from yale university honored to be named to the academy steadings slavery in western culture but the work from the documentary he coproduce the philadelphia museum of art and also title zero freedom and mother of the american revolution spoke on the history of ambition published by university press. he wasn't formally at harvard studying african-american research now at yale talking about the history what with the executive director of the school's public health and was part of the white house research and development institute to develop tools for money laundering for the department of treasury. he also collaborated on a young adult books on slavery in the emancipation. john is professor at harvard university. he writes on the civil war era began anti-slavery in photography. author and editor including two books our national best sellers for the most recent is the battle of the republic. and the stone that marches on was a finalist in 2013. his reviews of appeared "the washington post" in huffington post and numerous scholarly books but with the state department program is a consult

one of them and i picked yale in the end. >> reporter: qaa zi ranks 11th in high school.d work and wouldn't septembaccept any great below 95. >> if you do well, people appreciate what you're doing. you contributing very significantly to society. >> reporter: kwasi is volunteering at a local hospital. he's thinking of being a doctor, a cardiologist or urologist. it's good to have choices. alison harmelin, cbs news, new york. >>> it was bill whitaker day in los angeles. the city council honored cbs news correspondent bill whitaker for his contributions to l.a. he'll be leaving the city now that he's been named a correspondent for "60 minutes," but bill said the move will not be final. >> like the terminator, we'll be back. we have decided not to sell our house, so when this chapter of our lives has completed, we're going to come back home. >> bill joined cbs news in 1984 and worked in los angeles for more than 20 years. his reports for "60 minutes" will start in the fall. i'm anne-marie green. this is the "cbs morning news." not chalky. temporary. 24 hour. lots of tablets.

no word yet on what financial aid yale promised, but kwasi says he's satisfied with yale's offer. >> the u-s government estimates nearly 60- thousand undocumented minors will cross into the u-s this year alone. we have been following the journey of one boy who hopes to reunite with his father in houston. paul beban reports >> a vast, remote and dangerous desert surrounds the city of nogales. a tall steel fence slices through it. over the last month, this teenager and two cousins have traveled 24-hundred miles, by foot, by bus and by train. to make it to the mexican side of this border town. >> my name is axel isaac cabarello fernandez. i am 15 years old, and i am from honduras." >> axel's hometown of san pedro sula is one of the most violent cities in the world. after crossing illegally through guatemala and into mexico, axel and his cousins made their way to puebla, where they climbed atop one of the notorious mexican freight trains collectively known as "the beast" a dangerous and dusty free ride more than 1,400 miles, all the way to the border in nogales. the trip wasn't easy. bec

we are pleased to bring you stephen roach of yale university.let fu. >> this is from the files of "bloomberg west." vivendi is selling half of its stake in a videogame company activision blizzard, the maker of the popular call of duty series. activision'sto be controlling shareholder. it sold most of its stake last year. more cost cuts at sony. they will cut expenses and electronics sales unit right 20%. they plan to start a new tv business as well. the company lost more than $9 billion in the past 6 years. jd.com begins trading today on the nasdaq. the company, whose business model is similar to amazon's, raise $1.8 billion in its ipo. thees were priced about marketed range. that is the company news from the files of "bloomberg west." >> adam, alibaba? >> alibaba in theory is going to be in the fall. it is the one that got all the headlines. with us,n roach formerly with morgan stanley, now with the alien university. when you look at the state of the chinese middle class, it is it growing fast enough to support these hopes and dreams? >> the mi

. >> the billionaire has donated 65 million dollars to a renewable energy center at yale and stanford, and he has entered >> the billionaire has donated 65 million dollars to a renewable energy center at yale and stanford, and he has entered into the political arena, spending $10 million to support initiatives and candidates. you have been effective in many of the initiatives you have targeted, and you call some of those initiatives you have put money into some of the best investments you have ever made. is that something you are going to continue to do? >> i don't know that is what i am going to do forever, but i definitely will do that in 2014. >> tom is not the only outspoken liberal in the family. his brother jim teaches civil rights courses at stanford and founded common sense media, a nonprofit organization. the brothers have been compared to another set of closely minded siblings, the koch brothers, but they have spent hundreds of millions backing tea party candidates and conservative causes. >> i don't actually know about them. i think there definitely has to be differences in

after he stopped being president, the yale law school offered him chair of law at yale.eplied that he could not except that chair, but he could accept a sofa. [inaudible question] .. >> you'd have to -- to use a coinage that you've probably heard down here, you'd have tok pry this from my cold, dead fingers. [laughter] but i think, you know, i think we've made, i think we've -- i think there's been a terrible trade-off. who, you know, we live in the age of gotcha, you know? what politician would sort of dare to be original or say something, ah, you know? i think it's made, i think it's made politics harsher and more discordant. it is, of course, a fallacy of the highest order that you suppose that politics is nastier now than it used to be. my god! you know, it used to be probably far nastier. but it's, but i think it's, i think it's the 24/7, the internet, the blogging have become, are enemies of reasoned discourse. yeah, you can start a revolution in egypt with twitter. is that a good thing? i think maybe i'm not sure. i'm not sure. >> tell us about london the. >> lond

at yale university. okay? >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> congratulations. >> he made headlines when accepted to ten universities, even appeared on ellen degeneres show. he was honored at oakland region's student athlete of the year by california governing body for high school sports. congratulations. >> a lot of folks proud that have young man well, $1 million is a price you can expect to pay for home in many parts of the bay area. so what does that get you? what can you buy outside of the bay area for a million dollars? tonight how the bay area stacks up against the nation when it comes to million dollar listings. >> to the rescue. ♪ [ male announcer ] now get more of what you deserve. visit your local benjamin moore dealer today and get $50 off every $250 purchase. [ male announcer ] to celebrate, visit your local benjamin moore dealer today and get $50 off every $250 purchase. >>> abc7 news team coming up at kf albany paid them $3,000 to move out of a homeless camp. where some ended u

staging a news conference at enin says yale was "friendly and inviting". school's "love for music and of medicine." along with being a top scholar, enin is also an athlete, sings and plays efforts three instruments. he plans to study medicine. winds whipping a southern california wildfire have eased enough to allow people back into 16-hundred homes fifth but people in some northern neighborhoods are still urged to leave voluntarily if they feel threatened. the 70-mph wind gusts that sent smoke over the area have made it impossible for firefight. the blaze erupted around 8 a.m. in the foothills of the san bernardino national forest and by afternoon had burned 1,000 acres of brush. with the warm temperatures and dry vegetation. there's always a concern about fire danger. cal fire is sending out a between message to residents about the risk. kron four's jackie sissel joins us live from the east bay. ahead remember, you can download our kron4 weather app. we have hour by hour forecasts and weather alerts specific to your the app is free. discuss latest bay are

a guy coming out with a 5.0 gpa going to yale. he's a prime example of where hard work ca get you. >> reporter: but the decision of where to continue his education and further his baseball career was a tough call as he told the nation on an appearance on the ellen show. >> how do you have time to learn to dance if you're always studying like that. >> people say you're going to judge you a certain way based upon your appearance, but at the end of the day, it's up to you to do whatever you want to do and do what you can for you to be where you want to be at the end of the day. >> reporter: what an amazing young man. very well-spoken. and good luck to him at yale. we're talking baseball tonight. as you can see, the pre-game festivities are kicking in right here at at&t park as the giants get ready to play the twins. we'll have all your highlights at 11:00. back to you guys. >>> we also have a programming note for you. coming up right after our show you can want the giants take on the twins. as for hannibal, it's scheduled to air at 1

the long island senior accepted to all eight ivy leagues has choosen yale university. kwasi enin announced today in a news conference at his high school that he will be attending yale university. the 17-year old said the atmosphere played a big part in his decision saying yale had the strongest music program out of all the ivies. enin plans on studying medicine and music to become a doctor. >> seeing all for turtled brothers in a new movie trailer. michael they has directed the movie. teen-age mutant ninja turtles hits theaters august 8th. >> i would like to see meghan fox dressed like a turtle. but the newest to her turtle attraction. a blue whale is a big attraction for local people. it was probably killed by heavy ice and more than a week ago. as you may expect, it is starting to smell. the federal government says it is up to the town to get rid of the carcass. as the weather warms up it's only going to get worse. we've had this issue in other areas. if the village doesn't clean it up it just sits there and rot. >> glad we don't live there. >> it's like the refriger

our social security program is a bit like god, country, and yale. have to be for all of them -- well, perhaps not yale -- but you have the feeling that they all work in rather mysterious ways. the reason we're for social security is that it has, in fact, achieved its central purpose -- providing for the needs of the elderly. poverty among our senior citizens, a deep concern in the 1930s, has been substantially reduced in the present day. the reason social security seems mysterious is really twofold. first, the system doesn't work at all in the way we were taught to believe it would. the idea seemed to be that an average citizen -- let's call him peter -- would deposit his and his employer's payroll taxes in a fund which would keep growing over the years. at retirement, this same peter would use theseaccumulated funds to live on. in fact, the way it works is that young peter pays into a fund which is immediately used to pay already elderly paul. the notion of a huge accumulating trust is largely a myth. the program is, in fact, a classic case of what

. >>> finally tonight, it has taken the good folks at yale university to try to figure out once and for all what's going on in the heads of the dogs we love, what they are feeling, trying to tell us with their eyes, and it turns out, as so many had suspected, it has a lot to do with us. the story tonight from nbc's stephanie gosk. >> reporter: there is a look dog owners say, an all-knowing mind-reading look. >> sometimes she has very inquisitive eyes, so it's almost like she's got something going on in there. >> reporter: dog owners may want their pets to be more smarter and human like than they actually are. >> i love you. >> reporter: but some researchers believe dog intelligence is more than just wishful thinking. >> one of the reasons we need to do the science is that we have such strong intuition about whether a dog is smart, social, what makes them special. the nice thing about this, we can really see. we can put it to the test. >> reporter: to do that, lorrie opened yale university's dog cognition center last december. all breeds are welcome, sausage treats included. one theory t

generation of ghanaian immigrants, says he is satisfied by yale's offer. >>> in depth coverage of test of democracy. as voters go to the polls. the price tag that the u.s. and iraq have played. >>> the roles women will play in the next iraqi government. >> it's the most important vote since the fall of saddam hussein. iraq's first national election without an american military presence. democracy. mid east stability. global security. and oil. all at stake. voting in the center of conflict in the middle east. and voting under constant threat. the worst unrest in iraq in years. our special report, iraq: bloodshed to ballots. i'm john siegenthaler in new york. the polls are now closed in iraq's historic election. the first since u.s. forces withdrew in 2011. tonight we focus on the situation in iraq and the middle east since that withdrawal and ask: was it worth it? as iraqis cast their ballot security was extremely tight. millions of people went to the polls to elect a new parliament and ultimately a new prime minister. imran khan spent the day at a polling place. >> passed without major

first of all, talk about yale. what's happening at yale? >> yale is really in great shape.ortunity that you're being given up there and the thrill for these students to be able, just talk about it. >> the jackson institute was formed to essentially give a global affairs focus to part of the university. what it's done is bring people with me along with others to give student as chance to focus broadly. i teach leadership, have an amazing opportunity to bring 20 graduate and undergraduate students together in the spring and it's a great time. >> let talk about the young men and women who were in afghanistan who are still over there. how are we doing in afghanistan? any concerns right now? >> there's always concerns but i think's great reason for hope and optimism, that the young men and women have done so much. afghanistan is not the afghanistan of 2001. everybody will throw out the number of children in school and what not but i think the basic truth is afghanistan is moved on from that era. it not going to move back. it will have its problems in the future. it's think there

he just drove in after finishing his final exams, so he can now officially say he is a senior at yale. you know, some people after you take final exams, some students worry about what the results of his exams. when he is not writing op-eds, he writes for the yale "herald," serves as an emt, and he is the newest member of the profile in courage award committee. like his grandfather, he is no shrinking violet. he left all of us know including the chair exactly what he thought about generational gaps and things in gender and diversely, and very big for my very helpful. [laughter] he has taken on his work with wisdom, with gusto. we are very fortunate he is willing to serve. ladies and gentlemen, it is my great privilege to introduce jack schlossberg, who will introduce the 2014 profile in courage award recipient. thank you. >> thank you. if you ever want my criticism on anything, you just give me the word and i will be happy to. on behalf of my family i join them in welcoming you today. my mother usually presents this award, and she would have loved to be here today, but she would like t

temporary, demand responsive housing in the middle of the night when the people are released from yale is not seeing people beyond the street. and the advocacy that supervisor kim and others have had and it is clear and i think that also as they partnered with us on family homelessness, our hospitals need to partner with us on the medical shelter and it is clear that they are people who are not capability to attending to the daily living and the staff are not trained to do that and so it is a bad recipe and it is a recipe for people, getting 911 calls, out of shelters and excess of what they should sxb hopefully this will be the year where we can sort of take this issue on and really develop, medically supported shelter beds that are below the level of respite care and above the level of what people can receive in a traditional setting and i would like to point out that i don't think that many supervisors know of the success that we have had housing pregnant and homeless mothers of newborns and over the past year, department of health and working with the service's agency and home and

graduating today as the most diverse class in yale's long history.ey call it in the nba, donald sterling's worst nightmare. >> ooh, which you have it. that's one of the things we thought you should know this morning. time for this "news nation" gut check, 9/11 survivors and victims's families are outraged over the part of the museum gift shop. it features baseball caps and t-shirts and jewelry and others include silk scarves with the images of the twin towers and brace let charms for $65. survivor tree earrings and some are calling it kras and money making money as well. other memorials such as pearl harbor and holocaust museum also have gift shops. a spokesperson said our organization relies on private fund raising and revenue from ticketing and carefully selected keepsake items for retail. in fact, many of our guests from the 9/11 community have visited the shop and purchased a keepsake from their historic museum. go to newsnation.msnbc.com to vote. we'll have the results tomorrow. up next, peter alexander is in for andrea mitchell. ameriprise aske

he said he chose yale because they have a great music program. he plays the violin, if you recall and he wants to be some sort of physician and of course yale has a great bio medical department. >> we have not heard the last of him. >> homeowners surrounded by filth with nowhere to go. >> the stench is really horrible. >> why something needs to be done about this landfill, even though they're the ones who moved there. >> spinning in space. nasa learning about the day in the life of a planet. it's our discovery of the day. on al jazeera america >> today's discovery is something dump researchers have learned about, a planet 65 light years from earth, this planet, a gas giant is still relatively young, only about 20 million years old. >> i remember back in those days, black and white t.v. spins at 65,000 miles per hour, faster than any planet in our solar system. it rotates more than 50 times faster than the earth. they don't call it a gas giant for nothing. it has 3,000 times mass of earth and is 16 times wider. >> despite its size, a full day last

president bush is an alum of yale, not harvard. wonder what yale thinks about this. >> one thing we do know for sure it is supposed to be a great weekend. >> maria molina has a look at that. >> good morning heather and heather. across some areas we are looking at a beautiful weekend including right here across the northeast which temperatures very pleasant and a lot of sunshine. other areas not so much. there are areas of low pressure meandering across the gulf coast. it produced more than 6 inches of rain across parts of mississippi, louisiana even the state of alabama. this has been a concern for flooding. we have flash flood watches in effect right here the rain will continue today with several more inches of rain expected. further west we have a storm system exiting the rockies. it will produce a risk for storms. over the weekend we could see a return to severe storms by sunday you are looking at the texas panhandle into parts of nebraska and also kansas. otherwise heather and heather relatively warm and into the 80s. cooler co

a new yorker by birth christopher graduated from yale and by 24, he was the managing editor of esquire magazine by the chief speechwriter to george herbert walker bush then vice president of the united states and leader of the founding editor of forbes fyi. his books have great titles and i think that's important if you are going to write a book and give it a title and they include the white house mess no way to treat a first lady. not about you patricia i don't think. supreme court to ship and thank you for smoking by the way. his literary circle list rather represent of the table that celebratebutcelebrated a group w yorkers that met regularly for lunch during the 1920s at the likes of robert, george. the late christopher hitchens. ladies and gentlemen it is my pleasure to introduce the author of that enough about you the cultural critic and if i may say irreverent historian, mr. christopher buckley. [applause] >> would you please turn your cell phones back on? what an honor to be introduced. it was a connecticut girl that i point out. you will be hearing from her later on. having id

africanos aceptado en las 8 universidades de la ivyleague, anunciÓ que planea asistir a la universidad de yale recordarle la importancia de pasar 15 minutos interactuando con sus hijos, estudios demuestran que leerles y cantar tiene un impacto en el desarrollo cerebral,aumentando su desempeÑo acadÉmico, el 85% del desarrollo cerebral del niÑo ocurre en los primeros aÑos de vida. le contamos lo que dice una encuesta sobre quÉ proporciona mÁs felicidad a hombres y mujeres en francia. ♪ ♪ >> mÉxico 86 marcÓ la despedida mundialista del para muchos mejor futbolista del historia de ese paÍs, hugo sÁnchez, que iniciaba su tercera copa del mundo ante bÉlgica, y lo hacÍa vulnerando la porterÍa rival con un cabezazo. >> solo faltan 43 dÍas para el inicio del mundial de fÚtbol en brasil, y le contamos que ademÁs de fÚtbol, hay algo que tambiÉn le da felicidad a muchÍsima gente, se realizÓ una encuesta a ciudadanos franceses y concluyÓ lo siguiente: los hombres de ese paÍs encuentran la felicidad mÁs que en cualquier otra cosa en el sexo, a diferencia de las mujeres que lo dicen encontrar en el chocolate

. >> in 2006, after some significant research was conducted at yale university, i secured a digital cd ultimately the shooting. when i got that cd from yale and i listened to it in 2006, i heard a verbal command which i thought was "right here, get set, point, fire." >> i challenged the news media and the government to verify whether or not that order to fire is on that recording. >> i do fully believe that the audiotape will be further analyzed and that we will have a good reliable documented transcript, but why that command was given i think will always be somewhat of a mystery. >> my hope is some day, somebody on their deathbed will speak or somebody will have written their thoughts and their views and what they were told, what they were told not to say, what they were told to say, what they were ordered to do at some point in time somewhere in the future, we will be able to find this information out. i may be dead by then. >> i don't think there are many secrets that survive more than a day or two and especially 44 years. had there been anybody that gave an order to fire, i don't t

new york high school student revealed today that he chose yale.me an instant celebrity earlier this month when he was accepted into all eight ivy league universities. that is certainly an extremely rare accomplishment. he picked yale because of its music program and he looks forward to joining an a cappella group and orchestra. he hopes his success inspires other young people. >> i see myself as a symbol hopefully so that more kids hear about these schools or even not these schools, but appreciate higher education and college. >> his s.a.t. score, 2250 puts him in the 99th percentile for all test takers. he's taken 11 placement courses by the time he graduates this spring. there is a young manu well on hs way. another half hour of news at 9:00 is moments away. up next, flash floods from florida to new england. drivers suddenly floating away and more severe storms are on the move. full court press on the nba owner accused of racism and his girlfriend. makes a bizarre appearance while a lot of powerful people want to buy his team. >> look what float

he is going to yale, he picked the school after a campus visit is. he plans to go into medicine, he says he wants to be a cardiologies or neurology, no less, and very cool to be able to tell seven ivy leagues no thank you. >> and another victory for yale over harvard. >> that's right. the u.s. senate now has the voted needed to approve the project, that includes several democrats facing tough re-election battles that believe support of any potential job creation will firm up the standing at loam. senator majority leader we are told agrees and to help the colleagues he now planning a vote as early as next week, but the white house doesn't want the senate to get involved right now. and to be worked on and run out of the state department. >> the state department said recently it will not make a decision until the end of the year. and there are indications president obama oppose it is pipeline, some lawmakers believe the white house is trying to kick this down the road to avoided angering business and labor groups before the midterms. next tuesday is rep

this year, he delivered the annual class they lecture during yale's commencement weekend.he stroke about the struggles of the 1960's generation and he urged the graduates to keep faith in the government possibility to break gridlock.

. >> rewards are coming from an oakland scholar athlete headed to yale on a full scholarship. the technical high school senior went on a shopping spree at prayers' image store with help from hall of famer and three radars' players. the 18-year-old is graduating at the top of the class with 5.0gpa and received an unexpected gift from the general manager mckenzie. >> another gift from the prayers, a windows pro surface computer! this will serve you well at yale university. >> appreciate it. >> congratulations. >> he made national headlines when he was accepted to ten universities and appeared on "ellen" and on monday he was honored as the student agent least the year by california's governing body for high school sports. >> congratulations. that is great. >> radars apparel is making the presence. that is awesome. >> you were talking about willie brown and he was a defensive back, not the other give, the mayor. but we will heap things up. >> the banner says this afternoon but this was yesterday afternoon and remember, we had this winter weather advisory and look at all the snow t

applause] >> more commencement addresses tonight at 8:00 eastern with secretary of state john kerry at yale, samantha power at the university of marmont, j johnson at his alma mater, morehouse college, and janet yellin at nyu. that is tonight at 8:00 eastern. and the associated press is reporting and americans older has been held prisoner by the taliban in afghanistan. since 2009, he has been freed. he is currently in u.s. custody. president obama released a statement that says the american people are pleased that will be able to welcome home sergeant beau burgdall. on behalf of the american people, i was honored to call his parents who expressed our joy that they can expect his safe return. remember the many troops held captive and to remain missing or unaccounted for in past wars. his release was part of a negotiation between the u.s. and the taliban to release eyes afghan detainees held at guantÁnamo bay. that news is from the associated press. includes's new book and applebaum on the fall of the soviet union. contained the seeds of their own distraction. many of the problems we saw at t

kpix 5's john ramos on the future yale student who will be off to college wearing silver and black. >> reporter: at oakland raiders headquarters today, the team welcomed a bright new prospect with truly impressive stats. too bad he doesn't play football. >> i wish i had a 4-point0. you hear this guy have a 5.0. it's amazing. >> reporter: the raiders treated the oakland tech senior [ non-english language ] to a shopping spree in the team store simply because of how well he has done in the classroom. he is sporting a perfect 5.0 gpa and scored 21 on his s.a.t. test. he plays french horn and african drums in the orchestra and is a standout on the baseball team. and lately he spends his spare time as a television celebrity. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: he has chosen to attend yale in the fall and has been receiving donations to cover the costs including a $15,000 check on the ellen degeneres show. back at school, his principal says tunde and his friends are setting an example for the rest of the students. >> because so many of our kids don't see a way out. they don't have the role model. and t

. >> harvard, yale, princeton. they all want him. the super student. now he is making his pick. >>> downtown virginia, a freight train caught fire. >> some 50,000 gallons of crude oil is missing. it's unclear how much burped off and how much spilled into the water. this accident will heighten concerns of environmentalists who have been concerned about hauling oil through the downtown area. >>> a committee of nba team owners is scheduled to meet today to discuss the next steps for l.a. clippers owner donald sterling. the billionaire could be forced to sell his team if 3/4 of the other owners agree that his racist comments violated the league standards. >> meantime, oprah winfrey is joining the list of those interested in possibly buying the clippers. a spokeswoman says she is in talks with oracle owner. >> oscar della hoya has shown an interest. >> the clippers need a face. they need a face. what better face than my face, a fighter who has been in the ring, who has fought for his life, has fought for the world championship titles. i know the players, yo

in the end it was for the ivy league schools met my aid with the same amount and so yale was one of them and i picked yiel in the end. >> congratulations. and we have some tips now for kids heading off to college. i know greg gutfeld you have very good tips, don't you? >> yes, i have a lot. i'm trying to narrow them down. google speech codes in college and, do not go. you have to redefine what a cool job is. it's not a behind a desk. it's behind had a drill or a gun. if you're drawing energy from the ground or you're defending this great country, that's a real job. don't do what i did. i wasted two years in college. the first two years were a blur. i have no memory. go out and do something. learn a trade. frac to your heart's content. don't express yourself. that's stupid. >> gee. >> very wise advice. >> school newspapers, you get a good idea if they let conservatives weigh in. that gave me a good idea. it f it was all liberals i thought, i'm not going there. if there was a conservative voice there, i thought, maybe some diversity. >> don't feel limited. if you didn't get into your schoo

while a professor at yale, henry wallicbegan to confront the doomsayers. some years ago, i guess 10 years ago there werojections up to 30 billion people. i think they've gradually come down because population growth has diminished and yielded to the effect of higher standards of living. with higher standards of living and government persuasion, population growth can level off. disaster need not strike on pollution, political considerations are as important as economic ones. anitpollution technologies are available, and the costs of cutting back emissions and cleaning up can be passed to consumers another major subject in the limits-to-growth thesis involves basic resources, mirals and oil. shorges were imminent, said the growth-busters. in the early seventies, eyot a boost fotheir cause. one of the striking things for the club of rome was, shorges were imminent, said the growth-busters. in the early seventies, eyot after the book came out, a boost fotheir cause. oil prices jumped up four times. people said, "uh-huh, they're right." then five or six years l

stepsister karen had some experience in this area her bilingual father was a brienlt traffic engineer in yale he had schizophrenia he threatened to kill any sister and stepmother back in those days they got her eir him into treatment at valley state hospital. but she had understanding of mental health issue it's not trusting true our widower family had inform experience she understood and politically was connected heaving involved with the administration and knew lobbyists in sacramento and was able to get us in touch with assemblywoman hell con thomas and hell one was a psych nurse and sponsoring legislation at that time, called a bit 1421 the precursor of laura's law. and so in the early days we didn't know what else to do except strike back at the system so we become involved with laura's law there were others here heavily involved randell and i give him and others huge amaze of credit. so we watched the protective active process and i'll say it is savage making, you know, it's somewhat ugly you don't want to know what's in it laura's law was like sausage making. you know what came out was

. ♪ >> billionaire tom steyer has donated $65 million to establish renewable energy centers at yale andnford, and he has entered into the political arena, spending more than $10 million to support various initiatives and candidates opposed to keystone. you've been effective in many of the initiatives that you've targeted, and you've called some of those initiatives you've put money into some of the best investments you've ever made. [laughter] >> they were. >> is that something you're going to continue to do? >> i don't know if that's what i'll do forever, but i think that i definitely continue to do that in 2014. >> in fact, tom is not the only outspoken liberal in the steyer family. his brother jim teaches civil rights courses at stanford and founded commonsense media, a nonprofit organization. the steyer brothers have been compared to another set of politically-minded siblings, the koch brothers, who have spent millions backing tea party candidates and conservative products. >> i don't actually know the koch brothers. >> i didn't think you would. >> i definitely think there has to be

you'll meet the yale jr.martphones and tablets. we've been telling you about this technology. it allows you to disable a device remotely if it's lost or stolen. companies have until july of next year to comply. >>> "time" magazine updates the alleged hotel elevator assault on jay-z reportedly by his sister-in-law. the standard hotel fired the employee who is believed to have leaked the surveillance video. the hotel promises to hand over all available information to authorities. >> and there are reports that person was paid $250,000 to sell that video. >> wow. >> that's wrong. >>> the oregonian features never before seen features of mount st. helens. on the day of the eruption 34 years ago he flew a plane along with his 11-year-old daughter, closer than anybody else. his daughter found the pictures after he died more than four years ago. >>> the zombie apocalypse. they explain how to reto many kinds of walking dead including chicken zombies. it's an in-house thing to help students learn how to deal with widesp

secretary of state john kerry returned to his alma mater to speak to the soon to be graduates for yale college class day. they used the opportunity to take a comedic jab at the certain disgraced nba team owner. >> you are graduating today as the most diverse class in yale's long history, or as they call it in the nba, donaldsterling's worst nightmare. weekdays are for rising to the challenge. they're the days to take care of business. when possibilities become reality. with centurylink as your trusted partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure and global broadband network free you to focus on what matters. with custom communications solutions and responsive, dedicated support, we constantly evolve to meet your needs. every day of the week. centurylink® your link to what's next. the numbers are impressive. over 400,000 new private sector jobs... making new york state number two in the nation in new private sector job creation... with 10 regional development strategies to fit your business needs. and now it's even better because they've introduced startup new york... with the state crea

the most diverse class in yale's long history. >> what in the hell is diversity?eve diversity is an old, old wooden ship. >> or as they call it in the nba, donald sterling's worst nightmare. >> funny guy. >> the number two trender, sam love. >> it's okay to be who you are. >> so proud of you. so proud of you. so proud of you. >> as o.w.n. shelves the documentary. >> there was a documentary scheduled by the oprah winfrey network. >> this is the same company that did a documentary with lindsay lohan. >> this is probably the right decision to postpone this. >> "snl" gives his draft kiss lip service. >> wow. kissing his boyfriend? >> seems like a lot for tv. >> some people are so touchy. >> i think you're being a little closed minded about a happy couple celebrating on television who just happen to be gay. >> so what's this? >> and today's top trender, patriot games. >> our goal is to seek the resignation of barack obama. >> good luck with all that. >> operation american spring faulters. >> we the people! >> we must go up there in massive numbers. >> crews caught 300

yale had been kwasi's first choice all along. >>> look at this heart-warming moment.rkley voice you use, charlie? do you have one? >> no, not that. >>> i'm charlie rose with gayle king and norah o'donnell. pensacola, florida, is already reeling. this morning the city faces a new crisis. an overnight gas explosion destroyed part of its county jail killing two inmates. >> the jail flooded when the area got nearly two feet of rain. officials say they don't know yet if the blast is related to the storm. >>> emergency workers in pensacola spent all of wednesday rescuing people from cars homes and rooftops. flooding surrounded her car. the storm also destroyed some roads in the florida panhandle as the system moved north. it also left roads under watt thor in parts of virginia. some people say it's the worst flooding they've ever seen. >> and this morning the northeast is getting soaked, a driver and passengers had to be helped off a city bus in philadelphia, one of dozens of rescues in the region. flood warnings are still up from philadelphia to new york city. don dahler i

my guest tonight is the professor of law emeritus at yale university.overnment fails so often and how can -- it can do better." please welcome to the program peter schuck. sir, how are you? [cheers and applause] thank you for being here. this, this, this, this, why government fails so often and how we can do better. why is this not more a part of national conversation? why do you think the national conversation is so tied up in conflict and partisan rhetoric and not the business of governance? >> well, a few reasons. one reason is that people would rather talk about what they wish would happen, the world should be, rather than the way it actually is, the way it works out in reality. most of us are like that. secondly, the government doesn't want to know in many cases why it's programs do so poorly. >> jon: do they have -- what are the mechanisms of government to assess that? what are the metrics they use and what do they even do to assess it? >> there's a few agencies like the gao and congressional budget office and sphectors general -- inspectors gener

. >>> on nbcnews.com, new york teen accepted to eight ivy league school picks yale. he was blown away by the music program on campus and the travel opportunities. i wonder how folks at harvard feel about that choice. >>> other stories we're following now, awful news out of syria, activists say a syrian fighter jet attacked a school in a city of aleppo. the students and teachers at the school were reportedly preparing an exhibition of children's drawings depicting the country at war. 150,000 people died since the civil war there began. >>> a red ball of flame here, bursting into the skies over russian military warehouse yesterday. russian officials say ten people died trying to flee. no word on what actually caused the fire. >>> and the city of portland, oregon, will not be flushing those 35 million gallons of water down the drain at the end of the day. they caught this teenager urinating in the drinking water in the reservoir there two weeks ago and feared the supply might be contaminated. the tests came up clean. but they're still going to move the supply to an unfi