trina thompson graduated in april with a 2.7 gpa. since then she's only heard from a couple of employer. she wanted her $72,000 back. >> the college says no one can guarantee unemployment but it's committed to helping all of its students search for a job. i think her allegations were like, oh, they help, you know, people with higher gpas usually. >> your cholesterol level could some day affect the health of your brain. a study finds that people with borderline high cholesterol have a 28% greater risk of developing alzheimer's later. if you've got high cholesterol your risk increases by 66%. the study followed almost 10,000 people for 40 years. >>> 35 minutes past the hour. okay. if we had one idea about the weather today, what would it be, meteorologist bob van dillen? >> stormy for the midwest and more in the mid afternoon. it will be seasonable. i love that. bobby, i'm getting mair aed in september. what's the weather going to be like? seasonable. i don't know. look at the thunderstorms blossoming. kansas city, a nice little batch

requirements include at least a 3.0 gpa. students may go to any accredited college in the united states. the story is amazing considering the economy. the bulk of the donations came before the economy a slide and now more than ever the need to continue the funding. >> today is a wonderful celebration for these 200 students. >> the money is appreciated for those who made the cut. >> you're a 11 -- your 11 forecast. >> a different weather story in southern maryland with heavy showers during the day. western maryland, completely dry. more concentrated rain to the south and east. the latest imagery shows it over the atlantic. the clouds did a job on the temperature. 77 degrees for the height city. in 1918 on this day we hit 105 degrees. the all-time record high, and contrast that to today's 77. the skies are clearing out. temperatures have been cool throughout the day. we're setting the stage for an unseen limit -- and unseasonably comfortable august night. expect the temperatures to settle back into the mid 50's in the northern

was there a gpa component here? was it a bait and switch? what were the promises that were made? what did they do to induce her and to lure her into paying $70,000 tuition or is this just simply buyer's remorse? >> i want to know more information. i wish she would have yeah, me . chip, as you see what we know so far, is this thing going anywhere? >> well, this lawsuit certainly brings a new meaning to the term class action lawsuit, mike. >> nice. >> i think it's going to be a very, very difficult lawsuit. unless there are specific guarantees by the school that can be sued upon that were not met that lured her into a situation which was almost a fraud transaction going on, the courts have not recognized these types of lawsuits, especially in new york, where it would require the jury or judge to actually determine whether or not the education was deficient and did not then give her a job when she got back out. >> yeah. let me read the school statement here. this is monroe college. "while it is clear that no college, especially in this economy, can guarantee employment, monroe colle

now, they are saying that those students should stay home, but they are worried that their gpa will godance, ççso they ae trying to look at revising the policy. shepard: thank you. do not let this woman into your in box. she has been named the most dangerous celebrity. between consuming less and conserving more. there is one important word: how. and it is the how that makes all the difference. to the planet we all share. shepard: in most dangerous celebrity on the internet is jessica biel. searches for her are more likely to lead to viruses then searches for any other celebrity. fans looking for information on her have a one in five chance to end up somewhere that could corrupt your computer. there is the down of mclish software. other favorites among favorite cyber -- others that are favorites among cyber criminals include beyonce and jessica simpson. simpson.

if it becomes a habit, studies have shown it can affect your gpa, lower it, and can also lead to long-termep problems. it is important to have a steady sleep routine, avoid long naps during the day, exercise, it helps you sleep at night, and avoid the caffeine fix. that can also become a long-term fixation. >> i know. it started in college. binge drinking. this is a huge one on college campuses. every year sadly we seem to report stories of the students that end up dying because they go out for a night of partying and in fact a study showed that more than 90% of the alcohol consumed by people under the age of 21 is in the form of binge drinking. >> these are young people who are not experienced drinkers. binge drinking can lead to alcohol poisoning, can also lead to drunk driving accidents, date rape. there are a whole host of other things and it can expropose you to alcoholism. speak to your youngsters about responsibly drinking. really it is illegal under the anl of 21. >> binge drinking is defined as how many drinks? >> depends on your weight but anything i would say more than two if it

. >>> he's just 22, in college with a 3.9 gpa and things are great for him -- except.s this weight problem. he weighs over 600 pounds. his insurance says they won't cover it a gastric bypass and many of you are saying, you know what, it should be paid and then many of you are also telling me on my twitter board here, nope. it's a personal responsibility. this is an interesting question. we've got tons of reaction. we'll stay on it. stay with us, we're looking back at the story. >>> welcome back. volunteers are now being vaccinated for the h1n1 virus but it could be thanksgiving before many of the rest of us could get the swine flu shot. there won't be as much vaccine on hand by mid-october as they thought. 45 million instead of the anticipated 120 million. bill hall the health and human services spokesperson says it is a delay in manufacturing, not a shortage. >>> let's see what you're saying about this. we told you the story of the 600-pound man who wants gastric bypass and he wants the insurance companies to pay for it. sometimes insurance pays for it, in his case, n

carried a 4 point 0 gpa. that's not good.mber 8 hitter next n there not even close. >> rob: ronny in the process of getting off first base. looperch whatting him. throws over. caught in between. give him a lot of credit. watching him take his lead off the base. >> bob: a well-timed throw catching a runner in the middle of one of the steps; give the pitching coach and a lot of credit though. when they told him what stephen lacked, he lacked the mental toughness and coachablety within he got to college. he worked on that. look at him now. first pick in the draft. was it weird that tony coaches in tony gwnnn stadium. >> bob: no. >> bob: i did some games with him. he is delightful. he holds some of the point guard basketball records at san diego state. he was a outstanding point man for the basketball team. they played wide open way back there. nieves will drill one up the middle. two straight hits by the nats but a runner lost. martin should be bunting. he does not have a successful sacrifice bunt this year. >> rob: see nieves t

apparently a young lady at college graduated with fay 2.7 gpa and couldn't find a job and she is turning around and suing her college that she did the education and no one wants to hire her. >> take responsibility! >> there you go. the second hottest thing we have going, on the air last night, predicted that the dow would hit 14,000 in 18 months. people are diving in and finally the hottest thing, america's greenest university. this is from the princeton review. they look at academic offerings and what the colleges do. rank them up there and you have yale and university of washington at the top. check it out on the website. >> thanks, alan. did he really say that? 14,000? 18 months? >> charlie gasparino is a great singer at john mac's future. what that means. he joins us now. >> this is what i'm getting from people senior in the company. this is a likelihood. he had that story and john was going to see power over the brokerage chief. i think that story was accurate. before the end of the year, we will get an announcement that james gorman, the copresident of morgan stanley runs the depar

many people think, oh, genius kid, brought up and graduated bottom 25% on my class, technically on the gpaale and didn't get a chance to go to school. i feel i've done well for myself. employ 60 people now, all of which probably have degrees and mbas. at the end of the day i don't think anybody can be define bid the degree they have. it's all about opportunity and how you leverage it. >> we're out of time. we want to make sure we mention your book. "creating success from the inside out." ephran w. taylor. good luck in the future. >> thank you. >> hope your success continues. >> and be sure to tune in tomorrow, 23-year-old nathan, self made millionaire, founded an online retailer distributors musical instruments. >> online. how come my kid isn't rich? i don't think he's holding up his end of the deal. >> maybe if he played a game like golf instead of a sport like lacrosse. by the way, it is the olympic games, our viewers point out, which means golf can be in it. we do breaking news before you react. let's get to mike huckman for it. mike? >> thanks, erin. yeah, breaking news out of the big

we're told the maintains a 3.5 gpa and is open to go to college. then there is a girl from idaho, who was found weeks after being snatched by a convicted sex offender who also murdered her family. the jury is currently deliberating whether her kidnapper is competent to stand trial in another case. of course, the story of elizabeth smart is the one that came to mind. that 14, she was taken right from her bedroom in salt lake city. nine months later, she was found alive. her kidnappers have been ruled unfit to stand trial. today, she is 21, a political activist. she has been studying music at brigham young. jon: let's take a look of the big board right now. you can see the dow industrials down about 30 points on this friday. that as new economic data shows that despite some positive news recently about the economy, we are not all feeling very optimistic. jenna lee is an optimist, though. >> you have to try to be. it looks like the data is showing us that consumer sentiment is at its lowest level in four years. we are really drifting into the back-to-

again, trying to encourage reform, progress, a commitment to the gpa, and we will continue to do so.my meeting was a little bit difficult, but we continue to try to make progress. >> quickly, on the oil countries you're going to, can you be specific on what you will be looking for in nigeria? nigeria's election was a disaster. what does she want from the energy producing countries? and can you address the rivalry there if it is spurring her to go there? >> the secretary is going there because we have serious political, economic, and hydrocarbon interest in those countries. in nigeria, u.s. oil companies play a significant role, both an investment and production. u.s. investment in nigeria and oil production and the service industry is well in excess of $15 billion. we're one of the leading purchasers of south african -- sorry, of nigerian oil. we think it is important to discuss with nigeria, a range of issues. we are concerned about having a good energy relationship with them. we are interested in seeing them continue to play a positive regional role, including providing peacekeeper

that is where they get access to education that gives them the high end gpas and so forth a. practice demands, hardware, long hours, additional challenges for rural and inner-city areas that are difficult as well. you wonder how any of us would choose to go into family medicine. there are things we can do. we can enhance medical school recruitment. there is not in any of the bills, we could talk about giving bonuses to schools that either have hire ethnic variability or bringing students from rural areas and non urban areas. we can do better faculty mentoring though the numbers aren't adequate. there are still lots of good family doctors, general internists, if we could talk them into telling their story more often. the things that are in the bill, we talk more about our loan payback, many times when you are facing the end of this aeons of training, you want to be able to buy a house and pay back your loans as we were talking about earlier. if we give you loans paid back, that $200,000 a year for primary care may look more appealing than if you have to payback $150,000 in loa

this over your gpa. you are not prepared i love you but it is just not good for you. if i heard that one more time i think i will comment about how much i love the kid and how bad it is for the kid to do that. this began find forget the schools you have 15 days to schedule 10 percent of every kid into the ap courses you will massively override any guidance counselor says otherwise is terminated on the spot. we lost a lot of guidance counselors in july of that year. [laughter] [applause] these are good people. they're not committing crimes but they just did not believe it agency access and acquisitions of they could not be around our kids. and we do what most people do you build a bridge courses and double periods so you get the same kind of privileges that parents who know how to manipulate the system and we build tutorial such shins and we taught kids how to supplemental texaco the data is coming and it is coming in the tester coming we underwrote all the test the board did at and teachers are lined up at every board meeting you will see this is terrible mass educati

i know that gpa is right. is that aly-like? was higher. >> mine was pushing 4 and i had-- >> 4 what. >> and i had 18 credits. >> and so much checking on both of you right now, let's fact check that. >> i threw this out there on twitter this question about pro creation vacationsment it seems it's a trend that's sweeping at least one island, the island of aruba. listen to this, the westin resort in aruba is offering a classic package. $399 a night for two people. all meals and drinks included, $100 resort credit for guests who book by the end of september if you can prove that when you visited their resort, you got pregnant. >> how do you prove it, aly. >> you get a doctor's note. want to you get a doctor's note. >> and they can prove it to the day. >> if the doctor can give you a day. >> a vague area, doctorsments sometimes they give you an actual day, at least they do me, and they give you a $300 credit for future use at this west p westin resort, if you conceived while you were there on vacation. now, this is a win-win situati

this will hurt your attempt in your gpa. you are not prepared.mean, you know, i love you baby, but it's just not good for you. if i heard that one more time i think i was going to vomit about how much i love the kid and just how bad this is for the kid to do that. so that began the process of setting fine, forget the schools. you have 15 days to schedule 10% of every kid in to ap courses, overwrite all the schedules and put them in there. and any guidance counselor that says otherwise is going to be terminated on the spot because this is what this system does around this piece. we lost a lot of guidance counselors in july of that year. [laughter] >> and a lot of guidance counselors. and they just weren't -- these are good people. this is not, you know, these aren't people committing crimes. what they're doing is they just didn't believe an agency acts as an acquisition so therefore they can't be near our kids. i am pretty good about that piece of it. and we did what most people do, and that is you build some of which courses and you build double

. >> reporter: at college jake has a 3.9 gpa but weight stands in his way of bigger dreams.ant to walk. he says he wants to run. >> run through this life with the same kind of hopes and dreams that other folks have. >> reporter: in tacoma, komo 4 news. >>> a bit later this afternoon a judge is expected to rule on a controversial anti-abortion law in oklahoma. this forces women to get an ultrasound before an abortion. now, let's talk about both sides here. critics say the law is unconstitutionally vague and doesn't spell out what doctors should tell people who are undergoing the ultrasound. proponents say it describes the doctors to describe the fetus, it's heart activity, and other physical details. state lawmakers passed this measure by overriding the governor's veto. henry required it was unconscionable to require victims of rape and incest to undergo the ultrasound. >> do you think an ultrasound should be required before a woman has an abortion? does it give a woman perspective or does it infringe on her right to choose? e-mail cnn.com/hln or text us at hlntv. standard te