kingman, kansas, population 3,000, was asleep. except on a quiet residential street a woman unable to sleep watched a crime show on tv. was that popping noise she heard coming from somewhere in the neighborhood or was it her tv show? or just a remnant of the windy day? licking around her windowsill. the silent night closed in again. april 30th, 2011. tornado season. and there was a storm that night. a whirlwind even then sweeping all of them into its vortex. but it began not with wind. with fire. >> 911. you have an emergency? >> yes. >> what's the problem? calm down. >> there's -- there's a fire. >> 3:51 a.m. the man on the phone to 911 was frantic, out of breath. >> and my wife is -- >> here is the actual video of kingman's one officer on duty that night running to his police car and speeding to the burning house. where he met the 911 caller outside. you can hear them both recorded by his patrol car's dashboard video camera. >> where are you at? >> the man said his wife was still in the master bedroom, in the back of the house,

returning for their second day, from kingman, indiana, it's the champs, it's the martin family.ng and applause] and from elgin, illinois, it's the lee family. [cheering and applause] everybody's here trying to win theyself a lot of cash, and somebody might hav

kingman brewster was yale's president. famous for finally admitting women to the college.to make yale more inclusive, courting more applicants from public schools. and he slashed legacy admissions by almost half in just one year. >> disaster. immediate disaster. >> the alumni revolted. yale graduate william f. buckley jr. lamented that the son of an alumnus now has less chance of getting in from some boy from p.s. 109 somewhere. alumni contribution fell off a cliff. eventually brewster gave in and ever since, no ivy league school has dared to take on the preference for alumni's children. >> they're terrified what would happen to their fundraising if they got rid of legacy preference. >> but there are great schools out there that avoid legacy preference. and they're doing just fine. cal tech doesn't cater to alumni kids, and it has one of the largest endowments in the nation. even oxford and cambridge with their centuries of hallowed tradition refuse to favor alumni children. their endowments are well into the billions. >> we like to think that england is the land of social

first, came to gail loss but when it came to yellow came with a vengeance in the person the president kingman brewster who declared that he did not intend to preside over a finishing school in the long island sound. and saw it on to remake the university as an engine of merit and he called himself an indian investment maker. he was looking for that raw talent in a student's who revealed the highest returns for their education. do this he hired a new director of ms. clark. along working class from long island. he fired the entire staff and hire new people in his first year reduce the number of legacies and a off. and so the story goes denied admission to the sun of the biggest donor. by 1970 the median young student and sat that would've put them in the top 10 percent of the class of 1960. and that happened broadly throughout the american elite. and in some ways is extraordinary how competitive the elite has gotten. in the 1990s, the year in which the university of chicago submitted 71 percent of its applicants and this year it admitted 6 percent. so the american elite has become incredibly co

. >> these are the students from trinity christian school in kingman here. >> will greater you present. >> six and seventh and eighth. >> for six and seventh and eighth. >> and middle school. and what you here to learn about today. can i tell you why am. my name is michael bennet. i am a united states senator from colorado though. and you've have ever been to colorado avenue. >> you have. >> my dad was there. my best friend lives there. >> were known for our mountains. >> thank you very much. we'll years a very beautiful to be different but it is beautiful. >> so what are you learning here today. have you started or have you had a tour. [background sounds] >> their hobos and flags in there that were in the civil war. did you see those. it's been a guess. and senator, we want to sign the guestbook. >> oil if i lift that part out. >> never guestbook. >> would be better for you. [background sounds] >> while any overture, until them upstairs we should car pulled. i saw her just last night. >> will have to get applicable here at the new hampshire state house. >> so i wrote thanks for caring