[applause] next to nancy is tony smith who i loved his biobest of all and started he's an oakland resident and parent of students in oakland public schools. he was -- became the superintendent in 2009. he's a local boy including university of california berkeley background where he was captain of the football team and he did not include this in the biobut i know it and he wrote his under graduate thesis on emily dickon son so he's kind of a renaissance dude and he's 6-foot something. next to him is -- [applause] and next to him is george gaston and elect to the district attorney of the city and county of san francisco in 2011 after winning more than 62% of the vote which in san francisco is very enviable and focused on reducing violent crime, protecting vulnerable victims and respecting with high school truancy and rel haven't to the conversation today. last is cheryl young and the chief executive director of gate path and oversees a large nonprofit in san mateo county and focus on turning disabilities into possibilities and she's a wonderful addition to the panel and it's an area that sch

tony smith in oakland has an initiative that is dealing with not just things like restoretive justice alone but positive behavioral interventions and supports. couple that with response to intervention, whole school reform strategies that work on transforming the way the school is functioning and in so doing making it a more positive culture for everybody. it brings in parental engagement in families and it has the very tough conversations, in the case of oakland i know for sure, around things like race with an african american male focus in that community because it's appropriate for that community, and the way all these things link together. so certainly bullying and harassment is an avenue into transforming the way schools work. just like discipline is an avenue into transforming the way schools work, as is standards and good assessments, it is how all these things fit together to ensure that students feel safe to learn but that what they are learning are the rigorous courses and skills and they are challenged enough to stay in school, graduate, and meet our president's goal we're

kinds of tools and supports and training to superintendents, like -- i see another one over there, tony smith from oakland, the sort of heroes that are deeply trying to transform their communities and recognize that this is also a community issue, that it is not just a school issue. >> tom, why don't we have a federal definition? >> well, we're working on it. i mean, i think there's a, when we had the white house conference there was a conversation about what is the federal role and there continues to be i think a robust debate in this country about whether education issues are local issues, whether they are federal issues, and what should be done. and there are a number of people --. >> tom, let me jump in. bullying is hardly unique to school day. >> uh-huh. >> so why in the broadier sense is there not a federal definition of bullying that transcends local jurisdiction on schools? meaning, we know what bullying is when we see it. everyone may have a variation, about why isn't there a broad definition? >> certainly in the south philly case, a number of those kids were dealt with in the local

more than that, as tony smith was talking about, creating caring climate, a culture of trust and respect. and that's hard and needs to, top down but also bottom up. i just recently viewed the movie bully and brought back a lot of memories, it brought back a focus on just the cruel course of bullying and the insensitivity, the interviews with administrators and school personnel. i don't know if any of you have seen the movie or a preview of it, it's just an appalling, republic prehence sibl, the ignorance . my beloved niece took her own life a couple miles from here. she was a special needs child and it's hard to know what happened, but this story of grief and then the turn around in the movie was really positive because it emphasized the positive that was coming out of the tragedy. so for rob and for the mom over here who grieves, you have the idea i am somebody. in the movie there's tee shirts, i am somebody, everything starts with one. we got to go from here forward and replacing hate with hope. so those were good themes that came out of that movie. the department of education, we're o

on my staff as chronic absteism and involved with the oakland school district and i partner with tony smith and this man brought innovation to the oakland school district which has a lot of challenges which he may go into. i won't. so i really echo what jeff said about soft or hard power but let me tell you from my standpoint. i have a nephew who was in school and was bullied and there were sexual overtones to it and the result is he left the school and i spent time working with the school and my district and it wasn't my area and educate them about what bullying meant and in the most heinous way described to them and it went no where and that gave me the lesson in life we have children that are in fear when they go to school so they don't go and my priority is to have safe schools and they can be educated and create their path to a successful future and it's a healthy environment and bullying prevents that for so many kids. when terreesa and i addressed issues around truancies and one of the common themes and i saw this before with sexually exploited cases and kids were afraid to go to sch

smith. let's bring in tony dungy right now.other night we'd be talking about case keenum who had a great first half and andrew luck who had a great second half, but the biggest story was obviously gary kubiak leaving the texans at halftime. what effect would you say that had on the team in the second half? >> well, two major effects, bob. number one, gary kubiak is in addition to being the head coach is the play caller on offense. you could see that their rhythm was not the same in the second half, obviously had an impact that way. also intangibly. players go in the locker room at halftime, your coach is not there. nobody is sure of what his condition is. i have to think that had an effect on those houston texan players in the second half. they didn't quite play their game as they did in the first half, as you mentioned. >> plus talk about a dramatic change of atmosphere. here's a team that had been struggling and they're up against a very good team, 21-3. you've got case keenum coming out of nowhere seemingly to become an almo

oft: aaron smith, cofounder young invincibles is our guest. tony, oakland, california. democrat. ller: good morning. talk about aaron smith and his knowledge of health care. people really need to know it is not obamacare. it is affordable care. playing politics and get down to the grassroots of knowing what it is, and what it would do for them, work together as a nation, get the politics out of health care and let people come together and see it for what it is and educate themselves on the affordable care act, then they will really get something out of it. it will really help the nation. i appreciate you, aaron smith. keep up the good work. you're doing a great job. guest: thank you. agree with you. i would add that a great example of the role of politics in this whole debate is medicaid. there is this huge potential to expand medicaid that would enroll the lowest income americans, in some states have done it, but many have not heard -- have not. if texas were to expand medicaid, one million young people could potentially gain coverage. nationally, 5 million people will not gain c

smith. nfl hall-of-famer tony dorsett is the latest retired nfl player to make troubling revelations about his life after football. we'll have the sad details next hour in sports. >>> and i'm meteorologist nicole mitchell. we have a warm start this morning in the northeast, but it comes with rain. i'll have the national forecast and the latest on a super typhoon. >>> we have much more for you in the next hour of the al jazeera exclusive, yasser arafat's polonium poisoning. the documentian will join us live. al jazeera continues. i'm back with you in just two and a half minutes. determining using some sort of subjective interpretation of their policy as to whether or not your particular report was actually abusive, because if it doesn't contain language that specifically threatens you directly or is targeted towards you specifically, they may not consider it abuse. they may consider it offensive. and in that case they just recommend that you block that person. >> i don't want to minimise this, because i mean, there's some really horrible things that are on line, and it's not - it's not just twi