as a national leader in bioscience and innovation, north carolina is now the country's third largest employer in biotechnology. and when caterpillar recently decided to build a plant in this community, they -- >> okay, so president obama there in winston salem, north carolina. he's at a community college and he's talking about the ways you take a nation, which in his own statistics, has fallen to ninth place in the number of of people with college degrees, 18th place in the number of people who graduate from high school and how do you turn that around so that our economic future is strong and viable against our global partners. he's talking about how do you have a sputnik moment here, a place where the political parties are unified behind a common goal that this is what we need to do.