joining a from johannesburg is andrew harding. it is so much about timing, i guess. >> i think what we're seeing is a bit of a charm offensive by president mugabe. his point is that it is a year now since he signed up for a political truce with his political enemies in zimbabwe. six months since the unity government has been up and running, it has had a lot of problems but it is still up and running. he is saying now is the time for the international community to show some goodwill and lift the targeted sanctions against him and his close allies. this is a point he made a short while ago in this interview in new york. >> i did i see a reason why anybody should mention sanctions, but we are giving time to the administration of obama. we do not expect him to get rid of them that quickly. >> i think he is right and nothing is going to happen quickly on sanctions. the west is still very concerned about the pace of political reforms inside zimbabwe, issues like the seizures of white farms, the rule of law, the continued arrest of ndc's

andrews lutheran church on taylor avenue in towson. they ransacked the office, stole two laptops, one hard drive. in july eight churches in cockeysville, timonium and towson areas were all burglarized just like st. andrews. police say the culprits broke in through the back window. >> cabinets were left open. this is the only place i really see any damage. i've been with this church for 50 something years. this is the first time i've ever known it to be broken into like this. >> there are two unique aspects on this break-in. a blackout in the area and lice station just two doors down. the search for the suspect continues this morning. >>> "good morning maryland" news time now 6:50. money is being cut from the city budget. >> but a federal grant is pumping more money into the state. abc2 news linda so -- joins us to tell us where the money will be spent. >> the money will be for mass transit, fire stations and port of baltimore. the port is already undergoing changes to make it greener. last month it got $3.5 million to upgrady equipment to reduce diesel emissions. the money was used to buy new truc

hard for him. >> emily andrews probably knows as much alive about steve mcnair and kazemi.mate. >> we lived together, we socialized together. so there wasn't a day when we lived in nashville together where i didn't know what she was doing or she didn't know what i was doing. >> did most of her friends know her as jennie? >> yeah. >> i'm curious where she got that name. >> i guess she looked like a jennie. >> she was four years older. and jennie confided in her. >> she was born in iran and oved to turkey. when she was 14 years old she moved to jacksonville with her family. she told me about her mother. >> what happened to her mother? >> believe she was strangled to death, they never found the killer. jennie was just 9 years old at the time. >> she had kind of used that story as a way to really love and appreciate her own life and love and appreciate the people that she loved, their lives. >> jennie moved to nashville at age 16 with her boyfriend keith norfleet, an aspiring rapper who placed videos on youtube. but while waiting tables one day in december, jennie met a new guy

. >> reporter: andrew tried to open a new flash drive wrapped in hard plastic. >> the scissors weren't strong enough to cut through it. the closest thing i found was a carpenter's knife. then all of a sudden it went sliding right through and slashed my hand right here. you can still see the scar there. >> reporter: his injury is hardly unique. >> they can be dangerous. when you open them up, you've got to be careful. >> reporter: one doctors group said 6,000 people a year are injured trying to open clam shell pack yes, sir. part of the danger is the plastic itself. once you cut it, the edges are as sharp as a knife. >> if you noticed, it is very sharp. you can easily pun tur yourself or have a small cut. it gets worse when you get frustrated. if you are mad at the package and start ripping at it, you're more likely to hurt yourself. >> i was thinking, you know what? it wasn't worth the price i paid to get the package open. >> reporter: with many consumers feeling the same way, some leading electronic stores are fazing out clam shell packaging. >> that was scott gordon. best buy is fazi

hard look at that. >> safer: picard says mark and andrew madoff withdrew over $35 million from accounts that were openedttle or no original investment. >> safer: if they turn out to be untouchable, criminally, do you intend to bankrupt them civilly? >> picard: whether or not they have a criminal problem, we will pursue them as far as we can pursue them. and if that leads to bankrupting them, then that's what will happen. >> safer: picard and sheehan told us they plan to file suit this week against madoff's sons, mark and andrew, his brother, peter, and niece, shana, accusing them of negligence and breach of fiduciary duty in their roles at the company. he will be seeking the return of $198 million that was paid out, loaned or transferred to them. >> sheehan: when his brother took out money, or his sons took out money, they took customer money. >> safer: can you lay claim to the sons' real estate, for example? >> picard: i believe that we can. the money that went to buy these houses, under the law, is called fraudulent transfers. >> safer: maybe, but the madoff sons are claiming they're still owed nearly

andrews air force base. >> we're all watching that and thinking it would have been exciting to be up there. we're glad they are up there. >> exactly, working hard kind of cloudy and rainy and yucky. >> exactly. it's drizzley out there. not much going on right now. not much tomorrow morning. changes underway for tomorrow afternoon. let's look outside now. see how folks have been enjoying themselves. showers around the area. light showers indeed. temperatures, today, well, it's our warmest of the week with high temperatures, 9 degrees. now, we are at 68 degrees. rain today,.300 of an inch of rain. we got up to the 70s today. we're in the 60s now dropping to the low 60s by the morning. temperatures in the south low 80s. 95, the warm spot, dallas, texas. it's where summer is hanging on. 68 the temperature here. falling to the low 60s. starting out five degrees cooler than we did this morning. all right. here is the low pressure system that's been hanging on for days and days and days. here is the upper level winds through the north carolina and back to the west. the low pressure system will get taken back over us tomorrow, especially during the aft

andrew. >> does your ear piece work? can you hear me when i talk? >> yes. >> okay. it is hard tell sometimes. >> look at this. >> i was sitting only it the whole show. >> greg,. >> yes? >> you are not supposed to say that yew like the barnyard ani malls. we talked about in. >> i know, i know. >> what is in that cake? >> like a hand or. >> is it chocolate? >> it's chocolate with butter cream icing. >> fingery. >> greg: this really awesome. >> i got to blow out the candles. >> make a wish. >> i made a wish. >> here is to show number 1200. >> if the wish comes true? >> i'm still here. thank you. >> i was hoping maybe his head would explode. >> it is with ideas on tonight's and

andrews lutheran church on taylor avenue in the hillendale area. we're told the damage was centered mostly in the church office where two laptops and a hard drive were taken. papers were thrown everywhere and office equipment was tossed around. >> they went throughout the building, there's no doubt about it because of cabinets left open and this is the only place i really see any damage. and the office next door. >> reporter: the president of the church council says he thinks they may have gotten through a window in the office and tore out the alarm system. >>> despite that incident the county executive says there's been an impressive drop in serious crimes across baltimore county. >> compared to the first six months of 2008 when crime was also down seven of the eight major crime categories have declined this year in the first six months. rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft and arson. >> smith says as evident end of june 2009 violent crime decreased by 2% and total crime in baltimore county decreased by 6.6%. as for solving violent crimes the clearance rate is well above the national average. >>> police in anne ar

hard boil? that's good. "hardball," how about that? turmoil in the new york's governor race is drawing in president obama and involving some of the biggest names in politics, including andrewennedy. with a 17% approval rating, new york state governor david paterson would be a huge liability atop the democratic slate in 2010. white house advisers are concerned he could drag down the whole party in new york. they'd like him to go but he's standing firm, and he will make his case this sunday on "meet the press." what's going on here? joining us, "the new york post" great fred dicker and new york one's dominic fred carter. fred, you have been covering new york and politics in new york since al smith was governor, i think. >> your hero, mike. >> that's exactly right. my basic question to you is how crazy is this stuff? >> you know, the last three years here in new york, mike, have been extraordinary. so is it equal to say eliot spitzer announcing that the sheriff of wall street is also a patronizer of prostitutes? i'm not sure it's at that level. but this is extraordinary. but in my three decades at the capital, i'm have not seen anything like it. we have a governor being widel

. >> they said that the car hit her so hard that she almost hit the traffic light. >> and as a result of that officer andrew kelly has pleaded not guilty to vehicular manslaughter and dui. you know, every time something like this happens people want to say it's just an accident. cops say diane schuler killed seven people, including her nieces and daughter and if you count her eight, driving drunk the wrong way down a highway. listen to the excuses her husband and his attorney threw out there. >> my heart is clear. she did not drink. she's not an alcoholic. >> she was diabetic. >> something medically had to have happened. >> she had a bump on her leg which was traveling towards her brain. >> she is not an alcoholic. >> dr. dale archer, denial, enabling, and co-dependency come in many different forms. >> yeah. it's classic, jane, as you well know. and the family members will support oftentimes the alcoholic till the day they die. and i've had patients in my office where the individual is saying i'm an alcoholic, i need help. and their spouse will be sitting right next to them saying no, you're not an alcoholi

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andrew kissinger join us with their lawyer. thanks, guys, for joining us. >> thank you. lt. commander derrick carter, let's start with you. what do you mean kant negligent airlines is giving you a hard >> i basically have two jobs. there is basically a scheduling conflict and trying to work that out days i'm going to work for the navy versus days i'm going to work for cooperate negligence. a lot of times they are not happy with the days or you are taking too many days off and they are basically telling you, putting letters in your box, calling you, calling the unit, telling you that you need to take less time with the navy, you need to stay in the airplane with continental. brian: you get harassing phone calls to make sure you are deployed to. make sure -- so they check up on to you make sure you are not making up this story? >> correct, yeah. in my case and one example, they thought that i was -- they accused me of submitting a fraudulent military leave q i was called in on my day off to answer questions. navy asked me a lot of questions. they investigated. first year pilots all start on probation with the airline. they extended my probation for a month. at the end of it. everythin