he replaced the outgoing director, steven chu, who became the secretary of energy. thomson reuters says dr. alivisatos is one of the best chemists in the world, and he is the author of scientifically important papers like "air stable, all inorganic nano crystal processed by solution" joined by jon swartz of "usa today" and maggie shiels of the bbc. i e-mailed that paper to you. did you get a chance to read it. >> passed the title -- >> neither did i. it's a good read. i don't normally, doctor, start by asking somebody to explain their chart, but explain to us where this lab falls. who owns it, who runs it, how is it different than lawrence livermore laboratories, which is also a famous laboratory in california. >> sure. >> run us through that which i'm sure is a common confusion. >> sure. so, lawrence berkeley national lab is part of the university of california. it's a lab that was started in 1931 with the inconvention of the cyclotron, and a lot of wonderful research was done there, as your intro indicated. but today, it's a laboratory that does no classified rese

i have a boxer that was steven chu on sticks. it is causing constipation. -- 22 on sticks. it is causing constipation. what do i do? >> you need alternatives. my own dog to use certain things. -- chews certain things. you have to poppy-proof the house. >> how do i get my two-year-old dragon to eat on his own? >> these animals are sometimes very caller-oriented. they suggest something colorful like strawberries or raspberries. >> interesting. how can i get my hat to stop biting? it is mostly playful, but it could hurt, and how could i get her to stop begging for treats? >>-influences are good. maybe costs -- negative influences are good. maybe a spray in the face. when they do good behavior, you pay them. give them a paycheck. >> of a good thing would be to adopt shady. it has become a big thing at wbal to get shady adopted. we're hoping it happens. let's give out the information. you can call, and you can the at the other. -- pets available on the baltimore humane society website. how big is the need right now? >> huge. we just did the baltimore 500, and we had 571 adoption

. >> reporter: energy secretary steven chu made reference to volatile energy prices on thursday saying oil prices go up, go down. in 20 years they're more likely to go up. the administration homes green energy will be helpful in the -- hopes green energy will be helpful in the future, but that does not address current global demand. >>> new information in the deadly stabbing in hyattsville. shawn yancy is everywhere at 11:00. >> police identified the murder victim as leonard matthews, a local musician. matthews was stabbed to death on the east west highway last night. a fight broke out. four people were stabbed. matthews was killed. he graduated from northwestern high school in hyattsville in 2008, still no arrests and no word what led to that fight. >>> new video of a huge fire in northwest d.c. a u.s. park police officer shot this from one of their choppers. the fire started in a row house along decatur street and quickly spread to five others. no word on a cause. 14 people remember displaced. no one was seriously -- were displaced. no one was seriously hurt. >>> moammar gadhafi sayi

. >> that's energy secretary steven chu testifying before congress on march 16th. on april 2 he said that based on high radiation levels. 71% of the number one reactor core will be damaged. secretary chu is a nobel laureate physicist. the day after this japan's nuclear agency said the core damage was only 3% and it would take until june 6 before japanese officials would reveal that three reactors at the fume fukushima plant experienced full meltdowns. a day later the government admitted the plant spewed out more than twice as much radiation as originally estimated. it's a lot here and credit for putting together this frankly troubling timeline goes to my colleague in tokyo, kyong law. i spoke to here about all of this along with former industry veteran and plant operator michael freed lander. >> time and time again agencies and organizations outside of japan have warned of these heightened dangers and weeks if not months later tepco and the japanese government finally admit the truth. what is your sense about this? are they purposely stalling? is it inefficiency or

secretary of energy steven chu before he was nominated to be secretary of energy, he wanted to figure out how to boost the prices of gasoline here to that in europe. at the time in europe it cost $7 or $ a gallon. that's what the administration's secretary of energy really expects and wants the american people to pay for a gallon of gasoline. i know when fuel prices got to be $4 a gallon, $4.35, $4:50 a gallon, i know what that meant for my small business and we only had two trucks on the road. americans can't afford that. i know the scom from north carolina fully understands that we've got the resources to meet our needs, we've got to expand that and put americans back to work through harvesting american resources so i recognize the gentlewoman from north carolina. ms. foxx: i want to thank the gentleman from south carolina for taking on this special order tonight and bringing with him a group of his colleagues that are called freshmen around here. but i will tell you, the people watching this tonight don't know you guys are freshmen, you're doing a wonderful job and i want to compli

chu: thank you. >> my name is steven valentine. i have concerns about the recology project dumpsite. my family is in the downstream watershed area of the proposed dump site. we have a process, as many family farms to in that area. we are subject to any surface water contamination in any ground water contamination coming from upstream, which is where the dump site is. we are responsible to monitor our water quality, both ground and surface, at our own expense to mitigate any toxic contamination is. at our own expense. there is not currently any condition or assurance that the contract with yuba county to require them to mitigate any downstream contamination might impact our facility. we have some evidence of surface water contamination from the site. we cannot tolerate even 0% e. coli contamination. we are inspected annually by the fda. the potential contamination of those areas that are immediately downstream at a very high water table level could result in loss of hundreds of millions of dollars in agricultural production, which is one of the few bright spots in california. this is

chu: thank you. >> my name is steven valentine. i have concerns about the recology project dumpsite.y family is in the downstream watershed area of the proposed dump site. we have a process, as many family farms to in that area. we are subject to any surface water contamination in any ground water contamination coming from upstream, which is where the dump site is. we are responsible to monitor our water quality, both ground and surface, at our own expense to mitigate any toxic

but i'm also struck by another major change that i see happening, it was actually steven chu who called it to my attention, a beautiful comic he says, we seek solutions, talking that research universities, we seek solutions, we don't seek, dare i say, just scientific papers anymore. i don't know how much of this was covered, but i think it is a critical difference to say if you're going after a solution, you can't live in a silo. almost all of problems today, sociotechnical problems that require many disciplines to work together, and many interaction with the outside world as well as the inside world. and so, the key notion here is how am i going to the root of the problem, the fundamental work that susan was talking about, creates the boundary objects that really do bring cross disciplinary work to the floor. if there's anything you can't do as the president, as a dean come as a director of a major research operation, is till five disciplines to come together and start working together. that doesn't work. on the other hand if the problem sucks people together because they're excited ab

chu: thank you. >> good morning, committee members. my name is jim stevens. we have been around recology for many years. as a san francisco corporate citizen, they are one of the best in san francisco. as a son of san francisco, they are one of the best of san francisco. i cannot see why we should come back here on this issue that has been coming here for the last six months. everything says "recology." i implore you today to let it be recology. thank you. supervisor chu: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i put myself in a green business suit. i think that this recology proposal hits both nails right on the head. first, the recology bid is $100 million less than the losing bid, and the whole thing about the trains. vitrines are great. -- the trains are great. the trains are four times more fuel-efficient than the trucks that currently take the garbage out. it will reduce fuel consumption by 10 billion gallons. and especially in -- you know, i now work at a company in oakland here, so i know from my co- workers and having to drive myself, there is a l