better than a b average overall, then you're admitted. >> sreenivasan: as the president of arizona state university has dramatically increased the student population to 84,000 students, making it the largest university in america. under crow, the number of low-income students has soared, enrollment of blacks and latinos has doubled, and a.s.u. has accomplished this despite the largest funding cuts from any state legislature in the country. >> the specific freshman experience -- >> sreenivasan: president crow's mantra is a public university should be judged by not who it turns down but who it admits. >> public research universities have become increasingly exclusive and increasingly expensive, believing they needed to emulate the private universities or replicate them. we're saying it's time to innovate and develop a new kind of american university. >> it's all about attitude -- >> sreenivasan: that means breaking down traditional academic departments. the school slashed millions of dollars in administrative cost bys merging academic departments and eliminating support staff. cuts that help fund low

court case it is based on the native american tribe who was living in the grand canyon in arizona state university, and the way their genetic materials were handled or mishandled. >> right. >> so based on the actual court case from what time frame are we talking about? >> actually, it was all took place over the fast 20 years. from the time they collected their blood until it finally went to court. so they had the third highest rate it have type two diabetes in the world, and even though they believe that their blood is sacred, and have given it for any reason, they need to be buried with their blood. their circumstances were so dier that they gave their blood for research. and along with studying diabetes, the scientists also did studies on origin. an found that they came from eastern asia and tribes creation stories that they spring forth from the grand canyon so devastating to them because it questioned their religious belief. >> i was about to ask you because when we said varied with blood. they are very, or very that cut matily you know, top thing in their religion that they're mostly concern

she has taught nonfiction classes at arizona state university's studio and has directed creative writing programs for incarcerated youth and at a federal prison for women outside phoenix. she's also raise your family here. as a matter of fact, her daughter was once a junior staffer in arcade section. let me tell you, she was the darling of the kids book department not only for her love of votes, but also for her personal grace and charm winning smile much like her mother's. so, you can see susan and her family have been one of our regular patron and readers for many years now, one of her dearest friend. for many years we've known about the book she's been working on diligently, quietly. the topic so big and important, yet sensitive than heavy hearted enough that it had not been properly dealt with until now upon the 70th year anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on the nagasaki. the story had been untold. in "nagasaki: life after nuclear war," susan southard takes readers from the morning of the bombing should not miss hockey today, telling the first-hand experience of five sur

of the late '70s at arizona state university of his harassed and spat at what i would wear my uniform. i don't ever want to go back to those days when feeling like you need to apologize and defend your parents because somebody called them a baby killer and that happened to me. so now nizolek at the way this current generation of troops are valued it is very heartwarming as a mother. i think it is a great thing. . . to me it's very frightening, so here you are going to raise your children in one place for their, most of their childhood. talk about that transition. >> guest: i thought that's what i wanted. i thought i wanted to know what it felt like to be able to have stuff i looked in my basement and not have to pack one box of my special things every time we moved and there is a part of that that is very comforting and i know who my mechanic is. i know who mike doctor is that i get in trouble all the time because i don't wave when people drive by. when you live in a place where you'd don't expect to know anybody you are not looking at anybody's car so when you live in small-town amer

. >> police arrest karla janeth jauregui, a student at arizona state university.r irony, the suspect's college major? criminal justice. her stated motive, money troubles. jauregui is charged with aggravated assault and armed robbery and was sentenced to five years in prison. police say the surveillance footage is a critical component to the investigation. >> any time a business has good surveillance video, it's going to be helpful. whenever you have someone who commits a violent crime, you want to get them off the street as soon as you can because there's a tendency of them committing another violent crime. >> as for the clerk, she suffers hand injuries and returns to work almost two weeks after the attack. >>> finally, for everyone out there who's put in a hard day's work, an example of someone making the best of it. as you'll see, this officer takes his beat quite seriously. in providence, rhode island, there's tony lapour with his white gloves and whistle, directing traffic. >> i'm not going to argue with that truck. he was too big. >> he may look like an ordin

my friend dan from arizona state university stresses special attributes of military innovation. this is a focused mission, enduring ties to the private sector, a distinctive feature of the military enterprise. and then this role as an early customer for advanced technology. whether it be nano for microprocessors, artificial intelligence software, data analytics, to some extent the military continues not just make the early investment but to be a discerning strategic early customer. so that's what i worry about. and the question isn't simply to maintain the military effort at its highest or perhaps inefficient to maintain perhaps inefficient innovation and industry benefits, but it's about making sure that we look at the overall economy and consider other maybe civilian interventions that would parallel. .. the defense budget is simply kind of planning to veto complaining. but i don't think it would be. [inaudible] we want to involve all of you in the discussion as well. it sounds like you are impressed by the way that it's contributed to the national economic growth but one of t

he is a professor at the school of life sciences at arizona state university. dr. sharon hood is with us this morning area a postdoctoral researcher at the college of forestry and conservation. great to have you with us. finally bruce, the director of water rights and contracts at salt rivererever -- project. if we can begin you with your five-minute comments, and to each of the witnesses we ask you limit your testimony. in your full statement will be included as part of the record. your commentsd to and the opportunity to ask questions. >> thank you for giving us the opportunity to be here, especially with other panel members to be able to talk about our upcoming fire season, but things we're currently doing and the things we need to continue to do to a trust this issue. shared,ave already predictions for this coming fire season are generally what we had definitely a much more active fire season out in the west. as the summer develops this will continue to expand to the partsest and over in two of utah, idaho, and montana. cannot stressd, i enough that fire season

my friend dan from arizona state university stresses special attributes of military innovation. this is a focused mission, enduring ties to the private sector, a distinctive feature of the military enterprise. and in this role as an early customer for advanced technology. whether it be nano or microprocessors, artificial intelligence software, data analytics, to some extent the military continues not just make the early investment but to be a discerning strategic early customer. so that's what i worry about. and the question isn't simply to maintain the military effort at its highest or perhaps inefficient to maintain perhaps inefficient innovation and industry benefits, but it's about making sure that we look at the overall economy to consider other maybe civilian interventions that would parallel that spirit to make a good point, which is an ideal world we would have government sponsored basic research any of these in chicago would be coming out of long run considerations for technical change and maintain technological leadership. our political system is not good at investing

how arizona state became the nation's largest university by opening its doors to low-income students.> it's time to develop a new kind of american university. talent is not a function of your parent's income. talent is a function of your drive, your ability as an individual. we've gone out and found that talent wherever it is.

arizona like many states in the nation does not allow in-state tuition for the dreamers. it's gotten very expensive. arizona used to have one of the pledges that the state universities would be as free as possible but no longer. i think it's 10,000 for in-state residents and for out-of-state it's well over $20,000 to the community colleges also were not allowed to charge in-state tuition to people like the dreamers of this girl wanted to go to college and she got very bad advice from high school principle macri said you should just go back to mexico. they have very nice universities there and you could go there. so they didn't look into it beforehand and i don't know exactly what happened but she got really bad advice. she and her mother left phoenix, went down to mexico city and it was total chaos. there was bureaucracy and the mexican university said we need to sign documents from you and your high school and you have to go back to phoenix yourselves and get the documents to prove that you ever want to high school and you know she exhausted every possibility. then they thought well at least they would go to nogales. it would be close to arizona and she and her mot

state university. authorities say they arrested a man but no injuries were reported. and no shots fired. a campus spokesperson says charges are pending. fox 10 in phoenix says an arizona man is charged with providing material support to isis and helping a college student travel to syria for military training. what makes the case against ahmed mohammed el gamal stand out there was no in person contact to establish and solidify the relationships. it was all done online. and this is a live look at miami from our affiliate wsvn down there. the big story there tonight, bracing for what could be hurricane erika monday in florida. erika is still a tropical storm and has already dumped 15 inches of rain across domenica, killing at least four people. next in its path, puerto rico, the virgin islands and the dominican republic. that's tonight's live look outside the beltway from "special report." we'll be right back. >>> president obama says ten years after hurricane katrina, new orleans stands as a symbol of the extraordinary resilience of the american people. nearly 2,000 people died in what turned out to be the costliest natural disaster in u.s. history. a million people wer