Funded its post secondary institutions, not funding institutions that had served large proportions of mexican americans, including many of those along the south texas border. And deborah has written about this. In effect, identifying that south texas was an education desert. We see that that is still the case with one of the counties that nick hillman talked about. People in my own department actually teach students at that institution that nick hillman identified. We actually bring a program out to them. So that they can have access to doctoral education and policy studies. Even though i live in a metropolitan area, even though we are located in a metropolitan area, we have to reach out to them. We are held to the same standards, texas is one of the 25 states with performance funding. We are held to the same standards of needing outcomes as other universities like the university of texas at austin that served half as many lowincome students or fewer and we serve over twice as many lat
This crash happening around 8 45 this morning in paradise township, lancaster county, just over the boreder from Chester County. Students and adults on board the bus were rushed to the hospital. Now investigators are working to figure out exactly what went wrong there. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with nbc 10s tim furlong live on the scene. Give us an update on those who were hurt. Reporter everyone should be okay and everyone should be home from the hospital by now. Thats the good news. It must have been scary for the four special needs kids and the four adults on the bus when it happened today. Here at this intersection over here. Weve been seeing it all afternoon. You see how fast some of of the cars are going through the intersection. Theres only stop signs on the opposite side of this road, not on straussburg road. People slow roll through the intersection. The scene in paradise township sure looked bad from skyforce 10, thankfully the injuries were all minor, thankfully s
Broadway. He joins us live to talk about his passion project today, tuesday, october 21st, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a Tuesday Morning. Im matt lauer, along with hoda kotb, al roker and Natalie Morales. Savannah continues on maternity leave. And sad news about Oscar De La Renta. Yeah. I was at an event last night and there were a lot of people from the fashion world. When they heard the news, it was one of those dead stop moments there. He was an older man, but still surprising. He was a legend with incredible longevity in the fashion world. Well talk much more about him in a little while. Lets start on a Tuesday Morning with this breaking news, the sentence of olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, the judge handing down her decision overnight. National investigative correspondent jeff rossen has cover this had case from the very beginning. Jeff
Rich. She ended her days in paris alone. But her story is a really wonderful story and shes a great character. So i enjoyed doing that. As you can tell im a feminist to the heart. And so i did like writing about women like that who were being somehow denigrated or forgotten or misrepresented. And thats very important to me. Claire tomalin, whats your current project . Im having rest your i spent the whole of lester going around lecturing about dickens and i knew to regroup i think. Any ideas . I would like to go back to writing with a woman as the central character, but its a very crowded field now and its very difficult to find a subject that hasnt been written about so probably i have to find someone quite obscure. This is booktv on cspan2 and weve been talking with claire tomalin, author in london. For more information on these and other entities from london visit booktv. Org and watch booktv every sunday at 6 p. M. Eastern over the next several weeks for more. Next, christopher wol
Showers sticking around and that means slick spots on area roads for a while, especially your morning rush. Take a look at the latest storm team 4 radar. You can see activity here, just south of fairfax, and yes theres been a bit of lightning too between fairfax and woodbridge heading into the western side of the melt beltway, 495. From winchester, more showers here. And at times even a little lightning. Theres your storm system, so it will be making its the way in. Were talking about windswept rain for tomorrow morning. Gusts 25 to 30 Miles Per Hour. Well talk about how much rain in a little bit. Well keep you up to date on the changing weather throughout the newscast and you can also download the weather app on your smartphone for frequent updates. We have just learned about a disturbing case out of Charles County this afternoon. Police there are looking for a man who tried to lure young girls into his car. This happened last wednesday around 4 00 in the afternoon. Two girls ages 14