good morning. >> he let lawrence schmidt know about his decision. they have about nine months to fill his replacement. schmidt praised harrison for his work during his 12 years of superintended and announced a replacement will begin immediately. they're considering hiring a national firm to find his replacement. jennifer franciotti, wbal-tv 11 news. >> at thank you. here is matt lauer with a look at what is coming up next on the "today" show. >> good morning. mitt romney grilled by fellow gop presidential candidates last night at the debate just hours after picking up in endorsement from chris christie. an emotional day at the trial of michael jackson's doctor. we'll hear from the medical examiner who conducted the autopsy. al talks to michelle obama about that secret shopping trip to target. linda evans has written a new memoir about her life and her former co-stars. she'll join us live as we get started on it was the morning right here on "today." >> quite a cat fight. >> we will come back and check the weather and traffic together before you head

the former senior adviser to the mccain/palin campaign, steve schmidt, joins me next.an i help you? yeah, can i get a full-sized car? for full-sized cars, please listen to the following menu. for convertibles, press star one. i didn't catch that. to speak to a representative, please say representative now. representative. goodbye! you don't like automated customer service, and neither do we. that's why, unlike other cards, no matter when you call chase sapphire preferred, you immediately get a person not a prompt. chase sapphire preferred. a card of a different color. (phone ringing) chase sapphire preferred, this is julie in springfield. >>> in the spotlight tonight, what viewers of this program have always known and what every political pundit should have known since that summer friday two years, three months, and three days ago, when governor sarah palin announced she would resign from office has been officially confirmed by tv reality star sarah palin. last night palin pretended that she had just made her decision not to run for president. >> decided it's a no, gre

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steve schmidt will join me to explain how sarah palin could fool so many people for so long. and tell us where republican voters will now throw their support. [ male announcer ] this is lara. her morning begins with arthritis pain. that's a coffee and two pills. the afternoon tour begins with more pain and more pills. the evening guests arrive. back to sore knees. back to more pills. the day is done but hang on... her doctor recommended aleve. just 2 pills can keep arthritis pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is lara who chose 2 aleve and fewer pills for a day free of pain. and get the all day pain relief of aleve in liquid gels. >>> coming up, i'll ask herman cain why he chose not to serve in the vietnam war. and give him a chance to apologize to the poor and the unemployed for saying that it's their own fault that they don't have jobs. >>> and we'll look at the republican presidential candidates now that they know what you have always known, that sarah palin is not running for president. that's coming up. >>> and we're back. with the next question in my i

schmidt and reese splits the other half. perlmutter says it is a team effort and credits the national lab with giving him 10 years, starting in '86 up to '96 when he was working in the project didn't have anything concrete to show but they said keep going and . now here we are in 2011 and he has the nobel prize for physics. -- terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >> big congratulations to everybody. >> loved that reaction. >>> the breast cancer survive who says she was humiliated by airport security and why the tsa is apologizing. >>> the american exchange student whose murder conviction was thrown out in italy yesterday was now on her way back to the u.s.. will amanda knox have to return to italy? >> new jersey, whether you like it or not, you are stuck with me.  >>> american exchange student amanda knox is on a flight back to seattle right now after four years in an italian police son. she was when an appeals court -- reversed her murder conviction yesterday. the family of her murdered roommate mered

eric schmidt had been some interesting papers. he had been making the point that so much of the tech industry is project-based learning. google gives people time off to do what they want. they give them time to explore and hang out with other people, outside of the framework of this more structured enterprise. burning man, from the very beginning is project-based learning. it attracts people from every demographic that you can think of, every category. so you have to, potentially, encyclopedic knowledge assembled at this place. and the natural way to learn is project-based. scholarship is fine, academic models can be useful for certain things, but human beings tend to learn by engaging in project- based learning. if you look at the desert

>> ifill: eric schmidt thank you very much. (applause) >> brown: next tonight, the mental health challenges of an african nation after decades 14 years of civil war. from liberia, special correspondent kira kay has this report. >> reporter: this friday morning at a rural liberian health clinic feels routine: kids are getting their vaccinations; pregnant women and new mothers are here for their check ups; malaria tests are underway. but this nervous looking young woman is here for a startling reason. in a private session: >> anything really worry you? >> reporter: she tells a group of visiting clinicians that she has trouble sleeping, and feels insects crawling under her skin. >> it pinched me! >> reporter: 25-year-old nyamah grew up during liberia's civil war. she says rocket explosions shook the walls of her home; she saw dead bodies in the street. counselor larwou quaye thinks nyamah's anxiety is caused by post traumatic stress disorder. >> it didn't really start until after the war. >> after the war. >> yeah. it comes with s

schmidt and reese splits the other half. perlmutter says it is a team effort and credits the national lab with giving him 10 years, starting in '86 up to '96 when he was working in the project didn't have anything concrete to show but they said keep going and . now here we are in 2011 and he has the nobel prize for physics. -- terry mcsweeney, abc7 news. >> big congratulations to everybody. >> loved that reaction. >>> the breast cancer survive who says she was humiliated by airport security and why the tsa is apologizing. >>> the american exchange student whose murder conviction was thrown out in italy yesterday was now on her way back to the u.s.. will amanda knox have to return to italy? >> new jersey, whether you like it or not, you are stuck with me. >> the race in new jersey governor christie says he's not going to run. >> closed captioning brought to you by mancini sleepworld. >>> american exchange student amanda knox is on a flight back to seattle right now after four years in an italian police son. she was when an ap

. >> schmidt would not confirm published reports that the board had already decided not to extend his contract several weeks ago. >> i have no comment on that. it is a personnel issue, and that is a statement about his future as to where he is going, that is for him. >> schmidt praised joe hairston work and announced a search for his replacement will begin immediately. >> i have established a committee to begin to institute the search process in baltimore county for a superintendent to take the reins from dr. hairston in 2012. >> i feel very fortunate that i had an opportunity to experience great kids, a tremendous staff, good support, and i think it is, a good time to move on. >> we expect to hear a lot more about what went into his decision later on this week. he has scheduled a news conference for this friday at 10:00 a.m.. kai reed, wbal-tv 11 news. >> u.s. officials say they have thwarted a high price terrorist plot on american soil. according to the u.s. justice department, two readiness plan to assassinate the saudi arabian ambassador to the united states. what appeared in fede

and the other half jointly to professor brian schmidt.va research team, australia national university, western creek, australia. and professor adam riess, supernova search team, john hopkins university and space telescope science institute, baltimore. >> the nobel committee in stockholm announced the winners on tuesday. two americans, saul permutter and adam riess and an australian, brian schmidt were awarded the top award in the field. the committee said they're studying dozens of exploded stars, called supernovas led them to conclude that the universe is continuing to expand. the study surprised the world, the expansion of the universe had thought to have been slowing down. >>> in the second part of our series on refugees, tonight we take a look at people from myanmar. currently, half a million of them are thought to be displaced, both inside the country and around the world. some ended up in japan. last thursday, 18 refugees from myanmar left for japan under its pilot scheme to resettle displaced people, now in its second year. the fou

in washington, i'm emily schmidt. >>> the president today defended the half billion- dollar loan that his administration gave to fremont's solar energy plant solyndra just before it went bankrupt. >> we knew from the start that the loan guarantee program was going to en tall some risk -- entail some risk, there were going to be some companies that did not work out. solyndra was one of them. >> the president arranged we need to guarantee loans for clean energy companies in order to compete with china and other countries. >>> the laid-off workers at solyndra are in the same boat as millions of other unemployed workers. they have no job and they have no health insurance. on the consumerwatch, julie watts explains some have a lot more to lose besides their benefits. >> electronic technician through a temp agency. >> reporter: ronald is looking for a job one of the 1100 people left unemployed when the high-profile fremont company solyndra shut its doors. >> when we came to work on august 31st, they told everybody to stick around for a meeting. >> reporter: and at that meeting these employe

flacco, torre schmidt, nice cancer 35-yard down to the 5. three play -- nice catch, 35- yards down to the 5. three plays later you got it, ravens rally to defeat the cardinals 30-17. baltimore improves to 5-2. >>> the game of the day, the steelers host the patriots. 1st quarter ben roethlisberger connects with mewelde moore, 5 yards for the touchdown. steelerss in front 7-0. after a roethlisberger interception deion branch, 2 yards for the score, new england cuts the deficit to 10-7. later in the 1st half, roethlisberger with time completes to antonio brown 7 yards for the touchdown, steelers defeat the patriots 25-17. pittsburgh 6-2, new england 5- 2. when we return more on the bad day and we'll check in on the ravens, steelers and giants.  look, every day we're using more and more energy. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? ♪ that's why right here, in australia, chevron is building one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years

schmidt said a week ago that the therapy does not work.en goes so far as to say that he's never met a man who's experienced change from homosexual to heterosexual. will this admission change the course of debate in this country over same-sex marriage and other issues? john schmidt joins us now along with daily beast contributor, michelle goldberg. john, thank you for joining us on "hardball." it's always an honor to have somebody come on the show that could go anywhere they wanted to tell their story. and michelle, thank you for joining us and helping us with this story to understand it as a journalist. john, i guess the question that a lot of people want to ask is what caused you to go public with this pretty important observation, since you've been experienced in this world, that no one's ever gone through a successful, if you will, or a conversion of any kind from gay to straight? >> i think really one of the most significant things, chris, is that within the gay community, there is definitely a chasm between the gay community and the t

joining they is founder and ceo of pspn bob schmidt and pro football hall of famer and former greenwayacker great willie wood. gentlemen, welcome to the stu o studio. >> as founder of pspn, what exactly is it s your mission? >> the whole concept is predicated on all the modern technology we have today of allowing athletes to grow their brand and connect with the fans. so this is the key. >> it's called the professional sports players network. we're not just talking legends now. we're talking current players as well. >> we're talking men and women, professional athletes, current and legends. we believe that they all have the same opportunity. unfortunately sometimes there's not a platform for them to have that opportunity. >> so this is a social network. it's something online. a facebook for sports fans so to speak. and we know you already signed on pretty big names. >> we have. and it's an important step we're launching next weekend at the collector showcase of america, which is going to be here at the dulles expo center. there will be over 50 athletes present. some of the legends in a

how will google change after eric schmidt this? basically this week. >> i think larry started ceo on april 4, which is the formal date, the chamber 20th was the day it was announced. immediately after that i think where we started -- jumped in and started rethinking the way google is managed. in stepped things up in certain areas and started rethinking how google can reclaim its nimbleness. i think periodically everyone loves that. in another sense, i think that will change so much in that larry's values were always the values that drove google. people channeled his love of speed and scale and ambition and artificial intelligence. so in that sense, i think maybe google would be more what it is, almost doubling down on google mess. >> i did read this memo he sent out. he talked about when people were in meetings, and they shouldn't be typing at their computers or any them. it reminded me early on at the famous story about gary dillard coming to see larry page and the entire time larry was on his black area like this. >> i thought th

. >> joining us now is steve schmidt, senior campaign strategist for the mccain/palin campaign and formerassistant to president george w. bush. it's nice to see you again. someday i'm going to have you here to talk about policy about light rail instead of presidential contenders. someday, okay? have i lost you, steve? are you there? okay. how come candidates in '08 talked so much personal smack about mitt romney? >> i think these races, they're tough, they're fierce, they're competitive. there was a lot of bad blood between the obama campaign and the clinton campaign while they're going against each other. when it's all over, everyone comes together. i think a lot of that stuff is in the past, but, you know, if you look back at the time, mitt romney was the first candidate in 2008 that started running negative campaign ads against his, you know, against his competitors. there were some hard feelings. i think there were some hard feelings on the part of governor huckabee. i think people put that down. i think four years ago is a very long time ago in politics. >> did he lose political capi

come on, look at this republican, steve schmidt. did somebody inject steve with truth serum?t is it about my republican party that put sarah palin out front when she's obviously ill-equipped to be president of the united states at this point in her career? and then the republican party, my republican party rushes to donald trump, and then rushes to michele bauchmann, rushes to rick perry, rushes these people that can't even run their own vocabulary let alone the united states of america. now herman cain. he is -- he is on the face of t it, again, a great guy, a great ceo, but obviously ill equipped to run the united states of america. why does the republican party -- there have to be angry people who are competent in the ways of washington out there that they can rally around. >> ill equipped in a time of great crisis for the country. it's been the strangest year. it's been a reality show from day one. >> it has been a reality show. >> with the trump phenomenon all the way through to michele bauchmann and now on -- >> and by the way, by the way, 50% of the people i named actu

emily schmidt is a washington with a look at the latest.on wednesday for a three- day bus tour. --he left a couple of days ago. >> i'm going to be doing a lot of lifting because there does not seem to be a lot of listening and washington. >>reporter: with less than one week after the senate failed to get enough votes to move forward the $447 but jobs plan and the president is vowing to try again with smaller pieces. >> they did not perhaps understand the entire thing we will break it down. >>reporter: to hire teachers, firefighters police and other elements of the jobs bill will tax millionaires at a higher rate. it is not clear weather this new plan will result in what is a unanimous public sentiment opposition. >> it is time that the president came off of the campaign trail and to negotiate and speak with us with areas of common ground. >>reporter: a bus tour through the carolinas is no coincidence president obama want these areas in 2008 but not be considered to be up for grabs. >> president obama.... this ad is being run with a criticis

we go back to -- if we get information were they have been drinking, we go back to be a double schmidt and emphasize to them the legality of serving them inebriated, and the fact that we will look closely at that thing if we continue to give victims -- it victims of have been drinking in their place and have gone so intoxicated. >> i just want to thank you for posting this on short notice. i want to thank you for your presentation and all of the work you have done. how long have you served in the san francisco police department? >> i am on my 43rd year. to go that is really impressive. the 244 service. -- >> that is really impressive. thank you for your service. you have seen trends change in the 43 years to have been a police officer. techniques to stop crimes have changed significantly, in your change along with it. i want to thank you very much for your service. >> thank you. i do have to setup this cheap i ever seen, this guy here. a-- toughest chief i have ever seen, this guy here. >> i want to say thank you, too. commissioners, anything else? that is it. thank you. and [applause]

if the election were held today, president obama would carry pennsylvania. >> let me go to steve schmidt. i want to review what the governor just said, looking at a ten-point shift in the generic number. all of a sudden people want democrats running the congress. seems to back up the fact that the president has upticked a bit to even money now. >> chris, the number that everybody looks at in the campaigns is the real clear politics average of polls, the poll of polls, if you will. >> sure. >> and what that number shows is the president at a 43% approval rating. it's a very vulnerable number, but i think what this shows there's been a lot of early dancing in the end zone for republicans. this is going to be a very tough race. the republican congress is unpopular, and in fact the election is not a referendum on barack obama. the election is a choice between president obama and a republican alternative, and he's going to run a campaign that puts sharp differences between these two sides in front of the american people, and while he's vulnerable, it's certainly not a foregone conclusion that

the challenge they won was funded by wendy schmidt, the wife of google ceo eric schmidt.eer frustrated watching the slow cleanup of the oil after the bp spill in the gulf of mexico. for almost three months, that oil spilled into the gulf, 4.9 million barrels of it. so wendy thought there had to be a better way. she teamed up with the x prize foundation and together they challenged the world's innovators to find it. 350 teams entered, ten made it to the finals and two met the criteria set by the challenge. the winner, elastic american marine developed technology that skims 4600 gallons of oil a minute from the ocean's surface. the previous best tested rate was 1100 gallons a minute. thanks to the x prize, it is now possible to clean up an oil spill nearly four times faster than technology used during the bp disaster. as you can probably tell, i'm a big fan of the x prize. what is not to like about using old-fashioned competition to spur innovation and make the world a better place. and the prize money itself is just the seed. these challenges end up generating a lot more.

the two other winners also americans brian schmidt and adam rice, he hasn't been able to talk to themheir morning. their phones have been ringing off the hook. a reporter called him and he thought it was a prank. his wife went to the computer and checked the in evidence and it was confirmed that he was the winner after she checked and found it on the internet. there will be a press conference today. he will take the day off from work and just enjoy the award which he will receive on december 10, which was the anniversary of when nobel passed away. >> does he have any idea how he will spend the third of the money? >> reporter: i don't think so. he is overwhelmed. it's split between three people maybe get together and take a fabulous trip together somewhere or maybe they will already have plans. an exciting day. >> a lot of times they just dump it back into research. he deserves little vacation. >> thank you. >>> hayward police are on the scene of a murder this morning. a man has been shot to death outside an apartment. it happened sometime before 9:00 near tyrell avenue. police do not

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in washington, emily schmidt, kron 4 news.e: this is " occupy san jose " is out in makeshift downtown san jose. showing solidarity and frustration. >>catherine: a quick look with your traffic it is beginning to slow. pretty slow the lower deck, south but still moving stay with us, more news after the break. i'm a curious seeker. i am a chemistry aficionado. diphenhydramine. magnesium hydroxide. atheletes foot. yes. i'm a people pleaser. if elected, i promise flu shots for all. i am a walking medical dictionary. congratulations virginia. inflamed uvula. i'm virginia. i'm a target pharmacist and i'm here to answer your questions. >>catherine: with news around the bay a major drug bust. in the bay area bases from two different homes in vallejo with $30,000 worth of methamphetamines, ecstasy, and two different handguns thousands of dollars in cash. this investigation that took three months lead homes and elmwood drive, hillary way. this man is behind bars with bail at one half million dollars. >>catherine: a warminfor studena warn

besides the arlington cemetery stop and the schmidt zonian, foggy bottom is also a good stop. keep in mind it is a is six- block walk. >>> a reminder about our coverage plan for the mlk memorial dedication. we will broadcast the official ceremony at len a.m. sunday on our -- 11:00 a.m. on our sister station. we'll stream coverage. >>> your birth control may play a role in your relationships and the lettuce recall you should know about. >> reporter: taking the pill may affect your love life. number 5 tonight, using birth control can affect your choice in a mate. researchers found women on the pill were electric sexually satisfied but happier overall in their relationships than people who were on the pill when they met their partner. researchers believe that the way the pill evens out a woman's hormone could affect how women judge potential mates. >>> number 4, gaining back weight you lost is not inevitable. the national weight control recommend industry tracked people who successfully kept off the pounds and they found that those people tracked their food intake, eat breakfast

eric schmidt is a senior writer for the new york times to has written about the military and national security affairs for the newspaper for more than 20 years. mr. schmidt has covered some of the bigger stores and was part of two teams of times reporters awarded the pulitzer prize, including one in 1909 for coverage of the transfer of sensitive military technology to china and another in 2009 for coverage of the afghanistan and pakistan. so since the september level of the tax both have made numerous trips to the middle east in betting latrobe's at various levels to cover american military operations there. please welcome thom shanker and eric schmitt. [applause] [applause] >> well, thank you, christina, for the warm introduction. thank you for coming up here on a jury monday morning. my teammates under interfax wishes she were here to. she is open to be a part of your community for the next four years. i thought i would start out. we will do a tag team. the way we have been doing this. kendis describe all little bit about what we have been doing. how this book came to be written and