shock, and right away the next day i addressed it with the coach and the general manager of the wolverines. >> tesch says other cheered leading squads have offered to put kennedy on their team. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. do you think a detroit cheering squad's choice of cheers is too racy for 6-year-olds? email your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. again, that's watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> you're saying you've heard much worse over the years. >> i think i have. >> 5:37, 66 degrees on tv hill. coming up -- scientists find a link between a common virus and childhood obesity. >> plus a study reveals more and more teens are looking to surgery to lose weight. >> and if you're traveling in glen bernie in the next few minutes, there was a motorcycle accident we want you to avoid. we'll update that location and check for other problems. >> welcome back. the time is coming up on 40 minutes after 5:00. a quiet monday morning. a few clouds hanging around. 69 degrees officially at the maryland science center downtown baltimore. it's a little bit cooler in the suburbs, bu

wee give the wolverines a -- he would give the wolverines a headache all night long.uld score twice in the 1st half. the two-point conversion here would be good. 14-0 clarkbsurg at the break. 4th quarter, clarkbsurg senior runs it in from 9 yards out, another missed two-point conversion, 20-0 clarkbsurg and that is your final. clarkbsurg head coach larry hurd very impressed with the defensive evident in that shutout. >> our defense has been -- effort in that shutout. >> our defense has been great all year. last week we didn't help them too much. we didn't move the ball, but this week they were outstanding and the coach does a great job coordinating our defense. we rely on our defense a lot. >> thanks to one who voted this week. we had close to 56,000 vote totals coming in. so keep it up. >>> coming up in sports at 11:00 an update on trent williams and the redskins as they prepare for the rams. we'll send it back to the desk. >>> a hot night for those kids to be out playing football. >> take a walk up the street, sweating out there. >> it's real hot. it's still hot out

a member of the illustrious fab five, the "in your face" group of starters took the wolverines to two ncaa tournament appearances. before his senior year, rose was drafted into the nba where he played pore 13 seasons and played in three consecutive eastern conference finals. with all of this success, rose never forgot where he came from. >> i've been very blessed in my life and my career. i know what it is looic to be a have-not and try to figure out where my next meal is coming from, or understand what it's like to boil water to wash up in the morning. man naz sayonnaise sandwiches. >> is there a particular person in your life who taught you giving back? was there a certain circumstance? what was it? >> i really got lucky because i was surrounded by a tremendous family group. raised by my mom and sports really was a navigator to really influence me in a positive way from basketball. my high school coach was a big influence on my life. >> i don't want to get too psychological, but how much did the lack of relationship that you had with yourñhñ dad come i play with the idea of dealing

>> i started in the wolverines organization. >> you have been around it.ou have a problem with it, too? >> yeah. i didn't think it was appropriate for 6-year-olds to be saying the cheer. >> so, it's obvious you have a problem with it. you both do. so, why not have your daughter either not participate with that particular team? or not take part in that cheer? >> well, they wanted her to sit out. and i thought that was singling out a 6-year-old. all i wanted was a discussion whether this was appropriate or not. i had suggestions for words. i thought it was going to be a simple fix. it should have been a simple fix. but they didn't want to listen to me at all. you know, they kept disregarding what i wanted to say. and to single out a 6-year-old, i just don't think it was right. >> you said a simple fix. they claim that you went right to the media. that you didn't talk it out with them. and that you made it this big issue. that's not true? >> no. no, no, no. it was a couple week process of me going to the general manager, back to the coach, back to the general

shock, and right away the next day i addressed it with the coach and the general manager of the wolverines. >> tesch says other cheerleading squads have offered to put kennedy on their team. that brings us to our water cooler question of the day. do you think a detroit cheering squad's choice of cheers is too racy for 6-year-olds? you can email your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> 66 degrees on tv hill at 5:07. coming up -- a father's accused of killing his children. >> 33 miners in chile still trapped underground after six weeks. we'll have an update on rescue efforts. >> here's a live look at traffic. this is 95 north of 195 in the catonsville area. looks ok right there. more on weather and traffic more on weather and traffic when we come back. [ monkey cheeps ] [ male announcer ] a bath becomes even more pleasurable when you know that your water is being heated in an environmentally- conscious way while saving you hundreds of dollars on your water-heating energy bill. the geospring water heater from ge with advanced hybrid technology. heating the water in your home any other way

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the wolverines beat notre dame 28-24. >>> two years ago when mike singletary famously sent vernon davislog locker room in the middle of the game didn't look like his can we are with the 9ers would last much longer. >> cannot play with him. cannot play with him. cannot coach with him. can't do it. i want winning! >> oh, how times have changed. the 9ers signed davis to a five- year, $37 million contract extension today. the former first round pick led the nfl last year with 13 touchdown receptions. this pretty much sums up the night for vera zvonareva. kim clijsters made quick work of her in the u.s. open finals. clijsters wins in straight sets, 6-2, 6-1, making her the first back-to-back open champ since venus williams ten years ago. not bad for someone who took off for two years to raise her daughter. >>> over on the men's side, semi fines, roger federer and novak djokovic, federer had match point late in the fifth set. but djokovic rallied back to win the game. two games later djokovic punched his ticket to the finals. he will take on top seed rafael nadal tomorrow. >>> for federer, it

shock and right away, the next day i addressed it with the coach and the general manager of the wolverines. >> what did they say to you. >> at that time the general manager was kind of like, well, we have been doing it they way for years. the coach said she really doesn't have any power, she would take it to the general manager, she would like me to address it with the general manager, but since she doesn't have any of the power, we'll see what they say. they came back the following day and at that time, she said, you know, they have been doing it that way for 20 years t board is aware, so you can either have your daughter sit out or that's it. now, she also told me that the cheers were mandated at that time by the association and they were given a list. so i said i'll take it up with your association since you're mandated by them. >> and so you did that? >> i did. i went to the association and the association, the director of cheerleading at that point told me that they're not mon dated, they don't mandate cheers at all and that she would talk to the general manager of the cheerleader for

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a wolverine. >> i'm a big fan.ight, governor, thank you very much. >> thanks, richard. >> very much appreciate you stopping by here. >> governor granholm back next hour sitting on the pannal for the closing cession of nbc education nation. >>> we have new numbers out on two key engines of the economy. american consumer and our homes, as well. melissa francis joins us with the latest on that. consumer confidence here. that's a lagging indicator, though, isn't it? >> well, it kind of tells you how consumers feel and whether or not they're likely to go out and spend. we saw the number dip lower on that. lower than expectations and lower than august which was 53.2. you have to take that with a grain of salt because consumer sentiment you may feel bad and feel like you don't have enough money to go out and spend and when your pants don't fit on your tadler going back to school, you're going to go back. it's sentiment as opposed to what people are really do. the kay schiller index which talks about home prices. home pric

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mandate cheers at all and that she would talk to the general manager of the cheerleader for the wolverines. >> sounds like you're going around in circles here, jennifer. >> yes. >> did you ever callnother parent of a child on the cheerleading squad who said we think they're okay? >> the last talk before i had with the general manager of cheerleading we talked to a few of the parents and they didn't like the cheer as well. so i had gone back to the general manager after i had talked to the association and i ld -- you know, we told her that se of the parents don't like it and her response was at that time the board was aware, they have been doing this cheer for about 20 years and that was it. and after insinuating that, you know, me and my husband were thinking were kind of pverse in thinking it was incorrect or inappropriate, that's when we got mad. >> so that's when you went to the media? >> after a couple o weeks yes. >> and that's when people got really crazy and you were notified that your daughter was being thrown off the team, out of the leagu and couldn't reapply next year if she wan