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>> it's a new working condition for the american teacher and it's a new kind of life condition for all of us. every parent who sends a child off to school. everybody who sends a family member to a workplace. we know this can happen in so many places. it can happen in movie theaters, it can happen in parking lots, it can happen at concerts. we are not safe, and the -- i am not taking anything away from the incredibly powerful story of the teachers and the heroism of their actions in florida and elsewhere, but there is a lack of -- there is a new worry for all of us that we're not safe, and it's...

>> joining us the discussion now, ruth marcus, deputy editor and columnist at "the washington post." ruth, i was a public schoolteacher for a few years. i never had to face this question. it was before the age of mass murder in public schools. but the idea that thousands and thousands of teachers all over the country tonight talking to their kids who are worried about whether they come home again just by going to work is a new working condition for the american teacher. >> it's a new working condition for the american teacher and it's a new kind of life condition for all of us. every parent wh...

You there they call every shot. >> i never thought i'd be back refining after all this time in my career the wave of right to work efforts, the right to pay a lower wage, the right to make sure you don't have a say in your working condition. it's not a right to work, it's a right for them to eliminate your right and to say in your work. >> we understand what he's saying there. that was vice president joe biden speaking with auto workers in washington. here with us now democratic senator from iowa, senator tom harkin. really good to have you on the show this morning. i want to go right to the f...

When another auction house sold a working apple 1 for $640,000. the auction house says there are only six apple 1s in working condition. apple produced 200 apple 1s in 1976. they originally sold for $666.66. that's about $2700 in today's money. the auction house will only say it's a wealthy entrepreneur from the far east. >> i barely even knew there was an apple 1. everyone had the ap tl 2. >> we had the apple 2e and a 2c and i think we have a commodore 64 in my parents' basement. >> i have an atari 600. and it still works. 25 minutes after the hour. technology. coming up this morning. flash...

We fall to the bottom. poverty matters. they have drawn a line on this not because it's a working condition solely for the teacher, they are learning conditions. they are standing up for this because it's a detrimental policy to children. not because it's detrimental to teachers. >> the point is methodology. let matt get in here. >> sure. let me give you a couple real world examples here in chicago so your viewers understand how the standardized test evaluation mechanism would work here in probably the most segregated school system in the country. let's take harper high school in chicago's eng...