anita. >> okay. gary, thank you for that. >>> democrats are hoping they can turn that congressional seat to roscoe bartlett. they added a big swap into montgomery county in the mix in hopes of diluting the republican vote. bruce leshan is trying to figure out who is more fired up for november. bruce. >> reporter: yes, anita. that is the big question. are the democrats in montgomery county fired up enough to counter the republican enthusiasm out here in western maryland, the western marylands who have been sending roscoe bartlett to congress for decades turn out over all dismal in this primarily. but i want you to look at how many more republicans have voted so far. if you add up all of of the votes for all of the republican candidates there were a bunch of them. and assume all of the voters are going to turn out in november. the gop is going to win this thing big. 28,490 republicans have been counted and voted so far. the democrats 20,207. that conventional wisdom has it that republicans are more con

anita. >> gary, thank you.ee more secret service agents resigned today in the mist of a prostitution scandal. a white house official says president obama is being briefed on the investigation today. as many as 12 secret service employees are already on leave as the government investigates. what happened at a hotel in columbia last week before the president arrived for a summit? >> that secret service agent dallied with prostitutes while out of the country has gone from bizarre to scandal to career ending in a matter of days. derek is shocked that we are so shocked. >> anita, i don't believe we're all that taken aback by this. everybody is saying all the right things. this is terrible. we thought these guys were better than that. how could they compromise the president's security, all that is good, but wait just a second. isn't this the same country we're being caught naked on film used to be humiliating? but now, it makes you a reality tv star, a place where some of our most critically acclaimed television has

anita and derek. >> thank you, matt. >>> their family was ripped apart six years ago.d her dad will soon be reunited. back in 2006, the 6-year-old was reported missing by her father in los angeles. detectives believed that the girl and her mother had level the country. acting on a tip earlier this week, they found cano and her daughter now 12 living in sterling. cano was arrested and the little girl will be returned to her father. >>> he's accused of sexually abusing a young boy at a church day care. randolph king was arrested earlier today in hyattsville. the alleged abuse happened last week at the zion baptist church. the day care at the church has dozens of kids enrolled. >>> it is at the heart of a controversial murder case and now it's at the center of a task force review. we're talking about florida's stand your ground law. did it give george zimmerman the legal right to shoot trayvon martin. the governor of florida is asking a panel to look into the stand your law ground altogether. that how allows somebody to use deadly force any time and any place they feel th

there are many pictures of anita in those family scrapbooks. unfortunately my father hated his older sister, rather than getting to have wonderful times of gertrudestein in mexico, all i heard was she is a monster. they didn't speak. the idea of her, the largeness of her loomed large in the house. >> so you start out, you become a writer for all of these reasons and you are someone who compulsively takes notes and packages what you see in story form, as you decide you are going to climb into your own life and own family story, how did you figure out what was true? >> that was a tough one. first of all, being a reporter, so often it is about a way with of finding our own stories and the stories we write about. one of the aspects so interesting for so many of us, if you are an introverted extrovert or shy person or rather hidden asking questions is a great way to hide. if you are writing a memoir, it makes you scour because you care about being accurate. this was complicated because i worried about this for a long time, who was right? who was wro

my one-on-one interview with anita hill. then diversity in the workplace p what is in store? finally, we take a look at rachel robinson for her commitment to our youth. that's what's going on in our world, up next. [ male announcer next gear is reinventing the best-selling camry... and making it a 200 hp... 43 mpg rated, hybrid. ♪ next gear is the ability to connect to the world with your voice. find coffee. [ male announcer next gear is taking your smartphone and giving it wheels. next gear is the 2012 toyota camry hybrid which is ahead of everything. the 2012 toyota camry hybrid. it's everything you want, nothing you expect. ♪ >>> welcome back to "our world with black enterprise." i'm marc lamont hill. in 1991 anita hill was swept into the national spotlight for her role in the supreme court confirmation hearing of clarence thomas. we recently caught up with her to talk about that controversy as well as some of her new passions. >> we have the pleasure of having with us today attorney, brandeis university professor, and author of a new book, "reimagining equality: stories o

anita. >> i'm sure you'll keep us posted. thank you. >>> new tonight, the northbound ramp from river road on to the beltway finally clear. a two-car accident had drivers at a stand still for almost an hour during the evening rush. this is what the scene looked like shortly after the crash. montgomery county police say an suv ran into the back of another vehicle causing one of them to turn over. six people ended up getting hurt and three of them suffered life-threatening injuries. no word yet exactly what caused the crash as far as the suv. >>> well, george zimmerman's lawyers hoping to get his client out of jail as he waits for his trial, which may be months away. in a surprise court appearance today, his lawyers questioned whether the judge overseeing the second degree murder case may have a conflict of interest. her husband works with an attorney who had contact with zimmerman. the 28-year-old neighborhood watch volunteer says he did shoot 17-year-old trayvon martin, but he says it was in self-defense. zimmerman has a bond

. >> yeah, anita. attorneys for the men point to an avalanche, what they call an avalanche of new information that calls into question these guilty verdicts. four witnesses have recanted and several other witnesses have pointed to other people who may have murdered katherine fuller. >> as far as i'm concerned, in eight ways, justice was done. >> victim katherine fuller's sister celebrated the guilty verdicts in 1985, more than a quarter century later, the defendants are back in d.c. superior court, arguing the verdicts were anything but justice. >> i'm happy to see my brother. being incarcerated and i'm feeling for something he didn't do. >> katherine fuller was a mother of six, beaten, robbed, and sot sodomized. police focused almost immediately on a group of young men that hung out in a nearby park and called themselves the crew. >> i see. >> then 16-year-old clifton confessed in a video taped police interrogation. >> it was a little hard stick. >> but he is now recanting and he is the leadoff witnes

well, tonight derrick says you have a right to be. >> yeah, anita.ears the fans speculated that tupac lives, and now we learn he does, just not in a way they ever expected. ♪ [ music ] >> yeah. you know what this is. what up? what's up? >> that's the music festival in california today. tupac on stage performing. it's new dog and dr. dre. it's not redone footage or film footage at all. it was, for lack of a better word, a hollow gram created -- holograham created by computer. why stop with him. why not a virtual james brown or a digital michael jackson? i bet you would pay to see them. i bet a lot of us would. why stop with musicians. think sports matchups you always wanted to see. a digital mike tyson versus digital ali comes to mind. on the other hand somebody tweeted and they said, quote, this place just went silent. people are genuinely horrified by the tupac hologram. so it is totally creepy, but let's be real. if we know anything about technology, it's totally going to happen. anita? >> kind of creepy, kind of cool. >>> the cleanup continues in

anita. >> so much loss. bruce leshan, thank you. >>> the search presumed in new york city today for clues into the disappearance of 6-year-old aton pates. pates disappeared in 1979 while walking to his school bus. the fbi and new york police are digging up a basement that was used by a handyman. investigators say new evidence has led them to the handyman who used to pay aton to help him with small chores. the boy's body was never found and no one has been charged. >> for anybody who went through that in the beginning, it still lingers 30 years later. >> i remember hoping that i would find him. >> cadaver dogs picked up a human scent deep within the walls of the basement. aton's disappearance drew national attention to child safety. his picture was among the first to appear on milk cartons. and here in the washington area, the reopening of the case has really recalled the hundreds of similar disappearances in our area. scott broom is here now with a painful reminder about all these young people, many whose na

our guests are anita mcbride and camille johnston. our look at the role of spouses in american politics and first ladies. our phone lines are open. you can also send a comment on our twitter page. guest: absolutely true. she is an impressive woman. she always was. there were moments for her that were harder than others. she was one of these transitional first ladies. but i think her career has borne her out in terms of being an impressive person from start to finish. guest: i would like to add one thing to that. kroll as first lady of the united states only helped her -- her role as first lady of the united states only helped her in the position she had a secretary of state. she is our nation's top diplomats. . it was a platform that allowed her to be what she is, a terrific secretary of state. host: on our twitter page -- guest: i thought about that when you were talking about that. she was to lead the nation's first hostess. -- truly the nation's first hostess. host: the pictures of our first lady and president. michael is on the te

. >> live from america's news headquarters, i'm anita vogel. the fbi, u.s. marshall and more than two dozen police officers investigating a series of shootings in oklahoma, that appear to target african-americans, the attacker allegedly shot five people, friday all african-americans as they emerged from homes and local businesses in tulsa, three victims died and investigators believe the shootings are linked because they happened around the same time within a three mile radius and the police chief promised to catch the person responsible. >> i want to tell our community that we'll do whatever it takes to bring the shooter to justice. i also want to say to the perpetrator, and anybody who would attempt to aid or abet him, we are coming for you. >> reporter: investigators say they are looking for a white man, seen driving a white pickup truck. g.o.p. presidential hopeful rick santorum taking a break from the campaign trail to spend time with his family. this, after three-year-old bella santorum was hospitalized, again, on friday. she suffers from a rare geneti

i also need to thank anita because she appointed me as her husband. [applause] i can go on and on about a lot of things, but i'm more excited to work hard with us. there is a lot more to do. there will be efforts that will try to hold us back as a society, but we have to continue moving forward. we cannot let the kind of radio talk-show host and things like that hold us back. i, too, have to express my personal shock how such a vicious language could be used. when someone is invited to present their expertise as a law student about the needs for women. it has been spoiled to be in san francisco because this is often our culture, to listen and to follow up with the articulation from advocates and people who served in all kinds of government and business, educational institutions, the private sector and the public sector, to listen carefully to the names of our children. to not only survive, but to go beyond that and succeed. i'm often reminded who holds half of the sky up in this city. i am going to continue inviting all of you -- i am speaking to the

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anita, i know you have your work cut out nor you today.k at these pictures just absolutely wiped away. tell me what you know as far as injuries and potentially as far as fatalities. >> well, we right now are actually in shelter ourselves, across much of the dallas ft. worth area. some of our teams that are on the southern end of the metro plex have been able to start making a plan on how we are going to respond. right now, we are in the path of the storms and are seeking shelter. as you said, there's no question, there's a big job ahead. but we're at the beginning of the storm system but not the end. there's gong to be rain, more potential storm systems rolling on top of the area. and many people are going to need help. we are in our shelter. we are form lating a response plan so as soon as it's safe and we can open the door, we can get out into our neighborhoods with our friends, with our family that live here in our communities and be able to assist them with safe places to stay and food to eat and the things that they might need as a re

i'm anita brikman. see you later, everybody.

anita and derek? >> thank you, gary. >>> tonight, new information in the case of one marine charged with murdering another. according to the new court documents, the defendant says he acted in self-defense. 20-year-old michael policy is charged with second degree murder in the death of fellow marine, phillip bushong. police say the men got into an argument, then a fight in southeast. police say he stabbed bushong with a knife. according to police, he said he was defending himself after bushong punched him in the head. tonight we caught up with his attorney. >> we're looking forward to all the facts coming out. the whole story has not been told. >> he's being held behind bars and has a preliminary hearing may 15th. >>> a health alert to tell you about tonight. more than 160 metro buses are being fully sanitized tonight after a metro driver was diagnosed with viral meningitis. doctors say viral meningitis is normally not that serious, but metro isn't taking any chances. >> metro says the bus driver in q

anita vogel looks back at the greatest accomplishments. >> and this is that number one song. >> reporterclark hosted american bandstand for 33 years until 1989. and made clark a rich man and he invested in music publishing, a record label and dick clark productions and that is through which he hosted and produces radio, gameshows, movies, the american music awards and dick clark's new year's rocking eve which began in 1972. >> and this is the coldest new year's we have had. >> reporter: he was the only personality to rate top-hosted series on all three networks and syndication at the same time. he had the tv ballooners franchise on nbc, bandstand on abc, and $25,000 pyramid on cbs. >> it was a long, hard fight. >> reporter: a debilitating stroke in 2004 brought him up short. when he returned to the new year's eve show to ring in 2006, it was only in a limited capacity, with ryan seacrest signing on to co-host and produce the show. >> it would not be new year's eve without dick clark. >> there is nothing like being in times square on new year's eve. believe me, this is one night i will ne

anita. >> matt, thank you. >>> many of you have been sounding off about this story all day long. can still join the conversation at our wusa9 facebook page. >>> what is going on in dc's petworth neighborhood. three people attacked on the streets all bashed in the head, all in the span of 26 hours and all within a few blocks of one another. a tourist killed, another man in critical condition and a woman badly beaten. the chief of police is warning people in petworth don't go out alone. >> all three of the victims did suffer pretty significant blunt force trauma to the head. and preliminarily, it appears that the victims may have been attacked suddenly and without prove vation. >> police can't -- prove indication. >> police can't say for sure it's the work of one person, but it's a pretty good guess right now. there are reports the attacker is beating his victims with a hammer, but the chief says she cannot confirm that. the department also isn't saying something about a federal bulletin warning local law enforcement to be prepared for a possible terrorist attack next week. gary nu

anita brikman introduces us to a local children born to the disease whose victims usually don't live past the age of 2. >> reporter: in the midst of the campaign for the republican presidential nomination, a little known medical condition called trisomy 18 came into the national spotlight. rick santorum announced he was dropping out of the race, in part because of a medical crisis involving his child, bella. tonight we meet a local family that has lived with this almost- always fatal condition whose child has beat remarkable odds. his parents say a carefree smile and laughter are his most common expressions. when he plays with his sisters or helps feed the fish. he's 14 years old, one of the longest surviving children with trisome 18. >> i remember early on when the doctors would say you've got an appointment six months from now. i was like, we'll see. it was kind of hard to think six months from now, because we were given such a bleak outlook. >> reporter: in fact, only 10% of children born with this courtroom some mall -- chromosomel disorder. one of the biggest risks early on is p

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gary. >> reporter: well, anita, no more shuttle program. united states space program is now at a fork in the road with long-term decisions about which way to go simply not yet made. with a goodbye to the shuttle program. >> we have no land-space program. that's it. i don't like to see us in that position. >> reporter: a position that led to this startling position to a child tuesday from a shuttle veteran. >> any advice for ethan, an aspiring astronaut. >> study russian. [ laughing ]. >> reporter: because for an american to get to space to the international space station. >> we're now depending on the russians -- we have no way of getting into space. >> reporter: but surprisingly to some, even without an active human element, the future of the american space program. >> it's basically still quite healthy and quite active and strong. >> reporter: lots of robot ics, for example ics, for example. more incentives for private industries to build spaceships. >> but really we have had private business building most of the space hardware all along.

anita, back to you. >> i would think so. guys, let's take it over to you in the weather center. >> we are a little green with envy over here, but we're okay with it. we are happy for that couple. so now, we thought we wouldn't get much rain, but we got a little. >> came up north of us, which is where it is now. let's start with a look outside. this is live weather cam brought to you by michael and son. generally speaking, we have rain south and north of town. it's drying out south of town. 54 downtown. kind of april showers and march temperatures, really. winds northwest at 8. pressure steady at 30.19 inches of mercury. and we're looking at clouds going to hang tough tonight. the rain and showers will dispate. here's a wide look at the rain. hagerstown, west of charlottesville. this is all training up to the north and to the east. a little less to get over towards fredericksburg and southern maryland. less rain fall. all right, live doppler 9,000. we'll pinpoint some of the activity. going up 270, it's going to be a wet comm

derek, anita? >> thank you, matt. >>> well tonight major fall out from that secret service prostitute scandall involving president obama's security detail. three agents now gone. one fired, one retired and a third has simply quit. cbs news reports the scandall began as a dispute between an agent and a woman who spent the night in his hotel room in columbia, the same place president obama was attending an international summit. a top law enforcement official says that agent did not know the woman was a prostitute until she demanded $150. the agent reportedly offered her $30 and that set off an argument that drew the police. a former director of the secret service says everybody on presidential trips is warned about possible security threats. >> one of the safeguards is about tools that a foreign government can use against our government. prostitution is at the top of that list. >> aside from the three agents now on the outs eight others remain on administrative leave pending the outcome of the invest

anita? >> well said, derek. >>> wind, wind and more wind? >> pretty much.omorrow will be a perfect day for a tornado drill. there's going to be a tornado drill in the state of maryland, 9:45 in the morning. don't get confused. it's not going to feel like a day that will produce tornadoes but more like march. let's start with -- maryland is not exactly tornadoalley. but last year confirmed tornadoes. 9:45 is the drill. the all clear at 10:00 a.m. a tornado watch means conditions are possible. tornado watches cover large areas, maybe even the size of several states for several hours. tornado warnings means tornado is occurring. take cover immediately. those usually last between 25 and 45 minutes. keep that in mind. live look outside brought to you by michael and sons. wisconsin avenue. pretty quiet. winds are still going, not as strong as they were. 49 degrees right now. winds north/northwest at 7:30. augusta 30 in the last hour. the pressure 29.91 and rising. the dew point's in the 20s. the wind will do us a favor and keep temps up a little bit tonight. othe

anita is far too young to remember. that he was visiting mr. mcfeely. the only problem is the kids were not feeling big mr. purple. so we thought we'd have some fun and have our viewers caption this photo. >> mandy says, i thought you meant santa, not panda. and our favorite comes from jonathan, when animals attack. -- when stuffed animals attack. >> my nephew's second birthday, my brother dressed up as big bird, all the kids cried except my nephew. >> there you go. >> all right, 56 today. felt like march. it's going to sort of feel like late march tomorrow. we're back to average weather by friday. let's have a live look outside with the live weather cam brought to you by michael & son. it we are looking at winds to continue all night. that will keep us from having a frost or freeze. here's the deism breezy and cool on thursday so still a little bit below average but not the biting winds we had today, nor are we going to have any snow flurries. grab a jacket and shades. please give a jacket to the kids at the bus stop. cold thursday night. in fact, with

then joinder exand anita tonight at -- join derek and anita tonight for reaction to the contests. >>> vice president joe biden will be in virginia today and this is video of the vice president in iowa last week. today, he'll visit norfolk along with education secretary arne duncan. they'll be talking about ways to make college for affordable. >>> weave learned the suspected gunman in a deadly college exam pus shooting out west has some local ties. the "san francisco chronicle" is reporting he lived in springfield, virginia and has a brother living in centerville. seven people were killed and three more were hurt yesterday when the shooting happened at oikos yesterday. it's a christian college in oakland, california. police say 43-year-old one goh turned himself in after the shooting, he's a former student of that college they say. he pulled out a gun inside some classrooms yesterday morning and then turned himself in a short time later. >> i heard gunshot sound like down, down, down. then right after that i heard like one woman scream. >> very, very, very bloody scene. a lot of eviden

anita brikman has more. >> reporter: this latest research looked at about 1,000 mothers in californiand their children. women who were obese during pregnancy were about 67% more likely to have autistic children than women of normal weight. they also had double the risk of having a child with another developmental disorder. >> there's a general feeling that some of the origins of autism are probably in the prenatal period when the brain is developing at a very rapid rate. >> reporter: diabetic mothers were more than twice as likely to have a child with developmental delays and their children also scored lower on language and communication tests. >> doctors stress the study doesn't prove maternal obesity or diabetes cause autism by researchers say it does raise serious concerns because more than a third of u.s. women of child bearing age are now seriously overweight. >> there are actions people can actually take and that's the point is we're trying to find modifiable factors which by and large genetics is not. >> reporter: anita brikman, 9news now. >> the centers for disease control now

at the white house, danielle nottingham, anita, back to you. >> thank you danielle. by suspending his campaign, rick santorum is able to raise funds for another possible run for the president in the future. >>> now to an update on a story you saw first here on 9. last month, a 9news investigation uncovered an internal memo that appeared to detail a quo ta system for parking tickets and dui charges. >> after our report, the police chief called the memo a mistake and denied any allegations. well tonight, 9news now has obtained more documentation about ticket procedures and our peggy fox is here with what she has found. peggy. >> through a freedom of information act request, we have obtained these internal e- mails pertaining to numbers of tickets and arrests. several give the appearance of a quota system. i had the chance to ask the police chief about them on a one on one interview. >> someone needs to be held accountable for this, it's me. >> arlington county police chief says he never saw any of the memos like this one that required officers working an overtime shift

anita, and then let me get jamie. oh, i forgot you susanna. go ahead, anita. >> the pilgrimage to mecca, is it required of the religion, or does the qur'an state that it's necessary, a command of allah? >> i'm not hearing you very clearly, and it's because my daughter says, "daddy, you need a hearing aid." >> i can help. >> well, thank you. >> the pilgrimage to mecca, is it required by the religion, islam as a religion, or the nation of islam as a religion, or does the qur'an state that it's the command, or a command of allah for this pilgrimage to take place? >> yes. the pilgrimage to mecca is the fifth pillar of islam, or the fifth essential principle of islam. it's been interpreted by scholars, and i think most of the learned people in islam will agree with this meaning. it's the pillar of- it's the fifth pillar, and it's the pillar of the unity of humanity, the unity of mankind- the unity of mankind. and god orders us to make pilgrimage once in our lifetime if we have the ability, the health and the ability or the means, the financial mean

that weekend where we all sat and watched all weekend long, never leaving our tv sets, as we watched anita hill facing down that all-male, all-white senate judiciary committee, and we all had that moment of these guys don't get it, and where are the women? as a result of that year, when we had record numbers of open seats, we had what was then called the year of the woman. and unfortunately, that's sort of been the last year that we had.

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host: anita mcbride, what's the story? how did that come about?his week is the week of the white house correspondents dinner. next saturday, we'll have live coverage saturday evening with jimmy kimmel as the headliner. what happened? guest: actually, what happened, mrs. bush was supposed to deliver the remarks at the radio and tv correspondents dinner that year. but it was the same time that pope john paul ii had died and so we all went to rome for the delegation for the funeral, and so it was really the president's idea, said, laura, why don't you do this one? do the white house correspondents dinner. and she was game. she said ok. actually, the funniest part of that, practicing a little bit for the speech, there was a line in there about barbara bush and having barbara bush as a mother-in-law is somewhat like don corleon, being an italian american, i was practicing with mrs. bush on how to say don corleon and that was actually a funny moment for me. host: if you want to watch the event, all the white house correspondents dinners including laura