of uniformity seems not to be there. we no longer hear al laal act bar being played out everywhere, so will this make a comebacks with -- comeback, or are we seeing an end to, as some might put it, an ideal? >> i think pan-arabism which was the dominant force in the arab world let's say in the '50s and '60s and maybe '40s also died at the altar of 1967.

. >> disrespect to the officers is a zero tolerance policy in nyu unit. if i give him a break for making threats to a correctional officer, it's not a good thing. it's not a good practice. hello, mr. madrid. the reason we brought you out here today, we're going to hold a unit management team meeting. i think you know why. this conduct report issued for threats, verbal abuse, and gestures and displaying unlawful order. inmate madrid was on the phone approximately 40 minutes. at 5:40 p.m. my correctional officer told nathan madrid to lock down for next shift. he yelled up [ bleep ]. i turned his phone off at that point. i walked to the window and told him this is a directive to lock down. he was told approximately five times. during this time inmate madrid was telling me you're [ bleep ], girl, you're [ bleep ]. if you're writing me up, i'm going to make it worthwhile. inmate madrid locked down and then started banging the door with a stool. he continued for a while. inmate madrid was informed that the incident would be a behavior log and a misconduct repor

trying to remember the details of the last big event of the catch the illegal alien day that was said nyunot at a public university. there was a lot of controversy about it but i don't believe university shut them down. i think it just played out naturally. but i could be wrong. >> my question, how does religion to talk to diversity clubs or programs and with those different styles? >> in much the same way we didn't find major differences in adoption of those that were fiscally conservative for socially conservative. we did see that religious students and on religious students were more or less adopted the styles and fell into the style that was typical of their campus. where we did find differences was women because we studied with been more carefully with a whole chapter on conservative femininity. we did in interview, if i may alter your question, we we're doing these interviews when sarah palin was on the ticket so there was a lot of conversation to be a conservative woman. we came to understand to be feminine, to despise the liberal feminism because they saw that as narrow wings the

it is true, when he came up he went to nyu. he has never lost his theater roots.e a whole list of fans that only know him from broadway as opposed to us that know him from boogie nights the movies where he played the great great characters. he wasn't afraid of anything and he just took it on and he remained who he was. he didn't no matter, he had four oscar nominations and one win and had he not died so suddenly, he would have gone onto get more. he never lost the es sesence ofo he was. he was able to play all different characters even though you would think he would be a type. >> krista smith entertainment for cnn and senior west coast editor with vanity fair. we are going to turn to cnn's michelle turner where today it is superbowl sunday and already so many celebrities in town in the new york, new jersey state area. now this news is rippling through the community there in lower manhattan but throughout the whole area. tell me more about what is being said. i understand you have the statement from the family. >> reporter: we are out here for the superbowl and i

he has been a visiting scholar at nyu. and a visiting lecturer at yell and columbia. he was the principal deputy director of the national economic council before being named to his current post in june of last year. no introduction will be complete without the obligatory mention of our guest youthful ability to earn money on the streets of new york. great training for spending your life is rising about tough economic choices. that is the end of the biographical portion. we are on the record here. no live blogging or tweeting or other means while breakfast. if you would like to ask the question, these send me a subtle, nonthreatening signal and i will happily call on one and all. let me offer the guests to make some opening comments and then we will open to questions from around the table. thank you for doing this. >> thank you so much for having me and for the long tradition of this breakfast. i want to talk very briefly about where we are in the economy and where we are in economic policy. yesterday we got gdp for the fourth quarter of 2013. it grew at 3.2% that foll

. >> a professor of finance at nyu. he says bitcoin isn't behaving like a currency.t can't pay a mortgage or utility bill. so for now, it's being bought as an investment on the hope it value will go up. >> there has to be a psychological belief that other people will want to pay you more for it than you paid for it yesterday. >> bitcoin will fade away by the end of the year, but predicts the experiment is far from over. alexis, cbs news, new york. >> now even with the trouble at the site, other bitcoin exchanges have continued to operate and they say the problem is isolated to that one marketplace. now, you and i are sticking with cash and credit. do you have all that? are you following that? >> i'm trying to understand how 744,000 bitcoins go missing if it's all digital. >> and no one realized it for years. >> yeah. >> that's part of the problem with this currency. this is not last we heard about it, that's for sure. >> that is for sure. >> hopefully we'll get a clear picture on that. we are getting a clearer picture about a poleo-like disease that is leaving childr

it seems to be a well-educated somewhat affluent group including an nyu professor, bus driver, aig underwriter and nine others as well as alternates. sue, it's anybody's guess where they'll end up today, but i think people are feeling like a resolution will come soon. >> kate, thank you. keep us posted. >>> on to the soda wars now bubbling all day after coca-cola and green mountain announce a deem to make at-home soda pods like the green mountain coffee pods we use. the board, coca-cola shares up 1 3/8% in terms of green mountain a huge gain of almost 30.5%. bring in pepsi, and soda stream as new speculation mounts that pepsi will fire back by buying soda stream, and this has been rumored last year as well, and pepsi's ceo said it was no-go. coca-cola bottling shares also on that. you can see kind of a mixed board with pepsico on the down side. the rest of those on the soda fountain board showing decent gains. soda stream sent cnbc a statement about 45 minutes ago saying "as the global innovator in home carbonation, soda stream views the announcement of green mountain partnership with coca-col

he told cbs on 60 minutes he nearly died after he graduated from nyu. >> so this was drugs or chal or both? >> all that stuff, yeah. anything i could get my hands on, yeah, yeah. i liked it all, yeah. >> why did you decide to stop? >> you get panicked. you get panicked. i was 22 and i got panicked for my life. it was just that. i have so much empathy for these young actors. all of the sudden, they are beautiful, famous and rich. oh, my god, dead. >> alexandra field is outside the apartment where he died. disturbing information about the quantity of drugs that have been discovered in that apartment. what more are you hearing? >> reporter: ashleigh, it is heartbreaking for so many fans to learn of his death. now, we are hearing from several law enforcement sources about what else investigators found when they went into that fourth floor apartment in greenwich village. they found evidence that he had spent a lot of money on drugs and appears to have been a heavy user. we understand, according to our sources, that investigators found at least 50 small baggies filled with the substance tha

joining me is jack hanna and the editor in chief of -- professor of environmental studies at nyu.ore we get onto our next guest, animal lovers furious what's happening with giraffes. this guy caught my attention. tom bazen. get off the giraffe story. yosemite national park is looking at killing up to 800 bison. what's the difference between culling bison at yosemite national park and giraffes? jack, what's the simple answer to that. >> you want me to answer that question, piers? i'm sorry >> yes, jack, you. >> all right. there's a great difference with that. bison aren't necessarily -- they're a wild animal, yes, they are. we even have bison at the plays place called the wilds we have. however, that's fine. culling bison at yellowstone national park, i happened to have a cabin there for ten or 12 years. there's many reasons for that yellowstone is in an eco-center of ranch all over the place. the culling of bison there has to be done because the bison get in an out of that park so easy and get into rangers land and disturb animals. the culling is up to the national park service as

we will speak with nyu professor stephen cohen on the latest violence, the roots of the conflict, the secret u.s. role backing deposition. venezuela, which is also in a state of appeal as antigovernment protesters take to the streets to oppose hugo chavez's successor nicolas maduro. as the u.s., mexico, and canada hold a major summit in mexico, u.s. border patrol agent shoots and kills a man you're the border in san diego after the agent was hit in the face with a rock. >> rocks are considered the full force. if we look at other zones of conflict around the globe, we have broker-deals to try to get rock throwing and lethal force taken out of the system, but we don't do that here the u.s.-mexico border. we can actually fire at rock throwers. >> all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in ukraine, short-lived truce between the government and opposition protesters has broken down amidst the bloodiest period in the month-long uprising. at least 21 people have died just today in clashes between protesters and secur

professor at nyu law. ted shaw. thank you, gentlemen. appreciate it.ening. "the rachel maddow show" begins now. >>> thanks to you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. barney frank is with us in a minute. in 1985 a group called the parents music resource center tried to get congress to essentially come up with a labeling and/or censorship program for popular american music. we're having a bit of a moral panic at the time about kids these days and their degenerate music. so this parents group which was spearheaded by a bipartisan bunch including tipper gore and james baker's wife, susan baker, they formed this group and went after the music industry. there were these amazing congressional hearings in the '80s on this issue. where everybody from john denver, god bless him, to d. snyder of twisted sister turned

in 2006, the actor told cbs "60 minutes" he nearly died of substance abuse after he graduated from nyu. >> get my hands off it. yeah, yeah. i liked it all. >> reporter: and just last year, hoffman revealed to several news outlets that he checked into a rehab facility last may for prescription drug and heroin use. a private unassuming man, hoffman will be remembered for his roles in more than 50 movies, including "the talented mr. ripley" and "the hunger games", roles that cemented hoffman as one of the best actors of his generation. >> it doesn't get any better than when you go to work you get a job as an actor, first off. and when that happens, you think that's it. when you're an actor and all of the sudden somebody gives you a good job, you are more high than you'll ever be for the rest of your life. >> reporter: hoffman is survived by his long-time girlfriend mimi o'donnell and their three young children. philip seymour hoffman was 46 years old. gone at just 46 years of age when he should have had so many more roles ahead of him. don? >> really sad. thank you, stephanie. appreciate

professor at nyu law. ted shaw. thank you, gentlemen. appreciate it. that is "all in" for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" begins now. >>> thanks to you, my friend. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. barney frank is with us in a minute. in 1985 a group called the parents music resource center tried to get congress to essentially come up with a labeling and/or censorship program for popular american music. we're having a bit of a moral panic at the time about kids these days and their degenerate music. so this parents group which was spearheaded by a bipartisan bunch including tipper gore and james baker's wife, susan baker, they formed this group and went after the music industry. there were these amazing congressional hearings in the '80s on this issue. where everybody from john denver, god bless him, to d. snyder of twisted sister turned out at these congressional hearings to talk about whether music really is pornography without the pictures and whether it should be treated as such. frank zappa testified in congress against the la

in 2006, the actor told cbs "60 minutes" he nearly died of substance abuse after he graduated from nyu. >> yeah. anything i could get my hands on. yeah. i liked it all. >> reporter: and just last year, hoffman revealed to several news outlets that he checked into a rehab facility last may for prescription drug and heroin use. a private unassuming man, hoffman will be remembered for his roles in more than 50 movies, including "the talented mr. ripley" and "the hunger games," roles that cemented him as one of the best actors of his generation. >> it doesn't get any better -- you get a job as an actor, first off. and when that happens, you think that that's like it. when you're an actor and somebody gives you a good job, you literally think, you're -- you're more high than you'll ever be the rest of your life. >> reporter: hoffman is survived by mimi o'donnell and their three young children. philip seymo philip seymour who hahoffman wa years old. [ female announcer ] you know the little song he'll hum as he gets dressed... you know the shirt he'll choose... the wine he'll order. you know

racist -- >> i'm trying to remember the details of the last big event of catch an illegal alien day, at nyuo not at a public university. and much ink was spilled and there was a lot of controversy around it, but i don't believe that the university shut it down. i think that it just kind of played out naturally. but i could be wrong on that point. >> my question is on something in your presentation. how does religion and sexual orientation affect the different? i'm wondering if you talk to different so-called diversity clubs or programs on both different campuses and how activities affect different political styles of different students? >> so, we come in much the same way that we didn't find major differences in adoption among students who were more fiscally conservative are socially conservative, we did see that religious students and nonreligious students on each campus more or less adopted similar styles, they fell into the style that was typical of their campus. where we did find differences were among women. this is in part because we studied women more carefully. we wrote a whole chap

we had a professor from nyu who writes on morality. it was a wonderful conversation.htened us in a lot of different ways. maybe you can tell i'm feeling really mellow. >> dan loeb does not seem like the most mellow guy and the room, does he? >> he was super mellow afterwards. we had him in a trance. we can expect dan loeb to be totally mellowed out. >> oh, yeah. >> in reality, how much do we see this kind of sentiment or these type of precepts really integrated into u.s. capitalism? ,> the u.s. capitalist system or any capitalist system, does not occupy itself with how conscious we are trying to be, any of the things be dalai lama was trying to talk about. the point he wanted to make, one of the things we talked about at aei about the free enterprise youem, or you cannot -- cannot go forward without a moral sense. that comes from adam smith. calls a dalai lama sense of global brotherhood. we are all better off. the free enterprise system can reach down to help more people. that is the tendency to create collectivists. >> we are with you. we are right there with you. w

it is 11% of the company's business according to scott galloway, a marketing professor at nyu. he says that there is a relatively high level of engagement with the consumer. this is something that i heard from person after person i spoke to head of this report when there was analysis that macy's online business across multiple channels, internet, and, etc., that it is stronger than other competitors. thank you so much. moving and shaking this hour in tec is the google chairman, eric schmidt. he is telling consumers to sit back and enjoy this battle between apple's iphone and the device is powered by google. schmidt spoke to charlie rose. >> in the fight between apple and google over the operating systems, it is producing enormous reductions in the prices of phones. if google were not there, those iphones would be a lot more expensive. if apple were not there, all those android phones would be more expensive. consumer valley was enhanced by this. -- consumer value is enhanced by this. >> you can watch the interview at 8:00 tonight on bloomberg television. neither apple nor googl

debbie, assistant professor of anesthesiology and nyu school of medicine. dr. this mean, if you're pregnant don't take tylenol. >> i would be cautious interpreting results. tylenol could cause the problems. we don't know how it works. it came out and accepted before tests we have to do for new drugs. we think it affects the hormones. the danger, this study was done by phone interviews. they asked women what they were doing to begin with. that means because they were not assigned to the specific groups we don't know exactly what else they were doing, things that might have been different. maybe using other medications as well. that is one of the dangers. i would say that if woman don't need to take any of these medications, acetaminophen, during pregnant sir, better to avoid it. if they have a lost pain they might want to talk to the doctor and do something. better than sitting and suffering. eric: what could you do? motrin, advil? >> those are options for pain in general but not necessarily safe during pregnancy. they can cause other problems that affected hear

was weak and he said the key is for nadella to get mobile rights but then we had a professor over at nyusurveillance this morning and he said he thinks a can't win in mobile, it is just too competitive, and he would like to spend the -- them off just as googles one of motorola mobility, but the good news, betty, is nadella is sitting on a $50 billion pile of cash and some analysts said what he could do is maybe boosted dividend to buy himself a little more time on what he wants to do. >> thank you so much. olivia sterns on the future of microsoft. spending on the subject of leadership and growth, joining us for the hour is none other than billionaire investor sam zell. holdings crisscrossed the globe in many industries -- from real estate, energy, telecom. he is also a substantial contributor to the world of education and politics. so much to talk about with sam so we are keeping them hostage to the rest of the hour. great to see you this morning. you have been as well as all of us watching from the sidelines what is going on with microsoft. i do you think they carried out the ceo search

devi from nyu school of medicine and has taken a look at this.ors say they were perfectly fine, helped out with the rescue after the leak and then, all of a sudden they're coming down with mysterious illnesses, hair loss, fainting spells, the like. does it sound like it's a possibility of radiation poisoning? >> it could be. definitely could be. people can have the symptoms. they can develop cancers. they were tried to jump into a disaster zone to help people. they have aing per challenge ahead of them. in order for them to prove this radiation exposure and nuclear radiation is so rare, they have to first try to prove their case, prove it is not genetics, there are no other environmental factors and they have to show extent of harm or damages which is even more tiff cult because they may not have all the harms yet. they may develop problems or cancers later in the future. jon: part of the problem is that radiation poison something fairly hard to study because it just hasn't happened that often in world history. >> exactly. we can only look at hir

devi, assistant professor of anesthesiology and rehabilitation at nyu school of medicine.he good news is among the kid, two to five-year-olds 43% drop. i would take it as bad news nobody seems to know why. >> you could think about it that way. it is good news that the numbers came down but there is still 8% obesity in the age group. you wonder why, especially that age, parents or other adults are buying them food. not like they're so much to advertising. physical activity, regular play is what they need. they don't need a gym membership and other things. it is concerning that the obesity rate is that high. jon: and unchanged among adults. >> that is very concerning. the percentage is about 35%. that means for adults, one in three are considered obese. for youth that percentage is about 17%. again those numbers are not changing. but you wonder why they're at that level. over the past decade there have been a lot of changes in terms of diet. now we hear about caloric content in a lot of foods. we get a lot more information about newt tricks. we have more fitness crazes and f