you have a chapter called rewriting the social compact. do we need to adjust how we administer social security? do we need to adjust some of the older age federal programs? >> well here's the thing. we have never had a good retirement system. the best retirement system we have is social security and there's this sort of mythologizing about the defined benefit the traditional plan in the post-world war ii era but only 11 to 12% of private-sector workers ever worked long enough in one company to take advantage of that so we have never had a very good retirement savings except for social security. so part of this is if people are going to be working longer we want people to be taking more risks. i do think we need to build on top of social security or some sort of low cost very simple system and there are lots of proposals over the years to make it easier for people to save for retirement. we need to shore up social security and we need to create incentives for people to work longer. there is a strand of thought that says if that we make thin

your household wealth will be high here and a social security do bill will be easier to pay. >> host: is there room in the economy for the older heal generation? >> we are all shaped by personalsier to pay. experiences and that is a question of your number back ins there ro in th the early '80s that was asked a lot if you had the rise of the professional. college-educated and moving into professions and moving into highly skilled jobs starting to move into management and they have a long way to go still but 2014 is not 1984 and there's been a lot of progress. the fact is more people working will create a lot of wealth. >> host: 5890 for east and central time zones, 585-3891 for mountain and pacific. q. right that the downward mobility in retirement is a looming reality for both middle and higher income workers. >> guest: the genesis of the book and you have seen all of these long-term economic forecasts about the aging population we are going to be less dynamic. it's not just that people haven't saved enough in the household that the economy is going to be less dynamic. is this really

a social worker. a joan of arc of the coal fields, whose female qualities of compassion, cooperation, and healing, were expressed in her leadership of rocky mountain fuel, rather than her qualities of organization, efficiency, and command. rocky mountain fuel is construed in articles as a social work experiment instead of an industrial company. she commanded an exclusively male workforce. when she left the company in the 1940's, she had run the company for a couple decades. one journalist even said that her labor policy was, and these are his words, her labor policy was magnificent, but it was not business. this preposterous contention was one of many ways that observers tried to write off her labor policies, and economic justice itself, as somehow outside the realm of real business activity, or real as miss leadership. these same kinds of conservative representational moves were often made in terms of her gender. i imagine her to be an example for us of a much larger trend. these kinds of conservativ

first of all, even when people who believe in social security as politicians, they call it a social safetyosed to be there in case you have nothing else, but it's not enough. >> you're talking about a program that's basically $80 billion a year, and with 76 million baby boomers coming online, you have an increasing number of takers from the system. the question is, who's going to be paying into that system? when we look at the labor force participation rate, who's dropping out? it's the 25s to 45-year-olds. that accounted for 50% of the drop that we've seen. we always talk about the decline in the participation, so it is the younger generation saying why bother get a job? i why am i going to pay into a -- >> i don't think it's a 25-year-old saying i'm not getting a job because i don't want to pay for the older people -- >> [inaudible] >> no, they're not saying that. the millennials are hoping that they'll continue this ponzi scheme to keep going. charles: why would someone pay into it if it's not going to be there? >> they don't have a choice. they have a job -- charles: well, they keep vo

where she works on social security. her achievements were viewed as an anomaly but have been recognized as gender breakthroughs. her talk is about an hour and a half. >> thank all of you for coming out on this lovely cold and rainy afternoon to partake in some intellectual exchange. it's my pleasure to introduce our speaker, robyn muncy, who is associate professor of history at the university of maryland college park. she received her phd from northwestern university and is author of three books. " engendering america," and most recently " relentless reformer, josephine roche and progressivism in 20 century america," published in 2015. that book is available for purchase in signing after the session. it is on that subject, josephine roche, we will hear from robyn muncy today. robyn? >> thank you so much to christian and eric and the woodrow wilson center for inviting me to speak and thank you to amanda and peter for taking care of the logistics. i'm delighted by the opportunity to launch this biography of josephine roch

you might be getting more social justice here, but creating other kinds of social cost they are. i am not at all doing now. i am saying is complex, but we should still be advancing the cause of social justice, even though we have to be cautious and reflective about how whether values for human concerns are affected by the way in which we seek social justice. >> politics which is the purpose of politics is basically to produce order and security of both domestically and in the world of foreign policy and that is the purpose of government. so this is a kind of limited state view and make teen censure review which sort of keeps coming back. as far as strauss is comes turned and i haven't read everything he has by any means, but i've never come across a discussion in which she would basically argue for more politics than basically security. he doesn't put the argument in terms of 19th century liberals, but a sickly he seems to argue again and again and many books that the situation of man is such and so precarious, so conditional and contingent so open to the violence which can be re

social security.t's not only irresponsible. it's deceitful. >> joining us tonight the congressman of south carolina. good to have you with us. as i see this the republicans are better positioned now than ever before to go after social security not because of only price's position as head of the budget committee, but paul ryan is the chairman of the house ways and means committee. how dangerous is this to recipients and to the program as you see it sir? >> it is very dangerous. i think all of us should be aware of the fact that this is a position that republicans have had a very long time. you may recall george w. bush made it very clear he wanted to privatize social security. when social security first came on the scene, they were against it then. they were against medicare, medicaid and they're still against social security. they want to privatize it. they want to wall street to game gamble with the trust fund. people should wake up and let the republicans know that social security is a safety net th

social studies traditionally has a civic function. the purpose is to cult nate the knowledge, skills and virtues necessary for responsible citizenship. thus, what social studies standards say about religion functionally represents the minimal knowledge about religion that the state want its citizens to have. and what the standards say about religion is determined through a political process. now texas is one of the few states to have a board of education elected through partisan elections. so what the standards say is determined by a partisan process. democrats and republicans vie against each other to shape the content and factions within each party vie against each other, such as tea party republicans and moderate republicans. the board is dominated by republicans, the standards were formed by a republican-dominated on the board and they attempt to teach students to look at religion with particular red colored sensitivities. i'll show how the current standards treat religion especially religion in america, and the so-called world re

socialization, very much like what human mothers do with their infants. pediatricians are saying this is what makes a good mother. learning to respond to her baby. >> still to come on "a second look." >>> welcome back to a second look. ababy chimp abandoned by her mother gets a new adopted sister, also neglected by her mother. in 1996, bob headed to the oakland zoo, the two made their sleepily debut. it was a beautiful day at the oakland zoo, as the zoo's now famous baby chimps made their first public appearance. the spectators were spellbound and the chimps were oblivious. they played with toys sticking close to their surrogate mom and amy was in a snooze and cuddle mode this morning and hanging onto the madeleine. but the babies, strangers three months ago, are hitting it off fine. >> the babies were young enough they were doing a lot of parallel play. now they are older you can see tons of interaction. >> the bay area has known the chimps through television. adramatic story. beginning with a scary situation in november, when amy's mother gave birth, bu

that is why social security was created back in 1935.ight of the great depression with so many jobless the u.s. congress created social security to lift millions of poor elderly americans out of poverty and president roosevelt signed it into law. >> today a hope of many years standing is in large part fulfilled. >> reporter: the first check for $22.54 or about $389 today was issued to ida may fuller on january 31 1940 and never made and had no children and social security was her only support until she died at age 100. the average check is $1100 a month enough to cover basic expenses and the lifeline many counted on has an uncertain future. when it was createed there were roughly 53,000 beneficiary collecting $1200 in payments and contrast that to today where there are now more than 59 million americans cashing social security checks over $860 billion each year. unless the u.s. congress changes the program funds for disability payments will run out next year. by 2033 retirement checks will dwindle and they are talking about raising it fo

i can tell you social security disincentivized people from saving. we need to look at how that is an go back to looking at social security that is part of the three-legged stool per capita. right now we are underfunding personal savings. on medicaid, right now begin we are economist. sometimes government programs we call perverse incentive to arguing the wrong incentive to spend money? medicaid basically is an old joke this is a decent one medicaid program, using one medicaid program. you've got 50 states territories, all different. they are statement programs with federal matching dollars. the way the federal government gets money to incentivized states to all sorts of weird games to incentivized money. part of a block grant is to move incentives. which want to do is get more individuals consumers having a stake in whether health care dollars go and that's not the current system have with the aco or medicaid. >> i just want to add that when it comes to discussing private retirement savings, i think it's so important that people go to war of the reti

now returning to social security, in social security we can index both taxes and engets either to theg-term social security projection or to individual indeces that are relevant and solvency. they can have the agreed upon goal with the social security system and assuming that remains the goal the system can update to be consistent with that. now, one point that peter diamond meat is based on indeces other than long-term solvency. i would note that there is a and we might have to build in different protections for the actuary and doing those projections. i would note that when it comes to doing the actual social security plans, they do them based on the> u(áv 75-year projection ands qu including the diamond saving social security plan. this would suggest that he would do target the 75-year solvency. >> with that said, that would be an improvement. if we did it through indexes and parameters, that would make sense as well. that's the revenu%ék÷side as peter diamond suggests. the goal of such an automatic neck nichl would not be solvency. they will get around to it later and focus change

we have to be determined to defeat isil on the american security and social front. if we do this, we'll defeat our enemy sooner than we think. >> that unity could be hard to come by. across the country are soony tribes who debate whether they'll join in a fight against isil. they're essentially looking at what they're being offered. many sunni leaders say it is just not enough. it's prompted fears that across the country as well this fight against isil although in many places were being beaten back is not a fight that the iraqi government can win in the long term without reconciliation. >> well, kurdish forces known as the peshmerga say they've managed to push isil fighters out of the northern iraqi city of kirkuk. they seized the city in june when the iraqi army abandoned its decisions there. kirkuk has been under repeated attacks by isil fighters, hoping to take control of the oil fields surrounding the city. >> reporter: in the heart of kirkuk in broad daylight, the islamic state of the iraq and llevan make their presence felt. before storming the empty building

the country is electric with social activity. and a new ethos of social solidarity.omething nobody would have predicted in 1932. so you never know. >> the book "the age of acquiescence." steve frazier, thank you for being with me. >> thank you for having me. >>> and our website, there's more about the gilded age including an excerpt from the treason of the senate. an expose that locks the country a century ago. david graham phillips condemned campaign contributors as the interest. he said they were vastly more dangerous than an invading army for they manipulate the prosperity, produced by all so that it heaps up riches on the few. same old story then and now. that's at bill moyers.com. see you there and see you here next time. >> don't wait a week to get more moyers. visit bill moyers.com or the exclusive blogs, essays and video features. >> announcer: funding is provided by -- anne gumowitz, encouraging the renewal of democracy. carnegie corporation of new york, supporting innovations in education, democratic engagement and the advancement of international peace and

social media in general and social networks are a fundamental part of how media is discovered right now particularly by millennials. i mentioned the social web, this idea that people and content are intricately connected together if ways that were just never before possible. facebook is a big component of that. but they're not the only one. i think it's important that there are multiple, you know, places like this where this curated web is developing. >> do you think it's distorting, that content is being created to play to facebook's algorithms? >> there's always a risk of that. you know there's also, for example, the so-called linkism. the headlines that are written specifically more google to pick pick up in search results. you're always going to have a little bit of that. but this is where the great journalists are separated from the ones that aren't so great. i think the ones who really have something to say, the publishers publications who have a strong point of view and really believe in the power of editorial great journalism are going to be able to thrive. and so facebook is --

a similar disconnect between how we socialize and how we live our lives now with the social mechanisms that we acquired through evolution. and what implications do you think that has for how we might interact going forward in the new modern age? >> the -- [inaudible] you might call it has resulted in something far more important and dangerous than stomach aches and early heart attack,s and that is the fact we're still basically pail owe listic in our minds and the way our brains are constructed and our instinctive patterns. i would call our species dysfunctional because, one, we have paleolithic emotions. i don't think they've changed since the early homo sapiens of 200,000 years ago. we have medieval institutions that we still depend on, and we have god-like power. now, that is a very dangerous and unstable combination. [laughter] and that's what where we are now as a species. >> fair enough. [laughter] >> he didn't say expatientuate please. [laughter] >> one of the other areas i wanted to touch on, you talk a fair bit about religion, and you've talked about it in your past work. your

the social contract looks like.that is where so much of the conflict emerges. how is that done? can it be done given the way the social contract was imagined 50 years earlier? absolutely what comes out the other end, i think, is less probably a renegotiated social contract than something that looks more like civil rights liberalism. you have a certain kind of rights project that wins, but a different kind of social provisioning for the most part doesn't end up winning the day. >> i think that last question actually brings >> i think that last question and goes some of the other engines about the changing relationship between citizens and the state. it highlights this tension between changes in political institutions and political economy and society more broadly. and perhaps one of the things that is compelling about the decade is this parallel set of changes. it is not just that the ideology or framework of the social contract is shifting, although it is. it is not just that the nature of the population and deep so

great social cohesion. it's an amazing story. >> we have time for questions so why don't you go to the microphone so we can hear you speak and we would love to take them as many as we can squeeze in and if you don't mind telling us where you are from and who you are that would be great. >> i am richard asher trade my question is you have a ticking timebomb across this country with infrastructure roads and bridges. look what happened in kansas city with that bridge collapse. he touched on it a little bit about the roads having more moisture but how can you deal with that in the area that you're talking about? >> we have worked very hard and i give examples in the book but basically it is the case that infrastructure deals dividends before anything bad happens so not only does it improve infrastructure obviously bug where there is good infrastructure there is often better transit options and then housing develops and commercial sites developed. so it is a win for that investment. we are showing that if the fe

social security crowds out personal savings. on medicaid, we're economists and focus on incentives or sometimes government programs we call perverse incentives. medicaid basically there's an old joke that says if you've seen one medicaid program, you've seen one medicaid program. you have 50 states state-run programs with federal matching dollars. the way the federal government gives money and incentivizes states to do all sorts of weird games to allocate money, part of that is block grants. we need to look at block grants and also vouchers because you want consumers having a stake in where their healthcare dollars go and that's not the current system now. >> when it comes to discussions private retirement savings, i think it's so important that people control more of their retirement decisions and that comes with control of their retirement dollars. social security's original purpose was to protect against destitution in old age. the program is very different today and it actually leaves many seniors with benefit levels that ar

, social identity, balance of power, but it's also defined social relationships. sarcasm and other issues, they don't come part. insult this was you have to feel insult, right, both sides have to recognize it or a treated themselves to others. there's always mutual constructive social. >> right here. there's a microphone coming. >> thank you so much for this presentation. i would like to ask certainly -- president obama how can you verify this insult or how can it be that president obama -- [inaudible] saluting when he was getting off the plane and carrying, you know, on the right hand. you know? >> no, i don't. >> i think, how can we -- concerning this? and the insults -- >> yes, can you explain, i really don't know if. >> there was an episode when president obama was getting off the helicopter, action that interplay, and he had a coffee in his hand and come up up to the ring he saluted with a lot of in his hand and certain immediate personalities thought that was an insult to everything about the u.s. military, from president obama. >> okay. this is very interes

she wants to privatize social security. she made all this clear in her debates. >> we have already talked about closing the door to the irs. i think that would be a wonderful start. let's close the door. let's scrap the tax code and again let's find something that's fairer, flatter, and simpler, but there are other departments that we could be looking at also. closing the doors to the department of education at the federal level and not just because it would save taxpayer dollars, but because i do believe that our children are better educated when it's coming from the state and the localities. let's shut down the federal epa and focus on these issues here in the state where the state knows best how to protect its resources. >> here's more from the perfect choice. earnest said that she would have voted against the farm bill in the middle of the country. she called the clean water act damaging for business and of course earnest isn't schooled up on the science of climate change either. >> i don't know the science behind clima

so it's really fascinating. >> social driver works for clients who want to leverage social media forages and the social media events don't end tonight. tomorrow the white house will hole its second annual virtual big block of cheese day where members of the obama administration will take to social media to answer questions about the state of the union and other issues of the day. then thursday three of youtube's biggest stars will interview president obama live on the white house's youtube channel. the hosts have been encouraging their fans to submit their questions using the #youtubeasksobama. >>> he was once convicted of murder, but michael johnson is now free. a baltimore judge dismissed all charges against johnson in the murder of a north carolina teenager phylicia barnes citing insufficient evidence. barnes disappeared while visiting her sister in baltimore in 2010. her body was found months later in the susquehanna river. johnson was the sister's ex- boyfriend. he was convicted of 2nd degree murder in 2013, but a judge ruled prosecutors withheld evidence and granted johnson a n

if in social security we could benefit both taxes and benefit oss to the the long term social security projection or to the individual indices that we believe are relevant when it comes to the social security solvency, and the idea here is a that there is a common agreed upon goal of self-defining social security system and assuming that remains the goal the system could update itself to be consistent with that. now, one point that the peter diamond made is that we should do it based on the indices other than the long term social security solvency, and i would note here that there is a potential to do it with the long-term sol vep sivency and we would have to build in different actuaries, but when it comes to the actual social security plan, people do it with the actuary 75-year plan based on the diamond actuarial social security plan and so it is that people target the 75-year solvency, and the if we target it when we are legislating, then why don't we target it when we are doing the automatic adjustments, and so if we did that, it would be a step in the improvement, and so however we

that's kind of an adage in social science. so perhaps the federal government's role should be in data collecting but without attempting to make decisions about cha schools are failing or whether teachers should get assessed ratings based on the outcome on a test we can all agree is crable in its results. >> sreenivasan: you even go back to the history of what some of these tests were designed to do, and you're saying sometimes they weren't actually designed to measure the individual students but really the sort of collective, and now they're being used almost as political weapons depending where you fall? >> that's right. the proficiency target idea, whether someone gets a 181 or 182, like a girl in florida i profiled, you know she's being held back in the third grays gradebecause she's missed her reading score by one point and the test used was never designed to make a specific determination that specific about one single student. >> sreenivasan: there's also the philosophical question on is testing a good indicator of future

imply that they can do nothing else except social welfare. the united states supreme court said that you could basically have an insubstantial not exempt purpose. so clearly something less than 100%. it is not really clear what is that threshold amount of political activity that you can do and still qualify as a tax-exempt social welfare organization. because folks have been organizing, which is their right and i and encourage that, the irs has had to look closely. the problem as i see it is that employees were not given guidance over a year and a half about how they were supposed to look at these organizations and they held these entities for very long periods of time. they didn't get the scrutiny because they did have the guidance -- did not have the guidance. i think that stinks to high heaven. i understand the outrage. my point is that it is a small part of the work of the irs does. it affects the 150 million taxpayers and enforcement on a day-to-day basis. that is being harmed because of where we are and that budget. >> if you missed the

three outer rings applied steady i social pressure. jockeying for improved position, the diplomats, the army and navy crowd, and the politicos, but clearly it is the cave dwellers, particularly women like mary clemor and laura holloway who influenced the pecking order among the capital's society. fanny ems, mrs. charles, maintained an eclectic sunday salon at her 14th and 8th and street salon while her learn sister marion campbell was embedded when several -- within several knickerbocker circles. mrs. eames in d.c. and she would later befriend mary lincoln. the physical attributes of the district did not recommend it. noah brooks described the streets as canals of liquid mud. it would be difficult to could -- to conceive of a meaner street in architectural adornments than pennsylvania avenue, and as we just heard maybe the architect architectureal recommendations of real estate on pennsylvania avenue remain there. there were, of course, areas of the city which boasted palatial homes, the finest aide of stephen douglass near i street an

would be poor. >> that's why social security was created back in 1935.t the height of the great depression with so many joblets, the congress created social security to lift millions of poor elderly and disabled americans out of poverty. president roosevelt signed it in to law. >> today, a hope of many years standing is in large part fulfilled. >> the first check for $22 and 54 cents or about $389 today was issued to i hada may fuller on january 31st 1940. she never married, had no children and social security was her only support until she died at age 100. for most the average check runs about $1,100 a month, enough to cover basic living expenses. but that lifeline so many have depended upon for decades faces an uncertain future. >> when social security was created, there were roughly 53,000 beneficiaries collecting about $1,200,000 in payments. contrast that to today where there are now more than 59 million americans cashing social security checks totalling more than 860 bill$860 bill i don't believe dollars each year. >> unless the u.s. con congress c

they're looking to increase their social service units from 500 to 900 units a year. translation service they're looking to increase from 300 units a year to 500. ooa urges your approval and happy to answer any questions you may have >>any questions or comments? commissioner loo. >>i have a question on the operating expense detail. it seems like eight months expenses is higher than 12 months. >>are you looking at the nofa budget? >>operating expenses. >>oh community technology network is only for the first year. so in the next year it's not a line item. >>patty, would you come forward? thank you. >>commune technology training is for the staff and our key volunteers. because we have about seven languages evidence at our center it's hard when they go on to their language for staff to help them because they're not as familiar with the programs so we want them to become more familiar so they can help the seniors more and better so we want them trained so we can get more seniors on the computers and help them through the process. >>i'm looking for the counseling. counselin

this is where the social connection comes in. government has its place it should be modest, it should be the resort of last resort. the resource of last resort, not first resort. and the other thing i would say in terms of engaging the question not just a bunch of conservatives talking about this, because we get together and complain all of the time, right? but to say what is it that motivates the progressives to say we need more money? the best motivation as a christian i'm taught to always try, and i am in the confessional all of the time because i don't do this, is to try and believe that that person who is calling for the abolition of private property or something close to it really intends good by it. what are they concerned with? they are concerned with the vulnerable and the por and disenfranchised. they are concerned with racism and a whole host of things. are they inconsistent in the concern? yes. are they sometimes impervious to arguments that show that too much government creates vulnerabilities? yes. but if we can jus

arriving into town with such rigid social snobbery, mrs. lincoln immediately placed a dressmaking order with mrs. keckley. elizabeth keckley was a prominent mixed race seamstress favored by the washington elite. it was perhaps no accident that one of her former clients was varina davis. assuming the role herself soon of first lady of the confederacy. however, mary lincoln's first battleground would be the inaugural ball. this invitational ball was held in a large tent dubbed the white muslin palace of aladdin where 5,000 would be on hand to rub shoulders and inspect the lincoln entourage. mrs. lincoln glided into view wearing silk bedecked with gold and diamonds and pearls while lincoln left at midnight his wife stayed on dancing into the night. she surprised the washington snobs. they commented on her exquisite toilette. the new york herald weighed in again, that's the newspaper, not our harold, she is more self-possessed than lincoln and is accommodated more readily than her taller half to the exalted station to which she has so strangely

she called for a robust social safety net. increased public expenditure on family planning as a matter of civil justice. why would a country that was taking care of its people not also give them the voluntary tools to limit a number of births? one has to understand that the new deal, the foundation of the new deal, were northern irish catholics and southern fundamental protestants that became a political base that is now holding captive the republican party. held captive the democratic party. she never forget that. she became angry and gave up on american politics after the new deal. it is a fundamental point that she always voted socialist. she was so angry about franklin roosevelt. she was fourth -- a feminist her fundamental heresy, was claiming a woman's right to experience their sexuality free of consequence, just as men have always done. the hardest challenge in writing about her today, and over the last 22 years, talking about her as well as writing about her, is to explain how absolutely destabilizing she was in her ow

social security is one of them.lity insurance and the old age part, which is probably more well-known. that is a big chunk of the federal budget. [inaudible] >> medicare and medicaid. those are the other two programs. >> [inaudible] >> defense is the department. who can guess the line item? that is the toughest one. it is the interest payments we make on the debt. even though those are fairly low because we have record low interest rates the rate on ten-year bonds is under 2%. at normal, that is 4% or 5%. but it is one of the five biggest that we have in the federal budget. that goes to show that, out of all the priorities we funded through the federal government, a big majority of them is in those five pieces. a lot of that goes to retirees. medicare and social security go almost entirely to the older generation. then you have defense, which obviously goes to protecting the entire country, and medicaid, which is to low income populations. i just want to get your thoughts as to -- when we are prioritizing our spendi

order we all assumed that family breakdown of these jews social order there may be a way out of that conundrum. because think about this what is the one difference liberals are in it human nature. if you take is, if you realize people are living in family structures and why religious truth has been selling during is the reason we have every reason to believe those political conditions or social conditions we may face the need and desire will endure because that is ingrained in who we are. >> it is just a formal break down living together as if they stayed for life for the approximations allied counteroffensive just the way out is the breakdown is more than formal here. >> is the formal problems that the consequence is better not be as catastrophic as we fear. >> on a more positive note the cuties -- thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> they were desperate for business is sang battle for whatever misgivings they had and entered into a $5 million deal to modernize the industry representative rating 50 refineries to train dozens of oil engineers. to be on the superpower th

, stripping of social identity balance of power, and -- but it's also defining social relationship. -- the motive don't impact. insult is always -- you have to feel insult, right? both sides have to recognize it or attribute instout others. always mutually constructed social. >> thank you so much for this presentation. i'd like to ask you, concerning the salute to president obama, how can you classify this insult or -- how can -- the president obama, let me salute you -- getting of the plane and all -- was carrying the -- on the right hand, you know? >> no, i don't. >> how can we get civilize it something like this concerning -- the insults -- >> it was -- >> can you explain what you said? >> i can explain. there's an episode when president obama was getting off a helicopter actually, not an airplane, and he had a latte in his handand coming up to the marine he saluted with the latte in his hand and certain media personality called it an insult to everything about the u.s. military from president obama. >> okay. this is very interesting. you see this is what i call -- remember -- sens

. >> i'm kind of a social media nerd. i'm also kind of a burglar. >> the new warning going viral tonight. >> announcer: from abc news world headquarters, this is abc "world news tonight." >>> good evening. thanks for joining us on this saturday. i'm cecilia vega. we begin with an american family like millions of others on this holiday weekend returning home from vacation. the gutzlers were flying back to illinois from florida. the dad, piloting the small plane when it crashed. the lone survivor, a 7-year-old girl. disoriented she walks away from the wreckage deep in the kentucky woods somehow making her way in the dark to this remote home for help. that little girl's survival tonight being called a miracle. abc's gloria riviera starts us off. >> reporter: today in rural kentucky investigators sifting through the crash site looking for answers. it all started last night just before 7:00 p.m. the gutzler family flying back from the holidays making an emergency call to air traffic control reporting engine problems. the pilot

do you think in a social way, the philippines will be taking that on board?> of course you have to have respect for everyone. the message of the church is you cannot discriminate against anybody. this is very clear with this pope and he has come to say the church is pro-life. they are in favor of life, open to life. it's open to people. it loves everybody. i think it has to put all that together. i think, with this pope we are seeing a move away from condemnation and saying you know he said at the beginning something very very important that has come through throughout this year and a half which is that the proclamation of the love of god comes before any moral teaching. we must tell people god loves them and we must love each other, then we will understand the moral law that says you mustn't do this or that and so on. but, the love of god comes first and it comes through very strongly with this pope and has come through with this visit. open to everybody, with homosexuals, he wants no discrimination. at the same time he wants the family to continue to be bas

if they do anything on social security, i'm not sure they will do anything on social security but it would only be an effort to weed out wasteful spending. tea party members are disgusted when people rip off the social security system. there would want to help us find the people willfully using lawyers to get money they don't deserve. that being said, i find a hard to believe that this congress and the last two years of the obama admin us or be able to find any kind of common way to deal with the intent of a crisis which is the real driver of debt in this country. congressional pay foreign aid congressional spending, none of that has anything to do with our debt. it is all driven by entitlement which includes social security and medicare, which are popular programs. if we don't come up with a way to get a hold of them, we will go bankrupt. i know that a lot of republicans are worried about the bankruptcy of the country. we have to do something about it. i find it very hard to believe anything will be done. host: you see anything on entitlements the session? guest: if you are asking m

police say he decided to surrender after his name was posted on a social -- on social medias a suspect. seven others linked to the brothers are also in custody tonight. we have continuing coverage on our website. it's myfoxphilly.com the very latest reports, of course, and images right there on our home page. >>> recovery crews are working to locate the body of a man who was killed after a sigh low in bucks county collapses on top of him. bristol township police believe that 48-year-old anthony gabriel died when a large round silo full of raw material used to make concrete collapsed on top of him early this morning. patrolling officer noticed the scene at the riverside industrial complex and called emergency crews. the rescue mission proved too complicated and difficult. there's still no word op what caused that deadly collapse. >> a mother and her son are facing serious charges tonight after cops say they made a big heroin bust at their home. 41-year-old jeanette, and 24 year old edwin crespo this morning much police say they found more than 500 packets of heroin at the reading home.

it is a social issue. we are facing serious problems in europe in terms of will i continue to live my way of life for the next years to come or not? those who do not have a good education have good reason to fear that they are being kicked out of the economic system so to speak, and they become poor. there is a strong fear among the small and middle classes of their social downgrading. for these people it is a very easy scapegoat to say it is islamic immigrants who are responsible for all of our misery and not a globalization of general political problems. these people will demonstrate in germany against islam. they would never question policy making in berlin or brussels or elsewhere. they only go for islam. for them, there are no problems at all. which is ridiculous when you look at the southeast of germany, where this movement anti-islam movement is very strong. they have less than 1% of their citizens are of muslim origin. it is really a scapegoat they are living on and they seem to need this. the cons

are the ethics of social media keeping up with the technology? >> when you start experimenting on people, you start manipulating their environment to see how they react, you're turning them into your lab rats. >> the outrage that greeted that particular experiment far outstripped its practical implications. >> why the controversy blew up at the time and in the way that it did is that we're not sure we trust facebook. >> reporter: there were tremors of ethical outrage when a major scientific journal revealed that the social media site facebook had conducted experiments, altering what customers see on their own pages. the outrage was voiced across all forms of media, both traditional ones and digital outlets like youtube. >> a lot of users somewhat understandably thought it was creepy that facebook was intentionally trying to manipulate their emotions. >> reporter: social media have grown so fast over the past few years, the biggest of them all, of course is facebook with 1.5 billion users worldwide, 130 million in this country. what it knows about