any country and say you re smart, great in science, pick a different career, go into technology. right. it s another for technovation to come up with this cool contest. every high school girl has a cell phone. they say to them look around you, what problem do you see and how would you solve it? and all of a sudden they re like i m 15 or i m 16, really? what do i think? and these guys are just a perfect example of how excited these girls, you know, in addition to all of their sports and basketball stars and everything else, and get up at 7:00 in the morning and work on their apps. it s really important. crystal, one of the things that stood out to me is one of the girls from the other teams said it s hard to get excited about what you can t see and you don t see many girls encoding so it s hard to get excited and tell people this is what i want to do.
that s all i have to say. thank you guys for being here. and congratulations on everything. sona tell us about the app you guys created? we created an app which our motto was to benefit our community through action and wanted to create our goal was to create a more compassionate society in such a self-centered generation and it s based on connecting volunteers to local people with teenagers and like college people or even like organizations and connect them and have like a one center location where they can find everything they need. i love that. lesl leslie, you produced waiting for superman. what was it about girls and tech that made you want to make this movie? so many things. in 2013 i was making another film and i heard about this contest and it s one thing to kind of say to a teen girl from
advisers traveled to new york trying to convince him to come to his side. that did not turn out as they wanted. absolutely. and when you listen to what jeb bush has said. another thing he said, i m running with heart. i m not a performer. obviously, signaling to donald trump who is still leading most of the polls. if you look at how bush is performing in iowa. let s take a look at this poll. this is the most recent one. bloomberg des moines register showing support for jeb bush is just 5%. he trails carson, trump, cruz and rubio. are you seeing signs of concern from the bush camp? well, i think when you talk to supporters here in iowa, they will admit some quiet concern cause for concern on the campaign. i spoke with many bush supporters here at this gop forum today. and they admitted that, yes, jeb bush is going through a rough patch over the course of his campaign. many say for thousand, they are going to stick with him. they believe in him. here s what a few of the
and russia s state media reports that most of the passengers were returning from vacation there. 17 children were aboard that plane. this week, we saw president obama wade into the controversy over the effect. the idea that the scrutiny of police officers that have increased since the death of michael brown has made some officers reluctant to fight crime. the president s response to that, we can t cherry pick the data. i want to be as clear as i can be. i reject any narrative that seeks to divide police and communities that they serve. i reject the story line that says when it comes to public safety, there s an us and a them. but here s the thing, police departments across this country right now are struggling to find
that explains it entirely. but i do have a strong sense that some part of the explanation is a chill wind that s blown through the law enforcement over the last year. and that is surely changing behavior. going forward, tom, what is the one thing you think could help most to repair some of those broken relationships between some police and their communities? i think the communities and the police need to have a serious objective discussion about what it s going to take to bring the homicide rate down in those communities. and frankly, the people from the black lives matter movement, the clergy, the politicians are not on the street at midnight dealing with the people with guns that are shooting down young black men and the director quoted that, un, that the estimates that he s hearing from police are that about 95% of the victims of these homicides, the spike in homicides were young