as it first emerged have we seen something this chilling, this troubling. this started primarily on the coast, primarily in los angeles and new york and a few places along the border. but it has spread into nearly every corner of america and we re trying to figure out why. sandra: you re trying to do so with the social capital project. it looks really at families, neighborhoods, religious relationships and the core of our economic success. how do you tie all of that together to solve this problem? we re looking at data points that try to measure social connectiveness. our working hypothesis is that as people lose their connection with institutions of civil society, meaning families, churches, synagogues, charitable foundations and so forth and they become less connected, one with another, then you have a breakdown in families and in communities that sometimes results in things like dealt of despair, drug abuse. sandra: i ll let you go