they said they got 25 to 30 other e-mails and that they had not reported. >> reporter: stanford called the universitywho launched an investigation in what may be some sort of a hacking case. in another twist, the checks are not from a stanford account, they are from a southern california title company. the checks are not real said the company and the case is under investigation by their legal department. the university declined an interview request, but a spokesman said we do not have any information about how or why these were sent using the department's fed-ex account and we are not aware of similar cases occurring elsewhere on campus. one computer science student tells us he is not surprised this could happen. >> it shows how vulnerable our information is. it doesn't matter where you are. >> reporter: miranda received her check this morning. she had no thoughts of the trying to cash it. she called stanford and her next call was to call the contra costa sheriff's department to turn the check in. >>> some call it disrespectful, others say it is just a stunt. a video shows bmx riders hopping over hom

>> well, as we said earlier it was founded by herbert hoover and stanford university. it exists within the framework of stanford university. the -- >> i want to stop and said that dr. nash's wearing the hoover institution tie. >> i am. >> that is the tower. that is his tower. it is quite pitiful. the are all very proud of the hoover institution's wonderful place. >> indeed. 285 feet high. there is system of presidential libraries in the united states administered largely by the national archives. one of those is the harbor and hoover presidential library at his birthplace in iowa. that was my base of operations for many years. i have also spent many, many months because if you're a hoover biographer you end up having to draw upon the archival resources of both places. .. >> wade back in 1920. she went around ian and interviewed people. he did not care for the book entirely anti-he was clever rightist. >> host: this is very exciting to get us feel for how friendly he was for hope he was a figure people never would have imagined. here is your book. this is sure six the s

it exists within the framework of stanford university. >> host: i want to stop and say that dr.nash is wearing the hoover institution tide. so that is the tower and is quite beautiful. were all very proud of the hoover institution. >> guest: it's a wonderful place indeed. 285 feet and the stanford landscape. a system of presidential libraries in the united states in this largely by the national archives. one of those in the system is the herbert hoover presidential library, which is at his birthplace in westbridge island. that was my base of operations for many years working on several volumes about mr. hoover. i've also spent many, many months. every minute i've enjoyed because if you are hoover vacuum up having to draw upon the archival resources of both places. that gives you a little bit of phrack ground to the context i work as an independent scholar robert in places and elsewhere over the years. >> host: viewers who might end up in westbridge will want to know that there's some other paper there, including papers of the wilder family. laura ingalls wilder, about the writin

in california, kathryn stoner, director of the program international policy studies at stanford, university. and in washington, molly mccue, she was an adviser to georgia i from 2008 to 2013. nadia, is what we're watching right now policy being made on the fly, or does vladimir putin have a very specific outcome in mind, and did he when all this began? >> you actually used a phrase a describing the sochi olympics saying a new russia was on display. there is a new ideology that has been in the making for quite some time to put russia back on the world stage as a power for recognize conne reckoned with. and his believe is that he's moving russia towards, creating a russian world. he believes that ukraine and incidentally belarus also belongs to this russian world, and any ethnic russians that happen to be beyond the current border of russia also belong to that world. this is the direction he is heading in, and this has been in the planning for a long time, for a while. >> katherine, do you agree? even if the demonstrations in the maidan had not taken place, vladimir putin was going to try to

had gotten 25 to 30 other emails and that they had still not reported it. >> reporter: stanford did call university police, who launched an investigation into what may be some sort of a hacking case. in another twist, the actual checks are not from a stanford account. they are from title 365 from southern california. the company said the checks are not real and the case is under investigation by their legal department. the university declined an interview request but a spokesman said, we do not have any information about how or why these mailings were sent using the department's fedex account, and we are not aware of any similar cases occurring elsewhere on campus" > there is no privacy anywhere. >> reporter: one computer science student told us he is not surprised this could happen even at a place like stanford. >> just shows how vulnerable our information is, no matter where you are. >> reporter: miss miranda got her check this morning. she didn't cash it. she called the sheriff's department to turn the check in. at stanford, len ramirez, kpix 5. >>> you know what day it is? come on, in unison. >

he was probably literally the first at stanford university in the fall of 91 getting his dormitory room ahead of anyone else. that became in a deep sense his alma mater. you have to remember he is an orphan boy and he was trying to make it in the world. he was only 17 when he entered college and he was rather shy but he blossomed in college and became student body treasure by the time he was out of college. stanford meant so much to him that about 25 years or so after that after world war i hoover literally built his own home on the stanford campus. that is still there in the official residence today of the present of the university. >> guest: . >> host: dr. -- what did he do with his education? he studied mining and engineering. >> guest: his official major was geology and he had an interest in mining engineering in that quickly became his graph g. graduated in the class of 1895. after a year or two he got a break and was hired by a british engineering firm that was preeminent in the world at the time and he was sent as a young man to australia. before he left australia at the age of 2

>> guest: it was founded by herbert hoover and stanford university, his alma mater in 1919. exists within the framework of stanford university. >> host: george nash is wearing the hoover institution tie. that is the tower, that is his power and is quite beautiful and we are proud of the hoover institution a wonderful place. >> guest: it is the dominant landmark of the stanford landscape. the system of presidential libraries in the united states administered largely by the national archives and one of those in the system is the herbert hoover presidential library which is at his birthplace in iowa and that was my base of operations for many years working in several volumes about mr. hoover. i spent many months, every minute i have enjoyed at the hoover institution because he end up having to draw upon the archival resources of both places. that gives you a bit of background, you work as an independent scholar and work in both of those places and elsewhere over the years. >> host: viewers will want to know there are some other papers including papers of the wilder family laura

we're live at stanford university, kiet do, kpix 5. >>> a little history on crimea. the region was part of russia until 1954. russia turned it over to ukraine that year when both were part of the soviet union. testifies semi independent with etc. own parliament and an estimated 77% of people there consider russian their native language. >>> happening today, a local muslim opposed to a local surveillance center will protest outside oakland city hall. they will happen right before the city council voting on the construction on the domain awareness center. with federal funding, the center would collect video feeds from cameras and sensors around the city. the muslim community is especially concerned about being singled out for surveillance and law enforcement sweeps. >>> and new this morning, the white house says national parks and their surrounding communities lost about $414 million because of last fall's government shutdown. interior secretary sally jewel sayshat's the money that would have been spent by eight million people who had to cancel plans during the governm

we're live at stanford university, kiet do, kpix 5. >>> thank you. a little background on crimea which was part of russia until 1954. russia then turned it over to the ukraine that year when both were part of the soviet union. it had its own parliament as well and estimated 77% of the people in crimea consider russian their native language. >>> happening today, some san francisco police officers are due back in court to face criminal charges. in a federal dime, six officers -- indictmentings six officers are accused of stealing drugs and money intended for use as evidence. tender loin hotel video shows undercover officers apparently barging into rooms intimidating residents and stealing valuables. today the new city administrator takes over after one was suddenly replaced. mayor quan made the announcement last night and cit administrator deanna santana is being replaced by fred blackwell. the new ca starts at noon today. there's no official word on why santana is leaving. but sources tell the oakland tribune quan wanted her out. >>> new this morning,

and then he applied for entrance into a newly formed stanford university in the summer of 1891. he got in mission and was told to take additional to agree with the help of which she post -- passed most of his entrance against. he was probably the first student at stanford university getting his dormitory room ahead of anyone else. that became his all moderate. after world war 100 -- hoover literally built his own home on the stanford campus. that's still there. >> and dr. nash, what did he do with his education and the got there? the study engineering. >> is the official measure was geology. he had an interest and engineering which quickly became his career after a graduated in the class of 1895. after your to in the united states he got a break and was hired by a british mining engineering firm that was preeminent in the world of the time. he was sent as a young man to australia. before he left australia at the age of 23 he was already part of one of the great gold mines. from there he once and got married to a stanford woman who also was a geology majors, possibly the first du

this question is being explored by a fruitful collaboration between researchers at stanford university and agronomists in mexico. pamela matson, a professor and biogeochemist from stanford university, is one of the directors of this study. matson: i study the chemical interactions between plants and microorganisms and soil and water and atmosphere systems, and i focus in particular on nitrogen. a lot of my research is focused on what happens with nitrogen fertilizers in agricultural systems and how they affect the environment. narrator: an essential element for all living things, nitrogen is the main nutrient in many fertilizers. matson: all organisms need a lot of nitrogen. plants and people and all different kinds of animals and microorganisms use nitrogen in our cells, and we need a lot of it. and of course, we are literally bathed in it. the atmosphere is 78% dinitrogen, so there should be plenty, right? but the problem is that most organisms don't have access to that dinitrogen in the atmosphere. they can't use it. they can't get at it. narrator: while certain bacteria can convert

. >>> we took a look at some stanford university students who are enrolled in a special program teaching them how to become high tech entrepreneurs. josh lipton has more on what's being learned and what those students hope to accomplish. >> reporter: instagram's founder kevin sistrom sold his company to facebook for $1 billion. as students at stanford university now prepare for graduation, many dream of creating the next instagram so they do what sistrom did, enroll in the technology ventures program. the program started in 1988. its mission is to teach students to succeed as high tech entrepreneurs. its alumni have worked all over silicon valley from google to silver lake partners. every year about 2,000 students take part in the program where they study entrepreneurship, finance and business strategy. many create their own business ideas which they then present to a panel of venture capitalists, stanford's own version of the popular television program "shark tank." >> if i want to take somebody's ideas and turn them into reality, it would be very helpful to have the support of stdp and

ambassador to russia to return to stanford university as an expert on the region and the country andts president, vladimir putin. mr. ambassador, a lot of folks on tv over the weekend seem to desperately want this to be a plot line, putin versus obama. if you're vladimir putin, however, how much is the u.s. a part of your thinking and how much is this truly a domestic matter to you? >> well, for president putin, ukraine is very important to his vision of creating what he calls a eurasian economic union. and just a month ago he was victorious in his view when then president yanukovych rejected the european and started negotiations with russia. but then just a few weeks ago, that president, yanukovych fled russia, and that was a big blow to putin, a big blow of what should happen in terms of his vision in terms of russian and ukraine. this is his counterpunch to let everybody know that he is going to be the dominant power in his view in this part of the world. >> and what is possibly going to motivate him to want to listen to the west and listen to among others the president of the uni

. >> booktv spoke with scholars at the hoover institution, a public policy think tank at stanford university to find out what they are reading. >> john taylor is reading why growth matters, how economic growth in india produces poverty and lessons for other developing countries. the presentation from the council on foreign relations can be viewed on booktv.org anytime. if there is another institution whose reading list you would like to here, send us an e-mail at td.org. >> up next on booktv, "after words" what guest host jonathan last and author of what to expect when no one is expecting. this week paul taylor in his latest book the next america.

bush's chief economic adviser, now a senior fellow at stanford university's hoover institute. and if i'm not mistaken, a professor of economics at stanford university. ed lazear, welcome back. hell of an article. you're basically saying when you look at the numbers the right way when you dig into them, we haven't had a 900,000 job increase in the last six months, we've actually had 100,000 job, is that correct? >> that's right. you've got it, larry. and the reason is that we have more people working but they're working fewer hours per person. when you take both effects into account, the total amount of hours worked has actually fallen since september. >> now, hours worked, you say, is a key variable to look at. on wall street, it's always nonfarm payrolls and private payrolls -- >> right. >> sometimes the household employment report from which the unemployment rate is derived. but you're drawing attention to private hours -- you're point is they have been slumping over the past six months. >> that's right. there are a couple of reasons to look at hours worked. one is, hours wo

had gotten 25 to 30 other emails and that they had still not reported it. >> reporter: stanford did call university police who launched an investigation into what may be a hacking case. in another twist, the actual checks are not from a stanford account. they are from a southern california title company called title 365. the company told us the checks are not real and the case is under investigation by their legal department. the university declined an interview request but a spokesman said, quote, we do not have any information about how or why these mailings were sent using the department's fedex account and we are not aware of any similar case occurring elsewhere on campus" > there really is no privacy anywhere. >> reporter: one computer science student said he is not surprised this could happen even at a place like stanford. >> shows how vulnerable our information is. it doesn't matter where you are. >> reporter: apparently, people around the area are getting these checks. miss meranda, the person bee talked to this morning, said she received the check had no thoughts of trying to cash it. she

>> why stanford university away >>> a possible new lead in the missing malaysian airlines plane. you're looking at debris off the coast of kuala lumpur. pefrments say it could have come from the plane. the search widened because radar may have picked up the plane was turning back >> nine people remain missing after a building blast in new york city. three people killed, 64 hurt. a suspected gas explosion ripped through east harlem. neighbors say it could be felt for several blocks. i thought it was an ernl quake. >> it was like a big boom. >> here is a look at buildings before, that is a sad scene right now. officials say it erupted this morning. >> a man involved in a wild incident went before a judge today the 0-year-old is charged with assault. for trying to ram a police officer with his car. investigators have not figured out who shot the officer and never found a gun on ruano. there is a possibility he was shot by a fellow cop. they're putting witnesses, 6, 7 rounds are fired he doesn't have a gun. >> he was arrested after a wild chase. >> sunnyvale with move forward now wit

the age of 10 and went to live with an uncle in oregon and then apply for insurance in two stanford university in the summer of 1891 and got it admission and was told to take additional tour he passed the entrance exams literally probably the first at the stanford university in the fall of '91 getting the dormitory room ahead of anyone else and in as a deep sense is all a matter he is an orphan boy trying to make it in the world and all the '70s when he entered college and was rather shy but he blossomed there to become a student body treasurer and stanford men so much to him that about 25 years after that after world war i hoover literally built his home on the stanford campus it is the official residence of the president of the university. >> host: what did he do with his education there? he steadied in mining engineering. >> he his major was geology with engineering that was his career after he graduated in the class of 8095. he got a break and was hired by a british mining and engineering firm and was sent to australia before he left austria at the age of 23 already manager of one of the g

he and his wife decided to settle on the west coast near their alma mater stanford university. >> i choseoid new york city. i never felt as if i was really part of that community, even though i have a lot of friends in it. you know they say the person that has the most toys when he dies wins. that's insane. why would that be true? i remember when i first started i was talking to someone about an investment situation, and there was someone trying to take control of the company. i said, that guy is an idiot. the person i was talking to said, he is worth a lot more money than you. i am thinking, am i dumber than everyone richer than me? no, and i am not smarter than everybody i am richer than. >> is that why you left wall street? >> i didn't think it would be a great place to have little kids, and if you like the great outdoors. it is hard to re-create. >> steyer tries to get out to his ranch a few times a week. in addition to raising grass fed cattle, it plays host to local schoolchildren who come to visit dorothy, the 300 pound pig. >> the rule is don't name it if you want to eat it, but t

in addition many of our partners such as sharp, hall of science, stanford university and experts in the field such as and joe bowler contributed to this work. and we've engaged in conversation with partners across the bay to support us on this. i would like to acknowledge and thank them all for contributing to the work that jim and lizey have been leading this school year. i would like to have jim and liz i share with you the proposed standard implementation of the core sequence. >> good evening. i'm very excited to be with you this evening as dr. valentino asked us to share our work and thinking. so, again, we have carefully thought about what we want to share with you this evening. as you all know california is one of the 45 states that adopted the common core standards in mathematics and we in san francisco along with educators across california are thinking about what it is to implement this comprehensive rigor described in the common core. so we are presenting our recommendation to you this evening. our recommendation addresses this specific question with the transition to the comm

he and his wife chose to settle here on the west coast near their alma mater stanford university, andusands of miles from wall street. >> i intentionally chose not to live in new york city which is the center of investment in the united states. i never felt as if i was really part of that community even though i had lots of friends in it. but you know the old saying, the person who has the most toys when they die wins. that's insane, right? why would that be true? and the idea that if you make -- i remember when i first started farallon, i was talking to someone about an investment situation and there was someone trying to take control of the company and i said that guy is an idiot. and the person i was talking to said, he's worth a lot more money than you are, tom. i don't think he could be so stupid. i started thinking, am i dumber than everybody who is richer than me? and i think no. and i'm not smarter than everybody i'm richer than. >> is that why you left wall street? >> i just didn't think -- i didn't think it would be a great place, and i don't think my wife thought it would b

he and his wife chose to settle here on the west coast near their alma mater stanford university, andands of miles from wall street. >> i intentionally chose not to live in new york city which is the center of investment in the united states. i never felt as if i was really part of that community, even though i had lots of friends in it. but you know the old saying, the person who has the most toys when they die wins. that's insane, right? why would that be true? and the idea that if you make -- i remember when i first started farallon, i was talking to someone about an investment situation, and there was someone trying to take control of the company and i said, that guy is an idiot. and the person i was talking to said, he's worth a lot more money than you are, tom. i don't think he could be so stupid. i started thinking, am i dumber than everybody who is richer than me? and i think no. and i'm not smarter than everybody i'm richer than. >> is that why you left wall street? >> i just didn't think -- i didn't think it would be a great place, and i don't think my wife thought it would

now a professor of political science at stanford university. professor mcfaul, thanks for being with us. >> thanks for having me. you've done your homework about me. >> i've at least tried to. i will not ask you to talk about the ryan fogle incident. i know you can't. i want to ask if it's fair to characterize the sort of timing and the way the russian authorities handled that issues vis-a-vis you as indicative of how hard it was to be a diplomat there. how hard it was to deal with and predict the activities of the russian federation? >> yeah, it was a hard time. absolutely. it was a very tense time after the demonstrations back in december of 2011 where hundreds of thousands of people went out in the streets to protest falsified elections and the regime under mr. putin, then prime minister, and later president putin reacted to that by claiming the demonstrators were controlled by the west, controlled by the obama administration and controlled by me. almost every day that accusation was made about me and the state-controlled media, and therefor

at stanford university, mark kelly, kpix5. >> the jury could feel the agents went against yee too aggressively and drop the charges. we'll see. >>> today, we learn of a new player through all of this. through a second affidavit filed. barry house from concord was introduced to undercover agents by keith jackson here on the left who is affiliated with senator leland yee. acourting to court documents, barry house offered to protect the undercover agent. >>> surveillance video captures the shaking from a 5.1 earthquake near los angeles. liquor was falling off the shelves at this store in la habra. hundreds were knocked to the floor during the quake. hundreds of aftershocks were felt around los angeles. there was no major damage, but this was the hardest hit. >> reporter: trying to determine which home to red tag. fullerton fire crews responded to hundreds of phone calls today from worried residents reporting severe cracks in their walls and foundations. >> we just want to double check everything. if it is not okay, we will take tout the next step. >> reporter: north fuller ton resident janice sai

the family went to stanford university where they confirmed he has polio like syndrome.re have been 20 cases in california. all affecting kids. doctors say this is the first known case in southern california. and since its been decades since doctors used the word polio they are still researching all possibilities. >> it is unknown the severity of this for each individual. the thought is it is permanent. but we don't know all the things that are going to happen to every patient. >> reporter: he has to wear a brace for his legs and he will most likely never be able to walk on his own but his parents say it is his smile and determination that keeps everyone going. >> you just -- that determinenition makes me keep going -- determination makes me keep going. >> two dozen cases have been reported statewide. 5 in the bay area. >>> check out this wild video out of colorado. looks like a small tornado but it is a dust devil sweeping over a fire. that debris is burning tumble weeds. wild. time to leave that scene when you have blowing, burbing tumble weeds -- burning tumble weeds.

finally last week, doctors at stanford university diagnosed the toddler. doctors don't know what causes the illness but they say the damage to lucien's legs is permanent. now, we know we are expected to get results from doctors here in the bay area sometime in april. but even then, their findings could present more questions than answers. reporting live at ucsf, cate caugiran, kpix 5. >> thank you, cate. doctors say the polio vaccine does not protect children from the disease but stress it's still very important to get it for your child. >>> military aircraft from several countries are over the indian ocean trying to find debris that could be part of the missing malaysia airlines jet. cbs reporter tara mergener reports, there's still no sign of that plane that vanished on march 8. >> reporter: australia's p3 orion aircraft traveled four hours this morning to a remote part of the southern indian ocean. crews are searching the area for two pieces of debris spotted on satellite images sunday that may be connected to missing flight 370. >> we have replanned th

guest: as we said earlier it was founded by herbert hoover and that is effectively in 1919 with stanford university >> host: i want to say doctor is wearing the tie and it is quite beautiful. we are all very proud of the hoover institution. it is a dominant landmark in the stanford landscape. there is a system of presidential libraries in the united states administered largely by the archives. and one of those in the system is that herbert hoover presidential library in west branch on iowa and that was my basic operation for years working on the civil operations and i think i spent many months every minute i've enjoyed at the hoover institution because if you are a hoover biographer you end up having to draw u upon the archives resources of both places so that gives you a bit of background into the context in which i work as an independent scholar and both of those places and elsewhere over the years. >> host: the keywords "-begin-double-quotes to branch might want to know there are other papers including of the y. old family, rose wilder maybe laura ingalls wilder about the writing of the famous l

charter schools work, stanford university analyzed it. poor families love charter schools. even the poor families saying if the charter school shuts down we don't want our kids in unsafe public schools. >> that's the point is that the poor folks that take advantage of charter schools often have no choice. this is the only choice they have for good education. >> this is a very hard one for me to argue against because i'm a very big fan of the charter schools, i'm going to acknowledge that. so maybe i can inform instead. what you've got going on here is a battle within the democratic another. you've got the teachers unions terrified they are going to lose membership and people like the president and the secretary of education arnie duncan who very much support charter schools and to speak to bruce's point i have to say, i don't care who is running them. some are for profit. the bottom line is when you look at the performance numbers the charter schools, the kids are doing better. >> and rich, the fact is the parents want them. who should be in charge of kids' education? the t