lawyers for former governor george ryan will be in federal court this afternoon to argue that ryan should get out of prison. he's been there since 2007 ... for steering state contracts to his friends ... and accepting cash and free vacations in return. the supreme court later ruled that a so-called "denial of honest services" law didn't apply to ryan's case. so his attorneys are appealing the remainder of his six-year prison sentence. republican illinois congressman joe walsh is skipping the republican national convention. walsh says the convention is just an excuse to mingle with insiders and spend time with the elite. he says his district does not want another insider. he says his constituents want someone who's independent and will fight for real solutions. walsh is facing a tough re- election against democrat tammy duckworth... in the newly drawn democratic-leaning 8th congressional district. former chicago quarterback jim mcmahon says that he's not concerned ... about the government investigation into his role as a board member of the failed broadway bank the sun-times reports that h

. >> as he left office, governor george ryan made a dramatic decision. rocking the justice system in illinois. ryan granted clemency to all death row inmates, saying the system was broken. ryan commuted 167 death sentences, reducing nearly all to life without parole. until 1998 executions were carried out at stateville correctional center, outside chicago. today nearly half its prisoners are in for murder. stateville had a long reputation as a place where inmates challenged guards for control. how that all changed is the big story behind the walls of stateville. >> it's another day in paradise. >> just to let you know, the next couple of days, we're talking about extreme heat. we need to ensure ice is passed out so you guys can keep your fluids nice and cold and for drinking. it's really important to check each other out, make sure you guys are okay. we're looking at 105 heat index plus for the next four to five days. >> the towers. curry. >> sir. >> tower one. >> it's 6:45 a.m. at stateville correctional center. >> tower two, voight. >> officers on the

if you know where he is, please call prince george's county police. >>> ryan zimmerman, a pair of homes against the braves yesterday. scored ross debt wyler. d.c. topped the atlanta braves 9-2. the nats split the weekend series and keep their three and a half game division lead. >>> every day i comb through all the e-mails and websites to save you money. here's a fun way to get fit. gilt city has a deal for bollywood style dance glasses. $39 for four classes or $57 for eight classes. it's a saving up to 53% off. work off the fitness of your car as well. amoco is offering this one $14 for an oil change that's normally a $30 value. you can find this on google offers. who doesn't like mel brooks? come on. >> it's good to be the king. >> you can get the nine-movie mel brooks collection on blu ray. we're talking classics, baseball, blazing saddles. right now 28.99. that is a 64% savings and that is today's gold bronx price on amazon.com-- >> gold brons price on amazon.com. >>> one more check of traffic and weather right after this. keep it here on 9news now. >>> one more thing before we go.

he also predicted michael phelps will beat ryan lochte. >>> george zimmerman's parents have launched website asking for help. zimmerman is the neighborhood watch volunteer charged with kill tray von martin. he claims he shot martin in self-defense. his parents say they created a website to allow people to get to know the real george zimmerman. they deny allegations that their son is a racist. on the site the zimmer manse also ask for money saying the living expenses have increased since they have gone into hiding. >>> when news4 continues, a surprise decision about michael jackson's children, who's getting custody of them now? >>> plus a with an unusual method. he steals a puppy by stuffing it into his pants. ♪ hard to look right ♪ at your baby ♪ by here's my number >>> and teen usa's hidden talents, our olympic swimmers are starring in their own music video. ♪ at sleep number, individualizing your sleep is at the heart of every innovation. wow. that feels really good! and now, sleep number introducs our new memory foam series the only memory foam beds with exclusive dual-air technol

regardless of what ryan lochte does. >> george letis, wbal-tv 11 news. >> remember, you can see which days your favorite sports take place. our interactive schedule is posted on our web site and you can check out the profiles of maryland athletes competing in london. it's all on wbaltv.com. click on olympics. >> here this morning, a saturday shooting in baltimore city is now listed as a homicide. police responded it a call for shots fired in the 1400 block of poplar grove street around 2:30 saturday morning. that's where they found 30-year-old jermaine blue suffering from a gunshot wound. he was taken to an area hospital where he later died. city officers are also investigating a suspicious death in the downtown area. just after 5:00 a.m. saturday, police got word of a possible shooting in the 300 block of south charles street. once on the scene, officers found a man suffering trauma to his upper body and the unidentified victim later died at an area hospital and so far, detectives haven't found any evidence that a shooting occurred. they are now waiting for results of an autopsy to d

george w. bush and also about a vice presidential candidate. it's pawlenty, ryan, jindal, and portman. we have karl rove's pick is marco rubio. how much influence does he have? >> rove has zero influence on these folks except, of course, he heads up the super pac that's going to spend a lot of money, and that's a good thing for the romney point of view. but rove and the bushies are personas non grata, whatever the right latin is to make sure these people should stay away. rove can articulate a strong republican message, but he is not the person that romney is listening to. bush is not the person that the romney campaign wants everyone reminded of. the bush years are over. >> wayne slater, senior political writer for the dallas morning news. it's great to have you here. >> great to be leer. >> all right, new crazy conspiracy theories are cooking on the right. and they're producing, it turns out, a very, very far reaching smell. hold on. that's coming up. since becoming secretary of state in 2009, hillary clinton has logged 351 days on the road. she's traveled to 102 countries and flown

back in 2005, george bush tried to do something with social security. that's the danger with paul ryanrogram. in both 2004 and 2008, 60 plus-year-old about a quarter of the presidential electorate. mccain won them by four. george w. bush in '04 won them by eight. obama just wants to narrow that gap or not lose them badly. he's not going to win the election there but could lose it. he wants to keep it narrow among seniors. they think this is a way do that. >> erin, my dad was conservative republican. but the one thing he liked was medicare. you know. he worked all his life and said finally i get something for all the money i paid into the government. medicare doesn't -- really popular among people over 65. they really like it. now to come along and threaten to cut it or turn it into a voucher program could be really political suicide for the republicans. do you sense biden is out there like advertising what's to come of a preview of a movie coming? >> absolutely. president obama is going to florida actually on thursday and friday for a couple of events and i expect that he will talk abo

>> wealthy back to the steve the president gave at george washington university taking on pile ryan and the budget. it was a speech, i would say intensely personal. strayed beyond just a critique of the policies. this president has gone out and given speeches at fund raisers in which he questioned whether paul ryan among others was telling the truth about his budget plans. he has been a rather partisan president. look at this, not just my opinion. look how he got health care through, on partisan basis. look how he got the stimulus through, on a partisan basis. bill: how is he going to change washington in 2008? think about the campaign that he was elected on. what was the premise then? what was going to change? >> that was his main argument. remember this is a guy who made his splash on the national stage when he gave a speech talking about how we were going to move beyond red america and blue america. we were going to be a united america. four years later he made a similar case in 2008, and suggested in his campaign surrogates suggested this was going to be a post-partisan presidency.

. >> congressman ryan, thank you very much for your time this morning. >> thank you, george >>> coming up, so much to debate and analyze on our powerhouse roundtable. the court on obama care. >> nancy pelosi wore her lucky purple shoes for the supreme court ruling. while speaker boehner wore his lucky orange face. >>> and immigration. >> voted 5-3 to struck down the law. most people in arizona don't know about it yet because they're still trying to translate it. >>> got to give mitt romney credit he's a job creator in singapore, china, india. i have evidence that proves my dad's a space alien. he speaks a weird language. [ gargling ] [ gargling ] he drinks green stuff. he says he's from albuquerque. i'm not buying it. i mean, just look at him. and one more thing -- he has a spaceship. [ whirring ] the evidence doesn't lie. my dad's an alien. [ male announcer ] the highly advanced audi a6. named to car and driver's 10 best. ♪ named to car and driver's 10 best. last season was the gulf's best tourism season in years. in florida we had more suntans... in alabama we had more beautiful bloo

ryan owens, abc news, memphis. >>> another major headline this morning. georgerman is speaking out publicly for the very first time about what happened the night he killed trayvon martin. the former neighborhood watch captain tells fox news that he was not following martin but trying to get a precise address so he could tell police where to go. he described the ensuing struggle which led to martin's death. >> i felt him take -- he had, after he couldn't hit my head on the concrete anymore, he started to try to suffocate me. and i continued to take -- push his hands off of my mouth and my nose, particularly because it was excruciating having a broken nose and him month weight on it. >> zimmerman called the events of that night as being, quote, part of god's plan. a statement that the dead teenager's father says that he cannot agree with. and you wonder if something like this going public can backfire. we saw what it did to jerry sandusky. sometimes you have to wonder if the lawyer is just like -- >> don't do it. >> just stay out of the lime light. >> whatever he

george zimmerman started solid as always striking out six and allowing four hits. did he get the run support? he never has this season. brian zimmerman doing his part. it is gone. -- ryan is a man doing his part. now we go to the bottom of the fifth. look at the all-star himself bryce harper. he did find it this time. the national get it started right up 5-1 in the second half. the nationals signed the southern californian high schooler with a 16th pick and a deal worth $3 million. washington had to shell out a little more to get him. they exceeded their bonus. baltimore hosting detroit. top of the fifth. cabrera blasts a solo shot to center field. that makes it 4-0 detroit. bottom of the fifth wilson gets his chance. a deep fly ball to left field. he is robbed. 7-2 at home. and the wizards open up summer league action against the hawks and a look like what you would expect. 19 turnovers in the game. he looks sharper than last season and finished the game with 11 points. first half of the break. he throws up in nice alley-oop. bradley beal can sit and take a right to the ram. the wizards lose 102-82. it came down to the last minutes but the new orleans saints rewarded

george w. bush white house and abby huntsman and ryan lizza, welcome. >> good to be here. >> i got a good night'seep, very important when the alarm goes off at 2:00 a.m. kids decideded to play with fire on the olympic level. this is coventry england, you see the kids trying to grab it. security saying, i don't think so. they got past actually for a moment these highly trained security teams to get to the runner holding the torch. they are thinking about it, thinking about it and bye-bye. you said this is exactly what your kids would have done, ryan? >> they seemed innocent here. they weren't -- >> where were their parents? >> let's be very clear. >> of course they had no weapons. >> how did the security het them get that snar. >> being from atlanta, you saw this coming into atlanta and it's pretty well oiled machine, you know. >> to be clear, ryan, your kids are 2 and 4. >> 5 and 3 and they would have gotten the torch, i think. they would have gotten away with it. >> high aspirations for her children. >> if this happened in the states, those kids would have been tased or shot or something. >> don

between george zimmerman and fox news aired last night and they say he did not ask the network for anything and he did not receive anything in return. >> another busy night of heavy storms. bob ryan is tracking everything on radar right now. he has the word on what is on the way here tomorrow. his must see forecast coming up. >> allegations of child abuse and the man who helped a little boy get in still thinking of replacing the truck? i just don't know where to start. glad you made it. start by choosing from over 30,000 used cars and trucks. carmax. start here. i'm barack obama and i approve this message. [ry ney singing]: oh beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountains majesty, above the fruited plain, america, america, god shed his grace on thee, and crowned thy good, with brotherhood... >> you are watching abc 7 news at 11:00 with leon harris, alison starling, meterologist bob ryan, weather and tim brant, sports. abc 7 news at 11:00, on your side. >> is simply horrifying story in prince william county. and 8-year-old pleads for help after he says his adoptive parents physically abused him. the man who entered the knock on the door from the boy

george bush tried to do something with social security. we know how that wound up. that's the danger with paul ryanrning it into a voucher program. i will point this out, chris. in both 2004 and 2008, 60 plus-year-old voters made up about a quarter of the presidential electorate. about a quarter of the presidential electorate. mccain won them by four. george w. bush won they by eight. he wants to narrow the gap or not lose badly. he wants to keep the narrow among seniors. they think this is certainly a way to do that. >> you know, erin, my dad was a pretty conservative republican, but the one thing he liked was medicare. he worked all his life and he said finally i get something for all the money i paid into the government. medicare is really popular among people over 65. they really, really like it. and now to come along and threaten to cut it or turn it into a voucher program could be political suicide for the republicans. do you sense biden is out there sort of like advertising what is to come, a preview of a movie coming? >> absolutely. and president obama is going to florida on thursday and fr

george w. bush's budget director, rob portman, and then what the "times" refers to as the two dark horse choices, paul ryanthe guy who became nationally famous when he suggested taking away medicare from old people and giving them coupons instead, and also

george w. bush's budger director, rob portman, and then what the times refers to as the two dark horse choices, paul ryanionally famous when he

george w. bush's budget director, rob portman, and then what the "times" refers to as the two dark horse choices, paul ryanhe suggested taking away medicare from old people and giving them coupons instead, and also louisiana governor bobby jindal. yesterday, he joins bobby jindal in louisiana for fund-raisers. the beltway press describing him as buzzed about as one of romney's most visible supporters and as a vp short lister.

ryan is coming in to talk to us. so sure, why not? our "starting point" this morning, did you guys watch this last night, george zimmerman's interview tellingide of the story to camera for the very first time since the night he shot and killed trayvon martin? interesting interview. he said what happened that night was all god's plan. earlier i spoke with trayvon martin's parents, sybrina fulton and tracy martin, with their attorney, ben crump. here's what they had to say. >> sabrina, i'm going to start with you if i can. i know you had a chance to watch this interview. what did you think of what george zimmerman was saying? >> my first thought was that i wish that trayvon was here to tell his side of the story because it's just -- we're just hearing one side of what actually happened. >> tracy, what do you think -- you walk through numerous descriptions. he walked through obviously his side of the story of the pursuit, which he said he was not running after him. he walked through the struggle with the gun. if you could have asked him a question, what do you want to know? what would you have liked him to describe in more detail? >> i just wo

on the run and wanted for murder, police say 40-year-old ryan hedglin attempted to steal this passenger plane from a small airport in st. georgehe skywest delta pilot climbed over the airport fence, boarded the jet, and headed for the runway when he clipped the wing of another plane and went through a fence and into the parking lot, hitting the terminal and several parked cars. officers arrived to find the engines still running. >> hedglin was deceased in the plane with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. he was a wanted fugitive out of colorado springs. he committed a homicide on friday, july 13th. >> reporter: investigators believe he killed his ex-girlfriend and was attempting to escape. the incident exposes a weak spot in airport security. >> aviation security is a system and the system is only as strong as its weakest link. >> reporter: commercial jets are not locked and have no security code and no key to the door or ignition that raises serious concerns whether anyone else can hop a fence and fire up a plane. >> he's going to know exactly how to get into the plane and activate the systems and take that plane off. >> reporte

ryan, plus the producer of the new bat man movie and it is thursday, july 19th. "starting point" begins right now. >>> hi, everybody. welcome. "starting point" this morning is georgetrayvon martin sat down for his first television interview. it happened last night on fox news. zimmerman said what happened was all god's plan. >> do you regret getting out of the car to follow trayvon that night. >> no, sir. >> do you regret you had a gun that night? >> no, sir. >> do you feel you wouldn't be here for this interview if you didn't have that gun? >> no, sir. >> you feel you would not be here? >> i feel that it was all god's plan and for me to second guess it or judge it -- >> is there anything you might do differently in retrospect now that time has passed a little bit? >> no, sir. >> joining us this morning criminal defense attorney, former prosecutor ann bremner is with us. thanks for being with us. >> nice to see you. >>> clearly it was a friendly interview. how would you measure and gauge how he did? >> it was a friendly interview. i always think a closed mouth gathers no foot. i rarely regretted my silence, only my speech. he did a few things that will haunt him i

george washington, did you take my truck out last night? 'tis tasty. >>> nbc edited out of those opening ceremonies a tribute, a dance tribute to the victims of the london subway bombings and instead ran a ryaned this statement, saying "our program is tailored for the u.s. television audience." >> if everything in the olympics had to be for the american audience, why not go all way? instead of a parade of nations, 99% of which aren't america, don't bother showing us all 200 countries, just give us i don't know, the all-lebron parade! instead of just 007 picking up the queen, why not have rambo storm the place and pick up some american royalty? that's what i'm talking about! seriously. sometimes we can be so -- >> seriously is a way of putting it in perspective. >>> how many times have you seen this? somebody on the street texting or talking on a smartphone with their head down. it can be a serious danger to themselves and certainly to others. >> the latest government figures show pedestrian deaths in america rose by 4.2% last year injuries shot up 19%. seth doane is here to show us what officials are doing to stop it. good morning. >> good morning to you. injuries to distracted walkers have