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>> what's the appropriate punishment for this? >> death. >> a victim's relative joins the crowds outside the suspected gunman's court appearance calling for his head. inside the courthouse, the first glimpse of the man accused of killing 12 and injuring dozens more in that deadly theater shooting. >> teresa garcia has all the
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details of his first hearing from aurora, colorado. >> reporter: james holmes said nothing as he went before colorado judge wearing a maroon inmate jumpsuit, his hair died a bright red orange. it was the first time he's been seen since the early friday morning shooting at an aurora movie theater that left 12 people dead, 58 injured. >> you committed the offense of first degree murder, which is a class one felony under colorado law. >> reporter: the 24-year-old accused mass murderer appeared dazed and uninterested of the hearing advising him of his rights. also in the courtroom five families of victims. outside, david sanchez spoke about his daughter, kat medly. she is in the floor having a baby, one floor away from her husband who was shot in the head. >> she needs to have this baby delivered and take care of her husband, and everybody needs to
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pray for them. >> reporter: holmes is said to be uncooperative with police, leaving them to try to piece together a motive. they also want to know how he was able to afford $14,000 worth of guns, armor and ammunition. holmes' father flew to colorado from san diego friday. the family attorney is asking for privacy. >> their hearts go out to the victims and their families. >> reporter: holmes is being held in solitary confinement. formal charges are expected by monday. teresa garcia, cbs news, aurora, colorado. >> police are expected to turn over control of that movie theater to the owners on wednesday. >> the shock's wearing off, replaced by raw grief. andrea mccarren has our report tonight. >> reporter: a welcome sign of hope tonight amidst the overwhelming grief. the mother of the 6-year-old
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girl killed in the theater massacre is reportedly pregnant. although she was shot in the abdomen and paralyzed, the baby is all right. a memorial is steps away from the place where all innocence was lost. the unthinkable crime that made even a night at the movies no longer feel safe. the roadside tributes are growing by the hour. a patchwork of flowers, stuffed animals and candles. >> it's a way to share our love and bring the community together. >> reporter: the as well of emotion comes as new information about the suspect emerges. 9 news has learned that james holmes was awarded a prestigious grant from the national institutes of health. it gave the graduate student a $26,000 stipend and paid his tuition for the highly competitive program in neuro science. tonight, it is difficult even to consider that taxpayer dollars may have helped fund
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his rampage. in aurora, colorado, andrea mccarren, 9 news now. >> on the heels of that shooting, here's a frightening story out of the state of maine. police pull over a guy for speeding and find a car full of guns and ammo, as well as press clippings about the colorado tragedy. the man allegedly tells police he brought one of those loaded guns to a showing of batman saturday night in sacco, maine. >> in the car he had the assault rifle and the tactical shotgun in the back seat of the mustang, and these handguns. >> reporter: police found even more guns back at the man's home. he allegedly told them before he was pulled over sunday morning, he was on his way to shoot someone he used to work for. that man is in custody tonight. he is 49-year-old of maine. unprecedented, that's pretty much the only way to describe the sanctions that the ncaa handed down to penn state
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today, for their failure to act in the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. this could have lasting effects for years. they put the school on five years probation, fined it $60 million. they also must vacate all of the football wins it got since 1998, that's 112 wins. the ncaa also banned the football team from playing in any bowl games the next four years and reduced the number of scholarships the team can offer. no price, the ncaa can levy will repair the agree vus damage in-- grievous damage inflicted by jerry sandusky on his victims. however we can make clear that the culture, actions and inactions that allowed them to be victimized will not be tolerated in collegiate athletics. >> the ncaa is allowing any current or incoming player to transfer to another school without penalty. >> the penn state scandal has a lot of americans wondering if
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big-time college sports have gotten just too big. matt jablow spoke with the issue tonight with former basketball coach gary williams. >> the ncaa is imposing a fine of $60 million on the university. >> while announcing some of the most severe penalties in the history of college sports, mark emmerus referred to a sports program he said had become too big to fail, evoking the image of a million dollar football factory that controlled penn state university and answered to no one, an athletic program run amuck. an image all too familiar to basketball coach gary williams who took over the terps back in 1989. less than a year later, the ncaa imposed severe penalties on the program for various rule violations under his predecessor, bob wade. i spoke to williams on the phone tonight. like most americans, williams said he was horrified to hear the specific details of jerry
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sandusky's crimes but not entirely surprised that a large university that depended financially on a wildly successful team would go to great lengths to guard the team's image. >> the problem becomes when the school allows a program to be run bigger than the university. >> williams said while many big- time college sports program are run the right way, clearly, there are programs that are not. according to williams, it's all about keeping college sports in perspective, and sometimes there's a lot of money involved, it's not easy. >> coaches feel the pressure and i think when you get to that level, that's when the problems can take place,where you'll do whatever it takes to win. >> coach williams said he thought penn state football would eventually recover from the penalties imposed today, but that it won't be easy and will almost certainly take a very long time. here's one causing a lot of angry response on the web
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tonight. a 17-year-old sexual assault victim tweets the names of her attackers and now she is the one facing criminal contempt sanctions in court. gary nurenberg is here with that one. >> reporter: it's happening in kentucky, derrick. when she was 16 she went to a party, apparently drank too much, passed out. got sexually assaulted by two teenage boys and didn't know about it until she saw the video on the net. she has gone public with her parents' permission, brought charges against the two kids in juvenile court where the boys apparently cut a deal she thinks is too lenient. goes to her twitter account and names the kids. >> that's what got her in trouble. she wasn't supposed to, under the judge's order, she wasn't supposed to discuss the case or the individuals involved. >> reporter: thes' lawyers moved to hold her in contempt of court and her twitter account gets flooded with support and outrage. her original tweets are no longer available. on a new public account she says thanks for the support she calls unimaginable. >> i feel the gag orders have
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to be reduced tremendously. >> reporter: he understands the philosophy in protecting the identities of youngsters. >> the general idea is you get a break, you're learning to be a human being and approaching adulthood, you get more of a second chance if you commit a crime than if you do it as an adult. >> reporter: after the online outrage grew, the boys' lawyers withdrew their request for contempt against savannah, but the judge could still impose it. >> an individual who went through what appears to be a sexual assault has the right to talk about it. that shouldn't be affected by the other juveniles' rights. >> reporter: he runs the reporters committee for freedom of the press. >> there's an overwhelming public interest in knowing what goes on in our courts. and it's the only way courts keep credibility, is by being accountable to the public. so we need to make sure that judges don't believe that they can impose such sweeping prior restraints without consequence. >> reporter: a maryland woman was so outraged by savannah
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facing the prospect of contempt, she started an online petition to object. got 62,000 signatures in just one day. >> thank you, gary. america tonight mourning the loss of a true pioneer. sally ride, the first american woman in space, has died from cancer. ride set that milestone back in june of 1983 when she or bit the oart -- orbited the earth on board challenginger. that was six years after she answered an ad from nasa. she died after a 17-month fight with pancreatic cancer. she was 61. why are these women sprinting in wedding dresses? there's a pretty sweet prize at the finish line for the top three finishers. we'll talk about it later in the show. anny? we've got a mild start to tuesday. bring your sunglasses and your umbrella. we'll start out sunny, but we could see a better chance for
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>> it is back to the campaign trail for president barack obama and republican challenger mitt romney. the on two men put their campaigning on hold following friday's massacre in colorado. but today romney was in southern california looking for support among small business owners. >> if you're employing people and hiring people, i want to see you do better, because i want more people having good wages and better benefits. >> president obama spoke at the veterans of foreign wars convention in reno, nevada. he paid special tribute to some victims of the colorado shooting. four men and women who served in the military. >> these young patriots were willing to serve in far away lands, yet they were taken from us here at home. and yesterday, i conveyed to their families a message on
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behalf of all americans: we honor your loved ones. >> president obama is on a three-day campaign swing through the western states. so the election is still more than 100 days away, and we are already inundated by campaign ads, almost all of them negative. you just saw a few. if you were really hoping to see a more inspirational campaign, derek says you came to the wrong election. >> i got a voice mail today from a lady who said she's fed up with the political commercials featuring politicians who are in her words downgrading each other. she said the obama ad with mitt romney singing america the beautiful makes her want to throw something through her tv. you know what, shirley? i don't blame you, especially since this election could actually be important, it might matter. our economy's terrible, president obama and mitt romney have major differences on the size and scope of government, on taxes, health policy. and who ought to sit on the supreme court.
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but you look at their ads, you would think the biggest issue at stake is whether or not romney would be outsourcer in chief and whether or not president obama is lying about romney being outsourcer in chief. i get this is really all about our economy, but shirley may be one of those increasingly rare undecided voters also said she's wishing there was another choice on the ballot, because romney and the president have, in her words, downgraded each other so much she doesn't want to vote for either one of them. in other words, even if the debate does get a bit more serious by election day, people like shirley may no longer be interested in listening. anita? >> thank you, derek. the international aids conference returns to the u.s. after a 22 year absence and it's taking place in d.c. more than 21,000 visitors from 191 countries converging on the d.c. convention center where there's concrete science being presented that new hiv infections can be stopped with
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condoms and medication that suppresses the virus, cutting down on transmission between sexual partners and from mother to child. >> united states is committed and will remain committed to achieving an aids-free generation. >> conference organizers also picked washington as a site for the conference in part because of the district's own epidemic. 3% of the population in d.c. is hiv positive but they say death and new infections are down dramatically as well here. a group of protesters interrupted mayor vince gray as he was addressing the aids conference. the protesters pointing out there are more than 1,000 people with aids on the waiting list for subsidized housing in d.c. and challenged the mayor to do something about that. >> do you have a plan for the waiting list? >> we have lots of plans. >> what is the plan? >> may i be able to give my comments? >> mayor gray said the city
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task force is indeed working to find more subsidized housing for people living with aids. commuters who use the ride- on bus service, you'll have reduced schedule one more day because the county is still working to replace a series of buses after some of them caught fire. last week legett pulled the model buses from service after the second fire in three years. the county says everything should be back to normal on wednesday. it seems metro may reconsider a proposal to set more maximum times for rail service. the washington post reports that the transit agency's board will discuss a new proposal on thursday. it would require traipse to run no more than 15 minutes apart in peak service and 20 minutes outside rush hour. it called for a maximum wait time of half an hour during off- peak times. here's a sporting event you will not be seeing at the london olympics, and that's too bad. it's called the annual duel in the dresses. look at the ladies go. 50 young women sprinting down
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the street in serbia wearing wedding dresses. it's a 150 meter dash. the top three finishers won the cost of their wedding. that's assuming that they get married. all right. very nice. >> an entire wedding, i might have to dash. >> it wasn't a sprint. >> heels would be tough, but i might have to do it. what's going on anny? >> we dodged the storms tonight, but tomorrow a better chance for storms in the afternoon and evening. we're concerned that some could be strong or severe, because we've got a cold front coming this way. with that front, it's a better chance to trigger strong storms and also be hotter tomorrow. so the atmosphere will be more unstable. live doppler 9000 hd and you can see we're quiet tonight. we have cloudy conditions out there. that's it. our michael and son weather camera. 82 degrees under partly cloudy conditions. dew point in the upper 60s. it's still pretty muggy out there. here's a look at the radar
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picture. we can see the d.c. area just got missed. up north, philadelphia got some stuff. south of us we saw showers and storms. you can see around the d.c. area, things pretty quiet tonight. tuesday morning starts out sunny and so you won't want your sunglasses. we're looking at afternoon evening thunderstorms possible once again. some of the storms could be strong or severe and we're going to see some drier and cooler air come in. by wednesday, it will be less humid. here's a look at the risk for severe weather. this is according to the storm prediction center for tomorrow. this includes the d.c. area. basically the district and points south where we see the main threat being damaging winds from any storms that could become severe. here's a look at the futurecast. tuesday morning lots of sunshine as you're heading, driving into work. don't forget your sunglasses. afternoon, things look good. may see increasing cloudiness. then the afternoon and evening looks like we can see a better
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chance for scattered showers, some thunderstorms, and some of those could end up being big. then by tuesday, 11:00 tomorrow night, we're going to be much quieter. so here's how your forecast shapes up for overnight. fairly quiet, only a slight chance for a shower or storm. otherwise mostly cloudy. lows will be in the 70s. tomorrow morning, lots of sunshine, will be mild. air quality is code yellow, which is moderate, no concerns there. the afternoon, this is where things could get active. increasing cloudiness at times. showers and storms. highs near 95 degrees. the winds are west at 10 to 15 miles per hour. here's a look at your next three days. so temperatures tomorrow, near 95. some big storms possible in the afternoon and evening. wednesday looks really great. we're talking a green alert day because of the really nice conditions, mostly sunny, highs in the upper 80s. thursday, hot again. 95 degrees. some models say maybe even 100. we'll watch thursday's
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temperatures. no matter what though, it's going to be hot. friday, saturday, we're looking at still some unsettled weather potentially. temperatures will be in the lower 90s. want to mention we could see strong organized storms tomorrow. one meteorologist said maybe tomorrow. i'm not going to do that. we're declaring it a yellow because of the potential for organized storms tomorrow. we'll keep you posted. >> all right, thanks, anny. the shock waves from the penn state deal today still reverb rating across our local sports arena. >> we've been checking the local tone and reaction to the penn state scandal. what's the tone and tenor amongst the media types here and how one local coach is mentoring his athletes being
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penn state university, the shock waves of what happened there are being talked about here. it's a national story. think about what happened in the last ten days. freeh report released, paterno statue removed, ncaa sanctions delivered. this morning, the president, mark emmert lashed out at the university calling their culture perverse and unconscionable. today we sought the opinions of sports journalists here. >> i still would have liked to see the program go away for a year, because if ever there was a loss of institutional control in college athletics, this was it. this is the worst tragedy in the history of college sports. >> i don't agree with the fact that they did not give them the
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death personalty, but an -- penalty, but an egregious situation like this they should have the power and authority to do so. >> what happens to joe paterno's wins now? down to 298. bobby bowden becomes the winningest coach in major college football. the matre at penn state has always been we are penn state. "sports illustrated" is planning on release this cover next week, and it's aptly named we were penn state. all right, that comes out on monday. elijah brooks said one of his players committed to penn state a creer ago. what's brent -- a year ago. what's brent thinking now? what about the current players being recruited. we discussed this earlier tonight. first this is coach on brent. >> as of right now, he wants to stay. there are a lot of other schools that are preying on the current players at penn state
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hoping that they change their mind and want to transfer. for our current players interested in penn state, they have to look at the facts. you know, they won't be eligible to play for championships, but they still get opportunities to play at the highest level. >> all right, brooks continued by saying he's not really sure where penn state's future is headed in terms of wins and loses but would tell his student athletes you can still go there and get a solid education. moving on to baseball now. let's go to some better news today. that's bryce harper, empire state in new york. where concrete jungle, where dreams are made of, and he's leaving the yard, folks. his first home run in almost a month. that made it 2-0. bases loaded. harper coming through again. that's a game winner. the nats 4 1/2 games up on the braves because they lost tonight. orioles on fire. they've won five straight, taking on cleveland tonight.
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