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scott: virginia commonwealth university is reaching out to students at sweet briar college you have to continue their education somewhere else. vcu says it extended its transfer education deadline -- transfer application deadline and more grants duden's interested in attending the richmond school. howard university will provide a rebate for students to earn their degree early or on-time. students graduating in 2016 or later will be eligible. the board of trustees has also frozen tuition florida graduates and graduate programs for the upcoming school year. george washington university's new science and engineering program opened this week. the $275 million building is the largest building for research in washington. labs span 10 floors, including two underground full stop the building sits on what once was a parking lot. coming up -- sxsw sires's week. there will be a local face this year, but at what cost to d.c.? and why elephants are being taken out of the circus. eileen: a taste of spring today. a forecast coming up. scott: here is what you need to know in the week ahead -- the firs
scott: virginia commonwealth university is reaching out to students at sweet briar college you have to continue their education somewhere else. vcu says it extended its transfer education deadline -- transfer application deadline and more grants duden's interested in attending the richmond school. howard university will provide a rebate for students to earn their degree early or on-time. students graduating in 2016 or later will be eligible. the board of trustees has also frozen tuition florida...
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. >>> volunteers at the virginia commonwealth university will spend tonight creating kids for survivors child abuse and sexual violence. either kit contains toilet tries. they're designed to immediate the help the immediate needs. >>> the winter felt long and brutal this year. people who live in michigan are the snowiest or have the snowiest winter on record. sioux saint marie. got 160 inches of snow. marquette took the second place. followed by bangor, maine. we got less than two feet of snow this entire season. >> folks up there in that part of the country they're like we got snow. same thing every winter. >> they're used to. >> everything here shut down! >> it's a big part of the economy up there, too. people go up there to go snow mobiling and cross country skiing and snow shoeing. they're happy. it's a good thing. not here. marge march is trying to throw a tantrum this morning. it's light snow across northeast maryland. northeast of baltimore. locally a few scattered flurries coming through. and those scattered flurries showing up near huntington getting a few there. that's pretty
. >>> volunteers at the virginia commonwealth university will spend tonight creating kids for survivors child abuse and sexual violence. either kit contains toilet tries. they're designed to immediate the help the immediate needs. >>> the winter felt long and brutal this year. people who live in michigan are the snowiest or have the snowiest winter on record. sioux saint marie. got 160 inches of snow. marquette took the second place. followed by bangor, maine. we got less than...
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team comes along, they're up against that team and you want to root for george mason or virginia commonwealth universityse your bracket has duke beating them in the sweet 16. brackets so i can root for the team that is awesome. the safest thing is to give the best seeded teams all of the way through. well there's a new brablgt on the market this year that tries to get rid of that wrinkle. joining me, neil irwin, senior economics correspondent for "the new york times" where he writes for the upshot. neil, the idea is the problem is you're best to just have the number ones go through, the twos beat the you know 15s and all the way through but that's no fun. how have you guys engineered your point system to reward picking upsets? >> so the idea this is kind of like the stock market or like horse racing or like all kinds of markets out there where it doesn't matter it's not just about picking the winner. it's about picking the winner that nobody else picked. >> yes. >> so you get more points based on how many people picked a selection, so, for example, kentucky is the overwhelming favorite. they're a fantas
team comes along, they're up against that team and you want to root for george mason or virginia commonwealth universityse your bracket has duke beating them in the sweet 16. brackets so i can root for the team that is awesome. the safest thing is to give the best seeded teams all of the way through. well there's a new brablgt on the market this year that tries to get rid of that wrinkle. joining me, neil irwin, senior economics correspondent for "the new york times" where he writes...
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virginia commonwealth university is reaching out to sweet briar college students forceed to find anotherir education. announced just this week it is closing. this summer due to financial problems. some 700 students are enrolled there. v.c.u. says it extended its transfer application deadline and will work with students who want to continue their education. >> turning to other news today, testimony resumes in the boston marathon bombing trial. the man who lost both legs in that bombing testified that he locked eyes with tamerlan tsarnaev before the explosives went off. tsarnaev was killed days later in a gun battle with police. attorneys for the surviving suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev argue he was heavily influenced by his older brother tamerlan to carry out the attacks two years ago. prosecutors say he's a terrorist who saw the u.s. government as an enemy of islam. convicted murderer jodi arias will escape a death penalty. the judge declared a mistrial in the sentencing part of the case. they deadlocked on the sentencing. the judge will sentence arias to life in prison or life term with the
virginia commonwealth university is reaching out to sweet briar college students forceed to find anotherir education. announced just this week it is closing. this summer due to financial problems. some 700 students are enrolled there. v.c.u. says it extended its transfer application deadline and will work with students who want to continue their education. >> turning to other news today, testimony resumes in the boston marathon bombing trial. the man who lost both legs in that bombing...
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believe it or not, next week spring break for a lot of universities here in the commonwealth of virginia. vdot tweeting out some suggestions for those of you who have kids who may be traveling for spring break, ways to get to the airport a little safer. find that on my twitter. i just retweeted it. live in reston. back to you. >> spring break on a lot of mind right now. thank you, david. >> snow emergency still in effect in the district right now now. for drivers it means you cannot park along snow emergency routes. that includes many main roads in the city. if you do your car will be towed and it's expensive to get it back. the parking ban lets crews clear streets from curb to curb. you can find a map of the snow routes on nbcwashington.com. >>> another school closing to pass along to you right now. prince george's county schools have announced they will be closed tomorrow. but this storm is not stopping the capps. the washington caps are hosting the minnesota wild at the verizon center tonight. tights team's 13th annual salute to the military night. the puck drop ts at 7:00. we'll have
believe it or not, next week spring break for a lot of universities here in the commonwealth of virginia. vdot tweeting out some suggestions for those of you who have kids who may be traveling for spring break, ways to get to the airport a little safer. find that on my twitter. i just retweeted it. live in reston. back to you. >> spring break on a lot of mind right now. thank you, david. >> snow emergency still in effect in the district right now now. for drivers it means you cannot...
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alison: plus the arrest of a university of virginia student is raising questions today about how the commonwealth's alcohol laws are really enforced. we'll take a closer look at that tonight at 5:00. leon: coming up next here on abc 7 news at 4:00, a woman requests her credit report. only to receive hundreds of pages of personal information leon: a bizarre story in maine this evening. a woman says she requested a credit report from equifax and instead what she got was hundreds of credit reports belonging to people from around the country. alison: amazing. john has more on this really unusual data breach. >> have to see it to believe it. john: this is the deluge of mail katie manning says was waiting for her monday night when she got home from work. here's one pile and another. and one more. more than 300 pieces of mail all from the credit reporting company equifax. it's one of three credit bureaus responsible for keeping track of all your personal and private information. >> i check my credit report the other day on line with equifax. that was it. and next thing i know, i have 300 pieces of mail si
alison: plus the arrest of a university of virginia student is raising questions today about how the commonwealth's alcohol laws are really enforced. we'll take a closer look at that tonight at 5:00. leon: coming up next here on abc 7 news at 4:00, a woman requests her credit report. only to receive hundreds of pages of personal information leon: a bizarre story in maine this evening. a woman says she requested a credit report from equifax and instead what she got was hundreds of credit reports...
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she is the commonwealth professor of english at the university of virginia. if i were introducing toni morrison's ideal introducer i would mention all of this and much much more. please welcome the gifted, gracious, and generous rita dove. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. >> goodness. good evening. and thank you, steve ven and the board of the national book critics circle for inviting me to introduce toni morrison as the recipient of this year's ivan sandrof lifetime achievement award. although toni morrison certainly doesn't need an introduction as steven said and there can scarcely be too men i believe celebratory tributes to one of the greatest novelists of our time and the only living nobel lawyer yet in literature. i don't have to rattle offtoni morrison's many accomplish. s and honors to you here today. at book critics and lovers of books you are by and large deeply familiar with her works and this organization was among the very first to publicly recognize the rising star when in 1977 she received the national book critics circle award for song of s
she is the commonwealth professor of english at the university of virginia. if i were introducing toni morrison's ideal introducer i would mention all of this and much much more. please welcome the gifted, gracious, and generous rita dove. [applause] [applause] >> thank you. >> goodness. good evening. and thank you, steve ven and the board of the national book critics circle for inviting me to introduce toni morrison as the recipient of this year's ivan sandrof lifetime achievement...