please join me in welcoming andrew scott cooper. [applause] >> thank you, geir, and thank you to the gerald r. ford presidential library for hosting me and for mistaking my -- making my research and this wonderful event possible. you may have heard the expression it's good to be king. well, tonight it's good to be an historian with an interest in oil diplomacy and oil fence si. this in this morning "the new york times" published an op sed, and "the wall street journal" published one on the importance of history studies in creating a competitive dynamic work force. our bid tonight seeks to bridge two compelling and vital areas of public interest. it's a rare and wonderful thing for a historian to watch as events that were only speculated about a generation ago finally come to pass more than three decades later. five years ago when i began my research into u.s. oildiplomacy in the 1970s, i was puzzled by references made in documents from 1976 that read like something out of a financial thriller. there was talk of a sudden increase in

my name is scott cooper and i am on the backside of the folsom street development and i have been sitting in on the neighborhood community meetings. and there are concerns of a fire station going in the area that is a bit more residential and we are hoping that they do what they can to be conscientious of one of the area's busiest fire stations and inevitably there will be noise but however they do the operations they be conscious of the people in the neighborhood. it is interesting to see the evolution of the particular site from the commercial uses in the 1980's and sweat job and grow op and the mini tower and now a fire station. personally i am kind of excited about this. it will serve the community better. as far as the rats and mosquitos, you can find the same thing at the location, so please keep working on it whatever you did at that the other location. and i would like to call on moma to meet the requirements for or to help with the requirements of 2% for public art that is typically paid for with municipal projects and a fire station would normally fall into that category and sin

cooper show." >> with every step, press, and scott -- squat she is moving closer toward her goal of moving 100 pounds>> and up. good. >> she wears a size 24 and weighs about 300 pounds. she says it is time for change. >> people would say things, but this is me wanting to change myself, to better myself. i am getting in shape. i just want to live a healthier lifestyle. quite she just started her mission three weeks ago with anderson cooper. he connected her with it is in a structure earners -- instructors twice a week. >> if you have the motivation, they're willing to do the work and do not shy away. >> for mother and sister are making it a family ever. >> we push each other. we help each other around. you cannot just do it by yourself. >> she is motivated by a family history of high blood pressure and diabetes. >> i do not want that trend to continue. at the rate we are going that is exactly the route we were taking. it stops here. >> cooking healthy meals at home and packing smart lunches for the girls. while her journey is just beginning, in the first week, changes have already begun. >> i told her

scott paterno continued his father will cooperate to the grand jury investigation and has an attorney. the psychologist who is treating one alleged victim spoke about his client's state of mind. listen to this. >> obviously, the individual that sustained this kinds of abuse, they typically suffer from anxiety, depression. there are a lot of concerns. it's very humiliating to have to not only experience this but then to, you know, have to discuss it with law enforcement. it's difficult, then, to be fearful or live in fear that others may determine who you are. and they may or may not approach you about it. again, very awkward, very embarrassing, for the individual, even though he's a hero, it's not necessarily something that everyone understanding or appreciates. >> yesterday on "good morning america," the mother of the boy identified by a grand jury as victim number one says her son didn't know how to handle sandusky alleged sexual advances. sandusky attorney says his client is innocent. president obama weighing in on this abuse scandal as well. the president was attending the carrier

scott? >> reporter: the planes have been taking off on time. the weather is cooperating all over the bay area. since we talked to you in the last hour, a lot more cars have come off the freeway heading down to san jose airport. but all day long things have been running smoothly, both outside and inside. i want to take you inside and show you how for the first time in quite some time we had an airport free of construction here at san jose. passengers have gotten hip to how to do security lines. they have been moving smoothly all day and all evening long. most of the passengers that we talked to say they actually got here earlier than they had to. >> we kept hearing that today's the busiest travel day of the year and we got to the airport early and just sailed through. there were empty seats on our flight. it was one of the quietest flights from houston to san jose that i've ever been on. >> today is not the busiest day for us. it's probably in august when you have business travel and leisure travel at the same time. >> reporter: all right. now, from san jose i want to tak

scott. this is a very strange story, how he was supposed to negotiate a peace without the great general cooperating but unbelievably, miraculously he brought it off. he was fluent in spanish, the mexicans liked him a great deal, and eventually -- it is a complicated story -- he got them to sign the treaty at the virgin of guadalupe in 1848 ceding everything west of texas; new jersey, california, nevada, utah, half of colorado and a chunk of wyoming for $15 million. now, that is a real estate deal. it helps if you have wynnfield scott occupying -- winfield scott occupying mexico city nearby. but he did this after he was fired by james k. polk who thought he had become a whig and a friend of whitfield scott. he did it as a private citizen. but it was such a great treaty that they ratified it anyway. he lived the rest of his life in poverty and obscurity. i found him a truly fascinating man. >> it says everything about the eerd. and the senate of the time, you think our politicians are bad today, boy, back in the day they almost didn't ratify the treaty because they didn't think they needed to pay $15