show sayf ice science physics of the impossible on the science channel as well as the host of two radio programs broadcast on over one hundred forty stations his current work is focused on finishing einstein's project of creating a unified theory to explain how everything works in the universe. and he is the co-founder of something called string field theory which we'll get into later his latest book is called physics of the future a science will shape human destiny and our daily lives whether you're twenty one hundred pleased to welcome from los angeles a man on the cutting edge of science after me. but your cock a welcome. glad to be on the show thank you very much i'm very very glad to have you with us i understand that when you were eight years old you had an epiphany that started you on this path. that's right some people remember the instant that princess diana died i remember the instant when albert einstein by it was in all the newspapers everyone was talking about the fact that he could not finish his greatest work it was to be the theory of everything an equation one inch long

health and science editor, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> people across california joined hands today to support community colleges. in san francisco's porters marched in front of city college before taking part of the joining hands ceremony. this group featured a lot of senior citizens who say they appreciate the computer and exercise classes they take at sf college. >> anybody who has ever been to community college and having been to two of them in my life, i know we can't do without them. it's a great opportunity. >> other hands event took place throughout california. over 10 million americans attend community college. an estimated 200,000 students may not be able to go to school next fall. >>> a catholic congregation in southern california celebrated mass on this palm sunday despite the devastating loss of their church. an arsonist set the church on fire. the fire burned for more than three hours and cost $8 million in damage. a priest escaped the flames and was treated at the scene for minor injuries. today's mass was held at a hall in the same parish. >>> president obama w

reporting live health and science editor, john fowler, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a southwest flight from oakland to san diego made a safe emergency landing last night in los angeles after reports of an electrical burning smell in the plane's cabin. 142 people were on board. no one was hurt. the plane was also a 737, but its emergency landing is said to be unrelated to the cracks that forced friday's landing in arizona. >>> a united airlines flight from new orleans to san francisco had to return to the airport this morning shortly after takeoff because the plane lost electrical power and had smoke in the cockpit. the pilot reported that all of his instruments were out and the air traffic controllers on hand had to help guide united flight 497 to the ground. and the emergency landing was a rough one. the nose of the place of business ended up off the -- the nose of the plane ended up off the tarmac. passengers and crew members all evacuated the plane using emergency chutes. >> they had smoke coming from the nose area. when he touched down, there was even more smoke and kind of a screeching

health and science editor john fowler, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> bp wants the maker of the rigs failedlow-out preventor to pay for some or all of the cleanup costs. the company filed a suit today in federal court in new orleans against cameron international. bp alleges the device had a faulty design and caused an unreasonable amount of risk. bp is also suing the company that operated the deepwater horizon, alleging it failed to properly operate the rig. >>> you will see some big changes if you plan on flying this summer. the faa announced new protections for airline passengers today. just like domestic carriers, foreign airlines will not be allowed to keep passengers on the tarmac for more than four hours. and there will be better compensation for passengers who are bumped from flights. napa passenger rights add joe indicate hanny started pushing for changes when her family endured a long delay. >> they are telling the airlines they have to fully explain at the gate what the possible compensation is in cash. >> bumped passengers could get as much as $1300. the rules are scheduled to ta

health and science editor john fowler, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> bp wants the maker of the rigs failed blow-out preventor to pay for some or all of the cleanup costs. the company filed a suit today in federal court in new orleans against cameron international. bp alleges the device had a faulty design and caused an unreasonable amount of risk. bp is also suing the company that operated the deepwater horizon, alleging it failed to properly operate the rig. >>> you will see some big changes if you plan on flying this summer. the faa announced new protections for airline passengers today. just like domestic carriers, foreign airlines will not be allowed to keep passengers on the tarmac for more than four hours. and there will be better compensation for passengers who are bumped from flights. napa passenger rights add joe indicate hanny started pushing for changes when her family endured a long delay. >> they are telling the airlines they have to fully explain at the gate what the possible compensation is in cash. >> bumped passengers could get as much as $1300. the rules are scheduled to

channel 2 news. >>> google is giving back by donating millions of dollars to support science. the company is donated $12 million that will be divided between seven museums around the world. the california academy of sciences and the exploratory yum in san francisco will receive $2 million each. google's chief technology advocate posted on his blog that museums helped influence many of google's workers to become engineers. >>> well, we had some early morning rain. i mean most of it was gone by about 8:00 in the morning. about a tenth of an inch in parts of the peninsula. then we had sunshine. but no doubt about it a bite to the air. cool air moved in. system raced down to southern california. now we're waiting for the cold unstable air to develop. and it's on its way. but most of it is offshore. however, clouds are beginning to pop up in napa county, sonoma county and also east bay as we start to get a little afternoon heating here. and this cold core low begins to drop in. that will set the stage for possible showers and also thundershowers. you can see the flow just going rig

this science reed no animals allowed. except service channels. they are posted i must entrances.his means out the cat there was sleeping in the star is now on a closed panel of outside the store. but designs your work? the record i did notice more dogs sitting in cars that did before. like this for napping in the backseat. this woman told me she noticed the signs problem about a month ago, she thinks to rise about going inside the box. this woman knew was wrong but she claims her friends were dry anyways. species to, people would say you can't, she would say this is for second. >> stanley: not everyone thinks the signs apply to them like this woman who brings her dark inside and is even being helped by one of the employees. i guess old habits are hard to break. >> justine: i always see people with those small dogs, a checked into their jackets, your dog still on the store. coming up, we'll have >> james: >> louisa: welcome back to the kron 4 news. another very powerful aftershock struck the pan and japan, 6.6 cents on the warning was issued it has been ordered. a government shutd

that informed through diplomatic channels that he would not be released until the arbitration award was waived. well russian space agency has dedicated its latest science space craft launch to the anniversary of your regards legendary flight fifty years ago blasting off from kazakhstan in four days time the launch will carry two russian cosmonauts and american astronaut to the international space station artie's tests are silly and that's the story. well it's a few days before the a crew of the t.m.a. twenty one it blasts off into space and as expected in a few days in the run up to the actual flight they're going through the preflight preparations and right now what you're seeing behind me is the actual capsule that will be taken suspects this is the top part of the space shuttle will where the actual crew will be staying and the crew members that we have a for this flight are some antibody seckel and american astronaut ron garan now what they're going through right now is actually called a fifth check literally checking whether they fit into the seats that have been made as designed especially for them each astronaut cosmonaut has a different build a

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channelling the crocodile hunter himself today. >> our chief paleontologist, jeff ranieri joining us from free mobt at the natural science my seek. here's all we ask of you, don't drop any of those things because it will come right out of your paycheck, do you know that? >> yes. they are worth many, many, many paychecks out here. these fossils that are just a stunning find here in the east bay. we're talking about fossils frozen in time throughout portions of the east bay that were frozen during the ice age. this is one of actually, the most preserved collections in north america. joining us right now is dr. jies blueford, a geologist at the children's natural history museum. tell us what you guys have here? >> we have a collection of the fossils found in the 1940s discovered by the boy pail yen to pale toll justs and we have other antelope hearts and we have, also, the short-faced bear. >> that scary-looking creature. one thing that's really unique that was able to unearth all these pre-historic creatures were how the fossils and the earthquake fault lines intermingle together. can you tell us how that helped find these? >> the

science monitor correspondent takes a look at the week in congress including the federal budget negotiations and a stopgap federal spending bill that is due to expire on april 8. then a fox news channelsponded talk about the middle east protests and their book. book.

channel scablands'. now these were strangely disturbing to the geologists' because they were reminiscent of the pre-geological bible based creationism rather than a true scienceand yet they couldn't do my catastrophes have a role to play in the geological process. in the meantime, of paulo told a lot about the moon coming uninteresting body. it isn't just a big blob of land for and she did it matter. it's a miniature planet that has its own evolution. it created probably by small particles created when a planet collided with the earth 4.6 billion years ago. that was so fast the imaging malted the moonves of the initial moon had a ocean rock that form a crust and mantle of the court and was later melted to flood parts of the surface with volcanic lava and it also had these gigantic impact that spooked out the giant circular impact craters some of them larger than the 2,000 kilometers across. now the moon's geological looked at the end of a 3 billion years ago and since then we have had a steady rain that ground the surface into the popular left so in a nut shell you are now experts on the geology because that's the geological story of the moon, but the insight