vanderbilt is a prestigious nashville, tennesse. kron 4 news weekend.the heat wave is breaking records across the wesu think we've got it bad.how about 125 degrees in death valley. we'll have the break. live look outside. mount tam extreme temperatures are forcing san jose park rangers to close popular alum rock park today. it's an emergency closure meant as a preventative. temperatures could hit 100 degrees today, with low humidity and winds up to 12 miles an hour. those are prime fire the park is regularly closed on mondays, so the park's until tuesday. a reminder during this heat wave not to leave animals or kids in locked cars. pleasant hill police arrested 38-year-old angela kleinfeld on friday after vehicle. police say she left her boxer in the car while the city's high reached 101 degrees. officers were able to force their way into the car and they got the dog out. but it died at a nearby veterinary hospital. kleinfeld is facing animal cruelty charges. a massive heat wave has the west in its grips. and isn't letting go anytim

susan with vanderbilt university, a constitutional law expert, joins me now on the phone. lay this out. lay out why this is one of the four cases we have been watching so closely? >> the reason it's so important is that in 2003, the court upheld affirmative action as long as the court -- the university is not using a quota and not using a hard factor. they can use race as a soft factor. the lower court in this case applied those cases and said the university of texas can use race, can consider race as one of many factors in determining whom to admit and the supreme court has reversed the fifth circuit. we don't have any information about on what grounds they've reversed the fifth circuit. this could be a narrow opinion or a very broad opinion. we're waiting to hear that. >> all right. let's go to nbc's pete williams who just got that information from the supreme court. pete, what can you tell us? >> the supreme court has said that the legal standard here is a very narrow one. to use a -- to use a term in the law, strict scrutiny. that means that a program that makes a dist

impulse control and you get back to the basic problem that chris who is a colleague of anita's at vanderbilt, wait he has put it, how do you distinguish and irresistible impulse from an impulse not resisted. there is a basic gray area, a difficult ability to say, did you actually choose that and did you choose it in a way that the law would recognize. so the law all of the time develops concepts that scientists are interested in studying. it might be competency, for example. well, competency is really a multifaceted construct from a legal perspective. it could be competency to be executed, it could be competency to commit a crime. it could be competency to contribute to the decision as to whether voluntarily commit yourself to a mental hospital. it could be competency to participate in an abortion decision. so competency means many different things. the first thing you have to do as a scientist is ask the question, well, what does the law mean by it because if you want me to measure it, i have to somehow apply it. so going back to the question of free will, because a scientist can't operatio

nashville, a little group of us young black and white students on fisk university tennessee state vanderbilt university, and a young waitress came up and said, we don't serve -- do you know what i mean when i say it? one of the young people said we don't eat them. [laughter] this book tells the story of how we studied the way of gandhi, studied the way of martin luther king jr., studied the way of civil disobedience. before we went on and he said then on the freedom ride, the march from selma to montgomery, the march on washington we prepared ourselves and many of us use the philosophy of nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living. this book will come out in three volumes. it will be published on august 13. it is my hope that elementary school students, middle school, high school students, college parents, college students and parents will pick it up and read it and pass it on. it is time for us to teach all of their people the way of love, the way of peace, the way of nonviolence, to have faith and never, ever give up or lose hope. read it. enjoy it. and walk with the wind and march a

congressional reporter and we also have the constitutional law expert suzanna sherry who is a professor at vanderbiltlaw. let's go around the horn right in a row. let's start with the question about the difficulty of going to vote. i have spent a lot of time on "hard ball" talking about voting suppression. what does this mean with not mucking it up with more requirements? >> i think it is important to have the least barriers possible to go into the polls. people who erected these barriers try to argue they open the door for fraud. without proving there has been fraud related to identification it is hard to make the case that you need additional barriers. the voting right is so fundamental to our citizenship you want to make it the least burdensome possible. >> where do you think we are heading in terms of the new rules that the rnc under reince priebus seems to be popular with coming up with new nostrums. >> it seems as though the republican party and those who want requirements are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. as joy said they are trying to prevent fraud but there hasn't been any fr

everyone from the vanderbilts to bono has stayed there. it's a great property. >> great.ch. >> thank you for coming to see us. >> all righty. you found the perfect guy, now you want him to stick around for good. >> dishes that have him coming back for more. >> we know what we mean by that. >> i don't know what it means. >> i don't either, but it was there. first, this is "today" on nbc. >>> it is time for today's kitchen. what's cooking, we got three romantic meals to seal the deal with the man of your dreams and have him coming back for second. >> nadia g. host of cooking channel's "nadia g.'s bitchin' kitchen" -- >> you said it. >> that's what they call it. says these dishes will help you bag them and tag them. >> that's sick. that is gross. >> pay attention, hoda. >> the biggest mistake people make when cooking the first meal for someone is putting on a massive spread, the oysters, the champagne. it makes you look desperate. >> that's how dumb people are. >> exactly. you want to cook up some simple dishes that are like not -- >> what are we making? >> first up, shepher

you don't want to miss the breakers which is the vanderbilts' former family cottage and do"downton abbeyises at sunset and there's great shopping as bannisters wharf as well. >> chicago? >> chicago, we love galena. population, under 4,000. great for history buffs. a trolly tour that will take you past all these historic houses, 85 of which are on the u.s. rosster and the home of ulysses grant i never heard of it. charlie? >> it's one of the great small towns in america. san francisco. >> san francisco, great choice there. of course, many people think from san francisco they want to go to wine country. that i oar going to go to napa or sir rona. it's less expensive than going north. >> denver. >> it's great. it's the second home of anheuser-busch. it's great guys' getaway for that region. >> do you have to go test all these places? >> all these places all the time. >> all the restaurants, all the bars. >> i know. it's a tough life. >> what is the difference between a girls' getaway and a great guys' getaway? >> the girls are where the guys are and the guys are where the girls are. >> lots

girl's guide to weight loss and jonathan, director of the center for medicine, health, society at vanderbiltnice too far you here. >> nice to be here. >> lets start with why the decision to make obesity and define it as a disease. >> thank you for having me, melissa. one in three adults are obese in this country. the rate of childhood obesity has tripled over the last couple of decades. so the a mulch a believes this policy will elevate obesity to the level that will raise awareness, call more attention to the disease, and actually change the way the medical community tackles this complex issue. >> let me push a little bit on this. if one in three americans is struggling with obesity, it almost makes me less likely to believe it's a disease and more likely to feel like either it's a norm and not a diseased or pathological state. or if you look at the speed of the rate of change how quickly so many more americans have become so much heavier, that it can't possibly be pathology in our bodies. our bodies don't change that fast. it must be our structural environment. >> complex factors lead to o

vanderbilt university medical center, in collaboration with the centers for disease control and prevention, found that flu vaccines reduce the risk of flu-related hospitalization by 71.4% among adults of all ages. and by 76.8% in study participants 50 years of age or older during the 2011-2012 flu season. in closing, i would ask my colleagues to support this legislation so that our doctors and hospitals can offer the public the very best and latest protection against constantly evolving strains of the flu virus this fall. mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. neal: i rise in support of h.r. 475, a bill to update the excise tax on vaccines against seasonal influenza. year after year the flu poses a threat to millions of americans causing between 24,000 and 49,000 deaths and 226,000 hospitalizations each year. in fact, my home state of m

. >>> four vanderbilt university football players dismissed from the team and suspended from school over crime that took place at a campus dormitory. the investigation is ongoing and both the school and police have declined to release further details about the incident. >>> number five, a high-ranking somali militant that the u.s. wanted dead has been killed. the state department had put a $5 million bounty on ibrahim al afghani. he was wanted for terrorism. now, a spokesperson for the group al shaab yad and al afghani were killed during a fight with rival factions. al shabaab is aligned with al qaeda. >>> now, thousands of protesters have packed tahrir square on mohammed morsi's first anniversary as president. it resembles those of two years ago when they toppled the regime. >> others are loud and passionate with pro government supporters on one side and on the other side, people demanding that the democratically elected president step down. ben wedeman is in tahrir square. ben, what does it look like this morning? >> reporter: well, by cairo standards, it's relatively early, just 12:30