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Lot next to the church every december for more than 50 years. but in 2009, a woman driving a dodge durango pulls into the lot late one night and makes off with the tree. at first when the tree is discovered missing, the scout master assumes theres a logical explanation. >> we have a courtesy cash where someone can take the tree and pay for it and well check that. if theres no money in there, then we watch the surveillance videos and thats when we found this. i couldnt believe that anybody would ...

Convert what some people would call failures theres a way to convert what some people would call deficits into a learning tool. >> i mean, if you think about it weve had -- and im just thinking of one particular child right now, who came in and had a lot of trouble adjusting to school with their tantrums. we had to have a conversation about what self-control was, what it looked like. we had to have a conversation with him about how to identify how to -- when these feelings rose up in him what he...

In preschools. that starts out with preschoo preschool. >> dana: kids do well there. >> kimberly: a learning tool for children to process information differently. that is positive. >> eric: a fight on the jersey shore that didnt involve snookie or the situation. chris christie going jersey on a guy. >> youre a piece. >> shut your mouth. >> eric: well show you the rest of the tape and tell you what got him teed off just ahead. ♪ ♪

Nothing like that, that ive ever experienced. what is it like in the shuttle when eventually this does end up at the intrepid and other ones are open for business, so to speak, to become a learning tool and experience, what is it like inside that shuttle somewhat will people see? >> the crew compartment of the space shuttle it depends on your perspective. some people think its small, other think its large. the cockpit is about the size of the cockpit of a 747. then there is a mid-deck. ive flown...

>> ive been shot! ive been shot. >> hello! hello! >> i got shot. please help me! >> when did this happen? >> i got shot to save the store. >> but its too late. sulayman dies two and a half hours later. >> they try to extend to individuals out there, nothing is worth your life. its not worth fighting over your watch, money in the cash register, what have you. thats replaceable. your life isnt. >> the presence of security cameras couldnt save sulaymans life, but surveillance tape has value beyond ...

Giving you realtime information to have the best route on your commute. >> crowd sourcing to save time and money. finally, this is one running on the ipad. i have that too. >> state farm driver feedback. i dont know any stop and go driver. >> no, no two-footed drivers around here. >> not here. what it is, an app, free app. but its also a learning tool. this is me. basing you on three things. your acceleration, your braking, and your cornering. this is my drive to work today. i didnt do so bad. >...

Wonderful, great, learning tool, but sometimes, should get off line, read a book uninterrupted and tap into your higher cognitive abilities. our brains are wired to adapt and change and indeed theyre changing and not necessarily for the better. >> dave: and tj, its not just google, we turn to wikipedia and look at the first two lines to define the persons life. are we not looking into subjects. >> you can skim, but go deep are. there were more books published than the first 300 years. >> are the...

The international scale of nuclear disasters. three mile island was a five, and chernobyl is the so cents union was a seven. but the japanese say the radiation levels have falling sharply in only 6 hours time today. in the meantime in washington the obama administration giving a strong vote of confidence to nuclear power saying it will be a key part of the u.s. energy structure in years to come. saying this will be a hugely valuable learning tool for the u.s. nuclear industry. >> the nrc im sure...

San diego during the next year. we can actually make statements like that now. >> i have heard lucy jones who is there at cal tech in one of our nations leading experts on earthquakes and what happens from a scientific standpoint. she said this earthquake is something that we can take great lessons from because theres so much data from which we can draw the information. do you see it that way? do you think this is going to be used as a learning tool as well? >>. >> lucy is correct about that. we...

Age before which you dont want to get too graphic with your kids. >> absolutely. i have three kids. and i have seen -- i thought it would happen later as well, but kids are curious about these things. and when you let them know what sex is about and how it happens, it demystifies it and they have the knowledge from their parents and its not a dirty little thing theyre going to learn from a friend on the playground. megyn: why cant it go someplace other than the childrens section, maybe adolescen...