it increases funding for abrams tanks by $181 million. it increases funding for bradley fighting vehicles by $140 million. it also increases funding for mq-9 reaper unmanned systems by $180 million. increasing funding for navy 18 growler electronic attack aircraft, and finally, mr. chairman, the chairman's mark includes important oversight legislation. the most important legislative provision in the chairman's mark in my opinion is legislation requiring the air force to continue to operator the global hawk block 30 unmanned aerial system, which just reached operational capability in august of 2011. each was procured for more than $100 million. so shelving them when they're almost brand-new at a time when the demand for intelligence has never been higher or more important to us made no sense. the mark holds the air force to its plan from last year to continue to operate both global hawk and u2 through the end of 2014. so mr. chairman, overall, chairman bartlett has developed an excellent proposal for our members to consider. i urge them to

dan abrams is here. quite dramatic new evidence abc's unearthed. >> matt gutman has seen the medical records now of george zimmerman's own doctor. and the doctor's records indicate that george zimmerman appeared to have a broken nose, had lacerations on his head. just as many of his supporters have been alleging now for many months. the problem, of course, for george zimmerman is this doesn't necessarily clear him. it doesn't necessarily mean he's going to win. because the question still remains who started the altercation? >> isn't that the key question? >> it's absolutely the key. you can't start a fight, start losing the fight, and then use deadly force. that's not the way it works. >> this is george zimmerman's own doctor. >> that's right. >> so he knew him. >> yep. >> when do you think we treated him? >> this is the morning after. it was shortly thereafter. the doctor in the records talked

stephanie abrams and tom llamas. >> aisle see you on the "nightly news." good morning, everyone. i'm angie goff. >> and i'm richard jordan. straight ahead on news4 today, a bizarre twist in the john edwards trial. what one juror was doing that led the judge in the case to clear the courtroom. >>> we knew, just felt it in your bones. something bad happened. >> joe biden breaks down. we're going to have more on that speech that had the vice president in tears. >>> a solemn ceremony here at the navy memorial. part of the observances of memorial day this weekend. details coming up on news4. >>> and a lot of people are planning on spending a lot of time in the great outdoors this weekend. will mother nature cooperate? a check of the forecast in just a few minutes. >> all that and more when you join us in less than two minutes. >>> hi, everyone. good morning. i'm richard jordan. >> and i'm angie goff. welcome to news4 today on this saturday, may 26. memorial day weekend is finally here. >> thousands of people are in d.c. paying respects to the veterans. >> derek

stephanie abrams and tom llamas. >> aisle see you on the "nightly news."eekend, everybody. >> live, local, late-breaking, this is wbal-tv 11 news today. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> good morning. i am jennifer franciotti. >> i am lisa robinson. baltimore city police are investigating a shooting in west baltimore. this is the scene before 11:00 p.m. friday night. a man was shot. petre -- paramedics treated the victim and took him to the hospital. no word on his condition this morning. the word of a suspect or motive. >> george huguely is appealing -- was found guilty of murdering your love. -- yeardley love. help could be on the way for parents struggling to make college costs. barbara mikulski and ben cardin are supporting a bill that will make it easier to understand what a college education costs. it is called the understanding the true cost of college tax and will require college to come up with an award letter. it will help to develop standard definitions o

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it was abrams' review. in the his review of the book, he basically said i checked with bruce riedel and was assured that no such thing was ever said. ..ñ >> he was viewed in a positive light by a lot of people who interacted with him and government officials around world. i wonder what your interactions were like with king abdallah and whether he feels in the last 13 years or 12 years that has been a leader of jordan whether he has positively carried on mr. o'connell's mission, king hussein's mission and beliefs. >> i have to admit i am a little prejudiced because i grew up with abdallah and found him to be of all the kids -- i don't know that we hung out per se but we played together and there's always the kid who is nice to the other kids and belize etc.. he was a kid who took care of the other kids and nice to the other kids. after king hussein died, my father tendered his resignation and of the law did not accept it and continued to advise him throughout the rest of his life. i am sure he would not hav

thank you so much, dan abrams. big verdict today. >>> and we turn now to new mexico tonight, and the gigantic wild fire, the nation's largest, continuing to spread in all directions. 300 square miles already scorched and the winds are expected to pick up over the next few days. smoke and haze from the fire triggering health alerts hundreds of miles away. >>> and now, to a major crackdown, highway hazard. the biggest crackdown in history on this target, which is dangerous buses. today, government s.w.a.t. teams shut down 26 bus operators, the kind 720 million americans use each year, citing a kre cerecen pattern of accidents involving other vehicles, too. abc's senior national correspondent jim avila gives us an exclusive look at the s.w.a.t. teams as they are moving in. >> reporter: they were horrifying crashes, bus drivers falling asleep on crowded freeways, their 40,000 pound coaches careening out of control, one in new york killing 14 passengers. >> sheared the bus nearly in half. >> reporter: the other in virgi

i want to bring in abc news legal analyst dan abrams right now. here we have a confession all the years later. first question, how do we know it's real? >> we don't. the authorities are obviously giving it some credence. they've got the fact that he lived in the neighborhood. they've got the fact that relatives are coming forward, saying he's talked about it. but the most important thing is going to be that the authorities have now questioned him for two full days. and i can assure you, they try to trick him. in high profile cases like this, you get people all the time who are claiming credit. >> right, right. >> and so they have to exclude him as much as they can. so, it's possible that they've suggested other crimes, said to him, oh, you know, we have another case, were you involved in that one, to see if he would confess to more than one. there's a lot of tricks and experience that are used by the authorities to try to make sure -- >> and is this confession the functional equivalent of a guilty plea or can -- do they have to amess evidence afte

. >> steph abrams is in this morning for al. she's upstairs with more on the impact of this tropical storm. this is much-needed rain in some places. >> that it is. the other good news is it's starting to recede as it moves ashore. the winds are at 50 miles an hour and it centers 30 miles west of jacksonville, florida. there's our satellite and radar picture. we want to get you a closer look at what's happening with this storm. now, listen to this. this is the second strongest landfall and tropical cyclone in the month of may that we've had in 100 years. so this thing is setting records here. it's going to continue to stay in the vicinity and rain out over portions of florida, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, there's that rain that mike seidel was talking about. we still have advisories that are posted here. we still have tropical storm warnings that extend all the way over to the gulf of mexico. this is going to get picked up by a trough and do a little round-about and head out to sea as we head over the next couple of d

casey abrams is now a spokesperson for inflammatory bowel disease. ato was a hair dress ner connecticut before idol. post idol, she's back to cutting hair. san jaya stood out for his hair dos, he came in seventh. and now? >> now lives in an apartment working as a bartender, and sings karaoke songs. >> he hasn't let go of the dream altogether. today we found him writing songs for his new band, but it's a come down. >> an experience like american idol, you're so consumed by everything that's going on, you don't have time while it's happening to really process it. soon as you get cut, everything hits you at once. >> reporter: a lot of contestants struggle. >> they bring you to a therapist to make sure your head is straight. when i went in, i felt like he expected me to be a little more upset, but i was pretty at peace with the decision. >> reporter: even the winners don't stay winners for long. ruben studdard won season two, but his legal troubles make headlines. lee dewise, his first album, sold 150,000 copies. the label immediately dropped him. does i

charged, auditors said it didn't need to be, as for whether edwards will testify, legal expert dan abrams said there's no upside. >> i don't think there's a chance he will take the stand. i think it is too rest -- risky to put him on the stand. >> reporter: part of the strategy will be to discredit the star wetness. andrew young admitted to heeding the affair. another question is whether andrew's -- edwards' daughter might take the stand and testifying on her father's behalf could help humanize him for the jury. >>> next woke a public hearing on that secret service prostitution scandal. it will take's on may 23rd. the secret service director will testify. the incident involving agents happened about a month ago in advance of the president's trip to the summit of americas and involved roughly 20 alleged prostitutes. so far nine secret service members have been let go. >> details on a wildfire that has gone through arizona. how authorities think the fire started. >>> and the how a car ended new a backyard. >>> people in arizona are being told to get out of their homes tonight. the gladiator

the abrams doctrine.s head of the army, dying shortly after the war but first worked the of the total force policy. the military would be restructured so we could not go without disrupting life. when it lbj made a decision he knew he did not want to make that argument. he made that decision and it was not smart. . . and not very many compared to the guardsmen and reservists and adult serving on the ground in vietnam. the draft use to expend the number of people we had a there instead of but when he got a hold of this idea of restructuring the military he said guard and reserves are going to have to go. we have to operational restructure the army so that you can't have a big military obligation of any kind without having guardsmen and reservists. why? so that it would be disrupted by the fact that we were in more and there wouldn't be a divide between the civilian life and that had so crippled the country emotionally and politically and cut vertically at the end of the vietnam and that is important to the

hollywood is here to film the sequel to the 2009 star trek blockbuster produced by jj abrams.he "tribune" says some scenes are being shot at the lawrence livermore laboratory. but no "star trek" fans will be allowed inside. >>> police and protesters clash -- clashed yesterday. as we showed you live on the noon news, some were tasered. tonight at 5:00, we examine the list of tactics that police used to disperse the crowd. >>> thank you for joining us. we're always here for you on ktvu.com. [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to get great prices on things you need. we know you look around for the best deals. that's why we give you real big club card deals each week. this week a crazy low price on tide, $10.99 for 100 ounces. 12 rolls of bounty are $11.99. that's a dollar a roll! pack your lunches -- marie callender's are just 2 bucks. real big deals this week and every week. only at safeway. ingredients for life.

period to recharge your batteries, and finally, this job came about because i have a relationship with abrams, and j.j. is a guy that if he says he has something that is cool and would be good for you, you would do well to pursue it, because he is a guy whose tastes i trust. he may not hit a home run every time out, but his batting average is high, and the things he likes i tend to find interesting as well, so i was intrigued by this script. i like the style of work. i liked the shooting in new york city and having this bengie noir kind of feeling with a bit of science fiction, though i should call its science fact. it just seemed somehow right. that is a decision you make instinctively, and i thought a bit about, well, how much different do i have to make this part from what i become known for, and i wrestled with that for awhile. the writing of the character is different, and he is handicapped, and he is a good guy and has a different look, but at the end of the day, i decided i would free myself from worrying about that too much, because that is out you can drive yourself crazy, beijing ev

dan abrams say that the investigators have an arsenal of tricks. >> you get people all the time that are claiming credit for and they have to exclude him as much as hey can. so, it's possible they have suggested other crimes and said, oh, we got another case, were you involved in that one, to see if he confessed to more than one. >> little help to find dna to hernandez to the crime. or. >>> the other major story overnight, we're on the storm watch with the tropical low brewing off the southern u.s. >> and then it's hurricane bud in pacific. a major category 3 storm with 115 mile an hour winds. it's forecast to weaken before it makes land fall tonight before the popular spot puerto vallarta. >> reporter: tropical storm alberto jumped the gun last week. churning off the coast of south carolina. now a tropical disturbance could turn into tropical beryl over the weekend. we're seeing something completely new. >> this is first time in recorded history that we had a preseason named storm in both the atlantic and eastern pacific basins. >> reporter: despite this early activity noaa predict

enough to say, i would tell that story in a book that will be published this year, "1862 the making -- abramad a lincoln and making of america" and i hope you will all read and enjoy that. and thanks for letting me slip in that plug. today i want to talk about an overlooked branch of the government during that extraordinary year 150 years ago. the 37th congress of the united states was arguably the most productive, the most creative, the most farseeing and the most consequenceal in american history. don't take my word for it. here's john nicolai, the grouchy gatekeeper of lincoln's presidential office. the secretary whose job it was to say no on behalf of the busiest man in the world and, boy, was he ever good at it. people called him irascible. that was the only one of the names that i can repeat in -- on c-span. when congress adjourned in mid july after about 7 1/2 months in session, having wrenched american history from the dead end of slavery toward the hard, slow course of freedom, having created our modern monetary and fiscal machinery, having established the -- united states as a worl

dan abrams says the records are important, but not a smoking gun. >> if george zimmer man started the altercation and he's losing the fight and fears for his life, he does not have the legal right at that point to use deadly force. >> now, this report also shows that zimmerman declined hospitalization after the shooting. he also declined his own doctor's suggestion, that he see a specialist for a follow-up. >>> it could be an emotional ending as the defense winds down the case in the john edwards' trial. on the witness list, edwards daughter, his former mistress and edwards himself. >> and lawyers have not indicated which if any of them will be called. scott goldberg is following the story. >> reporter: good morning. lawyers say he could call his daughter, cate, or his former mistress, rielle hunter, to the stand. they also could call edwards himself. it's a blockbuster day after they focused yesterday on technical issues. for all the emotions coming out of the john edwards trial, all that really matters are cold, hard details about cash. was it campaign money spent to cover up his af

the trial is expected to last for weeks. >>> let's get more from dan abrams.ng this the spray tan murder trial. but the defense seems to be backing away from that. >> and maybe smartly so. it's not their burden to demonstrate what happened. it's the prosecution's burden to have it. why should the defense tie themselves into one theory. you hear the defense talking more about a pre-existing heart condition. and maybe that's, in part, based on the testimony they're going to get from her own family. think about how important that is, right? you have someone who has died here. and her mother may testify on behalf of the person accused here? >> that's huge. >> it's enormous. i think the defense wants to keep their theory as consistent with her account as they can. when they talk art her having seizures, et cetera, they want to make sure that the medical theories are consistent. >> that means they're going to try to shoot holes in the findings of the medical examiner, who took 18 months to come to a conclusion. >> this prosecution is all about the medical examiner.

let me bring in dan abrams. he is not going to prison.hey decided oz this one count this was a gift, not an illegal campaign contribution. >> or that the prosecution hadn't proved the case. this is great news for john edwards. john edwards has got to be thrilled. people may hear hung jury, could this mean a retrial, yes, it might. it could. the bottom line is one not guilty count and five hung is a huge win for john edwards. now the question is going to be are the prosecutors really going to be able to justify spending this kind of money to bring this kind of case again, the kind of case that many would argue never should have been brought in the first place. >> chris cuomo, 2020 anchor, on this one count it was related to a $200,000 check he received from bunny mellon in 2008, just a week before he suspended his presidential campaign. that was enough for the jury to say, no, it was not related to the campaign primarily. >> arguably the weakest count from the beginning, small amount of money. bunny mel on was more difficult to reconcile b

. >>> let's bring in our legal analyst, dan abrams. let's talk about the testimony. as bob said, it shows a family being torn apart, especially the testimony from christina reynolds. but does it help the prosecution's case? >> it cuts both ways. the fact that elizabeth edwards got so upset about this, the defense is going to use to its advantage. they're going to say, look. see? this is why john edwards was trying to cover this up. this money was going to prevent that from happening. not campaign. not to protect his campaign. but to protect his personal life. and once she found out exactly what he feared happened. it does cut both ways. but what the prosecution is trying to do here, is show the cronology of what happened then. that the rielle hunter was the fabric of the campaign. and there is no separating the campaign from his personal life. >> that's what the testimony of josh brumberger, a personal aide to john edwards. he was fired on the spot for talking about the affair. >> and seemingly someone that doesn't have an interest in this. and does seem to be backin

in canada, abram shadd becomes the first african elected official in canada. mary ann would establish an integrated school. she would write for a local paper, newspaper, run by african-american men. henson and others. they would censor her work. she was a woman. chauvinism. they would censor her work. she got fed up with it. so being independent and confident like she was she established her own newspaper. her own journal. the provincial friedman. the motto of the provincial frede freedman was self-reliance is the true road to independence. mary ann shadd-cary was part of a community there in canada that was clearly a military outpost. and though many will refer to those who were going there in the 1850s as immigrationists trying to leave the united states, i would ask them to follow them in the 1860s during the civil war and find out where their feet are. i can track what somebody wants to do by what they're doing. but williams still in his book on the underground railroad, gives us a good example what is going on. it is almost in code though. he says of abra

suspect in the murder of a newark high school football star has his first day in court. 18-year-old abram haity is facing murder charges. >> i didn't want to cry today, but it's making it really hard. just to know that he loves a lot of people and, you know, it's just really hard right now. >> futi came to the u.s. from samoa seven years ago. his friends said he was a good guy working hard to get his life back together after enduring the death of his best friend last year. >>> 4:37, more than a dozen people hurt after a large fire at a half way house in watsonville. fire broke out on monday night. flames spread so fast, several of the residents had to jump from the window. 11 people had to be taken to the hospital for various injuries and smoke inhalation. >>> berkeley police right now stepping up patrols in a popular part of their town. u.c. berkeley police and the city police department teaming up to put more foot and bicycle patrols in the telegraph avenue business district and people's park. the patrols were in response to community concerns about safety in that area. >>> a petition t

. >> i want to bring in our senior legal analyst dan abrams tonight. we were talking. how rare is this that this man would not have been questioned. he was on that block and a half and worked in the small store where others were questioned. >> reporter: i covered a lot of cold cases. never seen anything like this. a massive investigation at the time. you have one person who has been found responsible in a civil case. you have another person whose basement they were digging up. and now, the actual suspect, the person who finally gets arrested and arraigned, is someone who wasn't even on the radar. and lived in the neighborhood. it's really almost hard to believe. >> and arraigned at this hour. dan, we want you to stick with us here, because we are following the john edwards trial. the former presidential candidate facing up to 30 years in prison, charges with using money from wealthy donors to hide his affair from the voters. tonight here, what is going on inside the jury room? what is keeping them from a verdict? bob woodruff standing watch in north carolina. >> report

and elliott abrams, former deputy of the national security adviser to president george w. bush. >> there's nothing like a couple of rain drops to make sure president kennedy the assertion about washington having the charm of the north and efficiency of the south. i appreciate all of you fighting through traffic to be here today. i want to welcome to you what is going to be an extremely informative and clearly timely discussion about our continuing efforts as a nation and a world to achieve a peaceful resolution to the ongoing nuclear crisis with iran. one of the core ideas that encouraged senators daschle, dole, baker and mitchell to join in the policy center five years ago is the idea we need to have forums in this country and certainly in this city where we can have rich and very public discussion answer the consequential issues facing the nation. nowhere has the work been more value able or challenging than the ongoing three-year effort to promote a comprehensive strategy to address the iranian nuclear ambition. all you-oof you know meeting mad and there's burgeoning ho