says his plan is to start rating colleges on financial value, create "pay as you earn" system for repayment of debt, and he recommends tying academic progress to the distribution of student aid. the republican national committee criticized the bus tour... calling him "a lame duck president." milwaukee brewers slugger, ryan braun admits to taking performance- enhancing drugs during his n-l m- v-p in 2011. he says he took a cream and a lozenge containing banned substances while nursing a injury. last month, he accepted a 65- game suspension. investors are hoping for a better day today... after a glitch brought the nasdaq to a standstill thursday. the nasdaq stopped all trading for 3 hours... paralyzing some of the nation's biggest tech companies. shares of apple, google, microsoft, and the other 27- hundred nasdaq-listed stocks couldn't change hands. it hit the dow and s-and-p 500 too... because many nasdaq components trade on those indexes. are you our

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catch in the chesapeake bay. watermen pulled out these two bull sharks... and you can see they're pretty big. they snagged them a couple hundred yards from point lookout state park...that's about as far south as you can get in maryland. people were swimming in the area. richard rich and greg dean say they had a fish trap set to catch bait for crabbers... but reeled in the two big surprises instead. "we pulled up to the net, we started to pull it up and there they were." "i said maybe we bit off more than we could chew right this minute." one shark died but the other one sprang to life as the net came up. state biologists say bull sharks turn up in the bay and its rivers every year. but here's a comforting fact... there's never been a recorded shark attack in maryland history. ((2-shot toss to

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the man convicted of releasing classified military documents... now wants to be referred to as a "she." how bradley manning plans to fight the armed forces so he can make the transformation into a woman. and the maryland state fair officially kicks off today... a preview of what you can expect this year... coming up. ((break 2))

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espionage conviction suddenly the espionage conviction against bradley manning seems secondary. the army private says he wants to be a woman... one named chelsea. however, the military says it's not going to provide him the hormones necessary to change his gender. chris lawrence has the latest. the battle lines are drawn: the army says it does not provide hormone therapy. and on nbc's today show, bradley manning's attorney is demanding the

prison give it to him. "if fort leavenworth does not, then i am going to do everything in my power to make sure that they are forced to do so." it'll take a lawsuit. unlike this photo in a wig and makeup, army officials say manning will serve his time at the all-male fort leavenworth wearing the standard prison uniform - and he will not receive hormones to help him become a woman. "he would have a better shot theoretically in a federal prison, or even in a state prison." attorney neal minahan fought and won the right for one of his clients to get hormones in prison. civilian prisons do not have a blanket ban on hormone therapy like the military, and taxpayers have been paying for prisoners' therapy for years. "she never really wanted this to be public to begin with." but in court, attorney david coombs used manning's desire to become a woman as an argument for leniency on his sentence. he introduced the photo of manning in a wig and makeup ..and had several doctors testify to his gender identity disorder. so could this

very public announcement help manning's case when he comes up for parole? "in this context i don't see why it would." minahan says a parole board will examine manning's crimes and how he behaves at leavenworth - when deciding whether to cut short his sentence. "i don't think they probably should even look at the fact that he.....she now is transgendered in making that determination." regardless of his sex, manning is sentenced to serve 35-years behind bars for leaving nearly a million pages of classified paperwork to wikileaks. he was spared the charge of aiding the enemy. while the u-s army says it doesn't provide hormone therapy or sexual reassignment surgery to inmates... insurance plans provided by many employers have similar policies. a survey by the human rights campaign suggests only 42-percent of employers have insurance plans that cover costs related to transgender employees.

that includes hormone therapy, surgical procedures, short-term leave, and mental health counseling. the number is up from just 19- percent of companies in 2008. there's no doubting a mother's instinct... and when you double that... you get quite the story to share. how these twins born in china... and both abandoned in different places... came to find each other. ((break 3)) we want to introduce you to

two girls who, despite being twin sisters, had never met until this past weekend. separated at birth and abandoned -- and later adopted by different families.... as derek dellinger reports... now, they've reunited -- and become fast friends. you really wouldn't know it from how they act-- but ella and anna had never met before, until this past saturday. and it's not lost

on the parents that the two have many similarities. "they have a lot of the same facial expressions, so things like that catch me off guard." and an immediate connection. "she's a bundle of energy when she's around others but normally she's extremely shy and timid. how they came to meet is a story in itself-- and it goes all the way back to when they were adopted in china in 2006. they're fraternal twins-- but ella's parents say she was left at a park-- and anna's parents say she was left at the drstep of a hospital. no one was really sure if they were sisters-- but during the adoption process-- the mothers of both met, and there was an inkling that something was special about these two. "as soon as we realized the girls shared birthdays, karen e-mailed me and said 'you know, i niced that our girls shared birthdays. do you think it's a possibility that they are twins?' the two families remained friends through facebook--- each would see pictures of the other's child-- and over time, the double- takes they would have on the photos came to be too much--they had to know. "i'll look at anna, i'll look at ella, and i can just see that

they are related. and earlier this summer the parents took a big step--asking for a d-n-a test. "within a day or two she said 'yes, yes!' and here we are. the test proved it--they're sisters. now we know for sure. ella's family lives in warren, michigan-- but on their way to vacation on myrtle beach, they made a stop in cullowhee, north carolina, where anna's family lives. the two were understandably shy towards one another-- but that changed pretty quickly. "it didn't take long for them to realize 'oh, if we go inside and avoid all this parent stuff, we can get to know each other.' and it appears that they have. anna has an older sister, too but ella is an only child. but the parents of both say the girls have gained a second family. "it's a connection we can't give her, it's something we can never ever provide, and now we have one. "i think it's invaluable for her to know she has a sister." anna and ella's

parent's say the girls have already written letters to each other and plan to stay in touch. slots... roulette... and now, poker. when the card game is coming to maryland live... and how much casino officials expect it win off the new addition. prevent a heart attack on fox 45 news at five

friday, august 23

the maryland state fair kicks

off today... and we'll all be out there to celebrate. it's fox45 day at the fairgrounds. megan gilliland is live there now with a glimpse at this years's attractions. good morning guys, ad lib...

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the 132nd state fair. our "fun at the fair" special will air tonight on the c-w baltimore. it starts at seven p-m. and get all the information on this year's fair on our website. you can see stories we've done... and get links to the fair... concerts... and the schedule for all 11-days by going to foxbaltimore dot com. click on "fun at the fair" under hot topics. maryland's largest casino will roll out a new game in five days. maryland live will start dealing hands of poker come this wednesday... with 52 tables... running 24 hours a day, seven days a week... the casino says the card game addition will boost maryland live into the top five largest in the mid-atlantic region... and in

the top 15 nationally. "we're one of the only rooms in the country that has phone chargers at the table." "players will be able to get rid of their stress while they are playing poker in this facility." and they'll be able to do so with a massage at the poker table. the card game is expected to bring in more than a million dollars every month. students in baltimore city should plan on bringing in a little extra cash for lunch next week... when the school year begins. that's because the city has raised the price for student lunches to 3 dollars... making it one of the highest-priced lunches in the country. it's also the fourth price increase city schools have had in 7 years. school officials say it's all part of an effort to meet the rising costs of lunch ingredients. but the price won't go up for everyone. the city is eliminating the 40-cent charge applied to 4- thousand students enrolled in the low income lunch program. an honest mistake by the city... has crushed the

hearts of dozens of children in west baltimore. they had been working every saturday for two months on their garden in the poppletown neighborhood. the city says it accidently mowed it down while taking care of five thousand overgrown lots. the children, whose watermelon, sunflowers and cucumbers were destroyed... say they just hope it doesn't happen again: "i was sad!" "i was sad!" if you want to help the kids... they are replanting tomorrow at 10 a-m... the location is 22 north schroeder in west baltimore. the georgia woman... who helped talk down a gunman at an atlanta- area elementary school... is being thanked by the president. antoinette tuff was on the phone with a 9-1-1 dispatcher... as she talked to the gunman about his problems. she stayed inside the school's front office... passing the gunman's orders to the person on the other end of the line. shortly before a national t-v interview on thursday... she

got a call from the president. :36 i appreciate you too, but i learned from the best, the best president in the world. no that's me. you can't get any better when you got a great leader in front of you." tuff finally helped convince the gunman to surrender peacefully. no one was hurt in the incident. ben afflect has a new gig in hollywood... which big role he plans to take on in an upcoming boxoffice blockbuster. ((break 1)) just call ben

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medicaid expansion is getting a warm welcome everywhere... why some states are holding off

on allowing more low-income americans to get the coverage... and who ultimately will foot the bill. ((break 2)) [music] [music] [music]

accept federal funds to expand medicaid thru obamacare. medicaid is the state-run health insurance plan for low-income americans.

there are questions about what the expansion will do to the program... and who's ulitmately footing the bill. as bob kendrick from our sister station in columbus, ohio reports -- it's been a tough sell in some states. ((take pkg)) o ((take vo)) the federal government is trying to give states money to expand medicaid-- and get more low-income americans government health insurance. ner ((take sot)) "it's an infusion of money to get more people on the rolls." ((take vo)) political scientist daniel skinner is writing a book on healthcare and politics. he says the answer to who pays for medicaid expansion is easy: ner ((take sot)) "taxpayers are footing the bill." ((take vo)) the question of whether or not states should accept all that money is not. ((take gfx1)) the federal government will pay for 100 percent of the cost of expanding medicaid for low-income americans for the first three years-- ((2014- 2016)) and phase that down to 90 percent by 2022. right now-- federal dollars cover 63 percent of the program. ((take vo)) skinner says it's impossible to predict the total toll of the medicaid expansion on the american taxpayer because every state is different-- ner ((take sot)) as one medicaid

scholar put it, 'if you know one medicaid prgram you know one medicaid program.' there are 50 of them!" p ((take gfx2)) six months before the medicaid expansion program was set to take effect-- 24 states had accepted the plan. 21 had rejected it-- and 6 were still considering their options. in ohio alone-- 13 billion dollars would add 366- thousand dollars to the roles. ((i'm using this figure, because there is no federal figure and i think this helps paint the cost picture.)) der ((take sot)) e "people might shoot themselves before they voted for it." ((take vo)) there's concern about the national debt. and in some statehouses lawmakers are worried washington won't hold up it's end of the bargain-- and stick states with bigger bills and bloated roles. at some conservative think tanks the concern is expanding the program fundamentally changes it. alt ((take t)) "it would expand medicaid to cover able-bodied adults who don't have children who aren't disabled, who aren't pregnant and wh aren't elderly and it does so while providing no requirement those individuals seek employment." ((take vo)) a wide range of special interest groups have rallied for the expansion. hospitals...busin ess

groups....advoca tes for the mentally ill see it as a good idea. skinner says it's why some republican governors have accepted this part of obamacare. ner ((take sot)) "the hard part here is a political question which is how do you turn back to your people and say i just left 17.3 billion dollars on the table?" ((take vo)) because some argue if that money is not spent in your state...the federal government send it to one the next door instead. a rough outing for the ravens last night... an early lead quickly unravels... highlights from last night's game... and who went to the locker room with a possible ((break 3)) ((break 3))

this summer, new york state is back and open for business. with endless beaches, hundreds of miles for hiking...or biking. endless rivers and streams ready to take your breath away. and re than enough wineries to please every pallet. we're ready to make your new york state vacation perfect. there's never been a better time to vacation in new york state. plan your vacation at iloveny.com the new state of new york. welcome.

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"if fort leavenworth does not, then i am going to do everything in my power to make sure that they are forced to do so." the attorney for bradley manning... fights to help his client live as a woman. the therapy he's asking for... and who could foot the bill. they want that danger; they want that thrill; they wan that excitement that comes along with an event like this." the running of

the bulls... comes to virginia. how many people are expected to risk their lives. meg ad-libs friday, august 23rd

this morning a young football player is recovering in the hospital after a driver hit him and drove off. it happened on reisterstown road in northwest baltimore. police say the driver hit eight- year-old ja'quan rucker just after he left practice. they believe the person responsible was behind the wheel of a black, four-door, jaguar with tinted windows. the collision injured ja'quan's leg... he will not be able to play football for the rest of this season. a new trial could be in the

works for convicted killer george huguely. his attorney's say he deserves a new one. he was convicted of killing cockeysville native yeardley love in may of 2010... in an off- campus apartment at the university of virginia. a judge sentenced huguely to 23 years. however, his lawyers say there were errors during jury selection... and the judge rushed the case... even when one of huguely's attoryneys was ill. the state has until september third to respond to the appeal. a frightening catch in the chesapeake bay. watermen pulled out these two bull sharks... and you can see they're pretty big. they snagged them a couple hundred yards from point lookout state park... that's about as far south as you can get in maryland. people were swimming in the area. richard rich and greg dean say they had a fish trap set to catch bait for crabbers... but reeled in the two big surprises instead. "we pulled up to the net, we started to pull it up and there they were." ((take sot)) "i said maybe we bit off more than we could chew right this minute." one shark died but the other on