the pageants roll on as andrea canning reports. ♪ >> they're pint size beauty queens.ith big attitudes. >> i am -- >> you better stop that. i'm going to get that -- >> i don't like doing this. >> and at a pang end in austin, texas, the bigger the better. >> we like all the glitz and the glams. we like the rhinestones, we like the sequins and the big, beautiful hair in texas. >> 50 boys and girls even babies as young as two weeks old are competing for a shot at the tiara and $2,000 cash. how important is winning to you? >> very important. >> when you don't win? >> sad. i should have done better, i should have done better. >> 4-year-old eden wood who is featured on tlc's "toddlers and tiaras" is considered the beauty to beat at this pageant. she has been on the circuit most her short life. >> i like being pretty, up on the stage with my makeup on. >> when we visit her at home, it was clear she loves winning. which one is your favorite crown, eden? >> this one. >> why do you like that one so much? >> because it's so big. >> her mother a former beauty queen herself says be

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andrea canning has the details. >> that's right. >> reporter: nick b named kangaroo for his quick footk, knea lines came from aaustralia with big dreams. >> i want to win all of them. >> reporter: all of them. you want to win a grand slam? >> reporter: yes. >> reporter: she trains for three hours a day in 95-degree heat with the legendary coachic -- rick macy, who has been known for putting out big stars. >> hustle. >> reporter: butomiation the youngest he's taken on. >> i've never seen anybody that has brought this genetically to the table. it's a journey but i think there's definitely a place for her on the pro tour. >> reporter: her father introduced her to the game the day she was born. and has invested everything in her future, even quitting his job. >> you're not on a holiday. >> reporter: following in the footsteps of other famous dads like earl woods. >> we hear about so many parents in sports pushing their children, wanting them to be the best. >> i just will let mia decide how she goes. some say three hours, that's two long, some on playstations, drinking soda, eating jurng f

here's abc's andrea canning. >> pop the popcorn.rl. >> reporter: nicknamed "kangaroo" for her quick footwork, mia lines has come from australia to this elite florida tennis academy with big dreams. >> i want to win all of them. >> reporter: all of them? so you want to win a grand slam? >> yep. >> reporter: mia trains for 3 hours a day in 95-degree heat with legendary coach rick macci, who's known for turning small players into big stars including jennifer capriati, the williams sisters and andy roddick. but mia is the youngest he's taken on. >> ready? >> yeah! >> i've never seen anybody that's bringing this genetically to the table. it's a journey, but i think there's definitely a place for her on the pro tour. >> reporter: mia's father introduced her to the game the day she was born. >> what does that do? >> eye-ball coordination. >> reporter: and glen has invested everything in mia's future, even quitting his job. >> you're not on a holiday. >> reporter: we hear about so many parents pushing their children wanting them to be the b

here's abc's andrea canning. >> reporter: nicknames "kangaroo" for her quick footwork, mia lines has come from australia to this elite tennis academy with big dreams. >> i want to win all of them. >> reporter: all of them? so you want to win a grand slam? >> yep. >> reporter: mia trains for three hours a day in 95 degree heat with legendary coach rick macci, who's known for turning small players into big stars, including jennifer capriati, the williams sisters and andy roddick. >> hustle! hustle! >> reporter: but mia is the youngest he's taken on. >> ready? >> yeah! >> i've never seen anybody that's bringing this genetically to the table. it's a journey, but i definitely think there's a place for her on the pro tour. >> reporter: mia's father introduced her to the game the dashe was born. >> what does that do? >> eye-ball coordination. >> reporter: and glen has invested everything in mia's future, even quitting his job. >> you're not on holiday. >> reporter: he's following in the footsteps of other famous sports dads like earl woods, who first appeared on "the mike douglas show" with

andrea canning, abc news, new york. >>> and one quick note from overseas tonight. state of emergencies that been declared outside of athens, greece, where a huge wildfire is closing in on the northern suburbs. at least 10,000 people have been forced to evacuate already. italy, france and cyprus have sent their fire fighting aircraft to help out. >>> and coming up on "world news," as students head off to college, a record number are finding that they cannot pay their tube pigs. is it too late now to get hall snp. >>> two churches, one black and one white. now merging to save money. can they break through one of the most persistent devilds in this country? >>> and the tiniest bank in america. no atms, no drive through, and no talk of a bailout. bad cholesterol but your good cholesterol and triglycerides are still out of line? then you may not be seeing the whole picture. ask your doctor about trilipix. if you're at high risk of heart disease and taking a statin to lower bad cholesterol, along with diet, adding trilipix can lower fatty triglycerides and raise good cho

. >> and i'm andrea canning in for jeremy hubbard this morning. there are intense diplomatic efforts under way this morning to find out more about three americans being held in iran. >> the group was hiking in iraq when they wandered across the border into iran and taken into custody by iranian troops. laura satrakian has more. >> reporter: little is known on the whereaboutses or well being of three americans shown here in photos from their web sites. they're all reportedly in iranian custody. one is joshua fattal of pennsylvania. his father was born in iraq so he was traveling i think to see where he came from. a kurdish security official said they stayed overnight in ahmad awah and went on their fateful hike in the morning. they left further toward the iranian border and into iran. iranian soldiers then surrounded and arrested them. iran's press tv said the three had been warned not to cross the border >> they've been detained for illegal entry into iran from the kurdistan region. officials say the case is under investigation. >> reporter: the s

fill your school list with just $25. >> okay, andrea, can you do it? >> i can do it, lindsey. >> reporter: andrea does her shopping at the target in germantown. >> 24 crayons for a quarter. >> reporter: janet stopped at the staples in silver spring. crayons there. >> 89 cents? >> yes. >> reporter: now the kids need folders. >> for $1 i can get two of each collar. >> right here for 89 cents. so you can go into that bin and you need to pick out four. >> reporter: line up the pencil boxes next. >> 99 cents. >> that's pretty good. >> that's very good. >> reporter: andrea snagged hers for 20 cents left. >> pink, purple and it sparkles she is in heaven. >> reporter: andrea decided to spend more for recycled one. now it is check-out time. >> 17.34. >> total is 20.02. >> did you think you could do it? >> no. >> really? >> no, i didn't think so. >> i wasn't positive but i was pretty sure i could do it. >> reporter: these moms sure do know how to stretch their school dollars and we give their efforts an a-plus. >> done. ready for school. >> reporter: it was a lot

abc's andrea canning has more. >> reporter: mess with one scorned women, you're bound to get burned. things could get ugly. but a third? an unidentified, married wisconsin man who was dating these three women at the same time, found out what happened. michelle, wendy and terrese, allegedly lured him to this motel to seek revenge. police say ziemann kicked off the plan, getting the casanova to voluntarily to agree to be bound and blindfolded, with the promise of a massage. but instead, they say, she cut off his underwear and sent a text message to the other women to enter the room. >> this wasn't a spur-of-the-moment-type of event, where all of the participants, at least, the complaint and the information that's been provided, were part and parcel of this plan. >> reporter: when the women came into the room, they allegedly attacked him and applied krazy glue to sensitive body parts. reports show they asked him which one he loved more. and which one he wanted to grow old with. and apparently slapped him and asked him, can you handle that? how did the ladies find out? police say a fourt

. >> and i'm andrea canning filling in for jeremy hubbard. there are intense diplomatic efforts to learn more about the fate of three americans being held in iran. >>> they were captured after hiking in a dangerous region on the border between iraq and iran. abc's sonia gallego is in london with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the families of the americans are still coming to terms with the news of their capture. and their arrest comes at a time of increased strain between iranian and the u.s. governments. the three, shane bauer from minnesota, a freelance journalist based in the middle east, sarah shourd, a writer and teacher from california also based in the middle east and joshua fattal, an environmental worker from oregon were visiting northern iraq. they had gone hiking in the mountains near the iranian border, an area which has no clear border markings, a region that they had accidentally wandered into. a fourth american who stayed with them stayed behind in the hotel. he sat out the hike and later received a phonin

abc's andrea canning has been tracking this for us. she has the latest. >> reporteter: nearly two weeks after diane schuler drove the wrong way down this new york state highway, kling herself and seven others, her husband, dachbl, came fward for the first time to make one thing clear. >> i go bed knowing my heart is clear. she did not drink. she is not an alcoholic. something medically had to happen. >> reporter: schuler's attorney, dam nick barbara, claims there were other reasons that schuler became disoriented. a stroke, diabetes. even suggesting the abscess in her mouth and the suspicious bump on her leg were clues of a major medical problem. but doctors we asked say barbara's theories seem unlikely. and it could be much more complex. >> diane schuler had a blood alcohol content of 0.19%. >> reporter: police say schuler not only drank the equivalent of nine drinks, but she was also high on marijuana. the schuler family can't accept that. >> bottle of vodka found? >> no. we don't know. >> reporter: the family of the three men schule

abc's andrea canning has more. >> reporter: sarah jessica parker is no stranger to the prying eyes ofost recent invasion on her family's privacy wasn't against her but the surrogate who carried her twin girls. parker expressed her disgust to "access hollywood." >> the most unsavory thing has been done. she's, you know, had her phone hacked, her personal computer information hacked. >> reporter: and shockingly the most flagrant violation may have been made by law enforcement. two ohio police chiefs were arraigned friday charged with breaking into the home of surrogate michele ross with the hope of selling her personal information to the tabloids. ironically, it was the paparazzi who blew the whistle. they say when the chiefs alle d allegedly approached them to sell the information, they tipped off the surrogate who went to the state authorities. the battle for gossip has reached new heights. just last whack espn correspondent erin andrews called 911 to report lurking paparazzi outside her home. now a tabloid target after someone posted incredible of her in a hotel room on the internet.

andrea canning has more. >> reporter: in the wrong-way crash that devastated three families, there isne bright spot. 5-year-old brian schuler the lone survivor was finally released from the hospital after 15 days. it's a miraclee survived at all. the families are still wrestling with the fact that diane schuler was drunk and high when she crashed. >> would never knowingly allow her daughters to travel with someone who might jeopardize their safery hrt her brother lost all three of his drawers in the crash, three little girls who meant so much to their hometown. the oldest, 9-year-old emma, allison, 7 and the baby of the family, 5-year-old kate. now he's reportey y nopeakinin asked to meet the family of ththe memen schuler lled btatardi family said they nt to know what sheolhehe other onon the phone 3 minutes . >>>> all questions that, you kn, my family wantt to know. want to know the truth. >> reporter: diane's husband, daniel and his attney say they can't explain thalcohol in her syem but say they're exploloring whether she could have had an transient ischem attack or tia, a stroke-l

and abc's andrea canning has that story. >> reporter: for two weeks, private investigator, tom ruskin has been piecing together the final moments of the wrong-way crash that gripped the nation. >> we spent hundreds of thundershowers trying to retrace her steps. we've been going through toll receipts. cell phone records. credit card receipts and other things we already have. >> reporter: the timeline begins at this campground around 9:30 a.m. ruskin, says shortly after, diane schuler left for home, appearing sewner. she stopped at mcdonnell's and this gas station. >> you see her entering the convenient store. we now know she was attempting to purchase tylenol or advil jell caps. >> reporter: did she appear normal in the convenient store? >> absolutely. >> reporter: at 11:37, shuer will called her brother to tell them they were running late. at 12:08, they called back to have what's described as a normal conversation with schuler. but over the next 48 minutes, something went terribly wrong. emma called her father back. what did emma said to her naet at that point? >> there's confusion.

it resulted in a call to 911 and abc's andrea canning has been following the story. kate, but like having cameras in your face isn't enough. the police got in the middle of the couple's troubles. jon says kate unexpected showed up at their pennsylvania home thursday night when it wasn't her turn to be with the kids and he says it was all over his choice of baby-sitter. ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: so much for harmony for the sake of the children. jon and kate plus the police is now the latest story line in the relationship that has imploded in front of millions. jon revealed to tmz that kate called 911 this week over a custody dispute. >> it was a miscommunication, and kate said she was coming home, and i said, well, it's my time to spend time with the kids and i wouldn't let her in the gate. i guess she called the police. >> reporter: jon claims the police ordered kate to leave. >> the police came and they basically said, well, it's a civil matter. you know, i'm spending quality time with my kids and she's going to have to leave. and she tried to make it up

andrea canning has been looking into stories just like it. >> the state department says these kind ofustody battles are on the rise. layoff of foreign-born workers is one reason. with all of the red tape, it can take years to get a child back to america. some parents are even resorting to high-risk operations. it's been four months since michael mccarty has seen his 8-year-old son liam. today the young boy sits in an italian orphanage. the product of an international custody dispute gone terribly wrong. two years ago, liam was kidnapped by his italian-born mother. despite being an american citizen, the italian courts won't send liam home. michael spoke this week to "gma's" chris cuomo. >> he has been traumatized by this. >> reporter: mccarty is far from alone. new jersey father david goldman has spent five years trying to bring his son home from brass ill. his ex-wife traveled there and never returned and then died last year, leaving sean with his stepfather. >> i'm his only living parent. it's our god-given right to be together. >> reporter: the u.s. state department said last year a

more from andrea canning. >> reporter: heather armstrong's first pregnancy should have been the happieste of her life. when she came off her antidepressants, it was a nightmare. >> i had panic attacks. when i finally had my daughter, i had feelings of wanting to commit suicide. >> reporter: during her second pregnancy, she and her doctor decided she would stay on >> i'm a better mother having been medicated. i feel i'm there fully mentally for my child and emotionally. >> reporter: as many as 23% of expectant mothers suffer from depression. >> my hope is as a result of this report, more obs will be savvy to depressive symptoms. >> reporter: the report recommends women will mild depression rely on talk therapy but those were suicidal feelings or feelings of hopelessness need more aggressive treatment. >> they are the women that need it stay on medication through pregnancy and beyond. >> reporter: doctors say there is no separating the health of the mother from the health of her baby. some studies suggest that untreated depression can lead to poor prenatal care, premature delivery and even

our andrea canning has more. >> reporter: in the aftermath of this brutal Ñ mystified.how could diane schuler drive nearly two miles the wrong way on a highway, killing herself and seven others? including her 2-year-old daughter and three, young nieces. 30 minutes before, she called her brother, complaining she was disoriented. but an autopsy revealed no medical problems. police found her cell phone ditched along the road. last week, we retraced her steps. this witness told us schuler was driving straight. >> she was in total control of the car. >> reporter: but before schuler got on to the highway where she made the fatal wrong turn, witnesses say she was driving erratically along this road, weaving in and out of traffic, honking her horn. so, what was wrong? police revealed the answer. >> diane schuler had the blood alcohol content of 0.19%. >> reporter: her blood alcohol level was nearly 2 1/2-times the legal limit. >> investigators found a broken bottle of vodka. toxicology also ows schuler had a high level of thc in her blood. thc is the active ingredient in mariju

i said, andrea, can you imagine what abe lincoln's favorable rating would have been the first term if we had those polls? probably 6%, 7%, 8%. those polls don't bother me. i want to do the right thing for long-term pennsylvania. >> how do you think the president is doing in trying to counteract the opposition to the health care reform proposals? he certainly has distanced himself from an op-ed in "usa today" yesterday by speaker pelosi and majority leader steny hoyer, who says that it's un-american to protest. he and his spokespeople are saying he understands that people are peaking out and that it's a healthy they think. where's the balance here? >> well, i think -- i don't know if speaker pelosi and steny hoyer meant it was un-american to protest. it's clearly not in the tradition of american democracy to protest to the extent where you drown out all other questions, all other discourse. that is counterveiling to everything the american democracy has been about. that's number one. number two, questions and protests on policy, that's fine. and the president has to do a better job in

john berman, guiana golodryga, and andrea canning. while the terrific trio can get any news story.ey can't seem to get. a good night's -- sleep. >> 4/2 hours of sleep, is what i usually go on. >> i always feel tired when i wake up. >> i can be a walking zombie sometimes. >> reporter: our correspondents are hardly alone. more than 70 million americans suffer from sleep difficulty. so, these three became a test case for new technology, aimed at helping people get better sleep. first up, john. the father of adorable twin boys. his sleep issue, unrested whenever he wakes. >> we wake up when the boys wake up. these guys got up at 5:30 this morning. can you say no more night-night? >> reporter: give john the sleep tracking to try. >> i'm wearing the sleep tracker watch. >> reporter: the average adult experiences four to five sleep cycles a night. periods of deep and not-so-deep sleep. a sleep tracker monitors the cycles. and uses an alarm to sound when the body's most alert, when you're not groggy. but during the two weeks in which john wore the watch, which retails for $150. it washe tw

andrea canning has the story this morning from rockaway beach. andrea? >> reporter: good morning, diane. and photos captured in the local papers captured what you're talking about. we know how dangerous these waters can be. in the last 24 hours alone, 2 men are believed to have drowned off of these beaches. they're supposed to keep you and your family safe. but what if the lifeguard on duty is distracted, listening to music. or worse, asleep in the chair. these alarming pictures were taken on new york city beaches, not far from where a child drowned over the weekend. >> that is disturbing. you have to be alert. >> they're constantly talking and texting on their phone. >> reporter: lifeguards are more important than ever this summer because experts say tides from florida to maine are about two feet higher than nmal this year, causing dangerous rip currents. last week, beachgoers searched frantically for a south carolina boy who got caught in a riptide and drowned. but it's not just the ocean. five el paso children have drowned this summer in pools. and jus

we decided to take a deeper look at a world where very young kids are beauty pageant stars and andrea canningction is overwhelming. >> our "gma" viewers like to speak their minds and swamped message boards after the first story on this topic last month. so we caught up with one of the pageant moms to get her reaction and we wanted to find out what life is like after the spotlight. >> ladies and gentlemen -- >> reporter: nearly 15 years ago, 5-year-old child beauty queen's brook breedwell and her arch rival asia mansure. >> we want many, many, many. >> reporter: were the focus of the documentary "painted babies." this 1995 pageant in atlanta, it kwleers how important winning was to brook's mother and how hard losing was for asia's. today, brook is all grown up. >> i was a mean little kid. i definitely had an attitude. i had it all going on. i was just there, wanting to be my best. i wanted to beat all of the little girls no matter what it took from me. everybody loves winning. that's what i loved, the prize. >> reporter: a sophomore at the university of tennessee says pageants did give her poi

and andrea canning is here with the story. >> reporter: good morning, diane. that would-be killer was actually an undercover police officer. police hatched a plan that could only be scripted in hollywood. they say they did it just to prove how cold and calculating this woman really is. [ crying ] >> reporter: in this video taken by police, newlywed dahlia dipolito appears to be destated, as they break the news that her husband, mike, has been murdered. but in a scene straight out of a movie, the crime scene was fake. and so were the tears. her husband was actually alive. detectives had set her up. they say dipolito was no victim. just a bad actress in a murder-for-hire plot. >> it was hard to keep a straight face. in the midst of the tremors of her body, there was no tearing coming out of her eyes. >> reporter: officers received a tip that dipolito was planning to hire a hitman for her husband of only six months. >> we moved forward with what she believed was a hit man. that hit man was our undercover officer. >> reporter: she allegedly paid them $1,200. >> sh

man and is speaking out for the first time since the divorce in an exclusive interview with our andrea canninge you, andrea. >> good morning, chris. lots going on with her. linda says "the war is over." she settled with hulk for an undisclosed amount and says it was her ex who reached out and gave in to her demands. she sat down with her divorce attorney opening up about everything from hulk's infamous o.j. comments to buying her clothes at walmart. ♪ >> reporter: they were once the first family of wrestling. america even had a front row seat to the good times in their hit reality show. >> hogan knows best. >> reporter: but behind the scenes linda hogan's world was crumbling. her divorce from hulk tearing the family apart. >> i just couldn't even see a reason to live. i mean, i had no reason to even be here. >> reporter: in a face-off worthy of the wwe, linda and hulk hogan wrestled in court for two long years over their estimated $30 million fortune. online linda took a beating from fans who she says ded with hulk calling her everything from a gold digger to low class. does that hurt you. >>

andrea. >> you can hear the frustration that senator mccaskill is experiencing, frustration that's been feltof lawmakers, both republicans and democrats, not just been democrats. there have been republicans who have been shouted down in their own town has. you heard her maybe taking the tone of a schoolteacher, but still, imagine how frustrating it is to try to explain this stance and to be shouted down, well, we don't believe you. so what am i doing here? >> you don't trust me. do you want me just to go home? she's trying to conduct this meeting and listen to people. whether you agree with her or not, you can see the frustration and start to have some simp think as well as people that have opinion toss express speaks to the anger and emoose. we're going to take a quick break. >> we're going to keep an eye on it throughout the day. >>> lawmakers are dropping plans to spend money on passengers planes for government officials. why that plan is now on the rocks. stay with us, you're watching msnbc. of people, you have high blood pressure... and you have high cholesterol. you've taken steps to t

how it feeds into poverty and keeps people in these terrible situations. >> you can't sugar can coat it, andreause it's tragic. >> hillary clinton talking to us earlier today about terrorism and the cycle of violence in some of these countries. roger kresscy joins us from washington, nbc terror analyst. roger, we have been talking about el shabab, help us understand better their role, their roots in he somalia and whether they can become a regional threat, wait al qaeda grew before 9/11? >> i think it is important to understand where the threat ranks, vis-a-vis the rest of the world, probably number three in terms of concern by the u.s. intelligence committee after afghanistan, pakistan and the a arabian peninsula. the horn of africa, somalia and kenya are high priority. el shabab in many respects is an indigenous phenomenon to somalia. while they are simplet this ittic to al qaeda, they don't have what i call direct links at this point. what most people are worried about, kenyan officials and american officials is this porous border between kenya and somalia and the ability of operatives to be

so you can take full credit. >> all right. >> thank you, tom! >> okay, andrea. bye-bye. >> and here with me now, eunice's nephew, robert f. kennedy jr. first of all, our condolences. i know this is a difficult day and we thank you for coming out. you've just had the private ceremony. how is the family doing and maria and the brothers and all of you? >> you know, it's been in many ways, a wonderful experience for us. we have, i don't know, probably 50 members of the kennedy family here and we've got to spend the last week together at eunice's bedside and then had a series of private wakes and services for her at her home. it's, you know, it's the kind of thing that eunice would have wanted. and reminding each other what she meant to all of us, eunice was my godmother. and she had -- you know, she had many sides to her, she was very competitive. she was deeply pious in her catholicism, but at the same time, she was -- she had a total absence of any kind of vanity. she didn't care what she was wearing when she left the house. she carried chaos with her everywhere s

can do. >>> good morning. i'm andrea roane. the news this morning, disappointment for redskins fans after the team's first preseason game. washington traveled up to baltimore and got beat 23-0. baltimore had drives of 13 and 14 plays while campbell did okay. the skins offense never made it across the 50-yard line. >>> there are lines outside of electronics stores and may see more co-workers call off sick this friday because madden 2010 went on sale at dnight and serious gamers want to be the first to try it out. >>> the love is flowing and fans are feeling groovy. they teamed up for a recreation of woodstock last night. 40 years ago, hundreds of thousands of fans crowded a field in new york to hear the greatest musical acts of all time. >>> good morning. happy friday. >> yes. >> ahhh. >> all right. we had one nice thunderstorm that rolled down 95 yesterday evening and hopefully uryo ll backyard garden got a few rain drops. look at what is going on. no rain this morning. things are quiet and we are looking good across maryland,

can't get enough funnel cakes can you, andrea? >> huh-uh. >> just watch the sun. it will be a hot one. temperatures soaring low to middle 90s. wednesday not a hot but a threat of a thunderstorm in the afternoon and a better chance of storms from wednesday, thursday, friday and saturday. and that gogoing to help to cool things off. partly cloudy and pleasant and liftle muggy. we have winds on the light side and as we go in to this afternoon, sunny and hot. a stray thunderstorm. low to mid-90s. tonight clear to mostly cloudy, mild 65 to 75 with a south wind at five miles an hour. show you the time lapse. a fubetiaul one. love to see how the clouds are there tima nythe backound. it is not as pretty as 20 minutes ago. decent morning out there. humidity is 87%. dew point 68 and the temperature at 72. jan in reedville said bay temperature is 80, 81. she's 75. 68 quantico and fredericksburg. hagerstown 72. at the airport there and manassas a cooler 63. western half of the country is fine. wildfires are going on in california. no relief for them. storms in the middle of t

can love the air ™ . >>> good morning. i'm andrea roane.ping our news, one of the hydrants used to fight a fire that destroyed the home of a former school board president was mismarked by wasa. the agency is preparing a database for dc firefighters. >>> the president said his plan is not a government takeover but offers a federally-run option for people who can't afford health insurance now. >>> an injured hiker is recovering after getting an air lift from rescuers. police paramedics had to jump from a hovering chopper to get to one of the hikers. those are amazing rescues. unbelievable and in all of that heat. >> today a break from the heat, everybody. middle of the workweek hump and a break from mother nature and have to watch for more rain showers toda ate wat0 going on the weather computer. a handful of hrde ghyedaerst ggedllouhr sterand a bi berch b insouthwestern virginia. the southern suburbs will see g.rn later isth thisinmo o. tffngarwithth mild77 77 down y,dainstead of and lowe90r wes, and lower 90s, we willll bein the uppehave ha

you can do something about this, andrea. >> thank you very much. >> our time is 6:20. ahead, a 9th inning furlough at nationals park and bret favre tells us why he is unretired again. >>> blame this on the recession. it has a common theme these days which state is blaming the economy for the first population drop? having the right tools is crucial to being able to manage your diabetes properly. it's very important for me to uh check my blood sugar before i go on stage. being on when i'm feeling low can be like a rollercoaster. it does at times feel like my body is telling me to do one thing... and, my mind, my heart is telling me to do something else. managing my highs and lows is super important. with my contour meter i can personalize my high/lo settings so it really does micromanage where my blood sugar needs to be. i'm nick jonas and never slowing down is my simple win. >>> back with the signs of now. a 3 year streak is hard to break but one state is blaming the recession for its first population drop since 1 -- 1946. which state is it, california, florida or arizo

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>> well, andrea, it's been a big impact. you can start, obviously, with the endorsement of barack obama in late january, 2008, which i think the obama campaign rightly recognizes as a pivotal moment in the campaign that obama won against hillary clinton. it came right after his big victory in south carolina, after the most divisive primary that they ran. it gave the campaign a big boost, it gave them a lift. they were heading into super tuesday at that point, which they always believed was going to be one of their most difficult days, because many of those states just set up better for hillary clinton. but the endorsement of senator kennedy brought an infusion of energy and excitement and really anticipation to the obama campaign that allowed them not just to weather super tuesday, but actually come out with a few more delegates. so that was critical. he was very instrumental, i think, in helping john kerry in late 2003 and early 2004 to revive a campaign that a lot of people thought was more about howard deen in late 2003, was the