>> i said worcester. >> worcester! all right. [laughter] >> you were talking about earlier when you were straddling both roles between an elite community and one that was not recognized as elite and trying to maintain credibility in both arenas. >> right. >> and especially as the governor of massachusetts, i'm sure you're familiar with both roles. i wonder how you continue to overcome that hurdle and then how you can advise other people on how to maintain credibility in both sectors of your life without compromising either. >> it's a great question. i try to write about this in the book, and, you know, you will be the judge about whether i have either described it properly or am living it properly. but my view is decide who you are and be that all the time. no matter what. no matter what. there was a, i had an event in, at random house this morning, the publisher, this morning with abc, a better chance. and there were a number of ark bc -- so abc was the program that introduced me to got me to milton academy. and a portion of the

a woman from worcester is one of seven tourists who died in thailand this year. all seven stayed at a hotel there between january and march. an investigation revealed rooms were sprayed with a toxic insecticide. the governor of the country says those deaths are bad luck and the hotel is still open. >>> postponed again and without any explanation. that's the latest news for the families of two cal grads jailed in iran for nearly two years now. anne makovec spoke exclusively to the family. >> right now, we're reeling from the emotions. none of us slept a wink last night. it's a huge letdown. >> reporter: today sarah shourd hoped for resolution. her fiance shane bauer and their friend, josh fattal are being held prisoner in iran. up until last september, she was, too, accused of espionage after being caught hiking on the iran-iraq border 21 months ago. >> we wanted to see the beautiful sights of the middle east not the horror stories in the headlines. ironically we have become a horror story. >> reporter: the two men were set to go to trial today but never were brou

france and sons and daughters of ceos of publicly-traded companies and, you know, then me, a kid from worcestermassachusetts. so that was a firm where you expected to see ped greed individuals -- pedigreed individuals. they recruited smart people at lazard too, but at goldman it's something else. it's this notion of being team players, being academically gifted, being achievement-oriented, having achieved greatness at every step of the way. and also being team-oriented. so, you know, somehow your ego stayed in check while, you know, enough to help the team. so they love athletes at goldman, and be they love people who are hungry to succeed. so that was, you know, very much in the mold of sidney weinberg whose father was a bootlegger in be brooklyn, i think he was one of 11 or 13 kids. and basically after his eighth grade schooling ended at a public school in brooklyn, he sort of decided he had to get a job and made his way to wall street, made his way to the tallest building on wall street which happened to be at that time 30 pine street which is where gold match was. took the elevator to the t

he holds degrees from worcester polytechnic institute, stevens institute of technology, in ketteringuniversity and he receive professional achievement award from worcester polytechnic and rutgers university school of engineering. dr. carlson has served on numerous corporate and government boards of directors and advisory councils, and he was a member of the original team that helped create the army's federated laboratories. his passion for innovation and education is something we admire. with the world changing everyday, technologically, politically and socially, we are reminded of the importance of education, leadership and constant innovation for future generations. class of 2000 levin, please join me in welcoming our speaker, dr. curtis carlson. [applause] >> well, thank you. that was very generous. he gave me more credit than i deserve but everything i have ever done in my career has been done with great colleagues and great teammates and that is what i'm about to talk about, the importance of working with wonderful people who are passionate about what they are ingested in, makin

hello, worcester. >> caller: good afternoon. my name's albert, and all of those who have had enough of the cold, thank you for calling us miami, although this may be one of the last spots in the world where global warming hasn't taken place. i wanted to ask a basic question related to -- [inaudible] given similar settings, it's a question about the commons versus socialist reformist. .. >> host: our apologies.let's tr. >> caller: hi. i like to think of myself as a progressive libertarian, whatever that is. i appreciate you taking my call. but you mentioned -- >> host: color, let me stop you. why don't you tell us what that means. >> caller: you are one, you should know. you mentioned one of the few politicians that you're more or less on the same page with is rand paul, the son. and what disturbs me about him is he has taken the position that abortion should be illegal, even in cases of rape or incest. and that seems to me to be both us and our liberal and has anti-libertarian, as you can get. and i would like to tibor machan if

speaker, i listened to the comments of my friend from worcester and i will say that this measure that's before us is about several things. number one, job creation and economic growth is something the democrats and republicans alike say that they are concerned about. and that happens to be -- continues to be our priority. creating jobs for the american people who are hurting right now is what this bill is all about. and at the same time the notion of trying to free ourselves or at least diminish the kind of dependence we have on form oil. i don't believe we ever in this global economy we should be completely free of the flow of energy and other sources, but i do believe that we can take steps that will diminish the level of dependence that we have on sources of energy outside of our country. and that's what this measure is designed to do. i also want to touch on the very important question that was raised by my friend about the issue of subsidization by the american taxpayer of the energy industry. i know that my friend likes to say the rules committee could just take care of this one f

with 89 people killed, matt, ann, and natalie, this is the deadliest single tornado since worcester,ated. matt, you asked me earlier about the tornado sirens. it's sporadic. in some areas they are working. in some areas they are not. we are getting lightning now. this is a really changeable situation and the big concern while they have some shelters set up, there is nowhere to go really if the tornado strikes, there is nowhere to go. guyses, back to you. >> al roker from joplin. that is a concern. you have people milling around the wreckage trying to find people and possessions. if another storm comes through there, hopefully they will have time to react. >> let's hope it doesn't happen. >> you have the rest of the top stories? >> president obama began this morning expressing condolences to joplin, missouri. he and the first lady are in ireland visiting the hometown of his irish great, great, great grandfather. ireland is the first stop of a week-long tour that will include britain, france and poland. another icelandic tornado is scuttling air traffic but so far flights in ice land a