"stephen hawking," or as it's called, stephen hawking, his life and work. some of you may already know hawking's science will. and nearly everybody has something about him as a person. is this ability -- his disability, his legendary courage, his unlikely celebrity, and then a few ugly rumors about him as well. but he's more than a legend. he actually is a real person. and it's been my luck to get to know him just a little bit. i wouldn't claim to be aggregates and i'm a. i think you might be inaccurate to say that more than two or three people no stephen hawking well. even they have their doubts. the way he communicates through his computer using their keywords which takes him a long time to produce means there's always something of a difference. and he doesn't get very much away. he says exactly what he wants to say, and no more. furthermore, he has no body language, and his synthetic computer voice conveys no emotion whatsoever. when you're sitting within you often wonder whether he is telling a joke or not. but he does have facial expressions still. and

when we finished the set, i went to him and i said, "oh, my god, stephen hawking." he was so generous and powerful, but my latin roots, i was, like, trying to hug him. and there was no motion. i realized that you can have a lot of energy with a quiet motion. he was very energetic, but very passive, too. and it was a beautiful experience, and that was the night that obama won the presidency. so it meant a lot to me. >> hinojosa: so you spend a lot of your time giving back to young people, because... i mean, you don't have to be doing that. why is it so important? what is the message that you want to leave with these young people, about what? about music, about understanding values? >> very important to me, maria, is how music is used as a social tool to empower society, to make better human beings, to make people... see, we are dealing right now with issues, very important issues like isolation. so music brings the element of working in group, teamwork, discline because, you know, if you're practicing something... if i'm practicing something (plays piano) i have to d

you know. [ light laughter ] "stephen hawking." "famine." you know? "wanking."s the bit. that's the only thing i had to change. >> jimmy: that's the only thing you have to change is -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: is "wanking." >> that's everything -- "jacking off." >> jimmy: they don't get that one. no. we had jerry -- >> that's pretty universal, as well. isn't it? >> jimmy: it is, very -- yeah. but just different names for it. >> yeah. >> jimmy: we had jerry seinfeld on the show yesterday. >> oh. >> jimmy: he's a good man. and he has a web series. it's "comedians --" >> yeah. >> jimmy: "-- getting coffee." no, "comedians in cars getting coffee." >> that's right, yeah. >> jimmy: and you were on it. >> yeah, it was great fun. >> jimmy: did you enjoy it in? >> well, in retrospect. at the time, i was terrified for my life. >> jimmy: what do you mean? >> because the car was a death trap. it was some sort of '60s -- [ light laughter ] british car. i mean, i don't know if you've ever been in a vintage car. but, i mean, they look lovely. they're works of art. >> jimmy: they're

comparing mitt romney to president reagan is like comparing junior samples of hee haw to stephen hawkingsto our blog. >> jack, thank you. >>> you're in "the situation room." happening now, a united states ambassador killed inside an american consulate. was he left vulnerable to attack? >>> and a one-word job description, death. we spend a chilling day in the life of a syrian army sniper. >>> we're learning new detail ts about the heartbreaking loss of a baby panda right here at washington's national zoo. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> just in to "the situation room," new questions about security and the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, which killed four americans, including ambassador chris stevens. we're now learning the villa of the building that was burned in the hours-long assault did not need standard u.s. security requirements for a united states consulate. cnn's intelligence correspondent suzanne kelly has been working the story for us. what are you picking up? >> we are

stay here we are doomed, and as far as we know, we are it >> this is a point that was made by stephen hawking murray said we have to be a multi plant species, otherwise we are doomed because something bad can happen to earth, a virus, astra, what have you. here is my rebuttal, if i may. >> math is the question? >> yes,. [laughter] >> do you feel that the motivation like that is valuable as a component to make the economics are part of feeding the species, part of the our country, part of feeding ourselves. >> i don't think it is a good enough driver because i don't believe it. i'll tell you why. and talking made this point. we have to be a multi plant species, otherwise, all the eggs in one basket. you go extinct. what might be that which threatens our, an asteroid, a killer asteroid the size of mount everest, the one that renders 70 percent of eight species extinct 65 million years ago, the yucatan peninsula of mexico. it was in mexico back then, by the way. [laughter] whenever the dinosaurs called it. so here is the thing. if we are going to be a multi plant species, and i have into to this

hawking said, they're equations. how does an equation inform the abyss that it's somehow pregnant with beings? what breathes fire and makes those universes? >> stephenare you a poet? this is beautiful. (applause) you might be the first guest whose book i read. (laughter) for me answer is god. okay? god said let it be so and so the world was so. i find that very comforting. and i find that very freeing because i-- my questioning stops right there. but your questioning continues. do you not find this questioning that goes on in your mind like just-- like a hot match that's been dropped between the two lobes of your brain and just sit there is and it fizzles and pops and burns and keeps you up at night? >> yeah, yeah. >> stephen: put it out! put that match out with the quenching water of faith! (laughter) >> okay, okay. god may exist, may not exist. >> stephen: he does go. ahead. (laughter) >> it could be part of the problem. >> stephen: part of the problem? >> part of the problem. why does god exist? god is eternal--. >> stephen: because it pleases him to do so. >> but he might be puzzled by his own existence. maybe he-- if he exists maybe he created

stephen: that's it for the report, everybody. good night he worked here for a while, but he's not... they're coming to pick this up. watch it like hawks please. don't open it. hot brownies. no, no. okay, he's not out there. i bet it's them counterfeit phone-cards they got. [ all scream ] whoo! come here! oh! ahh! oh-ah! oh! [ growling ] [ sirens wail ] [ siren wailing ] free drinks for law enforcement is a... that's a dangerous idea. it's not every night, is it at that place? junior: tuesdays. [ speaking indistinctly ] guinness and bailey's -- car bombs. oh, dear lord, were they good. morning, sunshine. can we turn off some of the lights in here, please? did everybody see garcia all up on johnson? ooh! like a little koala bear. on behalf of the male half of the department, i apologize for garcia. you know that old-man perseverance... here's the horny toad himself. what's up, heartache? trudy: i saw an "america's most wanted" last night that i'd never seen before, so it was actually good that i'd stayed home. jim: the first thing on the agenda -- building operations. the memo is spinning, i'm gonna set it down for a second. excuse me.