tomorrow i'm going to visit suny binghamton and lackawanna college in scranton. but i wanted to start here at university at buffalo. and i wanted to do it for a couple reasons.[applause] first, i know you're focused on the future. as i said, talking to the mayor, he was describing a new medical school -- and new opportunities for the high-tech jobs of tomorrow.[applause] so there's great work being done at this institution. i also know that everybody here must be fearless because the football team kicks off against number 2, ohio state, next weekend.[applause] good luck, guys. it's going to be a great experience. it's going to be a great experience. it could be an upset.[laughter] [applause] and third, and most importantly, i know that the young people here are committed to earning your degree, to helping this university to make sure that every one of you "finishes in four" -- makes sure that you're prepared for whatever comes next. and that's what i want to talk about here today. over the last month, i've been visiting towns across the country, talking about --

. >> en suny vale es vendido un boleto pero falto él mega. >> un recluso esta en la lista de investigador alta seguridad. >> miles de familias se refugian en colima por los actos de violencia. >> Él gobernador jesus reina dice que se firma un acuerdo entre fuerzas políticas para ofrecer certezas. >> lo que conseguimos en él acuerdo es proposito con políticas de cominucacion y avanzar en él puesto que tenemos. >> una decisión conjunta para atender él problema del estado a considerar que seria estado fallido fuera de control, algo que niegan de manera tajante. >> obviamente no estamos en un estado fallido. >> otros consideran que la situación es alarmante pero más aun él crimen en todas las esferas aseguran que es poder real. >> estos grupos crean impuesto a todo, a hectareas cultivadas, a cabeza de ganado vendida, y establecen los precios que tienen que tener para garantizar la cuota. >> grupos que dicen actuar encima de la ley. >> tiene que erradicar a grupos criminales. >> después de la trajedia de argentina después que cobro 10 vidas, salen a flote las personas que ayudaron. >> en venez

number two, i'm excited because the great work that suny campuses like binghamton are doing to keep costshard-working students like so many of you. the chancellor is making sure that hundreds of thousands of suny students all across the state are getting a world class higher education. but without some of the debt and financial burden that is stopping too many young people from going to college. that's what we want for all of our students and all of our families all across the country. over the past month i've been visiting towns throughout america and i've talked about how do we secure a better bargain for the middle class and everybody who's trying to work their way into the middle class? we've fought our way through a very brutal recession. and now we're at a point where we're creating jobs. the economy is growing. budget deficits are falling. health care inflation has been reduced. and yet there's still a lot of working families out there who are having a tough time in this competitive global economy that we live in. and the fact is even before this last financial crisis, we had incre

happening right now, the fact that we are able to actually witness that field, the polar field of the sunisally reversing, that tells us that we are very close to solar maximum. solar maximum is when we have sunspots that kind of pepper the surface of the sun. these are dark regions and these are regions of very strong magnetic field. in fact, this dark regions, if you took one of them out from the surface would be very bright. but they're dark because of the strong magnetic field which inhibits essentially -- >> with about 45 second left, doctor, do you expect this to have an impact here on earth? >> so solar maximum will have greater number of solar storms. solar storms can always have impact on our technologically dependent society. these observations are used by the prediction center to provide alerts and forecasting to the rest of the nation. so i think we're well-prepared. >> all right. that's reassuring. we thank you for bei here to reassure us. dr. lika guhathakurta. >> the following is a paid presentation for the wen healthy hair care system, the secret to soft, lustrous, beautiful

there is a suny shiia conflict that is building, which is destabilizing across the middle east. the countries like the uae, saudi arabia, others who have huge financial resources are playing in that game and we can't compete financially but we can compete, for example, in egypt because we have the best military gadgets out there and we have done the training and we have done the maintenance and we have done the replacement parts in egypt. and they want this stuff. even though it's a small monetary level, we have bigger influence there than some may imply. >> that's very smart. thank you. i know about that relationship and i've been reading about it today, in fact, jane. i think that's interesting. it's a small lever but that personal connection between our generals and our ranking military people and their ranking military people. it's deep and it goes back. they do want state of the art armored weapons to use. thank you, jane harmon. >> thank you, both. >>> coming up next, the biggest political stories making headlines today in our daily fix, including the president's upcoming

president, for suny, but around the country on average what you've seen is a drop from about 46% of the revenues of a public college coming from states down to about 25%. it's almost been cut in half. and essentially the only way these schools have figured to make it up is to charge higher tuition. so states have to do their jobs. but what is true also, though, is that universities and faculty need to come up with ways to also cut costs while maintaining quality, because that's what we're having to do throughout our economy. and sometimes when i talk to college professors -- and keep in mind, i taught in a law school for ten years, so i'm very sympathetic to the spirit of inquiry and the importance of not just looking at xs and os and numbers when it comes to measuring colleges. but what i also know is, is that there are ways we can save money that would not diminish quality. this is probably controversial to say, but what the heck. i'm in my second term so i can say it. you know, i believe, for example, that law schools would probably be wise to think about being two years instead of t

tomorrow i'm going to visit suny binghamton and lackawanna college in scranton. but i wanted to start here at university at buffalo. and i wanted to do it for a couple reasons. first, i know you're focused on the future. as i said, talking to the mayor, he was describing a new medical school and new opportunities for the high-tech jobs of tomorrow. so there's great work being done at this institution. i also know that everybody here must be fearless because the football team kicks off against number 2, ohio state, next weekend. good luck, guys. it's going to be a great experience. it's going to be a great experience. it could be an upset. and third, and most importantly, i know that the young people here are committed to earning your degree, to helping this university to make sure that every one of you finishes in four -- make sure that you're prepared for whatever comes next. and that's what i want to talk about here today. over the last month, i've been visiting towns across the country, talking about -- yes, feel free to sit down. get comfortable. >> we love y

country's colleges and universities will step up just like, you know, chancellor zinford and the folks at sunyre trying to step up and lead the way to do the right thing for students. so let me be specific. my plan comes down to three main goals. first, we're going to start rating colleges not just by which college is the most selective, not by which college is the most expensive, not just by which college has the nicest facilities. you can get all that on the existing rating systems. what we want to do is rate them on who's offering the best value so students and taxpayers get a bigger bang for their buck. number two, we're going to jump-start in terms of innovation that encourages affordability and encourages students' success and doesn't sacrifice educational quality. that's going to be the second component. the third is we're going to make sure if you have to take on debt to earn a college degree that you have ways to manage and afford it. so let me just talk about each of these briefly. our first priority is aimed at providing better value for student students, making sure families and ta

president obama at suny buffalo. part of his today bus tour.e will have the first of today's stops here today at 12:45 p.m.. senator ted cruise speaks at a fundraiser in new hampshire. we will have that live for you at 7:00 p.m. reverend jesse jackson speaking at the urban league meeting today. the meeting is in advance of the 50th anniversary of martin luther king's "i have a dream" speech. we are covering that live on c- span two. programming from a southern christian leadership conference. they --ncentrating on race, discrimination, and vote -- and poverty. event marking the 50th anniversary on the march of -- march on washington tomorrow. martin luther king the third, john lewis expected to speak. coverage is live on saturday at 9:00 a.m.. tonight, on first ladies. >> she was fairly interested in how the place work. she came down and found it was dilapidated, dirty. it was sort of ominous. spruce it up. she found old pieces of china and asked servants if they could remember how old the pieces were. the idea of trying to catalog and create a

he stopped at suny buffalo.president continues his speaking engagements in new york state tomorrow before traveling to pennsylvania. education will also be the topic of today's c-span town hall. we look at college costs, the student loan program, and the value of education in general. here's a brief look. >> 237 years after our founding, we come to a fork in the road at education. on one side, educational freedom in the form of school choice and a degrading push of a washington leviathan, national, and poor education standards. milton friedman, his birthday is next wednesday, was the father of the school choice movement. the school choice movement came under the idea that educational opportunity, giving parents the opportunity to move their children out of zip code- confined areas, would allow competition and greater opportunity. we see this in the form of vouchers, tax credits, and education saving accounts. the biggest threat, the common , it is aonal standard washington leviathan and the idea that spending mo

joining us is a former prosecutor, suni hostan. on one level this is a formality.y, very strong case here against the major. however, there is a reason for them to be very careful, especially with a major defending himself and that is? >> sure. this is a case they want to stick. when you have someone defending himself, you have to make sure everything, the lines are all taken care of because it can be an appellate issue. you don't observe see people defending themselves, especially in a capital case. you sometimes see it in misdemeanor cases but rarely felony cases and i don't think i've seen it in a death penalty case. they will have standby attorneys next to him and they spent a lot of money making sure he receives a fair trial. i think that is one of the reasons, chris, why you haven't seen a terror charge. i think that is why you've seen premeditated murder charges because you go with the case that is the strongest. you go with the least controversial case when you want to get a conviction and, clearly, the government wants to get a conviction here. >> so he is

tomorrow i'm going to visit suny binghamton and go to scranton.at the university of buffalo. [cheers and applause] and i wanted to do it for a couple of reasons. first, i know you're focused on the future. as i said, talking to the mayor, he was describing new medical school and new opportunities for the high-tech jobs of tomorrow. so there's great work being done at this institution. i also know that everybody here must be fearless because the football team kicks off against number two ohio state next weekend. [applause] good luck, guys. [laughter] going to be a great experience. [laughter] it's going to be a great experience. it could be an upset. [cheers and applause] and third and most important, i know that the young people here are committed. you know, to earning your degree, to helping this university, to make sure that everyone of you finishes in four. [applause] makes sure that you're prepared for whatever comes next. and that's what i want to talk about here today. over the last month, i've been visiting towns across the country, talking

he is a physics professor at the suny university of new york. good morning. ways the mission here?we learn? >> the countdown has begun. september 6 is the launch date. sending an object about the size of a car whizzing around the moon at a height of about 30 miles. giving us an unprecedented look at the atmosphere and dust on the moon. >> some people would ask this question, why go to the moon, spend that money, when there are other areas we have not explored? >> some people think nasa could be suffering from an identity crisis. moon, mars, which is it? some claim nasa is lost in space. the agency to nowhere, say the critics. it boldly goes where everybody has gone before. the direction does seem to be mars according to the nasa director. but you got to cover your back. in 2025, we could have another sputnik moment when the chinese put the chinese flag on the moon and we're not there. nasa has to cover its back. >> what do we know about the moon now versus previous trips because we've been to the moon before. >> surprisingly, we know very little about the dust and the thin atmosphe

the reason why suni is increasing tuition is because the state legislature is declining to give the amounta robust system of -- >> in states across the country, you can see just very clearly, on the chart, it's just down, down, down. states are cutting the amount that they're investing, their government investing, and because they're no longer investing -- >> if we want to rate something, we should rate state legislatures on how well they support their public higher education systems. here's the other problem, melissa, frankly with the proposal. if it's tied to federal support, my university, your university, they're going to opt out am so the point, because they don't really need the federal money. they have huge, billion-dollar endowments. so if they don't want the ratings or they don't want to be rated, they'll just opt out, and that's not containing costs for students. >> yeah, well, tulane doesn't, but -- tulane wishes it had an endowment of that size. but that said, it is true that some of the most vulnerable universities and colleges, those who actually take some of the students fro

but then not every suny is celebrated by pope francis. the pope seemed to love every minute of it.rld youth day in 2002 and world youth day this summer. here with us now, jesuit priest father james martin. >> we said we didn't see this coming. you suggested the cardinals didn't see this coming. you said maybe only the holy spirit knew. i mean, this pope is shaking things up in remarkable ways. >> i think the cardinals wanted someone who was going to change things obviously. i don't think they knew he would be quite so revolutionary. he is really shaking things up. he said he wanted to do that. he said, i want to make a mess. >> well, he made one. he made one. while he was making a mess, there's personal touches. he even wrote you a note. a handwritten note. the humility the guy shows in all aspects of his ministry is amazing. >> he is. it's a very pastoral touch. people obviously respond to him. he's someone who had been a jesuit priest. so he has that common touch. i think that sort of humility and austerity are touching people. >> you already see from what's happened this week th