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Sunday housecalles. for thousand back to "sunday morning futures" and maria. thank you eric. it is the one skill many educators say todays students will need to make it in tomorrows economy. its called coding. the so called backbone of technology industry, coding or computer programming is now one of the most coveted skills by employers and in some cases is a government mandate. cofounder and ceo of code academy, a company whos business model is based on that idea everybody should and can lear...

Team. >> reporter: a home team are you listening michigan legislators, included batman and superman. >> and msnbcs joy reid joins me live from detroit. what do you have coming up next hour, my friend? >> reporter: we have got a packed hour for you, craig melvin. we are going to talk about this happening behind me even as we speak, 100 kids from local area schools learning coding and tech and well talk to debbie stabenow and also talk about the incentives they are doing to try to get homeowners b...

Restaurant in the building and his family is looking for him. earlier his brother talked on camera. >> for the most part, just really praying and keep our faith strong. find my brother nicholas. a hand some young man. >> again mayor bill de blasio expected to speak. well bring you highlights when we get them. and for now back to joy in detroit. >> and we are back now at -- live at the ford lab for the yes, we code hackathon. and behind me, 100 students from area middle schools learning the all-i...

>> women like chandra floyd. >> through google i came across this course. i thought, this sounds good. >> i wanted to go into something techie and i didnt do anything because i didnt know where to start. and one day i was reading the detroit free press and there was an article of getting started with coding and this sounded cool. >> and how does it work. >> we do have the weekend warrior program, with two saturdays and putting together a basic website at the end. >> but the heart of the program ...

Silicone valley, des spite sherrill sandberg and others, women computing has fallen from 35% in 19 10i9 to 26% in 2013. they want to empower women to encoding technology. and they are working on that here in detroit. and the message is simple. when it comes to tech, it is time to put women in the drivers seat. >> when it comes to tech, you have to know the basics. and that means coding. and code is getting kids of color on board, it is fair to ask, what about women? and women are woefully underr...

More retributive and start rehabbing attacking whoever might be showing the movie or purchasing the movie online, does that perhaps open them up to increased pipelines of investigation, meaning theyre sending themselves out there and putting themselves out there more and more and more, and it gets a little easier to be caught? >> they also make it more sophisticated, that they can mask these attacks, lawn ch them from anywhere in the world, using different coding and the rest of it. they can pro...

Association said tech spending will reach nearly $34 billion, a new record. welcome news to entrepreneur will.i.am i. am who is venturino wearable technology. ronan caught up with who tells him his reason for investing goes back to his roots, the projects. >> this is not about money at all. this is about a void i see that i want to fill. and all the things -- all the good things that come from filling that void. education is one of those things. encouraging kids in the inner city to take an inte...

A simple coding challenge for any hacker to attack a theaters website or our digital projec r projectors or our digital servers. and if they took that to the next step, and by the way, theres no police, theres no army, theres nobody to defend me if that happens. so i just said, you know what, this isnt, i can wait and see whats going on. here. >> we have just a couple of seconds left, but i wonder if youre getting a backlash, the president said it was a mistake for sony to pull the film, are you...

What have you learned about the u.s. linking the attack directly to north korea? because as you know, the north korean government has flatly denied it was responsible and praised all the criticism of the film, but it doesnt -- it insists it had nothing to do with the hacking? >> youre right. the north korean government has denied involvement but we know from sources in early december there was a growing confidence in the u.s. government that north korea was responsible for the hack attack at son...

And identifies people who seem to have potential encoding and with coding and sends them to school either in china or russia to get some training and once theyre adept at their skills they can be used in attacks like this where north korea is able to get attention of the world to bring them to their knees. >> the chinese are watching this and. >> maybe theyre helping. we dont know and the ripple effect this has in asia with enemies of the united states in terms of freedom of speech and democracy...