access to quality education, and more students with pell grants and scholarship opportunities to go to college and those folks who reduce pell grabnts is not way to baerta better economy. we are not investing today, but where we need to go. but anyone who thinks we need less students to graduate from high school and go to college and fulfill the dreams and go to college and be a productive citizen, i will challenge it everyday. and education secretary arne duncan, it is nice to talk to you. thank you very much. have a great day. and that was of course a portion of my conversation with arne duncan, and joining me from the msnbc, grio.com, jeff johnson will be alongside me sunday when we host from detroit a stronger america making the grade, jeff, it is great to see you, and we have a big weekend ahead of us and we have the easy part to talk to the brightest
he also said, by the way, he will ask america for help, that britain can benefit from america s experience fighting gangs. 1200 people have been arrested so far, half of them under 18. security camera pictures are being circulated with the public being asked to identify hooligans. that s old school technology these days. they are also going to be using facial recognition technology that was developed for the olympics next year. it feeds suspects faces through an updated face-matching program. the prime minister also criticized the police. he said when the rioting broke out, there were too few police on the streets and the tactics were wrong. he said now they re facing a new unique challenge so they ll get new powers. for instance, they will be able to take masks off masked men who are trying to hide their identity and it could be a clamp-down on social media and the use of blackberrys because many movements were coordinated that way. in a moving moment today, the father of a boy kille
it s not just in picking majors. they know they re going to have to be flexible in the jobs they take in the future so they re preparing themselves with double majors, triple majors. university of miami president donna shalala, also syracuse university alumna. good to talk to you today. thank you for your time. you re welcome. be sure to join msnbc this sunday noon for a special two-hour program, a stronger america making the grade live from detroit. coming up, how the london police are using new technology to find suspected rioters. plus, the greening of the auto industry and the new prospect of jobs. dow jones industrials right now up above the 300 mark at 11,024. the s & p up on the day 36 points so far. the nasdaq up 81 1/2. [ male announcer ] want a better way to track what you spend?
in elementary and secondary education can t afford to go on, aren t prepared to go on and then have their futures completely altered by what s happening now in the public school system. michael griffith, thank you very much for joining us today. and join msnbc this sunday august 14th, at 00 for a special two-hour program, a stronger america making the grade. live from detroit hosted by my friend and colleague tamron hall along with jeff johnson. and be part of the conversation now at facebook.com/strongeramerica. and what political story will be making headlines in the next 24 hours. that s next. but first, forget no crying in baseball. there were plenty of tears at a minor league baseball game in spokane, washington, monday might when sergeant chris whiteman surprised his wife and twin daughters in the middle of the fourth inning.