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Talk about fixing something that's not broken. despite a spring and summer of scandal, president obama said today that many parts of the federal government are more transparent today than ever before. tonight the president's effort to reshape government this his campaign's image. >> reporter: new technology enabled obama supporters to organize themselves so well in 2008 and 2012 that president obama said this morning he thinks the government should operate more like his campaign. >> dealing with the federal government is not always high tech. and it's not always user friendly. so over the pa...

People who r-r stabbed yesterday at a college near houston are still in the hospital today. nine others have been released and they've been treated. investigators say 20-year-old dillon quick attacked people at random in a building to building rampage. one of the questions that comes up when we do these stories is how do you protect yourself against this random violence. duepeter doocy is live with more. >> reporter: in the last few years hundreds of colleges and universities across the country have taken advantage of people having cellphones and will text out emergency information about a dan...

We are seeing more and more smartphone apps that acts a. ♪ takers. got into the game with google keep. you can take lists, take photos, make voice notes. there's even a way to color code all of it making it a little like digital post-it notes. all this has been saved for you to put it on the cloud. it's like siri with a face. the university of cambridge a virtual talking head. they ca her name is zoe. >> until recently i only had a voice. now i have a synthesized face, too. last year i could be very sad or be very angry. but this year i can be happy and

See the smoke. we will certainly be watching as we have crews there in rome. we'll bring that news to you as soon as we know from italy. meantime, cardinals, they have now officially cut off contact with the rest of the world. but for first time, social media playing a huge role here, trying to unveil some of the secrets of this papal conclave, so before heading into the sistine chapel, new york cardinal timothy dolan tweeted a link to his latest blog post, greetings again from rome. from the tweets to the facebook pages, smartphone apps and, oh, yes, go with me here, a fantasy conclave league...

independent voters, brooke, some lean democratic, some lean republican. and some of them are in the middle. what i like to say is that this is an election about getting out your pace, about mobilizing the people you know will support you. it may, in fact, despite all the billions of dollars that will be spent, be more about mobilization than about persuasion. but you never know that from looking at all the negative advertising we're seeing that's already playing itself out and will continue for the next four months. >> so, as we talk persuasion, let's talk strategy. what is the presi...