which prompted some to call it alabama's road to no where. but at the alabama department of transportation chief engineer done vaughn doesn't see it that way. >> we can't build all the road at one time. we have to start somewhere. we try to build segments of the road that can be used and have independent utility. but according to the environmental impact study, that is the segment of northern belt line that would have the lowest amount of traffic on it, 4900 cars a day. >> still, you have to start somewhere. >> reporter: the big winners along that first stretch of highway will be the owners of land near the interchanges, according to environmental lawyer, david burwell. >> that ed immediately raises the value of the property for variety of development purposes. >> reporter: american taxpayers will benefit from the belt line, too, according to highway advocate, philip reedmeyer. >> it's needed to improve the nation's highway system. this is not going to benefit just jefferson county or just the state of alabama. there's a lot of traffic moveme

i talked to some folks in alabama recently.y.you might not know or may not know that alabama has been the sock capital of the world, for instance. >> yep.. >> they make as many socks today as they used to 20 years ago, but you know what, they do it with a third the workers. so you need to have a labor market that is flexible. you need to have a labor market that you're not going to have all of these rules dictating this or that. i think it is very telling that> if you follow the sort of alabama model in terms of how you want your labor market to > look, well, if you followed tha> model we can get america workin> again. if we don't, if we decide we want to have all of these exces> regulations, all of these exces> taxes and all of these > disincentives to actually have job creation, then we're not going to have that. > and i think a very important part of it was he chose to come to alabama and open that plant. and i think that's a very important part of it. i think we need to resist temptation to go protectionist. >> david and mac,

it's heading for southern alabama right now. top sustain winds are near 40 miles per hour with higher gusts. some coastal areas could see flooding. claudette caught some people from surprise. >> we saw the clouds and water, but we thought it was a regular evening shower. come to find out, tropical storm on the way. >> there are more storms out there right now as well. chris smith is in for bob once again today. good morning. >> we're continuing to track what's barely left of ana as well as hurricane bill, the first hurricane of this atlantic season. you can see ana making its way through the leeward islands. but our first hurricane with winds of 75 miles per hour. ana's will be a remnant low bringing rainfall across parts of the caribbean and cuba making its way towards the gulf coast of the united states. at in the point we don't think it will continue to strengthen any as we go throughout the next five days. meanwhile, bill may pose a threat. right now it doesn't look like to the united states but maybe towards bermuda. it's f

>> mangum rick, alabama. -- montgomery, alabama. went to medical school at the university of alabama in birmingham. >> when did the hard part of this coming to your life -- the heart part of this come into your life? >> jon kirkland was one of the world's greatest cardiac surgeons. party hacks surgery -- cardiac surgery was where i got to see heart surgery for the first time and when i began my surgery training, i did an internship. one thing i rotated through was cardiac surgery and dr. kirkland was my mentor. it was a brutal six weeks of very little sleep and hard work. but when you finished it, you felt like you were going through marine boot camp, you are proud of what you did. when i finished, dr. kirkland put his arm around my shoulder and said that you ought to consider doing this. from that moment on, even though my stepfather was a general surgeon and we always talk about me doing that, after that, i was cardiac all the way. >> win was the first time -- when was the first time you open the chest and where was it? >> it take

her resume includes starting up a clinic for low-income people in alabama. regina benjamin is president obama's nominee for surgeon general. >> i can be a voice to improve the nation's health care. >> reporter: but questions are now being raised about that because she has also worked as an adviser to burger king. she's part of a nutritional advisory panel for the chain. officials at the department of health and human sfrss say she used that position to advocate for lower sodium items on the menu, but one nutritionist isn't convinced that benjamin's influence would change the culture. >> the bottom line, the amount of food that gets sold, is what counts. public health really doesn't matter. it's secondary, if not lower, on the agenda of food corporations. >> reporter: burger king says it's introduced benjamin gotten more than $20,000 to serve on a scientific advisory board for the giant food packaging company, conagra. sales this year, $12.5 billion. in addition to the $10,000 she's gotten for serving on that burger king board since last year. one medical eth

alabama medical center. we were there for two years and we brought nurses from birmingham, and i brought staff from houston, and we started a program there. and during that time there, a hospital here began plans to have open heart surgery here. and they went on a national effort to recruit surgeons. and we were included in that. and we came up and looked at the facility and the city. i had always wanted to live in washington, but in 1986 there was no opportunity for me to come here. this gave us an opportunity, and we left on good terms in alabama and moved appear in 1989 and started a program. >> why did you want to live here? >> well, it was washington. there is a lot going on here. i'm all into food and not so much into culture, but my wife is into culture. we like living -- we were not too happy in alabama. we wanted to raise our family in this area. >> where did you beat your wife? -- did you meet your wife? >> my wife was on medical surgery. we had a blind date. in those days, i drove beat-up car, and

so in alabama it's as string of about 15 counties stretching from the border of georgia to central alabama to the border of mississippi. that is the heart of the african-american population in alabama. but also with the exception of mississippi -- in most of these seven states that is where you find african americans in the majority of the populations. african americans represent 80 percent of the population. so when we think about migration of african americans, the great migrations in the first half of world war one and world war ii, they are coming out of the black belt. and so it is not only the center of the african-american population, but it really serves as a record for the emerging black population in the urban areas of the north and west. >> tell us. >> well, it is really the buckle of the alabama black belt. geographically it is located between montgomery and selma. member to the east and some of to the west. it was founded or established in the 1830's. and by 1865 -- it has a long history. by 1865 it was the center of gun production. it also develops and. >> a lot of slavery. >

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this motion is dragging it up into western alabama and tennessee. the reason i'm showing you this, it's going to enhance rains around washington area as we get into the middle and end of the week. you can see the cold front pulling this into the washington area. we'll see if we can get rain with that. on we go to a n -- ana and bill. this is progress to bring -- this is going to bring rains into porto rico. it's a tropical depression and then, we have hurricane bill. there we'll have a watch bill moving. maximum winds 90 miles per hour. this is forecast to be a major hurricane. . so, we have to watch bill carefully over the next few days. >>> back to washington weather and we're getting warmer outside. places have been underneath the cloud cover for 80 so in washington and 83 in dulles and it's been mostly sunshine so far. they're at 88 so far and 89 in ocean city. sunshine, you're in the mid-to upper 80s and the rest of us are cooler. we'll see a lot of sun and the temperatures will jump in town. the highs today will be in the low to mid-90s. just

we weren't too happy in alabama. we wanted to raise our family in this area. >> where did you meet your wife? >> my wife was -- i was a chief resident in surgery, and one of the medical students was on my service. and her best friend was my wife, mary. and mary, we had a blind date. fdays i drove a little beat-up car, a volkswagon, with holes in the floor, and all the girls i went out with spent the first 15 minutes complaining about the car. and mary got in the car and didn't notice the holes, and that's what i like about her still. >> what does mary do today? >> she's a pediatrician here on campus. >> so you work in the same building? >> we do. >> now there is a big difference between being a pediatrician and a heart surgeon. >> yes, there is a big difference. >> first i would suspect that there is a difference in what you maybe. -- what you make. >> yeah, pediatricians are not well paid. it would astound you what a pediatrician makes. you know if you consider the amount of training, and the expense they incur to g

as far as i know still the only chapter in the state of alabama. and one thing that i had noticed during the process of getting the chapter created was there's still a lot of sort of hostility and resistance to the idea of southern unionism and to the idea that there were southerners who served in the union army who willingly agreed to serve against the confederacy and such. so much so that we actually encountered resistance from time to time. we tried to talk to the public about the creation of a chapter. >> that comes as no surprise to us. >> if you haven't already read the book that focuses on, you know, unionism in alabama. it's less a story about a specific or a couple of individuals but it highlights the degree to which as we said if the bottom third of mississippi is controlled by unionists by the end of the war, the top quarter to third of alabama is in union's control and if you look at every single confederate state, large swaths of those confederate states are controlled by unionists. it's one of the most overlooked aspects of the civil

her impressive resume includes starting a clinic for low income people in rural alabama. dr. benjamin is president obama's nominee for surgeon general. >> i can be a voice in the movement to improve our nation's health care in a nation's health for the future. >> reporter: but questions are now being raised about that because dr. benjamin has also worked as an advisor to burger king. that's right, the home of the whopper. dr. benjamin is part of a nutritional advisory panel for the fast food chain. officials at the department of health and human services say she used the position to advocate for lower sodium items on the menu and for calorie and fat information on packaging. but one nutritionist isn't convinced that benjamin's influence at burger king would change the culture there. >> in my experience the bottom line, that is the amount of food that gets sold is what counts, and public health doesn't really matter. it's considerably secondary if not even lower on the agenda of food corporations. >> reporter: burger king says it has introduced several nutritional items to its

avenue and alabama avenue is closed. the mangled wreckage of one of the two hicles -- they are writing traffic around. what is truly remarkable, there were several people who saw this accident and jumped into action. you could see people rushing to this gold cadillac and trying to help even though the cadillac is smoking. the driver was badly hurt. all five people and that up being transported. the driver of the cadillac had to be cut out of the vehicle using the jaws of life. the other vehicle is sitting in the middle of the intersection upside down. the passengers inside had to be pulled out of broken windows. this all happen in a little bit after 4:00. -- and this all happened a little bit after 4:00. just about any root out of the district through southeast washington is a nighare. it took us over an hour to get to the scene because traffic in every direction is gridlock because of some conditions on the parkway. if you're traveling through here, be patient. as for the investigation, it is ongoing. what we understand

parts of the alabama coast are under storm warnings. a new storm sprang up early this morning and it's already strengthened enough to become tropical storm claudette. some parts of the florida han hanld could get up to 10 inches of rain. and tropical storm bill is churning over the atlantic, getting stronger and heading east. it could make it to hurricane strength today. and then there's tropical storm ana, still causing worries for the caribbean as it moves westward. it may hit haiti or the dominican republic, but they can't say if it will reach the u.s. yet. stay here with hln, your full weather forecast and storm check, straight ahead. >>> milwaukee mayor tom barrett is recovering after being beaten with a metal pipe. at last word, he was in stable condition at a hospital. now, we don't know the extent or type of injuries he received in this attack, but police say he was alert and talking when he arrived last night. police are now searching for the man responsible who they believe is a known criminal. they say barrett was leaving the

a new storm threaten toes florida panhandle and alabama's coast. and it's not alone. two more storms are getting stronger as they approach land. >>> police search for a man who attacks milwaukee's mayor with a pipe. but this is no political grudge. how it started and ended in what police say about the attacker. >>> the chicago police aren't the only ones asking people to turn in their guns. parents who have lost children to violence are begging folks to trade a firearm in for a gift card. >>> in life, he was the king. and for elvis fans, nothing has changes. they are remembering his death, 32 years ago today. but this year, they have something to celebrate as well. >>> hi. you are watching hln. i'm virginia cha. here's our top story. we now have three tropical storms to keep our eyes on. parts of the florida and alabama coast are under storm warnings as a new weather system brews off the northern gulf coast. it sprang up early this morning. it's strengthened enough to become tropical storm claudette. it could bring 3 to 5 inches of rain to florida and southwest georgi

the failure of the montgomery, alabama, based regional bank was the fifth biggest in u.s.with $20 billion in assets. colonial operated 346 branches across georgia, nevada, alabama, texas, and florida. >>> at the box office, the action and alien packed "district 9" took the number one spot with $36 million its opening weekend. that's already more than the $30 million it cost to make. ""gi joe: the rise of cobra" got bumped to number two. "and the time traveler's wife" baseded on the best-selling novel, debuted in third with $13 million. >>> and as he began the pro football comeback, michael vick told "60 minutes" he's disgusted with himself. in the first interview since his 18-month prison sentence for running a dogfighting ring. vick says he let down his family, his fans, and himself. >> not being on a football field, being in a prison bed, a prison bunk, writing letters home, that wasn't my life. that wasn't the way that things were supposed to be. and all because of the so-called coach that i thought was right. >> vick has signed with the philadelphia eagles. he may be a

hard hit will be southern alabama, southwestern georgia and southeastern ssissippi. the latest on our weather and the forecast track for bill coming up in main weather. >>> from day one, president obama said fixing health care would be his top domestic prior to. he's been out west the past few days sightseeing with his family and peddling his health care plan. looks like the president is ready to compromise on what many consider the most contingent part of the plan. the president's western adventure continued day. the first family's stop at the grand canyon was, perhaps, the perfect metaphor as president obama continues trying to bridge the gap over health care. yesterday at a rare weekend town hall meeting in colorado, the president continued trying to knock down wild rumors about h plan. >> things like we want to set up death panels to pull the plug on grandma. i mean, come on. >> president obama also insists he's not pushing government run health care. in a "new york times" op-ed piece he writes, i don't believe anyone should be in charge of your health care decis

touchdown, alabama. >> down the right sideline. touchdown! >> 61 yards.e the florida gators may be the favorite to win the s.e.c. and repeat as national champions, nick saban's alabama crimson tied might have a thing or two to say about all of that. the tide opened camp today as we welcome in chris ball,, alabama beat writer for the tuscaloosa news. chris, bama seemed poised to win the national championship a season ago until tim tebow stole their thunder in the s.e.c. title game. bama responded with a loss to utah in their bowl game. how is nick saban using last year's finish to motivate this year's team? >> well, a lot of people around here remember the year before when alabama lost to mississippi state and a couple other games. they put up posters around the locker room and the players were reminded of those games every single day. well, this year it's been how the team finished, and the one theme that we've heard already from players and saban is that word "finish." finish a game, finish play, finish everything. >> glen coffee has proved on to an nfl

claudette is expected to dump as much as ten inches of rain on parts of the florida panhandle and alabama. forecasters are also watching two other storms. bill which became a hurricane this morning in the atlantic, and ana a tropical depression. >>> fire is the problem out west

across florida and on into alabama. this is really a huge rainmaker, because we are anticipating the threat for flooding as we go through the day today. now the thunderstorms are rolling into the atlanta metropolitan area, across georgia, and even to the west we are seeing them pop up in louisiana and mississippi. here are the flood watches and warnings. these continue straight into the evening hours. warnings are down here. some new ones just issued in and around some of these southwestern parishes of louisiana. new orleans, that's red where flooding exists, could see my yor flooding as the storm pulls away and moves to the northeast. here's another one. hurricane bill, the first hurricane of the season is forecast to intensify to major hurricane status. that means going from category one to two to eventually a three. when we take a look at the track, it's interesting to note some of the models are not all in agreement as to what's going to happen with bill. where will it go and how much will it intensify? so let's put

, and i can tell you there are places in alabama and mississippi that could be dealing with flooding, possibly rainfall totals anywhere from maybe 3 to 6 inches. if you want an idea where the storm is headed. brings it up right along parts of the alabama and into mississippi border, eventually stalling out right near memphis, tennessee. a big rainmaker from now to tuesday. and the next storm, this one is a little bit farther off to the east, obviously, talking about hurricane bill. the time being, bill, is a -- as we mentioned hurricane winds right at 75 miles an hour. this too was forecast to be something considerably stronger, major hurricane. category three with winds in excess of 120 miles an hour as we get into thursday, then into friday, then saturday. right now the path between bermuda and the u.s. mainland, but a lot of changes can take place between now and the next couple of days. we'll watch it carefully and of course, we've got anna, we will touch on that one in mere moments. >> a right. thank you, reynolds. >> you bet. >>> let's get you to some health care reform and this

claudette has weakened to a tropical storm over alabama.he worst may be over for now, meteorologists still have their eyes on bill. it's predicted to become a category 3 hurricane. >> the good news is that we do feel that bill will take a much farther track than ana did, and right now bill should avoid the eastern seaboard. >> reporter: according to accuweather, hurricane season will likely be busy for the next week to ten days, then become very quiet dur the early part of september. lindsey davis, abc 2 news. >> and we've been wonting. it's been hurricane season for a while, where they all were, and bam. >> that's the way it goes. right now from now about mid- september, we're kind of approaching the peak. the second week of september is the peak of the activity right there. but we'll be tracking bill and show you where we think it's going to be going. meantime, the shot from harbor cam overlooking the new cooling fountain down at the inner harbor. it's down near the science center. it is really cool. our temperature right now at bwi 87 de

look at mobile, alabama. over 13 inches of rain today.rest view, florida, has had over 17 inches of rain from that storm. what had been a brief tropical storm is now just a depression. bringing some heavy rains through puerto rico. that's anna. there is bill. and that is possibly going to become a major hurricane. winds are 90 miles an hour, but from every indication, it will stay safely out to sea. right now, no threat to the eastern united states. but the hurricane season, it's here. it really heated up in the last couple of days. back to you. >>> even though it got a late start, the hurricane season has caused considerable damage in the sunshine state. kristen dahlgren has our report from panama city, florida. >> reporter: as claudette came ashore on the florida panhandle overnight, the storm left a wet wake-up call. >> uh-oh. here we go again. >> reporter: spreading rain and stirring up the surf. >> we had 55, 60, 65-mile-an-hour gusts. so trees blowing down. not blowing down, but bending over quite a bit. a lot of sand blasting. >> r

meanwhile, claudette is a85 miles south west ofmontgomery, alabama and you heane t odges f hete o esdgnem, sylot of thunderst activity,ost is off of the coast and will be omakngmts i way on shore and claudette is moving to the northwest and ts'lkel we taatu werno ttheth i order, northwestve, weieel later on today. it will bring heavy rain over the portions of the panhandle and alabama and mississippi and places like that. we'll keep our eyes >> and meanwhile, r cseloto home, we don't have precipitation, we have clouds serehend there this morning. re ougho be called mostly cloudy skies. we'll see a good amount of sunshine today. current conditions being reported at 73 degrees and humidity at 84% and winds out of the south west at 5 miles per hour. day planner today, as i said, partly sunny skies and hot and humid and high again into the low 90s. that's a look at the weather, more's coming up in a little bit. >>> no rain in sight. not much of it any ways. >>> let's check in with julie and see what's happening on the roads. >> no rain, that's a blind melon song. >> i knew you wouldn't get

pioneer says he's going to ask the consolidate of alabama to pardon his late father. david abernathy was arrested numerous times during the montgomery boycott and during protests of se fwregation. he said he will apply for pardons on his father's behalf. back in 2006 alabama pass add law that provides a mechanism for granting pardons during civil rights protests. >>> this alligator got into some sort of tug-of-war with kids. the kids were crab fishing monday when their rope ended up around the gator's mouth. they saw him pulling it out of the water and dialed 911. the cop cut the rope and gator got away until yesterday. >> the alligator is probably 275, 300 pounds. you very a kid that's 300 pounds. you get into a tug-of-war, the alligator is not going to lose. >>> time for sports. we're talking about tiger woods. bob fiscella tells us about this. >>> first three major championships of the year, no wins for tiger, zero, but he's halfway through the pga championship in minnesota and good luck to the guys trying to track him down. tiger tees off at 1:40 central time toda

pennsylvania avenue at alabama avenue is closed. we will keep you updated. >>> up next, how this man was able to walk away. he could not get away from the long arm of the law. >> is doingucer as doing a lot t >>> is a unique soccer tournament came and went to this past weekend. you might not have noticed it. >> it was alive changing event for those who played. >> they arrived from all over the country, gathered in the nation's capital, and instantly bonded with otherwise complete strangers. they just wanted to play ball. >> she has been playing really well this tournament. >> it is called "street soccer, usa." its players are anything but typical. yes, they have the jerseys and the coaches, but once they leave the stadium, most of them have no word ago. this is where they live. on the street. this is hobo soccer. >> in 25 years -- >> at 55, and emilio has bounced around most of his life. >> [unintelligible] >> i would probably be on the street doing something i have no business doing. >> the goal is simple, show them a different way

alabama, another market that could grow once the economy turns around. that would be a terrific fill in for bb & t. why? because bb & t was the 56th largest bank in alabama before this deal, now it's the fourth. again, economies of scale. you can see how geographically a southern is being born overnight. perhaps you've heard about colonial's legal issues, fraud allegations, the whole problem. you might be thinking those could sink bb & t after this deal. you also no doubt are concerned if you follow this deal about all the terrible construction loans that bb & t got in florida as part of the bargain. to that i say untrue. hey, don't worry. when i say the victor gets the spoils, i'm talking about real spoils, meaning that the fdic has basically kept the legal problem and given bb & t the deposits, which is all we ever wanted anyway. plus bb & t got a great loss sharing deal with the fdic, one that works out to be heads bb & t wins, tails, the fdic loses. and before it takes the colonial loan portfolio, remember, it's not possibly the fraudulent part, that

. >> alabama will be there.. >> hold the presses, i have a scoop for you, alabama be beat cornell. >> not in hockey. >> can we talk? we have two minutes, i have to get your honest opinion about the bowl championship series. is there any redeeming quality about not having a tournament. ask it too taxing on the kids? >> no, no, just follow the money. that trophy is worth $30,000 and goes to the team that wins. now they have an nca event, they play for all of the different women's championships and track and they give a little bit of money to the schools. the money from tv go to the conference. the conferences give the money to the conference schools. when you have the school getting $12 million a year from tv, they are not going to give up the money or the authority, we're not going to have a playoff system coach, follow the money. they are trying to tweak it and get it down with the championship is determined. but that's the main reason why we will not see a playoff in my lifetime. my lifetime ain't that much lon

it is near, not far from bruton, alabama. here is the projected path.e it across alabama, mississippi into western portions of tennessee and the midwest and again, most significant thing with this storm system will be the tremendous amounts of rain, three to six inches generally speaking but in isolated areas up to 10 inches. that is a possibility. now, let's take a look at ana and bill. first of all, ana is a tropical depression, not organized into a storm right now but it could become a storm again at some point. hurricane bill is the first hurricane of the atlantic hurricane season. it became a hurricane early this morning. maximum sustained winds are 75 miles per hour. it is well out to sea. the proswreked path take it to the north-northwest where it will continue to travel over warm waters and will intensify and there is some possibility that it could intensify nto a major hurricane within a fall days very the proswrekted path takes it to the north- northwest. -- the projected path takes it to the north-northwest. before a mix of clouds and sun her

some of the things we'll be talking about, the financial crisis hit one of the largest counties in alabama and the law enforcement, they're facing layoffs and there's been a call for the national guard to come in and help patrol the streets. >> the county could have to slash its operating budget by as much as 50%. basically dismating public services and stagnating any potential growth. >> sean callebs has the story and i'll talk to the sheriff and a state representative about this dire situation. >> plus, i'm going to take you to the rural areas of vietnam where people live on less than a dollar a day. find out how you can help those struggling to survive. >> but first, we want to let you know how eunice kennedy shriver is doing this hour. >> she remains in critical condition in a massachusetts hospital. her family at her side. the 88-year-old shriver is the sister of former president john f. kennedy. her daughter maria shriver and maria's husband governor arnold schwarzenegger have arrived at the hospital. they arrived yesterday. sean kelly with wcvb is standing watch this hour. what is t

the biggest item of the day as this one, it has to do with these people in blue and the fact that alabama and lsu are below them. first, it is shaping up to be a long, hot fight in health care reform. they are hosting a town hall meetings and running into angry constituents. these are going on across the country. we are following them throughout the day and into the evening. we have learned that no one knows what is going to happen at these events. demonstrators in the positive and negative are showing up and getting into each other's faces. lost amidst a yelling seems to be what health care reform would actually look like. there have been a lot of false rumors, which does not bode well for the people in favor of reform, but the white house says that that is no problem. >> i am sure there are communications experts that would tell you that if someone explains to you that you are losing, i think that the president believes that these town halls provide an excellent opportunity to explain his ideas and principles. more importantly, if he can affect misinformation by telling people what is n

it will probably be entering southwest alabama later this morning. i've got more on the very active tropics as well as your seven-day coming up. >> see you in a bit. 4:57. here's a look ahead to 11 news today. >> police need your help to find a man who shot two people at the inner harbor this weekend. i'll have the details. >> president obama appears ready to compromise in the health care reform debate. >> and checking on your morning commute. so far looking pretty good. we'll update you on the major roads. >> good morning. i'm mindy basara. >> and i'm stan stovall. thanks for joining us. >> we'll get to our big story. first a check of the forecast. a nice weekend. >> beautiful. >> nice morning. >> it is nice. we're going to be hot again this afternoon. but the humidity by the afternoon hasn't been too bad. so patchy fog p

we're going to have the mayor from alabama live with us for a few minutes and aless a woman who sayse pardon. >>> the stories we're following. about 2,000 firefighters on the scene of this fire you're looking at. it's in the santa cruz mountains. it's one of 11 wildfires in california right now. the lockheed fire has burned nearly 7,000 acres since saturday and forced nearly 3,000 people to evacuate. it's now about 30% contained. >>> tomorrow's commute in san francisco could be a real mess. workers for the commuter system have threatened to go on strike tomorrow. the unionized workers say it adds up to 57% bay pay cut. negotiations between the rail system and the workers, they are resumed today. >>> protests continue in iran. today the supreme leader appointed that guy you're seeing right there on the right. that's the new judiciary team. he's a brother of iran's powerful parliamentarian speaker. this is important because that means the brothers are now in control of two of the three branches. >>> turning to some health care now. overhauling health care, hosting a middle east ally an

indocumentados, los hirieron gravemente y causando protestas >>> quiero decir yo que está pensando en alabamaante una exageración. la sátira que vemos cada año en la parodia política. y nadie debe creer que los comentarios del funcionario del condado fueron otra cosa que una burla a su propia reputación política. >>> y las personas que estaban ahí en el evento que son sus ap llantos, ni ellos encontraron que era chistoso. >>> la frase desafortunadamente dicen los líderes comunitarios no contribuye a mejorar la frágil relación entre levy y los un mr inmigrantes en new york univisión. >>> hasta aquí las noticias gracias por confiar en nosotros. y nos vemos mañana. >>> para estar al tanto del acontecer mundial, los hispanos sintonizan notas univisión

i get a scholarship and i play at the university of alabama and play in the orange bowl and the sugarn to come in to cleveland, to have your position changed, to have three shots at going to the super bowl and get to the hall of fame. what everybody throughout your whole walk of life can be right there with you to enjoy it all, it's a very, very special thing. and the lead in to the hall of fame is, after your fifth year. i didn't even make the final 25 that first year. so the next year, you know, you make the final 15, and you sat there and on a saturday and you wait. and you don't get the call. and i remember going to the old facility that day and i knew i was going to be nervous. so michael was seven years old, so i went in to try to do some tape work but i knew i wasn't going to be able to do it. so i took michael to work with me, so michael could be a distraction. so he and i were sitting there together and i have it on and so they're starting to read the names. and just as they're reading the names michael goes, dad, i need to go to the bathroom and i go, i don't even hear my na

hurricane katrina affected them all the way from alabama and over. claudette a minor system. >> do we have to worry about bill? >> we are getting in to the peak of hurricane season. andrea and i a week ago said it is all quiet and i said, remember, ' 92. >>> 94 today and tomorrow. by the time it gets to wednesday a better chance of a few thunderstorms and not to say we won't have one possible this afternoon or tomorrow afternoon but wednesday is a better chance. temperatures only around au90. partly cloudy, pleasant this morning. teeratures ranging mostly 60s and 70s now. in the 80s in a couple of hours with winds generally light. sunny and hot. a stray thunderstorm. low to mid-90s. most of us are dry. south winds five to ten. sunset 8:00 on the nose. mid-60s to 70s with south winds. temperatures low 70s. a southeast wind at five. a dew point 68 and in culpeper the visibility down to three- quarter of a mile at last check. nationally things are quiet. high pressure in the east. a lot of storms in the middle of the country but this is claudette and we

tropical storm warnings in effect from the florida/alabama state line. and we're just a couple of hours from landfall with tropical storm claudette. two other storms to talk about. ana and bill out there. we'll fill you in on that when we see you again. >> looking forward to that. thanks, jacqui. >>> and that. make or break health month. we're hearing a government alternative to private coverage might not be a make or break part of the white house's push. the head of the senate budget committee, democrat kent conrad says nonprofit insurance cooperatives might be a good alternative to compete with the insurance companies and the health and human services secretary kathleen sebelius is not pushing hard for the public option. here is what she had to say on our program, cnn's state of the union. >> i think the president is just continuing to say let's not have this be the only focus of the conversation. coverage for all americans, lowering the crushing cost for everyone, making sure that we have new rules for insurance companies. that they can't dump people

it's jefferson county in alabama which includes the state's largest city of birmingham. it has a $4 billion debt at the moment. it's already slashed one quarter of its work force as part of an effort to cut back. a judge has now cleared the way to slash millions from the sheriff's budget. if that happens, the sheriff says he wants alabama's governor to either way his deputy's -- his deputies' salaries or send the national guard in to maintain order. jonathan serrie has been dispatched to birmingham tonight. jonathan, any response from the governor there? >> well, staffers tell us the governor bob riley is examining a legislative proposal that would authorize jefferson county to reinstate some sort of occupational tax. it was losing that tax earlier this year that helped get them in this budget conundrum. if the proposals sounding they call for a special legislative session early next week. but no comment from the governor on the national guard proposal. nevertheless, the sheriff says it's not out of the question. >> governor riley has always had a heart for the folks in

it will likely later today be in southwest alabama. the tropics are firing up. we have tropical depression anna and tropical storm bill. i've got all of that plus your seven-day. rights now let's find out what's happening in traffic. >> good morning. not a whole lot happening thankfully. we are off to a great start as we check our speed sensors. 58 miles per hour according to our speed spencer. 59, southbound j.f.x. from the beltway. down into the city about a 63 mile-per-hour speed limit in the area of frederick road if you're traveling there. drive times. >> 11 minutes outer loop northeast side. 12 minutes west side. five-minute from southbound 95 from the 895 split to the ft. mchenry. a live view in the white marsh area. it's looking very good. southbound, volume very light into the beltway and beyond. we'll give you a live view of traffic on the beltway. this is the northeast corner at harford road. looks good. stan and mindy, back to you. >> good morning. our big story a fight at the inner harbor leads to gunfire. >> it happened late saturday night while po

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close to the university of alabama by the afternoon hours. now, farther out in the atlantic a couple other systems we're following. one is ana, a weak system in the caribbean. squally weather around puerto rico and the virgin islands. behind that we have bill. bill is on its way to becoming a hurricane but right now it does appear that bill will be turning more west-northwesterly with time and staying more to the northeast and islands but certainly something to watch and it could threaten, say, bermuda later on in the week. but a lot of time to watch this one. >> and so, mark, essentially three storms out of the middle of nowhere after months of nothing. what's the outlook for the rest of the season. >> we've been saying at accuweather that the season would start off on the slow side but as we get through the months of september and october, historically, it's the more active time of the hurricane season, so there's certainly time for more systems to organize. bill looks like it'll be a major player and behind that we are following more syste

it's moving into alabama throughout the day today.ping anywhere from three so six inches, widespread as far as the rain is concerned, could see locally heavy amounts, up to 10 inches. let's look farther out into the atlantic, looking at tropical depression ana the winds are 35 miles per hour. not real impressive now but look at the track this storm will be taking. most likely track has it coming right towards florida and in towards the panhandle. much like this storm claudette has done. so be aware of that. and hurricane bill, this is our first hurricane of the season. winds of 75 miles per hour. pressure 29.15. it's till very far out there you but the track at this point in time takes it, yeah, you guessed it, right up to northwesterly fashion up towards the mid-atlantic coastline. for today, what you're looking at, 91 degrees, partly sunny and another hot one for us. that will continue on into tomorrow. let's see what's happening on the roads with kim. >> thank you. traffic is moving along great this monday morning, no real incident

was it alabama, new york, or new mexico? the answer when we come back. it is almost 6:19. in 1996 the new york legislature approved the first a sales tax holiday for 1997. since then 13 states and the district of columbia have passed sales tax holiday measures. however this year's in the district an maryland were cancelled due to economic restraints. >>> topping the sports news, more bad news for redskins wide receivers. malcolm kelly and deafen thomas are nursing injuries and now the number one moss pull his hamstring when he slipped during morning practice on thursday he didn't return for the afternoon session and it is not known how long he will be out. >>> coach jim zorn has brought back one of his favorite drills, quarterback dodge ball. both zorn and the assistants hurled giant dodge balls to teach them to elude pressure in the pocket. >> be sure to tune in to wusa9.com for live team coverage of redskins training camp. 9 news now sports director brett haber will be live from the team's ashburn facility. if you are not near a television, all you have to do to keep up

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a little rain on the east side and this will be the case in alabama and tennessee in 24 hours. for us high pressure dominates our weather. we are quiet and hot the next couple of days and the top ticks, i will step out of the way this is bill, this buzz saw looking thing here. that is bill looking organized and got upgraded to the season's first hurricane. winds 75 miles an hour gusting to 90. the good news about bill even though it will strengthen to a major hurricane it will stay north and east of the islands. the islands being here. this should not be a problem for anyone anytime too soon and if we are lucky stays over the ocean. better chance of storms on wednesday are you saturday as temperatures cool by the weekend in the lower to middle 80s. time for a traffic update. >> what i love about my job is i get to interact with you especially on-line. put this on my twitter account. oh my goff is the name. a disabled vehicle. use caution. this just popped up obvious an accident in riverdale at the intersection of kenilworth and -- branch parkway it involves an overturned vehicl

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