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>> stuart: no. absolutely not. >> stahl: you had no idea? >> stuart: no idea.nt of his vocabulary. >> ipad: find the saxophone. yay. you did it. >> stahl: saxophone. how did he know a saxophone, right? >> stuart: and we've just recently found out that he has quite a love of classical music and opera. so he's... he's... >> stahl: he has love of opera? >> stuart: yes, he does. >> stahl: and you didn't know it. >> stuart: didn't know it, yeah. >> stahl: did that come through the ipad? >> stuart: it came through exploring music selections on... on the ipad. ♪ ♪ >> stuart: as a reward, sometimes, we let him watch some videos in class, some pavarotti or some arias. and he likes conductors. he likes symphonies. ♪ ♪ >> stahl: you're discovering that there's more inside these children's heads than you realized? >> morey: and that's something, in a way, i feel like we've known. but this is giving us a tool to really show us and prove that there is more happening. >> stahl: figuring out why so many autistic people are unable to speak-- as many as 30% of them-- is the subj

stuart pratt? >> uh-oh, john, i think the lead for the show speaks volumes about how society and our lives have changed, the ability to going lg ourselves, to see what is on the internet is something that tens of millions --. >> you want information it would be the shoe leather factor, you have to retain a private eye, he would have to be hiding behind lampposts and try to get into files now. now it's at your finger tips. >> i don't think that's quite true: there's some information on the intet net that is easy to get but there's a lot of information controlled under federal laws and is not readily available through a browser on the internet. >> where do you start? you start by going lg? -- googling? i ask you evan hendricks. >> that's the easy thing. but if you pull out your wallet and start buying things, there's no way anyone can realize how much information is available, the property records, divorce recordr. bank records. >> the googling process will give you names, date of birth, place of bir

stuart is a defense attorney of great renown. he has over 30 years of experience, including some of the country's most high-profile cases. including cases involving police and official misconduct. next to him is our san francisco police chief, greg suhr, newly appointed to that office last month. congratulations, chief. >> thank you, your honor. [applause] >> chief suhr has surfed in the department for 30 years. and as chief he will be overseeing a department of 1,800 police officers. next we have peter herley who is now acting as police consultant. he is the former chief of police of tiburon and the former president of the california police officers association. next to mr. herley is sharon wu, the chief assistant of operations in the district attorney's office. she oversees the criminal division, including the victim witness program and the alternative dispute courts. anne irwin is an attorney in the public defender's office. ms. irwin was recently involved in several of the cases involving the videotaped evidence which resulte

it is back to the point stuart made. if we had a federal standard that settle security should be reasonable the devil is in the details. what will happen quite predictably is we will overinvest in security because a matter of practice if you had a security breach your security couldn't have been that good you had a breach. hindsight is 20/20 is a real concern. what it means is business will spend money on things that are not helpful to us as consumers and users. i will give a simple illustration. if the below size on an airplane is wrong and the federal standards as it should be 18 x 18 inches and needs to be goose filled and you get a hypoallergenic pill we can't keep the plane in the air so every third one crashes, why focus on the panel? we have to keep the plane in the air. tony hit the nail on the head. privacy is non-partisan. it is hard to be against privacy. we all like it. all of us from industry representing industry have to take that into account. i am not sure there's a standard we can legislate. i am not con

stuart schweitzer, always great to hear from you. he's with us tonight from jpmorgan private bank. >> thank you. >> susie: and here's an update of the >> susie: the "occupy wall street movement" moved uptown today. protestors went door to door, visiting the homes of new york city's super wealthy, calling it the "billionaire's march". protestors paraded through posh upper east side neighborhoods, stopping at the homes of some of the city's wealthiest residents, including j.p. morgan c.e.o. jamie dimon and news corp c.e.o. rupert murdoch. the march was highlighted by shouts of "we are the 99%," referring to the movement's theme that 1% of the population controls too much of the nation's wealth. >> as investors awaited the number from alcoa after the close, kind of a quiet trading day. let's get you updated with tonight's market focus. a mixed close for the major indices with no real direction today. the dow industrial average highlights the choppy price action we saw throughout the session. but after weeks of triple-digit swings, today

. >> stuart, we are looking at the states with anti-bullying laws. new jersey has the toughest.ou say there's still work for everybody to do. >> laws basically, whatever their details are just the statement by society, by government, by community groups that we want schools to pay more attention to this. i agree with everything rosalyn said, of course, but the emphasis needs to be on schools. schools is where almost all bullying takes place. yes stuff happens in the home but the myth of bullying is occurring in bad families and bad communities and bad kids and leaks the way over to the pristine confines of schools. that's not so. bullying is -- schools are where almost all bullying arises and the behavior of adults who run and staff schools as well as parents involved with the schools who determine whether bullying occurs. >> all right. >> so the focus needs to be on schools and laws help keep that focus there. >> stuart green, thank you so much for joining us. rosalyn wiseman, thank you. >>> forget the bling. the big bank accounts and the botox. the new reality on tv is all abo

and it's from the portrait that was painted by gilbert stuart.e was an artist from rhode island, and it's the most famous portrait of george washington. but there were brothers who were put in charge of creating the image for the flag, and they went about designing it, coming up with all the different lettering. they had it perfect, except the image they had of george washington came from a box of cough syrup. and it just wouldn't do. and in the 11th hour, they found gilbert stuart's portrait of george washington, put it on the flag, and it was accepted by the legislators in washington, and we still have the flag today. >> reporter: with flag facts, i'm kristen. >>> peter and caroline davis have been playing tennis since they were old enough to hold racquets, but it's not just their athletic ability that makes this brother and sister team special. they are using their love of tennis to help change lives halfway around the world. it all started with the coach, teza. he's from zambia, a country in southern africa with a lot of poverty. more than ha

climate in russia i'm joined by glenn waller here in the studio he is president of exxon mobile russia stuart irvin he is chief executive officer nestle russia eurasia we also have. is chief economist at deutsche bank and vladimir off he is deputy head of research department at a critter ok but first let's take a look at what's going on in russia's invest investment environment. challenge to foreign capital just as if russia is to wean itself off their revenues was a new pollens and government on the horizon investors are looking for concrete progress . i think it's quite clear that russia can no longer rely on anything or interest economic model russia needs to change the model that you might have to focus on priest investment restricted space by far in russia and also a great. business environment for sure players in russia. and hollow their first of the presidential modernization and the prime minister is foreign investment advisory council as a result of ceased to commissions rules for business became more transparent many administrative procedures for simplified in russia and russia bigg

yes i want to go to you what has to be done still because we just had a really rosy picture from stuart here but i mean what needs to be done because that i mean let's be honest here you know not every company in the world is flocking to russia why. well i think because there are still problems and the problems are still significant in terms of red tape i think there has been progress in addressing issues such as corruption such as the. level of bureaucracy at the regional level of the federal level but this is coming from a very high base so there is a lot that still needs to be done in that regard i think another issue is russia's overall openness to foreign and and in this regard again we've seen progress in the past four to five years russia currently is the only country without capital controls but on the other hand you do have things such as strategic reserve strategic enterprises strategic sectors there is scope has been reduced but again this is something that still needs to be addressed in order for capital foreign capital to come more forcefully and through us and then another

stuart, gdp is always a little wobbly. sometimes it gets revised if it comes back, as we well know, but what do we make of the new numbers? >> martha, i'm going to put a smile on your face this thursday! yes i a take that 2.5% gdp growth rate, that's a night uptick from the rate of growth earlier in the year. it means no double-dip recession. and if you dig within those numbers, you see that spending actually increased reasonably well. then you throw in the european debt deal, which takes a great deal of pressure off america's financial system, they've got themselves a great big bailout fund, that takes the pressure off us, throw in that weekly unemployment claims number, which was not good, but not terrible, what you've got is a rally on wall street. your 401(k) is going to go straight up at the opening bell this morning, and martha, you're going to see 12,000 on the dow jones industrial average very early this morning. martha: really? >> yes you are. martha: i'm going to smile! but i'm not going to smile until it happens

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and also stuart hanlon as well as the bar association of san francisco. so let's have a round of applause for our sponsors today . let's get down to it. so before we get started i want to introduce someone who's a wonderful leader in our community and that's the president of the bar association of san francisco. >> thank you. thank you, jeff, for inviting me on behalf of the bar association of san francisco. i'm priya sanger. i'm president of the bar association of san francisco. basf, as we note the bar association to be called, has had a long relationship with the public defenders office. it is crucially important for administration of justice. and so is san francisco conflicts panels where administration, which the bar association has provided in partnership with public defenders. so in san francisco when a public defender has a conflict of interest, criminal defendants and minors are represented by private attorneys from a panel administered by the bar association of san francisco. maintaining this independent body of attorneys is critically important

thank you stuart, see you at 9:20fbn, okay? nice to see you. martha: always nice to see stuart. those are a few of the big stories we've got for you this morning in "america's newsroom". coming up, president obama, speaking out on the solyndra loan scandal. does he have any regrets about that day when he went to visit the plant? turns out he was warned that that visit might not be a very good idea. bill: also, a massive explosion, a chemical explosion, and now new concerns over toxins, spreading into the air. we'll tell you where this is happenings and what you need to know about that. martha: there is also new fall out in fast & furious, did attorney general eric holder tell the truth when he said he had just heard about the failed program? >> you have to understand the way in which the department operates, although their operations, this one has gotten a great deal of publicity. >> yeah, there are dead americans as a result of this failed and reckless program. so i would say that it hasn't gotten enough attention, has it, mr. attorney general? >> not necessarily. there's an in

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the panel -- and i cannot believe i am going to say this -- i completely agree with john burris and stuart hanlon. [applause] >> thank you for giving my closing comments from me. i would like to thank the public defender's office for providing the public and anybody he wants to come to this forum, hearing from these experts, and they help you take away some good things from this -- and i hope you take away some good things you take away some good things from this panel. >> so many people here. this is the third and final panel for those of you who have stayed. this is going to be an incredible discussion. leading the panel, this is the chief attorney of the public defender's office, matt gonzalez. >> let me talk about how we decided to have a panel as part of this year is just a summit on the death penalty. san francisco is often known for being a large city, in this case, we have a unique history with the death penalty. during his reelection campaign of 1999, terrence hallohan said that they would not seek the death penalty for any offense in san francisco. he was reelected by a close mar