>> gunderson thinks so. it uses a lot of power in areas like the kitchen and laundry. in 2008, it spent more than $5 million on energy, last year it spent about a million dollars less. >> if we lower the cost of our operations, that helps our region, because it lowers the cost of care. >> so far, the energy savings haven't lowered patient's bills but gunderson hopes one day it might. al jazeera, lacrosse, wisconsin. >> hospitals are big users of energy. it costs roughly $6.5 billion to power them every year nationwide. >> get ready to pay more for eggs from california. new regulations take effect in the golden state next month, requiring farmers to law their hens to roam freely. farmers say that is driving up costs. >> lets look at other stories caught in our global net. rolling stone magazine is enlisting the help of columbia's school of journalist to investigate that disputed story. "the new york times" says the magazine wants a review in the report of of an alleged gang rape at the university of virginia. that story undermind the credibility of the magazine. they ar

>> reporter: while 8 million shared kelly gunderson's joy as her mom suffering alzheimer's suddenly recognizes best friend, fainted with excitement. viewed 38 million times. and tara is no scaredy cat. she came to the rescue of a young boy attacked by a dog. >> so the tickets to trinidad. >> reporter: who says the internet is all frivolity. 18 million shared as a canadian bank machine dispensed airline tickets for a mom to visit her sick daughter. >> thank you. >> reporter: and charity runners pause to honor a 95-year-old veteran. >> you're doing a good job. >> reporter: mining the web for a few hidden gems can sometimes remind us of who we are and the wonderful things we're capable of. >> you can be brave also. >> reporter: kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. >> imagine how many he had to go through just to pick those. >> some of them i hadn't even seen. we show them all the time daily. >> pets, got to love it. >>> now time for a look ahead. today in the u.s., postal service's busiest delivery day of the year. workers are shoveling through an avalanche of greeting cards and letters. most packag

>> reporter: while 8 million shared kelly gunderson's joy as her mom, suffering with alzheimer's, suddenly recognized her again. >> well, i love you, kelly. >> i love you, mama. >> reporter: casey the schnauzer a woman's best friend fainted with excitement. viewed 38 million times. and tara is no scaredy cat. she came to the rescue of a young boy attacked by a dog. >> those are tickets to trinidad. >> reporter: who says the internet is all frivolity? 18 million shared as a canadian bank machine dispensed airline tickets so a mom could visit her sick daughter. >> thank you for your service. >> reporter: and charity runners paused to honor a 95-year-old veteran. >> you're doing a good job. >> reporter: mining the web for a few hidden gems can sometimes remind us of who we are and the wonderful things we're capable of. >> you can be brave also. >> reporter: kevin tibbles, nbc news, chicago. >>> that is our broadcast on this tuesday night. thank you for being here with us. i'm brian williams. we hope to see you right back here tomorrow evening. goodnight. >>> i was inside the house and all of

. >> medical workers at gunderson health system rely on sophisticated technology from cat scan machines heart rate monitors at theto diagnose and treat patients but they rely on something decidedly low-tech to help power it all. that's right. dairy cows. they animals produce about 35,000 gallons of manure a day, all of that waste goes into these three huge digesters that convert methane gas from the manure into electricity. guvenlderson ceo calls this home-grown energy. >> we said we are going to make this so we will improve the health of the community and it will be good for gunder scenario's finances. >> the hospital also taps other local power sources like wind sun, and trees. >> so what we have here is hardwood chips from western wisconsin and southeast minnesota. >> gundersen feeds about 100 tons of wood chips into this bio mass boiler. the unit burns the wood creating steam which produces both heat and electricity. jumping rich developed the hospital's green energy program called envision. >> this project feeds the energy back into our clinic on this campus for this project. our o

we said we will make this and improve the health of the community, and it will be good for gunderson's finances. the hospital taps other local power sources like wind, son and trees. what we have is hard woodchips from south-east minnesota. they feed hundreds of chips into the boiler. the unit burns the wood creating heat and electricity. the green energy programme is called envision. it feeds the energy back into the clinic. our other projects sell the utilities on the grid. >> in the past six years gunder son invested 4 million in green energy projects. energy is a small percentage of the overall budget. less than one% to keep the lights on. are the sustain ability projects worth the investment? gunder son thinks so. it uses a lot of power, especially in areas like the kitchen and the laundry. in 2008 it spend more than $5 million on energy, left year a million left. >> if we lower the cost of our organization's operations that helps the region, because it lowers the cost of care. gunder son hopes one day it will lower the cost of bills. >>> coming up in the next hour we look at the

. >> john gunderson, national defense university. i was counsel general in ukraine after independence. i would like to sort of push you on the one that i know is very delicate to discuss and that's security issues. two factors i think we should think about. one is russian thinking. i know we don't predicate policy. looking at another way of how we look at russia, the heads of the russian military were all young lieutenants in afghanistan. mostly. the thing they fear most is an insurgency. a vietnam complex in afghanistan complex. the sense then of having to think about a strong ukrainian military factors into russian thinking. so i would like you to address the concept or answer what the arguments would be against giving lethal defensive equipment, the type of things we give to sovereign states such as egypt or pack pakistan. -- or pakistan. not quite friendly allies. what is the argument against giving defensive lethal aid to ukraine? thank you. >> the last question over there. >> two points. first one from your comments, as well fr

. >> john gunderson, national defense university. i was counsel general in ukraine -- after independence. i would like to sort of push you on the one that i know is very delicate to discuss and that's security issues. two factors i think we should think about. one is russian thinking. i know we don't predicate policimepolic policy. looking at another way of how we look at russia, the heads of the russian military were all young lieutenants in afghanistan. mostly. the thing they fear most is an insurgency. a vietnam complex in afghanistan complex. the sense then of having to think about a strong ukrainian military factors into russian thinking. so i would like you to address the concept or answer what the arguments would be against giving lethal defensive equipment, the type of things they give to sovereign states such as egypt or pack stkistapa. not quite friendly allies. what is the argument against giving defensive lethal aid to ukraine? thank you. >> the last question over there. >> two points. first one from your comments, as wel