every dollar raised go directly to rare cancer research and city clerkal trials led by sloan sloan-ketteringork. >> the staff at memorial sloan- kettering did an incredible job. >> there are a lot of photos bub it's something else that i can carry every day. >> brian's battle is ongoing and says is he starting his1st round ofchomo. >> without chemotherapy and treatment my tumor would be growing at a rapid rate. >> but he says he is blessed to be an ambassador for cycle for survival. it means he is surrounded by a lot of friends and eye lot of love, giving him inspiration to keep on going. >> even though i have terminal cancer, i'm still one of the luckiest people i know to be able to live the live i did. >> reporter: there are two more rides scheduled for tomorrow. can you still donate to the cause on-line and to find out more visit our website at ktvu.com. >>> in san francisco, cristina rendon. >>> oakland police are offering a reward to find a hit-and-run driver who killed a man and injured another. crash at san pablo avenue and 32nd street killed a man reportedly identified as maurice sum

people packed into the sonoma advisory committee meeting to learn more about the proposal, but pam sloano lives in the sonoma valley says no. >> come on. that's just like pro tted torture. >> traffic and noise is already terrible on race day weekends. she worries the music festival that could attract 50,000 fans a day could be worse. >> we can't have the tree dom to come and go. >> they may have a venue playing dance music like this until 4:00 a.m. many worry about the noise. >> the other events that are on the list are going to be like bringing the burning man festival to sonoma valley. >> we are a couple years down the road. >> the raceway president hopes to stage the concert in 2017. but he first needs approval for another major event besides racing. >> we are going through an environmental impact report. >> many call it a no brainer for the economy. >> we need our tourism. it creates jobs. >> before the music starts the festival will need the approval of sonoma supervisors. cornell bernard abc7 news. >> a permanent fix for balding? next on abc7 news, forget transplants and toupes. th

pop and jerry sloan are the only to do that with just one team in nba history. >> i don't do too much celebrating. i've been here a long time. and i've had good players. that's the formula. >> that was him celebrating. >>> to philly warriors and sixers. the best versus the worse. sixers k.j. mcdaniels with the dunk of the night. off the back board to himself. thank me very much. kaazam. not enough. warriors win. >>> the match-up between south carolina versus uconn. a lot of that. uconn bowling past south carolina, 87-62. >>> four americans competed in the alpine championships in vail yesterday. lindsey vonn, not finishing, though, after she straddled that gate early in her slalom run, taking her out of the standings. >> i'm just really disappointed. you know it's the world championships. and i tried as hard as i could. and i came up short. and that's disappointing for myself. you know, for my family and for my fans. >> she's heartbroken. >>> it gets worse. tiger woods hits a low of his own. woods' official world golf ranking, it's plunged to 62. that's the lowest since debuting on the

and knudsen says to his boss alfred sloan, he said, i'm an immigrant who came to these shores. everything that i have, i owe to america. my president called, i'm going to answer and deal with that situation. the problem he's going to face then is not just opposition from many of his fellow businessmen who hate the new deal just as much as roosevelt hates them and not just opposition from the isolationist congress, but also in labor unions. as i explain in this book here one of the major obstacles that knudsen faced throughout his effort to try to get this economy going and geared up towards wartime occupation were the resistance of the unions. they feared the shift to wartime production from civilian production would seriously damage the gains they had made in terms of union power, in terms of the union membership all through the '30s during the new deal, and they resist the effort to wartime production to a degree that lasts not just in the prewar period up until pearl harbor, that goes on afterwards and extends out beyond that as well. it's one of the shocking stories of this

people packed into the sonoma advisory committee meeting to learn more about the proposal, but pam sloan who lives in the sonoma valley says no. >> come on. that's just like pro tracted torture. >> traffic and noise is already terrible on race day weekends. she worries the music festival that could attract 50,000 fans a day could be worse. >> we can't have the tree dom to come and go. >> they may have a venue playing dance music like this until 4:00 a.m. many worry about the noise. >> the other events that are on the list are going to be like bringing the burning man festival to sonoma valley. >> we are a couple years down the road. >> the raceway president hopes to stage the concert in 2017. but he first needs approval for another major event besides racing. >> we are going through an environmental impact report. >> many call it a no brainer for the economy. >> we need our tourism. it creates jobs. >> before the music starts the festival will need the approval of sonoma supervisors. cornell bernard abc7 news. >> a permanent fix for balding? next on abc7 news, forget transplants and toup

the humble pop and coach sloan are the only in nba history to do that with one team. >> don't do tooelebrating. i've been here a long time and i've had good players. that's the formula. it's more a tribute to them obviously, than any coaches. >> warriors and sixers the best versus west. tied at 20 late in the first. the dunk of the night. off the backboard to himself. thank me very much. it's in. not enough though. warriors win 89-34. >>> top ranked south carolina versus uconn. uconn blue past previously undefeated south carolina in that game 87-62. four americans compete in the alpine speed championships in vail yesterday. lindsey vonn did not finish after straddled early in slalom run taking her out of the standings. >> i'm just really disappointed. it's a hometown championship and i really tried as hard as i could. i came up short. it's disappointing for myself, you know, for my family and my fans. >> insult to injury vonn's boyfriend tiger woods hitting a low of his own. golf ranking plupgd to 62 his lowest since debuting on the tour. >>> founder of nfl films died ed sable. revol

people packed into the sonoma advisory committee meeting to learn more about the proposal, but pam sloan who lives in the sonoma valley says no. >> come on. that's just like pro tracted torture. >> traffic and noise is already terrible on race day weekends. she worries the music festival that could attract 50,000 fans a day could be worse. >> we can't have the tree dom to come and go. >> they may have a venue playing dance music like this until 4:00 a.m. many worry about the noise. >> the other events that are on the list are going to be like bringing the burning man festival to sonoma valley. >> we are a couple years down the road. >> the raceway president hopes to stage the concert in 2017. but he first needs approval for another major event besides racing. >> we are going through an environmental impact report. >> many call it a no brainer for the economy. >> we need our tourism. it creates jobs. >> before the music starts the festival will need the approval of sonoma supervisors. cornell bernard abc7 news. >> a permanent fix for balding? next on abc7 news, forget transplants and toup

gary sloan would be the first.n baynes ties the game up in the final minute, and then in the final seconds, coach popovich, this is how he drew it up. kawhi leonard to the hole gets it to marco belinelli, the head fake, stop, pop, and coach pop gets the win, his 1,000th as the spurs beat the pacers. >> seems like they have a lot of fun. it's easy to see why they win. a lot of respect for each other there in san antonio. >> yeah. five nba championships. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> all right, back to you. >> that was deep, guys. thanks. >>> up next in "the pulse," a big surprise overnight from beyonce, why she released this mini documentary. >>> plus, inside the celebrity penthouse that just hit the market with a huge price tag. power to unlock it resides in a box behold the biscuit. nutrients packed in a dense bundle of farm-grown grain and capped with pure deliciousness. fiber-dense fuel. morning reward. tomorrow, you can have it all. ♪sun'll come out, tomorrow♪ ready yourself with kellogg's frosted mini-wheats. see you a

every dollar raised will go to research on rare cancers at memorial, sloan cancer center.e than 20,000 across the country are expected to take part in the event. >> next week hundreds of thousands of people will take part in an online fitness competition and the search for whoever will earn the title of the world's fittest man and woman. it's called the cross fit open and started here in the bay area. >> flex it hard. go, go, go. >> reporter: a cross fitter in 2008 when nobody really knew what cross fit was. >> my kids opened up cross fit santa cruz. one of the first gyms and i did it to support them. i had no idea it would grow and people would do it all over the world. >> reporter: next week she will join 200,000 people from around the world for the cross fit open. >> i didn't want to dot. i hatet. it's really hard. then i decided i had to. >> reporter: cross fit is functional fitness and consists of varied movements at high intensity. it started in santa cruz. >> we were part of the first. >> reporter: it has grown faster than anyone expected. more than 11,000 are now s

investigators say witnesses say knight was aiming for sloan when he accidentally hit and killed his friendorney claims his client was attacked and accidentally hit the two men. >> doctors have put the daughter of whitney houston nigh medical induces coma after shes rushed to the hospital today. 21-year-old bobbi kristina brown is the only child of last whitney houston and singer bobby brown. she was found unresponsive at the bathtub in had he home in georgia. they are noting the erie resemblance to whitney houston's death on night before the grammys. cocaine was found to be partial factor in the superstar's death, but georgia police said they have not found prescription drugs today. >> the balloon touched down off baja coverage coverage california today. since sunday they have flown about 7,000 miles and have been in the air more than 143 hours. the previous record was 137 hours set in 1978. >>> a nearly billion-dollar mission takes off from california. the three-year mission that could impact the food grown right here in california. >> record temperatures today and meteorologist mark tama

sloan gibbs and the deputy secretary is leading that and we have the corps of engineers help. we have got to find a way to shorten these timelines that we face. we will be looking up at an obviously any work we can do to accelerate it we would like to do. >> and i will work with you if any amendments are necessary or legislative action to give you the authority to make faster progress in the future on the further projects. changing subject secretary mcdonald imagined they were five proposed regions as opposed to 21 visits. i guess that is more efficient. his menu will have fewer personnel doing the same job is before which to me is the hallmark result of more efficiency. >> as i said in my remarks this organization is focused on productivity improvement. i don't feel we can come to you and ask for more money unless we are demonstrating we are saving money at the same time. that is why we have identified the buildings that are empty that cost us money every year. we have nine different geographic maps, each one for different line of business whether it's insurance. >> i have on

and from columbia, south carolina it's the sloan family.f cash and a possibility of driving out of here in a brand-new, fuel-efficient ford fusion hybrid right there. let's play "feud," everybody. give me linda. give me amy. ladies, here we go. top 7 answers on the board. if you were a contestant on the show "dating naked," what would you do to get ready for your date? amy. >> go tanning. steve: go tanning. >> take off my clothes. steve: take off my clothes. yeah. got to get naked. pass or play? >> we are playing. steve: play. now listen to you. i fully expect you to represent columbia in a great way. >> oh, we're planning to. steve: i'm talking about put it out there, man. let 'em know columbia is in the building. >> that's right. w

sloan gibbs and the deputy secretary is leading that and we have the corps of engineers help. we have got to find a way to shorten these timelines that we face. we will be looking up at an obviously any work we can do to accelerate it we would like to do. >> and i will work with you if any amendments are necessary or legislative action to give you the authority to make faster progress in the future on the further projects. changing subject secretary mcdonald imagined they were five proposed regions as opposed to 21 visits. i guess that is more efficient. his menu will have fewer personnel doing the same job is before which to me is the hallmark, result of more efficiency. >> as i said in my remarks this organization is focused on productivity improvement. i don't feel we can come to you and ask for more money unless we are demonstrating we are saving money at the same time. that is why we have identified the buildings that are empty that cost us money every year. we have nine different geographic maps, each one for different line of business whether it's insurance. >> i have o

down 18% and the claim backlog is down and great progress made during general shinseki's time when sloan gibson was interim secretary, we trying to get that down. >> last question. >> i'm sorry, i can't hear. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> you said there were 900 people fired, 60 directly to the scandal and it was a lesser number but there may be a pattern here. >> and the chairman and i talk on the phone frequently and we had a great relationship and we work together to help solve veterans issues and i think you saw great unanimity to do what we need to do. we are here to help veterans. everybody wants that and nobody disputes that. >> you've been listening to v.a. secretary robert mcdonald saying he was trying to connect with a homeless veteran when he -- a homeless veteran when he misstated his service. >>> and the other top story, the train derailment in california. more than two dozen people sent to california and nobody has died. and hallie jackson is on the scene at oxnard where officials are updating the investigation right now. what happened here? >> reporter: can you see the new

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he's accused of killing his friend, terry carter and trying to kill sloan. >>> a new rule bans romantic relationships between professors and undergrads at harvard university. faculty members made the change while revising the school's conduct policy on sexual and gender-based harassment. also forbids professors from having sex with those who attend their classes. >>> the flu vaccine is not very effective in the united states and canada. new reports from british health officials are very similar. across the pond the vaccine is 3% effective in flu cases. a year ago the world health organization settled on the three most likely strains of flu that would circulate this winter. one of those strains mutated so much that the vaccine offers little protections. >> flu is one of those viruses that constantly is changing. it happened. normally we get some warning and we can anticipate that. this year there hasn't been any warning. >> the strain is h3n2 and primarily targets the elderly. >>> fire destroys an historic mill. the fire was so massive, firefighters worked through the night to try to con

she also spent 36 years volunteering at memorial sloan-kettering cancer center the adoption center at the aspca anderson the dogs soup kitchen. now with the -- at the age of 80 she keeps in touch with her former students through facebook and i ask you to turn your attention to the screen to share that story. [video playing] >> my life is a very independent person doing things for myself by myself. my mom used to walk me to school everyday and it was only five blocks from my home but then she had my brother and i said well this is my opportunity for independence. and i pleaded with my parents to let me go to school by myself. well we had a discussion and i was a pretty responsible kid so they felt the probably did it. what i didn't know the first week that i went on my on my father was behind me to make sure i was doing the right thing and was safe. he must have been satisfied because i was allowed to go to school on my own for the rest of the year and the rest of the time that i was in elementary school. it's not surprising when later in life i needed hip replacements of the right and

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raises money for memorial sloan kettering, 100% of which goes to rare cancer research. you about perry zimmerman. here's a picture of perry and i. perry is a 14-year-old, three-time cancer survivor who has been cycle's top fund-raiser the past two years. and in the five years of participating in the event her team, team perry, has raised over a million dollars. [ cheers and applause ] i also told you how my dream, my dream is that this year team seth, i, will out-raise perry. [ laughter ] and in the process knock her off her high horse. i gave you all the links to both of our fund-raising pages. and we wanted to take a look at how things are going. so, when we started, perry had quite a head start. [ laughter ] she had $122,000. i had $100. but let's see where we are after my appeal to you, the audience. [ laughter ] okay. so maybe i haven't been clear. this money -- this money goes to cancer research either way. so why -- why are you giving your money to perry instead of me? [ laughter ] she is a child. she has not worked a day in her life. that i know of. whereas i am

bikes in 13 cities and it's raised over $66 million, all of which, 100% of which goes to memorial sloan-kettering rare cancer research. i'll be riding with my team, team seth, right here in new york at equinox on march 8th, and i can't wait. i would also like to talk to you about perry zimmerman, perry is 14, she is a three-time cancer survivor, and if that's not impressive enough, in the last two years, team perry has been the top national fund-raising team and in five years she has raised over $1 million. [ cheers and applause ] yeah. which brings me to this request. this special request. this year more than anything, i want to raise more money than perry. [ laughter ] and finally knock her off her high horse. [ laughter ] i need your help to do it. now i know what you're thinking. seth, why would i donate money to you, instead of the adorable 14-year-old three-time cancer survivor? well i think it's obvious, because i'm a celebrity. and if society has taught us anything, it's that celebrities should be given what they ask for. [ laughter ] because our lives are really hard. and -- i always get

sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: an arctic blast forecasters have dubbed the "siberian express" dipped all the way to florida's gulf coast today, demolishing cold temperature records along the way. from the midwest, to the deep south, the arctic blast brought dangerous, record-breaking cold to much of the u.s. today. 27 states are now under wind chill warnings or advisories more than 100 million americans shivering in a deep freeze. in chicago, the wind chill dipped to about 30 degrees below zero. the frigid temperatures led to transportation delays, and school cancellations. but there was no such luck for gabe wolter, in oak park, illinois, on his way to his fourth grade classroom >> i pu

and understanding and welcoming serena venus, madison, taylor townsend so many players of color, sloaneere, that are out there at the top, making their mark in the sport, everyone wants to embrace them and to cheer them on. >> congratulations on your new position and all of the things you will bring to the sport. it is a tremendous opportunity to meet you. i am thankful you made time for us. >> thank you very much. >> catch more of katrina's major career and work in a video feature our team put together that's how hyped up we are about her. msnbc.com, go check it out. >>> up next israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu denying reports he may can sell his controversial speech before congress, but should he cancel? >>> and this. >> my sense is the supreme court is about to make a shift. >> president obama speaks about same-sex marriage and possible change in in the high court. it's one of the stories we thought you should know. and be sure to like the "news nation" at facebook. startup-ny. it's working for new york state. already 55 companies are investing over $98 million dollars and c

. >>> for more, daniel benjamin from the state department and director of the johns sloan dickey center for international understanding at the great dartmouth college. so the head of jordan's air force said they are out there making a difference they have run 56 bombing raids and they have isis leaders running scared scared, do you believe that? >> well i haven't seen bomb damage assessments but i'm sure they are making a difference and it is certainly a very positive thing that we have the jordanians going hard after the target and showing real regional leadership for this fight and that is critically important and with any luck that will have a big impact on the other countries involved in the coalition. >> and it overlaps with something kerry said on "meet the press," the command control functions of the u.s. -- of isis are being degraded. >> we have taken out a significant portion of the top leadership of isis. their command and control facilities have been attacked interrupting their command and control. they can no longer communicate the way they were as openly and no longer trave

sloan foundation.rting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: the new leftist government in greece vowed today it will not be blackmailed into giving up its anti-austerity stance. that came after the european central bank imposed new restrictions on lending to greek banks. meanwhile, the new greek finance minister met with his german counterpart in berlin. they discussed athens' demands to re-negotiate terms of its bailout, but they made little headway. >> ( translated ): greece belongs to the euro, but we don't really agree on what we have to do now, despite a very intense, open discussion. i should say now: we agree to disagre

sloan foundation.technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: european leaders laid claim today to a fragile peace in ukraine as a night of negotiations produced plans for yet another cease-fire. all through the night in this marble-floored convention hall in minsk, journalists and official entourages waited and waited. ( camera shutter clicks ) the leaders of france, germany, russia and ukraine went into the meeting wednesday and emerged 16 hours later declaring they had a deal. >> ( translated ): there is a glimmer of hope here, but concrete steps, of course, have to be taken, and we will still face major obstacles. on balance, i can say that what we have achieved gives significantly more hope than if we had achieved nothing. >> ifill:

later, it's in 13 cities and it's raised over $66 million, every penny of which has gone to memorial sloan for rare cancer research. [ applause ] i'm riding with my team, team seth, march 8th right here at equinox in new york. i also mentioned perry zimmerman yesterday. here's a picture of perry and i. perry is 14. she's a three-time cancer survivor. and in the last two years, she has been the top fund-raising team in the nation, and in five years she's raised over $1 million. [ cheers and applause ] she is very good. she is an incredible fund-raiser. she is formidable, which is why i need your help. this year i desperately want to out-raise perry. [ laughter ] i am so sick -- i am sick to my stomach of her getting all the attention, and i think it is my time to shine. now, yesterday i made the case that choosing whether to donate to a 14-year-old cancer survivor or a celebrity who wants attention is no choice at all. and, you guys, america listened. here were our fund-raising totals going into yesterday. there you see team seth at $100. [ laughter ] team perry was at $122,000. and here th

sloan sports analytics conference in boston. gentlemen, eric, take it away. >> yeah, so we've got rob here live. thanks for joining us. got to get into it. a lot of talk recently about shortening the game, shortening the season. where do you think we're going to go with that? >> well, we really think about it as a pace of game issue not the absolute length. our focus this year is going to be to try to take out the dead time in the game, make sure our inning breaks are nice and tight n and out in the amount we owe to advertisers, but no more. we keep players in the batter's box to keep the action flowing a little more. >> in terms of the action flowing what about legalized sports betting? that's been a big issue. heard adam vsilver talk about getting more progressive. what do you think is going to happen if. >> i think that baseball will always have rules driven by the commissioner's office because it's the issue on which it was founded that protects the game from gambling. rules that apply to players, on field personnel. i think

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the sloan sports analytics conference. bill gurley here with us. why are you here?not a sports sghi i'm primarily here to have fun. i enjoy other people analyze what they're doing at the depth they do here and i'm really disconnecting from silicon valley for a day to be amongst some really smart people in an area i love. they also asked me to judge their business plan competition like a "shark tank" competition. >> not nearly as good as mr. cuban. >> are you getting confused for a basketball player because of your height? >> a little bit. i did play a long, long time ago. >> more importantly look at smaller companies looking for money. a ton of people here, 3100. are we looking at a bubble top? that's the kind of thing you're talking about. these sports data companies are not going to be uber, not going to be google. we're live right now. this is daryl. conference organizer jumping in. houston rockets general manager. we'll get to him later. sos these companies, they're not going to be google, they're not going to be uber, how do you see this bubble happening? >> we

sloan foundation.rting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org report." with tyler mathihisen and sue herera. lip on worries about greece. equities drop as the new prime minister calls to roll back austerity, setting his government on a collision course with creditors. >>> rough seas work resumes at the west coast ports after the weekend shutdown. >>> don't look now, but oil prices are up 9% in three sessions. has crude found a floor or will the commodity make another dramatic move lower? >>> good evening, everyone. welcome. defiant, that is how many are describing the new greek prime minister who is taking now a hard line with e

sloan foundation.rting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by newshour productions, llc captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> this is "nightly business report" with tyl sue herera. >>> good evening and welcome to a special edition of "nightly business report." i'm tyler mathisen. >> and i'm sue herera. well it is mid february and for much of the country mired in deep freeze thoughts are turning to spring just about a month away now and while spring is usually a time for warmer weather, it is also an important time for finances. >> that is very true sue. tonight, we'll take a look at some things that come into play in the spring and could have an impact on your money from your taxes to sel

i think we are all impressed of what he and deputy secretary sloan gibson have done in the short time they they have been here. i would have to say yes we appreciate what he is doing in trying to do and hope you will work with them to make sure these changes happen. >> mr. kelley. >> we see a difference in spots. they are going to be areas that are slower to change than other areas but we are seeing pockets of improvement. just solving the problem in west l.a. but the plan management issue in a short time is something that has been around for years is an indication that he is hands-on and he's going to get things done and he expects people at all levels to do the same. >> my time has expired but could i just get a yes or no? >> i will give a yes. >> mr. de planque. >> definitely a yes. >> ms. zumatto. >> i agree with my colleagues. >> i agree too there's a difference and i would also say ms. brown's h.r. 216 is scheduled to be marked up tomorrow and so we would expect to see that pass very quickly. ms. brown. >> thank you. i would like to associate myself with her remarks to the gentl

when sloan gibson was interim secretary. we're trying to keep that going. [indiscernible] i can't hear. >> questioned the statement of the number of people who have been fired, you said 900 people were fired. 60 were directly related to the wait scandal when in fact there was a much smaller number. might be a pattern of credibility. >> chairman miller and i meet frequently. we talk on the phone frequently. we have a great relationship. we work together to help solve veterans' issues. i think what you saw in our last committee hearing was tremendous unanimity from all the members of congress and the v.a. around what we need to do. we're here to serve veterans. everybody wants that. nobody can dispute that. thank you very much for your questions. thank you. >> what exactly were you trying to say? [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> unless a funding deal is reached, the department of homeland security

. >>> two wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a class may to please a fantasy character called sloan era man will be finding out this week whether they will be charged with homicide charges. a hearing for the 29 is set to begin today. prosecutors charge the girls as adults in the attack last may and each could be sentenced to up to 60 years in prison if tried and convicted. court record indicates that the prosecutor plan to call four witnesses including a detective today. >>> and the midwest is getting slammed with snow, just like up around the boston area. >> white out conditions and icy road create a nightmare for drivers in indiana. the check out this 20 car pile up that left stranded for hours. drivers said they tried to brake when they saw the accident but some of them just could not stop because of the weather and ice on the roadways leading to a chain reaction. fortunately, no one was really seriously hurt. >> well, we had a hundred car pile up, in pennsylvania, over the week end. >> first the snow and wind pounded massachusetts yesterday. as much as 2 feet of snow felon new e

sloan gibson, the deputy secretary is leading that, and we've asked the corps of engineers help.t to find a way to shorten these timelines that we face. and so we will be looking at that and, obviously, any work we can do to celebrate it we would like to do. >> and i will work with you if any amendments are necessary or any other legislative action to help you have the authority to make faster progress in the future on this or other projects. changing subject, secretary mcdonald community in the row five versus proposed regions as opposed to 21 visions. i guess that's more efficient it doesn't mean that you will have fewer personnel's doing the same job as before which to me is a hallmark, a result of more efficiency. >> as i said in my remarks this organization is focused on productivity improvement. we don't feel like we can come to you and ask for more money and less we're demonstrating that we're saving money at the same time. that's why we have identified the buildings that are empty that costs us money every year. we have nine different geographic maps. each one for differe

we're going to starlet start with framing remarks from eric and andy, both professors at mit and the sloane school of management there. eric runs the mit initiative on the digital economy and andy is a principal research scientist at mit and the sun school in his field of research is the impact of digital technologies on business, the economy and on society. so we really could not have better frame ersrs, including because they've written a profoundback, many in this room i'm sure have read it. the second machine age. i took away three points from that book. mrk profound book. one, we're at an inflection point on the pace of digital technological advance, that it is accelerating, and that it will produce unexpected and transformative effects. two, that these effects will be on the whole, positive, more choice, more freedom more wealth. and, three getting to our focus today, that these effects also will produce considerable domestic disruption in particular the premium ss, which labor markets have increasingly been placing on education and skills will rise. rise sharply. and by implication,

we heard deputy secretary sloan say they were going to move some resources to help with the hospital that's out from denver i believe it is. i want to be sure you're not moving any resources from the las vegas hospital to fix the problem in aurora. if we could just follow up with that. now, my general questions for the last couple of years we have focused on the backlog fixing that problem and also problems with our hospitals. i'd like to see us as we move into the next two years look at other areas of benefits and make the v.a. morel vant to our 21st century veterans. i appreciate the things you mentioned in your testimony. one is women. second is lgbt veterans. third is the issue of medical marijuana. these are all big issues during these times. you talked about how many more women veterans we expect to have. but really what we don't know is what we don't know. and the women's veterans task force recommended two positions that are data gathering positions. we can get a better handle on this performance an alse and demographic and research analyst. so i'd like to note the v.a. is ma

the ohio state patrol posted this video to its facebook page in january warning drivers to sloan downe is. >>> did you hear about this one? espn pulling the plug on the anchor after getting into a fight with penn state students who wanted to make recognition for their efforts raising money for pediatric cancer. he said pitiful to one of the students who tweeted him about $13 million that was raised. students started fighting back. he did not back down saying again, get your money back. you didn't learn how to read. psu students are pitiful because they're psu students. he finally apologizes saying he was stupid and childish. those are your headlines. that's getting a ton of comments. >> what does he have against penn state? these are people raising money for pediatric cancer. >> there are children -- that's just cruel. thank you heather. >> somebody tweeted out. we are, and then he filled in childish and it went down hill. he's off the job. you know who is on the job on this chilly morning? maria malina. >> good morning. we're talking about another day with well below average temperat