private donations.ve >> well, michigan state was very late in the game, our legendarya president john hanna believed ve that we should keep our public heart and not raise a lot of private dollars, or about two generations behind in fund raising, even though our're endowment is about a billion and a half now, very low on the big ten but still substantial and tt we're going to be launching a capital campaign, so it's making more and more of our time, but the story is the same, it's about value, and about creating the opportunities for students across the middle class to be extraordinarily successful. when we talk to students we trys to talk about our s aspirations and also about the things we s i need to do to be better every day. >> there are this story about - msu joins the alliance to help o lower income first generation o students that you will be among 11 public universities across the nation that will be part of a collaborative effort to ensure that these low income and firsts generation college. students ean degrees. what will you be doing?ok >> first of all, michigan state, going into

private donations.ve >> well, michigan state was very late in the game, our legendarya president john hanna believed ve that we should keep our public heart and not raise a lot of private dollars, or about two generations behind in fund raising, even though our're endowment is about a billion and a half now, very low on the big ten but still substantial and tt we're going to be launching a capital campaign, so it's making more and more of our time, but the story is the same, it's about value, and about creating the opportunities for students across the middle class to be extraordinarily successful. when we talk to students we trys to talk about our s aspirations and also about the things we s i need to do to be better every day. >> there are this story about - msu joins the alliance to help o lower income first generation o students that you will be among 11 public universities across the nation that will be part of a collaborative effort to ensure that these low income and firsts generation college. students ean degrees. what will you be doing?ok >> first of all, michigan state, going into

sue and john graham, whose 18 year-old daughter hanna vanish september 13th described the situation as a living nightmare. they said despite thousands of tips their daughter remains missing. three two-year old jesse matthew, junior has been charged in connection with this case but hanna's whereabouts remains a mystery. >>> still to come on "action news" eagles take on rams tomorrow and hopes are high for a big win, jamie apody is up next, >>> you can see here dozens of teams braved the chilly rain this morning on the schuylkill river for annual philadelphia, dragon boat races. those taking part raced brightly colored boats down the river. dragon boat race has become a 13 year tradition. >>> jamie apody is in for jeff and, on paper, this one should be easy for eagles, on paper. >> let's hope, i mean, things are never easy when they are supposed to be but you never know. game on. less than 24 hours from a date with the rams a team eagles should beat handily, considering they are starting a quarterback austin davis who was not only undrafted but was not even recruited out of high school.

i also have another source that tells me this morning that they saw chief longo with hanna's father, john graham, down on old lynchburg road, near walnut creek park, a 525-acre park, 15 miles of trails. and they believe this location where the decomposed body was found is right near that park on an abandoned property on old lynchburg road. jim? >> coy, as a parent, i think all of us can feel and only imagine the pain that the family is going through right now. and you mentioned as well the possible closure here. again, if the i.d. is confirmed. and i just want to remind my viewers, because you brought it up. there was a second young woman who went missing in 2009, morgan harrington, and there is a dna tie between her case and a suspect in the case, the missing -- the disappearance of hannah graham, jesse matthew, who has in fact been charged with abduction in the case, though not murder. how does this new information -- does it draw a clearer line in your view, coy, back to jesse matthew? >> i'll tell you, jim. the thing i think about, we know for a fact that the state police have confirm

john. as you know, we are hanna's parents. >> reporter: recordedded message from hanna graham's parents markseeks without their daughter. >> despite extensive search effort, no trace of hanna has been found since she disappeared in the early hours of saturday september 13th, no more than three weeks ago. >> reporter: it is the first time we have heard from the grahams since a press conference a week after their daughter vanished from charlottesville downtown mall. >> a lot of areas. >> reporter: volunteers and hundreds of train search and crews have combed streets, fields and mountains, to find the 18 year old university of virginia student. >> we have been overwhelmed by the generosity of you all. >> reporter: but the the the last time the grahams expect to the community their daughter's difficulties a appearance wasn't even a criminal case. new three two-year old jesse matthew sits behind bars charged with abduction with attempt to defile, police say forensic evidence links him to the disappearance of another young woman morgan harrington, the the 20 year-old virginia tech student, who vani

ised now by guy benson, political editor at town hall.com and a fox news contributor, mark hanna was an aide in johnaign in 2004 and in the obama campaign in 2008. mark, let me start with you, what's your reaction to that comment? >> hey, martha. my reaction is that mary landrieu said something that wasn't necessarily politically correct, and whenever you're speaking in generalizations, yeah, you're going to be imprecise and say things that are going to make people sensitive, and i think republicans have been very sensitive here. but let's think about the words she actually used which is that the south hasn't been the friendliest place for black politicians. and historically, true. even in the present moment, it's true. it took a little bit of political courage for her to say that, and, you know, if we're going to ask our politicians to basically paper over that fact or basically try to hide or shield us from that fact, we're asking them to lie to us, and we're asking them to be hypocritical. martha: she's been elected three times. this is her forty election. so -- fourth election. so to suggest the

hanna gram. >> the search teams continue to look for even more clues. john henry smith is up in the crow's nest now with the latest. good morning. >> good morning. hanna gram has been missing for five long weeks. while it's not definitive that the search is over, police are saying this is no longer a missing persons investigation. >> this sadly is now a death investigation. >> police say they were fortunate saturday to make the unfortunate discovery of human remains they believe to belong to missing university of virginia student hanna graham. >> we were getting ready to head back to base and pick up another assignment, and it was just divine intervention, something said to keep going and we decided to, and in doing so, we discovered what we were able to discover. >> they century mains for tests to answer whether or not the search for graham is over. those remains consisted of a skull and bones as well as a pair of dark-color the pants. she was wearing dark-colored pants the night the 18-year-old disappeared. on sunday, investigators continued to search for

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john has already said this is every parent's worst nightmare. that is true. but it is also a nightmare for our son james, hanna's grandparents and other members of our family. please, please, please help end this nightmare for all of us. please help us to bring hannah home. >> jesse matthew is charged with abducting hannah graham. he is due in court in early december. >>> court clerks across virginia have been busy this afternoon after an historic decision by the supreme court not to hear gay marriage appeals in several states. lindsey oliver and nickole prize were married after learning the decision. but some folks are not happy about the supreme court, and its decision to pass on the debate. that includes a delegate who represents part of northern virginia. and who helped write the commonwealth's same-sex marriage ban. kristin wright spoke with him and joins us now from manassas. kristin? >> reporter: well, jim, delegate bob marshall says he will push to make sure that federal -- to try to make sure that federal judges are precluded from even hearing such cases. >> you can't have families unless you have a man

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