governing board approved a plan to raise fees 15.5% for fall of 2011 and that means california undergrads will pay $4,884 per academic year. university officials say the need to raise fees again to offset the deep cuts. rob's laudable has reaction to today's tuition hike. >> i'm angry. >> student reaction and award endure. >> how long until my life my work life becomes more important than my school life because it can't pay for my school life. the >> they approved a 5% of the tuition hike for the current year and another 10% for next year. more than $500 tuition hike. it comes amid growing sentiment among this and other campuses students feel the pain more for less. >> i want to know what they're using the money for because we haven't heard anything about any changes their implementing. >> finding classes' is going to be harder because of letting more students and your >> to try to get us out here to graduate with in the for your bracket so hard for us to do nowadays and start cutting faculty in classes'. >> for the fifth consecutive year of tuition hikes. >> we have no where else to go f

. >> at state university where undergrads students will pay more in the spring. it doesn't end there their tuition will also go up 10% in the fall. making and an average of $4,800 a total of 15.5 percent tuition hike. in the past five years' tuition would have gone up 76%. administrators say they need to raise tuition two at 6000 new class's and hire more professors. i will get more action throughout the day. >> another story alameda woman is recovering from iraq to an attack that happened at alameda park. we turn to yoli at washington park in alameda with more on what happened. >> this is washington park all lot of people use the park to walk the dogs. the woman who got attacked she was attacked near the diamond field just passed to this retaining wall. she was walking her dog she sought i said the distance and then she noticed a raccoon well that one was coming at her. three other raccoons came down from trees they got together as a pack and started the attack. pretty frightening she started running she fell and when she fell they attacked hurt by the ankles. t

they have kept his autobiography undergrads as demanded in his will. the book which goes on sale is already on the pre-orders bestseller list on amazon.com. that is a report for tonight. i am gasia mikaelian. our coverage continues online and with our 10 news. tmz is up next right here on tv ocooer feoel cort eeit t totr r

that amounts to an extra $822 for undergrads. he's also proposing to raise the retirement age from 60 to 65 for future uc employees. he says the changes are need today close a $1 billion budget shortfall. the board of regents will vote on this plan next week. some students are already organizing a protest to coincide with that vote. >>> and the cal state system is also considering raising tuition. it's trustees will meet this wednesday. they'll vote on two proposed increases. one would boost tuition by $105 for the second half. the other increase tuition by an additional $440 the next school year. if both are approved, tuition for cal state undergrads would be almost $4900 a year starting next fall. >>> a uc berkeley student will learn tonight if she will be suspended from school for taking part in a tense campus standoff. the 21-year-old was among 43 students arrested for occupying wheeler hall last year. students took over the building to protest layoffs and tuition hikes. accused of student misconduct. a panel could decide to

yesterday that we told you the uc board of regents just passed the controversial tuition hike of 8% for undergrads and 10% for grad students. but the protests over this move are not dope. especially fact there was a protest that wrapped up an hour ago. jade hernandez joins us with more on why protesters came out today. >> reporter: good afternoon. awareness, really. they want other students to know what the university is doing. but the rain may have dampened any big plans for today's protest. still a small group came out to the campus to voice their opposition against the higher tuition approved for next year. >> this is an agenda for the university. this is an agenda for the university. >> reporter: the protest was scheduled to begin at 10:00 this morning. a small group gathered at first and numbers grew to about 35 people at its peak. not the hundreds they were hoping for but the size of the protest did not bother her. she feels for the students negotiation year. she is lucky because she received a fellowship that will cover tuition fees for her but she still has to find a way to cover room and

bill does not. 11 undergrad and graduate students received it.al device company z medic donated $100 toward their tuition. it provides-- saving medical supplies to the troops. >>> doug is here with the forecast. getting kind of boaring this week. >> yeah. i keep looking for something to forecast. nothing out there. >> we're okay with that. keep thisoring like this. >> lasteterans day, almost an inch of rain. a nice day today. plenty of sunshine made it much better. nice night tonht as well. temperatures really dropped fast. willing at the nation's capital. a beautiful evening, but as i mentioned, those temperatures are quickly droppin a we're already in the upper twenty to 30 degrees inñr some areas. not inside the beltway. high temperature today was 63 degrees after a low of 42. the average high, 59. once again, well above average. and last year, almost an inch of rain, 30-mile-an-hour winds, and that led us to a historical or historic winter season. not going to happen this year. and 46 degrees, winds on the calm side. take a look atemperatures

getting on-the-job training and passing along those lessons to undergrad students and peers.lizabeth went home with instructions to take it easy, no strep just a sore throat. >> this is great. this is great. >> reporter: for her grandmother relief and for these students a sense of purpose. still excited to be a doctor one day? >> yes, i am. yes, i am. >> reporter: showing dedication to their patients before earning their degrees, peter eight lex ander, nbc news, massachusetts. >>> british royalty paid a visit to afghanistan today. prince william took part in a memorial service where british forces have taken heavy casualties. the prince trained as a chopper pilot spent times with troops and stopped by the base's medical center. >>> speaking of royalty, william's father will talk with brian williams tomorrow night here on "nbc nightly news." >>> when we come back, when is pacman not a game? how that question got answered big-time in the boxing ring last night. [piano keys banging] [scraping] [horns honking] with deposits in your engine, it can feel like something's holding you

i started doing this three and a half years ago while still in undergrad when we assembled our firstmodels in a small garage then we want to few contests and received grants which allowed me to launch the company. but in the world of business a great idea needs money to get off the ground. and that's where venture capitalists like nikolai but dual income in. my business model is if not me then who look for different ways i could invest and i found something i thought was best investing innovations creating new products new technologies. one of the many businesses but doing invested in is this water purifying technology it's still in the testing stage but he believes in its potential but dylan has another project up his sleeve a new technology that may be able to advance the battle against cancer. in two thousand days we started testing the drug silver all on twenty eight carriers eighteen laser tested healthy scientists still need to study this drug but i personally have not seen anything better for treating leukemia business as say one of the main advantages of having a baby so when

. >> host: and an undergrad degree in mitt call science from the university of pittsburgh. >> guest: right. >> host: how did you get technology involved? >> guest: oh, by accident, i think, really. when i was in law school, there was a center for internet and society there, and i was essentially a groupie. and what they did was study the intersection between law, government, policy and technology. and at the time there was a lot in the media about india and outsourcing and how they were booming, and we were thinking, you know, why can't we do this in kenya, and why are we not taking advantage of this new space to develop? but, you know, the problem was certain fundamental things like sign was illegal in kenya -- skype was illegal in kenya, and wi-fi was illegal in kenya, and no one could tell me why. i even spent a summer interning in kenya, and it wasn't even this broad conspiracy to shut down, it's just a cake sort of regulation, and you needed to lobby the right people, and, you know, convince someone that actually they're no threat to national security. wi-fi is not legal. the sp

i went to stanford undergrad, stanford business school, and a couple years as a real estate developer and i was not very happy. each of us have a job, a career or a calling, and i had a job, and i didn't want to have a job. i figured, i worked that many hours, i wanted to have a calling. what i really liked about real estate was it was entrepreneurial, but i wanted something a little more creative. so, at age 26, i wrote a business plan to create a boutique hotel company in the mid-1980s, and i had no hotel experience at all, but i loved hotels. and i found a motel in the tenderloin that was in bad shape, a pay by the hour place. >> find one in good shape. well, you can now. >> long story short, that's how i got started it was the creativity of the business that attracted me. >> as you expand -- and i asked the same of the head of virgin american airlines, who said i've got a boutique airline. but the bigger you get, the more people you bring in, the more diluted the idea becomes, that you can't be a tiny family of doing it exactly the same way across the world. >> yes and no. yes and

at the top of her real life and i started doing this three and a half years ago while still in undergrad or and we sampled our first models in a small garage for data but then we want to few contests and received grants about this which allowed me to launch a company. but in the world of business a great idea and nice money to get off the ground. and that's where venture capitalists like nikolai but do come in. to your small business model is if not me then who also has different ways i could invest with and i found something thought was best to invest in innovation it's creating new products new technologies. one of the many businesses but to then invested in is this water purifying technology it's still in the testing stage but he believes in its potential. first the main goal was to filter out by our system but now we're more concerned with heavy metals arsenic in particular well after the process of filtering the water this is apparently drinkable so let's try. nope no arsenic there. but julian has another project up his sleeve a new technology that may be able to advance the battle

that means an undergrad would go what to $4,804. they have raise tuition four times as it struggles with a drop in state funding. >> city leaders met late into the night. seven of the city's unions have not agreed to tough measures including a pay freeze agreed to by contract. i there 5 percent cut in pay for it to offer. it includes 14 fire department jobs and an unknown number of jobs for services like the library which could seek to branches closed indefinitely. the city faces $5 million deficit and that could balloon to more than $13 million that's what officials say if the unions do not agree to the takebacks by december 9th. pink slips will be sent out effective january. >>a solano county high school teacher is in jail tuesday night, accused of having sex with a male student.27-year-old felecia killings, an english teacher at rodriguez high school in fairfield was taken into custody on police are investigating the possibility she had sex with other students as well. according to the report killings was arrested on school prope

that's an additional $822 for each undergrad. as for its workers, they're looking at raising the retirement age from 60 to 65 for future employees. student leaders are not happy. they say uc needs to do more to obtain state funds. heather holmes is live with the story. >> reporter: julie, not happy, that's putting it mildly. students here are frustrated and furious. take a look at these fliers. they call for students to shut down the' gents meeting next week. it was the same time last year when the board passed a 32% tuition increase. it was said then it was just the beginning. tonight, uc berkeley students are learning about round two. >> it just doesn't all add up. it's like, where is the money going? >> reporter: the proposed fee hike this time, 8%, starting next fall . >> i understand they need to get the money from somewhere to keep this thing running. >> reporter: university of california president is urging regents to approve his proposals. he believes his plan will keep the university on course. he also said, "these won't

that's an additional $822 for each undergrad. as for its workers, they're looking at raising the retirement age from 60 to 65 for future employees. student leaders are not happy. they say uc needs to do more to obtain state funds. heather holmes is live with the story. >> reporter: julie, not happy, that's putting it mildly. students here are frustrated and furious. take a look at these fliers. they call for students to shut down the' gents meeting next week. it was the same time last year when the board passed a 32% tuition increase. it was said then it was just the beginning. tonight, uc berkeley students are learning about round two. >> it just doesn't all add up. it's like, where is the money going? >> reporter: the proposed fee hike this time, 8%, starting next fall . >> i understand they need to get the money from somewhere to keep this thing running. >> reporter: university of california president is urging regents to approve his proposals. he believes his plan will keep the university on course. he also said, "these won't

yesterday the governing board approved a plan to raise the fees 1555% for fall of 2011 that means the undergrads will now pay $4,884 per economic europe. the officials say the need to raise fees to offset deep cuts in state funding. here is a reaction from this treasure hunt. >> i am really angry. >> student reactions in a word. enter. anchogryy. >> five co-defendants they approve the height of 5% another 10% next year. the latest russian increases, amid growing sentiment on this and other campuses that stands now feel they're paying more for laughs. >> i just want to know what they're using the money for. we haven't heard anything about any changes. finding causes will be harder because they're letting more students in. they're just trying to get us out of your to drudgery would therefore your racket that the store for us to do because they're trying to cut faulty in causes. >> the fifth your tuition hike is blamed on cuts in state funding to education. >> we have no whorl's to dover funding if we cannot receive adequate funding from the state that we know to it we have to turn to the students.

area born and raised in a graduate of notre dame undergrad the zero irish. >> we have a little work to do. [laughter] >> a lot of work my question is political but i am very interested in what you think obama is doing really well. even more importantly what you think he should be doing better. >> i said but i left the government and i feel strongly when you are in office it is a lot hard day's charter then when you sit out here and it is really hard when people sure that you from the outside why did you do that? it is a lot easier. just as president bush said i feel that night at of the president and secretary clinton might silence of i disagree, i will tell them and i know them all well enough that if there is something i'd like to say i will simply call up and say to secretary clinton and bob gates and others. i think we are very, very tough on our president. i will make two separate statements about presidents in general and one about our politics. we're tough on president's the day they are inaugurated this market is most amazing human being and one year later how did we ever elect

national council on teacher quality examined 111 undergrad and graduate programs in 53 states. report says programs are not consistent. they have unfocused courses and weak admission standards. based on reviewing course materials and credentials but no one visited the schools. education deans are criticizing the report because it does not review how new teachers perform on the job. >>> never seen never before seen trick play was rendering a middle school football game in texas. driscoll middle school quarterback casually walked through the defense and then runs to the end zone for an easy touchdown. take a look how it worked. >> this play can only be executed after a penalty. there was a five yard penalty on the defense. garza told him to give him the ball. so the defense bought into it. bought into the trick and off to the races. this was -- the coach explained how this play could have worked one of two ways. >> in fact the play we said there is going to be two result fers the play. either jason will get hard by a line backer or safety or he will get a first down or a touchdow

. >> keep in mind that fresno state has about 22 now, undergrads, shep.are unclear as to how many of them are actually illegal. shep? >> shepard: fresno state. i said cal state fresno. everybody knows that. trace good to see you. the murder rate in some towns twice as high as in baghdad and happening right next door to us. powerful mexican drug cartels wage as bloody war south of the u.s. border. apparently recruiting from prisons and schools right here in america. we're told gunmen in military camouflage sit along the rio grande with a.k. 47s on their back gathering intelligence on border patrol. jennifer griffin is live in mission, texas with a life behind the scenes look at this situation. jennifer? >> shep, to heart authorities down here talk, they could be fighting a counter insurgency in kabul or baghdad. two nights ago we flew with the texas department of public safety. here is what we saw. >> i never once thought that although we have always done historically some great work that would be in this paramilitary type engagement and that's what this i

that means undergrad students will be paying nearly $4900 a year. the trustees say tuition hikes are needed to maintain classes, enrollment and student services. >>> some san jose state students are waking up on campus this morning after spending the night in tents. the student sleep out is design today draw attention to poverty, unemployment and homelessness in california. demonstrators say they're worried that the newly approved tuition hikes will create even more poverty as students can't afford college. >> the hike it brings us closer to poverty because a lot of students here may pay their tuition but can't afford rent, can't afford gas. many of the students can't afford breakfast or lunch. >> cal state's 23 campuses have about 430,000 students. half of them are receiving financial aid. >>> time now 5:09. democrats in congress are sounding an alarm this morning. why they want more time to think about voting for nancy pelosi as the next minority leader. >>> shoppers asked to boycott amazon.com. the title and subject of the book at the center of t

both are approved, tuition for cal state undergrads would be almost $4900 a year starting next fall. >>> time now 5:36. uc berkeley student may find out tonight if she'll be suspended from school for taking part in a very tense campus standoff. the 21-year-old was among 43 students arrested for occupying wheeler hall last year. they took over the building protesting layoffs and tuition hikes. she's accused of student misconduct. a panel could decide to suspend her from school for one year. pretty scary moments for passengers on an ac transit bus that caught fire in berkeley. >>> the driver evacuated everybody moments before that bus burst into flames on shaddic avenue yesterday. ac transit says it appears the fire started by some object that was dragging beneath that bus. >>> incredible story. >> yeah. >>> 5:37 is the time. hopefully no big problems for the commute this morning. sal. >> seems pretty quiet so far pam and dave which is just the way we like it. kind of cold out there. we'll talk to steve about that. traffic is moving along pretty well if you are driving the freeways. go

now that means a resident undergrad will pay nearly $700 additional to attend classes next year. >>> wildlife out of control in the east bay. raccoons attacked a woman walking her dog near a popular park in alameda. christie smith is live in alameda. there is a pattern of attacks in the area. >> reporter: yeah, good morning to you. there have been nine attacks so far this year and they all involve people who are walking small dogs. in fact there's a dog park right near where we're standing. now, this latest attack happened on sunday. the woman who was attacked tells an incredible story. she says her and her dog saw peering eyes. it turns out it was a raccoon. they tried to get away and suddenly -- well, four more came at them, dropped down from a tree like a street gang. it was an attack rachel won't ever forget. even she says it was like a horror movie. she says she can laugh about it now, these masked bandits on the move. late sunday she was walking her little dog. as the raccoons came after her, she ran, she tripped but the dog took a stand fighting off four raccoons but a fifth b

undergrad actually. >> object. [inaudible] >> go irish. [inaudible] >> my question actually is political, but i'm interested, very interested in what you think obama is doing really well, one of those -- is a long list, but what you think is doing really well. but even more important, what you think he should be doing a lot better. >> well, you know, i said when i left government, and i feel pretty strong about it, that when you're in office, it's a whole lot harder than when you're sitting out here. and it's really hard when people are chirping at you from the outside and you think of well, why didn't you do that when you're in here because it's obvious it a lot easier out there. and so just as president bush said, you know, i felt frankly i owe the president and secretary clinton and others my silence. if i disagree with something they're doing, i will tell them that an attack i know them all well enough that if there's something out like to say, i will simply call up and say, you do, particular pockets and secretary clinton and others.

that means a resident undergrad will pay nearly $700 additional to attend classes next year. students in the south bay are aware of it and tonight they will sleep in tent city on campus today to call attention to poverty, homelessness and budget cuts. we've got a video of a similar protest on the campus a couple of years ago that focused on education issues. the students say right now more than five and a half million californians live in poverty. this is the fifth year students have gathered for the so-called poverty under the stars event at san jose state. >>> a familiar face in bay area politics may be joining the race for the mayor of san francisco today. city hall sources tell nbc bay area news state senator leland yi will pick up papers from the election department today to get the ball rolling on a likely campaign. he was just re-elected to a fourth term in the state senate so it is likely that he will start by forming an exploratory committee, which would allow him to raise money. an aide says that yee will hold a news conference this morning. however, the aide would

an undergrad, actually.congratulations, go irish. >> we have a little too -- my work to do want to go irish. [laughter] >> my question actually is getting at the political, but i am actually interested, very interested in what you think obama is doing really well. there is a long list but what you think he is doing really well but even more importantly what you think you should be doing a lot better? >> well you know, i said when i left government and i feel pretty strongly about it that when you are in office it is a whole lot harder than when you are sitting out here. and, it is really hard when people are chirping at you from the outside and you think well why didn't you do that when you were in here because it is obviously a lot easier out there. so president bush said i felt frankly i owed the president and others my silence if i disagree with something they are doing. i will tell them, and in fact i know them all well enough that if there is something i would like to say i will simply call up and say y

after completing his undergrad there, he came to texas and helped launch four different quiddich teamsed on the houses of harry potter. >> running around with a broom between your legs, basically acting like a 5-year-old. there's not much other sports like that where you can really bring out your inner kid. >> reporter: he serves as the snitch, what he callth the most important position on the field. >> i can throw them down, i can trip them, i can steal their brooms, i can basically get in everybody's way. the reason quiddich is so much fun is they're sort of the jester of the game. >> reporter: players called chasers tray to throw balls through circular hoops and everyone must stay on their broomsticks at all times. >> there's three on each team. their job is to hit other people and knock them out. >> reporter: with the world cup only a week away the four houses here at ut, including griffen doer, slither rin, and raven claw say they're prepping for next year's competition. >> we are. we actually wanted to go this year but we could not get funds for it. >> reporter: teams have sprout

it was about characters like mike doonesbury the clueless undergrad, zonker the ult ultimate slacker.he emerging feminist. >> it is watching a generation come of age. now it's two generations who have come of age. >> reporter: when the strip was launched an older generation of publishers recoiled at the idea of politics especially trudeau's unabashedly liberal politics on the comics page. not to mention the site of an unmarried couple in bed. >> maybe some three dozen newspapers dropped it. >> reporter: trudeau despaired only to be encourage by his syndicateor over a dinner. >> he said don't worry. these guys die. damned if he wasn't right. as the years unfolded people began saying, well, maybe there is room on the comics page for a strip about all the things that my generation were concerned about, politics, rock'n'roll, sex, drugs and particularly war. >> reporter: in 193 at the top of his game, trudeau took a 20- month sabbatical. when the strip returned, trudeau expelled his characters from the timeless college campus setting. >> i had the strip lurch into realtime and all the cha

isn't it prudent for them to really finish their undergrad studies and get a degree first? entrepreneurship and starting businesses, colleges really do not teach people very much. a lot of the greatest businesses in this country were started by people who dropped out of college. steve jobs, bill gates, zuckerberg in the case of facebook and many, many others in the context. entrepreneur and education are very different. we're not telling people they have to drop out. we're encouraging them to take a two year break and try to do something applied in the real world where they can really move the dial. one of the things that has concerned me a great deal is that the u.s. is not innovating enough in technology. it's not progressing quickly enough on a lot of these things and i'm not sure our education system has been helping on that. >> you bring up mark zuckerberg. there's so much facebook fervor in the country right now since the movie came out. that's a one in a million scenario. shouldn't regular kids have something to fall back on? that's not going to happen for everybody.

he is also from harvard both undergrad b.a. and his j.d. degree. next is phil mudd, and phil came from villanova at the university of virginia to cia back in 1985. and he became very well known as a very successful analyst of near east and is out asia particularly middle east expert. he ultimately became -- he took charge of the iraq analytic group at cia. he also worked in the national intelligence council and became a deputy national intelligence office for is out asia. -- south asia. he worked on the national security council on middle east issues. he served in the counterterrorism center at cia where he also rose to the number two position deputy there. and then went on to fbi where he assisted the fbi to develop an analytic capability and became the deputy of the national security division there. pat neary, a west point graduate. about 30 years in the intelligence business, first in the army and then a long distinguished career at dia where he was known really for his forceful advocacy of collaboration across the intelligence community. he bec