on 41st street and lexington avenue, the heart of midtown manhattan, 21-year-old gregory mccullough,udent and part-time tow truck driver, and his passenger, judith bailey, are stopped at a traffic light. they are in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> we were just having a casual conversation about, you know, life and things, our aspirations. the next thing you know, i hear boom. >> a surveillance camera shows what happened. the top of the screen, out of nowhere, the street explodes as if a giant bomb goes off. >> you could see absolutely a terrorized expression on all these people's faces because they didn't know what it was. they probably thought it was a bomb in the subway system. >> with september 11th never far from new yorkers' minds, many think the explosion is another terrorist attack. >> yeah, you think it's terrorism. that's the first thought that goes through anybody's mind. >> people run for cover as the dirt, rocks and asphalt blasts into the sky and rains down. and after the explosion, a nonstop gigantic geyser of steam shoots up nearly 80 stories, an incredible sight

for kids to carry on the party and headed down to meet mccullough reuben the museum's director who offered to give me a personal tour and he has his own theory on why the region's ecosystem is so diverse with legend has it god was creating the world he planted the tiger and. when he arrived here he only had a handful of seeds to toss around but he did have a bit of everything so we have a wide variety of plants in these parts from plane trees to grapes and the same can be said about our fauna. this collection of life is a very popular exhibits and it includes one of the most famous and rare animals in russia approaches one of the main reasons why the more tiger here is so terribly endangered but there is a place not too far from us which is doing its bit trying to make sure the species doesn't die. tree is about an hour's drive from the city and it's a refuge for injured. from the local region. thank you it's really. been taking in lost souls for the best part of twenty years and he took me to meet some of the park's most recent arrivals. these are himalayan bears hopefully we'll be able t

outcome this is as i said at the beginning this is tribe against tribe this is not democracy against mccullough terry the revolutions in egypt and libya have developed in the different scenarios in egypt it was an unarmed uprising of millions in libya it's been an insurgency flooded with weapons by the west and those weapons are still in their arms and they're not going anywhere and many analysts are saying that we could find themselves in a much worse situation than the egyptians because on top of power crisis similar to the one egyptians are having. could be facing a fresh outbreak of violence at the hands of the armed mom i'm going to shut down reporting from washington our team. we'll be bringing you more expert opinion on developments in libya and also this hour for you on r t france here five four border where people fear the internal conflict is already spilling into tunisia plus this is what's left from the offices while in the center of the city all hamas official says it was attacked by extremist groups operating here shortly before. the six parties who are the country which many beli

another protest so could part shut down service again joining me to discuss this is jacqueline mccullough correspondent at sea that that i want to thank you for joining us and for starters do you have any updates from that coast as to what might be going on in terms of this protest or is it still on any chance that bart would actually care to shut down cell service again. still. going again as you can tell from the doctor and your office just a mile or so earlier less than a mile. or so. later will report from a distance to. ninety minutes. do you think that they would actually go for it but i would i want to know your take i don't whether it was illegal or not for them to be able to shut down cell service to even begin with like i mentioned the f.c.c. is now investigating it so it does seem like there are a lot of questions. right this isn't something we've seen before in the u.s. at least in my memory in unison something you're going to egypt this is something that's needed for the program that access to social networking sites or other other forms of communications media used for a pro

so doris kearns goodwin was there and david mccullough you know we would talk about different presidents and he's very interested. so it's more than i think anything it's his idea of a book club, a little bit of r&r to talk with a group of historians. >> it's a heck of a book club actually. [laughter] >> it's.it's fun. >> it's not like he's sending out an evite from down the street and saying you know bring a covered dish you know. [laughter] >> [laughs] but we don't.we don't influence him in any real way but he loves anecdotes and things. >> yeah. >> .and i think that part's a lot of fun and there.he has a great interest in ronald reagan for example. >> well and in fact a lot was made over the last couple of weeks of the fact that he took this book about reagan with him i guess to hawaii or maybe before he went to hawaii he had read this book about reagan and people are now saying, like reagan in '82. >> yes. >> .who got just the stuffing beaten out of him in the elections, was never gonna win a second term, he came back. maybe obama can look for lessons in reagan. >> well and his demea

talkedry mccullough tarnapolito about it today. air departures and arrivals matching. it takes considerable manual checks of several databases. they had to get a sizable backlog decreased of u.s. missiles to identify potential overstays so they could investigate and the poor. deport.the por it comes with a hefty price tag. but with the use of technology, for example, using smartphone perhaps, i think it is 6 worth exploring -- it is worth exploring. it will do with the issue of overstays. overstays and having exit -- having the knowledge of that exit brings with it tackling terrorism issues. for example, the gentleman who attempted to set off a bomb in times square, we happened to catch him on the airplane trying to escape. he used his real name, so we caught him on by graphic information. he used his real name and biometrics will come in. it will also prevent sex trafficking, international child abduction, tax evasion, catching criminals. there are multiple uses for having exit information and having a biometric capability. >> inoperability, i think everyone in the ro

charles mccullough, embassy of australia. my question goes to what you were saying, annie, in response to the last question, focusing on degree and improving degree, and especially given what we've heard in this poll about perceptions of the value of that degree itself. i know in australia universities, government and businesses have come together several years ago and developed the qualifications framework that allowed universities themselves to really focus on student learning outcomes in awarding degrees. that being said, how do you suggest that here in the united states institutions of higher education can come together to focus instead of keeping the focus on credit hours, move to more of a focus in awarding the degrees on learning outcomes? so things that you may know about, anthony, or things that you also may know about as far as what are happening with lumina. >> well, a quick advertisement for our own work, and our own work is sort of built on the backs of the great work that's been done by aac and u and others on d