. >> admissions officers and counsellors have said they find data from the admissions useful but concerned that the exams are disconnected from the work in high schools and surrounded by the coastly test preparation. >> it is not the first time the board changed the test after complaints from the center of higher education. many colleges dropped test requirements in admissions and now the college board agrees that the s.a.t. must better reflect the aptitude. as many as a million and a half students take the s.a.t. every year and students taking the test in 2016 finds it is returning to the 1600 score. the essay portion optional and added in 2005. gone will be obscure vo cabulary words and the test takers that guess are not going to be penalized. it is becoming more like the rival the act and more students took the act and 13 states administer is act test to high school juniors and the majority of colleges require an exam for admission and now many of the schools have test options and mutting less emphasis on the testing. many students find that the tests are stressful and spending time and

wasn't well received and many colleges dropped test requirements and admissions. now the college board agrees the s.a.t. must better reflect the aptitude it says it measures. as many as a million 1/2 students take the s.a.t. around the country each year, students taking the redesigned test in 2016, will find it returns to the 1600 score scale, nine years ago a top score became 2400 points. the essay portion will now be optional added in 2005, essays will be optional for colleges to consider as well. gone will be obscure vocabulary words like fung till yous. and test takers won't be penalized any more for guessing in multiple choice questions. >> i am sweating right now. >> you are fine, go ahead. >> the sat will become more like it's rival, the american college testing assessment, last year, more students took the act, 13 states administered the a.c.t. test to all high school juniors the majority of four year colleges require an exam for admission, but hundreds of schools now have test optional policies, the sat changes are all meant to put less emphasis on testin

in blacks admission, a 15% drop in terms of ucla. are those the kind of numbers that made you decide to try to get this measure passed yet again? >> that's just part of it. the other part is just the ability to have that discussion in our university system. we can have discussion about race in every other issue. give you an example. right now in california, we're talbtd# about ensuring individuals and cover california. we're actively recruiting every single ethnic group that we possibly can. during the most recent redistricting, we have our citizen commissions is talking about communities of interest. when you look at our private institutions, like stanford here in california, they can have that as part of the process. where it's not allowed is in our university system. and what i'm saying is just habit is part of the application process and part of the process for admittance. >> opponents of the measures say college admission should be based on merit, not the color of your skin, that this is a reflective form of reverse discriminati

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it has to be admissions decision as well as financial admission. gerri: how dong do you wait?> march 15th, comes out with letters of admission. you apply to 10 schools, get in eight, you have to consider financial aid as part of the process to get into that discussion. younger kids and parents, be fearless about the process. talk about these things now so you will demystify it and take any of the stress out. gerri: i feel better. i'm breathing now. rob, you're terrific. thanks for coming on the show. really appreciate it. >>> later in the show, examining your relationship. is money getting in the way what you should do about it? are debt cancellation problems worth it. you heard about this you don't remember it. is it a big scam? should you take advantage? we're looking out for you and your money. stay with us. 24/7. i'm sorry, i'm just really reluctant to try new things. really? what's wrong with trying new things? look! mommy's new vacuum! (cat screech) you feel that in your muscles? i do... drink water. it's a long story. well, not having branches let's us give you great ra

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free admission, free steak dinner and get this, 25 guns. >> stephen: 25 guns. (applause) come on! no other religion out there is going to be able to compete with free steaks and guns. what are the hindu goesing to offer, a bowl of chickpeas and the knowledge that in a previous life you were a bowl of chickpeas? (laughter) you see, folks, people used to go to church for a lot of reasons. they would go for a sense of community, upholding tradition, finding answers to life's biggest questions. but these days all of that, all of that is just intangible. and these days people want something more. plus-- (laughter) giving out free guns is consistent with christ's message. as mcalister reminded us, quote, jesus was pretty handy with the whip when he ran the money changers out of the temple. yes, yes, remember, jesus uses a whip in that gospel story. but folks-- people, people in kentucky don't use whips. no, people in kentucky, they use guns. they love guns. as mcalister knows that if you want to reach them, you need to speak gun. or as mcalister puts it, hunting is huge in kentucky so w

the new changes come as some colleges begin dropping s.a.t.s as an admissions requirement, saying they are not a good predictor of college success. last year, 1.6 million students took the test. details of the changes will be announced later today and will roll out in 2015. >>> the odds are increasing this morning that those who found $10 million in coins on their property will get to keep them after all. there was speculation the coins might have come from a robbery at the san francisco mint around 1900 and if so would be property of the u.s. government, but as abc 7 news first reported yesterday, historians and u.s. mint officials say those coins don't actually match anything stolen from the mint. experts speculated the dates on the coins and other details indicate they could not be from the mint. >> wow. >> good news for that family. >> oh, my goodness. >>> mike is ahead with the forecast. >> i wonder how many people have been digging in their backyards since then. probably been a muddy dig, too. we need an awful lot more rain. it's cloudy, but not stopping the temperatures. i'll sh

some schools move away from test scores for admissions purposes, but without them, doesn't it make it that much harder for college admissions people to figure out how strong a student, kid is, given the difference in the quality of schools around the country. >> not at all. a detailed report comes out weeks ago looking at 123,000 students applying to 23 institutions and found they were making as good or better administrations decisions without reliance on sat or act scores. they admitted kids that did as well in college as those with higher test scores and those with diverse classes. test scores are not necessary. they are not as good a predictor. everyone says great. they are tough scores. grades are better than test scores, showing you how poor the sat or act is as a predictor. that will not change your from the overhaul. it has been shown that high school grades are predictive. what are the biggest changes that these don't address. they don't address the week predict ability of the test or the biases of the exam. there's a straight relationship between a family income and test scor

but it is not admissible. >> so the restaurant gun going off in a restaurant. shooting the through the sunroof of a car. this is all character evidence. >> if the charges were formulated that evidence would be brought in admissible. the court cannot make a finding. you're a certain type of person. each and every element must be proved. there's no onus on the accused. >> briefly, estelle, what does barry roux have to do for this evidence. >> he's got no onus to prove or disprove to the extent that there's innocence. >> thanks so much for the moment. we will keep you up to date. we'll be updating you on all the developments after the court has lunch. >> thanks, karen, outside the court and andrew harding, our africa correspondent inside the court. you can follow him at #andrewh. >>> still to come, when the justice system in china breaks down, angry citizens are taking their cases straight to beijing and its leaders. we meet some of them. but it's our job to find them. the answers. the solutions. the innovations. all waiting to help us build something better. some

is to better -- for the better opportunity for our next generation. >> reporter: it's clear the admissions fight struck a chord for many. and harmony is far from realized. in berkeley, ryan tekayo, kpix5. >> earlier this week senators sent a formal letter to john perez urging him to stop the bill from advancing further and perez is reviewing that request. >>> another issue that is pitting democrat against democrat is some california democrats plan their next push to legalize recreational marijuana in the state. we have a divide within the party that's becoming more and more obvious. >> last week dianne feinstein announced her opposition expressing concerns about stoned drivers. governor brown is also opposed but a majority of democratic lawmakers and lieutenant attorney gavin newsom in. state party made it part of its platform at its conference earlier this month. the most likely scenario is the statewide ballot measure in 2016 but newsom says lawmakers might be able to legalize pot all by themselves. >> if somehow we can demonstrate real convictions on this, we don't need to go to voters.

they were concerned if anything changed and affirmative action were allowed to be used for admissions they would be the users. three asian-american senators went to speaker perez and said please pull this off the docket. we don't want you to vote on this. we don't want it on the ballot this year. >> the three senators voted for it in january. why the change of heart? >> i wouldn't say these are profiles in courage. they see the politics. are difficult for them. three of these folks are running for office. the speaker john perez is running for controller, leland ye for secretary of state and ted lue is running for henry watchman's congressional seat. the last thing they wanted was to be in the middle of a crossfire between hispanic groups and asian-american groups and wanted it to go away. >> another ballot measure bit the dust this week, as well. by ron unz to raise the state minimum wage to $12. what happened? now he's saying it's unlikely to make it on the ballot? >> he was hoping to get money. you need about a million bucks to get signatures. he said i don't think i'm not going to

. >>> a surprising admission today at the oscar pistorius trial. a witness said the blade runner asked a friend to take the fall for another shooting that was weeks before he shot and killed his girlfriend. let's go "outfront." >>> good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, america caught offguard. serious questions about whether u.s. intelligence failed to predict what's happening on the ground in ukraine. in a tense hearing on capitol hill, senator john mccain hammered defense secretary chuck hagel, questioning him on whether u.s. intelligence was even aware of russia's plan to invade crimea. >> despite all the media reports, our intelligence sources predicted that lavrov would invade crimea? >> as i said, i don't get into the specifics in open hearing, but if you would like a briefing, your staff on the specifics of your question -- >> how about commenting on news reports? >> news reports are news reports, but that's -- >> that's not -- >> that's not intelligence, though. >> okay. in other words, the fact is, mr. secretary, it w

you might recall a property tool was the landmark measure that banned college admissions based on race or ethnicity. well, chinese americans are among those who are a posed to the rollback. they call it sca 5 and they call it racist. it's a proposed constitutional amendment that would repeal portions of property 209 and allow college admissions based on affirmative action. >> we shouldn't put race into consideration. >> we should be color blind, right? now why we're not the color? that doesn't make sense. >> you want to be stronger than the strong. you want to compete based on march red. you want to earn your college education by hard working. >> reporter: dozens of chinese americans marched and chanted outside the offices of paul phong. they want him and other asian american assembly members to take a stand and denounce the proposal before it hits their desk. >> we're here to let our voice to be heart. >> rolling back portions of the 209 this applies to education. >> reporter: the proposal has been a hot top pick in some of dr. michael chang's classes. he says the majority of chinese

and act scores for admission and many of them combining gpa and s. s.a.t. a poor test, absolutely, but it is a test of weight. >> brian, i heard you start to mention during the break and it made me wonder, colleges seem to care about the annual u.s. news rankings, right, who is who's number one, number two. i went to number 150 or whatever. but s.a.t. scores, the average s.a.t. score of the incoming class is a huge part of the that formula. so the college here has an incentive, maybe, to keep using the s.a.t.s as a way of playing that game, of raising their average s.a.t. score, raising their ranking and being able to be in a quote, more prestigious school. >> and selectivity, and selectivity is based on the number of people you get, the number of applications you get and the number of people you turn down. but i think the structures are really important here. and looking at what the s.a.t. -- looking at what the college board has done, right? you have david coleman, head of the college board, is also one of the person who's been in charge of designing the

they rolled the tennis is attempt to come clean with an admission of guilt was incomplete and the phone not too bad. then this is going to disagree with the buttocks and promptly announced they would seek to have it as it sounds you're the sort i've read it with a robust defence intends to challenge this verdict that shouldn't surprise you to do so by means of appeal in order to allow the federal court judge whether the self admission of guilt was valid partially valid were unsuccessful. that is to use it to its. the pollutants in the sun does. tennis remains free for the time being observers say it may be months before the high court rules on his appeal. and we're joined now in studio by our sports correspondent had a sock tied to the question here is what effect if any will thus have on them and the club and their play and has cut twenty oh one said anything. finding quality has been very wise to keep the same counsel for them and he teaches one to beat a position ways defending the indefensible he was wise to begin this week to say in the in the run up to the mexicans also hate the b

she went down to admissions [speaker not understood] in the registration center and was told that she could be reinstated with an instructor's permission. she went back to the class the stricter said he he gave away her seat ~. that means she has to wait an extra year before she can transfer. these are the things that we see constantly. in the fall, a group of faculty, many of us tried to enroll in classes out of one particular meeting, 20 people tried to enroll, probably five faculty members were successful in signing up for a class. there is something wrong with that. i want to also tell you, and i think many of you don't know this, but i realize that students who owe money are not allowed to withdraw from the class. they're blocked from withdrawing from the class. one person said, that's extortion. and i think they've got a good point. the truth is they can go down to admissions and records, but nobody tells them that on the -- on their banner registration screen. we have to be open and transparent. i've been bullied and threatened by this administration, but what is far, far more

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a stunning new admission from target. the company says that it saw early signs of decisions -- suspicious activity. it security team in india received alerts. they passed along to the home office of the company. at that time, targeted not follow up immediately. new trouble for chris brown tonight. why police pulled him out of rehab and put him into jail. was there a cockpit struggle? new details about flight 370. all next in a live report. new de[ female announcer ]70. business travel isn't just abouthe going. it's also about the going home. and being connected all along the way. whether you're working or recharging, do business travel on your terms. acela. take off. >> you are watching abc seven news at side. >> investigators are searching for that missing jet. there's a possibility of sabotage. flight 370 dropped off the grid more than a week ago. robert lyles is following the story for us. what evidence are officials looking at? >> they are looking at several factors. malaysian investigators are not publicly disclosing

. >> reporter: and heard a shocking admission. >> and he said, "my past has finally caught up with mee said, "i'm going to go to jail for the rest of my life, if they don't execute me. i thought i'd got away with it." but he said... evidently, he said, "i think they... they found the body." and then i thought, "whoa." >> i get to town. i contact the local police department, which were great, you know. and not a lot happens in their town, so this really excited them. >> reporter: turns out captain craig patterson already had his eye on hurst for allegedly selling prescription drugs. but the idea that he had murdered somebody and put their body in the gulf of mexico was not something that... >> no, that was not anything that i would have guessed in 100 years. >> reporter: so, where did the break in this come? >> the break came when elmer kruse walked into the police department here and said, "bill hurst told me he disposed of a body a long time ago, and it had caught up with him." we knew. here's our break. we've got to go now. >> reporter: they hatched a plan to trick hurst. elmer woul

. ♪ >> admissions applications are down that many colleges. just because higher tuition costs, the number of high school graduates from the midwest is falling. we've been looking at the trends, and joining us from our chicago bureau is the dean of admissions and financial aid at large university in appleton, wisconsin. welcome to "taking stock." >> there are fewer kids from the midwest that are graduating from high school, and we're starting to see this come up in college application numbers. harvard had a decline of about two percent in their application, and that was led by a six percent decline from applicant in the midwest. >> can you come up on this? why is this happening, and how is this affecting lawrence university? >> we have no this is coming for quite some time. the western interstate committing for higher education said this was going to happen starting about 2009 with a decline in the midwest and the northeast. lawrence university has remained fairly even this year, and the good news for us as we are up in illinois and wisconsin.

it make it that much harder for college admissions people to figure out how strong a student - a kid is, especially given the big differences in the quality of schools around the country? >> not at all. a detailed research report came out two weeks ago looking at 123,000 students, plying to 33 optional institutions and found this they are making as good or better decisions without reliance on s.a.t. scores. they were admitting kids that worked just as much. test scores are not necessary. they are not as good a predictor as high school grades are. veryone says that grades are all over the lot. there are stuff and easy stools. that's true. grades are better than prep schools that shows you how poor they are as a predictor. >> it has been shown that high school grades are more predictive. what are the biggest problems that you see the changes don't address? they don't address the predict ability of the test. they don't test the biases of the the exam. there's a relationship between a family income and test scores giving advantages to kids from well to do families. they underestimate for

it is to be the dominant admissions test. now more high school seniors take the act that the sat. -- the acd has been seen as closer to the high school curriculum and the sat is trying to do that as well. host: who has been taking the sat and who do they want to take the sat -- who do they want more of, what type of student do they want to take the sat in the richer -- in the future? guest: many colleges require students to take either the sat or the act. this is when you are going to most colleges, although an increasing number of colleges don't require it. act has historically been strongest in the midwest. the sat is strong is probably in new england. now both are offered everywhere. there is competition throughout the country for individual students and also for states that use the test as a minute -- as a way to measure their progress in achieving certain goals. what will these changes mean for how students prepare for the sat? guest: the board hopes it will make us less about being coached. of thee quite critical test p

i want to be careful not to say certainly types of information is not admissible because that could be helpful to a mom and pop or tenant. we need to find the right balance and we're trying to follow the gowns of the city attorney to the level to have guidance but at the same time, you know, letting. adjudicate certainly cases. if there's a specific suggestions i'm open to them. >> supervisor campos i appreciate it i agree it's a balance. it sounds like this process is not going to require the small mom and pop landlords to start liquidating 40 one k or selling jewelry or furnitures to pay for this. again one could look at this application that lists the items and says why is that there if you're not take into account >> those things are there to get a full picture of the persons situation that's not how we've applied it in the past that's not the goal of this sponsor but we have to make sure that the tenants receive enough the relocation compensation to remain in the city. >> one of the cases involved a landlord that had a seat in excess of $500,000 including property and in this case

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>> guest: well, i think it means that the ticket of admission to a job is a staggering amount. and not only the ticket for admission to a job, i.e., buying the automobile, but the ticket to all kinds of accessibility of goods and services. i talk about this environmentalist doctor who was discussing a woman who had to take her child to a hospital. and by the time she got on rotten public transportation, deprived because we don't tend to provide the good things in life for the poorest among us, was exhausted in terms of going to work. no, again, i try to be positive i mean, one of the things that hadn't happened when i wrote this book, but the transportation bill that i've been talking about, the intermodal surface transportation efficiency act, had some things, for example, such as putting day care in a mass-transit node so that, theoretically, somebody could drop off a kid and head to work there are all these little solutions that we've basically denied by putting all our eggs in this one automobile basket. c-span: show this photograph right here. it kind of opens your book up

in order for them to think about what the petitioners ask for, they have to rule the case admissible. that could take up to a year. the petitioners are patient. they are the same victims that tried and failed to file a civil lawsuit against the department of defense. they are poised to wait. if it is ruled admissible the commission will consider what they asked for, including monetary damages. the number one thing is that the sex assault cases, decisions about them and relating to that, would be taken out of the chain of command. >> we saw in your report that you did try to get an on-camera response from the pentagon, and they didn't give you one, but gave you a written response. did they grasp the seriousness of what the people are after. does the pentagon understand that is a serious effort from the petitioners. >> it found it really interesting, actually. this petition was filed in late january. "america tonight" seems to have found out about the petition before the department of defense knew about it. when i called to get a comment, i did some quoting out of this document to them,

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hunger games," another popular book series hits the big screen, but is "divergent" worth the price of admission? " feels like "the hunger games," just not as good. >> 100 years after the war, they created a system. it divided society into five factions. >> "divergent" showcases a young woman who does not fit into any of the categories society demands she choose. as in "the hunger games," they aim to control the population, and her individuality angers the powers in charge. they are led by kate winslet. of the faction, removing the threat of anybody exercising their independence. it feels like "the hunger games" without the zest. fans of the book may be satisfied, but the rest of us may as well wait until the next "hunger games" chapter. a couple and a half stars, pg-13. the weekend movie guide -- have a nice weekend. i'm arch campbell, abc 7 entertainment. the actor flubbed the introduction as we all remember. she was singing her hit song "first and." -- for the hit song from "frozen ." travolta already tweeted an s said thatd e! new he sent her flowers as a gesture. i say give him a break. nex