Congress also had asked acted in ways that demonstrated a transition was a different kind period. Afterwards airs on booktv every saturday at 10 00 p. M. And sunday at 9 00 p. M. Eastern. You can watch all previous afterwards programs on our web site booktv. Org. Now on booktv Charlotte Jacobs remembers the life and career of jonas salk, creator of the polio vaccine. She is joined in conversation by Janet Napolitano, president of the university of california and former secretary of Homeland Security. Good evening and welcome to todays meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, this is the place where you are in the know. You can find us online at commonwealthclub. Org, find us on facebook and twitter and on the clubs Youtube Channel as well. I am 8 share of the commonwealth board of governors and i am going to chair todays program. This program is part of the clubs good list ceres underwritten by the bernard foundation. 60 years ago, physician, researcher jonas salk changed Human
Months. Reporter the battle over student Loan Interest rates pits House Speaker john boehner against Senate Majority leader harry reid. The house has done its job. Reporter House Republicans passed a bill that ties the student loan rate to the u. S. Treasury borrowing costs includes 2. 5 . As rates rise, so does the cost of education, up to a max of 8. 5 . What theyve done over there is worse for students than doing nothing at all. Reporter democratic senator joe manchin working with republicans has proposed a similar plan with one key difference. It wont use the savings to pay down the nations debt. In this bipartisan group, we all agree profits should not be made on the backs of students trying to go to school. Thats a difference from what came from the house. Reporter but majority reid says lenot introduce any bill that ties student loan rates to the market. Tara mergener for cbs news, washington. 4 32 now. Federal investigators say the pilots of Asiana Airlines flight 214 noticed t
Doctors managed an historic feat. A double arm transplant on a wounded soldier. The key in this surgery may have been his attitude. Erika edwards has his story now. You owe me 20 bucks. Reporter poking fun at his brother, cracking up a room full of doctors and media at a press conference in baltimore. Brendan marroco does not seem like a guy that has been through so much pain. Brendan was serving as an infantry man in iraq in 2009 when he was severely injured in a roadside blast. He lost both of his arms and both of his legs. Legs, he says, he could live without. But his arms, he hated losing them. Even your personality, you know, you talk with your hands. You do everything with your hands basically. And when you dont have that, you are lost for a while. Reporter six weeks ago a huge team of surgeons, the Johns Hopkins hospital perform ad complicated, successful doublearm transplant on brendan. To cut down on the immediate for antirejection drugs which carry potential for infections an
Tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. Now the second vaccine breakthrough. One week after the news from pfizer, moderna today announcing its new vaccine is nearly 95 effective. The company hoping to have 20 million doses ready by the end of this year. In addition to 20 million by the end of the year expected from pfizer. Tonight, one of the key differences between the two vaccines. And when will most americans get access to either one of them . It doesnt come a moment too soon. Tonight, cities and states imposing new restrictions. Some with stay at home advisories. 1 million new cases in the u. S. In less than a week. Californias governor saying hes pulling the emergency brake. New restrictions in several states and in the major cities, from philadelphia to chicago, where the mayor there is asking
residents to stay home. Tonight, hospitalizations on the rise in 49 states. Nurses and their plea to americans to take this seriously. Some nurses who say their dying pat
And now for the moment we have all been waiting for and the oscar goes to argo. Congratulations. Well, good morning. Its monday, february 25th, welcome to morning joe. Everyones a little tired here for some reason. With us on set, we have msnbc contributor Mike Barnicle. Wake up, mike. And the president of the council on Foreign Relations you were not up. Richard was. It was so good. How many times have you been now . You havent been. 13th time. Willie, have you been . I have not been to the opera. Its really good. Lincoln center. I walked past the fountain at the lincoln center. You have to go. Im going to force you. On the way to p. J. Clarks. Right across. Obviously, we have a lot to talk about. Coming up, the sequester, of course, is going down to the wire. Robert gibbs had some interesting comments on drones which well talk about. But, of course, it was the big night at the oscars that everyone is probably still talking about this morning. Complete with some redemption for ben aff