to start the universe just like i said. you wind up with a circular argument proving the assumption you made. that idea that god is what started the universe. quantum fluctuations of gravity started the universe therefore there is no god, that doesn't prove that. all that proves is if that is what god is, god must be gravity which explains why catholics celebrate mass. [laughter] more to the point, do you remember that game mouse trap rehab all the little pieces and you wind up with this incredibly complicated thing at the end of the game somebody gets to roll the ball and the mouse trap comes down? that idea of god is saying that god is the guy who starts the ball rolling. it's one of the players in the game who starts the ball rolling. god is the guy back at the ideal toy company who invented the game. believers who insist binding extraterrestrial intelligence will confirm their belief in god and atheist who are convinced it's going to be the opposite opposite are armored imposing the answers they expect to see onto the u

that means we are all at the center of this universe. what god loves in us, god loves in the rest of the universe. carl saggan once made the claim that we are all star stuff. maybe it's equally true to say that the stars are also us. -- are also us stuff. the existence of all these other self-aware entities raises an interesting challenge to each of us. are we willing to accept the presence of some other self-aware beings in the universe? even as we're aware of the presence of god are we willing to accept maybe there's somebody else that god cares about, too, who is also aware of god? put it another way. we are people with intelligence. but intelligence only makes sense if there's someone else to share that intelligence with. we only grow and stretch ourselves when we are challenged to relate to others. the ability to be self-aware and the free will to act on that awareness, the basic definition of the soul, implies, maybe it even demand the existence of another entity in this universe also self-aware whom we can choose to love or choose

in a lawsuit filed against the coach and the university. he claims that the 20-year-old was asked to perform sex acts on camera in the coach's office. exchange he says he was promised meetings with baseball scouts. >> it got to the point of me said you can do the videos. if you do them, i'll help you get to where you are going. he said you can do this for me and you'll be good here, and play baseball and i'll get you to where you are going, or if you don't. things will go sour. >> why didn't you tell anyone? >> how do you tell someone that? i mean, that's - i'm so embarrassed by it. how do you tell someone you had to go through it, you had to do that, you know. how do you go about that, without feeling low or - just like a piece of dirt? >> reporter: lampassis who agreed to speak to "america tonight" admits making the sex videos. >> i admit it. it shouldn't happen, i'm the coach. some say i used undue influence, i don't think so. i know his lawsuits say i promised him these things and forced him into it. it's a lie. >> his career as a coach

he can't set foot on any auburn university property, i december for the rest of his life. >> the universitydeclined our request for an interview however,s: >> it is true that u.s. colleges are required by federal law title 9 of the civility rights act to investigate all claims of sexual assault or lose federal funding. but campus hearings like josh's have caused concerns. yes means yes laws have fanned the fears. >> there is a change in the way sexual assault charges are being handled at campus. they don't get the due process rights that many americans would expect to have occur. >> despite the fact that a grand jury found no evidence to indict you, auburn university still chose to expel you. why? >> the explanation we just came one is just title 9 compliance. they had to have something to say that they're complying with this federal mandate to try keep the funding that they get. >> reporter: josh and his mother founded this advocacy group, called face, other mothers of sons who have been accused of sexual assault on college campuses. >> how in the world without any evidence without any wit

. >> on the weekend edition of "america tonight": a university schooled. in our series, sex crimes in sport, "america tonight's" sarah hoye on the campus and the community shamed. >> there's also been banner headlines. this is rape capital. this is the rape campus. >> some students caulk on water they can do no wrong and can get away with murder almost, it seems. >> can scandal force a university to follow a change concept? >> you were putting something out on the market that you didn't think would be safe? >> so i didn't go slumping anymore. >> "america tonight's" michael okwu, is the gulf catch safe to eat? thanks for joining us, i'm joie chen. thisit is high season on the gulf coast. five years since the worst owl spill in u.s. history. in 2010, the deep water horizon exploded and leaked huns of thousands of gallons into the gulf of mexico. there are deep questions about what lies beneath the surface. michael okwu returns there to those who know just how much has changed. >> what kind of fish are you catching in these waters? >> puppy drums drums,. >> te

the university signed an agreement with the doj agreeing to policy changes, including training university employees, how to investigate and report assaults, the university fired both the football coach and athletic director. in a letter to the university, the doj said the agreement will serve as a blood blueprint to are protect students from sexual assault . >> it has been pretty egregious with how the university of montana has been looked at. do you think that was a fair assessment? >> no. i don't think anybody here does. i think the missoula community was heartbroken. i think campus community was heartbroken to be called that. >> reporter: since the doj agreement, there have been 22 reports of sexual assault to the university, including one of rape. in fact the doj investigation found problems that went beyond the university of montana. it found the county prosecutor fred von valkenberg had only reported some of the rape charges, disregarded sexual assault incidents to the point of putting women in missoula at increased risk of harm. in kelsey's case she says she often felt like she was

first i want to try to i want to talk about the hybrid university. your whole premise which everyone seems to like and don't like anything else, so first of all you say there are too many alternatives to hybrids earlier in the book. by the end you are saying most students don't attend hybrid so i wonder probably the bigger question teaching research training professional training all put together under one roof. which kevin says this is thing that happened unintentionally over time with deleterious results especially for teaching and learning. what do you think? i will ask andy since you are research university. is it such a bad way to organize university? >> kevin said some kind things about my little book. any idea what should be a good way. kevin kindly mentioned by book which i quote at chemist at cornell who wrote a wonderful article called research strategy strategy. teach. by which he meant if you want to keep your mind alert and teaching the introductory course at m.i.t. and changing it every year year if he wants to stay on your toes there a

ordering to campus records, the university police never reported the rape to huntsville police or the maddison county district attorney university officials declined to appear on camera, issue this statement instead: after his arrest the hockey coach tweeted: >> it has a special place. >> reporter: was it fair to say hockey players here can do no wrong? >> yes, clearly. >> reporter: i hate to say this i say do not use a single campus facility after you've been raped for beaten up. do not. no campus police no crisis center no campus medical center - nothing like that. you go off campus. and i've had ... >> reporter: why? >> because of the influence of that - of the athletic programme. it's just that influential. >> kathy redman brown speaks from personal experience. in 1995, it claimed the university of nebraska handled rape. the founder of a national coalition against violent athletes and she works to change the culture of sports, working against athletes and rape victims. >> there's so much that needs to be done. the current culture in this society is making it difficult to do what n

own money not because that one report the state as well as university. three, it is a reminder that edmund burke was corrupt and the old clichÉs true, the triumph of evil is always the book. faculty at unc was largely within the category of the silence of the lambs to end the administration was largely in the category of commits if i just close my eyes command will go away this book this book will tell you how it was at the top and also some ideas they have about how it might be kept from that way again: i cannot tell you how proud i am of both of them. [applause] >> thank you for coming in fighting the rain. >> sometimes we change our name. we like to do that. i still have married. i have only known him as j. maybe you have changed your name recently. >> this book is, of course, is, of course, about the particulars of the unc scandal, what happened at chapel hill and how and why our administration faculty leadership failed to provide the proper leadership for so long train 2010 at 2014. you will find all the details in this book. but. but really, we thin

the university signed an agreement with the d.o.j. agreeing to policy change, including training employees on how to investigate and conducting surveys on students. the university fired the football coach and athletic director. in a letter, the d.o.j. said the agreement would serve as a blueprint for colleges and universities throughout the country to protect students from sexual harassment and assault. >> the president doesn't like us to be considered the blueprint. it's because this is something universities. >> university of montana christine advices the school on addressing sexual violence and oversees the survey. >> the school has been criticized and there's headlines - this is the rape capital, rape campus. it's egregious in terms or how the university of montana was looked at. assessment? >> no, i don't think anyone here does. i think that - the missoula community was heart broken, and the campus community was heart broken to be called that. especially because we don't have any more statistically than other university campuses.

and by that i mean the state as well as the university. and three it's a remainder that edmund burke is correct, the triumph over evil is a result of the silence of the good. faculty at unc was largely within the category of the silent of the lambs. and the administration was largely in the category of if i just close my eyes ill witness go away. this -- it will go away. this book wellte tell you how it might be kept from happening again, but i cannot tell you how proud i am of both of them, as indeed frank porter graham and terry sanford and bill friday would have been of them. so it's a great pleasure for me to introduce both of them. [applause] >> thank you all for coming tonight. it's starting to rain. >> sometimes we change our names just because we like to do that because we don't want to people to know who we are, but i still am mary and this is -- i've only known him as jay, but have you have changed your name recently. is that true? >> well, professor smith, as we like to say. >> well, this book is, of course, about the unc scandal

they believe he's behind the attack on the university. mahmood is said to be a leader of al shabaab and on the run in kenya. he claimed responsibility for last september's assault on a bus in which 28 people died >>> iran's foreign minister says significant progress has been made over nuclear talks in switzerland. marathon meetings are continuing two days past their deadline. >>> what we expect today is a statement and the fact that we have all reached common understanding on how to resolve the issues. but the agreement, a written agreement, is something that needs to be drafted by all participants and agreed upon in a multilateral process and that will take hopefully three months to finalize hopefully less. >>reporter: so a joint statement allowing a more detailed agreement to be written down by june 30th. at that point, there may even be a u.n. security council resolution to enshrine it in law. if there is an agreement, it will be presented by the iranian foreign minister and the european union's foreign policy chief. but exactly where a

there are about 500 students at the university. f the hostel is full it could be up to 100 civilians in there with how many attackers in there. we heard from a witnesses they have been getting calls from people calling their sons et cetera calling their families hiding under beds saying they can hear the attacks happening, but they have to get off the phone. obviously this is a traumatic time. i remember during westgate i lived close to westgate. you could hear the gunshots and screaming of people caught inside. it has to be awful. garissa is a small town for the residents listening to this unfold and not knowing what is going on. >> it is still an active situation. the interior minister saying they have the gunmen cornered. students clearly terrified on the campus. we will continue to monitor that. thank you, robyn kriel for your expertise on al shabaab and what is happening there in southeastern kenya. >>> 37 minutes past the hour. happening this morning necessitygotiateors still struggling to reach a deal on the iran nuclear prog

the gunmen attacked the university at around 5:30 local time. you see where it is in relation to nairobi there. the security forces are finding it difficult to get into the area itself because the militants are shooting at them from the roof within the compound. this is what we do know so far. at least 14 people are dead. two of them guards shot at the university gates. another 50 or so are wounded. there have been reports, as well, that many staff and students are still trapped inside the compound. well, the militant group, al shabaab, has said in the last hour, that it's responsible for these attacks. the kenyan interior ministry has been tweeting say that of the four hostiles three have been evacuated. the attackers are cornered and the operations are going on. well kenya's national disaster operations has also been putting out messages about the majority of those being wounded, have gunshot wounds and another tweeter says four are in critical condition and have been airlifted to nairobi. we can hear also now from an eyewitness to the attack.

it was robert maynard hutchins the very well known president of the united university of chicago, who wrote in his 1930s book "the idea of the university," still a very modern approach to thinking about higher education and the book begins along the lines of the most important thing to understand about the university is the confusion that besets it. and in many ways, the first part of my book -- which is a history of american higher education -- is the story of that confusion. where it came from and what it continues to still mean today. and i think i don't believe anything that it says, that the book says about the history of american higher education is really all that contested or controversial. i claim no original scholarship. many of the ideas have been represented in books of higher education history that have been used for a long time. the book talks quite a bit about how in the formational period of american higher education in the late 19th century we decided or allowed to happen an organizational model that stuck together three essential purposes; the research university whi

like the kids at northwestern university. ll understand better what they have to do. >> brown: all right. >> let meed a one more. the coaches are responsible and so are the parents as educators. that's all part and parcel of the leadership development at intercollegiate sports presents. >> brown: len elmore and emmett gill, thank you very much. >> ifill: finally, to our newshour shares of the day, something that caught our eye that might be of interest to you, too. today the white house held its 137th annual easter egg roll. children flooded the south lawn to play games, dance with the first lady, and frolic with a giant bunny. the white house historical association and library of congress found some extraordinary photos of past celebrations. this one from the south lawn dates back to 1898. in 1927, first lady grace coolidge brought her pet raccoon, rebecca. and in 1930, children danced around a maypole. we've posted all these images, and more, on our website, >> ifill: again, the major developments of the day: a fraternity at

also coming up in the next 30 minutes, al shabaab gunmen kill 147 at a kenyan university. more students are still unaccounted for. >>> the saudi-led coalition says it's determined to rid the southern city of aden of houthi rebels who they say now are isolated. >>> a drought forces california's governor to order a 25% cut in water consumption. >>> iran and six world powers have reached an understanding which it's hoped will lead to a comprehensive nuclear deal in three months. it would limit iran's nuclear enrichment to one site only and also reduce its stock pile to 300. in return the eu and u.s. gradually will start to lift nuclear related sanctions after inspections by the iaea the international atomic energy agency. the aim is for a new deal to be completed by june 30th and it should include a u.n. security council endorsement. the european union's foreign policy speech started by detailing iran's side of the deal. >> as iran pursues a peaceful nuclear ram, iran's enrichment capacity level, and stock pile will be limited for specific durations, and there will be no other

they carried out a dawn attack on the university college. around the time muslim students say their prayers at the mosque and that's where they began the attack they are said to have fired in this community before proceeding on the dormitories where other students were fast asleep. and now this is one of the biggest institutions in that part of the country. teachers students, and also the workers of the university come from all parts of kenya and this might be the reason why those who attacked chose given the hallmark of the attacks have been happening in the area where people of a certain faith or from different backgrounds were being targeted for killing. now, the latest we are hearing from the police is that they have managed to push back the other tackers to one of the dormitories where they are said to be holding hostages. the military has been called n the police are also there and they have cordoned off the whole university compound and are not allowing anybody to enter or leave. >> mohamed, has there been a claim of responsibility as

and each filled with hundreds of billions of stars. >> startling insight in the course of the universeelf by tracing it backward in time to places more than 13 billion light years from earth. >> the galaxys are not only flying away from each other but accelerating and this tells us the universe is filled with mysterious energy they call dark energy. >> reporter: the only one to be serviced in space by astronauts 1993 a fatal flaw in the largest mirror almost made it worthless, but nasa dispatched a repair crew that corrected the error. hubble is expected to keep operating for the next few years but an instrument 100 times more powerful the web space telescope is due to be launched in 2018. >> one of the big hopes is we have web and hubble operating at the same time and open up a new window in the universe. >> reporter: to produce revelations about worlds yet to be discovered tom ackerman al jazeera, green belt maryland. >>> nba the first u.s. sports league to take advantage of relations with cuba and are training young athletes and just wants to focus on sports not politics. current an

he said you know said bill friday i was just talking to a young woman who's here at the university who seems to know some things which are very disturbing and i told her well i can't do too much to help but why don't you go over and talk to the folks in the south building, that is to say the administration. the it was mary willingham. i did not think a great deal about that at the time except i figured bill friday were telling me it must have some substance. but i was already worried that so many of us were about the indications without much proof. i also is a sort of member from the faculty would go from time to time to the meeting of the faculty council because among other things it's a way to find out what is at the heart of the academic enterprise is thinking as well as the administration. there i discovered one thing that was going on was if your name is jeff smith and you got up and said prophetic things about sports you might as well have been a media pariah because you were and the one thing i can tell you about what jeff spoke was people turn their heads not to listen but to s

in my opinion, that she is the face of the university at this point and it's the first female chancellor we've had in 220 or so it's pretty exciting but she was at the mediation. she made an appearance. she was trying to do the best she could. she had a team of attorneys. i think should also like to get this behind her and i really wish just like i'd wished for holden, i wish they had more support in leadership at the university from the board of trustees and the board of governors but again big money boosters, very complicated. so think it's a system. i think we can look at just the one person or focus on a person but it's the whole system that needs, we just lost tom ross presidentpresident ross. much repair work needs to be done to i don't think we can blame it all on her. >> headed in the wrong direction. >> we just -- it's not in here. >> as a faculty member it's easier for me to say yes i wish fulton being what it behaved differently but i know darn well that faculty should of been putting heat on the ministry all along and they've not done that and there's no excuse for it. >> tha

give us an update on what you now know is happening inside the university. i know it's still a very fluid situation. >>reporter: after a very heavy fire fight this afternoon which reached a climax during the end of the afternoon, after that fighting stopped. we've since spoken to some on the phone inside the university compound so eyewitnesses, they say at the moment people are still a bit concerned and worried about going into the buildings and most of the fighting and most of the dead hostages are because they think there may still be one assailant in there. the loud explosions heard this afternoon may have been one or possibly two of the assailants wearing suicide vests and blowing up and they believe the remaining assailants in the building could also be wearing suicide vests. so they're trying to tread very carefully carefully. >> a lot of people criticizing the security at the university. i think there were just two police guards there. >>reporter: two security guards. that's right. two armed guards. they were both killed by the attackers as soon as the

university president released a statement, saying the safety of this student, paramount to the university, as they work with police to try to catch the person who opened fire on campus last night and possibly the same person who fired at that university housing complex just around the corner. live in dover, jesse gary nbc 10 news. >>> coming up new on 10:04, and new from overnight, police are investigating a deadly shooting in west philadelphia. nbc 10 on north preston street where someone opened fire around 1:00 a.m. a 23-year-old man was hit in the head, neck and arm. he was pronounced dead at a local hospital. so far, police have not made any arrests. >>> in burlington county crews are looking for the cause of a house fire in mt. holly. a viewer captured this video. you could see the smokey scene. flames hit the home along church street just before midnight. firefighters got the blaze under control a few hours later. they called for a demolition crew to board up the house because of safety concerns. no one was hurt. >>> we just got these photos of a forest fire on blue mountain. that's

scientists hope they'll now be able to reveal what makes up the universe. >>reporter: back in action and more powerful than ever over the last two years, they've been busy upgrading the world's biggest particle accelerator deep under the swiss border. in 2012, an unexpected break through was announced. scientists finally discovered the higgs-boson, an elementary particle that gives master other particles earning the nickname the god particle. >> there would be no atoms no nukeclei nuclei. >>reporter: it contains a ring of superconducting magnets with accelerating structures that boost particles as they hurtle down the tunnel. soon they'll be traveling at almost the speed of light and analyzing their collisions could reveal new scientific secrets. dark matter is the invisible matter that makes up 84% of the known universe but can only be dedetected by its influence on others but there could be many more discoveries. >>> we spoke to a professor at harvard university. >> the most advanced machine that humans constructed in the sense that it reaches the highest

they identified the man they say led the attack in last week's deadly siege at the university. who is he? where could he have fled? >>> failure of journalism. "rolling stone" under fire for not following the most basic guidelines before a graphic article about an alleged gang rape at uva. the fallout and apology ahead. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." it is monday april 6th. i'm christine romans. this morning, new perspective from key heperspective in the deal with iran's nuclear program. and the israeli reluctance hashed out last week in switzerland. the president said he is quote absolutely committed to making sure the israelis maintain the qualitative military edge over iran and their arab neighbors. the president reinforced his argument that the deal is the best way to protect israel's security. something he says he takes seriously. >> i would consider it a failure on my part. a fundamental failure on my presidency if on my watch, or as a consequence of work i have done, israel was more vulnerable vulnerable. >> it was an all out lobbying offensive from all sides

at this time police not dover police are directing all calls to the university. they cannot tell us if the people shot were students, they can't say for sure if there was one person involved in the shooting or more shooters that they are looking for. a lot of questions that need to be answered in dover. that's where we're live today annie mccormick channel 6 "action news." >> thanks, annie. >>> hundreds turned out at a north philadelphia catholic church to pray for ryan gillyard. many attended the mass behind the high school. the linebacker and running back was on the practice field for a conditioning workout when i collapsed in front of his teammates. his coaches could not revive the team. ryan was rushed to the temple yumpt hospital where he was pronounced -- university hospital where he was pronounced dead. his father sailed he had no preexisting medical conditions and was playing football since third grade. >>> new at noon, philadelphia police say charges have been filed against a person after a horrifying hit-and-run. 29-year-old precious richard coleman is b

of california and the cal state university system. california has the best system of higher education of any state in the country. i ought to know, i was the governor of another state. so i know the comparisons. and so for a state like california, based on innovation entrepreneurship and all of the things that make california such a great place to be and such a great economic engine for the country, all pivot off of the higher education system that we have. >> the president has come up with an idea of making two years of community college free, much like elementary education and high school education is free these days. putting it under that public education dre la. what do you think of that idea? >> i like that idea. i like it for several reasons, one is that it creates the expectation that our students should go beyond high school and given the kind of world our young people are going to be graduating into, the more education they can get, the better off they are. now not all students want to go to a four-year university. but those t

the very next day, the university was attacked. and the students say that there were only two security guards there. garissa is the town that has been attacked -- more people have died from al shabaab attacks in garissa than anywhere else. if you add it all up over the years. why there were only two security guards at a place where the government said was a place at risk of being targeted was unfathomable. >> there are also reports from other sources that al shabaab peaked on a slightly downward curve. >> al shabaab peaked in a way in somalia which is about 150 kilometers from the town of garissa. but they have in recent years, increased their activity in kenya. there was the westgate shopping mall attack that everyone remembers, but i follow somalia and kenya very closely, and almost every week, there are attacks by al shabaab in that border region between kenya and somalia and also in the coast, sometimes in nairobi. so al shabaab in a way has become a regional movement and it is extremely active in kenya. >> well al shabaab certa

while she met drew it turns out no one worked at the university pool. "rolling stones" admitted that it did not independently verify jacky's account. in december it published an apology, calling the magazine's trust inform jacky misplaced. laura dunn a rape survivor and lawyer, was quoted in the article. >> to hear that they were digging into the issue, and packing it on a campus i was excited. i thought the coverage would be important for others. >> they worry the important point, a conversation about sexual assault will get lost in the fall out. >> doesn't mean it didn't happen or the story doesn't have an important role. >> e va imposed new rules to make parties safer. >> there's a lot of discussion about journal. >> behind the article. it's irrelevant to what we are trying to do. we think that the article pointed out changes that need to be made. >> in late march the charlottesville police chief announced investigators found no evidence to support the allegations made by jacky in the article. he added that it doesn't mean something terrible didn't ha

any sense from your work in the university for something like the smithsonian when it comes to those sort of things in the future. >> a great question. everyone i have ever worked at come a pyramidal structure were many people give amounts their comfortable with and fewer give more and fewer give more. you are able to give enormous breathtaking gifts. and that kind of pyramid is true for every nonprofit that raises money and i am hugely impressed the smithsonian has raised billions of dollars toward the campaign an organization that does not have alumni but the brand of the smithsonian, if i can use that word, is fabulous. i i have been trained turn that baby off. i think that the fundraising will be different but it will be doable and a lot of people are supportive of it. but despite the fundraising and despite the very generous money that comes from the us government they will be a push to find other, what i we will call enterprise tie funding and every nonprofit thinks about this broad range of revenue streams. but i we will say that defining where the line is the indefinitely and

the university of virginia has a small chapter in its story. for three days in march, 1865, the city of charlottesville at the university were occupied by union forces. uva law professor john miner wrote in his diary that he feared general sheridan's men would destroy the university. his fears were not unfounded. only a month later, union troops did indeed burn the university of alabama whose campus was designed on the model of thomas jefferson's academic village. fortunately, this university had a measure of protection that alabama would not have. the uva administrators had long attempted to distance the university from the civil war conflict even seeking exemptions for military service for uva students. when the union troops arrived on march 3, local officials surrendered the town and university leaders including faculty chair socrates molfin request a protection for the university using a bed sheet as a flag of truce. union soldiers set fire to the charlottesville manufacturing company which had produced confederate uniforms and they destroye

the campus. garissa university college. and the fear that those students must be experiencing at this point is horrendous. of course, their parents, family, loved ones watching on as they're waiting to hear the situation there at this campus. we know military and police are on the scene. as we've been reporting to you. kenya red cross saying 30 people at this point have been taken to hospital. four of those in a serious condition. and we're mostly talking about gunshot wounds here. >> yeah. we'll continue to gather more information on what is still a developing and scary situation there at the garissa university. stay with us. i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. aww, this audit will take days. what a headache! actually...i... don't have a headache anymore! excedrin really does work fast. quiet! mom has a headache! had a

have announced the creation of the largest map yet of the invisible material that helps make up the universe's known as dark matter. jeffrey brown explores some of the very cosmic questions around this story. >> brown: that's worth saying again: we can't see it, but we can, apparently, map it. what's called "dark matter" is, in fact, everywhere, and it's believed to play a crucial role in forming and holding together galaxies with its gravitational pull. in findings announced monday, researchers used a "dark energy camera" and a large telescope in northern chile to create this color-coded map, showing a small piece of the visible sky. orange and red areas represent denser concentrations of dark matter. blue areas are less dense. sean carroll joins me to tell us about it. he's a cosmologist and theoretical physicist at the "california institute of technology." thanks so much for joining us and helping us here. can we start with a basic question: what is dark mattered? >> sure. dark matter is some kind of particle, just like ordinary matter. you andry made of atoms. there's some other kind of

what is the security like there at the university? >> the kenyan army, also the gsu, which is the police unit, we also have police units at the scene. we have the ambulance support also. >> robert, we shall leave it there. getting some good information from his sources on the ground. essentially 500 students on the campus, unknown number of gunmen, believed to be al shabab. we now know -- >> this university may have been targeted by al shabab and now word that the kenyan army is on the scene. as soon as we get more details about what is happening inside that university, we'll bring it to you as soon as we can. in the meantime, we'll move on to the war on isis. one step forward, one step back. iraq says its forces have finally swept isis out of tikrit. prime minister al abadi was there to celebrate. he was there in the city held by militants for nearly a year. >> the iraqi army had significant help from shia militia and u.s.-led air strikes. but at the same time, isis has made a major advance in syria, overrunning parts of a refugee cam

one alum threatens to stop donating to the university. tom: on campus, they are set up for the maryland day tomorrow, but there is controversy. 1400 people have signed a petition wanting a reversal so the film can be shown on campus. >> they have been advised against speaking with the media. tom: a muslim student group that opposed to showing "american sniper" on campus was a no-show for a press conference. a representative would not say who pressure the group not to speak. >> we recognize it is about a decorated war hero. :tom: some believe parts of the movie inspire hatred. >> there have been threats made against muslims. tom: but backlash against the university is growing. one of maryland's most famous graduates, boomer esiason, said he was never donating another dime to the university. and a frederick county state delegate is organizing his own showing. some students are upset they will not be up to see the oscar-nominated film on campus. >> i love the movie, i love the concept, i love the country, and the fact they will not show it is

to the closure of the university of maryland. at the live desk scott mcfarlane. >>> a single father and his seven children discovered dead in a home. this afternoon the medical examiner's office ruled though deaths accidental. the result of carbon monoxide poisoning. >> the seven children ranged in age from 6 to 16. police say the home was being powered by a gas generator. >>> it's called the silent killer. carbon monoxide is odorless colorless, and it took the lives of those seven children and their father yesterday. >> our team coverage continues with consumer reporter erika gonzalez ho who's here to tell you how to protect your family from being exposed. >> yesterday's deaths are a sobering reminder that carbon monoxide poisoning is preventable. more than 400 people die every year from carbon monoxide poisoning. that according to the centers for disease control. here are a couple of ways to make sure that your family stays safe. first, and this is the most important, make sure that you have working carbon monoxide detectors. it

why the center of so many attacks? not just universities but buses. ristine, on the long religious fault line between mostly christians in africa and northern muslim africa. you have boko haram and al shabaab. all along this border and this is where the two meet and often clash. a lot of communities here try to bridge these differences through dialogue. these groups like al shabaab want to come in and create division and chaos. >> christian purefoy, thank you. >>> police in northern england arrest two teens with suspected links to terror. possibly the youngest terror related arrests in u.k. a 14-year-old boy and 16-year-old girl were arrested. the boy allegedly had suspect activity on the number of electronic device. both out on bail until may 28th. >>> a bombshell move from "rolling stone" magazine following a scathing report from columbia university school of journalism. slamming the magazine for failing basic and routine journalism practices. "rolling stone" now discredited in the article claiming a woman was gang raped. "rolling stone" publisher is

she's been suspended and the university president has released a statement calling the incident unfortunate and disappointing. the photo just surprised friday and appears to show a woman listing why wi-fi doesn't work on campus. number one reason the n-word. >>> at the university of maryland it was an offensive e-mail that started a controversy. a fraternity member sent it last year. students describe it as racist and sexist. but maryland's president says it didn't violate any school policy and the sender is protected by the first amendment. that student apologized this week and says he's sorry for all the pain that he's caused. >>> a mother and daughter trapped after an rv bursts into flames. see the dramatic rescue that got them out just in time. >>> and the temperatures fall into the 30s tonight. amelia h ♪ deidre & the dark - classic girl plays in the background ♪ a great entrance never goes out of style. dresses start at $25. the eva mendes collection. exclusively at new york and company. >>> new tonight, a mother and her daughter got trapped in a burning rv and this could have easily

that is our toe-hold on the rest of the solar system, if not the universe. and then the third leg is our ability to go to deep space. and that's two things that we're developing right now. it's a heavy-lift launch vehicle. we call it the space launch system, or sls. and it's a capsule. it's a module in which the crew will fly, and that we call orion. and when we put the two of 'em together we'll be able to get humans, back to the area of the moon and on to mars. if we don't have either one of those, we don't get to mars. >> in terms of complexity, in terms of cost, in terms of risk, it's exponentially more difficult to get a living human being to mars than research materials (laugh) and tools and diggers and rovers and all kinds of other things. what is it about the human element that makes us willing to spend that extra money, take that extra, extra risk and spend years more inventing the things that we need to do it in the first place? >> we seek to go to mars in particular with humans because it's in our dna. it is, it, it is a basic fundamental, manner of

. >> blistering criticism for the university of maryland. i'm scott broom in college park. coming up the reactions from the university's decision not to punish the author of a racist e-mail. >>> and a cold hard deal for vanilla ice. his punishment for breaking in to a house and stealing >>> and then revealed himself to two victims. overall police say that five of the eight victims were between 13 to 17 years old and two of the incidents happened near earl b. wood middle school in rockville. he had been released on bond. >>> alexandria police are hoping that someone recognizes the men seen here, robbing the jewelry store on king street back in february. the men around the store for a bit before suddenly demanding cash and then stealing jewelry. a man and a woman in the store were not hurt. but if you have any information on these suspects, please call alexandria police. >>> there's been a big backlash against the university of maryland's president. >> scott broom just left with failing to take action against the students caught sending the racist e-mail, advocating rape at a