well we'll start with going to sports because the twenty eleven winter university ad is taking place next week into russia has a history of performing well at the student games in the sports minister vitaly mood ko says they are a test for the national team's prospects at the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen. you mean all of these but we have plenty of young promising talent on this team many of them have already made the youth national teams and of course performing well at the university aid could serve as a jumpstart for the development of their careers and some of them will be part of the two thousand and fourteen olympic team. but one out of five go through a list or japan defeat cattle or three to become the first team through to the semifinals of the asian cup. only twice getting just twelve minutes. but japan only waistband an equaliser. able to level the day off an hour. however. a man after you sheedy was sent off for a foul on the host scored from results in free kick. to score in his second to make it. well taken go and have a chance of a trick in the dying sec

ok let's stay with winter sports now where the twenty a level winter universe is taking place next week in turkey and russia has a history of performing well at the student games which are normally seen as a solid barometer for the senior team's future and back prospects. of the name all of these but we have plenty of young promising talent on this team many of them have already made the youth national teams and of course performing well of the university aid could serve as a jumpstart for the development of their careers and some of them will be a part of the two thousand and fourteen olympic team and. brings us to golf on its type up the top after run three of the bob hope classic in california jonathan it's a house on gary woodland holding the joint lead and lock into although what learnt it the best score of the day sixty four all eyes were on venezuelan vast to see if he could keep his dream of a first tour title alive on the twenty six year old did exactly but keeping a hold of his overnight lead with typical venom peak is putting wasn't too far off the mark either to run for man

and this is cornell university in the winter, so, like, it began to snow that afternoon. and he drove me back to the bus station, because i took the bus up there from new york city. and saw that the snow was getting thicker, and he jotted down his home phone on a piece of paper, and said, "if the bus doesn't get through, call me, spend the night." >> hinojosa: oh, no. oh, my gosh. >> who am i? i'm just a high school kid. i'm 17 years old. he doesn't know me from anybody. i'm nobody to him. yet he was treating me this way. and i realized that if it ever... if i ever remotely became anybody like him as an adult, that i would sure as hell be treating students the way he treated me. and to this day, if a student wants to have time with me, or to meet me, or get career advice, all the other appointments go on hold. i don't care if the president of the museum i work for, the provost, all the pe... doesn't matter. the student comes first, and it's because of that encounter with carl sagan. >> hinojosa: oh, how wonderful. here's what i want to know. how is it that at age 11 you e

winters in arizona. across town at university medical center, where hundreds gathered today, jim tucker was discharged. two were in good condition. congresswoman gabrielle giffords, believed to be the target of the gunman, is now off a respirator but remains in critical condition. the memorial outside the hospital grows each day. >> we have to come together and stand with each other and show love to one another. >> reporter: a few miles away, a smaller tribute, but for some a closer connection. this is where lives were lost and where a community tries to move on. and tonight a steady stream of people have come to this memorial. it will be some time until things return to normal but that's exactly what many are trying to do tonight. lester. >> miguel almaguer in tucson. thanks. >>> the first medics to arrive at the scene of last saturday's shooting are now publicly telling their stories in a race to save lives. nbc's lee cowan has that. >> reporter: it was station 33, less than three miles from that safeway, that got the call first. >> 911, what's your emergency? >> there is a shooting at safeway. >> re

university system although they did nothing wrong. they cent letters saying the students were on probation and could not return for the winter seg. m about 164 of them were supposed to be disqualified. 300 were still in good standing. the university apologized and said they will be allowed to return for the winter quarter. it was blamed on a mail code error. >> a vast number of californians are depending upon a system that is under fire. scott joins us and said calpers pays everyone from teachers to firefighters. >> that means it's on the hook to pay a lot of money to a lot of people. cal pers is the largest retirement system in the nation with nearly a quarter trillion dollars under management. your retirement check is safe. they wonder if calpers has been totally honest about the risks it's facing. could the losses in the recession put the state on the hook for additional funds? your retirement check is safe, but the sec is not commenting specifically on the investigation. do watch for jobs number this is morning at 5:30 our time. the labor department will announce its unemployment rate. we will look for two numbers. the number

university architect. and much of the word has been scheduled during the winter break, as well as in the summer break as well. there are some safety problems that still remain. and since we have received most of this information from the academy of art, the environmental review has been accomplished. the notice of preparation, this was september 29. the planning department also held a scoping meeting, and if you have further questions on that -- in terms of silage, the planning department has been working with the academy of art, and we have a survey where we have worked with the signs that can never be approved, so that these are in compliance and they will not come back. we're working to remove further signs. and we have not yet received the institutional master plan. the zoning administrator has reported on these decisions, at the board of appeals last night, and this is for 60,000, to uphold the violation. i am prepared to answer any questions you may have. thank you. >> we have a number of speaker cards. sarah, gale roberts, fransisco de costa, -- >> good afternoon. i am gale roberts. i am a representat

. >>> and winter wonderland, an arctic blast leaves parts of the northeast, literally, frozen solid. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. today, we begin with united we stand. president obama will deliver his state of the union address tonight where he hopes that the theme of unity and a focus on creating jobs will hit home with congress and the nation. nbc tracie potts joins us live from washington with more on that. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: hi, lynn. good morning. jobs, invasion, all big themes tonight. he is also talking about expanding some government programs. he told military families just yesterday he wanted to expand government support. that is not what republicans here on capitol hill want to hear. they, in fact, earlier today before that speech about take a vote on that before the president's speech. democrats say they need a number. republicans had promised $100 billion in cuts this first year, but now that the fiscal year is half over, they're saying it could be less tan that. there are some signs of cooperation. at least five dozen members of

universal television >>> good evening. now it's in the books forever, or at least until the next winter as powerful and relentless as this one. it really will be spring before some of this snow is gone. this last storm which grew way beyond what even our crack meteorologists saw coming cemented this winter in our history, cemented millions of people inside their homes. it affected approximately 55 million people in 17 states. look at the size of this thing, as seen from space. records fell, schools closed along a huge area, and look at the cities where new seasonal snow totals have been set. put it this way, the inscription at the base of the statue of liberty says "give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses" and so on. today it might as well have read "give them to me tomorrow because today the statue is closed due to snow." let's begin our coverage with nbc's peter alexander in central park here in new york. peter, good evening. >> reporter: brian, good evening to you. at some point you run out of words to describe another storm like this. central park is now buried beneath a fresh 19 inches of snow. that is three

universal television >>> a very good morning to you. today we begin with bundling up. this morning old man winter has a stranglehold on much of the nation from the northeast to the midwest. temperatures have gone into a free fall hitting dangerous lows. nbc's frances coe has more. >> reporter: bundling up, the latest defense by people in chicago and across the northeast. >> obviously you can't be overdressed. >> layers, layers, layers. and i don't care how i look. >> reporter: winter's latest cold snap means dipping and dangerous lows in some parts of the country. >> when you consider the air temperature and windchill, if you've got exposed flesh, you could get frostbite in as little as ten minutes. >> reporter: and it's that danger forcing people to seek shelter.ç >> we try to come in from the cold because the cold is not forgiving. >> reporter: as some people cower from the cold, there are some who, well, revel in it. in maryland where temperatures tanked to the 20s, hundreds of people in bathing suits ran into the breezing river saturday for the 6th annual polar bear plunge on the potomac. >>

universe. >> fascinating. great stuff. >> ok, here on earth, many are wondering where the next winter olympics will be held. in one minute, we will be tried to answer that question. stay tuned. -- be trying to answer that question. >> welcome back. where will the world's best skiers and athletes compete in the next olympics? three candidates have submitted their applications. koran, south korea, and munich. observers say right now there is no front-runner. we take a look at the city of munich. if mujica wins, it will be the first to host both the summer and winter games, but not everybody in bavaria wants to see the games come again. >> this person has a dream, to bring the winter olympics in munich. if successful, the games will begin in 2018 in the same stadium that played host to the games for the summer in 1972. >> i have a dream that in 2018, more than 100 nations will march in here for the olympics. there has not been that many nations before. >> the munich olympic bed -- bid team has traveled the world. there is the face of the munich bid. if munich is awarded the winter olympics, the opening and clo

university tuition fees. alicia mccarthy host this is one-hour program. >> hello and welcome to "the record review." let's look back to a freezing autumn and freezing cold winter here. coming up, m.p.'s increased tuition fees for the english university students. there's a new labor leader. and cuts, cuts, cuts. they reveal what slashing the budget deficit will mean for all of us. >> i have taken the difficult decision to remive child benefits from families with a high rate taxpayer. >> let's begin with what's proved to be the first real test of the coalition government unity, the decision to raise university tuition fees for english students. fees currently stand at over 3,000 pounds a year. the government wants to lift the cap with 6,000 with a maximum limit of 9,000. students wouldn't start to repay until they were earning 21,000 pounds. maintenance costs will rise and those on free school meals get two years tuition for them. and they wouldn't have to pay up front. it was difficult for democrats who signed a pledge saying they wouldn't support any rise in fees. debate began back in october with the liberal democrat business reminding m.p.'s that all parties

universal television >>> good evening. in most parts of the country, january is not supposed to be a picnic. on the other hand, this winter is testing even the heartiest among us. tonight, the arctic cold wave that has been gripping the country's midsection has swept into the northeast, sending temperatures in a freefall, with overnight lows expected to plunge well below zero in places and that dangerous cold is teeing up yet another major snowstorm for midweek. nbc's jeff rossen is in new york's times square where the thermometer is expected to drop down to 6 later tonight. jeff? >> reporter: boy, thanks for the good news, lester. good evening to you. if you think it is bad right now, and it is in many spots in the country, it is about to get even worse here in the east, as you mentioned, with windchills in some places overnight into early tomorrow morning reaching 40 even 50 degrees below zero. football fans thumbing their nose today at the thermometer. it felt like 6 degrees in chicago. >> i'm freezing. >> reporter: just as tailgaters arrived for the bears/packers game. >> it is getting colder and colder by the second.

winter-weary states bear down for the massive new storm. >>> and south american fireball. a factory in venezuela is rocked by a series of deadly explosions. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with egypt in crisis. with protests, defiance and violence showing no signs of letting up, the united states has put a plan in place to evacuate thousands of americans from the chaos and uncertainty gripping the country. nbc's tracie potts is live for us in washington with the latest. tracie, good morning. >> lynn, good morning. two of the three charter flights out of cairo to athens, greece, should have arrived by now, but at this hour we're told they have been delayed. meantime, here in washington, washington is in a bit of a tough spot trying to support our ally, promote democracy, but denounce the violence. >> reporter: response in the u.s. range from quiet vigils to loud protests. americans with family in egypt are concerned. >> my heart is broke for my country. >> reporter: this couple came home a day earlier. a tour company urged them to leave. >> reporter: are you disappointed your trip got cut short? >> not

winter storm brings misery to the southern u.s. >>> an outer space oddity. the hubble space telescope gives us our first peek at a mysterious, giant green blob. captions paid for by nbc-universalelevision >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers avoss the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm veronica de la cruz. today, we begin with arizona aftermath. for the first time, the suspect in the tucson shooting appeared before a judge to face charges. meanwhile, congresswoman gabrielle giffords remains in critical condition, but there's been some hopeful signs in the fight for her life. incomes's jay gray reports. >> reporter: quietly they gather around this growing memorial at university medical center, hundreds throughout the day, many looking for the same thing as the victims inside. healing. the emotions here are still so raw, somber faces saying what words right now cannot. >> this is our town, and it's just horrible that something like this could happen here. >> reporter: the emotions stretching as far as nasa's mission control and colleagues of gabrielle giffords's husband at nauft mark kelly including his brother scott, currently onboard the international sp

university. caltrain is expected to declare a fiscal emergency in february. reporting live in san francisco, jean elle, nbc bay area news. >> okay, thank you, jean. >>> tonight, we're dealing with sun and a winter warm-up. chief meteorologist jeff ranieri is live in the weather center with deils with what's coming our way. >> it sure has been nice, and yes, even record setting temperatures today it wasn't hot. it was, you know, mild out there, but for bay area standards, it was record territory in oakland where we did hit 67 today, so why so warm here across the bay area? we have high pressure sitting just offshore and it will not budge over the next couple of days. that's forcing a lot. of dry ai right down to the surface and also a little bit of what we ll compressional heating. so for tomorrow upper 60s for the south bay. d he tin east bay we're looking at mid 6 ts where these temperatures some five to ten degrees above average. i'll detail those temperatures for you coming up. also take a look at themorning. it's going to be cold. >> all right we'll see you then, jeff. >>> back to the water. the stanislaus sheriff's office is taking back to the canal. the boy hasn't been seen since he was a

winter? storm after storm? a physics professor at the city university of new york and author of the upcoming book "physics of the future," professor, good to have you here. is this just bad luck or is there a scientific reason? >> common sense says that the freezing cold is driving everything. common sense is wrong. when you're making ice cubes, it's the amount of water you put in your refrigerator that determines how many ice cubes you get. the freezing cold simply makes the ice freeze faster. so when the arctic cold hits the moist moisture, humid air from the gulf of mexico, that's what's driving the gigantic snowfall. >> last year was a tough winter as well. everybody was saying it was an el nino year. that was the reason. this is not one, is it? >> there are two theories. one that it's a random fluctuation like el nino. the other theory says it's global warming which creates more moisture in the gulf of mexico. it's the moisture which is the driving force behind this gigantic snowfall which violates common sense. >> you call it global warming. we've had this discussion before. you talked to the people down i

winter here. coming up, the coalition faces its biggest challenge yet, the increase of tuition for english universitytudents. and, cuts, cuts, cuts. the coalition reveals what slashing the budget means for all of us -- all of us. let's begin with the decision to raise tuition fees. they currently stand at 3,290 pounds per year. they will be raised to 6,000 pounds per year. students would not repay until they were earning over 9,000 pounds per year. for the first time, a part-time student would not have to pay up front. it was a difficult decision for liberal democrats, who during the election campaign said they would not support any rise in fees. the debate began back in october, with a liberal democrats being reminded that all parties can change their views. >> such as the member on the right side and the new chancellor, those opposed to change, to the current leadership you have embraced attacks. the conservatives campaigned against graduate contributions. my own party consistently opposed graduate contributions, but in this current economic climate, we accept the policy is no longer feasible. [sho

those who have enrolled at colleges and universities in other cities, are very far away from their homes and they don't always succeed in coming home during their winter or spring breaks because it is just expensive. the fears are expensive. favors are expensive. maybe there is an opportunity to provide some kind of a subsidy or a discount for college students to go home during breaks and use discounted fares. as far as the stopping time for long distance services in smaller villages, that is a matter that needs to be looked into by the management of the railway company and of course has to do with economics of such services. i am positive that the leadership of the company russian realways will hear this discussion and will take it under conversation. this is the first. second, as far as i know, in order to bring people to the place of work after our meeting in your village, the company took a number of steps to improve the living conditions there, meaning maintain some of the sporting grounds and facilities, but also to improve the transportation services. a commuter train, which leaves in the morning and comes back in the evening for those who work