the university study is out of the university of washington. it looks at women who were diagnosed between 20-49 years of age, when breast cancer diagnoses are rare. researchers found women who used the pill in the past year were 50% more likely to also have a breast cancer diaboutus. but some important -- diagnosis. an important point. common pills today were not linked to this increased risk. we know that the pill can lower ovarian and uterine cancer. since a young woman's risk of breast cancer is very low to begin with, even a 50% greater risk is not that much. all of which means that this increased risk really could be negligible, a reassuring note for women on the pill. with this medicareical minute, i'm -- medical minute, i'm dr. timothy johnson. >> coming up, a maryland family's fight to get their adopted daughter out of africa. why they've been there waiting nine months. >> how this week's working woman is making a difference in the.against one of >> after losing her mom to lung cancer six years ago. >> she was an amazing person. >> andr

he's a professor of law at george washington university. i know you've been listening in on this conversation. what do you say to what chris said and what dick said earlier today? >> first of all, there are two groups of people whose opinions you have to change. one is the senior executives. senior executives have to be held responsible. if senior executives are not held responsible, why would their successors act differently? the other group you have to change is large institutional investors, pension fund, mutual funds. i think what the government has done in leveeing the large civil penalties against these three banks was necessary but not sufficient. it brings to the share holders attention that there was system make wrongdoing at the banks and what is most shocking, the wrongdoing continued even after the crisis broke out. so that allegations include allegations -- actually admitted facts that they continued to sell shotty and fraudulent mortgages to the federal housing administration after the crisis broke out. there are basic conduct

phil howard, university of washington at seattle. i'm wondering if you guys can look ahead and maybe talk about bots. >> talk about -- >> bots. automated scripts are being used to solve some problems of the volume or you said real-time is not fast enough. are candidates going to start using more automated scripts? they'll lose that personal -- -to-face but >> i think that's incredibly high and the risk is great. i think using automated tools for listening and monitoring and seeing conversations and being able to listen to your communities at scale are really important and there are great tools for this now but my experience with automated response -- unless it's something as trivial as thanks for your notification, we'll get back to you, that's clearly automated. if you're trying to impersonate personalization, you're in very risky territory. generally speaking i think it's not a good strategic decision. using automated responses to give people a sense there's a process. we heard you, we're going to get back to you and set an expecta

in may of 2007, central washington university dedicated to david wayne center for excellence in leadership. pretty awesome. [applause] aren't we fortunate. he has taken break -- great pride in shaping the center with his own sense of humility, integrity, and commitment to service. [applause] >> thank you for that kind introduction. it occurs to me that at the beginning of the program i asked you to acknowledge the leadership of the school district and it occurs to me impact thelks that lives of our young students on this stage are our teachers. please stand so that we can technology great work you have done. [applause] thank you for being here today. i would like to provide some context for the conversation today by sharing information about college affordability, financial aid, and the college early childhood education teacher training program. with respect to financial aid, despite the relative wealth of the county, 50% of our 7500 students received financial aid. the average annual award is just under $5,600, including a combination of waivers, grants, loans, and scholarship. on the bri

phil howard, university of washington in seattle. i'm wondering if you guys can look ahead and maybe talk about bots. >> talk about -- >> bots. so there's a growing number of andtical campaigns democracies around the world using automated scripts to solve some of the problems of the volume or content. you said real-time is not fast enough. are candidates going to start using more automated scripts? they'll lose that personal face-to-face interaction but they'll solve lots of logistical challenges. >> i think automating engagement is dangerous. had it the likelihood of ringing false and unauthentic is risk isly high and the very great. i think using automated tools for listening and monitoring and seeing conversations and being able to listen to your communities at scale are really important and there are great tools for this now but my experience with automated response -- unless it's something as trivial as thanks for your notification, we'll get back to you, that's clearly automated. if you're trying to impersonate personalization,

we are on the top floor of the main library at george washington university which is where we live. we are in a room full of boxes of declassified documents. artifactly an ar because most of the documents we get today are digital. born digital and made digital. people that use our collections are using them online. the courses we teach at george washington, for most of these kids, if it is not online, it does not exist. so part of our whole mission has been to get these primary sources, loosed from the government through the freedom of information act, and then get them into in digital formats, organize them, curate them, index them. so students and journalists can find them. citizens can find them. we get calls from congress. they have questions, too. >> how are you funded and where did you come from? >> we really were started by a whole group of journalists and historians back in the mid-1980's who, each of whom had used the freedom of information act to get documents declassified from the government. i think the piles were stacking up in the kitchens. their families i think they

visit to the our national security archives at george washington university reveals documents about the gulf of tonkin in vietnam. a resolution gave president johnson broad powers to wage war in southeast asia. sunday at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. while congress is in recess, american history tv will be in prime time monday through friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, featuring events from watergate. >> all weekend on american history tv, we are featuring historic sites and local historians from cities across america. these are highlights from c-span's 2014 city to her. stop atdeo from all our c-span.org/localcontent. >> photographer lauren irving retraced john freeman -- trip to photograph oregon campus. >> what makes this different from doing historical research is that sometimes the writing in the journal is so precise and well-described that i can find characteristics of location studies right in the journal. so i end up trying to capture that on film. i am trying to incorporate things in the images that are described in the journal. in late may of 1843, the expedition left westport, whic

>>guest: a political science professor at george washington university in and he steadies campaigns and elections. of we had no professional relationship and i have a capacity to start a very popular blogging called the mckee cage. if anybody can do this work. >>guest: to run this worries me? he said i want to do it. there really was a gamble. >>host: is a hard to write a book coast-to-coast. >>guest: it is incredibly hard but trying to right prickly in the less than one year it is brilliant because there were weeks it was every hour of the clock there are times them would go to bet at 3:00 in the morning he was going to bet at sitka -- getting a bit six thank you work on it is not ideal but you can do in nine months. >>host: what about the dnc and rnc? >> they are important collectors of tools for parties. both do this to understand the value of 500 for how often they have been touched by a campaign. being a clearing house to institutionalize what the obama campaign did whoever there nominate is forever the infrastructure that is not only a benefit but also for people who are intereste

this is what life has been like living steps from george washington university's campus. >> lots of noise >> we had students running from roof to roof on a couple town houses on 25th street. vandalism. the trash is unbelievable. >> even some students admit the parties have gotten out of hand. >> i would imagine some neighbors would maybe be irritated. we could definitely work on keeping it down. >> now for the first time the university is stepping in between the long-fought bottle between students living off campus and they're neighbors in foggy bottom. they have imposed fines for off campus trash violations, or for noise. they will get a warning first time, following violations could quickly lead to their suspension. >> they're technically on their own, so the university should only be able to impose certain rules within the confines of the university. >> a lot of students move off campus in order to get a bit of freedom and a lot are not welcoming these rules that extend the university's powers to wherever they live. >> off campus housing, definitely has a purpose. >> she spent the last

in may of 2007, central washington university dedicated the david wayne kuehne center for excellence in leadership. [applause] pretty awesome. fortunate? he has taken great pride in helping shape the center in a manner considered with his -- consistent with his own sense of humility and commitment to service. dr. wayne kuehne. [applause] >> thank you for that kind introduction. in the beginning of our program, i asked you to acknowledge the leadership of our school districts. the folks that really impact the lives of these young students on our stage are our teachers. if you are a retired or current teacher, please stand so we can acknowledge the great work you've done. [applause] thank you for being here today. i would like to provide some context for our conversation today by sharing some information about college affordability, financial aid and our early childhood education teacher training program. ,ith respect to financial aid despite the relative wealth of marin county, 50% of our 7500 students received financial aid. average annual award per student is just under $5,600. this

joined by former assistant secretary of state and public affairs and now a fellow at george washington university. pj, good to see you. i understand at the state department now, they are under going a process that they last under went when they were trying to understand al qaeda. where they discovered it was perhaps bigger and more powerful than they thought it was going to end up being. to some degree they are scrambling to get as much information on i.s.i.l., i.s.i.s. or the islamic state as they can. >> certainly i.s.i.s. benefits from the example al qaeda sets. i.s.i.s. was a member in good standing of that organization, but al qaeda kicked it out, because it thought its tactics were too brutal. it is part of a global movement, but obviously it is the latest pretender in trying to establish an islamic caliphate within the middle east. what distinguishes i.s.i.s. from its predecessors is the ability to gain meaningful territory, hold that territory, and govern the territory. it has significant assets that others have not yet attracted. >> in the words of counterinsurgency expert, this is the m

we are on the top floor of the main library at george washington university which is where we live. we are in a room full of boxes of declassified documents. it's really an artifact because most of the documents we get today are digital. born digital and made digital. people that use our collections

you heard from jeff holmstead, and robin juni with george washington university, environmental law professor. to both of you think you aspect thank you for having us. >> i'm greta brawner and this week on washington will be focusing on president lyndon johnson's vision for a great society and its impact today. tune in at 78 eastern time and join the conversation like calling us or send us -- singh as any move. you can send us a tweet and join a conversation on facebook.com/cspan. >> earlier today attorney general eric holder announced a $17 billion settlement with bank of america over that institutions role in the 2008 financial crisis. he discussed the justice department wrote in the investigation looking at the murder of american journalist james foley by the group isis. is a look. >> yesterday as you know i visited ferguson in order to be degrees on the ongoing federal civil rights investigation into the august night shooting death of michael brown. investigation i launched more than a week ago. during the course of my visit i met with law enforcement as well as community leaders. we had

light to merge the corcoran gallery of art with the george washington university and national gallery of art. court-- a d.c. superior judge okayed it. the art gallery will become part of gw and the collection will go to the national gallery. the smithsonian is getting a boost, john gonzalez shows us items documenting the history of gay, lesbian, and transgender people in history. >> documents have been collected in this special memorabilia. from arizona to maryland. they say it is not the distance traveled or how long it has taken. more importantly, it is an this societyw far has come. the history of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and cringe and her people are being added to the smithsonian institution -- and gender people are being added to the smithsonian institution. they will be on display at the smithsonian today. including scripts from "will and flag." the first pride the passport of a first openly gay u.s. ambassador and a tennis racket from renÉe richards, who won a new york supreme court decision in 1975. >> times are changing. than today.asier 1500 years from now, people will be ab

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who handled cases and from "inside story" studio is naomi, a professor of law at the george washington university school of law. naomi let me start with you - are we still catching up in the legal code, in the 8 point type to where we are as people making ourselves. >> this is absolutely a case where the technology is outpacing the law. as you have mentioned, there are patch works of state laws. it depend on the state in which you live as to whether or not a enforceable. >> paul, do you add a level of overseas? >> you add a level of risk. along with all the talk of complications that you are talking about. this child that you have may end up being raised in horrible conditions. it may be exposed to things you never dreamed your child would be exposed to, because you might not end up taking your kid home. most of the time though it works out well. when you have a child in this way, if you come from one country and travel to another to do that, are the contracts you make internationally with the surrogate mother enforceable in her home country? >> that's all over the mat more than in the united sta

the weekend, or visit national security archives at george washington university reveals the classified documents about the gulf of tonkin in vietnam. 50 years ago this week, congress passed the gulf of tonkin resolution, giving president johnson broad powers to wage war in southeast asia. american artifacts, sunday at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern watch more next week and while congress is in recess, american history tv will be in primetime today through friday, featuring events on watergate. american history tv on c-span3. the annual fancy farm picnic was held today in kentucky. among the speakers, the candidates in this year's senate race. republican senate leader mitch mcconnell and democratic secretary of state anderson wondered in grimes. other speakers included kentucky governor steve bashir and senator rand paul. beshear is first to speak in this 30-minute portion of the picnic. >> thank you. thank you very much. excuse me just one minute. i'm sorry. i just had to get one less photo of the senator before kentucky voters retire him in november. and retire him they will. kentuckians

we're joined by rob, with george washington university environmental law professor. also jeff former e.p.a. assistant administrator for air and radiation from 2001 to 2005. good morning. let me start by reading a little bit of president johnson and what he talked about when it comes dot environment and ssues we'll be discussing. what do you think about that statement? guest: i think lyndon johnson was a visionary in some ways. he was the first president to articulate an environmental program that didn't just focus on a traditional conservation, the kind that teddy roosevelt might have endorsed. e focused also on rest ration, innovation, how are we going to improve these resources rather than just preserve resources that have -- that are still pristine. host: so as mr. homestead what about his statement and to you has that beard itself out? guest: i think in many ways it has. he of course was prior to his times back in the late 60s is when i think the public at large began to be concerned about air pollution. it had long been a problem in southern california but it wa

. >> reporter: a relieved george washington university senior finally got his 24 boxes back wednesdaymorning. tom berry spent five days hunting down store for summer's owner. at one point he went to the address listed on the gw campus. >> i really got worried when i went over there and a security guard said oh, you got scammed. you better file a police report 36789. >> reporter: tom berry got -- report. >> reporter: tom berry got his boxes back, but did he it through a whole lot of hard work and luck. store for summer's facebook page is littered with angry messages, from reagan henderson, i'm pretty desperate at this point. what do you need from me to return my things? i'll do just about anything at this point. >> and from kristen neff. has anyone spoken to a live person? can anyone post phone numbers and e-mail addresses of a responsible person. >> store for summer makes storing your stuff simmer. >> reporter: the company has a fairly slick youtube ad, but it's only response to facebook is we understand there have some issues with people's deliveries. we are aware of the issues and a

the ruling today means corcoran gallery of art is merge its museum and college into george washington university and the national gallery of art and that effectively dissolves the gallery and dissolves the assets. it's been plagued by financial and managerial troubles for years now. >>> it is now the defense's turn in the mcdonnell corruption trial. it kicked off with testimony about a demanding difficult first lady. 1 witness used strong words to describe maureen mcdonnell. peggy fox reports from richmond. >> we've been looking forward to getting started, think we got off to a good start. it's a process. the truth is continuing to come out. >> reporter: tough to hear those things about your wife, governor? >> of course. >> reporter: mcdonnell's secretary of the commonwealth janet kelly reiterated the image of a screaming first lady. kelly said maureen mcdonnell was very difficult, demanding, divaish, that she exaggerated and had secretive behavior and was known to hide things, shopping. kelly said the entire governor's mansion staff wrote and signed a massive resignation letter if the first lad

now, at barnes jewish hospital at washington university school of medicine, besides a mask, surgicalcrubs and gloves, this doctor will wear the same technology for her next surgery. this is a 72-year-old woman who noticed a lump, had a biopsy by needle core that showed a breast cancer. i thought she was a great candidate for lumpectomy, which she was up for. and we'll do a biopsy to see if there has been a spread to her lymph nodes. >> reporter: before the surgery this patient was injected with a green icg eye - invisible to the naked eye, it binds to the proteins in the cancer cells. >> i can see. >> the tissue - all you'll see is the colorless material. but with this, you can now see it light up. >> so the first thing we are going to do is find the lymph node, and that fluorescent dye will be visible. okay. i think we ought to put the goggles on now. >> reporter: next, the doctor puts on a pair of cancer-detecting goggles. >> much better. >> lights out. >> okay. light. >> reporter: i red light is pointed on the area she's operating. the goggles detect the area's fluorescent. from a

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i want to bring in reuben regs, a student at washington university there in st.here. reuben, thanks for joining me. what do you hope to do with this protest? >> thank you for having me, ana. well, part of what we're trying to do is think about how students can be involved. we -- this case is especially resonant with us as young people, and us as students. as you know, mike brown was planning on attending college. his first day was going to be last week. so we recognized we have a special place in this movement that's happening. and we're trying to think about what we want to -- how we want to engage with the community and how we can be thoughtful about what our next step is and how we can amplify existing efforts instead of just duplicating voices. >> and when you say you wanted to, you know, call light or bring light to the situation of michael brown's death, what exactly is it you feel connected to about his story, especially since we don't know all of the facts about his shooting? >> well, although we don't know all of the facts about the shooting, i think it

judith, profession of george washington university. from british klum y a scholar of islamic theology, and from tampa, senior director of middle east and north africa for the national endowment for democracy. we've been talking about this new islamic state, but what about the majority in iraq, the mostly shia population that is living further east from this newly proclaimed state. are they hunkering down, getting ready for the next assault from west to east? what happens now in a country as divided as your home in iraq? >> reporter: well, the biggest problem is while you have an emerging confident, clear charismatic leader with a vision and a project, you look amongst iraqi leaders to see who has that project, and who has that vision, and what have they done for ten years with their resources and with the opportunity that they were given? not much. and that is what makessal baghdadi dangerous. certainly he has been able to sell that argument clearly to the sunnies, who have been marginalized. let us not forget it was basically the sunn

gallery and starts will become part of the national gallery of art and usual -- and george washington university after the judge approved the merger monday and the corcoran has struggled because of financial issues. >> we are following metro this noon. get ready for delays on the rns and red lines this weekend. the trains will run every 20 minutes on the red line between shady grove and glenmont. at other be 10 minutes stops in metro plans to start the 7000 series train cars. espn has reported the johnny manziel was fined $12,000 for his obscene gesture during the third quarter of sunday's game. game.t was monday's he flipped off the redskins bench as he returned to the huddle after throwing an errant pass. he called the moment a lapse of judgment and suggested he was being taunted by the washington sideline. >> that's called the nfl. >> coming up, we have a health warning about an unapproved medication used to treat children's goals. >> plus, concussion awareness is changing the way kids are trained to play football so find out how young is too young to play. >> we will tell you what one popula

. >> reporter: the real patch adams grew up in arlington, attended george washington university. he now livesn liis. when that movie came out in 1998, adams called the film inaccurate in the way it portrays his wife. >>> as soon as news broke, reaction started pouring in. pam dawber said, i am completely and totally devastated. et even the president said, he was one of a kind. he arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. williams had been suffering with severe depression according to his spokesperson, a difficult reminder that mental illness can hit anybody, no matter how much money, fame or friends you hav if you know of anyone struggling with depression or other mental illnesses, crisislink is just one of the local places that ca help. they have a 24-hour hotline at 703-527-4077. you can also look at the resources on changing minds at nbcwashington.com. >>> a toddler was visiting relatives but she never got home again. she was shot after a fit between twme tonight, her mother is speakin out for t fstim shomari stone has our sto

the 41-year-old glover was treated and released from george washington university hospital. in addition to his acting roles, glover also worked in gang prevention efforts with the group called peaceaholics. >>> police are still awaiting toxicology reports but they believe a 17-year-old woodbridge, virginia teen died following a suspected drug overdose at a maryland concert. the death was the second suspected overdose following the mad decent block party music festival at merriweather post pa villain in columbia, maryland on friday. a 20-year-old university of maryland student who also attended the concert died over the weekend. authorities don't believe the young men knew each other. 19 others were treated and released from a local hospital. >>> after a weekend without water, it's -- life is getting back to normal in toledo, ohio. the water there was contaminated with a toxin but as craig boswell reports, this morning's test results show that it is once again safe to drink. >> i'm pretty thirsty right now. >> reporter: the toledo mayor lifted a do not drink order and raised

. >> reporter: carol heads the center on urban research at washington university.n neighborhoods like these where low-income residents are more likely to be black, the contrasts grows as the tax base crumbles. the result, schools and other programs that move people forward suffer. >> so america is a land of opportunity for those who have the preparation to take advantage of those opportunities. however, the disinvestment for the young and the poor has not been. that's where the promise has not fulfilled its reality. >> across the united states there are many cities that have segregated neighborhoods and divided areas. but in here st. louis if you drive down the boulevard and get south and talk to the people here they call it the delmar divide because whites are on that side, and blacks on the other side. the economic disparity is right out in the open. >> the disconnect is social, political, and economic. and the geographical divide where you have persons of color largely living in one segment of the city and the county, and whites and persons with means living in

he is a middle east and north africa expert at george washington university. he has also served at the u.s. embassy in tripoli. they ask for being with us. talk to me about the timing. if these reports are true, why did the united arab emirates and egypt take this action now? >> there is a conflict in libya over the control of the capital and over islamist versus. uae and egypt chose this moment to step in and affect the balance. it had the opposite effect. the islamist militia managed to take over the airport and a large part of tripoli, largely in reaction to this bombing. it is very bad, too, because now libyans are sprawling on the -- scrawling on the egyptian him to see "go home now." involvement will backfire on any power that tries to interfere. >> is that the reason for the secrecy? >> these secrecy by the egyptians and the uae -- and i do not believe the egyptians have admitted to anything and the uae have been silenced -- clearly they did not want backlash. the u.s. has not been secret at all. not only did they mention it today and the pentagon brief

daniel lieberman is a professor of behavioral sciences at george washington university. >> the doctors are expected to prescribe medication based on clinical evidence and the clinical evidence simply isn't there. we're guessing when we use a drug like this and considering the reports of death, it is probably not a good idea to guess. >> the system here says it's too dangerous. what is shooting up heroin, dangerous. >> when all the safe effective alternatives have been exhausted, it's understandable that people are willing to potentially risk their lives if it gives them hope. >> reporter: hope is all she has left. she put her faith and $175 into the one-week program. >> i can't have this in my house with the other children. his siblings are just so sad. they just want their brother back. me and my husband are so sad. all we want is our son back judge their sadness is now on hold. >> i just have to have faith that this is going to work. >> reporter: lucas recently returned from the week-long program and his mother told us she got her son back, but the treatment is short-lived, designed

washington university and st. louis had the best storms, virginia tech was voted the best for campus food, and syracuse university in new york was the nation's number one party school. ukee, natasha? >> what? you know what, my richmond spiders rang up there with the most beautiful schools. >> and mine, too, james madison. >> virginia thing. great campuses down there. >> where did you go, jill? >> i went to michigan, university of michigan. >> michigan, all right. which i think the parties, nice campus, i think we had a little bit of everything. >>>> oh, that is story, there i feel t thanks, jill, appreciate t talk to you later. >>> coming up after a short break, traffic and weather together, we do it on 39's, stay with us, bac >> i-95 -- 95 at 420, down to one lane here. stretch of the roadway from the airport down through ridley. also, working north along route 202 this morning, as you approach 422, only the left lane is taken out. otherwise, the blue route, schuylkill expressway, off to quiet start this morning.

that is from george washington university. that begins at 4:00 p.m. eastern .e have been keeping tabs on members of congress during the break. thompson sanford -- congressman sanford bishop from georgia talks about supporting american jobs. also, this from congressman steve southerland of florida, "proud to welcome defense contractors to panama city and show them the benefits of relocating to northwest florida." says to patrick murphy a company that manufactures led lighting, as part of the florida district jobs tour. comments from members of congress. next week -- >> this weekend on the c-span networks -- tonight on c-span, native american history. day on saturday, live all coverage from the national book festival science pavilion. evening, from bbc scotland, a discussion on whether to end a political union with england. with the chief justice of the second circuit court of appeals, sharing his approach to interpreting laws passed by congress. on c-span2 tonight at 8:00 p.m., "in depth" with congressman ron paul, then on saturday, coverage from the national bo

he is the associate vice president at george washington university. i'm sure he is a leader in many other regards here at george washington. think he is called upon to advise senior officials in the executive branch. on a variety of national and homeland security issues. hase's probably no one that a broader vision of homeland cilluffo.han frank he's published extensive live in journals. i remember frank from the early days of homed security, because not leavem rich did home without frank cilluffo with him. so frank was one of the closest advisors to secretary tom ridge as the department was being stood up, in the early 2000's. the whitein office at house, called the office of homeland security, which is a shop. and grew into, as we her earlier, $40 billion enterprise the department of homeland security today. before the wows frank was involved with the center for strategic and international studies. could go on and on about frank's background and resume. let me now introduce our next speaker, frank cilluffo. frank? [applause] >> thank you, joe, for t

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blanton and we are here on the top floor of the main washington -- main library of the george washington university. we are in a room with declassified artifacts. most of the documents we get today are digital. we can look through the historians' work, the inside the interceptsk, of the north vietnamese conversations, and listen to president johnson's phone calls as he is talking with the ,ecretary of defense, mcnamara and begin to understand two huge realities that were not known to the public at the time. one, that the north vietnamese attacks on the sd

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