because safety should be the school's number one concern. >> the university is encouraging people to sign up for an alert. saying text messages can take longer, they are also planning more training for the staff who puts out the alert. >> the university has used the alert system before. the first time was in november of 2009. the university says it received a number of complaints for sending out that alert in the middle of night which made officials he hesitant to send out other alerts. now the university says it plans to send out the messages despite any complaints. >>> in about an hour and a half. friends and family members of michelle le plan to hold a vigil in hayward. the 26-year-old has been missing now for two weeks. family members say they believe le is alive despite the fact police are now treating the case as a homicide. tonight's vigil is set to begin at 7:30. >>> tonight we know the identity of a bicyclists killed yesterday near santa cruz. zachary park of santa cruz, this is a picture here of park's bike which was found on empire wade road. the highway patrol says park wa

the president of the university section and also sits on the city council. he was telling me that the city has decided that more -- no longer serves a useful purpose. this was the way he did it. he was delicate, but it was partly not effective for tourists. if you have been there you can get a sense about why that might be so. but it was an effective for vietnamese schoolchildren. and yet he said, we have no re to replace it. we don't exactly know what sort of stories we think might be best to tell. there was something in what he was saying that was about a relationship back to america. in the museum. it's very frightening what you see. you see agent orange. you don't see much contextualized around it, but you see, again, what would be the most realistic and since. >> host: relatively good, as seems to me. >> guest: with the vietnamese did it is concessions. hillary clinton was there last summer reminding the vietnamese about our commitment to human rights and questions their commitment. not unexpectedly. very quickly. largely concerns about ironically relig

he also teaches law at the university of chicago law school. david strauss, how do you define a living constitution? >> well, it's a good question, and the living constitution is an idea that is controversial, but it really shouldn't be controversial. it's the idea that the constitution as it was drafted in 1787 and has been amended a few times since then, that that constitution has to evolve over time in order to keep up with changing circumstances and changing ideas about how society should be run. >> what would you consider to be an evolution of the current constitution? >> well, there are several examples. here's one. um, throughout the first hundred or so years of the republic really up until the late is 19th century, the idea was that the federal government could be very small and that both the federal and state governments would play a limited role in regulating the economy. then as the country became less agrarian and more industrial, ideas about that changed, and both the state legislatures and congress started to play a more active rol

i give all the credit to yale university press. their graphic designers came up with it. if you notice, the block title is a little bit off the page kind of symbolizing how out of reach social assistance has become for many working poor americans. >> professor scott allard is the author of "out of reach: place, poverty and the new american welfare state." he joins booktv at the university of chicago. >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback. twitter.com/booktv. >> university of chicago professor james t. sparrow, what did world war ii do to the size of the federal government? >> >> oh, it increased it by more than tenfold. >> how so? >> well, the economic mobilization required a drastic increase in the presence of the government within the economy. the armed forces grew drastically as well, over 16 million people served over the course of the war, and roughly half of the economy was absorbed by the mobilization. so it was an unprecedented expansion, the scope of the government. >> how did it compare to the 1930s during fdr's first terms? >> yeah. well, the '30

he is a graduate of the university of mission and the university -- the university of michigan and the university of california. i have had the pleasure of working with rich on several letters of determination on various cases the past several months and have been extremely impressed with his work, and believe you will be as well. thank you. >> i cannot believe you hired me. [laughter] the project before you is a permit to install a wireless telecommunication networks for at&t, located within the mixed use office building district. the proposed code of work includes installation of 12 panel antennas on the existing six-story buildings. these would be mounted approximately 82 feet above street level and are suspicious -- and are sufficiently screen from the public right-of-way and public view. as cited in the guidelines, the project is located on a location preference to the site. currently, this rooftop currently possesses seven panel antennas by another wireless operator, and other wireless operator is anticipating another six panels at another hearing. since this is located within th

what are the origins of our universe? >> matter and anti matter are different. this would have answered some of the most profound questions in physics. welcome to our viewers. for weeks now the violence has been building in syria. state television is reporting 120 m members of the security forces have been killed in a series of battles in the northwest of town. the troops have been unleashing deadly assaults on anti- government protesters and the syrian government is going to respond decisively. the middle east editor has the story. >> state tv has been showing this. women asking for the army to come, demanding protection, say they have been attacked by snipers. the security men were killed after they tried to help out, state tv said. they have been showing a video designed to back the regime's message that is dealing with an armed insurrection. the killings have -- of security forces cannot be confirmed. as foreign journalists are not being allowed into the country. so many people have been killed that it seems in that area at least an armed insurrection is what

>> southwest state is relieve the city's university. we have run 23 headstart programs around the city and -- in every single supervisor real district. we're educating the city's work force and making sure that the university is in the position to provide people to fill the jobs that the city needs to move forward. my knowledge of the city has grown far beyond just district 7. as president of a club interested in issues across district lines, i have come to know the city quite well as well. supervisor elsbernd: as i said, i know your work through san francisco state and throughout wallenberg. it was an education looking at your resume and learning your work as a civil rights attorney. that is new to me. >> after retreating from northeastern university law school in boston, where focused on domestic violence advocacy issues and civil rights in education issues, i went to work for small law firm in oakland. after internships at the american civil liberties union and other civil rights organizations. supervisor elsbernd: you throw out the c

what are the origins of our universe? >> matter and anti matter are different. this would have answered some of the most profound questions in physics. welcome to our viewers. for weeks now the violence has been building in syria. state television is reporting 120 m members of the security forces have been killed in a series of battles in the northwest of town. the troops have been unleashing deadly assaults on anti- government protesters and the syrian government is going to respond decisively. the middle east editor has the story. >> state tv has been showing this. women asking for the army to come, demanding protection, say they have been attacked by snipers. the security men were killed after they tried to help out, state tv said. they have been showing a video designed to back the regime's message that is dealing with an armed insurrection. the killings have -- of security forces cannot be confirmed. as foreign journalists are not being allowed into the country. so many people have been killed that it seems in that area at least an armed insurrection is what

. >> host: on location at the university of chicago where we're talking with several professors of university who were also authors now we're pleased to be joined by david straus, author of the living constitution and teaches law at the university of chicago law school. david strauss-kahn how do you define a living constitution? >> a good question. it is an idea that is controversial but it should be. is the idea of the constitution as it was drafted in 1787 and has been amended since then, it has said it evolves over time in order to keep up with changing circumstances and ideas about how society should be run. >> host: what do you consider a current evolution? >> guest: there are several examples but here is one. throat the first 100 years through the late 19th century, the idea was the federal government could be very small and federal and state governments could play a limited role to regulate the economy progress the country became a less agrarian those ideas changed of the state legislatures and congress started to play a more active role to regulate the economy. at first the supreme co

the university of washington, the university of colorado at boulder, beijing university in china and more. he also served as a top policy advisor to govern gary locke who will be our ambassador in china. gary locke, of course, was the governor of washington state. in that capacity he led the state's effort to expand access to higher education for low and middle-income students. as a leading scholar in the legal field, dr. lowe has also been elected president of the association of american law schools. . also holds a law degree from maryland university, a ph.d. from the university of michigan, a masters from cornell university, and a bachelors from gannell college in iowa. i believe that the university of maryland could not have chosen a more qualified leader to take our university into this century. throughout his diverse career, president lowe has been a strong track record of creating academic excellence at every stop. what an extraordinary background wallace lowe has for this increasingly integrated world. and particularly as it relates to our relations with china. one of the world

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and to all of you for coming out, it's an honor and privilege to be here at the university of georgia, particularly in this 50th anniversary year of the schools desegregation. i want to begin by of course thanking the american constitution society for inviting me to appear here. particularly to ashland johnson who organized this event. she works so hard on bringing this together. and i appreciate that so much. i also want to recognize the cosponsors of the event, including the george history department, the african-american cultural center institute of african-american studies, and graduate and professional scholars. thank you all. i'm thrilled to be here with you, and i appreciate your support. now, i want to begin my talk with a question. and my question is how many of you are familiar with the work of thurgood marshall? by a show of hands, how many of you know who thurgood marshall is? okay, so i see most fans just as i would have anticipated. many, many people know who thurgood marshall is. he was my childhood hero, and a hero to many americans because of the singular role he play

world war and that agencies that were erected to carry on the cold war. >> host: you teach at the university of chicago? >> those civil war modern u.s. history emphasis on politics but broadly construed to include cultural and social aspects as well as high diplomacy. >> host: in the history department? >> guest: i am. >> host: what is your new book about? >> guest: apolo's the story in this book is part of a trilogy in fact, of the legitimate of big government the reconfiguration and then focusing on the new leviathan then the collapse from the '60s and '70s of that is on the second period ran the united states exerted unprecedented sovereignty through the reconstruction of germany and japan to the reconstruction of the european economy and then the occupation of south to reinvent then they find themselves for the first time on such the extraordinary scale. and then national political life it was not an easy sell especially coming so soon from the 30's but but then found itself abroad to rule others abroad but yet to it is thought to do so often by attacking who are challenging or otherwise

a law professor at the university of chicago. in fact, we are in chicago at the chicago tribune's printer's row with vast and we are joined by a studio audience as well he will have questions. professor, if we could, start by giving us a snapshot of what you do and what you read about. >> i am a professor of law at the university of chicago. i write about a number of different topics. constitutional law and particularly the powers of the presidency. international law, and other legal fields. .. >> guest: he is, before he was a judge, he was an academic, also, at the university of chicago high school. and he's well -- law school. and he's well known for a variety of opinions on various things. this legal world he's best known for introducing economics to the law. >> host: well, let's show you professor posner's book so you get an idea of what he does write about n. 2000 he published his first book, and that was "the law and social norms." he's also written "the perils of global legalism." that came out in 2009. now, professor posen

these are the cuniform tablets that were excavated in the late 1880's and early 1890's by the university of pennsylvania. tens of thousands of fragments of cuniform fragments. the story of anana starts in her adolescence. it travels through her journey as a queen and a goddess, and much of her story is devoted to the love, a very passionate love, for dimusi, who is a shepherd who she takes as her husband, lover and king. and this is called the return. a lament was raised in the city. my lady weeps bitterly for her young husband. anana weeps bitterly for her young husband. woe for her husband, woe for her young love, woe for her house, woe for her city. dimusi was taken captive in aruk. he will no longer bathe in aradu. he will no longer treat the mother of anana of his mother. he will no longer perform his sweet task among the maidens of the city. he will no longer raise his sword higher than the kugar of priests. great is the grief of those who mourn for dimusi. anani wept for dimusi. gone is my husband, my sweet husband. gone is my sweet love. my beloved has been taken from the city. o

he was an academic at the university of chicago law school. he is well known for a variety of opinions on various things. in the legal world he is best known for introducing economics to the law. >> host: let's show you professor posner's book so you get an idea what he writes about. he published his first book in 2000 and that was "law and social norms". he has also written "the perils of global legalism" that came out in 2009. professor posner has co-authored several books including limits of international law," "new foundations of cost-benefit analysis," balance: security, liberty and the courts," "climate change justice," and "the executive unbound: after the madisonian republic". i want to start with that one. "the executive unbound: after the madisonian republic". in my reading of that book is it fair to say that you write that the separation of powers as established in the united states is not working? >> that is right. it is not working. it has eroded over the centuries. the result is the president has become much more powerful than the

the university says there was a delay because police were sending the alerts from their phones. the school says they will now use a laptop to send alerts. >> we need to provide information. >>> 25-year-old cindy and 26- year-old thomas williams were found in a parking garage on may tenth. >>> your iphone won't be helping you avoid dui check points anymore. apple is changing the guidelines for its app store and now explicitly bans apps which list check points. earlier this year four u.s. senators isn't letters to apple asking them to stop selling the apps. the maker blackberry pulled the apps a short time later. google still offers those apps. >>> nasa plans to explore climate change. at 7:20 this morning the space agency has a five minute window to launch the satellite. the three year mission exams the planet through ocean currents. president obama wants nasa to focus more on science with tangible benefits such as protecting the environment. >>> it's coming up on 5:00 we want to go back to sal. any problems? >> eastbound 80 at gill man we saw last time police responding and then

a military helicopter crashed on the university campus near the base several years ago. there's growing concern over the aircraft's safety following crashes during development. >> translator: u.s. transport aircraft crashed before. enough is enough. >> japan's defense minister, toshimi kitazawa presented data on tuesday claiming when measuring accidents per 100,000 flight hours the osprey is safer than helicopters now used at the base. however okinawa governor hirokazu nakaima say people of okinawa remain haunted by the memory of the accident seven years ago. >> translator: my top priority is securing the safety of the residents and their property. the u.s. data falls far short of proving the safety of the osprey. >>> hello. time now for your weather update. heavy rain reported in parts of eastern asia once again. southern japan, southeastern china reporting about 200 millimeters in the last 24 hours. now the seasonal rain remains very active indeed, and this low pressure system will continue to ride along it, heading towards japan. and it looks like western areas of jap

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we think is that we need to have people offer amendments so we can find the universe of the amendments, so we can work through these and try to come up with some reasonable way to proceed forward. having said that, i want people to offer amendments on my side. senator mcconnell, i think, feels the same way on his side. and then we'll make a determination later today as to how we will proceed on this next week. i think it would be fruitless at this stage to have a bunch of votes -- well, we'd have to have consent to have the votes. i don't think there will be any votes this afternoon.

the protesters and fired tear gas during the mass marts on parliament by this viral lecturer at the university of athens believes the greek crisis is a result of the glaring flaws in the euro. one hundred eighty percent of the relation. to these being pushed through parliament and even worse than the time afraid to our own politicians even those who are voting for those measures do not believe in them they resemble a few swear crossing themselves hoping for

they gathered today at the pub in oakland to watch the bears take on the university of virginia. any of the fans were raising enough money tow keep baseball from being eliminated by cal as the university struggles to close the deficit. >> for us to be able to get together and enjoy this excitement this team has brought to us from where we were at the beginning is incredible. >> reporter: the university eliminated men's baseball and reenstated the team after -- reinstated the team after supporters funded it. the game is not over but virginia is leading 8-1. the bears still have 3 outs but cal is on the verge of being eliminated from the college world series. bay area researchers say they discovered highways in the pacific where some of the ocean's biggest creatures roam. some use tagged to track down 3500 great white sharks, tune a sea lions, whales and birds. it spanned 10 years. today they announced the discovery of two highways where sea creatures migrate. one is crossing to japan to the coast of washington. researchers say the goal is to threaten speechies and manage the ocean

he was teaching at the university of california, berkeley. >> your gallery celebrated the 50th anniversaryf continuous operation. you are a pioneer in introducing the work and representing him. >> i have represented him since 1966. i was not in business until 1961. he made a big deal out of working in clay. the things he was doing was something never seen before. >> it is a large scale bronze. it has been sitting here of the hall of justice since 1971. talk about what happens to the work of art out of the elements. >> the arts commission commissioned the piece. they did not set aside money for repair. it has slowly changed color. it was black. it has been restored. >> it has been restored to the original patina. >> there was no damage done to its. i do not think there were any holes made in it. they have been working on it for six or eight weeks. it is practically ready to go. i am very excited to see it done. >> over the course of the arts in richmond program, we have added almost 800 works of art into the public space. maintaining that is not something that the bond funds allow us to do.

. >> i am a professor of law at the university of chicago and have been there 15 years i read about a number of different topics and constitutional law in and particular the powers of the presidency with international law and. >> do good to rated from harvard but what does that mean? >> the title that is given to professors after they reach a certain level and are old enough to deserve the title. it does not mean anything beyond that. >> establishing your history who is your father. >> the sec -- seventh court of appeals before he was a judge who was an academic at the law school and is well known for a variety ofy of opinions on various things in the legal world he is i known for introducing economics to the law. >> let's show you the professors books you have an doe idea of what he writes about.nd t in 2000 he published the first book called a lot and social norms and also written the perils of globale ou legalism coming out 2009. b the professor has the co-authored several books including the limits of international law and the terror in the balance coming climate change justice an

. >> this book is part of the university press modern first lady series. visit kansaspress.edu. >> now booktv begins live coverage of the 2,011 roosevelt reading festival. thanks for joining is. for the next seven hours we will discover presentations from the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york. coming up in a couple minutes, todd moye on the tuskegee of world war 2. and literary editor philip kerr's the presents "architects of power: roosevelt, eisenhower, and the american century". in two hours we will take a break from our live programming to show an event from the atlanta history center. david nichols discusses eisenhower in 1956 about the days before the 1956 presidential election. in three hours we will be back live from the 2011 rose about reading festival. fdr's new deal legislation. susan dunn discusses president roosevelt's efforts to change the democratic party. in five hours greg robinson presents his book a tragedy of democracy, japanese confinement in north america. that is followed by the final event o

of the best universities in the world. not all will be excellence level, but all universities will have fallouts of this research. in every sector we decided to privilege the link between research and the use of research wherever there's university research. we have to organize its use, simple flight, and make it more professional. so we're going to create 12 companies come either regional or multi-regional companies, five have been selected. other projects will improve but in the long run it's all over the country that we want to encourage the use of research. 900 million euros, we want to make research more practical, most practical as possible. it's an effort that has never been done until now, especially downstream where we want to create companies, we will have national seed funds with 400 million euros. it doesn't mean that only the biggest companies have a chance to every university, every region must compete and use its strength. that we think that the drive towards excellence have not dealt sufficiently with educat

now a month later the university says it's making some changes. n a story you will see only on 2. >> there's been a shooting in the north garage. >> reporter: tomorrow makes one month since the university sent out that message. >> i got the news at about 10:30. a friend of mine was 11:30. another friend was 2:00 a.m. >>> a campus alert went out 30 minutes after. many criticized the kwraouft for sending out the first message 45 minutes after the shooting happened. one in every five people registered never received the message because they had a nonworking number. another problem police were sending the alert from their phones. >> it's very hard to really effectively use the alert system from a smart phone. >> reporter: so the university purchased a laptop for police. another goal is outreach on campus. 70% of students are registered yet only 40% of faculty. >> one of my friends who's a professor here she was teaching class and she was done at 8:45. she was in her office and she did not know until the morning. >> i think that's great. it's definitely

now a month later the university says it's making some changes. een naylor has details on a story you will see only on 2. >> there's been a shooting in the north garage. >> reporter: tomorrow makes one month since the university sent out that message. >> i got the news at about 10:30. a friend of mine was 11:30. another friend was 2:00 a.m. >>> a campus alert went out 30 minutes after. many criticized the kwraouft for sending out the first message 45 minutes after the shooting happened. one in every five people registered never received the message because they had a nonworking number. another problem police were sending the alert from their phones. >> it's very hard to really effectively use the alert system from a smart phone. >> reporter: so the university purchased a laptop for police. another goal is outreach on campus. 70% of students are registered yet only 40% of faculty. >> one of my friends who's a professor here she was teaching class and she was done at 8:45. she was in her office and she did not know until the morning. >> i think that'

so i said why is a university, like the university of michigan or harvard or stanford university asking a 6-year-old company to be the custodian of this immense amount of wealth and knowledge? this isn't end well, is basically what i thought. it might start beautifully, but this was obviously a controversial proposal when it came to copyright. the publishers and authors whose work was being scanned in raised lawsuits, and the lawsuits were settle inside a way that made it very clear several years down the line that google never really intended to make a library, it end intended to make a bookstore. and i love bookstores. there's nothing wrong with a bookstore, but i'm not too pleased with a bookstore that tries to pretend it's a library. from about 2004 i started seeing that google's real corporate mission statement which is, believe it or not, to organize the world's information and make it universeally accessible is actually kind of scary. you know, i was born in the 20th century, i lived for about, you know, 40% of the 20th century, and i know enough to know that when somebody makes

the proceeds go to the university. am i right on that? ow, despite the fact that einstein himself had this to say about commercial endorsements. "it is -- is it not a sad meantair commenta on the commercialitn and i must add e corruption of our time that siness firms make these offers with wan$ing to insult me? it evident i had means this corruption itis, is widespread." that makes it clear that he didn't want his name used on any products, correct? >> he did not in his lifetime. i guess he had no control. >> he wanted to give it to the university, p"obly the ceceral thing in his life. i don't think he imagined in his wildest dreams that it would turn into a corn that cope ya of endorsements. >> do you think hebrew university in jerusalem is >> i thk they are, shall i say, capitalizingon it. i commercialized?@ >> apparently, they have the right to do it ifthey want to. >> you think they have it in the light of what einstein himself said about the corruption involved, the commercial endorsements? >> well, his will did not specify, i think t

animation provided by the university for media. shows what the facility should look like at the end of the decade. the vote 8-0. one council member abstained suggesting he had a conflict because his wife works at stanford. in the end no conflict for most people. the $5 billion project will add more than a million square feet of space. 144 beds at stanford. 104 beds at lieu seal packard children hospital. the harmony traded at last night's meeting throughout the process before reaching agreement the city and university fought over development agreements that would allow the hospitals to exceed local zoning regulations. the city bargained hard not giving in until stanford agreed to pay nearly $175 million in community benefits to be provided by stanford such as cal train passes for hospital employees and about $22.2 million for the city to use on housing projects. both of those projects are mitigation issues. one for traffic and one for housing issues. plus university says 2300 jobs are going to be created by this project. we're still

if you look at the modern university, you really believe it. if you look at entertainment, you really believe it. around the world religion's never had it so good. religions are booming. in bonhoeffer's part of the world and ours there are 3,000 fewer christians every 24 hours. in sub-saharan africa there are 18 million more every 24 hours. oceans of ink -- 18,000 more every 24 hours. we're more religious, and we're more secular. a great student of this, david martin, once said i can name this series in one phrase. is this religious or secular i'm talking about? texas baptist millionaire. [laughter] he doesn't want his preacher to talk about allowances and is so on. and the other -- but that led him to that whole new mark, if you will. he wasn't looking for a market, he was ready to die. but then he talked about religionless christianity, and that's what confused people. he used the word to show how you develop a piety so god can't get at you, and he wanted you to get rid of all those things. he didn't stop worshiping, he led worship for the fel

and in london we go to alex project he is director of russian and eurasian studies center at the university of oxford all right gentlemen crossed out rules in effect i mean you can jump in anytime you want well the reason why we're doing this we're doing our series here on cross talk on the collapse of the soviet union twenty years ago and twenty years ago on june twelfth one thousand anyone else who came the first popularly elected president of the russian soviet federated socialist republic would basically the beginning of the demise of the soviet union that would follow her in the year dimitri bondage let's look at that time twenty years ago and how the soviet union unraveled how much was yeltsin involved with that unraveling of the soviet union people talk a lot about going to much of what about yeltsin at this time but i think there are two parallel process that's going on which should not be mixed up there was the process of democratization and i think it was yeltsin starro for the first time in russian history and man came to power while honest election against the will of the govern

and the universities are first in line to be hit by those trigger cuts if the anticipated $4 billion in additional revenue does not materialize. >> one provision in the new state budget will require californians to pay tales 1 sales tax for items online. amazon has objected and has threatened to cut ties with them. >>> the first lawsuit has been filed related it the -- related to the crash between a rig big and amtrak train that killed at least six people. the lawsuit was filed yesterday by one of the train's attendants. it claims negligence on the part of the truck driver, lawrence valli, and the company that employed him. that company released their first statement yesterday expressing their deepist sim pithoi -- deepest sim pithoi to those -- to those -- deepest sympathy to those killed. >>> rescue boaters found three boaters stranded. one person went to the hospital for hypothermia. the others were not hurt. one says the boat shifted when the pots of crabs tipped over. the coast guard will work to raise the boat. >>> ahead, why thieves may force some bay area drivers to change th

his job, after his career in the senate william was forced out of his position as president of the university of massachusetts in 2003, after being questioned during a congressional investigation. >> i do not know where my brother is. i do not know where he has been.

i've been back and forth on this for several months with the university, the president. and i'm not going for a few months just to get back for the school year. i think clearly the economy's still got a long way to go. i think it was a major accomplishment, not to fall into a depression and to get out of what was the scariest moment really in most all of our lifetimes, 75 years plus, and two, i think that the president identifying that we need to grow, that's that's our most important priority, that we maintain, that we're the richest country in the world with the most productive workers, that we've got to make the investments in education and r & d and innovation as well as live within our means for the long-term. those are kind of the issues that i was working on. and i feel good that we set out that plan. but i do think there is still a listening way to go. >> austan, great to talk with you. and of course we're always wishing you the best. hope you'll come back soon. >> great to see you again, maria. any time. >> we'll see you soon. austan goolsbee joining us at the w

the university housing and neighboring houses are all helping also the they live somewhere in the meantimere caused $1.7 million in damage. >> without saying whether they plan on retrying barry bonds, federal prosecutors asked them to postpone the next hearing in the case until then end of august. the former san francisco giants 8 slugger is accused of lying to a federal jury in 2003 when he denied taking any kind of steroids are growth hormones. a hearing was scheduled for this friday to set a retrial on the charges. >> new this morning, we are expected for an update on the conditions of a giants fan bryan stow. his doctors will hold a press conference today. he was severely beaten on opening day at dodger stadium when the giants play the dodgers in march, he remains in san francisco general hospital, the chief of surgery will have a press conference at 10:00 a.m.. he was transferred there after receiving treatment at-- l.a.. he remains in critical but stable condition. >> the new is happening around the bay, a lawsuit will be filed asking to remove a proposition seeking to ban circumcisi

i am in charge of the group of radiation detection and survey from fukushima university where now thinking their creation protocol and process set up by the japanese government is not enough and myself i think i should evacuate from this area but because of my job at the university i can't. my friends families are . officially fukushima city is in a safe area eighty kilometers from the daiichi plant reactor one and a full sixty kilometers outside the band a danger zone but still radiation levels here are much higher than normal. just to give you an idea of the consistency right now the ground is really pretty quiet tonight micro ring it's about thirty times what is more than the accepted level but if you come down here to where i just saw it all and a lot of it collected the radiation quickly jumped out but it's still climbing earlier we got a really good night and now i look at my career where tears are about a thousand times more than what is really acceptable level of really meaningful. but in order to claim that fukushima is truly safe from leaking radiation the japanese government has

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well professor lawrence a davidson from the west chester university in pennsylvania told us here at aunty that nato has understood from the very beginning that its humanitarian operation would inevitably bring around civilian deaths. what is causing to question is the original justification for american intervention which was humanitarian my own personal opinion is that that was always a just a media story for our domestic consumption you cannot enter being anywhere with this level of munitions and not kill civilians so ok you're going to protect civilians by intervening with the type of munitions that cannot avoid killing civilians and i'm think that nato and its commanders and the president and the politicians involved in this are beyond a point of no return so they simply cannot stop in terms of their own mind what they've invested in this and therefore they will end up doing whatever is necessary to secure victory in libya and they will project media stories to cover it. and it's not just foreign intervention in libya that's claiming a growing number of civilian lives as we were feel

and most of the classes that i went through and most of the classes at u.s. universities the family dollar could pass. the family part of that and very briefly what's the role of water in all this because really it does boil down to that and lending well. the financial institutions they love to get people into debt and so that's been a big part of this all the all of the years and students come out they can't. you can just declare bankruptcy but with student loan debt it's almost impossible to discharge the bankruptcy and so these young people they're in slave to it with no way out for decades to come. up point you don't know what to do all right well michael thank you so much as always for your input is michael snyder the founder of economic collapse blog dot com. unfortunately that doesn't for now for more on the stories that we've covered this go to r.t. dot com slash usa and check out our youtube page it's youtube dot com slash r.t. america of course is always you can follow me on twitter as well it's absolutely have to go to see you right back here in a.