where do we fit in to the universe? in the first of a two-part series, we'll ask the authors of the view from the center of the universe, dr. joel primack and nancy ellen abrahams. if. for such a small if i live to a hundred. if social security isn't enough. if my heart gets broken. if she says yes. we believe if should never hold you back. if should be managed with a plan that builds on what you already have. together we can create a personal safety net, a launching pad, for all those brilliant ifs in the middle of life. you can call on our expertise and get guarantees for the if in life. after all, we're metlife. >>> welcome to both of you. pleasure to see you. >> thank you. >> your book, the view from the center of the universe, the subtitle is, discovering our extraordinariy place in the cosmos, is a tour of the universe. it's ambitious and i think it's fulfilled. and it's great to have you here. >> delighted to be here. thank you very having us. >> the assumptions are that we know a lot more about the universe today

the union. public university campuses. unionization is one of the fastest growing areas of organized labor in the country. you have a situation in where the unions have recognized that obviously the manufacturing base is shrinking and the private union base is shrinking so public sector white collar jobs are where the growth is going to happen. so you saw actually some of this, i think people were a little surprised during the fight about wisconsin a few months ago to hear that there actually were unions of professors at the university of wisconsin. i mean, unions are generally something we think of as for people who are in jobs where they can really be exploited, where maybe they're not as educated. and yet it's really growing in higher education. so that's one big difference. and i think you're seeing the effects of that. i mean, unions at the bargaining table will mean less distinctions in terms of merit pay. it will -- pay will be based more on your level of seniority. and a lot of professors and administrators i talk t

and yale university. the nus invites first-class researchers from associated universities. it's also established student exchange courses, joint degree and double degree programs. in the two-year masters course, for example, students take an example at nus in the first year. then they have the option of finishing the degree at a partner university. singapore began actively recruiting international students ten years ago. it's part of government efforts to build up a highly skilled workforce and promote high-tech industries. various strategies are used to keep talented people in singapore. scholarships require students to work in the country after graduation. >> so therefore i expect this college to have a good number of foreign students. they will provide fresh perspectives, they will stimulate the learning process. we hope that after graduation some of them will strike roots here. >> we are now joined by akiyoshi yonezawa, an expert in the internationalization of higher education. professor, thank you very m

the university of nebraska left as well. the syracuse case -- they were getting private money for some of the research. but that does not count. you have to be getting federal money. the prestige it is wrapped up in -- this must be public government funds. so at a time when we are trying to figure out how to cut back and reduce the cost of higher education, they are thinking how can we get more out of federal dollars. >> can they make money outside the classroom, outside the university, when they are tenured professors teaching two classes a semester? >> sure. >> how much of their time? who holds them accountable for research? >> you mean could they be making money doing research for a private company? >> again, i have been in school 15 years. i have full professorship. i am teaching a class is. but i find myself capable of making lots of money over here and do not want to do research for the school. can you blow the school off? >> it would be hard. usually what happens with real research grants is that the application has to

universe. how do we learn about the other universes? >> how can you gain confidence in an idea that speaks of the realms we cannot see, that we can't touch, we can't visit, we can't desert directly. let me give the answer. in some versions of the multiverse and i should emphasize not one proposal but a number of universes and proposals and in some there can be subtle connections between the universes that might allow us to have some experimental window on to them. so all of that set aside for the moment, let's think about the ones where you couldn't visit them. well, why do we think about these things? well, we have a believe founded upon really hundreds of years of experience that math can provide a gateway to reality, it can't provide a window onto a reality that at the moment the math is being done, we can't actually see were observed that really. einstein is the greatest example. he wrote on the equations of the general relativity way back in 1915 and others listed those and found that they seem to save the universe should be expandi

universe. how do we learn about the other universes? how can you gain confidence in an idea that speaks of the realms we cannot see, that we can't touch, we can't visit, we can't desert directly. let me give the answer. in some versions of the multiverse and i should emphasize not one proposal but a number of universes and proposals and in some there can be subtle connections between the universes that might allow us to have some experimental window on to them. so all of that set aside for the moment, let's think about the ones where you couldn't visit them. well, why do we think about these things? well, we have a believe founded upon really hundreds of years of experience that math can provide a gateway to reality, it can't provide a window onto a reality that at the moment the math is being done, we can't actually see were observed that really. einstein is the greatest example. he wrote on the equations of the general relativity way back in 1915 and others listed those and found that they seem to save the universe should be expanding.

universe. how do we learn about the other universes? >> how can you gain confidence in an idea that speaks of the realms we cannot see, that we can't touch, we can't visit, we can't desert directly. let me give the answer. in some versions of the multiverse and i should emphasize not one proposal but a number of universes and proposals and in some there can be subtle connections between the universes that might allow us to have some experimental window on to them. so all of that set aside for the moment, let's think about the ones where you couldn't visit them. well, why do we think about these things? well, we have a believe founded upon really hundreds of years of experience that math can provide a gateway to reality, it can't provide a window onto a reality that at the moment the math is being done, we can't actually see were observed that really. einstein is the greatest example. he wrote on the equations of the general relativity way back in 1915 and others listed those and found that they seem to save the universe should be expandi

one reason the university should have corporations for donations and u.c. president said he had dinner with the governor. he hopes the legislature and governor will pull through. if not the board could likely vote on these tuition hikes in november. >>> a new report estimates that the nation's foreclosure crisis will lead to a multibillion dollar drop of home values in oakland. homeowners will see their collecting i have home property values drop by $12 billion. the report says the value of a home by an average 22% when it goes into foreclosure. these are the areas that will be hardest hit. east oakland at the top. that area is expected to lose more than $700 million in property values after 5,000 foreclosures. >> nationwide the banks are handing out warnings for homeowners that have fallen behind home mortgages. they say initial foreclosures went up 34%. it's the biggest gain in four years? one of bay area's best known bakery's is shut down because an oven fire. the bakery is owned my thomas keller. fire first say they needed to knock down the flames. >> we

one reason the university should have corporations for donations and u.c. president said he had dinner with the governor. he hopes the legislature and governor will pull through. if not the board could likely vote on these tuition hikes in november. >>> a new report estimates that the nation's foreclosure crisis will lead to a multibillion dollar drop of home values in oakland. homeowners will see their collecting i have home property values drop by $12 billion. the report says the value of a home by an average 22% when it goes into foreclosure. these are the areas that will be hardest hit. east oakland at the top. that area is expected to lose more than $700 million in property values after 5,000 foreclosures. >> nationwide the banks are handing out warnings for homeowners that have fallen behind home mortgages. they say initial foreclosures went up 34%. it's the biggest gain in four years? one of bay area's best known bakery's is shut down because an oven fire. the bakery is owned my thomas keller. fire first say they needed to knock down the flames. >> we

and you know our own system the great universities are built on huge and almonds fun research that fun cutting edge teaching in the production of knowledge other countries are catching up with. your governments investment is going to make a very good start at this this is a very educated culture very smart students we send our kids here to have math in moscow because you're going to actually because your university teaching of math is superior to ours in many can you can you name. a couple of russian universities which you think should be should be among the ranks among the best in the world i think you deserve to be i think you'll see moscow state and st peter's third and below and before too long the twenty nine universities designated for research in which the government is investing in next on tell me this new program i think that's going to that's going to change the less you mention math what other areas which would you recommend for international students to come to russia where we have. good maybe even better than that there's russia's famous for physics for nanoparticles resea

so tre is the size of the universe. but that's not even necessary the biggest size then in term of the smallest size, we,here is a smaller size that we can experimentally go for and then there is the smallest size that we think might exist. and the smallest sides we are e moring is actually at the large hedron collider. high energy lets us look at short distance and that's why going to -- >> can we define those short distances. >> absolutely. the way we do it essentially is if you imagine you have a certain amount of energy t can create a wave with that energy. and higher energy is shorter wavelength. so basically to be able to probe short distances you need something that has structure on that scale. so you need high energy so you need this high energy wave and that lets us go the short distance. and that's why we go to these high energy because it ra laws to us look at the short distance structure that doesn't mean that nothing can exist beyond them. there is a difference between what we request think about, what theor

million copies have been translated into more than thirty languages is in america's fellow at the university of oxford and founder of the richard dawkins foundation for reason and science he joins me now from our studios in miami professor dawkins welcome it's a pleasure thank you it's a pleasure and an honor to have you with us in the selfish gene you shook up the discussion of natural selection you coined the term the selfish gene as a way if correct me if i have this wrong place as way of expressing the genes centered view of evolution as opposed to the views focused on group selection given that you also say that genes just are they can survive independently of the cell the cell can survive in the better the organism how do you reckon to reconcile the need for biological cooperation with your hypothesis of a selfish gene. cooperation takes place at the level of the individual or individuals cooperate selfish the whole point about my book the selfish gene is not that individuals and selfish but individuals may well very well be able to restrict cooperative as a result of their genes in be

is one of the thousand students who take advantage of the most school state university exchange programs and who here some of them will eventually be rewarded with a very special kind of diploma a double one when they will get the double diploma means you started in two universities in two different countries. as a neurotic asian is acknowledged in both these countries it means more opportunities for those who received it could mean when you're still at them tech at the game the university staff believe a mood in the globalized world makes going abroad for education in a true experience that point of view is shared by sponsor a u.s. student who is doing a degree in russian studies and came to my school to some on the ground experience obviously for the study around the world and i think it has a lot more perspective for somebody because you can be educated at a college and not really actually be educated if you can understand somebody else's point of view and going abroad and studying in different countries or different universities really gives you that opportunity spence's friend grigo

the university staff believe a mood in the globalized world makes going abroad for a to cation been a true experience that point of view is shared by sponsor a u.s. student who is. doing a degree in russian studies and came to my school who some on the ground experience obviously for the study around the world and i think it gives a lot more perspective for somebody because you can be educated at a college and not really actually be educated if you can understand somebody else's point of view and going abroad and studying in different countries very different universities really gives you that opportunity spence's friend grigori was born in the you with ceasar grew up in the who was saying can you read the boast of a global educational experience an easy go to compare systems in their response of the planets united says system educational system is very individual you pick your courses you pick your glasses as far as joining goes this thing is more traditional i enjoy russian system more because it's more familiar to me and close to my heart while studying in most. of the school gooin

the university has to do the same thing. >> u.c. officials say it's because of cuts because of state funding they have to do this. they need the money to pay the bills and keep the system from slipping into mediocrity. that is the choice, increased tuition from 8-16% for the next five years or have an average university. the discussion will start at 10:45 this morning here at the campus on owen street here in san francisco. >>> we're learning a lot more about a convicted felon in san jose ready for having a stockpile of explosives, guns and ammunition in his home. police arrested a 6-3 mark sted lock of making criminal threats and illegally possessing explosive weapons. they blew up eight devices they found in his home and evacuated ten neighboring houses. they found 40 to 50 firearms with ammunition. his roommate said they were left over for 4th of july fireworks. >>> he knows that, he defend his right to bear arms regardless of what anybody else says. >> he has 15 prior convictions but for some reason he was not on a state list of

the case is pending the chicago tribune against the university of illinois. at the dirksen federal building this morning the two sides battled over whether the university chef to comply with the chicago tribune's investigation into the scandal >>the tribune once the university to release the names and addresses of students and their parents who were accepted into the schools' main campus thanks to the clout of the alumni but the university claims handed over that information would violate federal law no word on when that judge will be expected to make a ruling. >>a new report said that chicago public schools have delivered only small gains in the classroom of the last two decades the university of chicago researchers said that despite a slew of educational reforms since 1988, there is little improvement in math and reading comprehension for elementary and middle school students. the ripoff of the report faults cps leaders for a widening achievement gap between black and white students however the report does recognize gains at the high school level the chicago

, ohio state university's football team, i think the other year broughtion dollars worth of revenue to a university that like most other public universities in this country that had large football programs, are getting less and less dollars from the state coffer. so all of a sudden the board of regents are looking for new revenue streams and who do they turn to? they turn to the football team. so the football team has to do anything and everything it can, not only to try and win but also to try and win and bring in, bring in money that they often give back to the university it is a very, to my, a very unholdy alliance that we have right now between what is a revenue generating operation in collegiate letics, placed under the umbrella of a nonprofit institution of higher education, which to my knowledge doesn't have a mission statement that says when the national championship, produce all americans, that sort of thing. >> brown: meantime as we said, the games go on. >> absolutely, and i'll be watching them this weekend. >> brown: all right, kevin blackisto

at the university of wisconsin, madison? does that make you about the most liberal person in america? [laughter] >> is there someone more liberal than a person on the campus in the liberal arts school? let me ask you about. >> it is excellent not a liberal arts college. >> let me ask about the disgrace of what happened over the winter. we there to observe the goings on? >> yes. >> let me ask you this question. according to news reports that are very credible, the schools throughout the state of wisconsin, especially in the walkie, had to be shut down by several days because the teachers were protesting in madison. can i ask you this question? how is that putting children first? >> as far as i understand it, in some school districts in milwaukee and what is and there were schools closed for as many as two or three days. >> so basically these teachers were putting their union ahead of the kids? >> no, actually they were taking great risks for themselves professionally since there have been some repercussions for those who did,

i went to the university of chicago, as i say. i was there for three years, went to london for a year, and then my husband and i spent, and the children, were in england for about six years while my husband was editing an english journal called encounter, and we've been in washington for the past seven or eight years so that in fact we've spent some time out of new york, but i had always until very recently regarded myself as very much a new yorker. c-span: when did the neoconservative thought start and why did your husband get labeled as the one who started it? >> guest: i think the term first came up in the mid -- 1960s in the middle of the counterculture of that period when neoconservatism emerged as an alternative to a certain extent to the counterculture. the counterculture was moving people very much to the left, and neoconservatism was really trying to keep them where they had always been, but by comparison with those who were going left it seemed to be rather more conservative. i take that back. and the term itself did not

the great universities are built on huge and dominance fund research that fun cutting edge teaching in the production of knowledge other countries are catching up with. your government's investment is going to make a very good start at this this is a very educated culture very smart students we send our kids here to have math in moscow because you're going to actually because your university teaching of math is so. piri are two r.'s and many can you can you name least a couple of russian universities which you think should be should be among the ranks i. just need innovation project well what do you think this educational center a special place designed for for education and for. getting together really. you're attracting them back as well you're attracting their students back to russia that's also going to create a flow back here but but the mere real model we need to look at is not is not just a one way flow but a continuous circulation just like we talked earlier of continuous education and how do you do that i mean this can continue then you keep your borders open you encourage you

in the most prestigious university rankings that we see and that there we can take a look at the russian education looks quite merry awkward and it's very sad for the russians because we we are used to especially the people that were raised in the soviet union as myself where you. two and knowing that the russian education system is one of the best in the world what's happening is there's something wrong with the rankings is there something wrong with the standards we're talking about or is this something something really wrong with the russian system since you here in russia maybe maybe you can tell it's just wait a minute given the and we've been waiting for twenty years and it's not becoming any but i was just with your minister for education and science and he and all the rector's i met with hooting the rector of moscow state mentioned the fact that government is investing now heavily in education that's the beginning. and that hasn't been the case here it isn't the case in many countries that's why they're not on the list but i think in five years russia will be on hold what's calle

and a star at the university of maryland. terps. if you like to get involved in the conversation, give us a call. for eastern and central time zones -- 202-737-0001. for mountain and pacific time zones -- 202-737-0002. we of a special line set aside for college athletes. talk to us about how this problem has grown over the past few years. what steps have been taken so far in congress, especially in some of the committees, most notably the commerce committee, why is this a concern? guest: over the years, congress has had some oversight of this. going back to the 1970's, there was the very important passing of title ix which created tremendous opportunities for women athletes. then we had the bill to disclose the graduation rates. commerce and taxing committees have been looking at the n.c.a.a. for non-profit issues. should they be taxed as businesses? that is one issue that both the finance committee and ways and means committee have looked at. the energy and commerce committee have looked at these, as well. there are so many

and the world's largest christian university. [applause] this is fitting for liberty because from the beginning division was not to create another bible school but instead to become free evangelical christians with notre dame and brigham young university car for their respective faiths. division was to provide academic excellence, world-class faciliti ncaa division i athletics, all the programs and student activities that would be available at any major university but to provide it all in the distinctively christian environment with a faculty and support staff committed to biblical trends and morality. the goal here has always been not only to teach students how make aiving but also how to live. to dream for liberty university is noble because it really has never been accomplished in quite the same way anywhere else. we are thankful not to watch that goal in that dream unfold before our very eyes. liberty's net assets have increased by over 600% since 2007, allowing us to continue to provide over $100 million a year in scholarship

let me compare that to what the odds are of getting into school at the university of wisconsin madisonu are black, compared to white or asian. you have a 576 times greater chance being admitted if you are black with the same grades and test scores as if you are white or asian. race plays a huge factor. >> bill: you are going to get admitted or white or asian person might not. >> that's exactly right. >> if you are black or hispanic student in high school and your scores are lower than the competing white or asian student, you can still leapfrog over that. >> you are still going to get admitted. that's exactly right. in fact, the highest scoring student black or hispanic actually scored lower than the lowest quarter of asian students it's a huge factor. >> the chancellors at the university are unrepentant. i mean, they don't like you. they don't want to hear it they did give you perms to come on campus. they also gave permission to disrupt your proceedings, correct? >> i think they did more tha give permission. the vice provost actually egged on the minority student groups, called a mee

>> bill: far left students at the university of wisconsin disrupt a discussion on affirmative action. once again, the national press ignores the story because its embarrassing for the left. we have details. >> they are drinking early. nice and rowdy. time to get lubed up. >> bill: new england patriots quarterback tom brady in trouble for some drinking remarks. i will analyze that. caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. captions by closed captioning services >> bill: hi, i'm bill relittle hely. -- o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. what carter does not understand. you don't see much of president carter these days at 86. he keeps a rather low profile but he does believe barack obama will win re-election next year even though he seems to understand that mr. obama is in deep trouble. in fact, carter believes the president is facing the same dilemma he did. are. >> decided to run against me some of the more liberal democrats didn't want to see me have successes. i experienced a little bit of what president obama experiences every day. that is

the opportunities that i had at the university of phoenix got me to where i am today. d, i'm responsible for the largest urban renewal project in utah, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] university of phoenix is proud to sponsor education nation. because we believe an educated world is a better world. >>> education nation is sponsored in part by the university of phoenix which believes an educated world is a better world. >>> and as we finish education nation week, we have an update on a teacher we have gotten to know over the years. nbc news was there during her first year on the front lines. and now, several years later, we caught up with her again to see how she's changed and what she's learned. here's nbc news education correspondent rehema ellis. >> welcome to 6th grade. my name is ms. groves. >> reporter: we first met monica groves in august of 2004. with a degree in english and spanish p from the university of virginia and five weeks of intensive training through teach for america she landed her first job teaching 6th grade english in atlanta. >> i want my ki

we called the target stores and they were completely sold out. >>> and one of the universities fitting at the top of the national survey. the latest list of top colleges are out, stanford at five, tied with four other schools, including cal tech, schools like harvard were included as well. >>> and uc preparing to take a vote on proposed fee hikes pushing the cost of higher education even higher. austin >> reporter: the schools now pay about 12,000 a year in tuition. this year, they will ask them to consider raising the tuition by as much as 16% every year for the next four years, saying it is necessary to maintain the quality of the education. >> we have lost faculty to other institutions in other states, where they are investing in their universities. we have to find a way to retain the fine faculty we have, but also be competitive. >> reporter: the proposal will be discussed tomorrow and thursday, but wouldn't be voted on this week. the increases are depending on how much funding is provided by the state. less state funding would be to a sharper increase, researchers are looking at t

if you look at the modern university, you really believe it. if you look at entertainment, you really believe it. around the world religion's never had it so good. religions are booming. in bonhoeffer's part of the world and ours there are 3,000 fewer christians every 24 hours. in sub-saharan africa there are 18 million more every 24 hours. oceans of ink -- 18,000 more every 24 hours. we're more religious, and we're more secular. a great student of this, david martin, once said i can name this series in one phrase. is this religious or secular i'm talking about? texas baptist millionaire. [laughter] he doesn't want his preacher to talk about allowances and is so on. and the other -- but that led him to that whole new mark, if you will. he wasn't looking for a market, he was ready to die. but then he talked about religionless christianity, and that's what confused people. he used the word to show how you develop a piety so god can't get at you, and he wanted you to get rid of all those things. he didn't stop worshiping, he led worship for the fel

all of her letters were in the university of texas, the great archives of the world. i was able to go on a traumatic day and see she had neatly kept hundreds of letters that my father and family wrote to each other in the 20s. i saw patterns, the anger that had gone on 60 years before i was on the planet that became stamped on us. it became our dna. >> anything that helped you get insight as to why so much of your brother's anger and passion into what you regarded as coo coo politics? >> that is an interesting question. it is hard. what i have learned is, i have written biographies, bingham family of louisville. we take a letter of a piece of evidence, there is a ah-huh, this anger daughter wrote a letter to her

how should the university have known? >> there's a couple of answers to that. want to play all the evidence out here on television because our system is designed to have the evidence presented in the courtroom and not on tv. i will tell you that there is very strong evidence that yale in fact did know that this man was threatening to women in particular. and as matter of fact one of his supervisors at the lab where he murdered annie le was his brother-in-law and his sister also worked for yale. they both would have known about his dangerous propensities. and yale should have responded accordingly to prevent this from happening. mary, you've been a friend of the family for some time. at any point in the three years that she'd been at yale had annie complained of feeling unsafe as she said, anything about a specific threat at the university? >> that's a great question. she was very concerned about the safety at yale. she was involved in projects where she and other students would walk women and other students back and forth from class from the lab or from the libr

the last few months. trace? >>trace: thank you, jonathan from new york. vanderbilt universityshut down some religious groups on campus if they don't follow the school's nondiscrimination policy. that means the groups must allow people different faiths to take leadership roles in the organization. even if they don't hold the same beliefs but a vanderbilt law professors says punishing those groups boarders on religious suppression. john roberts like in the southeast news hub. do some on campus say they believe this is an attack on religion? >>reporter: they do, that they believe could shut the groups down. four christian student groups at vanderbilt have been told because of their requirements their leaders share their fate, they are in non-comebliance with the school's discrimination policy. case this point, the christian legal society. a statement from their constitution says "each officer is expected to lead bible studies, prayer and worship at chapter meetings," and the university said that language is skim -- discrimination and others say it is discrimination for the school

. >> reporter: the university didn't tell the berkeley college republicans that they couldn't sell thesees the way that they wanted to. they just wanted them to make their point in a less controversial way. but if they had, would they have gotten this response? >> reporter: this was the view from chopper 2, hundreds of students dressed in black laid in the hot sun for hours this afternoon. the coalition to support bill 195. a bill that governor jerry brown is supporting. and students sold these cup cakes, caucasians were charged $2, and asians the lowest price. >> certainly there are times that free speech is at times offensive and it's meant to get people's attention and force debate on campus. >> reporter: and it did. >> everyone though the majority of people in california are people of color. the university of california, isn't -- we're not finished sir. >> reporter: the university says it supports free speech for all but didn't stay entirely neutral. >> we don't think this particular choice for the berkeley republicans was the correct choice. probably if they wanted to counter the ph

the university was devastated since the storm university students have helped with recovery efforts.that when the alabama football team gets back on to the field on saturday, it will go a long way in helping people get back to normal, to help take the pulse of the city. reynolds wolf joining us from tuscaloosa on the alabama campus. reynolds, you covered this story for cnn in the spring. how much progress do you think has been made in the recovery effort? >> reporter: oh, a lot. quite a bit. certainly, you've had a lot of people in the area, the region that have come together to help put the city back together. the thing is, although the campus was spared much of the damage from the tornado that went through. there is no doubt a part of that path of the tornado, the twister pushed through tuscaloosa and other part of the state is still left there. certainly a emptiness and there's been an emptiness in the spirit of some of the people and the students an the players here at the university of alabama. this is much needed. you have to have salt with pepper. you have to have peanut butte

tonight, we continue our series "planet forward," a partnership with the george washington university social media project using your ideas to power our future. here's frank sesno. >> solar, solar, everywhere, designs from canada, ohio, new york, the cylindrical panels atop the university of tennessee house are different, up to 20% more efficient than the old-fashioned counterparts they say, bifacial on appalachan state home generate power from both sides. you're a home builder. dow this sort of thing for a living. bi facial solar panels here, cylindrical over there, what is the most innovative idea you have seen on the rooftop. >> it would be a toss up. i really like what i see. i think the bottom line comes down to what it will cost to actually put them on a house. >> and cost is partly determined by tax breaks and government goodies, vulnerable to budget cuts. >> you are a home builder, involved in all kinds of energy efficiencies. these solar panels, can they happen without government subsidies because those are under attack. >> that step to get up there without some kind of subsi

she runs a shop selling religious objects and is a proud member of the controversial universal church of the kingdom of god. the church claims a membership of up to 15 million around the world. all members are strongly expected to give at least 10% of earnings to the church. >> when somebody does not give their tie it to god, it is stealing from god. i go to the church. i give 10% of my money. if they use the money correctly or not is not for me to judge. >> the universal church of the kingdom of god, with its trademark enormous temples, is usually the best finished example of the business-like orientation. right around this corner, they are building their biggest tumble ever. whoever donates money for the construction will have their name inscribed on one of the 640 columns. it is a grandiose project. the building is modeled after the temple of solomon. it will cover an area the size of 16 football stadiums and cost more than $120 million. it will be the world headquarters of an organization that claims to have a presence in over 100 countries, including this church in london. yet th

during that time, the university of alabama campus was spared. t the community all around the university certainly was not. since the storm, the students and the athletes have been determined to get the school's football team back on the field. that's about to happen, but reynolds wolf is in tuscaloosa now. they take their football seriously as we know, as you well know there in alabama, but it comes with a little something extra right now. >> reporter: oh, it certainly does, t.j. the amazing thing about when you think about the university of alabama when you think about this town of tuscaloosa and what they went through on april 27th of this year. utter devastation and loss of life. there are still marks around the community. especially along this boulevard you'll see one stretch of house and look fine and other places now just empty fields where a subdivision used to stand across one side of the boulevard and things are empty there too. they are replacing things bit by bit. you see construction coming up. one of the key things to rebuilding the