NBC Nightly News - 2009-03-10
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[0:00] 's higher education.
[0:02] >> And we'll tell you why police say the
[0:03] kids in one house are responsible for
[0:06] nearly [music] half of the problems at a
[0:08] local high school.
[0:09] >> Tonight on Channel 4 News at 6, working
[0:12] for you.
[0:16] >> On our broadcast tonight, Day of
[0:17] Reckoning, he's roundly considered the
[0:19] poster boy for bad behavior and a bad
[0:22] economy. And today we learned how his
[0:24] life is likely to end. rallying cry.
[0:28] What goes down must also come up. And
[0:30] that describes the stock market today.
[0:32] But what's causing it? Risk factor.
[0:35] Health news tonight. It's about breast
[0:36] cancer and a new way to measure those
[0:38] most at risk. And acts of kindness. Our
[0:41] special series continues tonight with a
[0:44] story one of our viewers suggested to us
[0:46] about a man who truly is making a
[0:48] difference. Nightly News begins now.
[0:51] [music]
[0:55] From NBC News World Headquarters in New
[0:57] York, this is NBC Nightly News with
[1:00] Brian Williams.
[1:02] >> Good evening. It's some measure of how
[1:04] we're all looking for good news in this
[1:06] economy that Wall Street today cheered a
[1:08] memo from the head of Cityroup. He said
[1:11] the bank is heading for profitability in
[1:13] this quarter. Considering that bank got
[1:16] $45 billion in taxpayer bailout money,
[1:19] perhaps we should all be congratulated
[1:21] on its profitability. Either way, the
[1:23] Dow soared almost 380 points, up 5.8%,
[1:27] biggest 1-day rise since November.
[1:30] Meantime, the man who's been depicted as
[1:32] the bad guy in this bad economy today,
[1:35] learned where he is likely to finish his
[1:37] life. Bernie Maid off, the accused $50
[1:40] billion swindler, went to court today.
[1:43] We learned he will probably plead guilty
[1:45] later this week. He will probably spend
[1:48] the rest of his life in jail. We'll
[1:50] cover it all here tonight, beginning
[1:51] with Scott Con at federal court here in
[1:54] New York. Scott, good evening.
[1:56] >> Good evening, Brian. We've known all
[1:58] along this case was stunning in its size
[2:01] and scope, but consider this. According
[2:03] to the documents revealed today, the
[2:05] maid off scheme lasted at least 25
[2:08] years, and the government is seeking to
[2:10] recover 170 billion. $170 billion
[2:15] touched by this fraud. Now Bernie Maid
[2:18] off is preparing to face the music.
[2:22] There is no plea bargain for one of the
[2:25] biggest swindlers of all time. Instead,
[2:27] he will admit to every charge the
[2:29] government is throwing at him. Bernie
[2:31] Maid off will plead guilty to 11
[2:33] criminal counts, including securities
[2:35] fraud, mail fraud, wire fraud, money
[2:38] laundering, perjury, and stealing
[2:40] millions of dollars from the pension
[2:42] plans of 35 labor unions. He'll admit
[2:45] hiring employees with little or no
[2:47] experience to falsify trades and
[2:49] communicate with clients, all to keep
[2:51] the Ponzi scheme going and repeatedly
[2:54] lying to regulators.
[2:57] The charges carry a sentence of 150
[3:00] years in prison. Bernie Maid off is 70
[3:03] years old.
[3:04] >> The fact that he's going to plead guilty
[3:06] to such sweeping charges, in all
[3:09] likelihood, he will be remanded into
[3:11] custody on Thursday. But without a plea
[3:14] agreement, Maid Off is under no
[3:15] obligation to cooperate with
[3:17] investigators trying to find all the
[3:19] money. A concern for his thousands of
[3:21] victims.
[3:22] >> Mr. Maid off knows where those assets
[3:24] are. They know he knows where and who
[3:27] was involved, who else was involved. And
[3:29] it's critical to us that that
[3:31] information be turned over to the
[3:32] authorities.
[3:33] >> Also unclear the fate of those around
[3:35] Maid Off, especially his wife, Ruth. She
[3:38] had an office at Maid Off's firm and the
[3:41] former high school sweethearts are said
[3:42] to be inseparable. But defense attorneys
[3:45] have tried to claim that the couple's
[3:47] New York penthouse and $62 million in
[3:49] investments are hers unrelated to the
[3:52] fraud. Infuriating to Maid Off investors
[3:55] who lost everything
[3:56] >> to ask for $62 million back.
[4:02] Words can't even describe it. Now Ruth
[4:04] Maid off is hiring her own attorney as
[4:06] her husband prepares to live the rest of
[4:08] his life in prison.
[4:12] Bernie Maid off will be back here on
[4:13] Thursday to formally enter his plea and
[4:15] a number of victims will be given an
[4:17] opportunity to speak. He won't be
[4:19] sentenced for several months, but the
[4:21] judge could decide to revoke his bail
[4:23] and send Bernie Maid off directly to
[4:25] jail. Brian
[4:27] >> Scott Con starting us off in lower
[4:28] Manhattan here in New York tonight.
[4:30] Scott, thanks. And now let's go back to
[4:32] that stock market. The big rally today.
[4:34] CNBC's Aaron Bernett is here to explain
[4:37] what to make of these numbers. We had a
[4:38] little fun at Cityroup's expense at the
[4:40] top of the broadcast. Maybe at our
[4:42] expense. What's going on here?
[4:43] >> Well, you're right. We're all
[4:44] shareholders, so we should be glad. I've
[4:45] got the memo right here that you were
[4:46] talking about, Brian. The bottom line
[4:48] here is Croup says it's making money,
[4:50] and the CEO, Vicram Pandit, went so far
[4:52] as to say it's the best quarterto
[4:54] performance since all the way back in
[4:56] 2007 before the crisis began. So that
[4:58] obviously was the big reason we saw the
[5:00] surge and you saw it with banking
[5:01] stocks. One other thing was Ben Bernani
[5:03] spoke today to the Council of Foreign
[5:05] Relations and he took questions. His
[5:06] demeanor was calm and confident that
[5:08] gave the markets I would say the some
[5:10] courage today but also he was asked a
[5:12] direct question about letting big
[5:14] financial institutions fail and he said
[5:16] that he thinks anybody who still takes
[5:18] the view seriously that we should let a
[5:20] big bank fail, he does not understand at
[5:22] this point and he is not in favor of
[5:24] letting that happen. So that also gave
[5:25] the markets courage. One thing though to
[5:27] keep in mind though is it's one day and
[5:29] we all know the broader picture is the
[5:30] market's still down 20% for the year,
[5:32] 50% from its highs. And United
[5:34] Technologies, as you know, Pratt and
[5:36] Whitney and Sakorski, they came out and
[5:38] said, "We're cutting our forecast for
[5:39] how much we're going to make, how much
[5:41] uh we're going to spend, and 11,600
[5:43] jobs." So, it gives you a sense of one
[5:45] day here is the market, but how far we
[5:47] need to go for the economy.
[5:48] >> And a market so jittery, we're looking
[5:50] to make sure people are calm when they
[5:52] speak to us. Uh Erin Bernett will stay
[5:54] tuned. Thanks a lot for being with us.
[5:56] Today marked President Obama's 50th day
[5:59] in office. Halfway through his first 100
[6:02] days, the president's first seven weeks
[6:04] have been a whirlwind with often
[6:06] dramatic movement in all directions on
[6:08] all fronts. The economy, healthc care,
[6:10] two wars, and today education reform,
[6:13] which raises the question talked about
[6:15] on cable all day long. Is it all too
[6:18] much for any one administration?
[6:20] Savannah Guthrie is with us from the
[6:21] White House tonight. Hey, Savannah. Good
[6:23] evening.
[6:24] Good evening, Brian. The president moved
[6:26] ahead today with his big agenda item of
[6:28] the day, education reform. But after
[6:30] getting that accusation that he's taken
[6:32] on too much all at once, he took some
[6:34] time to answer his critics.
[6:37] [applause and cheering]
[6:38] The president came to talk education,
[6:40] but first gave a history lesson to those
[6:42] who say his ambitious agenda is
[6:44] distracting him from fixing the economy.
[6:47] >> I know there are some who believe we can
[6:48] only handle one challenge at a time.
[6:52] They forget that Lincoln helped lay down
[6:54] the transcontinental railroad and passed
[6:56] the Homestead Act and created the
[6:58] National Academy of Sciences in the
[7:00] midst of civil war.
[7:02] >> Still, the White House is making a
[7:03] concerted effort to put its economic
[7:05] team out in public to show they're fully
[7:07] engaged. Budget director Peter Orzag on
[7:10] Capitol Hill today grilled on healthcare
[7:12] in the morning.
[7:13] >> So, I want to make sure that we if we
[7:15] have a national system of health care,
[7:17] it's going to deliver the same thing in
[7:19] Iowa as it does in California. the
[7:21] budget in the afternoon. More spending,
[7:25] more taxes, and more debt. That's what
[7:28] this budget is.
[7:29] >> Economic adviser Lauren Summers will
[7:31] give a rare public speech Friday, and
[7:34] Treasury Secretary Tim Gner appears
[7:36] tonight on Charlie Rose.
[7:37] >> We start with a mess, a a deep mess, a
[7:41] made made worse by the deepening
[7:44] recession. And these things are feeding
[7:45] on themselves. And it's very important
[7:47] people understand it's going to take
[7:48] some time to work through this. Indeed,
[7:50] in the present crisis,
[7:51] >> speaking in Washington, Fed Chairman Ben
[7:53] Bernani had some positive news, saying,
[7:56] "If the financial system can be
[7:58] stabilized, the end may be in sight.
[8:00] >> I think that there's a good chance that
[8:02] the recession will end later this year
[8:04] and that 2010 will be a period of
[8:06] growth."
[8:07] >> But after meeting with prominent
[8:08] economists today, House Speaker Nancy
[8:10] Pelosi left open the possibility a
[8:13] second stimulus may be needed, even as
[8:15] she defended the first.
[8:17] >> It'll take a little time to get going.
[8:19] Some of it is already in the works, but
[8:21] we must give it time to work.
[8:23] >> Well, back to education reform for a
[8:25] moment. The president laid out his big
[8:27] agenda, talking about merit pay for
[8:29] teachers, big emphasis on early
[8:31] childhood education, and a huge overhaul
[8:34] of the way students pay for college. And
[8:35] one more thing, Brian, he opened the
[8:37] possibility that the school day should
[8:40] be longer for students. He said he
[8:41] wouldn't he knew it wouldn't go over big
[8:42] with the nation's students, including
[8:44] his own two girls, Sasha and Malia.
[8:46] Well, hopefully that will spark a longer
[8:48] discussion on education when the times
[8:50] perhaps are a little less dire. Savannah
[8:52] Guthrie at the White House for us
[8:54] tonight as always. Thanks. Tonight we
[8:56] have a story about the type of food
[8:58] relief mission that quite candidly we
[9:01] see talked about a lot on late night
[9:03] television to help hungry people largely
[9:06] in other countries not our own. Sadly,
[9:08] the scene you're about to see played out
[9:10] today in the American Midwest. A place
[9:13] once proud of its industrial output
[9:15] where today the need is great and good
[9:17] people have come to the rescue. The
[9:19] story from NBC's Kevin Tibbles in
[9:21] Elkhart, Indiana.
[9:24] >> It is a bleak and miserable morning.
[9:26] >> Right down there. You can head right
[9:28] down. Yep.
[9:28] >> And yet, hundreds of cars make their way
[9:30] to the parking lot of a shopping mall in
[9:32] Elkcart, Indiana. My kids need to eat,
[9:35] so I need to do what I can to take care
[9:37] of them.
[9:38] >> They are here for their daily
[9:40] provisions.
[9:40] >> There you are. Have a good day.
[9:42] >> It's just hard being in this situation.
[9:44] >> With the collapse of the RV
[9:46] manufacturing industry here, Elcart's
[9:48] unemployment rate is a staggering 18%.
[9:51] The highest in the state, fourth highest
[9:53] nationwide.
[9:54] >> We lost a lot here. I mean, we it was
[9:57] the capital of the world and it shut
[9:58] down. Today, families, some with kids in
[10:01] tow, were given groceries and toiletries
[10:03] provided by the Feed the Children
[10:05] network, started by Oklahoma Larry
[10:07] Jones. How many other elk carts are
[10:10] there out there in the United States of
[10:11] America?
[10:12] >> There are more elk carts than we'll be
[10:14] able to get to this year.
[10:15] >> For many, the desperation is palpable.
[10:18] It's hard for you to come out here.
[10:20] >> Yeah.
[10:21] >> Each box is designed to provide a family
[10:23] of four with the basics for 5 days.
[10:25] There's cereal, cooking oil, canned
[10:28] goods, mac and cheese.
[10:30] >> We're in a very interesting and
[10:32] challenging time in the United States of
[10:34] America. Uh food being delivered like
[10:36] this in this country, for many of us,
[10:38] we've never seen it.
[10:40] >> Driving his semi from town to town,
[10:42] delivering the food aid, trucker Joe
[10:44] Halt gets a firstirhand look at the
[10:46] recession ravaged Heartland.
[10:48] >> I've been in a position where I needed
[10:50] help myself, so I understand where
[10:54] they're at.
[10:55] By late afternoon, some 1,600 boxes
[10:58] delivered containing not only help but
[11:00] hope as well.
[11:02] >> When we hit bottom, there's only one way
[11:04] to go, and that's to come back up.
[11:06] >> Here, they're hoping the freef fall ends
[11:08] soon. Kevin Tibbles, NBC News, Elcart,
[11:11] Indiana.
[11:13] >> Incredible story. Now, we turn overseas
[11:15] to something that's been the exception
[11:16] rather than the rule in Iraq lately. A
[11:19] wave of new violence. A suicide bombing
[11:21] in western Baghdad today killed at least
[11:23] 33 people, left dozens injured. The
[11:26] target, a reconciliation conference
[11:28] attended by both Sunni and Shiite tribal
[11:31] leaders. It was the latest in a series
[11:33] of deadly insurgent attacks in Iraq just
[11:36] recently over the past month. When our
[11:38] broadcast continues here this Tuesday
[11:40] night, information women should be aware
[11:42] of when trying to reduce the risk of
[11:45] breast cancer. And later, a story you
[11:47] told us about a man who's putting in the
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[13:57] We're back and in health news this
[13:59] evening, some new research points to
[14:01] another factor women need to think about
[14:03] when they assess their personal risk for
[14:06] breast cancer. Our chief science
[14:08] correspondent, Robert Bazelle, has our
[14:10] report.
[14:12] Lisa York is a healthy 54 year old, but
[14:14] like so many women, she worries about
[14:16] her breast cancer risk, especially when
[14:18] she gets her annual mammogram.
[14:20] >> I am a little nervous only because it's
[14:23] that once a year
[14:25] reminder that breast cancer is so
[14:27] predominant.
[14:28] >> But how best to figure risk? Dr. Steven
[14:30] Cummings and his team surveyed hundreds
[14:32] of studies of risk involving tens of
[14:34] thousands of women over 50 to find the
[14:36] best determinance. His conclusion,
[14:39] doctors need to pay a lot more attention
[14:41] to breast density, the ratio of tissue
[14:43] to fat in the breast. The higher the
[14:45] density, the greater the risk. That
[14:48] looks a little intense.
[14:49] >> Radiologists can see density easily on a
[14:51] mammogram. We found that a combination
[14:53] of her risk factors like family history
[14:56] and a measurement of her breast density
[14:58] from a mammog provides the best
[15:01] information about her future risk of
[15:02] breast cancer. Doctors will often
[15:05] recommend that women with dense breasts
[15:07] get a sonogram or an MRI in addition to
[15:09] the mammog. For women at highest risk,
[15:12] there are drugs tmoxifen or reloxifene
[15:15] which cut risk in half, but they do have
[15:18] side effects. Still, many women want to
[15:20] know their options.
[15:22] Lisi York probably will hear about
[15:24] breast density the next time she has a
[15:26] mammogram because doctors are starting
[15:28] to pay more attention to it. Robert
[15:31] Viselle, NBC News, New York. We're back
[15:34] in a moment with Anne Curry reporting
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[18:31] We're back with in depth tonight. An
[18:32] important milestone in the troubled
[18:34] history between China and Tibet. It was
[18:36] 50 years ago today. Tibet's failed
[18:38] uprising against Chinese rule forced the
[18:41] Dalai Lama, Tibet spiritual and
[18:43] political leader into exile. And in the
[18:46] years since, he's often spoken out, but
[18:48] seldom as sharply as he did today,
[18:50] accusing China of carrying out what he
[18:53] called a brutal crackdown on his people.
[18:55] Our own Anne Curry spoke with the Dalai
[18:57] Lama in exile in northern India.
[19:01] In a rare blistering attack from his
[19:03] residents in India, the Daly Lama today
[19:05] accused China of killing hundreds of
[19:07] thousands of his people and of turning
[19:09] his Himalayan homeland into a hell on
[19:11] earth.
[19:13] >> Even today, he said, Tibetans in Tibet
[19:16] live in constant fear.
[19:19] Tibetans around the world poured their
[19:21] anger onto the streets.
[19:24] A year after fury at Chinese rule
[19:26] exploded and China cracked down hard
[19:28] inside Tibet. In a recent exclusive
[19:31] interview with NBC News, the Daly Lama
[19:33] criticized China.
[19:35] >> Unfortunately, Chinese government is
[19:37] carried easiest sort of method.
[19:40] Suppression,
[19:42] killing, torture, arrest.
[19:45] >> Some have called this cultural genocide.
[19:48] >> Uh yes, I do use that. Yes. In the past
[19:51] weeks, China has clamped the Tibetan
[19:53] region in an iron grip, deploying
[19:55] thousands of additional troops,
[19:57] arresting monks, detaining journalists.
[20:00] The Daly Lama, who is considered a
[20:02] living god by Tibetans, was enthroned at
[20:05] age four and has chosen a path of
[20:07] nonviolence to pursue autonomy for Tibet
[20:09] rather than full independence. Now 74,
[20:13] he makes a painful admission. I publicly
[20:16] accept failure of our approach.
[20:21] So
[20:22] >> you are publicly accepting failure for
[20:24] the middleway approach
[20:26] >> that is concerned failure.
[20:28] >> But he says he's not giving up
[20:29] nonviolence, clinging to the message of
[20:31] compassion that made him a Nobel Peace
[20:34] Prize winner. Definitely.
[20:35] >> These rare images inside Tibet show
[20:38] people who want to be able to practice
[20:39] Buddhism freely, worship the Daly Lama,
[20:42] and control the flow of Hanchinese into
[20:45] Tibet. China says no and insist Tibet
[20:48] has prospered under Chinese communism.
[20:51] There in recent days, Tibetans have been
[20:53] staging a silent protest against China,
[20:56] not eating Chinese food and refusing to
[20:58] speak Chinese. We seem to be the seeing
[21:01] the signs of a spread of political
[21:03] consciousness amongst ordinary Tibetans.
[21:05] That's a big change.
[21:07] >> A change the Daly Lama hopes will be big
[21:09] enough to bring about a negotiated peace
[21:11] with China. So this holy man after 50
[21:14] years can at last return home. Anne
[21:18] Curry, NBC News, Dharmala, India.
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[25:04] >> Tonight on Channel 4 News at 6, working
[25:06] for you.
[25:11] >> We are back with our series of reports
[25:13] on those who are doing good things for
[25:15] other people. Good things in this bad
[25:17] economy. And since asking you to send us
[25:20] your stories, we have been inundated.
[25:23] Truth is, we could dispatch a hundred
[25:25] camera crews a day and never catch up
[25:27] with all the good stories you've sent in
[25:29] to us. We have picked out some favorites
[25:31] like this email from Doie in Maryland
[25:33] who writes, "I was driving through
[25:35] Delaware where there are many toll
[25:37] roads. As I pulled into one to pay up,
[25:39] the lady grinned at me and said, "Your
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[25:58] Thank you for doing this. Then there's
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[26:03] Atlanta. She told us the story of a man
[26:05] who provides the most simple form of
[26:08] service. He's in it for his own reasons,
[26:10] and he has his own way of doing it. And
[26:12] it's important we thought that you hear
[26:14] his story as told tonight by NBC's Ron
[26:17] Mott in Atlanta.
[26:20] >> I'm gonna let you sit behind me today.
[26:22] >> At 75, Bob Langley's long retired but
[26:25] still doing the most rewarding work of
[26:27] his life.
[26:27] >> Let me tell you, I [laughter] I meet
[26:30] wonderful people. I get as much out of
[26:32] it or more than they do.
[26:33] >> For the past 15 years, he's driven
[26:35] cancer patients like Carolyn Ellison to
[26:38] and from treatments in suburban Atlanta.
[26:40] The greatest person that I've ever met
[26:43] is Bob. He's always so kind and just so
[26:48] pleasant.
[26:49] >> Part therapist, part jokester.
[26:52] >> Damn, you good at what you do.
[26:56] >> I got him fooled.
[26:58] >> Langley's job is to keep the mood light.
[27:01] >> He's sympathetic to what we going
[27:03] through and uh he keeps me laughing, you
[27:06] know, which means a lot. It means a lot
[27:08] to Langley, too. His second wife,
[27:10] Glattis, died from cancer in 1992.
[27:13] >> I got to thinking, what in the world can
[27:15] I do to help somebody else because we
[27:17] had so much help, family and friends and
[27:20] neighbors and co-workers. They just came
[27:23] from everywhere and helped us whenever
[27:25] she was sick. He honors her memory by
[27:27] using her retirement money to buy gas,
[27:30] as much as 800 bucks a month,
[27:32] occasionally getting a freebie himself.
[27:33] >> I'd like to give you this and thank you
[27:35] for doing such a great job. This day, a
[27:38] cold drink and a full tank on the house.
[27:41] Langley's travels take him well beyond
[27:42] just down the road a piece. In an
[27:44] average week, he'll put a,000 miles on
[27:46] the odometer, never once showing any
[27:48] signs of wear, his writers say.
[27:50] >> Take it from me, he's a fantastic man.
[27:52] If I was 20 years younger, I'd run off
[27:54] with him myself.
[27:56] >> Hey, Amy.
[27:56] >> How are you, Bob?
[27:58] >> Nightly News viewer Abby Brunks told us
[28:00] about Langley, a man she'd never met.
[28:02] >> He's somebody I'll never forget. He just
[28:05] he gives and he gives effortlessly.
[28:07] >> And he plans to keep up those efforts
[28:09] another quarter century.
[28:10] >> I've decided that the year 2033
[28:14] I'm going to give it up. Uh that's when
[28:16] I'll be 100.
[28:18] >> Ready to go.
[28:20] >> Okay.
[28:20] >> A drive to help until father time tells
[28:23] him to park it. Ron Mott, NBC News
[28:26] Atlanta.
[28:28] >> We'll allow him to take early retirement
[28:29] tomorrow night. another story you
[28:31] suggested as suggested rather as our
[28:34] series continues here all this week and
[28:37] beyond. And that is our broadcast for
[28:39] this Tuesday night. Thank you for being
[28:41] with us. I'm Brian Williams. We hope to
[28:43] see you right back here this uh this
[28:45] very same broadcast tomorrow night. Good
[28:48] night.
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[29:21] Working for you in high definition. This
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[29:26] >> Good evening and welcome to Channel 4
[29:28] News at 6. Tonight, we know people who
[29:30] were hoping the stimulus package would
[29:32] prevent cuts at universities are going
[29:34] to be disappointed. While higher
[29:36] education will get hundreds of millions
[29:37] of dollars cuts are still necessary, but
[29:40] the news isn't all bad. Channel 4's Cara
[29:42] Kamar is working for you tonight live at
[29:44] the capital. Cara,
[29:45] >> and the bad news is that there are still
[29:47] going to have to be cuts at colleges and
[29:49] universities. However, one of the vice
[29:51] chancellors of the board of regents
[29:52] described it to me as this way. Before
[29:55] they were jumping off the cliff, the
[29:57] federal stimulus package will let them
[29:59] glide off the cliff. Any way you look at
[30:00] it though, they're still going to have
[30:02] to reach the bottom. The good news is
[30:04] that those doubledigit tuition increases
[30:07] that many have been fearing for months,
[30:09] well, they're probably not going to
[30:10] happen.
[30:12] THESE DAYS, many college students are
[30:14] worried about whether or not their
[30:16] majors will still