it.broker said, i knew >> cornelius vanderbilt.how did the ladies meet him, and why did they find him? they had a golden mind. they knew he was into spiritualism. tennie was known as having magic healing hands. many people, by then had moved up town. he was 74 years old, and he had bounder.e a he was not faithful to his wife, and tennie was a track death. in 1868, and they did not start their bank until 1870. i think, probably very strongly that he did have an affair with tennie. was a. in between his wife and when he married another woman. he thought the sisters were witty, and funny. her comingstory of into his office and sitting on his lap and him calling her his little sparrow and she called him an old goat to. felt alive with the sisters around him, and he gave them money which was a lot for them. the word on the street was that cornelius vanderbilt was helping them. everyone, the major financiers of that time, wanted to see what they were like. theme came out just to see opening the doors and walking in. >> how many times wer

they were very famous based on their beginnings with vanderbilt.he family just kept threatening them with blackmail. they said, we are going to expose you. the mother started this ridiculous court trial when she said that victoria's then husband wanted to put her in an essay in asylum, wanted to kill her. the press went wild and wrote about this very trashy family. the sisters has been trying very hard to hide all that and they were inventing and reinventing themselves. they were not the least bit educated but they said they were. they were willing to wreck their whole life just to get tennie back to tell fortunes. they had some really rotten characters in the family. wifeu say that buck's annie had 10 children. how many survive? >> seven. >> you write about annie where you say, one tale describes her mother -- >> it was in a book that i read. i thought, do i use this? i have to say unsubstantiated because i have no idea if that is truthful. it kind of sits in with who they were. notou say the mother was sane. >> their phrase was, never wholly sane

the first entrepreneur, cornelius vanderbilt with the steam ship, the fur trade, james j. each hell with that transcontinental railroad. all of those people are very cautious -- cost conscience. trying to produce a product that was going to have to be marketable into it at a competitive price. they're watching the cost. conscious of the competition. and in the case of the entrepreneurs who succeeded, that made the task much more difficult, and that is a concern, i think, today. we may be knocking people out of the market by subsidizing the wrong people. >> host: biological evolution the as charge of evolution. to my star when the metaphors. the marketplace, the mechanism of evolution is death as well. you know, you bring out new coca-cola and masses of people decide they don't want it or my favorite example, a partner. no we wanted to buy it despite all the marketing genius, and development people believing that it was a great product and people were just going to run over themselves to purchase of. and when you half of subsidized industries, and to some extent also charte

congress funds collins because they say well he needs the money to be able to compete with vanderbilt. well he runs a poor operation. eventually he goes bankrupt and congress is very frustrated and cuts them off completely. by the time we have done that we have spent $11 million on steamship subsidies at a time right before the civil war when our total financial debt was $60 million. 20% of the debt is represented in misplace steamship subsidies. >> host: $11 million back when $11 million meant something. >> guest: it really meant something. >> host: to the subsidies mainly cause businesses to make bad business decisions because they take away the element of competition or they take away the element of having to go out and deal with one's customers in a direct and normal market way or are there other kinds of miss incentives that they create that cause these industries to perform badly once they are subsidized? >> guest: focusing on that is very good in both of the points you made are very good. by taking away the competition you take away innovation or an incentive you might have to

in addition to harvard and emerson, we also contacted princeton, vanderbilt, and uc berkeley.ties told me they're fully cooperating with these investigations and are committed to improvement. maurice dubois, cbs news, new york. >> and you can find the full list of the 55 schools and their responses on cbsnews.com. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," an update on the flooding in the east and wildfires in the west. >>> plus, a new controversy over the latest drone device. jeff pegues has the details. >>> and a look at the future of going to the movies. that's the "cbs morning news" for this friday. i'm wendy gillette. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. >>> good morning. it's friday, may 2. i'm michelle griego. >> we made it! >> hi, everyone. i'm frank mallicoat. it's nearly 4:30. get you out the door. a little cooler already, right? >> like a breath of fresh air! the fog is moved back in along the coastline. here comes the sea breeze. the temperatures

berkeley, vanderbilt, and harvard. all 55 are under investigation for violating title ix. that's the federal law requiring schools to advise victims of their rights, conduct investigations, and ensure victim safety. harvard has had 100 cases of sexual assault reported over the last three years. just last month, an assault victim there wrote an open letter in the college newspaper saying, "our policy is so outdated and narrow in scope that it discourages survivors from entering an investigative process." sarah tedesco was part of a title ix complaint against emerson college in boston. >> we should be equipping those students with what they need to know if it does happen. it's an epidemic. there are students at other schools committing suicide because nobody is listening to them. >> reporter: both emerson and harvard are currently revising their sexual assault policies. two days ago, the white house announced plans to better educate universities on how to combat sexual violence on campus. victim advocates like colby bruno think more can be done. >> i'd like to see some other

i think what we know, certainly what i have learned over the years doing research at vanderbilt and athe va, trauma impacts people and if you ratchet that trauma up enough, and if it happens enough times it doesn't matter how resilient you are, you are going to be affected adversely. not everyone will develop ptsd, many will. but being impacted psychologically is unavoidable. and that's why as communities, we need to think hard about how to help build resilient people, people who are powerful copers if you will, because the hope is that those people will perhaps be relatively less affected by these horrors, even though there's no way to leave these sortsover experiences unscathed. >> thank you all for joining us. until next time, waj and i will see you online another aljazeera.com/ajamstream. ♪ . >>> welcome to al jazeera america, i'm del walters these are the stories we're following for you. thailand is now under military control. >>> and hurricane season almost upon us. forecasters telling us their predictions for the upcoming here. ♪

your thoughts on that. >> guest: the implication you are saying is if vanderbilt received the subsidy he might have failed. that is possible. steve jobs is a good example saying we are the crazy ones that believe we can accomplish something that can not be done before. they believe there is a market there before you know what you want. and that kind of worker essential to the country's history you cut that person off when you fund someone else to do something traditional. you don't get the same i innovation. >> host: one story i would like to focus on that i enjoyed in the book was the story of langley who was the government competitor funded to the wright brothers in developing the first flying machines as they were known at the time. you look at langley's resume and it looks like one you should put the money on. harvard and the head of the smithsonian commission. and he was like george h.bush when running for president. you could not have a better resume. so you are making investments with other people's money he seems like a safe bet over the two yokels with bike shops and playing

we have the vanderbilt family soon after. all the notables.y just started bringing in the jockeys. >> lets get to the details. joe is interested. he wants to serve some mint juleps first. where they made? >> in wisconsin. they are known for the horse industry. >> do you have a favorite? >> secretariat. >> still has the record. you are not going to run the kentucky derby tomorrow but you're going to be celebrating. >> i am going to be celebrating. this is a really big weekend. today is the kentucky oaks race when the phillies race. tomorrow is the 140th derby. churchill downs gets 150,000 plus people for the derby. that's a lot of mint juleps. the way i like to make it, a little sugar. it is traditional to put in a metal cup. the proper way to hold it at the bottom to the top so you don't transfer heat and spoil the experience. >> if only george washington knew about this. was this george washington's bourbon? >> according to historical works. he visited. >> my thanks. joe magliocco and teddy suric. ♪

the title ix investigations also covered such prestigious universities as princeton, vanderbilt and harvard. the department of education is telling the schools they must either address all issues or lose federal funding. the federal government estimates one out of every five college women will be sexually assaulted before graduation. >> the president and the vice president both strongly called for greater transparency and a movement across the country for us to change campus culture so that we are making sure that all of our students are safe. >> uc-berkeley and the other universities say they are fully cooperating with the investigation and are committed to making improvements. >>> developing news now. sacramento county sheriff's deputies are searching for a cal fire battalion chief who is suspected in the killing of his fiancee. cal fire says orville fleming has been with the agency for 24 years. the family of sarah douglas says she was found dead yesterday morning in the south sacramento county home she shared with fleming. >> she was on a night out with her sister and her mom and she ca

performance they value most, the band is donated more than $3 million to children's hospital at vanderbilt much that there is now a rascal flats surgery center here helping 21,000 kids a year. >> this place is magical. this place has something so deep and so spiritual, it's a place of hope. >> thank you guys, so much. >> 18 month old zoey jones had 11 surgeries. she was born with multiple birth defects she spent most of her life in the hospital. ♪ >> for her parents, the concert is a much-needed break. >> you get to focus on something other than being in the hospital, your monitors going off, your children being sick. you kind of just get to be normal for a little bit and you don't get that very often here. >> reporter: all three members of rascal flatts are father fat. >> as soon as i had kids, everything took on a different meaning. all i could do was see my daughter sitting there or my son sitting there and to see the bravery in these children and how they face these odds with such courage is so moving. >> reporter: college student brittany burns was home for christmas when she was diag

princeton, vanderbilt, and harvard also made the list. the department of education is telling the schools to address all the issues or lose federal funding. the feds say one in five college women will be sexually assaulted before graduation. >> the president and the vice president both strongly called for greater transparency and a movement for us too change campus culture so we are making sure all of our students are case. >> they say they are fully cooperating with the investigation and committed to making improvements. >>> new cell phone video shows the final seconds of the south korea ferry that sank. the footage shows several high school students who appear to be relatively calm at first, perhaps unaware of the danger they were in. some of them were singing, even cracking jokes as the ship began to lift there. a 17-year-old boy took the video with his phone. he later died when the ferry capsized. rescuers found the phone when they recovered his body. >>> it could take another year to find the missing malaysian plane. meantime, a prel

they were very famous based on the beginnings with vanderbilt. the family just kept threatening them with blackmail, threatening to expose them. and then the mother started this ridiculous court trial in which she said that victoria's then wanted to kill her. the press went wild and wrote about this very trashy family. the sisters had been trying hard for two years to hide all of that. they were inventing and reinventing themselves. they were not at all the least and they had moved on forward. changere willing to their life just to get her back in the fold to tell fortunes. there were some rotten characters in the family. rememberedle victorian sisters change the course of women's rights and american history, tonight at 8:00 on "q&a." >> next, german chancellor angela merkel talks about u.s. relations with germany and the transatlantic trade and byestment partnership, held the u.s. chamber of commerce, this is one hour. >> please welcome dr. angela merkel. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the chamber of commerce of the united states

bankrolled by cornelius vanderbilt, the richest man in america who was known to be the lover of tennie least all the books say that. they got to him because he believes in spiritualism and they were clairvoyant and decided that -- there was a genuine force in what they could to and also a lot of fake involved and they would be issue or to get is long dead mother talking to him. they managed -- it was so amazing that more than 2,000 stockbrokers came out just to see them on opening day. they came in and they dress alike, they were 7 years apart in age but they had two colts pins behind each year, they cut their hair short, they were just audacious in everything they did and so after that they kept on going and victoria became the first woman ever to address congress, she was trying to prove that because the constitution said citizens and because it said people and because nowhere except in the fourteenth amendment does it ever say mail, that was a throwaway, the second amendment of the fourteenth amendment, the second article which was to make sure no african-americans women could vote

title ix investigation also covers such universities as prince as princeton, harvard and vanderbilt. one out of five women will be sexually assaulted before graduation. >> the president and vice president strongly call for greater transparency and a movement across the country for us to change campus culture so that we are making sure that all of our students are safe. >> uc-berkeley and other universitiesings say they are cooperating and committed to making improvements. >>> the bay area had a number of mostly peaceful rallies for may day. hundreds turned out in san jose, oakland and san francisco. in san jose, marchers started on the east side and walked to city hall to call attention to immigration reform. we talked to the woman who is a legal resident who watched her husband deported to mexico. she has five children. >> it's really hard to be here because we need to have two jobs especially for me, i'm a single mom. it's hard because i have to leave my kids when they was little. >> she says soaring house prices also make it a struggle. >>> apparently the only arrest during may da

. >> reporter: lauryn says not long after they brought her here to the vanderbilt medical center, herto failing, doctors almost had to put in a pacemaker. but she survived that scare, went back into treatment, and now three years later and 36 pounds heavier, she's a new person. >> i cannot even express how my mind thinks so differently than i did. >> reporter: what a gift they gave you. >> yes. >> reporter: they gave you your life. >> honestly, no way, i don't think i can say thank you, like, for how much they were the instigators of starting my recovery. how are you? >> good to see you! >> reporter: in our "not my problem, every man for himself" society, there are still those who believe it takes a village, who help people, not because they're friends or family, but because they're human. >> you look so wonderful! >> reporter: tomorrow, lauryn is graduating with a doctorate in occupational therapy. she plans to devote her life to helping others with eating disorders, which i think makes for a pretty good "thank you." steve hartman "on the road," in nashville. >> pelley: and that's th

based on the beginnings with the vanderbilts and. and they kept threatening them with blackmail the will exposure. and then the mother started a ridiculous court trial with her then husband 22 put her in the insane asylum and the press went wild writing about the trashy family. and they have been trying very hard to hide all of that. they were not at all the least bit educated so they were willing for their whole life they just had its rotten affairs within the family. >> good evening. teeeighteen is my wife and in case you don't follow the career i want to say some words. with the ph.d. of bioethics is the first westerner to come into every and to see she will tell you what motivated her and whether or not i rarely has solved the shortage. [applause] >> can you hear me? thank you. and that was sweet and excited today when i am that optimistic i'd like to think that i of the harriet beecher stowe of the transplant world and people who read my book will see a human face and it will make a see change at the living in donations. if you

william shatner from vanderbilt university.le bit more about this super bug. >> it's a super bug resistant to antibiotics. and the difficulty is we're using so much antibiotics that we're creating more of these bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, making it harder for infectious disease doctors such as myself to treat infections. that's a great concern for all of us. >> and, doctor, you say that the patient should really kind of back off a little bit, if you would, asking for the doctors when they go to the doctor -- i have symptoms of the flu, give me antibiotics. it's too much, the isn't it? >> it is too much. doctors have to constantly educate throughout the day telling patients that they have a viral infection and viruses don't respond to antibiotics. and they should be glad that they don't need an antibiotic. symptomatic therapy will get them through their little cold and their minor illness. they don't need antibiotics often. >> yeah. let's talk about hospitals, doctor. you're saying that they need to be more vigil

according to a vanderbilt university poll also released this week, 56% of registered voters in tennesseepport use of the electric chair while 37% are against it. time to bring in our man panel. dr. manny alvarez and paul mercurio and shane snow. great to see you all. >> great to see you. >> dr. manny, never been on the man panel before. >> never. i'm excited. >> is tennessee moving in the right direction or completely wrong direction to bring the chair in as the only option? >> i think they're moving in the right direction. irrespective of how you feel about the death sentence, i think the electric chair has been used for many decades, it's very effective. i don't think that it incurs any more suffering -- you're really not -- it's doing its job. we have -- >> but there's no choice here. in many states they give prisoners a choice of how they want to die. >> but for me, i understand it. but i don't have a problem with the death penalty. what's uncomfortable for me is this conversation, what's more humane, lethal injection -- you're killing somebody. it's not fun either way. it's sort of

of california at berkeley, dartmouth, harvard, yale, university of north carolina-chapel hill, vanderbiltmherst college and occidental among scores of others. the number of complaints against colleges related to sexual violence has tripled since tracking began in 2009, with 33 in the first half of this year alone. most recently, the spotlight has been on brown university, where a student, lena sclove, says she was raped and strangled after a party in august 2013. her alleged rapist was found responsible for four violations of the student conduct code, including "sexual misconduct that involves one or more of the following: penetration, violent physical force or injury." sclove says a university panel recommended a two-year suspension, but a dean reduced that to one year. sclove appealed, seeking a harsher sentence, but was denied. since her accused attacker remained on campus throughout the hearing and appeal process, his one-year suspension effectively became one semester. the case has caused a nationwide uproar. but students at brown and elsewhere say lena sclove's case is not necessari

. >>> researchers at vanderbilt university come up with a bug spray thousands of times stronger thant. they say it works on mosquitoes, ants, flies and whole host of bugs as well. >> i will be -- >> translator: ladies. go get marrieded leave western education. i'm one captured your girls. i will sell them in the market. there is market for selling people. god come mannedded me as well. jenna: that is the leader of islamic group in nigeria boca ha ram. we learned that the group kidnapped at least eight more girls since rereleasing that video. amy kellogg is in london. >> reporter: there is no claim of official responsibility for the latest kidnapping of girls in nigeria but is assumed to be the work of that barbaric group, boca ha rahm. -- boka. they were taken from their schools in the mid confident night during exam time. the president of nigeria has finally asked for help from the united states among other countries and attorney general eric holder says the u.s. is ready to step in. but locating and rescuing these girls aged 16 and 18 will be incredibly risky operation. they are in

they were really very famous based on their beginnings with vanderbilt. and the family just kept threatening them with blackmail. we're going to expose you. the mother started this ridiculous court trial. victoria's then-hsband -- then-husband wanted to put her in an insane asylum or kill her. the sisters had been trying very hard for two years to hide all that, and they were inventing and reinventing themselves. they were not the least bit educated. they said they were. what help them move on forward, they were willing to wreck their whole life just to get back in the fold. they had some really rotten characters in the family, which i address. >> two little remembered victorian sisters change the course of women's writes in american history. tonight at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> on the next "washington look at the upcoming midterm elections. our guest is nathan gonzales. on taxonversation credits that benefit large corporations. we will talk to david kautter. your facebook comments and tweets, every day on c-span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. the head of the u.s

the title ix investigations also covered such prestigious universities as princeton, vanderbilt and harvard. the department of education is telling the schools they must either address all issues or lose federal funding. the federal government estimates one out of every five college women will be sexually assaulted before graduation. >> the president and the vice president both strongly called for greater transparency and a movement across the country for us to change campus culture so that we are making sure that all of our students are safe. >> uc-berkeley and the other universities say they are fully cooperating with the investigation and are committed to making improvements. >>> 5:06. a lawsuit is looking to put the brakes on tech shuttle buses in san francisco. they have sparked protests in recent months over soaring housing costs. the suit by seiu and community groups targets the use of muni bus stops saying it's illegal and wants the city to put an end to the program. >>> today officials from three countries held a joint news conference about their long- term plan to find the missing

and john geer is a professor of political science at vanderbilt university and the author of "in defense of negativity: attack ads in presidential campaigns." is welcome. >> you both to the newshour, we're not talking about a massive shift here. >> everybody has got a conscious all of a sudden in this industry. >> that's right. >> i mean it was-- we said it was 2 and 10, now 3 and 10 so far this year but why any more positive ads. >> i think it is a combination of reasons. first of all i do think there was some negative fat agency where people felt there was some of negative ads it didn't work in many cases so there was a tendency let's tripos difficult. >> woodruff: what dow mean, when you said they didn't work in many cases what dow mean. >> people were looking at polling data in a lot of the senate races and so forth where there was this overwhelming negative ads and didn't see allots of polling numbers. so the conclusion that pollsters came up with is evidently negative ads don't work like they used to. in fact i would argue political ads don't work in general like they used to. unin

gray credits former vanderbilt teammates and current major league pitchers david price and mike minor, among others, for helping him make an easy transition from college all-american to becoming the a's staff ace. "i had a support system of guys in pro ball who were in my same spot and went through it before i did," gray said. "talking to those guys i felt prepared me for the majors." a's manager bob melvin was impressed when he was getting to know gray. "he's a happy-go-lucky guy who has always been confident since his college days," melvin said. "he goes out and does his thing. the sky is the limit for him. he's come a long way in a short amount of time. he keeps getting better and better. he came up last year and pitched in some big games, started in the playoffs, and this year he's the opening day starter." gray said earning the award was exciting, but not something he ever thought about. "when i look back at the first month of the season, we're in a good spot as a team and i'm glad to be a part of it," g said. as "first of all, you just dream about pitching in the major leagues.

he came to vanderbilt university, and in 1952, a governor whose name was frank clement, a national star in rising politics, became his assistant in variety positions all the way until he was appointed by governor mcquarter to serve for two years in al gore's seat. 20 years ago harlan mathews decided not to run for reelection and has lived the last 20 years in nashville. we were there with his wife, pat, and his sons and a host of friends. what i think about harlan mathews is that other than his great friend, former governor ned mcwharter, no one had more friends around the state capital than harlan mathews did. we're here today to pay tribute to him and to his family for a life well lived, for service to the state of tennessee and for being a man who has mentored as many young public servants in our state as anyone that i can think of. mr. corker: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. corker: i do want to rise and talk about a former colleague to many in this body, senator harlan mathews. it was touching to be yesterday at a funeral service where so many

the pitcher is finishing up his own degree in business at vanderbilt university. >>> tomorrow morninges from 40 different countries will run, bike and swim across san francisco bay in the escape from alcatraz triathlon. the 34th running of the race starts with that, a plunge into the waters near alcatraz. after the 1.5-mile swim, athletes will ride 18 miles down the great highway and through golden gate park and then they will finish with an 8- mile run through the presidio, ending at marina green. the race has become so popular, it's limited to only 2000 people. racers either have to qualify at other events or win a lottery to participate. >>> under new ownership and under way this weekend, the bottle rock festival takes over wine country and signs are already pointing to a more successful event compared to last year. >> these kids are under so much pressure and i think it's unfair. i just want to understand why. >> frustration over 4 inches. students at one east bay school are stuck studying yet again for placement tests they have already taken. >> outside our doors, it's a gloomy s

they were very aim is based on the beginnings with vanderbilt. pt threatening them with blackmail -- we are going to expose you and show what the past is like. the mother start of ridiculous court trial in which she said pretoria's then husband wanted to put her in an insane asylum. and runabout is very trashy family. the sisters had been trying very hard for two years to hide all of that and they were inventing and reinventing themselves. they were not the least educated but they said they were. them,ng that would help they were willing to wreck their old lives just to get her back in the fold. they had a lot of rotten characters in the family. too little remember victorian sisters changed the course of women's rights and american history sunday night at 8:00. >> both chambers of congress are in session next week. of the house returns tuesday at 2 p.m. eastern for legislative work with votes at 6:30 p.m. weekar more about the ahead, we spoke with a capitol hill reporter. >> john boehner announces he tends for the house to vote to create and sele

they were really very famous based on their beginnings with vanderbilt. and the family just kept threatening them with blackmail. we're going to expose you what the past is like, and then the mother started this ridiculous court trial when she said that victoria's then-husband wanted to put her in an insane asylum or wanted to kill her and said that -- and so the press went wild, and wrote about this very trashy family, and it was the -- the sisters had been trying very hard, for two years, to hide all that and they were inventing and re-inventing. thes and were not at all the least bit educated but said they were. anything that would help them, they had moved on forward with. so they were willing to wreck their whole life just to get back into the fortunes, and had some really, really rotten characters in the family, which i address. >> argues that two little remembered sisters changed american history and women's rights. sunday on c-span's q & a. this week the supreme court heard oral argument in the case of riley vs. california. the plaintiff, david ri

i want to bring in the chair of the department of preventive medicine at vanderbilt medical center.ontagious is it? >> fortunately, carol, it's not very contagious at all. it can spread in the health care setting and we're aware of that. we can protect ourselves with good health care -- good infection control precautions. >> elizabeth, i also understand tsa is putting out guidelines for air passengers warning them about mers. >> they are putting up posters for everyone to say if you have been traveling in the arabian peninsula and you have symptoms like a cough or fever, you should know about mers. a federal official told me at the cdc if someone steps off a plane from the arabian peninsula and they look ill, they've instructed airline officials and others to take that person aside and say, hey, you should know about mers because you don't look so healthy and to give them information and to give a call to the cdc folks who are at the airport. there is some level of monitoring going on of folks who were stepping off planes from the arabian peninsula. >> doctor, i'm confused. if it's

joining me are jen posner and jonathan metzel professor of psychiatry at vanderbilt university., both of you. jonathan, here's my question. we talked briefly last week but have had an opportunity to read and see so much more. is masogny a mental illness? and should it keep people from being able to purchase a gun? >> the short answer is yes. i long answer is is i left last week almost depressed. >> i almost don't want to see you on the show. >> i love seeing you, we're friends, but i thought here we go again. this is going to be another blame issue of, oh, mental i illness caused it and it's this diagnosed mental illness that caused it. i think we've shifted this conversation from the individual pathology of an individual shooter into a broader conversation about what the shooter represented in a way, which was men who mistake conquest for intimacy and respond with violence when they don't get what they want. in a way i think gender has been the kind of white elephant in the room of a lot of these mass shootings and we've been too slow to recognize the role of gender and i almos

[laughter] they were really famous based on their beginnings with vanderbilt. and the family just kept threatening them with blackmail, said we're going to expose you, who the past is and what the past is like. and then the mother salterred thisly dick lob -- started this ridiculous court trial in which he said victoria's then-husband wanted the put her in an insane asylum and wanted to kill her, and so the press went wild and wrote about this very trashy family. and it was, the sisters had been trying very hard for two years to hide all that. and they were inventing and reinventing themselves. they were not at all the least bit educated, but they said they were. anything that would help them, they had moved on forward with. so they were willing to wreck their whole life just to get tenny back in the fold to tell fortunes. and there had some really, really rotten characters if the family which i address. >> myra macer ifson argues that two little-remembered victorian sisters changed the course of women's rights in american history. sunday night at 8 on c-span's

jonathan, professor of psychiatry at vanderbilt university, who did not know or treat the suspect inse. robert the "the new york post." thank you all for being here. this is a tough morning, jonathan. within hours yesterday, the madman narrative had emerged. should we be concerned about that narrative? is there something we might be missing by allowing that to be the story? >> part of what we see in the aftermath of these horrific events is this sense of it couldn't have happened here. there's a kind of shock. it's outside the bounds of sanity. so on one hand, it makes sense to me why people like the sheriff in the press conference afterwards said clearly this is the work of a madman. again, knowing nothing about the history here, the shooter had been diagnosed apparently with autism and was taking medications. i'm very wary of that narrative for a bunch of reasons. one is that there is no link whatsoever between autism and shooting. across the board, people with mental illness are far more likely to be the victims of violence. >> let me pause there. i'll let you go on, but i want to

vanderbilt published a study not a year ago that showed those very things -- those gains are lost by the end of first grade, i think it is. one of things i would ask you to do is look at hhs, the head start program that works in some places, does not work in other places, find out what works there, and if you're think in about increasing this, and certainly governors are, combined the programs instead of committing to another gigantic program. let's look at what we have because our resources are limited. just so everyone in this room understands how well some schools are doing, if you take schools that have 10% or less poverty, and 75% more free and reduced lunch, we have the highest scores in the world. it is pockets we have to go and focus on. are we doing that, or taking a gigantic shotgun and shooting up the whole country? >> you have really studied this issue and i appreciate your sincere commitment to thinking it through. i agree with many of the points you made, but just to challenge you on the w o -- we have to look at headstart and everything, but to be clear, we cannot get

. >> jordan from vanderbilt.nd of cool. puts a lot of pressure, but i like it. >> you like it. of course, he comes out of nowhere to be the greatest nfl wide receiver ever. that must have been inspirational. is he still running the hill? >> yeah, i'm trying to get throughout and do the same thing he did. >> of course, shine in the colleague get better as a pro, which all you guys do. >> of course. >> just don't drop anything. >> of course. >> louisiana state university. >> odell. >> oregon state. >> brandon, what's the experience been like for you? >> it's been fun. been fun of the been around a lot of good talent. >> compact -- what about the combines? is that nerve racking? >> no. >> i watched a lot. >> tcu. >> what are your thoughts about tomorrow? >> i'm excited to be there. >> have these guys become your friends? >> yeah, dick cheneyly. >> this go -- definitely. >> is this going to be one of the greatest drafts ever? >> yeah. >> congratulations. good luck tomorrow night and don't forget fox friends friends a

indeed, our emergency room doctors here at vanderbilt and across the country, when anybody comes intohe middle east or have you had contact with someone who traveled to that part of the world? we're ready to identify these patients, get the appropriate specim specimens, send them to the cdc, put the patients in isolation, take good care of them and then the public health system ready to respond and reach out to all the contacts. it's working very smoothly. >> so, just within the last 24 hours or so, the netherlands confirmed their second case, although the world health organization has not called this a global health emergency. at what point does it reach that level? >> well, since this is a virus that does not spread readily in the community, i think the w.h.o. is holding back from that because this is not like flu. it is not going to spread readily from person to person. the places that we're concerned about, really in the united states and in the netherlands and other countries is health care facilities. and within health care facilities if we use infection control precautions rigi

. >> willie finally drove the red jeep all the way from new jersey to vanderbilt. >> that was our familyr. >> $7700. it was extra if you wanted a front seat. >> that's the way the jeeps were. >> so he paid for a back seat but no power steering, no frills whatsoever. by the time i learned to drive 13 years later, and it was so beat up, the floor was rusted through. but that was our family car. mom used to pick me up with no doors many the red jeep regardless of the weather. >> i like this picture of you, you look like eddie haskell. >> that's my senior photograph in high school. you can't see because of the black and white, it's blurred, i have an earring in. >> and you tell that story. why? what in god's name? >> our entire football team got earrings. it was this act of rebellion. except i told my mom about it and she said all right, if you do it, we'll do it the right way. the other guys were jabbing needles through their ears. my mom drove me personally to her little hair and nail salon. >> willie. >> it take this rebellion out of it when your mom takes you to her hair salon. >> there'

william shatner, chairman of medicine at vanderbilt medical center. again. >> hello, kate. >> over the past 20 years, with public education campaigns, really done a good job, there's been such a concerted effort to essentially eliminate and eradicate measles and now this surge. why? >> well, the reason is very simple. lots of children are not vaccinat vaccinated. and then when they go abroad they're exposed to measles, bring it home and then it spreads along like-minded people after that return to the united states. as you say, the whole age spectrum can be effected. all the way from infants to some adults. so this is a new problem. and the answer is we've got to vaccinate our children. and if you go abroad, check with your doctor first to make sure that your measles protection is up to date. >> doctor, the decision to vaccinate or not has been one of quite a bit of debate over the years for parent of young children. and parents fall on both sides of this issue very squarely. but from your perspective, when you look at kind of the public risk, not jus

at vanderbilt medical center, focusing on preventative medicine.his morning. we know that the world health organization is on alert, taking this seriously. we know -- just talked about those 20 health care workers who may have been exposed. how concerned should people be, especially if they're heading to the hospital? >> well, actually, fortunately, this is not a virus that is spread readily in the community. it is spread in the context of providing health care. that's very important. and it has occasionally spread in saudi arabia from one family member to another. it requires close, constant, over time exposure. so the average person in the community need not be exposed. but it's important to use good infection control precautions when caring for such patients. >> let's talk about what that means for the hospital and then let's talk about what that means for the individual. you say it takes close person-to-person contact. the concern is that if this is brought over from overseas, that we could be seeing really the first transfer within the united

we joined them for a concert at the children's hospital in vanderbilt where the band has donated $3 millionry center here helping 21,000 kids a year. >> we've gotten so much from it. so much than we'll ever get from a hospital. >> reporter: many parents know the band for the hit song "life is a highway" from the hit movie "cars." kids here know it, too. and say they're thankful for the support. >> i can say they're my favorite band ever, ever, ever. ♪ all night long life say highway ♪ >> one of the moms at the hospital has this little toddler. she's been really sick. she's been basically living in the hospital. she said, it's nice to be a family and enjoy the music and not have to think about tests and surgeries for one day. that's what they've given them. >> and they're great. they're humble, self-deprecating. charitable. >> and of course, they can sing. >> again, thank you, kate. you can see rascal flatts live on the plaza tomorrow on "today." >>> up next, john malkovich on his new show. his fashion line. and you won't believe the odd jobs he had before his life. this is "today" on nbc. i

so we've got vanderbilt. that's my school. we've got your fighting illini over there.k. why didn't we ever have the birds and the bees conversation? >> the birds and the bees -- first off, i wonder how many fathers really have the birds and the bees conversation. >> i agree. >> but it was awkward. and i thought you might contradict me. you kids in grammar school seemed to know more about sex than i did. >> i think it's kind of going that way. i guess for me, i never really wanted to have the talk. and going back and writing this book is confirmation for both of us that we never should have had the talk. >> yeah, because i thought of things -- like first of all, i didn't understand birds and the bees. why birds and bees? why not dogs and bees or whatever? >> yeah. >> but i did some research and found out that birds find their mates with colorful feathers and beautiful songs and, and bees -- bees can have sex or mate in midair. >> wow. that's impressive. >> they mate with the queen and then they drop dead. >> so you die after you have sex. that's fantastic. >> i thought

home of the -- >> vanderbilt commodores.re. >> why do they call it the batman building? i'm just kidding. i can see why. if you have a pretty sunrise, share it with us using the #todaysunrise. >>> meantime, let's te a look at what's making headlines this morning. a stretch of southern california's main connecter to las vegas closed this morning after a dangerous bridge fire. a worker's blow torch accidentally ignited the structure's wooden supports, causing a massive traffic mess, backing up traffic for 20 miles in one direction and six in the other. >>> and a diver searching the wreckage of that sunken ferry in south korea died overnight. the 53-year-old lost contact with the communication line and was unconscious when fellow divers finally reached him. >>> and investigators now believe they know what caused the circus accident that injured nine performers in rhode island. the clip that was holding the apparatus in the air snapped, but so far, investigators are not sure why that happened. >>> and coming up this morning, an

you may have noticed i went to vanderbilt university in nashville, tennessee.ions for some old fashioned southern food. i went to college in nashville, tennessee. i was a kid coming from new jersey, who hadn't experienced a lot of things about the south, but especially the food. one place in nashville that's best known for that kind of food, it's loveless cafe. there was a couple, anne and lon loveless. they were a family, this is in the 1950s, and it was just a house sitting on tennessee highway 100. and they would make food for people passing by, people taking long trips. and that blossomed from that act of generosity into a big building, into a big business that's now an icon across the south and really across the country. i would suggest the loveless made good hangover food, if you were into that kind of thing. i certainly wasn't. but i would drive the people who were hung over to the loveless. there's one dish in particular, a unique spin that the loveless puts on things. their watermelon barbecue ribs. it's like nothing you've ever tasted before. the love