Trouble hovering for the hottest gift this holiday season. The battle brewing over the hoverboard. Could this shark be standing in the way of you getting back to the future . And we do say good morning, america and from here in new york we can feel the excitement in the air in washington. Big crowds out to see the pope this morning, and, george, youre smack dab in the middle of it all. Right here on the south lawn. The kr0uds have been gathering for hours. Everyone excited, everyone smiling. Ready to greet pope francis. About 20,000 will be here when president obama greets him in about two hours from now and already there have been such memorable images on this trip. Yesterday the pope touching down around 4 00 p. M. On shepherd one, his plane and going down those steps to set foot on u. S. Soil for the first time in his life. The popes never been to america before. He was greeted, of course, by president obama who brought the whole family with him to Andrews Air Force base and four Yo
Tonight, thank you. You are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see your online at booktv. Org. National geographic, mars up close has been written by marc kaufman. What is your background to write about Space Exploration . My background is as a journalist long time and not as a science journalist. I was a Foreign Correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the washington post. What i learned was being in Foreign Countries is a good way of learning to speak to scientists. They are talking a different language, different culture, you spend time with them and work it out and you come up with some fascinating things. Of phoenix what was curiosity . The rover on mars. It is searching for ebola environments on mars and it found them. They found for the First Time Ever that life might have existed, could have existed on mars. My goal in this was to embed myself, jet Propulsion Team and i did for a year and half, kind of watched up close what the
[inaudible conversations] next robert gates at the National Constitution center in philadelphia. He discusses memoir, duty members of the secretary at war. In the book mr. Gates has served as secretary of defense under president george w. Bush and president obama talks about his management of the wars in afghanistan and iraq and to share stories about his relationship with the white house and congress. [applause] secretary gates i also want to thank you for being especially knowing exactly recently had an injury. I know you are making a robust recovery but having to wear a neck brace as surely complicating your being here and getting here and we thank you for making that effort. Until i became secretary of defense i have never broken a bone or had a surgery. February of 2008 iselle on the ice and broke this shoulder in three places. 10 months later putting a snowplow blade on the tractor to pull the bicep tendon in his arm. My security guards quickly came to the conclusion that al qaed
Reporter vick lee has the latest on the investigation. 19yearold brock turner appeared at the palo alto courthouse this morning with his lawyer and father who had flown in from the family home in ohio. Like to enter plea of not guilty today. Turner stood before the judge as attorney Michael Armstrong pleaded not guilty on his behalf. Not guilty to 5 felony Sexual Assault charges. Establish ford freshman a member of the Swimming Team is accused of sexually assaulting a woman after they met at Fraternity Party last month. Prosecutor told reporters this case is unique. There were 2 hero who came forward and what i want to say about them is if they are listening, thank you. Thank you for doing the right thing. Reporter the hero 2 graduate students riding bicycle who said they saw the woman lying open the ground with turner on top of her. One of the students told police it appeared like the female was not moving. And something seemed odd. The 2 said they chased turner as he ran. They tackle
Report on two decades of academic fraud at the university of North Carolina where student athletes were given fake or paper classes to artificially boost their gpas. Good evening. I am not here because im a longtime north carolinian. Im not here because i am an expert on the specifics at him. Im your because of the heritage that these folks represent and the tradition that the hard work comes in the wake up. Im here of the names im getting ready to say were basics of the state and the heritage is basic to this wonderful work and truly wonderful work that jay smith and Mary Willingham have been doing on behalf of the institution that so many of us know and love and so many of us have been the names of course our Frank Porter Graham and Terry Sanford and bill friday. All of whom believe that a major point i think institution was not to serve itself but these are the ideas within it. That is to say it was not enough to salute when you went by the building. Ui to salute what it meant. I ca