we say in baltimore city they will take the problem and push it into baltimore county. the murder rate is getting hot at this we have to deal with it here. basically i just think it should be a system in place within baltimore city in our own society or to try to stop these murders. >> i think part of the issues that we have that we are really narrow minded in our approach to respond to people and their problems. so i agree that as young as we can get them we need to be to them. but it's not just the youth. at seven else in our lives. we need to be working with. and i just hope, and i don't get the impression from anything you're saying, but i hope we are really clear that this is about class. this has very little to do with race. this is about class and lack of resources. yes, no? >> well, it does to a certain extent, although if you look at statistics, you know, in the prison system, african-americans are more affected by violent crime, more likely to be incarcerated, living areas with environmental concerns. i mean, yes, it is class but race has always been a backdro

in baltimore some of the thesis seems to be the baltimore is supposed to fail and is designed to fail and when you write a story that the failure everyone reads it and says great, you got it right, thank you for the story i told you this wasn't going to work. so it's like a self fulfilling prophecy is the set up. maybe this is the outcome that is supposed to happen maybe this is what happens when you design a city to be isolated, part to be isolated from the other part when you don't have a full community. >> [inaudible] >> my question is is there a plan [inaudible] [laughter] >> i got that question again but investing is steve and i talked about it and looking to about two years away but we definitely explore that option. >> almost everybody that rights into the investigative asks that question when is the next book coming out and they haven't read this one yet. how do you turn it around [inaudible] >> the best way to get to baltimore or baltimore city is part of maryland and that would be the big part of changing, making devotee deal with the consequences of what we created in balti

>> the border of baltimore city made baltimore a part of maryland. that would be a big part of changing. make everybody deal with the consequences of what we created in baltimore. if you did that and it affected other people significantly you had money and the power to change things you would see change. real substantial change. rather than creating a system in isolation make everybody accountable. i am sure that is not a palatable and will never happen in our lifetime but once you align the interests of the entire community with a small part of the community you will see substantial change. as long as we can isolate people and we can write crazy stories about horrific murders and create a virtual wall it won't change but once people are accountable, maryland and the lot of taxes to baltimore city. go downtown. what used to be a manufacturing center is a center of prison. i took a philosopher on it for. i can't believe how many prisons you have. it goes on forever. even warehousing. that is what we do. when do you decide that is not effective or what

[laughter] and somehow that we can isolate baltimore to keep those problems from coming into baltimore county and maybe it is similar but baltimore has tried to do things to say we can put people in a certain spot and it will all work out because they will all be here. so baltimore has tried to do this to the extreme to cray a situation where murder and violence is the obvious outcome. by am not saying there are other industries like that but i am from new york and it was a little different and a sense that the city was so sustaining and it seems that baltimore is supposed to fail in is designed to fail when you write the story about the failure everybody says you got it right. thank you. i told you this would not work. it is like a self-fulfilling prophecy. then may say this is crazy. maybe this is the outcome that is supposed to happen maybe when you design of the city that should be isolated >> hall i think the book is a fantastic read. you capture that inside very, very well. but. [inaudible] [laughter] >> i get that question all the time and 7:00 this morning on email. the first b

what about boston and other communities baltimore, what's going on?> ill don't think we have to worry too much bo the road and subway as much as the airline traveler have to worry about in their flight is going to be operating tomorrow, tuesday and even wednesday. there is this ripple effect with 11,000 flights canceled. there are not enough seetsz to go around to get the passengers stranded back on flights. people that were set to travel they are going to get bumped. the bumping rule was actually changed last week which is quite prophetic. used to be you get your ticket maybe twice the amount. last week the airlines went in prior to these hurricanes you can get four times the amount of your ticket if you are involuntarily bumped. >> you get more money now? >> you get more money but the million dollar question is are you going to get on the plane? what you need to do is go onto the airline's web site. it doesn't matter when you are flying from detroit from earlied doe and those airports haven't been effective. what is going to happen is if your flight

what is your first memory about music when your a kid in baltimore? >> the first memory i had was my sister's dancing. to the radio. when they would play records by benny goodman and henry james of the sort but the record that got me was a record by derek sampson who was a young guy called "boogie express" and it was "boogie woogie." really that was on fire. that got me. later on, i was around 10 or 11 then, later on, i was about 16 or 17. my family had moved to l.a. from baltimore and i was working as a busboy in a restaurant and one day i was busing dishes and i passed the sous chef who was smeeg cigarette. he had -- smoking a cigarette. he had the radio playing, the disc jockey playing records. qut ain't nobody's business" which got me. i thought to myself. i can do that. [laughter] tavis: it is fascinating that "boogie woogie" hit boat of you at different times but it got to both of you. >> the strongest music at that time was "boogie woogie." >> it is amazing to me that both of you were impacted by that long before you ever came together. it is f

this follows one of the warmest monthen or record in washington, d.c., philly and baltimore. the heat is on here and it is not letting up across the nation. a big ridge of high pressure in place creating triple digits across much of the plain states and no relief in sight and the streak continues here. and guess what? down, but not out. emily is stirring up once again. now as a depression, so we'll watch her rain as it comes into florida, lester. >> samantha, thank you.

notice baltimore, philly, many of them sprinkles and showers. it's not going to rain for a while again, either, but, of course, the damage is done. all that heavy rain, look at bell mar. the flooding on the rivers in new jersey is extensive. that is where the story continues to develop. >> it continuing, because those rivers have yet to crest thank you so much, bill karins. let's get the situation from new york's coney island, specifically brooklyn. there's peter alexander, you're by the cyclone, appropriately enough named. >> reporter: it is pretty appropriate given what we just experienced, the cyclone roller coaster, the cyclones, the minor league baseball team located not far from where we are. this is willthe oldest roller coaster. if you bring the camera this way, this is one of the old rides that has been shuttered, but all night long, we heard this howling, whistling as the wind was whipping around this structure, and then sort of the banging of metal against metal, which we only assume is happening, and there were blue skiersier. this i

with a reporter from the baltimore sun and none of that information was classified now it also took the justice department two and a half years to indict him after raping his home after years of persecution by the government the threat of thirty five years behind bars and the financial burden of fighting for his freedom just a few months ago off the charges were suddenly dropped and drake pled guilty to only one misdemeanor charge of unauthorized computer access now what's important to note here is that this was a case carried over from the bush administration and then pursued actively by the obama administration the same administration that promised to be the most open and the most transparent yet the same one that's launched a full war on whistleblowers and has had to use the espionage act to press criminal charges in five different cases of alleged national security leaks more prosecutions than all other administrations combined so now that one of those cases has been a result let's hear the firsthand account joining me to discuss this is thomas drake former senior executive with the

baltimore, boston, newark, philadelphia, they were all cancelled. take a look at the video we shot earlier. this was the scene as passengers were waiting to catch their flights. some travelers have to wait all day but they were able to book flights home. one man told me that he felt stranded when the attendant told him the next flight out would be friday. >> first we were sold that we could get a flight out september 2nd of which was unreasonable. there are six of us traveling together but she could only get five seats. the sixth person is on standby. >> one person in the family had to volunteer to be on standby. so far we know of to report for cancellations for tamara to new work and one and jfk. reporting live from sfo, >> people along the east coast are getting the look of the damage after irene imperiled through. >> irene made landfall again on sunday morning but slightly more subdued, quickly downgraded from her into a tropical storm as the wind speeds fell below 75 mi. per hour. one building was pushed into the boardwalk. >> the surface, and t

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that's where baltimore is. little bit more protect.etheless, nearly half a million customers from baltimore gas and electric without power. lot was downed trees in the surrounding area. that's the big concern. a lot of folks is comparing this storm to hurricane isabel in 2003 which was devastating here and people were without power for likes of a week. not as bad as that. that case was nearly a million customers who were out. things so far looks as though we dodged a bullet. port of baltimore which we were down here monitoring closed last night at 8:00. the coast guard closing because they use the buoys to monitor traffic in and out, the communication was in and out. they will reassess and reopen at noon if the winds die down overall. a very busy port here. number one place where they import trucks. closest port to a lot of those midwest farms. tractors and farm equipment. disruption that's likely to be bad in terms of supply chain over the next couple of days. they said here things will start getting back to normal. the problem is all

baltimore blew a lead, but a two-rtw two. him for the longest hitting streak in braves history. atlanta over florida, 6-2. to soccer and the u.s. facing rival mexico a friendly. new head coach, jurgen cleanseman, making his debut. the americans had a chance to take the lead, but watch what happeners, rodgers pulled down by a player. tough break for the u.s. the game ends in a 1-1 tie. back to baseball. wild finish in the rays-royals game. tamp bay sam full ripped a shot deep and off the wall. scored the tying run. full was motoring his way to third. the ball bounced past the third baseman, full is safe at the plate. >>> that's your first look at sports, i'm fred roggin. >>> and now for another quick look at the weather. here's nbc meteorologist bill karins with your weather channel forecast. >> dare i say it's a little chilly in a few spots. >> dare you say it? >> 59 in pittsburgh, that's almost like jacket weather. the suburbs you'll notice a chill in the air. temperatures in the cities are still plenty warm. in the 70s in n

and baltimore. and not only that, it was the hottest month ever recorded in the history of those weather stations. which usually go back about 100 years about so that this has been a very historical summer. areas especially around d.c. to baltimore and philadelphia, new york city, your fifth hottest july ever. and those temperatures continue to be very warm in the cities. we had a little thunderstorm blow through morning city in the middle of the night. it cooled off the air a little bit. there's also a batch of thunderstorms coming down just outside of buffalo and in between buffalo and rochester, so western new york, you may see flashes of lightning in the sky and get a quick down pour. later on today, everyone will have a chance of thunderstorms. it will be hot and dry once again. most areas in the 90s. d.c. today around 98. we do cool it off in d.c. a little bit towards the eptd of this week, but it's been an incredibly hot summer and it continues. >> hottest july ever on record? >> not just jul

berth ta coombs joins us lift from the port of baltimore, maryland.nderstand there may even be a baseball game later? >>. >> reporter: there's supposed to be, but we have yesterday to see the sunshine here. actually if you can pan off, we're in the inner harbor. most of the rain was on the eastern shore down near where tom was in ocean beach where tom costello was. we're seeing some buses starting to make their ways through town. when winds topped over 50 miles an hour, but overall the feeling is in baltimore it was definitely a glancing blow. power is an issue. more than half a million people in the region without power, that will take some time to bring back. wen again a lot of people off-line, and authorities say people need to be patient. it will take time. that's there been an update on the transit situation? >> reporter: we haven't seen that much. we've seen some starting to come out, but that was before we started seeing battle and more winds. i'm not sure if i necessarily want to play ball in this weather, but they're trying to get in the game

they beat baltimore, 8-3.e national league, 14th inning and cincinnati, the reds' joey votto hit a walks-off home run to the opposite field. it was the second home run of the game. cinci beat washington, 5-4. >>> finally a big win in the little league world series. well tl scores tied, bases loaded in the bottom of the sixth and final inning, nick prado of california hit a walk-off single to center field. it's the fifth win in the last six years for a u.s. little league team. >>> when we come back, an update on our top story, the aftermath of hurricane irene, and a storm that will never be forgotten. hurricane katrina hit new orleans and the gulf coast six years ago today. hurricane katrina hit new orleans and the gulf coast six years ago today. ties. in here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experience to 55 million more americans, many in small towns and rural communities, giving them a new choice. we'll deliver better service, with thousands of

or into baltimore or cities up and down the northeast corridor, there are lots of tunnels and bridges that the trains go up and under and through and all of that is going to have to be looked at and we are looking at many hours of shutdown of service of amtrak, and obviously, these will vary by lines and some they can quickly check and determine, but what an amtrak official says that this is basically what amtrak goes through on the west coast when there is an earthquake, and they are doing the same thing here. so, a lot of this is new to us on the east coast, but i'm sure a lot of the viewers on the west coast are saying, welcome to the party. >> right. >> but that is a considerable, and that is a considerably going to affect obviously the afternoon commute and potentially tomorrow morning for amtrak and the northeast corridor, and secondly, a homeland security official tells me that a quick pulse around washington, d.c. finds no reports of any damage or any injuries from the earthquake here in the washington area, tamron. >> all right. thank you, pete. now, over to bill kcahill with

third and long for baltimore.ds his running back, out of the backyard. 3 for 6, 60 yards in limited action. how about michael vick? this is what he does best. from midfield, scrambles, keeps the play alive. long enough to find reilly cooper, a 42-yard gain. vick 4 of 6, 74 yards and a touchdown, eagles win, 13-6. >>> broncos and cowboys, qb battle in denver. kyle orton running with the first team. first quarter, completes to eric decker for 29 yards. just 2 of 6, 37 yards. tony romo, first action back, suffered a broken collarbone last season. play action to felix jones, he's got blockers, 16 yard, romo 3 for 5, 33 yards. orton in a battle with tim tebow for the number one starting job. tebow looking good. finds willis for a gain of 43 s. tebow 6 of 7, 91 yards. cowboys win this, though, 24-23. >>> for all the latest sports highlights make sure you tune in to the highlight express every night, 11:00 p.m. eastern on espn news. i'm ducis rodgers. >>> now to the play of the day at a minor league baseball game in miss

if you got an early morning flight you don't battle everybody going to baltimore.n the cutoff going down to d.c. so you miss all the trafficeas, semiair service, created in 19 # when the airlines were deregulated to preserve air service to community where flights might be eliminated because of unprofitability. in the present climate, financial frugality, some critics say the 150 plus subsidized airports lie too close to major airports to be eligible for subsidy. hagueerstown is 57-miles from baltimore and 73 from washington. >> we're subsidizing $200 for a flight that saves that traveler 40 minutes in the car. >> others suggest a top to bottom re-examination of eas is warranted. not a expense of scrapping unprofitable air service in alaska alone more than 40 airports are subsidized by eas. >> some communitie communities d an essential air service program because they're cut off and they have traffic to support it many of the places are appendages. ely, nevada, there is one passenger a day. >> for every passenger in ely nevada, passengers spend $3700 per ticket, acc

carlos hardy, director of public affairs, baltimore substance abuse systems, incorporated, baltimore, maryland. john, what role does language play in forming public opinion on addiction and mental health issues? i think language plays a critical role in the way that, after all, it's the, it conveys the meaning of, of what we're trying to express. and so i think it plays a very important role and we should think carefully about the terms that we use because of that. so, why does some language impede the understanding, lureen, of, of our field and the way we refer to people? well i think particularly now that we have this new recovery framework, people are holding on to the old language. and the new language really holds the fullness of the framework, it really shows the validity of the framework, it shows the reality of recovery. and so the fact people are holding on to that old language, is really impeding us from moving forward into this new framework. and daphne what type, what are we talking about in terms of the old language, the new language and, and the transition that we're try

dr robert williams astronomer professor at space telescope science institute in baltimore thanks for your time sure not my pleasure. other news now the president francis met with the head of libya's national transitional council in paris after a meeting behind closed doors because he promised military assistance to the new libyan government for as long as they need it well for more details on what was said let's now go to our tease daniel bushell in paris daniel what came out of this meeting. yes france becomes the first e.u. power to host the head of libya's transitional national council nicolas sarkozy said that he and made so we'll continue to supply military equipment to the rebels as long as they need it though he didn't mention the un resolution authorizing intervention in libya which many think actually expressly rules out military supplies to libya rebel leader djibril said that he sees from a driving force in the nato campaign against gadhafi troops now the french and british have invited libya's government to a meeting on september the first with e.u. leaders i think that t

the water is not getting all the way up to baltimore and into d.c. because the surge will be pushed back the other way by the winds coming this direction. something that i just found out on the map right down here behind me is that we do have a brand new flood warning now for baltimore. and also all the way through d.c., anne arundel p.g., parts of montgomery county, into northern virginia. flash flood warnings means warnings -- flooding is happening. you cannot be driving around because sometimes the flooding will just take over the car. it will take over a roadway. and so they're asking you, please stay off the roads. just stay home tonight. find a good book, find a movie. just do not go out in this flash flooding. here's the tick tock, we call that every hour by hour, we'll do it every three hours. saturday, now, 8:30, moving on up. so is the eye. ocean city, you're already going to get in about the next hour, 50 to 60 mile-per-hour winds. that's where jeanne meserve was. getting to atlantic city, there's some just offshore winds of 60 to 70 mile-

the congressman from baltimore joining us.ted to read something there your statement that caught our attention. you said we must also ensure radical extremist groups do not take control of the country. libya has a large stockpile of chemical weapons and explosives that must not fall into the wrong hands. i have to telling that you i spoke with two people recently who said what chemical weapons. he handed them over. the man's fired two scuds in four months. he doesn't have them. do we know for sure there are mustard gas chemical weapons stockpiled there? >> based on all the information that i have, he has a lot of weapons. and we're very concerned that he does have those weapons. we were surprised he didn't use those weapons throughout this whole exercise. >> and so you can tell me like what are we talking about? because i thought me a deal on get rid of weapons of mass destruction. >> you have mustard gas, man pads, different chemical weapons that he could use that could be very serious. but we have been keeping an eye on that

we're talking about new york, washington, baltimore, boston, philly. all of those cities, just to name a few, all in the line of fire of this irene. it is tracking on this still north/northeastern pattern. you're getting a look at it on the radar here. it is now a category 1 storm. it has been downgraded. don't let the word downgraded and don't let category 1 fool you. it is still pushing sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. it's moving at about 14 miles per hour right now. but this is a huge, expansive storm. we have warnings in effect from north carolina all the way up the coast. the president has declared federal states of emergency in virginia, new york, massachusetts, also in connecticut. we have mandatory evacuations that are in place in several low-lying areas along the coast. and in some places that aren't used to seeing these kind of mandatory evacuations. we're talking about new york city, folks. lower lying areas, including lower manhattan. in the financial district they have ordered some people to get out of there. also, this is causing fi

. >> pelley: after four years of reporting through proper channels, drake noticed that the "baltimore sun" newspaper had begun a series of articles about trouble at the nsa. >> drake: there's one final step that could be taken, but it was fraught with significant risk. >> pelley: anonymously, drake contacted "baltimore sun" reporter siobhan gorman and became an unnamed source for her articles, starting with this one about thin thread headlined "nsa shelved better program that sifted calls." another article told readers that mismanagement at nsa continued years after 9/11. did you ever communicate classified information to siobhan gorman? >> drake: did not. >> pelley: not once, ever? >> drake: not once, ever. that was one of the fundamental rules. whether it was oral communication, whether it was written, electronic or, later on, even in hard copy. it was all unclassified, period. >> pelley: but after those articles, the fbi raided the homes of all the people you've met in this story who filed that confidential complaint with the defense department, asking for the trailblazer investiga

robert williams he's an astronomer and professor at the space telescope science institute based in baltimore in the usa thanks very much indeed for being with us i don't want to put you on the spot here but do you have any sort of speculation any idea of what could have caused this incident. no i don't do well i can tell us what i've read and that is it appears that the third stage did not separate from the rest of the rocket therefore i suppose that the system was trying to launch the entire meaning extended first and second stage and didn't have the energy to get in there but no. one with over forty missions in the past with plenty of success does it come as a surprise to you that something like this could happen. absolutely not space is a risky business as anyone who's been in grad but that will tell you firsthand space as a hostile environment secondly of affairs lots of energy to put something in orbit those two factors are a recipe for danger no matter how good her we are there will be accidents. could it perhaps be damaging to the soyuz his reputation and maybe encourage so. much fost

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after the carolinas, barreling straight for new york city, hitting baltimore, d.c., philadelphia on its way. then boston later. today, president obama warned americans to take precautions now as he cut his own vacation short. tonight, in new york city, major mayor michael bloomberg has ordered mandatory evacuations. more than a quarter million people who live in low-lying areas of this city, told to move out. >> we wouldn't be doing it now if we didn't think this storm had the potential to be very serious. >> reporter: new york city hasn't seen a direct hit in more than 100 years. and hasn't seen devastation like this since the great hurricane of 1938. this is the view tonight atop the empire state building. you can see, there are tourists from this country and all over the world for that extraordinary view of new york's harbor. this harbor has long buffered the city, protected the city from extreme weather. but the concern tonight is that this storm could actually have the opposite effect. that's why they're so concerned about the low-lying areas of manhattan. in fact, in that harbor,

and baltimore. in philadelphia overnight and early tomorrow. long island tomorrow morning and heading up to boston mid to late afternoon. then finally out of here on monday. >> monday. we need to hold on this weekend. we have a couple of days to deal with this thing. jacqui jeras, thank you so much. we will check in with jacqui plenty this morning. she mentioned an hour away from this thing making landfall. >>> we have several airports closed in the northeast. several more will close to all incoming traffic coming up at noon today. you need to check with your airline if you are trying to fly today. a number of flight cancellations. united/continental. delta and jetblue. airtran. we are talking about 5,000 flights that have been canceled in anticipation of the storm. some are allowing you to change your flight without any penalties. you need to check with your individual airlines. >>> coming up here, we are going to check in some more with these preparations that are being made. people are stocking up and watching the storm. we are talking about

up closer to baltimore, that's when the conditions will take the longest to get better in terms of the wind. in terms of rain it's not all that bad out there right now compared to what we had. i just got off the phones with the great folks at the national weather service. i was talking to jared and asked him a question, you're wondering about coastal flooding over the next couple of days. it's common when we get a lot of rain around here along the potomac bay and it's tributaries to cause coastal flooding. we're in a negative anomaly right now. yes, we've had a lot of rain up to 9 inches, almost 10 inches down there, but the northerly wind is cancelling that out, pushing the water out of the potomac and out of the bay. another reason why we're grateful that we have this storm track centered off to our east so we get that northerly flow during this entire system. it's when you get the storm track out of the south such as with isabel, it causes such a bad storm surge. for this storm, a 3 to 4-foot storm surge. the north-facing shorelines is where we had some of the problems. there's our

constitution and how many times did you try to get this information out there before you went to the baltimore sun when you had other people that were trying to work with you that recognized that this was wrong and you tried to report it to people that were subpoenaed ears or within the same argumentation it was a multi-year effort it started from within and i say reporting to my immediate superiors of the general counsel inspector general's office but then i was also a material witness on three major investigations two of them were nine eleven congressional investigations and one of the all the departments inspector general audit investigation of n.s.a. and its flight schip program and any clear legal alternative so this was a number of year long effort for you to try to get this information out there and what was the response that you always got when you tried to bring it up abysmal failure nothing was done but what do they tell you when you when you when you try to say we need a point we need to pay attention to this something's wrong and if they chose to cover it up remain in denial and ch

what about boston and other communities baltimore, what's going on?k we have to worry too much bo the road and subway as much as the airline traveler have to worry about in their flight is going to be operating tomorrow, tuesday and even wednesday. there is this ripple effect with 11,000 flights canceled. there are not enough seetsz to go around to get the passengers stranded back on flights. people that were set to travel they are going to get bumped. the bumping rule was actually changed last week which is quite prophetic. used to be you get your ticket maybe twice the amount. last week the airlines went in prior to these hurricanes you can get four times the amount of your ticket if you are involuntarily bumped. >> you get more money now? >> you get more money but the million dollar question is are you going to get on the plane? what you need to do is go onto the airline's web site. it doesn't matter when you are flying from detroit from earlied doe and those airports haven't been effective. what is going to happen is if your flight was originating

baltimore overran it. he managed to reach up and snag the ball with his bare hand. way to play baseball. mar lens beat the twins. former cy young winner mike flanagan passed away yesterday. a member of the world series team. he was found dead at his maryland home. he was 59. >>> finally, the kids who play for the love of the game, california and montana in extra innings. walkoff home run, first pitch of the inning. montana advances. they will play either pennsylvania or california on saturday. that's your early look at sports. i'm fred rogan. >>> a report shows a one high rolling reality tv star gets the ax. your early morning headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, is there anything that could possibly make you feel better sitting in this? it mayrl.d tobe re watg earlind to. >>> welcome back. here is a look at your thursday forecast. we're looking at nice conditions but hot. salt lake city, 95. possibly some record highs in a few spots today. vegas, 109. phoenix about 111. the northwest wearm but not hot. relief areas in san francisco today. l.a., looking about 87

hail and up to 2 inches of rain inundated streets in the baltimore area.gusty winds knocked down trees and power lines, leaving thousands to cope without power. >>> one of the most controversial sex abuse cases in the world may be coming to a stunning end. the new york city prosecutor's office has invited the hotel maid who claims she was abused to an extraordinary meeting later today. abused by dominique strauss-kahn, the former imf head. abc's aaron katersky has been following this story. >> reporter: the woman at the center of this explosive case, nafissatou diallo,o,as been summoned to a meeting. >> dominique strauss-kahn -- >> reporter: prosecutors could reveal to her whether they plan to drop sexual assault charges against one of the world's most powerful men. even after she went public, telling abc's robin roberts dominique strauss-kahn was brutal. >> i wanted to throw up. i was so sad. i was so i don't know what to do. i was so scared. >> reporter: at first, prosecutors had no doubt. strauss-kahn was aested before taking off for paris. weeks later,

there is damage from baltimore to boston. >> a late develop frmt libya. muammar gaddafi just turned up on the radio. and is vowing to fight to victory or death. >> and investors lost millions pack an east bay bankruptcy court. taking a look at what will happen to their monenenenenenene >>> here you can see the white house qifering under the force of an earthquake today. and it sent people from washington to new york and streaming into streets for safety. >> and there was a 4.2 after shock just a short time ago on the heels of this quake. it is the worst to hit in 67 years. the epicenter is in virginia, an area not known for seismic activity. a lot of frightened people felt it from south carolina up to boston. abc 7 is live from u.s. geological survey tonight with a look at why this happened there, and now. david? >> first of all we don't have dollar damage estimates yet of the damage that happened up and down the east coast. we know two nuclear reactors in the epicenter were successfully taken down. now, what surprised everyone is how far and wide the qua

arundel and baltimore counties. worked with congressman harris on some of the chesapeake bay issues. we try to work together to bridge our differences. we have different views. are voting records are very different. but i met with him many times and we try to work together as a team in maryland to represent the people as effectively as we can. >> a final question. >> senator cardin, i want to thank you on behalf of all of us for coming and being here. i want to make a suggestion that the reason why there is a low turnout and the rise of tea party is the low respect with which congress is generally held. and i wonder if this is due to the fact that some of the congressmen are more concerned about the party than they are about people, or more concerned about getting reelected than they are about the good of the country. [applause] >> i agree with your assessment about below image of congress, but i will take exception to the turn out at the polls. because we never had a great turnout in the polls in midterm elections.

. >> reporter: baltimore residents happy to be coming here for a vacation and bay area residents happy to be coming home especially with what's baring down on the east shore. thousands of flights to and from the east coast and to the east coast have been cancelled affecting flights here and at other bay area airports. there's three flights to washington, new york and boston will head out as scheduled tonight but are cancelled saturday and sunday. a man from baltimore, a woman from the east bay and a man headed to new york all said the hurricane is on their mind. >> actual little i'm here for a wedding. it just so happens that i'm out of town for the hurricane. i love it like that. >> everybody was talking about getting out. there was golf tournaments and a lot of stuff going on. everybody is passing on that, so i came home a day early. >> i've lived in the east coast for a long time. we can handle this. we've experienced a lot of things. rain and water are not going to kill us. >> reporter: no matter where you're flying you should check your the airline's website and see how your fligh

. >>> parts of baltimore saw some of the most significant damage from that earthquake. the quake shook brick buildings. the damage is on display for pretty much everyone to see. baltimore's mayor says the city's infrastructure fortunately did not sustain any damage. >>> that east coast quake is a far cry from what we've experienced here in the bay area. health and science editor john fowler with why some say there's a world of difference here. >> reporter: we've been following if seismic network and have found two aftershocks in virginia. 2.2, 2.8 following today's 5.8 main shock. it struck the eastern flank of the appalachian mountains. >> geologically this is a very exciting area. the last time we had an earthquake of this magnitude was more than 100 years ago. so we're talking about a significant event. >> reporter: moody has extensively studied the area. >> brick buildings can be quite fragile in the case of an event like this. >> reporter: the appalachians are squeezed by the spreading atlantic. >> this earthquake is occurring on one of these ancient 300 million ye

pride of honolulu to make it 6-3 but the a's in the 9th inning, starts to sweat a little bit as baltimorecoming through here and the actual tying run. everybody, okay, a's wins, kurt suzuki is a hero. he has to come up big one more time. ryan sweeney mysteries ball and the game ends. a's final of 6-5. 49ers have a new quarterback. you are not going to sweat. oh, my gosh. josh mccoun. game through the bay area with the raiders in 2007. 6'4". third round draft pick by arizona in 2002. last top, colonials. bottom line is, i guess culpeper can't play and he is the best available. don't expect him to start but the least let smith and him know there is somebody else there. barcelona. 87th minute. messy. world's best player. that's what the experts say. 3-2 barcelona as messy coming through. barcelona wins 3-2 and 5-4 on goals. the game ending bench clearing brawl. we say bench clearing brawl, pushing, shoving and that's it. barcelona and merid, i say this all the time, anytime you can show an international match-up jason feels like he is smarter than the average american. i heard pam talking, u

>> no, baltimore. >> oh, baltimore? >> um, that's a very good question. [laughter] i'm not sure really how to, where to do children's programming of the educational stuff because i guess pbs is the first place to think of for something like that. >> yeah. been there. >> yeah. i just don't know much about that area. prime time i kind of know more about. >> i would suggest, um, that you, um, don't wait on the network bees to anoint -- networks to anoint your vision, that you take it to the marketplace. you take it to the internet. because there is only a limited amount of space on network, and they only, they already have their, what their marching orders or what they're going to do or not do. i would suggest that like you did with your self-publishing, you said, i'm not waiting. put it on the internet, youtube or whatever and create, you know, fans, followers or whatever and let them come to you after you've created the, you know, the momentum. but don't wait on anyone. take it to the marketplace, and the marketplace will decide. >> right, thank you. >> an

a surveillance video shows go into of impact in baltimore one want a brick building collapsed from the quake. a sort 113 old churches are so badly damaged. they about the events of the quake as far away as berkeley and. there are many more on reinforced brick buildings. >>> the east coast quake was felt as far as i've are miles. a similar size quake in the bay area would be noticed. >> the eastern united states has a different topology. ease goes wrong is a solid because there's no seismic activity so they transmit the ways that energy across a larger distance rate you can view even more video by clicking the tab at the top of our home page, ktvu.com. >>> today's earthquake was felt a must-read by trading trading did not stop reading the markets had wanted their biases of the year. the dow industrial gained in a 22 points. the nasdaq shot higher by 22 points. it's dollars refund within 20 minutes. >>> scardino rally, they suggested a slower economy but not a recession it's also speculation that ben bernanke could announce monetary action by this i. salazar trade. >>> assuming to be dri

we reported about the flashflood warnings, meaning that's ongoing, d.d c., baltimore. once the storm is gone and, you know, you look outside and things look pretty good. there will be flooding and a lot of things hidden in the water. power lines could be down, it's extremely dangerous. we do get reports, once the hurricane is gone of fatalities after the landfall and after conditions have improved. so it's very important to stay safe after the storm. just stay indoors. let officials do the surveying. that's not our job. >> we learned our lesson there with katrina with a lot of fatalities after the storm, unfortunately. >> are you recovering from irene's damage? or are you one of those anxiously awaiting her arrival? we want to hear from you. the web is the best way to reach us. facebook and twitter. maria molina has a handle. @foxmaria molina. send us your questions, your experiences. go to my facebook wall and post something. >> we are getting. i have almost 30 comments before the show started. send us your pictures. one of our staffers alerted us to this picture, sho

, 30-minute delays at this time. >> not far from baltimore, the nation's capital and a lot of folks are capital because the landscape there is about to change. the martin luther king jr. memorial will have its dedication ceremony next week but we can already take you on a virtual tour of the site right now. josh levs is going to take us on a journey. >> the ceremony itself will be a week from tomorrow. it will be next weekend on sunday. but there's all sorts of events already going on. take a look at these pictures, and these are renderings of what the site is going to look like. i'm going to jump you inside this virtual tour. i'm going to show you a little bit and tell you some basics. this is a four-acre site, organizers say is designed to invoke the memory and spiritual presence of dr. king. it has several different sections that include some of his most famous quotes and excerpts of his sermons. and this is the centerpiece, this is the sculpt chur. when i click on it. you're able to see the inscription, "out of the mountain of december spire comes home." it is designed to be a stone