theodore roosevelt, franklin roosevelt, later on in the '60s stewart udal under kennedy and johnson. but we opened with beautiful footage of the hawaii volcanos. now, we had this in the editing room working on this for five years. we knew we were going to open with hawaii volcanos so there were in the screen room, dayton is on one side of the president, i'm on the other, our feet are up on the ottomans, we're eating his popcorn and there's the hawaii volcanos and he just turns and goes "boy, you guys are really sucking up to me." >> rose: (laughs) >> but mr. president! >> rose: national parks, america's best ideas, an illustrated history is here in my hand with dayton, duncan and ken. it runs until the end of this week. it's airing in two-hour installments that run for six nights. ken burns, remarkable archivist for who we are and what we aspire to be. >> rose: we continue this evening with part of two of our conversation with former federal reserve chairman paul volcker talking about the fiscal health of the government and tax policy seems to me that the conclusion is we probably ne

like with theodore roosevelt who mediated the war between russia and japan, but some awards have beenprocess. such as the 1994 award to yasser arafat. yitzhak rabin and shimon peres, engaged in a process when ultimately failed. henry kissinger in the '70s, engaged in a process which didn't succeed for another ten years and then collapsed. citing two things going on. one, barack obama changed the direction of american diplomacy and american policy to a multilateral diplomatic approach which the committee aplods. i think french president sarkozy said it well when he said this sets the seal on america's return to the heart of the world's peoples. also, i think they are trying, obviously, to nudge and encourage the president to continue pursuing that kind of approach to the world and hoping that over the next three years there will be more solid and tangible accomplishments in promoting world peace and perhaps dealing with the challenge of climate change. >> and really quickly that is my question. how much pressure does this now add to president obama? >> hey, you know, how much pressure

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president to win behind theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson. now we have been asking for your thoughts to the news that president obama has been awarded the nobel peace prize this morning and here are some of your comments we've been sharing so far. brad from idaho, thank you for writing in. you sent us an e-mail saying how can you win a peace prize with two wars going on? and michelle on facebook says congratulations, mr. president. i'm very proud to be an american. keep those comments coming. whether you agree or don't, tell us what it means to you. click on the link at cnn.com/robin. we'll be sharing your comments here. >>> a 72-year-old disabled woman fought off an intruder with a can of glade air freshener. a man broke into her home. she tried to call 911 but the man knocked the phone out of her hand. >> this is when i picked up this can of glade spray and i kept spraying it in his eyes and he would grab me and threw me down on the hard floor. >> now she also said she tried to psych him out by offering him some wine. police soon arrived an

and as brian mentioned, we did have two sitting presidents before, theodore roosevelt one and woodrowteresting about the nobel prize these days is unlike the prize for peace, unlike the other prizes for economics and that other stuff, those are selected by institutions. the nobel prize for peace now is actually selected by politicians. brian: five people. steve: politicians selected by the norwegian parliament. alisyn: i thought it was just that sitting committee in oslo. who is it? brian: five-member committee elected by the norwegian parliament. sweden, norway, united under the same crown at the time of nobel's death. so alfred nobel, that's his prize so

woodrow wilson and theodore roosevelt won the prize while still in office. wilson got the honor for launching the league of nations after world war i. roosevelt, a peace prize for negotiating the end between the war. >>> congratulations to the latest nobel peace laureate. he says it is an honor for the united states he got selected. gore won the peace prize two years ago for his campaign against global warming. >>> car bomb killed at least 49 people in a bustling packsonny market today. a government official says it's the deadliest suicide attack ever in peshawar pakistan. a nearby hospital quickly filled up with at least 135 people hurt in this blast. it got so crowded some patients actually had to share gurneys. >>> take a look at the scene in the mountain communities in northern philippines. rescuers are racing against the clock to pull buried survivors out of dozens of landslides. latest calamity and worst flooding in decades in the philippines. death toll and on going disaster climbed to more than 450 people. two u.s. navy ships are on standby to help wi

jimmy carter, woodrow wilson, theodore roosevelt. what were their accomplishments? guest: theodore roosevelt received the prize in part for being a russian-japanese conflict at the time, and also for establishing the permanent court of arbitration. therefore it is parallel to the obama nomination and award, because they were all rewarding teddy roosevelt, recognized him for putting on track a permanent court of arbitration. at the time it would solve the world's problems, because countries could go to arbitration. woodrow wilson was awarded the prize for setting up the league of nations. again, it was an accomplishment, just setting up, nobody knew that it would work or not. it failed, but it formed the foundation for a mulligan for the united nations. jimmy carter was awarded after, 2002, years after his previous efforts to the middle east peace process and particularly for negotiating a peace process between egypt and israel that held. he is a case where his accomplishments have stood the test of time. host: next caller. caller: the recipient of the nobel peace pr

president to win behind theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson. you have been sounding off about this development. it happened about five hours ago. here are some of the comments so far. michael in florida says -- lisa from kentucky who e-mailed as well -- then there's richard on facebook who says -- thank you all for pitching in. we give you the news, you give us your views. text your comments to hlntv. and start your message with the word robin. e-mail us by going to contact us box at cnn.com or leave a comment on our facebook page. lots of ways of reaching us. >>> a student is in stable condition after a fellow student allegedly stabbed her in the throat. police say the attack happened in a chemistry lab yesterday. a witness says a teaching assistant applied pressure to the woman's neck to stop the bleeding. other students who were in the lab say the whole scene was surreal. >> she was on the floor. her neck -- >> reporter: could you see her neck had been cut? >> yes, i saw that. >> reporter: did it look to be a seriousi injury? >> i thought sh