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Coming up. >> my name is aaron winston. ive been at nonpareil for two and a half years. this is space april on the uyi console. i decided i wanted to learn how to be a programmer, so about a year and a few months ago, i took the c sharp 101 course, and since then ive just been programming a lot. >> thats really the difference in our model, is that we dont just provide training. in the end they become part of a working software company. and today were competing in the mobile marketplace. >> aaron...

Their city planners. >> cities are going bankrupt, and the stuff that were building really can change kind of the bottom line of these cities. >> we proudly use the word geek. we call ourselves the peace corps for geeks. weve got 26 fellows working across eight cities. not every code for america follows a programmer. im actually interim planner by trade. code for america is this really interesting mix of people. we have a lawyer, we have designers coming together with programmers to really make ...

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>> reporter: these wildfire near lancaster california scorched more than 30,000 acres and destroyed 24 homes. weeks before the blaze, this area had been identified for ghgh fire risk by a nasa satellite tracking moisture content across california. >> we can help fight fires before they even begin and also y an a lot of money and definitely save lights. >> reporter: he is a scientist at chatman university, he is working with a team at nasas jet propulsion laboratory that is using two weather and ...

>> i feel threatened place in a cell with another person. i feel my life is in it danger. >> okay. let me tell you what path youre going down right now. right now it seems like its no big deal. been locked up twice for it. theres documentation on one, theres going to be another documentation on another one. and if you keep going and you dont take a cellie, guess what happens? >> what? >> indeterminant shu. >> the shu is the secure housing unit, where inmates live under the harshest restrictions ...

Their attorney, found a programmer. so its that collaboration can really add an extra something special. >> is there any stigma attached to being in a co-working space? >> no. in fact, i love it. i live amongst the entrepreneurs where the ideas are flourishing over a beer in the afternoon, afternoon, so that we can think a little bit more. its a wonderful feeling to know that when you start your company and thats really where the time its best where you can get all of that support from everybody...

Recall exactly how he hurt his foot in 1984, though it didnt stop him from going on to play quarterback at the university of san diego. >> i believe the initial injury happened playing football. >> reporter: in an e-mail to i.r.s. procurement officials last year, castillo described his old injuries much more dramatically, as "crosses that i bear due to my service to our great country. i would do it again to protect this great country." >> im so glad that you would be willing to play football in ...

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>> yeah. freelancing is happening everywhere. >> reporter: at the freelancers union in new york, the founder, sara horowitz, knows all about it. >> it is real lay phenomenon where people are hard working and theyre just putting together a bunch of projects an they work in fields ranging from being a doctor, to a programmer to being a nanny. >> reporter: not much like a traditional union, her group helps employees. she says group members get health insurance for 40% less than it would cost them i...