>>> self centering the universe. thanks to data from a nasa orbiter called the shandra x-ray observatory, the scientists have just confirmed the existence of mysterious dark matter that holds the universe together. this finding and a galaxy of others since the late 19 90s makes it possible for astro physicists to understand the very essence of the universe. what does science tell us about our place in the cosmos? 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. complicated. intimidating. something other people get to do. but once you take the first step. you'll find there's nothing standing in your way. metlife. i can do this. >>> 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

that gave the university permission to add to the 10% plan. its own review for a group of people who did not make it into the school based on their high school grades but might have something else to offer. tavis: what does this case have to do with the 10% rule or how she thought she was not treated? -- maltreated? >> the 10% rule does not consider the race of any candidate. it is based on whether you went to high school and graduated in the top 10%. one of the advantages of the 10% rule is that it was adopted by the legislature as a result of a coalition of black legislate source who were in favor of it. latino legislators in favor of it. then you had a white republican legislators who were representing rural districts who realized without the plan, and nobody from their community would get to go to the university of texas, the flagship schools. they joined together to support the plan because it was benefiting their constituents, not just blacks and latinos but low-income whites. tavis: help me understand the merits of the case. what is she

for the origin of the universe in which in the very early universe the dimension that we think of time -- has time was the fourth space to mention. now, stephen seems today from all lot of what he has written, to assume that the no boundary proposal is correct. and that it is safe to build other theories around the new boundary condition. there would not agree that there were it not fully accepted to that degree. other proposals. the labyrinth of universes' and were balls and all that. pre speculative. he is coming to to his colleague i would rather be white than rigorous -- right than rigorous. a shift in his way of doing science. what he meant was it would take too long trying to underpin everything that is unassailable that mathematics your level to miss the forest for the trees. he would prefer to be, perhaps among 90 percent certain and then move on. now, his latest idiocy of not receive the same level of acceptance as talking radiation has, at least not yet, but they do serve a certain purpose. he throws out these ideas, and everybody scurries around, causing a lot of interest an

history of the universe by being here and by observing it. ake for example the fact that we have four dimensions or for observable dimensions in our universe, three of space and one of time. in m theory there is no overall ruled that the universe would have three dimensions of space and one of time. the range of possibilities include any number from zero to do 10 based emissions and even in some versions with more than one time dimension. are dimensions of space and one of time may not be the most probable situation, but nevermind that in top-down thinking. three dimensions of space and one of time is the only situation that is of interest to us. now considering the universe the old way from the bottom up, there seems to be no discoverable reason why the laws of nature are what they are and not something different. but we do observe the laws of nature to be what they are, and we are here, so hawking says why not start with that? our presence is hugely significant. and as he restates the anthropic rentable, obviously when the beings on the plan

black holes, origin of the universe, questions about whether the loss of information in black holes undermines physics, that our universe is one of perhaps an infinite number of universe is connected by wormholes perhaps. he dare to venture into those remote outposts where the known meet the unknown and perhaps the unknowable. john wheeler used to call at the flaming ramparts of the world. it borders on science fiction. steven was asked if he had ever written science fiction and his answer was i hope not. on his 60th birth a party ten years ago, his colleague gary givens in his tribute quoted the poet robert browning saying a man's reach should exceed his grasp or what is heaven for? he wasn't implying stephen had gotten beyond his depth. i don't think that is what he meant. but stephen asked don king, arguably unanswerable questions like what is it that brief fire into the equations and makes the universe for them to describe? why is there something rather than nothing? why does the universe go to the bottom of existing? these stray into philosophy and religion. something that science seldom

the launchpad program at the university of miami, i think this is the model program right now. it's been replicated at two colleges in detroit and one in north carolina. it's new, and basically any university or community college could be look at thing at this. university of miami is way out there with collaborative opportunities of getting alums as their students, getting with their community. it's got great results. so i think if you wanted to look at a program that's not m.i.t. or stanford, really, look at this university ofgram. i think we'll see it do great things in the future. >> give me one more example because i think we're familiar with that one. take a look at university of michigan in ann arbor. michigan lost a really big business y. michigan has, as a program where they have an entrepreneurial internship. they have physical space, they're building relationships with universities across the globe. entrepreneurs can go in and get consulting help. students who are going through their business programs can start their own company, they can consult. they even have one of

i hope you can see what a wonderful young people we have at the university. we are proud that his archives and the civic education center is here at the university. senate mitch mcconnell has made strengthening our universities one of his top priorities. he understands that universities serve as engine for economic growth and solving problems of the future. the senator went about strengthening our universities with his trademark focus and tenacity. he is provided unprecedented support for research in infrastructure project at kentucky's university. u of l has been able to invest in important undertakings like the cardiovascular innovation institute, the center for translational research. he is off to make higher education more affordable. setting aside the label education act is helping thousands of families send their children to college. this law and encourages families to invest in savings plans like the kentucky education savings plan trust and the affordable free paid tuition program. the senator has been one of the most outstanding champions of higher ed

the lab. we want to commercialize all this research out of universities. and there are some suggestions on how we might be able to do that. speeding the commercialization of faculty innovation is important. like right now more than half of nano technology companies have a faculty founder. and this is a growth space. and so i was at a conference recently where all the nano technology faculty were really upset, they have great ideas and they get jammed up, clogged up in this technology transfer office system at their university to commercialize. they can be overtaken, the market can pass them by while the university system is not commercializing their idea. that's tremendously frustrating to the nano tech professors i was talking to. but as governors or leaders of states, you could really encourage universities to adopt a standardized licensing agreement or you could go to a free agency model where faculty could go anywhere to license. there are great innovations happening, and not getting to the market. another idea is innovation vouchers, here's the coupon

at the university of wisconsin. ell qualified individual academic professional to introduce to you governor mitt romney. >> thank you. [applause] welcome, everybody, to the "presidency 2012." i know you are not here to see me. that was a nice introduction. a few things. governor romney received his b.a. from byu, got jd and mba from a lesser institution in cambridge. [laughter] he was a star football player in the university of chicago in 1943 and went on to play for the bears -- you recovered. [laughter] if you have not checked on-line this morning, keeping track of these things, the delegate count is 516 for mitt romney. santorum is the closest one out, and he does not have quite half of that, at 236. romney has a 15-point edge in illinois leading into the campaign. [applause] an eight-point edge nationwide. he is just coming back from puerto rico, where he got all 20 delegates. you are on a bit of a run -- [applause] but we are not here to talk about a horse race. we are here to talk about issues. that is what thi

i'd like to put in context the discussion we're having about universities and the role of universities in addressing what i think of as the rule of law on the internet. what i can report to you is that every single sector of the 24 sectors represented in that coalition has indicated that the problem of stolen digital content and the distribution of counterfeit goods on the internet is getting worse, not better, every single sector. so the framework here i think in fairness of what we're discussing, is truly the question of hough does a rule of law come to the broad band internet. everyone is familiar with the fact that in virtually every aspect of modern, 21st century society, the internet is visualized as a key pillar. whether that's information, whether that's commerce and on and on. in that framework i think everyone and this team would agree that we cannot have a vision of the broadband internet as the wild west, as somalia, where anything goes. what i would say is there's a certain degree of which the broadband internet did begin with this notion of it should be light live regulat

department, nbc y universal's top attorney and the attorney for the state university of new york. also let you know a little bit later federal trade commission administrator john leibowitz will be on c-span 3 explaining the agency's 2013 budget request this afternoon and the administration is asking for $311 million next year. that's a decrease from this year at $300 million. you can watch the administrator here before the house appropriations subcommittee. we'll have that live at 3:00. >>> attorneys general from around the country are coming together here. they are in a break right now. they are expected to start back up in a couple of minutes. we will hear from former senator chris dodd talk about copyright infringement. over on our companion network c-span2 we will be live from the american israel public affairs committee conference held here in washington. and we'll hear from israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and nancy pelosi. again, that's at the apac meeting. live coverage tonight over on c-span 2. reminder tomorrow is super tuesday. republican presidential candidate

about music were intricately connected to their mathematical and philosophical description of the universe: how the planets, the sun and the stars vibrated in harmony, creating a "music of the spheres." in the ensuing 2,000 years, we've learned that this connection between math and music, whether mystical or not, is all about waves. sound is simply a disturbance of air, as pythagoras observed, a vibration, but as we now understand, a vibration that extends through space in the form of a wave. the initial disturbance can be caused by anything, and that anything is called an oscillator, like a vibrating string. but like ripples on a pond, the sound wave spreads when molecules in the air are disturbed and themselves begin to vibrate. the vibrating air molecules, in turn, bump into other nearby molecules, causing air pressure to compress and expand. this changing air pressure creates alternating waves that extend from the source of vibration. if a person is in the path of the sound wave and then the wave enters the ear, it's rapidly processed and recognized by the brain as sound. there are man

masters can't cope with our superior platform in industry connections a certain dark mistress of the universe has been heard to say if you are the queen you don't make markets you own the markets and everyone including goldman sachs pays exactly they own the market it's a rent seeking proposition they have a monopoly pricing there's no free market there's no competition they simply bludgeon these markets you know most spectacularly in the markets you know they would for example last week there was eight hundred million ounces of silver traded in one single day this is more than all the silver that's mine during the course of a year this is directly out of blights corrupt lawyer in this sprawling this trading activity that smashed the price of silver just to keep in good with her paper god masters who hate gold and silver because they pursued the god of paper well i thought with these two women love a girl i. blythe masters and isabelle battling out in the commodity pits i thought i would jump in there with sweet sweet silver stacey while you're killing only the strong you know book log of gir

. >>> and the university has already filed an appeal to reduce that 4 million dollar award. don, back to you. >> thank you very much, monique. >>> the federal department of education fined them $55,000, the school is appealing that also. >>> this morning the army private accused of giving classified information to wiki wikileaks returns to a courtroom for a hearing. in december he deferred pleas on the charges against him. if convicted he could spend the rest of his life in prison. >>> the family of a north carolina teenager murdered here takes their quest for justice to annapolis. >>> phylicia barnes disappeared in december of 2010 while visiting her sister in northwest baltimore. her body was found floating in the river months later. yesterday her dad spoke to lawmakers in favor of felicia's law. which could create mandatory guidelines. >> we knew her character would not have run away and want to make sure other families do not go through what we have been through. >> the committee is still debating the law and it is unclear if it will pass this session. >>> the governor go

dennis santinori had double checked and found the administration does not want the university placed in one district, district 7. i do not know where that came from. he has double checked and he will be writing the tube. we would prefer that it remained in split and that is what the university wants to be, in multiple districts. in any case if you were to put it in one, put it in five. the second issue is that in the course of attempting to satisfy the demands for folks in the northern area, japantown and the african american area in central, in the southern section in the lower haight, i would ask that you not move the inner sunset, district for any further into the inner sunset and leave it where you have got it at 15th avenue. thank you. vice-chair lam: thank you, next speaker. >> good evening. when i speak, could i please have the picture on the screen? i am from san francisco state university and a half 11 reasons why this of state should stay in district 11. more than-[unintelligible] services are offered to the district 11. there is 15,000 hours of service offered to people who

for the university of north carolina. >> thank you and good afternoon. i think i can speak on behalf of my colleagues across the country in higher education, we do take this very seriously. as i was talking with my panel of colleagues as we're planning how to approach this, we thought it would be great to work our way down a hierarchy, which leaves me batting cleanup. we have heard lots of things about this problem brigid lots of things about the challenges -- problem. lots of things about the challenges. all of this comes down to somebody like me who left to figure out what can we do? the good news, i think, is we have come up with what we think is a multi-faceted approach. while we certainly out technologies, our fundamental idea is not really a technological idea. what we are trying to do, as we have heard from everyone here, is to change the behavior. it is a terrible analogy, i guess -- it is trying to work with the mexican government to cut down on drug smuggling. you got to cut down on the demand side of that, not just the supply side. speaking of

by the name of milton freeman, a famous economist, and freedman remembers the university of chicago days. he said during the hutchins adler era, a favorite wisecrack was that the university of chicago was a baptist institution to which the good presbyterians sent their children to be converted to catholicism by a jew. it's tempt took thing of freedman has having been born in the university of chicago. coming out in a bunker's out and nerd glasses. but milton freedman was from somewhere very different from the university of chicago. he was from new jersey. and in rawway judge, milton freedman's immigrant family had various in-home businesses. he would get up in the morning good, downstairs, scoop ice cream at the family's ice cream parlor. he got a state scholarship to rutgers, and when he was at rutgers, he waited tables. not for a wage. didn't get paid. this is consistent with his later views on minimum wage. but didn't get paid. he got paid in a meal, and this resulted in the only c on his record at rutgers because he had to rush after eating his stuff his face, he had to rush to h

is known for we're sort of me until the first to the university of chicago and our job was to explain to the year or two of your peons in general in the italians in particular that the austerity is not necessary there is no need at all for the government to balance budgets in fact governments are supposed to run a budget deficit that's how they provide the private sector to production in a cut consumption economy with the money in the credit that it needs and the income but it needs to grow basic keynesian policy we also pointed out that when the central bank creates credit runs at levels that is not hyper inflationary what isn't glacial is the commercial banking systems flooding the economy with credit for the last thirty years to build up real estate prices stock and bond prices and that provided the credit for corporate rates takeovers and what is basically loading down the economy with debt and it is legit. if lation today right so it's a variation i keynesianism are updated version of keynesianism so how does it different their backgrounds and then what is already what already ex

the university sent out a text message and email warning to the students.n a veritable lockdown in this area while the search for this government continues. reporting live, stephen >> the snow came and went. >> 50 in the afternoon tomorrow, but close to 70 later in the week. ann coulter weekend. and we add one hour of daylight savings time. you can go to the website for the weather and all kinds of things. >> this whole winter has been this way. sunni one day, snow another. thanks for joining us. ♪ ♪ [ ale announcer ] for our families... our neighbors... and our communities... america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie labels so you know exactly what you're choosing... and in schools, replacing full-calorie soft drinks with lower-calorie options. with more choices and fewer calories, america's beverage companies are delivering. ♪ beth! hi! looking good. you've lost some weight. thanks. you noticed. these clothes are too big, so i'm donat

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well talk about where the people at the university of chicago in the magazines that it's put it senator isn't it will not permit a discussion so basically the free marketers are spent thursday they don't believe in a free market of ideas they believe and they didn't show it remember the first thing the chicago boys didn't show it was closed down every economics department in a country they thought that when they controlled one of their professors told harvard or was accused of us sitting as our colorado springs what economists should be excluded and he said he had no idea that they were going to have their stomachs cut open shit what our prisons thrown out over the oceans three he had no idea there are families that are already killed he had no idea that the people he was citing were going to be victims of the operation condor that killed up aus and some labor leaders and economists he had no idea that when he and the other people were closing down all the departments they were to be herded into stadiums and machine gun killed tortured shop at best the effect of the chicago school and c

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she's been a member of the university of maryland community for two decades and has helped the university too establish the anwar sadat chair for peace development. hers has been a steady and insightful voice we've continued to hear including here at the university last spring. the university of maryland brought in the behavioral sciences have been honored to count mrs. sadat as one of us. it is my pleasure to present mrs. sadat to you. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. thank you for your kind words and for your support of the sadat dhar and international studies group. ladies and gentlemen, it is my pleasure to introduce our honorable panelists of this event forum. but before i do so, i'd like to say a few words about the arab awakening that has been sweeping much of the arab world. especially my greek country egypt. in this regard i want to welcome our ambassador who is here today. egypt is, of course, going through challenges. both economically and politically as it transitions to democracy. i know that our panelists will discuss some these challenges, but i want to make a few comme

the university law firm represents a client who sued the farms. some lawmakers want to wrap lot -- one to level the playing field for farmers. >> if you are going to go after maryland farm families, this is a way to break off some money so they have reached for -- recourse. >> the subcommittee voted to keep the governor's recommendation for breakfast programs in schools. the senate is leaning toward a the 0.25% across-the-board increase in state income tax. the house has its anti-tax for the top 7% to 10% wage earners only. -- has its eye on attacks for the top 7% to 10% wage earners. the senate is looking at phasing in teacher pensions, one-third of the amount each year over three years. also, reworking the foreman on how local school districts pay for student costs. -- the formula on how local districts pay for student costs. that legislation hanging in the balance includes doubling of the flesh tax, wind energy, and the governor's transportation bill, which includes a gas tax increase. >> tomorrow, the senate committee will get a briefing on th

we're doing that with seven scholarship players on the university of missouri basketball team this year. effective efficient use of scholarship dollars is what it takes to deliver a winning program in the ncaa i guess. with that, it's my job to introduce the true experts with our panel today. amy wilkinson is an entrepreneurship scholar with a joint appointment at the woodrow wilson international center and harvard university. her expertise centers on how leaders must change in order to change today's entrepreneurial age. she's writing a book forthcoming from simon and schuster, based on 250 interviews that will explain how innovation has altered traditional assumptions, and will demonstrate how to harness this change. amy happens a diverse private and public sector background. she's led a mexican art export company. amy worked for mackenzie and company as a strategic consultant the. she has public sector experience serving as a white house fellow. amy will discuss key characteristics of high impact entrepreneurs and offer some practical policy solutions to help foster an entrepreneuria

can you explain for the committee your thoughts on universal service fund reform? you know what i read of what you said is that you agreed with some. you had concerns about the other, some other parts and then disagreed with the other. so if you wouldn't mind, explaining to all of us here your specific -- thoughts. >> one of the concerns is that we have not yet addressed the taxing side of universal reform. that's how you pay for all this. there are four funds, spend money, under the universal sfgs umbrella and we've gotten to most of those. reforming the spending side but haven't gotten to the contribution or taxing side. so the chairman and i here talk about this on a regular basis. it's my hope we can launch another notice of those rulemaking as quickly as possible, and conclude it this year. we need to expand the, and broaden the base of contributor, and low are the contribution factor. make it sort of a flatter tax. of sorts. right now we're taking a lot from a shrinking pool of revenue. and we do need to brought broaden that bait and redubase sooner we can get

to a developing story at the university of maryland. t faces charges this morning for threatening to go a shooting rampage at the college park campus. tracee wilkins has more on the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. university of maryland police say that it's what the student was posting on line that led to his arrest. he was arrested on campus, 10:00 a.m. yesterday morning. police say that he was not armed at the time. 19-year-old alexander song of fulton, maryland, is undergoing an emergency psychiatric evaluation. he's also facing charges for disturbing the orderly conduct of campus administration activities or classes. that's a misdemeanor that carries a fine of -- carries a fine and also six months in jail. among the thoughts police say he posted on web sites saturday night were, "i will be on a shooting rampage tomorrow on campus. hopefully i kill enough people to make it to national news." and "stay away from the mall tomorrow at 1:30." the university sent out an alert letting students know around 11:30 a.m. so they

and then if the tax measure doesn't pass, that is definitely something that state university wants, ifhat tax measure to pass, so then there will be more students out on the street. >> david, this is a hot topic of conversation here, because of where they, berkeley, a place known for activism, how big is this in l.a.? >> it's huge here. cal state runs the gamut through the entire state and a lot of conversation about essentially mortgaging our future as we deny good quality higher education to students, but what i have to wonder, nanette, how much are cal state administrators playing chicken, not just with lawmakers, but also with taxpayers and voters, essentially holding a gun to our head, and saying if you don't give us the money you want, we are not going to educate your kids. >> that's true, but the state university or state subsidizes state tuition. so they will going to cut students from the roles, going to layoff teachers. what happens they say, governor brown is saying to. if the tax measure does not pass, another 200 million will be cut from the budget. so, you know, that's ju

of georgia and a professor at freedom university and the start of a magical undocumented youth in georgia and a freedom university student i want to thank you both so much for joining us tonight and i guess so i want to start with you and i just want to get your opinion on what you think is happening within the state why you think that lawmakers there already clearly restrictions for undocumented immigrants there in attending university so why do they want to take it even further and bar it and how does that make you feel. well i think i believe that's the reason why they want to take you you can further you know i'm top of the list and from universities. as they only know that there's real problems going on in this that they don't want to address and they want to scapegoat undocumented students and immigrants like me and say oh it's you know it's their fault that we're going through there is that these problems exist and we're going to deal with them instead of the feeling with the real causes in the real problems that exist here in the state and the way it makes me feel the way it makes

the car crashed into a car full of students from bowling green state university. the driver died and she killed two students. two other students are still in critical condition. >>> a florida teacher punishes her student for missing an important state test. now, the boy's mother is calling for disciplinary action. daphne cantleary says her son thomas was forced to wear a sign around his neck, saying he missed the sign, despite being sick. the teacher apologized. >>> a new low in youth sports. a massachusetts father shines a laser into the eyes of the other team at his daughter's hockey game. as jonathan elias reports, the father is now apologizing for his actions. >> i was at the game. you know, it was the last game of the season. >> reporter: and what joe cortes did at that game has everyone talking. he's the one who took out a laser, like this one, and shined it in the faces of some of the girls from the midway ashland team in a big play-off game against winthrop. his daughter was playing for winthrop. >> i was not trying to shoot it at any other girls playing. >

the welcomes for the people of liberals like ruben won't talk about where the people of the university of chicago in the magazines that it's put a senator is and it will not permit discussion so basically the free marketers are so thirsty they don't believe in a free market of ideas they believe in but they didn't show it remember the first thing the chicago boys didn't show it was closed down every economics the department in a country a photo when they controlled one of their professors paul of harvard or was accused of us sitting in his auto room figuring what economists should be excluded and he said he had no idea that they were going to have their stomachs cut open shared by coppers and thrown out over the ocean yet no idea there are families would all be killed he had no idea that the people he was fighting were going to be victims of the operation condor that held up by rosen's of labor leaders economists he had no idea that one of the other people were closing down all in apartments that they were to be herded into the stadium so the machine gun kelly tortured but that's the a

. >> on the university mall today, police offered a reassuring presence and students viewed the threats as the real thing. >> i think that is a significant threat and i don't want him here. i don't want someone here that is going to threaten the campus like that. >> at the university of maryland, scott broom, 9news now. >>> prosecutors say they are reluctantly dropping the charges against a part-time teacher accused of having sex with a student. dropping the charges because of a legal technicality. last month, 47-year-old scott speier was charged with having sex with a 16-year-old. the prosecutors say the case is no more and that legal technicality, well, it is all about speier being a part-time employee at the school. >> has to be a full-time employee of the school. teacher, principal, add min spray tore, something along those lines. but as a part-time employee, he falls into a loophole. there's no crime with which he can be charged. >> schools will conduct their own investigation into whether speier engaged in inappropriate behavior with that 16-year-old and speier remains on leave. s

the president of of a murieta university will discuss the administration's coverage of birth control. you can call in with your questions about u.s. international trade to stephen -- steve landefeld and ryan avent. >> dennis kucinich to last in this primary says it is very unlikely he will make another run for a house. he made a comment yesterday on fox news yesterday. looking at the senate race in massachusetts, new analysis of money raised last quarter showed that while 35% of senator brown's case -- cash was raised out of state, that came out of massachusetts. david cameron comes to washington next wednesday -- with president obama, he will attend an ncaa tournament game in dayton, ohio. the house of representatives passed for a -- pass a jobs bill making it easier for businesses to gain new investors and with hopes of hiring more workers. our first 45 minutes of this morning, we want to take your thoughts on the passage of this bill and over all, the house and senate creating jobs. here is how you can participate. 202-737-0001 202-737-0002 202-628-0205 e-mail is also accessible or

we have no issues with the facts going out. >> i didn't know why the university has put it on hold before the judge as even looked at papers but i suspect if the judge says it can be released that the university will do so promptly. >> reporter: as i just left the courtroom, this case is being heard but the judge seemed to indicate that the report issued by a task force led by former california supreme court justice renoso should not be made public, the university should provide a copy of the report to the police union and the court for review and come back for another hearing about the issue later this month. reporting live in oakland, christie smith, nbc bay area news. >>> it's not just any tuesday. it is super tuesday. with polls in seven states already open, caucuses starting in four more tonight the race for president is critical. nbc bay area's tracie potts live in ohio with a look at candidates and what today can mean for republicans. tracy, good morning. >> reporter: marla, good morning. it's critical and it could be very interesting because even if candidates don't win a state's

ki, back to you. >> ron, thank you. >>> the university says it's looking into whether the chalk messagesiolate school policy. >>> the key bait over medical marijuana takes center stage today in annapolis. in less than an hour maryland lawmakers will begin debating three medical marijuana bills in the house of delegates committee. the governor is expected to veto the legislation because of conflicts with federal laws. one proposal would allow the drug to be prescribed to ease the suffering of those with debilitating conditions. >>> also in annapolis, state lawmakers move ahead with a tax increase on cigars and smokeless tobacco. it's part of the governor's plan to raise or cut more than $1 billion from the state budget. the same committee also approved a plan to transfer some teacher pension costs from the state to local governments. >>> employers continue their hiring spree in february, making for three of the best months since the end of the recession. allison harmilin reports for wjz, the numbers were better than expected. reporter: the line stretched down the block at this job fair in

the state of virginia is deffnddig the actions of university officials during the mass shooting at irginia tech in 2007.these are some of the images from that day.the parents of 2 of the victimm are suing .... saying tte university respondee too slowly.in court monday... law enforcement defended the pinitialá conclusion oo police... that the first two shootings in a dorm room were the result of domestic violence... and did ánotá endanger the rest of campus. but a state panel that shootings said the school made a mistake by not warning the rest of campus sooner.32 students dded on april 16th 2007... when áseung-hui choá went on a shooting raapage on campus... then eventuallyy &pkilled imself. the veteran baltimooe police officer... accused of stealing hundreds of dollars in grooeeies from a ssore...is suspended áwithá pay.... pending an investigatton. investigation.veteran detective darlene early allegedly stoleethe groceries from this food depot on bel air road.her 18-year-old daughter is a cashier there... her mother.this is just one of the several accusations of criminal wrongdoing again