sorry about that. >> steve: all right, zachary? >> jimmy: oh, here we go. >> oh, zachary, please.s. >> steve: you pick a category. >> jimmy: oh, zachary, i don't i know how you're going to pick. you're so young. >> steve: exactly. [ laughter and applause ] >> i'm younger -- okay. i just got out of school. okay. >> whoa, you are young. >> is -- [ light laughter ] >> is it hoffa in here? >> i don't know, is it? >> steve: these are yoga poses. [ audience oohs ] >> jimmy: oh, no. >> yoga poses. >> jimmy: fantastic. >> can you do them all? >> why not. you know. >> do you know yoga? >> steve: all right, ready? >> kind of. >> oh, great. >> steve: go. >> lotus. child pose. [ ding ] warrior. >> yup. [ laughter ] [ ding ] >> tree? >> no, no. like a -- big bird. >> oh, crane. crane. >> what is our american bird? >> the eagle. >> yeah, okay. [ ding ] >> the snakey snake. like a little snake on the ground. with a thing -- the snake. >> python. oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. >> we're going to pass. >> cobra! >> yes! okay. [ ding ] a canine that is -- >> dog pose. >> but what type of dog? >> downward dog.

but is this what is best for the child known as zachary.e are discussing with our human behavior expert after the break. >>> in order for americans to compete better globally, experts say they will have to stay in school longer during the year. but as education contributor steve perry explains the challenge comes down to spending the money. >> the rest of the world is going to school longer than the american children. one of the reasons why is we made it too expensive to spend the children to school year round. the buildings run whether we are in them or not. is it the administrators and the teachers they get paid more if they work a longer year. to pay them more would mean we would not be able to run a longer jeer year. we need our teachers to understand that our schools need to go longer not just longer for longer's sake but longer to give children to have a deeper dive in academics. the question becomes when will we decide we will run those schools in this country? you know what's exciting, graduation. when i look up into my student's fa

peters rescued mother of smoke rising from the car driver unresponsive zachary peters after the window and pulled to safety take them taken away serious condition zachary peters did and released the suffering cuts and smoke inhalation. mourning snowfall tonight moving to the area overnight 9 in. of snowfall some of the hardest hit suburbs north and northwest smaller amounts in the city and south suburbs ploughs trucks on expressways and streets out tonight making the morning commute easier for now goodbye to the snow fall but hello cold weather tom skilling what we can expect for the weekend. going to be chilly tomorrow another storm lining up into the midwest. turning the wind to the south warming us up big time on sunday details on that and another storm rainfall towards late tuesday-wednesday. forecast and great pictures of winter wonderland northern suburbs coming up at city rolling out new be a cause for chicago police how the new investment could help keep jobs in illinois and cook county commissioner william beavers choice words for the united states attorney following the indic

vans was talking last night how he wanted to take some clippers to zachary's head.touch his hair. you can watch the full episode of district matters on 4. >> zachary has the full dread locks. >> they're gorgeous. >> they look good. >> every time he's on i get tweets from girls asking, who is that guy? >> and stonemasons still working hard to repair the damage caused by the earthquake to the national cathedral and a look at what's going on into restoring this national treasure. >> he was hoping for a prom date with taylor swift. ♪ pierre! your fashion is so "right now," but your banking is so last season! earn more with high yield free checking at capital one bank. instead of some unfashionable rate, your checking could be earning five times the national average. and free atms anywhere. five times the interest? that's hot. oooooo! let's catwalk! you want more interest? open an account at a capital one bank. what's in your wallet? does this make my tuches look big? the 2-4-6-8 value menu's got the everyday value slam, classic burger, build your own chicken wrap, chees

the 21-0 zachary died when his tanker truck that he was riding on overturned -- 21-year old. his funeral will be at the winchester church of god on saturday. prosecutors are expected to finish their case against george huguely today. medical experts testified yesterday that his ex-girlfriend yeardley love died from injuries caused by blunt force trauma. they also refuted defense claims that alcohol and prescription drugs played a role. togeorge huguely start with killing her in 2010. we are seeing progress on efforts to extend payroll tax- cut. yesterday the house and senate came to a tentative agreement. brianne carter is live on capitol hill with the latest. >> yesterday the president urged congress to pass the measure without drama or delay. now appears tense negotiations back and forth and a deal may be in the works. congress is nearing a deal on the payroll tax-cut extension. >> i think the idea is to get it off the table so we can move on to other issues. >> under the agreement reached by house and senate leaders,% payroll tax cut would be extended through the end of th

sequoia austin's first three of her career. >> zachary keish, news 4 sports. >> very nice piece.a, 5'5", graduate of the holten arms school. isn't she great? >> i love her. she's fabulous. >> maryland's next game at home on friday, they are currently ranked 1600. they're doing pretty good. >> good for them. how exciting. >>> what do you have coming up at 6:00? >> coming up tonight, the race for the white house is intensifying. next week could decide which republican gets to run against president obama. federal health officials are stepping in to help alleviate a shortage of life saving drugs. and a warrior who lost both legs and an arm in afghanistan. his story of courage is remarkable. >> great stories. thanks. >>> coming up next, students come together to remember a young teen hit and killed after he fell out of a moving car. his mother has a warning for parents about what her son drank. >>> for all your news. just search nbc washington on cheeseburger macaroni? [ female announcer ] cheeserburger macaroni hamburger helper. now even cheesier and tastier. helpers. forty dishes, a

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zachary whitaker died on monday when his tanker truck died. it will take place at the funeral home. the funeral be tomorrow at the winchester church of god. >> the house and senate are set to vote on a compromise bill that would extend the payroll tax cut. it would prevent a tax hike on 100 million workers and expand unemployment benefits for doctors to treat medicare patients. the battle over birth control is intensifying on capitol hill. >> we have been denied the right to have a witness. i want to have the right. >> eleanor holmes norton stormed out of a hearing. she was upset that the chairman would not let georgetown law student sandra fluke testify. >> it was astounding. it is astounding to sit there and see a group of all male religious leaders talking about women's health. we were not even present. >> the office says a minority members try to adhere as a witness to late. they talked about other plan separate controls can be prescribed for. >> and it was in the battle whether a casino should be built in prince george's county. sharon baker is calling for a luxurious casino to

with me now is zachary ka rar a.big part of that cover story in the atlantic who at the time was the atlantic almost beijing bureau chief for a while, so he watched it up close. and he's said it was one of the big foreign policy successes. do you see it that way, as well? >> i do. there's been kind of bipartisan reality approaches to china. and the last years of president bush's administration were not markedly different in the way that the republicans dealt with china than obama. in a weird way, this was where official america has probably gotten it more right than american sentiment and attitudes. and clearly during the campaign, the republicans are going to try to paint this as a negative. and mitt romney had an editorial this morning in the "wall street journal" where he decries obama's policy toward china as one of being supine in the face of this rising tyrannical being. although, meanwhile as we know the new leader of china mr. xi has spent the night in iowa, which i find as a delightful irony. >> well, and it

research so often is that according to murray, franklin had said that his mother was assistant to zachary taylor. well, i knew that wasn't possible because i was familiar with the taylor family -- no relation -- of orange county, virginia, and i knew that zachary taylor was born in that area but that his immediate family had quickly moved on to kentucky. so that timing just won't work out. wouldn't work out. but what it gave me was the hint that it was some mistress in the taylor family. and, indeed, it was. and later i was able to verify that, you know, six ways to sunday through the orange county courthouse records and through other records at the national around -- archives and so on. but that was really one among many exciting days that i spent at the library of congress. um, now, the rest of the story then. so paul jennings needs his freedom now. you see, what actually happened about this time is that his wife died. so now his children back in orange are motherless. the youngest just 2 years old. this is when he went to senator daniel webster for help. now, remember that i said he wa

he was charged with the cyte's cofounder, 21-year-old zachary chesser from north carolina, who was convicted of 25 years and sentenced to 25 years in prison. >> tone, the head of the roman catholic church in washington is speaking out on the birth control battle o. one side, the obama administration. on the other, church which said it's being ordered to violate strongly held beliefs. tom fit gerald spoke with the cardinal today and -- tom fitzgerald spoke with the cardinal today. quickly becoming a hot debate. >> reporter: any time politics and religion converge, it's locally to be an emotional issue. this time, it's no different. this surrounds a government ruling requiring churches that own hospitals and universities to offer birth control as part of the employee health insurance. it's a ruling that the church said it can not support. as head of the archdiocese of washington, cardinal donald whirl said birth control is an issue that cuts to the heart of catholic teaching. >> this is wrong, mistaken. let's find another approach to this. >> reporter: at issue is an obama administration manda

a friend found the body of 78- year-old joseph robertson on zachary drive yesterday morning. one neighbor says police told him that robertson's door had been kicked in. police though have not confirmed that or any other details about the case. robertson's family describes him as a soft-spoken man with no enemies. >> the man was almost 80 years old. and i have never seen him raise a finger, raise his voice. my only thought is he didn't deserve anything that happened to him. >> police have not released a cause of death or even a possible motive. >>> san jose police believe a fugitive suspected in a two decades old murder case may be back in santa clara valley. salvador suarez 35 years old at the time of the shooting. the left photo taken at the time. on the right an artist rendition of what he might look like today. he is suspected in the fatal shooting of a sunnyvale man. investigators believe he recently returned from mexico possibly under an assumed name. >>> military community mourning the death of seven marines killed in one of the deadliest aviation training accidents in

year-old brittany walker crashed head on into a bmw and died along with passengers breanna franko and zachary rose. the other driver 55-year-old terry davis also killed. now investigators say both drivers were under the influence. >> she was driving on the belong side -- on the wrong side of the highway. i don't know if alcohol is related or not. i just don't know. >> reporter: walker's family struggles to figure out why the teen was on the wrong side of the road. the family of terry davis wants to know where were the police. >> why weren't the cops there to stop them before they hit terry? >> reporter: saying wyatt nearly caught up in the crash. >> adrien line takes over and i'm -- adrenaline takes over and i'm caught in survival mode. >> reporter: he swerves just in time to avoid being hit by walker's car. he was here when the chrysler flew by him in the wrong direction. it would go another five miles before the wreck. >> either they're look to go hit someone or they're just that far out of control. >> reporter: wyatt says he isn't surprised alcohol is involved. he's just sorry it ended so

rushes in because young champion on great seal over course the biggest leap of begin is the country zachary shown in moscow. on that guy in racial ravenous for long because help pressure been trying to reach the fed cup semifinal. but first new york giants the super bowl champions quarterback eli manning leading them to a dramatic twenty one seventeen victory i've been using them patriots in indianapolis just as he did four years ago when the giants dream new england's perfect season as the giants for the fast rise of the block to the new casual stadium this time around manning combining with think two crews for a nine mil lead however new england responded and had their noses in front half time thanks to a field goal and a touchdown tom brady danny woodhead. and momentum stayed with the giants after the in summation stretching their lead to seventy nine from brady for the ball to arran handedness for another touchdown but it was still time for a fight back a pair of field goals brought the giants to be in sync point and they then took the lead with the late dr first the money on manning an

. >> whitney walker was drive ago longside route 50 with zachary and brianna.l of the good times with zack and marie and brittney. >> very sad. it is educational. like i told my children it's not worning getting in a car and drinking. >> a child psychiatrist said teen drinking is very dangerous because their brain is still developing. >> if a teenager would have the maturity to think before acting, then that possibility of making the decision to drink alcohol and sit behind the wheel would be much less. >> he encourages parents to talk to teens about alcohol and lead by example at home to prevent drunk driving. back at the memorial service loved ones lining up to send letters to zack brianna and brittney davis. >> they're going to get their letters and they're probably going to laugh at most of them because they're funny letters or cry because they're loving letters. >> now the family of terry davis held a special service in his memory yesterday afternoon. last night in howard county, sheldon wblewble -- wbal-tv 11 news. >> deliberations are to resume tomorrow

>>james: oakland police are investigating the death of a man who was found on zachary drive. police say it appears to have been there for days. investigators say they are not ruling out foul play but his cousin says he does not know why someone would hurt him. >> many of us have an enemy. many of us, you can look around and say maybe, but i cannot think of anyone who would want to hurt him. >>darya: a judge is scheduled to be assigned to the trial of mirkirimi. his lawyers argue that a video that shows his wife describing bruises that she got on new year's eve, that video should be inadmissible and considered hearsay. >>james: 64 this afternoon. we will be right back after this break. sites cox [ male announcer ] what happened when ford owners compared their trucks to a chevy silverado? i can see myself driving in this for hours and hours. i like it. man: i would definitely consider a silverado trade-up from the pick-up truck that i've got right now. [ male announcer ] we dare you to compare your truck to a chevy silverado, the most dependable, longest lasting full-size pick-

the body of joseph roberts and was discovered on zachary drive. police say it appears to have been there for days. investigators say they are not ruling out foul play. his cousin says he does not know why anyone would want to hurt him. >> a lot of us have an enemy. a lot of us, you can look around and say, maybe. i cannot think of anyone who would want to hurt him. my only thought is, he did not deserve anything that happened to him if it turns out to be what it looks like. >>pam: police say a friend of the family discovered the body at about 8:00 a.m.. it is not yet clear how he died. >>pam: a big crackdown in child pornography. a local task force raided homes in marin county. so far, five people have been arrested on suspicion of downloading child pornography. up to seven search warrants were served. kate thompson has been following the story and joins us live from the san rafael police department with the latest. kate >> after this day long child porn bust, five people were arrested, four of them were men ranging in age from 22- 48. the younges

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zachary whitaker died monday when the tanker truck overturned. he was responding to a fire. visitation will take place in west virginia. his funeral will be tomorrow at the winchester church of god in winchester. first responders from across our area paid a final tribute to a fallen comrade. >> firefighters and paramedics eluded joshua weissman yesterday as his casket was carried through alexandria. during his funeral, he was praised for his dedication to public service. the died last week after falling from an overpass on 395. he was responding to a call at the time. making news, milestones for the markets, general motors, and even the simpsons now. details. >> topping america's money soaring stocks. the dow jones rose 123 yesterday and is within sight of 13,000 its best finish since the financial meltdown come to thanks to good news on jobs and housing. the same positive news sent overseas markets up. gm has posted its biggest profit ever, $7.6 billion last year. gm is once again the world's biggest auto maker. thousands of blue-collar employees will be getting profit-shar

. >> say hi to my boys at home zachary and nicholas and my husband steve. >> because of them you needyeah, i could use it. >> steve you told me is going to be absolutely shocked. >> definitely. >> all right, steve, we're going to make her look hot. are you ready to go? >> i guess so, yes. >> okay. guess who she is here with her brother-in-law, eric, and brand new twins. >> we won't give you blindfolds. we don't want you dropping the babies. close your eyes for us. we'll trust you. don't cheat. here is becka patton before. come see the new you. >> oh, wow. okay. >> hold on guys. ready to open up your eyes. hold on to those babies. >> wow. >> wow in tandem. that's good. >> you ready to see yourself. >> yes. >> spin around. >> oh, my goodness. >> you look gorgeous. you like? >> yeah. >> you're beautiful. >> turn right around. look right there at camera number 12. talk about the hair cut. >> she needed a haircut today. in you find yourself tying your hair back every day guess what? it's time to get a haircut. so we gave her a great hair cut, gave her shape. i softened her color with a lit

zachary admitted he wrote online posts threatening to kill "south park" creators for mocking the prophetmad. >> they ee expected to pay 5% more toward their pensions over three years. new employees would get less generous retirement benefits. under this proposal the extra money would make up for a shortfall in the federal gas tax revenue and would contribute $260 billion for highway and transit programs. >>> and today d.c. officials will unveil a new ad campaign. the add's part of a december strictwide campaign to get kids to stay in school. the campaign will feature motivational stories of five d.c. students who stopped skipping school and got better grades as a result. >>> maryland is home to some of the smaefrt kids in the country, and they have the test results to prove it. maryland comes in first with nearly 28% of high school seniors scoring high enough on the a.p. exams to earn college credit. they released the rankings yesterday. nearly 30% of the montgomery students scored high enough. this is the fourth straight year maryland got the top spot. virginia comes in third place with

we have the fabulous zachary belaccio from fatty crab and fatty q.apkin burger. jill martin of "today," one of the judges. so who will take the burger bash? >> i am. >> really? wow. >> i don't know. i might have something to say about that. i'm the miami favorite. two blocks away five napkin burger. >> the insider. >> what are you doing? >> i have a lamb burger. >> i like lamb. >> and a special aioli made by lady jane up in new york where we come from. we have a little bit of that on the bun. >> and you even have kale to keep it healthy. >> that's the only healthy part. we have a hole to ensure more of the aioli drips into the burger. >> it looks like a donut. >> i'll show you this. >> let me show andy getting started. what's this? >> this is a five napkin burger, the one that made it all. think hamburger, cheeseburger, five napkin burger. >> grilled onions. there you go. jill, you have a tough job tonight. 32 burgers and i take bribes, just so you know. i'm open. >> a judge who is finally open about it. may the best man and woman win tonight. coming

brothers zachary and jeffery rozenburg from brooklyn, new york, and their cousin gregory rosenberg from. one of them had brought a friend, rusty kofman. the boys' families had emigrated from the soviet union so they became known in the events that followed as the russians. >> there would be stories of coarse behavior among the young russians. >> josh said they were loud, they were flashy guys, they stood out. they drank a lot. they were gregarious. >> reporter: by midnight, the joint is jumping. at one point on the security camera, you can see george and josh walk by together. this is the last known image of george smith. josh says he and george head up to josh's room for a few belts from a potent bottle of booze, absinthe, that the two had smuggled on to the cruise. he said george also grabbed more gambling money from his cabin before returning to the casino where kristen ruiz overhears a conversation investigators will later zero in on. >> in the casino george was pretty intoxicated and he was telling people how he had $17,000 in his safe, cash. we're like, why are you saying that? th

last year a judge sentenced zachary chesser to 25 years in prison. the fairfax county man admitted he threatened to kill the cartoon creators for mocking the muslim prophet mohammuhammad ha >>> we will talk about changes coming to our forecast. >> we could get more snow tomorrow night into the first part of the weekend. but the rest of the day today, a beautiful blue sky. that's the live view from the sky watcher camera looking into fairfax county in the distance, foreground is northwest washington. and later today, we will climb into the low to mid 40s. right now temperatures are in the 30s to near 40 degrees. montgomery county mid 30s. much of fairfax county and prince george's county, arlington county near 40 as is the district of columbia, southern maryland near the bay. and northern neck. farther west and north, the temperatures there are in the mid 30s. shenandoah valley, blue ridge, western maryland, and we have quite a bit of sunshine here now. and overnight tonight mostly clear. down in the 20s to near 30 by dawn on friday. increasing clouds

bill, zachary. let me push you back on that a little bit. yes, the market will price this at whatever people are willing to pay for it. as an investor getting into this for something other than a flip or trade you do want to have the sense that the growth in the valuation that a company has currently can be justified over many years. google went public in '85. now trades close to 600. it had that kind of growth rate. i know we're using that because it's the best one. but aren't you setting up people for significant equity disappointment if you come out over strong as facebook might? >> one point that you're making i would agree with, you know, there's been a trend out the silicon valley that started with the google founders and mark zuckerberg had the same opinion which means we're going to late and go public as late as we can, almost an aversion of going public. one net result of that is you have this which comes up which is, you know, traditionally the leading teompanies come out -- microsoft came wut like a $500 million valuation, right?

. >> anyway, zachary, thank you. >> thank you. >> sort of just tentatively.hank you for that. anyway, getting back to the trade. ver phone, interesting, karen was bringing this up whole notion, movement toward this chip technology for visa and master card, encryption chip, ver phone that too, at the crossroads of these new ways of paying. >> finerman has been on that. it still comes took visa or master card. on a good tape today, visa down a percent, gives you a little bit of concern, the stock has been a monster, we have talked about for a while. i think if you can find visa or master card, visa specifically 105, you grab t to me, leonard v and ma are still the best ways to play all the new world spin. >> buy the notion that visa and master card will benefit because it is easier to do the transaction? people will spend more money because they can swipe their phone instead of swipe their credit card? >> the question is are they converting people to give up -- is this move people away from a paperless approach? i think this is a case where an emerging markets,

grover cleveland, william mckinley, zachary taylor and teddy roosevelt.red overweight at his peak with a bmi of 28.3. so if size matters, maybe it makes a politician more, not less presidential. and maybe, just maybe chris christie is getting in shape for

credentials, by gentlemen ecting dickens as a car talkiies, politically naive and as lesser novelist than zachary. it's not until the 1920s and '30 that dickens critical redemption is effected and partly by the story of ellen becoming public and dickens somehow becomes more interested to the new critics. >> rose: because they know more yes within he was put aside by the modernists per se. blooms burry had no use for him, he was too victorian, they were getting rid of victorian and, it is interesting that abroad there had always been a sharp literary and aesthetic appreciation. he was huge for dostoyevsky, he admired bill sykes, the. freud, these are great readers t took awhile for the literary and aesthetic side of eng lirk and american criticism to appreciates him. >> but the books never disappeared. i means that's the thing. there is the proof of it, you know f your books survive after your death hundreds of years, that never happenby acciden >>that speaks louder than criticism. >> never happens by accident. >> books survive because people love them. >> dickens move sell a script. and interesti

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the host, zachary and jim, discuss jobs. >> i know what you do today.as your first job? >> my first job? >> yeah. >> ever? >> i was a plumber. i was a plumber because my daddy was a plumber and his daddy was a plumber. we had a united nations in my neighborhood of laborering men. >> you can watch the full episode of "district matters" at 7:30, right here on nbc4. >>> all right. an 11-year-old in georgia with 6-pack abs is inspiring a workout revolution. >> put your arms slightly in front of you and do a nice tight roll. rea ready? >> that's c.j. and he has his own line of fitness dvds. he actually goes by the name the workout kid. he is often the leader in his physical education classes and requests are rolling in from around the world. schools in japan, canada, great shot there, and australia are asking for a copy of his routine. c.j. says he actually got his new nickname from his friends and i didn't know they still had monkey bars out there. >>> a new jersey teen battling cancer who fogot turned down foa date with country music star taylor swift got

host: we have zachary peterson on the campaign 2012 bus this morning. good morning.r: good -- >> good morning. in the past, unemployment has placed eight -- played a huge role in the election. and do you think it is slowly decreasing? guest: the key challenge for president obama, as he seeks reelection, is to convince americans that the economy is going in the right direction. indicators may show it but people do not necessarily believe it. people still feel the pain of the economic recession. what are we at now, 8.4%? i am sure that that is better, but it is not as good as the 4% or 5% that most americans are used to. what the president has to do now, he has to feel the pain of the americans while still convincing them that he has done something about it and that things get better. that there is a silver lining to the dark cloud. we are seeing some indication in national surveys that his approval ratings are going up. that his job performance is going up. especially amongst independent voters. his numbers are terrible right now. host: to abide and was talking about