think singapore singapore only has five percent of the water that it needs it does therefore doesn't have the ten percent it needs for use at home and in jobs and it doesn't have any for the food. so for the half million people living in an area about the size of london or a small island. it is in fact a very prosperous country it proves that water in the absence of water in the scarcity of water doesn't determine outcomes poverty and poverty which normally derives from poor governance and organization of economies is the explanation for people's. being unable to gain access to the water they need for all because they need this whole what they need for jobs for what they need for food ok danny should i go to go to you i mean yemen is out of water is it the world's responsibility to make sure the country has water. is it the world's responsibility that that goes into the realm of ethics says gently on a matter of quietly that's why i'm asking it and it was i was afraid enough but fair enough and if you ask me yes absolutely it is our responsibility to make sure that that people do but

singapore singapore in the same breath. is very democratic underground and singapore? >> areas. but if china has an example, is singapore. the chinese government has been fascinated by singapore and he was the case during the 1990s that the singaporean officials are constantly going to china and the chinese government was studying what was accomplished. obviously it's a tiny city state so it's considered a laboratory from the point of view of china. there has been -- you see the singaporean system being challenged increasingly. but again, it's able because it's so effective. >> so tell us what makes for successful results against the dictatorship? >> there so many elements. the challenge in the book is this notion of spontaneous revolution because it's something that we really stand to rethink because we turn on cnn and see tens of thousands of egyptians flooding sharia square. so you can be forgiven for thinking all of a sudden on one particular day tens of thousands of egyptians came to the same conclusion that actually today is the day where we no longer can take it anymore. mubarak has been there 30 years. why did the

singapore has adopted toward the occupation by imperial japan during world war ii. 2012 has marked 70 years since japanese forces grabbed control of the former british colony. today, singapore and japan maintain friendly relations, but efforts are under way to make sure young singaporeans never forget their nation's history. nhk world has a report. >> reporter: the national museum of singapore documents the history of the city state. on the 70th anniversary of japan's occupation, a new exhibition on world war ii. displays include sensitive issues, such as the killings of residents by japanese soldiers who suspected them of supporting the resistance in china. photographs and mementos honor the victims. another section recalls japanese national who saved the lives of many detainees. >> it's very impactful. because it shows all the photos and tells the stories through pictures and the artifacts. it's important to know about stuff that's happening in singapore. >> reporter: singapore was a british colony when it was occupied by the imperial japanese army one year into world war ii. military rule lasted for three years until japan's surrender. 67 years later, university students join a team led by a british ex parte researching wartime battlefields. they uncover bullets and parts of gas masks at sites where british and japanese forces fought harsh battles. this student studies a

saw richard branson -- sir richard branson -- selling 49% of his virgin airline group to singapore airlines. singapore now trying to sell that. they paid nearly $1 billion for it in 2000. we don't have a price yet. a lot of talk about delta might be interested. part of the reason that gives them -- some of their 304 takeoff and landing slots that virgin has into london's heathrow airport. the busiest hub in the world, i think. back to you. >> well, if they get it, i hope they don't affect virgin because it's the best way to get to london. geoff cutmore live from london, we appreciate that. >>> as always, shoot us an e-mail, waytooearly@msnbc.com and let us know why you are up right now. or text "awake" followed by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses. we've got to wake you up in the studio, too. >>> meanwhile, still ahead on "way too early" -- >> play fake and now sanchez fires, and it's intercepted again. >> mark sanchez getting benched after throwing three first-half interceptions. and ironically, tim tebow did not come in to save the day. who did? we'll show you who rex ryan calle

several reports say delta is in talks now to buy a 49% stake of the airline from singapore airlines. singapore is confirming it is in discussions. it will not provide any further details. sir richard branson owns 51% in virgin and a stake in jury anyone america based at sfo. >>> the text message turns 20 today. has it been that long? yes. december 3rd, 1992 the first text message was sent in the u.k. by a 22-year-old tech to a co-worker during a christmas party. the message read: "merry christmas." some saying text messages dying out with im still, happy 20th birthday. >>> traffic and weather together, next on the abc7 morning news. live look outside we see traffic moving in san jose, no problems, no rain now. meteorologist mike nicco will have the full forecast to tell us if there is more on the way. we'll also check the traffic with sue hall. ñ >>> welcome back. 6:08. live doppler picking up dry air for the morning commute. a little fog around 101 especially from petaluma into novato watch out for that. with the clouds starting to thin more fog could develop in the north bay, 39 in santa ros

this summer there was a project in singapore, urban prototyping singapore where we worked with local interests to open up over 30 private data sets and we had to engineer, what kind of contract would you have? how would you handle privacy? how would you let people use it for only that purpose? that form of innovation as it spreads here and elsewhere i think leads to a whole lot of new possibilities and applications. and this great cross trading between the private second for and public sector is just now taking off. in many ways san francisco has a special responsibility here. lots of cities are investing in opening data. that's a lot of supply. you need the demand side to prove to the city it's worthwhile and to prove to the public you can build an ecosystem there. we can do things with that whether bottom up activities, gray area or private companies. so, it's a moment of real burst of innovation and the landscape changes as the public and private sides come together. >> i very much agree with everything that was said. i'll add that in addition to the public sector, at the city lev

singapore, urban prototyping singapore where we worked with local interests to open up over 30 private data sets and we had to engineer, what kind of contract would you have? how would you handle privacy? how would you let people use it for only that purpose? that form of innovation as it spreads here and elsewhere i think leads to a whole lot of new possibilities and applications. and this great cross trading between the private second for and public sector is just now taking off. in many ways san francisco has a special responsibility here. lots of cities are investing in opening data. that's a lot of supply. you need the demand side to prove to the city it's worthwhile and to prove to the public you can build an ecosystem there. we can do things with that whether bottom up activities, gray area or private companies. so, it's a moment of real burst of innovation and the landscape changes as the public and private sides come together. >> i very much agree with everything that was said. i'll add that in addition to the public sector, at the city level for open data disclosures and the private sector i can also speak to how important this is at the federal government level as well as we continue to work with cities across america to get more open data sets released, to the question about the history and we really look to recent examples to see the dura power of open data sets. my favorite examples are weather when weather data was released, weather channel.com and many others, and gps global positioning system. we know the history there was the military infrastructure that liberated public consumption and use, but the things we expected such as navigation, but also things that people didn't necessarily anticipate in the beginning such as precision crop farming which lowers the cost of food in the supermarket ultimately. so, the question is now what is the next gps, what else can be done? how can the federal government work with cities, with platforms like cities.data,.gov and other systems like that. how can we liberate some of this data while also protecting privacy and confidentiality which is hugely important and something that we're seeking to celebrate and support in a way our customers which i'm sitting alongside here, for the entrepreneurs and the organizations that are using consuming this data to turn them into real value. that is something that is very significant priority for the administration and that's why the president launched an open data initiative to support. >> let me dig a little more on the federal side. can you talk a little more about the work that you specifically are doing and sort of, you know, how the department of energy when it became interested in open data, what is available right now? >> there is so much available for start-ups right now. it's hard to choose a few favorites. wow, i can tell you what some of the best ones that people have told me are the most popular so that will be like many other things in the start-up world, it's not the government that is going to come up with the answer. it's partners working together to find the solution. so, one data set that comes to mind, i want to do a show of hands. i get this question a lot in terms of how much of the work is getting out there. how many of you have ever heard of the green button, a green button? most of the panelists and audience members. it's a good thing we're here. it is a initiative launched by the white house but industry led. you should be able to get your own energy data in a machine readable format you can then give to companies, organizations like the ones being celebrated here today to provide real value to you such as saving money, improving energy efficiency, and protecting the environment. so, the green button here we are in san francisco, i can say with some public comfort that pg&e is a signatory to the green button, download my data. and basically you go to the utility website. you can download your own green button data which by itself is, well, i'm an energy guy, an energy geek. i consider with confidence. it is not interesting, necessarily, but when you take your green button data and you give it to some companies, they have amazing things they can do with that green button to, again, save you money. something as simple as if you look at your green button which is kilowatt hours for those that are engineering minded, a line grab if you think about t some companies today can look at your green button and figure out if your refrigerator is broken function need a new air conditioner. that's real money if you think about it at a commercial or industrial scale. that is one data set. to your other question about what is the federal government doing, we're seeking not just an energy, but across the government to engage entrepreneurs and innovators across all the different sectors. for those of you familiar with the history of the health data initiative launched by then the hhs health and human services chief technology officer todd park, we sought to have a health data palooza proceeded by health data jambs or modeling sessions, jams sounded more fun, we can invite entrepreneurs in and see what can be done and created real products within a few months. that is being rolled out at education, energy, treasury, u.s. aid, other agencies as well. these programs are celebrating the use of open data and hopefully will provide some additional support. i think there are even folks here who have been part of these events. we're excited for that continued support and hope you can all join this initiative in the neutral. -- future. >> so, earlier you were talking a little about kind of how san francisco came in in terms of actually ading the officer. more broadly how do you think san francisco compares and what are some of the other cities that are doing really well in terms of open data? >> i should be clear. when san francisco is third, we have a pact. i'll add to that actually. what's great in san francisco is there is not just going to be a chief data officer. there is also the office of civic innovation. jay's team, shannon's team. by having both of those units in place i think there is going to be a really powerful team. because you can't just open up the data. you have to do things like this, where you get the community together or you have people actually talking about it because the demand side, as we were talking about it, will be there because there is going to be someone there. there have to be people working with it who are getting out there. i think this is what this city is going to be really powerful. in terms of other cities doing as well, chicago is doing some really interesting stuff. scary cool stuff. they're taking 3 in 1 data, pothole request and crime report and matching it up with social media. they're getting this really deep and rich picture of what is going on in the city. and you can do that with data when you think about it creatively. philadelphia as i mentioned, they are really active in open data. and new york, again with 3 in 1 is doing smart analytics. i think that's what you'll see happening as well, government starts to become smarter, make better decisions, better policies. this term algorithmic regulation, which means you can have laws and policies in the cities determined by data and not just what we think is best, but what's actually best. so, as cities keep catching on and more and more with the data, you're going to see some really interesting things coming out. >> cool. while we're talking about data, another part of the announcement today was also motion loft making private data available within sort of that initiative and that website wrieri'd like to hear a little more, john, about kind of deciding to share that data with the city and also a lot of times especially with other companies you see them being very protective of their data. there is a lot of value there. how do you sort of balance, protecting the value of your data and commercial viability versus making it available to the public? >> so, we have a unique problem, i think, to a lot of start-ups in the fact that we have a product that we sell and a lot of different vertical. we also have data we want to provide to the society at large. and how do we not step on our own toes and give away our own data and make the company worthless. so, it's tough. it's a definite fine line between the two. today we announced that we're going to give crowding data to the city so you'll know where crowds are in the city and when they occur and where they occur. and that really isn't commercially viable for us. so, something we can provide to the city without any repercussions financially, which is great. we want to do more of those things. i made the decision to release this data about three minutes before a speech that i gave at spur a couple weeks ago. and literally, yeah, i was committed obviously, jay took me up the second i said t we have to go talk now. okay. so, jay walked it down. i think jay is great for partnering with start-ups as much as he does. >> great. who can be the other start-ups, people using the data to make products. you already talked about what you actually made. i'd love to hear more about the experience of working with the city's data like, you know, other things, like services or data points you would actually like -- would make it better and you can sort of take that. whoever has an answer ready can go first. >> and i have a microphone. i wanted to say this earlier and it kind of slipped my mind. we have the most amazing experience working with the city over the past just really the few weeks in building this application about urban growth. one at the data portals, it has a rich repository of information. but working with -- we had lots of questions, right. something maybe there were attributes or information that wasn't necessarily documented to the extent we wanted. and we asked the question, we would get these immediate responses with really insightful conversations that would come out of it. i think that type of collaboration is only going to make the portal better. the more people use it the better it's going to get. we also experienced some challenges, you know. we did a lot of work with the data. we did a lot of data, put things together. we did things like added value, added certain locations. and i would love to be able to pull that back up to a shared community portal. from what i can tell it wasn't necessarily promoted at this time, but i think there is a lot of value in that. and shannon, interrupt me if i'm speaking -- if that's -- if i'm stating anything that's incorrect. you know, i know that they went through a special process. maybe we make it a little easier, a little more seamless so that anybody is pulling down data and doing things, they can't push it back up. that was one of the things we would love to see. >> probably shouldn't have been in public, but we were very naive about the whole process and we were actually trying to feed content locations around the city. and started to do this and started to think there must be a list out there. there must be a list of every park in san francisco. i would find it in wikipedia. we stumbled into the sf data website and started looking. it was unbelievable, actually. so, some of the data sets we really needed were already there in very, very good format. and random things that i would never think of like movie set locations in the city of san francisco or every piece of civic art that was there, just really interesting things all with, you know, latitude-longitude, tags and information about them. it was really interesting. and then in my first meeting, in our first meeting with the innovation group, the city i heard of 10 other things that i clearly should have been using and didn't even know existed, literally within the first 15 minutes of the meeting. ss things like street safety, sidewalk safety scores and quality scores so we could wrap people around places. * route people around places. really unbelievable. we availed ourselves of resources going forward. we had the same -- like any data set, you find great things about it. then there's missing values or is thisxtion that got auto populated. we fixed a lot of things. we fixed a lot of gps coordinates. we would love the ability to post that back up * . even if you're not crowd sourcing new things, you can definitely crowd source quality of a data set that way. >> yeah, it's been a really great experience working with 100 plus and motion loft. just to respond, i think that this is a whole new opportunity actually what you're talking about. in addition to reaching out to the private sector to generate more data sets as you just mentioned, there's also the opportunity to have better data sets from the work that you've done, scrubbing them and harmonizing them. i think there is also this really great opportunity to generate whole new types of data sets like motion loft is doing. and i think that this is going to present something kind of back to the city, showing where some of our gaps are and hopefully filling in some of those gaps with those data sets. so, i think that there is something about having more city data sets, existing data sets as well as creating new types of data. this is really exciting for us. >> we're going to tell a quick story on how private data can stimulate civic innovation. this summer in singapore, we had about 30 data sets opened p. up. one data set was about a million or so records of taxis all over town. typically taxi data stuff, it's hard to get, private companies, they don't want to open it up competitively. one taxi company at the last minute opened up, motion loft made it efficient to see what would happen. because they contributed to the stuff, we had five separate teams working on could we do collaborative consumption of sharing taxis, build a dash panel for companies to know where to go. had i hatch i had been working on a model to see how much overlap there was. they sent us to tokyo to work on that. so, this one set, a million records of where the taxis were not only led to a lot of innovation, but people realized 15% of all taxi routes kind of where people went, about 15% of that was all overlapped. so, a city that never really thought about collaborative consumption or sharing suddenly is looking at that. parking data was opened up similarly about a million recor

december 26, they decided to send her to singapore, to a hospital that specializes in organ transplants, has all her organs were failing her. she arrived to singapore. they immediately put her on antibiotics. her vital started dropping. just about 24 hours later, he got the news that she had passed away. essentially, she was in a terrible condition, and her condition had been deteriorating. obviously, doctors did everything they can. her family want the body flown back to india. the government is working how logistically to bring her back here, and that is another contentious issue. >> bracing for more public anger over this case. >> that is right. since the december 16 attack, and once the incident had been publicized, people have been taking to the streets, saying the government has not been paying enough attention to women's safety and sexual assault. billy itself has the highest number of sexual assaults in the country. the rate happens every 24 minutes. rape is the fastest-growing crime in the country. it has been largely ignored. this incident resonated with the indian public, bringing them out on the streets, asking for changes in the way po

singapore is number six. singapore is basically a fascist government. they tell you what to do. when the baby is born. they tell the baby's parent what blanket to put on her or him. what kind of rather to have. >> i think that blanket takes a blanket statement. not a lot of freedom going on in singaporerwegian countries committing suicide and can't go outside because it's dark. >> they got a new bmw if some kid run as key across it and some asian cat wants to pull his pants down and smack him with a cane across his buttocks, i'm all for it. >> miller man of the people. all right. nfl. you have a beef with the national football league, miller. what is it? >> listen, he is just like obama. is he going to try to change the whole game and get out of the way. roger, shut the league down. i don't know how you sleep with yourself if you have that much problem with it. just shut the league down. if you want to see the penalties replayed on any given night in a current nfl game, watch the show later that night about who is in the nfl's hall of fame. they are the same plays. ronnie lot would be fined out of the league right now. is he one of the greatest football players i have ever seen. and then they will play this game on you like liberals do where they will go i guess you are saying you ar

singapore felt advancing forces. the law was a blow to britain. today singapore and japan enjoy friendly relations but efforts are under way to make sure they never forget their history. >> reporter: the national museum of singapore documents the state. on the 70th anniversary of japan's occupation, the museum has opened the new exhibition on world war ii. sensitive issues, such as the killing of residents by japanese soldiers who suspected them of supporting the resistance in china. photographs and mementoes honor the victims. another section recalls the japanese national who saved the lives of many detainees. >> it's very impactful because it shows all of the stories through big pictures and artifacts. it's important to know about stuff that is happening in singapore. >> reporter: it was a british colony one year into world war ii. military rule lasted for three years until japan's surrender. 67 years later, university student join a team led by a british researcher war time battlefields. they uncover bullets and parts of gas masks at sites where british and japanese forces fought harsh battles. he started archeology at college and enjoys the benefits of modern singapore but at the same time she wanted to learn

singapore's remarkable growth. as china gains economic might of its own, singapore needs to consider their demands for better treatment seriously in order to retain its position as a beacon of success. mark ho, nhk world, singapore. >> and that's going to wrap up our bulletin for today. i'm patchari raksawong in bang cox. >>> u.s. defense secretary says the united states will station f-35 stealth jets in five years. >> we are also enhancing our presence and capabilities in the region. that includes laying the groundwork for the first overseas deployment of the f-35 joint strike fighter in 2017. >> the f-35 is equipped with stealth capabilities to obscure it from radar. the plan is to check china's military growth. the united states also deploy the f-35 in okinawa. the defense ministry will the defense ministry will the defense ministry will adopted f-35s as the next mainstream fighter jet. >>> the u.s. congress will approve funding from the pacific to guam. this is part of realignment of u.s. forces in japan. the house and senate armed services committees held a conference on the national defense authorization act for fiscal 2013. the committees approved a budget of $26 million for the marine's transfer. the bil

singapore. i did not own singapore airlines even owned a stake in virgin atlant atlantic. it is rumored delta airlines may actually bid for singapore's stake in virgin because they want some more gates at heathrow airport in london. >> they are lucrative, those virgin gates at heathrow. that is the holy grail. >>> hospital stock hma is down more than 4.5% today. and it is because of this. >> reporter: with american health care costs so out of control, we were stunned to hear from former doctors and m.d. ors at one of the nation's largest hospital chains that they'd been pressured to admit patients regardless of medical need to increase revenues. >> this is coming from a non-physician. somebody who never went to medical school, never seen or treated a patient is telling a physician how they should be taking care after patient and making decisions related to a patient. my blood pressure is going up just saying this. >> cheryl covers hma for crt capital. you put a sell call on the stock after last night's "60 minutes" report. a pretty powerful report indeed. why should we be worried? >> two reasons. allegations made by "60 minutes" last

singapore air when it had 49%, which is what you're buying. they said singapore air never could really maximize the profit potential. what can you do that singaporebout that access between new york and london? >> yes. and it's about geography. singapore is a long way away from london. and the traffic flows between singapore and london are light. a couple hundred people a day between singapore and london. whereas the traffic flows between the u.s. and uk for business travelers represent $2 billion in annual revenue. so it's massive. massively larger, and the geography is a lot closer. >> you're expecting approval perhaps by the middle of next year. once that happens when will you say, okay, let's modify some of the flight schedules in terms of there's 31 daily flights right now for virgin atlantic between europe, the uk and north america. will you modify those to maximize new york and london even more? >> we will do -- we will take steps once we have the appropriate government approval, and we've had implementation of antitrust immunity, you would expect in 2014 that we will begin to maximize the slot portfolio, virgin atlantic and the fantastic b

. >>> in singapore, people are getting ready for the new year by floating 20,000 spheres down the singapore. each one represents a wish. organizers say the floating display aims to connect people through a collective expression of their dreams. that's beautiful. the spheres will be lit in different colors on new year's eve and be part of a fireworks display as well. >>> delays on the metro happen. but here's a new reason why some riders were late for dinner. a woman went into labor on the red line. she didn't give birth on the train. metro stopped the train to wait for an ambulance. medics got there in time and got her to gw hospital just in time to deliver her baby. >> whew. close call. stay with us. news4 today continues right now at 5:00 a.m. >>> we've got fairly clear skies. but we are in for major weather changes in the next 24 hours. >> signs of hope for a new deal with just four days until we hit the fiscal cliff. good morning everybody. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eric go-- erika gonzalez. it's the last friday of the year, mr. gilchrist. >> yes, it is. >>> we could be talking rain a

singapore that's encouraging sort of singapore china corporate auctions. we have about three of those in development. but of course, we have a global strategy and china is a major part of that strategy. >> what do you need to do to be able to make something that's going to sell in india and china simultaneously? what kind of products can do that? >> the hollywood films tend to travel very well in asia, especially the action films. movies like "the expendables." you pointed out james bond. "ghost rider" did very well. but it isn't easy. those are two very separate markets. china is, of course, the major player in the asian marketplace. if one can qualify for a co-production, which by the way, the clarity for co-productions is not quite there as yet, but if one can qualify, you get past the quarter system and you're sort of able to go into the marketplace and be treated as a chinese film. and as such, you're able to access extraordinary market. it's been proved that, you know, the hollywood films are now doing extremely well there. but it is tricky to qualify as a co-production into china and it is also tricky to be one of the 34 films that get into china. so it's not all roses, but we need new marketplaces and china is certainly growing as an extraordinary pace. >> yeah, and what's it like trying to finance productions at the moment? >> just globally -- i mean, the marketplace is pretty strong. after 2008, there was -- we kind of hit a roadblock with banks and with wall street and all of that kind of stuff. but i think the marketplace and the financial marketplace has come back pretty strong. though there are problems in some territories in europe like italy and spain, greece, of course. there are other strong markets. again, this is a reason why china and russia and brazil and india have become so important at the global scenario. >> okay, we wish you all the best. have a great few days there in singapore. >>> the british chancellor executive george osborne is giving his autumn statement today. the chancellor has already dropped big hints about what we can expect. katie barnfield has gone up to man chester to see how the government's economic mandate is really playing well. >> reporter: earlier this week, the chancellor george osborne warned that although the uk's economic recovery will take longer than planned, it would be catastrophic if he put down his austerity measures now. but it is a catastrophe already here? manchester looks like a thriving city. but with the surrounding areas home to some of the most economically disadvantaged parts of the uk. rows of shops stand unused and the number of people claiming benefits has risen almost 70% since 2008. the uk's opposition labor party insists the government's austerity measures are too harsh and grossly unfair. >> manchester city council has seen 170 million cooks after two years, whereas other authorities have received no cuts at all.

singapore. and we are not fillon. -- and we are not singapore. and we are not finland. what can we learn from ourselves in other parts of the educational system that are more successful? he bought up post secondary education. the universities in this country are the gold standard internationally. what do they have that that -- tht the k-12 system does not have? they have competition garrett secondly, they have bridey. it is not one size fits all. you can go to a community college, is small liberal arts college, a research university. they have provided. one of the things we try to do is say what are some of the sources of american excellence in other areas that could be imported into the k-12 education system? i confirmed that the monopolistic tendencies in the k-12 education system may be the biggest problem. i think there are things we can learn from others. there is also a lot we can learn from ourselves in other areas of american life that are more successful. >> think about the two things that keep people about our country -- we still believe that merit matters most. it is not where you came from, who your people are but what you accomplished your hard work and through the application of your talents for the challenges you face. the second thing is the dynamism in innovation. there is no place in the world that innovates like america. merritt is irrelevant to the equation and innovation, you do not even hear about. if you think about the dynamism and the merit, if we infused those in our k-12, that goes to the schools and what of the comparison is, for every ten that apply, the except one. in america for everyone who applies, they take 10. what they're doing is really important. if we're going to fix this problem, we have to transform the system that does not believe in marriage and that she's innovation to one that has the dynamism that is the hope of the feature of this country. it will be the whole of the future of our education system. >> the last thing i did before i let the public school system is i was with a president at ibm and he said you had been a good friend but you have done we did not done enough for our schools. here is the idea. i would like to create a school, mix it with a four year high school and train people to be technicians. at the end of six years, if they get out of the school, they get their associates degree and you ibm certificate them in technology. if they meet your criteria, you hire them. to his great credit, he agreed to do this. we opened a school in new york city year-ago and people are lined up around the block to get into it. it is such an exciting -- everybody said you cannot mix your community college with k- 12. the bureaucrats worship at different churches say cannot mix them. and you cannot bring the business people because only the educators can cert. what would they know about that brought the mark that i admire most said what to do, he does it bloomberg is a great school. so he said all right, i will give you one too. dated five of them in chicago. -- he gave them five of them in chicago. one way to think about that question is why don't we create the kind of meaningful creative and vocational opportunities for kids so they have applicable skills that are valuable in the market. not everybody in my view is going to do a four year liberal arts. we can create a differentiated system in which people what different career paths -- people can have different career paths. but we cannot do is abandon kids which is what we are now doing in k-12. crowd: prech, brother, preach. [laughter] >> i am going to ask a few people here to improve the quality of the questions. let's begin with that secretary of the mexico for the public education department. >> good evening. we started the conversation tonight saying people and ideas matter most. we have put a lot of ideas on the table if you articulate in number one idea that change is education and therefore our national security and economy and nation, what would it be. if we do not deliver on that, what do we look like in 20 years? >> the task force centers a choice. . i think for me personally, if you look around the country, to place is worth looking very hard at -- one in new orleans a process after katrina were they could start all over again. the other place is harlem where i think there is now more choice in that little neighborhood. if you look at the results, it is amazing. about a third of the kids in harlem in the third grade are in a charter schools. the harlem district went up. -- went up dramatically from when we started this intense interest process there. it is now about 16th out of 32 districts. charter schools outperformed almost everybody. the public schools, which were 28th, moved up significantly themselves. those are two cases the models we should develop. that is where i would come down. >> i've a degree it is choice. the effect on the system -- i choice.gree it's effect on the system. if colleges not get applicants, and will go out of the business are designed to get applicants -- go out of business or do something to get applicants. someone said on our task force we cannot have an opt out system beard we have one. that is why houses are expected in fairfax county because people opt into those districts with their kids or they build -- they go to private schools. the only people who step in failing schools are poor people. that is the height of inequality. that is what i call it a civil rights issue. those people need choices. more kids will be better educated and it will have a catalytic effect on the school system. [applause] >> the secretary of state, as a member of the cabinet, [unintelligible] >> it has been a pleasure to hear you. it was worth traveling coach class. [laughter] the ultimate compliment. >> he made the point that ideas matter. it also matter in national security. america realized it could not win the cold war if it still had a scandalous segregation in the south. winning the civil rights battle at home was a precondition of winning the fight politically across the globe. i think looking from the outside there is the same danger now. when i go to china and i criticize them for their lack of democracy, they say but we are educating all our people. you did not do that in britain and america. when i had been in the middle east, and talk to people on the edge of radicalism, they say look at the protest in justices in your british and european and american nations. we would never allow that under an islamic state. these are self-serving versions of the truth. the allies even. nevertheless, they have power. i wanted to what extent american political leaders can articulate the case that as long as there is inequality driven by education in america, that america provides bill leadership that the world needs is compromise. one of the things it reminds me of its arguments in the 1960's. i think of the conservatives, it worries me that people who do not accept this is the civil rights challenge of the time. if you are a poor citizen in mississippi, there is no choice in a diversity of pluralism. almost all the schools are bad schools and almost all the children face a bleak feature. -- bleak future. surely people can get together and say we need to sort this civil-rights battle now. [applause] >> i am glad he made the trip. i could not agree more. the united states, i believe the greatest source of our leadership abroad is not the military or our economic strength. it is this great american creed that resonates around the world that you can overcome your circumstances and did great things. that has led people to come here for generations from all over to be a part of that theory which is what we spend the best -- we have been the best at mobilizing human potential to immigration. but it is not is mobilizing him potential from abroad but from all segments and all classes. your actou're not in -- in your circumstances. education was a way out. i will tell my own family's story. i am third-generation college educated. why is that often mark because my grandfather -- why is that? when my grandfather was a young man in alabama, he decided he was going to get a college education so he asked how a colored man to go to college, 1919. it told about a college 30 miles away. he said of his cotton, went off to college, pay for his first year. he asked how anyone else was going to college. they said he had eight -- he they have scholarships. they were presbyterian ministers. my grandfather said that is exactly what i have in mind. our family had in college educated and presbyterian ever since. he knew about that transforming power of education. the wonderful part of the story is that out of eutaw, alabama, in 2 generations, the secretary of state, his granddaughter. [applause] whatever people have thought about policies of around the world, whatever people have thought about us in any other way, that story resonates and if that is no longer true in the united states of america, then we will not lead because we will not have the moral fiber for which to lead. >> i think the domestic consequences are even greater for this country. when you read -- have a country where there is virtually no social mobility -- how few are going to high-quality colleges. sociability is drastically different. this is not just in terms of global leadership. we can either ourselves up from the inside. tom brokaw road about the british generation where people would fight and die for this country with pride. the question for our generation is not whether we will fight and die but what we will fight for an america that believes in the american dream, or will we allow this to become the american memory? if we lose hope, the global consequences will almost pale in comparison to the domestic consequences. [applause] >> this comes back to the national security case for improving education. it is produced the kind people we need to staff at various government agencies and the military. it is for reasons of competitiveness, reasons of citizenship. we all have to go out. i think what condie is getting at is fundamental. for a policy we set by our example. it is as important that any talk of a point given to any ambassador. we talk about ideas. the battle for ideas continues. talking about singapore china, somehow this is a feature or is not. one of the ways we will make sure it is not as by dealing with the issues essential to this conference here today. the next person we will hear some is the state superintendent of education from louisiana. >> to give very much. -- thank you very much. it is so great to be here. i'm surrounded by people who think like i did -- i do. now.rgency iof now is kids are dying for adults to get their act together. and we are also suffering every day and i've got a new life. i walked away from the public service life and now in the aerospace business. >> welcome to the 1%. [laughter] but i amm very lucky also witnessing an amazing thing. today i got an e-mail from my technology person who said we had been attacked again. our computers are being hacked. many times this year. we do government defense work. people are attacking our systems, trying to get our secrets, trying to understand what our government is trying to do to protect our citizens. the ur

i'm curious your thoughts on this we are we are us and singapore the two most unequal nations among the developed nations in the world and singapore is a police state so they have a slightly difference and it's a little tiny city little different situation but we're just we're a huge outlier indeed i mean i think we must consider the role of inequality as a relates to the rise in the number of c.c.w. is in a number of folks who become gun owners for instance in the city of detroit we've seen as the economic fallout has become greater that more people are now getting c.c.w. use it and acquiring firestorm very well that's right and so we must consider how any quality motivates people to arm themselves and must consider also how any quality influences the con the public policies and social programs that are extra cut and so mentally ill not receiving the services that they're supposed to receive and then of course plato got it right and the public book one don't give the madman the gun even if it is the madman's gun it's amazing how plato could have got that right but we get it wrong in america three thousand three thousand years and