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Images, i like to edit videos, i like to play games a lot like simms and just a whole bunch of stuff i like to do and i also like to cook. >> what do you zmook. >> what do i cook? oh anything i can find on pinterest. >> do you particularly love sweets or do you mostly cook savory foods? >> i mostly cook savory foods like on the stove top. >> i was at the white house and talking about increasing diversity in stem fields. is there anything you would say in particular to girls about computers and coding? >> yeah. well, my words of advise are three words -- just do it. because, like it's so easy...

>> this is great because we always talk, we don't get enough girls into these stem fields and then we have a dearth of them when they get older and don't have enough women in these fields. it's good to show this and young girls can see that it's possible. this is fantastic. what's the #again? >> girls with toys. check it out. >> doesn't mean what you think it means. another shot here. we've got a -- you like skiing? not so much. >> i'm a florida girl. >> i'm with you. i'm from arkansas. what do we do? i like soccer. i like watching them both. >> i do like soccer. >> not used to watching them a...

For highly skilled foreign workers, it is harder to stay in this country. 233,000 people this year applied for the hi-visa. that is a record high. it is up significantly from 172,000 from last year. the government grants 85,000 of the visas. business leaders want more. they say these workers are crucial in s.t.e.m. fields. critics say it is way for companies to pay less for talent and not look for talent in the u.s. that shows you the demand to get those good jobs here in the u.s. flying got worst last year. looks at customers complaints and bumped passengers, quality for more airlines fell....

Florida, as an institution for origin of african-americans who go on to pursue ph.d.s in the natural sciences. >> they disproportionally prepare students in the s.t.e.m. area. >> science, technology, engineering and math. a prediction of s.t.e.m. related jobs is expected. that's why president obama hosts white house science fairs. he's trying to make s.t.e.m. education a priority. roughly 40% of students working on graduate degrees in s.t.e.m. fields receive their undergraduate degree from an hbcu. >> if we did not have them, we'd have hardly any african-americans in the sciences as profession...

Lap. but that is the way the economy is these days. >> i wonder about that in part, i don't want to move away from this idea that part of the responsibility for individuals to invest in themselves, but it's also an investment in the sort of broader perspective to have a good workforce. should there be government -- part of what the president said was college loans, and he doesn't mean just come to wake forest university and get a b.a., he does mean making available community colleges. >> well, i want to point out that when we're talking about skills, even among high-skilled jobs, the ones that...