what you are seeing on your screen now is that cover a professor elizabeth saunders book leaders -- "leaders at war: how presidents shape military interventions" professor saunders, why did you use the word intervention? >> this is a but primarily dealing with a very particular question about the use of military force in american foreign policy and specifically how presidents use military intervention as a tool in american foreign policy first. this is using military force to intervene in the internal affairs of another state, usually quite a distance away. the book is dealing with the central question of why we see certain kinds of military intervention is under some circumstances rather than others. i argue there are two models, transformative where we see the united states getting deeply involved in the domestic affairs of another state. we can think about the nation-building interventions of the 1990's in haiti in the balkans with the u.s. is really getting quite deeply involved in those states domestic affairs, building and rebuilding, changing their domestic institutions. on the

. >> professor elizabeth saunders, what is your back out? >> i teach in the political science department. my undergraduate degree was something quite different to was physics and astrophysics. please don't ask me any questions about that. i teach american foreign policy which is a wonderful course to teach. at the graduate level i teach ph.d. students. i study u.s. foreign policy and international security. >> your first book. >> it is. >> how did you go from astrophysics to a graduate degree? >> political science, i studied political science at yale university and had been fascinated by science and history. i certainly love to studying physics, but i also took a lot of courses in college on government and public policy. i started off thinking i might want to study nuclear weapons and then began to get fascinated combining to interests and i still do have a strong interest. but to become fascinated by the question of why in the post 9/11 world, a time when you would think we would have a pretty good idea of where threats came from and what t

talking with professors who are authors, and on the screen now 1 the cover of professor elizabeth saunders' book, "leaders at war, how presidents shaped military interventions." why use the word "interjengses"? >> guest: this is a book dealing with a particular question about the use of military force in american foreign policy and how they used military intervention as a tool in american foreign policy. these are wars of choice, not situations where you are dealing with a direct attack on your borders. these are using -- this is use military force to intervene in the internal affairs of another state, usually quite a distance away from the united states. the book is really dealing with the question of why we see certain kinds of military interventions under some circumstances rather than others, so i argue in the book there's really two models of intervention. there are what i call transformative interventions seeing the united states getting deeply involved in the domestic affairs of another state so we can think about the nation buildings intervention in the 1980s with haiti and the bul

tyron saunders was taken to mount sinai hospital where he was pronounced dead. the cause of the accident is under investigation. >>fire destroys for school buses in unincorporated elgin. the elementary school buses were in a parking lot on nessler road near the prairie view grade school. those flames broke out around 4:00 this morning in or extend your short and 45 minutes. investigators say that it certainly appears to be a case of arson but they're still trying to find out for sure nobody got injured. >>the a addition scandal at the university of illinois turns into a legal fight over the privacy rights of students. the case is pending the chicago tribune against the university of illinois. at the dirksen federal building this morning the two sides battled over whether the university chef to comply with the chicago tribune's investigation into the scandal >>the tribune once the university to release the names and addresses of students and their parents who were accepted into the schools' main campus thanks to the clout of the alumni but the university claims h

that's all they get against joe saunders. arizona tied it in the 7th and took the lead in the 8th.ul gold smith comes through with a big two- out hit. 3-1dbacks. all three runs charged to matt cain. >> here it is. fly ball center field. young coming on, he's there. diamondbacks want it. they win the west. >> after losing 97 games last season, the diamondbacks win the national league west. a's rookie, weeks enjoyed hitting his first home run so much yesterday he went deep again tonight. a leadoff homer against jared weaver. the a's beat the angels 3-1. gonzalez picks up his 15th win of the season to tie his career high. jets runningback scored more touchdowns against the raiders than any other team. the one that stands out the most was his game winning run in 2002. >> i got to the end zone, everyone jumped on me. just everything, you know, thrown at us. so we hurry up and get out of the field and continue our celebration in the locker room. >> don't expect to see radio personality chris mad dog in your local movie theater watching money ball any time soon. >> he has won one, think a

alan saunders well victory as the wall gets set to go for the all blacks captain choice that's patrick says host new zealand have a great chance to lift the trophy the first time in twenty four years. first step has been taken towards rebuilding a lot of ice hockey club after wednesday's plane crash kills thirty seven players and coaching staff for one russian championship winning manager of retakes the reigns after the sides plane came down just outside yaroslavl shortly after takeoff as the team were on route to play their first match of the season and another minsk forty three of the forty five people on board died leaving russia forward alexandra gallimore and a flight engineer in a critical condition in a moscow hospital i saw the chiefs said they do all they could to help rebuild the side walk a child was alexander misled of says he's been inundated with offers from players and coaches volunteering to work at the decimated club and believes a team can be formed in time to take part in the new season those that donating food of russia around to the chang checks tells us if russia

of football alan saunders a full russian sides in action as the day started with a shock. hosted cross say to rivals did not buy their first match without national team girl. who picked up and in a serious the tree a fortnight ago and the absence was a glaring one and they are all in open for the visitors thirty six minutes and now more misery was that he was deputy goalie said a gay chip to go just three minutes late say kevin chorion even make it to nil. the house defense remained all its essentially for the rest of the game this taking advantage of it made way for the second hole vandalising who want to kick and late subsidy that examined the court and were drowned out the four nil upsets on the stroke of full time. about devas in the. as well with the and the day on top they had to void the defeated look i might see but that was beyond them which on a spoil it is amounts rowing a way to go a ball and to lose pool to. the legs of the book lot of both striking in the first opticals and in the driving seat but loco for back in the second hope some assigning big launching

now thousands of people turned out at the funeral of ice hockey player alan saunders and yet it's novel to see him off because senior flowers until his he died in hospital five days after the plane crash that killed almost the entire team last week the twenty six year old died from severe burns to his body and spirit she tried family friends and fans gathered at the team's home stadium in yet a trouble to pay their last respects the plane carrying the k h l hockey side crashed in central russia it was on his way to boundaries for the first game of the season a crew member for the plane is now the only survivor. under some news that we're just getting in here on the chaos has broken out on the streets of kabul where talk about insurgents are carrying out coordinated attacks against government buildings rockets have been fired at the u.s. embassy in the afghan capital and other reports say nato coalition headquarters are also under fire witnesses on the ground the city's been rocked by explosions including one in close proximity to the russian embassy and another near the afghan health. o

. >> union president randy wine garden won't talk to me but two others, joe grosso and nathan saundersity schools are terrible because of unions like you? >> i would disagree. we have progress as a result of unions. >> three days before he led a protest march to complain to pay teachers on how well they students do on tests. they even composed an anti-test song. >> i think i know why the union doesn't like testing. >> your results are awful. among the lowest in the nation. >> you make an argument that it's the lowest in the nation based upon the test scores. now, i would say that ours is better i would say. >> your predecessors have been saying had a for years. >> i think the unions have a strong history of advocating for high quality public education. >> john: but not achieving it. >> our test scores is not what we choose to focus on. we choose on focus on teaching kids. >> john: how do you know if they are learning? >> i know they are learning when think look in their eye. >> john: they had celebrity support. matt damon he was asked about the rules that make it hard to fire a union t

coach saunders have high expectations. my expectations are really high. >> first stringer. second stringer. i have been all three mine career. you have to be prepared. so i go about my business same way if i am a starter orrerorre or second stringer. >> cal kicks off their campaign. taking on fresno state. rare venue. candlestick park. as mindy bach reports, golden bears are out to impress. >> cal turns to an experienced group of players to put last season's 5-7 record behind them. most of the teammates have not had much game time together. >> we have great team chemistry right now. guys have worked very, very hard. i think they have a renewed enthusiasm. >> that enthusiasm begins with the junior transfer who will take the first snap since saturday. >> he has done a great job of learning it quickly. great job through fall camp. getting a lot of reps. doing a really good job of it. i am excited to watch him play. >> as he prepaurz res to coach. he has to prepare for the unknown. tedford knows little about the strengths of the bulldogs players. if there is one thing he does k

saunder smith gives us the details. >> this year's gains for commodities now gone. the fed's bleak economic outlook weighing on commodities across the board in thursday's session. in fact, copper seeing its biggest selloff in years. that of course, an industrial metal heavily -- heavily tied to construction. and if there is slowing global demand, there could be lower copper prices. oil also seeing big selling in thursday's session falling 6 bucks. it did fall at one point below $80 a barrel but closed just above there, many traders saying if the economic concerns continue, we could see new levels in the 70's for oil. wheat and other food commodities falling. wheat fell to its lowest level in months. again, more concerns about slowly global demand, not just for the industrial metals, not just for gasoline but for the food commodities and then finally, one everybody is watching, gold plunging in thursday's session and actually erasing the last month of gains for the yellow metal. and where were all the dollars flowing? well, into the u.s. dollars, the safe haven that

with matt cain on the mound against joe saunders against the arizona diamondbacks.ooking over the shoulder jeff pierce will. and on the diamondbacks just waiting to take over the field. nine consecutive innings. august 22nd the giants were just one game back. unbelievably and off today, september 2nd the giants are now six games behind. when we talk to bruce grolie wh do tk about this weekend? it is a sweep we must have a sweet? >> i believe that is fair to say. we have dug ourselves a pretty good hole and we know it. if it comes down to games. >> i do not feel that we're out of it we control our own destiny, to a certain degree. if we play well against arizona that the beginning of this month than they know we're not going anywhere. >> the giants of not had much luck swinging the bat and any luck against the arizona diamondbacks. 4-eleven. so far, six more games with these guys. the urgency to get something done is of there with just 25 games left in the regular season. i will be back in a little over an hour with more on the players and kirk gibson the diamondback

it to joe saunders a two-one home run. -- and beltran will hit and caned. six-two = final score. last place last night after striking out batters. clearing a triple in the third inning. the a's put it to bed final = 9-2. >> undergoing investigation in florida after a youth football team got way out of hand, take a look. >> oh my gosh! >> this was last saturday in sarasota, fla.. referees getting battered by coaches. this video led to charges against three coaches and even a 14 year old. the victim could get---the convicted could get a couple of years in prison. >> what we are looking at mt. tam. we will be back with your forecast >> perfect peach balance for your psoralen blueberries coming up. ph balance >> we're back. unhinge cloudy skies. >> we will but let us check-in with it janu. she will give us all the news. >> thank you, isabel. a live look outside with overcast. still a nice day expected redwood city is at 57 degrees. 83 degrees by noon. 85 degrees for the high. going to 65 degrees tonight. still, 54 degrees in napa, 55. however a slow warm-up in antioch and 67 degrees.

one of them is if it does look like this isn't some neutral to the gse as professor saunders has talkedh would ensure that it was a budget neutral program to other programs and still benefit homeowners enormously. so, you know, i think the other thing that we haven't discussed that is really critical is mortgage insurance. there are a large number of people estimated 25 percent of the population that won't even get inside the door without a deal to think about mortgage insurance. they're must be brought into the mix as well importantly. >> what about the races for the previous panel, the q our income of 20%, it seems to me we take out a huge class of individuals in the country who could be responsible borrowers and help us in this process. your view on that? >> i completely agree. i think that the intentions of qrm were very dead on accurate and effective in terms of eliminating products with higher-risk characteristics. so the qrm, as we all know, requires limits to honor occupied, primary residence, fully amortized loans, when you look at the actual default data, if you isolate to tho

-russian rivalry edited by my colleague paul saunders, executive director of the center and we have two american contributors to the book. former senior official in the bug on the policy, senior director for eurasia on the national security council and some director of the dissent of american progress who is increasingly recognized as an emerging but already major expert on russia. let me say that this is clearly a very difficult issue because if you look at the u.s.-russian relations especially when president obama came to office, there was significant progress in some areas. i'm not sure that there was enough progress to say that with a lasting breakthrough and it is quite clear that a number of issues, most difficult issues serious disagreements remain and that is particularly true regarding u.s.-russian relationships where we have clearly different perspectives. plenty of us believe different interests and it is also quite clear that the russian and united states hesitation with a number of countries in that region who dare to have their own interests. and increasingly to act on the