. >>> joining us via skype from middle east human rights division, going back to the audio recordings that al jazeera obtained from these two inmates. they say electricity and water has been cut off. families are not allowed to visit us. they're going to kill us all. does that tally with your experience inside egyptian prisons. >> we know conditions are bad inside prisons, officials prisons and these unofficial places, we know conditions are extremely bad. extreme overcrowding, terrible hygienic conditions, terrible food and so forth. what is new in these recordings us the allegation that the authorities are imposing for collective punishment if, indeed, they're cutting off water, cutting off electricity, this sort of thing, this ratchets it up to a new height. >> indeed, and what about the use of torture to extract confessions which the amnesty report talks about. is that widespread? >> well, it's not something that we've been able to invest ourselves, but it certainly is consistent. it's certainly very credible. it's consistent with things we're hearing from very credible egyptian u

. >>> let's bring in our safety analyst, david soucie in new york and mary joining us via skype from charleston, south carolina. begin with you, david. officials say the balloon's pilot tried to contain the fire by letting the hot air hout. anything else the pilot could have done when in trouble like that? >> at that point, no. actually, there wasn't anything he could have done, but leading up to the accident as well. there are surprises. we don't know at this point whether he had run low on fuel and wasn't able to climb back up to get over the wires, or what exactly what happened. it's too early to tell, but this certainly is a tragic situation. >> yes, and mary, how are investigators trying to collect data, evidence, trying to piece together what went wrong here? >> well, they'll be looking at a number of things and there are so many things to look at in a balloon accident. whether they can consolidated the charts and knew where the wires were. the skill of the pilot is always a very, the balloon pilot's, highly significant. more fatal accidents happen with inexperienced pilots. if

. >> our reporter from "the wall street journal" joining us via skype from donetsk, thanks so much. >> my pleasure, thanks for having me. >>> defense secretary chuck hagel said today america will do all it can to help the nigerian government in its search for those 276 schoolgirls abducted by islamic extremists. but during an interview that aired this morning on abc, hagel set limits on the american role there. >> we're going to bring to bear every asset we can possibly use to help the nigerian government. >> i know one of the things people keep saying is, why wouldn't u.s. special operators go in and try to find the girls? >> yeah, well, i think you look at everything. but there's no intention at this point to be putting any american boots on the ground. -- in an interview with the associated press today, one of the girls escaped the kidnappers at her girl called the incident too terrifying for words. >>> during his broadcast interview with martha raddatz, hagel was asked about ending the ban on transgender individuals serving if the military. >> is that something that should be look

cory johnson is back with me now in joining us via skype, global u.s. r security leader david burke. thank you for joining us. who are the cyber criminals? what are they looking for? >> thank you very much for having me on here today. the reality is we see a number of different cyber actors acting in the world for a number of years. number one, we worry about nationstate actors who are very good at what they do. they have excellent techniques and are difficult to challenge to combat. we also worry about organized crime actors. these are also very talented, very intelligent threat actors who are very good at taking information and turning it into monetized value in a variety of ways. we certainly worry about individual collectives that will focus on a particular company to make a social statement or two promote dogma. we are also worried about insiders, legitimate employees with rights and permissions, access to information that may be sensitive and may be working in concert with another threat actor groups i just talked about. >> david? one of the most i

richard farrelly is a sports journalist joining us live via skype. thank you for being with us. how important is it that michael sam is gay to this story? >> it's the whole reason for the story. you don't have people taken in the last round of the n.f.l. draft become storeys, unless they are the last pick and they're an ironic story. michael sam being the first n.f.l. gay player is significant because he's going into n.f.l. football. that's where the whole story is here. >> there was one n.f.l. - former n.f.l. coach that gave a quote to sports illustrated anonymously saying "i don't think football is ready for an openly gay player yet", is that true? >> i don't know if i can answer that. seems like a hypothetical. we'll know the answer in a few months. it seems if n.f.l. is not ready for a homosexual player, it probably should have one. it's about time. particularly in u.s. sports. we have had an openly gay soccer player within the last year, an openly gay basketball player. there's no reason why n.f.l. should have to be the last frontier. whether the n.f.l. is ready or not. it'

but lackluster user growth all stop joining me in the studio is cory johnson johnson and with us via skype is crawford del pratt. even the volume is high. what's going on? >> people are selling. ifwill never really know it's company employees or everyone else. the people are getting out of this stock quickly. it suggests the company has been waiting for the chance to dump their shares and they are doing it now. they think today's rice is as good as they are going to see for a while. >> i agree with what cory is saying. you've got people who have been locked up and looking at the first possible liquidity event and want to take advantage. aalso think there's concentric circle, which is expectations got out of whack for the stock. theou are worried about revenue growth story, this might be a chance to take something off the table. so they are getting hit by that concentric circle of investors who are taking this as an opportunity to sell. >> it's not unusual for companies to slump when the lockup expires. groupon down eight percent. the markets are still open, so we will have to see where it

. >>> the research support specialist at africa center for strategic studies joins us via skype. ank you for being was. can you give us an idea of how this sort of trade affects a transit country such as guinea passau. >> thank you for having me here. guinea passau has a long history of political stability with a number of unconstitutional changes, many perpetrated by the military. it's been a weak state with poorly monitored waters. when the drug trade ramped up 10 years ago with signs of large amounts of cocaine by latin american cartels it was clear that officials were becoming involved. it was a mixing of unstable dynamics existing in the drug country that lead to an amplification in the country. in recent years you saw a number of destabilising event, bouts of political associations, a number of attempted and successful military cow day tars including one in 2012 which left the country for two years without an elected government. the involving of the officials is destabilising and the current head of the military was indicted last year for drug trafficking. >> that's incredib

. >> orville wallard's wife sandy joins us via skype, and greg new newburn, director of families against mandatory minimums. the next edition of the system on sunday. your daughter was dating a teenager who threatened your family and your lust. he had beaten up your husband and when he tried to take your daughter again your husband who in. what happened? >> well, after my husband had been attacked by the young man, the young man left with my daughter again. and my husband went to rest. couple hours later, the young man returned to the house with my daughter. and they were having a violent fight which then, in her bedroom, turned physical. i was on my way to try to break it up. and i was having some problems with transischemic attacks, which are small strokes. and on my way, i had another one. so that kind of left me incapacitated. next thing i know this young man bursts out of the bedroom, stands before me. and punches a hole in the living room wall. at that point, i find that my husband is standing next to me, because my daughter, my older daughter, heidi, had gone and gotten him. and b

he joins us via skype. encourage british school children to read british classics ahead of others? >> in fact it's desirable. we want our students to study the best in the english language. many are from british authors. aren't aren't as well. that denies them access in examination terms to great writers in english from around the world. it is cultural arrogance on behalf of the government. >> and the suggestion -- he doesn't like "of mice and men." that was a personal decision. >> that's the story that's going around. there's very much been a personal intervention with the examination boards and this specification only writings from the british isles is largely a result of his desire to get rid of "of mice and men." >> i suppose britain is such a cosmopolitan society now. doesn't education need to reflect that? >> absolutely. i'm married to an american myself. my two daughters who live in this country have american passports. he doesn't want them to study authors from america. it seems to me crazy we live

. >>> joining me is the nigeria researcher with human rights watch and joins us via skype from abuja. what do you make of president's efforts to form this committee to get the girls back? >> i think it's coming a little too late. it's more than three weeks after. the committee will be next week. it's coming because the people have been pressuring, going on the streets. there's no way it had to get to that point for the president of the united nation to step up and take action to rescue the girls. >> there's a lot of speculation on who to go after. we don't know the abductors are boko haram. this is a group yet to claim responsibility, which they often do. >> absolutely. it's not in all cases that boko haram would claim responsibility. at the end of - in the middle of march, after the attack on - maybe two detentions, the boko haram leader did release a statement saying it was going to start abducting women and girls. and the girls that have escaped from the attack in the chibok school, some of them related saying when the group set fire on the building, there were shouts. the camp whe

website of the mastectomy website says that full photos if they are unaffected by ann marie joins us via skypeor joining us. >> no problem, thanks for having me on. >> the statement from facebook, the spokesperson under these guidelines then your pictures should be okay. so what happened? >> well, technically, yes, the problem is bigger than that. the problem is that somebody flipping through facebook sees my image and says it's offensive and it's crude and pornographic and sexual and they decide to flag it. actually what happened yesterday the image there you have on, i was on huffington live and we were talking about nipples and the censorship around it. i said caption it. tell me what you think this image says. if you go back and look, the images say -- the people say courage, hope, strength, survival. i didn't choose this. these empowering quotes that women battling breast cancer need to hear, healing quotes women need to hear. someone decided to flag it and they found it offensive, the picture offended them. they actually asked in the e-mail if i was embarrassed to have my chest paraded b

. >>> joining us via skype is richard white, the director from the center of political analysis from the hudson institute. we appreciate your time. could this referendum be viewed in any way as a legitimate vote? >> i don't think so. the way it's described, including in your recent broadcast. it's spontaneous effort by local groups, there's no guarantee of voting, there's no supervision. separatists are trying to grow support for their gender. >> what are the implications once it happens. >> it's clear because of offense taken by the russian government. he asked that the referendum not take place, and then you have to basically put out hypothesis about why it's occurring. vladimir putin doesn't have control over the proxies or perhaps he was saying that he wants not to do it, but he does want them to do it. we won't know at some point on, at least in the russian policy making until after the vote takes place, and then we'll see what statement they make, whether they declare some lij massy or whether they ignore it. >> vladimir putin says he didn't want this to happen. did he want the

mary is with us via skype. david is here.eople say the search should continue. mary, just more than half say that we may never know what happened to this plane. what do you make of that? >> i think that americans are just so used to the ntsb finding the plane crash and getting on the scene and getting the information and while sometimes it takes a long time to find out the causes and make recommendations and in some cases as long as four years, tw800 remained a mystery for four years, they get a cause and recommendations and because here there's no plane, people are worried that we just will never be able to find the plane or find out what happened. >> you know, it's interesting. the malaysian government has gotten heat for how they handled the investigation and crisis. if we look at the poll results, only about a quarter of the respondents in the new poll say that malaysians have done a good job. >> that's not surprising at all. i share that opinion as well. a good job, maybe they got a -- >> it's a tough job. we will not di

senior media correspondent and host of "reliable sources" brian is here with us via skype. what is the statement, brian? >> the statement is from the publisher that he announced that brahmson was fired who is the most influential newspaper in the company and said it was over a management issue and wouldn't say what he was talking about and said he would not speak any more of it. that has proven to be impossible. people close to brahmson has suggested it had to do with unequal pay and because she complained about being paid less than the man who was in her job before her, she was pushed out. well, here is what the statement said tonight. we will put part of it up on the screen. it says she was fired because she lost the support of her colleagues and could not win it back. the statement goes on to say it into hnothing to do with pay and one more quote from the statement that says he dismissed incorrect reports that jill is not comparable to her predecessors and basically said "the new york times" stands up for equal pay for women and he will torialized in famp of this and not

why is china analyst at chat am house - he joins us via skype, via london. is there doubt in your mind that this has been committed by uighur activists? >> i think it's very likely that it is, because it has been done by weeingers. but it is difficult to tell who or why at the moment. the chinese government will argue that it is part of a terrorist - a well-worked out terrorist plot that covers not onward xinjiang, but other parts of china. >> beijing accuses the activists from this region of seeking ipp dependence, complete independence, and being prepared to use violence to achieve this. >> well, this is the chinese government official narrative. it is difficult to establish from outside exactly what the motivation of many of these individual attacks are. many seem to be linked in xinjiang itself to local grievances and problems with the way that the chinese are trying to enforce their way of looking at things on the uighur population. it has been growing recently. it has been spreading to other parts of china, the violence, and has been escalating in the

she wrote a letter to amazon saying -- nina joins us now via skype from seattle.articularly in seattle, this has to be really upsetting all stop your local company, amazon, will not sell your book. >> it is painful. especially because issa poured it in my entire career will stop >> talk to me about how you found out about this and what the reaction has been. >> it started leaking out on the internet and through facebook. i believe it was may 9 when i got a letter by e-mail. is the publisher of little brown stop he published one of my books. i went to the amazon site to look at my book and i saw the evidence on the page. you support what little and brown is doing? >> these are two big corporations negotiating all stop i support that they both need to do it they are doing a we as authorsat and illustrators were not used as pawns. >> it seems like the role of amazon is so much greater in the publishing industry because we do not have small bookstores over the country, in the way that we use it, but we do not have the same waltons and borders and barnes & noble's. tha

he is joining us live via skype. thank you for being with us on al jazeera. the anc did win the election but the numbers were a little down with the two previous elections. but they still managed to get more than 60% of votes. it shows the anc still does have support. >> more than just support. it's still overwhelmingly dominant political party. it's still in many ways riding on the wave of having led south africa to democracy and liberation in 1994 as the premier liberation movement before apartheid, that it's slipping and the last few e elections, a significant slip for the anc. possibly in other countries, they might have 62.51%. an overwhelm can majority. it's down 4% and much more significantly in the most sophisticated urban voting populations. and in the urban metros the population. up to 10, 11%. just hanging on to 50%. strategies, they are celebrating in a huge party tonight. i think the more serious strategists are quite worried about these trends going forward. >> so the fact that the numbers are down, nick, i mean are the voters, is the electorate

she joins us now via skype. particularly in seattle, this must be upsetting.our local company amazon won't sell your book in the best way they can. >> it is painful, especially because i supported them from my entire career. >> talk to me about how you found out about this, and what the reaction has been. >> it started leaking on the facebook, i through got a b e-mail from the publisher of little brown, who published my book. i went to the amazon site to look my book, and so the evidence right there on the page. do you support what little brown is doing? >> these are two big corporations negotiating, and i do support they both need to do what they are doing. i just feel that we, as authors and illustrators, shouldn't be used as pawns. >> it seems like the role of amazon is so much greater in the publishing industry because we don't have small bookstores all over the country, we also don't have the same waltons and wardens and barnes & noble because of amazon. >> they have a wide reach. i think a lot of people have become more accepting of ordering things onlin

her husband was aboard flight 370 and she joins us exclusively tonight via skype. see you. thank you for joining us tonight. how are things changed, if ever, since last we spoke? how are you doing? >> look, things have gotten worse. it's gotten harder as time as gone on. to be honest, i was confident -- i was meeting every week and i was confident they were going to find it in this high priority search area. obviously they haven't. i've been preparing emotionally and physically too to prepare a memorial for paul. look, now that they haven't found anything, i'm back to day one. we're still 59 days he walked out that door and we've still got nothing. we're still back right where we were to begin with. >> have the authorities, the searchers, been any more communicative with you? do you get any more updates on a regular basis? >> look, they were bringing me daily while here in perth and with the bluefin 21 and the priority area, but since they found nothing there, you know, i think they're as confused as the rest of us because they were so confident they would find some

us. are doing, we have zoo director pat, "right this minute," via skype. tell us what the conditions of the pup are now. they have porcupine injuries and were festering. >> we're still finding porcupine quills migrating out of them. they removed all the quills they saw on the initial physical examination, but some of the quills go into them and are under the skin and then start spoking out. at every feeding, every three hours, they're getting a full body check to identify any more quills. >> now, for wolf pups, great caution you take them in. they can be returned into the wild. tell us about the decision to take them in. >> a decision by the alaska department of fish and game. determined the mother moved off. they would be dead by now. we're a transition facility. we have experience in caring for these young animals, seeing to their medical needs and working with fish and game in identifying permanent homes for them to go to. >> what do you have to say to the wild land firefighters who heard the noises and rescued these pups. >> they're awesome guys. respon

jacob is joining us now via skype from vietnam. jacob, i appreciate your time. out of the gates, can you give us a sense exactly what we're dealing with here. boko haram, how many members are there? who are they financed by? where does the money come from? >> boko haram is one of the most lethal militant groups in africa and of recent it has funded itself through kidnappings. for example, it kidnapped a 7-member french family in 2013 and received more than $3 million for that operation. the group's goal is to carve out an islamic state in northeastern nigeria by bringing the nigerian government to its knees. and in the hostage negotiation going on right now, it will likely not only be able to retrieve many of its members from prison, but also perhaps come to an disagreement with nigeria to carve out a defacto no go zone -- >> how many members would you say there are? >> i think that it's likely boko haram has around 1,000 members with heavy weapons, including rocket propelled grenades and ak-47s, as well as tanks. >> but it also likely has several thousand other

. >>> the chairman for the center of strategic studies at bangkok university joins us from there via skype. thank you for being with us. pretty fast-moving developments. it's hard to believe the country has a new caretaker prime minister. >> yes. as a caretaker government, they are not in any way doing anything to move thailand forwards. because caretaker government is just like a lame-duck government, cannot make a major decision or law changes. >> sure, but it will still lead the country to elections in july, and that will upset the anti-government protesters who want to see the whole government leave power. >> i think there'll come a time when both parties have to come together to find a way out, and a workable solution, which is acceptable to both parties. >> one has to wonder why the former prime minister, yingluck shinawatra, tried to transfer the national security chief in the first place. it seems her government made a serious of obvious missteps in a country that is so politically volatile. >> yes, it is quite clear to see, because this case is all paperwork. paper trail. only fou

the man behind it actually with us right now via skype from kansas city.inspired you to do this? >> oh, my gosh. game of thrones because of their opening sequence is the best opening intro ever. i love it. i look forward to the intro as much as the show. i was watching it and thought it would be a great video and easy to do and it really was. >> [indiscernible] >> ok. ♪ now, you have a contract with the video entertainment network. did they help you make it go viral? you have a idea and you posted and they help to promote it. they leave it to the creators to do what ever want. you have a great path. the sky is the limit with it. they help you promote it and get the ball rolling. it helps with other websites and blogs and whatnot. >> for people who do not know what it is, it is based here in an. and warner bros. is investment. what is it and what does the help to do? >> it is one of the largest youtube networks. they find people like myself and others who are interested in content. they say if you want to join our network, our youtube channel, we will help

getting all kinds of attention, positive and negative, but to tell us the story behind it we have andrew decker and little emmerson via skype. dad, talk to us about this process. >> ellerson is a showoff. she loves doing it and i love showing her off. >> you've been getting all kinds of attention. what do you have to say to the people who think this might be dangerous for emmerson? >> she has complete trust in me and i know what she's doing. i i'm not going to let anybody do it with her. i have never dropped her. we have a blast. >> are you surprised she picked this up so naturally. >> yes, very surprised. we started when she was 3 months old. before she could walk she would stand in my hands. >> yeah. >> we haven't been able to stop. we've had a lot of fun. >> tell us about this vine. >> that was the first time we ever tried that. we decided to do that at the beach and we videoed it quick. >> is she waking you up at 6:00 a.m. every day because she wants to practice now. >> yes. in cheerleading they go five, six, seven, eight, do toe touches and carteels and working all kinds of n tricks. she likesoing stuffd with me. >> is

but to tell us the story behind it, we have andrew decker and little emerson via skype. dad, talk to us about this process. >> emerson is a showoff. she loves doing it and i love showing her off. it is a lot of fun. >> you've been getting all kinds of attention. what do you have to say to the people who think this might be dangerous for emerson? >> she has complete trust in me and i know what she's doing. i'm not going to let anybody else do it with her and i have never dropped her, will never drop her and we have a blast. >> are you surprised that she picked this up so naturally? >> yes. very surprised. we actually tried it when she was -- before she could walk, she was standing in my hand. >> yea. >> we haven't been able to stop. we have had a lot of fun. >> tell me about the vine. >> that was first time he tried it. we did that at the beach. we videotaped it really quick. >> does she wake you up now because she wants to practice now? >> yes, in cheerleading, they start on five and do, five, six, seven, eight, she'll do toe touches and cartwheels. she likes doing stuff

let's bring in a hot air balloon expert joining us via skype. phil, thank you for taking time.'t comment specifically on this accident, but, ballooning is one of the safest aviation activities. power lines are a significant threat to balloon safety. >> we know it happened near the landing area where they hit this power line. should the landing area have been so close or close at all to power lines? >> well, balloons, of course, never know in advance where they are going to land. this is one of the beauties of ballooning and one of the reasons pilots have to remain very alert. it's impossible to know where a balloon is going to land before you take off or when you take off. so, i think that isn't a practical proposal to define a landing site in relation to wires. on the other hand, of course it's the pilot's responsibility to look out for wires and be individual lent and keep high in a landing situation where there may be wires. >> phil, we talked to former faa safety inspector david soucie who says pilots have control of these hot air balloons. in a situation like this, do you

. >> joining us from paris via skype is fred, one of the two professional skydivers we saw break thetd record by jump -- world record by jumping you have the power in dubai, he is the son of a parachutist and did his first jump at the aim of 10, has 15,000 jumps to his name, has won numerous championships. good to have you with us in every possible way, given what you went through. congratulations to you and vince, your partner. a lot of people know the building from the movie and crazy shot mission impossible of tom cruz. it was scary there, he was danning lipping out the window -- dangling out the window. you dove off the top. how fright nipping is the moment when you stepped off. >> we are used to jumping from cliffs, when i used to base jump. we are not so frightened. the weird thing was that we were standing on a platform, and that put us away from the top of the building and to stand on the platform was weird. it was like standing in the middle of the sky. it was a great vision. we were super excited. we had been preparing the project for a long time. it's been incredible. >> o

. >> via skype from donetsk, simon, good of you to join us. these pictures are just horrifying. know you wrote in your piece for "the post" that donetsk is getting closer to mob rule? >> yeah. i mean it does feel like that. the police were utterly humiliated today by sort of stick-wielding and rock-throwing mob, and, you know, you have to -- the leaders of that mob were very, very ex plicit. they were outside the police station earlier in the day. they said, we are holding a referendum on may the 11th. after that referendum, the police answer to us. if they don't answer to us, we will remember it. they then went to the state prosecutor's office where a few dozen riot police were guarding the office, and they forced their way in past the riot police who were in disarray, having their shields taken off. they tried to mount a defense there was tear gas, rocks thrown, a crowd at their back shouting "fascists and at any raters." the police were could youering on the ground with the shields over their heads and stripped to their riot gear and led away with their heads bowed. >> it's a

for a closer look, retired air force captain darin sellnik joins us now, via skype from oceanside, california. senior veterans affairs adviser, concerned veterans for america. good to see you. so you just heard our new information that we just received, new acting director for the phoenix va. is that a start, in your view? >> well, it certainly is a start. thanks for having me on your show, and thanks, cnn, for all the great work. you guys have really blown this wide open and we really needed it. it's a start. obviously, a temporary person, but they should have put on administrative leave, the director who has to be involved somehow. yes, you need a whole new team there and hopefully that team is a good team, but it's just a start. vha under secretary dr. petzel, he's always announced his retirement. that's effect lually as well. we need new leadership and blood and reform in this organization. >> you are making a direct connection between these in the phoenix va and san antonio and other vas i mentioned, you're making a direct connection between these incidents and the secretary, shin saiki?

to tell us more we have the bus driver, bill clark, via skype from oregon, right this minute. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> tell us what it's like to be a hero. >> i did what i would hope anybody under the same circumstances i was under would do. so hero, no. >> tell us what the little boy said. was he scared? >> the only verbalization between james and i was when i was trying to find out what he would like to drink and i ran through a series of beverages and it wasn't until i hit hot chocolate that he responded. >> what do your bosses say? did you get a raise. >> i've been thanked by a lot of people, received a commendation and that's plenty enough. >> really chilling moment caught on camera in russia. watch this. that's a mercedes. behind the mercedes, a scooter, next to the mercedes. this is an assassination attempt. >> what? >> that's a hitman on the scooter and in that moment there, right in the middle of the intersection is when he pulled the trigger on his gun with a silencer hitting the driver in the head. the driver, a known businessman, then the camera switche

we have that storm chaser via skype to tell us all about it. his name is ricky forbes.t before the camera started rolling that made you pull over? >> right before we were driving down the road and saw this makeshift sign that said "bears on the road" so i grabbed the camera thinking we would see something and not even two minutes around the corner we came upon this scene. pretty much exactly what's shown in the video. >> of all your storm chasing videos is this one of the most popular, one of the most viral of your videos? >> absolutely. we put a lot of blood, sweat and tears in short chasing but one bear video knocks out all our tornado videos. >> which one is more fun to shoot? >> a bit more adrenaline in the tornadoes, but the bears i don't think i'll ever see anything that cool again. that was pretty neat. >> that is the coolest thing i've ever seen. >> that's going to do it for "right this minute," everybody. we'll see you next time. >>> hello, everybody. i'm beth troutman. it's time for great videos from the web and the stories behind them, "right this minute." >>

magazine named dr small one of the world's leading innovators in science and technology and with us via skype from boston is our offer in hand as he's c.e.o. of sharp brands it's a market research firm that tragedy health and wellness applications of brain science and he's co-author of the shop brain's guide to brain fitness how to optimize brain health and performance at any age alvarado was named a young global leader by the world economic forum will start with you over a what is brain fitness to redefine your brain with michael morrison we think of it so brain penis is hurting big only be even most do not exist would be functions required to thrive in today's society so it's hard to not get your own working memory a more deliberate reason i'm because you hear me so the core i believe that we need to be how to be people i'm happy workers you said that we know the brain is more flexible and more plastic than ever we thought possible what is what is that plastic man. it means we have. weapons you know we are going to is going to prove these drugs are on time soon or rein in we are is not real

washington insider jamie dupree joins us from washington d. c. via skype to tell us.do these numbers really mean to you,. >> we can go into this report and find good signs and bad signs. let's give the basics. 6.3% unemployment is the lowest since october of 2008. the 288,000 job gain in april was much more than a lot of people had expected, and in fact, february, march were both revised upwards over 2,000. we got several straight months of 200 plus thousand job growth. a lot of economists believe we need to get over 300,000. when you dig down into the report, you also find that the labor force, the size of the labor force shrunk in april. there were over 800,000 people who simply gave up looking for work. that may be one reason the jobless rates went down. good signs with continued private job growth and warning signs about the size of the labor force story. >> also there's usually the situation with the unemployment going down because fewer people are actually looking for work correct? >> yeah, that's the whole thing about the labor force. participation rate which d