know it's saturday. college football forect time if you got your game request send tit me quickly, chuck be bell@nbcwashington.com. developments we're following out of chile this morning. rescue crews have broken through the miners that have been trapped underground for more than two months. the drill has broken through. now rescuers have to decide whether to actually try to pull the miners to safety through an unreinforced rock or inserts tons of steel pipe to protect them. even when they are brought to the surface it will take an hour and a half to bring each of the miners. we'll continue to bng the latest updates as tey become available. in pakistan 20 gunmen attacked and set fire to dozens of oil tankers that were carrying fuel for nato. this is the sixth attack in just over a week. no specific group has come forward to claim responsibility for this latest attack. this is all in response to the country closing some border crossings into afghanistan.

pakistan shut down the crossings after u.s. aircraft accidentally killed two pakistani soldiers. prince george's county police are on the scene of a shooting. it happened after 5:30 this morning in the 13700 block of annapolis road in bowie, maryland. derrick ward has the latest on this shooting. >> reporter: good morning. we're in the area that is just west of church road, the intersection of old annapolis road and church road. everything is focused on a parking lot. this is a parking lot where there are two churches and the west bowie village hall. now we understand there was some sort of event going on at the west bowie village hall. breaking up at 5:30 this morning and gunfire rang out in this parking lot. when it was over two people were hit critically injured. both transported to a hospital. one of those people was pronounced dead at the hospital. now we don'thave identity, ages or gendersf the victims right now. we do understand that the other

victim remains in critical condition at the hospital and as you see there several people here on the scene. their carsre parked up at the crime scene. crime scene draped over a number of cars here. police do not have alookout or anything in the way of circumstances or motive for a shooting at this point but we'll keep you posted. two people shot, both critically injured in the parking lot here on old annapolis road. one person has since died at the hospital and the investigation continues. we're live in bowie. now back to you. derrick ward, thank you. the driver involved in a deadly hit-and-run in the district is out of jail this morning. 30-year-old jorida davidson faces manslaughter charges after police say she hit 24-year-old kiela marie ryan in dupont circle early thursday morning. news 4 jackie bensen has more on her arre and release. 14 hours after she turned herself in at a policetation. >> do yohave a comment, miss davidson? sir, do you have any comment as

her attorney? >> no. i'm just standing in for her attorney. you can get your comments from him. >> reporter: davidson was charged with voluntary manslahter for a shocking incident that happened about 1:30 a.m. on thursday morning in dupont circle. kiela marie ryan was celebrating her birthday with friends. she just stepped out of a parked car when she was struck by a lexus that kept going. a witness followed the suv to get the tag number. prosecutors say when officers located the lexus davidson was in the driver's seat. prosecutors say when officers located the lexus davidson was in the drivers seat. court documents allege she was incapacitated and under the influence of an alcoholic beverage. the keys for the vehicle were in her hands but the engine was not running. the documents detailhe dramatic moment when the officer

brought the bicyclist to chevy chase. to take a look atavidson. the witness positively identified the defendant as th driver of the vehicle that struck miss ryan. the witness said quote, that is definitely her. the prosecution argued that davidson is a flight risk because of her albanian citizenship. she had to surrender her passport. davidson will be placed under what's known as high intensity supervision. the judge ordered her not to drive. jackie bensen, "news4 today." a toddler expected to survive after she and her mother were hit crossing a street in marynd. this happened yesterday morning at the interseion of aspen hill road and georgia avenue in aspen hill. mother was pushing the 17-month-old in her stroller through the crosswalk when they were side swiped by an suv. the driver had a full green light when the accident happened. luckila nurse happened to be close by and performed r on the toddler. >> there's a baby laying in the middle of the intersection being

tended to by a citizen. >> the baby went to the ground without breathing or moving. i just started giving cpr, chest compression. >> after a few seconds we started to get a little bit of a pulse back, became stronger as we continued cpr. >> after the nurse performed cpr the child was taken to hospital. no charges have been filed against the driver. after yet another burglar in northern virginia police are investigating if a serial burglar may be expanding his territory. this latest rglary happened friday morning in the waterford area of loudoun county. investigators are looking into possible links to 87 incidents in fairfax county and 14 in prince william. all happened just over the past two months. the latest break in is similar to towers. it happened during the early morning hours whileresz were home sleeping. the burglar came in through an unlocked door and took small valuable items. we suspect that this person is comfortable with the area, that walking around during hours of darkness, probably on foot or

on bill covering large areas, sitting, listening, watching the area, watching for police cruisers. >> investigators say even with the large number of incidents they still have not been able to get a good description of the person esponsible. coming up on six minutes after the hour now still ahead at this hour -- >> ondrej pavelec is down. >> oh, my gosh. oh, boy. >> out cold. what caused thisoalie to pass out right at the start of the capitals season opener. and finding stereotypes to help save lives. what's

welcome back. if you were in deepwater would you be able to save your own live. sadly in some minority communities the answer may be yes but the reality is no. we set out to learn why and what needs to be done about it. hollywood brought to life a moment of pride in 2007 with a featured film by that name but couldn't ignore a real life problem. black kids not hesitant to get into the water, but not knowing how to swim. this summer prince george's county enrolled 350 kids in make a splash. a national effort to reduce drowning among minority kids through free swimming lesss.

>> it's an epidemic. >> carole runs the aquatic program and works combat the stereotype that blac people don't jump. >> unfortunately it is a joke in our community. it's very serious. we lost a number of youth and adults in our community for lack of knowlge and experience in the water. >> back in july 12-year-old boy drowned in a pool. his uncle jumped in toave him and drowned too. in early august six louisiana black teens died after a swimming party turned into a desperate effort to save them. a study conducted by the univerty of memphis for usa swimming foundation offers startling statistics. nearly 70% of black kids have little or no swimming ability. 58% of hispanic kids fall into the same category. >> despite knowing swim is a life-saving skill there's aong list of compelling reasons that

me people don't learn how to swim. >> that idea that blk people can't swim is shorthand. >> this professor -- >> whatappened in the united states is that african-americans have been divorced from swimming. that slave masters forebade them to swim like for bidding them to reed. >> in today's urban centers ere are other ushs. reputation. >> there's certain sports that give school credit. basketball gives you a lot. football gives you a lot. other sports like swimming may not give you as much. >> more commonly, though, dr. parks says it's access. >> there are pools in a lot of what were historically black schools that are not being used that are empty that a dry and some individuals who are going around trying rehabilitate them. they need support. they need funds. >> the usa swimming study points to access and otherhurdles.

lack of parental encouragement. personal appearance. financialonstraints and the overwhelming predictor of swimming inability. fear. >> i panic. i can't do it. >> fear keeps this girl out of the war but she enrolled her 6-year-old john in the make a splash program. >> because i have a fear i don't want him to have a fear. >> experts say parents have to realize that learning to swim isn't for recreatn or to train the next olympic champion. >> both in physical education and health education, you need to say this is the way to save your babies. >> anybody can get in the water. everybody needs to be able to swim. and possibly save their own lives. to learn more about swimming classes in prince george's county or to read the swimming foundation report later this morning go to nbcwashington.com an search swimming. 12 minutes now after

thundershower. learned a lot working on that story. >> good stuff. a little bonus swimmingtime. temperatures back up in the 8s. if the pool is still open, yes, indeed, maybe a little dip in the water to beat authenticate on your saturday. complete check of your weekend forecast is coming right up.

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want to head outside. >> a lot of people. they are itching. they have their hand on the screen door. ready to go outside and start my weekend right now. >> keep watching. >> you don't want to miss a minute of news 4 especially on the weekend when we have college football forecast. that alone would be enough reason to keep me glued to my seat. outside sunshine. temperatures will be zooming intohe upper 70s and low 80s. beat the heat. relatily warm. temperatures today 10 to 15 degrees warmer than average. yes, indeed, delightfully mil by columbus day weekend standards. plenty of sunshine out there right now. temperatures are on their way up. we made it up to 62 now at ronald reagan washington national airport. the dew points remain in the upper 40s and low 50s around the region. 6% relative humidity. light breeze out of the south at 5 mileper hour. lit breezes out of the

northwest by later on this afternoon. a little weather front coming our ay. 63 at the naval academy in annapolis. la plata 54. manassas, virginia also 54. 62 in front royal, virginia. 50s and 60s pretty much area wide. take a check of it here on the satellite picture. would you think the satellite was broken. not a cloud to be found in the easteru.s. few wisps of cirrus clouds going over the state of massachusetts and some showers over the high plain states. high pressure in charge of our weather. temperatures running in september range for today 10 to 15 degrees warmer than average. as this front comes down through here late tonight ear tomorrow it will cool the temperatures down just a little bit. highs tomorrow up 70s to near 80. still well above erage. not quite as warm as today and then another surge of 80 degree weather i think comes our way for columbus day holiday. with the front washing out in our neighborhood we could see a chance for a shower monday

afternoon and lingering into tuesday. th is hurricane otto out here movi away from the united states. poses no threat to bermuda or the east coast. plenty of sunshine. quite mild. temperatures today 77 to 83 degrees. so nice and warm, indeed. tomorrow plenty ever sunshine in the morning. a few clouds coming by by later on tomorrow morning. highs in the 70s to low 80s. 82 today. 79 tomorrow with gradual increase in clouds. 30% chance of a passing shower on monday afternoon. wednesday looksnice. another weather front brings cooler weather our way. thursday a chance of a shower. florida state down in miami, taking on the hurricanes today, kickoff is at 8:00 tonight. 78 degrees down there. that's going to be a goodone. thele cavaliers ofirginia are down in atlanta taking on

georgia tech. heck ofn engineer too. 3: is the kickoff time, 85 degrees there. and central michigan, they are the chippewas taking on the hokies. more college football forecast coming up. >> no oklahoma. >> we have the week off so a guaranteed win. i'll not be strched out this afternoon. >> all right. a fly ball hit deep to right field. and this ball is out of here and over the seat. >> did y see that? if you went to bed early or relatively late you missed one heck of an end the. the atlanta braves homered to beat the san francisco giants 5-4 in game two of the national league division series. ries now even at one game apiece. the capitals open their regular season hoping to erase all those

bademories of last season's disappointing end and one. redskins deals with a personal tragedy. dan hellie has those stories and more in this morning's sports. >> good morning, everybody, las night a perfect example why it is impossible to make a living betting on sports. the capitals who were almost perfect in the pre-season lose to a team that didn't win a game. their season opener down in atlanta did not go as planned. capitals lose to the thrashers 4-2 and strange happenings early in the game. thrashers goalie ondrej pavelec collapses on the ice. he just fall, out cold. lays motionless on the ice 30 minutes. he was in the hospital and talking after the game last night. the caps came right at the thrashers. a little tick, tack, toe. light put the capitals up 1-0. controversy in the second period.

thrashers up 2-1. it's thrown noent. scramble for tuck. green trs to kart his hand. you can do that but you can't pick it up. the referee said he made an legal move. penalty shot for the thrashers. here's cane trying to beat michael. he does just that. thrashers down the capitals 4-2. the "good guys" back at the verizon tonight for their home opener. albert haynesworth in tennessee with his famy as they grieve the death of his half brother who was killed in a motorcycle accident thursday night. redskins do not know if haynesworth will be available to play against the packers on sunday. mike shanahan did say he expects trent williams to play barring any set backs. the wizards suffered their fst setback in the pre-seasonn chicago. wizards guard got a warm reception in his return to the windy city. played seval years for the bulls. first quarter john wall driving and hitting a wide-open hinrich

in the corner for a three quiet homecoming for the former jayhawk. later in the first remember john wall doing what john wall does driving on everybody hangs and hits the little float. a mixed bag for wall once again. 11 points in the game for te number one overall pick. bulls start to take control off trouble. kick it out to kyle. he is a sniper. he had 17, bulls down the wizards 107-96. baseball playos now. the phillies battle back to beat the reds and then take it 2-0 series lead. let's go philadelphia for this one. roy oswalt trying to follow up on doc holliday's no-hitt. he said i don't think so. pu pulverizes it into theseats. cincinnati up 4-3.

rollins sends the liner into tre. lost it in the light and that s costly. chase utley comes in to is working. jason worth comes in to score and the phillies ral from a 4-0 deficit to beat the reds 7-4. they lead that series two games to none. high school football and the game of the night was a dandy. wca rivals in two of the best programs in the country. dematha and good counsel going down the wire. the game decided by a field goal. let's go to olney. maryland's head coach looking for some studs and he needs them. how about this guy? kendall fuller number 5 from good counsel on the kickoff return. and this is what you call wheels, my friend. now helps when you get good block, has a convoy going into the end zone. puller scores 95 yards, cuts the lead to just seven.

what is it with the 5s? number 5 here. darion 71 yards for the touchdown. dematha in front. good counsel comes bk. michael brent from 23 area out does it for dematha. that's the ball game. dematha beats good counsel. that's your morning sports., i'm dan hellie, everybody have a great weekend. >> you'll remember we told you earlier this month october is domestic violence awareness month. he spent years reaching out to victims and make being sure their attackers are punished. tomorrow ivy will start his final project safe sunday campaign. he joins us live in the studio to talk more about that and thish of domestic violence that is indiscriminate. i know your office has

prosecuted thousands of case in the last year. >> as a matter of fact we created the unit to specialize in prosecuting domestic violence cases because there's some and because we wanted expertise to focus on it. 's a serious problem. >> how big is. >> it's what is. >> it's when we talk about domestic violence people have some ideas about what it is, but it really covers a l of ground. >> from a criminal standpoint it starts juan assault of some kind, a punch, a hit. and can go all the way up to stabbingand shootings. usually there are precursors to it. verbal abuse. and the like. so people need to keep an eye out for the warningignals especially early in a relationship. you tart to see that then it's probably not going to get better as you move forward. >> you got project safe sunday that's happening this month. tell us about that and the kickoff tomorrow. >> it started, gee, seven years ago. deborah williams is one of the survivor of a woman who was killed by her husband who then

killed himself. so she was one of the, sort of the people that helped us get it started and she's bean leader in that effort since then. it's an outreach effort through the faith community since they are frequently the first respond towers get them to start talking about tissues so people feel they can come forward and get support at the faith community level. >> an educion effort and really knowledge is power when you talk about this issue. you encourageeople to come up with safety plans, to think about what i will do if, right? >> yes. especially if you're thinking about getting out of a relationship that's hit the point where it's violent. when charges have been brought orbout to be brought or an arrest is going to be made. people need to think about safety plans. what your going to do? will you leave? go a shelter? is there an alternative place you can stay. from the standpoint of going to work and people you can check in with people you'll travel with. it's not need in every situation but something everyone should think about if they are in a

domestic violent situation. >> you talk about the idea of a protective order something that says keep soone away. that's a piece of paper. >> they are an important piece. they are not force fields. they don't protect people from violent attacks. whae case actually two months ago where a woman had a protective order but her boyfriend still killed her. so it's a piece of what you need to do but n the whole plan. >> i do want to mention quickly there's a fundraiser on october 16th, a run-walk for victims of domestic violence tory to help again rapist some money so you can support folks who need extra help if sharon domestic violence situation. >> for any victim scenario. it allows them to get funding for short are term needs, you know, busted out window repair lock, that sofrt thing. come out and support it. if you don't have money just come be part it. the support is critical for survivors who are ther >> the state attorney for prince george's county we appreciate you coming in. >> thanks. >> 27 now after the hour.

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kimberly is off on this saturday october 9th. we'll take a look at our headlines in a second. meteorologist chuck bell is here with us this morning and waiting for things to warm up. >> we are, indeed. kimberly knows how to pick the weekends off. 75, 80 degrees. yes, indeed. good day to be outside. make plans and go outside without fear or hesitation. mother nure is not going to mess with you today. plenty of sunshine, temperatures are on their way up already. mostly in the mid-50s in the western suburbs to low 60s in town and over towards the chesapeake bay where it's 63 degrees in leonardtown, maryland. 54 degrees in la plata. here's our forecast for today. 100% sunshine. sun goes down at 6:37 this evening. we should top off with temperatur in the up 70s and low 80. the midshipmen are take on the demon eacons. 78 degree start temperature there. right here on channel 4 this afternoon pittsburgh goes to

notre dame 3:30 kick 80 degrees. mild byotre dame standds. running reds of the university of nevada las vegas are in morgantown take on the west virginia mountaineers. >> my 50 cents is woirj. in our headlines this morning police are continuing their investigation into a mysterious murder that happened in a wooded estate in fafax county. the body of 61-year-old yung yun was found in his home by a familyember thursday night. police are only saying that it is an apparent homicide and that yun died from trauma to the upper body. missing from the home is his gold lexus with virginia tags xyw-8197. police ask that if you see the vehicle or have any other information you contact them immediately. another burglary in northern virginia has police questioning if a serial burglar may be

expanding his territory latest burglary happened friday morning in the waterford area of loudoun county. investigators are looking into its possible link to 87 incidents in fairfax county and 14 in pnce willia all have happened just over the past two months. the latest break in is similar to the others. it happened during the early morning hours twlilzs were home sleeping. burglar came in through an unlocked door and took small valuable items. investigators say even with the large number of incidents they have not been able to gate good description of person who may be responsible. the driver in a deadly hit-and-run in the district is out of jail this morning hrs after being arrested. 30-year-old jorida davidson faces manslaughter charges after police say she hit 24-year-old kiela marie ryan in dupont circle earl thursday morning. ryan was out celebrating her birthday when she was hit as she stepped out of a parked car. a tness on a bike followed davidson's car long enough to get a license plate number. the plate was tracked to

davidson's apartment complex where they found davidson drunk still in the car. she's under high intensity supervision and her passport has been taken away. 2-year-old is recovering after eating some marijuana in prince william county. police say they arrested 22-year-old nicole corbett and 25ear-old fernando booker and chargethem with child endangerment and drug spoegs. police were called to a motel in manassas on an overdose call when they discovered the toddler had ingested the drugs. we have a traffic alert for your this morning. plan on taking the metro this columbus day weekend. if you do change what station you go to. farragut westnd mcfer stone square station will belosed through monday because of track improvements. the lower level of metro center will also be closed. red line service at metro center will not be impacted at all. no orange or blue line trains will be passing through any of those three stations. that mean you have to take a

shuttlbetween stations. you should also be prepared for delays up to 40 minutes if you're taking the blue or orange lines. everything should be back to normal for tuesday morning's commute. the red and yellow lines will not be a picnic either. you'll have to add at least half an hour to your ride if you take red line between shady grove and twin brook because of platform repairs and on the yellow line expect 30 minute delays between huntington and braddock road station because of landscaping work at the huntington road station. you might need find another way around town if you plan on take metrobus. 27 routes in maryland and rginia that usually operate on weekdays will not be in service on columbus day. other routes will be operating on an enhanced saturday schedule. get used to those changes. they will be in effect on other holidays, including veteran's day, martin luther king day, president's day and the day after thanksgiving. there's a party in virginia

this weekend. a tea party that is. tea party groups from across the state are coming together for the first time at a convention in richmond. more than 2,000 people are signed up to aend what they are calling the largest gathering of t party members to date. they represent more than two dozen tea party groups from across the commonwealth. the state's former governor and senator george allen among those scheduled to address the crowd along with the group's home town area, state attorney general ken cuccinelli who is challenging the preside's healthcare reform law. d.c. residents living overseasannot cast online ballots. a professor and his students were hired by the board of elections to test the security of internet voting elections. in 36 hours they were able to hack out into the server, find out who voted and change their votes. >> the danger of internet voting is that we just don't know how to make a system like this that is secure given the limitations

of today's technology. >> now for those wanting to vote don't worry. d.c. residents living overseas can still download ballots online and have to mail them in. 33 states currently allow intervet voting. some allow voting by fax. democrats looking for some good news just three weeks fr mid-term elections got exactly the opposite of what the release avenue jobs report. yesterday's report shows that while the private-sector alleged about 65,000 jobs the federal and local governments cut almost 160,000, do the math that means about 95,000 jobs were lost last month. and the unemployment rate is holding steady at 9.6%, the 14th month it's been at that level. republicans are seizing the new data to attack democrats as mid-term elections approach. >> your government is out of control. do you have to accept i want? do you have to take it? hell no you don't! >> the report also shows that

there's been a sharp increase in part time workers. big news the housing front. bank of america has halted sales of foreclosured homes indefinitely. the nation's biggest bank says it has to view potential flaws in foreclosuredocuments. >> reporter: bank of america says it will actually continue to foreclosure on home owners behind on payments but won't sell the property until they can verify the foreclosure documents are accurate. >> the banks do have to get their is dotted and ts crossed. at the end of the day this is forcing people out of their house. >> reporter: the decision follow as week of foreclosur fraud asus occasion leveled not only at bank of america but others like jpmorgan chase and ally gmac. and after an employee in texas admitted to ro signing. that is approving up to 8,000 foreclosures a month without

reading a majority of the paper work. >> the fear is that if this practice is take place at a couple of the servicers it may be taking place at all of them. >> reporter: with one in every seven americans with a mortge either behind on payments or currently in foreclosure, the consequences for the banks might enormous. >> we're probably going to see borrowers awarded some form of compensation for the fact that they were removed from their property in what amounts to an illegal foreclosure. >> reporter: banks are expected to repossess a record 1.2 million homes this year, one million mo than last year but might have to hang on to the homes a lot longer than first thought. 21 before the top of the hour. still ahead could the donaldbe the next commander in chief? donald trump responds to rumors that he wants to run for president.

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help some local stars save the stars. cobra collective will b performing in falls church tonight to help a movement to help safe the arlington planetarium. usually people working hard work pretty hard to get donald trump's approval and to get hired but could the role soon b reversed. the donald was in scotland to receive an honorary doctorate in business. after picking up his degree,

trump said there's speculation of running against obama. >> until now i don't have any interest. itould not be -- there's been a lot o talk about me running. >> trump also said it was too early to say who his potential running mate would be and he laughed off suggestions he might run with former alaska governor sarah palin. care to weigh in? >> you know, he's a colorful character and he's got a good head for business. sometimes government and business are not all that -- the government doesn't run for profit, obvisly. >> and with th it's 17 before the hour. here we go. thank you. >> saved by the bump shot. quick check of the forecast straight ahead. i'm bob ehrlich. i'm not the kind of guy who likes to hang on the sidelines. today maryland's in trouble. we're worse off than we were four years ago:

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man 1 syi didn't owatrnor man 3: he worked for ak 10 billn doanother bamillion.apsed.axers7 h big s don't need help. middle class marylanders do. welcome back. the calendar says october, chuck, but -- >> it does. nice. of course in a year where we've seen seven months in a row warmer than average no surprise it's warm here in the front half of october. nice change from earlier in the week. we had five days in a rowooler than average. that's not happened here along time. how long? the last time we had more than five days in a row colder than average before this week we jt

finished? february. yeah. every stretch of weather we've had since then ha been mild weather, indeed. it's gng a beautiful day outside today. 62 degrees our current temperature here in washington. the dew point is at 51. the wind is light now out of the south at 5 miles per hour. no rain today so far and no rain in the forecast for today or for tomorrow. monday and tuesday may have a little chance of a swer coming our way. the temperatures to get your weekend under way 63 in annapolis, 64 in maryland. 57 degrees in manassas. 63 martinsburg and charles town west virginia. beautiful day expected today. mild weather up and down the eastern seaboard. 60 degrees in minneapolis, 61 in atlanta. there's a big dome of high prsure f most of the nation. high pressure ilds in. weak weather front slipping down

to the south. out ahead of it low 80s. feeling more like september than columbus day weekend. slightly coor weather on the other side of that front. tomorrow afternoon only in the up 70s to 23450er8 degrees. that frontwill basically wash out as it goes further dow south. this area of high pressure sets up shop across the western parts of the carolinas. that opens up the floodgate for the warmer air to come back into the picture. it brings moisture and result for a shower or two monday afternoon and then lingering into tuesday. so that means up need to get outside and enjoy the front half of your holiday weekend. plenty ever sunshine. quite warm. highs upper 70s to low and mid-80s. sun goes down at 6:39. tomorrow plenty of sunshine. clouds moving in by tomorrow afternoon but still a very nice day. ghs tomorrow 75 to 80 degrees. there's the 4-day forecast. columb day a lot of folks have can columbus day off. tuesy looks a little bit showery with highs in the 70s.

next weather front temperatures back down in the 60s which would be average for this time of year and next weekend looks like it will be on the cooler side. ramping up our college football forecast the spartans of michigan state are take on the wolverines up in michigan. alabama is columbia, south carolina take on the game cobs, 3:30 kickoff, 85 degrees. southern california goes up to palo alto to take on the feared stanfo. fighting illinois noise take o the nittany lions. lsu is down in gainesville taking on the gators, 82 degrees. my beloved sooners will be back next week. >> taking of >> still ahead he's the man behind one of the most

anticipated films of the fall. now the director of "secretariat" sits down for lunch with lindsay. well celebrate the birth day of a musical legend, john lennon. ♪

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he is considered one of the greatest athletes of all time. his name is not ruth or jordan or ali. his name is "secretariat."

winner of the 1973 triple crown. now his story iseing brought to the big screen. he sat down to talk about his latest film in this week's lunch with lindsay. >> i don't look at it. >> there are certain risks that goes along with doing such a well known story. what kinds of things did you find were the most challenge -- challenging. >> for one thing, you can't be factually inaccurate with a story that occurred 30 or so years ago. you have to be right. in theacing scenes, the gaps between the horses are precisely accurate. >> really? >> precisely accurate. >> even the final scene? >> in everrace. >> have you ever seen that? >> what? >> colt stand up that fast? >> race horses are amazingly magnetic characters. and they relatto human beings in a unique way, at least in my experience.

you never know if the horse people are putting you on. >> how do you mean? >> well, they would say to me, that you can't get a stallion around a beautiful woman. if a beautiful woman is standing at the rail, they'll start acting up and competing with each other more. >> you dn't know if they were pulling your leg? >> they're just like guys. i think that these horses were kind of like that, they -- the one that plays secretariat, we scoured the country for. ♪ >> what do you think? >> i think he's 1,100 pounds of baby. he eats too much. >> does it mean anything more to you to be from the lynchburg area and to have done this film? did that come into it at all? just the vginia connection? or does it mean more to you to be able to show the film in this area, because it is so close to where you're from? >> really, it's both. secretariat was born about 100

les from where i grew up and went to school. my family was not wealthy. and thidea of owning race horses was well beyond us. my father used to say, rich people have a canopy over their beds. we have a can of peas under our beds. we're sort of poor folks. >> unbelievable, no horse can take this pace. ♪ >> for you it seems like big moments, you seem to have such a gift for creating big moments, when did you realize that that's what was important to you? >> when i was growing up both my grandfathers were dead before i was born. one grandfather was dead before my father was born. my grandmother was a widower before she was a mother. and so i had a hunger to know who these men were, who were my

blood and my name and my ancestry. it is that same hunger that led meo "braveheart." i wanted to know what my roots were. that's the way randall wallace fod the story of william wallace. andrew wallace's son was about to be born, and i wanted to tell him who his people were. interesting stuff. that's it for "news4 today." thanks for spending some time with us. we leave you with the music of john lennon this morning. he would have turn 70 years old today. have a good one. of ♪ ♪

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