we have such programs here in nebraska between our different campuses, between the community colleges and our state and the university. we actually have a unique program where we are piloting reverse transfer of credit back to trinity college is so someone who did not complete their associates degree in actually used some of their university courses for that purpose. the more dialogue there is between institutions the more efficient it is in the more cost is reduced as you point out. host: dr. linder you said earlier $300 million for research at the university of nebraska lincoln. what is the university researching and what are the different areas and what is the main focus? guest: obviously there are a variety of areas but being that we are in an agricultural state some of our focuses are on how you properly use water resources and how you grow food with less water. we face a population crisis in this world. we will have more and more mouths that need to be fed and they
moments at a house fire. the house catches fire with one person trapped inside. the dramatic scene as you can see caught on tape. one man is bravely going in to bring the resident to safely. we ll bring you more of the rescue today sunday, october 19, 2014. from nbc, this is today live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today on a sunday morning. i m erica hill. i m lester hill. we ll check in with dylan. we ve been looking at your tweets. looks like a vacation paradise. we know you re working. we know they ve been through tough times. reporter: it s nice here. we re look forward to your update. certainly no vacation picnic for a cruise ship that docked around 6:00 eastern time letting off thousands of passengers including the woman closely watched for ebola. we re going live to texas and get more in a few minutes. we ll get you to all that. the top story is the possible break in the search for missing uva student hannah graham. she disappeare
still alive, even after isis says the american aide worker was killed during attacks against the terror group. two police officers now learning about life on the other side of the law as a video leads to charges against them. we ll show you more of that video. but first, want to wish you a good morning. hope saturday has been good to you. i m christi paul. i m victor blackwell. 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 out west. you are in the cnn newsroom. high-level talks with russian president vladimir putin have apparently failed to broker a peace deal and end the bloodshed in ukraine. world leaders are meeting in germany hoping to craft a solution to a crisis really on the verge of chaos. already the conflict has claimed more than 5,000 lives and forced nearly 1 million people to flee. right now, vice president joe biden is addressing the mounting crisis there. listen to what he said just moments ago. america and europe are being tested. president putin has to understa
polls show the president with the lowest approval numbers of any president at this point in the modern era. i believe what we re going to look at right now is some live pictures of president obama? yes? we have the president and ivanka trump speaking to the international space station right now with peggy whitson, who as of today has been in space more days than any american astronaut ever. listen. to join us from orbit aboard the international space station. commander peggy whitson and colonel jack fisher. and peggy whitson has been setting records, so we re going to talk about that very soon. i m here in the oval office along with my daughter, ivanka, and astronaut kate rubins, who recently returned from space and from the space station. together, we are being joined by students all across america, thousands and thousands of students who are learning. they re learning about space, learning about a lot of other things. and they re watching this conversation from the classr
the iraqi town of whole object also coming up. just president donald trump meets his philippines counterpart barbara go to terror tape but outside the summit of asian leaders in manila under the protesters demonstrate against their pulse and. and lebanon s former prime minister speaks out saying he will come home soon song or e rejects claims that he s being held against his will by saudi arabia. i m brian thomas a warm welcome to the show while rescuers at this hour are scrambling to help the quake victims on the iran iraq border that s after a seven point three magnitude quake struck around thirty kilometers from the iraqi town of labia late on sunday a rainy and state media saying the tremor killed at least two hundred people in iran alone while baghdad has yet to report an official death toll but hundreds of iraqis are known to have been injured. when the earth began to shake the shoppers began to run. other states. this reporter escaped injury as the tremor shook his stu