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Aishah hasnie joins us with how the numbers will be crunched. >> a big debate brewing called the adversity score, calculated based on 15 factors that include a student's neighborhood, family environment and even what high school they go to. students won't even know whether score is but colleges they are applying to will. 150 schools this fall. it will be judged on a scale of 100. anything above the average means the more disadvantages the student is facing is why in the world is the college doing this? david coleman who is the brains behind common core standards, this is going to level the pla...

Otherwise, why, why would he fight with evander holyfield? >> it looks like he's bringing the gloves out and he might want to wear some ear muffs? >> maybe a head muff or something like that. >> oh my goodness. sergeant bow burg daul. the debate brewing in washington. do you think the president is going to face more blowback over this? >> i suspect so. certainly the republicans are going to remind him that the freedom of him was announced in the oval office with his parents sitting there and then there was a lot of antagonism from the members of the unit and now there's the desertion charge. a...

Administration does move to put it back on the terror list, that would be a significant shift. meanwhile, alex, there's also a debate brewing today about how to characterize this cyber attack, which has now been linked to north korea. this debate between president obama and some republicans. take a listen to what both sides are saying. >> no, i don't think it was an act of war. i think it was an act of cyber vandalism that was very costly, very expensive. >> this is not vandalism. this is a new form of warfare, and we have to counter with that form of warfare with a better form of warfare. >> ...

Welcome back. with over 1,000 lives lost in the latest ebola outbreak, the effort to aid patients is increasing. there's a major debate brewing over that new treatment of the virus. >> that's right. the experimental treatment given to the two sick americans is having difficulty reaching the thousands of patients in africa. more from abc's mara schiavocampo. >> reporter: the world health organization has approved the use of zmapp to combat ebola. calling it the largest most severe and most complex outbreak of ebola virus disease in history. that drug has shown so much promise, it's been given t...

Evacuations of personnel should that happen. >> and i was going to say, the evacuation, that's the escape valve. that's the way that any of the numbers of people who are still at the u.s. embassy would get out from the airport route. what about -- >> reporter: it wouldn't be the only way. they have other alternatives but that is an escape route and clearly the officials here are watching. you don't want the main door of baghdad international airport to slam shut. there are other airports. there are military air fields, other commercial areas in this country so it wouldn't be that the embassy s...