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Anymore. i applied for this, they said we appreciate it. we dont need you. we need men out there. we need male role models. one of our producers is a big brother to a little boy. and now theyre asking him to take on another little boy because theyre in desperate need of the guys. so many crimes and all of these little young teenage boys are committing these crimes. >> its true. its a definitive fact of poor neighborhoods in this country, the lack of fathers. when is the last time you heard the p...

So -- [ applause ] let me talk about each of these briefly. our third priority is aimed at providing better value for students. making sure that families and taxpayers are getting what we pay for. today im directing arne duncan, our secretary of education to lead an effort to develop a new rating system for americas colleges before the 2015 college year. right now, private rankings like the u.s. news and world report puts out each year their rankings and encourages colleges to how we game the nu...

Look out just for the institutions. i want to look out for the students who these institutions exist to serve. and i think, ive got confidence that our countrys colleges and universities will step up to the plate if theyre given the right incentives. they, too, should want to do the right thing for students. so, let me be specific. here are three things were going to do. number one, im directing my administration to come up with a new ratings system for colleges that will score colleges on oppor...

Im not going to say its not, because its a very unique situation and very difficult for us to operate. >> and joe johns joins me now. joe, mueller worked closely with two very different presidents. what was his take on working with bush and obama? >> well, surprisingly, and perhaps for some not, he said theyre very similar. george w. bush and president obama have a similar commitment on national security issues as well as criminal justice issues, but what he said thats different is the approach....

Issues for you are our set zen in florida. we dont have any idea how theyre going to -- we have so many unanswered question,s who will do this, whats their backgrounds? what information will they have? thats my concern today. >> i want to get to those navigators in a second. this is individuals are supposed to provide information, but i just want to try one more time, do you support the push by cruz and rubio to say dont fund the government unless obama care is taken out of it? other governors h...

Being set up in wisconsin? have they kept you abreast of whats going on and will they be ready? >> its left up to the federal government and its the reason why i and others across t ultimately trying to believe in the states for something theyre ultimately doing. so its unfortunate for the country that theics changes are what happens if the feds are like it 90% ready. and they really do have the security safeguards out. they have navigators, but theyre not going to check the backgrounds, thats n...

You can understand why many celebrities like tom hanks, are arnold schwarzenegger and bruce willis choose this area to build multimillion-dollar insurance zoenz and why some insurance companies called their own firefighters to prevent their own calamity. >> athere are many people affected from different socioeconomic backgrounds. >> reporter: staying in a shelter like this high school where we met orlanda cabrino. >> not knowing, i think the outcome if were going to be able to go home, to have a...

All the information is out on how it occurred. certainly i try to answer any questions that you might have, but i think the charging today puts the -- puts kind of the not just a period but a comma in our job here. and we got it to the judiciary system. thats our job. >> have you been able to talk to these teens? >> our investigators have talked with all three of them. two of them obviously are not talking, but theres a third one that has given us the information that you reported there. >> what...

Firefighters for an agency and now theyre working for insurance companies. as long as theyre coordinating and working with our people, its one less house that we have to try to protect. >> at the opposite end of the welsh spectrum, the red cross is helping those in need. >> many people are from different backgrounds and thats whats staying with us. >> the fire started by lightning is threatening several resort towns at the sun valley ski resort, water cannons normally used to make snow, are prot...

Trayvon martins whose names never make the newspapers or the headlines. the circumstances surrounding that allowed it to be, but there were multiple emmett tills and multiple lynchings. >> whose names are not remembered. >> whose names are not remembered and often not reported. >> its interesting to me, though, how people from different backgrounds see this and i talked to a juror on the trayvon martin case who clearly did not understand or did not feel linked to trayvon martin. felt connected t...