the special needs buzz was unveiled in a crash near martin luther king, jr., avenue and sumner. it is not clear how many of the injured were students. coming up next on abc7 news at noon, caught on tape. investigating a squeaky clean new crime trend. cashing in on stolen and electronics. the big crime bust in the district. >> you're watching abc7 news at noon, on your side. >> it is a surprise in crime wave that has law-enforcement puzzled. criminals targeting an unlikely item, laundry detergent. when these got away with thousands of dollars worth of product and the crime has cropped up in our area. call it a "grime way it peacoat targeting tide laundry detergent, like this one, where a man stole more than $25,000 worth of the product. >> he put the pieces in like tetras and maximize the volume of that part. >> cameras caught this 53-year- old loading up his car with gallons and gallons of tide. he did it more than 20 times over the course of 15 months, stealing what they call it a sort of "liquid gold." i did not know people were asking for it. he would push right past the work

the house, chairman of ways and means committee and the appropriations committee and then charles sumner of massachusetts, the great radical leader in the senate. wanted this program of reconstruction to in the end create a multiracial society wherein newly freed african-americans would be integrated fully into the political process. very first african-american was high rebel who toured the nation after his term as a senator after the mississippi legislature had appointed him in 1870 and when he took a long national speaking for newspapers referred to him as the fifteenth amendment in flesh and blood. this north carolina born preacher personified african-american emancipation enfranchisement in the civil war period. the occupied a senate seat that had been held by albert brown who left the chamber in 1861 when the state seceded and it was a very powerful symbolic appointments. he was a former slave owner and here he was taking his seat the decade earlier. as senator henry wilson in massachusetts escorted rebels to the front of the chamber to take his oath on february 25th, the atlanta co

. >> from the susquehanna banks fort sumner, this is 11 -- sports center, this is in 11 sports. >> maryland's team faced a moment in the second round this year. now the challenge multiplies for maryland. they take on the defending champs, texas a&m, this weekend in north carolina. this marks maryland's first game away from home in this tournament. the team is very much at home when it comes to dealing with pressures and expectations of winning a national title. the coach and her players feel like they're body of work shows they can handle anything on the road to the final four. >> i feel like we are battle tested. i mean, every season is a new team. we are not the same team as we were a year ago. i am sure texas a&m can say the same thing. we just have great confidence given the fact that our schedule and our conference has prepared us for this moment. >> for the man, march madness resumes tonight with the sweet 16. you would think the 16 teams left would all be wildly excited about still having a shot. some make, but not syracuse. they have endured multiple scandals this season. there were e

. >> sumner miller was there for the emotional service. >> richard webb made a public plea for something he knew could not happen. >> i wish i could take his place. >> within six to people attended the funeral of the 17-year-old, who died suddenly from a blood clot on sunday. >> 17 years i talked him into bed. 17 years i did that, and i kissed him on his forehead every single night. >> he was a gentle giant, 6 foot seven, almost 4 powder pounds. a star offensive linemen on his school's team. he had just signed a full scholarship to play football for alabama state. the college football jersey that he never would get to where was presented to his family today. >> most people knew him as just an athlete but his family said he was deeply religious. his last facebook post before he died said in all caps, "i love god." >> i always saw a smile on his face. he was the best guy ever. >> he was truly a spirit and gentle giant. >> for the gentle giant, he always carried the team, and for them it was their chance to carry him. >> such a sad scene. another emotional gathering and ohio where funeral s

longfellow, he was a timid guy and weary of engaging in politics but was a very good friend with paul sumner who was an outspoken abolitionists. from 1850s through the '60s, longfellow was more and more taken up with abolitionist and the institution of slavery so he sort of infused with this fashion i have to do something about it. he had several years earlier written poetry about slavery. midnight ride of paul revere is to warn of the red coats coming. the passion is infuses is about ending slavery and the cause of the union. so, if you read it through and actual actually -- jill lapore goes through, there are many references through the poem, you know, they go back past a cemete cemetery, paul revere does on his ride, a cemetery only for the black dead. he talks about a hanging of a slave. the whole idea is whoa are engaged in this moment, the early 1860s, that is a threat to the stability of the union and a threat to the -- threat to the ideals that inspired founders during the revolution. it's komg come down to a childish ride of paul revere and it's a creed and impassioned call to kind

it willle be ready for its closeup by sumner.vear. >> now, the artist michael heiser had reportedly been searching for the perfect boulder for more than 40 years when came across the huge specimen in 2007 he said simimy that is the one. i guess you know white truffle when you see it, right -- i guess you know it when you see it, right. >> a time lapse view from the high definition roof top camera looking towards the bay bridge and looking at the clouds sailing through the sky. lots of cloud around today but not much during the mid day hours in the way of precipitation. and certainly not much at the moment. doppler 7 hd not picking upmy precip in the bay area right now. a little breaks of sun here and there. high temperatures generally in the 50s tomorrow and here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. we will dry out and warm up on friday. the warming continues through the weekend. sunday high temperatures up around 70 degrees. most of next week mild with highs in the upper 60s although a bit breezy on monday and >> larry beil wi

the "wall street journal" reporting executive chairman sumner redstone will not be attending the meeting next thursday. a spokesperson is telling cnbc, quote, it is due to an unavoidable conflict. mr. redstone will be addressing shareholders in a video conference. it is not health related. much of the move after that news. viacom at $54.51 a share. breaking news on the strong february auto sales. let's get to phil lebeau the details. >> we now know how big the month was for the auto industry. 15.1 million vehicles. that was the sales pace last month. to put that in some perspective, that is the strongest monthly sales pace since february of 2008. easily the highest post-recession sales month. but again,million. it was the salce last month. most in the industry were expecting it to b 14.4, 14.5. much the entire industry. thank you very much. phil lebeau with the latest there. we're days away from the super tuesday primaries, in the republican presidential race. rickantorum explains what he needs to do to catapult himself back to the top of the polls. disney, about to christen its newest c

olympic delegation when it goes for gold this sumner london. summer olympics.ouse announced first lady willing lead the u.s. delegation to the 2012 opening ceremony. today mrs. obama will host a mini olympic competition with physical activities for d.c. area children and american university. the competition is part of her let's move initiative promoting fitness and healthy eating. britain's first will join her for that event. >>> an 85-year-old north dakota woman may the most popular food krit nick the world this morning. it is thanks to her beaming review of her neighborhood olive garden. maryland haggerty says the opening of the chain restaurant was a big deal in her small town of grand forks. the review has since gone viral. many have poked fun at her earnest assessment of a dining spot that we often take for granted. this morning, maryland hit back at the critics and she didn't pull any punches. >> sounds like a dirty word. sounds like you are talking bad. i have different ideas what we want to do with our time, don't we? like i would rather be playing brid

. >> who was his -- >> sumner wells. and his enemies, and he had them, started spreading the rumor that he was gay. here was a 42-year-old man who lived with his mother. he was born and raised and lived with his mom less than a mile from where we're sitting. just the other side of the supreme court and the library of congress. and when his mom died the following year, he lived by himself for the first time in his life. 43 years old. so his enemies, some of whom had been accused of communism by hoover, these are high ranking people in the roosevelt administration, started spreading the rumor that hoover was a homosexual. and the rumor never died. there's no basis to it, no evidence. but it makes a good story, right? >> i found this story speaking of the whole communist story in the government, this is a reuters story that came out near the end of february. and i don't know if you've seen this. but the vladimir putin praised cold war era scientists on thursday for stealing u.s. nuclear secrets so that the united states wou

do you need a plan that's flexible so you can sumner florida and winter in new jersey, that though i suspect they'd be summering in new jersey and wintering in florida but if they're traveling they immediate that man. maybe they have young kids in the house and they need a plan that speaks to young ters -- youngsters as well. folks could choose the plan, just like we have here in congress. our plan, mr. speaker, means that wealthy families will get less and sick and low income families will get more. mr. speaker, we talk about shared sacrifice around here all the time. and i am not in favor of raising taxes on the american people. the american people can't afford it. the economy can't survive it. but what e-- but what we can do is start giving away less from washington, d.c. so what we say for future seniors is, folks in my generation, your generation, mr. speaker, is that your support from the medicare program is going to be less than low income families. if you've done well in your life and you can afford to help with the cost of your medicare, we're going to ask you to do that. we

. >> two weeks of sumner the middle of march i gave you. >> it's not enough. >> we've heard that fromone. here's what we're looking at outside today and through the next couple of days. big changes in new england where it's getting chilly and cold. tomorrow morning especially. as far as the milgsd of the country goes, very warm conditions from texas up through areas of arkansas and even the southeast. it will be beautiful today. temperatures, how does 80 sound from kansas city to denver? but notice where the cooler air is. boston to chicago. and this is what's going to happen late tonight, early tomorrow morning. winter returns. it's really just for one day. but this isn't event factoring in the winter. this is the actual temperatures. imagine all the flowers are out. all the buds are out. the growing season has started everywhere about two to four weeks early. some of that could get in big trouble throughout tomorrow morning because of the hard freeze. so it will warm up eventually. but tonight, word of caution in new england is if you can cover it up to save it, do so. you're watchi

closer to its, say, prerecession potential, look at the gap between nominal gdp -- for the scout sumnersere, yeah, we're adding more jobs. there's more of a pulse in the economy. i don't think we're anywhere near the point where we're going to now see the end or big reversal in the trends that have been driving this. >> your argument would be we stay here or go back down to the 2% range or below. >> i don't think it's out of the question that we retest the lows we've already seen. it implies the economy has something like a double dip scare, slowdown scare. i think we're having a speed up scare now. it could easily go the other day. we have to see what happens once we get through some of the seasonal pattern. >> the industrial production number this morning, does that p buttress your case? >> it would buttress anyone's case. pretty strong. manufacturing number strong. capacity utilization is gradually bumping up. you'll get other people saying where's the big recovery? is this strong enough to be sustain snabl sustainable? >> feels like we've been saying that for a while. >> it's fair to

we have a sumner march. sunrise under way over northeast washington, foreground off in the distance. prince george's county. sun up and clear sky. and we are in the low to mid 50s around the metro area. later today into the 80s. increasing clouds and might have a thundershower tonight. small chance and greater chance tomorrow afternoon. drying out for the weekend. >> thanks very much. we will have another news update in ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] offering four distinct driving modes and lexus' dynamic handling, the next generation of lexus will not be contained. the all-new 2013 lexus gs. there's no going back. ♪ >>> we're back now. 7:30 on a thursday morning. it's the 15th day of march 2012. take a look at some of these images. never before seen. taken from the earth's polar regions. this is a project four years in the making. they were shot in elements that at times can be so harsh we understand the crew's eyelids would freeze shut at times. we're going to talk to some of the people behind the pictures coming